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Speaker 1: This is the drop. It's Friday. Lebron's going to give

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Speaker 1: us a show on the weekend. Of course he is.

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Speaker 1: This is no dunks presented by Fan Duel. I'm Testmels

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Speaker 1: with me. It's the man in the middle, Treykrby. He

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Speaker 1: and the man always making the magic happen. It's JD.

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Speaker 2: Hello, what's up?

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Speaker 1: JD. We will get to Worse the Week with Lebron

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Speaker 1: later on. Wasn't Lebron? Who's worse the week? We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about that.

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Speaker 3: He ain't doing nothing week.

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Speaker 1: Well, apparently he had some things said. That's true according

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Speaker 1: to a host radio. We'll get the Blazers, firings and stuff,

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Speaker 1: anything else you want to talk about before we get

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Speaker 1: into our draft.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, we had to cut Jordan Walsh at

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Speaker 3: the last second. A great deal for the Celtics to

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Speaker 3: bring back Jordan Walsh, and that's all that needs.

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Speaker 1: To be said.

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Speaker 3: A great deal.

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Speaker 1: It is a good deal.

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Speaker 3: Three for fifteen. Great.

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Speaker 1: But first, let's get to players under the most pressure

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Speaker 1: via a draft. Let's draft guys, as we survey the

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Speaker 1: landscape and determine, Okay, signings here, signings there, which player

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Speaker 1: is actually under the most pressure? Trey you get that

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Speaker 1: first pick of this draft.

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Speaker 3: I'll get it started. We're going tray for Trey here.

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Speaker 3: Trey Young, to me is a player who is under

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Speaker 3: a ton of pressure coming into this season for the Wizards.

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Speaker 3: Got a lot of dough four years, two hundred and

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Speaker 3: thirteen million dollar contract from Washington that comes after playing

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Speaker 3: fifteen games last season. Tasmellus, that's not very many. I

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Speaker 3: think he only played five for the Wizards. They lost

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Speaker 3: all five of those. But look Trey Young. His reputation,

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Speaker 3: it ain't great right now around the league, probably the

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Speaker 3: lowest it's ever been. But he's going to be twenty

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Speaker 3: eight at the start of the season. Still young, still

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Speaker 3: He was also an All Star in the twenty four

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. That ain't that far away. I think

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Speaker 3: he's still a good player and maybe the most encouraging

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Speaker 3: thing for Trey for the Wizards, pretty low bar for

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Speaker 3: success in Washington. They're coming off a seventeen win season,

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Speaker 3: worst in the league. They got the number one draft pick.

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Speaker 3: They haven't won more than thirty five games since twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 3: They haven't finished higher than twelve since twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 3: And maybe this is crazy, but I think both could

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Speaker 3: happen this year. I think if the Blazer or if

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Speaker 3: the Wizards win thirty six games, that would be their

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Speaker 3: most wins since twenty eighteen, and last year that would

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Speaker 3: have been eleventh in the Eastern Conference. I think that

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Speaker 3: would be an awesome season for Washington, doubling their wins,

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Speaker 3: flirting with the play and I think that's got to

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Speaker 3: be the goal for Washington. We'll see what they end

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Speaker 3: up doing with Anthony Davis, but I think Trey Young

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Speaker 3: getting this gigantic contract while they have Aj Debonce that

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Speaker 3: for Debonce's development or is Trey go to be helpful.

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Speaker 3: We'll see as time goes on, but yeah, this is

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Speaker 3: a guy to me where it's like people are pretty

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Speaker 3: down on Trey Young. He got traded for nothing, He

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Speaker 3: got traded for CJ. McCollum and Corey Kisperton at the deadline,

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Speaker 3: He's got to play pretty well. To be worth that

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Speaker 1: Trey Young is a fun one. Trey Young's good because, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he gets paid all that money, and really, what is

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Speaker 1: the pressure on him to win twenty five games? I mean,

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Speaker 3: But I also think there's a little bit of pressure

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Speaker 3: he would definitely get the selfish knock in Atlanta. Seems

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Speaker 3: is this year, and I'm excited to see it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Definitely on the court, it's de Bansa has to

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Speaker 3: Played anything off the ball would be nice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And he was definitely allowing Jalen Johnson to be

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Speaker 1: But there could be more mouse to feed, as he said,

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Speaker 1: with Debasa and Anthony Davis. So there's a pressure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: basketball wise, you go and you tear Jalen Brunson's jersey

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Speaker 1: his his barometer is low. The temperature of Tree Young

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Speaker 1: or the All Star votes for players, he keeps dropping.

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Speaker 1: And so, yeah, there's pressure, But how many do you

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Speaker 3: Okay, are you telling me Anthony Davis is on the

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Speaker 3: Okay, Anthony Davis plays fifty games, Trey Young plays sixty games.

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Speaker 3: Wizards should be trying to win thirty plus.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that should be a goal, which would be good. Sure, yea,

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Speaker 1: I am going with Jason Tatum. Hey, hey, I'll throw

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Speaker 1: There is so much pressure on him offensively. As this

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Speaker 1: But I think here in the era where this Boston

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Speaker 1: now in July, it feels like it's wide open. But

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Speaker 1: it's wide open with the pressure on Jason Tatum in Boston.

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Speaker 1: That guy's got to be amazing. He really has to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I had Tatum on my long list, kind of

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Speaker 3: at least to go to the Sixers and let's see

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Speaker 3: what you got away from the Celtics. But I think

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Speaker 3: it's really interesting for Tatum in that this is going

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Speaker 3: to be the first season he's ever played in his

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Speaker 3: Incoming has been rookies and now an old Paul George

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Speaker 3: end of the season last year when he came back

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Speaker 3: last year, right Like, there are questions about Jason Tatum,

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Speaker 3: I think, and you know, considering you won a title

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Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see what he does and not

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Speaker 3: having his running mate with him for the first time ever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Physically, you have to think about the Achilles and

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Speaker 1: You can see them being a fifty five win team,

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Speaker 1: I think, but that's dependent on Jason Tatum being great

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Speaker 3: I would be very surprised that they're five hundred. They

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Speaker 3: won fifty six games last year without Jason Tatum. Now

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Speaker 3: it's basically with Jason Tatum, without Jalen Brown, but with

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Speaker 3: Paul George. So I don't think the team, at least

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Speaker 3: I expect the Celtics to win fifty plus games this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Yeah, when I factor in them in

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Speaker 1: the forties, it's definitely whether Tatum is hooping for eighty

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Speaker 1: But it could have just been.

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Speaker 3: One unhealthy season. He tore his achilles, and he's been

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Speaker 1: dependent on whether Jason Datamus is playing, but the rest

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Speaker 1: Jaalen Brown, you know, no matter what uh the analytics say,

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Speaker 1: he was there every single game, every single fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: And so that's just a lot on Tatum's shoulders, no

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Speaker 1: matter if that Jordan Walsh contracts it didn't want or

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Speaker 1: all right, So moving on, let's do round number two

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Speaker 1: because there's plenty of players. I got plenty of pressure

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Speaker 3: My number two man, number one, it's Jahn Morant. It's

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Speaker 3: time for him to say in his career because if

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Speaker 3: Trey Young's rep is at an all time low, ja

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Speaker 3: I'm going with the Laker here. In round number three,

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Speaker 3: that they need a ton from Walker Kessler because he

429
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Speaker 3: is going to have a lot of responsibility for the

430
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Speaker 3: Lake defense. Last year, they were nineteenth in defensive rating

431
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Speaker 3: on the season, and I think they're probably worse on

432
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Speaker 3: the perimeter defensively, having lost Marcus Smart, their best perimeter

433
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 3: defender right now, Vanderbilt on the bench, Fible on the bench.

434
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,399
Speaker 3: Quentin Grimes, I think is like an average defender, and

435
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 3: he's probably their best perimeter guy who's going to be starting,

436
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 3: and he's undersized. He might not even start. It might

437
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 3: be Lau Rabia. We shall see. But you look at

438
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,440
Speaker 3: what Eighton did last year twelve points, eight rebounds, one

439
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 3: block per game. Kessler can do that, but they need

440
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,240
Speaker 3: a lot more from Walker Kessler than twelve eight and

441
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Speaker 3: one I would like to see him be like a

442
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Speaker 3: sixteen twelve two guy at the very least. And I

443
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Speaker 3: don't know, Jazz fans were confident in this guy. Lakers

444
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,160
Speaker 3: fans were stoked to be able to get a Walker Kessler.

445
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:50,119
Speaker 3: He's definitely talented, he definitely fits the prototype of what

446
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Speaker 3: you would want as a Luca Doncrich center. But to

447
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 3: call this guy an a lister when he hasn't even

448
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 3: been an a lister on his own team, I think

449
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 3: is kind of ridiculous. So a little pressure for me

450
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Speaker 3: on Walker Castle to show that he is worth being

451
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Speaker 3: traded for four first round picks and being given this

452
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Speaker 3: gigantic contract.

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Speaker 1: Walker Kessler over Luka Doncic Who, Well, I'm.

454
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Speaker 3: Sorry, Luca's going to average thirty five a game. Everybody

455
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:12,880
Speaker 3: knows it he will.

456
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Speaker 1: He has pressure in that Lebron's ain't ain't there anymore.

457
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: He just has to play a lot. Now. He has

458
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,120
Speaker 1: played a lot throughout his career, he really has been.

459
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,679
Speaker 1: But it's it's hey, no, Lebron, you got to carry it, buddy,

460
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 1: especially because this is a top heavy team in that

461
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,880
Speaker 1: they're paying a lot of guys. But Luca just has

462
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:41,400
Speaker 1: to be that guy. Again, for I would say even

463
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Speaker 1: more than what he usually plays like he averages sixty

464
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,639
Speaker 1: four games played throughout his career. But now, as with

465
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Speaker 1: the number two guy in Austin Reeves and Walker Kessler,

466
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: he just has to play a ton and the offense

467
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: is going to go through him. Walkest definitely has pressure

468
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: because he's They're a lone, really good big man the

469
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Speaker 1: trade of DeAndre and it's a surprising one financial I suppose.

470
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 1: Also maybe because DeAndre knew he wasn't going to be

471
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: the starter anymore. Maybe that hole with that factored into it.

472
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Speaker 1: But because as you went through the roster that they

473
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Speaker 1: don't got much up. So Walker Kesler has a ton

474
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Speaker 1: of pressure defensively at least yeah and size wise, I

475
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: mean simple as that. Who is going to start beside

476
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Speaker 1: Walker Kessler in their front court. It could be Mamu man.

477
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: He can shoot it. At least he can shoot it,

478
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 1: you know, but he is an undersized guy. Anyways, just

479
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: pressure on him. I was surprised to hear you say

480
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: he shot seventy percent in those four games because or

481
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Speaker 1: five games, because I know, I know that's what he

482
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Speaker 1: does throughout his career. But he was also letting it

483
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,679
Speaker 1: rip from three this past season as much as he

484
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Speaker 1: possibly could. He was he was hitting him.

485
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Speaker 3: He went six for eight that from three last year. Yeah,

486
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Speaker 3: six for three. Yeah, it's not a lot. But I

487
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Speaker 3: think they call that a small sample size. Maybe I

488
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Speaker 3: don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, is a small sample size. But he was

490
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: shooting above the break threes too, those of those eight threes,

491
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 1: it is. It is small. And that's a fair criticism

492
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Speaker 1: about Walker Kessler as you as you brought up the

493
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Speaker 1: Utah Jazz fans said, okay, you can you might get

494
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: a good twenty thirty forty games, but can he do

495
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 1: it for entire season and be really really awesome? So

496
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 1: we shall see. Yeah, all right, my third round pick,

497
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,199
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with the top guys here. I think Nikola

498
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: Jokic has some pressure. A very interesting season that he

499
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: came off of where we all were looking at the

500
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:46,399
Speaker 1: MVP ballot throughout the entire season, we see Shay and

501
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: him one two, one two, and we would we or

502
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 1: the entire media would say, hey, Nikolajokich, probably the best

503
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: player in league, probably the best player in league. Then

504
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: he got embarrassed in the first round. Embarrassed and in

505
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: relation to that term of being the best player in

506
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: the league. That was by far his worst playoff series

507
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: of his entire career. He did not look like himself.

508
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: The numbers are very very bad overall. Althose free throws

509
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: were nice, really really nice free throws in that series.

510
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: But he couldn't shoot the three. He could't shoot three,

511
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 1: he can shoot the two, he could't shoot from anywhere.

512
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 1: Was it Rudy Gobert. Was it knowing that his team

513
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough to get to an NBA finals anymore?

514
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: Was it him coming off his first injury of his career.

515
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 1: That was a long period of time, but it looked

516
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 1: like he was back because they won their last twelve

517
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 1: games of the regular season, and then he just did

518
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 1: not farewell against the Minnesota Timberwolves in that first round series.

519
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 1: Didn't look like himself. So Jokic I think has some

520
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: pressure here to bring it back because the running back

521
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: at this time basically the same team. So you know,

522
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: I kind of I say, maybe he didn't feel like

523
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 1: we were gonna win, and maybe that's why he just

524
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: wasn't himself or he wasn't the best version of himself.

525
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: But they're bringing back Jamal Murray they're bringing back another year,

526
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: another older year of Aaron Gordon, which is definitely worrisome

527
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,360
Speaker 1: for them. Looks like it's Cam Johnson, looks like it's

528
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: Christian Brown and will Peyton Watson come back. I don't know,

529
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 1: but it's the same team. Yeah, it looks like so, yeah,

530
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: there's pressure on this guy who again for six months

531
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,479
Speaker 1: people say, well, that's the guy, that's the guy. Then

532
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: he got injured and then he wasn't part of the

533
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: MVP conversation anymore. But you could still look at him

534
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: and think that he's the best player in the world.

535
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 1: But that was a disappointing first round matchup, even if

536
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 1: you know from my perspective, I wasn't giving Rudy Gobert

537
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: the all the credit that people wanted to give Rudy

538
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 1: Gobert the credit. And I said, it was on Jokic

539
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: more so than not being himself. And I said, no,

540
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't feel right or whatever. Doesn't he didn't

541
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: perform simple as.

542
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 3: That time for a bounce back season, which is weird

543
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 3: because outside of missing time, I feel like Jokic did

544
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 3: have a really good regular season. Like you're saying, a

545
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 3: hot streak at the end for the Nuggets. He ended

546
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 3: up leading the league in assists, ended up leading the

547
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 3: league in rebounding, shot a high percentage like he always does,

548
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 3: and then worst playoff series that he's had at the

549
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 3: very least since becoming the Jokic that we know. And

550
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 3: I think something similar happened with Jamal Murray last year,

551
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 3: Like he made his first All Star team, he played

552
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 3: his best regular season and then wasn't great in the

553
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 3: playoffs as well. So the problem for the Nuggets, I

554
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 3: think is that they're slowly losing their depth, which is

555
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 3: why they're gonna have to bring back Peyton Watson. But

556
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 3: we don't know what's going I think Valanchunis is gonna

557
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 3: be done. They brought back or they brought in Marvin

558
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 3: Bagley instead. They drafted Sharp. Last year, he didn't play.

559
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,959
Speaker 3: Maybe he'll get a chance this year. They're gonna need

560
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 3: a lot from Jokic, and maybe he wore down as

561
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 3: the season went on, But I don't know. I just

562
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 3: assume he's going to produce. He'll probably average close to

563
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 3: a triple double once again. He will be in MVP

564
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 3: conversations once again. As long as he gets to that

565
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 3: sixty five games he did finish second in MVP voting

566
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 3: last year, right, Like, maybe he wasn't a realistic chance

567
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 3: to win, but he still did finish second. He still

568
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 3: had an awesome year. And you know, accolades wise, I

569
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 3: think it's better for Jokic the worst the Nuggets get

570
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 3: because he has to do so much more. It's like

571
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,959
Speaker 3: the year Jamal Murray missed. He won MVP pretty easily

572
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 3: on a sixth seed because they're like, what everything he's

573
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 3: got to do? Yeah, so this will be a This

574
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 3: is an interesting guy to me for an MVP, that

575
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 3: is what I'm saying.

576
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he could be that one guy that when the

577
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: pressure is on is when he performs best. He has

578
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: performed the most. It was surprising me to see what

579
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: he did in that playoff series. Look at these numbers

580
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 1: that a guy called the best player in the world

581
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: had against the minnesot Drimbles, by far the worst of

582
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: his career in the playoffs. For a playoff series. He

583
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: shot forty four point six percent from the field, this

584
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: is a big man, and nineteen point four percent from

585
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: three that just didn't it didn't seem right, didn't fit right.

586
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: So I you know, when I see that, I just thought, Okay,

587
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: Rudy is good, sure, but it's more whatever's going on

588
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: with Jokichen. Maybe he couldn't bounce back after that injury

589
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: for a series, but he looked so good in that

590
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: twelve game exactly throughout the season. So weird stuff. Anybody

591
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: else you want to talk about.

592
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 3: I'll throw you by quick, my quick. Pressure boys, LaMelo Ball,

593
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 3: I think is under pressure, has to play like serious

594
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 3: basketball for maybe the first time in his career after

595
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 3: having the best season of his career and then getting

596
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 3: shipped out. There's some pressure on him. I think chat

597
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,239
Speaker 3: Holmgren and Deer and Fox are kind of the we

598
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 3: need to make up for our playoff failures pressure guys

599
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 3: for sure. Yeah, Cad Cunningham, Janna Santa Tokumpo to me,

600
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 3: our guy who have a lot of pressure to perform

601
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 3: for their team and most importantly to be on the

602
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 3: court for their team. Like when I look at what

603
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 3: the Pistons did, they seem to have lost ball handling

604
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 3: with Tobias Harris going out, more responsibility for Caid And

605
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 3: then when you look at Yana's in the Heat, I'm like,

606
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 3: I do think the Heat will be better than the

607
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 3: Bucks were last year, but they're in a similar spot

608
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 3: where if Ys misses thirty games, it wouldn't be surprising

609
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 3: if the Heat end up in the play in tournament,

610
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 3: right like they got Bam, they got Wiggins. Davion Mitchell

611
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 3: is a good starter, but like, this is not a

612
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 3: super deep team. I don't think so. Some pressure on

613
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 3: Yannis to play a lot, which has been a problem

614
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 3: for him the past couple of seasons. I got a

615
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 3: joint pressure boys Polo and Franz. Feels like one last

616
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 3: chance for these guys. I think Alprin Shengon has kind

617
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 3: of slid into the Polo bound Caro spot for me,

618
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 3: where I'm like, I like your game, I don't know

619
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 3: if it's gonna allow your team to win at the

620
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 3: ultimate level. And then the final guys. I got Avitza

621
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 3: Zubat's biggest change for the pay not really sure what

622
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 3: to expect from them as a team, and he needs

623
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 3: to play pretty well since he costs so much for them.

624
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 3: And then Aaron Gordon for me, is a guy who's

625
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 3: very important to stay healthy for the Nuggets because we've

626
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 3: seen when he goes down with an injury, they look

627
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 3: like they're a thousand years old instantly.

628
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a fun list that the chet Holmgun one's

629
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: super fun. Going into this regular season, we'll see what

630
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: he's been able to morph his game into. The Yannie

631
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: one is really really interesting because I think he knows

632
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: that he has to play a ton and there may

633
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: be a reason why in these training videos with Tristan

634
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: Jass on YouTube, he's shooting threes over and over and

635
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: this isn't just one practice. T Jass went in for

636
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: three practices with him, and Jannis is shooting a lot

637
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: of threes, and I think there's a reason behind that

638
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,239
Speaker 1: that he needs to Number one, I think they need

639
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: to spread the floor a little bit more in Miami.

640
00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: But two, that's the recipe to keep him as healthy

641
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: as possible. So I think there's there's some reason why

642
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: he's working out with Drew Hanlin on his three point shot.

643
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: So there's that. Yeah, I throw Kevin Durant in there

644
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: with Fred van Vliet back no excuses now for the

645
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets, and so we'll see if that is able

646
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: to trickle down to Upprin Cheng Gun as you brought up,

647
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: because they got to be they gotta be good. Yeah,

648
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: that you broke down, got to everybody on my list.

649
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: That's it's a fun list.

650
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 3: That was a disappointing loss in the playoffs for the

651
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:32,719
Speaker 3: Rockets with no Luca, no Reeves for the majority of

652
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 3: that series, and they got kind of ran off the

653
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 3: court by a Lakers team that I think we all

654
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 3: three of us picked the Lakers to win that sees

655
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 3: and look, Durant missed time in that one kind of

656
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 3: unexpectedly as well. That might have changed our picks. But

657
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 3: still it felt like the Lakers, or it felt like

658
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 3: the Rockets were the better team and into that series

659
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 3: and they looked pretty bad.

660
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, and as you said about the Philadelphia seventy six

661
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: ers taking some of the the workload off Joel Embiid,

662
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: maybe Fred van Vliet does that for Kevin Durant to

663
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: some degree. You know, Kevin Durant can get ready for

664
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: the playoffs because he wasn't one hundred percent of the playoffs.

665
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: He missed time in that Lakers series. So yeah, that's

666
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: gonna be a again, no excuses for Kevin Durant. This

667
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: is it. This is a solid team. It will be

668
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: a fun, fun season for the Houston Rockets, especially with

669
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: Fred taking some of that pressure off him. All right,

670
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: let's get to worst of the week, ladies and gentlemen.

671
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Speaker 1: The worst of.

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00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 2: The week.

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00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: Blazer's play by play man Kevin Collaboro ain't coming back,

674
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: so sad for Portland Trail Blazers fans. As Kevin Collaboro

675
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: put it, it was a sub prime offer that he

676
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: was given. So that's a good dig at Tom Dundan,

677
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: who made his money off subprime auto loans. So you know,

678
00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: Collabro had that plan to this guy. Unfortunately, for Blazers fans,

679
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: that's their voice that they turned to when they want

680
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: to watch a Blazers game. This is a man of

681
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: value and it's so disappointing for them, that voice that

682
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: matters to Blazers fans. And apparently Collaboro's agent tried to

683
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: renegotiate earlier before his contract ended, you know, in the

684
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: last couple of months, but there was nothing there and

685
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: there was no benefits attached, as Collaboro has said, as

686
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: he came out and talked about it after the contract

687
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: didn't happen. But we brought it up this week tray

688
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: about the whole Dundon feeling, the whole thing around Tom Dundet,

689
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: and then this comes out where it's directly affecting Blazers fans,

690
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: and this is a clear, you know, low blow to

691
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: Blazers fans.

692
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, the broadcast team is like one of the most

693
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 3: direct connections from a team to a fan. Kevin Collabro

694
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 3: and Lamar heard were one of the best duos in

695
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 3: the entire Basketball Basketball League the NBA, if you well.

696
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 3: Apparently Lamar Hurd does have one year left on his deal,

697
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 3: so he will be back for the Blazers. That's good.

698
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 3: I guess a silver lining for Kevin Collabro is that

699
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 3: Seattle is on their way back to the NBA, which

700
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 3: makes me think that would be a perfect landing spot

701
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,439
Speaker 3: for Kevin Collabro. He was the Sonics broadcaster for twenty

702
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 3: two years before doing some ESPN stuff and then almost

703
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 3: a decade with the Blazers, with a couple of years

704
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 3: taken out for during the COVID times. But this just

705
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 3: really sucks. Not just losing Kevin collabor like that would

706
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 3: suck enough on its own. If they low balled him

707
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 3: and he didn't want to take an offer, which is

708
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 3: what he said. He says there was not much seriousness

709
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 3: on the other end to get a deal done. But

710
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,320
Speaker 3: this should be an exciting time for Portland Trail Blazers fans.

711
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 3: They made the playoffs for the first time since twenty

712
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 3: twenty one. They're adding Jamaran Damian Lillard is coming back like,

713
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 3: at worst, the second best player in your franchise's history.

714
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 3: It's the fifty year anniversary of the only title they've

715
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 3: ever won, and instead it has been piece of news

716
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 3: after piece of news, of piece of news after piece

717
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 3: of news. Yeah, of things that make it worse to

718
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 3: be a Blazers fan.

719
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that sucks. Yeah, especially with the way Tom

720
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: Dunn came on in March and then in April we

721
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: had all these stories about the way they went into

722
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Okay, two way. Players aren't traveling with the team.

723
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 1: Blazers fans don't get T shirts in the arena. The

724
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: massage therapist for the Blazers has to check out of

725
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 1: their hotel rooms, so they can't perform their massages and

726
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: their therapy in their room, so they have to got

727
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: to go find another room. So there's those whole all

728
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: those events which you can to me, all I think

729
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: of is Elon Musk taken over doge in the US

730
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 1: government and the old the image of him with the

731
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: chainsaw coming in and just slashing things that he didn't like.

732
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 1: And then you get this scenario here with Kevin Glabra,

733
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 1: as you said, somebody that is connected to the fans.

734
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: So you'd think an owner would say, Okay, I made

735
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: some flubs there early on in my ownership in the

736
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: first couple of months that this one here has there's

737
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: there's goes beyond business. It goes beyond money, it goes

738
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: beyond what obviously Tom Dundon wants to do. This is

739
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: this is something emotional, something ties that's tied to fans.

740
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: So you'd think maybe maybe like when he stopped paying

741
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: two Way players to go on their travel to go

742
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: to San Antonio, he did reverse that and sent them

743
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: to Game five. They didn't go to game one in

744
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: game two, but they were sent to Game five. Okay,

745
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,959
Speaker 1: maybe he's learned something, but that's obviously not the case.

746
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: Collaboro out. It goes on beyond that. Travis Demurz, the

747
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: team's radio play by play announcer, was not retained. His

748
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,280
Speaker 1: radio partner Michael Holton, was like go after nineteen seasons

749
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: with the team to studio hosts Neil Everett host Jamie Hudson,

750
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: they're gone. That is a lot of acting. And are

751
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: Tom Habstrow.

752
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 3: So assistant GM just left as well?

753
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I didn't realize that. Yeah, that's a lot

754
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: of acting.

755
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna start calling Tom Dundon stone cold because

756
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 3: all he cares about is the bottom line.

757
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: It is the bottom line, that's.

758
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 3: All he cares about. He does not care about the Blazers.

759
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 3: He cares that they're a valuable franchise. He does not

760
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 3: care about the city of Portland, which is pretty clear.

761
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 3: The only thing I think is interesting is Blazers fans

762
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 3: are now trying to organize boycotts of Panda Express because

763
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 3: apparently the founders and owners of Panda Express are ownership

764
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 3: partners with Tom Dundon, So they're making it, making it

765
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:02,720
Speaker 3: feel it where it hurts, right, the fast food Chinese

766
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 3: money pockets. I suppose that's how we're going, Like, fine,

767
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 3: we're taking out on the pandas.

768
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's no, there's nothing beyond the bottom line.

769
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 1: I mean, in May he fired seventy employees, according to

770
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: multiple reports. So I'm not going to pretend to know

771
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: everything that goes on in the books. Those seventy employees.

772
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: Maybe some should be fired maybe I mean fired, I

773
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: shouldn't say fired, but they should be looked at in

774
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 1: the spreadsheet and they determine, okay, maybe we should move

775
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: money here, move money there. But in the end, it

776
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: all comes down to money. And you know that's unfortunate.

777
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: Obviously as we see NBA owners move in a different

778
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 1: direction rather than a lot of the mom and pop

779
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: type of ownerships, we're seeing a lot more involved with

780
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:51,760
Speaker 1: definitely the dollar bills and only the dollar bills because

781
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 1: it's it's getting extensive. And I say the employees part

782
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: is different. You know, if they're in the PR department

783
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: or or wherever they're involved in, it's different than when

784
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: you actually see it with the actual hosts that are

785
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 1: the first ones that fans see when the broadcast starts.

786
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 1: Like that is real stuff. And so that's why it's

787
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 1: it's puzzling here. Even as we talked about it on Wednesday,

788
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,439
Speaker 1: I mean, this is it's taken in another level since

789
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: then when we talked about whether or not they're going

790
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: to agree with the city on how they are able

791
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: to build or renovate, I should say the Motive Center,

792
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: this is, this is beyond that. This is this is aggravating. Definitely,

793
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: that's surprising. Surprised. I guess it's not surprising, but it

794
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: is surprising at the same time. Yep, moving on sucks

795
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: for the Blazers second nominee here, Lebron James was reportedly

796
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: irritated by Adam Silver. Silver did shoot at the king

797
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,879
Speaker 1: when he told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin quote, I would

798
00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: like Lebron to make his announcement already so we can

799
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: finish the schedule. And that's when a radio host Andy

800
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: Baskin said, quote, Here's what I was told yesterday by

801
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 1: a reliable source. Last week. Lebron's crew was probably ready

802
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: to make an announcement. Irritated was the word I was

803
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: told by the commissioner pushing them, so they decided to

804
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: hold back end quote. What do you make of this

805
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: report from a the ninety two point three the Fans

806
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: host Andy Baskin in Cleveland.

807
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 3: I just baskin in it. I don't know. It seems

808
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 3: a little far fetched to me, but Lebron will be like,

809
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 3: I got my decision, I'm ready to go, and then

810
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 3: Adam Silver comes out and says something pretty Ana Dyne

811
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 3: all things considered, He's like, yeah, we're waiting for Lebron

812
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 3: to make our schedule because he's going to play. If

813
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 3: he doesn't play Opening night, he'll play on the Wednesday night,

814
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 3: and he's definitely gonna play on Christmas. Like Christmas, it

815
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. I went through every team that I thought

816
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 3: could play on Christmas. The Cavs are definitely the most questionable.

817
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 3: They made the conference finals last year, like they could

818
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 3: easily just get a Christmas game. They're gonna be one

819
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 3: of the better teams in the Eastern Conference, and all

820
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 3: the other teams are already included on probably getting Christmas games.

821
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 3: But this is the longest Lebron has taken for a decision.

822
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 3: I went on ESPN dot com today. They you know,

823
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 3: they got like their little sidebar of headlines on the

824
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 3: side nothing new since Wednesday. We don't have a new

825
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 3: piece of NBA news since Wednesday. That's unbelievable, and it's

826
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 3: all because of Lebron. It's getting dark out here, tass.

827
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 3: I had to watch Sean Sharanya talk to Pat McAfee

828
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,720
Speaker 3: and I actually laughed at something Pat McAfee said because

829
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 3: Sham's is explaining to him how Mario Hiszonia is waiting

830
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 3: to make his decision based on which team signs Lebron

831
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 3: James and Pat McAfee goes he's.

832
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 1: Holding up Hazonia.

833
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 3: So now I'll be thinking of that every time I

834
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 3: see Mario Hazzonia, who apparently is coming back, but not

835
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 3: until Lebron James signed something. So we got a lot

836
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 3: of things to do. Lebron needs to pick a team,

837
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 3: we need to set the schedule, and we need to

838
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 3: see where Mario Hiszonia is playing.

839
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, you brought him up on Wednesday because he's rumored

840
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: to be coming back as a thirty one year old

841
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 1: to the NBA. And he was part of the headlines

842
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: as you said, And I thought, is it because he

843
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,919
Speaker 1: blocked Lebron James and the paint one time? Because that's

844
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: a headline, or that's a video that's going around because

845
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: it is dead time. I mean, that's what I'm seeing

846
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: Mario Hiszonia guard Lebron going into the lane in Madison

847
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: Square Garden Haonia was with the Knicks and stopping Lebron

848
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: on a late game winning attempt. It's Hisonia time. Yeah, maybe, Yeah.

849
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: He seems like a good NBA player, good enough anyway,

850
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:46,800
Speaker 1: I think he's.

851
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 3: Been very good overseas, is what it appears.

852
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's great in Spain. So bat mcviee making

853
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: jokes that are worth a laugh.

854
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 3: That's the hold up a Zonia. Yeah, you could tell

855
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 3: he was like, yeah, this Lebron, he has taken so long.

856
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 3: I got to hear Sham's talk to me about a

857
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 3: guy named Mario his.

858
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 1: Own Yeah, happeel the same way at the team brouh.

859
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: You said all the guys, all the teams essentially that

860
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: Lebron would pick, would play on Christmas Day.

861
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 3: Okay, sure, I'll run it down for you. Here's who

862
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 3: I think are, Locks, Spurs, thunder Lakers, Nicks, Celtics, Sixers, Warriors.

863
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 3: That's seven teams of the ten we need. Yeah, and

864
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 3: that includes, uh, the Sixers and the Warriors. Who are

865
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 3: it feels like on the outskirts of the conversation. Okay

866
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 3: for Lebron right now. And then in my next group

867
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 3: of seven teams, which you would need three of these

868
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:43,800
Speaker 3: to complete the schedule, I got Nuggets, timber Wolves, Pistons, Cabs, Heat, Pacers,

869
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 3: and Rockets.

870
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: Yeah the Heat one is ah, they did get you.

871
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 3: I meant so that's a big deal.

872
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, would they be a Christmas Day team without

873
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: Lebron It seems untle likely.

874
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 3: I think that one's pretty unlikely.

875
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, anything else you want to talk about? Mario Haizonio

876
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: with or.

877
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 3: I haven't done the deep dive of checking into his

878
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 3: overseas highlights. I can't take it that. Yeah, he did

879
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 3: read his Wikipedia page to get refreshed on what happened

880
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 3: with this guy.

881
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the last part of his career.

882
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 3: I mean, it just wasn't He ended up playing a

883
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 3: few teams. Yeah, he just wasn't awesome too early.

884
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: That number five draft pick with the Orlando Yeah, the

885
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: rep wasn't. I don't know, he didn't. He didn't match

886
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: that draft pick. I suppose you know, he didn't live

887
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: up to number five. Noah. Yeah, we had other suggestions

888
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: for worse. The week we had Anthony Davis saying that

889
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 1: he was going to play eighty two games from a

890
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: man from a Man bippo. But as we talked about

891
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, this is just Anthony Davis saying I want

892
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 1: an extension in two weeks on August sixth, when I'm eligible,

893
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: and I'm just talking it up. Although it's disappointing. I

894
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: get it. We talked about a Wednesday. There's no way

895
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: he plays eighty two games. There's no chance, no chance. Zero.

896
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,399
Speaker 1: I checked if there's a FanDuel line on how many

897
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:04,959
Speaker 1: games Anthony Davis is gonna play. They're not even doing

898
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: that right now. Off the board. Off the board. Another

899
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: suggestion for worse of the week was Kawhi's drama being

900
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:18,280
Speaker 1: dragged out well. According to Mike workanoff of The Athletic,

901
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: he said, the league's investigation of Kawhi, Leonard and Aspiration

902
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: has ended and the league is sorting through it. He

903
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: believes the trade with the Raptors will still happen, So

904
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: just just mentioning that. As Mike said on Thursday on

905
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: The Rich Eisen.

906
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 3: Show, So I await the conclusion.

907
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all the findings.

908
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,240
Speaker 3: Count wait to read the brief.

909
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: Speaking of conclusions, let's get to rapid fire fun, the

910
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: beautiful sequy. You set it up, man, just like you're

911
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: setting up these questions. Yeah.

912
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 3: And Stephen Curry will become the first active player to

913
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 3: have an exhibit at the Nasmith Basketball Hall of Fame

914
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 3: after they opened there Beyond the Arc exhibit this week.

915
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:05,879
Speaker 3: And I'll have memorabilia and stuff from Steph's illustrious career. Guys,

916
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,280
Speaker 3: who is someone that should be honored for what they're

917
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:12,720
Speaker 3: currently still doing. This is a cheap way.

918
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: Of going about it. But I'm gonna say Christopher Nolan

919
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: deserves some credit for Odyssey. What a film?

920
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 2: A lot of credit?

921
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:25,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well listen on my algorithm, JD. He's

922
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:32,320
Speaker 1: getting ripped. Everybody wants a Greek as an actor, namely

923
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: the Greek who could have performed being the positive Pete myself.

924
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: You think I would have a lot of names, but

925
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: I'm sorry John Stamos sant performing.

926
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 3: You don't want to see him as Odysseus.

927
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: No, I don't want to see Jennifer Aniston and Anne

928
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:48,839
Speaker 1: Hathaway's role. Something apparently Danielle told me is that Chris

929
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: Nolan will never cast somebody who's got botox in their

930
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: face because he wants them to be able to emote.

931
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: Jennifer as she's got botox from what I can see, uh,

932
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: and so she can't play the role. And Hathaway I

933
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: think played it well because she was shooting. She was emotive.

934
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 2: You're seeing, you're seeing all those she's looking her age

935
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 2: on that Imax, I have to say, right, and that's

936
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:17,359
Speaker 2: not a bad thing.

937
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: Right.

938
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,959
Speaker 2: I'm with Nolan on this, But would it have killed

939
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 2: him to put a gallifan Akis in there? Anything?

940
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: One Greek?

941
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 3: Put all the famous Greek actors on the boat.

942
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's not many. There's not many.

943
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 2: Jason man Zukas man Zucas, Yeah, yeah, Michael Chick, Michael.

944
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 3: Chick, every Greek, every Greek that's famous in Hollywood sitting

945
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 3: on the boat.

946
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: So my algorithm is just all torn up. What am

947
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: I going to do? I don't see down there. It

948
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: was a great movie, and as you said on thumb

949
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:53,959
Speaker 1: Moore JD.

950
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 3: It was awesome, was awesome.

951
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 2: It was a great movie, a massive movie.

952
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: Okay, that's my cheap way of doing it.

953
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 3: I'm a movie man as well. Tom Cruise needs an oscar.

954
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 3: It's been nominated for Best Actor twice. Born on the

955
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,360
Speaker 3: fourth of July, and Jerry maguire, who was nominated for

956
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 3: Best Supporting Actor for Magnolia. He got nominated as a

957
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 3: producer for Best Picture for Top Gun Maverick, and he

958
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 3: did get the twenty twenty five Academy Honor Award, which

959
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 3: is kind of literally like saying, hey man, thanks for

960
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 3: all you've done. You haven't won a real one. Yeah, yeah,

961
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 3: but we love all the movies you make. And I

962
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 3: saw the first trailer for Digger. We were talking about JD.

963
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,720
Speaker 3: It was literally just a sizzle rule of every great

964
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 3: Tom Cruise role. Yeah, And I was like, yeah, this

965
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 3: guy has made a lot of great movies. Yes, So

966
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 3: hopefully he can get a real oscar here instead of

967
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 3: the just bone throw one they gave him. I'm sure

968
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 3: that's what Digger is supposed to be. An oscar play

969
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 3: for him. I don't know if it will succeed in

970
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 3: winning him one, but I'd like to see him. It'd

971
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 3: be crazy to see Tom Cruise give a speech.

972
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: Cut to these people.

973
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 2: Does he thank scientology or who's the guy? Is he

974
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 2: the top? Yeah? What's the FanDuel odds that l Ron

975
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 2: gets a shout out in Tom Cruise's acceptance.

976
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: That's a first.

977
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 2: Mine is Matthew Kaminski, who you may ask uh. This

978
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:26,800
Speaker 2: is the the organist at Truest Park I've met. I

979
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 2: mentioned this guy before on No Bunts. He is awesome

980
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 2: with the opposing players walk out music, and we did

981
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 2: a full quiz on this on No Buns back in

982
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 2: the day. Uh, just name that tune basically, but like

983
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 2: Casper Wells will come out and on the organ he's

984
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 2: playing Ghostbusters. His name is Casper right, Blaze, Alexander, We

985
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 2: didn't start the fire like that kind of thing. Like

986
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 2: he just picks random, not random, but deep cuts sometimes

987
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,959
Speaker 2: and each time a guy comes up, it's a different song.

988
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 2: So he's he's just he just digs deep into his

989
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 2: catalog and those songs sound hilarious on on the organ,

990
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:13,359
Speaker 2: you know.

991
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 3: And it makes it a game too, right where you're like,

992
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:16,879
Speaker 3: wreat what is this song?

993
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 2: Totally why did he pick that one? It's it's no joke.

994
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 2: My favorite thing to do at a baseball game, at

995
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 2: a bridge game is just name that tune and just

996
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 2: like and then you go, wow, this guy's a genius.

997
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: Man can tell Marte.

998
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 2: Is that how you say his name? Yeah, I'm a

999
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:38,919
Speaker 2: little teapot.

1000
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: That's pretty.

1001
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 3: Songs out there, but not a lot of tea pot,

1002
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 3: tea kettle.

1003
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 1: So yeah, I can't think of another one. But you're

1004
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: totally right. It's an underappreciated position. The organ is a

1005
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: baseball I.

1006
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 2: Mean I think he's he gives what's the guy's name?

1007
00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,800
Speaker 1: That's uh, sir Foster Foster.

1008
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:01,839
Speaker 2: He gives him a run for his money a little bit.

1009
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, sir Foster doesn't do it anymore.

1010
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think so.

1011
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 3: No, we're still the organist capital of North America. A

1012
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 3: teenager recently found a Wilt Chamberlain Lakers warm up jacket

1013
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 3: at a Goodwill in Oregon. Paid three bucks for the jacket,

1014
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 3: then sold it at auction for eighty nine six hundred dollars.

1015
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:26,240
Speaker 3: Oh pretty good. Fine, guys, what's your best cheap purchase?

1016
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:32,399
Speaker 1: A Swiss army knife recently for Yellowstone fre Yellowstone. Yeah,

1017
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: I came in so handy. Kids have long fingernails. We

1018
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 1: needed a little scissors. Pulled out the Swiss army knife.

1019
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: Were they sharp enough to cut fingernails? Well? Nah? But

1020
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: at the same time it came in handy. I had

1021
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: to cut tags, I had to cut boxes. Wow, it

1022
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: just counts in super handy, super duper.

1023
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 3: How many like tools implements whatever they're called.

1024
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we get into the double digits.

1025
00:53:58,600 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 2: Ooh, you got one of the thickies.

1026
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: You gotta get a thicky. But it was cheap. You know,

1027
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 1: sometimes I regret maybe I should have paid a lot

1028
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: more for one that had fewer tools on it. I

1029
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: don't know. There's things I think about it night.

1030
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:16,240
Speaker 3: And the toothpick. I always thought that was the funniest

1031
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 3: thing to include.

1032
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it does like it's metal. Yeah, you would

1033
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: not want to Yeah, if you need it, So that's

1034
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: it came in handy anytime. Do I have it on

1035
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: me nowt No, But it's like I want to have

1036
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: it on me at all times.

1037
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta become a grandpa. As soon as you

1038
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 3: become a grandpa, you can just start carrying a pocket knife.

1039
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:37,879
Speaker 2: That's right.

1040
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: And it's awesome for that little tiny pocket you have

1041
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: in pants. Uh. But you know, here in Georgia we

1042
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 1: were shorts for four months of the year. You gotta

1043
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 1: have you got a pouch of some sort, you know,

1044
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: or a fanny pack or something. And I did buy

1045
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: one of those two. But you know, I pulled off

1046
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,320
Speaker 1: a move like you, Trey. I know you got one,

1047
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: uh minus big though, got to return it. Come on, Dix,

1048
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 1: you don't offer a don't offer a smaller bag. I

1049
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: want a tiny one to hold basically to hold a

1050
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 1: Swiss army knife, keys wallet. That's it.

1051
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 3: That's it.

1052
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know I said, oh, the big one

1053
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: could fit a water bottle. You know, it's kind of stupid.

1054
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: I don't.

1055
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, and watch will get or a knife will get

1056
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 3: lost in there.

1057
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 1: JD.

1058
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 3: What's your best cheap purchase?

1059
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 2: AMC A list, not an ad We see like eight

1060
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 2: movies a month. It's thirty bucks any format. Yep, it's

1061
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 2: it changes how you go to the movies because it's

1062
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,919
Speaker 2: just like, eh, you just put your seat. Well, we'll

1063
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 2: double books sometimes and like can we do we go

1064
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 2: Thursday or Friday. I'll buck them both and then we

1065
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 2: just cancel.

1066
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,240
Speaker 3: One of them. Yeah, you can like return the ticket, right.

1067
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you just cancel it. We can cancel it twenty

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00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,799
Speaker 2: minutes before the movie. It's awesome, man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you. Like the prices I've even increased

1070
00:55:57,480 --> 00:55:58,879
Speaker 3: and I'm still like that's the worth.

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00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 2: That's definitely. You go to monies. Yeah, it pays for

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Speaker 2: its off.

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00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: It's so if another seat is booked, you can't take

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00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:09,920
Speaker 1: that seat, right, like somebody has paid for a particular seat.

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00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's just like buying a ticket like weeks

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00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 2: in advance.

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00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just preserve your seat. Yeah, just because I

1078
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 1: was seeing Odyssey's. Every seat for Odyssey is taken for

1079
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 1: the next multiple weeks. Yes, they're doing showtimes at like

1080
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 1: three am. Yeah, come on, man, that's crazy, but they're

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00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: all taken to it.

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Speaker 3: Probably be fun.

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00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: It's awesome.

1084
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 3: It's called six am and you're walking out of the theater.

1085
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: Maybe not as fun as Sunrising WHOA For me?

1086
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 3: Best chie purchase was I probably about like eighty percent

1087
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:46,360
Speaker 3: of my record collection before vinyl records got really expensive.

1088
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 3: There was just like there was a good year. I

1089
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 3: got my turntable junior year of college, so probably like

1090
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 3: two thousand and four or something like that, and I

1091
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,319
Speaker 3: would go and spend a ton of time at Kiss

1092
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 3: the Sky Records in Bataviial and Oily, just flipping through

1093
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 3: all of the used records, and like I was able

1094
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 3: to buy Beatles records for three to seven dollars.

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00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:07,399
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 3: Back then talking Heads record like I got every Talking

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00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 3: Heads record for under ten bucks easily. And now they're

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00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 3: all really expensive. Yeah, even a used record is going

1099
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 3: to cost you a fifteen minimum.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I was happy to get a bunch of

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00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 3: them because I.

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00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 2: Would dare to say as an audio file sort of

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00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 2: it's not worth it. It's not worth it to spend

1105
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 2: twenty bucks on a vinyl at this point.

1106
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, my speakers are probably four inches diagonally.

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00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 3: I don't think I've changed my needle since I got

1108
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 3: it twenty years ago. So the audio quality it probably

1109
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 3: could be better, yeah, is what I'm hearing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, Yeah, definitely.

1111
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 3: But I also love I like having my favorite records

1112
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 3: on vinyl, and like I play them less through streaming,

1113
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 3: but I'm like, okay, sure, yeah, I'll turn on yeah,

1114
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 3: stop making sense or whatever.

1115
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:00,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, more likely to play it.

1116
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, I want to have these ones. I

1117
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 3: want to make sure my kids have to carry these around.

1118
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 2: Well, like my kid wants to get into vinyl, and

1119
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 2: I'm like, just don't do it. Just don't do it,

1120
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 2: Like you don't have the setup for it. It's just

1121
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 2: so much upkeep, and it's just not the price of

1122
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 2: it is just crazy. It's just it's not worth it.

1123
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 2: You missed it, You missed the boat, son, I.

1124
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 3: Mean one I'll come along soon. Yeah, hopefully, so report

1125
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 3: surface this week. Like we talked earlier, Lebron irritated with

1126
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 3: Adam Silver because Silver said hurry up and pick a team,

1127
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 3: but you don't rush the king fellas. What's one thing

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00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 3: you never want to rush.

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00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 1: I wasn't picking a team. I was picking my hairs.

1130
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: I was picking my hairs from the top of my ear.

1131
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:48,439
Speaker 1: I was plucking my ear hairs. Yeah, And Danielle comes

1132
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: into the room and says, you got to moisturize that ear.

1133
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: And I said, excuse me, I'm busy here. Do not

1134
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: do not rush this because I'm going to make my

1135
00:58:57,560 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: ear bleed if I try and rush it. I've done

1136
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:02,439
Speaker 1: that man any times. Or I just grabbed the skin

1137
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: of my ear because I'm missing or doing it too fast.

1138
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: So she was trying to rush me. And I've never

1139
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 1: noticed my ear is dry until that. Until them, I'm like,

1140
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 1: I guess they're dry. That's one of those things like, okay,

1141
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: you know ankles, knees, elbows, they might be dry. But

1142
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 1: I've never I don't know if you guys have ever

1143
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 1: noticed that your ear, never your ear cartilage is causing

1144
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: some dryness or whatever's happening you're saying.

1145
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 3: You're saying top of ear top. He definitely definitely not.

1146
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: I guess I guess that's where she said, your husband.

1147
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 1: That's a weird one man.

1148
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 3: Jadie, what's one thing you never want to rush?

1149
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Speaker 2: I mean, not to be gross, but poops, I never push.

1150
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 2: I've been there for a while. I just yeah, exactly,

1151
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 2: I don't want to. I don't want like a blown

1152
00:59:56,560 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 2: blood vessel in my eye, or hemorrhoids or that. You know.

1153
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 3: That, I agree.

1154
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 2: Just let the natural contractions do its thing and evacuate

1155
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 2: your bowels.

1156
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: Can't.

1157
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:12,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, your body's meant to do it, exactly.

1158
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:17,520
Speaker 2: Grab a book, gravity, enjoy yourself, gravity works. Maybe maybe

1159
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:21,439
Speaker 2: a little stool pardon the pun, to put your your

1160
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:24,000
Speaker 2: feet up on, you know, just let it happen.

1161
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 1: I thought about that today, actually stool part of bringing

1162
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 1: a stool in because I was getting prepared for the show. Okay,

1163
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 1: this is number two of my number twos from this morning,

1164
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:36,400
Speaker 1: and I got to get to work here. But I

1165
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 1: also don't want to rush it, so I was thinking

1166
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 1: about getting the stool in there. Sure I didn't do that, though,

1167
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:44,640
Speaker 1: didn't go back to our No Season Required tour where

1168
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 1: I did that. I pulled a stool into the bathroom.

1169
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 1: That gross done with it fifteen years ago.

1170
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 3: Squatty potty. Why didn't they call it the stool stool, you.

1171
01:00:57,280 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 2: Know, I know, splun opportunity there.

1172
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally missed opportunity. I'm personally never rushing a Bucky's

1173
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 3: visit or I never want to rush a Bucky's visit,

1174
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 3: which is a conundrum because every time we're there, it's

1175
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 3: a rush. Yeah, I got back down the roads going. Yeah,

1176
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 3: I'm never just going and it's always I do the

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01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 3: gas outside, Laura and the girls go inside, go to

1178
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:22,480
Speaker 3: the bathroom, so they got a little bit of a

1179
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 3: head start on me. Then I'm trying to play catch up.

1180
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 3: I gotta go to the bathroom. Yeah, and then I

1181
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 3: got to look at every single item in the store,

1182
01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:31,120
Speaker 3: and I never get to look at the clothing items,

1183
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 3: Like why do they have that stuff? You know, like

1184
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 3: I would love it seeing what all kinds of stuff

1185
01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 3: they have over there.

1186
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 2: I mean you never you've never gone through and just

1187
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 2: quick little.

1188
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 3: Brows not enough. I mean yeah, definitely like a quick

1189
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 3: little brows or like you definitely see all the BUCkies

1190
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:47,880
Speaker 3: branded stuff when you're walking through. The main thing fourth

1191
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 3: of July shirt or Halloween shirt, that kind of thing.

1192
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:52,959
Speaker 3: But they got so much stuff in there, there's gotta

1193
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 3: be some weird things. They're probably still a knife, right,

1194
01:01:57,560 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 3: you'd have.

1195
01:01:57,960 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: To think, yeah, they got it all, they got it all.

1196
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 1: You're right. You want to rush, and quite often you're

1197
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:07,280
Speaker 1: on a holiday weekend and there's a lot of people there,

1198
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: so it's crowded because buckis is that good?

1199
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 3: It's always a rush, but you never want it to be.

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01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good one.

1201
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:15,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.

1202
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: That's it.

1203
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 3: Those are three questions, three answers, nine total.

1204
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: Thank you for good math. Thank you for the questions

1205
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 1: A fun one. What's also fun is seeing people on

1206
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: sub stack comment on stuff after they jump on over

1207
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 1: to vote in our poll which movie franchise should no

1208
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: dunks cover the summer? As we've discussed that's what we're

1209
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:46,240
Speaker 1: going to be doing. Pirates of the Caribbean has won.

1210
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 1: The poll is over. Thank you for the eleven and

1211
01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: thirty eight votes. Pirates of the Caribbean was behind Indiana

1212
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 1: Jones with the boat got in front. Indian Jones was second,

1213
01:02:57,120 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 1: Transformers and Superman third and fourth. Thanks for the love

1214
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 1: over on subsack, including this comment which I appreciated, because

1215
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 1: I do want to mention if you want your podcast

1216
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:13,120
Speaker 1: ad free, you go join substack on our page as

1217
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 1: Isaac aka Roy did and he said, quote, I have

1218
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 1: been a fan of you guys forever, fifteen years question mark.

1219
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:23,439
Speaker 1: I love your humor, insights and perspectives. Cliche, but listening

1220
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: to the pod just feels like hanging out with my

1221
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:27,960
Speaker 1: buds talking about hoops and life. Thanks for all the

1222
01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 1: amazing years of content, and thank you, Roy, appreciate it

1223
01:03:32,040 --> 01:03:36,320
Speaker 1: for you joining our substack page. We'll be back Monday.

1224
01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 3: I think we'll be back monday. Will we have a

1225
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 3: Lebron decision to talk about?

1226
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 1: Now we're talking odds. This is going to happen apparently

1227
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: according to the odds, According to the odds, which is

1228
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 1: I guess that's how odds work. I mean you can bet, yeah, yeah,

1229
01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 1: because I think I saw it on Wednesday and the

1230
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 1: odds were the highest today, which is the Friday. Yesterday

1231
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,959
Speaker 1: had some moths a Thursday. But that's how it should work,

1232
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 1: I guess for odds on when it's gonna happen, it's

1233
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:13,080
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty short term. You can't. You can't just

1234
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 1: throw in next week. But it went day by day, Okay, Thursday, Friday,

1235
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: best odds Saturday start to you know, got a little

1236
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:21,920
Speaker 1: worse Sunday got a little worse than Monday, So I

1237
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:24,560
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe I'm buying the odds makers, but I

1238
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: think it's gonna happen.

1239
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 3: Great, it definitely could. You know, we're in a pretty

1240
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:33,160
Speaker 3: dead time for sports going on right now. Baseball is going,

1241
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 3: of course, w NBA is going.

1242
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 1: But yeah, all start game tonight for WNB A.

1243
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:39,440
Speaker 3: Cool Chicago if I'm not mistake.

1244
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:44,040
Speaker 1: Okay, but yeah, there's there is gonna be a trickle

1245
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 1: down effect with Lebron, So there's gonna be more to

1246
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 1: talk about with Peyton Watson, Jalen Durham.

1247
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 3: One day run of course.

1248
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, so some stuff one day. But for now,

1249
01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 1: Clipper bros.

1250
01:04:57,520 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 3: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn off,

1251
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 3: Love you guys, awesome.

1252
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. And remember no one's stank smells

1253
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:07,920
Speaker 1: better than your own stank, and that I had nothing

1254
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:10,960
Speaker 1: to do with JD's rapid fire. I had that prepared

1255
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 1: from earlier. But it's a tie in. I mean, it's true.

1256
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 1: Do you consider that stank? I guess it is.

1257
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,480
Speaker 3: Yes, it's your own. You can call it musk though,

1258
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 3: and it sounds better.

1259
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: You're right, Elan, embrace it.

1260
01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 3: It