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Speaker 1: Crack, Welcome to No Dunks. I'm tas Mellie with me.

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Speaker 1: Here is the Bearded one. Tray Kirby, Hey a, oh,

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Speaker 1: no skeets, no lead today. Don't worry. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: very very soon. The team is still together, but it's

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Speaker 1: us right now. After the holiday break, we're just trickling in.

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Speaker 1: Just a few of us, Yeah, trickling. We are here.

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Speaker 1: We decided that we would do a Winners and Losers

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Speaker 1: to talk about the Christmas Day games. But we'll keep

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Speaker 1: it as current as possible because that's what we do

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Speaker 2: We got we gotta take it for the full, the

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Speaker 2: full space here, Tassy, because I have been driving a

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Speaker 2: hands free Tennessee in twenty nineteen. So you know, I

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Speaker 2: wasn't able to have my league pass fired up while

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Speaker 1: So we'll let you talk about Christmas Day and all

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty twenty, we're going to be a lot more negative.

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Speaker 1: They're a championship team and I would have definitely taken

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Speaker 1: Joel Embiid did the Jimmy. I thought you were gonna

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Speaker 1: they're not going to make a franchise tying twenty one

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Speaker 1: get to see Janison Embiid go at it again. And

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Speaker 2: The guy gets compared to Shack all the time. Shack

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, teams go by the spirit of

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Speaker 1: of playing himself into shape, It's totally true. I think

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Speaker 1: so that's why we probably haven't seen peak six Ers

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Speaker 1: I can still believe. I can still see them in

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Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference final at least and giving the Bucks

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Speaker 1: with them, Let's move on to another winner, the Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: and they're, you know, fairly close to the Lakers in

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Speaker 1: the number one seed, and they could easily be the

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Speaker 1: two seed at the end of the season because yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're turning on and they've got a great defense, and

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Speaker 1: Nicol Jokich is finally getting to his better best self

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Speaker 1: and they're just so deep. So yeah, I'm I'm happy

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Speaker 1: to say the Nuggets are good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Nioka is gonna finish the month at basically

434
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Speaker 2: what he played at for his averages last season twenty one,

435
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Speaker 2: almost ten rebounds a game, almost a assisted game. That's

436
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Speaker 2: where he was last year when he was an MVP candidate.

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Speaker 2: It's just taken a little bit to kind of to

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Speaker 2: get them into their chemistry right there, their flow right

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Speaker 2: they're still figuring out rotations. They're trying to work Michael

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Speaker 2: Porter Junior and because he's a guy that can really

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Speaker 2: raise their ceilings, somebody else who can put the ball

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Speaker 2: in the basket while not taking things off the table defensively.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, you know, an underwhelming i would say,

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Speaker 2: first fifteen games of the season, but they've really turned

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Speaker 2: it on and they're looking good. So kudos to Malone,

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Speaker 2: kudos to all those Nuggets for figuring it out. Even

447
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Speaker 2: when you know we were thinking, you guys should be

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Speaker 2: way better, they're.

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Speaker 1: Still very good. Speaking of underwhelming, my last winner here,

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Speaker 1: actually no, I got more winners. My next winner, I'm

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Speaker 1: just positive, Pete here. The Utah Jazz, very similar vein

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Speaker 1: to the Denver Nuggets, did not come out of the

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Speaker 1: gate flying. But just like the Nuggets, they're hot. They've

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Speaker 1: won seven of eight. They went into LA and beat

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Speaker 1: the Clippers on Saturday, and I don't care if everyone

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Speaker 1: on the team says, oh, they're sick. The Los Angeles

457
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Speaker 1: Clippers locker room, everyone's saying, hey, we weren't feeling good. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Doc saying, you know, they some of these guys only

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Speaker 1: quietly played because Paul George is sick, or the other

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Speaker 1: way around. Whoever, everybody's sick. It seems like they lost.

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Speaker 1: The Jazz are now the sick seed, and they're creeping up.

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Speaker 1: They're three games out of the two seed. They're not

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Speaker 1: far off. I think they're totally meeting expectations, even though

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Speaker 1: they had a slow start. Their next seven games are

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Speaker 1: against sub five hundred teams, and then after that there's

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Speaker 1: even a few that trickle in. They could be popping

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Speaker 1: up the standings right quick. And Donovan Mitchell had thirty

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Speaker 1: points against the Clippers on Saturday. He's looking like the

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Speaker 1: number one option. He's playing the point guard really. With

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Speaker 1: Mike Conley out, Joe Engles is working in the starting lineup.

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Speaker 1: Their defense that we all expected to be good is

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Speaker 1: coming around. Jordan Clarkson, who they traded for while we

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Speaker 1: were gone, has been fine off the bench yet a

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Speaker 1: nineteen point night against the Clippers nine before that, which is,

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Speaker 1: you know, Jordan Clarkson esque. You're going to get the highs,

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Speaker 1: you're going to get the lows. But now they have

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Speaker 1: an interesting predicament when Mike Conley does come back, because

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Speaker 1: he's been out for an extended period obviously hadn't been

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Speaker 1: working with the Utah Jazz all that well. But he could,

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Speaker 1: you know, come in and take the place of Royce

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Speaker 1: O'Neil in the starting lineup, which would make the most

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Speaker 1: Royce O'Neil being the least productive offensive player. But keep

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Speaker 1: Joe Ingles in the starting lineup. And maybe it's just

484
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Speaker 1: time that we look at Mike Conley sort as more

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Speaker 1: of a role player on this team and in his career,

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Speaker 1: I guess I should say, because he's thirty two years old.

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Speaker 1: And that's great for the Utah Jests. They look good

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Speaker 1: in general. They have an offense, they have a defense,

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Speaker 1: they have a bench, and they look like a basketball

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Speaker 1: teams that's capable in all facets. They've quietly put this

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Speaker 1: thing together, winning seven of eight.

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Speaker 2: And Jazz fans always say, just give it time. The

493
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Speaker 2: Quinn Snyder playbook, it's so deep, it takes forever to read,

494
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Speaker 2: it takes forever to learn. And maybe that's exactly what's happening.

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Speaker 2: Because they had a slow start to the season. It

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Speaker 2: feels like every single season. Then they turn it on

497
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Speaker 2: as they kind of meld together, get the defense cracking up,

498
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Speaker 2: and beat a lot of bad teams. But they're also

499
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Speaker 2: able to handle a Clippers team, which, like you're saying,

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Speaker 2: isn't a full strength Clippers team, but if they're out

501
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Speaker 2: there playing, you gotta beat them. So they're gonna feast

502
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Speaker 2: a little bit on some bad teams here as well.

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Speaker 2: The Pistons, the Bulls, the Magic, the Pelicans, the Knicks,

504
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Speaker 2: the Hornets, the whizz They've got all in a row.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna be in the top four in the Western

506
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Speaker 2: Conference by the end of I don't know, two weeks

507
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Speaker 2: from now, and then we're just looking right back at

508
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Speaker 2: the Jazz the way they always are, an incredible regular

509
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Speaker 2: season team who is tough to beat night in and

510
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Speaker 2: night out because they do the right things. They play defense,

511
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Speaker 2: and their guys kind of just do what they're supposed

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Speaker 2: to do. You know, they made the move for Jordan Clarkson,

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Speaker 2: which to me is almost like a little bit of

514
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Speaker 2: a white flag trade in itself, because you're like, we

515
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Speaker 2: got to get somebody. Well, Jordan Clarkson can score. I

516
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Speaker 2: saw that with the Cleveland Cavaliers when they tried to

517
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Speaker 2: trade for him as their little boost during the season,

518
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Speaker 2: and you know, you'll get the highs of a nineteen

519
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Speaker 2: point game in the lows of the nine. Like you're saying, tasks,

520
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Speaker 2: you can't necessarily rely on them. But they needed somebody

521
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Speaker 2: else who can dribble, who can make plays, and Clarkson

522
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Speaker 2: can do that. He perhaps will be a little bit

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Speaker 2: better for them than Jeff Green was, who they just released,

524
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Speaker 2: who's cleared waivers. If anybody out there wants a Jeff Green,

525
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Speaker 2: throw some money at him. Maybe they just needed another guard,

526
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Speaker 2: especially with Conley going down, somebody else to handle the ball. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, same old, same old with the Jazz. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of like the Spurs. Are you gonna pick them

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Speaker 2: to miss the playoffs? Are you gonna just start worrying

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Speaker 2: about the Jazz? You can't do it in December, Wait

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Speaker 2: until I don't know, March.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really interesting team when you start looking

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Speaker 1: at their players, just a bunch of guys that could

534
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Speaker 1: maybe perform and be great, like Donovan Mitchell, who's really

535
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Speaker 1: coming in to his own Boy mcdonovich, who's been awesome

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Speaker 1: this year, Rudy Gobert, Joe Ingles, who's got, you know,

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Speaker 1: a serious range of great to not so great, but

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Speaker 1: he's been very good. In the starting lineup, Mike Conley,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Clarkson, Manuel Moody. A yeah, I think they Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they're finding it, and I would keep Joe

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Speaker 1: Ingles in that starting lineup. Mike Conley probably goes in

542
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Speaker 1: there as well. I doubt you have a thirty million

543
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Speaker 1: dollar man coming off the bench, but I think it's

544
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Speaker 1: shaken out real real well. As you said, next few weeks,

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Speaker 1: they'll be up there. My last winner here, it is

546
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Speaker 1: my actual last winner. The Holiday Family, the Holiday Bros.

547
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Speaker 1: For the first time in NBA history, three brothers played

548
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Speaker 1: in the same game when Indiana played New Orleans on Saturday.

549
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Speaker 1: Pacers Aaron Holliday and Justin Holiday lined up against bro

550
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Speaker 1: Drew of the Pelicans. A few weeks ago, the Atto brothers, Janis,

551
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Speaker 1: Thanasis and Costa. They were all suited up, but only

552
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Speaker 1: one of them played. I don't think Vanasi even played.

553
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Speaker 1: You're right, I actually remember that. Yeah, thank you. Cost

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Speaker 1: Coasta definitely didn't play it, so just one played. So

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Speaker 1: that's the first time. And another family twist in the

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Speaker 1: Pelicans Pacers game. Pelicans assistant coach Jamel McMillan is the

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Speaker 1: son of Pacers coach Nate mcmill A lot of holiday

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Speaker 1: love there, so that was It was kind of strange

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Speaker 1: to see that, Like the Plumblees never did it because

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Speaker 1: they had a bunch of bros.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess that would have been tough since all

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Speaker 2: the Plumbleys are like the exact same position to see

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Speaker 2: three of them out there running smashing into each other.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, very cool. It's just unfortunate. Couldn't have happened

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Speaker 2: on an actual holiday. That would have been incredible. Maybe

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Speaker 2: maybe next season.

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Speaker 1: I know my holiday eating has been terrible, brutal, you know.

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Speaker 1: I don't actually when I'm doing it, I'm thinking it's fine.

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Speaker 1: It's not. I think I'm just eating a lot of

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Speaker 1: huge quantity because I get on the scale. I'm a

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Speaker 1: scale checker, cereal scale checker, and it just keeps ticking

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Speaker 1: up and up and up. I'm kind of surprised when

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Speaker 1: I see it happening. But I'm glad. I'm actually glad

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Speaker 1: to be back in the office because.

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Speaker 3: It's nice as it's been twenty six minutes of not

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Speaker 3: eating anything, longest I've gone.

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Speaker 2: I know Laura and I were like, I cannot wait

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Speaker 2: to just eat rice, Like I can't wait to get

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Speaker 2: on to eat rice and vegetables. I think I saw

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Speaker 2: two pieces of green while I was back home. Think

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Speaker 2: of about plus eight on the season after the holidays.

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Speaker 1: That's about where I am too, plus minus at a

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Speaker 1: lot of plus minus. There's a lot of noise in

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Speaker 1: that stat but it's coming through right now. All right,

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Speaker 1: Let's get to the loser's tray kick stuff.

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Speaker 2: Losers of the Break, the Sacramento Kings seven straight losses.

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Speaker 2: Even worse are the bad vibes. First, Dwayne Deadman wants out. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Dwayne Deadman wants out. He's fallen out of the rotation.

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Speaker 2: He was a guy who performed pretty well for the Hawks.

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Speaker 2: But Luke Walton doesn't seem to be a big Dwayne

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Speaker 2: Deadman fan. So if you're interested in Dwayne, give him

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Speaker 2: a ring. Second part, that's bad news for them. Buddy

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Speaker 2: Heeld has been struggling during this losing streak. He's been

615
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 2: shooting under thirty percent from the field and from three.

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Speaker 2: He got benched a couple of times and immediately said,

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Speaker 2: I guess we got trust trust issues. The coaches don't

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Speaker 2: trust trust the players. I know I've been struggling, but

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Speaker 2: you got to ride that wave. Now apparently he apologized

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Speaker 2: before practice. They're trying to put that all behind him.

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Speaker 2: But I'm just reminded of during the preseason Buddy Heeld

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Speaker 2: was talking in the locker room about how he needed

623
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Speaker 2: to get his extension. Now he's talking about how the

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Speaker 2: coaches don't trust him. He could just be an emotional

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00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 2: guy and he's just responding to the the situation around him.

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Speaker 2: But you don't like one of your top three players

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Speaker 2: to be smashing the team every couple of months. Even

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Speaker 2: if he's apologizing to the team, the media isn't seen

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Speaker 2: that part of it. They're just seeing the complaints and

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Speaker 2: the trust issues. So that's another bad vibe. And then

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Speaker 2: third Marvin Bagley is out again with the spray foot.

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Speaker 2: They said the next few games. Nobody really knows what

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Speaker 2: that means. That's pretty inconclusive. But to have a trade request,

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Speaker 2: a complaint about the coaching and an injury in a

635
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Speaker 2: week is pretty tough. The Kings had a lot of

636
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Speaker 2: promise coming into the season. They were great last year.

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Speaker 2: They caught a lot of teams off guard, and it

638
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 2: hasn't happened like this. It feels like this is going

639
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 2: to be a bit of a lost season for the

640
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 2: Kings yet again. Dearon Fox has been in and out

641
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 2: of the lineup with injuries. As we know, Bagley, that guy.

642
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 2: Those two are their real future, the Westbrook and Durant,

643
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 2: if you will, of the Sacramento Kings. So to see

644
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,959
Speaker 2: them struggling to even play, to even string together games

645
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 2: is tough for a Kings team that has been fun

646
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 2: to watch occasionally.

647
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad you brought them up because, yeah, a

648
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of things going on. Buddyheial he

649
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,719
Speaker 1: just needs some media training, just honestly, that's strictly what

650
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,239
Speaker 1: he needs. It's great that he is a vocal guy

651
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: and he says what he wants and speaks up, but

652
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: it's doesn't bode well for the team. You're right, You're

653
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: totally right. I immediately thought of that contract extension talk too,

654
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: and this it's not a good luck and not a

655
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: good idea period. I think we got to give some

656
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: kudos to Deer and Fox for coming back and playing

657
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: Hurt on Sunday, and he played pretty well despite the

658
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: back spasms that knocked him out for basically two games

659
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: of this you know, seven game losing streak, same game

660
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: Marvin Bagley was knocked out. But you know, that's sort

661
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: of just an excuse. You got to find a way

662
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: to win a game or two, because in this seven

663
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: game streak they've lost two teams that they should have beat.

664
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: The Grizzlies. That Wolves game where the guy's got knocked

665
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: out the Suns, you know, is a debatable one, but

666
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,479
Speaker 1: they didn't play Darren Fox both and Marvin Bagley, and

667
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: so there's a I think a lot of a lot

668
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: of ingredients here that lead up to or that equal

669
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: out to a lot of defeats. And that other other

670
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 1: one you mentioned. Dwayne Deadman's an interesting one. They sign

671
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: him to be sort of a glue guy, and now

672
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: he's complaining because Rashaun Holmes is taking his minutes and

673
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: Dwaye Dedmon of all people, you know, a guy who's

674
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: a journeyman in this league requesting a trade after signing

675
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: a monster deal, definitely the biggest contract that he'll ever

676
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: receive in the NBA. And it's strange because you know,

677
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks, the team that he came from, could

678
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: desperately use him. So I don't know if there's a

679
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: trade there to be worked out. But Dwayne Deadman hasn't

680
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: worked out so well. You know that the other guys

681
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: like Corey Joseph, who is the same sort of Dwayne

682
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: Deadman signing, you know, a glue guy that would be

683
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: behind the the Russell Westbrook, the darn Fox of this

684
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: Westbrook and Durant Combo and Daron Fox. He's been fine.

685
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: Trevor Rees has been not as fine.

686
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: But Richard Holmes has been good. So they're like fifty

687
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 2: to fifty on veterans signings right, which is about as

688
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: good as you can hope. But I guess that just

689
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 2: leaves one guy out of the picture. Kurt Helen Basketball

690
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 2: Talk tweeted. Due to injuries, Sacramento's three young stars, Fox, Bagley,

691
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 2: and Heald have played a total of forty nine minutes

692
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 2: together this season. Jay Mars said that that is point

693
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 2: zero three percent of total minutes that the Kings have

694
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 2: played this season, that they're three best players, the three

695
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 2: guys they're building around, have actually been on the court

696
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 2: playing together. You can't even figure out what you have

697
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 2: if the guys aren't out there.

698
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: It's a very good point. All that said, there are

699
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: two games out of a playoffs because the West is

700
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: so wild, you know, it's a softy. Yeah. The eighth

701
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: spot is sub five hundred with the Portland Trail Blazers.

702
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: So the Blazers, Spurs, Grizzly Sons, and Kings. Even though Wolves, Pelicans,

703
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: I don't know basically everybody but the Warriors, they still

704
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: have hope to make the postseason playoffs.

705
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 2: Oh, the Warriors are gonna get Curry back. It's he

706
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 2: can't count him out yet.

707
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: They've been on fire anyway. That's a it is a

708
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: wild picture, but this is it's a wild playoff picture.

709
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: But this is the type of year where the Kings

710
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: should be making the playoffs, that this young team should

711
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: be finally capitalizing on all that youth and making it

712
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 1: my next loser. It's a weird one. But Kelly Ubray

713
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: of the Phoenix Suns has nothing to do with basketball.

714
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: But in my uneducated opinion, I think Kelly Bray, coolest

715
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 1: looking guy in the league. I think he rocks it,

716
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: but he has some competition because we mentioned Michael Porter

717
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: Junior made his first career start, and I think Michael

718
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: Porter Junior is coming for that title now getting some minutes.

719
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: I know Gary Harris was out and that's why Michael

720
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 1: Porter Junior really got his first career start. But I

721
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: think I think MPJ. I'm gonna call him that Michael

722
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 1: Porter Junior. He's got a nickname. He just he rocks it.

723
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: You know. He's just a cool looking guy, a bit

724
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 1: of a heart throbbed look, I think, and he's finally playing.

725
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 1: I don't watch college, so I had no idea who

726
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junior. All this hype coming out of Missouri

727
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: was last year because he sat out the entire year

728
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: last year, and now he had his career high on

729
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: Sunday with nineteen points because this is the first season

730
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: he's playing, first starting over two years really, because he

731
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: hasn't started since he played at Missouri. But I don't know.

732
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 1: I'm buying the look. I'm buying the game. That athleticism

733
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: is real. He had a huge put back dunk on

734
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: a ball where he was just hanging in the rim.

735
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 1: Was he was up there really just hanging, just chilling.

736
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: It was a space jam thing man, like the low

737
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: camera angle where he just saw him just almost like

738
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: forehead against the rim, and then he found the ball

739
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: and just dunked. It. Was a really cool shot. So,

740
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: Kelly Oubra, He's coming for your spot man, Michael Porter Junior.

741
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: Just a quick loser there, nothing more than nothing. That

742
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 1: is tough. He didn't do anything to relinquish that. But

743
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 1: there's a lot of cool looking dudes out there. MPJ

744
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: is one of them.

745
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess maybe Kelly Ubra is still in the

746
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 2: mix for a most improved player, which is I guess

747
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 2: where he should focus his energy now that we got

748
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 2: this other handsome guy dunk it everywhere.

749
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: You got another loser, another loser.

750
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 2: The Charlotte Hornets have lost five straight games, but the

751
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 2: true loser is Terry Rozier, who, at the end of

752
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,439
Speaker 2: a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder ninety four ninety four,

753
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 2: the Hornets get a stop. Rosier grabs the ball. The

754
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 2: clock has wound down, the buzzer has gone off, the

755
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 2: game is over. Terry Rozier chucks the ball into the stands,

756
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 2: but you know it was ninety four ninety four, so

757
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 2: the game not technically over. That's a technical foul for

758
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 2: Terry Rosier, who then sees Chris Paul go to the

759
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 2: line hit a free throw to start the overtime period.

760
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 2: The Hornets go on to lose in overtime, and then

761
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 2: Terry Rozier find twenty five thousand dollars for throwing the

762
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 2: ball into the stands. He just thought he was celebrating.

763
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:55,280
Speaker 2: Gotta check the score.

764
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 1: Really weird that that free throw came at the beginning

765
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: of overtime, right, Yeah, that's lucky. It is lucky, Like

766
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: would the referees have the guts to say, you know what,

767
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: technical file right at the end of the fourth quarter

768
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: to win the game. That would have been bonkers. But

769
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 1: I guess it makes sense. The buzzer went, but I've

770
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: never seen a I don't think I've ever seen a

771
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: free throw to start an overtime period.

772
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 2: Just to clarify, if you heard that, that was my

773
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 2: foot squeaking on my chair. That was a chair foot fart,

774
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 2: not an actual fart. But yeah, it was shades of

775
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 2: Michael Ruffin and Morris Peterson with the chuck the ball

776
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 2: up in the air and then Peterson got it and

777
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 2: knocked down the shot. Obviously, that was an actual buzzer beater.

778
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 2: I wonder if you're if you're right, if it would

779
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 2: have been zero point one seconds, they would have had

780
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 2: to do the technical file during the fourth quarter. But

781
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 2: just a very strange thing to happen. I can't remember

782
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 2: that ever happening, especially like you see Rosier's reactionally, just

783
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 2: like looking around, like what, I just threw the ball

784
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 2: in the stands. Not a big deal. You know, we

785
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: just won the game, but ninety four, ninety four is

786
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,720
Speaker 2: not a win. Tough one for Terry.

787
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the tweet of the night,

788
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: tweet out the night. Wowwit I said, it's a non

789
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: basketball he one, and I meant it. We're going to

790
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: the NFL for tweeting, and I I know, I know,

791
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: I know, I know. Maybe I'm in playoff mode here

792
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: with the NFL. I don't know anything about the league,

793
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: and I know I'm sure you don't a lot of

794
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: you out there don't care about it whatsoever except for

795
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: the Bills. They're great. Huh, cheer on that. I guess, Yeah,

796
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:30,240
Speaker 1: they're going to the playoffs.

797
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 2: Baby.

798
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: Actually I read a preview about the Buffalo Bills going

799
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: into Sunday's game, and the game meant nothing because they

800
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: had already locked up a playoff spot. That's weird stuff. Anyways,

801
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 1: last night I watched an impassioned speech from veteran Chargings

802
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: Chargers QB Philip Rivers, who may have just played his

803
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,919
Speaker 1: last game for the organization. Take a listen.

804
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 2: I can say I gave it everything I had.

805
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 4: I mean, every week, and maybe it means an interception

806
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 4: on fourth and eighteen when you're down ten, because I

807
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 4: don't care that it's going to say two or you know,

808
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 4: I really don't. It's just like I ain't quitting.

809
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 1: So I think that.

810
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 4: I think I think that that doing it with so

811
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 4: many guys over, you know, fourteen years and going to

812
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,800
Speaker 4: the locker room win or lose, and I can say that, gummet,

813
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 4: we're short, we fell, we fell short, but or we won,

814
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 4: you know, uh, but shoot, I couldn't try it any harder.

815
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 1: Okay, A lot of great things about that speech. He's emotional.

816
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: This could be the end of the thirty eight year

817
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,439
Speaker 1: old's career with the Chargers. He's played fourteen years there

818
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: Chargers have n't put a good team around in my

819
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: read through tweets, but he's been obviously been great. Second

820
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: good thing. He kind of sounds like Garth Brooks. We

821
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,439
Speaker 1: didn't have Darth Brooks off the top of the show,

822
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: so it's good to get in that accent right right now.

823
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: And the last thing, he used the word dag gummet,

824
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: which we don't hear too often. Ever. I never hear it.

825
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 1: I rarely hear it. I just don't, so can we

826
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: hear it again, j D that gummt and I wanted

827
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: to one more time that gummt. That's a good I

828
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: think that's a very very very good drop. If we

829
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,439
Speaker 1: can ever squeeze that dag gummett. You just don't hear

830
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 1: that too often. I was trying to think of in skeets.

831
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: I know was really the leader of this guy, but

832
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: there was a show fishing Show Dance the only other

833
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,760
Speaker 1: He's the only other guy I've heard say dag Gummett

834
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: in the last decade.

835
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 2: For me, it was my high school football coach who

836
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 2: was from Tennessee. Much like Bill Dance. He was a

837
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 2: dag gummet, dag nabbit kind of guy all the time,

838
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 2: Big Bobby Bennett. Not a great coach, but but a

839
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 2: great quote.

840
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 3: Ya clean, You gotta respect that exactly.

841
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 2: I saw somebody tweeting about this speech last night. They're like,

842
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 2: Dad Gummant, is exactly what you say if you have

843
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 2: ten kids like Philip Rivers does. Okay, Yeah, he's got

844
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 2: a million kids. He's got to keep it clean, keep

845
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 2: it clean, keep it southern.

846
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: Dag Gummett. I hope I see Philip Rivers on another

847
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: teamlet next year that I won't be watching. But he

848
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: deserves better than what he got with the San Diego

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Speaker 1: Slash Los Angeles Chargers. He's retiring, No, no, no, no, he

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Speaker 1: may not be retiring. He may be moving on to

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Speaker 1: another team. Oh, this may be the end with the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't said there's a chance he retires because he's

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Speaker 1: thirty eight years old. But he may go somewhere and

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Speaker 1: hang on.

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Speaker 2: Joe Montana and the Chiefs if you will.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think somebody should give him a starting job.

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Speaker 1: I saw the Dolphins are playing who is it the

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Speaker 1: former Bills guy Fitzpatrick Patrick? Oh yeah, yeah, he should

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Speaker 1: take his job.

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Speaker 2: Well totally.

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Speaker 1: Well, Colin Kaepernick should take both their jobs. Yeah, there

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Speaker 1: you go, Philip Rivers job, Philip Rivers, Yeah he.

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Speaker 2: Can have another job. Come go play for the Bears, man,

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Speaker 2: they say, Dad guming up there.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to our pick and payoff.

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Speaker 1: December twentieth was the last day we did the pick

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Speaker 1: and payoff. It was the Pelicans at the Warriors. Skeets

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Speaker 1: and League got it wrong because they picked the Pels

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Speaker 1: train myself we got it right. Now, only two days

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Speaker 1: remaining here, so the records very very important because the

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Speaker 1: loser at the end of the month has to do

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Speaker 1: something embarrassing. I'm in the clear at the top, but

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Speaker 1: the other three guys, they're in it. Lee is at

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Speaker 1: eight and seven, Trey and Skeets tied behind him at

896
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Speaker 1: seven and eight. So tonight's game of Milwaukee at Chicago

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Speaker 1: very important. The Bulls getting eight and a half points.

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Speaker 1: They're plus eight and a half, so they can lose

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Speaker 1: by eight or less or win. Obviously to get the win.

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Speaker 1: Skeets and Lee have sent in their picks. They're taking

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Speaker 1: the buckeroose, so Trey doesn't have to take the Bulls.

902
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Speaker 1: They could come down to tomorrow night because he's tied

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Speaker 1: with Skeets there at the bottom of the standings. But

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Speaker 1: what do you think Trey are gonna gonna go with

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Speaker 1: your boys and against skeets there.

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Speaker 2: This is a tough one because I looked at the

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Speaker 2: schedule for tomorrow. The Bulls don't play tomorrow. So if

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna lose this month, I would rather lose with

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Speaker 2: the Bulls. But then they're playing the Bucks. That's tough

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Speaker 2: to begin with the Bucks third game in four and

911
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 2: maybe they're slacking. Maybe Jannest doesn't play. He's questionable right now.

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Speaker 2: But the problem is it seems like the Bulls have

913
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Speaker 2: seven guys on their injury report. A lot of them

914
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Speaker 2: are sick. I was in Chicago for the past week.

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Speaker 2: It's actually nice there. It was like fifty to sixty

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Speaker 2: degrees on Christmas Day, so these guys should be healthy.

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Speaker 2: The big Anata that's finished for Tezo Market shooting forty

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Speaker 2: from three in December. He is questionable with an illness,

919
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Speaker 2: but I've heard he's been taking a lot of zinc,

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Speaker 2: getting that vitamin C going. He's playing and he's leading

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Speaker 2: the Bulls to a seven point loss, which would be

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Speaker 2: a cover. I'll go with the Balls. If I'm gonna lose,

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Speaker 2: I'd rather be with a team I like.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the bulls too, thanks man. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like it splits up on the the full screen

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Speaker 1: the graphic that we put on social media to show

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Speaker 1: our picks, and it's a very strange line. It's already

928
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Speaker 1: dwindled down to six and and a half and so Yannis,

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing won't play. But I see that would be

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Speaker 1: why everybody I think is on the bowls right now

931
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Speaker 1: because he's questionable, and so that's why the line is shrinking,

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Speaker 1: which is really really strange. So it's gonna come down.

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Speaker 1: Could be tonight, could be the end of it. I

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Speaker 1: guess the other person who loses tonight will have a

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Speaker 1: chance to tie it up on December thirty first, because

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Speaker 1: we're back, baby. We're doing shows each and every night,

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00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: fantastic stuff. We will be back, the guys, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: will be back very soon. That's the word. So don't worry.

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Speaker 1: The team is still together, just like the Clipper bros are.

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Speaker 1: Take it away boys, you heard it here first, have

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Speaker 1: a great time, turn up.

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Speaker 2: Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, and remember the big An they

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Speaker 1: have rolling ours and finish. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: The Google Translate definitely did.

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Speaker 1: That means el tizo in finish. We'll see tomorrow, folks

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Speaker 1: us every day, and I be happy every minute.

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Speaker 2: It's been so long that you're no MONA way before

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Speaker 2: it's happened already.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be grivy.