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Speaker 1: Hi, Welcome to Chili's Good Morning, Sweet World, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the No Dunks Podcast on the Athletic Network Friday, February.

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Speaker 2: Twenty First, I'm Jay Skeets alongside me as always tast Mellis. Hey, everybody,

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Speaker 2: task you we got the beard one. Trey Kirby, Hey,

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Speaker 2: Bacon's so bacony. It was a deep V to me

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Speaker 2: and last but not least, making the magic happen.

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Speaker 2: We dropped a new beach step in podcast yesterday Thursday afternoon,

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Speaker 2: to that one topics included Steve Nash's all time point

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Speaker 2: guard rank, post All Star game matchups. We're excited for

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Speaker 2: Dutch basketball players. Where are they?

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Speaker 4: People?

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Speaker 3: Where beers at?

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Speaker 2: Watch watching movies on an airplane? So much more.

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Speaker 5: We haven't had any aircraft engineers tweeting yet, and tell

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Speaker 2: Honestly, what's going on with this shirt?

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Speaker 3: Man? This is crazy.

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Speaker 2: It's like disintegrating before my very eyes.

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Speaker 4: It looks like a sleep shirt.

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Speaker 3: It's that past rolled out of bed.

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Speaker 4: But you love, you love getting in a shower before

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, of course.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just an old shirt.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just an old chill that shit. That's been one.

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Speaker 5: It was a little chilly here in Atlanta last night.

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Speaker 5: I didn't wear it to bed last night, but I

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Speaker 4: Just the T shirt. What do you mean it's a

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Speaker 4: little chilli? Oh because you're doubled up. Yeah, okay, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, we got worse. We'll fire the pun gun. We

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Speaker 2: of course have rapid fire fun. We got tweeted the

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Speaker 2: night as well. But I wanted to start here before

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Speaker 2: we get to some of last night's games and some

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Speaker 2: of the storylines. I've got some big questions for you

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Speaker 2: because we are now hitting the stretch run with the

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Speaker 2: NBA season being after the All Star break. So I

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Speaker 2: want to know, guys, what is the most intriguing post

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Speaker 2: All Star storyline that you've got your eyes on that

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Speaker 2: you'll be watching intently as we, you know, hit the

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Speaker 2: final twenty five games or so before the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Let's start at the top, because the Bucks deserve it,

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Speaker 4: even if people think they're boring, and they've got the

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Speaker 4: modern day Shack who gets into the lane and just

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Speaker 4: throws it out and they just hit shots. They're going

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Speaker 4: for seventy wins. It's only been done twice in NBA history,

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Speaker 4: So let's give him a little respect. Even though the

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Speaker 4: media doesn't and nobody really care, that they're on pace

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Speaker 4: for what the Warriors did and what the Bulls did

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Speaker 4: back in the nineties, and they got a legitimate shot.

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Speaker 4: Their best player doesn't play a lot of minutes at

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Speaker 4: thirty one, yet Kompo only at thirty one, So compare

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Speaker 4: that to the Warriors Steph at thirty four. Clay had

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Speaker 4: thirty three back in those days. And I bring that

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Speaker 4: up because you saw what happened to the Warriors in

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Speaker 4: the finals, and so you'd think maybe guys don't want

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Speaker 4: to exert themselves in triangle for seventy wins. But I

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Speaker 4: think the Bucks have a legitimate shot because even if

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Speaker 4: When they sit, they've got an incredible focus. As you

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Speaker 4: They're just they're relentless. I don't think they get there

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Speaker 4: rest of the way. When you say it like that,

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Speaker 4: it's definitely attainable. But I don't know, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: It's just hard. It's just hard.

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Speaker 3: That's what I've got for my storyline, as well as

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Speaker 3: will they actually go for seventy wins, Because like you're saying, tasks,

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Speaker 3: people automatically bring up the Warriors and say Ooh. I

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Speaker 3: don't know if they want to go for it, but

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Speaker 3: the Warriors went to Game seven of the NBA Finals

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Speaker 3: So did it not work or did it actually work?

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Speaker 3: They won seventy three games and came so close to

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Speaker 3: winning a championship. Yeah, but I mean I think it worked.

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Speaker 4: Really Yeah, they say after it was all said and

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Speaker 4: regular season had something to do with it. You're right,

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Speaker 4: it could have. It's all how you look at it.

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Speaker 5: But the Draymond Greens has benched the bugget injury as well.

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Speaker 5: They were facted into it, and I was still only

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Speaker 5: one shot away from going on. But anyway, as far

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Speaker 5: as the Bucks schedule goes, they've got seventeen games from

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Speaker 5: it's not an easy schedule for them one even though they.

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Speaker 3: According to Tankathon it's the fourth hardest schedule remaining in

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Speaker 3: the league. They're on pace right now for seventy one

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Speaker 3: last couple of games, whether they decide to play out

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Speaker 3: the games or just say, yeah, honest, I mean, you've

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Speaker 3: only been playing thirty minutes a game all season. Just

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Speaker 3: which certainly could happen. But I don't know. Once you

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Speaker 3: get to sixty eight sixty nine, you're thinking I could

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Speaker 3: be one of three teams.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty impressive.

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. But that's the difference here, like to the

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Speaker 2: like they were like, let's beat that record, Like, let's

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Speaker 2: actually eclipse that. That is not happening. I'm sorry here

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Speaker 2: with the Bucks, you know, that's just that's not happening.

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Speaker 2: The seventy yeah, attainable, but it's like it's not as

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Speaker 2: it's not as amazing I would.

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Speaker 3: Say to beat I mean, it's not seventy three, but

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Speaker 3: seventy is amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, But this is a team that also hasn't won

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Speaker 2: the title, haven't even gotten to the finals. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I hope in a weird way, they do play sort

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Speaker 2: hitting what is an incredible mark, But I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: be like, whoa that team was? That team was horrible.

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Speaker 2: They only won sixty eight sixty nine games nice. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I think it would be more nice than seventy. So like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but they've talked about it too. We've

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Speaker 2: heard their owners say that's a that's a goal. Seventy

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Speaker 2: wins is on. You know, they've circled that as a

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Speaker 2: if you honest is playing, then they're gonna just try

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Speaker 2: and crush teams. I mean, that guy has there is

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Speaker 2: no switch with him in terms of like toning it

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Speaker 2: it happens. It's gonna be fun to watch regardless. You

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Speaker 2: just pray that somebody doesn't like even a Chris Middleton

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Speaker 2: or a Bledsoe gets hurt in a quote unquote meaningless

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Speaker 3: I suppose that just I don't know. The regular season

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Speaker 3: games just not matter to literally anyone anymore. In the

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Speaker 3: big picture. The big picture would be looking at every

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Speaker 3: NBA team that has ever played games, and there are

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Speaker 3: three that wins seventy. That's impressive.

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Speaker 4: Well, they mattered, yea, impressive. They definitely mattered to janist

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Speaker 4: At Kumbo and the team. The way they come out

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Speaker 4: and kick the snot out of teams every game. They

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Speaker 4: care to win every regular season game. So that's that.

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Speaker 4: That's why it's legitimate that they could get there because

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Speaker 4: they like it.

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Speaker 5: Even if Yanna sits, it's still very much.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's top from the top down from Jannis all

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Speaker 4: the way down. They've they come out and they play

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Speaker 4: real hard every single night. I don't like that. John Horse,

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Speaker 4: the GM, as you mentioned, Skeets came out and said,

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Speaker 4: hey we're going for seventy. Hey we're also trying to

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Speaker 4: We're going to resign Yanis no matter what, what are

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Speaker 4: you idiots? You got fined for tampering. I just wanted

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Speaker 4: to get a John straight from the John Horse's mouth

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Speaker 4: pun in there. Didn't work out, But anyway, moving on.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So with the quest for seventy with the Bucks,

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Speaker 2: that's what task has his ion storyline?

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Speaker 5: What do you got sticking in the Eastern Conference. The

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Speaker 5: team that really their playoff success could determine so many

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Speaker 5: Had a good win at home last night, but right

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Speaker 5: They have the best record home record in the NBA

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Speaker 5: too much if they don't have home court advantage come

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Speaker 5: perhaps it's possible they even trade one of their big

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Speaker 5: At times this season they've looked fantastic, they've looked dominant,

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Speaker 5: And the Al Horford signing hasn't really worked out. He's

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Speaker 5: are coming into this season, we thought perhaps Embiad's an

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Speaker 5: get there. I mean, MBID won't win MVP, but the

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Speaker 5: Sixers still make it to the conference finals. But they

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Speaker 5: could also quite easily be one of those teams, like

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Speaker 5: things just go fall apart for them in the playoffs

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Speaker 5: early on and they're out, and then they make wholesale

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Speaker 5: changes next season. So it's quite a swing I think

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Speaker 5: with Philadelphia of where they can be. I think anything

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Speaker 5: less than the conference finals will be considered a failure

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Speaker 5: from them this season, to the.

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Speaker 2: Point of firing coach Brown. I think so yeah, possibility

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Speaker 2: of moving either of Simons and.

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Speaker 5: I mean they didn't they didn't get out of the

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Speaker 5: second round last season. Of course, we know what happened

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Speaker 5: they went closer. But I feel that they really have

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Speaker 5: going forward with that team. So that's an interesting story.

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Speaker 2: As of right now here on the Friday, they're in

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Speaker 5: At worst, they have to have home court in that

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Speaker 2: Right the Heat or the Sixers. They're not that great

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Speaker 5: But yeah, but that would be very, very important for

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Speaker 3: Mine was, honestly the Bucks and the Sixers. Those are

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Speaker 3: So that's why I'm actually rooting for the Bucks to

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Speaker 2: I'm sort of watching that. But the Western Conference storyline

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Speaker 3: That's a pretty good start team, exactly right. They've got

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Speaker 3: sometimes you need a guy who's gonna try to take over.

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Speaker 3: But any other team that has the profile that the

436
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Speaker 3: Celtics have, you would consider them a title contender. But

437
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Speaker 3: I don't think they're there yet. Maybe they can have

438
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Speaker 3: a nice little eight to ten game winning streak or

439
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Speaker 3: something during this last third of the season they kind

440
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Speaker 3: of ups their profile, so.

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Speaker 2: They're close to convince you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't want to give the Beantown Boys

443
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Speaker 3: any love part.

444
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Speaker 4: That's the tough thing.

445
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Speaker 3: Chiefs will come over and throw a million hats on

446
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Speaker 3: my head. Not lucky.

447
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Speaker 2: Okay, what about you guys.

448
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Speaker 5: Well, there's a nice little race as well between the

449
00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,520
Speaker 5: fourth and fifth seed in the Western Conference right now,

450
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Speaker 5: these two teams have met the last two years in

451
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Speaker 5: the playoffs as the Jazz and the Rockets, and the

452
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Speaker 5: Jazz right now held a game and a half lead

453
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Speaker 5: over Houston. But interesting if they were to match up

454
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Speaker 5: again in the playoffs. Obviously, Russell Westbrook now on the Rockets,

455
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Speaker 5: you know he's had some battles with the Jazz, and

456
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Speaker 5: of course the Jazz and the Rockets have battled against

457
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Speaker 5: James Harden in the past, and Russell westbrook has turned

458
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Speaker 5: his season around in the last month or so six weeks.

459
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Speaker 5: He's been incredible and he's changed the way. I think

460
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Speaker 5: the outlook for the Houston Rockets. I said earlier in

461
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Speaker 5: the season, I don't think they're a contender, and I

462
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Speaker 5: still don't really think they're a contender, but I think

463
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Speaker 5: they can cause some trouble between But apart from the

464
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Speaker 5: Lakers and the Clippers, even the Clippers, you know, on

465
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Speaker 5: the right tay, the Rockets could cause some problems there.

466
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Speaker 5: But I think the Nuggets and the Jazz could be

467
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Speaker 5: in trouble if they face against the Rockets with west

468
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Speaker 5: playing the way he has been playing lately. So it's

469
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Speaker 5: an interesting situation because the Rockets went all in, they

470
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Speaker 5: poured all their money into Westbrook and Harden didn't start

471
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Speaker 5: off all that well. But now they do seem to

472
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Speaker 5: have found something that's working, and I think a lot

473
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Speaker 5: of it has to do with the fact that Russell

474
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Speaker 5: Westbrooks has adjusted his game and it's working.

475
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Speaker 2: So of course, the small ball super small ball, so far,

476
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Speaker 2: so good.

477
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Speaker 5: It's a fun experiment for sure there in Houston. So

478
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Speaker 5: you know, if they were to meet the Jazz again

479
00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,760
Speaker 5: three straight seasons, that would be a very, very spicy

480
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Speaker 5: first round matchup.

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Speaker 4: I'm watching the Lakers more so on a smaller front,

482
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Speaker 4: and I just I mean by that, I mean the bench.

483
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Speaker 4: What's going on with the Lakers backcourt is for Jean

484
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Speaker 4: Ronder going to.

485
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Speaker 5: Play a lot?

486
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Speaker 4: Is Alex Caruso going to play a lot? And just

487
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Speaker 4: how they tinker with that, because that's what I think

488
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Speaker 4: they're worried about the most, and I think that's what

489
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Speaker 4: Lebron is is probably going to focus on, trying to

490
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Speaker 4: make sure that they've got an extra part, an extra

491
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Speaker 4: guard to help him out when it comes to the postseason,

492
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Speaker 4: because I'm not sure what their finishing lineup is, and

493
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Speaker 4: I don't know if Frank Vogel does either. It would

494
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Speaker 4: probably be game to game right now with Lebron, Ad

495
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Speaker 4: and Danny Green being your three mainstays, and then you

496
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Speaker 4: go big with Dwight possibly at the center, Jaimigie the center,

497
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Speaker 4: or do you have Avery Bradley come in or Rondo

498
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Speaker 4: and Caruso. I think carus would probably be closest to

499
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Speaker 4: a mainstay of all those guys. But that's what I'm

500
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Speaker 4: looking at and how hard lebron go is probably the

501
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Speaker 4: rest of the season as well as he chilling just

502
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Speaker 4: to make sure he's got all that gas in the postseason,

503
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Speaker 4: because he that's a lot of guests he's gonna need.

504
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Speaker 4: He's going to need to be on full at April

505
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Speaker 4: thirteenth and then on June thirteenth, if that's the plan

506
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Speaker 4: to get to the finals.

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Speaker 2: And the Clippers, I mean, we've talked about before. They've

508
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Speaker 2: defeated the Lakers twice in the first half of the season,

509
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Speaker 2: and yeah, the Lakers are up pretty big with that

510
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Speaker 2: number one seed in the win lost column, but it's

511
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Speaker 2: not it's doable with the Clippers, especially being third, and

512
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Speaker 2: they play two more games against them. One's gonna be

513
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Speaker 2: on March eighth, and then we still have the makeup

514
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 2: date game that they postpone with the Kobe tragedy. So

515
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 2: a lot of people think that'll be right at the

516
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Speaker 2: end of the season around April tenth. A lot of

517
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Speaker 2: people are thinking it could be just because of the

518
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 2: schedules and stuff like that, but that could be could

519
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 2: be a big game in terms of seating if the

520
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Speaker 2: Clippers are trying to chase them or catch the Lakers

521
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Speaker 2: or the number one seed or number two seed.

522
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Speaker 5: Or whatever it is.

523
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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's uh, you know, I just I really

524
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Speaker 2: pray we get the Battle of LA at some point.

525
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Speaker 2: I don't care if it's in the second round. I

526
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Speaker 2: don't care if it's in the Western Conference. Fin I

527
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Speaker 2: don't care when it happens. I just hope we get

528
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Speaker 2: it so much because they've just been the talk of

529
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Speaker 2: the town. All these other teams are great, Nuggets are good,

530
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Speaker 2: Jazz are good, Rockets are good, but those are the

531
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Speaker 2: two that all season long we've talked about the most,

532
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Speaker 2: and they've lived up to it for the most part. Yeah,

533
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Speaker 2: they're the little hits and misses here and there. The

534
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Speaker 2: Clippers haven't blown anyone away, but they keep adding pieces,

535
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Speaker 2: just get adding Ready Jackson, and they're a damn good team.

536
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Speaker 2: I mean when they're all out there, if they're healthy,

537
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Speaker 2: and that's a big question mark with Paul George, of course, but.

538
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Speaker 4: It would hope we get them. It would be weird

539
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Speaker 4: if they play in the second round, only because you

540
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Speaker 4: know how the NBA takes days off, multiple days off

541
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Speaker 4: in the first and second round in between games. Two

542
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Speaker 4: LA teams that don't travel to have like two or

543
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 4: three days off between games. It's going to anger me.

544
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,399
Speaker 4: Like the Western Consis Finals, they play every other day.

545
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 4: Usually that's cool, but they're not going to be traveling

546
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Speaker 4: there and they're going to be chilling in the second

547
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 4: round a good series, they'll be well rested.

548
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Speaker 2: Let's hear from you guys out there. Hit us up

549
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Speaker 2: on Twitter at No Dunk Sync. Most intriguing post All

550
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Speaker 2: Star Game storyline. Most interesting team that you'll be watching.

551
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 2: And again, maybe it's not even a playoff team. Maybe

552
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Speaker 2: it's the Young Hawks cock ah, because they're pretty fun.

553
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Speaker 2: On Thursday Night, Trey Young going for fifty on Quavo Night,

554
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Speaker 2: pointing at the floor where he was shooting from. Yes,

555
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,880
Speaker 2: are hitting the deep, deep bombs down at the fortress.

556
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Speaker 2: This was his career high for Trey Young. He should

557
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 2: hit eight three pointers, hit a ton of free throws

558
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Speaker 2: eighteen of nineteen and they won this game. That's the

559
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Speaker 2: other part. This was in just a fifty on the loss.

560
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Speaker 2: This was an impressive win for the for the Young

561
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Speaker 2: Hawks here, coming back scoring the final ten points of

562
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Speaker 2: the game to a sort of sort of shock the

563
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Speaker 2: Miami Heat, getting the one to twenty nine four win,

564
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Speaker 2: and then Trey Young taking to Twitter, kept the receipts

565
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 2: on Jimmy Butler from that game prior to the season

566
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Speaker 2: when Trey Young had sort of prematurely called game and

567
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Speaker 2: then he came back to want to win and Jimmy

568
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 2: jumped on Instagram and pointed that out, No, no, no,

569
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Speaker 2: you can't see the future and all that. Well, Trey

570
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 2: Young says, yes I could. Yes, they flipped around.

571
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Speaker 3: So I loved it.

572
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Speaker 2: I mean everything about this. But he's now the fourth

573
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Speaker 2: youngest player to ever score fifty in a game. Lebron

574
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Speaker 2: did a three times, Devin Booker and Brandon Jennings.

575
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Speaker 5: He shook Iggy a couple of times. Oh yeah, made

576
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Speaker 5: Iggy looked like he'd been out of the game for

577
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Speaker 5: a while. Yeah yeah, yeah. What a great, great win

578
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Speaker 5: for the Hawks. If you are a Hawks fan and

579
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Speaker 5: you look at some of these young players, you know,

580
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Speaker 5: DeAndre Hunter I thought was very good. Huerta was fantastic.

581
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 5: I just love saying his name. And I don't think

582
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Speaker 5: it's gonna happen, but Jeff Tige would be great in

583
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Speaker 5: that backup role. I think for Trey Young for another

584
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 5: couple of seasons. He's a free agent this season. I

585
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,359
Speaker 5: just don't think the Hawks bring him back. But I

586
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Speaker 5: think that's a that's a good stabling balance to have there,

587
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 5: because Trey went out there and he was getting his

588
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Speaker 5: buckets and again efficient twelve for twenty five from the floor,

589
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 5: eight for fifteen from downtown. Like he's not just out

590
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 5: there just firing away. He's mixing up his game and

591
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 5: defenders are finding it hard to stay in front of

592
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Speaker 5: him because he's got that herky, jerky little move where

593
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 5: he gets inside. He's got the Tony Parker almost floater

594
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Speaker 5: going as well, so you know, and you have to.

595
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Speaker 2: Play him so far out yeah, because he's so comfortable

596
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Speaker 2: six or seven feet behind the line.

597
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Speaker 5: Yeah, more time. So you know, I just thought that,

598
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Speaker 5: you know, Cam Reddish as well, another young player doing well.

599
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Speaker 5: So they've got some really nice pieces here Atlanta. You know,

600
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Speaker 5: if they can all it really is.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I wasn't joking, Like there's sort of

602
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Speaker 2: an interesting team to watch for the final couple of

603
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Speaker 2: weeks and if with the hopes of moving forward to

604
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Speaker 2: next year, like because Trey Young's Tree Young. We already

605
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Speaker 2: know that now gaginggle for fifty on night, but you said,

606
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Speaker 2: DeAndre Hunter hit the game tying three in this one.

607
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,439
Speaker 2: That was big, and then Cam Reddish with that steal

608
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 2: and the score to put them up. I mean, and

609
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 2: those guys both had pretty good games.

610
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Speaker 3: You know.

611
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Speaker 2: That was like seventeen eighteen points. That's what's so important

612
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,880
Speaker 2: here to have the one two of those guys look

613
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Speaker 2: like a legit, you know, not a star, but like

614
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,439
Speaker 2: just a really sound, you know, wing guy that can

615
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 2: give you some defense and score on the other end.

616
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Speaker 2: That would just be huge for the Hawks going forward

617
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Speaker 2: with then Collins and Trey Young at the start of

618
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Speaker 2: next season and you could actually say, yeah, they should

619
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Speaker 2: be a playoff team. Yeah.

620
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Speaker 4: Cam Raddish is the most intriguing one to me because

621
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Speaker 4: the Hawks keep losing on the defensive end. That's where

622
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Speaker 4: they lose. But Cam Raddish is starting to get the

623
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Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard highlights where he just rips guys and goes

624
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Speaker 4: the other way. It's happened a few times now. He's

625
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Speaker 4: he's a big, big body, and that's the type of

626
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Speaker 4: guy you would need around Trey Young if you're gonna win.

627
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Speaker 4: Just those those type of gritty guys that are gonna

628
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Speaker 4: play deep because you know Trey is not going to

629
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Speaker 4: do that. You need some some tough dudes. And Camradish

630
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Speaker 4: came over in that trade essentially, you know, the draft

631
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Speaker 4: pick for Luka Doncic along with Trey Young. It's starting

632
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 4: to look good. It's starting to look like a good

633
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 4: trade because camras this is, you know, this his first season,

634
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 4: so they're extremely young. John dree Hunter also his first season.

635
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 4: It's taken a bit, but Camradish again, it's fun to

636
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 4: watch those last few minutes because he is He's ready

637
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 4: to get down and dirty and there's just not a

638
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 4: lot of guys on the Hawks that do that. He

639
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 4: gets in that squat, gets in that athletic stance, rips

640
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 4: those long arms out and occasionally he'll get a nice

641
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 4: rip and those are fun to watch because they're like

642
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 4: Kwi like, you can't leave the ball close to him

643
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 4: right now?

644
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Speaker 2: What do you think Kuevo does with the Trey Young jersey?

645
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 2: Does he just frame it and put it up in

646
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Speaker 2: his mansion?

647
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 3: Use you know, really has multiple mansions, so he probably

648
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 3: has multiple jerseys. There's always a spot, I guess.

649
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Speaker 2: So I mean Trey Young first Hawks player with a

650
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Speaker 2: fifty point game since two thousand and one. Who did it?

651
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Speaker 3: Charif?

652
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 2: Charie? He did it?

653
00:27:58,200 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 3: Yeah?

654
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Speaker 2: I don't remember that game all.

655
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest about Lang Wittaker does something, tells

656
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 3: me he does something. I've noticed between the Trailblazers and

657
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 3: the Hawks, they've got the guys who shoot from quote

658
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 3: unquote the logos, and Lillard and Trey Young their logos

659
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 3: are getting bigger. These things are ginormous. We'll see what

660
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 3: Lillard is like next season when they don't have the

661
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 3: fiftieth anniversary of the Blazers, because that five zero is

662
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 3: huge and that Hawk last night is massive. It's like

663
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 3: Trey Young is hitting shots from the logo, but he's

664
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 3: like three feet into the logo. I think, just go

665
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Speaker 3: even bigger.

666
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 2: Ah, who's got the smallest logo?

667
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 3: I wonder, now that would be impressive. If you can

668
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 3: hit from that logo, it's good. But if you're hitting

669
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 3: from like the Houston Rockets, remember they had that old

670
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 3: court that had like an entire spaceship taking off like

671
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 3: that would not be a logo shoutow. That's like a

672
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 3: one foot outside of the three point line.

673
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 5: But I like it.

674
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 3: A little innovation in floor design. Make your logos huge

675
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 3: and your players look more impressive.

676
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, dope.

677
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Speaker 2: So a couple other things. I mean, we talked about

678
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 2: this game. Joel Embiid's thirty nine points sixteen boards. Six

679
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,719
Speaker 2: Ers extended their dominance at home. They got the one

680
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 2: twelve one oh four overtime victory over the Nets. Weird game, yeah,

681
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 2: very weird game, many many runs. A lot of Indian

682
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 2: food was had before the start of this game because

683
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 2: Philadelphia was up twenty two to six, and then the

684
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 2: Nets followed with a forty four to eight run. But

685
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: then it was only a ten point game at halftime

686
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 2: because then the Sixers had closed that out with a

687
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 2: twelve to two run, and then things got a little

688
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 2: more closer or stayed a little more closer in the

689
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 2: second half. But what a weird game. But you know,

690
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 2: Embiid was a monster and hit a bunch of clutch

691
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 2: free throws to get it done and had the big

692
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 2: block on Wilson Chandler too. It was a weird sort

693
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 2: of play call and I think Didnwhitdy probably should have

694
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 2: shot the floater. Yeah, but it Beid, you know, it

695
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 2: played both guys. He sort of challenged Dinwitty enough to

696
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 2: make him think about it passed a Wilson Chandler in

697
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 2: the dunker spot and just blocked his ass.

698
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 5: And a couple of times he just said to Jared

699
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 5: Allen and DeAndre Jordan, I'm bigger, I'm stronger, give me

700
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 5: the ball, I'm going out, I'm getting fat, I'm gonna dunk.

701
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 5: I'm just taking over this game as he should. And

702
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 5: you see more of that when he's more engaged. He

703
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 5: had that gorgeous euro step by the way too. I

704
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 5: haven't seen one of those from him for a while,

705
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 5: and he did the little shimi after it. The bench

706
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 5: got into it, and that's Joe and Joel Embiid having fun.

707
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 5: So when he does Flexi's muscles, he really does and

708
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 5: has the potential to just take over a game like that,

709
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 5: because you mentioned that, you know, hey, you can be

710
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 5: up sixteen but down twenty in the same half.

711
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Speaker 3: It's very very well well because for as often as

712
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 3: Embiid was dominating DeAndre Jordan, he was also just not

713
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 3: caring about him at all. I mean, how many aliops

714
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 3: did DeAndre Jordan catch last night? It was ridiculous because

715
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 3: that's the thing is Embiid when he's one hundred percent

716
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 3: locked in he's maybe the best defender in the game,

717
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 3: at least the best rim guy up there with Rudy Gobert.

718
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 3: And then there are other times where he's just standing.

719
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 3: He's just standing in the lane, and you're getting oops

720
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 3: to DeAndre Jordan time and time again, and they're running

721
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 3: a DeAndre Jordan highlight package when I'm sure he hasn't

722
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 3: had one during this entire season. The Sixers just have

723
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 3: a way of making things look ugly, and it happens

724
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 3: every single game, both during the game and from game

725
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 3: to game to game. I don't know, though, maybe Sixers

726
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 3: fans should just continue booing because the Sixers are now

727
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 3: two and zero in games that they've been booed at home. Also,

728
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 3: they have the best home record in the league. I

729
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 3: don't get it. I just honestly don't get why people

730
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 3: are so disappointed with this team. They're thirty five wins,

731
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 3: They've got a better record right now than the Heat.

732
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 3: But we talk about the Heat like they're one of

733
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 3: the greatest successes of the NBA season.

734
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean that was a big part of

735
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 2: that is of course, expectations.

736
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 3: No, that's on.

737
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 2: Everybody thought the Sixers would be either the number one

738
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 2: team in the East or at the very least the

739
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 2: second best team in the East. Everybody had that Bucks

740
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 2: six Ers Sixers Bucks, and then yeah, the heat more

741
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 2: of a surprise, some people saying not even thinking they're

742
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 2: maybe even a playoff team, other like maybe just getting in.

743
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 2: And you're right, they they sort of shocked everybody and

744
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 2: it played really really well, especially with some of these

745
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 2: like no name guys and Nune and Duncan Robinson and

746
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 2: all that and even Bam coming on to the next level.

747
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 2: But no, you're right, it's a it's weird. Alex Burk's huge, Yeah,

748
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 2: in overtime, Shake Milton hit some big buckets in overtime.

749
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 2: But you're nothing is easy with this team, with the Sixers,

750
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 2: just it's always you're just holding on for dear life.

751
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 2: Up man, it would be weird to be a Sixers

752
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 2: fan this season. It obviously is because they don't know

753
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 2: whether to boo or cheer these guys or are they good?

754
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 2: Are they going to the finals? Are they gonna lose

755
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 2: in the first round? Are we firing our coach? We

756
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 2: got too many bigs here, we can't play our two superstar. Wow,

757
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 2: there's just it's a mess, but at times it works

758
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 2: and there's still enough there where you can convince yourself,

759
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 2: oh yeah they could, they could go all the way

760
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 2: to the end. But I did that with the Celtics

761
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 2: last year too, with Kyrie, and I know it's different,

762
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 2: but I remember, like I took them in the playoffs

763
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 2: series and I was like, yeah, they'll get it together.

764
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 2: When they're all there, they'll be fine. And I guess

765
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 2: it's not easy that sometimes, like you need, there has

766
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 2: to be that cohesion or it helps.

767
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 4: And the Sixers team definitely doesn't have the cohesion. They

768
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,719
Speaker 4: just get by on talent and they're that good, right,

769
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 4: and that's why they're bad on the road and amazing

770
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 4: at home. They just somehow fight through it and they're

771
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 4: gonna be another fifty one team. Just disappointing when you

772
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 4: see year and in year out. They were what fifty

773
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 4: one wins last year, fifty two wins a year before,

774
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 4: and they're going to be in the same ballpark this year.

775
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 4: But Joel Embiid's going to be energized in the playoffs.

776
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 4: Like you're talking about Trey DeAndre Jordan dunk Fest, Joel

777
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 4: Embiid needs something to motivate him. It's it's shack like

778
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 4: he'll be ready in the playoffs. He'll be And that's

779
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 4: why I think they are the most legitimate team to

780
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 4: knock off the Bucks because they match up best with

781
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 4: with Yannis rolling down the lane and Joel Embiid's big

782
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 4: body there, that's that's a tough matchup for Yannis. I

783
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 4: know it's crazy to say the MVP's got a tough matchup,

784
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 4: but it's not easy and that's where he gets his points.

785
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 4: So and engage Joel Embiid if he is one hundred

786
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 4: percent healthy, which is a huge question mark because he

787
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 4: wasn't last year, in the playoffs, will be tough for

788
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 4: I think the Bucks if they meet in the second round.

789
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 4: But that's the crazy thing about these Sixers. Are they

790
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 4: going to get there? Are they going to play?

791
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 5: Bucks? Six is on Saturday. Actually we get a little

792
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,959
Speaker 5: preview there but just ABC. So yes, it is Alec Burks.

793
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 5: He gave that last night, that performance where he's going

794
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 5: to be a steal for the Sixers, you know, because

795
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 5: he just came out and he looks so fit already

796
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 5: into that role, into that team. It was incredible just

797
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 5: how comfortably looked. So if he does if he is

798
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 5: the player that we've seen over years gone by, who's

799
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 5: who's shown us that it is going to be a

800
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 5: great thing for the Sixes. But he could also just

801
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 5: be someone who gets, you know, stuck to the bench

802
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 5: at some point as well because he's very inconsistent.

803
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 4: Or shoots an airball with one minute left that was

804
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 4: wide open shot.

805
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, there were air.

806
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 2: Balls being shot. There were passes being thrown off other

807
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 2: guys faces. I mean, why, I'm telling you, like, from

808
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 2: possession of possession with this team is crazy.

809
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 4: It was crazy. The Sixers had two fast breaks there

810
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 4: at the last minute, and that pass off mattis Stable's

811
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 4: face there was a three on one break, I tweeted,

812
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 4: I'm surprised the internet didn't break after that. No one

813
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 4: gave a crap about Fivebell taking the ball to Yeah.

814
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 2: I think part of it was like the six they

815
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 2: kept the ball on the possession.

816
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 5: Yeah.

817
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, so maybe it was a real yackety Sacks moment

818
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 4: for sure.

819
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 5: Well.

820
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 2: The Nets GM Sean Marks announced yesterday that Kyrie Irving

821
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,800
Speaker 2: will undergo season ending surgery on his right shoulder. Kyrie

822
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 2: had visited a specialist over the past few days before

823
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 2: making the decision. He missed twenty six games over the

824
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 2: span of nearly two months with that right shoulder impingement,

825
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 2: before eventually returning in mid January following the courtizone shot.

826
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Speaker 2: But that's it. We predicted this on yesterday's podcast. We're like,

827
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 2: this is likely going to happen if he if he's

828
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 2: not playing now, and they're saying, in definitely, why wouldn't

829
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 2: they just shut him down for the season and undergo

830
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 2: the surgery, And that's what's happening here. But there's a

831
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 2: you know, it was interesting. I was listening to Ben

832
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 2: Golliver on the Open Globe, Open Floor excuse me podcast,

833
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 2: like railing on the Nets for this, like the idea

834
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 2: that maybe would the Nets even take a mulligan on

835
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 2: their off season with the buddy ball of yeah, you

836
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 2: got Kevin Durant, but you had to get Kyrie and

837
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:01,800
Speaker 2: had to get DeAndre Jordan if you consider it a

838
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 2: package deal, which everyone he sort of assumes it was.

839
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 2: But just ripping on this gap year for the Nets

840
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 2: and how poor Kyrie has played or the team's success

841
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 2: when he's out there at eight and twelve, when he

842
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 2: did play in those twenty games, and just like how

843
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 2: it's been such a wasted season here. I was a

844
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 2: little taken aback how aggressive Gulliver was coming at it,

845
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 2: But I'm interested to hear your thoughts, like are you like, yeah,

846
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 2: this was like what a bummer of a season, complete waste,

847
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 2: or are you more like whoa, whoa, Just what's it

848
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 2: really matter? It's gonna be a completely different team when

849
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 2: Kadi's there, And yeah, you would have liked to see

850
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 2: Kyrie sort of try and get some chemistry going with

851
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,879
Speaker 2: a Dinwitty or Karis Lavert or those guys Jared Allen,

852
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 2: But let's not overreact. Where do you sort of fall

853
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 2: in this with the nets weird season?

854
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 4: I think they would rather have had Kyrie Irving sit

855
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 4: out the entire year, just like Kevin Durant and not

856
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 4: go through this up and down and see even the

857
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 4: twenty whatever games he's played. I don't think it's really

858
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 4: benefited chemistry at all and their cohesion. Usually you'd say, yeah,

859
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 4: it's good for him to get out there and play

860
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 4: with the guys he's gonna play with next year. It

861
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 4: was a failure. I agree with Ben Gulliver's mulligan. It

862
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 4: should be a segment on his show Gulliver's Mulligan. It's

863
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 4: a good it's a good segment. I don't it was

864
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 4: a it was a disappointing year for sure. It's just

865
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 4: I think Carrie doesn't like being not having a number

866
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 4: one guy beside him. It's you just need I don't know.

867
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 4: The only times he succeeded is having Lebron beside him,

868
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 4: and he hasn't been able to be a number one guy.

869
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 4: And it was it was a kind of It just

870
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 4: leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Watching this team

871
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 4: all year, I just thought they'd be far better.

872
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 5: They had to do it. Still, I think that if

873
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 5: you get a chance to get Durant and Kyrie Irving,

874
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 5: even if the price is DeAndre Jordan, do it. I

875
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 5: mean he's an upgrade. There's there's no question there's an

876
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 5: upgrade in talent there. Even though what the what the

877
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 5: net showed us last year was a real team though

878
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 5: a cohesive unit. But what was this ceiling for that team?

879
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 5: Second round of the playoffs. You know they weren't a contender, No,

880
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 5: they were.

881
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 4: Just more enjoyable, right you do it? They were just.

882
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 5: With Kevin Durant coming back next season, assuming he's at

883
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 5: full health, and assuming Kyrie's at health, they are instantly

884
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:17,919
Speaker 5: vaulted into you know, contender status. You know, so yes

885
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 5: you have to do it, but it certainly hasn't worked out.

886
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 5: And the issues surrounding Kyrie are whether or not he

887
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 5: brings that baggage into the locker room. And I think

888
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 5: we've seen some of that this season. I think guys

889
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 5: like Dinwitty and even Carris Lavert to a degree of

890
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 5: sort of that you know, man, I used to get

891
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 5: all those shots last year, and now Kyrie comes in

892
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 5: and he gets them more. So that's an issue for

893
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 5: Kenny Atkinson and Sewan Marks going forward. But again, I'd

894
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 5: rather have that talent than the talent they had last

895
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 5: season because I just feel they're more likely to be

896
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 5: a contender. And DeAndre Jordan, I mean, how good was

897
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 5: he anyway? Like good? But if that's what it took

898
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 5: them for the Nets to get, the other two guys

899
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:56,800
Speaker 5: do it.

900
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 4: But I don't think that like din Witty or all

901
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 4: the you know, those guys who lost some shots are

902
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 4: to blame at all in this. They're good soldiers, Yeah,

903
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 4: we're never.

904
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 5: But you can understand though why these guys, you know,

905
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 5: probably feel like, man, we're actually we've actually regressed from

906
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 5: where we were last season.

907
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 4: Because, yeah, the cohesions, yeah poopy.

908
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 5: You know, and it's like, you know, when Kyrie comes

909
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 5: in signing that massive contract, the coach is obviously going

910
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 5: to be like, we're going through this guy first, So

911
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 5: you guys have to fall in line, and didn't Witty.

912
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 5: I mean, he's been great this season, he really has.

913
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 5: And he hit a clutch shot late last night, missed

914
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 5: another one. But I love the way that the way

915
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 5: this guy plays and he believes in himself. So you know,

916
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 5: if if you can get someone like a Dinwiddy coming

917
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 5: off the bench, perhaps behind Kyrie and performing to this level,

918
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 5: then again, that just makes the Nets even a better team.

919
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 3: Yeah. Then that's sold eighty four percent of tickets last year,

920
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 3: ninety two percent this year. That's really all that matters

921
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 3: because the season didn't matter. They made it to the

922
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 3: playoffs regardless. I mean, there's still a chance that they

923
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 3: could fall out. I don't necessarily think that's going to happen.

924
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 3: Kris Lavert miss in twenty five games hurt as well

925
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 3: for the team's record this season, but it basically you're

926
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 3: trading D'Angelo Russell, who had an All Star season in

927
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen nineteen. For twenty games of Kyrie Irving, of

928
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 3: course your team's going to be worse, but more people

929
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 3: came to the games, and I'm sure that's what matters,

930
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 3: because next season you're getting your real best player back.

931
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 3: Hopefully he's not super diminished coming off an injury, and

932
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,399
Speaker 3: hopefully Kyrie Irving is able to get completely healthy. Because

933
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 3: if you're able to say we got Kyrie Irving, we

934
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 3: got Kevin Durant, we've got some decent support guys, that's

935
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 3: gonna get people to sign on those exceptions and veteran minimums.

936
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean it's a bummer. But to have

937
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving barely play this season, to have Kevin Durant

938
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 3: not play, to have Kyrie Irving when he does come back,

939
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 3: kind of trash the team. Not good, certainly not good,

940
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 3: But you're gonna forget about it when you see number

941
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 3: seven walk on the court next season.

942
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's I hope he's can play ninety

943
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 2: ninety five percent to his prior skill level. I'm talking

944
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,839
Speaker 2: about Durant here before the injury, because it's not a given.

945
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 2: I mean, he's an older guy too, Buck. I mean,

946
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 2: you've got a hope that taking the whole year off

947
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 2: and not rushing them back at all. And yeah, he

948
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 2: looks great in the videos you're seeing of him splash

949
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 2: in threes. You hope he's near that MVP level. But

950
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 2: it's there that MVP is gonna be there for the taking.

951
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 2: I think with the Nets having a really you know,

952
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 2: an underwhelming season here, and yes, a part of it

953
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 2: is the Kyrie injury and the LeVert injury. But if

954
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 2: they come back, if Kadie's plugged in here and suddenly

955
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 2: they're the you know, top one of the top two

956
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 2: teams in the in the East, then he's gonna warrant

957
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 2: and rightfully so a ton of MVP consideration again. But

958
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 2: I do wonder with the four guys, they're four main

959
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 2: guys and I'm talking Katie, Kyrie, Dinwittie and Lavert. Do

960
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 2: you have to move one of those last two guys?

961
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 2: I mean, are there enough? Is there enough shots and

962
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 2: the way they all play for the four of them

963
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 2: to work, I'm not convinced. You know, Dinwitty's two years,

964
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 2: he's about twenty four million, He's got the player option

965
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 2: and in twenty twenty one, twenty two, and then LeVert

966
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 2: is about to start his three year like fifty million

967
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 2: dollars plus extension next season, a lot of money when

968
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 2: you add then KD and Kyrie. I just don't know,

969
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 2: maybe they look to move one of those two guys. Hey,

970
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 2: if you could get something back, probably to help your team.

971
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

972
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 4: I immediately think of the comparison with the Warriors, and

973
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 4: there was enough ball to go around for Clay Steph

974
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 4: and Durant and they didn't really have a fourth guy

975
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,879
Speaker 4: who needed shots. So maybe the comparison is app like, yeah,

976
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 4: you know, I get Dinwiddi and Levertt probably need shots.

977
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 5: There was something you need the ball, Yeah, maybe, And

978
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 5: that's the thing. They're gonna probably lose Joe Harris anyway,

979
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 5: which you know, again a shootout doesn't need the ball

980
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 5: in his hands.

981
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 4: Kyrie Irving didn't name him, so yeah, he's probably gone.

982
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 5: But that's the thing when you're talking about fit. Yeah,

983
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 5: I don't think there's enough for all of those guys

984
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 5: to get the ball.

985
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 4: So if they play with Jared Allen, he doesn't need it,

986
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 4: so yeah know, but yeah, you keep your best players.

987
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 4: I guess is what you probably do with the nets

988
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 4: and those are your best players. So that's that's an

989
00:42:56,280 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 4: interesting chemistry experiment. And so just from a media standpoint,

990
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 4: they're gonna be the villains. I think next year. You know,

991
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 4: Kyrie's talked a lot in the media. Kevin Durant has

992
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 4: obviously talked in the past. And maybe it's the feelings,

993
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 4: the anti Kevin Durant feelings have subsided because he hasn't

994
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 4: been around for a while, but he still has a

995
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 4: burner account. As he said, it's going to it's gonna happen.

996
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 4: I think, I think, and we need these villains too.

997
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 4: You know, great, you're gonna talk and maybe maybe because

998
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,799
Speaker 4: they're winning, they won't talk to the media, and maybe

999
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 4: they'll be a bit more of a darling team. But

1000
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 4: I want them to be villains. That'd be fun.

1001
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 5: All right.

1002
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 2: Let's get two worst of the week.

1003
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen.

1004
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:45,439
Speaker 4: The worst of the week, all right, So we're gonna

1005
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 4: pick worst of the week a little differently. Today, I

1006
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 4: surveyed the people out there on Twitter for worst of

1007
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 4: the week. They gave me some options and I'll present

1008
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 4: them to you. You guys, tell me which one should win.

1009
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,439
Speaker 4: All right, let's have a little debate table here. First,

1010
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 4: one lot of tweeters suggested the dunk contest judges the

1011
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 4: wrong guy won. They say, I'll say this before you

1012
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:13,879
Speaker 4: guys mentioned your opinions about Aaron Gordon winning over Derek

1013
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 4: Jones Junior. The judges gave us. The judges gave us

1014
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 4: more dunks. Period. Isn't that a win for all of us,

1015
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 4: whether or not it's the Russian judge out there and

1016
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 4: we got more dunks from a couple of the best

1017
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 4: dunkers in the NBA, a couple of the best dunkers

1018
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 4: in the world. I think we're all winners. I understand

1019
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:35,320
Speaker 4: people are mad that Aaron Gordon didn't get a trophy.

1020
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 2: I understand that.

1021
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 4: I totally understand that. I don't think he should have won,

1022
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 4: which I know is a little crazy to say for

1023
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 4: a guy who had five straight fifty point dunks, but

1024
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 4: the first one, if the second round the final round

1025
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,879
Speaker 4: was not a fifty I am and therefore Derek Jones

1026
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 4: should have won. But I understand at the end of it,

1027
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 4: after you're looking back, Aaron Gordon had the better finish,

1028
00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 4: So everybody up in arms, Well, that guy just won

1029
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 4: that thing. Technically he shouldn't if you want to get technical,

1030
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 4: but who gives a crap other than Aaron Gordon, He

1031
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:05,839
Speaker 4: probably gives a crap.

1032
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 2: I think what we have learned from this, we do

1033
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 2: need to change the scoring for the judges. I mean like, look,

1034
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 2: was Wade being sneaky? Did they agree upon, Hey, let's

1035
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 2: tie again? You said you want we got more dunks?

1036
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 2: Well we could have gotten even more dunks potentially.

1037
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 4: Yeah. A lot of other people just want to give

1038
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 4: Dwayne Wade.

1039
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 2: Right because of course he's got a relationship with Derek

1040
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 2: Jones Junior, and he did the whole what the relationship

1041
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 2: with Derek Jones because they played together?

1042
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, because more and more relationship with the franchise.

1043
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 4: He's the face of the Miami Heat franchise.

1044
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 5: As if that plied into it.

1045
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 2: You don't think so all at all.

1046
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 5: He's going on, that's my former teammate there. Yeah, I'm

1047
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,839
Speaker 5: gonna I'm gonna give him an extra little bonus here.

1048
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 5: I don't think at all.

1049
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm not sure I agree with that, because he

1050
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 2: seemed to be again sort of laughing to himself saying,

1051
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, you want me to give the ten

1052
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 2: or the nine. Okay, you guys give the nine. Okay,

1053
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 2: I'll give the ten, and then goes nope, nine, Hey

1054
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 2: Derek Jones one bye.

1055
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1056
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 2: I don't know, Lee, I'm not sure I agree with that,

1057
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 2: but it's it's still funny.

1058
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 4: Kill admitted in the summer.

1059
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was gonna say, is like we need

1060
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 2: to change, like it's we need to get more specific

1061
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 2: either so it either has to be out of one hundred,

1062
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 2: or you got to get into like the points, you know,

1063
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 2: like that was a forty nine point eight or a

1064
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 2: forty eight.

1065
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: Like we do.

1066
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,399
Speaker 2: It's gotta be there has to be a little more

1067
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 2: variance between your scores because once you give the fifty,

1068
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 2: then it's tough to go back from a fifty on

1069
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 2: a dunk that's just a trevalent, or you know, even

1070
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 2: maybe in a little it's just difficult. So that's what

1071
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 2: happens in these things all the time. I think if

1072
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 2: you get a little more specific with the scoring system

1073
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 2: might help it a little bit.

1074
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,720
Speaker 3: And clearly we're gonna need some sort of tie breaker

1075
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 3: format here, because yeah, that's the other thing. People, it's

1076
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,399
Speaker 3: either you change the scoring and actually let them give

1077
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 3: one through ten because I think you like, even if

1078
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:55,359
Speaker 3: you miss, you're gonna get a thirty, right, Like, if

1079
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 3: you miss your dunk, you gotta get sixes from everybody.

1080
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you should get a five. Yeah, one from

1081
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 3: every single person if you miss every single one of

1082
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 3: your dunks. But we're gonna have more ties, which means

1083
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 3: we need to have something set up here, because like

1084
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 3: you're saying tasks. I thought Derek Jones Junior had the

1085
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 3: best dunk of the night, no doubt, off the glass

1086
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 3: over chuck between the legs. I thought that was the

1087
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 3: dunk of the night. But in the final round I

1088
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 3: preferred taco to a windmill from inside the free throw line.

1089
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 3: But yeah, so you see the last dunk and you're like, well,

1090
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,800
Speaker 3: I guess Aaron Gordon should have won, but I like

1091
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 3: Derek Jones Junior for more for the rest of the night.

1092
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 3: It's it's tough to say we need we need more

1093
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 3: rules for the dunk contest.

1094
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 5: Oh my god, they.

1095
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 3: Knack me in the face ot loud.

1096
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 2: Though some people have also said get rid of like

1097
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 2: is it out of fifty, get rid of the scoring

1098
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 2: system completely, and when the guys are going head to

1099
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 2: head in a dunk off when it's just one versus

1100
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 2: one that you actually it's tough to wrap your head

1101
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 2: around in at first, but it does make sense. Let

1102
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon dunk. Then let Derek Jones junior dunk see

1103
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 2: the dunk. See the two dunks the guys throw down,

1104
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 2: and then vote on which one was better. Now, okay,

1105
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,879
Speaker 2: it's like you lose the like, oh, let's go see

1106
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 2: whether it was a fifty and like, I guess that

1107
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 2: is fun, but it is maybe a smarter way to

1108
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 2: go about it. Like then it's just literally like, which

1109
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 2: dunk did you think was a tiebreaker? Yeah, that maybe

1110
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 2: should be something they try.

1111
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 4: Yeah that's good.

1112
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 2: Yeah it could work probably.

1113
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 5: Better than this.

1114
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 2: But at least we got you know, people are talking

1115
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 2: about the dunk contest with them very At least that's

1116
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 2: a good thing.

1117
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 3: And if there was one more change I would make

1118
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 3: the scoring. I don't want to see electronics scoring. I

1119
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 3: want to see people holding up signs. That was great

1120
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:31,439
Speaker 3: back in the day. You look up in the crowd

1121
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 3: and everybody's got their sprite signs. You know, people are

1122
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 3: making a hundred or a million out of it. Adding

1123
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 3: all the zeros, it's just not, it doesn't have the

1124
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 3: same pop when you just see it show up there

1125
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 3: on the table.

1126
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think maybe a part of that too is

1127
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 2: they don't like, you know, they don't want way to

1128
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 2: look at what Candace has and then they do like

1129
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 2: the flipping because they used to do that at times

1130
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 2: back in the day.

1131
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, Wade just verbalized it in yeah, right, like, what

1132
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 4: are you gonna do, Candace? I'll help out my guy.

1133
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1134
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 4: Anyway, don't want to harp too much on the dunk contest,

1135
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 4: but Ark Jans sent this one in the fact that

1136
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 4: we won't see Aaron Gordon in the dunk contest again.

1137
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 4: He is amazing. Aaron Gordon is amazing, you said Skeets

1138
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 4: on Sunday's podcasts when we're in Chicago. Probably the best

1139
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 4: loser or the best guy who never won, I should say,

1140
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 4: the dunk contest.

1141
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not even debatable.

1142
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 4: He's amazing.

1143
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 2: I mean because like even Niek did win dunk contest too. Yeah,

1144
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 2: he had ones where maybe he probably should have won,

1145
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 2: but an overall, when you look at their whole dunk

1146
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,320
Speaker 2: contest like history, it's not even close. Aaron Gordon is

1147
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 2: the best dunker.

1148
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 5: To never win.

1149
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 4: A dunk.

1150
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 5: He's only twenty four. I bet they could entice him to.

1151
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 3: Come and ten years from that.

1152
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't blame him. I don't blame him.

1153
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 2: I mean he put his time in.

1154
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 5: Yeah he did.

1155
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 2: He did incredible and did he basically went in four

1156
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 2: because he uh if not more, because of all the

1157
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 2: dunk offs he had to do. So yeah, I can't.

1158
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 2: I can't knock him first saying he's done.

1159
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 4: Okay, next one, we'll get off the dunk contest here,

1160
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 4: this one regarding the Calves to meet Loaf tweeted, that's

1161
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 4: his name. My favorite team's coach had enough and quit

1162
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 4: after fifty four games. That's a pretty good way to

1163
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 4: put it. When you put it that way. A coach

1164
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 4: walked away from millions and millions of dollars which are

1165
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 4: guaranteed to him. That just doesn't happen in sports. A

1166
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 4: guy has to be fired to walk away from that

1167
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 4: many millions of dollars. That's a pretty insane situation that

1168
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 4: they have going on in Cleveland for a guy to

1169
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 4: walk away from that much money. So to meet Loaf,

1170
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:38,320
Speaker 4: very succinct right there. Good way, next one. Ht Neil tweeted,

1171
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,760
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis for not missing the free throw on purpose,

1172
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 4: on purpose and winning the All Star Game during live play.

1173
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 4: Back yourself? What does that just mean? Like back yourself?

1174
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 4: Like bet on yourself type thing. Is that what back

1175
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 4: yourself means?

1176
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 5: I'm guessing.

1177
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 4: Regulation, Yeah, I know what that's what he means. But

1178
00:50:58,520 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 4: I'm saying the term back yourself.

1179
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 2: Like we we in attendance at the All Star Game, Uh,

1180
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:07,799
Speaker 2: you know we were when he was going to the line,

1181
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:09,919
Speaker 2: we were debating. All of us were like, he's gonna

1182
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 2: miss him?

1183
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 3: Is he gonna throw it?

1184
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 2: Like just to make this more exciting? And then he

1185
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 2: missed the first one, and then we were all like, oh, yeah, damn,

1186
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 2: he's gonna do this, like okay, cool, and then just

1187
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 2: splashes the second one. He didn't mean to miss the

1188
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 2: first one. I guess just went a little long on it.

1189
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 5: But that's the thing, because he missed that first one,

1190
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 5: He's like, I can't miss both. People have called me

1191
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 5: a joker, so I have to knock in the second one.

1192
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 4: You have to guess yeah, no, there's no way he

1193
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 4: could have. Who would miss two free throws? You can't

1194
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 4: do that. So then what they just hack all the time.

1195
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 2: I mean, he just I guess the idea is, Okay,

1196
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 2: misses the free throw and.

1197
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, just like let's finish, you can hit a jumper.

1198
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 2: I mean, like that can happen. Yeah, they're gonna be

1199
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:49,839
Speaker 2: hacking away from the wall. I guess, man, I guess

1200
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 2: you could do that too, but you would like to

1201
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 2: think they wouldn't. I can't give. I can't give my

1202
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 2: worst of the week for a free.

1203
00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 4: Throw to win the Sorry, ht you're not taking this

1204
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 4: one home. Blood Geldie tweeted the Skills challenge. He suggested

1205
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 4: bringing back to Shooting Stars, which is I know we

1206
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 4: go over it every year, but the Skills Challenge.

1207
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 2: Is just yeah, it's a big man. Yeah, maybe just alternated,

1208
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 2: have like three contests like just every other year, just

1209
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 2: to like sort of get you intrigued a tiny bit.

1210
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean? Like when you do

1211
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 2: the skills and the next year do Shooting Stars and

1212
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 2: the next year do.

1213
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 4: The Shooting Stars. Is better? Shooting Stars better? No matter what?

1214
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah it is.

1215
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:32,879
Speaker 4: It's like it's not much better, but it is better.

1216
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 4: It is better.

1217
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:34,320
Speaker 3: I agree.

1218
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 4: It's like, do we ever go back and think of

1219
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:40,919
Speaker 4: one shoot or one skills Challenge performance that was good.

1220
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:43,400
Speaker 4: No shooting Stars.

1221
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 2: They got that half court Chris Chris.

1222
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 5: Bosh might shoot Chris and he won all the time,

1223
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 5: and he had all these half code show.

1224
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,839
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, bring back shooting Stars. Look, I'm on board.

1225
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's tough stuff to find a third event. I agree.

1226
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 4: Maybe there's if you get creative, may rotate to a

1227
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 4: little carousel of events.

1228
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 2: Like, honestly, would it not be fun to watch NBA

1229
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 2: players play bump from the three point bump?

1230
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 4: It's amazing, like it would hurt.

1231
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 2: It would be fun. Now, I don't know if would

1232
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 2: it be an event that could last year after year

1233
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 2: after year? Maybe not, But I know that first year

1234
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,879
Speaker 2: I'd be like, huh, okay, sure I'm gonna play bump.

1235
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 2: This could be hilarious.

1236
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 3: Well, that's the weird thing is that there have been

1237
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:25,720
Speaker 3: so many changes to all the events, but the Skills

1238
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 3: Challenge has been around for almost twenty years and the

1239
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 3: only change they ever really made was we'll get some

1240
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 3: tall guys into because now NBA players everybody can do

1241
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 3: stuff out on the court. So yeah, I mean, I

1242
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 3: don't hate the Skills Challenge. You know, it can be

1243
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 3: funny when you see a guy like wet three passes

1244
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 3: off the thing and the only literal highlight I remember

1245
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 3: is a Derek Rose reverse dunk, and that was ten

1246
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 3: years ago at this point. So I don't know. I

1247
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 3: don't think it would be sad if it went away,

1248
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 3: But if they took it away and then they brought

1249
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 3: it back, I'd be like, oh, nice the Skills Challenge.

1250
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 4: Nice to see again, buddy, twenty years, it's been around,

1251
00:53:57,680 --> 00:53:58,319
Speaker 4: doesn't feel a.

1252
00:53:58,360 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 3: Two thousand and two?

1253
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 4: Who won?

1254
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 3: Who won the inaugural Skills Jason Kidd? Oh my god,

1255
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 3: this guy's a historian.

1256
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, my god.

1257
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 2: I'm just embarrassed myself.

1258
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 3: Knowing that Who's got the fastest Skills Challenge run of

1259
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 3: all time? To win? In a win? Tony Parker? Very slow?

1260
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,399
Speaker 3: It was a slow win. Okay, that's no, not bad.

1261
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 3: He's uh, he's up there. He won he won too. Yeah,

1262
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 3: fastest is Darren Williams. That I guess you would expect

1263
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 3: to be cooking through.

1264
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:34,800
Speaker 2: It's slow and steady though in the skills like a turtle.

1265
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:35,359
Speaker 3: That's right.

1266
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 4: The good thing is about Skills Challenge is that you're

1267
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:41,160
Speaker 4: okay missing it if you're trying to get somewhere. It's

1268
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 4: nice to have the appetizer that isn't the three point

1269
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 4: contest if they start with the three point contests.

1270
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 2: No, you almost need an event for people on Saturday

1271
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 2: night to start trickling into the arena. They're grabbing their drinks.

1272
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 2: You're not wrong. It sort of works in that regards.

1273
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 2: You don't need to see it.

1274
00:54:56,120 --> 00:55:00,760
Speaker 4: Okay, two more options here. Ross Blovelt and Cordon Gregory

1275
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 4: tweeted this in Yeah, Who's Sports for tweeting a video

1276
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 4: to start a petition to get next year's All Star

1277
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 4: Game out of Indiana. This is the tweet Indianapolis, the

1278
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 4: home of Hungary Hoosier's famous pork tenderloin sandwich, a zoo

1279
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 4: a twenty twenty one All Star Game, Adam Silver what

1280
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:24,879
Speaker 4: the entire so after clapback, they deleted the tweet two

1281
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 4: hours after posting it.

1282
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 2: That's the worst part of this whole story. That's the

1283
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,879
Speaker 2: worst part. Why did they delete it? I'm I'm I'm

1284
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 2: assuming the NBA called up their partner there and yeah,

1285
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 2: Who's Sports and said take that down?

1286
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 5: That's what I would guess because it was but it didn't.

1287
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, it didn't hit No, and I guess I had

1288
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 4: also an accompanying video, Yeah, yeah, which.

1289
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 2: I watched it. I mean it was it's le Jethroe

1290
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 2: Jenkins isn't. Yeah, that's him just talking to the camera

1291
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 2: and just saying all of that, basically what he said

1292
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 2: in the tweet of like why no one wants it

1293
00:55:57,480 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 2: to go to go to Indianapolis? Why are we doing

1294
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 2: it there? Let's the petition, that's all it was. It

1295
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:05,760
Speaker 2: is a joke, but people took it seriously.

1296
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 3: Enough, and nobody signed the petition. Yeah, there's like ten

1297
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 3: cent ten signatures and they deleted it. Softies. Yeah, if

1298
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 3: you're gonna come with a joke that's a hot take

1299
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,919
Speaker 3: like that, stand by it. Yeah, And honestly, a pork

1300
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 3: tenderloin sandwich is delicious. You guys ever had a fright

1301
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 3: fried pork tenderline. We're talking about three times the size

1302
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,760
Speaker 3: of the bun that it's on a whole lot of breading.

1303
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, wow, Okay, I'm excited for that.

1304
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 2: I'm excited only to go to Indianapolis because I've never

1305
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:36,320
Speaker 2: been there and they do a ton of like big events,

1306
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:39,760
Speaker 2: super Bowls and Final Fours, and like by all accounts,

1307
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 2: people are like it's actually a pretty good city for it.

1308
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 2: So I mean, I'm excited to go. I didn't sign

1309
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 2: the petition.

1310
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 4: That's one of those cities. It's not hard to get around, right,

1311
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 4: So that's probably is that it.

1312
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody loves the convenience.

1313
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 5: Everyone around in the indy car.

1314
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 3: Everyone's driving in the cars. Yea open wheel driving.

1315
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 4: The one time of year, Lee Alice eats meat. He's

1316
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:03,760
Speaker 4: pumped next.

1317
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 5: Meat. Yeah, man, pea quotes was great.

1318
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,879
Speaker 2: It lived up to its highe pe quotes pizza. Yeah,

1319
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 2: in Chicago, it only took eight hours to get to

1320
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 2: our Yeah. Yeah, that's yeah, go in the morning, ordered

1321
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 2: that breakfast back for dinner. But it was worth to wait.

1322
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 4: It was, it was.

1323
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:26,919
Speaker 5: But she it was an hour plus, she warned us. Yeah,

1324
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 5: I thought she said an hour.

1325
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 4: An hour, an hour to fifteen.

1326
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:32,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, well it was definitely yea hour fifteen. Yeah,

1327
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 5: it took Yeah.

1328
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 3: The problem was that the appetizers took so long. If

1329
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 3: you're waiting an hour and a half for the pizza,

1330
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 3: at least you know going into it.

1331
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1332
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,919
Speaker 3: But when that when our first plate of fried food

1333
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 3: came out, took a little long. We had to ask

1334
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 3: about ballad.

1335
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 2: Would we have gone though, Would we have gone to

1336
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 2: Pea Quarts Pizza if we had known in advance that

1337
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 2: the pizza once we got there would take ninety minutes?

1338
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 2: I wonder.

1339
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 3: It's a good question, right, good question. I've only ever

1340
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 3: waited like an hour, Yeah, for that long because it.

1341
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 5: Wasn't super busy either up there where we were a

1342
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 5: lot of takeout.

1343
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 2: You saw a lot of tables were made, Yeah, just

1344
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 2: because they weren't sitting there.

1345
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 5: We had a couple of bottles of wine, but you know,

1346
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 5: it's hard to just sip on the wine when you

1347
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 5: don't have the pizza there to enjoy it.

1348
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 3: You know.

1349
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 4: Last suggestion here from Dan Cone, it has to be

1350
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 4: the makers of Malort. I mean, who bottles this stuff?

1351
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 4: Dan Cone said, so Molert, a Chicago based alcoholic beverage

1352
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 4: that we had in Chicago. So your options the judges

1353
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 4: the Calves skills challenge. Now you guys aren't picking the

1354
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 4: skills challenge? Yeah, who's sports or the makers of Malort? Wow,

1355
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 4: which yeah, tastes as good as it sounds Malort.

1356
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 2: Oh.

1357
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:57,959
Speaker 5: I didn't try any Milert, so I'm not okay, okay,

1358
00:58:59,320 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 5: I would like.

1359
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 3: To pick the Calves. But they also didn't play yet,

1360
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 3: so that's a tough one. They just lost their coach.

1361
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 3: They just lost their ang real coach.

1362
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 4: Yeaho okay, yeah, who wins?

1363
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, congratulate. There were a lot of nominees for for

1364
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 2: a short week in the NBA.

1365
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 4: Yeah. On top of that, not really basketball related, but

1366
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 4: Cleland it's part of the fun.

1367
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 2: All right, let's fartre the pun gun.

1368
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 6: Dad. For the last few weeks, I've been trying to

1369
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 6: get this show up on the YouTube. It's going pretty well.

1370
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:38,320
Speaker 6: We got cameras and stuff, but I've been doing a

1371
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 6: lot of research on YouTube and uh, I've been filing

1372
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 6: down some rabbit holes. So I'd like to hear some

1373
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 6: of your favorite NBA YouTube puns, Like I like Yaka Purdles.

1374
00:59:55,080 --> 01:00:00,040
Speaker 2: I dressed up as him for Hell Yeah Whah it's.

1375
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:05,160
Speaker 6: If you've got more JD Go Damn, Troy Daniels.

1376
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 3: Epic Meal, Tim Duncan's Nice Nice Yoga with Jeff Adrian.

1377
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 6: H Charlie Villanu, Wava bit My.

1378
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 3: Finger, Hot Ones, Dixon, Cobra, Kyrie, IRV.

1379
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 6: Wow, Sir Chabacca Lady, this one's for you, Lee Keyboard,

1380
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 6: Carl Anthony Towns.

1381
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:43,439
Speaker 4: Keyboard cat.

1382
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 2: Do you have a keyboard cat?

1383
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 5: I think I know that one.

1384
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 3: Oh, playing a little thing, playing a little thing, dramatic

1385
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 3: chip leak monk.

1386
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 4: Couldn't think of Actually I thought it was a hamster,

1387
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:57,720
Speaker 4: but it's definitely a chipmunk.

1388
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 6: Also add Channing Friday by Rebecca and don't task me bro.

1389
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 2: These are great. These are great wills needed some time

1390
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 2: in advance. So yeah, craft some of those.

1391
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 6: I thought of it five minutes before the show.

1392
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 2: Oh, you thought up a lot there. Yeah, during the

1393
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 2: first hour of the show. I gotta do something good stuff.

1394
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 2: Let's get to tweeted the Night.

1395
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 4: Tweet O the night.

1396
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:34,080
Speaker 5: Wow, all right, I hate.

1397
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 2: To do this, but tweeted the Knight goes to at

1398
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 2: Caine Pittman. Oh tweeted last night the Philadelphia song they

1399
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:44,400
Speaker 2: play at the end of a game they win is

1400
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 2: impossible not to sing. I'm sorry. Every time I watch

1401
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 2: The Sixers it just plays on repeat in my head

1402
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 2: for the next three days. I am a one on

1403
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 2: board with this tweet. Is it happens to me all

1404
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 2: the time? It's good, yeah, catchy, and it'll just it's

1405
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 2: a it's it'll just get stuck in your Dome.

1406
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 4: It is good, it is.

1407
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 2: It's a great song.

1408
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 3: Are they still making theme songs for teams?

1409
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 7: Because I mean, like this obviously sounds old. Yeah, it's

1410
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 7: because only the Balls sounds like a million years old

1411
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 7: as well. I have a question with this because it

1412
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 7: obviously they were doing it probably back in the in

1413
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 7: I don't know what seventies or eighties with the Sixers,

1414
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:37,960
Speaker 7: and then didn't go away.

1415
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 2: I was like it had to have gone away. I

1416
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 2: don't ever remember hearing this during the iverson years, Like,

1417
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 2: am I crazy? Maybe I don't know. Maybe they did.

1418
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know. I didn't feel like they did.

1419
01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 2: So when did they bring this bad boy back? And

1420
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:52,760
Speaker 2: why was it gone at all?

1421
01:02:53,600 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 5: It's so good? It Saturday nineteen seventy five. Just see Okay, okay,

1422
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 5: it's just good. Yeah, I'm trying to read it.

1423
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 2: In your head's.

1424
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:12,480
Speaker 3: Can be This is a long ride up. I assume

1425
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 3: you're on the New York Time.

1426
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 5: I am on the New York Times.

1427
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, so.

1428
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you got excited when I said his Twitter.

1429
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 5: Handle, Yeah he's just riding, Yeah, follows the bucks on

1430
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 5: his own dime, does a great job.

1431
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:27,800
Speaker 2: Incredible. I got one more here, too, if you just

1432
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:29,560
Speaker 2: want me to throw it inside a good song at

1433
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 2: j Caspian King Counting Crows. Not really sure. I understand

1434
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 2: what happened that made them so popular.

1435
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 3: That's what happened.

1436
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 5: That's about ride, isn't it. I had that one other song,

1437
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:46,919
Speaker 5: what was it called?

1438
01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 2: I've been hanging around this time on the corner and

1439
01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:54,480
Speaker 2: I want him to find a New York Times article

1440
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 2: on the counting and we could just go silent for

1441
01:03:57,440 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 2: a couple.

1442
01:03:57,760 --> 01:03:59,840
Speaker 5: Of minutes all you're around.

1443
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, excellent Shrek Shreks soundtrack. He's like a Shrek Man

1444
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 3: in the video, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah.

1445
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 2: So there he's her Tweets of the night from Cain

1446
01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 2: and Jay pick them results Thursday night, We're back at it.

1447
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 2: Rockets Warriors Houston favored by ten and a half. Don't worry.

1448
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 2: They had that covered in the first three minutes of

1449
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 2: this game. This was I'll beat down. Oh my, uh,

1450
01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:32,959
Speaker 2: tain't convinced me. The Warriors are feeling good, some positivity

1451
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:36,680
Speaker 2: around the team. Draymond talking of Wiggans. You know Curry's

1452
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 2: coming back.

1453
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:39,480
Speaker 4: So weird, weird game.

1454
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:41,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, uh, Tassin, I took the l we took

1455
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 2: the Warriors to cover the big spread, but Trey and

1456
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 2: Lee got it right. So I am way behind here

1457
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 2: in February. I mean, look, I'm probably losing this month.

1458
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 2: I gotta go on a crazy run. I'm two and eight,

1459
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 2: everybody else six and four. So you guys are all

1460
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 2: tied at the top of the February standings in the

1461
01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 2: pick them. What's tonight's game?

1462
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 4: I need it oh so so bad. Lots of games

1463
01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:06,280
Speaker 4: on the sched today, a couple on ESPN, but I

1464
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 4: went off the board, off the ESPN board anyway, because

1465
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 4: I saw this line. I thought it was a lid

1466
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:15,000
Speaker 4: or nuts. The Lakers at home opening up their second

1467
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 4: half against the Grizzlies, and it's an eleven and a

1468
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 4: half point line.

1469
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 3: Wow, it's biggie.

1470
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 4: What could be a first round matchup one eight. So

1471
01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:29,520
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to watching this game. That's why I

1472
01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 4: picked it. I'm taking the Grizzlies. That's that's just a

1473
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 4: big line. Yeah, that's a I'm with you.

1474
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:37,680
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess the worry is that the Lakers

1475
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 3: come out super focused. We're hitting the gas for the

1476
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 3: rest of the season. It's how good we can be.

1477
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 2: I mean, look at the what the Bucks just did exactly?

1478
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 3: Did?

1479
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 2: I know they're playing bad teams.

1480
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:50,040
Speaker 3: But that's a good points did play last night, So

1481
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:51,920
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe that's an advantage for the Lakers, but

1482
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 3: I will go Grizzlies as well.

1483
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 2: I like the Grizzlies, but I've been so bad this month,

1484
01:05:57,040 --> 01:05:59,680
Speaker 2: I'm going against even what I think. So I'm I'm

1485
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:03,520
Speaker 2: taking the Lakers. I'm covering that big spread for hoping

1486
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 2: they win by twelve more.

1487
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm taking the Lakers because the Grizzlies played insect

1488
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:08,600
Speaker 5: Town last night.

1489
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:11,320
Speaker 2: Okay, so two of us have the Lakers to win

1490
01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:13,080
Speaker 2: by twelve more. That's Lee and I and everybody else.

1491
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 2: The other got two guys have the Grizzlies to try

1492
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:17,280
Speaker 2: and keep it close enough. All right, we're just about

1493
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 2: done here on a Friday. But before we go, why

1494
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:20,480
Speaker 2: not some rapid fire fun?

1495
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:26,920
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, this one from No Dunks fan Aaron in Buffalo.

1496
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:28,360
Speaker 4: We all know the Pacers.

1497
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:28,720
Speaker 6: TJ.

1498
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:31,840
Speaker 4: Warren was acquired from the Suns in exchange for cash

1499
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:35,360
Speaker 4: and cash only. If I was him, I'd leave a

1500
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:38,640
Speaker 4: twenty dollars bill for the Sun's front office every time

1501
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:42,360
Speaker 4: we played. What's something you bring up? Every chance? You

1502
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 4: get JD. If you can hear me, I.

1503
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 6: Can hear you, but I don't really I don't get it.

1504
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:50,000
Speaker 6: What do you mean something that I just won't stop

1505
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:50,560
Speaker 6: talking about?

1506
01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:55,439
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, every potential opening that you have to mention,

1507
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 4: any one thing you could four you have to you

1508
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 4: even feel like four sing it every time.

1509
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 6: There's just a yeah, it's I've mentioned it once, I

1510
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 6: think on this show before, but constantly my wife, I

1511
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:15,440
Speaker 6: constantly text her about people idling their cars. I am

1512
01:07:16,120 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 6: insufferable about this. It just to me, it represents how

1513
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:24,560
Speaker 6: soft our society is. Like people can't stand to be

1514
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:27,880
Speaker 6: uncomfortable for literally one minute, you know what I mean.

1515
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like a I.

1516
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:33,560
Speaker 6: Must brave the elements from my car to my house

1517
01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:37,280
Speaker 6: or the store I'm going to, but I'll just leave

1518
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 6: my car running so I'm not uncomfortable for one second,

1519
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:42,000
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying? Yeah, how are we going

1520
01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 6: to conquer climate change if people can't do it?

1521
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:46,200
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

1522
01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 6: McConaughey's new commercial where he's ice fishing out of the

1523
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,959
Speaker 6: back of a Lincoln aviator or whatever the hell it's called.

1524
01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 4: Come on, he's hard ass in that commercial.

1525
01:07:55,760 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 6: Oh my god, I can't believe that he agreed to

1526
01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 6: do that commercial. Or what about the frazzled family that commercial?

1527
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 6: And they're what are we gonna do?

1528
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 5: So?

1529
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 6: Oh, if only we had a way to start the

1530
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:11,560
Speaker 6: car without us being in it, Like why, what is

1531
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:13,240
Speaker 6: the point of that? Well?

1532
01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:16,320
Speaker 3: What about the two podcasters on a cold forty one

1533
01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:18,559
Speaker 3: degree day here in Atlanta? They don't want to get

1534
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 3: their buns all chilled? So one of the big ones

1535
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:24,519
Speaker 3: goes out early, starts the car. Then the smaller one

1536
01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:26,680
Speaker 3: comes in, gets in and waits for the bigger one.

1537
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:28,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, you guys, start the car.

1538
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:33,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I free started the car this morning. It was

1539
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 3: supposed to be cold out there.

1540
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:36,640
Speaker 2: I only said in it because I thought that at

1541
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 2: least somebody sitting in the car is better than it

1542
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,040
Speaker 2: just running with nobody in it.

1543
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:41,679
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1544
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:43,840
Speaker 4: That takes guy that takes guts to admit that, tray.

1545
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:46,519
Speaker 6: It drives me crazy.

1546
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 2: I'm with you.

1547
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 4: I'm with you on that. My wife and I have

1548
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:54,680
Speaker 4: many fights about the car idling if she wants that

1549
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 4: air kicking, tray?

1550
01:08:57,320 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 3: Have I told you, guys about the benefits of drinking

1551
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 3: apple cid of vinegar every day? I had leave for

1552
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:05,880
Speaker 3: a second. Leah was drinking apple cider vinegar before we

1553
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:08,280
Speaker 3: switched to kombucha. But I have a feeling he's never

1554
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 3: coming back. But it's very good for you. Got to

1555
01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:13,280
Speaker 3: get that probiotic in and let me say, it's probably

1556
01:09:13,400 --> 01:09:15,679
Speaker 3: the best vinegar you can use in a salad dresser.

1557
01:09:16,479 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 3: That's a new one for you.

1558
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:22,000
Speaker 4: Oh interesting, interesting, especially if you get that bacteria on

1559
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 4: your salad. Yum, yum, yum yum.

1560
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:23,559
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1561
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:27,320
Speaker 3: Ye, it's good bacteria. It is healthy bacteria.

1562
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:29,640
Speaker 4: I do it about once a week and then I

1563
01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:33,519
Speaker 4: get off it gross and then I'm back on yeah, skeets.

1564
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:37,720
Speaker 2: I bring up three things very often. I would say

1565
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:40,760
Speaker 2: my love of Survivor any chance I get, my love

1566
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:44,640
Speaker 2: of the nineteen eighty six BMX movie Rat, and the

1567
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:47,400
Speaker 2: fact that I lived in Australia for a year. I

1568
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 2: think anytime Australia comes up, I just like to mention

1569
01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 2: that I lived there.

1570
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:51,640
Speaker 3: For a year.

1571
01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:53,720
Speaker 5: You went great, picking, didn't you? For a while?

1572
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 3: I did? Well?

1573
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 2: That was actually a New Zealand Oh right, did you

1574
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:57,800
Speaker 2: know why I lived in New Zealand for a couple

1575
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 2: of weeks? I gotta start bringing that up often. But yeah,

1576
01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 2: those are my three answers?

1577
01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:02,400
Speaker 3: All right?

1578
01:10:02,479 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 4: Next one here. This week's Sports Business Daily published a

1579
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:08,679
Speaker 4: report which revealed that the NBA's local market TV ratings

1580
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 4: have taken a massive hit. The Athletics. Ethan Strauss then

1581
01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:15,519
Speaker 4: offered us some suggestions on how the league can get

1582
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 4: those fans back watching their games. What's the show you

1583
01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:22,000
Speaker 4: stopped watching for a while but eventually returned to? Jadi

1584
01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 4: The Americans?

1585
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 6: If I'm being honest, I find it a little bit tedious,

1586
01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 6: kind of like basketball. For me, it's a little bit tedious.

1587
01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 6: But when I'm watching it, I kind of love it.

1588
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:40,519
Speaker 6: But at the same time, it's daunting to me. When

1589
01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:42,720
Speaker 6: I see it on the queue, I'm like, ah, do

1590
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:46,680
Speaker 6: I want to sit through the Americans? It's that so

1591
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:49,000
Speaker 6: I keep going away and coming back, and going away

1592
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:51,080
Speaker 6: and coming back. It's a great shot, though.

1593
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:54,280
Speaker 4: Isn't it one of those shows that as a little

1594
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:56,120
Speaker 4: it solves the mystery at the end of each show.

1595
01:10:56,320 --> 01:11:00,240
Speaker 6: No o, some of them are self contained, but there

1596
01:11:00,320 --> 01:11:01,120
Speaker 6: is a through line.

1597
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, I got off it after a couple

1598
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:06,639
Speaker 4: of episodes. Maybe all returns.

1599
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:08,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of want to dip in for the

1600
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:10,960
Speaker 3: final season. Yeah, it's supposed to be good.

1601
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:11,839
Speaker 4: Skip some seasons.

1602
01:11:12,120 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I feel like I was like maybe watched

1603
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:17,000
Speaker 3: the first three and then then lost track of it.

1604
01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:18,680
Speaker 3: But they said the final season is supposed to be

1605
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:19,080
Speaker 3: pretty good.

1606
01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:20,599
Speaker 6: I've heard yes, so who knows.

1607
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:23,360
Speaker 3: For me, though, it's Better Call Sault. When it came out,

1608
01:11:23,439 --> 01:11:25,760
Speaker 3: started watching it, This is great, But then I believe

1609
01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:27,880
Speaker 3: it came out during the basketball season, so just kind

1610
01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 3: of lost track of it. Went back to it again,

1611
01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:31,280
Speaker 3: said I got to watch Better Call Saft. People are

1612
01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:34,160
Speaker 3: saying it's better than Breaking Bad. Started watching it after

1613
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 3: a couple episodes, just gave it up and uh never

1614
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 3: went back. But now people are saying better than Breaking Bad.

1615
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:43,320
Speaker 3: Might dip in watch those first two episodes again, we'll see.

1616
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:45,960
Speaker 2: I stopped watching that as well, and I really did

1617
01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:47,680
Speaker 2: like it. Yeah, it was good, right, It was a

1618
01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 2: timing issue.

1619
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 3: It was just a straight up I can't consume this content,

1620
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:52,880
Speaker 3: so sorry content.

1621
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:55,439
Speaker 2: I got to get back to that as well. Similar answers.

1622
01:11:55,479 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 2: Actually for me, you said Breaking Bad that was one

1623
01:11:57,280 --> 01:12:01,800
Speaker 2: of them. Nor did I started it. We're enjoying it enough,

1624
01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:04,840
Speaker 2: but then stopped and took some time off for a while,

1625
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:06,200
Speaker 2: but then of course went back to it and then

1626
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:08,759
Speaker 2: finished the whole series, and the same thing with the Wire.

1627
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 2: I remember starting the Wire, and the Wire takes a

1628
01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:15,280
Speaker 2: while to really get going and to really grab you,

1629
01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 2: in my opinion, at least. I remember we watched first

1630
01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 2: couple and I'm putting this one on Nora because she

1631
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:22,200
Speaker 2: was really like, ah, this is not interesting. I was

1632
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:24,720
Speaker 2: a little more into it, and uh, I was like.

1633
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:26,800
Speaker 2: I was like, we're doing it again. We get we're

1634
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:29,720
Speaker 2: trying again. This is a long time ago now, And

1635
01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:31,679
Speaker 2: then we were, and then we were off and running.

1636
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 2: It's incredible.

1637
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:33,280
Speaker 6: It's a slow burn.

1638
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:35,559
Speaker 2: It's a slow it's a slow slow burn at the start,

1639
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:37,599
Speaker 2: but well, once it gets you, you ain't giving it up.

1640
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:42,680
Speaker 4: Great, great show still holds. Next one here from No

1641
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 4: Dunks Fan Olivier. English isn't my first language, but I

1642
01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 4: have to use it at work a lot. One of

1643
01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:50,479
Speaker 4: the words I had trouble spelling was actually the word

1644
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:56,280
Speaker 4: regularly yes, that word that now gives Lee nightmares. What's

1645
01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:58,679
Speaker 4: funny is that I have no trouble writing it anymore.

1646
01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:01,000
Speaker 4: I just replayed them moment Lee tried to say it,

1647
01:13:01,160 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 4: and now it writes itself. I don't know why.

1648
01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:06,240
Speaker 2: Really you must be spelling it wrong.

1649
01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:12,600
Speaker 5: But have a go there le regularly and it's like

1650
01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:17,120
Speaker 5: there's you and there's that other R, the American R.

1651
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:19,320
Speaker 5: Apparently an R is an R not an R.

1652
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:26,599
Speaker 4: Did you ever use someone's mishap to your advantage? Jd Uh.

1653
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 6: Back in college, Skeets and Matteo and myself did a

1654
01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:37,720
Speaker 6: practicum together and we've shot a half hour pilot called

1655
01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:41,240
Speaker 6: the Floor and Uh. It takes place at a university

1656
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:47,400
Speaker 6: in a residence and we were getting exterior shots of it.

1657
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 6: Was at Knox College and it was the opening sort

1658
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:54,360
Speaker 6: of establishing shot of the whole show. And while you

1659
01:13:54,439 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 6: were shooting it, a guy was leaving the building and

1660
01:13:58,360 --> 01:14:02,040
Speaker 6: he was carrying a massive eight of glasses and he

1661
01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:05,519
Speaker 6: he just sort of tripped a little. He didn't even trip,

1662
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:07,679
Speaker 6: he just it was like a misstep and he fell

1663
01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 6: down the stairs and the glasses smashed. That smashed, and

1664
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 6: we were we must have probably been one hundred yards away,

1665
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:22,880
Speaker 6: and this noise was cacophoners and it was the funniest

1666
01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:29,360
Speaker 6: shot that we took. Like in the edit, Matt, Matt

1667
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:32,600
Speaker 6: and I had massive arguments as to whether or not

1668
01:14:32,680 --> 01:14:34,559
Speaker 6: we should keep it in the show. It's the first

1669
01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:39,479
Speaker 6: shot and and it was so funny, like we watched

1670
01:14:39,479 --> 01:14:43,920
Speaker 6: it a hundred times killing ourselves laughing. But karma got

1671
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 6: us because we ended up putting it in the show.

1672
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:50,400
Speaker 6: And when we screened it not dead silence, nothing like,

1673
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:53,240
Speaker 6: no one care, There was no context for it was

1674
01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:57,080
Speaker 6: just this weird shot of a guy falling, and it

1675
01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:57,720
Speaker 6: was it was.

1676
01:14:58,040 --> 01:14:58,639
Speaker 4: It was terrible.

1677
01:14:58,720 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 2: It's pretty quick too, It's very quick, very quick.

1678
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:04,560
Speaker 6: But oh my god, just watching that guy fall and

1679
01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:05,640
Speaker 6: the noise that the.

1680
01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:08,519
Speaker 4: I felt bad.

1681
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:11,200
Speaker 6: But you know, we paid for it in the end.

1682
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:14,120
Speaker 4: And you could hear it in the playbackwards. Watch.

1683
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:16,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're across the street.

1684
01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:17,920
Speaker 4: Wow, Tray.

1685
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 3: It was just a few weeks ago when Skeets came

1686
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:26,360
Speaker 3: back from the lunch room and said, hey, went to

1687
01:15:26,439 --> 01:15:28,280
Speaker 3: the vending machine for the first time, came back with

1688
01:15:28,360 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 3: a Reese's peanut butter cup. Nice. Took one bite. What's

1689
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:35,800
Speaker 3: on the back? Yep, these are expired, but not for me.

1690
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:41,120
Speaker 3: That's right. I went into the garbage found that fuzzy white,

1691
01:15:42,200 --> 01:15:44,400
Speaker 3: perfectly Goode's peanut butter cup.

1692
01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 8: Oh god, it did not taste normal close though not

1693
01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 8: close enough for my liking. Does a candy Garden, Bargo bad. Probably, yeah,

1694
01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:58,840
Speaker 8: I didn't. Did that one have a little bit of

1695
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:00,840
Speaker 8: a white to the top of it?

1696
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:01,400
Speaker 4: For sure?

1697
01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:02,639
Speaker 3: Did I get sick?

1698
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 5: Matt?

1699
01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 3: Really, I'll do anything for a Reese's peanut butter cup.

1700
01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:08,679
Speaker 3: Had garbage cup.

1701
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 5: Very cheap too.

1702
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:09,720
Speaker 1: Here.

1703
01:16:09,800 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 2: I can't believe I chap that vending machine. It's like

1704
01:16:12,400 --> 01:16:13,360
Speaker 2: seventy five cents.

1705
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:15,479
Speaker 3: That probably haven't changed the prices.

1706
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:20,439
Speaker 2: Since I know that that's the problem, I guess this

1707
01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:23,120
Speaker 2: is tough, but I went with this. A couple of

1708
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:24,920
Speaker 2: years ago, my wife and I were traveling out west

1709
01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:27,640
Speaker 2: and we went We were looking at a lot of

1710
01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:29,760
Speaker 2: the national parks, were driving around. We stayed at the

1711
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:34,519
Speaker 2: hotel Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge. Very very Yeah. It's sort

1712
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:37,880
Speaker 2: of like an upscale but rustic retreat. Very nice place.

1713
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 2: Was the nicest place we stayed by far. We checked

1714
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 2: into our room and there was a bottle of champagne

1715
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:47,720
Speaker 2: and a fruit and cheese platter, and there was a

1716
01:16:47,880 --> 01:16:51,519
Speaker 2: card like welcoming back a guy named like Bob Thompson

1717
01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:55,080
Speaker 2: or something like that. But it was our room. But

1718
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 2: we were like, Okay, someone screwed up here. Probably of

1719
01:16:58,360 --> 01:17:00,479
Speaker 2: course the hotel what do we do do we like

1720
01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:02,800
Speaker 2: dip into this bottle of the champagne and all the

1721
01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 2: food here.

1722
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:05,200
Speaker 6: So we did call.

1723
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:08,559
Speaker 2: We called and said, hey, we got a card saying

1724
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:11,479
Speaker 2: welcome back Bob and all this food and drink, like

1725
01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:14,360
Speaker 2: there's probably a mistake here, like you've either put us

1726
01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 2: in the wrong room or whatever, you put this stuff

1727
01:17:16,520 --> 01:17:20,360
Speaker 2: in the wrong room. And they were appreciative of us calling,

1728
01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:23,880
Speaker 2: and they said, yeah, how about it. Keep it hot, right,

1729
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 2: that's all Bob would want. Yeah, I was already half

1730
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:29,720
Speaker 2: chugging the bottle. Good, good, good, call that it is

1731
01:17:29,800 --> 01:17:31,760
Speaker 2: what Bob would want. And he comes back all the time.

1732
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:34,400
Speaker 2: He's probably tired of the cheese plotter by this point.

1733
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:37,320
Speaker 2: But that's a little mishap from the hotel, I guess there,

1734
01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:39,639
Speaker 2: or maybe Bob himself bad.

1735
01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 3: It was delicious and that's rapid fire.

1736
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:46,000
Speaker 2: That rapid fire. That's another classic edition of the Drop. Guys,

1737
01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:49,639
Speaker 2: thanks so much for subscribing and downloading the show. Tell

1738
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:52,479
Speaker 2: your friends about it. Leave us Those five star ratings

1739
01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:55,759
Speaker 2: on Apple Podcasts helps us out in terms of rankings.

1740
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:59,759
Speaker 2: Might have a special bonus podcast for you this weekend.

1741
01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:02,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, come on, just say it.

1742
01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:08,120
Speaker 6: I have never been more excited never in the history

1743
01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:08,599
Speaker 6: of the show.

1744
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:10,519
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it. I hope we don't jinx it

1745
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 2: because I just don't want something to go wrong or

1746
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:13,599
Speaker 2: you can't show up. But let's throw it out there

1747
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 2: to the universe. Yeah, JD. Trey and myself are going

1748
01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:22,280
Speaker 2: to be interviewing Survivor winner Wendell Holland later today here

1749
01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 2: in the No Dunk's office. Are we gonna have a

1750
01:18:25,560 --> 01:18:26,880
Speaker 2: lot of basketball questions for him?

1751
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 6: No?

1752
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:27,800
Speaker 2: Probably not.

1753
01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:29,960
Speaker 3: Are we gonna build a fire in here?

1754
01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:33,479
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah we are, But yeah, we'll

1755
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:36,120
Speaker 2: talk to uh. He is a he is a basketball fan.

1756
01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 2: He says he doesn't keep up with the NBA all

1757
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:42,920
Speaker 2: that often. But look, we're just talking with Survivor and

1758
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:44,600
Speaker 2: we're gonna geek out with him. So it'll be a

1759
01:18:44,640 --> 01:18:46,439
Speaker 2: little bonus podcast. We'll get it up on the weekend.

1760
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 2: If you're a Survivor fan, or even if you're not downloading,

1761
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:52,320
Speaker 2: tune in and listen to it. Very Yeah, we're very, very.

1762
01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:55,840
Speaker 3: Excited, and now's a good time to get in the show.

1763
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:01,080
Speaker 4: Mpany that's right. He was a layer furniture, well it was.

1764
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:03,919
Speaker 2: A lawyer, and he quit his job to make Furniture

1765
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:05,560
Speaker 2: and then got on Survivor that he won that and

1766
01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:07,800
Speaker 2: now he's on Winners at War here as one of

1767
01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:10,760
Speaker 2: the returning winners. Uh, and he's battling and out right now.

1768
01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:12,560
Speaker 2: So we're gonna try and also find out if he

1769
01:19:12,600 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 2: wins the second time getting all the scoops. Yeah, so

1770
01:19:16,280 --> 01:19:19,599
Speaker 2: keep your eye en years out for that podcast this weekend.

1771
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:23,719
Speaker 2: One on one with Wendall Holland Survivor Winner Wendall Holland. Otherwise,

1772
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:25,280
Speaker 2: talk to you guys on Monday.

1773
01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 3: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up,

1774
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:29,840
Speaker 3: love you guys awesome.

1775
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:32,559
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us, and remember please leave a review

1776
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:35,560
Speaker 4: of No Dunks wherever you listen. Bob would want it

1777
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:35,920
Speaker 4: that way.

1778
01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 2: Embrace the weekend people.

1779
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:42,599
Speaker 5: You could stay every day.

1780
01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:46,599
Speaker 2: And be happy every minute.

1781
01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:50,200
Speaker 4: It's done.

1782
01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:52,960
Speaker 1: So long with your way

1783
01:19:55,920 --> 01:19:56,400
Speaker 4: Already