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Speaker 1: some worst of the week nominees. Oh yeah, we got
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Speaker 1: But we start with what you got? What you got?
Speaker 1: Oh man, I twisted myself into a pretzel to make
Speaker 1: these what you've got this morning for the guy. These
Speaker 1: are pretty wide. Oh I got creative. Let's start with this.
Speaker 1: The Philadelphia seventy six ers defeated the Rockets one eight
Speaker 1: two in overtime last night, but we probably should have
Speaker 1: never seen the extra period. JD. If you've got it,
Speaker 1: go ahead and roll it, because in the final seconds
Speaker 1: of regulation. Maxi attempted a layup that's going to get
Speaker 1: swatted here off the backboard by Durant, but the ball
Speaker 1: hit the glass before Katie touched it, which should have
Speaker 1: resulted in a goaltending call. Of course, because goaltending was
Speaker 1: not called on the play, I don't know why it
Speaker 1: could not be reviewed. And then the refs like immediately
Speaker 1: followed this up with another botched, you know, inadvertent whistle.
Speaker 1: It was a mess at the end of this game.
Speaker 1: So just sit on that for one second, because we
Speaker 1: also had the Mavericks beating the Warriors, winning their fourth
Speaker 1: consecutive game. Good stuff from them. But the Dubs were
Speaker 1: up one midway through the fourth quarter when Draymond Green
Speaker 1: he went crazy. He was called for a flag and foul.
Speaker 1: Less than a minute later, another fowl by Green that
Speaker 1: was reviewed. It wasn't called a flagrant, but he sort
Speaker 1: of just went crazy, got a lot of fouls, fouled
Speaker 1: out of the game. He had four points, three turnovers,
Speaker 1: and what was a close game suddenly you know, ballooned
Speaker 1: into the Mavericks going on an eleven o'er run and
Speaker 1: the Warriors loose. So what was the worst performance from
Speaker 1: last night the Rockets seventy six ers refereeing or Draymond
Speaker 1: Green tasmoos what you got.
Speaker 2: I got Draymond Green. I'm not going to start by
Speaker 2: defending the referees. I'll do that in a few minutes
Speaker 2: because I don't want to start with that. Let's just
Speaker 2: talk about Draymond Green hitting people because he's too slow now,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what he came down to. He was
Speaker 2: He's literally just unable to keep up with the foot
Speaker 2: speed have anybody around him. So he's hitting people and
Speaker 2: you could see it in Steph's face. I am sad.
Speaker 2: He's literally he's literally not feeling good. Maybe it's because
Speaker 2: of the Brown Town jerseys they're wearing. No, it's just
Speaker 2: because there's no Jimmy Butler. They're trying to start Brandon
Speaker 2: Pajemski in Jimmy's place since he went down, and Brandon Pajemski,
Speaker 2: I mean you could be sad about that. He missed
Speaker 2: so many layups. I think it's three little literal layups.
Speaker 2: Just put the Anthony Melton into that starting lineup already.
Speaker 2: That guy is keing to it. He is so good
Speaker 2: right now. And then we'll get to a Jonathan kaminga injury.
Speaker 2: So I just think that whole thing, that whole thing
Speaker 2: is far worse than what the referees did or didn't
Speaker 2: do by not calling that goaltend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe true.
Speaker 3: The Sixers went on to win, like I said, so
Speaker 3: there was that, yes, karma justice.
Speaker 1: It's just weird because they always call that a goaltend,
Speaker 1: so they can go and look at it. Yes, and
Speaker 1: suddenly they decide John Goebel and his team like, nah,
Speaker 1: we didn't think it was a goaltend, so play on.
Speaker 2: Let me defend it. Let me defend it one second, okay,
Speaker 2: because tyres Max and MAXI takes it to the glass
Speaker 2: and you know that he is literally trying to get
Speaker 2: it to the glass as fast as possible or for
Speaker 2: sure he doesn't let go of the ball. It's one
Speaker 2: of those I'm getting it to the glass. Literally his
Speaker 2: hand hits the glass. And to defend the referee, I
Speaker 2: don't know how they don't call it, but you don't
Speaker 2: see him release the ball. Is that part of it
Speaker 2: where it's literally he doesn't come out of his hand,
Speaker 2: he's literally his hand. Yeah, and then but it is quick.
Speaker 2: They just they always call it. They changed the rule
Speaker 2: for this call it. Yeah, they change. They change it
Speaker 2: so they could take it.
Speaker 1: Back, right, so they so they can look at it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, this was like an obvious goaltend in real time.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: There's a guy standing behind he's videotaping it. I'm sure
Speaker 3: he saw that it was clearly a goaltend. So they
Speaker 3: blew it. And like you're saying, they usually just call
Speaker 3: it so that they can go and take a look
Speaker 3: at it.
Speaker 1: So where that they didn't.
Speaker 3: But uh, like we said, good stuff for the seventy
Speaker 3: six ers to come out and play really well in
Speaker 3: over time and say, hey, we had the momentum. Anyways,
Speaker 3: we carried it over so you can easily get the
Speaker 3: railed in a scenario like that.
Speaker 1: They didn't.
Speaker 2: That was nice, Yeah, it was nice. It was so
Speaker 2: funny because the end of it was hilarious. I watched
Speaker 2: it live. And then they go and they allow a
Speaker 2: jump ball.
Speaker 1: They made a jump.
Speaker 2: Ball, and and then the sixers had point one seconds
Speaker 2: after the jump ball they get they stopped the clock
Speaker 2: to say you get point one seconds because if the
Speaker 2: buzzer went off. Anyways, I can't explain it because it's
Speaker 2: so freaking complicated. It was odd. It was odd. The
Speaker 2: whole thing was odd. But the Warriors thing is that's tough, man,
Speaker 2: It's tough everything going on around.
Speaker 3: That and a sad season. Yeah, so which one would
Speaker 3: you pick here? If I would pick the refs, Okay,
Speaker 3: I hate the refs. If they got it right, I'd
Speaker 3: kind of be mad at them. Why you stop the game.
Speaker 3: But Draymond, Like, I don't know, I think Draymon's fall off.
Speaker 3: He's still a great, at the very least playoff defender.
Speaker 3: Like put him in a postseason scenario where you're game
Speaker 3: planning against whoever. He can frustrate people and can still
Speaker 3: be a really effective guy. But like over the course
Speaker 3: of an eighty two game season, he's hurting you on offense.
Speaker 3: At this point, the Warriors almost have to build their
Speaker 3: offense around Draymond's weaknesses more so than Steph Curry. And
Speaker 3: that's before even Jimmy got hurt. Now they're going to
Speaker 3: need even more from him. Three turnovers last night, they
Speaker 3: were brew not even close to like being completed. He
Speaker 3: did get five assists, but it really should have been
Speaker 3: three because Stepp did all the work on a couple
Speaker 3: of these, he's not gonna shoot. Like he took three
Speaker 3: shots maybe in the first three minutes, and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I didn't make any of them, so I'm.
Speaker 1: Tapped out from here on out.
Speaker 3: He's just kind of become a negative player for the Warriors,
Speaker 3: and from all accounts, like they will never trade him, understandably,
Speaker 3: like he's a franchise legend. He put four titles up
Speaker 3: in the yeah, up in the rafters, so I get it.
Speaker 1: But but like.
Speaker 3: He's holding them back as a team and they need
Speaker 3: even more from him now now that Jimmy went down,
Speaker 3: now that Kminge even got hurt, and he's just not
Speaker 3: reliable somehow, the Warriors are better on offense and on
Speaker 3: defense when Draymond sits this year, that's bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Has there ever been a guy in NBA history who
Speaker 1: has won his team more games but maybe also lost
Speaker 1: his team board games than Draymond Green. And I'm going
Speaker 1: back obviously to some previous playoff runs too where he
Speaker 1: really hurt his team because of his antics here, but
Speaker 1: this one where he's like tagging Dwight Powell like on
Speaker 1: his rim run but pops, So I'm like, he throws
Speaker 1: an ellboy, he throws a little chicken wing Powell got
Speaker 1: took a shot to the gut. Did he sell it
Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit, but he sold it because it's Draymond.
Speaker 1: I think, of course, are going to go look at it.
Speaker 1: That was the flagrant. Then he obviously had a harder
Speaker 1: foul right after that. Now he's trying to prevent a
Speaker 1: basket on that one. I don't think it was anything malicious,
Speaker 1: but then but he just like it's spirals. He just
Speaker 1: cannot stop and let it go. And I think at
Speaker 1: times like this is not the first time we've talked
Speaker 1: about this with Draymond, like it affects his team negatively,
Speaker 1: and it did in this game.
Speaker 2: It did so it did.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the main only reason
Speaker 1: they lost, but he sure didn't help their chances down
Speaker 1: the stretch.
Speaker 2: He needs to be consistently good now with Jimmy Butler out,
Speaker 2: and that ain't gonna happen. That's the problem. And he
Speaker 2: does have games where those threes go down. He even
Speaker 2: had a reverse layup. I thought, WHOA last night, that
Speaker 2: might be pretty, but he missed. Uh, And yeah, it
Speaker 2: does spiral. I don't think he deserved a flagrant foul
Speaker 2: for the tagging. Dwight Palell sold really well, and I
Speaker 2: don't think there was a flagrant on the other one either,
Speaker 2: underneath because he he held the player after he hit him.
Speaker 2: But it's spirals. Then he starts getting in fights with everybody.
Speaker 1: It's amazing he isn't tossed from these games half the
Speaker 1: time too. We talked about this, Oh my god, and
Speaker 1: maybe now they can't even hear him because I got
Speaker 1: a Britney Spears head piece on it. I don't hear
Speaker 1: him out of one ear. That's why they're wearing the
Speaker 1: noise canceling. John Goebels tell the other they turned up
Speaker 1: my Spotify playlist. Man, I don't want to hear this
Speaker 1: guy yell.
Speaker 3: You think John Goebel listens to well, we could find
Speaker 3: out really quick. Does Gobel listen to he like Hall
Speaker 3: and Oates or something like that. I think, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay,
Speaker 3: this is actually a bit of a surprise to me.
Speaker 3: Favorite movie The Godfather, I mean, okay, classic favorite app amazon,
Speaker 3: but favorite musician, says John Goebel, enjoys hip hop, salsa
Speaker 3: and reggaeton.
Speaker 2: Rhythm.
Speaker 1: I could not picture. I'm listening to that all right,
Speaker 1: it's so hilarious.
Speaker 2: When there was the in arena interviews of players that
Speaker 2: they do, you know, constantly they hear these videos. They
Speaker 2: did it with Cam Whitmore for the Wizards last night.
Speaker 2: What's the first app you check in the morning? I
Speaker 2: message it's weird.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, we get it.
Speaker 2: It's just the app. The app question is a weird question.
Speaker 1: Is your favorite app?
Speaker 4: Mail?
Speaker 2: I'm one of those with checks mail every second. My
Speaker 2: favorite my favorite real app? It's a really good Yeah.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite real app or the one you
Speaker 1: use the most often? Favorite spin off app? Not a
Speaker 1: not a built into your phone app?
Speaker 2: Oh, not a native app phone?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Maybe my any Dot do list?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You do love any loyal to your Tony Parker's loyal
Speaker 3: though with Sandwich, you're loyal to any Dot do.
Speaker 1: What do I have to do today? Still, I didn't
Speaker 1: take my pills this morning. I need to drink thirty
Speaker 1: two ounces of water and I need to look into
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day decorations for the studio. At least you can
Speaker 1: get two of those done at the same time. Pills
Speaker 1: in the water. I usually do take a pill chug
Speaker 1: a bunch of water. That's the way drink water anyway. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Kaminga, you did allude to it, you pointed out, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's all right. Johnathan Minga left the game early after
Speaker 1: he injured his ankle. Maybe I guess part of the
Speaker 1: knee as well. On a fast break there and stepped
Speaker 1: on somebody and then like went to the baseline, told
Speaker 1: a little girl to get out of her seat.
Speaker 2: Didn't tell her to get out of seat. I was
Speaker 2: sitting in her seat, that's for sure, and he told her.
Speaker 1: I didn't either used words or basically like move, but.
Speaker 2: She got up because she didn't want to get hit because.
Speaker 3: No, no, he went over pretty slow because then he's like, oh, oh, something's.
Speaker 2: Wrong because parents were taking photos of it. Yeah, this
Speaker 2: is cool.
Speaker 1: Maybe so maybe maybe a mother or father said Candy,
Speaker 1: get out of your seat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, can't.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I probably requested it. Probably anyway, not good. No, No,
Speaker 2: the fact that he left the game. Now, he did
Speaker 2: get up and walk and he looked fine, and it
Speaker 2: was an ankle turned. The replay showed, yeah, he turned
Speaker 2: his ankle, but they called it a knee injury. I
Speaker 2: guess they're just being cautious. I think it's the simplest.
Speaker 1: The team is or he is, or both.
Speaker 2: Yeah's a good question.
Speaker 3: It's probably all combined, just like the injury because it
Speaker 3: was a turned ankle, but his knee bends weird too,
Speaker 3: so just unstable when he landed, and then you just
Speaker 3: got to sit in the stands for a little bit.
Speaker 3: They were loving it though, Candy and her mom Sandy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be cool.
Speaker 2: Jump.
Speaker 1: Well do you think they come and tell it down
Speaker 1: after he leaves and tobbles off? I would want it
Speaker 1: tell it that, I think, yeah. Prettys Otherwise, Uh, just
Speaker 1: related Warriors news here, got some Jake Fisher slop yesterday.
Speaker 1: He says the Warriors plan to target Lebron James and
Speaker 1: Giannis Ante Compo in the off season. Like one idea
Speaker 1: goodly crap, a good idea strong idea by the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Any chance at all you think this happens here? Maybe
Speaker 1: one or the other, but both. It's pretty far fetched.
Speaker 3: I think Golden State it feels like has been chasing
Speaker 3: Jannis for seven years. We know that they had at
Speaker 3: least discussions, maybe not at last trade deadline, but at
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four deadline for a Lebron to Golden State trade,
Speaker 3: and it was kind of like, what does Lebron and
Speaker 3: Rich Paul think, because well, let them decide at that
Speaker 3: time they said no. But a lot of reporting is
Speaker 3: coming out, like kind of included in this bus family
Speaker 3: stuff that it's seeming like this is going to be
Speaker 3: Lebron's last year in Los Angeles. There's not a lot
Speaker 3: of places you can imagine him playing out the last
Speaker 3: season maybe two of his career, like La is one
Speaker 3: of them, Cleveland is one of them. I think New
Speaker 3: York has to be in the mix, just because he's
Speaker 3: always been linked to there, back when he was like
Speaker 3: holding up the hat, remember those days, Remember those days
Speaker 3: when he came out with like a New York Knicks
Speaker 3: colored chi when they're like he's gone, he's leaving in
Speaker 3: twenty ten, He's going.
Speaker 1: To New York.
Speaker 3: Never happened, but you could see Lebron playing there, and
Speaker 3: I think you could see him playing with Steph.
Speaker 1: Curry on the Warriors.
Speaker 3: It would require Lebron taking like a massive pay cut,
Speaker 3: which maybe he would do since he's this far into
Speaker 3: his career. I think maybe Lebron is even more realistic
Speaker 3: than Giannis going to Golden State.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think Lebron is more realistic because the Yannis
Speaker 2: one would take a trade and that's a lot of
Speaker 2: money to get together to accumulate for Jiannis's fifty eight.
Speaker 2: I think he's making next year.
Speaker 1: Well not, I mean, if it's a Jimmy contract, Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: send him home to the Mill to Wisconsin. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: a bunch of draft picks.
Speaker 2: But if you believe in any of the slop and
Speaker 2: any of these rumors, I think they do want to
Speaker 2: keep Jimmy Butler for one more year because they're trying
Speaker 2: to get Steph to the top, to the championship. Now,
Speaker 2: it would sort of make sense. I think Lebron would
Speaker 2: want to play with anybody in the NBA. If it
Speaker 2: is anybody, it's Steph. I mean, it is the guy,
Speaker 2: the two guys that have been the play of this era.
Speaker 2: He played with them in the Olympics. Doesn't have to
Speaker 2: go too far to Golden State, you know, instead of
Speaker 2: flying across the country, flying to another city. And he's
Speaker 2: a free agent, so he can sign for what he wants.
Speaker 2: You know, usually he signs for the Macs. So that
Speaker 2: is a problem.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 2: That being said, I think that one makes more most sense.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go back to Embiid before we move on
Speaker 1: to the right next. What you got because he did
Speaker 1: have a monster game. Yeah, incredible game in that overtime
Speaker 1: win against the Rockets. Maxi great as well. Kelly Ubri
Speaker 1: had a good game. But is dwell Embiid back baby
Speaker 1: like he's putting together a string here in January or
Speaker 1: the last fifteen games or so, scoring on a pretty
Speaker 1: decent clip. He rebounded a lot last night, defense a
Speaker 1: little more engaged. What do you think about Embiid how
Speaker 1: he's played recently. He's having an impact, I think, And
Speaker 1: is he fully backed? No, I don't think he'll ever
Speaker 1: be like point a minute Embiid like he was right
Speaker 1: before he suffered these last few injuries that really kind
Speaker 1: of put him in another phase of his career.
Speaker 3: But he's played more games already than last season.
Speaker 1: He is sick.
Speaker 3: The Sixers are six points per one hundred possessions better
Speaker 3: when he's on the court. I think he really helps MAXI.
Speaker 3: You saw a lot of two man game from those
Speaker 3: two last night, and beat is like bought into setting screens.
Speaker 3: Not that he wasn't a screener during his MVP years.
Speaker 3: That was a huge part of how he got into
Speaker 3: his offense. But I like to see him inside banging
Speaker 3: like he's throwing down dunks and near dunks out of
Speaker 3: the post. And early in the season it was like
Speaker 3: all they could do with him is getting the ball
Speaker 3: at the free throw line and see him do a
Speaker 3: couple of jab steps and knock down the mid range jumper.
Speaker 3: He's a good shooter from there, so that was an
Speaker 3: easy way for him to score. But you can tell
Speaker 3: he's feeling better about his body if he's gonna be
Speaker 3: banging with these big dudes like a Clint Capella down inside.
Speaker 3: He's also not dragging down their defense anymore. I think
Speaker 3: that's the bigger issue for him be because it does
Speaker 3: not look like he can move very well side to side,
Speaker 3: but at least he's massive, at least he rebounds. So
Speaker 3: they've done a really good job the Sixers have of
Speaker 3: figuring out how to play with Maxie as their number
Speaker 3: one guy, Edgecombe coming along, Paul George has just become
Speaker 3: a dirty work guy. Like I hate to say it,
Speaker 3: but I'm starting to like Paul George right now.
Speaker 1: Is he like the to me cool. Now he's turning
Speaker 1: into like a cooler maybe better still like Nick Batoum
Speaker 1: sure right, Like he's actually doing all the dirty little
Speaker 1: work and defense and can hit threes at times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Starting the year, it felt like there was the team
Speaker 3: when Embiid was on the court and they had to
Speaker 3: figure out a way to fit him in, And there
Speaker 3: was a team when Embiid was off the court and
Speaker 3: they would play faster and everything was more perimeter oriented.
Speaker 1: Now they feel like a full team together.
Speaker 3: So I'm impressed with Embiid and what the Sixers have
Speaker 3: done and tasks.
Speaker 1: There is no better sign that Jowell Embiid is feeling
Speaker 1: like Joel Embiid than when he starts trolling online. And
Speaker 1: that's what he did in this game, because I gotta
Speaker 1: tell everyone the story here. Back at EuroBasket over the summer,
Speaker 1: former Sixer Frikain cork Maz said that dwell Embiid was
Speaker 1: no longer the best center he'd ever played with. That
Speaker 1: honor now went to his countryman in Elprince sheng Gun.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was like an embid dis as
Speaker 1: much as it was like I'm playing with Elprin. She
Speaker 1: gun he's really awesome right now. He's helping Turkey here,
Speaker 1: so that's what he said. Of course, em Bete filed
Speaker 1: that one away, took it as a slight to some extent.
Speaker 1: Let it simmer for months, and then battles Elprin. Schengun
Speaker 1: has this monster triple double. Game gets the victory and
Speaker 1: JD you have the photo here after the game, posted
Speaker 1: this Instagram photo of him staring back at Schengun had
Speaker 1: it stumbled and he was fallen down and he just
Speaker 1: wrote furk.
Speaker 6: So again, that's a good sign when embat is doing
Speaker 6: this exactly right right.
Speaker 3: He was playing it pretty cool at the beginning of
Speaker 3: the season as he was trying to get his legs
Speaker 3: underneath him. He was not a trash talker at all.
Speaker 3: He was just trying to fit in. And as he's gotten.
Speaker 1: More comfortable this season, he's gotten more comfortable online as well.
Speaker 3: Do you think furk and CORKMZ follows Joel and Bete
Speaker 3: on Instagram.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean he might have maybe, yeah, However he stuck
Speaker 1: it out yea. What did he find out about this?
Speaker 1: Was he tagged in it? Or did somebody send it
Speaker 1: to him. I don't even know where Furk and Quirk
Speaker 1: Mas is right now.
Speaker 2: He's playing abroad. Okay, all right, but he did request
Speaker 2: multiple trades from the Philadelphia Centery six Ers. He wanted out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he played there for seven years.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Is crazy. That's the only part of his NBA career
Speaker 2: seven years. It flew by. Oh like, I just don't
Speaker 2: remember him playing three hundred and twenty eight games, all
Speaker 2: with the Sixers, all with Joel Embiid being around.
Speaker 1: It's a great point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I wonder if that was just a straight
Speaker 2: up disc when he started playing with Alpern Shangu and
Speaker 2: he said he's better than that guy. I mean there's
Speaker 2: something there.
Speaker 6: Probably I really don't know I was doing all that,
Speaker 6: but like saying em Bead sucks when he said that comment,
Speaker 6: just saying alp U was a young talented really is
Speaker 6: really good.
Speaker 3: And Bean Stewid, Oh my god, how dare you? I
Speaker 3: think it's I think it's perfect and Bead it's like
Speaker 3: a lot of funny. Maybe there's a little bit of like, no,
Speaker 3: I'm still the best, that's what makes them hilarious.
Speaker 2: But listen, I hope we see Joel Embiid play for
Speaker 2: the next few months. I'm not yes, I'm holding my
Speaker 2: my brother just a little bit. They played it differently
Speaker 2: this year, and that they played it super slow from
Speaker 2: the beginning of the season Medically. I don't know if
Speaker 2: Brian Souiter can really weigh his opinion on this, but
Speaker 2: they played it well and he is playing more often now.
Speaker 2: He's not playing in back to backs, but he is
Speaker 2: playing on just one day's rest. As he said earlier
Speaker 2: this season, he wanted to get off that plan. I
Speaker 2: want to play more often than just two days rest,
Speaker 2: and so he.
Speaker 1: Played played forty six minutes last night. I glossed over that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was an overtime game, so more minutes
Speaker 1: were to be played. But he played the most minutes,
Speaker 1: Like he played more than Maxie, more than a rookie
Speaker 1: in Edgecub, more than Kelly Uber. You played a ton
Speaker 1: Like that's pretty crazy, and that's great sign. That's pretty crazy.
Speaker 3: I mean, was the last time and Beid played over
Speaker 3: forty minutes? Maybe it happened this year, I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: He's I don't think in the regular season. Probably last
Speaker 1: was a playoff matchup.
Speaker 2: He played, he played forty minutes in three seconds a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. Actually I'm on a game log here,
Speaker 2: but he's he's. It has increased the best sign.
Speaker 1: I think Liberty ballers put it like this, Embiid is
Speaker 1: able to drive some winning basketball right now without having
Speaker 1: to be the franchise's sun and moon and stars. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be at all, right, he's because it's
Speaker 1: sort of become Maxie's team. Edgecomb is obviously incredible rookie.
Speaker 1: These other guys like don't like Barlow is one of
Speaker 1: their better players. He's a two week guy.
Speaker 2: He has been starting until yesterday. Yeah, when Jelly O
Speaker 2: Bray sat who came into the starting lineup and it
Speaker 2: was awesome and he was great.
Speaker 1: So I think that's really that's the key part here.
Speaker 1: So not all on Juell and Beads shoulders because you've
Speaker 1: got Maxie playing at an m VP level.
Speaker 2: Not on Maxi's shoulders either. Last year it was all
Speaker 2: on his shoulders, but now edgecumb changed that because he's
Speaker 2: been really good. And I can't believe the Paul George
Speaker 2: and Nicola Batom comparison. Well, I mean, I mean different,
Speaker 2: he's he's I just think immediately when you watch them,
Speaker 2: you think, wow, he makes a lot of money, But
Speaker 2: then you watch the basketball play, Yeah, I just forget
Speaker 2: about that part. Yes, he's contributing.
Speaker 1: That block on Sheng Gun. Was that in overtime? That
Speaker 1: one was definitely? I think it was an only time.
Speaker 1: Hell of a block at the room, all right? Moving on,
Speaker 1: Holy Holy next what you got here? We'll go a
Speaker 1: little faster here. I think Kawhi Leonards scored twenty four points.
Speaker 1: Clippers survived the tight fourth quarter to beat the Lakers
Speaker 1: last night, one twelve, one oh four. Clippers have now
Speaker 1: won seven of eight and fourteen to seventeen as they
Speaker 1: continued their upward climb here in the Western Conference. Also
Speaker 1: out West, Shadon Sharp scored twenty seven points as the
Speaker 1: Blazers extended their winning streak to four games with a
Speaker 1: solid victory over the Heat Portland twenty three and twenty two.
Speaker 1: First time the Trailblazers are over five hundred through forty
Speaker 1: five games since twenty twenty twenty one season, so a
Speaker 1: while ago more surprising record TK you get to started
Speaker 1: the Clippers at twenty and twenty four because of that
Speaker 1: very slow start or the Blazers at twenty three and
Speaker 1: twenty two. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: I wasn't really sure because they are you saying, Clippers
Speaker 3: surprising good or surprising bad.
Speaker 1: I'm saying surprising good seeing that they started six and
Speaker 1: that's whatever year exactly they were Last.
Speaker 3: Year they were twenty five and nineteen through forty four games,
Speaker 3: so much better last season, so I think it would
Speaker 3: still be a surprise that they're under five hundred. But
Speaker 3: they've been good for basically two months at this point.
Speaker 3: Kui's only played thirty one of their forty four games.
Speaker 3: He's four to nine when he doesn't play. Did play
Speaker 3: last night, had a good game. But I think Harden's
Speaker 3: been looking pretty solid. The three ball isn't really falling
Speaker 3: for him. He did make a big one late in
Speaker 3: the game yesterday, but he's really doing a great job
Speaker 3: of getting to the rim finishing inside. And that's something
Speaker 3: that's like coming gone for Harden as he's gotten older
Speaker 3: in his career and right now he's been able to penetrate,
Speaker 3: set up teammates, and more importantly, get to the rim
Speaker 3: and actually finish. So I've been impressed with the Clippers.
Speaker 3: Like I've said, I think they're gonna finish in the
Speaker 3: play in tournament. If not get out of the play
Speaker 3: and tournament, we'll see who they end up matched up with.
Speaker 3: But they've been really good for quite some time, and
Speaker 3: that's bad news for Twitter user rich Homie Flann on
Speaker 3: December twentieth, this man tweeted, if the Clippers go fifteen
Speaker 3: and three in any stretch this season, I'll.
Speaker 1: Print and eat this tweet.
Speaker 3: They are fourteen and three in their last seventeen games,
Speaker 3: and they play the Nets at home on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So if they win, he's got those tweet. He's eating
Speaker 1: a tweet. That tweet tweet.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So I think surprising good and bad for the Clippers.
Speaker 3: They shouldn't have been this bad to start the season,
Speaker 3: but weird they've really come around, and it's been a
Speaker 3: matter of Tylu figuring out the right combinations.
Speaker 1: Because the Clippers had a bunch of turnover.
Speaker 3: They brought in a bunch of role guys around Harden
Speaker 3: and around Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1: They also were probably distracted at.
Speaker 3: The beginning of the season with the Kawhi investigation, which
Speaker 3: we're just gonna worry about in March. I suppose they'll
Speaker 3: be saying anything until after the All Star Game, but
Speaker 3: they've turned it around. Hylou is just a good coach.
Speaker 3: He figures out how to get the best out of
Speaker 3: his team. It's just a problem that they started so
Speaker 3: so poorly that they're behind the eight ball trying to
Speaker 3: catch everybody else.
Speaker 2: Rich Homie Flawn, it's going to have to pull off
Speaker 2: on Matt Austin with the Insanity shake because there was
Speaker 2: what was it a scroll, a degree, a piece of.
Speaker 1: The Harvard diploma because it was a Jeremy Lynn shake.
Speaker 2: So it was blended into the shake. So Rich Homi
Speaker 2: Fla can do that. Sure, we'll send the link to
Speaker 2: the video if it exists. I don't it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, classic actually on YouTube? Oh nice. Nice.
Speaker 2: The Clippers are more surprising because as the old saying goes,
Speaker 2: no more Chris Paul, no more Chris problems. That's not
Speaker 2: a saying. That's why this is surprising that all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, after just letting Chris Paul go, they turn
Speaker 2: into this team. They become this team that they weren't
Speaker 2: in the first couple months of the season. So it's
Speaker 2: shocking that Kawhi has had twenty three straight games of
Speaker 2: twenty points or more. That's the most he's ever had
Speaker 2: consecutively in his career, and he's doing it now. You know,
Speaker 2: he had three games off that he took on the road.
Speaker 2: He took three games off at the end of their
Speaker 2: road trip, said I'm going home. All of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I'm back to playing well if he eats the Zubats.
Speaker 2: Also came back early from his injury that they said
Speaker 2: he's gonna be out several weeks. Came back two weeks,
Speaker 2: and then he had ten big offensive rebounds against the Lakers.
Speaker 2: That was very, very big to go grab second chance
Speaker 2: points that they outdid the Lakers. There's no doubt.
Speaker 1: He's a big reason why they have turned it around
Speaker 1: here too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, rough, rough start, yes, and it looked bleak. Oh,
Speaker 2: he's gonna be out several weeks, just out two. He's
Speaker 2: playing literally fourteen days later, So that's part of it.
Speaker 2: But also Chris Dunn back into the starting lineup. I
Speaker 2: mean they are like last year's starting lineup exactly the same.
Speaker 2: But John Collins has replaced Norman Powell and so that
Speaker 2: all is gone. They're just back to who they were
Speaker 2: with Kawhi playing a decent amount of basketball. John Collins
Speaker 2: and his last twelve games, he's shooting nearly seventy percent
Speaker 2: from the floor in sixty two percent from three. Their bench,
Speaker 2: Kobe Sanders and Jordan Miller are balling. Now, It's not
Speaker 2: surprising that the Lakers can't hold on a lead. They
Speaker 2: that's not spread. They can't play for forty eight minutes.
Speaker 2: They either blowed a team or they lose their lead,
Speaker 2: like at the end of the second quarter when there
Speaker 2: was that run by the Clippers. I think they score
Speaker 2: like ninth straight seventeen nine ten second quarter. It's not surprising.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the effort level the boards is concerning, I mean,
Speaker 2: and there's prayers that Austin Reeves comes back. All that
Speaker 2: to be said, the Blazers are surprising too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going with the Blazers from my pick here
Speaker 1: in this what you got because it is funny you said,
Speaker 1: like the Clippers starting poorly maybe or slow because of
Speaker 1: the whole cap circumvention scandal surrounding them. Let's not forget
Speaker 1: the Blazers literally lost their coach right at the start
Speaker 1: of the season. That's very true. For a whole other
Speaker 1: scandal to do with gambling at Chauncey Billups and Thiago
Speaker 1: Splitters steps in there, and they're twenty three and twenty two.
Speaker 1: And I like this team. Man, They're fun because well
Speaker 1: they did get Denny Avvia back, Drew Holiday was back,
Speaker 1: Jeremy was back.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Avdia left last night's game with a flare up of
Speaker 1: his back issue. Don't love that, but Shade and Sharp
Speaker 1: He's averaging twenty six points per every game. Sharp is
Speaker 1: averaging twenty six points per game and seven boards over
Speaker 1: Portland's four game win streak. He's hitting the three ball
Speaker 1: right now with some consistency. Caleb love that guy can
Speaker 1: flat out score. Kamara is a perfect sort of like
Speaker 1: modern wing guy defense could score as well. We know
Speaker 1: or you know how much we love Donovan klingon here
Speaker 1: on this show. He impacts winning basketball. They have one
Speaker 1: of the second or they have the second easiest remaining schedule.
Speaker 1: The Blazers do too, So I think this was a
Speaker 1: really interesting team to watch her in the second half
Speaker 1: and positive that they're above five hundred here in the mix,
Speaker 1: So I'll go with them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they did a great job of recovering. They were
Speaker 3: twelve and nineteen to start the season. You know, they
Speaker 3: were good after the All Star Break last year, even
Speaker 3: a little prior to the All Star Break, basically since January,
Speaker 3: but since December twenty sixth, the Blazers are eleven and four,
Speaker 3: but only like eleventh in offense, tenth and def tenth
Speaker 3: and net rating, like that's just an okay team realistically,
Speaker 3: But they're six and one in clutch games, and I
Speaker 3: think that's super impressive because, yeah, Drew Holliday has been back,
Speaker 3: but he missed a huge chunk of time and it
Speaker 3: was like Caleb Love stepping up and getting contributions from
Speaker 3: guys that they weren't expecting. So I think it's pretty
Speaker 3: I think the Blazers are a pretty solid team. Like
Speaker 3: they are a top nine locked in team. It wouldn't
Speaker 3: be surprising if they passed the Warriors. They are looks
Speaker 3: it looks like two games two and a half games back,
Speaker 3: or maybe a game.
Speaker 1: And a half. I guess I could click on the
Speaker 1: actual standing.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to completely guess here. Two point five games.
Speaker 3: Right the first time, Yeah, good, exactly, trust yourself.
Speaker 1: But I think they could catch the Warriors because the Warriors.
Speaker 3: Feel like they are struggling right now, might continue to
Speaker 3: be a struggle without Jimmy, whereas the Blazers are ascending.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is surprising how they put all these pieces
Speaker 2: of the puzzle together, because I think that's what we're
Speaker 2: all thinking coming in to this season. They don't really
Speaker 2: have offensive players. They don't, but Drew Holliday came in
Speaker 2: made sure they played defense. I think that's a big
Speaker 2: part of it. Then you see guys like Robert Williams
Speaker 2: is playing good basketball for them. That guy's always injured,
Speaker 2: and Drew Holliday has been injured, and Scoot Henderson hasn't
Speaker 2: played a minute this season. And then yeah, the guys
Speaker 2: like Caleb Love. I wouldn't check the stats. It feels
Speaker 2: like every box scorer he's just ripping off points. He's
Speaker 2: had twenty games of ten points or more. He's a
Speaker 2: two way guy. Yeah he is good, So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, to all those pieces, just it's led
Speaker 2: by Denny Abda because he's their offense. He literally is sometimes.
Speaker 2: But you know, other guys like Shane Sharp have been helping.
Speaker 3: So that's why the last night's win was quality. Because
Speaker 3: he leaves the game and you're like, oh, here we go.
Speaker 3: They might fall apart and they went on to sort
Speaker 3: of dominate in the second half over the Heat.
Speaker 1: All right. Next one, LaMelo Ball returned to Charlotte's starting
Speaker 1: lineup as the Hornets beat the Magic won twenty four
Speaker 1: to ninety seven. Last night, Orlando scored forty one points
Speaker 1: in the first half. They were by a lot and
Speaker 1: never got back into it. Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, Kobe White
Speaker 1: scored twenty two. Josh Giddy, He's back. He added twenty
Speaker 1: one off the bench to lift the Bulls to the
Speaker 1: one twenty one to fifteen win over the timber Wolves.
Speaker 1: Minnesota committed a pair of costly turnovers in the final
Speaker 1: couple minutes or a final minute. I guess I should say, so,
Speaker 1: what was the worst lost task? You get to started?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 1: Magic or Wolves? What you got?
Speaker 5: This?
Speaker 2: This is good. I think these last two questions have
Speaker 2: been good because it's difficult to know what these Orlando Magic,
Speaker 2: what this Orlando Magic team is. But the Wolves, you
Speaker 2: know that there are going to buckle at times. I
Speaker 2: mean we always talk about it. They kind of played
Speaker 2: down to their their competition and the Chicago Bulls they're
Speaker 2: five hundred here they are back at five hundred. It
Speaker 2: is weird even there, it's a weird team, like Mantus Bezelz,
Speaker 2: you're sitting in the fourth quarter. They continued to do that,
Speaker 2: but they came through against the Wolves, who again kind
Speaker 2: of just let things go, let the rope go a
Speaker 2: little bit. We went into last night thinking that Anthony
Speaker 2: Edwards was going to have a big game against Chicago Bulls.
Speaker 2: That did not happen. He did not have any offensive help.
Speaker 2: I mean, he had a bad game where it was
Speaker 2: Randall and nas Reed and that's it. The rest of
Speaker 2: their bench, no one scored more than three points. Your
Speaker 2: your Bones Highland, your Mike Conley's, the guys, you're you're
Speaker 2: just waiting for somebody to score. So that's not surprising.
Speaker 2: I get the magic. It's just difficult to know what
Speaker 2: they are at this point. You think with everybody sort
Speaker 2: of coming back there, they're looking like themselves. But this
Speaker 2: that was they got blown out. I mean, as simple
Speaker 2: as that from the get go, and they didn't do
Speaker 2: their classic Desmond be Bans getting us back into this game
Speaker 2: to fight back. So they're more surprising to me.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, well I think it's kind of a tough
Speaker 3: call on which is most surprising because I think the
Speaker 3: Magic and the Wolves are both pretty inconsistent, like you're saying,
Speaker 3: especially the Wolves play to the level of their competition.
Speaker 3: Just one day ago, I was saying, Anthony Edwards, you're
Speaker 3: the clutch player of the year. Maybe I should have
Speaker 3: looked at the Wolves as a team in the clutch
Speaker 3: eighteenth in clutch raiding and that came up clutching that rating. Sorry,
Speaker 3: that came back to bite them. Last night, not Threeid
Speaker 3: had that huge dunk put the timberwalls up one ten,
Speaker 3: one oh four. Minnesota scored five points in the last
Speaker 3: five minutes of this game. That has been a weird
Speaker 3: thing with the Bulls. They have been a good clutch
Speaker 3: defense the last couple of seasons. They just you know,
Speaker 3: get blown out for the first forty three.
Speaker 1: Minutes a lot of the time.
Speaker 3: But if it's in the clutch, they got a chance
Speaker 3: and the Wolves offense can just get very Anthony, can
Speaker 3: you save us?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And last night he was not able to. I'm
Speaker 1: not I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm super surprised though by the Magic,
Speaker 3: just because when the Hornets have their guys playing, they're
Speaker 3: good on offense, and they looked great on offense last night,
Speaker 3: but a fifty to thirty six points in the paint
Speaker 3: advantage for Charlotte. I think part of that is no
Speaker 3: Suggs and Anthony Black kind of had a dud, But
Speaker 3: it seemed like.
Speaker 1: The Hornets did a really good job getting into the paint.
Speaker 3: Basically any time they wanted moving the ball, they can
Speaker 3: be an explosive offense team. We just saw LaMelo have
Speaker 3: a terrible game off the bench and we got the
Speaker 3: start had a great game in this one.
Speaker 1: So I think both bad losses, both bad losses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I asked the question they rely on Franz and
Speaker 2: no Franz last night. I mean that's part of it,
Speaker 2: of course. That being said, I mean they were getting destroyed. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Colin Sexton was taken it to them in the first half.
Speaker 2: Colin Sexton and LaMelo Ball playing back to back, playing
Speaker 2: more minutes and the second half and back to act
Speaker 2: that's a good sign. Going from the bench to the
Speaker 2: starting lineup also a good sign. But spanking a spankin
Speaker 2: for the magic, you know, without Sugs as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: and Fronz, I mean that's a part of it.
Speaker 1: But still my one note from the Bulls Wolves game
Speaker 1: was which one of these point guards? Are the Wolves
Speaker 1: going to try and trade? Trade four from the Chicago Bulls?
Speaker 1: You know, Kobe White, Trey Jones, o Desumo, you know,
Speaker 1: not really maybe a point guard, but you get that
Speaker 1: point here. I got three that are in trade rumors,
Speaker 1: and the Wolves could use one. I think they're to
Speaker 1: help out Anthony Edwards in the back court. But we'll see.
Speaker 3: I guess trade Jones is probably the easiest to get
Speaker 3: since he's a bench guy. But he's been really good,
Speaker 3: he's and he has a Minnesota connection. Could happen, right,
Speaker 3: didn't think of that Apple Valley guy, Beautiful Valley to
Speaker 3: be really, I think so that's where he's No, that
Speaker 3: was a.
Speaker 2: Place Billy likes, Bland. Trade Jones, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Fast, he's very fast. Final one. NBA insider Jake Fisher
Speaker 1: back to Fisher here. He reported yesterday that the Pacers
Speaker 1: and Pelicans have explored various trade scenarios that would send
Speaker 1: fourth year guard Benedict Mathrin to New Orleans and second
Speaker 1: year center Leaves Missy to Indiana. Fisher classified the possibility
Speaker 1: as an incomplete deal framework, so maybe they're talking this
Speaker 1: one out. Potential Mathrin Missy trade is not easy to say, Yeah,
Speaker 1: your name, what you got TK. I love it.
Speaker 3: This is a great trade because this might be the
Speaker 3: kind of trades we're talking about on trade Day. Hopefully
Speaker 3: we get some bigger names then Ben Mathrin and e Mesi.
Speaker 3: But Indiana to me, is pretty much set on the
Speaker 3: perimeter at least for their top three or four. Guys
Speaker 3: like Haliburton will be back next year. They got nem
Speaker 3: hard locked up, Aaron nee Smith will be around. Ben
Speaker 3: Shephard not a great season, but like he's a solid
Speaker 3: enough role player. They definitely need something else on the interior.
Speaker 3: Mesi I think can play fast, which would be good
Speaker 3: for playing in this Pacers system. I would say him
Speaker 3: and Jay Huff.
Speaker 1: Neither of them are like true starter level.
Speaker 3: But this is a good use of the Mathron asset
Speaker 3: because to me, I really wouldn't want to.
Speaker 1: Pay his next contact. He's a bit of a cominga to.
Speaker 3: Me where if he's scoring, he looks good, and if
Speaker 3: he's not scoring, there's not really much else he can
Speaker 3: bring to you. So I think this would be a
Speaker 3: good way for the Pacers to figure out a way
Speaker 3: to kind of like balance the depth of their team.
Speaker 1: The Pelicans wouldn't need to add more salary to make
Speaker 1: any sort of deal work between the two because Mathern
Speaker 1: does make more than me. Simbo your thoughts on this.
Speaker 2: It does make sense. Unfortunately, it is about the dollar
Speaker 2: dollar bills. I mean, this isn't baseball like the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Dodgers, where they can sign absolutely everybody. But the
Speaker 2: Indian Pacers don't have as much money as other teams.
Speaker 2: They just let Myles Turner go for that reason. To
Speaker 2: give Benedict Matherin while they have a lot of money,
Speaker 2: while they have all these guards, doesn't really make a
Speaker 2: ton of sense. He is a little limited. There's no
Speaker 2: doubt they tried to get him to be more of
Speaker 2: a playmaker, to be a defender. It happens at times,
Speaker 2: but not enough to give this guy a lot of money.
Speaker 2: And in restricted free agency, even though it's not a
Speaker 2: thing as much, I think somebody will say, we can
Speaker 2: pay that guy so to get a center, which they
Speaker 2: desperately need after letting Myles Turner go. Eve mec has
Speaker 2: not been incredible this year at all, But because Derek
Speaker 2: Queen is their future, it sort of makes sense. But
Speaker 2: I mean, the Pacers Isaiah Jackson Jay Huff and I
Speaker 2: don't know if you occasionally play big with Jaris Walker
Speaker 2: at center and ain't enough, so they have to get somebody.
Speaker 2: They may be trying to get more than just Eve
Speaker 2: me c as the as the what's coming back for
Speaker 2: Benedict Matherin. I think they're willing to dabble somewhere else.
Speaker 1: But you think this makes sense because the Pacers want
Speaker 1: a center. Maybe it's him. He did have a promising
Speaker 1: rookie season. I mean he averaged like as nine and
Speaker 1: eight as a rook in a lot of games, so
Speaker 1: it wasn't a small sample size as a starter. But
Speaker 1: you said, yeah, a lot of the games started right.
Speaker 1: But now he's buried because they're like, well, we're going
Speaker 1: with the Blizzard, We're going with DQ. That's sort of
Speaker 1: our guy, that's what you should do. He looks promising,
Speaker 1: So yeah, this sort of swap where Matthin at times
Speaker 1: has looked really good. I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: expected bigger things this year heading into the season. He
Speaker 1: was on a lot of people's lists for like, oh,
Speaker 1: he might be a most improved candidate with Halbert and
Speaker 1: out a lot of shot opportunities, and yeah, it's really
Speaker 1: just the amount of money that the pacers I think
Speaker 1: they have like one hundred and seventy seven million and
Speaker 1: guaranteed money on the books. So to then give this
Speaker 1: guy a bigger deal, that's that's putting you in a
Speaker 1: very difficult spot. So maybe there's something here and maybe
Speaker 1: it happens. What do we do an emergency podcast for mathoms?
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Because Donut Eyes here in the stream team called it
Speaker 3: a poop fart trade.
Speaker 1: No, that's not a that's not a poop fart trade.
Speaker 1: These are two young guys still that fan bases and organizations.
Speaker 1: You can talk yourself into bigger things still to come.
Speaker 1: Come on, it's not a poop fart. It's not a trade.
Speaker 1: It's not a poop fart.
Speaker 2: When you said when you said, I thought maybe it
Speaker 2: was a poutine for bendic mathm being Canadian, being from Montreal.
Speaker 1: Second day in a row, we've talked about poutine. No, no,
Speaker 1: second time in three days and the second time, but
Speaker 1: it was brought up twice on that one show.
Speaker 3: So that's going to have about poutine for waffles trade.
Speaker 3: Eve Mesi was born in Belgium. Bang yeah, yeah, what
Speaker 3: would you write I mean, it's all a time of
Speaker 3: day dependent.
Speaker 1: Of course. Well let me pull overall I'm taking you've
Speaker 1: never made poutine. I'll tell you that I've never made poutine.
Speaker 1: Same here. That's crazy. We do a great point.
Speaker 3: Nobody home makes poutine. You make a homemaker waffle. Yea
Speaker 3: chicken and waffles is.
Speaker 1: From you, guys. Poutine is more popular in Indiana, just guessing.
Speaker 2: Mmm, I don't know about that. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: can't get a part of that popular in Indiana than
Speaker 2: where no then waffles are it does?
Speaker 1: See, I don't think so, because I just don't know
Speaker 1: a lot of people making poutine waffles. You're right, your
Speaker 1: weekend across this great nation.
Speaker 2: So I only really have to do is make the gravy.
Speaker 2: You throw the fries in the oven. You never do it.
Speaker 2: So I know you gotta buy cheese, curds. You gotta
Speaker 2: get cur problem, but you don't got to make curds.
Speaker 2: Come bag here you go.
Speaker 1: Let's hear your answers from what you've got, Everyboddy, let
Speaker 1: us know where you fall with those ones. Those were
Speaker 1: tough questions, but man, we got there in the end.
Speaker 1: That was a funny block, guys, we'll take a break
Speaker 1: and we'll come back with the worst of the week numinies.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever made poutine? No?
Speaker 2: I have not, ma what you just had to do?
Speaker 7: Well, it's getting ready for worse.
Speaker 2: The bare switch switch switch switch. That's harder than.
Speaker 1: But you have the answer was you haven't.
Speaker 4: Look, it's very labor intensive. It sounds simple, but you
Speaker 4: got to fry up the fries, which is going to
Speaker 4: stink up your whole house. You got to make the gravy,
Speaker 4: so you need a stock, you need all that. You know,
Speaker 4: not that that's hard, it's just time consuming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. You don't got to make potatoes.
Speaker 1: Really, you gotta make fries. Put them in the.
Speaker 7: Put him in the oven.
Speaker 4: You got to deep fry the fries. Test and in fact,
Speaker 4: you got to blanch them first. So yes, put them
Speaker 4: on the island.
Speaker 7: And then you gotta do you want to make them
Speaker 7: or you don't?
Speaker 4: You want to make your just I'm not putting McCain
Speaker 4: fries for poutine.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't know.
Speaker 3: This guy thinks poutine is like one potato, one curd
Speaker 3: on top and.
Speaker 1: Here's some water gravy.
Speaker 3: Come on, ain't nobody? Not enough people are making poutine.
Speaker 3: I think for good reason.
Speaker 1: It's what we're getting.
Speaker 2: It's hard work.
Speaker 1: It's right. Let's get the worst of the week. JA,
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 2: Three worst of the week nominees. The first one is
Speaker 2: six Ers rookie VJ. Edgecumbe because he doesn't want to
Speaker 2: go into the slam dunk context. Now, it's not just
Speaker 2: about him declining this question from the reporter as to
Speaker 2: if he's going to go in, but how quickly he
Speaker 2: said no. He shakes his head so fast. If you're
Speaker 2: on a podcast, you might not listening to this. On podcasts,
Speaker 2: you might not see Vjedshcumb's face as we play this clip,
Speaker 2: but he shakes it off so fast. Here's the clip,
Speaker 2: including the reporter asking the question. If somebody asked you
Speaker 2: if you wanted to be in the dunk contest, what
Speaker 2: would you response be? Wow? No, yeah, there was there
Speaker 2: a particular reason why you wouldn't want to participate.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 2: That's hilarious. He kisses. He kisses his teeth when he
Speaker 2: thinks about it, is that quick quick headshake. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: this guy's a rookie. We've kind of come to accept
Speaker 2: like a third year player saying a rookie, nah, first
Speaker 2: two year players are are sort of obliged to kind
Speaker 2: of do it. But this guy's a rookie, saying no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm not even thinking about him. He didn't.
Speaker 1: He shook it off so fast the question wasn't even over.
Speaker 2: Exactly that being said. He then posted on Instagram, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I apparently this is real. It's a VJ dot edge
Speaker 2: com on Instagram. He's then he puts, yeah, it's where
Speaker 2: it looks like maybe a ceiling because there's a light
Speaker 2: fixture sort of. But then he puts the caption in
Speaker 2: there like actually me and at Tyrese MAXI. He added
Speaker 2: him might do the dunk contest with the shrug emoji
Speaker 2: all this week, so he called himself out VJ Max
Speaker 2: get him in there. Very interesting stuff.
Speaker 1: So we're holding out hope now that we're doing Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe he just like you said, Tree, I mean, the
Speaker 2: guy didn't even end finish his question. He's already shaking
Speaker 2: it off. So maybe he's just kind of like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know, in this press sort of routine where
Speaker 2: like I'm not I don't want to talk to you.
Speaker 1: I think more likely is he said no because he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to do it, and then Maxi or Embiid
Speaker 1: or somebody in the sixers like, come on, young kid,
Speaker 1: come on man, go put on a show.
Speaker 2: I might ask you, Yeah, but why say me? And Maxi?
Speaker 1: Because yeah, really, Maxi's not going in the dunk contest.
Speaker 1: I don't think so he'll help him out.
Speaker 3: Wasn't it him and Scottie Barnes that were like laughing
Speaker 3: and hugging each other stars, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Ed would be so good. Oh, I don't know if
Speaker 2: there's many more like players I think, I mean the
Speaker 2: shading sharp would be awesome. And there's other guys obviously,
Speaker 2: but like a rookie because the age is important when
Speaker 2: it comes to the dun no vets going in it,
Speaker 2: because now we're seeing that rookies don't even want to
Speaker 2: go in, which is odd.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, when was the last great dunk Contest
Speaker 3: moment twenty sixteen, Zach versus Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, that's legendary. P jadge come was eleven
Speaker 1: years old.
Speaker 3: Like, the dunk contest hasn't been cool for the majority
Speaker 3: of his life unfortunately, but.
Speaker 2: Those were his formative years. If he if he saw it,
Speaker 2: if he saw it, I don't know. Maybe it's just
Speaker 2: not a thing. Was he born in the Bahamas, Maybe
Speaker 2: it's not a thing there where he was, Okay, I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 7: How could it not be a thing that is.
Speaker 2: Already? I mean the Dunknest on a Saturday.
Speaker 1: For a while, it's still awesome, And the biggest thing
Speaker 1: is go in, put on a show, win the thing,
Speaker 1: maybe Heaven forbid, and watch your money pile up. You
Speaker 1: can use the dunk Contest as a catapult, I believe
Speaker 1: still two brand deals, more publicity, you know whatever, like
Speaker 1: you can. I believe you still can. But look, they
Speaker 1: don't want to be embarrassed, or they don't want to
Speaker 1: they want to take a break whatever, like really I
Speaker 1: don't know. But it's still sad. But I actually when
Speaker 1: we get the rapid fire or we're gonna come back
Speaker 1: to the Dunk Contest, all right, don't.
Speaker 4: This is the reaction of somebody who thinks it's cringe. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: he thinks that the contest itself is cringe. I have
Speaker 4: I've lived with two teenagers for the last eight years.
Speaker 4: This is me asking them to do something that they
Speaker 4: simply don't want to do because they think it's it's stupid,
Speaker 4: like they don't care about winning it. It doesn't even matter.
Speaker 4: It's just embarrassing to even be in it. Yeah, right,
Speaker 4: and that's a problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, if there if he's shaking his head, but wow,
Speaker 2: the guy's asking the questions. Yeah, I'm not even thinking
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: I don't want And he's asked the question because he
Speaker 1: threw down an insane dunk in that game that was
Speaker 1: like one of the plays of the night, one of
Speaker 1: the plays probably of the you know, twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: that huge dunk. So that's why you're being asked about it.
Speaker 1: You are an incredible dunker. You just threw out an
Speaker 1: incredible dunk. Would you ever go in the dunk contest?
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's not a good sign that he's like,
Speaker 1: oh good, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 2: This teething all s good stuff. So he might win
Speaker 2: Worse of the Week, but we got some other nominees
Speaker 2: the second and he was also very good. Here the MAVs,
Speaker 2: Naji Marshall had some tummy troubles because here's the report.
Speaker 2: Reporter sends out a tweet quote Naji Marshall went to
Speaker 2: the Dallas Mavericks locker room. All right, simple, simple, Naji Marshall.
Speaker 2: After the game, he retweeted that tweet and said, quote
Speaker 2: bathroom break. Y'all know I don't bend or break. We
Speaker 2: got poop emoji to do. Great win fellas okay, and
Speaker 2: so somebody wanted some clarification. Somebody asked him what you eat? Goat?
Speaker 2: Now I don't know if he actually meant what did
Speaker 2: you eat, goat?
Speaker 3: Or what did you eat?
Speaker 2: You're the goat and probably probably the last because it
Speaker 2: is Dallas Sports Talk sending that tweet to Nausea Marshall,
Speaker 2: who said Chipotle crying emoji. So there we are. Naji
Speaker 2: Marshall ate some Chipotle and had to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: So it happens.
Speaker 2: Great stuff, great.
Speaker 1: Feeling better now. He had a massive game last night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's got one of the best floaters in
Speaker 3: the league, so I'm not surprising he would have to
Speaker 3: go back.
Speaker 1: Ah, oh, you hit two threes last night? How many two's?
Speaker 2: No? Eight? And tennisis n Thank you to the assists
Speaker 2: for from Grant af Seth for setting that up from
Speaker 2: Dallas hoops dream.
Speaker 1: He had an incredible game. He shot ten to twelve,
Speaker 1: thirty points. He's gonna be in the Woe boy running
Speaker 1: nine as sis, seven boards and no dumps last night
Speaker 1: during the game at halftime, well maybe a half time
Speaker 1: they counted. They added it to Basketball Reference cool gamescore.
Speaker 1: Who leads the league in dumps this year? Andre Drummond.
Speaker 1: That's right between him and for me. But it's hard
Speaker 1: to tell.
Speaker 3: Eating Chapotle before a game. That's a risky move. Obviously
Speaker 3: happened to Paul Pierce once.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler last year. Was that last year Jim Butler
Speaker 2: the jem Butler Incident? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we made a
Speaker 2: short about it, a short. Yes, they call Naji Marshall
Speaker 2: the Knife and Dallas. Yes, yes, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I like it. That is a cool nick name, all right.
Speaker 2: Final nominee Here h two players exchanged nut because the
Speaker 2: one making the headline was Karl Anthony Towns, but it
Speaker 2: was preceded by Dwight Powell kicking Karl Anthony Towns in
Speaker 2: the nuts. Dwight Howell playing a little defense going back,
Speaker 2: his leg goes up directly into the carriage of Karl
Speaker 2: Anthony Towns. Carlington Towns hits the deck and then Carl
Speaker 2: Anthony Town's shooting a three and definitely kicking the guy
Speaker 2: who kicked him on purpose because he throws it out there.
Speaker 2: It's like three minutes later.
Speaker 3: Looked like he was in rewind, doesn't it, because he's
Speaker 3: going He's going back.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's a few minutes later. You could tell
Speaker 2: car Anthony Towns wants to get Dwight Powell back, and he.
Speaker 1: Did a crossbody kick to get got a flagrant for that.
Speaker 2: Is that right he did? Yeah? Yeah, because it is
Speaker 2: to his left. He went right leg to his left.
Speaker 2: Nice kick.
Speaker 1: Draymond's like, whoa taking notes? That interesting?
Speaker 3: That's an interesting way too, good stuff.
Speaker 2: That's a flagrant. That's that's worth the whistle because that
Speaker 2: was that was.
Speaker 1: You said Powell kicked Cat, which he did, but he
Speaker 1: also took like looked like he took a knee from
Speaker 1: Cat too, on the exact same play. Like I think
Speaker 1: he took a little bit of Cat's and knee to
Speaker 1: his groin because he goes down hold in his junk
Speaker 1: and then Cat obviously got sort of kicked on the
Speaker 1: Dwight Powell flare too.
Speaker 2: And realize he was definitely not not happy. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: could have been because he got a need of the
Speaker 2: growing he was defending, So we could have had three
Speaker 2: kicks to the grond really in that instant.
Speaker 1: Okay, so wow we got some These are good nominees.
Speaker 2: This great batchman, Yeah, grown Batch, PJ Edge, Cump Groins
Speaker 2: and Nause Marshall eating Chipotle. What do you think he
Speaker 2: ate a Chipotle? What gave him the the runs?
Speaker 1: Bad sour cream? Maybe the hot sauca pretty spicy.
Speaker 2: Not poutine, they don't Yeah, one of the sauces. I
Speaker 2: there's not a lot on the no venu.
Speaker 1: The answer is just Chipolo went right through. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: jumbled up in there. All right, let's hear your uh,
Speaker 1: your actual pick for worst of the week from those
Speaker 1: three nominees. Boye of the Night sponsored by disc cup
Speaker 1: here on YouTube the other day. Wanted to sponsor whatever
Speaker 1: next segment he could. Thanks, So here you go, here's
Speaker 1: your woe boy and you got a good one. I'm
Speaker 1: going with Peyton Watson for whoe Boy of the ball. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was a game we didn't talk about, but Peyton
Speaker 1: Watson scored a career high thirty five points to lead
Speaker 1: the Nuggets to a win in Washington. Peyton Washington shot
Speaker 1: ten of sixteen from the field, six of eight from deep,
Speaker 1: nine to tenant the line. This guy added eight boards,
Speaker 1: three dimes, four blocks, and two steals in forty minutes
Speaker 1: of action. What a game from Peyton want This guy
Speaker 1: is hooping right now.
Speaker 2: He is absolutely hooping. That's a fair question to ask.
Speaker 2: Let's say Christian Brown and Cam Johnson get back healthy
Speaker 2: at some point, because they're both they're both still unhealthy,
Speaker 2: both coming back soon ish. Does Peyton Watson lose his
Speaker 2: starting role he's been playing so good? Does one of
Speaker 2: those guys go to the bench? And I would probably
Speaker 2: pick Christian Brown just because Christian Brown did come back
Speaker 2: for a few games and just wasn't right. So maybe
Speaker 2: if he's not right, but I don't know. I say
Speaker 2: that a'll to say Peyton Watson has been incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a three handling just looks like another another player like
Speaker 2: this is a new version of Peyton Watson. It looks great.
Speaker 1: The nine to ten at the line, that is, that's
Speaker 1: awesome for him to get there. Obviously capitalize on him.
Speaker 1: So Peyton Watson will boy there you go, discup pick
Speaker 1: them tonight's task. Where are we going in this very
Speaker 1: close race in the month of January.
Speaker 2: Well, geographically, we ain't going nowhere, because the Phoenix Suns
Speaker 2: are coming to visit the Atlanta Hawks. They are a
Speaker 2: two and a half point favorite coming to atl I'm
Speaker 2: taking atl because they've lost two straight home games. This
Speaker 2: is the last game of Phoenix's road trip. Is that good?
Speaker 2: Is that bad? Good? Teams say, Oh, it's our it's
Speaker 2: our last game on the road trip. We got to
Speaker 2: go home strong. Well, the Atlanta Hawks, they did go
Speaker 2: to Phoenix earlier this season. It was the last game
Speaker 2: of their road trip and they won that one. But
Speaker 2: I think they kind of match up well, So I'm
Speaker 2: taking the Hawks. Shake Gilders, Alexander's got to bounce back, Shay,
Speaker 2: it's shake Gil just Alexander. Yeah, I left him. I
Speaker 2: don't know why. I think when not when I think
Speaker 2: he's got three initials. So when I think Nikhil Alexander Walker,
Speaker 2: sometimes I say, Shay also wearing the same shoes out there.
Speaker 2: They're both wearing their Converse shoes. Nika Alexander Walker's got
Speaker 2: a bounce back. You guys are taking Phoenix.
Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, I believe them to be the better basketball team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen a license plate in Atlanta that
Speaker 3: says naw? It could literally be Nikhil Alexander Walker.
Speaker 1: Keep your eyes I will. Dylan Brooks celebrated his birthday
Speaker 1: yesterday here in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: That's why I took a little bit of hot fun.
Speaker 2: Maybe probably they're out partying.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see. All right, So Tass has the Hawks
Speaker 1: got some points to play with as a home dog.
Speaker 1: Trey and I have Phoenix to win by three or more.
Speaker 1: Trey's nine and six, I'm eight and seven. Tast is
Speaker 1: seven and eight, so very very close here in our
Speaker 1: pick them battle. Okay, let's go to some rapid fire
Speaker 1: fun task. You got the questions this week?
Speaker 2: Here we go. Vince Carter and Traysay McGrady are starting
Speaker 2: a new podcast called Cousins. What other relatives should start
Speaker 2: a podcast together? And what should it be called? Skes?
Speaker 1: Give me Julian and Justin CHAMPENNI all right, the twin
Speaker 1: brothers from Staten Island, I think it's where they're from.
Speaker 1: They play for the Spurs and the Wizards, respectively. They
Speaker 1: should have a podcast called two Cents Sham penny two pennies,
Speaker 1: two pennies, two cents. That's not bad at all.
Speaker 2: Pretty good.
Speaker 1: Thanks. I'm proud of that one.
Speaker 2: I think it's better than Cousins.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't love Cousins as a podcast. Three straightforward
Speaker 1: it is bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tray.
Speaker 1: How about Skip Bayless and Rick Bayless do it podcast? Okay?
Speaker 1: They're brothers.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a good point. It would be called say less.
Speaker 3: I want to hear less from Skip and more from Rick.
Speaker 3: Tell me about your tortillas, tell me about your salsas.
Speaker 3: Tell me what's going wrong with Nauji Marshall's Chipotle order?
Speaker 1: Yeah? For those that don't know, of course.
Speaker 3: I have many delicious Mexican inspired restaurants, primarily in Chicago.
Speaker 1: He loves wawk and cheese.
Speaker 2: And so do I.
Speaker 1: The brothers really weird.
Speaker 2: You could put that cheese on your poutine? Man, Wow,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: He could.
Speaker 2: It's melty though, I guess right.
Speaker 1: Tara Grill's poutine from Rick Bayless sounds good?
Speaker 2: All right, JD, what's your podcast called?
Speaker 4: I would like the Cohen Brothers to start a podcast.
Speaker 4: I'm still working on the name. This podcast really ties
Speaker 4: the room together. Number One choice okay, you know, but
Speaker 4: they're older guys. So no podcast for young men or
Speaker 4: a podcast for old men. Hey, one or the other anyway,
Speaker 4: they all work. Yeah, no podcast for young men.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no podcast for young man. Oh I got just
Speaker 7: a couple of old guys talking about movies.
Speaker 2: Right, all right? Second one, Tyres Max is getting his
Speaker 2: first signature shoe. Seems a little late, New Balance. He's
Speaker 2: been great for a while and it's coming later in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. That's too late. What's an endorsement that's
Speaker 2: taking too long to happen?
Speaker 1: Skeets Well, I said I was going to go back
Speaker 1: to the dunk contests. What's taken so long for somebody?
Speaker 1: I've said Drake before. I don't know. It could be
Speaker 1: some saudy prints for all I care to put up
Speaker 1: a bunch of money to the dunk contest winner.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Oh whatever, somebody do it, save it, it will save it.
Speaker 1: I convinced if somebody put up a million or whatever
Speaker 1: that we'd get some bigger names. So maybe young stars
Speaker 1: that want to make a million bucks. I can't believe
Speaker 1: it hasn't happened. I really thought Drake was gonna do it.
Speaker 1: At one point, but I feel like that maybe that
Speaker 1: ship is sailed at this point. Maybe we need to
Speaker 1: rely on mister beasts. Yeah maybe yeah. Us So, somebody
Speaker 1: putting up a million dollars plus to the Dunk Contest
Speaker 1: winner makes sense.
Speaker 2: I mean, Drake has his gambling app right, yeah, whatever
Speaker 2: it is FanDuel or DraftKings or somebody say hey, I
Speaker 2: don't know, let's go hand in hand here and offer
Speaker 2: somebody a million dollars. It makes sense.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe a problem is the Dunk Contest is
Speaker 1: sponsored by one of these companies, Like everything is sponsored here.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's doing it this year, but like
Speaker 1: maybe there's a conflict of interest there, like whoever's doing it? Yes,
Speaker 1: like AT and T let's say whatever, Verizon or who
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh no, no, no, we don't want
Speaker 1: another company then coming over top. But they should anyway, okay,
Speaker 1: and the NBA should allow it.
Speaker 3: It was the AT and T Slam Dunk yeah recently,
Speaker 3: which always pissed me off because that worked so much
Speaker 3: better when it was the AT and.
Speaker 1: T three point shoot out call them long distance, right yeah?
Speaker 1: And then obviously, well what happened Sprite got involved? Story sorry,
Speaker 1: story Storry range. Should they should flip them? Should be
Speaker 1: the story Slam Dunk and the A, T, T AT
Speaker 1: and T three point contest calling long distance.
Speaker 2: Oh, spray, kids don't like Storry in comparison to spray.
Speaker 2: I got kids. They we sent I sent a photo
Speaker 2: of myself with the Lime and Lemon mascot. Okay, oh
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, and they always remember that photo and they
Speaker 2: and then we go we're in a soda fridge and
Speaker 2: they see, No, that's not spray. I ain't having that.
Speaker 2: You know, they got sprayed on the brain. Well, Lime
Speaker 2: and Lemon, hold on with those guys, Storry, Lime and level. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that sprites better.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I've never seen somebody drink a story in
Speaker 1: real life.
Speaker 7: I drink one every day.
Speaker 1: Here, do you like it?
Speaker 7: Fucking love story.
Speaker 1: I've never seen drink one ever.
Speaker 7: Okay, look in that fridge right.
Speaker 1: Now, all right, you go check the fridge while I talk.
Speaker 1: Check the first answer. How yeah, there's a fun box
Speaker 1: of starry here exactly.
Speaker 2: Zero sugar ones, holy sugar, yeah yeah, zero sugar.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. But I'm never seeing you drink one.
Speaker 7: That's because I always put it.
Speaker 1: In my little, uh my little mug.
Speaker 7: My mug, my tumbler.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who can forget Salt Lake City All Star. He's
Speaker 1: just sitting outside our doors. Yeah, change my life, change
Speaker 1: my life, literally worked on.
Speaker 8: All you have to do is drink twelve of them
Speaker 8: over an All Star weekend when you were you're a
Speaker 8: story guy, Maybe I just haven't had enough. It's like
Speaker 8: all ys where you got to eat? However many of
Speaker 8: them before?
Speaker 1: You like.
Speaker 3: Stories the.
Speaker 2: Trey. What's an endorsement that's taking too long to happen?
Speaker 1: How recently did you say this, Naji Marshall.
Speaker 2: Thing happened is this week?
Speaker 1: Is this week?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's up with dude wipes? They're usually all over.
Speaker 3: Anything, poop later, anything that happens. They're like, we'll sponsor that,
Speaker 3: will somehow give you money. They sponsored the Cleveland Browns
Speaker 3: just because of their names. Yeah, so they got to
Speaker 3: get in touch with each other. I'm sure Nade would say, yes, yeah, wipe.
Speaker 1: It up, dude wipes.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: I mean Mark Cuban invested. I know he's no longer
Speaker 3: like the technical owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1: But there's got to be a relationship there.
Speaker 3: He can easily put my guy Megan in touch with
Speaker 3: Naji Marshall send him a package of wipes.
Speaker 2: No doubt. Yes, what's the endorsement you're looking at?
Speaker 7: I'm waiting for my story, yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at this point it's taking too long.
Speaker 1: But yeah, me.
Speaker 7: How many times have I drank a Guinness on this show?
Speaker 1: Many times?
Speaker 4: At least twenty five times? Guys, where's my Guinness endorsement deal?
Speaker 1: We should have like a keg here and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Like it's just a tap, yeah, Guinness, is
Speaker 2: that what you're going to request? Though? Not a caned?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I want to tap. The cans are fine,
Speaker 4: but you know you want to draft Guinness, you know. Anyway,
Speaker 4: that's it.
Speaker 7: It's just a complaint. Not really.
Speaker 1: Makes sense.
Speaker 2: So all right, This last one's a weird one. This
Speaker 2: is an Instagram post. Okay, I'll read it quote word
Speaker 2: for word. Some girl turned thirty six today. She posted
Speaker 2: my Marcus Smart year. Smh. I don't think it worked
Speaker 2: like that. Can't just name any player, man, it's going
Speaker 2: to be a terrible year for her if it's her
Speaker 2: Marcus Smart year and ig post. All right, that's that's
Speaker 2: what it was. That's what it was. Some guy, I
Speaker 2: believe he's a man calling out a girl for saying,
Speaker 2: this is going to be my Marcus smart year. So
Speaker 2: what do you think? Will she have a terrible year
Speaker 2: like this person?
Speaker 3: Yes, it will be as bad and as uninspired and
Speaker 3: weird as this question.
Speaker 1: Because I love the concept of this rapid fire question.
Speaker 1: But yeah, she will have a terrible year.
Speaker 2: Why do you say that.
Speaker 1: Just because I need to say yes or no?
Speaker 2: Fair answer? Trade? Do you have another another answer?
Speaker 3: I think she's gonna have a better year than the
Speaker 3: last two years. Okay, just like Marcus Martin.
Speaker 2: Good one. Okay, okah, you know year.
Speaker 4: I think she's gonna have a fine year. Here's the thing, though,
Speaker 4: is this is as good as it's gonna get for her.
Speaker 7: She's thirty six.
Speaker 1: No, you didn't find story until you were in your forties.
Speaker 7: That's true. But it didn't make my year. So you know,
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 4: As an older guy, I'm just like looking back. Look,
Speaker 4: you're as hot as you're gonna be, right now, that's
Speaker 4: just as good as it gets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: Today today you look the best you're gonna ever. Look,
Speaker 4: this is for everybody across the.
Speaker 1: Board that's not that's not true.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: Why did you see this guy? I'm pointing at Taos.
Speaker 1: We've been sharing a lot of like, uh, we've been
Speaker 1: sharing a lot of like older clips because we're celebrating
Speaker 1: twenty years so there's a lot of older clips of
Speaker 1: tasks from twenty or ten or fifteen years ago. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Tesmelos looks way hotter than you did fifteen years ago.
Speaker 7: Jd are you guys before thirty six?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 7: Look at thirty six?
Speaker 1: Look at thirty six? Thirty six?
Speaker 2: How old you're forty five? Forty four, forty four?
Speaker 1: Okay, so we got to go eight years ago, exact
Speaker 1: years ago.
Speaker 2: I'm David. I'm David Lee Age again.
Speaker 1: The man is it?
Speaker 2: He's a great looking guy. Why are you going gender
Speaker 2: specific with this Instagram poster?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Because it sounds like okay, can we also no why
Speaker 2: she calls it the Marcus Smart Marcus Smart does wear
Speaker 2: the number thirty? Yeah, yeah, well this it feels like
Speaker 2: this guy doesn't take that into account at all because
Speaker 2: he he just says, you can't.
Speaker 1: Say and you can't just pick random. Yeah that's where yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like I mean, there's not a lot of
Speaker 3: great thirty sixes. It's like Rashid Wallace is probably the
Speaker 3: best NBA thirty six, Shaquar thirty six ones. Yeah, Shack
Speaker 3: Celtics thirty six. I'll take a mark I'm smart over
Speaker 3: a Shack thirty six. What's your ear?
Speaker 2: Your said forty four? Forty four?
Speaker 1: Hank Aaron here, that's a good.
Speaker 3: One, Hank Aaron drume bettis drum bettis, Yeah, the great
Speaker 3: running back.
Speaker 1: What's your ear? I'm forty Well, how old am I
Speaker 1: forty five? Right now? I forty five?
Speaker 3: You're in your Jordan return yere Donovan Mitchell year.
Speaker 2: That's a good one, yeah, Donald Mitchell. Yeah, Spider, I said,
Speaker 2: David Lee is in my former teammate David Lee, not
Speaker 2: the that David Lee. But anyway, just because he was
Speaker 2: a forty four, Okay, I always remember David Lee, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of.
Speaker 1: Guys in NBA history to wear number thirty six. That's
Speaker 1: not it's a weird basketball. I mean, we said Shack
Speaker 1: wore with the Celtics.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Dave Cowen's I guess is he worked with the box
Speaker 1: one year Paul Silas were with the Sonics. Rashid, you
Speaker 1: said that's one of the best players here. Uh, come on,
Speaker 1: Looney worked for the Warriors. But yeah, Royal Ivey tough year,
Speaker 1: Omri Casspy. Then do some names here, Mike Price, not
Speaker 1: Mark Price, Mike Price. I didn't know that was I
Speaker 1: didn't know who was the guy either.
Speaker 2: What's your your Jada podcast?
Speaker 7: Fifty five?
Speaker 3: Oh that's a cool number, Lance Briggs, you ask me
Speaker 3: fifty five? J D Jason Williams talk about a good one. Sure,
Speaker 3: lots of guys in the NBA of born fifty five.
Speaker 4: Ye take that what I say, because I'm better looking
Speaker 4: now than I was last year and the every year
Speaker 4: before that.
Speaker 7: So you know what, Yeah for this Marcus Smart, it's
Speaker 7: only better for yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, with the way people are aging these days, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree, I agree. All right. So that's the end
Speaker 2: of a great effort by everybody to answer an odd
Speaker 2: question to end rapid fire. Good great effort.
Speaker 1: Try and see if there's ever been Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: an idiot. I was trying to see if there's ever
Speaker 1: been a Hall of Famer to wear number fifty five.
Speaker 1: I forgot one, Ken be Mtumbo, great one, yeah, great,
Speaker 1: the late great to KEM M.
Speaker 2: Tumble.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's rapid fire and that's a rapid but man,
Speaker 1: it was fire. A couple founding members show U no, okay, but.
Speaker 7: I don't have them.
Speaker 1: Next week? We do next week, let's push them the
Speaker 1: next Well what happened? Just like I forgot to look
Speaker 1: at the to the bottom.
Speaker 7: Of the dock.
Speaker 4: It was literally on the next page, and I was like,
Speaker 4: you know, rapid fire. It's like, oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: It's because we didn't do it last week with Lely here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so that's my bad. That's there are founding members.
Speaker 3: There's only two rights when I caught up. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: we're never going to get to these two names at
Speaker 3: the pace.
Speaker 4: We're going no, no, no, no, We're getting to the
Speaker 4: next week regardless, regardless.
Speaker 1: Hang tight, uh does that mean no no Buffs Traders promo?
Speaker 7: That is what that means?
Speaker 1: You really just stopped reading?
Speaker 5: Okay, over here, that's enough, come on f block Alex crazy. Well,
Speaker 5: if you are a fan of Traders, yeah, and No
Speaker 5: Buffs in particular. We do have a podcast today, or
Speaker 5: usually have been doing it on the weekends with Traders
Speaker 5: because they dropped so many episodes on Thursday night, but
Speaker 5: we're down to one episode of night.
Speaker 1: So it's a lot more manageable, and Trey Kurmey joins
Speaker 1: us in the turret today. Yeah, I can't wait to
Speaker 1: say me air game. So we're gonna hear all of
Speaker 1: tk's thoughts on not only last night's episode, episode six,
Speaker 1: but first five episodes of the season, and Nora will
Speaker 1: be here and obviously JD and myself, so uh yeah,
Speaker 1: join us at one pm Eastern over on the No
Speaker 1: Buffs YouTube account, or obviously subscribe to No Bus on
Speaker 1: Apple or Spotify. However you listen to the podcast just
Speaker 1: one to break down, but got a little spicy because
Speaker 1: the traders may have started to turn on each other.
Speaker 1: That's always a fun element of this game. So anyway,
Speaker 1: one o'clock today. Otherwise we'll see you here in No
Speaker 1: Dunk's Land on Monday at ten am Eastern. Hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: be here. Some crazy weather hit in the state, especially
Speaker 1: southern US this weekend, expecting like an ice storm here,
Speaker 1: so everybody stay safe and stay off the roads if
Speaker 1: we do hit this ice and maybe we'll have to
Speaker 1: do it from the yard if we can't drive on Monday,
Speaker 1: but who knows, who knows, we'll play it by ear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not a meteorologist. I don't know, No one knows. I'm
Speaker 1: not Ella Dorsey. Is that our name?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3: I took a stab at it was like dorsy is
Speaker 3: it Ella? She's a meteorologist here at Land. Anyway, we'll
Speaker 3: see you guys either later today on no bus or
Speaker 3: on Monday here no dunks.
Speaker 1: Tell Clipper bros. You heard it here first. Have a
Speaker 1: great time, turn up. Love you guys awesome.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, and remember we will see you Monday.
Speaker 2: No matter what Ela Dorsey says, we will see you
Speaker 2: in some way, shape or form on Monday.
Speaker 1: What if the power goes out? What if we lose power?
Speaker 1: These branches they take down power lines?
Speaker 2: Were without charge your phones and charge your power supplies,
Speaker 2: your your your battery, power block I got.
Speaker 1: I got a real problem with that though my phone
Speaker 1: I can't charge like with a cable. I have to
Speaker 1: put it on a thing. Yeah, I need a new phone,
Speaker 1: is what I'm getting at. It won't charge with the cable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you guys have to do the show. Hopefully, hopefully
Speaker 1: we get a show. The ice worried about branches, I'm totally.
Speaker 2: Let's still charge it to say hundred p before we start.
Speaker 3: Well, but not if the power goes out on Saturday.
Speaker 3: By the time Monday. You don't want me to look
Speaker 3: at my phone.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that's the best part about losing.
Speaker 1: Power to read a book by candlelight.
Speaker 3: Candlelight, Laura, let's just she said, bragging how many taper
Speaker 3: candles she has.
Speaker 1: It's don't worry, Yeah, you don't worry. You read. It's
Speaker 1: like one good thing. I got four books from the library.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: We don't actually have that combative a relationship and we're
Speaker 3: just talking about, yeah, I will read.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you think we're gonna get any exploding trees?
Speaker 1: I hope not. Sounds bad but looks cool. Bad for nature,
Speaker 1: cool for brace the weekend people.