Speaker 1: On this episode of This League, we discussed two horrific
Speaker 1: injury updates, the interesting reason why the trade deadline might
Speaker 1: be more boring than you think it will be or
Speaker 1: hope it will be. What's happening with Brad Stevens and
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics, And it's not good? And we answer
Speaker 1: some more listener, DM, God damn, did we get some
Speaker 1: bad bad news over the weekend. We have to have
Speaker 1: pissed off the basketball gods, Marty. It's multiple marquee stars,
Speaker 1: the faces of the league just falling like Domino's. Saturday night,
Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball, absolute electric rookie broke his fall on a
Speaker 1: drive to the basket against the Clippers. Didn't look like
Speaker 1: much and in fact he was probable going into Sunday's game.
Speaker 1: But no fractured right wrist. He came out of the half.
Speaker 1: This is crazy. He came out of the half he
Speaker 1: was favoring his right hand. Then still played the third quarter,
Speaker 1: still played part of the fourth quarter. So now LaMelo
Speaker 1: came back with an X ray fractured right wrist, believed
Speaker 1: to be out for this season. Thoughts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's just tough and the Hornets have
Speaker 2: been one of my favorite league pass teams. I've been
Speaker 2: a huge Lamello supporter. They're so awesome to watch, so
Speaker 2: this is horrible to see. It really hurts their playoff chances.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it was weird. It really didn't look like
Speaker 2: much at the start. But you know, when your riskins
Speaker 2: that way, you can't really play basketball with it. It's
Speaker 2: just too bad.
Speaker 1: Floppy wrist. Terrible a blow. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: blow to the Hornets, but also the blow to the
Speaker 1: rest of the league. He has been the Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year for sure. I don't know where that how
Speaker 1: that changes his rookie of the Year hopes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've still got that ticket, so I'm hoping. I'm
Speaker 2: hoping it still counts. I think he's played enough games.
Speaker 1: I hope. And that came right after that injury came
Speaker 1: right after Lebron basically co signed for LaMelo. He said,
Speaker 1: Lamello is damn good to be at his age. His speed,
Speaker 1: his quickness, his ability to make shots at all, fastest
Speaker 1: of the game in the paint, floaters, threes. He has
Speaker 1: the three tiers already and he's only going to get
Speaker 1: better every game. He is a learning experience for him,
Speaker 1: He's going to get better as the season goes and
Speaker 1: his career goes on. I love it when players or
Speaker 1: coaches evaluate other players based on skills and not on stats,
Speaker 1: like I love that Lebron did that. So then moving
Speaker 1: on irony to all ironies, Lebron himself now injured as well,
Speaker 1: after an entire almost an entire career, right, Marty, seventeen
Speaker 1: years he's been healthy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the only one I remember that groin injury.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, and the groin injury in twenty eighteen, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was like bullshit. That was basically like, we're not
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs, nothing matters, Let's just put Lebron
Speaker 1: James on ice. He went down also on Saturday with
Speaker 1: what looked like a gruesome ankle injury rt row as
Speaker 1: I would say, could not be a worse scenario for
Speaker 1: the NBA. LaMelo and Lebron go going down in the
Speaker 1: same day is like a Black Friday. Lebron wincing in
Speaker 1: a way that no one has seen before. I've never
Speaker 1: seen Lebron yell like that, look like that, scream like that.
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma said that he had never seen him scream
Speaker 1: like that. X rays came back negative, but he now
Speaker 1: has been diagnosed with a high ankle sprain and is
Speaker 1: out indefinitely. So this guy, Solomon Hill, look like a
Speaker 1: cheap shot. Look like he dove after his ankle. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's hard to say. Do you think it
Speaker 1: was dirty or no?
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm gonna get him the benefit of doubt.
Speaker 2: I know, I think that's kind of reaching a little bit.
Speaker 1: His teammates were irate. Mantrez Harrell said, I don't really
Speaker 1: feel like it was one of those loose ball plays.
Speaker 1: He had to go through his leg to get the ball. Man,
Speaker 1: he was turned sideways, the ball was behind him. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're jumping at an angle going across his way. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you feel that's a loose ball, and
Speaker 1: watching it back, it does not look great. Solomon Hill tweeted,
Speaker 1: I would never disrespect the game and take a player
Speaker 1: out purposely, and Lebron knows that that's all that matters
Speaker 1: to me. Praying for a speedy recovery. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: no one in their right mind, if they're gonna go
Speaker 1: after a player to injure them, would try to injure
Speaker 1: Lebron James like I just don't think that's a thing.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a thing. What that sort of
Speaker 1: highlights to me is all of a sudden, I felt like, man,
Speaker 1: father time is happening. Father Time is undefeated, as is
Speaker 1: the universe. Lebron James is thirty six, right, And all
Speaker 1: I'm thinking is, I hope we don't get Lebron James's
Speaker 1: time stolen from us. I hope that this isn't one
Speaker 1: of those things where it's serious serious. You saw Lebron
Speaker 1: James throw a chair, which is not something that you
Speaker 1: normally see, went to the locker room, and you're like, man,
Speaker 1: you only get so much time with the greats. Every
Speaker 1: game we get to watch Lebron James is special because
Speaker 1: it's something that's not going to come around again. Once
Speaker 1: it's over. It's like a fucking you know, comment in
Speaker 1: the sky or something. Right, You get it like once
Speaker 1: every three four hundred and twenty years or something like that,
Speaker 1: and once it's gone, it's gone. Like if you're not
Speaker 1: there for the Solo Moon or whatever it's called, you know,
Speaker 1: like you're just never gonna see it again. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of where my head goes. Lebron has been playing
Speaker 1: seventeen years. How many more games are we gonna get?
Speaker 1: Every game he's sitting on the bench is a game
Speaker 1: I could have been watching. Because this season is this
Speaker 1: season regardless of It's not like a miles on a
Speaker 1: car right Like, It's not like, oh, because he didn't
Speaker 1: play these sixteen games, we get sixteen more in two
Speaker 1: twenty seven. No, that's just not how it's gonna go.
Speaker 1: I want Lebron to play till he's forty five, and
Speaker 1: it would kill me if a high ankle sprain limits
Speaker 1: his career. This guy, Ryan Whitney, NHL player, host of
Speaker 1: The Spit and Chicklets podcast, has come on record at
Speaker 1: length about how a high ankle sprain ended his career early.
Speaker 1: It's not something to fuck around with. So the optimism,
Speaker 1: because yes, I know, I lead with cynicism, that's just
Speaker 1: who I am. The optimism is its Lebron James. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been healthy for seventeen years for a reason, and
Speaker 1: I don't think it's all genetics. I think he takes
Speaker 1: obsessive care of his body. He pays so much time
Speaker 1: and attention to what works for him, how to keep
Speaker 1: himself healthy on the court and off the court, his nutrition,
Speaker 1: his soft tissue work, all of that stuff. I don't
Speaker 1: think that there's anyone who knows themselves in their body
Speaker 1: as well as Lebron unless we put Tom Brady in
Speaker 1: that mix. But in terms of the West, holy shit,
Speaker 1: is it now wide open. We don't know how long
Speaker 1: Lebron James is gonna be out for AD's out. This
Speaker 1: team is in disarray, just got blown out to the
Speaker 1: Hawks without him, Yo, you could lose the next fifteen.
Speaker 1: And where does that put you? You know, where that
Speaker 1: puts you as a serious threat? Like could you just
Speaker 1: imagine your son's marty second seed? You've been doing all
Speaker 1: this work all season long, the stats. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about this on Friday Show. We've been putting it off
Speaker 1: for weeks now. The Suns are a fucking wagon. They're
Speaker 1: gonna probably get the second seed in the West now,
Speaker 1: and now you might face the Lakers as a seventh seed?
Speaker 1: How about that? How about them apples?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't
Speaker 2: a thought of mine. Actually, one of my first thoughts,
Speaker 2: I mean admittedly, was like, oh, this actually puts us
Speaker 2: in good position to actually make a run, which we
Speaker 2: already were, but you know, having the Lakers out of
Speaker 2: the pictures certainly helps that. But then I thought, oh wait,
Speaker 2: like they're gonna slip and we're gonna get them earlier.
Speaker 2: And we thought, aren't we.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you really want them, you really want them
Speaker 1: as a one seed.
Speaker 2: That would be a very Phoenix Suns thing to happen.
Speaker 1: Oh man, how about them apples? Fuck that? This league,
Speaker 1: I think we have expected, based around probably the news,
Speaker 1: that things are gonna be explosive around the deadline, a
Speaker 1: lot of fireworks, multi team trades, marquee players going in
Speaker 1: new locations. Things are happening, bubbling up, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it just seems sort of weak. Now,
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like maybe anything is gonna happen, Maybe no
Speaker 1: one gets traded. We've been hearing so many rumors. Harrison Barnes,
Speaker 1: Buddy Healed, John Collins, Vutovich, Lonzo Ball. I just don't
Speaker 1: see it now. One GM said expect a snoozefest at
Speaker 1: the deadline. It was like a synonym to snoozefest. It
Speaker 1: might have been snoozefest, but it was something like that.
Speaker 1: The question, though, is why, And I was doing some digging,
Speaker 1: and I think I have an answer. I think it
Speaker 1: is because of how this play in tournament has altered
Speaker 1: the NBA. Right, hear me out, I would call that
Speaker 1: March Men is for the NBA, Marty. The East has
Speaker 1: been just an absolute dumpster fire. As we know, fourth
Speaker 1: place in the East is only four games over five hundred,
Speaker 1: which would put you right around the tenth spot in
Speaker 1: the West.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean when you look at the East, like
Speaker 2: four through ten, it's just those records are just absolutely gross,
Speaker 2: and like teams like aren't even like really out of
Speaker 2: the ten honestly, like Cleveland still has a chance to
Speaker 2: maybe get in. It's weird.
Speaker 1: It is weird two games away. I would say, because
Speaker 1: of the pandemic, that ten spot, as you said, Marty,
Speaker 1: actually means something normally would mean fucking nothing. Be zero,
Speaker 1: It would mean your job is in trouble as a coach,
Speaker 1: you as a player have underperformed, and you're looking for
Speaker 1: some ping pong balls to come your way. But now
Speaker 1: with this new playing tournament, there are only five teams
Speaker 1: without hope in each conference. Five twenty out of thirty
Speaker 1: teams have hope. Hope is one hell of a drug,
Speaker 1: I tell you what makes you do all kinds of
Speaker 1: crazy things. And the fact that the East is trash
Speaker 1: this year. All of a sudden, only two teams really,
Speaker 1: Detroit and Orlando are out of it. Wow. Everyone in
Speaker 1: the East else besides them has hope. That's how you
Speaker 1: get an Atlanta Hawks team that was left for dead,
Speaker 1: going eight and two in their last ten, holding on
Speaker 1: to the four seed, like, hmmm, I don't think we
Speaker 1: want to trade anyone. And guess what, there's only five
Speaker 1: games between tenth and fifth in the East. Who is
Speaker 1: gonna go on that next eight and two run. Who
Speaker 1: is gonna go on that next two and eight slump?
Speaker 1: Washington Toronto? Who knows? Both teams of those have had
Speaker 1: five game winning streaks are more this year, so everyone
Speaker 1: everyone seems to have either rational or irrational hope. I
Speaker 1: don't know really which one it is. But if they
Speaker 1: go on a run, they can even avoid the playing
Speaker 1: tournament like the Hawks. Now, the Hawks are just firmly
Speaker 1: in it. They're just a playoff team.
Speaker 2: Now you look up and they're fourth in the East. Hilario.
Speaker 2: You kind of think of them as like not really
Speaker 2: a bad team, but you don't really think of them
Speaker 2: much and then all of a sudden they're the four seed.
Speaker 1: Is totally So the question is, if you're a team
Speaker 1: like the Hawks, why would you be a seller When
Speaker 1: you have hope and you're firmly in the four seed
Speaker 1: and things are working, you've won eight straight. Shout out
Speaker 1: to Nate McMillan. If you have hope and you're a
Speaker 1: coach on one of these not so good teams and
Speaker 1: you can sneak into that ten spot and you only
Speaker 1: need to win one game to make it to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: have that on your resume and say to the owner, listen,
Speaker 1: team is fucking gritty. We have perseverance. All these buzzwords,
Speaker 1: all these little buzzwords that we put on your calendar
Speaker 1: that we've talked about before with the Man in the Rock,
Speaker 1: like you just start spitting those out to your owner
Speaker 1: and you might save your job. Okay, of course, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna beat the Sixers in the seven game series.
Speaker 1: The owner doesn't expect that. But you have playoff team
Speaker 1: in your Wikipedia profile. Now that's all the batters. Maybe
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid has back spasms, knock on something, and you
Speaker 1: get one or two games from the Sixers. Now that's
Speaker 1: really something to make some noise about. You say, we're
Speaker 1: just one piece or two away. We can really contend.
Speaker 1: You can just lie, you can just literally make up
Speaker 1: a scenario that does not exist and stay alive, which
Speaker 1: is it's a dirty game. But that's what the NBA is.
Speaker 1: Everyone just sort of trying to like scheme and alter
Speaker 1: the landscape of the truth to stay employed because they
Speaker 1: make millions and millions of dollars, right, that's the business.
Speaker 1: Coaches can influence ownership to not get rid of players
Speaker 1: because they're like, Yo, we're close. Let's keep going the
Speaker 1: way that we're going. We've won eight in a row.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, they're like, yeah, why not. Now
Speaker 1: you've got games in June instead of thinking about the lottery.
Speaker 1: You know, And let me tell you, I love it.
Speaker 1: I love hope. I love seeing teams actually try to
Speaker 1: compete instead of deciding to hang it up in April.
Speaker 1: I don't like purposeful mediocrity or purposeful trash play, right,
Speaker 1: and the minnos of the league. It's very very good for.
Speaker 1: But as it relates to the trademarket, because that's what
Speaker 1: this segment is about, it's very bad for teams that
Speaker 1: are used to feasting off the poor, unfortunate, perennial losers,
Speaker 1: the poor unfortunate souls, as Ursula would say, right, just
Speaker 1: like suckling off of their desperation to make a move
Speaker 1: to try to rebuild for the future, twisting their arms
Speaker 1: like you know what, this is what you need to do,
Speaker 1: or you're gonna lose your job. At least you're gonna
Speaker 1: try to do something. Get a lottery, ping pong ball
Speaker 1: and get some assets from us and some picks for
Speaker 1: the future, and we're gonna take your best player. That's
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. They're like, yo, this is Danny Ainge. Yo,
Speaker 1: I'll give you Jeff Tigue a first rounder in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, a second round pick in exchange for Vucevich.
Speaker 1: And now Orlando's like goddamn, And Danny Ainge is like,
Speaker 1: you know why, cause you're desperate. You have to do something.
Speaker 1: You're rebuilding. This player does not want to be with you.
Speaker 1: And now a team like Orlando, even though Orlando's out
Speaker 1: of it, they're like, oh, you want vouch, give us
Speaker 1: three first rounders and Marcus Smart because you, Boston are desperate.
Speaker 1: You are the one the tables are turned. You're sitting there,
Speaker 1: maybe gonna get bounced, maybe not even gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Isn't that a bitch? That's typically how good teams stay
Speaker 1: good and the bad teams stay bad. You've got predators
Speaker 1: like Danny Ainge basically exploiting teams like Orlando and Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and that's how they get John Collins right, but not anymore.
Speaker 1: Ain't no fun when the Rabbits got the gun, and
Speaker 1: that's what they got looking at you, Danny Age. Teams
Speaker 1: who want to get over the hump, likes Boston are
Speaker 1: now in purgatory, like you have no one you can
Speaker 1: possibly get unless you give up a boatload. That is
Speaker 1: a very uncomfortable spot to be. Now, instead of Travis
Speaker 1: Schlank being on the chopping block, maybe Danny Ainge on
Speaker 1: the chopping buck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why have you made a move, Danny.
Speaker 1: Why haven't you done anything? You've got twenty eight and
Speaker 1: a half million dollars sitting in TPE and you've just
Speaker 1: done nothing. Maybe building a reputation off of your thievery,
Speaker 1: which every other GM in the league knows you are
Speaker 1: a thief, has come to an end and the Kittings
Speaker 1: who were thinking about trading Harrison Barnes because that was
Speaker 1: where the news was, right, Harrison Barnes, Harrison Barnes, Harrison
Speaker 1: Barnes to Boston. Now they're a half game out of
Speaker 1: the ten spot and they can score one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty points on any given night. I saw someone on
Speaker 1: Twitter say if I was Harrison Barnes, I'd be like, Nah,
Speaker 1: I'm good in Sacramento. Unless you're giving us someone really good.
Speaker 1: We are not giving you Harrison Barnes. We're just gonna
Speaker 1: keep things the way that we are because why we
Speaker 1: are at least competitive? Why would we trade guys who
Speaker 1: keep us competitive in this environment where the ten seed
Speaker 1: is all we really need to strive for. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why older players who were once All stars are
Speaker 1: now getting looks by these teams in purgatory because fuck,
Speaker 1: they have no other options. You know, you got Drummond
Speaker 1: Aldridge boogie who knows right, because John Collins is not
Speaker 1: going anywhere. Vooch is not going anywhere, so you gotta
Speaker 1: take your buyout scraps to make do Yikes, what does
Speaker 1: that mean? Even though everyone has hope, this is the rub.
Speaker 1: Everyone has hope but only a couple of teams can
Speaker 1: really contend. Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Miami and that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: Boston you are now out of it probably, and Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: I would say, can contend as well. But I'm still
Speaker 1: very skeptical. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, come playoffs, they are going to look
Speaker 2: like a completely different team.
Speaker 1: We all know it totally, So Celtics fans. This is
Speaker 1: why you know that Danny Ainge has thrown in the towel.
Speaker 1: They are a piece away. As you have said multiple times, Marty,
Speaker 1: this is a roster that's constructed in a very strange way,
Speaker 1: and we've got the next segment is actually more about this.
Speaker 1: But everyone they won is now locked up. So it's
Speaker 1: another year wasted for Tatum and Brown in their prime.
Speaker 1: But I am personally tired of teams not letting their
Speaker 1: players develop. Now, if the ten seed is all you
Speaker 1: need to strive for in order to feel successful, and
Speaker 1: you as a coach and your job is not on
Speaker 1: the line, you can actually let the food cook in
Speaker 1: the oven and see what you have. Did you see
Speaker 1: that the Orlando Magic are looking to trade back for
Speaker 1: Victor Oladipo no way.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard that one.
Speaker 1: Yes, maybe if you would have had Victor Oladipo sit
Speaker 1: in the oven a little longer, you wouldn't have to
Speaker 1: trade Aaron Gordon for him, just saying you could add
Speaker 1: them both and not did anything at all. Typically, the
Speaker 1: NBA and these teams, they purge assets before they even
Speaker 1: know what they are, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's like, fuck, Will Barton's pretty good? Why do we
Speaker 1: get rid of him? Because as they want to find
Speaker 1: the player that's good right now, for a player that
Speaker 1: has the possibility of being good. They're cynical, just like me, Marty,
Speaker 1: there's snake bitten, just like me. This tournament changes everything,
Speaker 1: and I want to keep it this way forever. I
Speaker 1: think it makes the league more exciting, It keeps teams
Speaker 1: from being predators. I think we should make an event
Speaker 1: out of it. I think we should make a tournament
Speaker 1: out of it, one arena, one weekend, and I'll call
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Speaker 1: Code League. Big news over the weekend was that Brad Stevens,
Speaker 1: This is crazy, Brad Stevens was going to secretly leave
Speaker 1: the Celtics mid season and take a job at Indiana
Speaker 1: University in his home state of Indiana.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is like a trill ballin's wet dream. I
Speaker 2: think he started this rumor back in like twenty fifteen
Speaker 2: when they were still like insanely could Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: he I don't think he's ever really expressed interest himself
Speaker 2: in the Indiana job, but it's always kind of been
Speaker 2: a thing. So yeah, it's pretty.
Speaker 1: Crazy, so insane, but fun for me. When I was
Speaker 1: reading the over the weekend, I was like, please let
Speaker 1: it be true, Please let it be true. You had
Speaker 1: multiple journalists and pundits being like conspiracy theory scenarios. They're
Speaker 1: like tracking where his kids are, like, oh, Brad Stevens's
Speaker 1: son has gone four hundred and seventy two consecutive classes
Speaker 1: going to class, and today is the day that his
Speaker 1: son has missed class.
Speaker 2: So it's like college football. When they tracked plane totally.
Speaker 1: That's what they did. They were like, Brad Stevens and
Speaker 1: Gino Oriama and blah blah blah, We're on a private
Speaker 1: plane heading into Bloomington. The whole ball of axe was happening.
Speaker 1: It was crazy, kind of psychotic to a degree, really
Speaker 1: trying to figure out whether he wants to go home
Speaker 1: and whether his wife has like secretly been saying that
Speaker 1: she wants to be with her family, and tracking like
Speaker 1: some random gym that he was in Indiana and some
Speaker 1: eighth grade kid who's gonna be the next Zion. I mean,
Speaker 1: these are real stories, folks, These are real things that
Speaker 1: surfaced and they're like, Yo, does he want to be
Speaker 1: a head coach in the NBA or does he want
Speaker 1: to be a god?
Speaker 2: What a right?
Speaker 1: Like what what are you talking about? The Boston media
Speaker 1: even asked him about it. Here's the thing about Brad Stevens,
Speaker 1: He's not very direct, so maybe he should have been
Speaker 1: a little bit more direct when the Boston media asked
Speaker 1: him about this for the first time. Here's what he
Speaker 1: had to say.
Speaker 3: You know, obviously I have a great affinity for that
Speaker 3: state and basketball in that state, and that place was
Speaker 3: a huge part of what drove my passion for basketball.
Speaker 3: In fact, it was the central thing. And so I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: I means to me, if I was someone stoking the
Speaker 1: fire of conspiracy, I'd be like, that's just read the
Speaker 1: tea leaves. This place was in your goal to my
Speaker 1: career in basketball. It's a place that I love. It's
Speaker 1: been a highly coveted job. That's not exactly no, Brad Stevens,
Speaker 1: That's not exactly no. That did nothing to asswadh my
Speaker 1: level of excitement about you burning the Boston Celtics organization
Speaker 1: down on your way out. Nothing that did zero for that,
Speaker 1: and everybody knew that. Everybody's like, oh, Brad Stevens is
Speaker 1: saying nothing but good things about Indiana. Three minutes soliloquy
Speaker 1: about how it's part of his heart and soul, how
Speaker 1: his wife is from Indiana, how he loves Indiana, how
Speaker 1: Indiana is the heart and soul of basketball. What do
Speaker 1: you think it would do to someone who wants him
Speaker 1: to leave? How bad does it need to be for
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens to abandon his team in the middle of
Speaker 1: the season. That's what everybody was thinking. Who does that?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: The truth is, Marty, no one does that, No one,
Speaker 1: no one. The truth is, no one does that. But
Speaker 1: the fact that people thought there was a possibility he
Speaker 1: would do that means that things are going really, really
Speaker 1: bad in Boston. Yes, it happened that rumor came out
Speaker 1: when things were going really well too, multiple years ago,
Speaker 1: but not like this, Not like this. The end of
Speaker 1: the story was that Brad Stevens apparently held a closed
Speaker 1: door meeting with the team to deny these rumors and
Speaker 1: firmly say, Yo, this is bullshit. I'm not going to Indiana.
Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere. Can you read this the tweet?
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, I've got to hear the quote was,
Speaker 2: I'm not a kid anymore. I'm a forty four year
Speaker 2: old masshole. I swerve around others when I'm driving, I
Speaker 2: eat Dunkin Donuts, and I root for the Patriots. I'm
Speaker 2: a man, I'm forty.
Speaker 1: That's immediately what I thought of when that quote came out.
Speaker 1: I'm a man, I'm a forty four year old masshole.
Speaker 1: Come after me. Let's face it, Brad Stevens, Meek and Miles.
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens where you have to turn the decibels all
Speaker 1: the way up when he's giving a press conference because
Speaker 1: you can barely hear him calling himself a masshole. Maybe
Speaker 1: the greatest thing ever. Maybe. I mean, there's just no
Speaker 1: way Boston does not accept him. Let's just say that.
Speaker 1: I asked him Boston people this weekend, like, yo, do
Speaker 1: you think Brad Stevens is really a masshole? And they're
Speaker 1: like no, never, no way, no way. Him yelling at
Speaker 1: halftime greatest thing ever. He's really trying to make himself
Speaker 1: into this like hard rock. That's what's happening. Things are
Speaker 1: so bad that they've made Brad Stevens change his entire
Speaker 1: personality to see if that would work. He's losing his
Speaker 1: mind at halftime and being like, I'm a masshole, I'm
Speaker 1: a man. Another funny thing about this story was Woje
Speaker 1: did you see this wog tweet? Woje had to step in.
Speaker 1: You know, Wog is funny because like all of his
Speaker 1: Twitter is usually just news, right, there's no opinions, there's
Speaker 1: nothing but just like this trade for this player and
Speaker 1: this pick, and then you'll get like a little bit
Speaker 1: like this gives Boston the opportunity to contend through twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's usually the extent of it yet, right, So.
Speaker 1: He had to step in and editorialize how dumb the
Speaker 1: rest of the media is. Thanks Dad, we know, we know.
Speaker 1: Can you let us have a little fun here? He
Speaker 1: was like, it's incredible. Brad Stevens has to even spell
Speaker 1: this out for people. No one is leaving a head
Speaker 1: coaching job in the NBA for college anymore. Not the Celtics,
Speaker 1: not the Kings, not anyone anywhere. Nobody is returning to
Speaker 1: college unless they're no longer welcome to stay in the pros.
Speaker 1: WHOA okay again, can we have just a little bit
Speaker 1: of fun Adrian Warzanowski, like, we're not idiots just because
Speaker 1: we want to fantasize about a possible scenario that could
Speaker 1: be the funniest thing in NBA history for a player,
Speaker 1: for a coach to bolt midway through the season in
Speaker 1: one of the most historic franchise with banners on banners
Speaker 1: and banners. That's how bad it is, Like we want that.
Speaker 1: We NBA drama. NBA fans, even with blue check marks
Speaker 1: want that's That's what moved the needles. That just explains
Speaker 1: how much we love the tea. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: Someone DMed a journalist. They're a parent of a child
Speaker 1: that is in the same school as Brad Stevens's child
Speaker 1: and was monitoring whether that child was in school. That's
Speaker 1: where we are at as NBA fans. What are we doing?
Speaker 1: We are lunatics. So as crazy as this drives Brad Stevens,
Speaker 1: it probably pales in comparison to losing by ten to
Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings on Friday Night. They've now lost three
Speaker 1: in a row and they're just not good. They're just
Speaker 1: not good. They lost three in a row before winning
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It's just not good. Everyone said, wait until
Speaker 1: Marcus mar gets back. Wait, just wait, he's our heart
Speaker 1: and soul, right, and they've they've just not won very
Speaker 1: many games with his arrival. There's forty two games into
Speaker 1: a seventy two game season and you're still five hundred
Speaker 1: if you write their names on a chalkboard. Right, Jason Tatum,
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown, Marcus Smart, Kemba Walker. You've got three former
Speaker 1: or current All Stars, and one of the best defenders
Speaker 1: in the league, a young athletic center in Robert Williams
Speaker 1: Streetport Streetport Time Lord. All of those players are players
Speaker 1: that anyone any roster would love to have, and it
Speaker 1: just is not working. You have to ask yourself, why
Speaker 1: isn't this working? What do you think, Marty?
Speaker 2: I think the main thing is Kemba's regression. We thought
Speaker 2: that he was going to be kind of the driver
Speaker 2: of this team, but now that it's mainly just the
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown Jason Tatum show. It's kind of like a
Speaker 2: Lakers construction now where it's just Okay, let's get these
Speaker 2: two guys and surround them with glue guys, and it's
Speaker 2: just they're just not quite good enough for that sort
Speaker 2: of construction to work, you know, I.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent agree, and I know the injuries, of course,
Speaker 1: have played a role. And you're gonna hear a lot
Speaker 1: about oh, the Big five have only played yeah, twenty
Speaker 1: five minutes together. I just don't care. Other teams have
Speaker 1: had injuries. Blazers have had a lot of injuries, and
Speaker 1: they've continued to flourish. They've continued to figure it out,
Speaker 1: find the ways to make the chemistry and the roster work.
Speaker 1: The Hawks. The Hawks have a better record than the
Speaker 1: Celtics right now, and they had at one point lost
Speaker 1: eleven out of thirteen games in a stretch, and they
Speaker 1: fired their coach mid season. And this team is better
Speaker 1: than the Celtics. I would say that's fucking bad. That's
Speaker 1: really bad. Now current and former players are speaking out
Speaker 1: in ways that are alarming for any Celtics fan. Marcus Smart,
Speaker 1: the guy that everybody said would be okay when he
Speaker 1: came back. They're two and three with him and he's
Speaker 1: averaging twelve one and one since his return. Not good.
Speaker 1: Had this is said, read the quote.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's you know a lot of things have happened
Speaker 2: in our lives personally individually where it's hard to come
Speaker 2: in here and give that energy to somebody else when
Speaker 2: in your own individual personal life energy has been drained
Speaker 2: or you don't really have it. We got to find
Speaker 2: a way to pick each other when that energy is
Speaker 2: down from that standpoint, because.
Speaker 1: It shows personal distractions, low energy. He is not having it.
Speaker 1: Something is going on. Remember when Kyrie Irving and Terry
Speaker 1: Rozier were beefing over where their roles were going to
Speaker 1: be a couple eight years ago, and there was like
Speaker 1: everyone was saying weird things like this, and you're like,
Speaker 1: something's happening in the locker room, like things aren't yelling.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, but something's going on.
Speaker 1: That's what this feels like to when you've got Marcus Smart,
Speaker 1: who hasn't really even been playing on the team, who's
Speaker 1: just been observing around the team being like, yo, when
Speaker 1: you've got personal distractions getting in the way of your
Speaker 1: team's success, you need to swallow your pride. I think
Speaker 1: he said something about pride and figure that out. Figure
Speaker 1: that out. Kemba Walker said this, We have stretches when
Speaker 1: we play well, it's just not consistent. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, We've got to come together if we
Speaker 1: want to win and be successful. It's only one possible
Speaker 1: way that that can happen. That's for us to do
Speaker 1: it together. Some people got a sacrifice certain things. We've
Speaker 1: got to put our pride to the side and figure
Speaker 1: it out. Oh no, oh no. To me, that means
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart and Kemba Walker are saying, Hey, Jalen and Jason,
Speaker 1: that's y'all. That's y'all, cause I kind of think that
Speaker 1: that's what it is. Paul Pierce then chimed in, who
Speaker 1: was sort of the Marcus Smart of the earlier Celtics era,
Speaker 1: and he said, you know what this team reminds me of.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of my younger days with me and Antoine. Yikes.
Speaker 1: You have two all stars capable of going off on
Speaker 1: any night, and you hope that you'd get the help
Speaker 1: from the other guys. But we hit our peak with
Speaker 1: the conference finals, and that's what I see from this team.
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no, that is damning. That is damning, because,
Speaker 1: as every Celtics fan knows, they had to blow that
Speaker 1: team up. Then what happened when they did, Marty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they won a championship for years later.
Speaker 1: That's fucking right. And then Pierce said, you know, I
Speaker 1: wish we could have built on that squad with me
Speaker 1: and Antoine, And that's what the Celtics have to learn from.
Speaker 1: You have guys that don't come around that often. When
Speaker 1: you look around the league, how many teams have two
Speaker 1: all stars? I mean a lot. Now they have to
Speaker 1: do a good job moving forward and surrounding these guys
Speaker 1: with better pieces or adding pieces that can bring consistency.
Speaker 1: Is that subtle shade or overt shade at Danny Ainge
Speaker 1: in your opinion?
Speaker 2: I mean it seems a little like it. There is.
Speaker 2: There is way more drama around this team than I
Speaker 2: actually really realized.
Speaker 1: It is just the more it's like an iceberg, the
Speaker 1: more you dig in, the more it's like something's fucked
Speaker 1: up here. They're lost to the Kings. Marcus Smart reporter
Speaker 1: that they had a team meeting and said, we are
Speaker 1: a young team and we are learning the thing and
Speaker 1: the biggest thing about growth is understanding and accepting the
Speaker 1: faults that you are wrong for yourself individually and as
Speaker 1: a team. Fuck, it's bad. It's really bad. I hate
Speaker 1: to say it, but the more I read it, the
Speaker 1: more I'm like, Man, something big has gotta change. Earlier,
Speaker 1: we discussed how the play in game changed everything in
Speaker 1: the league. Trader Danny is just out to see because
Speaker 1: if you look at the standings, he's basically hamstrung and
Speaker 1: not able to do really anything. And then you've got
Speaker 1: the Nets, the Sixers, and the Heat, maybe the Bucks
Speaker 1: who can do some things. And this team is just
Speaker 1: in no man's land. They are dead last in the
Speaker 1: league and fourth quarter margin. So what's gonna change that
Speaker 1: even if they make the playoffs? Are we going to
Speaker 1: see history repeat itself? Are they going to have to
Speaker 1: split up Brown and Tatum like Pierson Walker did fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago? Is that what's best for the franchise. Here's
Speaker 1: what I think happens. I think ownership gets a little
Speaker 1: tired of Danny Ainge. They say, hmm, let's start fresh.
Speaker 1: Let's find someone who can make some moves, that doesn't
Speaker 1: have a reputation for being toxic and a thief, and
Speaker 1: we can actually make trades to help this team during
Speaker 1: the season. What that means for this year's Celtics remains
Speaker 1: to be seen, of course, But from Sunday to Sunday
Speaker 1: they have five games and seven days. The rubber now
Speaker 1: is hitting the road. It is sink or swim time.
Speaker 1: There's a few days, just a few left before the
Speaker 1: trade deadline. What are they gonna do? What are they
Speaker 1: gonna do? Is Danny Ainge gonna pull a rabbit out
Speaker 1: of his hat? Or is he gonna do what he's
Speaker 1: been saying he's gonna do, which is do something, do
Speaker 1: a lot, and then he does nothing. I don't know
Speaker 1: for once, though, Marty. It's exciting because Danny Ainge's job
Speaker 1: just might be on the line this league. This is March.
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Speaker 1: various sayings to help you stay calm, think sharp, and
Speaker 1: don't pin it. Let's get into some questions, all right.
Speaker 2: We got a fun one right off the bat. We've
Speaker 2: got if you could pick two expansion cities, who would
Speaker 2: it be?
Speaker 1: Such a great question. I love the fact that people
Speaker 1: on Instagram come up with insightful, curious dms where I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I haven't thought about this ever before outside of Seattle,
Speaker 1: which is the obvious one, right, not gonna pick anything obvious.
Speaker 1: I think there are two great cities for a basketball team,
Speaker 1: and there are great cities to travel to as a
Speaker 1: tourist as well, which I think is very important. Vegas
Speaker 1: on the West Coast is exciting to me. You now
Speaker 1: have an NHL team there, and you have an NFL
Speaker 1: team there. Oh boy, an NBA team there would be sick.
Speaker 1: You would be able to use the arena for summer league,
Speaker 1: which would be great because Thomas and Mack where they
Speaker 1: play now is a dumpster fy. It's terrible, it's tiny.
Speaker 1: You can't get any fans in there. This would be
Speaker 1: like a thing. You could probably sell tickets. The amount
Speaker 1: of fanfare would be fantastic. And you know what, who
Speaker 1: cares that teams that go and play them in Vegas
Speaker 1: are probably going to be trashed on the road because
Speaker 1: they're going to be partying at you know, eleven or
Speaker 1: Tao or whatever. A lot of players can get into
Speaker 1: trouble in Vegas. Think about it, Whoo, that team would
Speaker 1: be exciting. What would you call a team in Vegas? Marty?
Speaker 1: I was thinking about.
Speaker 2: This, I kind of I mean, people throw the w
Speaker 2: NBA team the.
Speaker 1: Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: Luck.
Speaker 1: I like that. What about the Jokers? Would that be
Speaker 1: too close to Jokic?
Speaker 2: Cartoony?
Speaker 1: You don't think the Pelicans is cartoony.
Speaker 2: I've been very vocal about that. Do you want to
Speaker 2: go see the Pelicans at the Smoothie King Center?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What the fuck kind of cartoon Mickey Mouse? Team? Is this? Yike?
Speaker 2: I'm a Louisiana boy, and I think it's stupid. It's
Speaker 2: like a minor league team.
Speaker 1: Name it is. It's like the Rattlers. You know, the
Speaker 1: only problem that the NBA has to be worried about
Speaker 1: is that post Vegas hangover. That's really it. When the
Speaker 1: Golden Knights went and first started, teams went one eight
Speaker 1: and two in their next games following their visit to
Speaker 1: Team Mobile one eight and two. Wow, that became there
Speaker 1: became a term for it called the Vegas Hangover. Now,
Speaker 1: imagine James Harden and Kelly oubre after a two game
Speaker 1: homestand in Vegas, boy getting in all kinds of trouble.
Speaker 1: But could you imagine could you imagine the free agent
Speaker 1: market in Vegas? People would be going there. Other place
Speaker 1: that I love is Nashville. Love Nashville. Nashville is a
Speaker 1: great city for music, a great city for food. It's
Speaker 1: very cute, it's small, it's affordable. To me, it's one
Speaker 1: of the best small town vibes in the country. I
Speaker 1: would move there in a heartbeat. You can get a
Speaker 1: one bedroom apartment in Nashville for like fourteen hundred dollars
Speaker 1: and it's brand new. Long ways from the nearest NBA
Speaker 1: team still in Tennessee. You could have a built in
Speaker 1: Memphis Grizzlies rivalry three hours to Memphis four hours do
Speaker 1: Atlanta natural. I love that complete untapped fan base. What
Speaker 1: would you call a Nashville team can't be Predators.
Speaker 2: I think they have a team there. I don't know
Speaker 2: what they play, maybe like a minor league baseball team.
Speaker 2: The Nashville Sounds, which I really like. You like some Yeah,
Speaker 2: so like something off that something with music?
Speaker 1: What about like you couldn't take sounds because that's too
Speaker 1: close to sonic?
Speaker 2: True?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Uh wait, do you
Speaker 1: think that the Seattle Sonics SuperSonics was a was a
Speaker 1: connection to music or was that a connection to the
Speaker 1: Boeing in Space?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, it was Bow's and yeah Boeing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how about like the the no the Nashville Notes.
Speaker 1: Oh I like that, Like it's just a little.
Speaker 2: Music note, the Nashville Hot Chicken.
Speaker 1: The Nashville the Nashville Chicks. I guess the Utah Jazz
Speaker 1: is the music notes. So fuck, that's crazy. Send us
Speaker 1: your suggestions for a Nashville team name. I am so
Speaker 1: bad at team names. All right, let's move on.
Speaker 2: All right. If the Martians have a death being pointed
Speaker 2: at the earth, who are you taking to hit a three?
Speaker 1: I mean that's just a very unique question. Never thought
Speaker 1: about it in my life until now. I think if
Speaker 1: it's a it has to be dependent on the type
Speaker 1: of three. Right, Yeah, catch and shoot to me Clay
Speaker 1: all day all day? Did you see his recent He's
Speaker 1: now coming off the acl and the Achilles and he's
Speaker 1: still just wet like water. Yeah, no jump jumpers from
Speaker 1: corner three all day. I think he could probably make
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty in a row.
Speaker 2: So yeah, shot doesn't A.
Speaker 1: Shot just doesn't go away off the balance. I take
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard that on that one hard jab to the side,
Speaker 1: fade Dame bodies draped around If it's like Martians draped
Speaker 1: around him, death beam in the arena, gotta go, Steph,
Speaker 1: Gotta go Steph. He could just go from like half court.
Speaker 1: So I think that's who it is. Who would it
Speaker 1: be for you?
Speaker 2: I think I honestly have the same answers to you.
Speaker 2: There's not really much controversy to this, like that's that's
Speaker 2: the answer.
Speaker 1: That's just maybe Joe Harris.
Speaker 2: I'm not taking it out of any of those guys
Speaker 2: hands and giving it to Joe Harris.
Speaker 1: Me neither, me, neither. All right, let's move on.
Speaker 2: Okay, Next, we've got who's the most underrated player in
Speaker 2: the league.
Speaker 1: I don't think he can choose just one. No, I
Speaker 1: don't think he can choose just one. I was thinking
Speaker 1: about this yesterday, putting it together, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you who I have, and you can find the
Speaker 1: commonalities between these players for me.
Speaker 2: Right, sure, all right?
Speaker 1: I got Shay Gilgess Alexander. I think he is. He
Speaker 1: is averaging slightly better than Devin Booker and has gotten
Speaker 1: no noise, zero noise. He was quote unquote a slight
Speaker 1: All Star contender, but he didn't not even close. Right,
Speaker 1: He's averaging twenty four five and six a bucket. He
Speaker 1: can do pretty much everything off the bounce, he can
Speaker 1: get his own shot, create separation, boy can pass. He's
Speaker 1: a winner. He's the reason the Okace wins games. Eight
Speaker 1: games thirty plus or more and forty two against the Spurs.
Speaker 1: Papovich was probably like, God, damn the shay kid, get
Speaker 1: him out of here. Yeah, here's another one that you'll like.
Speaker 1: Marty Michale bridges Facts fourteen, five and three. Here's the
Speaker 1: slash fifty four percent from the field, forty three percent
Speaker 1: from three, and eighty three percent from the line with
Speaker 1: just thirty minutes a game.
Speaker 2: And playing devastating defense on the team on.
Speaker 1: The correct best player correct.
Speaker 2: I'm actually cool with him being underrated because I don't
Speaker 2: want to have to pay him twenty two million times.
Speaker 1: Totally, totally. Here's another guy who's very well paid, Drew Holliday.
Speaker 1: He's averaging sixteen to five and five. I know he's
Speaker 1: been highly regarded in the past, but this year has
Speaker 1: just been no noise about him whatsoever. His stat liner
Speaker 1: his slash line is forty nine from the field, thirty
Speaker 1: six from three to eighty two. The team, the Bucks
Speaker 1: basically tanked when he wasn't there. They were five hundred
Speaker 1: when he was hurt, and they're thirteen games over five
Speaker 1: hundred when he plays Gary Trent Junior definitely averaging fifteen
Speaker 1: to two and two forty one from the field and
Speaker 1: most of those are three threes. Yeah, he's one of
Speaker 1: the biggest reasons that the Blazers stayed intact while CJ.
Speaker 1: McCollum was out. Here are a couple deep cuts and
Speaker 1: underrated deep cuts. Rushawn Holmes, yes, Sir, fourteen nine and two,
Speaker 1: sixty five percent from the field. Take that Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: sixty five percent from the field. Maybe the only guy
Speaker 1: that plays defense in Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would love him back on the Suns right now.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Right, sometimes it's a fit thing. And
Speaker 1: then finally Royce O'Neill. He's doesn't have like a tremendous
Speaker 1: stat line, only eight points, seven rebounds and three assists,
Speaker 1: but forty five percent from the field, forty two for
Speaker 1: three and eighty four percent from the line, and he's
Speaker 1: getting he's tough, just getting reps in Utah. So what
Speaker 1: do they all have in common in your opinion, Marty? Like,
Speaker 1: what kind of player does TK Like.
Speaker 2: I've been trying to figure it out, Like I was thinking,
Speaker 2: maybe it's like none of them have been All Stars,
Speaker 2: but then Drew has been an All Star. I don't
Speaker 2: know he'd be with it.
Speaker 1: To me, a player that's under besides like the lack
Speaker 1: of noise, I think a player that is deserving of
Speaker 1: that spot is so versatile. They do everything. All of
Speaker 1: these players are pretty much good except for except for
Speaker 1: Rashawn Holmes, but he's he's not gonna shoot threes. All
Speaker 1: of them can shoot threes. All of them have good
Speaker 1: slash lines. But also they don't have definitive holes in
Speaker 1: their game. They can all these guys can pass, all
Speaker 1: these guys can shoot, they can all do different facets
Speaker 1: of the game. So if there's a big hole in
Speaker 1: your game, I don't think you're underrated. I just think
Speaker 1: you're properly rated. If you can do everything and nobody's
Speaker 1: talking about you, like Michael Bridges, who is a solid defender,
Speaker 1: that's what you say. I also like defense. All these
Speaker 1: guys can play okay defense, at least they're not a
Speaker 1: defensive liability. I would take any of these guys on
Speaker 1: my team at any given time.
Speaker 2: Next question, Okay, we've got are you buying into the
Speaker 2: Hawks winning? Streak.
Speaker 1: I got so many of these questions on DM I
Speaker 1: think probably fifteen or twenty something like this. Hawks talk
Speaker 1: about the Hawks, you were wrong about Nate McMillan talk
Speaker 1: about it. Do you trust in them? Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I mean they won eight of ten, They've won eight
Speaker 1: in a row with Nate McMillan, they're fourth in the East.
Speaker 1: I probably tell a lot of people feel that there's
Speaker 1: egg on my face with my take, And even upon
Speaker 1: first glance, I think that there's some egg a little
Speaker 1: bit on my face. Did I expect them to win
Speaker 1: eight in a row as Nate McMillan became the head coach.
Speaker 1: I did not, cause then that would make my take
Speaker 1: look a little silly. But the truth is, when you
Speaker 1: look at the wind streak, it consists of the Miami
Speaker 1: Heat without Jimmy Butler, the Magic, the Raptors who have
Speaker 1: been terrible, the Kings, the Calves, the Rockets, Okse and
Speaker 1: the Lakers without Lebron and Ad. Those are teams have
Speaker 1: to beat, period. Those are teams that you should beat
Speaker 1: if you're okay, are you a world beater?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Six of those eight teams are sub five hundred teams.
Speaker 1: And other two teams are missing their best player. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. Do I buy them? No?
Speaker 1: I don't do. I think they're a lot better with
Speaker 1: Nate McMillan. Yes. Do I think Nick McMillan is better
Speaker 1: than the coach who got fired? Yes, Nate McMillan's been
Speaker 1: a head coach in this league for a very long time,
Speaker 1: so yes, I think he's competent. I just don't think
Speaker 1: he's the one. They've got games coming up against the Clippers, Warriors,
Speaker 1: and Nuggets. We'll see then, won't we What do you
Speaker 1: think about that? Marty? How do you feel about the Hawks? Uh?
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, like you look up all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: they're fourth in the East. I hadn't gone back and
Speaker 2: looked at who all those wins were against. That definitely
Speaker 2: is telling a little bit, and we'll see. We'll see
Speaker 2: coming up. I feel like if they I mean, if
Speaker 2: they can go two and one in that stretch, then
Speaker 2: maybe maybe I'll start believing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. That's all the time that we have
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