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Speaker 1: off season recap for the Philadelphia seventy six ers. They

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Speaker 1: lost Dwayne Deadman and Jalen McDaniels. They also lost two

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Speaker 1: of their better shooters in Shake Milton and George's Niang.

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Speaker 1: They added mop bomba a backup center, deadly above the

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Speaker 1: Like again, you're expecting him to be more impactful than

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Speaker 1: Patrick Beverly got signed by the Sixers, covered in with

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Speaker 1: He can still be deeply impactful if famously last year

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Speaker 1: live with that. Like we talked about earlier, zero point

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Speaker 1: ninety five points per possession in the half court is

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Speaker 1: like one of the worst marks in the league, right,

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Speaker 1: So that goes to show you how inefficient a pull

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Speaker 1: up mid range jump shot is in the big grand

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Speaker 1: scheme of things. I think it's an important part of

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Speaker 1: a player's game. You need to have that for rescue

435
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Speaker 1: possessions and when it's what the defense is giving you.

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Speaker 1: But it's it's embiids bread and butter, and that's the difference.

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Speaker 1: It can't be your bread and butter. Unless you're hitting

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Speaker 1: it at sixty percent, which is one point two points

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Speaker 1: per possession. See the difference. That's a one twenty offensive rating.

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Speaker 1: That's untenable for a defense to live with. And I

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Speaker 1: would argue, I mean, if you look at the Suns

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Speaker 1: last year and the year before, or Suns last year

443
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Speaker 1: in the nets of the year before, Kd's mid range

444
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Speaker 1: jump shot has become less efficient in the postseason, and

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Speaker 1: it's been a problem. But like what makes the Jokic

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Speaker 1: thing work, it's because he's making those floaters and hooks

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Speaker 1: two out of three times. He If you let Jokic

448
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 1: get looks and don't double him, he's gonna make them

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Speaker 1: at an incredibly efficient rate because he's not relying on

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Speaker 1: tougher jump shots. He's taking floaters and hooks in by

451
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Speaker 1: the basket. Again, these numbers are crazy. Joel Embiid made

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Speaker 1: just thirty four hooks and floaters all season last year,

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Speaker 1: Nikole Jokic made one hundred and eighty one of them.

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Speaker 1: Jokic ha just built his game around things that he

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Speaker 1: can rely on in the postseason. He knows, come hell

456
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Speaker 1: or high water, he's gonna be able to get to

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Speaker 1: and make those hooks and floaters with Embiid, it's like

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Speaker 1: he didn't even trust himself anymore after he missed a

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Speaker 1: bunch of them early in the playoff run. He like

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Speaker 1: kind of didn't he didn't take them as often and

461
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Speaker 1: beat like legit lost confidence in it. And that's a

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Speaker 1: shot that he hit all the time in the regular season.

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Speaker 1: And so that's the thing, Like if it's a hook

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Speaker 1: or a floater, he's always gonna feel good about those chances.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, I think that's I think that's the

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Speaker 1: important area offensively that he has to build out a

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Speaker 1: little bit more of a bully ball and a little

468
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Speaker 1: bit less of a finesse approach. And then lastly, playmaking.

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Speaker 1: Joelanbid once again way more turnovers than assists. In this

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Speaker 1: playoff run, he had thirty five turnovers to just twenty

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Speaker 1: four assists. In his playoff career, he has one hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety three turnovers to one hundred and forty eight assists. Now,

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Speaker 1: he actually had forty eight more assists than turnovers in

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Speaker 1: the regular season. This is a playoff problem. Teams double him,

475
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Speaker 1: and they stunt at him, and they jump passing lanes

476
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Speaker 1: and they sneak along the baseline and he has no

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Speaker 1: idea how to handle it. Like twenty four assists for

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Speaker 1: an MVP caliber offensive folkrum in eleven playoff games is

479
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Speaker 1: not going to get the job done. He has got

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Speaker 1: to figure out how to read defenses at a higher level,

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Speaker 1: and to me, like that is about actually hunting and

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Speaker 1: looking for those opportunities. He almost needs to make that

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Speaker 1: his goal during the regular season to shoot less, make

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Speaker 1: reeds more, because it's a skill he has to build

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Speaker 1: out in order to become a more impactful playoff player. Now,

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Speaker 1: defensive versatility was an issue as well. The Sixers were

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Speaker 1: eighth in defense in the regular season. They were twelfth

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Speaker 1: and half court defense according to Cleaning the Glass, tenth,

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Speaker 1: protecting the paint seventh, protecting the three point line fourteenth,

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Speaker 1: and defensive rebounding. They did foul a lot. They were

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Speaker 1: twentieth in opponent free throw attempts per hundred possessions. But

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Speaker 1: mostly good not great. Right. The problem was is they

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Speaker 1: had a good base scheme that worked in the regular season,

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Speaker 1: right like emb playing a pretty deep drop, he'd occasionally

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Speaker 1: come up to the level of screen against more pull

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Speaker 1: up shooting heavy guys, and he was pretty good at

497
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Speaker 1: riding at Yo yo, getting up and down back to

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Speaker 1: the basket after showing high and like they last year,

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Speaker 1: they would just give tougher perimeter assignments to guys like

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Speaker 1: Tobias Harris and Anthony Milton and Daniel House and PJ.

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00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,919
Speaker 1: Tucker right and then they would hide James Harden and

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Speaker 1: Tyres Maxi whenever they could. And that worked in the

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Speaker 1: regular season, but then they ran up like Boston lit

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Speaker 1: them up one hundred and seventeen points per one hundred posessions.

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Speaker 1: I was one to seventeen offensive rating against the Sixers

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Speaker 1: in that series. Now, I don't really blame him beat

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Speaker 1: here we like we mentioned earlier, Yes, Tatum cooked him

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Speaker 1: and switches in Game seven. In general, embiid got lit

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Speaker 1: on fire and pick and roll in Game seven. But

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Speaker 1: I think it's a team wide issue cause, like I

511
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Speaker 1: mentioned before, every rim protector in the league is going

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Speaker 1: to struggle on switches against NBA superstars, except for maybe

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Speaker 1: like Jannis and Ad Right and guys like Bam, But

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00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: the vast majority of defense bigs are going to struggle

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Speaker 1: in those situations like flip the rolls like Yo kich

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Speaker 1: Is getting barbecued and pick and roll By Tatum too.

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Speaker 1: That's just a fact. As a matter of fact, I've

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Speaker 1: seen him do it in the regular season. I did

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Speaker 1: a whole video on it last year. So, like, that's

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Speaker 1: not what I'm worried about it. To me, it's an

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Speaker 1: overall aggregate defensive talent issue. Like I think you need

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Speaker 1: to improve your point of attack defense. Patrick Beverley will

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Speaker 1: help there, but ideally he's not starting, right. I think

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Speaker 1: the big one is Kelly Ubray. If Kelly Ubray can

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Speaker 1: kind of become the defensive element that PJ. Tucker brought

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Speaker 1: with some of the offensive element that George's Kneeing brought.

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Speaker 1: And George Kneeing is a way better shooter than Pat Kelly,

528
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Speaker 1: but Kelly can be a much better offensive player than PJ. Tucker.

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Speaker 1: But like, that's where it can get more interested as

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Speaker 1: a group. You need to improve on the perimeter in

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Speaker 1: your overall athleticism and ability to cover ground. But like

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Speaker 1: I start to look at it from the standpoint of, like,

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Speaker 1: if I'm not getting anything out of Harden in the playoffs,

534
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Speaker 1: wouldn't I be better off having a really good two

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Speaker 1: way guard in that spot, wouldn't I? Like, what if

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Speaker 1: it was Alex Crusoe, and I'm just putting just don't

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Speaker 1: even think about the machinations of a deal. Let's just

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Speaker 1: look at the lineup just for the sake of basket

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Speaker 1: cake ball. Let's say I've got Alice Crusoe and d

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Speaker 1: Anthony Melton with Tobias Harris, and let's say Kelly Ubray

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Speaker 1: buys in defensively and it has become a legitimate perimeter weapon. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: I've got Alex Cruso outstanding point of attack defender, d

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00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: Anthony Melton, pretty good point of attack defender, Tobias Harris,

544
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Speaker 1: pretty good point of attack defender, Kelly youu Bray. Let's

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Speaker 1: imagine in this scenario he becomes a pretty good point

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Speaker 1: of attack defender. Then you can do things like switch

547
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: and pick and roll with and beat if you need to,

548
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Speaker 1: and just have him simply press up a little bit,

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Speaker 1: and you have the athleticism on the back end to

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Speaker 1: rotate right, because Cruso is just better at making rotations

551
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Speaker 1: than James Harden. Then you might not be able to

552
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Speaker 1: switch at all and just actually have him beats, sit

553
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Speaker 1: and drop because you trust your point of attack defenders

554
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Speaker 1: to get over to the top of screens better, Like

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Speaker 1: an overall increase in aggregate defensive talent might actually be

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Speaker 1: a better playoff weapon than what the heart and situation was,

557
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Speaker 1: because if you're not if you're getting two for thirteen

558
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: out of James Harden literally every other playoff game, Like

559
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Speaker 1: what does he bring it? How much more imposing are

560
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Speaker 1: you as a team if you run everything through Maxi

561
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Speaker 1: embi it on one end and you have better defense

562
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Speaker 1: on the other end. Right, And that's part of the

563
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: issue too, is like Tyree Maxy, we didn't even talk

564
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Speaker 1: about him, but like Tyras, Maxey legitimately like and he

565
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: took a leap last year, averaged a career high twenty

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Speaker 1: points per game, sixty one percent for shooting. It's the

567
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Speaker 1: best pick and roll season of his career. He's legitimately

568
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Speaker 1: turned himself into a reliable jump shooter. I've told you

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Speaker 1: guys this story before, but one of my favorite Maxi

570
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: memories is I've bumped into him in Vegas and he

571
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: was out there working his ass off, like coming out

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Speaker 1: of the gym, just doing a workout like every other

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Speaker 1: NBA player I saw. Not to say that they weren't

574
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Speaker 1: working out there, but like it was kind of cool

575
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Speaker 1: to see that Tyras Maxey was out there taking his

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Speaker 1: job seriously. And I don't think it's a coincidence that

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Speaker 1: he's experienced the leaps that he's experienced in his career.

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Speaker 1: But like that's another issue. Is like Tyre's Maxi right

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Speaker 1: now is blow average point of attack defender. So like

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Speaker 1: if you run Hardened and Maxi together, you have severe

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Speaker 1: limitations there. Maybe you're better off with one guy like

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Speaker 1: that Tyrese Maxi and then really good point of attack

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Speaker 1: defense around him. Maybe that gives you a better chance

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Speaker 1: to contend. But I don't I don't think that. I

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Speaker 1: don't think they're good enough in the playoff context on

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Speaker 1: either end of the floor right now, as a matter

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Speaker 1: of fact, it feels like they took a step back,

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Speaker 1: like I mentioned earlier, and Boston's just better, Milwaukee's just better.

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Speaker 1: Both of them got better, like Miami has gotten no better.

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Speaker 1: But you know they're better than Philly. So like right now,

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Speaker 1: they're firmly the fourth best team in the East. And

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00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: so this season just kind of screams of another fifty

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Speaker 1: wins and another second round exit, is what it looks

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Speaker 1: like to me. All Right, let's talk mailbag before we

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Speaker 1: get out of here today, what do you think of

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Speaker 1: Jabari Parker's take on leaving the NBA to play in

597
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: Europe wherever game matters. The quote from Jabari Parker was

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Speaker 1: there are ten to twelve teams to try to win

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Speaker 1: every game and the other half try to get a

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Speaker 1: draft pick. Where does that leave good players? It's no

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Speaker 1: excuse to see Boogie Dwight or John Wall, guys who

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Speaker 1: are potentially going into the Hall of Fame. Seeing those

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Speaker 1: guys not have a job end quote. This one was

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Speaker 1: funny to me, first of all, because the whole way,

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Speaker 1: the whole interview is framed, it's like I'm leaving the NBA.

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Speaker 1: It's like, I something tells me, if your agent actually

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Speaker 1: got you an offer, you would have stayed in the NBA. Also,

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Speaker 1: he's just wrong. The NBA is incredibly stacked with talent.

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Speaker 1: I pointed it out earlier in our series. But like

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Speaker 1: I think, there are nineteen teams in the league that

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Speaker 1: are legitimately very good. And the night in, night out

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Speaker 1: schedule in the NBA is tougher and it's ever been.

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Speaker 1: And even as we go down the line, it's like

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have an easy matchup against the San Antonio

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Speaker 1: Spurs have fun with Victor Weman Yama and Jeremy Sohan

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, like uh Keldon Johnson and like

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Speaker 1: you get they even picked up Reggie Bullock as like

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Speaker 1: a veteran lock and trail defender, and yeah, like like

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Speaker 1: it's it's not gonna be easy, you know, like going

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Speaker 1: to Portland in front of their home crowd to play

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Speaker 1: against Shadon Sharp and and it's Scoot Henderson and Anthony

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00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: Simons and DeAndre Ayton not gonna be an easy game.

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Speaker 1: It's just not. So like the league is tougher than

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Speaker 1: it's ever been and that probably has a lot to

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Speaker 1: do with why Jabari Parker doesn't have a spot in

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Speaker 1: it right now. But like his take is just flat

627
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Speaker 1: out wrong. Like the NBA does have a tanking issue

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Speaker 1: in the big picture, like there is tanking, but it's

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Speaker 1: usually just a handful of teams at the bottom the

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Speaker 1: playing team. Is that the play tournament has done a

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Speaker 1: really nice job of engaging the league from top to

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Speaker 1: bottom in a way that it hasn't in the past.

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Speaker 1: I just disagree with with Jabari and it strikes me

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Speaker 1: as a kind of a deflection from a bigger issue,

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Speaker 1: which is that he just doesn't have a spot in

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Speaker 1: the league. Obviously, he's a great fit for Milwaukee with

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Speaker 1: his skill set, but as far as chemistry, what does

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00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: it take for a new star player to successfully integrate

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Speaker 1: into an already contending team. This was in our Dame video,

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Speaker 1: so it's a Dame question. This is interesting. I you know, again,

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Speaker 1: when you're coming into a situation like this where you're

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Speaker 1: less of a foundational piece and more of like a

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Speaker 1: mercenary edition, it's all about communication with the coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: finding out exactly what they need from you. And I

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00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: think the big one is going to be defensively, Like

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Speaker 1: if you're Damian Lillard today, you woke up and you're

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00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: like feeling good, right, Like, I have an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: go play with the second best player in the league

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, and an opportunity to or third best

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Speaker 1: player in the league behind Staph But regardless of what

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00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: you want to call it, bona fide top tier superstar defending.

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00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: You know, guy who's won a championship in a multiple

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00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: time MVP got an opportunity to go play with this

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00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: guy and they already have good role players around him, right,

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00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: like Brook Lopez and Chris Middleton, Like, you're not gonna

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00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: do much better than that around the league. So the

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Speaker 1: question becomes do you feel good about your chances to

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Speaker 1: win a title? And my guess is Dame does. But

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Speaker 1: then you start to think about it and you go

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00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: reality sets it. Excuse me, reality sets in and you realize, like,

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00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: in order to win a championship, we're going to have

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Speaker 1: to beat other great teams and those series are going

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00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: to come down to the smallest of margins. So I,

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Speaker 1: Dame have to have the best season of my career

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Speaker 1: in all of the winning details. So I think Dame

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00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: is aware of the narrative about his defense, and I

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Speaker 1: think he's aware that he's going to have to be

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Speaker 1: the best defensive version of himself to put the Bucks

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Speaker 1: over the top. So from there, it's about communication with

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff to find doubt what they need from

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00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: you in the defensive scheme, and then from day one

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00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: of training camp demonstrating it on the court. And like,

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Speaker 1: if you see Dame from day one make that commitment,

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Speaker 1: then it could trickle down. It's a leadership thing, and

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Speaker 1: that could be the beginning the foundation of a defensive

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Speaker 1: culture that allows you to win a championship. So that's

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Speaker 1: what I expect, and my guess is we'll end up

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Speaker 1: seeing quotes coming out of Milwaukee's training camp four or

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00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: five days after they get started about how Dame has

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00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: been competing defensively and has been an impact player there.

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00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: He's too good of an athlete and has too good

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00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: a law of like a strong low center of gravity

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Speaker 1: to not at least be able to do a job defensively,

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Speaker 1: and so I think he will end up last question

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Speaker 1: from John, how is this referring to the Dame trade?

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Speaker 1: How is this that much different than Katie to Golden State,

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Speaker 1: which Dame said he'd never do. It is so so,

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00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: so so so much different. Again, Like, there are a

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00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 1: lot of examples of stars joining great teams in NBA history.

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00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 1: This is another example of them, right, And yeah, Milwaukee

691
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: became the favorite, but there's nothing that comes remotely close. Two, Literally,

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Speaker 1: Kevin freaking Durant going and signing straight up as a

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Speaker 1: free agent for a team that won sixty seven games

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Speaker 1: in a championship two years prior seventy three games and

695
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,399
Speaker 1: was literally one shot away from a championship one year

696
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: prior there's nothing close to that, and everyone goes like,

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00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: it's so funny when I hear guys go like, oh,

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00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,320
Speaker 1: kat and Steph, Katie and Steph. Yeah, it was crazy

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00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: to see Katie and Steph together literally the second and

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00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: third best players in the world in my opinion. But

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00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 1: it wasn't just that. It was Katie and Steph and

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00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,280
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson in the heart of his prime Andreamond Green

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00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 1: in the heart of his prime and Andre Guadala at

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00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 1: the tail end of his prime. Like literally, like does

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Speaker 1: not compare. The KD Warriors are by far the most

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Speaker 1: talented team ever assembled. It's not close. They literally went

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Speaker 1: into the season as a negative favorite, like you had

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Speaker 1: to give up points or money I should say, like

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Speaker 1: you had to bet one hundred and something in dollars

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00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: to win one hundred bucks. When the Warriors signed KD.

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00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 1: It was not the same. Like, this is another example

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Speaker 1: of a star joining a great team, right, It's like

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00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: Bradley Beale joined in the Suns. Maybe a higher level

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00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: than that, but this is another example of a great

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Speaker 1: player joining a great team. But there is there, there

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Speaker 1: is It's KD to the Warriors, gigantic chasm. Everything else

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00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: like even even the Lebron Wade Bosh thing was different,

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00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: Like like when you really factor in that that Mike

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00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: Bibbie was starting for that team and and their problems

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00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: at the set position, in the spacing and everything, like

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00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: they were so much easier to guard, it was a

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Speaker 1: totally different thing. Like even Lebron wasn't close to the

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Speaker 1: player that he was going to become at that point.

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Speaker 1: Like the heat I think were better than their performance showed,

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00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: because I think Wade's declined kind of undercut that. But

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Speaker 1: like to me, it's the Katie to the Warriors giant

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Speaker 1: chasm than everything else. I've not seen anything close to it,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think this is close to it. And

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00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: it's hard to even conceptualize something that would be crazier,

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00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: like it would literally be like I'm trying to think

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Speaker 1: of a team that would that was already loaded, Like

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Speaker 1: it'd be like if the Denver Nuggets literally just had

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Speaker 1: cap space and just signed Giannis and Tenecumpo into the

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Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon spot. That's what that would be like, because

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Speaker 1: Jannis and Jokic would be two of the top three

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Speaker 1: players in the league, just like Katie and Steph were

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Speaker 1: and you'd have three other really really good role players

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Speaker 1: next to them, and a dynamic guard that could score

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00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: a million points like Klay Thompson or Jamal Murray. Like,

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Speaker 1: I think we have to be careful with comparing things

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Speaker 1: to that, because there really wasn't anything like it. Like go,

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00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: just for fun, go google preseason title odds in twenty

743
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: seventeen in twenty eighteen, just go look at them and

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00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: compare them to what we saw now with the Bucks,

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00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: who I think are still like a plus three to

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00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: fifty favorite, like their favorite, but it's still considered somewhat

747
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 1: of a long shot in the fact, in the sense

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Speaker 1: that if I bet one hundred bucks and the Bucks

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Speaker 1: win the title, I win three hundred and fifty bucks.

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Speaker 1: It's a totally different situation. All right, guys, That is

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Speaker 1: all I have for today. We will be back tomorrow

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00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: with number seven. My power rankings got all jumbled by

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00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: the Dame trade, so a couple of different teams. The

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00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: team I was gonna do tomorrow got moved up. A

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00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: team that was involved in the trade in a vicarious,

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00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: you know, kind of tangential way is gonna end up

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Speaker 1: being number seven. So hang tight, we have number seven.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow and then training camp literally starts next week, so

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Speaker 1: lots of good basketball ahead. I appreciate you guys, and

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Speaker 1: i'll see tomorrow. The volume