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Speaker 2: Welcome to This League Uncut.

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Speaker 1: This should be a good one. Hey, everyone, welcome in

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Speaker 1: to another edition of This League Uncut. Mark Stein here

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Speaker 1: with Chris Haynes, recording on Wednesday night. It'll be Thursday

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Speaker 1: cover as usual, another wild and busy week, the final

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Speaker 3: with the Lakers right now. Stein, you just said that

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: See, we're back over there. So it's like you have

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Speaker 2: They are now stein, they are eight.

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Speaker 3: Games they are the eighth seed. They are eight games

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Speaker 2: It is not fair. But I you know, go ahead, no.

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Speaker 1: No, I love when you get riled up about that.

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Speaker 1: So here, let's just discuss this briefly. Are you saying

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Speaker 2: They could come up with the number.

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Speaker 3: But if if you're ahead five games or more of

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Speaker 1: So you're not saying I do away with the play

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Speaker 2: No, No, not do one with the play in.

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Speaker 3: No, they should have autumn like in the East, those

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Speaker 3: eight should be it right now. There, you know what,

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Speaker 3: right now, the way the standings are, no play in

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Speaker 1: Is the a seed with a certain limit. But like

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Speaker 1: I you know, because look, I think the playing has

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Speaker 1: And they want teams that still have a mathematical shot

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Speaker 3: It is but Stein, there are going to be seasons

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Speaker 3: There is no way a thirty six or thirty seven

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Speaker 2: That's too big of a gap.

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Speaker 3: Remember remember when Stein, and you have to refresh my memory,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you remember in the Bubble, the way

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Speaker 1: The teams were so Orlando was the eighth seed in

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Speaker 1: And the playing round of the Bubble was just the

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Speaker 1: operated with kind of this limit. You're suggesting that maybe

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Speaker 2: Now, do you agree with me?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think I do. I think it is I

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Speaker 1: So I think that would be the league's counter argument that, well,

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, I get that, I understand. But

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Speaker 3: to completely dismiss the body of work that the Miami

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Speaker 1: Are we sure, just one more time that this is

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Speaker 2: It has it has, It has nothing to do with that. Look.

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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously I would definitely love to be in Miami.

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Speaker 3: I mean we made that abundantly clear. But producer Arondie

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Speaker 3: I would say, it's a travesty. It's a travist. Miami

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Speaker 3: they don't deserve to be in right now. So in

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Speaker 3: this scenario this season, it won't be like this every season,

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Speaker 1: I hope you didn't read I hope you didn't read

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Speaker 1: So don't read that story.

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Speaker 2: Of course, of course, poluce a Ryan, what do you

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Speaker 3: Do you think lead the play in as is? Do

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Speaker 3: you think there should be a limit like I'm proposing?

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Speaker 3: What's your thoughts?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, there should be a limit. I think the play

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Speaker 4: in obviously has great value as Stein had just laid

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Speaker 4: out with the various teams that are within striking distance

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Speaker 4: But I completely agree with your sentiments that when the

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Stein. Let me let me ask you this.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if this will ever happen. Check this out, Stein,

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Speaker 3: because you said you know the league is trying to

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Speaker 3: make sure your teams aren't tanking. Well, okay, you can't

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Speaker 3: guarantee that, but let's say Stein, Let's say teams nine

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Speaker 3: Yama Yama around the corner another one.

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Speaker 2: They're all trying to tank. So the team that just.

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Speaker 3: Probably has one more win than the other five or

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean. Like Stein, it can get

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Speaker 3: In a player situation when they've been trying to take

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Speaker 2: Now STI.

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Speaker 3: If the league wants to get in front of this,

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Speaker 3: add that limit, add that game's limit, because it's going

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Speaker 1: Know today's NBA. All you have to do is make

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Speaker 1: a suggestion, rant get really mad, say something needs to

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Speaker 1: be changed, and then they'll say, you know what, we'll

440
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Speaker 1: take a look at that. So maybe you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: your maybe you're gonna get your.

442
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Speaker 3: Wish because you don't want to be embarrassed, because then

443
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 3: the fans that you're gonna everybody's gonna kill the league

444
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 3: because it's obviously these teams were not trying to win

445
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Speaker 3: and compete, but they're stuck in them.

446
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Speaker 1: All I know is whoever wins that Chicago Atlanta first

447
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 1: playing game, they're gonna be playing these podcast comments from

448
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 1: you to rile up the team. Whichever coach at Billy

449
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: Donovan or Quinn Snyder is gonna be using this is

450
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 1: bulletin board material. Chris Haynes says, we don't belong here.

451
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Speaker 1: Chris Haynes thinks we should go home that show the world,

452
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Speaker 1: but we're about.

453
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Speaker 3: Yes, listen, let's show the world what we're about. You

454
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 3: won two games at the end, good, bravo, bravo. Come on, now,

455
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 3: that's a travesty. That's a travesty. It completely dismisses the

456
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Speaker 3: total body of work that the Miami Heating other teams

457
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Speaker 3: are done through the through the eighty two game season that.

458
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Speaker 2: Is supposed to be important. Eighty two games supposed to

459
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Speaker 2: be important, right.

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Speaker 1: Man, So you guys, just if you guys, just see

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Speaker 1: this nas reed move off the bounce.

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Speaker 2: Oh you are multi.

463
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Speaker 1: I know we're not supposed to be doing play by play.

464
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Speaker 1: I know producer Ryan will get mad at me, but

465
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Speaker 1: that was nice. We are in the third quarter. What

466
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Speaker 1: a game in Denver, Wolves Nuggets, battling for the number

467
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Speaker 1: one seed in the West. But no, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: all right back to the back to the discussion at hand,

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Speaker 1: back to the matter.

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Speaker 2: Last thing I want to say about for it.

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Speaker 3: Eighty two games are supposed to matter because they want

472
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Speaker 3: the regular season meaning something again, right, okay, so, but waste.

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Speaker 3: What you're telling me is is that seventy six games

474
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Speaker 3: matter for the Miami Heat, not the other six wins

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Speaker 3: that they got during the regular season.

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Speaker 1: Look, I really, I'm a huge playing fan, so I

477
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying. This particular season, it doesn't look

478
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Speaker 1: it's a bad look. It doesn't look good. The Bulls

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Speaker 1: and Hawks are way behind the sixers in Heat in

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Speaker 1: terms of seven, eight, nine, ten. But I still, I mean, okay,

481
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Speaker 1: maybe we need a slight modification. I still the overall

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Speaker 1: playing tournament.

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Speaker 2: That's all I'm asking. That's all.

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Speaker 1: Still, let's all lay in tournament.

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Speaker 2: That's all I'm gonna hit supposter. I'm gonna see see

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Speaker 2: if you give me his thoughts center.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's shift gears to a pretty worrisome development

488
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Speaker 1: from earlier Wednesday. The Bucks announcing no great surprise, but

489
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: when they announce it, when they make it official, it

490
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 1: certainly catches your attention. Jannis Attakunpo his regular season is finished.

491
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: The good news, the Bucks are saying that he dodged

492
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Speaker 1: any achilles damage when he just went down with no

493
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: contact Monday night in the Bucks win over Boston, But

494
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Speaker 1: Jannis is going to miss the rest of the regular season.

495
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Speaker 1: The Bucks do not know if Jannis is going to

496
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Speaker 1: be healthy and ready to play in the playoffs, which

497
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: will start in less than two weeks for the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: Pretty huge win for the Bucks on this Wednesday night

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00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: without Yannis, they thump Orlando at home. So the Bucks,

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Speaker 1: after just a dreadful losing streak last week, still can't

501
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Speaker 1: fathom how they lost consecutive games to the Wizard's Grizzly

502
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: and Raptors. But now the Bucks are almost almost home

503
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Speaker 1: in terms of wrapping up the number two seed in

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Speaker 1: the East. After these two wins, They've got a game

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Speaker 1: and a half lead on the number three Knicks with

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Speaker 1: two games to go for Milwaukee three games to go

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Speaker 1: for New York. So at least maybe I overstated it,

508
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: maybe I said it too strong, but certainly the number

509
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: two seed is back within the bucks sights here, But man,

510
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: the reality of having no Yannis for the rest of

511
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Speaker 1: the regular season. And remember last season in the playoffs

512
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Speaker 1: when the Bucks lost to Miami in Round one, the

513
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Speaker 1: eighth seed in Miami heat who had to go through

514
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Speaker 1: Chris's beloved play in round two games in the play

515
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Speaker 1: in round just to get to that series. Yiannis was

516
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:56,719
Speaker 1: playing hurt in that series, and you know, his health

517
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Speaker 1: and trying to grit through an injury situation last season

518
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Speaker 1: was certainly a contributing factor to Milwaukee's demise. You know,

519
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Speaker 1: the Bucks as well as anybody, how dire is this situation?

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00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: How worried do you think they are deep down to know?

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Speaker 1: I mean, will they have Giannis for Game one against

522
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Speaker 1: whoever the number eight seed is? They? They genuinely do

523
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Speaker 1: not know. Doc Rivers tonight said, I'm hoping he's back,

524
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Speaker 1: but I really don't know. I mean, he admitted that much.

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Speaker 2: The Bucks dodged a huge blow. That's what I can

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Speaker 2: say how worried.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't From the people I've spoke spoke to, they're

528
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Speaker 3: not overly concerned about They do believe that they will.

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Speaker 2: Have him back for the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: So and you know, again, it helps that there's this

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Speaker 3: playing round that you love so well. Stein By some

532
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Speaker 3: time before the postseason starts, the real postseason starts.

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Speaker 2: Do they consider the play in postseason?

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Speaker 1: They consider it postseason but not playoffs. There is a difference.

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Speaker 1: It does not go in the playoff record books, but

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Speaker 1: it is the postseason, if that makes sense, And I

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Speaker 1: I get the distinction. I just wish that playing games,

538
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Speaker 1: there was a way to factor that in statistically a

539
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: little more cleanly. The league still hasn't quite figured out

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Speaker 1: exactly what to do. You know, Like Jason Tatum had

541
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Speaker 1: a fifty something the one time Boston was in the

542
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Speaker 1: play and Jason Tatum had a fifty point game, and

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Speaker 1: it exists but doesn't count, if that makes any sense,

544
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Speaker 1: Like it's not part of his playoff career totals. Sorry, Ryan,

545
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Speaker 1: three two one. It exists, but in a way it

546
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Speaker 1: also doesn't count. It's not part of Jason Tatum's career

547
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: playoff total. So playing games are kind of weird that way. Statistically,

548
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: they still float in this kind of weird zone of

549
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: their own. Yeah, the playoffs don't really start till we're

550
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Speaker 1: down to sixteen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what again, Man, I'm not and everybody

552
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 3: gets in the war, everybody gets a certificate era.

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Speaker 2: I'm just not down with it. It shouldn't count for

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Speaker 2: the playoffs because it's not.

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Speaker 3: I don't I don't even want to say it's the postseason.

556
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 3: It's this little in between. It's like a mid term.

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00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 3: It's not even a mid term.

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Speaker 2: It's an intern that's what it is at end, a term,

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Speaker 2: that's what it is. I don't.

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Speaker 1: You really don't like this. This is you know, this is.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not I don't like it. It's not. It's

562
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 2: not that. Just some modifications, that's all I'm not calling

563
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Speaker 2: for in.

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Speaker 1: To the player you keep. But there's more than once

565
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Speaker 1: you've thrown out this participation tournament thing. I think it's

566
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Speaker 1: more than.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just well, I'm just again, I'm probably not

568
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 3: the right person to talk to about that because I

569
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 3: don't like change much anyways, But definitely when there's a

570
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Speaker 3: change made and you see a lot of holes in it,

571
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Speaker 3: and I'm definitely gonna point those holes out. And that's

572
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 3: one hole that I see, and I think the league

573
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 3: needs to get ahead of the curve and change some

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Speaker 3: things before it becomes.

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Speaker 1: Listens to this podcast, So I'm fully expecting some sort

576
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Speaker 1: of press release or focus group or something they're gonna

577
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Speaker 1: They're gonna address this somehow.

578
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm saying he's good.

579
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 3: He listens, and that's that's one thing we call say

580
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 3: that we like about the this commissioner is that he's

581
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 3: innovative and he's open to new ideas. But to the Bucks,

582
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Speaker 3: they are they're confident that they'll be able to have

583
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Speaker 3: Gianni's back once the playoffs. It's only two games left

584
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Speaker 3: they got Okay, it's two tough games, Okay, C and

585
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 3: Orlando again.

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Speaker 2: They beat Orlando pretty good without Christmas.

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Speaker 1: They gotta win one more just to make sure that

588
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Speaker 1: the East, the Leastern Conference has two fifty win teams.

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00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,439
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, man, I guess the Knicks could.

590
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: The Knicks with a three to zero finish could get

591
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: the fifty wins. But at this point only Milwaukee and

592
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: the Knicks, only those two teams have a shot at fifty. Otherwise,

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Speaker 1: we are looking at the sixty two wins Celtics as

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Speaker 1: the only fifty win team in the East, while in

595
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Speaker 1: the West Dallas tonight became the fifth fifty win team

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Speaker 1: out West. Sorry to interrupt your bucks take there.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's okay, Star, you know it was towards the end.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting though, because didn't Dame have this same injury,

599
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: this souliest injury he did.

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Speaker 3: He did, and Dame had missed just a moment. I

601
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 3: was talking about that with somebody. Yeah, Dame had that

602
00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 3: same injury. It was last year, last year. Yeah, here

603
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 3: in Portland. Yeah, he was out of few I believe

604
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 3: it was out a few weeks maybe well, or it

605
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 3: was or I don't want to say he was out

606
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 3: a few weeks. But it's an injury that causes you

607
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 3: to be out a few weeks now Portland, remember they

608
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 3: doing what they were doing trying to again, you know,

609
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 3: Tank probably had him out longer than expected or at

610
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Speaker 3: extended time.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's usually an injury that keeps you out.

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Speaker 1: We can have to and look, one thing you have

613
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 1: to say, Jannis has showed us on more than one

614
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 1: occasion in the past that he rebounds faster than most humans.

615
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: Like the year that Milwaukee went all the way. You know,

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Speaker 1: he had that horrendous knee situation which just looked awful,

617
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Speaker 1: and he did miss some time in the Eastern Conference finals,

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Speaker 1: but was able to get back and keep the Bucks

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Speaker 1: on track to win their first cheaceampionship in fifty years.

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Speaker 1: And I mean that thing just looked awful. So you know,

621
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: is this something that he can bounce back from faster

622
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: than the norm? If he did, I don't think anybody

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Speaker 1: would be hugely shocked.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait. I can't wait for the playoffs. I

625
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 3: can't wait. And you know I can't wait for the

626
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Speaker 3: play Let me show the play in some love the

627
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 3: West playing is going to be crazy. Oh, I can't wait, Stein,

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00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 3: So stop putting this narrative out there, Stein, that I'm

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00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,240
Speaker 3: a play in hater. No, I am not a player

630
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 3: and hater. I just call out a disservice. That's what

631
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 3: I call out injustice. So that's what it is over

632
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 3: an Eastern Conference, but over in the West it is beautiful, beautiful.

633
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 3: I will have one of those Western Conference playing games,

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Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to that.

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Speaker 1: As much as you have made it very clear that

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00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: you are not especially excited to see the thirty seven

637
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: and forty two Bulls or the thirty six and forty

638
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: four Hawks. I get it, you're not really hyped to

639
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: see them in the play in tournament. But the East

640
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 1: playing round will have well, it will almost certainly have

641
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: Miami now, but it also could still have Philly if

642
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: the Pacers can hang on to number six. So if

643
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: it's Philly Miami in that seven to eight game, that

644
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: game just becomes so huge because the winner will most

645
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: likely advance to a first round series against Milwaukee, a

646
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: Bucks team which now cannot be sure that Giannis Antetokumpo

647
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: will be available for the start of the playoffs. Maybe

648
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: they hope, so, maybe they're optimistic behind the scenes, but

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00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: the truth is, we don't know yet what Yanni's status

650
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: will be. You naturally, if you're the Sixers or the Heat,

651
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: you want to be seven rather than eight, because eight

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00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: means you open up with the bustin Celtics, one of

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Speaker 1: the most impressive regular season teams that we've ever seen.

654
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Speaker 1: So that first playing game in the East will be

655
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Speaker 1: huge to see who can secure the number seven seed,

656
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: and honestly, even the loser of a potential seven, eight

657
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: six ers Heat battle, the pressure that that team will

658
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: be under going up against the sub five hundred Bowls

659
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: or the sub five hundred Hawks just to get into

660
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Speaker 1: the playoffs and just to get Boston in round one.

661
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: I mean, this whole playing tournament is gonna be it's

662
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: gonna be nuts, gonna be nuts. So you are I

663
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Speaker 1: will not be at any of those games in person,

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Speaker 1: That's pretty you will. You will have a you will

665
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Speaker 1: see some ten scenes if you're covering those West playing.

666
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Speaker 2: Games, for sure. Looking forward to it.

667
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Speaker 1: All right, So before we go, we focus so much

668
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Speaker 1: of this discussion so far on Lakers and Warriors, who

669
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: are at the bottom of the West playoff ladder, and

670
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: then Milwaukee dealing with this fresh Yahness injury concern. So

671
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: we've we've had so much crisis talk in this podcast

672
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,879
Speaker 1: we should probably we should probably flip it a little

673
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 1: bit before we go and look at look at a

674
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: team that is just rolling. And maybe it's because I

675
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: end up talking about them so much on my weekly

676
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: radio show here in Dallas that we don't get into

677
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: too much MAVs talk on this podcast. But man, Dallas,

678
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: tonight a win in Miami, the Heat were absolutely exhausted

679
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 1: after going double overtime with Atlanta on Monday night, and

680
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:56,879
Speaker 1: I think the heat were weary, but the MAVs were

681
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: also on the second half of a back to back

682
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: after in Charlotte, and Dallas got up to a big lead,

683
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: we're able to maintain it. The Mavericks now sixteen and two.

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Speaker 1: Since Jason Kidd changed the lineup. He made Daniel Gafford

685
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: and Derek Jones junior starters, the Mavericks are the hottest

686
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,479
Speaker 1: team in the league. Sixteen of their last eighteen they've won.

687
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Speaker 1: They have the league's number one defense in that span,

688
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Speaker 1: and the Mavericks tonight again, as I mentioned previously, they

689
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Speaker 1: are now fifty and thirty, the second fifty win season

690
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Speaker 1: in Jason Kidds three seasons as Dallas coach, and the

691
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 1: ten before Kid took the job, Dallas only had one

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Speaker 1: fifty win season. So Jason Kidd is another coach who

693
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Speaker 1: never hear him in the Coach of the Year talks,

694
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Speaker 1: and he is.

695
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Speaker 2: I was just about to say that he is just

696
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Speaker 2: about to say that.

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Speaker 1: He has really had quite a second half run here

698
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Speaker 1: with the Mavericks since the trade. I mean, these trades

699
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: have just completely changed the complexion of the team. And yeah, no,

700
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm glad. You know, I'm curious kind of

701
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Speaker 1: since you're you know, like I said, I live in Dallas.

702
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: I'm I'm talking and hearing about the MAVs daily. You know,

703
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: give me your impressions of what's going on with this team.

704
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 2: Oh, they're playing really good, They're really in sync.

705
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 3: They have shooters, they're athletic, they got the they have

706
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 3: the vertical threat. You got two guys who could get

707
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,399
Speaker 3: their shot at wheel. Like this is really a complete team.

708
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 3: They really are. They don't have many Yeah, they don't

709
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:44,479
Speaker 3: have many weaknesses. And yeah, I mean they got a guy,

710
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 3: you know, they got guys that can guard on the perimeter. Like,

711
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 3: they're just really versatile. So I'm not surprised to see

712
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 3: them going this run this stretch. Maybe surprised that it's

713
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 3: come together so quickly, you know, since they made those moves.

714
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Speaker 3: But aside from that and Jason Kidd unbelievable coach. I

715
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Speaker 3: was with stan Van Gundy calling a game with him

716
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 3: about a week ago. We were in New York, and

717
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 3: he was just raving about Jason Kidd. He was like,

718
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 3: he doesn't get enough credit. For the mind that he

719
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 3: has as a head coach in this league, and so

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Speaker 3: it's cool to hear him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's the reality. Last season in Dallas was

722
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: a disaster. They went from a Cinderella run to the

723
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals in kids first season to thirty eight

724
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: and forty four. They fell all the way out of

725
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Kyrie and Luca after the Kyrie trade they

726
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,240
Speaker 1: were only five and eleven win in uniform and together.

727
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: So last season was really rough and Jason Kidd absorbed

728
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: a ton of criticism for it. But this season, the

729
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: job he's done, the defense that the Mavericks have been

730
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: playing since the acquisitions of PJ. Washington and Gafford, and

731
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Speaker 1: you know, and Kyrie have formed one of the most

732
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: potent duos in the league. Everyone's raving about them now.

733
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 1: These guys clearly like each other. Kyrie Irving got knocked

734
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Speaker 1: to the floor in the first quarter of the game

735
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: tonight in Miami and Lukadancic ran. Lukadancic was out of

736
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: the game at that point with foul trouble. Lukadancic ran

737
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: faster to go pick Kyrie up. Then you usually see

738
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,879
Speaker 1: him moving when the game's going on. I mean, he's

739
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:33,240
Speaker 1: sprinted down there to get him. So, I mean they've

740
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:35,320
Speaker 1: been vibing great. And I think, you know, the coach

741
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: does play a role in that too. You know, I

742
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: just wrote a massive piece, the almost three thousand words

743
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: about Kyrie's first year plus in Dallas, and I think

744
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:47,479
Speaker 1: Kid is an underrated factor there. I mean, he has

745
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: the absolute buy in, the absolute buy in of his

746
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: two star players, and that's a massive thing. But the

747
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: other thing here is I mean, I just I'm just well,

748
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: there's a couple. I mean. The first thing and probably

749
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: the main thing that we now have at least one

750
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: matchup set in the West, and for that matter of

751
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: the East, there's only one matchup set. We know, we

752
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: know now after tonight's results that the Mavericks and the

753
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 1: Clippers will face each other in the first round. The

754
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,720
Speaker 1: Clippers will most likely have home court advantage in that series.

755
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: That still has to be settled, but we are definitely

756
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:34,280
Speaker 1: headed for our third Mavericks Clippers series in a span

757
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: of five years. But then there's the other thing is

758
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 1: that I just you know, and I mentioned this the

759
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: last time we got together, Like, to me, everyone is

760
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: treating the MVP races over that Jokic has won it,

761
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: and I just I think it's closer than the polls

762
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 1: and the Vegas odds makers project. I'm not saying Yokic

763
00:44:55,880 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: is going to lose. He's still the favorite, but I

764
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: I don't understand how it isn't closer, and how Luka

765
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: Doncic averaging thirty four to nine and nine, which no

766
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 1: one has ever done over the course of a full season.

767
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: He's averaging thirty four to nine and nine. And now

768
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,720
Speaker 1: the Mavericks have fifty wins. They're fifth in the East,

769
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Speaker 1: but it's the sixth best record in the league. The

770
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: Mavericks are in the elite of the NBA after this

771
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: sixteen to two runs. So I just, I'm just wondering

772
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 1: why there isn't more MVP consideration for number seventy seven.

773
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Speaker 3: So let me give you a little insight. I don't

774
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,320
Speaker 3: know if you knew this. You probably did. Let me

775
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 3: know if I surprised you, this surprises you were not.

776
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 3: So I haven't voted the last two or three years.

777
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 3: I've declined to vote over the last two or three years.

778
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 3: I'm voting this year, and I've noticed that I started

779
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 3: receiving gifts in the mail from teams, you know, they're

780
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 3: sending out these posts. And I got a box of

781
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 3: cookies from the Portland trail Blazers. They are they're trying

782
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 3: to get Matisse Thaible to you know, make one of

783
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 3: the all defensive teams I got.

784
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 2: I got a poster from the Utah Jazz. What else

785
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 2: I'm getting emails?

786
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 3: And I'm like, man, I want like and it's just

787
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 3: seems like I'm getting more than I've gotten over the

788
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 3: last two or three years. And so I was talking

789
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 3: to a PR member, a PR a PR member of

790
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 3: one of the NBA teams, and I asked them, I said,

791
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 3: because they they had recently sent me something via email

792
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,479
Speaker 3: asking to see if I can get get my vote for,

793
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 3: you know, these awards they're trying to get for their players.

794
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 3: And I asked this individual, I said, Hey, do do

795
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 3: y'all know like who has a vote, who has a

796
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 3: ballot this year? Because I'm just getting things off. He's like, yeah,

797
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 3: you can. You know, you can call the league and

798
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 3: the league will tell you who's going to be you know,

799
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 3: who's going to be voting this year.

800
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 2: So who's one of the one hundred voters this season.

801
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 3: So then we get you know, then we find out

802
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 3: who's the hundred and then I'm gonna say this one team,

803
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 3: this one team said they'll disperse them by thirty like

804
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 3: so one PR person personnel will send out an email

805
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 3: or if it's a gift or whatever, they'll send out

806
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 3: to thirty of them. The other PR, the second in command,

807
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 3: send out another thirty and then another thirty.

808
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 2: So that's how they do it. So, yeah, they find

809
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 2: out who has a ballot. So they're not because I

810
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:41,320
Speaker 2: didn't know that at first.

811
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Speaker 3: I thought they were just sending out you know, just

812
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 3: sending out these gifts and sending out these emails to

813
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 3: all the media members. No, they're not wasting an email,

814
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 3: they're not wasting a gift. It's going to the people

815
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Speaker 3: that they know who has a balance. So I found out, surprise.

816
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: I think you're exactly right, because what I've noticed is,

817
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 1: you know, I have not voted since twenty seventeen, and

818
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: this season only one team. I keep getting stuff from

819
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz. That's the only team that sends me anything,

820
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: Like I just got a Keyante George poster for all

821
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: rookie teamp But that's all I got so so the

822
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Speaker 1: other twenty nineteen, thank you Jazz for continuing to make

823
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 1: me feel important. But the other twenty nineteen.

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00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 3: Well, the other tweeter but star after the Jazz listen

825
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 3: to this pod.

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Speaker 2: Now they're going to they can hold on. Man, we're

827
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 2: wasting gifts, We're wasting posters. Here.

828
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 3: All we have to do is call the league and

829
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 3: find out who has a ballot. So after this, after

830
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 3: this post, I your gifts from Utah may cease.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're probably right. I'm sorry, probably, And remember, like

832
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: we discussed in our last pod, the balloting this year.

833
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: You know, usually the ballots go out this week, the

834
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Speaker 1: final week of the regular season, and for years and

835
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Speaker 1: years and years, votes were always due the day after

836
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Speaker 1: the season. But now, because of the sixty five game rule,

837
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: the league wants to wait until the season is one complete.

838
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 1: So in the five categories that sixty five games are

839
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: required for eligibility, the league will have that list and

840
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: know it exactly before ballots go out. So it sounds

841
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 1: like ballots will go out next week between Tuesday and Friday.

842
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 1: And once they go out, it sounds like voters are

843
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 1: only going to have a day to make their picks.

844
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Speaker 1: I believe that is correct. Info.

845
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Speaker 3: Yep, yep, I'll be ready. I'll be ready style before

846
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 3: we end this episode.

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Speaker 1: By the way, it is the it is the fourth

848
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: quarter of that game. We did make it all the

849
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:57,720
Speaker 1: way to the fourth quarter.

850
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we not making it to the end. That's

851
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about.

852
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: And we're winning at home. Absolutely joking.

853
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 3: We're not giving you five minutes. It's not not happening.

854
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 3: Sorry everybody. So before we end this episode, stein have

855
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 3: to give you an update in the Filipino League that

856
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 3: I'm in. So uh, this is a new I've added

857
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 3: two new players to this team. You're in the GM Championship.

858
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,919
Speaker 3: I'm the GM of my team. Yes, remember we won

859
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 3: the championship last season. We were a last place team,

860
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Speaker 3: but we got hot in the playoffs won the champions Oh.

861
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Speaker 1: So since what you guys go through the playing tournament?

862
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: How'd you guys get in if you were in last place?

863
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:47,879
Speaker 2: No, all teams made the place.

864
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: Only sixteen all teams make the playoffs. It kind of

865
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 1: sounds like a participant. There wasn't a.

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Speaker 2: Five game gap. There wasn't a five game or six

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00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 2: game gap.

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Speaker 1: Stann stop it qualified, go ahead.

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00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 2: Thank you? So Anyways, I've since added two more players

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00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 2: to my team. I added a brother named Winston, and

871
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 2: I added I added my guy Nam who is Blieve's Blieve,

872
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 2: he's Laos. So those are my two. They're two good

873
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 2: players though, adding to my team, Stein were three and oh.

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00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 2: That's far.

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00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,280
Speaker 3: I am the front runner for m v P yet again,

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00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 3: and it's uh for this season. But Stein, we received

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00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:33,919
Speaker 3: a complaint. So one of my teammates, his name is Mike,

878
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 3: he's Filipino.

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00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 2: Uh. The commissioner, who is also Filipino, went up to.

880
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 3: Mike last week after we went three and oh, and

881
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 3: a commissioner told Mike that he's getting two complaints. The

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00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 3: first complaint is that our team is two stacked. He's

883
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 3: getting these players, the players players from the lead. These

884
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,720
Speaker 3: are complaints from players in the league. The first complaints

885
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 3: is that we're too stacked, and the second play is

886
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 3: that we're too black. Now we comes to the team

887
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:14,439
Speaker 3: that's stacked. No, not guilty at all, not guilty at all.

888
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,720
Speaker 2: This we are a team that was in last place

889
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 2: last season, last place.

890
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 3: Nobody would say anything. We just happened to go on

891
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 3: a run. Now I've added a brother and a and

892
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 3: an agent to my team this year. Now to the

893
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 3: to the charge of too black, guilty is charge. I

894
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 3: have nothing to say about that. Guilty is charge. But

895
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 3: I don't want to hit like so, so I told

896
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 3: say anyways, so I had to let my team know.

897
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 3: I had a meeting, had a team meeting via the text,

898
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 3: and I said, listen, guys, you know, because this is me,

899
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 3: let me see. It's me, Winston and Twine Khalil. It's

900
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 3: four brothers, four brothers on a team. We have a

901
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 3: team of nine. So it's four of us and we're four.

902
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 3: You know, we're all pretty good. And I think everybody

903
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 3: else probably has one or two at the max two

904
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 3: brothers on the team.

905
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:10,879
Speaker 2: So we got four. We're pretty good.

906
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 3: But anyways, I told my team, I said, look, you

907
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 3: have to understand people are complaining we're three and zero.

908
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 3: We do we do have the most brothers on the

909
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 3: team with four, so understand that, you know, calls might

910
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 3: not be coming our way, and we can't be arguing

911
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 3: with the refs. We can't be talking trash to the opponent,

912
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,839
Speaker 3: like including myself because I talk a lot. We got

913
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 3: to be on our best behavior. And so everybody agreed, Yeah,

914
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 3: let's just let's just play basketball. Let's do what we

915
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 3: have to do. And so Stein, I came up with

916
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 3: the idea. This package right here, I'm lett people hear

917
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 3: the package. So our next game is Saturday, and Stein,

918
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 3: this is what I ordered for my team because I

919
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 3: want our I want our team, want our team to

920
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 3: be unified.

921
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 2: But also I want to show the league that we're

922
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 2: on their side and we mean nothing.

923
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 1: Sounds like piece of paper when he's on inside the NBA.

924
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 3: These are Philippine flag headbands that the whole team is

925
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 3: going to wear.

926
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 2: Bought nine of them.

927
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 3: They're the philip they're Philippines. The flag of the Philippine

928
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 3: on these head bands. So we're all going to wear

929
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:40,319
Speaker 3: this as a team, so that we're all during this

930
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 3: during this season. I may be African American now, you

931
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 3: may be Laos right over here, you may be Caucasian,

932
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,840
Speaker 3: but when we step in this league, we're all Philippines.

933
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 3: And what if we're all Philippines.

934
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: If you don't like playing in the headband, you're still

935
00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: going to make them wear it.

936
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 2: I'm still I think you know, listen, it just shows.

937
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 1: That hes you sound like the GM and the coach.

938
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 2: Now I'll do it all. I'll do it all.

939
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:11,280
Speaker 3: But this is the Team Bob experience, and it's to show,

940
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 3: you know, show the league that, look, man, we're not

941
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 3: over here trying to start trouble. You know, we're you know,

942
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 3: we're here with y'all. So my team doesn't know that

943
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 3: I did this.

944
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:22,719
Speaker 1: Yet, so they're gonna find out on this pod.

945
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 2: They're gonna if they listen to the pod. I'm hoping

946
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:27,959
Speaker 2: they don't listen, but you.

947
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 1: Think they You don't think the guys on this team listen.

948
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 1: I think they probably do listen because this league gets

949
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: so much attention. Your league gets so much attention on

950
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: this League Uncut, that they probably do listen, hoping, hoping

951
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: that they're gonna get some.

952
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 3: Pub I hope not, because I wanted to just surprise them,

953
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,880
Speaker 3: like right before tip. But yes, that's that's what we're doing.

954
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 3: So this this is like to show that you know,

955
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 3: we're on your side, We're good and we support y'all.

956
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:05,919
Speaker 3: That's all too black Guilty as charge, guilty too, stat No,

957
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 3: we were just the last place team.

958
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: On that note, we will definitely wrap up this edition

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00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: of This League Uncut, which covers the NBA and of course,

960
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: the rec league journey entails as only they can be

961
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 1: told by our Chris Haynes. You guys know what to do.

962
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:34,760
Speaker 1: Playoffs are almost here. Follow us rate the show, review

963
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 1: the show. We'd love a five star review from you.

964
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 1: And we've got lots coming up here. We have multiple

965
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:49,880
Speaker 1: guest pods planned before the playoffs even start. I'm hesitant

966
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:52,760
Speaker 1: to mention names because I don't want to jinx anything.

967
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 2: I won't I won't mention name Stein, but I'm gonna

968
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 2: go on. I'm gonna go out on the limb and

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00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 2: say Bucks related.

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00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, we should have a Bucks related guest as

971
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:08,240
Speaker 1: you put it, this weekend. We've got another guest visit

972
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 1: tentatively scheduled before that, so hopefully both of those come

973
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 1: to fruition. That said, we thought we might have a

974
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: guest visit tonight on this Wednesday night recording, and that

975
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: didn't materialize. So this time of year, these things are fluid.

976
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 1: But the point is we've got some extra pods, some

977
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 1: bonus pods coming up here before the playoffs begin. As

978
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 1: Chris said, he'll be on the road next week doing

979
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:38,919
Speaker 1: multiple play in tournament games, and the playoffs really are

980
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:41,919
Speaker 1: almost here. As we said, we do have this one

981
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 1: matchup locked in now Clippers and MAVs. We know they're

982
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 1: going to meet in round one, and as the week continues,

983
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: we'll have a little bit of a clearer picture of

984
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: how all the playoff matchups break down or how they

985
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 1: start to break down. And good times, crazy times, year

986
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: end a ward ballots, playing tournament playoffs. It's all happening

987
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:09,640
Speaker 1: as mid April draws near. Thanks so much for being

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00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 1: with us, Chris and I and producer Ryan will be

989
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: back with you very very soon. Take care of one

990
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 1: and that'll do it for us. See you next time.

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Speaker 1: This League un Cutter is an iHeartRadio production Chris Haines

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Speaker 1: and Mark Stein