Speaker 1: Good evenings, sweet world, and welcome to bubble Wrap recapping Thursday,
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Speaker 1: joining us. I'm Jag Skeiths and joining us as always,
Speaker 1: We've got.
Speaker 2: Tas Mellus happy midpoint of the seating games fellas.
Speaker 1: We also got the Bearded One, Trey Kirby, Hey out hey,
Speaker 1: the international man of mystery taking it.
Speaker 2: To the max, Lee Ellis Friends.
Speaker 1: And last but not least, making the magic happen.
Speaker 3: GD.
Speaker 1: Hello, there is and here we are. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining us tonight here late on Thursday. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you guys already downloaded and listened to the Beach step
Speaker 1: In podcast. We had a blast on that one. Lee
Speaker 1: went for about fifteen minutes talking lace and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it was entertaining. So go check that one out. I
Speaker 1: haven't heard from Mattiol yet. I don't think Mattio has
Speaker 1: listened to the podcast yet, hen't you know.
Speaker 4: I can just imagine how much anxiety had when he
Speaker 4: heard that last week, And I want to say, Matt,
Speaker 4: you know, next time you travel on a plane, take
Speaker 4: your own little headdress, because apparently that's also a breeding
Speaker 4: ground for lots of they're a plane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 3: Off the top.
Speaker 4: That'll freak him out, won't it.
Speaker 1: He's never going to fly again.
Speaker 2: And I think he's going to point out he's going
Speaker 2: he's going to really focus in on the fact that
Speaker 2: you said little headrest. He's not well.
Speaker 1: He actually has less of a chance then to contract
Speaker 1: the lace. He has a smaller head.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, like listen, Matt. The other thing
Speaker 4: is he goes to the barber every five minutes. They
Speaker 4: would have discovered the lies if he had them as well,
Speaker 4: because his hair is short enough, so they would have
Speaker 4: they would have said, what's that your heir, you know,
Speaker 4: but they never did, So he's clean. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I will say one thing after listening back
Speaker 1: to Beached Up and today you talked about Lee, like,
Speaker 1: I mean, the likelihood of me giving it to you,
Speaker 1: even if I did have it coming into the office,
Speaker 1: Like we're just sitting in our chairs. We're not like
Speaker 1: really shearing hats or anything like that. But but I
Speaker 1: remember specifically task tray ged he backed me up. Maddie
Speaker 1: all lying down on that weird couch we had in
Speaker 1: our office, and Leel is also lying down on that
Speaker 1: weird couch, So that's where it could have been. Transferently, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it certainly could have.
Speaker 4: It could have happened, no doubt, But I think I
Speaker 4: think in that sense though, really what you needed was
Speaker 4: like for me to have a big outbreak and to
Speaker 4: leave them on the cushion and then he would have
Speaker 4: had to lie there for a while to absorb them
Speaker 4: up there, and that wouldn't happened. It would have been
Speaker 4: more likely to you know, a close interaction when they
Speaker 4: jump from here to hair. Oh, if I ever had it, you.
Speaker 1: Don't think we did? Probably not. Oh okay, yeah, you
Speaker 1: definitely gave lice to Maddio. I'm going with that.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, tonight we're gonna play a game that
Speaker 1: we have not done in a long time. We're firing
Speaker 1: up an old segment called how Worried Are You? And
Speaker 1: for those that remember, it's pretty straightforward. We determine just
Speaker 1: how worried we all are about specific teams, players and games. Really,
Speaker 1: after tonight Thursday, down from the bubble and to make
Speaker 1: things easier, we actually have a brand new worried scale
Speaker 1: and lice is in the mix here, complete with five
Speaker 1: levels from little worry to extreme worry. Okay, guys, level
Speaker 1: one on the worry scale. JD pro tools doesn't work.
Speaker 1: The No Dunks podcast is going up late. That's level one.
Speaker 1: Not the biggest deal whatever.
Speaker 2: Who cares, right, sure? I mean it's a big worry
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: That's a level five.
Speaker 2: Level five.
Speaker 3: You went straight to the top with that one.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you're gonna make it worse.
Speaker 1: It gets worse. Level two. You see a fan signed
Speaker 1: immediately after stopping to walk up Heartbreak Hill during the
Speaker 1: Boston Marathon. Okay, that's a bit of a concern. That's
Speaker 1: a bit of a worry. Like you know, you think
Speaker 1: you're a bit of a champion. Look at me, I'm
Speaker 1: running the Boston Marathon. Oh god, I'm dying. I gotta
Speaker 1: stop and walk up this hill. Oh no, there's a
Speaker 1: starter spin or a no dug spin. That's not good.
Speaker 1: That's level two. Level three, you're sharing a hotel bed
Speaker 1: with a young and possibly leaky Trey Kirby.
Speaker 3: I'm a thirsty guy, like fuller and home alone easy
Speaker 3: on the PEPSI.
Speaker 1: It's getting a little more extreme here, Jasey. That's a
Speaker 1: lot worse than pro tools. Trey Kurby might make your
Speaker 1: bed a water bed. Okay. Level four, your coworker Lee
Speaker 1: Ellis he's got an itchy head on a Sunday and
Speaker 1: the nice ladies are closed. Level five it gets worse
Speaker 1: than that because I think task took us to the
Speaker 1: next level. You got a softball game to play. You've
Speaker 1: been drinking nothing but cocainey beers for five days straight
Speaker 1: at a bachelor party weekend week really, and there's a
Speaker 1: strong possibility you're gonna break your femur rounding third base. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your bones are brittle because of the cocine. That's level
Speaker 1: five because you're gonna break your leg and yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: be hung up all summer for six months in a
Speaker 1: cast or not walking. Okay, those are the levels, guys,
Speaker 1: and our first one is how worried are you if
Speaker 1: you're the Lakers who lose tonight to the Rockets of
Speaker 1: drawing the Blazers, who of course won in the first round.
Speaker 1: Task those levels tools going down? Uh oh, you stopped
Speaker 1: running in a marathon you saw a fan sign, you're
Speaker 1: sharing a hotel bed with Trey Lee has lice, or
Speaker 1: you're gonna break your femur playing softball. How worried are
Speaker 1: you if you're the Lakers right now? Of seeing the
Speaker 1: Lakers and the Blazers, excuse me, in the first round.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go number two. Never run a marathon. Don't
Speaker 2: know how this feels, but I think this is the
Speaker 2: right level, and I'm gonna combine it with the fact
Speaker 2: that just the current state I guess of the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Lakers, because this is the worst it could have
Speaker 2: gone for the Lakers coming into the bubble, you know,
Speaker 2: without having actually had a big injury happen to them. Okay,
Speaker 2: without an injury occurring. I think this is this is
Speaker 2: basically as bad as it gets. Their best players thirty
Speaker 2: five years old, has a nagging groin injury that took
Speaker 2: him out of last season. It's been bothering him for
Speaker 2: a couple of years. And they're not shooting the ball
Speaker 2: all that well. And they've got the Blazers, the best
Speaker 2: of all those teams, the most established, the most experienced
Speaker 2: line to face them in the first round, and so
Speaker 2: they're not shooting the ball all though. Well, they're not
Speaker 2: feeling good, their best players not feeling good, and then
Speaker 2: they're gonna get this team who's got an incredible backcourt.
Speaker 2: Avery Bradley would be the guy who would be put
Speaker 2: on to Damian Lillard, but he's not in the bubble.
Speaker 2: So they're missing a point guard to a point guard stopper,
Speaker 2: the best guy that they have. And you know, those Blazers,
Speaker 2: they're not a nice light first round snack. Just they're not.
Speaker 2: But all that being said, it's only a two because
Speaker 2: they are the Lakers, and it is Anthony Davis and
Speaker 2: Lebron and none of those teams should be a problem
Speaker 2: down there. But it may come back to bite them
Speaker 2: in round two and three when they've had to scrap
Speaker 2: out against a Blazers team, and you see Lebron has
Speaker 2: a bit of an issue. I don't think they're making
Speaker 2: this up. I think that he is thirty five. I
Speaker 2: think we do have to remember that.
Speaker 1: And you don't think this was purely rest and they
Speaker 1: just threw on a groin injury. You don't think so
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 2: No, No, because he said something post game last game
Speaker 2: and he hasn't played all that well he said there's
Speaker 2: something off the court, and I guess he's referring to
Speaker 2: his groin and Anthony Davis, you know, banged a hip tonight.
Speaker 2: They're not hitting shots, and I yeah, I don't think
Speaker 2: Lebron is. I just I don't think he would he
Speaker 2: would lie about that number one, number two. It has
Speaker 2: been bothering him for a couple of years. This is
Speaker 2: this is fairly chronic. I guess chronic is too strong word,
Speaker 2: but it's around so right two two is still the
Speaker 2: right level. Though, you know, no one's got lice at
Speaker 2: this point.
Speaker 1: Lebron doesn't have lice in his beard. That's a good thing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what do you think, Lee? I mean Lillard
Speaker 1: going for eleven three pointers tonight, forty five points in
Speaker 1: the big win over the Nuggets after struggling to shoot
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit in Disney World and Lakers, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that was not an inspiring game. I would
Speaker 1: say again versus the Rockets, But are you with tasks
Speaker 1: like level two? You know, are you around that? Like? Okay,
Speaker 1: if they drawed Blazers in the first round, that'll be
Speaker 1: a bit of a fight, won't be easy, but you
Speaker 1: think they could still beat them, or is there cars
Speaker 1: for a concern.
Speaker 4: Oh, there's no real cause for concern because it's it's Lebron.
Speaker 4: You know, he's probably just going to take his take
Speaker 4: his time now coming up to the playoffs. They've taken
Speaker 4: home the number one seat, they've locked that up, so
Speaker 4: Lebron right now knows he doesn't have to exert too
Speaker 4: much energy. And he took tonight off again, whether the
Speaker 4: rest of caution precautionary, probably a little bit of both.
Speaker 4: And the Lakers haven't been playing all that well right now,
Speaker 4: but again, it's Lebron. He doesn't need to be playing
Speaker 4: all that well right now. He'll kick it up a
Speaker 4: notch in that first round. And you can look at
Speaker 4: it one of two ways. You can say the Blazers
Speaker 4: are a great first up matchup for the Lakers because
Speaker 4: it's going to be tough. It's not going to be
Speaker 4: a sweep. You know, if if you've played the Grizzlies
Speaker 4: or you know, let's say the Pelicans or the Suns,
Speaker 4: I feel that's more of the Lakers are just gonna
Speaker 4: they're going to blow by them. But with Lilid and McCollum,
Speaker 4: that's a tough matchup and you look at Nurkic and
Speaker 4: Hassan Whiteside, Zach Collins. Now those guys aren't great, but
Speaker 4: they're big, long body, so at least they can sort
Speaker 4: of help, you know, contest with Anthony Davis, you know,
Speaker 4: and Dwight Howe. So they've got match up in terms
Speaker 4: of like size of bodies and things that are going
Speaker 4: to make the Lakers work. But ultimately, I think when
Speaker 4: Lebron decides to flip that switch and he's going to
Speaker 4: get now, you know, a week or ten days to
Speaker 4: get himself right, how many times we're going to see
Speaker 4: him in these in these final few games, probably not
Speaker 4: all that much, to be honest. I mean, I think
Speaker 4: we'll probably see maybe two more games, maybe not even
Speaker 4: that if he's not feeling one hundred percent. But playoff
Speaker 4: Lebron is something we've seen so many times over the
Speaker 4: years that it's crazy to doubt it now unless the
Speaker 4: injury is way more significant than they're letting on right now.
Speaker 4: But I don't think they are. I think it's more
Speaker 4: just he's probably get a little bit of conditioning because
Speaker 4: he's been away playing those first couple of games, it's
Speaker 4: maybe flared up and he's like, I'm just gonna sit
Speaker 4: this one out. But the Lakers, I don't think we'll
Speaker 4: sweep the Blazers at all, but.
Speaker 1: There's nowhere, no but there's any chance.
Speaker 4: But I also don't see the Blazers taking it to
Speaker 4: seven though either. I think I don't know.
Speaker 3: These Blazers are looking toughly for the first time. It
Speaker 3: feels like Demian Lillard does have to do every single thing,
Speaker 3: like him and CJ don't have to play exceedingly well
Speaker 3: every single night for them to have a chance to win.
Speaker 3: And then when Dame has an incredible game, the Blazers
Speaker 3: look even better. Their team is the most complete they've been.
Speaker 3: You know, Nurkic brings so much more to the table
Speaker 3: having Mellow there as you know, a third sometimes a
Speaker 3: fourth score and Gary Trent man another great game for
Speaker 3: Gary Trent twenty seven seven threes, and you know he's
Speaker 3: just playing with incredible confidence right now.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take.
Speaker 3: The Blazers over the Lakers, but I wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 3: to see it go to seven games. I mean, if
Speaker 3: Lillard catches a hot streak, if CJ catches a hot streak,
Speaker 3: that team is going to be so tough to beat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they're not. They're not an eighth seed. It's
Speaker 1: only because of this weird situation that they're an eighth
Speaker 1: seed or a possible eight seed. I mean they're a
Speaker 1: ninth seed. I guess still technically, right, they they got
Speaker 1: four months off to get their whole team back, is
Speaker 1: my point? Like this is I mean, if they're fully
Speaker 1: healthy the whole yearly, yeah, I think you expect the
Speaker 1: Blazers to better than where they are. Yeah right, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well then that's that's a tough that's a tough drap
Speaker 1: off for the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But the only thing is how deep is their bench really?
Speaker 4: Because Trent has been playing well, no doubt about it,
Speaker 4: and then Anthony Simon's played a handful of minutes and whiteside,
Speaker 4: but that's really all the Terry starts use. Now in
Speaker 4: the playoffs, you know, coaches tend to go, you know,
Speaker 4: with a shorter rotation, but lil had played forty one
Speaker 4: minutes to night McCollum played forty.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, he'll do that every night in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. But it's that That's where I'm a
Speaker 4: little bit worried though, whether or not someone like Gary
Speaker 4: Trent can give them that same production in the playoffs,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe he can, maybe can't. I mean, he's
Speaker 4: definitely been shooting the ball really really well. But it's
Speaker 4: like it's a whole different story when it's playoffs, even
Speaker 4: though this environment is different. But the other question is
Speaker 4: how long does the starter's bump last for? Because Gary
Speaker 4: Trent Junior was I think the best player of that
Speaker 4: game we did in Vegas in sumer League. Remember he
Speaker 4: hit the four threes and interviewed him after the game,
Speaker 4: so I.
Speaker 1: After the game, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: That yeah, Well yeah, call the ladies.
Speaker 2: Uh, the Blazer's got to get in first. Let's yeah,
Speaker 2: they do have some tough games come up. They got
Speaker 2: a back to back with the Clippers and Sixers this weekend.
Speaker 2: I do like the thing that Charles Barkley brought up
Speaker 2: on the broadcast. He said, the Clippers is gonna sick
Speaker 2: guys on Saturday, so the Lakers have a tougher matchup.
Speaker 2: Portland wins. Makes a lot of sense. The Clippers are already
Speaker 2: starting to sick guys. Denver sitting guys. You're going to
Speaker 2: see this back half of the seating games. A lot
Speaker 2: of teams sitting guys. But you know, I like the
Speaker 2: matchup for the Lakers is the guards are a problem,
Speaker 2: but the big I think it actually helps them because
Speaker 2: outside of Lebron and Ad, we've talked about Danny Green
Speaker 2: and Kyle Kuzman, who they're gonna play at least with Nurkic,
Speaker 2: you know that you're gonna have to play McGee or Dwight,
Speaker 2: and that's they've got those bodies, and now you don't
Speaker 2: have a questionable guy like Deon Waiters or j R.
Speaker 2: Smith coming off the bench and potentially screwing things up
Speaker 2: for you. So that's like a nice little weird thing.
Speaker 2: And even though their best lineup is going to be
Speaker 2: end of Game A D at the five, but it's
Speaker 2: freakin interesting. It's totally right. They're not this ninth seed.
Speaker 2: Undoubtedly they're a better team, and that they may have
Speaker 2: ended up the eight seed anyway because they're a slow
Speaker 2: starting team and there's a big gap between seven and
Speaker 2: eight right now. But yeah, Pump pumped that they have
Speaker 2: put this thing together. They are absolutely on a run
Speaker 2: at the exact right time. So yeah, this is this
Speaker 2: is a drama, This is this is scintillating stuff.
Speaker 1: Isn't it hilarious too? Aren't they the only team that
Speaker 1: voted against this whole idea?
Speaker 2: That's right?
Speaker 1: Which is awesome. Yeah, I mean, I you were saying this,
Speaker 1: and I agree with you because I've said it multiple times.
Speaker 1: I actually, if I'm a Lakers fan, I love the
Speaker 1: idea of being challenged really on. I think a guy,
Speaker 1: a team excuse me that is like has title aspirations.
Speaker 1: I think it's generally better to be sort of punched
Speaker 1: in the face early on. It's a bit of a
Speaker 1: wake up call. Now. This whole bubble thing is completely
Speaker 1: different than of course years past. But I like, if
Speaker 1: you get test sitting in a couple of games early
Speaker 1: in the first round, maybe it goes to six, and
Speaker 1: maybe the Blazers put up what should be a great fight.
Speaker 1: I think they take a game or two, no problem
Speaker 1: with the way they're playing right now against Lakers. That's
Speaker 1: good though. I think that's actually good for your eventual
Speaker 1: run to maybe a championship. So maybe it's a blessing
Speaker 1: in disguise. But man, I think I don't know. If
Speaker 1: it started tomorrow, let's say, and it was the Blazers
Speaker 1: in the eight seed and the Lakers won. I think
Speaker 1: you would see a lot of people picking the Blazers.
Speaker 1: Is that far fetch tray? I know, I mean, of
Speaker 1: course there's a lot of Lakers fans, but I mean
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of abundance could talk to
Speaker 1: themselves and taking picking them, picking them. Okay, you're saying seven, Okay,
Speaker 1: you would.
Speaker 3: See a whole bunch of Lakers in seven. Yes, Okay,
Speaker 3: ultimate hedge. It could go either way, but I'm ultimately
Speaker 3: going with the Lakers, no doubt. That's where I would be.
Speaker 3: Gotta look smart when it all comes down to the graphics.
Speaker 2: The ultimate hedge. It's a good way to put it.
Speaker 1: Okay, it be a hell of a series and they
Speaker 1: are playing well, and you're right, I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: a different beast when Gary Trent Junior is hitting all
Speaker 1: these threes. And I heard Brian Winhors say this on
Speaker 1: his podcast today, we could have which is pretty wild
Speaker 1: to think a Mellow versus Lebron series here and Mellow
Speaker 1: might be mashed up on Lebron decent amount of time
Speaker 1: in a potential series. I mean, they played once when
Speaker 1: it was the Knicks in the Heat. I think the
Speaker 1: Heat won that in five, right if I if I read, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a pretty funny little little anecdote there that
Speaker 1: they could play again in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I did forget I was going to bring
Speaker 2: up that point. Yeah, that's why the Lakers are going
Speaker 2: to smash I mean, that's said. That is a problem.
Speaker 2: Melo's going to try and cart. They don't really have
Speaker 2: anybody else. Yeah, it's a big problem.
Speaker 1: It could be. All right, let's keep it going here, Trey,
Speaker 1: you get a start. How worried are you on again
Speaker 1: our scale of one to five. I won't go through
Speaker 1: it again. But of the Grizzlies or the Pelicans losing
Speaker 1: their Megabowl spot to the undefeated Phoenix Sun. Yes, the
Speaker 1: Suns beat the Pacers day. It's only the Suns and
Speaker 1: the Raptors the only undefeated teams left in the bubble.
Speaker 1: How worried are you if you're the Grizzlies of the
Speaker 1: Pelicans of losing that ultimate spot.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of hair and it's really itchy,
Speaker 3: really itchy. I'm licening this one up for sure. But
Speaker 3: before oh, no doubt about it. The Suns are balling
Speaker 3: right now. Four and oh I saw on Twitter decided
Speaker 3: not to fact check it, but I'm gonna roll with
Speaker 3: it anyways. Is this the first time Devin Booker has
Speaker 3: won four straight games in his career?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, it seems so legit that it had that
Speaker 3: it had to be true.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they look I.
Speaker 2: Think they did a couple of years ago. I think
Speaker 2: since like twenty eighteen, or maybe not, maybe, who knows.
Speaker 2: They look incredible. Go on, I'll check the fact check exactly.
Speaker 3: They look so good, I would say, I mean, it
Speaker 3: almost seems perfunctory at this point. But like, sorry to
Speaker 3: the Grizzlies, it seems like they're done right now. They're
Speaker 3: playing so poorly. They've sustained this injury, and it just
Speaker 3: seems like it's gonna be very tough for them to
Speaker 3: get their own him back. Who knows what the Pelicans,
Speaker 3: they've been very up and down so far, But to me,
Speaker 3: it's all about how well the Sun's been playing. Booker
Speaker 3: looks like Lee has been saying, like a superstar, like
Speaker 3: a franchise leading kind of player. DeAndre Ayton seems to
Speaker 3: be growing by the game, contributing on both ends, running four,
Speaker 3: looking like an incredible big man, and Mikhale Bridges is
Speaker 3: a lockdown kind of defender. He actually put the clamps
Speaker 3: on TJ. Warren to the point where now people are saying,
Speaker 3: Devin Booker is the bubble boy, just taking it from
Speaker 3: TJ Warren like that. You know, you hit a game
Speaker 3: winner and then you beat him in the next game,
Speaker 3: people are putting you on top of those bubble rankings.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Lee, we might have to give him
Speaker 3: the sea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was another very impressive performance from the Suns today.
Speaker 4: Paces Well, that was a pretty ordinary performance. I gave
Speaker 4: up a seventeen I run and a twenty one I run,
Speaker 4: So if you're gonna do that, it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Devin Booker again because he was in foul
Speaker 4: trouble in that third quarter, he sat down and it
Speaker 4: was actually incredible. That bench for Phoenix was fantastic. Campaign
Speaker 4: was great. But again, Cameron, excuse me, Booker when he
Speaker 4: came out, it just did those things again that he's
Speaker 4: been doing so very very very very impressive. But they
Speaker 4: have got if actually is it them, I'm confused, but
Speaker 4: they have got a tough stretch I think still from here.
Speaker 2: Miami, Miami, Oka, see Philadelphia and Dallas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but then they're all battling sort of some
Speaker 4: sort of injuries as well, so maybe it's actually not
Speaker 4: quite as intimidating as it was a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: But you have to be confidence is sky high right
Speaker 1: now too, because they have their their the ultimate like
Speaker 1: they sort of have nothing to lose.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And you talk about that Devin Booker with the
Speaker 4: four games. I don't know if you mentioned not, but
Speaker 4: this is the first time he's won thirty games in
Speaker 4: a season, so you know, that's that's pretty remarkable. I
Speaker 4: think that was one of those things we talked about
Speaker 4: coming into the season where they win thirty games, and
Speaker 4: I was like, probably not, but they've done it in
Speaker 4: unlikely circumstances. So yeah, you're you're looking at that at
Speaker 4: a team. Cameron Johnson as well, was good today. They've
Speaker 4: they've got some things to be optimistic about, at least
Speaker 4: there with Phoenix. Certainly, you know they're not challenging anytime soon,
Speaker 4: but they've got some pieces that you think, Okay, you've
Speaker 4: got your franchise guy. You've got a big guy who
Speaker 4: can run the floor and contest shots. Now, if you
Speaker 4: can get those other pieces around them, then they're going
Speaker 4: in the right direction, which it feels like it's been
Speaker 4: forever for Phoenix, and it has. I mean, yeah, win
Speaker 4: was lost on the night of the playoffs with Nash
Speaker 4: in twenty ten. I guess it's.
Speaker 1: Been a while. Everybody right now for the Suns in
Speaker 1: the bubble is playing well. I mean Booker, I mean
Speaker 1: you had him on the old bubble team last night.
Speaker 1: Twenty eight points per game, seven assists per game, forty percent,
Speaker 1: three point shooting, eight and eighteen and nine shooting nearly
Speaker 1: sixty percent. Rubio seventeen and six, six assists, fifty percent
Speaker 1: from downtown Saich has been really good fifteen and eight
Speaker 1: shooting the lights of fifty three percent. Cam Johnson, you
Speaker 1: guys have talked about a lot. Thirteen and nine, nine
Speaker 1: rebounds per game. Cam Yeah, campaign remember him, the dancing campaign.
Speaker 1: Campaign Man twelve points per game. I this is the team.
Speaker 1: I don't see how like you can't be at least
Speaker 1: like wanting to get in right. I mean, the Blazers'
Speaker 1: best fight against Lakers. I think we'd all agree that
Speaker 1: we just got done talking about six seven games. Maybe
Speaker 1: they beat them, who knows, But the Suns are just
Speaker 1: fun to root for right now. Because as we talked about,
Speaker 1: no one really thought they did deserve to be there,
Speaker 1: and here they are, like winning all these games. They
Speaker 1: just beat a team that was already undefeated in the
Speaker 1: Pacers Lee. Let me throw this at you. When I
Speaker 1: watch DeAndre Eaton, I know I'm gonna go overboard here.
Speaker 1: I got a couple pops a me tonight. But I
Speaker 1: do see offensively, he has so much to work on. Defensively,
Speaker 1: he points out a lot of people on that end,
Speaker 1: but he's gotten better on that end too. But offensively,
Speaker 1: I see a little David Robinson, I swear to god,
Speaker 1: I do. I mean, he's built like a brick house. Yeah, guy,
Speaker 1: And he's still super young. He's only gonna get more muscular,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. But he's got, like I saw a couple
Speaker 1: time tonight confidence that little just like sixteen footer swish
Speaker 1: it no problem. Him and Booker are developing a little
Speaker 1: bit better chemistry. I think too. There's like a couple
Speaker 1: of nice dimes from him. I told you guys, I
Speaker 1: was gonna watch this one from a pool today, and
Speaker 1: I did, and I was splashing the water, was excited.
Speaker 1: I was splashing the water just like.
Speaker 3: Crazy, like I like that young Madison.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I'm uh, look, I think I'm probably getting
Speaker 1: too excited therefore, and oh I get it, but uh,
Speaker 1: will they come up short? They're a game and a
Speaker 1: half still behind the Blazers from the ninety They will
Speaker 1: they even get in there to the mega ball?
Speaker 4: Who knows?
Speaker 1: But this is this is fun. This is a fun
Speaker 1: little storyline development here.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Man, you gotta reel it in. You
Speaker 3: gotta reel it in with the Phoenix Suns. You got
Speaker 3: a bird box them. As soon as you start paying
Speaker 3: attention to the Suns, that's when things go poorly. Right.
Speaker 3: They started the season off hot. We were bigging up
Speaker 3: right and immediately it was like DeAndre eight and got
Speaker 3: suspended in as soon as we were praising, then things
Speaker 3: went south and they never turned it around until now.
Speaker 3: It feels great to be celebrating in their success. But
Speaker 3: are we going to ruin it just by bringing it up?
Speaker 3: I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 1: You just want to, like, just don't talk about them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, be like, Hey, it's like the real Sun. It's
Speaker 3: like we all know it's there, Like we don't have
Speaker 3: to bring up how amazing it is that it gives
Speaker 3: life to everything on Earth. It's just sustaining us, and
Speaker 3: so are the Phoenix Suns. In a little bit of
Speaker 3: a way.
Speaker 4: I'll say one thing about DeAndre Ayton today because Myles Turner.
Speaker 4: It's funny. He's considered a good defender, but he didn't
Speaker 4: make the Old Defensive team last season when he thought
Speaker 4: he should. I think he led the league and block
Speaker 4: in pick and roll defense. He was awful today DeAndre
Speaker 4: Ayton just and Booker. You know, when they ran that
Speaker 4: pick and roll, he basically had a free lane to
Speaker 4: the paint every time, and that was a sort of
Speaker 4: smart play that the Suns ran. But that's the other
Speaker 4: thing about it. And he has got that little mid
Speaker 4: range jumper.
Speaker 1: He hit a couple baseline jumpers, Like yeah, fades too
Speaker 1: is like that. I was just like, maybe he holds
Speaker 1: it really high over his head when he shoots. Who
Speaker 1: it's a little Robinson Lake. It's like, you're not blocking that.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're comfortable with that, go to that,
Speaker 1: my man, Like yeah, yeah, I'm getting obviously overally excited
Speaker 1: to task about the Suns. But what do you think
Speaker 1: of the Grizzlies and the Pelicans? You know, or the Blazers,
Speaker 1: I guess to some extent of like, you know, the
Speaker 1: Sons are right there, Like we kept seeing the Suns
Speaker 1: at the bottom of you know, the standings, and now
Speaker 1: they're in tenth, like they're up there. They've jumped a
Speaker 1: lot of teams, even despite the Kings getting a win tonight.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a very, very, very fun race. I
Speaker 2: didn't know it was going to be this fun, and
Speaker 2: I just didn't expect it to be all that entertaining.
Speaker 2: But all those teams are still in it from literally
Speaker 2: from eight through thirteen because the Pels are down there,
Speaker 2: but they've got an easy schedule. I don't know how
Speaker 2: it ends up. As we said, this is going to
Speaker 2: be a tough little run for the Suns. They're meeting
Speaker 2: a Miami team that's been playing really well, really well.
Speaker 2: They could be four and oh, but they've lost to
Speaker 2: the Bucks and the Raptors. So you know, if Kyle
Speaker 2: Lowry doesn't yank on Jimmy's arm, they're three and one
Speaker 2: and no one's talking about the Raptors as much. So
Speaker 2: I will say this fact check. They did win four
Speaker 2: in a row in twenty eighteen, tray, but but maybe
Speaker 2: this was the note Devin Booker didn't play in one
Speaker 2: of those games. So is he only won three in
Speaker 2: a row? Yes, thats up.
Speaker 3: It stands rigorous anyway.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, this is this is this is a
Speaker 2: basketball fan nerd him at its peak right now, watching
Speaker 2: guys that haven't had success go on this run like
Speaker 2: Campaign who Yeah, was Russ's partner, then he went to Chicago.
Speaker 2: Then he was a raptor if he fell off big time.
Speaker 2: He's hitting Steph Curry shots.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They go on a twenty one oh run, starting in
Speaker 2: the late third, going to the fourth. He's on the
Speaker 2: floor with Javon Carter, who is you know, mister tough
Speaker 2: guy but a great, great defender exactly, Cam Johnson, he's
Speaker 2: a little sweetheart. Draft pick number first round draft pick
Speaker 2: this year. Dario Sarz who has been around, been a
Speaker 2: starter in this league now now scoring. And then Frank
Speaker 2: Kaminski who tank. Yeah, Frank the tank. He's a bit polarizing.
Speaker 2: They go on this run and basically win them the game,
Speaker 2: I think, and then it starts to come back and
Speaker 2: finish this job. That was. Yeah, it's a blast to
Speaker 2: watch them. It is a Cinderella story. The schedule. I
Speaker 2: just don't know how it lines up, and it could.
Speaker 2: You know, this is so exciting that it's got me
Speaker 2: looking at tiebreakers, which I hate looking at.
Speaker 1: But he can give you a headache.
Speaker 2: Man. Well, the Grizzlies beat them three to one in
Speaker 2: this their season series, so it wasn't all that complicated.
Speaker 2: That's as far as I go with tiebreakers really, and
Speaker 2: so yeah, they could line up. They could literally tie
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies, you know, for one of those spots in
Speaker 2: the Mega Bowl, whether it's eight or nine, and just
Speaker 2: be out, which is lame. I think you should redo
Speaker 2: the tiebreakers for this instance because the Sons are playing
Speaker 2: so well over the Memphis Grizzlies. They should at least
Speaker 2: I don't know, ree do the tiebreakers? Just get rid
Speaker 2: of it because the Sun's Yeah, this is the story,
Speaker 2: no doubt. Yeah that Ayton's line, Booker's line. Everybody is
Speaker 2: is balling. And maybe Michel Bridges fits a little better
Speaker 2: than Kelly, you break, because he doesn't have to shoot.
Speaker 2: He's just a scrapper. He just compliments Devin Booker a
Speaker 2: little bit more, and they've found something for now.
Speaker 1: Here's how quickly things change down here in the bubble
Speaker 1: with this race. I mean, I asked you, how worried
Speaker 1: are you about the Grizzlies and the Pelicans of losing
Speaker 1: the Mega Bowl. The Pelicans are in last place of
Speaker 1: all these teams. I mean, I really shouldn't have even
Speaker 1: have thrown the Pelicans in the mix. I mean it
Speaker 1: should have been the Blazers, of course. I mean, just
Speaker 1: trying to keep track of this. Pelicans are in last.
Speaker 1: Kings beat them, and uh, I think the Kings have
Speaker 1: the tiebreaker on them. I mean if that even matters,
Speaker 1: it doesn't because they're not going to be playing for
Speaker 1: anything but Pelicans in thirteenth spot.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, just like that. But they've got a super
Speaker 2: easy schedules.
Speaker 1: That doesn't matter. They're not that good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they're not better.
Speaker 1: They're better scheduled, they're not very good.
Speaker 2: Well, they've got the Whizzies on their schedules, so they's
Speaker 2: they're worst.
Speaker 1: That should be a win, you're right, I'll give you
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, that should be a win for the Pelicans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the King's got the win. We're not gonna talk about
Speaker 1: them in great detail, but nice to see. Bogie was
Speaker 1: Foeba Bogee thirty five points. Thirteen to twenty shooting six
Speaker 1: threes and fox Man Fox could have been I know,
Speaker 1: if if the Kings have been winning some games league,
Speaker 1: he would have been knocking on the door of your
Speaker 1: all bubble teams. I believe he's been solid down there.
Speaker 1: He really has. Oh you don't want to give me that?
Speaker 4: Maybe, I mean, you know, maybe, yeah, thirty and ten
Speaker 4: again from him. He's been doing that good. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: know a bogey though. I've heard Chumes talk about Bogey.
Speaker 4: He thinks he's got the prettiest shot in the in
Speaker 4: the NBA, and it was looking very very nice this
Speaker 4: afternoon because he had a stinker in the last game
Speaker 4: one for fifteen I think I was yeah, and he.
Speaker 1: Had not been playing very well.
Speaker 4: But him, Buddy Hill, actually he's got a nice little
Speaker 4: handle too. When he wants to get that shot off,
Speaker 4: it's he's yeah, he's good. You can see why they
Speaker 4: want to They want to hang on to Bogey because
Speaker 4: he's going to get paid. Someone's going to pay in
Speaker 4: big bucks. So the Kings are going to do it
Speaker 4: and then mess it up somehow.
Speaker 1: Let me slip this in. I know tom Zilla wrote
Speaker 1: about it. Trey, what do you think about this idea,
Speaker 1: like this race. We're talking about it every night here
Speaker 1: on bubble Wrap, like how fun it is, and teams,
Speaker 1: you know, jumping up and down, Here come the Suns.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the Blazer's own Pelicans, blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Do you think there should be something here with the
Speaker 1: NBA tries to add this element to a regular NBA season?
Speaker 1: Should we do the thing where there is like the
Speaker 1: play in tournament from the seventh seed, let's say, to
Speaker 1: the tenth seed. Or is this just like a one
Speaker 1: time thing. What's your take on that. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't actually think it's the tournament that's doing it.
Speaker 3: We're watching a playoff race, and we love it. Playoff
Speaker 3: races are always exciting. The key to what has happened
Speaker 3: that has made every game feel like it means so
Speaker 3: much is that all the bad teams are gone.
Speaker 2: So that to me is the key.
Speaker 3: We gotta get a second bubble for them during a
Speaker 3: regular season. The bottom ten teams once it gets to
Speaker 3: like March, we say, see it. You guys are playing
Speaker 3: for another something or another. You guys are playing for
Speaker 3: as much smaller trophy while us good teams are going
Speaker 3: to go figure out what's happening in the big boy tournament.
Speaker 3: Then we can take home an actual trophy, the actual championship.
Speaker 3: It's like the NCAA Tournament and the NIT when all
Speaker 3: the teams are good, all the games are fun.
Speaker 2: Mister Skeetz says through.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, too many splashing of those beers this afternoon.
Speaker 4: I think he's fallen asleep out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is eyes closed.
Speaker 4: Yes, what do you guys think?
Speaker 3: Do you like this tournament? I like the tournament doing it?
Speaker 4: Or is it just yeah? That's yeah. I mean we're else.
Speaker 3: I'll start for basketball and law loven't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm certainly up for experimenting with things,
Speaker 4: doing it for a couple of years, and just seeing
Speaker 4: how it goes, because you know, we get a chance
Speaker 4: this year for it, because there's under the circumstances we're
Speaker 4: in we wouldn't have had it otherwise. And I think
Speaker 4: it's time for the NBA to try a few things out.
Speaker 4: People are hankering for some sort of experiment. Do it
Speaker 4: for three or four years. If it's no good, then
Speaker 4: just get rid of it. I don't think that you
Speaker 4: don't think you lose anything by trying this, but I
Speaker 4: don't think you just do it once and that's it.
Speaker 4: I think you need a little bit more of a
Speaker 4: sample size to just see if it's something that can work,
Speaker 4: because I think it would be important to keep those
Speaker 4: teams eleven and twelve in the race at least later
Speaker 4: in the season where they think they can still make
Speaker 4: the playoffs. And I think that's important for the NBA.
Speaker 4: So I hope they do go ahead with it for
Speaker 4: the next couple of years, just to try it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough. We're in the midst of it. It
Speaker 2: feels exciting now, but it's odd to feel like we
Speaker 2: need more basketball teams in the postseason, number one, or
Speaker 2: to extend it when we all know that when it
Speaker 2: comes down to it, the top eight teams are more
Speaker 2: than enough in the playoffs. The nine to ten to
Speaker 2: eleven teams aren't going to be knocking anybody off, and
Speaker 2: so it's just some extra revenue for teams, is what
Speaker 2: it feels like. And yeah, it's a little it's a
Speaker 2: little excitement in baseball, it happens, but also in baseball,
Speaker 2: they've got such a smaller playoff field before they extend
Speaker 2: it is now we're getting to literally get into two
Speaker 2: thirds of the teams that are going to be in
Speaker 2: the playoff mix. And so yeah, it's fun because it's
Speaker 2: a race, but it's kind of like the losers race
Speaker 2: in a way because you're just gonna get destroyed by
Speaker 2: the good teams.
Speaker 3: So that is very weird to think that, like it
Speaker 3: could all be over so fast, right like you get
Speaker 3: to the Mega Bowl of it, the eight seed wins
Speaker 3: of one in one game, and then they go into
Speaker 3: the first round of the playoffs and happen to get
Speaker 3: swept by the Lakers, and suddenly it feels like, you know,
Speaker 3: whoever that team is that actually got into the eighth seed,
Speaker 3: it feels a little bit like their season may have
Speaker 3: ended quickly, like their season ended in disappointment. For it
Speaker 3: to go from a high of getting into the playoffs
Speaker 3: and then just getting smashed, maybe that'll be feeling weird.
Speaker 3: But I mean, we got to get there first, so
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm getting a little bit of a
Speaker 3: Summer League vibe of the bubble just in general. The
Speaker 3: first weekend was so hyped and now we're already getting
Speaker 3: to the second weekend and players are starting to rest
Speaker 3: and the games are starting to be a little bit
Speaker 3: more scouting out of the quality of what you actually
Speaker 3: want to be seeing.
Speaker 4: That the last two days for sure, you know when
Speaker 4: you just know that a couple of those teams are
Speaker 4: taking their foot off the gas a bit and players
Speaker 4: are sitting out for rest, and you're like, oh, man, yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe it would have been better. That's the thing, like
Speaker 4: just do maybe a four game schedule or something like that,
Speaker 4: just so that we didn't lose that momentum that we
Speaker 4: had in those first few days. But it'll probably pick
Speaker 4: up again in the next you know, maybe after the weekend,
Speaker 4: when there's a bit more of a scrambling for spots
Speaker 4: and then you know, you can really sort of see
Speaker 4: how the seeding will play out. But yeah, I think
Speaker 4: it's been so much basketball and is on all day
Speaker 4: as well, that everyone's feeling a little fatigued after eight
Speaker 4: days in Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, we've got to remember this is kind of like
Speaker 2: how it plays out in early April. Anyways. It's like
Speaker 2: there's a scramble, sure, but then it's going to die out.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be all that fun watching guys rest,
Speaker 2: And then there'll be a couple of days where all
Speaker 2: the teams play at the same time kind of thing
Speaker 2: on the last Wednesday, and then we're into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: But let's move on to the next topic. I'll set
Speaker 2: you up here leading. How worried are you if you're
Speaker 2: the Mavericks. You're in the seven hall right now, if
Speaker 2: you're if you're looking at the Clippers in that second spot,
Speaker 2: How worried are you if you're the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 4: Oh, I've been drinking Cocone's with my boys. Man, I'm hungover.
Speaker 4: I am really worried if I'm the Mavericks because they
Speaker 4: just can't defend. And tonight they actually offensively, they put
Speaker 4: up a bit of a fight there in the third
Speaker 4: and fourth quarter against the Clippers. But you know when
Speaker 4: the Clippers Patrick Beverly wasn't playing as well. They've got
Speaker 4: another defender to come back, and you know, Rick Carlisle
Speaker 4: likes to play the style of like, let's just see
Speaker 4: if we can outscore the opponent. But they just can't
Speaker 4: seem to get a real foothold in defensively. And you
Speaker 4: know they're going to make some changes. Of course, they're not.
Speaker 4: They're not ready to win the title now. With Kristaps
Speaker 4: and Luka Doncic. But the defensive improvement still has to
Speaker 4: start with those two guys because they're their star players.
Speaker 4: They're the ones who are going to be on the
Speaker 4: court most of the time. They're the ones who are
Speaker 4: going to be the focus of the other team. If
Speaker 4: these guys are easy to low Bi and I. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't like that match up at all for Dallas
Speaker 4: because I just I look at them, and I look
Speaker 4: at the Clippers with Paul George, and I look them
Speaker 4: with Kawhi Leonard, you know, and and I just think,
Speaker 4: you know Christaps as well, he's not a five. They
Speaker 4: had Bowbarn starting today because they know they're in trouble.
Speaker 4: On Zubats look great. So yeah, I think the Mavericks
Speaker 4: would honestly struggle to even win a game off the
Speaker 4: Clippers right now after what we saw tonight, because the
Speaker 4: Clippers can lock you down and the Mavericks can't. And offensively,
Speaker 4: the Clippers have got enough weapons that they can just
Speaker 4: go out there and score and spread the floor out
Speaker 4: and Dallas can't really stop them. So yeah, I'd be
Speaker 4: I'd be very, very worried to find the Mavericks. They
Speaker 4: need them Nuggets at worst case scenario. I think in
Speaker 4: that first round, I'm bad Grey.
Speaker 2: What do you think clip MAVs any hope? It doesn't
Speaker 2: seem all that promising.
Speaker 3: No, definitely not, And I honestly felt bad for the
Speaker 3: Mavericks watching, especially that first half. You know, stan Van
Speaker 3: Gundy is raving about the job Kleiba is doing on
Speaker 3: Kawhi Leonard, and he's doing a pretty good job. He's
Speaker 3: defending him as well.
Speaker 2: As he can.
Speaker 3: He's got like nine points through with like I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe two minutes left in the second quarter. You're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: he's doing a pretty good job for a guy who
Speaker 3: probably shouldn't be sticking Maxi in the first place. And
Speaker 3: then Kawhi scores eight on like three straight possessions and
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, yeah, that's a that's just how it's
Speaker 3: gonna happen. You know, Kawhi can pot pile up points
Speaker 3: so quickly and and suddenly he's having an incredible game
Speaker 3: and it feels like he hasn't even put an imprint
Speaker 3: on anything. But uh, the Mavericks don't really have a
Speaker 3: guy like that. They're still early in their development. They
Speaker 3: still got the first two pieces, they've got a couple
Speaker 3: of support pieces, but they don't have everything they need,
Speaker 3: so it's not going to be a fair fight. The
Speaker 3: Clippers are going to be even better in the playoffs
Speaker 3: when they really want to get stops, and the Mavericks
Speaker 3: they're gonna want to get stops. They probably just can't
Speaker 3: pull it off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I find it worrying that they slow down,
Speaker 2: even Luca and the entire team just really slows down
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter and clutch situations. I find they're
Speaker 2: a little puzzling, But I guess it really is just
Speaker 2: coming down to everything going through Luca. It is a
Speaker 2: bit of a James hard Harden scenario, and I think
Speaker 2: he just needs to find a little bit more of
Speaker 2: a ball handler, not just a score, not just a Christaps,
Speaker 2: but somebody else to take the ball out of his
Speaker 2: hands a little bit. I think this team is going
Speaker 2: to start well like they did here in the bubble
Speaker 2: and fade and just that's just who they are because
Speaker 2: they don't have enough firepower. And I do agree Kristaps
Speaker 2: porzingis is as a center. They know, they know deep
Speaker 2: down inside them that as a center for forty eight
Speaker 2: minutes or for all of his minutes, it's just it's
Speaker 2: going to gass him out. It's not going to work out.
Speaker 2: And speaking of fades, they are going to Kristaps and
Speaker 2: Luca are going to the same barber I write according
Speaker 2: to Joe Varden. So I don't know if they developed
Speaker 2: that bond in those barber's chairs or something, and maybe
Speaker 2: they turn it around.
Speaker 1: Well, how many barbers are down there?
Speaker 4: Three? I thought it was only three, bit that was many.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm back by the way, Sorry, I totally lost.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw there on the zoom
Speaker 1: the lights flickered like crazy and then it went goodbye.
Speaker 1: So what what was the Can I get the uh
Speaker 1: for someone catching up? But just how worried were you
Speaker 1: about this, uh, you know, potential first round matchup for
Speaker 1: the Mavericks. What was the consensus?
Speaker 4: Been popping some cocainis with the boys on.
Speaker 3: A lot of shaky legs.
Speaker 1: Boy, well, hey stop at third base, don't try and
Speaker 1: go home?
Speaker 2: Am I right to base?
Speaker 1: I agree with you on that because I was watching
Speaker 1: this game. It was I think the I think the
Speaker 1: Clippers were up like ten or eleven three minutes to
Speaker 1: go in the third quarter, Reggie Jackson dribbled by Tim
Speaker 1: Hardaway Junior on the perimeter and there was no one
Speaker 1: there and it was like a layup. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm turning this game off. I know it got closer.
Speaker 1: I know Zingis ended up hitting a couple of threes
Speaker 1: and suddenly it was a game. But I was like,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna beat them like that, like you like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you don't give a show for
Speaker 1: this game or what it is, but you're not gonna
Speaker 1: beat these this team if you play like that. And
Speaker 1: I think what I when I could I pick up
Speaker 1: from jumping back on here is like you guys are right,
Speaker 1: Like the defense is just not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: stop teams and especially the Clippers enough, Like if Redgie
Speaker 1: Jackson is driving by you on the perimeter for a
Speaker 1: layup uncontented, you're not gonna beat them, you know, four
Speaker 1: times out of seven. I'm sorry, Like you're a feel
Speaker 1: good story, you got two stars, but yeah, I'm with you, guys.
Speaker 1: That's a cocony. That's a cocny. It's gonna be it's
Speaker 1: gonna end in five five cocinys. That'll be a five
Speaker 1: game series. I think they take one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I honestly, I don't even know if they can
Speaker 4: get one thing.
Speaker 1: When the Clippers are weird that way, I feel, yeah.
Speaker 4: But if they get Montrez back and they get Pat
Speaker 4: Beav back and their full strength, they've just got too
Speaker 4: many sort of bodies that like the Mavericks. If the
Speaker 4: Mavericks have one of those notts, way, everyone gets hot
Speaker 4: from three. Sure, but that's about the endly I can
Speaker 4: say them really sustaining it against the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Let me confirm six hairstylists in the Bubble and the
Speaker 2: fact of the day they were contracted by William Rondo,
Speaker 2: Rejon Rondo's brother. He facilitated all the barbers in the Bubble.
Speaker 2: Thanks Joe Varden for that fact. He interviewed the candidates,
Speaker 2: made sure that they're up for it. And yeah, one
Speaker 2: is cutting, I don't know his name, is cutting Porzingis's
Speaker 2: in Luca's hair. So be on the lookout for their hair.
Speaker 1: Here's a question, who's cutting Rachel nichols hair, Doris Burg's hair,
Speaker 1: Stephanie Reddy's hair?
Speaker 4: Is anybody I'm guessing. I'm guessing they can just book
Speaker 4: an appointment in there, too, can't they? Who the Yeah?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 1: They have the capabilities.
Speaker 4: Of course they do. They have multi talented. Come on, man,
Speaker 4: well yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, you have lice. You go to lice places.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying. I'm just saying I think the lighties would,
Speaker 4: would you know? Lighties like to have their head trimmed.
Speaker 4: Often they'll be like, oh, I can slip in there.
Speaker 4: I think guys can do it. Yeah fine, Oh wow.
Speaker 1: All right, maybe I'm wrong. I want to find out now.
Speaker 2: No, I'm curious.
Speaker 1: No, I'm absolutely curious. All right, findal one here. Big
Speaker 1: news today actually Ben Simmons. He's out indefinitely with a
Speaker 1: partial dislocation of his left patella aka his kneecap. Now
Speaker 1: an MRI showed no ligament damage to the knee, but
Speaker 1: still he's out here. So task, How worried are you?
Speaker 1: On the on scale of one to five? There the
Speaker 1: levels there if you're the sixers after this Ben Simmons news,
Speaker 1: which we thought last night wasn't that big a deal,
Speaker 1: but turns out it might be a little bit bigger
Speaker 1: than we first thought. How worried are you tas?
Speaker 2: Oh, I am worried. What I'm trying to think of
Speaker 2: a level higher? I need to go higher than Cocony
Speaker 2: breaking a leg and being down for six months. We
Speaker 2: don't know how long he's going to be out, but
Speaker 2: I think if you just got to assume that if
Speaker 2: they're contemplating the therapy, is that it's that's bad and
Speaker 2: that it doesn't seem like he's going to come back
Speaker 2: anytime soon, and if he comes back, he will not
Speaker 2: be himself. And they're seems like they're thinking long term.
Speaker 2: I will find out tomorrow, but uh, it's it seems
Speaker 2: like at least you know, weeks. Uh So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's a guess on my part, but
Speaker 2: it sounds like that's something that's going to take them
Speaker 2: into the playoffs. And I'm not picking them in a series.
Speaker 2: If Ben Simmons is out, really wow, these there these
Speaker 2: their lead ball handler when when things aren't going all
Speaker 2: that well right now, he's you know, just because he's
Speaker 2: playing the power forward position. He is the guy that
Speaker 2: makes plays happen on that team, and it's been totally
Speaker 2: totally discombobulated with him off the ball. Uh. You know,
Speaker 2: they're scoring because they've got a lot of talent, but
Speaker 2: not against good teams. And I think, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: once you just start doubling Joel Embiid, which I think
Speaker 2: is what would happen if it happens a lot, but
Speaker 2: it would happen a heck of a lot more. If
Speaker 2: you're in a series without Ben Simmons, you're counting on Toby,
Speaker 2: Josh Richardson, Shake Milton and a weekend bench to come through,
Speaker 2: and I just don't see it happening. They b would
Speaker 2: have to be a monster, and somebody would have come
Speaker 2: through on those guards, in those guards, and I just
Speaker 2: I'd find I find it hard to trust them, you know,
Speaker 2: night in and night out.
Speaker 1: Kevin Pelton, he did the research tasks. He said that
Speaker 1: most of these injuries this you know, this this injury
Speaker 1: to the patella that he had, relatively minor, and that
Speaker 1: most players return within two weeks, so they miss an
Speaker 1: average of like seven and a half days of action,
Speaker 1: seven to eight days. That kind of timetable. If that's
Speaker 1: the case, would put Simmons back on the Sixers round
Speaker 1: the start of the playoffs on August seventeenth. That'd be like,
Speaker 1: you know, eleven days from now. So that's maybe good news,
Speaker 1: maybe it's not too serious, but you're right, like Lee
Speaker 1: what do you do if you're the let let's just
Speaker 1: even say he's out for the first round. Who knows, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just say that. What do you do? Does Horford
Speaker 1: come back into the starting lineup? Do you bump to
Speaker 1: bias up to the Ford? Do you go cork maz
Speaker 1: and maybe actually like test saying, like you know, maybe
Speaker 1: he goes in there and it's like more shooting than
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons and maybe that helps an embeed if you're
Speaker 1: gonna try and double him. What would you do if
Speaker 1: you're Brett Brown, you're Australian, what do you do? He
Speaker 1: doesn't remember you at all?
Speaker 4: But no, no, yeah, well I guess, yeah, I guess
Speaker 4: as your point guard. You're gonna keep Milton and Richardson
Speaker 4: in the back court there, so yeah, you're gonna need
Speaker 4: that front court help. I guess you'd go with Ault Hawford.
Speaker 4: I think he's probably the best choice there. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's clearly struggled. But what else are you gonna do?
Speaker 4: Who else he gonna put in there?
Speaker 2: Is not a bad idea.
Speaker 3: The Corkman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's the cork Man. I mean your
Speaker 1: options are netto for more ball handling. What Burks, I
Speaker 1: guess right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that means that that means you don't Bias
Speaker 4: and Joel and the together. I think that's that's it's
Speaker 4: a bit of a small lineup for them.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, I gos, I just go, let's put a
Speaker 1: shooter out there, let's see if if he can help us.
Speaker 1: And again, maybe Simmons is back for the playoffs. It's
Speaker 1: maybe it's not that severe, you know, the MRI again good,
Speaker 1: but man, god damn. Like I think Michael Lee tweeted
Speaker 1: Embiid and Simmons in theory, if this is you know,
Speaker 1: somewhat serious, which it appears to be, they'll never have
Speaker 1: been injury free, the both of them going into a playoffs.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Yeah, like never both at the same time. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, let's roll. It's always something Trey with
Speaker 1: one with one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is exactly right. And you know that's probably
Speaker 3: part of the reason why they're never able to get
Speaker 3: one hundred percent on the same page and keep it
Speaker 3: that way for a long time, because you know, they'll
Speaker 3: win thirteen straight when Embiid is out, and then he'll
Speaker 3: come back and they'll have to figure it all out
Speaker 3: again and it's just starting over time and time again.
Speaker 3: They were starting over coming into the bubble, deciding to
Speaker 3: play Ben Simmons a little bit more like a big guy,
Speaker 3: and now they don't have as much time to figure
Speaker 3: that out before they go into a playoffs where everybody's
Speaker 3: gonna be putting pressure on Brett Brown to make changes
Speaker 3: and to make the right calls, and if not, his
Speaker 3: job is gonna be on the line. Even if despite
Speaker 3: the fact that Ben Simmons is going to be coming
Speaker 3: into the postseason with an injury, you know that's gonna
Speaker 3: factor into it too. So it's definitely tough. But I
Speaker 3: also don't feel like it changes a whole lot for
Speaker 3: me with regards to the Sixers, because they're impossible to
Speaker 3: figure out in the first place. Maybe putting cork Mas
Speaker 3: in there, getting a whole bunch of shooting it around
Speaker 3: him be it'll be fine. Because the guy has been
Speaker 3: balling so far. He can be an entire offense and
Speaker 3: an entire defense to himself. Is he able to do
Speaker 3: it for an entire playoffs that's compressed, we shall see.
Speaker 1: I'm one hundred percent on board with that reasoning tray.
Speaker 1: Whatever you think about the Sixers, like Task is saying,
Speaker 1: like this is a worry. This is even higher than
Speaker 1: Level five. Do the opposite, the opposite will happen. I mean,
Speaker 1: like you might think that way, but watch this. They're
Speaker 1: the dumbest team. They're stupid. This team suddenly cork mass
Speaker 1: whoever goes in there, whatever you bump to buy us up, whatever,
Speaker 1: even if Horford comes back, going to start your line
Speaker 1: up for whatever reason. Watch they'll just dominate down here
Speaker 1: the next couple they're un seriously like they're the weirdest
Speaker 1: team that suddenly the story will flip it like, oh
Speaker 1: classic Patrick Ewing moment here and now Ben Simmons gone.
Speaker 1: Now they're gonna ball out of them as little trade
Speaker 1: hill like it will. This will happen with them. This
Speaker 1: is what the Sixers do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's possible, it's possible. And then it'll be like,
Speaker 4: well it's clearly it's Inbates team. They're gonna move on
Speaker 4: from Simms. That'll be the way. Guys.
Speaker 1: Would you be shocked. You wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 2: You know who would you pick them over them? Because
Speaker 2: the East is just because of where they are, right, No,
Speaker 2: you're right.
Speaker 1: You're right. Task, it's a tough first round matchup regardless
Speaker 1: if Simmons is there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if they get if they get the Pacers, it's
Speaker 2: not going to happen like that would be the only
Speaker 2: scenario that you could see them on a level with
Speaker 2: the team. Otherwise they're playing the Heat or the Celtics.
Speaker 1: Not good, Bob, you so okay, okay, task Who would
Speaker 1: you rather play? If you're a sixers thing? Of those
Speaker 1: two teams, who do you think, and let's say Simmons
Speaker 1: is at no like, who would you rather play? Who
Speaker 1: do you feel more confident beating the Celtics.
Speaker 2: Or the Heat? I guess I think the Heat are
Speaker 2: too tough. I think the Celtics are you know, they know,
Speaker 2: they know the Celtics, they know them in and out.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that'd probably be the matchup. But it's no
Speaker 2: way of my picking Philly that they have looked. They're
Speaker 2: just they give up to any inspiring and uh and
Speaker 2: Boston would love to play Philly because they struggle on
Speaker 2: offense at times and I think they would find it
Speaker 2: very fast if Firkhan is on the floor, no offense
Speaker 2: for can I love you, I love you, I love
Speaker 2: you a lot, I love you so much.
Speaker 4: I love you.
Speaker 2: I love you. Take a cork mass in it. I
Speaker 2: love you. Man.
Speaker 1: All right, we got well boy, Still, we got tweeted
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Speaker 1: Did Judge hit a homeroom?
Speaker 4: No? No, I want to ask Tatty about this because
Speaker 4: he must have been on the bench and he was
Speaker 4: p h Is that pinch hitting? Is that that? So
Speaker 4: he just came out for once one crack at one
Speaker 4: a B, one a B and he he and he lobbed.
Speaker 4: He had a lobby out there.
Speaker 3: From the nab to the lob to the love.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Disappointed that they're they're you know, the load managing him,
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 1: But yeah, games back to back to back to back
Speaker 1: to back to back to back.
Speaker 4: That's my thing I'm looking for each night though, just
Speaker 4: to see him socking a diinger and didn't he didn't
Speaker 4: do it tonight.
Speaker 2: So how many lobs did he have?
Speaker 4: Just one? Just one lobby? Yeah, not too bad. But
Speaker 4: he so, I'm guessing he was swinging. He was swinging
Speaker 4: for the fences.
Speaker 1: You don't think he went down looking, do you.
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I don't think judgy. I think,
Speaker 4: all right, don't they don't. The biggest hitters tend to
Speaker 4: have the most case as well.
Speaker 1: Because you want to talk Rob Deer for a second.
Speaker 1: Love Dear was the one that got in Chris Ball's
Speaker 1: garage and hit all the balling balls.
Speaker 4: I think the I think wo Man the poh Man
Speaker 4: used to have a lot of k's, didn't.
Speaker 1: He excuse me?
Speaker 4: Wo Man? Yeah, pooholes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's sweet.
Speaker 1: Swing on him. We gotta give us a baseball podcast,
Speaker 1: be the greatest podcast. We don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Strikeouts a few years ago.
Speaker 1: That he was right, he's swinging for the fences. Every
Speaker 1: time you can train and sock some dingers, you're gonna
Speaker 1: take some keys, mat.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, exactly, exactly. That's what you want, though, that's
Speaker 4: what you want. Go for it for every single blast
Speaker 4: you made. I mean they like, would he ever swing
Speaker 4: to not go for a home run.
Speaker 3: No, man, that's that's old thinking. That's old baseball. We're
Speaker 3: not playing small ball anymore. Loop Panella, Hey, Tony LaRussa.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they pull out a little small bull. I can't.
Speaker 4: It's like Alex Rodriguez and his promise, like why would
Speaker 4: he ever not just try to hit a home run?
Speaker 4: Like like's man, Yeah, like every single time he's just
Speaker 4: trying to Yeah, he's trying to send one to the
Speaker 4: cheap seats.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what your problem is on this podcast.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think you're trying to hit singles and doubles.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm just swearing for the fences. But yeah, just
Speaker 1: trying to lay. But sometimes.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to hit. Again, I'm not your glory boy.
Speaker 2: There's actually there's actually one guy who hits with a
Speaker 2: mini bat.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: He hits with a dugout widen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's five inches long, that's all he hits with.
Speaker 2: He's a spray hitter. He just bunts it and hopes
Speaker 2: for singles because he has more control that way. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: Javier Bias, No, I'm lying, of course not. That would
Speaker 2: be amazing. That would be amazing.
Speaker 4: Who was that obvious that I think that would be
Speaker 4: easy to pitch to him then, because you just bring
Speaker 4: the field in.
Speaker 1: Has your heart o Dusty Bucks?
Speaker 3: I don't know. Lee just drops two incredible pieces of advice. First,
Speaker 3: if a guy's use a five in.
Speaker 1: Number two a.
Speaker 3: Rod, why don't you try and it home run every time?
Speaker 1: On your beautiful ad read there, I noticed you said
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Speaker 1: You're turning thirty nine and what like a week in
Speaker 1: a bit right?
Speaker 2: What you can call me? You can call me Dave Parker.
Speaker 2: Next Saturday, I'll be thirty nine.
Speaker 4: Wow, you've only got eight more years in the majors
Speaker 4: there left in tassy.
Speaker 1: You think task right now? If you dedicated himself, you
Speaker 1: can make the majors. I think Steff the bet he.
Speaker 4: Can dh No, wait, no doubt about it. That that's
Speaker 4: I mean, you can have a pinch runner in baseball,
Speaker 4: can't you? Like imagine that you're sitting in the dugout
Speaker 4: doing nothing and the guy says, all right, go out
Speaker 4: and see if you can run?
Speaker 2: Can you? Here? You go?
Speaker 3: Lee?
Speaker 1: Why don't they?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: This is like why don't you put the your kazuna
Speaker 1: in in hockey? But like, why don't you put you
Speaker 1: seen bolt, you know, on your best pass?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 4: Why not? Can you be a pinch runner from anywhere
Speaker 4: other than first base?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: Could you pinch from third to home? Oh?
Speaker 2: You can?
Speaker 4: I thought it was only from first?
Speaker 1: No, tas, I'm not wrong, right, You can put a
Speaker 1: guy on second, Like he hits a double, you can
Speaker 1: take him out, put a speed screw out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be fun if you could, if you had
Speaker 2: a pinch runner line up beside a header, so you
Speaker 2: had a big, slow fat he hit the ball and
Speaker 2: then yeah, okay, just takes off and runs from him.
Speaker 2: That'd be cool.
Speaker 1: He's sort of cool, ghosty almost. Yeah. All right, Well
Speaker 1: that was a hell of an ad Reid. Let's go
Speaker 1: to boy. I love it lovely Fantasy Line of the
Speaker 1: Night Damian Lillard. I'm not even given honorable mentions tonight.
Speaker 1: I don't care. Forty five points for Lillard, thirteen to
Speaker 1: twenty one, shooting eight to ten from the line, eleven
Speaker 1: three pointers made. I think that tied a franchise record
Speaker 1: for the Blazers. His own four rebounds, oh yeah, twelve assists,
Speaker 1: three steals. Blazers. They're coming for the Lakers, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a nice first round series.
Speaker 5: All right, Lely Tweet of the night, Tweet out the night,
Speaker 5: Wow Twitter, once you got on.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, rough one today, Rough one, I was scattering.
Speaker 1: As this man had one at bat and he left
Speaker 1: one man on basis GB.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's it. You saw the Slack message come
Speaker 4: out about five minutes before we're on air and just said, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: struggling a little bit today.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And so Skeze you delivered here with this one here
Speaker 4: from Bloggsy Wells because I've thought about this myself. Gary
Speaker 4: Trent Junior definitely looks like Paddy Mills out there. If
Speaker 4: they were to play each other, it'd be an incredible matchup.
Speaker 4: And this one came in from from Bloggsy Wells, said
Speaker 4: Gary Trent Junior, like if Patty Mills was in an
Speaker 4: eighties metal band just shredding guitar solose, wearing leather pants
Speaker 4: and doing a lot of illicard drugs and pretty accurate.
Speaker 4: I thought, pretty.
Speaker 1: Accurate tweetsweet right there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, do you follow that guy, Bloggsy Wells?
Speaker 3: No? I do not.
Speaker 4: Where did you see that?
Speaker 1: Someone just put classic art that comes through you know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'll send it to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Thanks?
Speaker 2: Oh wait, I.
Speaker 3: How did you see that? No?
Speaker 1: I do, But honestly I thought about it because, like,
Speaker 1: what a great Twitter hand on them, Blosi Wells not alone.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if this guy's a you know,
Speaker 1: tweeting gems every night. That's a great Twitter handle.
Speaker 2: So wow, I follow him. I follow him. His location
Speaker 2: is Pizza Caboose, Tike Guard, Oregon. Okay, yeah he must
Speaker 2: be a fan. Now we're we're obvious. Yeah, we're connected obviously.
Speaker 2: If he says the word caboose, we say, this is
Speaker 2: the word caboose every show. Yeah, yeah, I followed. Yeah,
Speaker 2: great name blocks you Wells? What a name? What a name?
Speaker 2: What is this Twitter handle of the night? Let's move on.
Speaker 2: I thought you were saying that I got Yeah, it
Speaker 2: sounded like I wasn't done.
Speaker 1: I feel like we have hit the point with these
Speaker 1: shows where we just want to keep talking to each
Speaker 1: other and we don't really want to wrap up the show.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, it's one o'clock in the morning, but
Speaker 1: I don't know what are we gonna do. Everybody's like, well,
Speaker 1: we do, We're going to bed. It's like sad in
Speaker 1: a way. We'll just keep talking to each other about baseball.
Speaker 1: No results, Pacers Suns. I watched it from a pool
Speaker 1: Trey and I. We had the Sons to cover. Pacers
Speaker 1: had to win by four.
Speaker 2: They did not. They lost.
Speaker 1: That's a money line win. We've felt a lot of
Speaker 1: money line wins. I've noticed here in the Pick them
Speaker 1: Trey and I get the dub. We're five and three,
Speaker 1: Lee and Tasks fall to four and four. So nice
Speaker 1: little battle here. We said we're gonna take this up
Speaker 1: to the end of the Bubble games, which were basically
Speaker 1: a little bit more than halfway through. So task, what's
Speaker 1: our Friday pick them game?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: Here we go, guys, Day nine of the seeding games.
Speaker 2: It's another six game sked Utah Spurs. Okay, see Memphis,
Speaker 2: Sack Brooklyn, Orlando, Philadelphia, Washington, Pelicans. But the biggie Boston
Speaker 2: and Toronto at the end of the night nine o'clock
Speaker 2: Eastern on TNT, Toronto favored by three and a half.
Speaker 2: And give me the Raptors. Yeah, yep, oh.
Speaker 4: Me too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a ain sweet. I can change it
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Stretching it out here, Raptors are winning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm actually gonna go.
Speaker 4: With the Raptors as well.
Speaker 2: So some I oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Everybody taking the Raps to win by four or more points.
Speaker 1: Raps look good right now, Like I said, one of
Speaker 1: only two teams that are still undefeated down there, the
Speaker 1: Raps and the Sun. So everybody taking the Raps to win.
Speaker 2: By four or more, all right, good luck to everybody.
Speaker 1: Never know what the Celtics. I will take some Raps
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Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna do that on Instagram Live.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do it on the podcast. We can figure
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 2: But figure it out.
Speaker 3: I guess it is technically Friday tomorrow. Neat very very
Speaker 3: nice to know, Yes, it is.
Speaker 4: Indeed all right Insta Well, yeah, speaking of Instagram Live,
Speaker 4: I will be popping packs again next week.
Speaker 1: Did you get who I thought you?
Speaker 4: Well? Yeah, still still get you didn't get hurt? Still
Speaker 4: it's still in talks, still in talks, so yeah, still
Speaker 4: working off. Got man, My next week's always look great.
Speaker 4: They always look great the next week. It's just when
Speaker 4: it becomes that next week then it's like the way
Speaker 4: it gets pushed back. So I've got I've got like
Speaker 4: four who are like they're in yeah. Yeah, but I've
Speaker 4: got one confirmed for next Thursday.
Speaker 1: So you want to give us a little hit right now?
Speaker 3: Come on?
Speaker 4: Yeah, smack, can I heck my tears? This one? Former
Speaker 4: Dallas Maverick, former Nick No, no, no, Derek Harper, Derek, Yeah,
Speaker 4: the Harp.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, hopefully next week.
Speaker 4: No, well, yeah, that one. I'm pretty confident about it.
Speaker 4: Once I say their name, I'm pretty confident going ahead.
Speaker 1: The others, can I can I share the name that
Speaker 1: you are at least in contact with it?
Speaker 4: I prefer not to this. You can share it off
Speaker 4: the air, just not on the air because I just don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, hey, let's jump on this bus and get
Speaker 1: out of here. Okays, you heard it here first, have
Speaker 1: a great time, turn up, Love you guys, awesome.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. And remember I don't want the
Speaker 2: Blazers fans coming after me. I said it was Tigger
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Speaker 1: Or Embrace the Night. People embrased it.
Speaker 2: You could stay boo every day.
Speaker 4: And dad you happy every minute.
Speaker 2: It's been so long that your the funa waiting for.
Speaker 4: It's happened already. It's gonna be grevy