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Speaker 1: Good day, Sweemerl and welcome to the Nodunks podcast on

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Speaker 1: the Athletic Network. It's Saturday, June twenty seventh. I'm still

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Speaker 1: j Skeets on a weekend and joining us here on

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Speaker 2: We got tas.

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Speaker 3: Mellis Saturday on the pod.

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Speaker 2: You'll figure out the beard and one Trey Kirby.

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Speaker 4: Hey day and last but not.

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Speaker 2: Least, making the magic happen. JD. Hello, there is and

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Speaker 2: here we are.

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Speaker 1: No Lealy today. I think he went fishing once again

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Speaker 1: with the boys. It's all good though. We had to

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Speaker 1: rally the troops here though today because the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: NBA season restart schedule has been released. This bad boy

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Speaker 1: dropped on Friday night and people were excited. Each team

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Speaker 1: will have eight regular season games to help finalize the

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Speaker 1: playoff seating Bubble Basketball hips, with two games starting on

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Speaker 1: July thirtieth as the Jazz face off against Pelicans, followed

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Speaker 1: by the Clippers and Lakers. Both of those games live

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Speaker 1: on TNT. So what the players and teams here have

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, two weeks I guess to knock

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Speaker 1: off the Rust and get these playoff seeds and maybe

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Speaker 1: maybe see if we get a Mega Bowl play in tournament,

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Speaker 1: whether or not a team can force that. So we

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Speaker 1: got some questions here about the restart schedule. First, one's

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Speaker 1: a fun one task. Why don't you get it started?

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Speaker 1: What's your one must watch game from these eighty eight games.

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Speaker 3: It's hard for me to look past that opening night

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Speaker 3: July thirtieth on TNT and look past the Clippers and Lakers.

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Speaker 3: I can look past the Jazz and Pelicans, which are

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Speaker 3: opening that night, but I'm looking forward to the Clippers

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Speaker 3: and Lakers because, in the words of Sam Amic, this

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Speaker 3: NBA bubble experiment, it's like a rocket launch. We're all

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Speaker 3: waiting with baited breath, waiting to see what happens overall,

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Speaker 3: and on opening night they will have been down there

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Speaker 3: for several weeks. But it is kind of like the

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Speaker 3: rocket launch, And it's almost exactly like opening night of

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Speaker 3: this actual season, where the Lakers and Clippers played the

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Speaker 3: second game of a doubleheader where no one really cared

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Speaker 3: about the first game. Sorry Raptors, but it was the

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Speaker 3: Raptors and Pelicans. Then without Zion Williamson, they raised the

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Speaker 3: banner that night, Jazz and Pelicans getting us started before

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Speaker 3: the Lakers and Clippers, which should be the Western Conference Finals,

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Speaker 3: and hey, it's a TNT night. I'm already thinking about

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Speaker 3: Charles with maybe some sort of hair on his face.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, it should be just a.

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Speaker 4: Fun on his head. Imagine that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got duped with Shock growing hair right earlier

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Speaker 3: this year. Yep, somebody's gonna dupe us again. Maybe Ernie,

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Speaker 3: Ernie's going to lie to us this time.

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Speaker 2: You're keeping it simple.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm keeping it simple.

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Speaker 4: I saw Dan Woiki tweeting that this is, no doubt

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Speaker 4: the first time that two teams have played on opening

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Speaker 4: night the same season, you know, right, Like, we got

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Speaker 4: Lakers Clippers on any nights twice. It's amazing. But it's

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Speaker 4: also like so indicative of kind of what we're going

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Speaker 4: to be seeing once this thing actually restarts, right, Like,

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Speaker 4: will it matter that the Lakers have had three months

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Speaker 4: off when it seemed like perhaps their advantage on the

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Speaker 4: Clippers was that they had been playing together for the

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Speaker 4: entire season, that they had built that chemistry, or you know,

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Speaker 4: will it not matter at all? And both teams are

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Speaker 4: better because they've been playing with kind of a different

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm definitely worried about the Clippers in general, because yeah,

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Speaker 3: they were turning it on in March. But hey, you

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Speaker 3: been together before, you know. I guess you can sort

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Speaker 3: of say the same about Lebron and Ad but they have. Actually,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot more iterations, like you said, Tree of

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Speaker 3: the Clippers this year with all the injuries. I think

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Speaker 3: the Clippers want to get as many games in as possible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, this is a funny question because I'm

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Speaker 1: excited for a lot of these games. Part of that

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Speaker 2: The other part is we got rid.

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Speaker 1: Of the eight worst teams in the league, so a

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Speaker 1: most part, going at it, I'll pick the Grizzlies versus

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Speaker 1: Pelicans though August third, this is the rare six to

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Speaker 1: I like that it's gonna be the third game for

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Speaker 1: both of these teams. I get your excitement on opening

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately for Memphis, this is their weird one back to

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Speaker 1: trying to chase them in the standings. But according to

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Speaker 1: Kevin Pelton, he's crunched the numbers. Grizzlies Pels is the

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Speaker 1: huge and look Zion Williamson versus Ja Morant. Hell, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'll say one thing about the Lakers and Clippers as well.

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Speaker 3: They want to beat each other real bad. Yeah, so

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Speaker 3: I'm with you. It could be super rusty. But both

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Speaker 3: times that they've they've sued it up this year, well

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Speaker 3: and the Lakers finally got them in that last game

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Speaker 3: show too much quote unquote show too much, but they

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Speaker 2: You'd expect, yeah, for sure. And what will the numbers

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Speaker 2: be for that game? Right?

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Speaker 1: Lakers Clippers? Like the ratings, you would think they'd be

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Speaker 1: astronomical cool being on TNT a little bit of an

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Speaker 1: coming back. These are two powerhouse teams with all these talent,

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Speaker 3: Like Holdin, So yeah, yeah, it could be huge though,

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Speaker 3: I think Trey, what about you, what's your one must

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Speaker 4: Well, Skeetz, you mentioned a couple of things that really

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Speaker 4: On the first full day of games, there's a Suns

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Speaker 4: versus Wizard's game. It is the ultimate test of how

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Speaker 4: much did you actually miss the NBA because this is

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Speaker 4: going to be on League Pass. These are two teams

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Speaker 4: two players are going to be gone right in Davis

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Speaker 4: think of this as a rivalry game for that trade,

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Speaker 4: for the Ubre trade, we're getting back to it. I

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Speaker 4: don't know. But for these two teams, obviously every game

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Speaker 4: possibly can to even force a Mega Bowl, especially the

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Speaker 4: first one. But both of these teams games are likely

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Speaker 4: you really want to see every team their play, you

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Speaker 4: gotta watch Sun's Wizards on July thirty. First.

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Speaker 1: We already know that Lee Ellis will not be watching

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Speaker 1: that game exactly.

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Speaker 4: He's tapping on game and what six of the restart? Nope, no,

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Speaker 4: thank you, it's four o'clock. You gotta have my.

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Speaker 1: Tea, yeah, he said, nope, I won't be watching all

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Speaker 1: these Okay, wow, this is an interesting pick by you.

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Speaker 2: It's a real swerve there. You zagged, well, we zigged.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's all watch because you This is the one

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Speaker 4: I gotta put in some effort. This is the first

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Speaker 4: time it feels like a chore. I mean it is

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Speaker 4: on the first day. That's a tough part. But I

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Speaker 4: think leak and power through.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. It's starting at the same time

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Speaker 1: as Grizzlies Blazers.

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Speaker 2: They did this game. They're like, there, gave you the option.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Even ninety minutes before that, the Magic are playing the

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Speaker 3: didn't occur to me that there would be games on

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Speaker 3: just be plotted out like a summer league schedule, and

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Speaker 3: the stations are looking for absolutely any sort of live

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Speaker 3: to the League Pass. Are you hardcore enough.

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Speaker 4: You watch Suns Wizards?

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Speaker 2: We still don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think it was Blake Murphy was writing this in

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Speaker 1: the Athletic Slack channel. We still don't know whether the

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Speaker 2: But I mean, we don't know.

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Speaker 1: There's been no official words, so maybe the league just

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Speaker 1: scratched all that, right and just said just play basketball,

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Speaker 4: There was a little talk, I guess at the time

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Speaker 4: that came off like a joke and like, choose your hotel?

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Speaker 4: What is the summer camp? But kind of the NBA

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Speaker 4: did choose the hotels for the teams that would have

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Speaker 4: home court advantage. Yeah in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, no, that's true, so it might be still

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Speaker 1: more word. I mean, I feel like this is tipping

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Speaker 1: next weekend, you know what I mean. The basketball but

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Speaker 1: this is is still a month away here, all right?

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Speaker 1: Next one, which team guys benefited most from the new

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Speaker 2: Who's the big winner of this whole thing?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's the New Orleans Pelicans and subsequently

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Speaker 3: the NBA because it's now likely more fans will be

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Speaker 3: tuning in because Zion is now likely to be in

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Speaker 3: a playoff elimination game or games the old Mega Bowl

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Speaker 3: as we're calling it, the elimination game possibility because the

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Speaker 3: Pelicans they currently sit in ninth, tied with the Blazers

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Speaker 3: in the Kings winner of ninth gets into that game

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Speaker 3: with the Grizzlies or games. Grizzlies would just have to

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Speaker 3: for the ninth seed? Are the Pelicans because they got

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Speaker 3: a juicy schedule. They got the Washington Wizards, by far

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Speaker 3: the worst team going to Orlando at twenty four and forty.

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Speaker 3: They got the Spurs without LaMarcus Aldridge, another sub five

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Speaker 4: just how it was. But another John, John Hollinger, was

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Speaker 2: You're drowning in John's, hey, Schuman, Hollinger, Wow, Oh.

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Speaker 4: My goodness, so many John's. It's ridiculous. I was watching

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Speaker 3: As long as you're not drowning in the actual John,

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Speaker 4: What's he gonna look like?

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Speaker 3: I guess we had this, you know, four month wait

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Speaker 1: You know, rumors are he's looking pretty uh pretty fit.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's in a Marcasol situation here

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Speaker 2: He's a kid.

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Speaker 3: Who's seeing him? Who Who's who's given these reports? So

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Speaker 3: what I don't know people who are on zoom with

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so Pelicans. Yeah, that's a that's a

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Speaker 1: They're they're still looking pretty good. Like you said, they're

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Speaker 4: Another team that fared well in the johnni verse was

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Speaker 1: Yep, they're actually going to come up in a later

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Speaker 1: just like you, All right, let's flip the question which

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Trey, what why do you get it

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Speaker 4: Six of their eight teams are going to be against

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Speaker 4: some top of the Pops album for the Blazers, as

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Speaker 4: John Schumann explained, is that nine of their sixteen remaining

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Speaker 3: I'm so intrigued with the lineups that they're going to

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Speaker 3: They've got Zach Collins back, who was their starting four

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Speaker 1: Are you worried at all about CJ. McCollum's mind being

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Speaker 3: I'm more concerned with him thinking about Wonderland in Canada,

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Speaker 1: Oh, man, hold on, if he loves Canada's Wonderland, he

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Speaker 2: He must be crazy being down there.

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Speaker 3: But hold on, hold on. As far as rides go,

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Speaker 2: Oh jeezus, Like, you're okay. In Canada. It's got great

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Speaker 2: While you're looking up that tass.

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Speaker 1: Besides the Blazers, who you sounds like you agree with,

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Speaker 1: I just noticed it while you were talking there and

435
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Speaker 1: I was going through it. They have a lot of

436
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Speaker 1: early starts, and that is a team.

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Speaker 2: Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Speaker 1: The Nuggets are not playing a lot of like super

439
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Speaker 1: early starts. Like their first game is a one pm start, okay,

440
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Speaker 1: the earliest start that you can basically have down there,

441
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Speaker 1: and then they've got like a bunch of like four

442
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Speaker 1: o'clock starts and a three thirty start. There are a

443
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Speaker 1: few late ones too, like big games on ESPN and

444
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Speaker 1: T and T, but a good chunk of them sort

445
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Speaker 1: of that early or second game. You know, you wonder

446
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Speaker 1: if that has an effect on a team that doesn't

447
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Speaker 1: do that a lot, because even for them, you know,

448
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Speaker 1: that's like a what would be like a I guess

449
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Speaker 1: I got like a two o'clock game or something like that,

450
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Speaker 1: or what are they an hour or two behind?

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Speaker 3: It?

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Speaker 1: Can never remember where the denver there too. Yeah, so

453
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Speaker 1: that's that's a little strange to me. I wonder if

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Speaker 1: that hurts pretty screen pretty.

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Speaker 3: By clocks, what are the body clocks going to be? Like, yeah,

456
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Speaker 3: you said one o'clock that's an eleven am start time

457
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Speaker 3: for right, it's interesting. Does does Orlando throw all that

458
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Speaker 3: out the window?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 3: Interesting, it's interesting.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we gotta get a John Haberstrow on this to say,

462
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Speaker 4: what is the effect of having your games bunched up

463
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Speaker 4: at the right times? Right? Like, you look at the Lakers,

464
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Speaker 4: you're like six thirty eight, thirty nine thirty, you're playing it,

465
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Speaker 4: You're playing in the evening all the time. You look

466
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Speaker 4: at the nets, it's two o'clock, one thirty, nine o'clock,

467
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Speaker 4: five o'clock. Somebody that knows about biometrics will be able

468
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Speaker 4: to figure that out.

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Speaker 1: And just to clarify, you did that on purpose as

470
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Speaker 1: a joke, right, Dray calling them John Haberstrow. Oh, yeah,

471
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Speaker 1: of course, that's very funny.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I like it from now on.

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Speaker 1: Tom Habitstrow is John Habitstrow did All right, I'll throw

474
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Speaker 1: two more teams in here into the mix. That's sort

475
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Speaker 1: of are like, you know, quote unquote losers here on

476
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Speaker 1: the schedule. Release one is maybe the Miami Heat And

477
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Speaker 1: I saw the the apiece Tim Reynolds tweeting about they

478
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Speaker 1: had one of the easier schedules down the NBA stretch,

479
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Speaker 1: you know, pre shutdown, now that he'd have the fourth

480
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Speaker 1: artist schedule in the seeding games. When you take into

481
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Speaker 1: account only the twenty two teams remaining this season, that's

482
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Speaker 1: a tough break because they're obviously jockeying for playoff positioning.

483
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of teams that are the Celtics, the Heat,

484
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Speaker 1: the Pacers, and the seventy six ers. They're all battling

485
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Speaker 1: for you know, third through six. So the Heat are

486
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Speaker 1: gonna have to beat a lot of these good teams.

487
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Speaker 1: So that's just tough. And the other one, I will say,

488
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Speaker 1: the Grizzlies, And this is sort of more to things

489
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Speaker 1: we've talked about already prior to you know, the schedule

490
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Speaker 1: being released. Just the idea that the Grizzlies even have

491
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Speaker 1: to play for their eight seed life, you know what

492
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Speaker 1: I mean, Like that they're you know, we've debated whether

493
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Speaker 1: those other teams, Okay, they got rid of the delete eight,

494
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Speaker 1: but those other six teams, I mean, should they even

495
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Speaker 1: be there is a fair question. And the Grizzlies, unfortunately,

496
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Speaker 1: are gonna have to hold on to that eight seed

497
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Speaker 1: and maybe have to win the play in game and

498
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Speaker 1: all that and like they're up three and a half.

499
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Speaker 1: I get it, the odds look good. But still, you know,

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Speaker 1: if they had just taken the sixteen teams, top eight

501
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Speaker 1: in the West, top eight in the East, and we

502
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Speaker 1: could have just went right to the playoffs. And the

503
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Speaker 1: Grizzlies are obviously they're laughing, but they got to play

504
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Speaker 1: these games out here, these little sort of warm up

505
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Speaker 1: games or seeding games or preseason games. Some people are

506
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Speaker 1: even calling them, so that sucks.

507
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and they've got to battle five teams, whereas the

508
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Speaker 4: Magic are just trying to fend off the Wizards. You know,

509
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Speaker 4: but I feel like that is going to suit Memphis well,

510
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Speaker 4: you know, having despite the fact that they are the

511
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Speaker 4: team that should be in the playoffs right now, it

512
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Speaker 4: almost feels like they're the underdogs. Still. I feel like

513
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Speaker 4: that's more their mind frame anyways.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I feel that you're right about the Wizards

515
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Speaker 3: and the Magic situation. It's like the Wizards are almost

516
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Speaker 3: giving up before they get there, having Davas Burton's not

517
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Speaker 3: go out there and they're five and a half games back.

518
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Speaker 3: Grizzlies fighting with a bunch of teams that are ready

519
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Speaker 3: to take their spot. That being said, it's going to

520
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Speaker 3: be really, really tough for two teams to overcome them,

521
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Speaker 3: especially with their records against good teams now that there's

522
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Speaker 3: no bad teams out there. This nine, ten, eleven, twelve,

523
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Speaker 3: thirteen seeds, all of them are not great against five

524
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Speaker 3: hundred plus teams against the good basketball teams. So for

525
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Speaker 3: them for them to miss out on the elimination game

526
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Speaker 3: the Grizzlies, you'd have to have two teams behind them

527
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Speaker 3: go seven to one, and that's just not going to

528
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Speaker 3: happen when they were sub five hundred against good teams,

529
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Speaker 3: and then the Grizzlies would have to go three and five.

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Speaker 3: So they should be in there. But I agree, it's

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Speaker 3: maybe not fun, but again, like the Nuggets, it's not

532
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533
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534
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Which playoff seeding race will you be watching the most closely?

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Speaker 1: Because there's a lot out there to keep your eye on.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna see if the Raps are getting give up

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580
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581
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582
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Speaker 3: catch the Wraps and the prize for the number two seed.

583
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Speaker 3: It's nice to play a bad team in the first

584
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Speaker 3: round of the playoffs, the Magic or the Nets, the

585
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Speaker 3: sub five hundred team. Now, maybe the Reps are have

586
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589
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Speaker 3: and they're hanging out in Naples. But they've got a

590
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Speaker 3: real tough schedule Lakers, Bucks, Nuggets, Heat, and Sixers among

591
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Speaker 3: their eight teams, while Boston, Boston's got a nice one Washington, Portland, Memphis, Brooklyn,

592
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Speaker 3: and Orlando and a big game against Toronto. So I'm

593
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Speaker 3: worried a little worried about the Raps, a little bit

594
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Speaker 3: worried that they could give up. It's a three game lead,

595
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 3: it's a three game lead, it's big. But yeah, I'm

596
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Speaker 3: definitely worried about that one.

597
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Speaker 1: Well, they definitely play each other too, these eight games.

598
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: That is a huge game between the Raps and Celtics,

599
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Speaker 1: like you said, and maybe determining the second or third seed.

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Speaker 1: I guess the one good thing is you're right, it'd

601
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Speaker 1: be nice to get that. If you're a Raptors fan,

602
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Speaker 1: it'd be nice to get the easier, quote unquote, easier

603
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Speaker 1: first round battle versus the Nets are the magic cli

604
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Speaker 1: like you said.

605
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Speaker 2: But at least you're not deciding.

606
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Speaker 1: There's no home court advantage, right, So if they're to

607
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Speaker 1: then play in the later on in the quarterfinals or whatever,

608
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Speaker 1: it's not like either team in the second or third

609
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Speaker 1: seed is gonna have home court advtage at least what

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Speaker 1: we know, so that I guess just doesn't matter as much.

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Speaker 2: But I hear you.

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Speaker 1: You know you're right, it's not a Whoever you're getting

613
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Speaker 1: in the sixth seed in the East is not a

614
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Speaker 1: gimme by any means. Right, It's like all those teams

615
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Speaker 1: are already listed prior. So, yeah, that's true. That'd be

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Speaker 1: one to keep an eye on, especially for the Reps

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Speaker 1: and Celtics out there. What about you, Trey, Well, it's

618
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Speaker 1: the Western Conference eight seed. To me, that's really the

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Speaker 1: only thing that matters in the in the run up

620
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Speaker 1: to the actual playoffs, it's really up for grabs. We

621
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Speaker 1: got eight on for eight on the way to the

622
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Speaker 1: Mega Bowl. That's the road to the Mega Bowl right there.

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Speaker 1: And I've got a dirty little secret. I can't follow

624
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Speaker 1: seeding races, to be honest with you.

625
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Speaker 4: I don't like doing all of the math that's involved

626
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Speaker 4: for things that might happen. It's like, if this team

627
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Speaker 4: wins this game, then then loses this one. Then this

628
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Speaker 4: team loses three straight, and the other one wins. We're

629
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Speaker 4: gonna see such and such and such in a home

630
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Speaker 4: court matchup. To me, it's a little bit like the

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632
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Speaker 4: im like, I can't get it. Case Araserral, whatever will

633
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Speaker 4: be will be. We'll see the playoff matchups when we

634
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Speaker 4: see him. I think it's gonna be especially hard to

635
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Speaker 4: figure those things out during the restart, considering we don't

636
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Speaker 4: know what teams are gonna do resting wise, the good

637
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Speaker 4: teams who could lock in their seeds really early during

638
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Speaker 4: this round robin sort of thing. So yeah, it's tough

639
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Speaker 4: to look forward to knowing who's gonna be the three

640
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Speaker 4: six when there's not really a home court advantage involved

641
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Speaker 4: as well. So yeah, watching those eight seed games. Hopefully

642
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Speaker 4: some of these teams that are outside of the picture

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Speaker 4: are able to stay close enough to force am megibowle.

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Speaker 2: There's a reason why we're never gonna call you, John Kirby.

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Speaker 4: That's exactly right, right, exactly right.

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Speaker 2: And I'll love that match. Okay, Yeah, that that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Watching that race for the eight seed in the West,

648
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Speaker 1: and then then maybe who plays the play in game megabole,

649
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it.

650
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 2: I'll uh, I'll go one up the rung there in

651
00:29:58,080 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 2: the West.

652
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: It's maybe not as as some of these that you're

653
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: listening guys, But can the MAVs move out of the

654
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: seventh seed? That's where they currently are right now. But

655
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: if you're a seventh seed, you're very very very likely

656
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: going to be playing the Clippers in and that's that's

657
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: not good. You know, it's going to be very difficult.

658
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: So you're not gonna I'm sorry, you're just not gonna

659
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: beat them. I don't think. But but the MAVs could

660
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: move up to sixth, could even move up to fifth,

661
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: and then a healthy Luca and a healthy KP I

662
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: think you could talk yourself into them winning a first

663
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: round series, depending on who they are playing in that

664
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: type of matchup, be it you know, a three six

665
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: or or a five to four. Even so, just watching

666
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: the Mavericks, they obviously none of these schedules for the

667
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: most part, are easy. But they put together a little

668
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: string of good wins here and they're moving up because

669
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: they're not that far behind. I mean you sort of think,

670
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: maybe in your head that they're sort of locked into

671
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: that seven seed, but you know they got the thunder.

672
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: They're right there within their sights and even teams above them.

673
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: So the Dallas Mavericks just really about their chances of

674
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: winning a playoff series, I guess is what I'm getting

675
00:30:59,120 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: at here.

676
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 2: Something little to watch?

677
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: All right, final question before we wrap it up here

678
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: on a Saturday weekend podcast, Who knew? What's your one

679
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: bubble prediction? All right, you can get as crazy as

680
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: you want with this one. I'll get us started. I

681
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: think a team is gonna go eight to no in

682
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: the seating angry Yes, yes, yes, yes, Now here's why. Okay,

683
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: My favorite NBA restart bet that I saw, I just

684
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: saw it before we jumped on here is whether any

685
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: NBA team will go eight no in these seating games

686
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: when the league restarts. Yes, gets you a plus six hundred.

687
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:42,959
Speaker 1: That's juicy. No minus fifteen hundred. So you know the

688
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: Vegas thinks, Nah, not likely, but I think that's awesome value.

689
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: Plus six hundred is awesome value for it actually happening.

690
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: Randomness thrives in small sample sizes. Boys and the sixers.

691
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: You said it there earlier trade. They're an interesting possibility.

692
00:31:58,760 --> 00:31:59,239
Speaker 2: And here's why.

693
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: When you go through their schedule. They open versus the Pacers.

694
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: Now that's a huge game, all right, in terms of

695
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: the playoffs seating. You know, they're they're chasing each other

696
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: actually like basically tie. Then they play five straight games

697
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: against sub five hundred teams, and then they finish versus

698
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: the Raptors and the Rockets. Now, okay, so look, they

699
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: could beat the Pacers. Then they play a bunch of

700
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,479
Speaker 1: crappy teams. We know the Sixers are good. If Ben

701
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: Simmons back is, you know, healthy, and by all accounts

702
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: it is, they're a good team. Raptors and Rockets, those

703
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: two teams, first off, they could just straight up beat

704
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: on any given night, no doubt. Again, especially with a

705
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: healthy squad. And then who knows at that point, because

706
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: those are the last two games, who knows where the

707
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: Raptors and Rockets stand right in points in regards to

708
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: their seating, like they might be wrapped up. The Raps

709
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: may have the number two seed, okay, no problem. Rockets

710
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: may be locked into wherever they are, and they may

711
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: not have they sit all a bunch of their star

712
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: players so like, while the Sixers could be still playing

713
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: for something in terms of moving up. So I think

714
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: my prediction is not at least one team is gonna

715
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: go eight no in this and I like the Sixers

716
00:32:58,560 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: chances for some weird reason.

717
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 4: So that's why you would almost think that their hardest

718
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 4: game might be their very first game playing against Indiana,

719
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 4: a team that has played them pretty well and now

720
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 4: will have had even longer for Victor Oladipo to get healthy.

721
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 4: But after that, you're right, it's there's easy teams and

722
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 4: then we'll see what happens with Toronto and Houston.

723
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

724
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: The problem with the Sixers, they're such a feast or

725
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: famine team, right, they can easily go oh to eight too.

726
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 2: They don't have the egg on my face, but uh whatever, right,

727
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 2: you love eggs?

728
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 4: Man?

729
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 2: Do you love eggs? I love that one on my

730
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 2: face right now.

731
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: But just like my my actual prediction is that maybe

732
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: it's not the Sixers, but one team at least goes

733
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: eight to no. That's why I love that bet. That

734
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: plus six hundred, that's a juicy payout. I hate to

735
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: sound like Cam Stewart right now, but oh boy, out

736
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: to make some money and eat some mixers, the picks, Trey,

737
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: what about you, it's your bubble prediction here.

738
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 4: We've talked a lot about what the league is going

739
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 4: to do to kind of make the experience fun for

740
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 4: people at home to be watching, and how they're gonna

741
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 4: replicate some sort of a fan experience in the arena.

742
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 4: You know, maybe it'll be cutouts, maybe it'll be holograms,

743
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 4: maybe we'll just see players sitting in the stands. Who

744
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 4: knows what it is. We got a little bit of detail,

745
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:13,439
Speaker 4: as Sean Serania reported in a conference call on over

746
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 4: on Friday that the league is planning on introducing a

747
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 4: tap to cheer app that lights up the arena in

748
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,919
Speaker 4: a team's colors. Yeah, this thing's getting hacked for sure.

749
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 4: I don't know if it'll be a straight up or

750
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 4: like a click farm, or maybe just some sort of

751
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 4: a Reddit activation where we're like, we're cheering anytime somebody

752
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 4: throws a bounce pass. And it's gonna go crazy, because

753
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 4: if you put an app in the hands of people

754
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 4: to control what happens on a television, something bad is

755
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 4: bound to happen and it's gonna be hilarious.

756
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 2: Wow.

757
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,840
Speaker 1: Unless the NBA is so smart. They protect Like they say,

758
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: this tap to Cheer app, they send it all out,

759
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,879
Speaker 1: but it actually does nothing. Like we the user think

760
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: it's doing something, but they're the ones just controlling it.

761
00:34:58,800 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: That would be smart, You're right.

762
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 4: Kind of like when they had hashtag NBA vote.

763
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're those eating counted.

764
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 4: I can't believe we're doing this without Lee Ellis.

765
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, okay, yeah, you think the Tap to Cheer

766
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 1: could be hacked.

767
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 2: That's a great prediction.

768
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 4: Like you asked the Internet to name a boat, it

769
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 4: ends up being named body mcboat face. You ask the

770
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 4: Internet to cheer, you're getting cheery mccheerface, whatever the equivalent.

771
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 2: Of that is, right, What do you think of this

772
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 2: idea tasks this?

773
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: I mean you saw the report as well, like these

774
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: lights going up and you can be hammering the raptors,

775
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 1: you know, red button and it's just lighting up red.

776
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 3: I guess yeah. I do think it's going to be

777
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,959
Speaker 3: sort of like an in arena, like a decibel meter,

778
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 3: where it's just like fake, yeah, just fake, and they

779
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 3: can and the fact that they can probably just pull

780
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 3: out and use the camera they'll focus on the quote

781
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 3: unquote the lights in the arena when they want as well,

782
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 3: Like if you're watching the game and the cameras are

783
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 3: focused on the floor, you even see the lights in

784
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 3: the arena that they're lighting up. I don't think so.

785
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 3: I think it'll have to be when I don't know,

786
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 3: there's a big moment and they basically just turn the

787
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 3: lights on in the arena red and blue because the

788
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 3: Sixers scored a big bucket, you know, So I think

789
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 3: it's just it's just the lighting guy changing the lights.

790
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I woulsh like I would like to see them

791
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: like put like robots behind the baskets and then when

792
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: the opposition is shooting a free throw, we could be pounding,

793
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: we could be tapping this app and it's like moving

794
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 1: and like maybe there's noise from like these robots to

795
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: try and distract the free throw shooter. Yeah, that'd be

796
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: That's like next level stuff here. That's a lot more.

797
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: That's a lot cooler than just lights going off, I think.

798
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 4: But they're Disney. Get the imagineers on it, right, right,

799
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:47,240
Speaker 4: exactly exactly.

800
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: Okay, so we got one team going eight to oh,

801
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 1: we got the tap to chair being hacked.

802
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 2: Task finish this off. What's your bubble prediction?

803
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 4: Here.

804
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, from the from the app tapper to another innovation

805
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 3: I do believe will be cool down there. Yeah, there's

806
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff happening. According to Adam Silver, we're

807
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 3: also going to see unique, never seen before camera angles.

808
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 3: It's bold, it's bold, never seen before, and I'm not

809
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 3: bold enough to really come up with anything too crazy,

810
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 3: but I do think there will be a camera angle

811
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 3: dedicated just to shoes. So I'm not sure where you're

812
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 3: going to be able to switch around your camera angles,

813
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 3: but I think I think probably on some sort of

814
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 3: web platform like they've done for T and T Overdrive,

815
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 3: or you know, they'll go to it at some other point,

816
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 3: but I think somewhere you'll be able to just see.

817
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 3: There's a camera operator who's probably in the front row

818
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 3: on the sideline because there's nobody in those seats. He's

819
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 3: opposite a bench probably you know, if you can see

820
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 3: the floor, and he'll put that camera on the floor

821
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 3: and he'll just be pointing it at shoes and that's

822
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 3: all you're seeing. And I think people will absolutely love

823
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 3: it and be able to see shoes up close, impersonal.

824
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 3: When Jon Rondo's bringing up that ball and he stops

825
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 3: you're gonna be able to see what footwear he's wearing,

826
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 3: because if you think about it, you don't really get

827
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 3: a lot of great shoe angles during a game. It

828
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 3: just happens like once in a blue moon when Kevin

829
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 3: Durant's shoe flies off. You know, it doesn't happen that often.

830
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 3: So I think that'll be one of the camera angles

831
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 3: that we've never seen before. And somebody suggested that to

832
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 3: me on Twitter, so let me give him his props.

833
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 3: His name is hey Duke on Twitter. So thanks to

834
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 3: Hey Duke for du Hey Duke. We're gonna see some

835
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 3: hay shoes. Dukie.

836
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,919
Speaker 2: Well, we do you think we'll see drones? JD? Will

837
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 2: there be drones? Fine?

838
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 5: No, I don't.

839
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 2: I don't think.

840
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 5: I just don't think there. I've seen too many fail

841
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 5: Army drone crash videos, right, and I just if that

842
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 5: could be disastrous if you flew into a guy's head,

843
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 5: you know, by accident. I think they should just like

844
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 5: get hockey helmets for the refs and put GoPros on

845
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 5: top of the rules.

846
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: That great, huh, that's actually I thought where you were

847
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: going at first there two tests with shoe camera. I

848
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: thought you were going to say, like cameras on the

849
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: guy's shoes, and I was like, well, that'd be a

850
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: weird angle.

851
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 4: Comes back.

852
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that idea.

853
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're apparently gonna get some crazy angles here, so

854
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: that'll be fun at least.

855
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to get some enhanced audio from players

856
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 3: and coaches. Not sure what that means, personal, personalized alternative

857
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 3: streams with statistical overlays.

858
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 4: How you like that.

859
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, chat functions and social influencers. Bo Vernie is going

860
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 3: to be talking to us while we're watching the game.

861
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 3: Oh my god, virtual concerts, whoa wee.

862
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot lined up.

863
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: They're gonna try and make us entertained here for these

864
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks and then into the playoffs. So

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Speaker 1: I wonder if they'll keep all that stuff for the playoff.

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Speaker 1: I guess they'll probably just test it out and see

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Speaker 1: what the reaction is to a lot of it, and

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Speaker 1: they're like people are either like, oh I love all

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Speaker 1: these graphics on the screen, or I love this camerangle,

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Speaker 1: or I love this drone nearly decapitating.

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Speaker 2: Somebody, or they'll be like, get rid of it all.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see.

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Speaker 5: They could change the name of this from the bubble

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Speaker 5: to the test tube, and they could change the game,

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Speaker 5: like it could change things moving forward. They just just

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Speaker 5: try everything.

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Speaker 1: Try everything. Let's hope that's what they do. All right,

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Speaker 1: Let's call it there. Get your questions in for next

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Speaker 1: week's Beach Step In podcast. Let's hear your answers to

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Speaker 1: some of the questions I asked the guys. You know

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Speaker 1: your predictions and who benefited the most, who got hosed

882
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: and all that leave us those five star ratings and

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Speaker 1: reviews on iTunes be a gem, I said it on

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Speaker 1: Friday's podcast, Big week Ahead for No Dunks. We plan

885
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Speaker 1: to talk to Rayon Ali about his new book or

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Speaker 1: newish book I guess about NBA jam.

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Speaker 2: This was a fun book. I read this thing twice.

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Speaker 2: I enjoyed it so much. We're gonna talk to him

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Speaker 2: about that.

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Speaker 1: We got a Canadian Basketball Canada Day Moments podcast lined up.

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00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: We gotta knew who wants some trivia, so lots in

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Speaker 1: store tasks. Happy Birthday in advance to your little girls

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Speaker 1: Zoey coming up.

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Speaker 3: This weekend, Thanks so much, Thank you so much. Big

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Speaker 3: big party.

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00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 2: What do you got playing a little little pool party.

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Speaker 3: With just the fan looking at each other.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just like every other day. All right? Well, happy

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Speaker 2: birthday is Zoe Clipper Bros.

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Speaker 4: You heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up.

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Speaker 4: Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us. And remember I heard this once.

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00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 3: It's really good advice. Try everything.

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Speaker 2: Embrace the weekend people.

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Speaker 5: You could stay every day.

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Speaker 2: And dang you happy every minute.

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Speaker 4: It's been so long with your Lona.

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00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 2: Waving already, it's gonna be grety

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Speaker 4: You