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Speaker 1: What's good everybody. Jay Skeets of the Nodunk's podcast got

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Speaker 1: something special for you today. Twenty years ago to the

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Speaker 1: day we're talking. January eleventh, two thousand and six, I

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Speaker 1: that show for you today. Now. Again, this was a

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Speaker 1: pilot episode. It never saw the light of day. In fact,

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be until the following week on January eighteenth,

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Speaker 1: where we would premiere episode zero zero one of the

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Speaker 1: Basketball Jones to the world. So in a way, this

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Speaker 1: just how far we've come in the last twenty years.

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Speaker 1: And the truth is, I think anything twenty years old

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Speaker 1: is worth celebrating. So we're gonna have a few more

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Speaker 1: fun surprises plan for you a little later this month.

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Speaker 1: But for now, let's take you back to the start

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Speaker 1: after the break, the first ever recording of the Basketball

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Speaker 1: Jones podcast. Enjoy.

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Speaker 2: If you're listening to The Basketball Jones with j E.

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Speaker 2: Skeets and Tax if you'd like to have your say,

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Speaker 2: now here are your hosts, Jay Skeiths and Task.

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Speaker 1: Melas Wednesday, January eleventh, two thousand and six. It is

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Speaker 1: the Basketball Joe. Oh yeah, we're here, episode zero point one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the guy that plays in the pain puts his

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Speaker 1: There you go, past first, past second, shoot, third, I'm

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Speaker 1: Jay Skats and with our producer here, Jason Doyle. All right,

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Speaker 1: there he is. Yeah, we are the Basketball Jones our

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Speaker 1: And we're gonna do that through a couple of sections

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Speaker 1: No, he's too fun. He's characters like that, and uh,

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Speaker 1: seventy wins? Do you want? Do you want to say?

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Speaker 1: We'll take a look at injuries. It's a part of

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Speaker 1: You want a rap album produced. Yeah, you get our test.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about Mike James bitch.

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Speaker 1: For all Raptor fans, that's literally the million dollar question.

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Speaker 3: his contratractor or is he doing this because finally a

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Speaker 3: city is showing him some love and giving him some

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Speaker 3: starting minutes.

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Speaker 1: That's what I like to believe. Let's keep Mike James

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Speaker 1: a raptor what that guy?

441
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Speaker 3: That guy's some player. Put the ball in his hands.

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Speaker 3: He will get the job done.

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Speaker 1: So how much quickly? How much would you give him?

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Speaker 3: He's making three and a half this year. I expect

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Speaker 3: Phil Duffy, who he just signed his agent to one

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Speaker 3: between five and.

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Speaker 1: Six sounds right, give him five?

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Speaker 3: Five for how long?

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Speaker 1: Four years?

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Speaker 3: Four years?

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, all right, Well that's that's the corner I

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Speaker 1: guess for this week. But uh, we'll get into a

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Speaker 1: little more fun segment here, I guess a little. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna start arguing crunch time coming up right after the break.

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Speaker 1: It's the basketball Jones, Hey, the.

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Speaker 3: Safe straight for long pound Nigga. My last album was

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Speaker 3: The Running.

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Speaker 1: They want to know if he still got it, they

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Speaker 1: say raps change.

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Speaker 3: They want to know how I feel a body laying.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Dray is the name hard my head. At my gag,

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Speaker 1: Still puffing my lead, still fuck up the beats, still

463
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Speaker 1: not loving.

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Speaker 3: Police, Still rock my cats with a cuff in the creed,

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Speaker 3: Still got love for the streets. Wrapping two one three,

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Speaker 3: Steel the beach Fang, Still.

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Speaker 1: Doing my thing since I left Banks, too much change,

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Speaker 1: I've rapped.

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Speaker 3: The satan for the gangs is all across the steel,

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Speaker 3: him and st taking myself to perfect the bitch.

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Speaker 1: And I'm still a got up for the streets. It's

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Speaker 1: the see Wednesday, January eleven, two thousand and six. We

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Speaker 1: are the Basketball Jones at the Basketball Jones dot Net.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jay Skeets along with That's right. Well, we talked

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Speaker 1: about we looked back on the week that was in

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Speaker 1: the NBA. We took a look at the wraps, and

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Speaker 1: uh now we're gonna do a little, I guess, a

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Speaker 1: little fun, a little more lighthearted segment here called what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna call crunch Time. Basically gonna work like this

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Speaker 1: Ja our producer here is gonna got fire out some subjects.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have one minute. All right, that's it.

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Speaker 3: Task one minute? You like to talk? One minute?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so one minute?

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Speaker 3: Make it quick here and what are you trying to

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Speaker 3: say here.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm just saying, give me my thirties.

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Speaker 3: Gary your thirty seconds. Don't hog, don't hug the clock. Yeah, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 3: don't hug the ball on the floor. I won't hog

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Speaker 3: the time on the clock.

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Speaker 1: Pass first point car. All right, so let's get it going.

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Speaker 1: We got a couple here, Jay, what are you starting

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Speaker 1: us off with? Stop? Yeah, we'll get a sound effect.

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Speaker 3: A ready?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Kobe or Lebron? Kobe or Lebron? Easy, Lebron.

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Speaker 3: I think I think Kobe's more proven. Right now, if

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Speaker 3: I want to play, I take Kobe.

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Speaker 1: You're kidding me right now?

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Speaker 3: I want a guy on the floor. You want a

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Speaker 3: shot right now? This playoff. If I want a guy

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Speaker 3: who's gonna make a shot, I take Kobe Bryant.

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Speaker 1: You want to take it? Look, you want a guy

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Speaker 1: who's gonna take forty forty five, maybe fifty shots? Hey,

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Speaker 1: then don't go ahead and ta Kobe. I want a

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Speaker 1: guy I want Magic Johnson? You want I don't you

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Speaker 1: want Rex Chapman? Gunner? Rex Chapman.

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Speaker 3: If I was playing with Smush Parker and Devin George,

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Speaker 3: I'd take all the shots as well. Who's Lebron playing

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Speaker 3: with Lebron's playing with z Danielle Marshall, Damon Jones, who

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Speaker 3: can hit a shot.

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Speaker 1: Damon Jones can't hit a shot, and he's been it's

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Speaker 1: been proven because Larry Larry uses out and now now

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Speaker 1: people are guarding him and he can't.

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Speaker 3: You can't tell me. His surrounding his lineup is len

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Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant.

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Speaker 1: Just he just turned twenty one. T this guy is

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Speaker 1: the future and he's gonna be.

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Speaker 3: Are we talking about the future. We're talking about now.

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Speaker 3: I don't care. I take Kobe Bryant, Give Kobe Bryan

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Speaker 3: a sporting cast. He will do special things this year.

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Speaker 3: Look at the guy forty five and four straight. It's

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Speaker 3: alright ready.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, top free agent? Easy, tough question, Big Ben Wallace,

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Speaker 1: that is my You know what, if you.

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Speaker 3: Want to talk youth, you want to talk to somebody

525
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Speaker 3: who's going to make an impact in the future. You

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Speaker 3: take Al Harrington this offseason.

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Speaker 1: You're kidding me.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm not kidding you. He is not He is

529
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Speaker 3: so much boy, so much untapped potential. Ben Wallace, Hey,

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Speaker 3: it's not a bad player. He is a very very

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Speaker 3: good player.

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Speaker 1: Ben Wallace is an All Star all defensive machine. He's

533
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Speaker 1: not a human. Ben Wallace is not human.

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Speaker 3: It's all downhill from here. It's not he doesn't have

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Speaker 3: that much. He doesn't have that much more lifespan. Jeez,

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: He's got definitely a couple he's got for four or

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Speaker 1: five six years left in him of the of being

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Speaker 1: the best defensive forward slash center in the league, hands down.

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Speaker 3: Al Al Harrington as a more is definitely as a

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Speaker 3: possibility to have more impact on a team.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, Ben was going to get, he should.

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Speaker 3: Get, He's should get the money. Jeeze, I do talk

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Speaker 3: a lot, right James, bitch.

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Speaker 1: Mike James. But we already talked on that. So pay

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Speaker 1: or trade. I say, pay, pay the man his money.

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Speaker 1: He is balling out of his head. As someone once

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Speaker 1: said on ESPN Chat, I read Paul Williamson and oh

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Speaker 1: my god, you gotta pay this guy that money? What

550
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Speaker 1: five mil? Six mil? Four years?

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Speaker 3: I'm loving it. Are you going to have another ray

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Speaker 3: for contract? There? Do you want to point? I shoot

553
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Speaker 3: first point guard in Mike James.

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Speaker 1: He's not a point guard. He's not a point guard.

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Speaker 1: He's even said it. That's what I like, he says,

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Speaker 1: I am not a point guard.

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Speaker 3: But he wants the ball in his hands.

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Speaker 1: Everybody, Well, sure he does, because he's a score.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's not gonna play off the ball. He

560
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Speaker 3: doesn't like playing off the ball. He said that as well,

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Speaker 3: he doesn't want to be a two.

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Speaker 1: I agree. I agree, he wants the ball in his hands.

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Speaker 3: He's a point guard.

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Speaker 1: Well he can, I mean he can play the point. Okay,

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Speaker 1: he can score and play the point. Get thirteen the

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Speaker 1: other night, just but you don't just to get thirteen

567
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Speaker 1: assists in this.

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Speaker 3: But look at his game. Look at his game. He

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Speaker 3: can score at will when he's a streaky hot, streaky shooter.

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Speaker 3: But you look at some of the rapt look at

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Speaker 3: some of the Raptors possessions, and they they use twenty

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Speaker 3: four seconds on that shot like games, and they get

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Speaker 3: a poor week shot off at the end because the

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Speaker 3: balls in his hands.

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Speaker 1: Ready, Yeah, last.

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Speaker 3: One Pistons seventy wins. That's a tough question.

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Speaker 1: No freaking way, Why I don't I don't see it.

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Speaker 1: They're twenty seven and five now, right, so that's not

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Speaker 1: on pace at all. They were playing ridiculous basketball to

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Speaker 1: begin this season now, and not that they have not

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Speaker 1: that teams haven't done this before, but now teams are

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Speaker 1: bringing it every night against them. The Jazz are taking

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Speaker 1: them even even I believe it was New Orleans last night.

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Speaker 1: They hung in that game for the entire you know,

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Speaker 1: the one thing I'll give the Pistons is that they

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Speaker 1: can end games. They they let teams hang around for

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Speaker 1: three quarters and then they fin for They're like the

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Speaker 1: Spurs that way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's seventy.

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Speaker 1: Come on, this is not Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Phil

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Speaker 1: Jackson teams here.

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Speaker 3: The only reason why I think they can do it

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Speaker 3: is because they have a team of guys who never

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Speaker 3: ever quit, and it's more about it's more about the pride,

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Speaker 3: the pride level and playing the game for playing the

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Speaker 3: game as opposed to stats with those guys. So, if anything,

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Speaker 3: if those guys, those guys have a lot to play

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Speaker 3: for it, that's the only reason I think they may

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Speaker 3: do it.

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Speaker 1: It's a stretch, all right, fair, all right, that was

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Speaker 1: crunch time and it was shit. I'm sweating, and you

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Speaker 1: just keep talking. You do want to keep talking about

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Speaker 1: the three topics goal?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, Mike James will never even just kidding.

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Speaker 1: Just you're listening to the Basketball Jones. I'm Jay Skeets

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Speaker 1: that SaaS Mellie will be right back after a quick

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Speaker 1: quick break.

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Speaker 3: Power bodydom.

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Speaker 1: And oh god if this place that we car dog

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Speaker 1: cloud off.

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Speaker 3: And they shine now rivers sho now river.

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Speaker 1: So he's single and she's down about man. He see

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Speaker 1: his name on the market. She will never look up

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Speaker 1: its dead. What's a good is leave?

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Speaker 3: She's doing two little yes and bridges where the warm

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Speaker 3: chest trds.

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Speaker 2: Time time to take about. They shot now till the

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Speaker 2: ver mirror mars.

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Speaker 3: Shine now over.

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Speaker 1: So you're listening to the Basketball Jones podcast at the

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Speaker 1: Basketball Jones dot Net. I'm Jay Skeats. This is tast

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Speaker 1: Mellus and now it's time for.

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Speaker 3: It's coming quite special segment. This is for Ozzie friends

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Speaker 3: down south.

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Speaker 1: Oh right. I guess the Brits too, We Brits.

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Speaker 3: The other Brits like it.

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Speaker 1: This is for John Amcchi.

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Speaker 3: He's a baller.

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Speaker 1: You gonna pay him.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't trade him for.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't know he had some girth, didn't he? Yeah too?

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Speaker 3: Bet he never made anything of himself. I thought he'd

633
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Speaker 3: be good in Orlando.

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Speaker 1: John Emichi the way Pat Burke took a spot. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Here it is Ladies and Gentleman the Week, all right,

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Speaker 1: Blanker the Week. Basically, we're gonna take someone from the

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Speaker 1: past week and we're gonna appoint them with the Wanker

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Speaker 1: of the week. Tess, who is this week's wanka.

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Speaker 3: I think you can call this guy Wanka of the

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Speaker 3: season so far, mister Paja Stojakovic out out in Sacramento.

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Speaker 3: I just have enough of that guy. If you want

642
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 3: to talk about who could have taken his free agent

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Speaker 3: value to another level. Paje Stoyakovic is a free agent

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Speaker 3: this year and it's just been horrible. Yeah, he's been

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00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 3: in and out of the lineup. But that's one guy

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Speaker 3: I don't sign because he's a wanker, because he doesn't

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Speaker 3: play hard. He's not a team guy, total stats guy,

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00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 3: all about himself, not a winner in my opinion. I

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00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 3: just had an I just had enough page. I don't

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Speaker 3: want to hear about him. If they trained for Ronar test.

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Speaker 3: If you could get Ronar test for Paja, that is

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Speaker 3: a steal there.

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Speaker 1: It is Peja Stojakovic. You are our first annual Wanka.

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Speaker 1: Do you enjoyed that? I agree definitely. I hate him.

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Speaker 3: Not a player.

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Speaker 1: You just crushed a lot. What nothing, Well, we're wrapping

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Speaker 1: it up.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this was a show. You liked it.

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Speaker 1: or email us.

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Speaker 1: had our producer Jason do All run in the show.

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Speaker 2: Eh, alright, alright, you've been listening to the Basketball Jones

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Speaker 2: Basketball Jones dot nex. Thanks for keeping up.

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