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Speaker 3: Oh nice, Good morning, swirl and welcome to the Now

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Speaker 3: Duks podcast on the Athletic Network.

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Speaker 5: It's much more comfortable in lower altitudes.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you're back near sea level. Yeah, got your legs

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Speaker 5: Yeah, super balanced, super great? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Are you not getting nailed with another snowstorm in Toronto,

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Speaker 5: I was off last week. We had that snowstorm.

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Speaker 4: all that celebrate Survivor forty four. Obviously the American version.

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Speaker 7: Oh I can't wait, skeets. I was figuring out what

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Speaker 4: Oh that's interesting. I celebrate Survivor premieres with just eating rice,

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Speaker 6: So many hammers, so many hammers, and yeah, everybody's got

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Speaker 4: What do you think about the Bucks? Fifteen straight here?

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Speaker 7: But they won fifteen straight games and only now are

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Speaker 1: Scary team.

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Speaker 7: Everybody knew they were one of the best teams coming

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Bucks and Celtics do play one more time. We

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Speaker 4: went through it on yesterday's podcast Must Watch Games in

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Speaker 4: the home Stretch, and I believe it's Doctor's Day March

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Speaker 4: thirtieth that the Bucks and Celtics play. Yeah, because they

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Speaker 4: They could very easily have the same record overall, and

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Speaker 4: you honest looked awesome. I like the Dunks, of course.

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Speaker 6: Taking in the league last night on playback, I had

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Speaker 5: This is how basketball is supposed to be played.

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Speaker 6: After watching that horrendous raps Bulls game, was it a

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't a pretty.

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Speaker 6: Bowls raps game. I don't really want to take much

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Speaker 6: you know, new father Fred and Scottie Barnes not not

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Speaker 4: Well well, well Scotty Barnes was like instrumental in the blocks,

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Speaker 1: Two teams who cannot score if the other team was set.

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Speaker 7: Basically, the Bulls had nineteen turnovers, the Raptors had nineteen

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Speaker 4: Way to paint the picture. Those are great, great descriptions

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Speaker 4: You're right, he played great. I think Jerome, you can

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Speaker 6: Well the battle for sixth really all these ye jumble

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Speaker 5: I gotta be.

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Speaker 6: I gotta be totally honest. It gives us something to

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Speaker 5: There's no doubt it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the the championship for Unfortunately, our teams this year

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 4: Will Barton has not had a great year for Washington,

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Speaker 6: He didn't get a lot of chances there in Washington.

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Speaker 6: There's no doubt about it. It's a smart little move

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Speaker 6: That's all you're looking for, you know, three buckets, three buckets, Will,

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Speaker 1: I mean just that it was great in that movie,

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Speaker 7: Will Barton is a better scorer than Wancho, and the

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Speaker 7: Raptors need scoring more than they need another guy who

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Speaker 7: can play defense. But somebody should tell Masaii Jerry. There

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Speaker 4: Not only do the Raptors play the Wizards twice here,

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Speaker 4: God they played they played the Wizards even later. Maybe

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Speaker 5: Not it's like Gary Trent light but you're yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 6: The fact that Will Barton even played is probably a

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Speaker 4: Let's move over to the Western Conference. We'll start at

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Speaker 4: the top. Okay, our seeds one through three all picked

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Speaker 7: From those three games, there's not much to say about

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Speaker 7: just rolling and the Lakers couldn't do anything to stop

435
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 7: at when they had a chance, and then there was

436
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:51,840
Speaker 7: just so many turnovers they were allowing John to get

437
00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,880
Speaker 7: into transition and that's just a bad recipe for LA.

438
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,120
Speaker 1: So not a surprise that they lost, but it would.

439
00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,680
Speaker 7: Have been a nice win because Anthony Davis was playing

440
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,240
Speaker 7: pretty while they did have a lead. And when you

441
00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,440
Speaker 7: look at the other results in the Western Conference, the

442
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 7: Thunder loss, the MAVs loss, the Jazz loss, the Blazers loss,

443
00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 7: would have been.

444
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 1: Nice to pick up a game.

445
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,640
Speaker 7: But twenty six turnovers for Los Angeles last night, which

446
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,120
Speaker 7: is just basically impossible for them to overcome when they're

447
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 7: not shooting the ball eighty percent from three, Memphis had

448
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 7: eighty six points in the paint, thirty three fast break points.

449
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,879
Speaker 1: These are all hallmarks of a Grizzlies victory.

450
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 7: And then a huge Mongus tip dunk from Jaron Jackson

451
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,399
Speaker 7: Junior over Anthony Davis.

452
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,439
Speaker 1: Go go, gadget arms on that one.

453
00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,880
Speaker 7: I have no idea how he even grabbed the rebound,

454
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,920
Speaker 7: let alone got it back to the room for the slam.

455
00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Dylan Brooks the glass shattered and stone cold.

456
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:47,719
Speaker 4: Dylan Brooks showed up last night in another incredible fit

457
00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:49,480
Speaker 4: last night test. I don't know if you saw that one.

458
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 4: I mean he looked like Stone Cold. He had the

459
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:55,960
Speaker 4: jorts on, he had just the black vest and red shoes.

460
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,760
Speaker 4: I guess that's a little different Cold. And then he

461
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 4: went two for eleven, but they got victory, so who cares?

462
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 4: And he didn't give anybody a stunner. I don't think.

463
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, he couldn't rock it like stone Cold. Let's be

464
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 6: totally honest. Uh, just it didn't feel didn't feel like

465
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:12,240
Speaker 6: he could carry it.

466
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 5: I gotta be totally honest.

467
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,439
Speaker 6: He had the swagger even like you know, you got

468
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,240
Speaker 6: to have the shoulders bopping if you want to be

469
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 6: stone Cold coming in there with.

470
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Speaker 4: And nothing, well, I think I think they are too.

471
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 4: And oh though, now the Grizzlies are when Dylan Brooks

472
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 4: shows up basically without a shirt on. Right, when he

473
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,440
Speaker 4: wore the old he wore the overalls the one time

474
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 4: with no shirt and they won that game. And then

475
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 4: last night just the vest, no shirt and they won

476
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,640
Speaker 4: that game. So right, I mean, you should be saving

477
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:41,440
Speaker 4: us to the playoffs.

478
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 6: Really, but well, he and he had the tanked up

479
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 6: on after he confronted Shannon Sharp.

480
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,640
Speaker 5: I mean that was. That was post game.

481
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,680
Speaker 6: That was that was totally different, But that was the

482
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 6: game where things went bad for the things started going

483
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 6: way down. So he's got guts, He's got guts, pulling

484
00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 6: out no shirt, like, yeah, they ran it down the

485
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,439
Speaker 6: throats of the Lakers, And.

486
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is exactly what Trey said. That's how they

487
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 5: win games. That's the worries some part about.

488
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 6: The potential in the playoffs is are those opportunities going

489
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 6: to dry up a little bit? But yeah, I was

490
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 6: I regret. I was watching on playback. You can watch

491
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 6: in that sort of the preview mode before you switch channels,

492
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 6: you switch streams to another game, and I saw that

493
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,680
Speaker 6: Jared Jackson Junior tip Donk like as sort of the

494
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,199
Speaker 6: melt footage at the end of the game that they

495
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,360
Speaker 6: were just showing over and over again.

496
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 5: I was like, what is this?

497
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 6: And I didn't switch over and I was just watching

498
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 6: its like is this from tonight? And I I mean,

499
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 6: I watched it on my own and I feel bad

500
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 6: that I didn't share with you guys.

501
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 5: Obviously it was ridiculous. It was so so nice.

502
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, the moment like him and Iron Eagle, I think

503
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 6: on a Jared Jackson Junior block or maybe it was

504
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:56,120
Speaker 6: Anthony Davis block.

505
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter.

506
00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 6: He said, do not go in there, which was it's

507
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,920
Speaker 6: great to hear. Broadcaster called that back. Yeah, they gave

508
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,159
Speaker 6: it to him. The Rockets Nuggets. Yes, we are on.

509
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 5: Seventy point watch.

510
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 6: We're on Rockets watch every time an opposing guard, especially

511
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 6: plays the Rockets because they play any sort of pick

512
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 6: and roll so soft they drop off. And Jamal Murray

513
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 6: could have gone for as many as he wanted, unfortunately

514
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,440
Speaker 6: only shot eighteen times. But yeah, he had sixteen with

515
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 6: four minutes left in the first and I was watching

516
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 6: you the next couple minutes watching it back to see

517
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,200
Speaker 6: what he did. And then he missed one shot and

518
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 6: he was taken off and he ended with thirty two.

519
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,440
Speaker 6: I mean, he could have gone for it, yeah, if

520
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 6: he wanted, But I guess this team follows Jokichen isn't selfish.

521
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,879
Speaker 6: But the Rockets watch is fun for that reason, and

522
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 6: for boban Maryanovitch playing minutes at the end of this game, Man,

523
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 6: you get him on an island also slightly fun to watch.

524
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 6: But yeah, not a lot to take from those games

525
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 6: other than that.

526
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the Kings you know, beating the Thunder. There

527
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 4: was no SGA for okay see, but there was no

528
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 4: fox uh for the Kings, and it didn't really matter.

529
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 4: Their starters were like lights out. Sacramento Herder, Mitchell Sabonis,

530
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 4: Murray Barnes, they all they all shot over fifty percent,

531
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Speaker 4: I mean almost all shot over fifty seven percent of

532
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 4: the starters there. So they ran away with this one,

533
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 4: even though you know, the final score looked close. But nice,

534
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,200
Speaker 4: nice victory for them as they stay within striking distance

535
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,159
Speaker 4: of the Memphis Grizzlies. That's the crazy part to me.

536
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 4: They're game and a half back. The Kings are of

537
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 4: the Grizzlies for the number two seed in the Western Conference.

538
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 4: So good job by them. All right, let's move on

539
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,400
Speaker 4: here to some of those teams a little bit lower.

540
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,360
Speaker 4: We had Pool and Klay Thompson rallying the Warriors back

541
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 4: to beat the Blazers one twenty three one five. McDaniels

542
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 4: he had twenty points. The Wolves beat the Clippers one

543
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 4: o eight one oh one, and then it was an

544
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 4: Eastern Conference win. But we put it here because Haliburton

545
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 4: scored thirty two as the Pacers beat Luca and the

546
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 4: MAVs won twenty four to one twenty two. So there

547
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 4: you go. The Warriors win, of that bunch, Blazers lose,

548
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 4: Wolves win, Clippers lose, and then the Dallas Mavericks lose again. Trey,

549
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,440
Speaker 4: I believe one in four now when the two superstars

550
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 4: are playing and they're giving up a lot of points

551
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:17,120
Speaker 4: even even though now is Kleba Beck's back, yeahs back, Yeah,

552
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 4: So he makes his return, but in the end they

553
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,199
Speaker 4: come up short there at home to Indiana. What are

554
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 4: your takeaways?

555
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 7: Hey, at least the MAVs got a shot up this

556
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 7: time making strides forward. Did Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncics

557
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 7: pass each other the ball in the last possession?

558
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 1: No, just went straight to Kyrie.

559
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 7: He got a pretty solid look at a three, and honestly, like,

560
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 7: you're gonna live with Kyrie Irving taking that three a

561
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 7: fair enough shot, though Luca did draw two free throws

562
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 7: on the possession prior to Andrew Nampart missing a couple.

563
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 7: But Indiana in this game shot fifty eight percent from

564
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 7: the field, so much of it was Dallas just being

565
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 7: slow in transition, not getting back on defense, and Indiana

566
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 7: wants to play fast in the first place. They did

567
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 7: a great job of doing. Dallas's opponents six of their

568
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 7: last eight since the trade have shot over fifty percent,

569
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 7: so that's obviously a problem. Also, they sent the pacers

570
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 7: to the line a ton forty free throw attempts for Indiana,

571
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 7: they made thirty one of them. It's always going to

572
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 7: be like this for the Mavericks. They're always going to

573
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 7: play in a close game. It's always going to come

574
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 7: down to the last possession because they don't have the

575
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 7: personnel to get stops and their best players are all

576
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,439
Speaker 7: offensive players. That's why it is nice to get Kleeba

577
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 7: back because at least he is a two way front

578
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 7: court player, which they don't really have in McGee or

579
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 7: Powell or Christian Wood. Kleiba plus nine and twenty three

580
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 7: minutes you'll take back going forward. But also he ain't

581
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 7: gonna be able to play much more than twenty three

582
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 7: to maybe twenty eight to thirty minutes something like that.

583
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 7: The guy's not a forty minute per game player. So

584
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 7: it feels unsettled in Dallas. We kind of thought, you know,

585
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 7: between Luca and Kyrie, they've got two incredible closers, two

586
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 7: guys who can get a perfect shot anytime they want to.

587
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 7: It has not been that yet. It has been what

588
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 7: we assumed, no defense, lots of offense. But you have

589
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 7: to hope that the clutch play it picks up between

590
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 7: Kyrie and Luca because that's what the Mavericks are betting on,

591
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 7: because there's really nothing else for them to fall back on.

592
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, this Mavericks teams, obviously going into the offseason has

593
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 6: the huge question is Kyrie going to stick around? And

594
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 6: we wanted to see if they were just sort of

595
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 6: able to get to learn each other here through the

596
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 6: regular season, and the Jason Kidd, I think adding another

597
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 6: question to the mix by throwing in Justin Holliday into

598
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 6: the starting lineup, a guy they just picked up off waiver,

599
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 6: sort of added a question to me, like it just

600
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,959
Speaker 6: adds another thing for them to figure out, another wrinkle,

601
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 6: another player instead of just playing Josh Green who's been

602
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 6: there all season long. It's like, just focus on the

603
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 6: thing at hand here and that's getting Kyrie and Luca

604
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 6: playing together and let everything else be the same. And

605
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 6: now they've got Josh Green playing coming off the bench,

606
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 6: not playing as many minutes as he did with the starter.

607
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 6: It's not even a situation where he's the six man

608
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 6: and he's coming in and playing a starter type minutes,

609
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 6: he's playing less and that's that's strange to me. I

610
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 6: thought those two in Luca and Kyrie beside Bullock and

611
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 6: Powell and Josh Green would be, you know, some semblance

612
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 6: of a decent defensive lineup. But now you throw in

613
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 6: Justin Holliday. Now you have to work in the Kaliba thing.

614
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 6: You're playing an offensive player like Tim Hardaway way more

615
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 6: minutes than Josh Green. That's why you give up sixty

616
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 6: nine points in the first half to this Pacers team.

617
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 6: These are the games you have to win. You can

618
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 6: take some losses against some bad teams, but giving up

619
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 6: so many points to this Pacers team who are like

620
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 6: they just feel they felt comfortable. I wanted to watch

621
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 6: this game to see how how they got to sixty

622
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 6: nine points and they just felt so free and easy.

623
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 6: Like a guy like Jordan Wara coming off the bench,

624
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 6: hit and step back, three's in the corner for sixteen.

625
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 6: He's got two straight eighteen sixteen point games. The guy

626
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 6: who is a throwing in the Kevin durantrig in a

627
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 6: four way deal there, like all these guys were flowing,

628
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 6: and I think if you have Bullock and Josh Green

629
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 6: out there just a little continuity, you're just adding sort

630
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 6: of more of the unknown with Jason Kidd here. So

631
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 6: I think that's that's kind of a mistake. And yeah,

632
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 6: they have some time to get it together, but I

633
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 6: just don't get it.

634
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 5: I don't get this. Oh, let's go pick up a

635
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 5: guy who's.

636
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 6: Waived to try and fix things when Josh Green was

637
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 6: playing really really well in the story line, it's like

638
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 6: the Terrence Man thing that we'll get to with the

639
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 6: Clippers later.

640
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean when it comes playing the Pacers right

641
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 4: now where they are at this point of the season,

642
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 4: they're glorified pickup runs. So it's like and they're totally

643
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 4: fine with it, Like, look at the games they've played recently.

644
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 4: It's like high scoring affairs. There's not gonna be a

645
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 4: lot of defense played, and they're totally, you know, content

646
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 4: with that. But the Mavericks should not be obviously trying

647
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 4: to like get in the playoffs and move up the

648
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 4: playoffs standing. So that's embarrassing. Yeah, the Green thing is fascinating,

649
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 4: Like why is Holiday playing over him suddenly? I mean

650
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 4: all season on people saying Christian would have should have

651
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Speaker 4: been playing more, be playing more. It's it's a bit

652
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Speaker 4: of a mess right now. And I will say, like

653
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Speaker 4: I thought Luca had ah there was like thirty five

654
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 4: seconds to go. Kyrie got him the ball sort of

655
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 4: like not in the post, but like on the wing.

656
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 4: Luca spun had a I thought had like a pretty

657
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,239
Speaker 4: clear path to the net or at least a very

658
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 4: comfortable jump shot for him, and then he passed a

659
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Speaker 4: bullock out top who then had a bad pass over

660
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Speaker 4: to Tim Hardaway Junior, and then he literally brecked a three.

661
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Speaker 4: I mean it was like a four foot air ball.

662
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Speaker 1: It's so bad.

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Speaker 4: Thats just like that was like just a perfect, you know,

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Speaker 4: example of what the mass are doing right now. It's like,

665
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Speaker 4: why didn't you take the shot? And then that's a

666
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 4: bad pass, that's another bad pass, and then you just

667
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 4: airball a three pointer there Tim Hardaway Junior did. It

668
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Speaker 4: was ugh And they still even had a chance with

669
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Speaker 4: the Kyrie shot at the end after some misfree throws.

670
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Speaker 4: But not good there for Dallas. You said about the Clippers,

671
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 4: they are tasked, you know, they get another l You

672
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 4: have some thoughts on them here as they they struggle too,

673
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 4: like a rough patch here.

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Speaker 6: Well even more so, they had it kind of figured

675
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 6: out even before adding Russell Westbrook. They were playing really

676
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 6: well with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard. Together they had

677
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 6: a winning formula and Terrence Man was their de facto

678
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 6: point guard. They brought in Russell Westbrook to to be

679
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 6: a change of pace guard who starts, which is strange,

680
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 6: like they want him to play faster. You know, usually

681
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 6: a change of pace comes off the bench, so they're

682
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Speaker 6: just playing him way more than Terrence Man. I get

683
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 6: the idea start Russ because they want to start faster,

684
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Speaker 6: and he'll push the pace a little bit and then

685
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 6: you go from there. I mean, they tried this with

686
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 6: Rondo a couple of years ago, and then Rondo was

687
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 6: essentially banned from the rotation entirely. Is that gonna happen

688
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 6: with Russell Westbrook if it's not working or at the

689
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 6: very least lower's minutes and and so now you're figuring out.

690
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 5: Two rotations.

691
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 6: Now you're figuring out the starting lineup and the bench

692
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 6: because you've moved Terrence Man to the bench. And they've

693
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 6: had two overtime losses since Russ has been there without

694
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Speaker 6: their starting center in Zuobots, and now this loss against

695
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 6: the Timberwolves. So it's not it's not all that bad,

696
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 6: but you've got so many things to figure out. You

697
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 6: added another thing by throwing Terrence Mann to the bedge

698
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 6: and now you're playing Russ a ton and he's not

699
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Speaker 6: a better player than Terrence Man.

700
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 5: He's just not. Terrence Man's a better finisher.

701
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 6: Terrence An is a better shooter, and so he brought

702
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Speaker 6: in a guy who got waived play him at the

703
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Speaker 6: beginning of the first quarter.

704
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Speaker 5: In the third quarter, sure, but.

705
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Speaker 6: As Tyler said after the first game, I gotta play

706
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 6: Terrence Man more because he's good and he should be

707
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 6: playing more than Russell Westbrook.

708
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Speaker 5: I think.

709
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Speaker 6: So now they had it figured out, and it's just

710
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Speaker 6: it's just added another another question mark to that team.

711
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Speaker 6: Although they're they're deep, they have a lot of guys,

712
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Speaker 6: but I don't know they're they're gonna go through stretches

713
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 6: where uh, you know, Russ is not having great minutes.

714
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Speaker 6: So are you gonna take him off? Is Tyler you

715
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 6: gonna do that? Is Tyler you gonna treat him like

716
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 6: he did that? He did Rajon Round a couple years

717
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Speaker 6: ago work.

718
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 4: It's really insane when you think about it, like buy

719
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 4: out guys on multiple teams were picked up Trey and

720
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 4: are starting for like teams that are playoff teams, like

721
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Speaker 4: you know, Kevin Love with the Heat, Westbrook with the Clips,

722
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 4: even Holiday here with the with the Mavericks. It's I mean,

723
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Speaker 4: that is that's pretty rare that there's a lot of guys.

724
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Speaker 4: It's some desperate teams, I think is what it.

725
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Speaker 7: Says exactly right, is what it says, and it says

726
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 7: that if you're starting a buyout guy, your team isn't

727
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Speaker 7: really a championship contender because that is a huge hole

728
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Speaker 7: that you had to fill and the hole you're filling

729
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,760
Speaker 7: it with his uh literal parlayer off the scrap pile,

730
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Speaker 7: like the Lakers came into the last half of this

731
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 7: or the last quarter this season saying Lebron saying, these

732
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Speaker 7: are twenty three of the most important games of my

733
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 7: career and we do not want Westbrook here for him.

734
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Speaker 7: But the Clippers are like, yeah, we're starting him, and

735
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 7: we're playing him a ton of minutes. And that was

736
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 7: always the concern, not necessarily the starting, but the closing

737
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 7: and Westbrook has been closing, so we'll see if that

738
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Speaker 7: continues through out into the playoffs. My guess is yes,

739
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 7: because there are flashes you see with Westbrook where he's creating,

740
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 7: where he's getting easy shots for Kawhi, for Paul George.

741
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 7: He is a better passer, I think than Terrence Man.

742
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Speaker 7: That's probably his one check mark that you would give

743
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 7: him for sure. But yeah, it comes back to bite

744
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 7: you at the end of games.

745
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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 7: That being said, I thought this was a pretty solid

747
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 7: win for Minnesota all things considered. They forced twenty four

748
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 7: turnovers from the Clippers, which is great. They scored sixty

749
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 7: points in the paint. The Timberwolves did go Beart had

750
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 7: a really good game. Duncan a lot. Kyle Anderson I

751
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 7: thought was incredible, keeping him involved throughout the game. And

752
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 7: then Anderson made a couple of great plays down the stretch.

753
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 7: Hit a real slow mo kind of floater I think

754
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 7: nobody thought he was actually gonna shoot it, knocked it down,

755
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 7: then had a brilliant cut on the baseline, gets a

756
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 7: dish from Anthony Edwards. As soon as it touches Anderson's hands,

757
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 7: he sholvels it to go bear, cutting down the lane

758
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 7: for the dunk that really sealed things.

759
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 1: Two clutch plays from him. He's a lynchpin player for

760
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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves.

761
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and McDaniel's played really, really well from Minnesota too,

762
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 4: on both ends. He had a nice little stretch here

763
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 4: actually over the last couple of games, even though they

764
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 4: were dropping some of them. As for that Warriors game,

765
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 4: wild stat from Statitudes, the Warriors trailed the Blazers by

766
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 4: seventeen and a half but flipped the script in the

767
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 4: second half, outscoring the Blazers by thirty five points on

768
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 4: their way to the one twenty three, one toh five wins.

769
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 4: So the Warriors are just the third team in NBA

770
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 4: history to win a game by at least seventeen points

771
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 4: after trailing at halftime by at least seventeen points. That

772
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 4: is quite the swing when you really think about it.

773
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Speaker 4: The Suns did it in twenty fifteen, the Heat did

774
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 4: it in twenty eighteen, and now the Warriors in twenty

775
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 4: twenty three. And Jerome. Go ahead, throw up the Western

776
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 4: Conference standings here like we did with the East, and

777
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 4: shout out to the Spurs by the way for beating

778
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 4: the Utah Jazz. They snapped their sixteen game losing streak.

779
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 4: But here's a lookout of tasks. The Warriors are you know,

780
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 4: now in fifth or tied with the Clippers basically win

781
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 4: percentage wise five and six, and then it's MAVs in

782
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 4: the play in right now at seven, Wolves at eight,

783
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 4: Jazz at nine, Pelicans hanging on for dear life at ten.

784
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 4: Bad loss by the Blazers drops them to eleventh, then

785
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 4: the Lakers and the Thunder Any thoughts on the West standings.

786
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 6: It's a situation where everybody four through thirteen is you

787
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 6: can look at it, glass half fol glass half empty.

788
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 6: They every single team's like, yeah, we got a shot,

789
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 6: but also, you know, we give up every second game,

790
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 6: and that's why they're in this scenario. It is crazy

791
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 6: to see the Golden State Warriors up there in the standings.

792
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 5: It just feels like.

793
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 6: Because they had championship aspirations, like Anchor has been out

794
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:52,919
Speaker 6: for so long, it just feels like they.

795
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:53,439
Speaker 5: Should be lower.

796
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 6: But because no one's pulling away aside from the top

797
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 6: three seeds, they could have homecor advantage.

798
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, let's take our first break. When we come back,

799
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:09,280
Speaker 4: we're gonna talk about championship contenders versus pretenders and TK

800
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 4: is going to add on to Mike Workanoff's NBA All

801
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Speaker 4: Fun team. That's gonna be a blast. So I'm going

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Speaker 4: fascinating time here of the NBA schedule where we just

813
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 4: went through the standings. We're like six weeks to go

814
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 4: twenty games. Anxiety starting to creep in for some of

815
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Speaker 4: these teams. And yesterday John Hollinger he harnessed that pressure

816
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 4: and he narrowed his championship contender list down to just

817
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 4: three teams, Milwaukee, Boston and Denver. That's it, according to

818
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Speaker 4: John Hollinger. And he did this like his determination came

819
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 4: like from like analysis of previous champs, right, So he

820
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 4: looked at the last NBA champions and what they had

821
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 4: in common when it comes to like records and where

822
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 4: they are. Of the past twenty six champions, forty five

823
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 4: of the forty six in the post merger era had

824
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 4: a top three record in their conference. So that was

825
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 4: a big one. And of the last forty three champions,

826
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 4: forty two to won at least fifty two games, pro

827
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 4: rated in some instances to an eighty two game season

828
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Speaker 4: in their title season. And so that's why tasks he

829
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 4: comes down to just these three teams that he thinks

830
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 4: that are the only ones that are like going to

831
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 4: sort of tick those boxes in terms of top three

832
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 4: in a conference and fifty two plus wins, all these

833
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 4: teams really on pace for like fifty six, fifty seven

834
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Speaker 4: to fifty eight stuff like that. What do you think

835
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Speaker 4: of this article from Hollinger? And then we can get

836
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 4: into whether he's missing a team or two.

837
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Speaker 6: At first, I said, how dare you, John? How dare

838
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 6: you limit us to just three championship contenders? I want

839
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 6: to believe going into the postseason. But I have been

840
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 6: thinking like this the last couple weeks, and yeah, it's

841
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 6: it's totally true. I think he's basically spot on. I

842
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 6: think we can go through the teams in the Eastern Conference.

843
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 6: He's got Milwaukee and Boston up there, and there's sort

844
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 6: of a glut of teams below. Let's start with the

845
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 6: Miami Heat. They're the one seed last year, but they

846
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,879
Speaker 6: don't have a very good offense. That's why they picked

847
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 6: up Kevin Love and they're starting him. Who the heck

848
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 6: is their starting shooting guard? Max Shrews hasn't been good

849
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 6: enough like last year. Duncan Rumpson obviously isn't there. They're

850
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 6: throwing in Tyler Hero because they have the twenty seventh

851
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 6: best offense because Kyle Lowry isn't playing. So I just

852
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 6: think that you watch this team offensively. I said the

853
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 6: Knicks were better, and I think they are a tiny

854
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 6: step up in then at the championship contender realm and

855
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 6: they're closer to a top ten offense and top ten defense,

856
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 6: which is a hallmark of an NBA champion team as well.

857
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 5: They're not quite there on the offensive side.

858
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 6: Is Jalen Brunson gonna be Jalen Brunson from the first

859
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 6: round series against the Utah Jazz last year. I think

860
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 6: that would take them up into the category, potentially knocking

861
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 6: off and Milwaukee or Boston. But I don't think they're

862
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 6: quite there yet either. So then there's a couple more teams,

863
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 6: the Calves, who have got all the signs of a

864
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 6: championship team. They've got the superstar, they've got great defense,

865
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Speaker 6: among the top couple defenses in the league, and they

866
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 6: can shoot the.

867
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 5: Three at times enough as well.

868
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 6: But I said, you know, just like the Grizzlies in

869
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 6: the opposing Western Conference that we'll get to in a second,

870
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 6: their offense just kind of it MUCKs up a lot

871
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 6: at the end.

872
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 5: They just don't know who they are.

873
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 6: Mitchell gets into the lane, the passes just get bumbled

874
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 6: because they don't throw out to the three point shooters

875
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 6: enough because they're thrown into MOBILEI their offense is not fluid.

876
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 5: They get in holes.

877
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 6: And that brings us to the Sixers that we would

878
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 6: think is probably the team that could that could really

879
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:05,280
Speaker 6: beg the fourth contender here if if you want to believe,

880
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,919
Speaker 6: you can believe. But it sure feels like there's there's

881
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 6: a lot of question marks with this team. They're gonna

882
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 6: have to depend on Maxie a lot coming off the bench,

883
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 6: which is a new role for him, because they're only

884
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 6: basically three really really steady players. And if you have

885
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 6: Maxi who's in a new role and he's not playing well,

886
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,919
Speaker 6: you're gonna come You're gonna rely on Harden a lot.

887
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 6: And then you've got uh, you know, besides Harden, you know,

888
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 6: not performing all the time in the postseason, You've got

889
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 6: Joelmbiide at the top, who is a freaking m VP

890
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 6: and could obviously m VP like UH player who could

891
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 6: you know, win you a series. But there's question marks

892
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 6: there too. He's got to sit during games, he gets

893
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 6: injured with freak accidents all the time. And are the

894
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 6: other guys going to step up and support him? I

895
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 6: don't know if Tobias Harre's gonna do it.

896
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 5: PJ.

897
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 6: Tucker doesn't want to shoot. There's holes and you know,

898
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 6: like the other day when they lost to the Celtics,

899
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 6: he said, this is my life. It feels like, you know,

900
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 6: they're they they could just teeter and in a postseason series.

901
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 6: We just haven't seen them Number one get to a

902
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 6: conference final, and then you know, and then the next step,

903
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 6: which is you know, take on three teams in the East,

904
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 6: so I can understand why there's only two that you

905
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 6: would believe in. But the Sixers, it's kind of it's

906
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 6: on Harden and Maxi to some degree to be incredible.

907
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 5: Can you buy that because you know Dad's gonna be great.

908
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 5: So that's that's the question there.

909
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 6: They have the parts, but also you squint and you

910
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 6: say they don't have the parts, so they got to

911
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 6: prove it. I guess is what it comes down to.

912
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 4: What do you think Trey about Hollander not including the

913
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 4: Sixers as a legit title contender. And a big part

914
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 4: of it, I guess is like Holder is saying they're

915
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 4: probably not going to get the fifty two wins right,

916
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 4: They're not going to meet his criteria or at least

917
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 4: previous champions criteria of like sort of that fifty two,

918
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 4: you know, fifty three win mark because they have a

919
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 4: very tough road schedule here and they're only have thirty nine.

920
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 4: They'd have to win still a lot. But do you

921
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 4: think they should be included?

922
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 8: No?

923
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 7: I think the only way the Sixers would be included

924
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 7: as a title contender on anybody's idle contending tier is

925
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 7: if they were on pace for sixty five wins. Because

926
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 7: everybody has questions about Harden and Embiid come playoff time. Harden,

927
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 7: we've seen, has had a number of high profile duds

928
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 7: in big time games. And Embiid, like you're saying tasks,

929
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 7: even at his absolute best, he's probably playing like thirty

930
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 7: five to thirty eight minutes at night, and the Sixers

931
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 7: have yet to figure out what to do in the

932
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 7: ten minutes that Joel Embiid is on the bench, and

933
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 7: that can lose games, that can lose series pretty quickly

934
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 7: for him. So the Sixers this entire season, I know

935
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 7: Tass and I were pretty high on them in the preseason,

936
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 7: thinking they were going to be great in the regular season.

937
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,720
Speaker 7: They've strung together a real nice stretch here after starting

938
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 7: off slow. But it has always been a question of

939
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 7: prove it come playoff time. You gotta be one of

940
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 7: these top two teams in the Bucks and the Celtics,

941
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 7: who everybody knew were gonna be the top two teams.

942
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 7: They showed up this season basically from the jump and

943
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 7: have played really, really well.

944
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: The Sixers have rounded into form.

945
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,399
Speaker 7: They've got their best looking team since the Jimmy era

946
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 7: at the very least, and even that was really only

947
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 7: half a season.

948
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: This is the most complete team they've had, so it's

949
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: their best shot.

950
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 7: But it's hard to trust them come playoff time until

951
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 7: we've seen it happen.

952
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 4: I do think I wonder if Hollinger includes them though,

953
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 4: if they win one, if not both, of these last

954
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 4: two games where they lose by one possession to the

955
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 4: Celtics and they lose by one possession to the Miami Heat,

956
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 4: Like those are tough els, but let's say they pull

957
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 4: those out. Let's say they win them. That's like a

958
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 4: seven game win streak. That's forty plus wins at this point,

959
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 4: obviously top three in the conference. I mean, I don't know,

960
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 4: maybe that, I mean it changes his mind a little bit,

961
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 4: And that's fair because those are gonna be games or

962
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 4: teams are gonna have to beat, and that's the biggest hurdle.

963
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 4: It's like, you got to convince yourself that the Sixers

964
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 4: are gonna be able to beat probably both the Bucks

965
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 4: and the Celtics. That's where a lot of people are

966
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 4: gonna be one maybe possibly both. Eugh, when everybody's healthy,

967
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 4: If everybody healthy, that's a lot more difficult to convince myself,

968
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 4: even though they have an MVP guy and be they

969
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 4: got hard and obviously is incredible still, I mean, he's

970
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 4: got approven in the playoffs. But they do have good

971
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 4: role players, defensive minded guys. They're a good three point

972
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 4: shooting team. They have the pieces here, but they're in

973
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 4: a very tough Eastern Conference. As for the West, is

974
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 4: the biggest wildcard task the Suns, Like, we got to

975
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 4: see Kevin Durant play tonight with that team and then

976
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 4: and whether or not they can sort of get up

977
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 4: in the Western Conference standings here.

978
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, if this was the baseball standings, they would get

979
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,439
Speaker 6: the wild card for sure going into the playoffs. Yeah,

980
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 6: it feels like a team that it's gonna give everybody

981
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 6: a real, real tough series, especially because they do have

982
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 6: the framework for a championship team. They did get to

983
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 6: the finals two years ago, and so now you're adding

984
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 6: in Kevin Durant and they have dropped a fourth in

985
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 6: the standings, So that's not usually where a championship team

986
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,120
Speaker 6: comes from, right, But They're best player for most to

987
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 6: the season was injured, I mean half the season. I

988
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,280
Speaker 6: guess you'd call it with Devin Booker.

989
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:06,800
Speaker 5: So that's a big part of it.

990
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 6: And now they've got a better, better, best player I

991
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 6: hold on a better best player and Kevin Durant coming in.

992
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 5: So yeah, I think they are the wild card for sure.

993
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 6: So Hollinger Arman has Denver as the only contender in

994
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 6: the Western Conference. I can buy it. I've questioned the

995
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 6: Grizzlies offense. It's totally they literally have you know that.

996
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:32,280
Speaker 6: I think it's now around the nineteenth twentieth best offense.

997
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,839
Speaker 6: You got to have a top ten offense. They get

998
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 6: a lot of their points from fast break, points off turnovers,

999
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 6: and that just changes in the postseason. You just got

1000
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 6: to have a better half court offense. And so it's

1001
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 6: like the Calves to me, Calves maybe just don't have

1002
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 6: enough shooting. Grizzlies maybe don't have enough shooting. The Calves

1003
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 6: mucket up a little bit. The Grizzlies mucket up a

1004
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,839
Speaker 6: little bit. They just want Drummerant going straight to the rim.

1005
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,879
Speaker 6: And as series go on, I think Moran's gonna get

1006
00:47:56,000 --> 00:48:01,359
Speaker 6: a little bit more hanged up as a slow down,

1007
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 6: I guess is one word. They are going to get

1008
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 6: physical with them. So their offense just isn't great, So

1009
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 6: I think that's fair even though they record wise, they

1010
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 6: have the second best record to knock them down. The

1011
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 6: Kings is an interesting one. I know, no one you know,

1012
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 6: throwing them in anywhere near the championship bubble, but they

1013
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 6: are the three seed and they're they're their defense is

1014
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 6: just too too bad. Yeah, it's it's just it's not

1015
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 6: it's not championship worthy. So then there's Phoenix, and then

1016
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 6: there's Golden State and the Clippers. Golden State is such

1017
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 6: a strange one because, yeah, they're on They're seven to

1018
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 6: twenty three on the road, even if they get Curry back.

1019
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 6: I mean, they have to win three probably three two

1020
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 6: to three series on the road to get to the finals.

1021
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 5: Just kind of feels like the end here.

1022
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 6: But they have that championship pedigre. It's just hard to repeat.

1023
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 6: I don't know if they can do it. And then

1024
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 6: the Clippers so many questions that they've gave to themselves

1025
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 6: by adding Russell Westbrook in here, changing their rotation. So

1026
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 6: I think, yeah, right now, Denver the number one, Memphis

1027
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 6: knocking on the door, but Phoenix could be knocking on

1028
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 6: the door. You know, kick Memphis aside and be the

1029
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 6: ones who are truly the ones that will deal with

1030
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 6: the Nuggets best.

1031
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 4: What do you think in the West, Tray Denver stands

1032
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 4: alone or do you think somebody or if not, other

1033
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 4: teams should be included.

1034
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 7: Denver is my only Tier one team, But I've got

1035
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 7: the Suns as a Tier one point five, like I've

1036
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 7: got a little. I need to see what they look like,

1037
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 7: but I think they could definitely be better than the

1038
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 7: Grizzlies come playoff.

1039
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: Time, because once it comes down to the playoffs, you got.

1040
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,240
Speaker 7: To have somebody who can make contested mid range jumpers,

1041
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 7: and the Suns have the best player at making contested

1042
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 7: midrange jumpers. They also have Devin Booker, one of the

1043
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 7: five bests, and then they have Chris Paul who can

1044
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 7: still do it occasionally, especially now that he's the third

1045
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 7: guy taking the jumpers. That is a team that is

1046
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 7: absolutely built for the playoffs. When you're only playing seven

1047
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 7: to eight guys anyways, that's about all they've got to play.

1048
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 7: So as long as they're able to get up to

1049
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 7: speed pretty quickly go into the playoffs with full health,

1050
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:04,800
Speaker 7: that's a team to be reckoned with.

1051
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hollander, even in his piece here he wrote, can

1052
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 4: Phoenix win enough to get into the top three, which history,

1053
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 4: of course says is an important hurdle for contender legitimacy.

1054
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 4: That should be the goal from here for the Suns,

1055
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 4: and it seems attainable. The Sons have to make up

1056
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 4: four games in the lost column on Sacramento, but they

1057
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 4: play the Kings twice and they would own the tiebreaker

1058
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 4: even with a split. So the you know, the Kings

1059
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 4: have played phenomenal here, but we're gonna find out tonight.

1060
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 4: I think Katie is playing in Charlotte, and you know

1061
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 4: they're gonna have twenty games to see what the lineup is, like,

1062
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 4: the minutes allocation, who is helping, who's the starters with

1063
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 4: around these stars? So yeah, you guys nailed It's it's

1064
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,919
Speaker 4: Denver alone. And then you can convince yourself, of course,

1065
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 4: because of the talent, because of Phoenix, because of the

1066
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 4: championship pedigree, the Warriors, the Grizzlies, like they're hit and miss.

1067
00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 4: It's like can they get hot at the right time? Sure,

1068
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 4: But I guess my point is I think Hollins just right,

1069
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:07,280
Speaker 4: Like I would be betting on one of those three teams, Milwaukee, Boston,

1070
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 4: and Denver to win the title, and I wouldn't feel

1071
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 4: as comfortable betting on any of the other teams to

1072
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,320
Speaker 4: do it. So we'll see, all right. Moving on to

1073
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:19,399
Speaker 4: another great article last week, Mike vorkanoff fun Piece, literally fun.

1074
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 4: It was his all fun team and he created it.

1075
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 4: I'm gonna share his squad with you guys in a second,

1076
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 4: but he wrote, I wanted to make a team of

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00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 4: players that I have the most fun watching. They're not

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00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 4: necessarily the best players, the most well rounded, or on

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00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 4: playoff teams or whatever. They're not the ones generating the

1080
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 4: most buzz TikTok views or trade rumors. This is a

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00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 4: personal list. These are the players that are fun to

1082
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 4: watch for me. Now, Mike did have one rule. He

1083
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 4: could only put one All Star on his team, which

1084
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 4: I think is fair because otherwise he was gonna have

1085
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 4: like it was gonna be like an all star team. Really,

1086
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 4: So this is Mike Vorkanoff's NBA All Fun Team. He

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00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 4: did the starters and then the reserves. Here's your starters,

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00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 4: John Moran, Okay, there's his all Star, Jellen Brunson, Jeremy

1089
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 4: Sohan with the Spurs, bol Bowl Baby, and then one

1090
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 4: of your favorites, TK Shen Goun. Okay, that's the starters,

1091
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:17,359
Speaker 4: his reserves, Jose Alvarado, Sharp Blazer's rookie high flyer.

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00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: He was last night.

1093
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, big, Big Dunk, Giddy, Aaron Gordon, and Nick Claxton.

1094
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 4: This is Mike Borkinos all fun team. So Trey went,

1095
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 4: what do you think of his ten selections there? And

1096
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 4: then I know you've got some more name maybe you're

1097
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 4: gonna build your own team, but what do you think overall?

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00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 7: I think this is great, Uh, you know, bull Ball

1099
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 7: to me, probably a little bit of a reach as

1100
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,439
Speaker 7: a first teamer at this point, but I can't hate

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00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 7: on it.

1102
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: The guy's been awesome this season.

1103
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 7: And I actually like what Mike did breaking it down

1104
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 7: with regards to just one single All Star and then

1105
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 7: some guys, you know, kind of hitting around the fringes

1106
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 7: of it in brunts and I had to include more

1107
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 7: on my third team, unfortunately, but I wasn't going for

1108
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:03,839
Speaker 7: the biggest names.

1109
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: I do have one catch name on do have one

1110
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: huge name on it?

1111
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 7: Who I think, Uh, maybe it's just recency bias, but

1112
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 7: he's at least up there with John Moran. That's Damian Lillard. Man,

1113
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 7: this guy is incredible to watch. It's usually deep threes.

1114
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 7: He obviously just scored a seventy one point game, but

1115
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 7: even in that game, he uncorked a dunk that you

1116
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 7: wouldn't expect. And there's always a little bit of the

1117
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 7: game where Lillard is going to catch on fire, and

1118
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 7: when he's on fire, you know he's like hunting down

1119
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,359
Speaker 7: the next shot. I think that's incredibly fun to watch.

1120
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 7: So I got Lillard on my team. Another star, I'm adding,

1121
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 7: but only a one time All Star. Lowry Markinen Wow,

1122
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 7: currently twelf in dunks on the season, tenth and threes.

1123
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 7: He's probably gonna be the only guy in the league

1124
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 7: who gets to one hundred dunks and one hundred three pointers.

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00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 7: He's just a few dunks short at this point. The

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00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 7: only other contenders for one hundred and one hundred, as

1127
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,439
Speaker 7: far as I can tell, our Ognnobi, and Christian would

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00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,800
Speaker 7: pretty weird lists if those are the three guys that

1129
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:05,320
Speaker 7: end up doing it. But Markanen has been awesome to

1130
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 7: watch this season. Bulls fans are convinced that Will Hardy

1131
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 7: just told him to take one more dribble before dunking,

1132
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 7: because like every market in dunk attempt in Chicago was

1133
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 7: from twelve to fifteen feet and now they're all from

1134
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 7: like six to eight feet and it works a lot better.

1135
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 7: He's been really fun to watch. He's thriving in that

1136
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,879
Speaker 7: system there. Now these ones are a little bit more

1137
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 7: of deep cuts. Okay, sort of a deep cut here.

1138
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 7: Good Anthony Edwards. I'm talking December through January. Anthony Edwards

1139
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 7: twenty five points per game, forty seven from the field,

1140
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 7: basically forty from three, and it's all dunks and threes

1141
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 7: with him. He's been more engaged defensively. Had an incredible

1142
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 7: jelly last night through the lanes, finished on on the

1143
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:49,760
Speaker 7: left side with the right hand. I think he's awesome

1144
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 7: to watch when he's cooking, but when he's tired or disengaged,

1145
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 7: not quite as exciting to watch because my man will

1146
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 7: just throw you a double tea pot and see what's happening,

1147
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 7: pulling a jac I'm just watching.

1148
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:04,919
Speaker 1: I just watch it so good. An Edwards makes the list.

1149
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 4: Good Anthony Edwards. You sort of like when you were

1150
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 4: explaining his game there, especially when he was on you

1151
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 4: get like sort of McGrady vibes, like young McGrady vibe. Yeah,

1152
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 4: it's high like Donks, but like obviously can catch fire

1153
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 4: and shoot. Okay, that's a good one.

1154
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 7: Good Anthony Edwards. They're getting more granular. I was also

1155
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 7: making my list Three games of Cam Thomas forty four,

1156
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 7: forty seven, forty three, became the youngest player in NBA

1157
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 7: history to score forty in three straight games. No, he's

1158
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 7: just a rotation guy for the Nets. He's had twenty

1159
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 7: I think three times since the trade deadline basically, but man,

1160
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 7: when he was cooking, that was the best.

1161
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 1: Story in the league for like a week and a half.

1162
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 7: The guy was unstoppable and the Nets were in a

1163
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 7: position where they're like, yeah, man, take every single shot

1164
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:52,319
Speaker 7: you want.

1165
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: That was fun to watch.

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00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it. That's a great one. Three games of

1167
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 4: Cam Tom Three games.

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Speaker 7: Of Cam Thomas makes and then probably my most questionable

1169
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 7: inclusion here Bones Highland against the Denver Nuggets. They just

1170
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 7: played over the weekend. It was a semi revenge game

1171
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 7: for Bones. He took nine shots in nine minutes in

1172
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:18,280
Speaker 7: the first half. I think it was Brian Anderson.

1173
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: Who was on the call. Whoever it was, though, said

1174
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: something like, if you think this.

1175
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 7: Is Bones playing like this because he's playing against his

1176
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 7: former team. No, this is just how he plays. He

1177
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 7: just wants to get some shots up and they're coming.

1178
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter if they're good shots, doesn't matter. If

1179
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 7: he's open, doesn't matter if somebody else is open. He's

1180
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:44,319
Speaker 7: getting some shots up. He was overboard in the game

1181
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 7: against the Nuggets in particular, didn't play the next game

1182
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:48,280
Speaker 7: for the Clippers.

1183
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 1: But I love that Tyleru was.

1184
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:53,959
Speaker 7: Like something special might happen against the Nuggets. We gotta

1185
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 7: at least give him a chance out there. It didn't happen,

1186
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:57,839
Speaker 7: but not from a lack of try.

1187
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:02,479
Speaker 4: All right, So that is Trey NBA all fun team.

1188
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 4: You got Damian Lillard, Lowry market in good Anthony Edwards

1189
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 4: where he had that really nice stretch there. Cam Thomas

1190
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 4: just three games, definitely not last night's Cam Thomas. We

1191
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 4: went for seven and and then bones Hyland in the

1192
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 4: revenge game versus the Nugs. What do you think tasks

1193
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 4: of Tk's list there? And is there anyone else you

1194
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 4: would at least add to your team?

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00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 6: A very solid list, very solid list for sure. It's

1196
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 6: a great league we got because he can find a

1197
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 6: lot of guys.

1198
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 5: I think Jordan Poole could be added.

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00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 6: I just like the limbs being flared everywhere, all the

1200
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 6: ball fakes when he gets into the lane, just because

1201
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 6: he's so thin. It's it's pretty unique when he when

1202
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 6: he gets in there.

1203
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 5: That's it. I think we got.

1204
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 6: I mean, there's so many like if you want to

1205
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 6: get into All Stars, you know, I like Staff, I

1206
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 6: like watching Steph Curry play basketball.

1207
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 4: Giannis is actually very fun to watch.

1208
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, Zion's good if he's playing. Yeah, we could go

1209
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 5: on and I.

1210
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 4: Would have like if I I guess, like so Trey

1211
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 4: what with Dame? Great pick obviously Vorkanoff goes with with

1212
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 4: John Morant. I think for this season alone, just like

1213
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 4: on my list. Obviously I'm playing the Canadian homework card

1214
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 4: a little bit. But Sga is so fun to watch

1215
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 4: and has been all season long, and he just plays

1216
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 4: differently and the way he sneaks in there and his

1217
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 4: his funky release, and I would have him as my like,

1218
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 4: you know, all star on this squad. But you're right,

1219
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 4: you probably go through every roster and easily pick you know,

1220
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 4: one or two, especially us sickos, where you're gonna be like,

1221
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 4: oh yeah, they're fun to watch, especially when they got.

1222
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 7: To go in the thunder have a ton Jalen Williams

1223
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 7: j J. Allen almost made my list. I think he's

1224
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 7: he's got sixty three dunks, fifty threes. He might be

1225
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:44,439
Speaker 7: a one hundred hundred club at some point.

1226
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 4: Wow, that's a good call. Yeah, he's fun as hell

1227
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 4: to watch. He had a great game last night too.

1228
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 4: All right, Well, let's hear from everybody out there, your

1229
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 4: NBA all fun team. Hit us with your starters, hit

1230
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 4: us with your reserves. Maybe try and follow Vorkanoff's rules.

1231
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 4: There only one all star. See who you come up with.

1232
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 4: We're gonna take our final break when we come back.

1233
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 4: Picking results and two count them two tweets of the night.

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00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 4: All right, picking results. We had that Wizard's Hawks game

1235
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 4: to wrap up the month of February Atlanta. They were

1236
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 4: favored by six and a half with that new Quinn

1237
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 4: Snyder bump, and they couldn't even get the victory, let

1238
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 4: alone cover. So I finally got one right to end

1239
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,440
Speaker 4: the month. I had Washington I go to six and

1240
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 4: ten In February, Task went to six and ten and

1241
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 4: Trey eight and eight. Not a great month overall for

1242
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 4: the No Dunks boys. When it comes to picking games.

1243
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:39,959
Speaker 4: But Trey overall still a pretty sizable lead over Tass

1244
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 4: in second, and then I'm way back there, ten games

1245
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 4: behind TK in first. But look we got we got

1246
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 4: a long month of March here to make up some ground.

1247
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 4: Task and let's do it tonight. Let's go get them all.

1248
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 6: Right with our game, Let's go to the battle for

1249
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 6: the play in where the Blazers are trying to go

1250
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:01,439
Speaker 6: get the Pelicans at home in the eleven seed.

1251
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:02,720
Speaker 5: Pelicans are in the ten seed.

1252
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 6: They meet in Portland, Portland favored by two and a

1253
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 6: half points at home to the New Orleans Pelicans. I

1254
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 6: just think the Pelicans will come around, So I'm taking

1255
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 6: them with the two points, while you guys have the

1256
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 6: Blazers to win by three or more.

1257
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, tough to have too much faith in either of

1258
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 4: these teams right now, So I flip a coin. I'll

1259
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,920
Speaker 4: go Blazers is along with Trey Kirby task taken the Pels.

1260
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 4: As we start up the month of March, let's get

1261
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 4: to tweet of the.

1262
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 5: Night, tweet out the night. Wow, Yeah, we.

1263
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 4: Got two tweets before you're here today, One silly one

1264
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:43,439
Speaker 4: maybe a little more serious or at least we could,

1265
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 4: you know, break it down a little more basketball oriented.

1266
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 4: But the first one it's got to do with hoops.

1267
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 4: But I thought of you, Trey, if I'm being honest,

1268
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 4: because this photo or photos from at Ben's Hoops just

1269
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:02,200
Speaker 4: letting worldwide wie no in Salt Lake City, Utah. This

1270
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 4: this travesty here where because of the weather. Maybe you

1271
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 4: know a lot of snow out there. The portable basketball

1272
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:15,920
Speaker 4: net toppling over and crashing through the windshield of this

1273
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 4: person's car. Again, you gotta get your weights on these

1274
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 4: rims on these on these nets. You know you're doing water,

1275
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 4: you're doing sand or you getting extra sandbags. So I know,

1276
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 4: I asked you when you put up your new net, TK,

1277
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 4: did you did you put more weight on it? You

1278
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 4: said you were going to. Is that happened?

1279
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 7: Yet?

1280
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: Unfortunately it's only water right now, skeets.

1281
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 7: I got to play it like Black Street and bag

1282
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:46,120
Speaker 7: it up because this scared me because as soon as

1283
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 7: I saw that photo, I clicked in I enhanced and

1284
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 7: realized the hardware identical to the hardware on the back

1285
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 7: of my hoop.

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Speaker 1: That's the same hoop. Well, that's the thing I most

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Speaker 1: worried about.

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Speaker 7: Is my hoop falling over into my car since I

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Speaker 7: parked basically just like this fella does right underneath the hoop.

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Speaker 7: I guess the good thing is is in Salt Lake City,

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Speaker 7: it's heavy wet snow falling from the sky, so that

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Speaker 7: messes with your your top weight there.

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Speaker 1: Here in Atlanta, it's just lightweight pollen falling from the trees.

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Speaker 7: And I don't necessarily know if that's gonna knock over

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Speaker 7: my hoop, but no doubt I gotta get some sandbags.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it does get windy at times here. Yeah, those

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Speaker 4: sort of sort of almost tornado like weather with those

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Speaker 4: weird storms coming through. Okay, so yeah, I was thinking

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Speaker 4: of you. My favorite comment under this one, by the way,

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Speaker 4: was safe light repair, safe light replace. I laughed out,

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Speaker 4: comments well done. Whoever dropped that one? Our other tweet though,

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Speaker 4: it's from Andrew Sharp Sharp Basketball Mine. He tweeted this

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Speaker 4: got me thinking, is he right?

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Speaker 5: Or is he not?

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Speaker 4: So he tweeted yesterday. Yeah, his fans in twenty twenty quote,

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Speaker 4: He's great, but sure some of the skepticism is fair.

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Speaker 4: He's going to have to prove it in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: NBA Media, twenty twenty three. Quote, you'll Kich is great,

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Speaker 4: and actually if you'd think he's got anything to prove,

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Speaker 4: then you are the problem and you should say sorry

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Speaker 4: to basketball. End quote. Andrew Sharp tasks your thoughts. Does

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Speaker 4: he have a point? Is there is there some truth

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Speaker 4: to that? Or is Sharp way off base?

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Speaker 6: Well that's all about who you follow, and Sharp is

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Speaker 6: following the wrong people. I think, Yeah, you'll get you

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Speaker 6: stuff to prove. If you want to be one of

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Speaker 6: the all time greats, you gotta you gotta win a ship.

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Speaker 6: So yeah, so it just all depends who you follow.

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Speaker 6: So I'm sure people were saying the same thing about

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Speaker 6: Yannis back then. But you know, the algorithm algorithms change,

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Speaker 6: and Sharp got screwed or Sharp started following the wrong people.

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Speaker 4: But what point is Sharp's point? We were saying that

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Speaker 4: back then, that and everyone was like, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 4: that's sort of the way it is. That's unfortunately the

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Speaker 4: way it goes. Whereas I guess in today's new media,

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Speaker 4: or at least with Yogi, I don't know what that

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Speaker 4: if you say that, if you voice that, people clap

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Speaker 4: back at you and say, you know, you know, it's

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Speaker 4: an affront to basketball that you even question that this

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Speaker 4: man has to do it in the playoffs.

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Speaker 6: I'm saying the right people are still saying that. Okay

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Speaker 6: today about the Joker. It was brought up on this

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Speaker 6: show last week. You two time MVP. It's it's fantastic

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Speaker 6: whether he wins three or whatever, that you could be

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Speaker 6: an all time great projection, but you got to win.

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Speaker 6: So yeah, it's it's about the followers. I think that's

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Speaker 6: what it comes down to.

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Speaker 4: Trey thoughts on Sharpe's sweet.

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Speaker 7: I was glad to see this sweet, to be quite honest,

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Speaker 7: because it's felt like a little bit of a coronation

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Speaker 7: for Jokics, as if the MVP discussion is over. And

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Speaker 7: I mean, the guy's putting up a triple double every

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Speaker 7: single night and what he does, the Nuggets always win,

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Speaker 7: So maybe it is over. But seeing the response to

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Speaker 7: this tweet gave me hope that we can still have

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Speaker 7: an MVP debate going further on into the season. We've

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Speaker 7: seen Embiid outplay Yokic in a head to head matchup.

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Speaker 7: They've got another one. If it goes the same way,

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Speaker 7: maybe it's still a discussion. But I don't like the

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Speaker 7: idea of the MVP being decided when there's still twenty

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Speaker 7: games left on the schedule, So that was the main

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Speaker 7: takeaway for me is that people are still going to

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Speaker 7: be fired up to talk MVP, even if it does

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Speaker 7: feel like Jokic maybe has it sewn up at this point.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great point. Let's hear from everybody. What

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Speaker 4: do you think of about Sharp's tweet? Let us know

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Speaker 4: and where you fall here in the MVP discussion? Yokic?

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Speaker 4: Is he a lock in your opinion? Does Impiede still

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Speaker 4: have a chance? Does you honest? You know task was

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Speaker 4: making the case on yesterday's podcast, is honest gonna steal

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Speaker 4: this thing? Let's hear from everybody. Let us know, tweet

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Speaker 4: us at no dunk sink, let us know in the comments,

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Speaker 4: and let's have.

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Speaker 5: A discussion too.

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Speaker 6: Let's have a discussion. I think with Sharp pointing out

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Speaker 6: is that people are simply assholes.

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Speaker 5: It has to be. It has to be one extreme

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Speaker 5: or the other. We can't come in the middle and talk.

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Speaker 5: Let's just talk. It doesn't have to be Yo kitch

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Speaker 5: is good or Yo kitch is bad.

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Speaker 6: You know, there are those players out there that have

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Speaker 6: gone to an NBA finals and haven't won a championship.

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Speaker 6: And or you don't have one MVPs and haven't won

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Speaker 6: a championship. There are levels to this thing, that's all.

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Speaker 5: That's all.

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Speaker 4: Let's call it there. That was a fun show, even

1377
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Speaker 4: though we're here in the yard. Thanks so much to

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Speaker 4: Jerome for producing, Thanks for joining us live. We will

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Speaker 4: be back tomorrow, hopefully in the Classic Factory at ten

1380
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Speaker 4: a m. Eastern to talk about tonight's NBA action and

1381
01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:49,840
Speaker 4: big news. Maybe we'll hit the beach tomorrow, So sending

1382
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Speaker 4: your questions to No Dunks at the Athletic dot Com

1383
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:54,080
Speaker 4: or tweet them in at No Dunks, Inc. And then

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01:06:54,600 --> 01:07:00,280
Speaker 4: later on Thursday, No Buffs returns two hour premiere sod

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Speaker 4: of Survivor forty four. If you are a fan, it's

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01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 4: a great time to get in. We're gonna fire up

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01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 4: our pool again. Some prizes up for grabs, so yeah,

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Speaker 4: you'll have time with that pool. By the way, don't

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01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:13,040
Speaker 4: freak out, We're not gonna start it until the second

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Speaker 4: week of the show again. Just get everybody in, get

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Speaker 4: everybody situated. But yeah, tomorrow morning, No Dunks Tomorrow afternoon,

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Speaker 4: No Buffs can't wait. Guys. Always great to see you,

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Speaker 4: even if it is in digital form until tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Clipper Rose, you heard it here first. Have a great time,

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Speaker 1: turn up.

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Speaker 8: Love you guys awesome, Thanks for joining us, and remember

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Speaker 8: when it comes to the number of championship contenders in

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Speaker 8: the NBA oo, we we think just like Johnny.

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Speaker 6: Holly Oh, there is not even four.

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Speaker 5: Oh, don't care what they say about this on on

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01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,960
Speaker 5: I don't really like them. I didn't hear that, but

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Speaker 5: whatever's not that.

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Speaker 4: Brace the day, people,