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Speaker 2: He's also a diehard Sixers fan. Tough time to be

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Speaker 2: him vet for a little bit. Matt. First of all,

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Speaker 2: let's get started with this. We're gonna do a countdown style. Okay,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna go from three to one. Who is your

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Speaker 3: Sure, my third favorite title bet? Drum roll please, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna go with the Los Angeles Clippers obviously they have

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Speaker 3: First of all, I guess I should go with the odds.

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Speaker 3: So right now they're tied with the Nuggets for the

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Speaker 3: second best odds to win the title, which I think

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Speaker 3: like the best value bets from a win from a percentage,

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Speaker 3: in terms of what's the win percentage of the bet

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Speaker 3: of what I actually think of this play and for context,

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Speaker 3: has a win percentage of like seventeen eighteen percent, basically

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Speaker 3: telling you, Okay, we think there's like a twenty percent

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Speaker 3: which I think I can get there. I mean, like,

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Speaker 3: They've kind of lost contention to be the one seed,

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Speaker 2: he's in that conversation. And really, like you mentioned the Phoenix,

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Speaker 2: And that same health qualifier really applies to every single

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Speaker 2: one of those teams. Is there a specific matchup with

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Speaker 3: Honestly it's the Nuggets. Part of me is just because,

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Speaker 3: biggest worry for me for the Clippers would be the Nuggets.

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Speaker 3: And then the Thunder. I was listening to that podcast

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Speaker 3: But if you're telling me that he's their fifth most

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually I think the Clippers are just a

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Speaker 2: Like who is Jamal Murray gonna guard in that matchup?

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like, there's going to be

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Speaker 1: Okay, So this one I cheated a little bit. Technically.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know, like, is there a fifty percent

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Speaker 2: Well, really quickly before I go there, has that line

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Speaker 2: You know, I picked we were I can't even remember

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Speaker 3: not think that Duck Rivers can coach a team into

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Speaker 3: But he's awesome, Like his raw stats are good, twenty

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Speaker 1: Like he's awesome.

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Speaker 2: He's unquestionably been better than Dame this year. Yeah, Like

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Speaker 3: having the regular season that they had last year and

432
00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:46,640
Speaker 3: they're probably not going to be home court, but they

433
00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:48,840
Speaker 3: proved that they can win on the road in the playoffs,

434
00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:50,159
Speaker 3: so that part doesn't scare me. And kind of, like

435
00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,440
Speaker 3: we said with the Clippers, like I don't really need

436
00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,600
Speaker 3: them to be the one seed. So I just think that,

437
00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:56,240
Speaker 3: like the Nugget, the Nuggets are the best bet to

438
00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:58,360
Speaker 3: win the finals, especially at plus four seventy five.

439
00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:03,159
Speaker 2: I'm actually all season long, I have been confounded at

440
00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 2: why Denver is so such a long shot in Vegas

441
00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,520
Speaker 2: to win the title, Like it just doesn't make any

442
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:14,000
Speaker 2: sense to me, because I understand the optimism surrounding Boston.

443
00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,200
Speaker 2: They have a super talented roster. They're kicking everybody's but

444
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,399
Speaker 2: in the regular season, but that was pretty much since

445
00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,960
Speaker 2: email Udoka came on board and they made the Derek

446
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,879
Speaker 2: White trade, They've kicked everybody's but incessantly since then. That's

447
00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,199
Speaker 2: never that's never not been the case, right, And so

448
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,959
Speaker 2: I struggle with it from the standpoint of like that

449
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:37,120
Speaker 2: Denver is such a textbook championship favorite because we've seen

450
00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,440
Speaker 2: them do it before. They have the best player in

451
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,960
Speaker 2: the world, everybody on their team is back, and there's

452
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,720
Speaker 2: more continuity. And also like as you look around the board,

453
00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,600
Speaker 2: like every team has these like glaring flaws, Like even

454
00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,159
Speaker 2: with Boston, it's like, what are their last four losses?

455
00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, Denver, Milwaukee, the Clippers, and the Lakers,

456
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:56,120
Speaker 2: all games where they settled for a bunch of jump

457
00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:57,800
Speaker 2: shots and missed a bunch of shots. Now that's not

458
00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,639
Speaker 2: to say Boston can't win. Like to me, Austin should

459
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 2: only be slightly behind Denver like like, but to me,

460
00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,639
Speaker 2: they should be behind Denver. And so I one hundred

461
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Speaker 2: percent agree with you. I see them as a as

462
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,919
Speaker 2: a as a real value. Add I'm not as worried.

463
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:15,080
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not as worried about their about their

464
00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 2: offensive issues during the regular season, for starters like Jamal

465
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 2: Murray has missed a healthy chunk of time that has

466
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,439
Speaker 2: kind of thrown a wrench in some of the data. Also,

467
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:25,880
Speaker 2: like there's been extended stretches of the year where they've

468
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,720
Speaker 2: defended harder in the regular season than they did last year. Ironically,

469
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Speaker 2: that stretch last year that you're talking about post All

470
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,240
Speaker 2: Star Break that kind of got me off their scent

471
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,440
Speaker 2: because I was like thinking, Okay, this is a team

472
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,760
Speaker 2: that's a mediocre defense and an elite offense. They're gonna

473
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 2: need to be sharp going into the postseason, like the

474
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,360
Speaker 2: need They're gonna need to be on top of their details.

475
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 2: They're gonna need to be really on a string defensively,

476
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Speaker 2: at least to get to the level they need to get,

477
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,280
Speaker 2: and then it ended up not even mattering when it

478
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,439
Speaker 2: when when we got to the postseason, and like, really

479
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Speaker 2: it comes down to to just kind of put a

480
00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 2: bow on it. It comes down to just my core

481
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 2: basketball philosophy, which is like playoff basketball is one with

482
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 2: a physical interior style of play in a grind out,

483
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 2: slow down half court environment. And there is literally not

484
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 2: a team in the league that does that as well

485
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 2: as Denver and I to me, I've said this on

486
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 2: the show before, and I feel strongly about this. If

487
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 2: they are healthy, meaning their core five guys are healthy,

488
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Speaker 2: I would be surprised if they did not win the

489
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Speaker 2: title because I don't, like legitimately, like if the Clippers

490
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 2: upset them, I'd be like, wow, I did not see

491
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 2: that coming. Like legitimately. It is something that I feel

492
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,119
Speaker 2: very strongly about. I think that we see the healthiest

493
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 2: gap between the best player in the world and the

494
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 2: second best player since Lebron around like twenty twelve, twenty thirteen,

495
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:45,919
Speaker 2: like he is head and shoulders above the field in

496
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,480
Speaker 2: my opinion, and getting them at what was the number one.

497
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Speaker 1: More time for seventy five to win the title.

498
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Speaker 2: Plus four plus forty four to seventy five is insane

499
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Speaker 2: to me. I think that that's such a great bet.

500
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Speaker 2: Who's your favorite MVP bet right now? So?

501
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Speaker 3: I mean, Jokic is the favorite to win the MVP,

502
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 3: and he should be the favorite to win the MVP.

503
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 3: There's only one other guy that I wanted to throw

504
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 3: at you, and that's SGA. Right now, he's plus two

505
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 3: to fifty and he has the second best odds to

506
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 3: win plus two to fifty. That translates to win percentage

507
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 3: of about twenty eight twenty nine percent. I don't know,

508
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,679
Speaker 3: is there is there a third of a chance that

509
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 3: SGA wins the MVP? Like if the thunder who are hot,

510
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,360
Speaker 3: end the season with the one seed. Right now, they're

511
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 3: tied with the Timberwolves, and I think they've won like

512
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,360
Speaker 3: what seven straight at this point something like that. Right now,

513
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,640
Speaker 3: they're like a half game behind the Timberwolves in terms

514
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 3: of record against teams above five hundred. They have the

515
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 3: second best net rating in the entire NBA, only behind

516
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Speaker 3: the Celtics. Like, I don't know, is that crazy? I'm

517
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 3: not going to say that I think SGA is gonna

518
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 3: win the MVP or that that's even my favorite bet.

519
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 3: It's just if I had to give you someone that's

520
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 3: not Jokic.

521
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Speaker 2: Honestly, the case for it would be what you were

522
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 2: just saying about Jokics, like, what if what if they

523
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 2: let their foot off the gas here down the stretch

524
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,159
Speaker 2: of the season, and if they what if they end

525
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 2: up what if Denver ends up winning with like ending

526
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 2: up at the war seed, and and what if from

527
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 2: their you know, Yokic sits four or five games and

528
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 2: you know, just kind of does what he did at

529
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 2: the end of last season, which is basically punt the

530
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 2: MVP to Joel Embiid. If he does something like that,

531
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 2: If he does something like that, SGA just becomes the

532
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 2: winner by default. And I think that's reflected in the odds.

533
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 2: I that said, like, man, they look so sharp right now,

534
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 2: Denver does coming out of the break so far like

535
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 2: that would be that would be the one kind of

536
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 2: a bit of reticence that I have. But yeah, I

537
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 2: think I think I think that like SGA makes sense

538
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 2: as a as like a long shot bet, simply because

539
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 2: of the fact that we saw Denver do something very

540
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 2: similar last year. Also, it's just crazy to think about

541
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 2: I was like, this was literally what I got into

542
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,479
Speaker 2: all that trouble for yesterday. But like you could make

543
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 2: a case he should have won last year. Yeah, No,

544
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,199
Speaker 2: I wasn't making that case. I thought Joel deserved it.

545
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 2: But like, at a very minimum, he's going to be

546
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 2: a three out of four m VP with the with

547
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Speaker 2: the with the second place finish in a year where

548
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 2: he literally punted the award, Like this is a run

549
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,439
Speaker 2: of dominance that we have not seen since Lebron in

550
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 2: the in the early twenty twelves. And we should all

551
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 2: be thankful that Jamal Murray and and then we're out

552
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 2: it well, and it wasn't Jamal Murray was out and

553
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 2: Michael Porter Junior was out as well, I think in

554
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 2: two thousand, in twenty twenty two, if I remember correctly. Yeah, yeah,

555
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 2: so like that, Yeah, like we should all be thankful

556
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 2: because it's very possible, especially in that twenty twenty one season,

557
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 2: which was kind of wide open, and there were a

558
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 2: bunch of like that weird Hawks team made it to

559
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 2: the conference finals, and then that weird Clippers team without

560
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 2: Kawhi made it to the conference finals. Like even that

561
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 2: Suns team to me, didn't feel like a traditional championship contender,

562
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 2: like that feels like a year Denver wins it if

563
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 2: they're healthy too, So like, I think it's incredible what

564
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 2: we're seeing from Jokic. All Right, so I turn on

565
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 2: the game this morning, I'm watching Celtic Sixers and and

566
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 2: I'm finding so there's some silver linings there. I've seen

567
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 2: some stuff. We'll talk about it here in a second.

568
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,400
Speaker 2: But then I look, because I haven't followed the Sixers

569
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 2: super closely since Embiid got hurt, just because it doesn't

570
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 2: you're not gonna learn anything super interesting about them as

571
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 2: a Sixers fan, Where are you at with this team? Man?

572
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 2: How you doing? How you holding up?

573
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: Yeah? I'm okay. I appreciate you asking.

574
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 3: You know, it's kind of funny because when Embiid was

575
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 3: on his run of dominance, I was like, you know,

576
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 3: I think this is the best roster the Sixers I've had,

577
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 3: specifically to compliment Joelle Embiid, like the Jimmy Butler roster

578
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 3: was better last year. The roster was probably better, but

579
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 3: they're more able to withstand an injury to embad because

580
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 3: they could just you know, let hard and run the show.

581
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 3: And then in bi it gets hurt, he misses a month,

582
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 3: and I'm like, do they only have one other good

583
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 3: player on that roster? It's like amazing how different their

584
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 3: team looks. Like Max, He's awesome. I love Tyrese MAXI

585
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 3: you know, is he ready to run the show in

586
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 3: the playoffs? Maybe or maybe not. But where I'm at

587
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 3: with the Sixers is like if they if they can't

588
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 3: get to like if they can't get a top six seat,

589
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 3: which right now they're currently the six seed or tied

590
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 3: with the Heat in terms of record, but they're only

591
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,880
Speaker 3: a half game up on both the Magic and the Pacers.

592
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 3: Even if Embiid comes back and at the end of

593
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 3: March and he looks good, like I just have a

594
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 3: hard time seeing them really making a run because you

595
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 3: don't know how his knees gonna hold up, even if

596
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 3: he comes back healthy. And man, the East is just

597
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 3: so much better this year than it has been like

598
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 3: every other you're the Sixers. I've lost in the second round.

599
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 3: They've waltzed out of their first round opponent, like they

600
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 3: beat the Heat pre Jimmy Butler. They beat the Raptors

601
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 3: post Kawhi a couple of years ago, and last year

602
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 3: they beat the Nets team that was wouldn't have been

603
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 3: the sixth seed if they didn't have a great first

604
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 3: half with Durant and Kyrie. So where I'm at with

605
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 3: the Sixers is I wear Eagles hats and I wear

606
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 3: Phillies hats, and I don't wear Sixers hats.

607
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:38,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

608
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 2: Well, the case for the Sixers to win the title

609
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 2: is MB goes into the postseason and just kills everybody. Yeah,

610
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 2: And it's hard to imagine that happening this season under

611
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 2: the circumstances. I mean, he is a rhythm player. Conditioning

612
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 2: is a very important part of his success, and it's

613
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 2: difficult to imagine him just like stepping back out onto

614
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 2: the court in late March and then like being like, Okay,

615
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: let's start from the eight seed and let's see if

616
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 2: we can do this thing. Like it just seems it

617
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 2: just feels like a long shot. There are encouraging things

618
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 2: like I am such a huge Tyrese Maxi fan. I

619
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: remember when I ran into him in Vegas at Summer

620
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 2: League a couple of years ago, and he came out

621
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 2: of the locker room just like or he came out

622
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 2: of the rec center there at UNLV just like completely

623
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 2: drenching sweat after workout, and I'm like, dude, it's July,

624
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 2: and like everyone else is here just like relaxing and

625
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 2: having a great time, and you're in the gym just

626
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 2: like kicking your ass, getting ready, you know, for next season.

627
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 2: And I love his combination of downhill speed and pull

628
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 2: up shooting. I thought last night he was cooking everybody

629
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 2: on the Celtics. He's cooking Tatum, He's getting like cooking

630
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 2: Derek White, He's cooking Drew Holliday. He's getting better at

631
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 2: his kickout reads. He's got a two point five assistant

632
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 2: turnover ratio. Ever since Joel Embiid went out, He's maintained

633
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 2: his efficiency for the most part. He's been at twenty

634
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 2: seven points per game at fifty seven percent through shooting

635
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 2: since Embid went out, which is really solid, especially when

636
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 2: the entire scheme is devoted towards trying to slow you down.

637
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 2: He can turn the corner on the best perimeter defenders

638
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,959
Speaker 2: in the league. Absolutely loved that guy, and honestly, like,

639
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 2: I do think he's good enough to be a good

640
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 2: legit number two next to Joel Embiid. I also like,

641
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 2: I really like this Ricky Council, the fourth guy.

642
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: He's awesome.

643
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 2: Like I was, I've watched like the handful of Sixers

644
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 2: games I've watched in the last couple of months. I've

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Speaker 2: been like, I keep like I remember the first time,

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Speaker 2: I was like, who is that? And then like I'm

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Speaker 2: watching him last night, I'm like, here's Ricky Council again.

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Speaker 2: He's got like he plays with a lot of motor.

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Speaker 2: He's a good athlete. He rebounds really well. He can

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Speaker 2: put the ball on the floor and like make plays

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Speaker 2: off the bounce. I was pulling the stats earlier. His

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Speaker 2: per thirty six numbers this year twenty four points per

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Speaker 2: game in eight rebounds or twenty four points per thirty

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Speaker 2: six eight rebounds per thirty six on sixty two percent

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Speaker 2: true shooting. So he's he's producing like a twenty four

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Speaker 2: and eight guy efficiently in the small spurts that he's

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Speaker 2: out there on the floor. I really like that. I

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Speaker 2: have won grite. I really don't understand why Buddy Healed

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Speaker 2: is starting for them, and here's the case. I understand,

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Speaker 2: Like Tyres Maxy's competing on defense. He had some really

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Speaker 2: good possesions against Jalleen Brown last night, like Jaymon Brown

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Speaker 2: was trying to pick on him and he was just

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Speaker 2: just holding his ground picked him clean twice. You're an

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Speaker 2: offensive foul. But like he does have some limitations on that,

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Speaker 2: and he's just a little small and he almost like

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Speaker 2: he almost like plays too hard for his own good

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Speaker 2: on defense. Like he sometimes he like overreacts and jumps

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Speaker 2: and gets out of position, which can which can hurt

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Speaker 2: him sometimes. But like, I really do think you need

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Speaker 2: someone of the d Anthony Melton ilk at the two,

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Speaker 2: a guy that's like a more defensive minded perimeter uh

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Speaker 2: like kind of like guy that you can throw on

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Speaker 2: the other team's best guard. And like Buddy Healed to

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Speaker 2: me as a guy that's like he's your textbook like

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Speaker 2: high volume three point shooter that's pretty efficient and you

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Speaker 2: could run things like ghost screen actions and stuff to

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Speaker 2: get the defense in rotation. It's a good start. And

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Speaker 2: I like him as a bench weapon and in general

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Speaker 2: I like him as a talent add to the team.

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Speaker 2: But to me, like having another skill guard next to

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Speaker 2: Tyrese Maxi is setting yourself up for failure on the

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Speaker 2: defensive end of the floor. Also, historically, Buddy Heel tends

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Speaker 2: to kind of run into efficiency issues when he gets

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Speaker 2: into really physical defensive environments, which again happened against Boston

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Speaker 2: last night other than the first two shots he hit.

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Speaker 2: So like, I just wonder, like, how do you feel

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Speaker 2: about the Buddy Heald move? Do you think it like

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Speaker 2: makes sense for them? And do you agree with the

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Speaker 2: way that they're using him so far?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it makes sense when e beats healthy

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Speaker 3: because they his gravity is going to be so helpful

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Speaker 3: for EMBIID and EMBIID in the PANCA clean up a

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Speaker 3: lot of issues they would have defensively. But yeah, I

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Speaker 3: kind of agree that it would make more sense to

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Speaker 3: start d Anthony Melton, like the fan. Elton also missed

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Speaker 3: a ton of time when the Sixers are losing a

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Speaker 3: bunch of games. He missed I don't know, it's six weeks,

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Speaker 3: whatever it was. And I loved Anthony Melton, like I think,

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Speaker 3: like as long as I've been a Sixers fan, like,

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Speaker 3: and then in the EMBID era, they haven't had a

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Speaker 3: guy who can both shoot and play defense. It's been

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Speaker 3: either or it's been JJ Reddick, it's been Seth Curry

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Speaker 3: or last year they had PJ.

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Speaker 1: Tucker.

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Speaker 3: They can at least do both and it's a it's

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Speaker 3: a revelation to watch. I also think, I mean, I

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Speaker 3: hadn't watched a ton of Buddy Heal, but privately, coming

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Speaker 3: on the sixers, he's got limitless range.

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Speaker 1: I thought he would have a quicker trigger. I doesn't.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't quite shoot as as just unconscious as you

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Speaker 3: would hope for. He's a little bit of a better

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Speaker 3: playmaker than I was expecting. Like he's done a pretty

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Speaker 3: good job with the cyst. But yeah, I mean, I

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Speaker 3: think the problem is he makes a lot more sense

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Speaker 3: with Embeed in the lineup because, like I said, that

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Speaker 3: gravity is just so helpful, and their two man game

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Speaker 3: could end up being pretty good, like probably not as

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Speaker 3: good as him and JJ Reddick because that was really good,

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Speaker 3: and even Seth Curry was really good for the one

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Speaker 3: year they had him and his two man.

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Speaker 1: Game with Maxie's awesome.

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Speaker 3: But but yeah, I kind of I kind of agree

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Speaker 3: a Maxi Buddy Heald backcourt without having like with with

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Speaker 3: Beeball Paul as the as the rim protector, it's just

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Speaker 3: not gonna it's just not gonna get it done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I I that that's I totally understand it within

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Speaker 2: the context of the embiid move, I thought the same thing.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, this is jj reddick Seth Curry basically

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Speaker 2: is like essentially going away from the high pick and roll,

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Speaker 2: you know, pocket passes to the foul line for embat

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Speaker 2: and back to some of like just the dribble handoff

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Speaker 2: stuff that he did so much with those guys. And

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Speaker 2: I do really like that. But again, like to me,

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Speaker 2: it's matchup based and it makes a ton of sense.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like a staggering kind of thing with Maxi

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Speaker 2: as a way to keep running offense. So like you

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Speaker 2: can have Maxi led units because Maxie's demonstrating he can

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Speaker 2: score and run an offense without em beat out there,

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Speaker 2: Like that's how damn good he is, and so you

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Speaker 2: can kind of construct lineups accordingly and make it work.

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Speaker 2: To me, like d Anthony Melton is literally like a

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Speaker 2: slightly lesser version of Condavious Callwell Pope. Like he's a

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Speaker 2: good big athlete at that position who can guard the

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Speaker 2: difference between him and KCP is KCP is more of

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Speaker 2: like an off the catch off, the dribble handoff kind

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Speaker 2: of guy. D Anthony Melton actually has some off the

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Speaker 2: dribble pop like he can really put the ball on

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Speaker 2: the floor. But to me, like that's the mold is.

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Speaker 2: You look at it in the same way that you

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Speaker 2: can have Murray and KCP, and it works because KCP

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Speaker 2: can guard Steph Curry, ACP can do take on these

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Speaker 2: higher leverage defensive assignments. You look at it as Tyres

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Speaker 2: Maxine and the Anthony Meltain and then if the matchup

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Speaker 2: makes sense, if they're a team that doesn't attack, like

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Speaker 2: for instance, if you're playing Boston, then yeah, like maybe

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Speaker 2: Buddyheal makes more sense because they're going to be initiating

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Speaker 2: more offense through Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum, and it's

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Speaker 2: more on you know, Tobias Harrison, Kelly eu Bray to

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Speaker 2: guard on the perimeter. You know, Like I like him there,

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Speaker 2: I just don't necessarily agree with the way that they've

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Speaker 2: used him so far. All right, Matt, why don't you

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Speaker 2: tell us about where we can find your work?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Sure, So, as you mentioned, I do MBA betting live

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Speaker 3: streams for betting pros on directly on the YouTube channel

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Speaker 3: every Monday Wednesday Friday at eleven am. Anything else you

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Speaker 3: know what we're even calling it these days at Jedi

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Speaker 3: in my last name MODEI j E d I m

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Speaker 3: and that's where you can find me.

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Speaker 2: Hell yeah, dude. All right, I have one last question

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Speaker 2: for you, mister Star Wars fan. Have you read the

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Speaker 2: Throng books? No?

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Speaker 1: I haven't.

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Speaker 3: I have not read any of the books, so maybe

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Speaker 3: I'm a poser, but I've not read any of the book.

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Speaker 2: I'm disappointed, Matt. I'm disappointed. Hey, Hey, this was a

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Speaker 2: lot of fun. I really appreciate you coming on the show.

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Speaker 2: Everybody go check out Matt and his work on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: As always, we appreciate you guys for supporting us. We'll

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Speaker 2: see you guys later tonight for the live stream after

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Speaker 2: Clippers Lakers.

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Speaker 3: The volume