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Speaker 3: It just never, It doesn't feel like I'll ever get
Speaker 3: old face.
Speaker 4: A Saxon guy. Isn't he a good game for him
Speaker 4: last night?
Speaker 2: And Clay We'll get into a little bit of that
Speaker 2: in a bit, But first we had another wedgie, oh
Speaker 2: number forty five in Miami. We somehow missed this on playback.
Speaker 2: We were bouncing around from game to game and in
Speaker 2: the second quarter the groat stuck another one. He is
Speaker 2: the sixth player Kyle Lowry is this season to deliver
Speaker 2: multiple weggies. Eric Gordon's still leading the way with three,
Speaker 2: but uh five other guys now too, including Carl Lowry
Speaker 2: and man that pace.
Speaker 3: It just keeps going up, up, up coming for the record.
Speaker 3: Yeah on pace for fifty six, record of fifty eight
Speaker 3: only a couple of years ago. Lowry shooting over Lowry
Speaker 3: as well, and Eric Reid yelling he's done that before.
Speaker 3: Just don't Oh yeah, that's his class, that's it's his
Speaker 3: classic Weggie call forty five. We love it.
Speaker 2: You know we're gonna get I assume a couple wedgies
Speaker 2: in the March Madness Tournament starting on Thursday or even tonight.
Speaker 2: In these first four games.
Speaker 5: It happened recently that there was a wedgie and they
Speaker 5: had to get the cheerleaders into a pyramid to get
Speaker 5: the ball down.
Speaker 3: Right, That's what happened last year.
Speaker 4: Guess yes, legendary Weggie moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you watch, it'll happen again. All right, let's recap
Speaker 2: some of last night's NBA games and news with a
Speaker 2: little tru.
Speaker 4: Or false.
Speaker 2: True false questions. Again, off some of the games and
Speaker 2: topics going around the association. We will start here. We
Speaker 2: had Giannis playing against the King, scoring forty six points.
Speaker 2: He had twelve boards. He created a little scuffle at
Speaker 2: the end as well. But the Bucks get the win
Speaker 2: over the Kings one thirty three to one twenty four.
Speaker 2: And then meanwhile, Jalen Green scored twenty eight, Tatum blew
Speaker 2: a bunny at the rim that could have tied it up,
Speaker 2: and the Rockets beat the Celtics one eleven one oh nine.
Speaker 2: I bring up those two games together because at last check,
Speaker 2: according to our friends at bet MGM, the Celtics still
Speaker 2: the favorites to win the championship this year at plus
Speaker 2: three ten, Bucks in second at plus four hundred Suns
Speaker 2: plus four fifty Nuggets plus seven hundred and then you
Speaker 2: see the Sixers, Warriors, and Clippers rounding out our graphic here.
Speaker 2: So my tru or false question, Bucks should be the
Speaker 2: favorites to win the titles trure false task, Melosi.
Speaker 3: Of course they should, okay to how they're constantly overlooked.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what they do. They just won sixteen games.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have the best record in the NBA. Surprising
Speaker 3: to me. I thought they'd sort of take it easy.
Speaker 3: But they've got three fewer losses in the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 3: They're projected preseason with their over under total to be
Speaker 3: close to fifty wins. Now they're going to be very
Speaker 3: close to sixty wins. Why shouldn't they be the favorites.
Speaker 3: It's just because they got Milwaukee on their chest. It's
Speaker 3: a smaller city. That's why. There's no other reason. You
Speaker 3: mentioned Yannis's forty plus they scored eighty points in the
Speaker 3: second half of the Kings game. You might say Oh
Speaker 3: it's the Kings. No, they were just dominant. Yanis hitting threes, spinning, winning,
Speaker 3: Chris Middleton doing his spinning, brook Lopez stepping beyond the
Speaker 3: three point line. I think, what's going to happen? You
Speaker 3: mentioned that scuffle. Somebody's got to meme the finals odds
Speaker 3: or championship odds on Trey Lyle's face, and brook Lopez
Speaker 3: just got to punch it, you know, like that scene
Speaker 3: at the end of that game where brook Lopez got
Speaker 3: into it with Trey Lyles. Why should they not be
Speaker 3: the favorites? It's just because they're the Milwaukee Buck.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's like almost San Antonio Spurs, like
Speaker 2: in their dynasty run where they're always racking up you know,
Speaker 2: obviously great regular seasons, but you know, despite winning championships
Speaker 2: and having great talent, we're a lot of the times
Speaker 2: not the favorites or we're overlooked. Maybe the small market,
Speaker 2: maybe just because we become accustomed to it, is there's
Speaker 2: some similarities there with these these Bucks of the last
Speaker 2: couple of years.
Speaker 5: Definitely, they're probably not the sexiest title contender having actually
Speaker 5: won a championship.
Speaker 4: Sometimes her too.
Speaker 5: From a perspective standpoint, but I'm a task. It's kind
Speaker 5: of hilarious that they're not actually the title favorites right now.
Speaker 5: They've got the best team, they've got the best player,
Speaker 5: they've won a title before. Since January first, second best
Speaker 5: in defense, thirteenth in offense. That's not great, thirteenth in offense.
Speaker 5: Since February first, as Middleton's minutes have been taken up.
Speaker 5: Second best defense, sixth in offense. They are such a
Speaker 5: resilient team. They've got depth, they've got chemistry, but they've
Speaker 5: also been one of the best teams in the league
Speaker 5: for five straight seasons. So much like the Spurs, maybe
Speaker 5: people want to see something new and maybe there are
Speaker 5: more people in Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: Who are gonna put down a wager upon their team.
Speaker 2: Middleton season high thirty one last night against the Kings.
Speaker 2: Nine as sists as well nine to fifteen from the floor,
Speaker 2: hit five threes, made all of his free throws. I
Speaker 2: bring that up because you said it. They have the
Speaker 2: best player in the world, probably in gi Honest, they're
Speaker 2: the best team record wise. They've won a title already.
Speaker 2: There's that too, so there's no like, oh, can they
Speaker 2: do it? When the Brights get lighter in the playoffs. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: we know they can, but I think too with Middleton
Speaker 2: coming around now obviously getting his reps in him, Johannis
Speaker 2: Drew and Brook Lopez the level he's playing at right
Speaker 2: now too, and he had another good game, you know,
Speaker 2: before getting into it with Trey Lyle's getting tossed. Is
Speaker 2: there a team with a better four when they're playing
Speaker 2: at their peak in the league than those four spread
Speaker 2: across all the positions too, It's like every it's like
Speaker 2: almost collect them all, like you're collecting cups from the
Speaker 2: gas stations. You got the point guard, you've got obviously,
Speaker 2: you know your three bigs in Middleton, Jiannis and Brook.
Speaker 2: Is there another team with at that level when those
Speaker 2: guys are playing like they are right now that can
Speaker 2: match them?
Speaker 4: I can't really.
Speaker 2: You know, that used to be obviously the Warriors thing
Speaker 2: when KD was with them.
Speaker 4: Not any longer.
Speaker 2: You're probably struggling to find the fourth in like you're
Speaker 2: talking yourself into a pool or something like that.
Speaker 4: Now, Songs have a pretty good top four. One of
Speaker 4: them is hurt right now though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so they should be the favorites. I had
Speaker 2: the poll up on Twitter this morning. No, Dunk's Inc.
Speaker 2: Is our Twitter account, Nearly eighty two percent say yeah,
Speaker 2: true Bucks should be the favorites. And I even think
Speaker 2: to add to this because they're the number one seed.
Speaker 2: IY mean, they should be the favorites to come out
Speaker 2: of the East, because we said it all season long.
Speaker 2: The Celtics are gonna have to play the Sixers, not
Speaker 2: that they can't beat them, not that the Celtics can't
Speaker 2: beat the Bucks in the seven game series because they're really,
Speaker 2: really good. They're struggling right now, of course after losing
Speaker 2: last night too, but they got to go to war
Speaker 2: against each other, so it's like there is just an
Speaker 2: easier path too for a number one seed in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: So they should be the favorites.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they absolutely should be the favorites. And give
Speaker 5: it a week and that will probably be the case.
Speaker 5: But if you're the Celtics, you say, the Sixers can
Speaker 5: never beat us oh and three this season and a
Speaker 5: long history of taking it to EMBIID. They also won
Speaker 5: a Game seven on the road last year beating the Heat.
Speaker 5: So if you're the Celtics, you're saying, yeah, we can
Speaker 5: also go on the road and win a Game seven.
Speaker 5: Obviously you want to have the number one seed going forward.
Speaker 5: I would say the only concern really for the Bucks
Speaker 5: is that they don't really have the most athletic team
Speaker 5: out there, and that could be a problem if they
Speaker 5: get into maybe a small ball sort of deal against
Speaker 5: a Celtics team who can play pretty fast when they
Speaker 5: want to.
Speaker 3: But they go by the their leader, and obviously their
Speaker 3: leader is stepping up here as the Celtics can turn
Speaker 3: it on here at the end of the season. Obviously
Speaker 3: they're not doing the little things like they didn't do
Speaker 3: against the Rockets last night, But with Yannis leading your way,
Speaker 3: you just have no choice but to come along for
Speaker 3: the ride. I mean, they are playing harder, strong, and
Speaker 3: they get better as games go on. I mentioned that
Speaker 3: eighty points second half yesterday because Janis didn't start up
Speaker 3: the entire game. That was freaking impressive. How they all
Speaker 3: took turns. Now it's your turn, Chris Middleton, Now it's
Speaker 3: your turn, Brook Lopez, and they're all stepping up there.
Speaker 3: They're looking for their fifth guy for sure. They're they're
Speaker 3: they're looking Can it be Joe Ingles, Can it be
Speaker 3: Jay Crowder? Can it be Grayson Allen? Has he had
Speaker 3: a nice little cherry pick at the end of that game. There. Uh,
Speaker 3: they they're just so stacked and yeah, they just they
Speaker 3: just continue to fight through. And last year brook Lopez
Speaker 3: came on after playing only eleven games in the regular season.
Speaker 3: They're doing that perfectly with Chris Middleton. I mean, he
Speaker 3: looks like Chris Middleton and he looks like a freaking
Speaker 3: All Star out there. So he's their number two guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they should be. They're just overlooked.
Speaker 2: What do you think about the scuffle at the end
Speaker 2: here where I guess according to the Kings, they didn't
Speaker 2: like how Yannis was dribbling out the clock.
Speaker 5: Right, Several Kings set after the game that they took
Speaker 5: exception to Giannis's slow and angled dribbling. Yes, so that
Speaker 5: they were mad they blew the game in the second
Speaker 5: Yeah what I And then I thought the refs were
Speaker 5: mad that Trey Lyles did that because the game should
Speaker 5: have been over. So they're like, get out of here,
Speaker 5: brook Lopez, get out of here. You've never been kicked
Speaker 5: out of a game before this season. Now it's happened twice.
Speaker 5: He's pointing like crazy, there's just.
Speaker 4: Some frustration there.
Speaker 2: Nothing really happened, well, right, and Brooke is saying, like,
Speaker 2: I mean, you can read his lips like he's sticking
Speaker 2: up for his superstar, not just because Trey Lyles is
Speaker 2: taking offense, to be honest, the way he's trimpling, and
Speaker 2: you know, there's pushing and shoving and then Brook coming
Speaker 2: to his defense and a lot of throat grabbing going
Speaker 2: on right now.
Speaker 3: Brook Trey got a little he got a little personal.
Speaker 3: Trey Lyles got a little too close. He Brooke would
Speaker 3: have just gone nose to nose, but Lyles raised his
Speaker 3: hands and so then Brooke grabbed a throat. That's all
Speaker 3: that happened. Trey Trey got a little too aggressive, I think.
Speaker 3: But you know, you know why these Bucks are sort
Speaker 3: of like the Warriors of the last few years, and
Speaker 3: even the Spurs basketball is secondary to them in a way.
Speaker 3: Like they have they've got a great locker room and
Speaker 3: they've just they they're they're they've got their priorities straight.
Speaker 3: Brook Lopez saw a clip of him yesterday. He was
Speaker 3: on Fanasamo's podcast. Everyone's got a podcasts a podcast, Yeah, Fanalytics, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's got great, great guests. Great, all right. Ben Baker
Speaker 3: came on there, talked about his alcohol abuse. Very good,
Speaker 3: guess Brook Lopez went on there. Yeah, he said the
Speaker 3: best movie of all time is Star Wars the Wizard
Speaker 3: of Oz Oh. Oh yeah, great pick. He said every
Speaker 3: movie can be great, it can be built on that movie.
Speaker 3: And he went into it. He just he explained it
Speaker 3: how he's frightened by it, but he also absolutely loves it.
Speaker 5: Anyways, I think the priorities are right because they're focusing
Speaker 5: on the classic movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Not.
Speaker 2: The basketball court.
Speaker 3: Got their priorities straight man.
Speaker 2: Just a fun stat from Stattudes the Bucks trio there
Speaker 2: of Jannis, Middleton and Brook, they combined for one hundred
Speaker 2: points last night. The only other starting front court over
Speaker 2: the last twenty five seasons to score at least one
Speaker 2: hundred points in the game. You guys want to take
Speaker 2: I guess that it happened in December twenty twenty two, December.
Speaker 4: Season.
Speaker 3: Yes, the only front court to score hundred points.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the last twenty five seasons.
Speaker 3: Uh, Jazz, No, no, crazy one.
Speaker 4: Calves It's it.
Speaker 2: It's tough because the third player that was in on
Speaker 2: the mix with these two superstars Lakers Lakers, Lakers, Anthony Davis,
Speaker 2: Lebron James and Lonnie Walker the fourth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a weird one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So they're three four five there combiding for.
Speaker 4: Over one hundred.
Speaker 2: They did one hundred and four in that December game.
Speaker 2: But Bucks Trio did it last night just to slip
Speaker 2: in the Warriors here a little bit because they were
Speaker 2: on that graphic. Nice graphic by the way, JD. I
Speaker 2: really like the work he did their little animation on that.
Speaker 2: Nobody's angry with that. But they beat the Suns one
Speaker 2: twenty three, one twelve, and they got their eighth straight
Speaker 2: victory at home. Klay Thompson was lights out thirty three
Speaker 2: of US thirty eight in the first half, bomb and threes.
Speaker 2: Steph Currey at at twenty three, seven and five, And
Speaker 2: I keep bringing this up, Tasks, because I got to
Speaker 2: give you credit. Looney once again really good in this
Speaker 2: nine points, ten boards, five assists. You know, Eaton got
Speaker 2: his numbers two. But Curry does seem to be like
Speaker 2: playing him a little bit more and has figured out
Speaker 2: that he is important to this team. He knows that,
Speaker 2: I mean, Steve Curry knows his team. But any thoughts
Speaker 2: from the Warriors beating the Suns there last.
Speaker 3: Night, Yeah, it's a winning time, so Kevon Looney's got
Speaker 3: to get into the starting lineup. They need to win games.
Speaker 3: Is there's no more waiting around for Wiggins to see
Speaker 3: if he comes back. When he comes back, so they
Speaker 3: throw Looney into the starting lineup. What a wild ride
Speaker 3: for Klay Thompson scorching hot and then in the third
Speaker 3: quarter couldn't hit a free throw. Strange, strange game for him.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they continue this streak at home, and yeah,
Speaker 3: the Sun's now got to go play the Bucks, so
Speaker 3: a lot. Yeah, some chatter about whether the Suns will
Speaker 3: will dip in the standings. Yeah, both these two teams
Speaker 3: are teams that teams at the top are extremely frightened about.
Speaker 3: Sure and sure and should and should be one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: But it's nice to see the old Clay game, you know,
Speaker 3: once a playoff series, if he can do that, can
Speaker 3: turn a series.
Speaker 2: He might save it till a game six, game six
Speaker 2: to Clay. Any thoughts on this.
Speaker 5: One, Well, I would be a little nervous if I'm
Speaker 5: the Suns, because the Warriors own Chris Paul historically for
Speaker 5: about a decade at this point. They did last night,
Speaker 5: and right now they're in the four or five. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the Sun or the Warriors haven't been great on the road.
Speaker 5: But I'm not necessarily convinced that a Son's team led
Speaker 5: by Chris Paul will keep it together down the stretch.
Speaker 5: So that's a little extra intrigue added here. I will
Speaker 5: say though, that in Game six of the Finals last year,
Speaker 5: Kavon Looney came off the bench. That's the great thing
Speaker 5: about Looney. He is very flexible. Yeah, if he needs
Speaker 5: to start, he starts. If he needs to come off
Speaker 5: the bench, no problem. He's going to do his thing regardless.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was pretty cool to see Curry back down
Speaker 3: Chris Paul and then clearly say this is in twenty
Speaker 3: fourteen anymore, when they lost to the Clippers in a
Speaker 3: first round series. Things have changed. She ain't twenty five anymore.
Speaker 3: He's thirty five.
Speaker 4: I can't believe it's still all right.
Speaker 5: Next one, one quick thing about the Celtics versus the Rockets.
Speaker 5: Does Joe Mizzoula have a second end of the game play?
Speaker 2: Uh No, it's it's Tatum time, baby.
Speaker 4: Well it's one. It's one play play smart or to White.
Speaker 5: It's worked twice, did not work this time. Pretty good
Speaker 5: defense by Jabari Smith. I thought on Tatum though he
Speaker 5: still did get to the rim. Robert Williams, though, five
Speaker 5: straight miss games with a hamstring. Hamstrings obviously are a
Speaker 5: lingering injury, and that is going to be the problem
Speaker 5: for the Celtics. They got out rebounded last night by
Speaker 5: the Rockets forty eight to thirty eight. They're going to
Speaker 5: be coming up against a couple of really big teams
Speaker 5: in the playoffs, assuming they meet up either with the
Speaker 5: Bucks or with the Sixers. So Robert Williams get healthy
Speaker 5: and stay healthy, which is a big ass.
Speaker 4: Yeah, big big ass for him. Unfortunately, all right, next
Speaker 4: one here.
Speaker 2: According to WOJH, Grizzly star John Morant has entered a
Speaker 2: counseling program in Florida. This broke on Monday yesterday. Moran
Speaker 2: has been away from the team for the past ten
Speaker 2: days and there's still no timetable for his return. This
Speaker 2: is very difficult for you to answer. I get that,
Speaker 2: But after last night's win in Dallas, which was a
Speaker 2: nice solid win from the grizz they only have fifteen
Speaker 2: regular season games left. That's it, and then the playoffs
Speaker 2: will be here for them. So true or false again,
Speaker 2: just go with your gut, John Morant won't play another
Speaker 2: game this season, trueor false?
Speaker 4: Trade you get started. I guess my gut says false.
Speaker 5: I think he'll play again, but I think it's definitely
Speaker 5: possible that we don't see Jaw again this season. Just
Speaker 5: the fact that he's going to a treatment program that's
Speaker 5: out of state kind of suggests that the Grizzlies and
Speaker 5: Jaw are addressing something that's more than just partying in
Speaker 5: a nightclub. There's only three weeks left of the season,
Speaker 5: which I suppose is enough time to complete whatever steps
Speaker 5: the Grizzlies have set fourth for Jaw.
Speaker 4: Recondition and get back to playing.
Speaker 5: But I mean, this feels like a big deal that
Speaker 5: Jaw is going far away from the team to address
Speaker 5: something off the court. So there is time, I suppose
Speaker 5: for him to get back, but it wouldn't be a
Speaker 5: surprise if.
Speaker 4: He's done this year.
Speaker 3: I do think he plays again. Obviously, this yeah, just
Speaker 3: a total guess. But it's all about the NBA conducting
Speaker 3: its own investigation. So, as you said, Skeets, the NBA
Speaker 3: is definitely involved here. I don't think there's any doubt
Speaker 3: about that they're conducting an investigation. The Grizzlies have said
Speaker 3: initially he's away for two games, he's away for another
Speaker 3: four games. He's at five of those six games missed
Speaker 3: right now, and so they haven't put a timeline on it.
Speaker 3: But the NBA may in coordination here with the Memphis Grizzlies.
Speaker 3: They may say after conducting its own investigation about bringing
Speaker 3: either a gun into their locker room, which the NBA
Speaker 3: does not allow, into the visitors' locker room, or onto
Speaker 3: the airplane right which the NBA does not allow. Although
Speaker 3: Colorado's an open carry state, but businesses have freedoms. We're
Speaker 3: a country of laws. We're a country of freedoms. But
Speaker 3: the NBA says no. So here we are five games missed,
Speaker 3: and I think the league can say he's ended for
Speaker 3: ten games and the five will be retroactively accounted for.
Speaker 3: So they may be a suspension, but I think the
Speaker 3: five games will play into it. Again, who knows. As
Speaker 3: Trait said, it's bigger than maybe just a clubbing situation,
Speaker 3: and it's a good thing that they're dealing with it.
Speaker 3: And you know, further reporting from the athletic says that
Speaker 3: he has been talking to his teammates YEP via video
Speaker 3: via phone. So I don't think he's not like gone
Speaker 3: from the situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Coach Jenkins had a little bit to say about this too,
Speaker 2: Grizzlies coach. He said, quote, there is a lot of
Speaker 2: internal dialogue going on, and obviously there are still things
Speaker 2: going on at the league level as well that we're
Speaker 2: in communication about. I think that was a I think
Speaker 2: that speaks to, of course, the league is involved with
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies and John Moran and his team somehow. I
Speaker 2: guess my gut says, unfortunately true that maybe we don't
Speaker 2: see him, and that's totally fine as long as he's
Speaker 2: like getting his shit together. We also don't know what
Speaker 2: the expectations are of Morant before he can return to
Speaker 2: this team, And we don't know if the program that
Speaker 2: he has entered is part of like the team's plan
Speaker 2: for him. Is it the league sort of mandate, you know,
Speaker 2: sort of like secret mandate that they want.
Speaker 4: Him to do?
Speaker 2: This, Is it Joah Morant on himself seeking it out.
Speaker 2: It's probably a combo of all three, and you would
Speaker 2: hope it maybe would be. But there's not a lot
Speaker 2: of regular season left. Could he back? Of course he could,
Speaker 2: but I guess if I have to pick one, I'm
Speaker 2: going to say not. The poll people are pretty split
Speaker 2: on this one. Fifty four percent agree with you guys,
Speaker 2: and say false that we will see jam Morant this year.
Speaker 2: I guess you could then, I mean it would be
Speaker 2: a little weird maybe if he came back for the playoffs,
Speaker 2: like just straight into game one, so probably regular season.
Speaker 2: So forty six percent or so say nah, true, maybe
Speaker 2: we don't see him until next year.
Speaker 3: And you went through the suspensions for prior guns in
Speaker 3: the locker rooms. Who knows where that gun was. But
Speaker 3: as far as guns in the NBA goes, I mean
Speaker 3: he has served, Like if we're using that as sort
Speaker 3: of a benchmark, he served five if you want to
Speaker 3: look at it that way, right, Yes, close.
Speaker 5: Sebastian Telfair got suspended for bringing a loaded gun onto
Speaker 5: the plane. That was two games. Steven Jackson was another
Speaker 5: one for firing a gun at a strip club in
Speaker 5: the parking lot. That was seven games. So we are
Speaker 5: getting about to that mark right now. Yep, we will
Speaker 5: wait and.
Speaker 2: Find out all right. Back to basketball another night, another
Speaker 2: close game from Miami. Jimmy Butler scored twenty four points.
Speaker 2: He led seven Miami players in double figures as the
Speaker 2: Heat held off the Jazz one nineteen one fifteen. We
Speaker 2: watched a good chunk of this one on playback. Definitely
Speaker 2: down the stretch. They're nice play from BAM to say
Speaker 2: no no and secure the victory. It was Miami's twenty
Speaker 2: fourth win by five points or less this season. They
Speaker 2: play a lot of these clutch games, right, games that
Speaker 2: are within five points in the final five minutes. Actually,
Speaker 2: it's the Heat and the wh will play the most
Speaker 2: in the league, so here they are. They've got lowry back.
Speaker 2: They pull this one out true or false tasks. No
Speaker 2: one wants to play the Miami Heat in a first
Speaker 2: round playoff series.
Speaker 3: I know the thing to say is true, this is
Speaker 3: a veteran team to the Eastern Conference finals last year.
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna say false. I think they're five better
Speaker 3: teams in the East and the Box, Celtic, Sixers, CAZ,
Speaker 3: and Knicks. Those are better teams. I think people would
Speaker 3: be more scared of those five teams. And I'll say
Speaker 3: I think the Nets equally as scary as the Miami Heat,
Speaker 3: even if they're young and they don't have a Jimmy
Speaker 3: and they don't even have a BAM. I think their
Speaker 3: offense is better than the Miami Heats, even if they
Speaker 3: don't have a Jimmy. And if there's anything that jimmy
Speaker 3: doesn't play well against, its length, and the Nets have
Speaker 3: a lot of that, and it may sound stupid to
Speaker 3: put them on the same level as the Miami Heat,
Speaker 3: but I don't think that offense Lowry may help. I
Speaker 3: hope Kyle Lowry comes to get to his regular self.
Speaker 3: He kind of looked like his disruptor getting his hands
Speaker 3: in there type self yesterday. But this offense is not scary.
Speaker 3: It's just not.
Speaker 4: So you said not scared, you say false, not scared.
Speaker 3: I don't think anyone should be scared.
Speaker 5: No one should be scared of the Heat. And there's
Speaker 5: really only two teams that are gonna play him. They're
Speaker 5: either gonna get the Celtics or they're gonna get the Bucks.
Speaker 5: I think Miami gonna be the proverbial tough out.
Speaker 4: Come playoff time.
Speaker 5: But look at what they've done this season, fourteen to
Speaker 5: twenty on the road. They're gonna be starting on the road.
Speaker 5: They're gonna have a Game seven on the road should
Speaker 5: they get there. Boston eliminated Miami last year. Milwaukee eliminated
Speaker 5: them the year before. So let's take a look at
Speaker 5: this season's numbers. Miami two and two against Boston. One
Speaker 5: of the wins was in overtime two days after the
Speaker 5: Celtics beat him. The other win was when they the
Speaker 5: Celtics had no Jalen Brown, no Marcus Smart, no Al Horford,
Speaker 5: and won the second night.
Speaker 4: Of a back to back.
Speaker 5: As for the Bucks, two and two against them as well,
Speaker 5: but neither Giannis or Middleton played in either of Miami's wins.
Speaker 5: I think Miami probably a better chance against Boston just
Speaker 5: because they don't have the size to hang with the Bucks.
Speaker 5: Last night, the Jazz out rebounded Miami forty eight to
Speaker 5: thirty seven. They got sixteen offensive rebounds. They play three
Speaker 5: tiny guys almost all the time. Even BAM is not
Speaker 5: a big big. It's gonna be Kevin Love alongside them
Speaker 5: a lot of the time. Caleb Martin as well will
Speaker 5: get time at the four, but BAM has had just
Speaker 5: double digit rebounds once since the All Star Break. They're
Speaker 5: twenty seventh and three point percentage, and they're terrible in
Speaker 5: seasons that end in an odd number twenty fifteen. They
Speaker 5: missed the playoffs. Twenty sixteen went to the second round,
Speaker 5: twenty seventeen missed the playoffs, twenty eighteen lost in the
Speaker 5: first round, twenty nineteen, missed the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty they lose in the finals.
Speaker 5: Twenty twenty one, losing the first round, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 5: lost in game seven of the conference finals.
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty three. They're gonna lose in the first round.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, yeah, Well they're the seventh seed right now.
Speaker 2: They're game and a half up on the Hawks. They're
Speaker 2: three back from the Nets and Knicks, so it looks
Speaker 2: like they might have to get their way in in
Speaker 2: the PL though. If they play the Hawks in a
Speaker 2: seven eight matchup, well that'll be Miami's destroying Atlanta. So yeah,
Speaker 2: then they would have a two to seven matchup. Could
Speaker 2: be the Bucks, could be the Celtics, still could be
Speaker 2: the seventy six ers. If they get up there, it
Speaker 2: will be a tough, tough battle. I think this might
Speaker 2: be true, though, because I wasn't like true or false.
Speaker 2: Those three teams at the top of the East should
Speaker 2: be terrified of Miami. I said, no one wants to
Speaker 2: play them. If I have a pick of all those
Speaker 2: other playing teams, I'm taking the Hawks, the Raptors, the Bulls,
Speaker 2: maybe the Wizards. I mean, all these crap mid teams
Speaker 2: definitely over a Miami Heat team who at least have
Speaker 2: an identity. Yeah, they got some shortcomings, but obviously a
Speaker 2: vet team and have gone through some reps. I think
Speaker 2: it would be a tough series.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I will push back on that though, and I've said
Speaker 2: this before that.
Speaker 3: I question back on yourself.
Speaker 2: I am because I actually I said this before. I
Speaker 2: love a team that has championship aspirations. I love when
Speaker 2: they're tested in a first round series. I think it's
Speaker 2: the best thing that can happen in them a lot
Speaker 2: of the time, to be like a little wake up call,
Speaker 2: like oh yeah, not just like a four to zero
Speaker 2: walk over this garbage team sweep. That's fine because you
Speaker 2: play less games, less wear and tear on your body.
Speaker 2: I get that some more rest for the second round, sure,
Speaker 2: But I don't mind like getting punched in the moat
Speaker 2: a little bit like oh yeah, this is the playoffs,
Speaker 2: Like this isn't gonna be easy. And we've seen that
Speaker 2: happen before, so I guess what I'm getting. I was like,
Speaker 2: maybe playing the Miami Heat in the first round if
Speaker 2: you're the Bucks or the Celtics or the Sixers and
Speaker 2: you probably beat them, could be a good thing, though,
Speaker 2: as you get ready to move on.
Speaker 5: So iron Sharpman's Ironers, He's twenty twenty The Heat beat
Speaker 5: the Bucks in the playoffs first round twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5: The Bucks swept them went on to win the NBA Championship,
Speaker 5: also the Miami The Boston Celtics beat the Heat in
Speaker 5: the conference finals last year, went to the finals.
Speaker 4: Probably you do want to play the Heat? Can you
Speaker 4: go to the finals?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 2: Gets you ready. The votes on this one fifty seven
Speaker 2: percent if we round up, say false, So no one
Speaker 2: really scared of Miami.
Speaker 3: Would you take them over in a series against the Knicks?
Speaker 3: Unlikely to happen, but it could have. Would would you
Speaker 3: take the Heat versus the Knicks? I mean, obviously everyone's
Speaker 3: taking the Buck, Celtics, seventy six ers over this Heat
Speaker 3: team if they play. The questions are the Calves, Knicks
Speaker 3: and the Nets? Right, I would doubt I would take
Speaker 3: the Calves and Knicks over the Heat. And then it's
Speaker 3: a coin flip. Even with this super young Nets team
Speaker 3: to me because there are offensive shortcomings, I.
Speaker 2: Would be I would be taking the way of the
Speaker 2: Heat over the nets in a potential, very unlikely, hypothetical
Speaker 2: first round series.
Speaker 3: But not the Calves are the Knicks.
Speaker 4: That's that one caves is question. That's tough.
Speaker 5: I think that the Heat would have the best player
Speaker 5: on the court against every team again except for potentially
Speaker 5: the Calves.
Speaker 4: Donovan Mitchell can kind of get to Jimmy's level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the length is gonna bother Jimmy. I think with
Speaker 3: the Calves front line.
Speaker 4: I ain't worried about the Calves personally.
Speaker 2: Well, fine, doubt final one guys. According to Shams our
Speaker 2: guy at the Athletic the NBA and Players Association are
Speaker 2: close to an agreement that would create a minimum games
Speaker 2: played requirement for regular season awards such as MVP, Defensive
Speaker 2: Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year, and so on.
Speaker 2: But while both sides are in agreement about this concept,
Speaker 2: they have yet to deter f'man an actual figure for
Speaker 2: the number of games that you would have to play?
Speaker 2: Would it be fifty eight, would it be sixty, sixty five,
Speaker 2: seventy something crazy like that? We don't know. But in theory.
Speaker 2: They might agree with this in sort of like the
Speaker 2: collective bargaining agreement, you would have to hit a certain
Speaker 2: amount of games played to win one of these awards,
Speaker 2: maybe even make all NBA teams true or false. So
Speaker 2: try you get it started. The NBA doesn't need this.
Speaker 2: They don't need a games played threshold for these awards.
Speaker 4: It's both true and false. Okay, go on.
Speaker 5: They don't need it because the threshold already exists. Bill
Speaker 5: Walton is the only guy to win an MVP with
Speaker 5: less than seventy games played, and that was in nineteen
Speaker 5: seventy eight. Bill on top of the world, as were
Speaker 5: the Grateful Dead. But they do need it because the
Speaker 5: optics of doing something with regards to load management. You
Speaker 5: can easily foresee a future where the threshold is fifty
Speaker 5: eight games to align with the scoring title. But I
Speaker 5: think this will have more of an impact for all
Speaker 5: NBA voting when there are fifteen spots up rather than
Speaker 5: just one stop or one spot a top the award voting.
Speaker 5: The thing that was interesting to me with regards to
Speaker 5: this is that the Players Association approached the league about
Speaker 5: a threshold for award voting kind of stuff because we're
Speaker 5: starting to hear a lot more now that it's the
Speaker 5: teams that are handing down the load management schedules and
Speaker 5: that players really want to play. They're getting upset with
Speaker 5: the rest considering the fact that they're still getting injured
Speaker 5: at massive rates even though they're sitting out more games
Speaker 5: to elongate their careers. So I thought that part was interesting,
Speaker 5: and I think it'll be good that there's a little
Speaker 5: window dressing saying, hey, we're doing something, because everybody knows
Speaker 5: the teams, the players, obviously the league that to make
Speaker 5: the most money in this next deal, they have to
Speaker 5: ensure that the best players are on the court as
Speaker 5: much as possible.
Speaker 3: A games play thresholds for NBA Awards isn't going to
Speaker 3: change players sitting out. I don't think even if it
Speaker 3: gets to seventy, which I I don't think they would
Speaker 3: come to that number. I hope this is in coordination
Speaker 3: with talk about getting guys more rest. I know they're sitting.
Speaker 3: I know we're not going to get to a point
Speaker 3: where we're reducing games, but I think we've got to
Speaker 3: reduce back to backs. That's the biggest thing. And what
Speaker 3: does that mean if if we're not going to reduce games.
Speaker 3: I think that just means elongating the season October one,
Speaker 3: probably just to have another two and a half weeks.
Speaker 3: So those thirteen fourteen, fifteen back to backs that each
Speaker 3: team has, go poof, go away, that's what has to happen,
Speaker 3: and you'll see more guys play, and you'll see more
Speaker 3: teams say, okay, we're checking the schedule here. There isn't
Speaker 3: as many load management games where you have to take off.
Speaker 3: This is just about guys playing. The players in these reports.
Speaker 3: It's what it was CJ McCollum, Chris Paul saying this
Speaker 3: is about our team saying to us we need to
Speaker 3: sit games. This isn't about us wanting to sit games.
Speaker 3: So how does that get alleviated. It's not because you
Speaker 3: throw this number out for an NBA award. Hey, you
Speaker 3: got to play seventy games. I mean, it's just it's
Speaker 3: unlikely that number one would be that high. Number two.
Speaker 3: It's just I think it's just B to b's just
Speaker 3: the back to backs is the biggest thing. And I
Speaker 3: assume that we'll be talking regular season earlier, not later.
Speaker 3: We're not going into July, but I think we'll be
Speaker 3: starting earlier I think that could happen, and it should happen. Really,
Speaker 3: if the games aren't going to be reduced, do.
Speaker 2: You think the league will add a minute's threshold to
Speaker 2: prevent players from just checking in getting that GP?
Speaker 4: Are you with me?
Speaker 2: And then you know, play a couple of minutes and
Speaker 2: then take the night off. Now, that would tank their
Speaker 2: averages and stuff like that stats. So I don't think
Speaker 2: they would need that. I don't think we need this.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, TK. I guess you could argue it's
Speaker 2: come up in other situations like Rookie of the Year
Speaker 2: races and maybe even Defensive Player of the ear races.
Speaker 2: Less so for MVP, it's just like we all agree
Speaker 2: you gotta play a good chunk of the season to
Speaker 2: be considered the most valuable player and outside of Bill
Speaker 2: Walton way back in the day, and you get rid
Speaker 2: of the shortened seasons, of course, yeah, you gotta play
Speaker 2: soe many games like you just have to sort of
Speaker 2: the rule. Though, we're getting closer where a lot of
Speaker 2: the top guys will be like flirting with that right
Speaker 2: where it will just become they'll all be almost sort
Speaker 2: of ballpark yeap.
Speaker 4: That game's played.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what impact that has, but for
Speaker 2: that we don't need it.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't care. I think it will probably
Speaker 2: be fifty eight. I don't fifty eight or sixty like
Speaker 2: to go with that scoring title eligibility that you have
Speaker 2: to hit to win. To win that, which.
Speaker 5: What do you win except the honor you get the
Speaker 5: bold number on your basketball reference.
Speaker 4: Well, that's nice.
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 4: I like those bold numbers.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 3: It's just another number we'll forget really because it doesn't
Speaker 3: mean anything. If if it lines up with the fifty
Speaker 3: eight games minimum to win a scoring title, which it's
Speaker 3: just another thing that even us sickos will have to
Speaker 3: look up annually like it just we don't. We won't
Speaker 3: remember it if the fifty eight means nothing.
Speaker 2: The vote on this one, similar to the last two.
Speaker 2: It's basically a fifty five to forty five split. People
Speaker 2: say false overall, though, that we really don't need this
Speaker 2: so enough more people are fine with it adding some
Speaker 2: sort of like threshold.
Speaker 4: I guess their eligibility games played.
Speaker 2: The league and union, by the way, have until March
Speaker 2: thirty first to reach an agreement on a new CBA exercise.
Speaker 2: Their mutual opt out of the current CBA, or once
Speaker 2: again extend the negotiating window, which I think they've already
Speaker 2: extended twice.
Speaker 4: So that's what we call a fake deadline.
Speaker 5: Yes, when one of the options is we can push
Speaker 5: it back, it's a good point. I haven't seen any
Speaker 5: reporting though about Donovan Mitchell trash talking Grant Williams, because
Speaker 5: I think this would have been the call right right, Oh,
Speaker 5: we got a players union call coming up. We might
Speaker 5: be talking about you missing those free throws. He missed
Speaker 5: the free throws. But I haven't seen any of the fallout.
Speaker 2: Maybe we can. We'll need to see the minutes. Who
Speaker 2: is taking minutes a call? Where did that come up?
Speaker 2: Goods and Welfare?
Speaker 3: At the end, who's the secretary of you know, taking minutes?
Speaker 3: He's keeping notes?
Speaker 2: All right, well, let's take our first break when we
Speaker 2: come back. The March Madness continues here for us this week,
Speaker 2: and we will fill out the East region of our
Speaker 2: no Dunks bracket.
Speaker 4: Don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 2: I saw we had over one hundred people filling out
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Speaker 3: Can wear it at the Final four, Yes.
Speaker 2: Right in Houston. So we started with the South Region
Speaker 2: yesterday and our first Final four selection was the number
Speaker 2: one seated Alabama. And I was looking at our picks
Speaker 2: going back, and I said, did we pick enough upsets?
Speaker 3: We picked enough?
Speaker 2: We picked three. We had the number nine seed over eight.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: We had the number ten seed when in a game
Speaker 2: or two in Utah State because we've been to Utah recently.
Speaker 2: We are diehard college basketball fans here. And we had
Speaker 2: number eleven seed NC State going on an Elite eight run.
Speaker 2: That was our That was probably our craziest pick because
Speaker 2: we are all about the wolf Pack.
Speaker 4: Wolf Pack at Carolina.
Speaker 2: So it's okay, Yeah, we got three upsets. You think
Speaker 2: that's enough. You feel comfortable about that desk?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. It took out those Bears in the round
Speaker 3: of sixteen, and that's fine by me.
Speaker 5: Okay, I wish we would have picked one more skeets.
Speaker 5: I wish we would have picked the Southeast Missouri RedHawks
Speaker 5: to upset the Alabama Crimson Tide because I just found
Speaker 5: out from my father in law that the head coach
Speaker 5: of Southeast Missouri State is the greatest basketball player in
Speaker 5: the history of my high school, a guy I grew
Speaker 5: up across the street from brag Corn coaching Southeast Missouri
Speaker 5: to their first tournament appearance in twenty three seasons.
Speaker 2: So they played one they play either later tonight.
Speaker 5: Okay, wow, six forty Eastern against Texas Corpus Christy. So
Speaker 5: I'm a big Semo fan.
Speaker 3: So they may not be in the tournament, but you
Speaker 3: they're in the tournament. Well, the tournament, this is the.
Speaker 2: Tournament starts tonight dayton counts. Damn it.
Speaker 3: Let's see if they went. I thought you played against him,
Speaker 3: but he's a coach, I mean, I thought he was playing.
Speaker 3: I thought he was playing. No eligibility.
Speaker 5: He graduated two years ahead of me. But literally his
Speaker 5: name is Brad Corn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard this one.
Speaker 2: I'm putting some corn on some uh, mister Corn.
Speaker 5: Tonight yeah, let's go to corn Yeah, okay, yeah, he's
Speaker 5: a very tall, very skinny, very redheaded fella cornstock, a
Speaker 5: real corn stock out there. Let's go Simo, alright, let's
Speaker 5: go see Cornet. I'm making that shirt for tonight. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna write on this shirt. All right, let's get started
Speaker 5: here in the East region. Got a big boy in
Speaker 5: the one seed here the boiler Makers playing against the
Speaker 5: play and winner between Texas Southern and Florida Dominican University.
Speaker 2: I don't know FDU Dominion.
Speaker 5: That could be if you've got a high school teammate,
Speaker 5: who's their coach?
Speaker 4: Let us know Perdue. That is led by seven foot
Speaker 4: four Zach Eadie.
Speaker 2: That's right, oh can.
Speaker 4: And likely National player of the year.
Speaker 2: It seems a big old boy seven four rap song
Speaker 2: on his back. He's Figgerland, British, Columbia, the Great Lakes combined.
Speaker 4: It looks like the whole there.
Speaker 2: What is that a man?
Speaker 4: Or?
Speaker 2: Is that Paul Bunyon Canadians, American mythology?
Speaker 4: Minnesota?
Speaker 5: We got we got it by Dwayneer is a boiler
Speaker 5: Maker as well.
Speaker 4: So that's your father in law.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's an actual boiler Maker. What is that again, Well,
Speaker 5: he helps build power plants.
Speaker 3: That's right, Yes, the boiling pots.
Speaker 4: Boiling pots.
Speaker 3: Three pounds man Zach Edie looking forward to watching.
Speaker 2: Got a nice touch though. This guy's not a stiff.
Speaker 2: This guy has a nice game to him.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And we were talking about on playbag what did what
Speaker 2: did Big Country Brent Reeves do back in the day
Speaker 2: for Oklahoma State? They went to the final four, didn't they.
Speaker 5: It's not the nineties, bro, I know, but this guy
Speaker 5: plays like it's a little bit of a throwback.
Speaker 2: Obviously, seven fouries. You know, he's around the rim.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you've got a seven foot four guy who's
Speaker 5: the best player in the country and you can't beat
Speaker 5: a sixteen seed, that's a problem.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that would be an issue.
Speaker 5: They're gonna lose in the second round, but we'll get
Speaker 5: to that a little bit here. Who are they going
Speaker 5: to be playing? The Memphis Tigers. Penny Hardaway, Penny Hardaway
Speaker 5: exactly right, versus foul foul Florida Atlantic or Atlantic University,
Speaker 5: the foul Owls.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would like to take Memphis in this
Speaker 2: matchup just because of Hardaway.
Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3: The owls are in the NCAA term for the second
Speaker 3: time in school history, and the first time since two
Speaker 3: thousand and two. It's been a while twenty one years.
Speaker 4: Okay, I think this is gonna be an up and
Speaker 4: down game from what I can tell. Oh, well, running
Speaker 4: gun kind of gah, it.
Speaker 2: Sure looks like it. All right, let's go with Memphis.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's go with there. Take years, guys, let's go
Speaker 5: all right. Next, a five to twelve matchup, always right
Speaker 5: for upsets. We got the Duke Blue Devils versus the
Speaker 5: Oral Roberts Mouths.
Speaker 2: Has Colgate ever played.
Speaker 5: Oral Roberts in a teeth Bowl in the Crest Bowl? Yeah, i'msure.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Duke, now correct me if I'm wrong. This
Speaker 2: is a little alarming. It's so weird sometimes to see
Speaker 2: Duke as a fifth seed. What but they had a
Speaker 2: bad regular season and then just went on. They went
Speaker 2: on a late run right where they I think they.
Speaker 3: Won their won they won nine straight. Yeah, yeah, they're
Speaker 3: hot and the regular season and then won the conference tournament.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll start.
Speaker 5: I think they're like seventeen and one or something like
Speaker 5: that with their starters helping.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 5: People also say the ACC had a down year. I
Speaker 5: also saw Jay Billis has Duke in the final four. Shocker,
Speaker 5: Yeah he went there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Lara Roberts has a one hundred and seventy
Speaker 3: ninth Strength of Schedule rating pretty low. That's bad.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah, they got a lot of wins. Don't
Speaker 2: they love seeing all those wins right by them?
Speaker 4: But I'm taking Duke.
Speaker 2: I don't know that happy about it.
Speaker 4: Thet they got a big seven foot or two Philipowski.
Speaker 4: That's his full name or his last name, Kyle Philip
Speaker 4: housh Okay, well, first name, Philip, last name.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know nothing about this, all right, We're
Speaker 2: going Duke. Good stuff?
Speaker 4: That good stuff.
Speaker 5: I guess the Tennessee Volunteers versus Louisiana raging cag In's.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah, good name U l from the Belt Conference.
Speaker 4: They've really been tightening the Belt. Tennessee, I know, is
Speaker 4: a defensive.
Speaker 5: Stalwart, though perhaps they have some scoring troubles at time.
Speaker 5: I think they may be missing one of their top
Speaker 5: players right now. The defense often shows up in the tournament.
Speaker 5: Look at that, only fifty eight points per game. Very tough,
Speaker 5: that's very.
Speaker 2: Chalk on defense. I know the game plan tasks. You
Speaker 2: gotta read on.
Speaker 3: This Oh, absolutely, of course I have a read on
Speaker 3: this one. Yeah. The volunteers beat Kansas, Texas and Alabama,
Speaker 3: the big schools by an average of eleven points per win.
Speaker 3: They lost, yeah, a lot of games. I guess they
Speaker 3: lost two teams yea below them.
Speaker 2: They play up, they play up or down to their competition.
Speaker 2: You say, well, that might be bad news, that might
Speaker 2: be maybe falling into the hands of the region cagns.
Speaker 4: Could be it overlook them.
Speaker 5: You know there were ragients hard Well, these cagents are wild.
Speaker 2: What are we doing we want chalk on this boring?
Speaker 2: Or are we taking the raging cagins.
Speaker 3: We'll get some upsets later. It feels like, you know,
Speaker 3: the boiler Makers are going to get knocked down. We've
Speaker 3: got a Marquette coming up. Yeah, they're too good. They're
Speaker 3: too good. Yeah, we'll see you later.
Speaker 4: Okay, So you want Tennessee is what you're saying.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, lets the record show I will
Speaker 2: not be cheering for them. I like the Raging Cajun's nickname.
Speaker 4: It would be fun Cajun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, anyway, the Kentucky Wildcats you ever heard of them?
Speaker 5: Versus the Providence Friars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it's uh well, we don't.
Speaker 4: Even analyzing here. The people are still running the numbers.
Speaker 5: In the background, they say, oscar tashibwe how are how
Speaker 5: is the Friars going to keep them off the glass?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody knows.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not a college basketball fan, but but
Speaker 2: every single NBA player I like comes from Kentucky. So
Speaker 2: it feels like my college. So, uh, you know, I
Speaker 2: got my bookers and maches and Jamal's and so I
Speaker 2: have to cheer for Kentucky. Big Blue Nation, baby, big
Speaker 2: Blue Nation. Yeah, that's me, always has this guy loves
Speaker 2: like purple. Actually I do love Yeah, they're coming up next.
Speaker 3: It'll be fun to take chalk here into the round
Speaker 3: of thirty two, and we're going and it'll be fun.
Speaker 3: It'll be fun. And then you just turn it around
Speaker 3: in the round of sixteen.
Speaker 4: All right, Kentucky.
Speaker 2: We have to take Kentucky.
Speaker 4: I can't cheer from We better take usc coming up
Speaker 4: pretty soon. Just eyeball and things. We need an upset.
Speaker 2: Okay, stop moment in this. I guess we're done. We're
Speaker 2: done on analysis.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're like you don't know anything anyway. Yeah, why
Speaker 4: are you looking at these numbers?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Right, it's a match.
Speaker 5: Maybe Kansas State also a wildcat. I'm not well taken.
Speaker 5: Montana State looks like it could be a wildcat of
Speaker 5: some sort. Isn't that looks like a cat? It could
Speaker 5: be a link Bob could be a okaycat.
Speaker 2: There you go, caversus cat.
Speaker 4: You more of a wildcat or a bobcat.
Speaker 3: I'm going with Jerome Tang of Kansas State. Great name,
Speaker 3: I like, just like, No, he's a he's a coach. Oh,
Speaker 3: just figure that out. He's smart though, that's I meant
Speaker 3: part of this part of this right up. I'm reading
Speaker 3: on the athletic here, so plus young rising stars. Then
Speaker 3: I saw Jerome Tang, but it's young rising stars in
Speaker 3: coaching profession like Jerome Tang and Dusty May of Florida
Speaker 3: Atlantic Coaching.
Speaker 4: Though it does matter in college.
Speaker 3: I'm riding with Tang, all right, cat though in.
Speaker 2: The in nature, what cat would come out on top? Well,
Speaker 2: that's much bigger, I believe.
Speaker 3: I have no idea, but a Bob.
Speaker 2: I'll look it up.
Speaker 3: I think I think a Bob who wins. Bob's not big.
Speaker 2: I think a bobcat is shocking smaller.
Speaker 3: It's very But are you.
Speaker 5: Telling me that a bobcat isn't just a a more
Speaker 5: drilled down version of a wildcat? You know, like squares
Speaker 5: and rectangles. All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles
Speaker 5: are squares.
Speaker 3: Like has been domesticated cat?
Speaker 5: Right, wildcat contains all of the different cat species, So
Speaker 5: I'm like a bobcat, a lynx, a cougar. They would
Speaker 5: all file fall underneath oldcat.
Speaker 4: I might be wrong.
Speaker 2: Is a wildcat a mountain lion, because if it is
Speaker 2: a mountain lion would defeat a bobcat. According to this
Speaker 2: one website, though a bobcat will take down much larger
Speaker 2: apex predators.
Speaker 3: I think you're I think is right in that it
Speaker 3: contains a larger category. I'm seeing a cheetah, clouded leopard,
Speaker 3: a cougar, a jaguar, leopard, a lion, a snow leopard,
Speaker 3: a sunda clouded leopard, a tiger. But and then I
Speaker 3: see a list of small wild cats cougars not there,
Speaker 3: so I think it's still bigger than a cougar. I
Speaker 3: mean a bobcat.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Okay, who do we take kanst Kansas.
Speaker 5: State right now, carnivorous, All right, Michigan State Spartans versus
Speaker 5: the USC Trojans.
Speaker 4: Wasn't that like a classic battle in Greek mythology.
Speaker 3: The Trojans, the Trojans, We'll get them. It's a trojan
Speaker 3: horse here.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a Trojan horse situation. I think we
Speaker 4: should take at least one upset here. Yeah, I love it,
Speaker 4: I love it. I think we got to take a ten. Yeah, okay, great,
Speaker 4: Michigan State is always.
Speaker 5: Great in the tournament unfortunately, but just right state, Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 3: We'll get to the stuff.
Speaker 4: We get to the stuff.
Speaker 3: You guys do it, do it all right? Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 5: Hey, hey I'm not up. Analysis is back. But guess
Speaker 5: what Michigan State you're going on? I guess nice Marqueta Vermont. Yeah,
Speaker 5: of course we're going chalk rock chalk, Marquette Hawk.
Speaker 3: I think I think kett is uh is going all
Speaker 3: the way.
Speaker 2: Wow, people have to the final four ska. Well we
Speaker 2: just did a freaking chalk first round.
Speaker 3: Chalk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but's of that happening are like very low I think.
Speaker 4: For one region.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably probably doesn't happen often.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but people probably didn't research as much as yeh
Speaker 5: a wildcat bobcat situation to come to their conclusions. U.
Speaker 5: Speaking of cats that are wild, we've got the Purdue
Speaker 5: boiler Makers of one seed versus the number eight seeded
Speaker 5: Memphis Tigers.
Speaker 4: In the round of thirty two matchup.
Speaker 3: See here we go.
Speaker 4: We're team cats, We're team cats. Where this is our
Speaker 4: first big upset, this is our first big upset. Styles
Speaker 4: make fights skeets.
Speaker 5: I saw Perdue is in the three hundreds for rank
Speaker 5: with regards to pace, whereas Memphis, I think is like
Speaker 5: a top fifty pace school.
Speaker 2: Run and gun.
Speaker 4: Those Purdue guards aren't going to be able to keep up,
Speaker 4: nor Zach. That's right, Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 5: And I saw somebody in the stream team yesterday said
Speaker 5: that when the Penn State Nitney Lions went to a
Speaker 5: press against Perdue, they had a lot of trouble dealing
Speaker 5: with the increased athleticism. So we're goal and we're in
Speaker 5: Memphis right now.
Speaker 4: How about Duke versus Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Got no red on this one, no read, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I like, I don't mind the idea of a
Speaker 2: hot team right now, give me.
Speaker 3: Duke upset Round let's go. It's an upset.
Speaker 4: Okay, five over four, I like it.
Speaker 5: Duke Peekin, we got a nice blue game coming up
Speaker 5: there in the Elite Sweet sixteen. All right, Kentucky. Kansas
Speaker 5: State Wildcats versus Wildcats were screwed. We got no takes here.
Speaker 4: This is tough.
Speaker 2: Wow, Wildcat versus Wildcat, Big Blue Nation versus the Purple
Speaker 2: People Leaders.
Speaker 4: Yeah right.
Speaker 2: I've always liked both these teams in filling out brackets
Speaker 2: over the years. I don't know why. Sure, I think
Speaker 2: I take these teams a lot, But now I'm forced
Speaker 2: to pick one. I gotta stick with Kentucky, but you
Speaker 2: guys can out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm happy we'll go Kentucky. Looks like looks like
Speaker 3: the upset rounds. I think we can go all the
Speaker 3: way with all upsets. This round looks like Kansas State
Speaker 3: has a lot of young players, first year transfers looking
Speaker 3: at this year, so we want to take some vets.
Speaker 3: Although we got young and up and coming coach Jerome
Speaker 3: Tang leading Kansas State. I like. I like the upset
Speaker 3: here of Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Kansas State has a decent record against top teams.
Speaker 4: Like a good match.
Speaker 2: This does a good matchup. Hope we get it. I
Speaker 2: hope to see it on the weekend.
Speaker 4: This one, oh big time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Wildcat versus Wildcat will be going into our focus
Speaker 5: each other.
Speaker 2: Kentucky through and then it sounded like you're high on
Speaker 2: Marquette tasks. This is you're not even thinking twice. This
Speaker 2: is gonna be a fifteen point victory.
Speaker 3: Abs. Yeah, it was a preseason pick to go all
Speaker 3: the way they have. They're following through, They're following Eagles.
Speaker 2: Let's go Kette Golden Eagles. Right, Okay, okay, Wow, this
Speaker 2: is a nice final four here in this bracket, Memphis
Speaker 2: Duke and Kentucky Marquette.
Speaker 4: Bring your blue or some big names here.
Speaker 5: Memphis versus Duke, the eight seed versus the five seed Memphis,
Speaker 5: Penny Hardaway, Duke, John shire.
Speaker 2: Man, where do you want to go?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: What Duke's got, Duke's peaking, they got a big guy,
Speaker 5: they got a new coach.
Speaker 4: Win one for coaches or win win for coach Penny.
Speaker 2: I like, wow, uh see, I'm tired of at this point. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm tired of Duke. So let's go Memphis. It was
Speaker 2: two weekends too much Duke life.
Speaker 4: Can't have too much to Doug.
Speaker 2: Will shut to Doug, I hope you got the beard still, Doug,
Speaker 2: you look great with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll bet you have beard. They lose this. No,
Speaker 4: that's not a real bet. Not a real bet, Doug.
Speaker 4: All right, Kentucky Wildcats Marquette Golden Eagles. That's what they are.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 2: I think sounds nice.
Speaker 4: Oh, classic match up here.
Speaker 2: Uhasas had Marquette circles since the preseason.
Speaker 4: He had eyes on them, like, this is great. I
Speaker 4: don't want to go against it.
Speaker 3: Let's go Marqutte.
Speaker 4: Let's go Marqutte coming out of this.
Speaker 3: Is going to be a really good basketball game. Yeah.
Speaker 3: If we take Marquette to beat Memphis here, this will
Speaker 3: be three upsets in this bracket as well, I do believe.
Speaker 2: So, okay, I like it alright, Marquette through to the
Speaker 2: Final four.
Speaker 5: Marquette is our second final four team versus joining the
Speaker 5: Alabama Crins inside.
Speaker 4: All right, so we got a one and two, one
Speaker 4: and two. It's good to not have a one in
Speaker 4: one right there.
Speaker 2: Like, I don't want to spoil any sorrybody, Oh jeez,
Speaker 2: I don't want to spoil anything. And we have two
Speaker 2: more regions to fill.
Speaker 3: Out.
Speaker 2: We'll do it on Wednesday and Thursday's show. But are
Speaker 2: we gonna get Are we gonna get crazy in one
Speaker 2: of the regions? Are we gonna have a you know,
Speaker 2: a plus six seed going to the Final four? You know,
Speaker 2: maybe even a plus ten one of these one of
Speaker 2: these twelve or thirteen seeds, just making a Cinderella run.
Speaker 2: Does the Slipper fit.
Speaker 5: It really makes you think, when will the clock strike
Speaker 5: midnight for these teams? I can see us get a
Speaker 5: little spicy here in the Midwest region, skeets. I see
Speaker 5: Houston as the number one seed, and Houston to me
Speaker 5: not a traditional powerhouse in NCAA circles.
Speaker 2: No, they're not. But I did say when we were
Speaker 2: setting all this up, I think they're like Vegas favorites maybe,
Speaker 2: and you know it's in Houston. They want to play
Speaker 2: in front of their own crowd. I don't know. You're right.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of pressure on team, A lot of pressure. Okay,
Speaker 2: so what are we doing Midwest tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Midwest tomorrow. I will also be talking about kennesa state.
Speaker 2: That that's our pick, that's our Cinderella.
Speaker 4: Fourteen seed going to the final four. Yep, I love it.
Speaker 2: There we go. Okay, kennessas State, tune in tomorrow. We're
Speaker 2: picking them a lot.
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool. It's nice to have a local team.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, why not?
Speaker 4: Hey, maybe Georgia Tech going forward with Damon Stoudamyer.
Speaker 2: See you down at the pavilion. Okay, let's take our
Speaker 2: final break. We got two more days of this, but
Speaker 2: it's getting better. I'll tell you that. It was more
Speaker 2: fun than yesterday. But a lot of ship was going
Speaker 2: wrong yesterday. Mugs were being broken, phones were going off.
Speaker 2: It was wild. We'll take our final break and when
Speaker 2: we come back picking results and a very very funny
Speaker 2: tweeted the night don't anywhere breaking news here from the
Speaker 2: football world, Aaron from the Athletic Excuse me, Aaron? Huh
Speaker 2: did I air?
Speaker 3: Did I air? And what I said about Aaron? The
Speaker 3: biggest story Roger Roger come in Roger.
Speaker 2: Football, football, the beautiful game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Aaron, No, that's that's my game anyway. Yeah, football, Okay,
Speaker 3: what's happening?
Speaker 4: Well, no, it does.
Speaker 3: It was coming in America, MESSI coming in America.
Speaker 2: No, the twenty twenty six World Cup is going to
Speaker 2: have one hundred and four games in total. You believe
Speaker 2: that they're expanding. Yeah, from thirty two to forty eight
Speaker 2: participating teams.
Speaker 3: Not enough games.
Speaker 2: And originally it was going to be sixteen groups of
Speaker 2: three teams with the top two advancing. But they're gonna
Speaker 2: do groups of four. They're going to continue with that,
Speaker 2: but just so many one hundred and four games.
Speaker 3: So the first round thirty nine days, the first round
Speaker 3: just becomes even more of a who cares?
Speaker 2: Wow, old tax, come on, Oh, give me a break.
Speaker 3: The last the.
Speaker 2: Last games in a lot of the group stages or
Speaker 2: the first round stages were really entertaining in terms of,
Speaker 2: like you got a gold differential win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so let's reduce that by increasing the amount of teams.
Speaker 3: Let's be honest. Here it happens. It happens in the
Speaker 3: in major tournaments where you have too many teams.
Speaker 2: Too many teams, forty eight participating teams. But this one's here.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, States, Canada, they're all sharing. Twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six. That's from the Athletic.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty six. Well, what's going on with Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 3: Jess he's still in deprivation, a deprivation.
Speaker 2: It was four days.
Speaker 5: No, he's out, Yeah, try wingo said he's going to
Speaker 5: the Jets, but nothing has happened yet, and people are like,
Speaker 5: come on, man, you.
Speaker 4: Said this wasn't gonna take forever. You weren't gonna draw
Speaker 4: it out. But the guy likes being the center of attention.
Speaker 4: Too bad, it's over for him and he's completely washed.
Speaker 4: It's done.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Packers, fans put your time is over, thirty years
Speaker 5: on top, no longer.
Speaker 2: From I love it. Aaron Rodgers put him in the
Speaker 2: World Cup.
Speaker 3: We had such a successful World Cup despite everything else
Speaker 3: going on before the tournament. Why do you have to
Speaker 3: increase the amount of teams just that half four people.
Speaker 3: We're seeing it in other tournaments too, yeah, all of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, too many twenty teams in the NBA tournament now
Speaker 5: in the sixty four team tournament.
Speaker 2: Frenzy double, more games, you know, more teams, more interests.
Speaker 3: I can see why a team, the top two teams
Speaker 3: in a division wouldn't want these three team divisions because
Speaker 3: there's higher chance that they don't advance some some random
Speaker 3: event happening. But the four teams, that's okay, and the
Speaker 3: same teams are gonna advance. Let's just have another team
Speaker 3: slotted in the four slot. That's what's gonna happen. You
Speaker 3: know it, and I know.
Speaker 2: It, but I brought this up. I didn't know you
Speaker 2: had such strong sucker.
Speaker 3: Well, it's happening in the FEBA World Cup too. There's
Speaker 3: there's too many teams.
Speaker 2: Too many dicks on the dance floor, and too many
Speaker 2: teams in the tourney.
Speaker 3: That's what Fred van Vlietz said.
Speaker 4: He did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he calls the basketball floor a dance floor, and
Speaker 3: he said there's too many referees that are.
Speaker 2: Dicks picking results. Last night was the Sun's Warriors game
Speaker 2: Golden State. They were favorited by four and a half points.
Speaker 2: I picked them and they covered. Good job, Golden State.
Speaker 2: I needed it. I'm four and five. You guys had
Speaker 2: the Suns as the dogs and that's an l tast
Speaker 2: three and six tray six and three. Tonight's game task.
Speaker 2: We do not have a graphic four, so paint the
Speaker 2: picture please.
Speaker 3: Well, we have an eight game night in the Association.
Speaker 3: Speaking of that prior topic, Dix Raptors are facing the
Speaker 3: Nuggets again when they got Scott Foster. Hopefully Fred VanVleet
Speaker 3: takes care of that. That's not our game though. We're
Speaker 3: going the old nine to ten matchup. Oh, increasing the
Speaker 3: number of teams in the tournament. Baby Hell. Pells hosting
Speaker 3: the Lakers. It's an important one. They have the exact
Speaker 3: same record going in. Pels are favored by one and
Speaker 3: a half at home. It's essentially, yeah, pick them, exket
Speaker 3: you and I think the Pells will take care of
Speaker 3: business and win at home by two or more. You
Speaker 3: get the Lake show there trade.
Speaker 5: I mean, the Lakers are better, They're playing incredibly well
Speaker 5: and they're getting points.
Speaker 4: I was kind of surprised that the Lakers were available
Speaker 4: for a picture.
Speaker 2: That's what caught me. That made me think, what's going
Speaker 2: on here? That's exactly what I thought too. How are
Speaker 2: they the favorites here? We'll see it's basically a pick them.
Speaker 2: So whoever wins the game, that is big in terms
Speaker 2: of the plan for sure. All right, let's get to
Speaker 2: your tweeted.
Speaker 3: Tonight tweet O the Night Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got pictures for this one, So if you're
Speaker 5: listening on the podcast, this is a must tune into
Speaker 5: YouTube because you're gonna want to see the set photos
Speaker 5: that were released from FX's The Sterling Affair. The first
Speaker 5: tweet comes from Ian Carmel at Ian Carmel on Twitter,
Speaker 5: who says this doesn't look like a show about the
Speaker 5: Donald Sterling saga.
Speaker 4: This looks like a porn parody of The Clippers.
Speaker 2: It is the perfect tweet because that is exactly what
Speaker 2: this photo looks like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is just because everybody looks close enough to
Speaker 5: the person they're supposed to be playing while also looking
Speaker 5: very far away from the person they're supposed to be playing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it looks like Bootlet. Yeah, yeah, right to
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 5: They're like close enough if you squint your eyes and
Speaker 5: cross them a little bit, maybe it passes. I did
Speaker 5: see people say that whoever did Laurence Fishburn's hair should
Speaker 5: definitely get the Emmy for this because it looks exactly
Speaker 5: like Doc Rivers's hair going forward. But it's crazy man.
Speaker 5: Our friend Trayvon Edwards also had a tweet showing the
Speaker 5: people who have been cast with their Clippers counterpart Laurence Fishburn.
Speaker 5: Doc Rivers is a big name, as is Ed O'Neill.
Speaker 5: Will be playing Donald Sterling.
Speaker 4: They got some names.
Speaker 5: Woman from Yellowstone, yes, man from Billions is how I
Speaker 5: know that?
Speaker 4: But they got everybody in this show.
Speaker 5: There's a big baby in this there's a Jared Dudley
Speaker 5: in this ty Lou will be there, Draymond Green will
Speaker 5: be there, Chris Paul's wife Vistaviano, of course, Matt Barnes.
Speaker 5: There's an Elgin Baylor. There's basically everybody that was any
Speaker 5: kind of association to the Clippers during the end of
Speaker 5: the Donald Sterling era. They will be making an appearance
Speaker 5: on this show at some point.
Speaker 2: Is this gonna be good or no, so bad? It's
Speaker 2: gonna be good.
Speaker 4: I think it's that. I think it's gonna be so bad.
Speaker 4: It's good because it's.
Speaker 5: An FX joint, just like they did the OJ thing
Speaker 5: where Ross Geller played Robert Shapiro into the.
Speaker 2: Camp or something like. It's a campy, entertaining and and
Speaker 2: sort of funny, and I think you're right. I think
Speaker 2: it's gonna be The.
Speaker 3: OJ thing was good on FX in a campy way.
Speaker 4: Like it was good, I.
Speaker 3: Mean in comparison, just because it was different than the
Speaker 3: the other eight part series wherever that was Brock. It
Speaker 3: was different. I guess, yeah. It was nice.
Speaker 4: Good counterpoint that was ESPN the doc right, Yeah, that
Speaker 4: was real.
Speaker 6: That was good that I could not I didn't even
Speaker 6: make it through the first episode of the Yeah, couldn't
Speaker 6: do it.
Speaker 2: So you don't like that type of stuff.
Speaker 6: I mean usually I don't know the dramatization stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't love it.
Speaker 6: I tried the Monica Lewinsky one too, couldn't get Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: I couldn't get through that one.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, the Stirling of fairis when's the start? Any
Speaker 2: might know what's the premiere? It's like soon or is
Speaker 2: this like a long way away? I can't wait to
Speaker 2: hear Laurence Fishburn do it.
Speaker 3: Doc rivers.
Speaker 2: About that it's taxing on him. Probably probably a lot
Speaker 2: of tea on reds at the throat.
Speaker 4: I can't I can't tell when the debut as Yeah, well, but.
Speaker 2: I'm with you.
Speaker 5: I've haven't been super interested in the dramatizations of these controversies,
Speaker 5: but the subject matter is perfect.
Speaker 4: No, gotta check it out totally.
Speaker 6: I mean, I was so disappointed by the what the
Speaker 6: Lakers won, not showtime, winning time whatever?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I could not. I could not get into it either.
Speaker 5: Some people loved it though, people said it got good,
Speaker 5: and people said the basketball scenes and it are good.
Speaker 4: But I'm with you. I watched the first two episodes
Speaker 4: that having it just wouldn't finish.
Speaker 3: SnO.
Speaker 2: I did watch the the Hulu documentary.
Speaker 4: Though about the bus Fan, which is great.
Speaker 3: I really liked it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can you go back to the porn parody picked
Speaker 2: for a second, because I think we glossed over it
Speaker 2: a little bit. The Blake Griffin in the back is, uh.
Speaker 6: Just get Blake, I can he can kind of act?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just get playing.
Speaker 2: That's the one killing me, especially when we then saw
Speaker 2: what the guy that played Blake Griffin actually looks like
Speaker 2: in the Trayvon tweet.
Speaker 5: But was a Jasmine Watkins that had the tweet that
Speaker 5: said the person playing uh, Blake looks like Drake playing?
Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, and it was and they had an accompanying
Speaker 2: photo and it was Yeah, that's all right, Sterling affairs.
Speaker 2: We can't wait. I'm sure we'll be talking about it
Speaker 2: here on No Dunks. Guys, get into the No Dunks
Speaker 2: March Madness bracket. That link is in the show notes
Speaker 2: in the description. So jump on in, make your picks,
Speaker 2: and I can all but guarantee you'll probably beat us,
Speaker 2: unless you are a huge fan of wildcats. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: it for us. We'll be back tomorrow morning, though, filling
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Speaker 4: Who's gonna have time turn up? Love you guys, Mad Austin.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that wow, Okay, that's well, we gotta we.
Speaker 4: Gotta make that out.
Speaker 2: Everybody thought, Uh who do everybody think it was? Seth
Speaker 2: Jonah Hill? Jonah?
Speaker 6: Okay, Jonah Hill's too old now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like play so matd Austin playing them
Speaker 2: and maybe voice work by Jonah.
Speaker 6: Hill dubbed over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay, I think you could have Clipper Bros.
Speaker 3: I think you can bring back Jonah Hill just as
Speaker 3: a joke. And David Schwimmer that's the other bro. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's a brother of a brother.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those are the guys bring back amazing.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll see you guys tomorrow. Brace today, people,