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Speaker 2: Good morning, swimmerl then, welcome to the Not Dumps Podcast

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Speaker 2: on the Athletic Network. It's Monday, March fifteen. Thum j E.

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Speaker 2: Skeis with mister what you Need to Know Himself Task Melice, Morning, Everybody,

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Speaker 2: Morning Tassy. We got the international Man of mystery taking

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Speaker 2: it to the max. Lee Ellis friend.

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Speaker 3: Really last but not.

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Speaker 2: Least making the magic happen. Today's JD. Hello, there he is,

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Speaker 2: and here we are a few things. No track curve

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Speaker 2: today or actually this week. That guy's on vacation. He's

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Speaker 2: on the beach, he's in the pool down in Florida

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Speaker 2: with his family. So he did send in a video

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Speaker 2: that will show you later. I mean, even when he's

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Speaker 2: on vacation. We got this guy working a little bit,

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Speaker 2: so congrats to him on his balls being back to

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Speaker 2: let's just get to that right away. And they beat

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Speaker 2: the Raptor, so good good for him. I'm glad he's

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Speaker 2: not here today. If I'm being honest.

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Speaker 4: He'd I thought that would be the video he's standing in. No, no, no,

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Speaker 4: it's the saying boozer back.

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Speaker 2: I have to do with some beef. We'll get to

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Speaker 2: that door. Lee. Congrats on the new headphones. Whe'd you

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Speaker 2: go with?

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Speaker 4: Thank you?

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Speaker 3: Thank you?

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Speaker 4: I went with the Akg's here. Here's the pack here.

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Speaker 4: Ah yeah, picked these up yesterday. They are fantastic. So

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Speaker 4: I happily threw the other ones in the trash. I

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Speaker 4: wasn't even going to try to say and I still

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Speaker 4: work the other ones, but I was just like, sorry,

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Speaker 4: I've moved on. Like an old relationship, you just want

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Speaker 4: to get rid of it completely, throw out all the

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Speaker 4: things that remind you of those other headphones.

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Speaker 3: So I'm sing from everything. You got your AKG.

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Speaker 4: This is the bag that the wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah ye, it's like a carbon fiber bag.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Look, I've got look at all the options I've

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Speaker 4: got as well for THEE and then uh, I've even

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Speaker 4: got to I've even got a spare here as well. Okay,

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Speaker 4: I'm doing some serious listening in these next few weeks.

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Speaker 2: Excellent, So how we sound We're coming through Crystal.

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Speaker 4: Everyone sounds incredible, man, it's like we are in a

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Speaker 4: studio together.

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Speaker 2: Now, gend did you give him this recommendation? I mean

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Speaker 2: a kg's like that's a Those are usually high quality

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we had a quick consult over over slack. He

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Speaker 5: had his hands on some some beats. I'm not a

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Speaker 5: he asked my recommendation. And I'm so pleased that he

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Speaker 5: has took them back.

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Speaker 4: So I did.

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Speaker 4: The thing was, I was I was in at h well,

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Speaker 4: I weren't side the store's name, but the sales person

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Speaker 4: wasn't They weren't informed, and he just sort of said, yeah,

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Speaker 4: And he said, well, I'm not going to open the

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Speaker 4: Went with the AK Jesus said, all right, back to

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Speaker 3: So I guess you're saying they weren't a best buy.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, they look fantastic. I gotta say that.

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Speaker 2: Know that they sound even better. And then Genie, quickly

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Speaker 2: Hey, look, we'll take your mind off of things for

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Speaker 2: the next hour.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you can just check out and uh and listen

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Speaker 2: to us geek out about the NBA, but shout out

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Speaker 2: us your questions and comments for this week's Beach Step

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Speaker 2: I guess one final thing what you need to know

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Speaker 2: already up little twist to this morning show though, you

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Speaker 2: Fantastic work.

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Speaker 3: What a tag team JD making it happen like a

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of elements, a lot of elements early

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Speaker 2: We're going live, so that in theory, the show will

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Speaker 3: Yeah, wake up with JD and I seven o'clock Eastern

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Speaker 4: Wow, you guys were live at seven saving weekend as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Brits were loving it. They're having their their

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Speaker 3: what do they have at lunch? Well, they're having it

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Speaker 3: at yeah. Aw beans, beans that's what they YEA full

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Speaker 2: Awesome. Yeah, okay, great, so go check that out everybody.

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Speaker 2: We'll start with the winners? Of course, where are you going?

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Speaker 3: I agree there's tons of winners out there. Let's start

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Speaker 3: He's always smiling out there. I mean, he's him and

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he's part of the future there.

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Speaker 3: And he's not gonna do it every game. He's he's

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Speaker 2: One of those threes he hit two over mellow and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, after the game, Melo sort of hugged him

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Speaker 4: he hit that big dunk when he used his handles

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Speaker 4: Timber has won this game as well, which is something

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Speaker 4: Ball for me is a virtual certainty to win Rookie

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Speaker 4: That shot still needs some work, of course, but they're

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Speaker 4: a really good sign. So there's some positive signs at

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Speaker 4: least there from Minnesota because they took Anthony Edwards, I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we know that. Tass and I have one hundred

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Nets do they just have enough talent

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Speaker 3: But still they're playing so well. Just with Kyrie and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, ski tee, there's a room is out there floating right.

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Speaker 4: Not bad.

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Speaker 2: I actually sort of like how those looking with the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there was cycles, there was so much love. Yeah

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Speaker 2: So, like I mean, look the Warriors. That's a big

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Speaker 2: when Wiggins was chipping in like that. And like I said,

433
00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,119
Speaker 2: Wiseman off the bench, that's a call on you win.

434
00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,200
Speaker 2: And you know, I'm pairing it to with like Klay

435
00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,679
Speaker 2: Thompson talking to the reporters before game for a good

436
00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:17,160
Speaker 2: chunk of time. Lee, I don't know if you caught

437
00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:19,960
Speaker 2: what he was saying. Always nice to hear from Clay,

438
00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,800
Speaker 2: but you know, he's pretty He was pretty passionate about

439
00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:24,760
Speaker 2: like when I'm coming back, I'm not coming back as

440
00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,920
Speaker 2: a damn role player, Like I'm coming back all NBA

441
00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,359
Speaker 2: and you know, I just we all miss Clay in

442
00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:32,040
Speaker 2: the league, so it will be nice when I don't

443
00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,240
Speaker 2: think it's gonna be this year, but no, I mean

444
00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,200
Speaker 2: probably not, but next year they'll be great.

445
00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,520
Speaker 4: So anyway, but those other role players you mentioned that,

446
00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,200
Speaker 4: you know, Jordan Pool was great yesterday, Eric Pascal was great,

447
00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,600
Speaker 4: hitting shots too late, and also Draymond Green a couple

448
00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,240
Speaker 4: of times talk a trash after some dunks inside like

449
00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:49,160
Speaker 4: he I mean, he's always a bit of a fiery guy,

450
00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,040
Speaker 4: but he seemed like he really wanted that one because

451
00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:55,280
Speaker 4: it was a Friday night when the Warrior is lost

452
00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,639
Speaker 4: and Steph was going crazy in the huddle there. So

453
00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,960
Speaker 4: it felt like this one again, especially against the Jazz,

454
00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,119
Speaker 4: that this was their chance to be like, come on,

455
00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,520
Speaker 4: we're better than this, like lift your game, everybody, because

456
00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,479
Speaker 4: the Jazz the Warriors were in control of this one.

457
00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,440
Speaker 4: Jazz got it back, but then the Warriors managed to

458
00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,119
Speaker 4: hang on. So that was a big win for them.

459
00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:14,960
Speaker 4: And I think, you know, maybe because it was Steph's

460
00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000
Speaker 4: birthday in the family there, they wanted to all show

461
00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,600
Speaker 4: up and be on their best behavior. But impressive stuff

462
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,840
Speaker 4: really from the Warriors, who you know, because I think

463
00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 4: they are going to be buyas here at the deadline.

464
00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,360
Speaker 4: I think they don't want to just sort of see

465
00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,280
Speaker 4: this season go to waste. They want to try to

466
00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:30,920
Speaker 4: make the playoffs and see what they can get out

467
00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,000
Speaker 4: of this season because you know, you've got Stephan Draymond

468
00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,200
Speaker 4: still in their prime. They're still their two key pieces,

469
00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,960
Speaker 4: and so if they can improve, I think they will

470
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Speaker 4: if even if it means giving up potentially one of

471
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Speaker 4: their younger pieces.

472
00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:42,800
Speaker 2: Who have you fired up the trade machine for.

473
00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,800
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not sure. I mean, like James Wiseman has

474
00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,119
Speaker 4: been good for them, but I also think he's the

475
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,560
Speaker 4: sort of piece that they would be prepared to trade

476
00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,639
Speaker 4: if they were to get the veteran who could come

477
00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:59,560
Speaker 4: in there and help them straight away. I just think

478
00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:00,520
Speaker 4: that to be like.

479
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,400
Speaker 2: You're talking like beal level players here. You're not doing

480
00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,879
Speaker 2: anything like that for Oldridge or Love or even Lowry

481
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:07,439
Speaker 2: or no, no.

482
00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 4: Of course, not, of course not. But but Bill, Yeah,

483
00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,639
Speaker 4: I mean that is the sort of thing if you are,

484
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,000
Speaker 4: if you are the Wizards, because you know, again, this

485
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 4: season's complete wasted time at this point, you might as

486
00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,040
Speaker 4: well see if you can get some young, talented basis.

487
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,000
Speaker 4: And Bill has been rumored to be uh, you know,

488
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 4: potentially a possibility there for the Warriors. So I'm just

489
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,920
Speaker 4: saying they would be prepared to give him up. I think, yeah,

490
00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,160
Speaker 4: if it meant it got you know, a proven vet

491
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 4: in return. Yeah, because they don't just want this season

492
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:33,320
Speaker 4: to just go to waste.

493
00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair and tast I think it was you

494
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 2: on what you need to know though I may have

495
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 2: heard it on the ding now I can't remember. But

496
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,199
Speaker 2: this could be a playoff series. I mean it's possible,

497
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 2: right the Jazz I'm talking about in Warriors in what

498
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:45,760
Speaker 2: would be a one eight, but like flipped from a

499
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,760
Speaker 2: previous like one eight between these two teams, right, Yeah, I.

500
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,800
Speaker 3: Think the Golden State Warriors were definitely coming out thinking

501
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,920
Speaker 3: let's let's see if we could beat this team come postseason.

502
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,119
Speaker 3: I think it's a bit of a moral victory. Even

503
00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 3: though a championship team doesn't need a moral victory. The

504
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,720
Speaker 3: young guys need more victories. Yeah, and so yeah, they

505
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,360
Speaker 3: see the jazz up there in the one spot. Draymond

506
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 3: Green was balling because he knows that they could face

507
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 3: each other. Yeah, they were. They were scrambling and getting

508
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 3: out to all those Utah shooters. There's some good signs

509
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 3: for this Warriors team. Uh, they're first in assists in

510
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 3: the NBA. They're seventh in defense, which is which is

511
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 3: pretty solid. Yeah, they had another thirty assist night, which

512
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,560
Speaker 3: is you know, like those old Warriors teams. That's their

513
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 3: fifteenth night this season that they've had thirty plus assists.

514
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 3: I went back to see, like, are they on a

515
00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:33,639
Speaker 3: similar pace to when they were kicking ass and and

516
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 3: taking names throughout the league. It's a little slow. Do

517
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,680
Speaker 3: you know how many thirty assist games they had when

518
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:46,240
Speaker 3: they were the seventy three and nine Warriors like that thirty? No,

519
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,080
Speaker 3: they have forty forty forty games where they had thirty

520
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,360
Speaker 3: assists on Really.

521
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 4: You said ten, Well, I thought I thought it was

522
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 4: one of those sort of trick questions.

523
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, slipping around, Yeah they tied.

524
00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 3: They tied the bulls from way back was early nineties

525
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 3: that they both had forty games where they had thirty

526
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,640
Speaker 3: plus assists, And yeah, they're not quite on that pace,

527
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 3: but yeah, they're getting everybody involved, and yeah, I think

528
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 3: they would be buyers. But yeah, Nicomann and James Wiseman,

529
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 3: they're pushing these guys to spots that maybe they're not

530
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,879
Speaker 3: comfortable in, but they're getting ready for the playoffs. I

531
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 3: think that's clear. I think they know that this isn't

532
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 3: just we'll figure it out next year when Clay comes back.

533
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 3: They're definitely going for it. And I would be worried

534
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 3: if I was the Jazz and I know there are

535
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 3: Jets are on a bad stretch and they came back

536
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 3: and fought in this game, But that doesn't look like

537
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,200
Speaker 3: a good matchup to me. If they've got a good

538
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,200
Speaker 3: defense going up against them, I think they'd rather play

539
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 3: somebody like, I don't know, the Blazers or something that

540
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 3: don't play a great defense. But this Warriors team was

541
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 3: built on a good defense and they still have one.

542
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 2: Shocking you said there were seventh defensive rahitting right now. Yeah,

543
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 2: that's higher than I would have thought. That's great.

544
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 4: Okay.

545
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 2: A couple other mini winners here, Well, we got a

546
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 2: wedgie another one, I mean again amazing. We're getting one

547
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 2: a weekend every time, at least one or two in

548
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 2: this one from Net two in the corner there Box

549
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 2: Wizards gave me out really nice one love where he shot.

550
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 4: Itother three point wedgie too, nothing but rimo from Yeah Rimo.

551
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,200
Speaker 2: And it was yeah really in there. So, uh, we're

552
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 2: at thirty one now on the season. The pace is

553
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 2: still beautiful, still plus sixty. I think if we can

554
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 2: just continue to keep that pace above sixty, like, we're

555
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 2: feeling really good about our chances to hit fifty and

556
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 2: maybe hit the all time record, which is what again.

557
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 3: Tasks fifty one.

558
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 2: Okay, so there you go. We only need we need

559
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 2: fifty two to set the modern day records.

560
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I don't think George mic And and friends had

561
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 3: fifty plus e No, No, I don't think so. I mean,

562
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,239
Speaker 3: I guess maybe there was that the fast paced era

563
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 3: with Oscar, but I don't think so. Maybe because there's

564
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 3: less three balls, I think that comes true.

565
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 2: So true, and the three ball helps, Yeah, the peach

566
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 2: basket not as easy though, wedge there, I don't think so. Yeah,

567
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 2: had another wedgie thirty one, fantastic. We also, you know,

568
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,920
Speaker 2: sort of you know, touching on that. Excuse me. The

569
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 2: Warriors Jazz game. Despite the loss, Rudy Gobert, he French

570
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,399
Speaker 2: dipped his way to a career high twenty eight rebounds.

571
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 2: And again, just because Tk's on vacation doesn't mean that

572
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 2: we're not above putting him to work. So I'll say

573
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 2: it here today jd roll that beautiful beef footage. Rudy

574
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 2: Gobert had twenty eight rebounds. That's a lot of roast beef.

575
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 3: You know, I couldn't leave you without a dope beef

576
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 3: step two.

577
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 2: No dunks. We love roast beef, which is rebounds. Yeah

578
00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 2: there it is. Well, a lot of control old tip rebounds.

579
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 2: They were crediting Rudy there, and I'm not mad against it,

580
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 2: as you had no problem with the controlled tip counting

581
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 2: as a rebound, right because he definitely did it there

582
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 2: a couple of times.

583
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 3: No, I would prefer that then some of those easy

584
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 3: rebounds side grabbing it.

585
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was exciting, isn't But twenty eight rebounds career high.

586
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 2: That's a that's a hell of a lot there earlyly.

587
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 2: I mean people were upset gave Jimmy Butler all by

588
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 2: this morning because he filled the box score in the wind.

589
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 2: But there were some rudy stands out there or maybe

590
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 2: just roast beef stands out there going crazy that I

591
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 2: didn't give it to him.

592
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 4: But you know what happens at thirty thirty rebounds? I mean,

593
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 4: what's that? You know?

594
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 2: I mean, wow, yeah, we didn't. I don't know. Trey's

595
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 2: not here to answer that. We'll have to get him

596
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 2: on the phone.

597
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,119
Speaker 4: But he looked gigantic at on the floor, Rudy because

598
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 4: you know, there wasn't a lot of other tall guys

599
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 4: that big, so uh, he was able to swallow all

600
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 4: those rebunds quite as he had twenty with seven minutes

601
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 4: to go in the third quarter. So surprised he did

602
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 4: didn't crack the thirty there because it was a close

603
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 4: game too. He was down, he was playing there right

604
00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 4: down the end.

605
00:26:58,640 --> 00:26:59,880
Speaker 2: Do you think we'll get it? Do you think we'll

606
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 2: get a guy that gets thirty rebounds this season?

607
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 4: I think so. I think it's too Yeah, I can

608
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 4: see there's a lot of it feels like there's just

609
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 4: a roast beef and a wedgi almost every other day

610
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 4: right now.

611
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 2: So and a hell of a pace right now. It's fantastic.

612
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 3: When we get to thirty, what happens is Arby's releases

613
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 3: a roast beef on a baguet. Wow, a French baget,

614
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 3: just like Jerry Kadik and the stream team mentioned roast

615
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 3: beef on beget French geft as you said, delicious, delicious stuff.

616
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 2: Another winner of the weekend too. Everybody out there that

617
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 2: likes to point out that I sort of look like

618
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 2: the OKC Young End Poku chef Ski because he had

619
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 2: a great game.

620
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 3: Here he is.

621
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 2: It's me stretched out and without a beard. I guess

622
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 2: maybe darker hair too. I must have got like literally

623
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 2: forty messages on Instagram, specifically some on Twitter saying hey,

624
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 2: congrats on the big game skeets, but pretty impressive here

625
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 2: from Poku, youngest player in me A history. Twenty plus points,

626
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 2: ten plus rebounds, and five plus threes the game and uh,

627
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 2: you know, big victory there for the thunder over the

628
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 2: weekend too. It's crazy le I mean, I comparison, but

629
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 2: I mean he's obviously has some skills. They saw something

630
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 2: in this guy and if he can hit his shot,

631
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 2: then he's something pretty special. But we'll see that.

632
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, those comparisons won't bother you.

633
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: Full of a sudden he starts lighting it up and

634
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 2: he's on my team Canadian the second team Canadian Thunder

635
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,959
Speaker 2: with Sga and Dorton. Then you get yourself in there.

636
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 2: Poku is definitely my second team shooting twining about that.

637
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm all, yeah, I had.

638
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 3: I had it in the dock as well. The Skeets

639
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 3: Poku comparison, for sure, you know, the beardless Skeets, it's

640
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 3: not it's not bad. It's not bad comparison out there

641
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 3: and the shot. The shot, you know, not you know,

642
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 3: compare us to NBA players, but you you're shot at

643
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 3: the three point line. It's not crazy dissimilar, you know,

644
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 3: So it's not.

645
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 2: It's in front of me. Yeah, I noticed that looking

646
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 2: at his photos and watching his clips, I'm like, that

647
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 2: one's not bad, But there's a lot of ones where

648
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Speaker 2: it's a little bit more in front of his face

649
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 2: that arms a little too far in there, probably for

650
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 2: your liking, Lely, he's not a beautiful shore of the basket.

651
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 2: Maybe but you know you're seven feet tall. It's not

652
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 2: it's like somebody's gonna be blocking that.

653
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 3: Oh that's awesome. Man, he's seven foot and yeah, he

654
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 3: was hitting shots. He had a nice little footwork move

655
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 3: within the lane, dancing in there. He's nineteen years old

656
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 3: to be able to do this. I thought he was

657
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 3: a project. But you know, here, here's his footwork. We're

658
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 3: showing you here at nineteen coming over.

659
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 2: I did that to Lee Ellis once.

660
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 3: Has there been Has there ever been a seven footer

661
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 3: that registers under two hundred pounds? I don't think so.

662
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 3: And Kevin Durant never listened to.

663
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 4: What was manut.

664
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Speaker 2: Probably I bet he weighed a lot more than you say. Yeah,

665
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: I just I don't know why I'm saying that, but

666
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 2: my gut said, yeah. Was he like listed as one

667
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 2: ninety poked ones one? Holy crap, that is crazy.

668
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 4: Well he's in the right market there and okay, so

669
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 4: because that's where Steven Adams had all the beef, So

670
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 4: that's true. Yeah, just feeding that beef and he'll pack

671
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 4: it on pretty quickly.

672
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 2: Again. And I want to give a shout out to SGA.

673
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 2: You know, one of my favorite players in the league.

674
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 2: Because he's Canadian. Shirt dropped a homer. But this guy man,

675
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 2: like I'm feeling I'm starting to feel good. I'm not

676
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 2: feeling good about losing one hundred dollars to task on

677
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 2: the net, but I'm starting to feel pretty good about

678
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 2: maybe making a note that we even have money on it,

679
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,479
Speaker 2: but winning my bet with Trey Kirby that this kid

680
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: might be an All Star next year, because holy crap,

681
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 2: he continues to ball out. And okay, see won this

682
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 2: game with this starting lineup. I just had to point

683
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 2: this out far again.

684
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 4: You're gonna have the thunder fans coming at you.

685
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 2: It got even crazier, man, Like it's getting wilder, Like

686
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 2: these are just made up names. These aren't real people. Okay,

687
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 2: there's two players, like there's sga in Poku. I believe

688
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 2: those are real players. No, then there was Justin Jackson. Okay,

689
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 2: we've heard of him, but you know, not a well

690
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 2: known name, ty Jerome. And then Moses Brown. This is

691
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 2: my new favorite league. Oh sweet Moses Brown there at

692
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 2: the set of position. It is. It's wild that, like

693
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 2: this is a team that really is not probably trying

694
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 2: to win a bunch of games, but they're still managing

695
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 2: to do pretty damn good here, and a big part

696
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 2: of it is Sga, like he is so much fun

697
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 2: to watch. So yeah, I just wanted to plaint that

698
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 2: did I get the thunder fans upset last time when

699
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 2: I was pointing out there starting lineup?

700
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 4: Yeah? Well remember you re rattled off all of those

701
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 4: names who were playing. Yeah, and then there was some

702
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 4: thunder fans who just got angry for saying, like.

703
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 2: There's no such thing as thunder fans.

704
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 4: I'm skidding thunder fans.

705
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 2: It's talk about I'm always talking about the Thunder on

706
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 2: the show Thunder for Life. Man, don't endort me, Okay,

707
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 2: Final final winner of the weekend to UH. This is

708
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 2: pretty cool. Kris Lavert coming back. He hadn't played a

709
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 2: game since January twelfth. You know, he had a mass

710
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 2: removed from his left kidney soon after the Pacers acquired

711
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 2: him after they shipped out Oladipo. So he played over

712
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 2: the weekend. You know, look looked like a guy that

713
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 2: was rusty, that was coming off some surgery. But thirteen

714
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 2: point seven boards to assist. He chipped in. They got

715
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 2: a win to beat the Suns to UH to snap

716
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 2: a two losing streak for the Pacers they had. They

717
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 2: put up a good fight against the Lakers actually the

718
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 2: game before too, but uh, Coups caught firelate, so they lost.

719
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 2: But I think the Pacers are gonna get a little

720
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 2: interesting here when we look at the Eastern Conference standings,

721
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 2: especially when you add Lavert and if you can find

722
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 2: his legs a little bit. But just take a look

723
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 2: at this. I just wanted to show everybody that's joining

724
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 2: us on the stream team. It's Sixers at the top,

725
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 2: it's Nets, it's Bucks like we were talking about, Heater

726
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 2: and fourth, and then it's Celtics, the Hornets, the Knicks

727
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 2: are still there. The Hawks they've won five straight. Pacers

728
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 2: like I just talked about, uh, you know, then Trey's Bulls,

729
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 2: then my Wraps and tass Wraps. You know, it's a

730
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 2: it's a log jam there. And then there's a little

731
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 2: bit of a drop off with those last four teams.

732
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 2: But the Wizards, of course was Westbrook and Beal. You know,

733
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 2: can they put another little run together and get back

734
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 2: in that mix. Sure. I think those bottom three they're done.

735
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 2: I mean, they're not gonna be playing in the play

736
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 2: in tournament. I don't think I'm talking about the caves,

737
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 2: Magic and Piston. But man, look at that, like it

738
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 2: felt like three weeks ago, four weeks ago. Yeah, the

739
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 2: heat were in thirteenth.

740
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 4: Yeah they would you know, yeah they were Yeah, yeah.

741
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 2: Of course they're up to four. So I think the

742
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 2: Pacers are going to make things a little more interesting.

743
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 2: Here is what I'm getting at with with carislivertback, because

744
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 2: they could really use a guy like that to pair

745
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 2: with really a talented team in Savonis, Brogden and Turner

746
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 2: had an awesome game on the weekend, so we will see.

747
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 3: You pulled up the NBA dot Com standings, there skeets.

748
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 3: Every time I look at any information on NBA dot Com,

749
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 3: I just think, take that for data, It's just it

750
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,959
Speaker 3: looks like an Excel spreadsheet. I mean there's a lot

751
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,479
Speaker 3: of info there. But esthetically you got to improve that. Schumann,

752
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 3: let's get on that, you know, Like it's I find

753
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 3: it a little difficult to I take it in and

754
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 3: I go there because there's lots of info, but I

755
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 3: think you're losing the casual fan when you have the

756
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 3: layout like this. We could do that.

757
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 4: It should be like a different shade for the teams

758
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 4: outside the playoffs may hold on.

759
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 2: What I did was I zoomed out on my browser

760
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 2: to get all fifteen teams on there. If I had

761
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 2: it normal, there is a line after the sixth seed,

762
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 2: and then there is a line after the eight seed,

763
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 2: you know, like you're trying to diferentiate, or maybe after

764
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 2: the ten seed. I guess I should say too, to

765
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,479
Speaker 2: differentiate the playing teams and stuff like that, so they

766
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 2: do a little bit better job. But yeah, okay, there's

767
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: a lot of info there. You know, you don't want

768
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 2: to know their home record and road record task. Maybe

769
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 2: you want simplified.

770
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 3: No, I do, it's better colors then agree, grey bar

771
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 3: off the top. Anyways, however, schumannfl thanks Schuman for updating

772
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:21,919
Speaker 3: that every morning.

773
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, he gets up super early. He's up before you.

774
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 2: And what you need to do updating that? Okay, let's

775
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 2: get to NBA weekend Losers, Lee, you're gonna get a started.

776
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 2: Where are you going?

777
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'll start. Actually with some positive news here

778
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 4: for the Philadelphia seventy six is because Joel and b

779
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 4: got injured on Friday night in a nasty fall. It

780
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 4: looked terrible. But the good news for the Sixers is

781
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 4: that He's only been diagnosed with a bone bruise and

782
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 4: will be re evaluated in two weeks, so I guess

783
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,439
Speaker 4: we're probably going to miss him for at least three

784
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 4: weeks based on that, maybe a touch longer, maybe not.

785
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 4: But that's the good news here for Philidel More good

786
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,959
Speaker 4: news actually, they won their first game, actually convincing victory

787
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 4: over the San Antonio Spurs. They've won five in a row,

788
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 4: and they do remain top of the Eastern Conference, but

789
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 4: the Nets are breathing down their neck, and so of

790
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 4: them Milwaukee Bucks right now. Yannis is actually quietly having

791
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 4: an incredible season, but we've kind of thrown him out

792
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 4: of the MVP conversation. But anyway, back to Philadelphia here.

793
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 4: So now, how they handle these next two or three

794
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 4: weeks is going to be very important because I think

795
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 4: they desperately need to keep home court advantage for as

796
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 4: long as they can in the playoffs, and it's going

797
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 4: to be a little bit tough. We've seen in the

798
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 4: past Ben Simmons when he's been able to step up

799
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 4: into this role without Joel Embiid play really well and

800
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 4: they still have, you know, the remaining pieces in play,

801
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 4: so they're still a very good team. But what this

802
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 4: means for Joel Embiid and his MVP chances I think

803
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 4: is also significant. Now the MVP doesn't mean anything compared

804
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 4: to this because six is actually you know, doing well

805
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 4: in the playoffs and potentially going to the Eastern Conference finals.

806
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 4: But Joel Embiid has been an incredible story this season.

807
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,040
Speaker 4: I think the last time we looked last week, he

808
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 4: was technically the favorite, but that has been changing around

809
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 4: so much in the last few weeks with Yo Kitchen

810
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 4: Lebron and other players. James Harden's kind of in there.

811
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 4: So it's all I hope, you know, for Joel EMBII

812
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 4: he can just come back healthy and play for the Sixers,

813
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 4: even if that means, you know, he's out of the

814
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 4: MVP conversation. Maybe he's not. You know, he's not definitely,

815
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 4: but it just sort of feels like this was the

816
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 4: one thing that we kept saying is like, he's got

817
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 4: to stay healthy. He's got to stay healthy. And he

818
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 4: came off with a nasty injury against the Washington Wizards too,

819
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 4: a game where you know it's like they're going to

820
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 4: win that game anyway, so unfortunately it happened against them

821
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 4: on a Friday night. But you know, so I'm when

822
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 4: I first saw that injury, man, I thought that's got

823
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 4: ACL written all over it or MCL you know, because

824
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 4: it was a clumsy sort of like he was a

825
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 4: huge dunk, but he kind of connected these and then

826
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 4: landed awkwardly and it looked terrible. So I'm happy that

827
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 4: he that he's okay, even though he's going to be

828
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 4: out here for a while. So that's good for Philadelphia.

829
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 4: But you know, there's some impact. Now. How do they

830
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 4: keep their heads above water here without him? I think

831
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 4: they can, but again, the Nets are playing just incredible basketball.

832
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 4: And then how will he come back and will he

833
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 4: be able to sort of get back into that MVP

834
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 4: type performance immediately or will it take him a few

835
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 4: other weeks to get back because he's a big guy,

836
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 4: he's a heavy guy, and a knee injury like that

837
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 4: on a guy like him, think he's going to take

838
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 4: a little bit of time here. So, you know, disappointed

839
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 4: for Joel after the season that he's had, but not

840
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 4: also like could have been much worse for him in Philadelphia.

841
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 4: So you know, just hopefully he can get back and

842
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 4: the Sixers can sort of continue where they've been up

843
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 4: to this point.

844
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 2: I wonder if it speeds up the six Ers front

845
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 2: office of trying to acquire someone too as the deadline approaches,

846
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 2: tasks like possibly a big of course I'm talking about.

847
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 2: I know they've been pretty happy. I think with Dwight

848
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 2: Howard as their backup big I think he's done pretty

849
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 2: solid job. You know, Dweight Howard still in our lives

850
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 2: and actually still performing in a limited role. But now

851
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 2: there's a lot more center minutes there to be had.

852
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 2: And will they be aggressive Maybe they won't in trying

853
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 2: to get I don't know who, but you know big

854
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 2: names are out there at the big position in Aldridge

855
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,760
Speaker 2: and Drummond and so on. Do you think it changes

856
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 2: anything for them?

857
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point. I never really thought about

858
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 3: those guys. But I think they are happy with their

859
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 3: their lineup in the way it goes right now. I

860
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 3: don't think they mess around with that. Put Ben Simmons

861
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,439
Speaker 3: at the five. He can do it. He can play

862
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 3: a big man spot. I mean, they they have enough

863
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 3: bigs to overcome it, and they have enough talent to

864
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 3: overcome Joel Embiid being out. I think the biggest question

865
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 3: with Joel Embiid even when he was a monster this season,

866
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 3: was is he going to go into the playoffs and

867
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 3: dominate because he hasn't been able to do that throughout

868
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 3: his career over the course of a playoffs, like be

869
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 3: a real MVP guy. And I'm not sure how this

870
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 3: how this really affects him. I think it probably hurts

871
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 3: him to be off the court for three weeks, But

872
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 3: at the same time, I think they kind of had

873
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 3: to slow him down and not play as much. So

874
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what whether it's a you know, blessing

875
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 3: in disguise that he gets some rest, or you know,

876
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 3: it's a real disadvantage that he misses time here. That's

877
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 3: the biggest question for me. Is Joel Embiid ever going

878
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 3: to be a monster in the postseason for first round,

879
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 3: for the first round, second round, third round, because he's

880
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 3: shown that he can be a monster for stretches, but

881
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 3: is he going to be a monster for the entire postseason?

882
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 3: And I think like you saw them, you know, demolish

883
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 3: the Spurs yesterday who didn't have DeMar de Rosen and

884
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 3: LaMarcus Altrich out there. Yeah, they decimated them. But I

885
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,439
Speaker 3: think the Sixers team is just good enough to deal

886
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 3: without Joel Embiid for a while, like they did with

887
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 3: Yeah that stretch at the end of the season when

888
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid was out and Ben Simmy was rocking the show.

889
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see if that they can replicate that again. Here.

890
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 2: I checked the Basketball Reference NBA MVP tracker there, because

891
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 2: you sort of are alluding to that ley right now,

892
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 2: Yo Kitchen number one, Embiid is number two. Then it's

893
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 2: Hardened Giannis Lebron rounding up the top five, followed by Lillard, Kawhi,

894
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 2: Kyrie Luca, and Rudy Gobert there at tenth, just so

895
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 2: you know, But yeah, this is like it was so

896
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 2: close between Yo Kitchen, Embiid and then other that are

897
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 2: in the mix. Like if you miss three or four weeks,

898
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 2: you're not gonna win this thing. Like if the other

899
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 2: guy doesn't get injured or the other two guys that

900
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 2: are top of the MVP leaderboard, you're not gonna Like

901
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 2: it's just too tough to like, well, yeah, their numbers

902
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 2: are similar, they're both incredible players, but the one guy

903
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 2: played you know, x more minutes, x more games. You're

904
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 2: just gonna like lean towards that player, So there's a

905
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 2: huge blow for Embiad's MVP chances. If we're being honest,

906
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 2: because I'm with you, he's probably gonna miss well, it's

907
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 2: minimum two weeks. It'll probably be more like three weeks.

908
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 2: And if the Sixers play well with Simmons leading them,

909
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 2: then that's fine and you get more reps for some

910
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 2: other guys. Maybe they do make a move and you go,

911
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 2: you get a little more comfortable with some of these

912
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 2: guys playing without him be because what happens when he

913
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 2: gets into foul trouble in a playoff series and stuff

914
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 2: like that. You gotta need these guys to step up.

915
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 2: But not good for his MVP case for sure. Tess,

916
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 2: who do you got for a loser of the weekend?

917
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of potential MVPs, Kawhi Leonard is in that

918
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 3: category of guys, but with the way the Clippers are

919
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 3: falling apart, he's not gonna be for long. They've dropped

920
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 3: down to fourth in the Western Conference standings, which is

921
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 3: disappointing for them, and on Sunday night national TV game

922
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 3: on ESPN, the Pelicans demolished them. The Clippers really had

923
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,800
Speaker 3: no chance in this game was a twenty point loss

924
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 3: in the end, but their starters didn't even play the

925
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 3: fourth quarter because it was a foregone conclusion that it

926
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 3: was over at the end of three quarters. So the

927
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 3: Clippers just some reminiscent feelings or just actions, I guess,

928
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 3: I just just that that same idea of them not

929
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 3: being able to turn it on for long stretches like

930
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 3: they did in last year's postseason. The Lakers are injured,

931
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 3: the Jazz obviously playing well, but the Clippers should be

932
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 3: able to overcome the Los Angeles Lakers and the standings

933
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,439
Speaker 3: with Anthony Davis out, but they're not. They're not doing

934
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 3: it right now, and so I'm really disappointed. I'm disappointed

935
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 3: with the way that they're they're falling apart the clip.

936
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 3: Kawhi Leonard, I think is disappointed as well. He said

937
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 3: a postgame that you know, we just don't have the consistency.

938
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 3: And this is this is a prolonged stretch, you know,

939
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 3: it's it's overlapping both sides of the All Star Game.

940
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 3: It's it's not a short stretch. And I'm scared for

941
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 3: this team, scared for this team going into the postseason.

942
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 3: And I'll mention it now because it needs to be

943
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 3: mentioned Kawhi Leonard is not signed past this season. I mean,

944
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 3: he's got a player option. He can be there if

945
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 3: he wants to be, but he's not signed. Is it's

946
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 3: not a given and if he doesn't like it there,

947
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, I'm definitely feeding the speculation.

948
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 3: I'm trying to aggregate. This show gets some some mad quicks.

949
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 3: But no, I think he'll be there next year. But

950
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 3: at the same time, if they fall apart, yeah, I

951
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 3: don't know. Weirder things have happened in the NBA and

952
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 3: he has not signed long term.

953
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 2: It does feel like Lee they could use like another

954
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 2: vet in there, I think too, maybe help steer the ship,

955
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 2: especially at the guard position. I know Lowry has always

956
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,760
Speaker 2: been linked to it. To them, I think that's difficult

957
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 2: to make a move happen, But or not a George

958
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,320
Speaker 2: Hill George Hill can be acquired. I'm guessing from Okay, No,

959
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 2: I know he's not Lowry, but I think he would

960
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 2: help them, I truthfully do.

961
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

962
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 4: Well, the big concern for me for the Clippers, and

963
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 4: you saw it last night, was when they're down, they

964
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 4: tend to just stay down. And that's I think what

965
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 4: happened to them in the playoffs too. Last season, especially

966
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 4: in that Game seven against the Nuggets, it was like

967
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 4: they got down after leading and I was like, they

968
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,320
Speaker 4: didn't have that sort of counter punch. But you know,

969
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 4: talking about Kawhi saying maybe he won't be there next season. Sure,

970
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 4: if he wants to leave, he can as a free agent,

971
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 4: but how much of this sort of still falls on

972
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 4: his shoulders. He's the leader. He demanded everything, they gave

973
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 4: it to him, so the organization has to take some

974
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 4: of the blame there. But you know, Kawhi, he's a

975
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 4: superstar player, but is he a superstar leader? I think

976
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 4: right now the answer is probably not, because he doesn't

977
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 4: seem to sort of inspire his teammates, Like he doesn't

978
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 4: seem to have those games as much. And look, maybe

979
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 4: you know, you can sort of pick games here and there,

980
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 4: but it's like sometimes he dominates and takes over, but

981
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 4: you just that chemistry just doesn't seem to be there.

982
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 4: And on national TV last night against the Pelicans, who

983
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 4: just got hammered by the Timberwolves last week, that's the

984
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 4: sort of game the Clippers really need to sort of

985
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 4: show everyone we are a legit contender, we are that

986
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 4: a different team from what we were last season. But

987
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 4: you see it and you're like, I'm not sure they are.

988
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 4: I'm just not sure. I just don't think that this team,

989
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 4: if they fall behind in a playoff series, will really

990
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 4: be able to sort of just drag themselves back into it.

991
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 4: If they're leading and their front running, they can look great.

992
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 4: But if you can get the Clippers and just you know,

993
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 4: to have to fight and to scrap, I'm not sure

994
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 4: they've got that in them. So as a huge, huge

995
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 4: sort of playoff season series coming up for them, because

996
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 4: if you know, they gave up so much to get

997
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 4: Kawhi and Paul George and if they don't have much

998
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 4: to show for it at the end of it. Now,

999
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 4: they did sign Paul George to another five year you know,

1000
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 4: two hundred and thirty whatever it was earlier this season,

1001
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 4: so he's going to be there next season no matter what.

1002
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 4: But I just I just don't sort of trust this

1003
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 4: team at the moment. I don't. I don't feel like

1004
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 4: they're the sort of team that can really withstand, you know,

1005
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 4: some adversity. That's that's where I sort of worry about them. So,

1006
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 4: you know, right now they have to do something super

1007
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 4: to impress me for me to think that they can

1008
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 4: actually go all the way and beat potentially the Lakers,

1009
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 4: potentially the Clippers, the Clippers, potentially the Jazz, you know,

1010
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 4: even the Nuggets, I mean even someone like the Blazers

1011
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 4: in the playoff round. You know, the Clippers should be

1012
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 4: favored against them, but you know, we've seen what the

1013
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,359
Speaker 4: Blazers can do in the playoffs, especially with Damien Little there.

1014
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 2: So not sure.

1015
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 4: I'm not just not sure how I feel about this

1016
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 4: team right now, but certainly I don't put them in

1017
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 4: that like they're they're a championship contender.

1018
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 2: Definitely another reason they might need to go like George Hills,

1019
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:38,760
Speaker 2: because I don't know if you go saw it, Reggie

1020
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 2: Jackson passed away yesterday on the basketball court, Jackson has

1021
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 2: dunked all over them, just buried them. Holy crap. I

1022
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 2: mean that's I know. We were saying, is anybody gonna

1023
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 2: beat Anthony Edwards dunk, you know on Wattanabi against the Raptors.

1024
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 2: Probably not, because it was still huge. I just watched

1025
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 2: it again. I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot how

1026
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 2: ls than that was. But Jackson Hayes that dunk was

1027
00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 2: a huge tass. I think that's gonna be on the

1028
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 2: top three list right now. Murdered him Top three.

1029
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 3: Reggie is a guard who's just standing there. He's going

1030
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 3: to take a charge. You know, it's a monstrous done,

1031
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 3: but it's it's a center on guard. And do you

1032
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 3: think that Jackson Hayes should be able to say I

1033
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,919
Speaker 3: got you on the head afterwards? Like, yeah, I guess

1034
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 3: the guys he's just you know, trying to take a charge.

1035
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 3: And he's a point guard versus a center. You know,

1036
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 3: That's why Anthony Edwards is way better. It's because like

1037
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 3: a guy's trying to block a shot. Utah's a forward

1038
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 3: at least, not that that matters, but at least he's

1039
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 3: trying to block a shot. There's no way Reggie Jackson King,

1040
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 3: I don't can Reggie Jackson dounk. I'm sure he can't,

1041
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 3: but he's not blocking Jackson Hayes shot. Anyways, it looked awesome.

1042
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's trying to take the charge there. Yeah, big

1043
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 2: win for the Pelicans too. I don't want to like

1044
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 2: sort of I know we aren't glossing over that, but

1045
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 2: that was that was huge. Like you're saying it's a

1046
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 2: good team which should be a good team, and the

1047
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 2: Clippers and they sort of embarrass them, and Zion was

1048
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 2: once again pretty special. Okay, few other mini losers here

1049
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 2: the Raptors. You gotta put him in the mix. They're

1050
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,280
Speaker 2: continuing the miss threes ards thanks to the COVID nineteen protocols.

1051
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 2: They got embarrassed by Trey's Bulls on Sunday because they

1052
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 2: are indeed back. They're really back now because, as Trey

1053
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 2: pointed out on Twitter, the Raptors had beaten Chicago like

1054
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 2: twelve straight times. Yeah, so the Bulls finally got them.

1055
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 2: Denzel Valentine blew this one open in the fourth quarter.

1056
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 2: I mean it was the Raptors were hanging around, hanging around,

1057
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 2: you know, Norm was doing his best, Kyle was trying

1058
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 2: to keep him closed. They're like nine ten, and then

1059
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 2: Denzel Valentine hit like three straight threes and I was like, well,

1060
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 2: that's game. I'm going to bed. So that was pretty

1061
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 2: impressive by the Bulls. But the Raps and the question

1062
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 2: I was alluding to earlier test was I was on

1063
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 2: Below the Hardwood podcast Toronto guys, and they were asking me, like,

1064
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 2: what would be a successful Raptors season This year, and

1065
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,879
Speaker 2: I was like, I mean, I guess a playoff series win.

1066
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 2: But then I was like, you know what, I don't

1067
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 2: even know if it needs to be that. It needs

1068
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 2: to be for a successful season like Siakam, van Vliet

1069
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 2: no g won two or three of them having really

1070
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 2: dominant playoff performances, especially a guy like Siakam, to then

1071
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:08,760
Speaker 2: feel good about heading into next season. Would you agree

1072
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 2: or disagree with that? Like, if they were to even

1073
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 2: lose in a first round, as long as you had Siakam,

1074
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 2: you know, looking pretty impressive, looking like a star again,

1075
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 2: you'd feel better. What's your That's a good.

1076
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 3: Question, That is a good question. Yeah, I mean I

1077
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 3: agree with your your mindset there as well and your

1078
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 3: thought process immediately, I think they got to win a

1079
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 3: playoff series. But in the end, at the end of

1080
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 3: the day, it doesn't really matter. It matters more yet

1081
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 3: what the guys show in the playoffs. I think Fred

1082
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 3: has shown that he can be a solid playoff guy

1083
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:42,879
Speaker 3: no matter what I'm buying what Fred has seld. But yeah,

1084
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 3: Pascal is what you're looking for, to be a very solid,

1085
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 3: very solid player, to improve what he did last year

1086
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 3: against the Celtics. That just wasn't right seeing him the

1087
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 3: way he played and og less, so just because you

1088
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 3: know he's in that third role. But it all sort

1089
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 3: of depends if they do trade Kyle Lowry. Yeah, I

1090
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 3: keep going back to that. I know, I know, it

1091
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 3: doesn't seem like they're going to trade Kyle Lowry ten

1092
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 3: days from the trade deadline here and I just jumped

1093
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:13,839
Speaker 3: on the trade machine tried to get the Clippers. Yeah,

1094
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 3: but it's hard. It's hard to find, it's hard to

1095
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 3: find a deal, and it's hard to deal with a

1096
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 3: non mobile friendly website on your mobile. So so it

1097
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 3: was it's difficult. I mean, Lower's getting paid thirty MS,

1098
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 3: thirty mills and there's just not enough to come back

1099
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 3: from unless you're looking for Luke Canard. I don't know.

1100
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the problem. Yeah, Lou Williams, I think can

1101
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 4: be had that why with the Raptors want.

1102
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 2: That, so you would be legit just doing Kyle Lowry

1103
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 2: a solid and like you say, go try and win

1104
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,320
Speaker 2: a championship. We'll send you to the West. So you know,

1105
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 2: if we make the playoffs, we don't have to play

1106
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 2: in the East. That makes some sense. But yeah, there's

1107
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 2: not a lot coming back. There's no picks, right, I mean, yeah,

1108
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 2: that's the big problem. If they had picks, then I

1109
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 2: think there's there's something there, But otherwise there's just nothing.

1110
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 2: A couple other losers. I wanted to ask you, Lee,

1111
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 2: did you see the ending of Friday Night's grizzlyes Nugget scheme?

1112
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 2: Because again and Grizzly is a loser of the weekend.

1113
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 2: They're two tough lasses. They last to Denver on Friday

1114
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 2: night by one point, then they last on Sunday to Okay,

1115
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,919
Speaker 2: see uh, and they're crazy starting lineup. John Moran driving

1116
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 2: late on Friday night into your kitch and didn't get

1117
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 2: the call. You know, you'll kitch. I thought did a

1118
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 2: pretty good job of staying as straight up as possible

1119
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 2: to go on vertical and you know that's two stars

1120
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 2: going at it. And John Moran didn't get the whistle

1121
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 2: and he was a little pissed off about it. I

1122
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,360
Speaker 2: think the you know, the next day official report, the

1123
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 2: last two minute report says no rate, call rate, no call.

1124
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 2: What did you think of that one?

1125
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,879
Speaker 4: There was a lot of contact for sure, and creating it. Yeah,

1126
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 4: and John Moran's body, you know, flies around, but he

1127
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 4: does that a lot. Given that at the stage of

1128
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 4: the game, I was okay with it. I know Grizzlies

1129
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 4: fans weren't. They thought clear fout there, But yeah, he

1130
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 4: went in. He tried to do the right thing to

1131
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 4: get the contact, to make a play in the in

1132
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 4: the paint there. I thought it was fine. You know,

1133
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 4: you can certainly make a case the other way, one

1134
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:04,800
Speaker 4: of those bang bang plays, you know, what is a

1135
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 4: block or a charge whatever, But I was okay with

1136
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 4: that one being a no call, right. I thought Jokic

1137
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 4: did the right thing. I thought Moran did the right thing.

1138
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 4: And just because this contact doesn't mean as a foul,

1139
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 4: what was the foul block if anything? I guess I

1140
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 4: mean he sort of he had his arms out there

1141
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 4: a little bit, but yeah, you know, it's not a

1142
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 4: I don't I didn't think it was clear one way

1143
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 4: or the other. So I think a no call for

1144
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 4: me was fine.

1145
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 2: Task. Did you see that play? Did you have a

1146
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 2: take on that one? You think they got it right?

1147
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:38,320
Speaker 3: Late game. I'm totally fine with a little physicality, you know,

1148
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 3: a little contact, totally cool.

1149
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 2: And Yo, Kics didn't like, you know, he didn't like

1150
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 2: say down and hit Moran's arm or anything like that.

1151
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 2: He was smart with his hands, like I mean, he

1152
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 2: sort of kept him as high as possible. I think

1153
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,439
Speaker 2: that helped his case. I think if he comes down

1154
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 2: at all, like really aggressively, of course, then it's probably

1155
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 2: a foul. Even if you like touch his ball a

1156
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 2: little bit, they might call that. But uh, yeah, he

1157
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 2: played that right, And good on John ma Rever driving.

1158
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 2: I mean, you're you're always saying, come on, attack, attack, attack,

1159
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 2: but you know this is the flip side of that, right,

1160
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 2: you're putting it in the in the official's hands a

1161
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 2: little bit. And they swold ther West no One.

1162
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 4: But still you can't like Moran's done that a few

1163
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 4: times where he does drive in late in the game

1164
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 4: and he scored. So he's got the right attitude because

1165
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 4: he hasn't got the prettiest He's not a beautiful shooter

1166
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 4: of the basketball, they wouldn't say. And I think for

1167
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,879
Speaker 4: a young guy to not settle and not be trying

1168
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 4: to play the hero ball to win it instead, he's

1169
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 4: much more impressive. Just didn't go his way. But I

1170
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 4: don't think it was terrible officiating that cost him in

1171
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 4: this case.

1172
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,280
Speaker 3: Okay, what about Kyl Lowry. I'm back out the trade

1173
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 3: rechieve Kyl Lowry for Viza Zubats would be the primary

1174
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,399
Speaker 3: thing that the Raptors get back. I know it's not good.

1175
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 3: It's not good. And then you throw in Patrick Beverly.

1176
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 3: They don't need it exactly. You need a center not

1177
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 3: good enough.

1178
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 2: So who they get rid of?

1179
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,800
Speaker 3: Patrick Beverly and Marcus Morris Senior in this I like

1180
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 3: I said, like.

1181
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 2: From day one when we were talking Lowry trades, it

1182
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 2: almost has to be to get him to like a

1183
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,840
Speaker 2: really good team, and most of those really good teams

1184
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 2: don't have first round picks. It feels like a third

1185
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 2: team has to be involved to move a first round

1186
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 2: pick from that third team, or even a fourth team,

1187
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 2: if that's gonna happen. That's my feeling on it, because

1188
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 2: it's just not enough. I like swobots, but yeah, it

1189
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:14,760
Speaker 2: just gotta.

1190
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 3: Be more than that. Yeah, I'm just not a master

1191
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 3: of the trade machine. I can't bring in a third team,

1192
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 3: not off your mobile, that's for sure. Yeah, right right.

1193
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 2: Final loser the weekend. You talked about the Heat winning

1194
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 2: yesterday against the Magic Ley. I'd like to get a

1195
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 2: loser the weekend to the Magic's late game execution. You

1196
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 2: sort of we're touching on it there. They're down three

1197
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,479
Speaker 2: to the Magic car. They run a play for Terrence Ross,

1198
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:40,759
Speaker 2: who's look, we know can hit big shots and it's

1199
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,919
Speaker 2: gonna be a tough one. He's screaming around the top.

1200
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 2: He's gonna jack like a twenty eight footer. Butler did

1201
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 2: a job like he doesn't reach it all. He's like,

1202
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 2: if you hit that, kudos, but Ross like airballs it

1203
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 2: by a mile. There's like sixteen seconds to go. Now

1204
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 2: the Magic come up with the rebound and underneath them

1205
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 2: yet like they somehow crawl the rebound and they get

1206
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 2: it to Bacon in the corner. And I got to

1207
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 2: this guy panic like he chucked up a garbage like

1208
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 2: turn around stumbling three because I'm assuming he thought there

1209
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 2: was two seconds left and sad twelve seconds left. I mean,

1210
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 2: you had time bring it out, get it to a

1211
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 2: star player like, you had lots of time. You did

1212
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 2: not need to panic. He likes to chuck as it is,

1213
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 2: so that was brutal. Then they still come up with

1214
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 2: the rebound or loose ball Michael Carter Williams did, and

1215
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 2: he's trying to get it out He's trying to sort

1216
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 2: of do the right thing, trying to get out to

1217
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 2: Ross to maybe have like one more attempt at a

1218
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,879
Speaker 2: three pointer to tie the game. But that's the pick

1219
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 2: six there from Butler that you talked about. I mean,

1220
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 2: it was a pretty easy pick six if we're being

1221
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 2: on it, but Jimmy and then took it down the

1222
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 2: other d.

1223
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 4: But that's the thing, just that awareness, that smart play

1224
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 4: there from Jimmy. And you talk about the magic panic

1225
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 4: because even Ross he saw.

1226
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 2: The players drown up for him.

1227
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 4: Yeah he could he had he had a second though there,

1228
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 4: he could have he could have maybe gotten his feet

1229
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 4: set a little bit. But anyway, Jimmy Butler that experience,

1230
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 4: that's what he did in the playoffs last year. Remember

1231
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 4: against the box, it was like when it comes on

1232
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 4: to an execution defensively or offensively, it's incredible how many

1233
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 4: times he has his hands on the plate and uh,

1234
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 4: and just sealed it last night for the full the

1235
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 4: heat turns.

1236
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,359
Speaker 3: Across had eight threes in that game. So yeah, yeah,

1237
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 3: I give it to him, But yeah, I was weird

1238
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 3: that the airball that I know is a tough play

1239
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,280
Speaker 3: going away from the basket to rise up and shoot.

1240
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 3: But you got to give it to him.

1241
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 4: I agree, No, I don't disagree you give it to him.

1242
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 4: I I just felt he perhaps even rushed that one.

1243
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 3: Sure, just the second.

1244
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the magic of lost eight in a row.

1245
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 2: He shows you that are near the bottom of the standings.

1246
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,240
Speaker 2: Now in the Eastern Conference, everybody wants to free Vooch,

1247
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 2: who had another Monster game, and he continues to put

1248
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 2: up impressive numbers. I think Eric Spolster was comparing him

1249
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 2: to Dirt Novinsky after the game, and like and like,

1250
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 2: even Voons was told about that. He's like, that's the

1251
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 2: nicest thing anyone's ever said about me. Well, yeah, I

1252
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 2: mean that's a really nice compliment, suppose saying you're basically dirt.

1253
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 2: So we'll see if the magic, Like I am one

1254
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,839
Speaker 2: hundred percent convinced ell Aaron Gordon has to be moved.

1255
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 2: I do not know why you still there now he's

1256
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 2: injured again. I know Sean's here this morning saying Blazers interested,

1257
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:08,319
Speaker 2: Wolve's interested. Something is happening. Eric Gordon is being moved,

1258
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 2: and I think right for both parties. The magic in

1259
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 2: here in Gordon, and we'll see about Vouch. I mean

1260
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 2: that's obviously a much bigger contract and a much bigger,

1261
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 2: more important piece to the Magic. But yeah, this guy's

1262
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 2: putting up monster numbers, and a lot of people are like, man,

1263
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 2: you put him on a team where he's the second

1264
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 2: or third guy. Well, that maybe puts a team over

1265
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,359
Speaker 2: the top test I don't know if they'll move off them,

1266
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, the Magic got to do something here, right,

1267
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:32,239
Speaker 2: at least like.

1268
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 3: A Gordon Sure, but Nikolovucevich's trade value cannot be higher.

1269
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:42,800
Speaker 3: This is this is Peteouch, Like, he's not going to

1270
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 3: turn into Dirk Nooviitsky tomorrow ologys to Eric Spolster. But

1271
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 3: he's thirty years old. So it sort of made sense.

1272
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 3: When I saw the rumor caught me sort of by surprise,

1273
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 3: but then I thought about it, And this team isn't

1274
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 3: going anywhere in the next couple of years, especially with

1275
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 3: the injuries that they have, So why not free Vouch

1276
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 3: for not just for his sake, but just for the

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Speaker 3: for the future of the franchise. It kind of makes

1278
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 3: sense because do you want him later into his thirties.

1279
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:14,200
Speaker 3: It's a very very digestible contract that declines from here

1280
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 3: on out. It makes sense, And yeah, I don't know

1281
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 3: on the Celtics, on a bunch of teams. Is as

1282
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 3: an offensive weapon, he would definitely make a lot of sense.

1283
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 3: What would teams have to give up for him? I

1284
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 3: don't know, but the magic got to be looking at it,

1285
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 3: and he would garner a bigger package than Aaron Gordon

1286
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 3: for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, So we see, we'll keep your eye on it.

1288
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 2: We'll probably start doing a lot of like trade deadline preview,

1289
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 2: you know, segments or shows coming up here over the

1290
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 2: next couple of weeks. Like what did you say ten

1291
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 2: days away? I would have yeah, yeah, yeah, hell, oh

1292
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 2: my goodness and March Madness starting this week. Goodness, okay,

1293
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 2: almost here already. I noticed it on my on my

1294
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,000
Speaker 2: car already, and I'm like, whoa, okay, here we go.

1295
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 4: That's how you can tell, as soon as you go

1296
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 4: outside and you've got that yellow ye dust on you, like,

1297
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 4: here we go, Here we go. The next month or so,

1298
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 4: I was just crazy.

1299
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 2: I mean, look at us complaining about beautiful yea. Other

1300
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,959
Speaker 2: people are still buried in like three feet of snow

1301
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 2: twenty five degrees here over the week it was hotter

1302
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 2: than that. Actually it was beautiful. I might go swimming suit.

1303
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 2: In fact, were you swimming this weekends? Ask or my

1304
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 2: crazy I think I saw your kids maybe swimming.

1305
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 3: I got in a koozie. I jump.

1306
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 2: Wait to slow play it into the pool season.

1307
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's it was a little too cool for

1308
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 3: too cool for pool.

1309
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 2: Not for kids though, probably kids not even getting.

1310
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 3: Oh they got just the chacos. They didn't get in

1311
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 3: the cool pools. A lottle cold. I mean, I'm a

1312
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:39,840
Speaker 3: bit of a worst one that comes to you like

1313
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:41,880
Speaker 3: that bath lot of I can't do it. I mean,

1314
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 3: you can't do a polar bear. It was probably like

1315
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 3: ten degrees celsus in that water.

1316
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 4: What's called that's beautiful? That's perfect pool weather.

1317
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:54,439
Speaker 2: Oh cold, No, that's a little too cold. But people

1318
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 2: go overboard with how hot. That's exactly too too hot?

1319
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,959
Speaker 4: Like it a little cooler than warmer in there, because

1320
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 4: once it's warm then it's just uncomfortable. I think you

1321
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 4: want to be in the water. You want to feel it,

1322
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 4: you know, it's not like you're not having a bath

1323
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 4: in there.

1324
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 3: You wanted to feel sharp when you jump in like

1325
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 3: a man. Paul Williamson once said he jumped in the

1326
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 3: pool and it was really cold. And somebody asked him,

1327
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 3: how's the water, and he said, sharp, sharp.

1328
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 2: But then you to be just warm enough to keep

1329
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 2: you in there, right, I like the lounge in the pool,

1330
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 2: hang in the poorly. But if it's too cold, then

1331
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 2: like you're not staying in Yeah, sweet spot. I think

1332
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 2: we're all agreeing here. We're just can't be too warm,

1333
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:35,919
Speaker 2: can't be too cold.

1334
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 4: Yeah. I'm just reminded of a time in Russia I

1335
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 4: was in like a they have this it's called a

1336
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 4: banya because it's like a sauna. You go in there

1337
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 4: and you get it like a million degrees hot, and

1338
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 4: this is in the middle of winter, and then you

1339
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 4: go from that straight into like basically a hole in

1340
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 4: the ground.

1341
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 2: That's great for your spot.

1342
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 4: It is the most exhilarating feeling you can possibly have.

1343
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 4: It's the best cure for a hangover. Hangovers born in

1344
00:59:58,720 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 4: two seconds.

1345
00:59:59,320 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good.

1346
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 4: Like the the When you think about it, when they

1347
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 4: say you know, this is what you can do, it

1348
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 4: gonna do You're like, I don't know if I want

1349
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 4: to do that. But once you do it, then you're

1350
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 4: just back and forth, back and forth, back and forth,

1351
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 4: because it is just the most amazing feeling in the

1352
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 4: world's incredible.

1353
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:19,080
Speaker 2: Great. Yeah, well, maybe let's get to tweeted the name.

1354
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 2: Maybe you'll continue on.

1355
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 3: This tweet over night.

1356
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 2: Wow Twitter, Lily.

1357
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, unfortunately I don't have a photo of that trip

1358
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 4: time in the in the Russian Bay.

1359
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 2: But nowhere to put your phone?

1360
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I was before I had the phone, so anyway, anyway,

1361
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 4: so the tweet. The tweet comes in from a person

1362
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 4: on Twitter called a Lily Goo as in we we Goo,

1363
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 4: and she's saying, my ninety four year old grandma spent

1364
01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 4: her year in isolation studying the NBA and filing a

1365
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 4: notepad with her favorite players on each team and sketzy,

1366
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:06,480
Speaker 4: I really wanted to I was impressed with this. Now

1367
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:09,480
Speaker 4: I don't know to hear JD. Yeah, look at the penmanship.

1368
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 2: Pretty nice. That very spectacular.

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01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 4: Penmanship for a ninety four year old. Now, her favorite

1370
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 4: player from the Philadelphia seventy six is Danny Green, Brooklyn,

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01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 4: Kevin Durant and James Harden. She's got two in there.

1372
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 4: None for the Raptors though.

1373
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 2: Well that's not the Raptor she has written there either,

1374
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 2: the Raptor y. Yeah.

1375
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 4: Now this one, this one took off on Twitter because

1376
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 4: people were just super impressed there. But she hasn't she

1377
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:39,240
Speaker 4: hasn't released the entire list, you know, for who her

1378
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 4: favorite players were. But if you go to that tweet

1379
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 4: from Lily Goot, her handle is at wi wig w O,

1380
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 4: she's saying, if you donate to this fun she has there,

1381
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:54,080
Speaker 4: she will release the entire list because I'd love to see. Yeah,

1382
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:55,440
Speaker 4: I want to see who's on that list. And I

1383
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 4: just want to look and admire that penmanship even more

1384
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 4: because that's just ninety four years old. She's got that

1385
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 4: sort of handwriting. It's amazing what your handwriting like these days.

1386
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:07,919
Speaker 4: Mine's not good because you just don't write enough.

1387
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 3: Actually wrote some notes. I wrote some notes yesterday watching

1388
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 3: Warriors Jazz and it was bad. I could barely read it.

1389
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 3: I mean it wasn't truck. It was a scratching but yeah, quickly,

1390
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 3: those are muscles. Those are muscles. I guess she's working.

1391
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, like when we were in school,

1392
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:29,720
Speaker 4: you know, we had to get our pen license before

1393
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 4: we could even use a pen, you know, because writing

1394
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:34,439
Speaker 4: was so important. But now kids like even my son

1395
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 4: barely writes. And I'm a little concerned about that because

1396
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 4: I know that's technology means everything's online, which is fine,

1397
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 4: but you still should be able to write beautifully, like

1398
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 4: like Grandmark could there. I'd love to be able to write.

1399
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 2: She wrote this list of teams and her favorite players

1400
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 2: and is only like teasing us with the first page

1401
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:59,440
Speaker 2: and if we do, then we'll release that's brilliant, exactly exactly.

1402
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so.

1403
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 3: Don't you You said you had to get your pen

1404
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 3: license before you got your Yeah, able to write with

1405
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:07,080
Speaker 3: a pen? Do you have it like a permit? First

1406
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 3: you got to go on your road test and then.

1407
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:09,360
Speaker 2: Wow, that was it.

1408
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:12,560
Speaker 4: Everyone had to write with pencils and then the teacher

1409
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 4: would like test you and if you wrote well enough

1410
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 4: with your pencil, she would give you a pen license.

1411
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:20,080
Speaker 4: So and she wrote at the end of at the

1412
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 4: bottom of it, she said, caution, don't talk and drive

1413
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 4: because it was like a license, you know. So and

1414
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 4: she's like she doesn't want people talking like drive and

1415
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 4: so concentrate. Shout out to miss Higgins. Grade four teacher, Miss.

1416
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:33,240
Speaker 2: Higgins, a beautiful writer of the words.

1417
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:37,360
Speaker 4: Was she was, she was, she was she is these

1418
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 4: days g x err and there in the comments.

1419
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 2: To drop that right, Oh good stuff. Yeah, I can't

1420
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 2: wait to see the full less. Let's go donate some money.

1421
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 2: Did you donately? You want to see the lest not yet?

1422
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 4: I have it, I have it, but I will. I will.

1423
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 4: It's only only a dollar each and we should get

1424
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:52,280
Speaker 4: that easily.

1425
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 2: So it's okay, we can make that happen. We'll show

1426
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:58,280
Speaker 2: that tweet. Okay, pick up results from Friday. Going back

1427
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 2: to Friday night, it was that Denver Grizzlies game. Actually

1428
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 2: Denver was favored by three and a half on the

1429
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 2: road in Memphis, but Memphis lost. As we talked about,

1430
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 2: John didn't get the call, but they did win because

1431
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 2: they covered. So that's a victory for Tass and I

1432
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:14,160
Speaker 2: taking Memphis there, Tas improvesd to six and one here

1433
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 2: in Marchol. I needed that gets me back to three

1434
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:19,680
Speaker 2: and four, crawling my way back to five hundred and

1435
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 2: the loss drops lead to three and four, and then

1436
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 2: Trey is four and three there in between us here

1437
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:27,080
Speaker 2: on the show. So Trey will be paying off this

1438
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:29,160
Speaker 2: February pick him. He's gonna be doing it on vacation.

1439
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 2: We'll get that at some point this week, so don't

1440
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:35,200
Speaker 2: you worry. But tonight's game task we got I think

1441
01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 2: there's eight teams on there's a double header, I think

1442
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 2: on ESPN. But where are we going.

1443
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:42,680
Speaker 3: Let's go with the Lakers and the Warriors. Just two

1444
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 3: franchises that you want to talk about a little bit.

1445
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 3: The Warrior's coming off that good win against the Jazz.

1446
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:51,840
Speaker 3: Lakers coming off that game where Kyle Kuzma saved the

1447
01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 3: day in the fourth quarter. So Golden State getting two

1448
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 3: and a half points at home could have another situation

1449
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 3: where you can take the home team plus the points

1450
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 3: and still win. But you know, essentially it pick them.

1451
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 3: It's a close one. So who you got? Lakers going

1452
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 3: into Golden State? Started softly? Who you got?

1453
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, tough one for the Warriors on the second knot

1454
01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 4: but they're at home of a back to back.

1455
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 2: What about birthday celebrations? You think Curry went crazy?

1456
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 3: Right?

1457
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe maybe he's a bit hung out of today.

1458
01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 4: I think the Warriors can. I think the Warriors can

1459
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 4: do it to not I'll take Golden States.

1460
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it's not kidding. I mean it's hot.

1461
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 4: They've been tough and Dawn the Warriors as well.

1462
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 3: But yeah, I was I was.

1463
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:36,240
Speaker 2: Thinking about this. We haven't talked about the Lakers in

1464
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 2: so long, right, like since like basically Anthony Davis's injury,

1465
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 2: it feels like, I mean, you know, Lebron's name comes

1466
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:43,840
Speaker 2: up of course in conversation about MVP and all that

1467
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:46,080
Speaker 2: all the time, but like we rarely have talked about them.

1468
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:47,840
Speaker 2: It feels like to me, am I crazy one. But

1469
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 2: I will take that. I will take I'll take the Lakers.

1470
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:54,480
Speaker 2: Lebron recently saying he's locked in. Yeah, okay here, you know,

1471
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 2: I love when Lebron comes out and says that, oh,

1472
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 2: here we go Lakers by three. Yeah, with the Warriors

1473
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 2: on the back of and celebrating Curry's birthday, Come on,

1474
01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 2: he's definitely unless he's doing what Lee was doing in Russia,

1475
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 2: jumping from the sauna into the cold pool, he might

1476
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:12,200
Speaker 2: be a little sluggish time. So give me Lakers, ask

1477
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:12,640
Speaker 2: where you're going?

1478
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:14,920
Speaker 3: Mmmm? Yeah, I think it's uh. This will be a

1479
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 3: situation like the Lakers always seem to be involved in.

1480
01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 3: They'll probably be down in the fourth quarter, and will

1481
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 3: they come back enough to win? I say nay, I

1482
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 3: think the Warriors will hold them off, because, yeah, the

1483
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 3: Lakers are great, But I don't care that. Lebron says

1484
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:34,320
Speaker 3: he's got a seventh gear. You're talking, we're talking cars

1485
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 3: and a license. He said, yeah, you know, usually I'm

1486
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 3: in third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and then I go into

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Speaker 3: seventh in the playoffs. But that doesn't exist Lebron. But

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Speaker 3: you know, Lebron also doesn't exist. He is one of

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Speaker 3: a kind. So maybe he's got a seventh year, but

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Speaker 3: I think he's saving that for the postseason. They have

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Speaker 3: to be saved by coups the other day, so yeah,

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01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 3: as soon as that game's over, they'll jump in the

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01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 3: coups some chill out, but I'm taking the dubs.

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Speaker 2: I just realized we forget to get Trey's pick. Yeah, yeah,

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01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:06,919
Speaker 2: we definitely did so, Jammy, Yeah yeah, I just while

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01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:09,120
Speaker 2: Task was talking, is like, is taskin thrown to a

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Speaker 2: trade video? We totally forget. That's good or he didn't

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01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 2: forgot to tell us. I guess too. It goes both ways,

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Speaker 2: but that's not a big deal. We'll find out as

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Speaker 2: soon as we finished this live show. We'll just find

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01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:22,960
Speaker 2: out who Trey's picking, well in advance of tonight's game,

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01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 2: and then we'll update it tomorrow and make sure to

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01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:30,000
Speaker 2: get his pick moving forward. Whoops, totally forgot, but okay,

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01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 2: so you guys are both taking the Warriors. You got

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01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:35,680
Speaker 2: some points there and I got the Lakers. And we'll

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01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 2: find out who Tray's taking a little bit later. Okay,

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Speaker 2: fun Monday show. Thank you so much to everybody joining

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1514
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Speaker 2: No dunks dot com. I might might do a top

1515
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Speaker 2: shot hot boy video later today. Uh, even even without

1516
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Speaker 2: t k uh. Let's see. I got something fun in mind.

1517
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Speaker 2: But uh, we'll see if I got the time, So

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Speaker 2: keep an eye on that. Just make sure you subscribe

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Speaker 2: to us.

1520
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Speaker 3: Is there gonna be a guest or just I think I'll.

1521
01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:14,880
Speaker 2: Just roll solo at this one. I'll keep it quick.

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01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:16,800
Speaker 2: We'll just pop a pack. I got a funny list

1523
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Speaker 2: that I've been thinking about to take it through from

1524
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:20,679
Speaker 2: a top shot hot boys and girls, but we'll see.

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01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:22,760
Speaker 2: If not today, I'll try and do it tomorrow. So again,

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Speaker 2: subscribe to No Dumps on YouTube and you'll know exactly

1527
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Speaker 2: when that bad boy's going live to watch me pop

1528
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 2: U pop a pack or two.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, can let me interrupt JD. Do you want

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Speaker 3: to pick for Trey? A lot of people saying in

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01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 3: that in that oh.

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Speaker 4: This is this is great because if JD gets it wrong, try,

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Speaker 4: he's probably gonna be angry. If he gets it wrong,

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Speaker 4: you might be picking a whole.

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Speaker 2: Week for it. Okay, let's do it. You know, hey,

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Speaker 2: look train do the doc existed? He could to all this,

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01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:52,040
Speaker 2: So Jad, you have to pick for a tray here?

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Speaker 5: All right, Trey is gonna take it's Lakers wires, right yeah?

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Speaker 4: Or is is a favorite?

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01:09:01,080 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 2: Lakers? Got to win my three or more?

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01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 5: Right, all right? I think I think there were some

1543
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:08,160
Speaker 5: birthday celebrations last night, so give me the Lakers.

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01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:11,840
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, so me and Trey slash JD had

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01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:14,880
Speaker 2: the Lakers and the other guys. Okay, great stuff. Yeah,

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01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:16,320
Speaker 2: we'll find out if you're going to be continuing to

1547
01:09:16,360 --> 01:09:20,599
Speaker 2: pick froll way depending on how tonight's go. Okay, Clipper bros,

1548
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:23,640
Speaker 2: you heard it here first. Have a great time turn up.

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01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 3: Love you guys awesome, thanks for joining us. And I

1550
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:29,720
Speaker 3: have been corrected by the stream team. I said the

1551
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:33,320
Speaker 3: seven gears and cars don't exist. I knew I should

1552
01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 3: have shouldn't have spoke out in line here many people, Tomaskenta,

1553
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 3: Jerry K, Dick d Money as Boss told me some

1554
01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 3: cars have up to ten years.

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01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:44,599
Speaker 2: Wow.

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01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:50,200
Speaker 3: Wow, I got to get back on my training wheels.

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01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:52,400
Speaker 3: You guys know what's up. Thank you for correcting.

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01:09:52,479 --> 01:10:00,360
Speaker 2: It breaks the day people, you guy every day and

1559
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 2: then ye happy every minute. It's been so long that

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01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:09,360
Speaker 2: you're the one I've waiting for.

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Speaker 3: It's happened already. It's gonna be gravy.