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Speaker 1: Guess what. We are less than two weeks away from

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Speaker 1: the start of the twenty twenty five SOFI Playing Tournament

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Speaker 1: the Dubs. The Warriors are definitely one of the teams

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Speaker 1: their way up the Western Conference standings. We are going

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Speaker 1: to get into all of that and more with NBA

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Speaker 1: writer and podcaster Charlie Cummings on today's episode. A Miles,

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Speaker 1: Great and Davis in the jack and this is Miles

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Speaker 1: and Jabari Got mad.

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Speaker 3: Fat number eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Anyway?

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Speaker 1: Bleho in the building? Uh anyway? So look we are here,

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Speaker 1: Charlie Cummings, Welcome to the show. NBA writer for the

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Speaker 1: DraftKings Network, Swish Theory, co host of the Warriors Invitational podcast.

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Speaker 1: He's done it all, he's seen it all, and we're

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Speaker 1: here to talk about the Warriors. But first, Charlie, how

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Speaker 1: are you welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm doing great. You really you really threw me

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Speaker 3: with the accurate.

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Speaker 1: You know, what it is babies podcast. You know, you

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Speaker 1: better reach your cereal. Uh, it's so fun to talk

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Speaker 1: like you forty. It is something that it's like our

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like it's like Barry at Christopher Walking, you know,

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Speaker 3: Everyone's got a forty voice that.

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Speaker 1: Feels like a wild combo if it's all Bill, what

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Speaker 1: if Christopher Walking had to be e forty for a role?

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, talk to him Bill, Bill Wow the oh

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Speaker 1: this is a basketball podcast, Charlie. Great to have you.

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Speaker 1: We do have our game of the week, Jabari. Do

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Speaker 4: We had to flex on him?

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Speaker 1: We had to flex on him again, didn't we? We

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Speaker 5: This time of year it's tough because you got people

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Speaker 5: like the Dame circumstance. Yeah he is now it's seemingly

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, so we thought we thought we were

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Speaker 1: even I'm sure much more for the Bucks. But anyway,

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Speaker 4: It looks like a good matchup.

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Speaker 1: It was a good one, you know, it wasn't it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a close one. But for me, it always

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Speaker 5: It's interesting, you know, you know, to La guys. Of

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Speaker 5: course we're gonna be dismissive of the Clippers and you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Charlie, why are you so dismissive of the Calves? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Why do I Why do I just disparage the Calves?

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Speaker 7: There like, folks, this is the most dominant regular season

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Speaker 7: like a sixty five win team. If you said that

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Speaker 7: So I don't really understand why the Calves sort of

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Speaker 1: I think it is just something about just the Celtics

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Speaker 5: Boston always yeah, oh yeah, which the situation is absolutely

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Speaker 1: Norm Powell. Though, I do have a soft spot for

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Speaker 1: Norm Powell. I gotta say, I just I do like

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Speaker 1: But that's I don't know why he he tugs and

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Speaker 4: He does. Still having a great year, you know, career year.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, the ethical most improved player in my book, not

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Speaker 3: Number one pick is really good. Now suddenly he is good.

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Speaker 5: You get a good, good, solid coach in there, get

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Speaker 1: Be, right exactly. It's like the most improved is now

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Speaker 5: But I'm now right, So yeah, therefore I wrote articles

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Speaker 1: When did the most improved When did we start wobbling

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Speaker 5: and Charlie do you have it?

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Speaker 3: Oh, we're getting there, okay.

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Speaker 5: But once you started getting guys like Giannis and Jaw

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Speaker 5: it just lost its.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, dra it's Jimmy Butler, uh CJ McCollum, Jannie

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Speaker 7: great season, like he looks incredible, that's most improved.

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Speaker 7: Going from like rookie and sophomore star taking like the

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Speaker 7: I'd love to see it be Like, it kind of

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Speaker 7: We've got all these different awards to hand out to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I hope we see that this year.

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Speaker 1: I think also too, like it would bring it helps

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Speaker 1: I have someone to actually look into a little bit

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Speaker 1: we are. But let's get into the Warriors. My goodness.

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Speaker 1: I caught that Pelicans game. I caught that Spurs game.

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Speaker 1: this is kind of working out right now. They're eighteen

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Speaker 7: Know they're making their way up.

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Speaker 7: What since this aforementioned has been acquired, who has the

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Speaker 1: Why are we looking at it? But why why are

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Speaker 4: Apples and Norges, Sir, focus.

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Speaker 1: On what I'm saying. Uh, I guess Charlie, looking at

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Speaker 1: you know, the momentum going to the postseason, how did

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Speaker 7: So I think what happened was going into this season

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Speaker 7: firmly a three year window where it's like by that time,

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Speaker 7: looked like that three year window, and going up to

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Speaker 7: Jonathan Camingez struggling because he's just not the decision maker

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Speaker 7: wasn't even I wasn't even like necessarily in the Jimmy camp.

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Speaker 7: for I love Andrew Wiggins. It's my dog forever for

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Speaker 7: So going into the trade deadline, I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 7: you need to make some kind of move to cash

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Speaker 7: in on these last few years. Hate saying the word still,

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Speaker 7: but this whole two timelines thing, I'm like, I don't

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Speaker 7: care if we suck for fifteen, twenty whatever. It's like,

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Speaker 7: we got the greatest player in franchise history on that run.

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Speaker 7: Like that carries you for a long time. So you know,

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Speaker 3: Rebuild coming together after that are pretty slim for any team.

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Speaker 7: And I was like, just show me, show me you're serious,

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Speaker 7: show me you're gonna get Stephan Draymond another shot pulled

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Speaker 7: this out, and Jimmy has been that shot. He's just

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Speaker 3: And O is the way that they can match up,

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: They I'm sure if you caught any Warriors games earlier

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Speaker 7: this season, you're just like, man, even as the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: Fan, this is kind of sad.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, like just watching them like limp through

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for the better part of the decade, and I

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Speaker 7: Okay, they're serious. They're willing to, you know, make these

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Speaker 7: trades to trade some future assets and get them closer

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Speaker 7: to maybe that fifth championship. I still think they're kind

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Speaker 7: see obviously at the top, you've got Houston, who young, exciting.

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Speaker 3: I don't really think that they're gonna be able to

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Like every time there's been like that's like, oh,

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Speaker 7: this other tier where it's like denver La and the

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Speaker 3: You know, they've got Yokich, They've got Lebron, Luca, Jimmy, Steph,

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Speaker 7: The playoffs to activate No, Yeah, it's like they're gonna

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Speaker 3: Base them off. So you know, I still think this

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Speaker 7: I don't think it was like the switch fully flipped, like,

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Speaker 7: oh yeah, this is a contender now. But we've seen

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Speaker 7: it work. As you mentioned that starting lineup that they've

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Speaker 7: Not only eleven and oh starting they're plus twenty net

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Speaker 7: They get the shots, even though the offense has been

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Speaker 7: from playoff time where it's like, hey, you got Steph

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Speaker 7: running around, He's impossible to account for. Jimmy's getting those

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Speaker 7: duckins drawn, all those free throws Draymond can orchestrate, and

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Speaker 7: they've got guys who can knock down shots so so many.

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Speaker 1: I was watching just watching the Pelicans in the game

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Speaker 1: you can you could hit a three from any position

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Speaker 7: Like nice dude, shout out, shout out to Quenton post Man. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: he just he really surprised me. I watched like when

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Speaker 7: but like they've got their like you know, din store

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Speaker 3: And the lineups with him work really well too.

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Speaker 7: When they can throw Jimmy out there and it's like, hey,

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Speaker 7: you've got a seven footter working outside. He's a lethal shooter.

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Speaker 7: He gets it off quick and then Jimmy's just going

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Speaker 7: You know, he's taking them the task, he's drawing fouls,

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Speaker 7: he's getting his buckets down there. So they've really figured

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Speaker 7: I don't really know who's like this locked in playoff.

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Speaker 3: Rotation that they're gonna have. Now it's like, man, you've

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Speaker 7: Killer starter five and then you've got Gary Payton. Hope

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Speaker 7: he gets healthy. He's been playing really well. Quinnin post

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Speaker 7: he's kind of just come out of nowhere, yeah, and

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Speaker 5: Now yeah, So with the so with the postseason in mind,

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Speaker 4: Against these teams.

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Speaker 5: Give me your nightmare matchup as well as the matchup

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I mean the nightmare me is falling into

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Speaker 3: Just have our number, Like the Clippers have just had

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Speaker 7: Unfortunately, there's a lot of teams in this Western Conference

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Speaker 3: That was brutal stem Yeah, if I saw.

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Speaker 7: That one basket, and so there's that, and then jaw

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Speaker 7: hitting the floater on us. Obviously getting boat raced by

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Speaker 7: the Clippers just really really match up well, they can

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Speaker 3: So that that right there is scary.

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Speaker 7: In terms of like, you know, if they're six seed

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Speaker 7: Jokic just continually beats us up. Even when Jokic was out.

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Speaker 7: The last time we played them, like Aaron Gordon just

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Speaker 7: that's like one of those games where you're just like, hey,

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Speaker 7: you know, we haven't really figured out the MVP, but

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Speaker 7: he just hit like seven threes.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, we just can't beat you guys.

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Speaker 7: And then LA I still wonder because I feel like

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Speaker 7: that's hard to deal with, But when they match up

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Speaker 7: at that. Austin Reeves is obviously crucial because he's that

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Speaker 7: third option. He's the shot maker. I wrote this article

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Speaker 7: but I feel like chasing around the guy who runs

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Speaker 7: the most in the league is probably gonna take your

436
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Speaker 7: legs out. You know, those open shots that Lebron and

437
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,240
Speaker 7: Luca get for him, maybe he doesn't have his legs

438
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,680
Speaker 7: under them as much. You know, maybe those closed out

439
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,480
Speaker 7: attack floaters just don't have the same juice, or you know,

440
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 7: he can't commit with the same oop to drawing his fouls.

441
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:30,120
Speaker 7: So like, weirdly enough, I'm a little more optimistic about

442
00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:35,439
Speaker 7: the Lakers matchup since they got Luca, because I'm like, hey,

443
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Speaker 7: if you guys.

444
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Speaker 3: If you want to go small ball with us, like,

445
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,240
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to beat us at our game.

446
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Speaker 7: I know that that's the Lakers game too, but I'm like,

447
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Speaker 7: at least you're doing it on our territory. Sure, like

448
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,840
Speaker 7: the teams with a hill or a big man, you

449
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,520
Speaker 7: know where It's like we had we never had an

450
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Speaker 7: answer for Anthony Davis and Lebron front court. We could

451
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,840
Speaker 7: just never figure that out with the personnel we had.

452
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Speaker 7: And yeah, the Lakers have some really good small ball lineups.

453
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Speaker 7: But I'm like, hey, at least we get to play

454
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Speaker 7: the way we want. We're going to try to play fast.

455
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 7: We're not getting just like offensive rebounded to death and

456
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:11,640
Speaker 7: second chanced all the way out of the game. So yeah,

457
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Speaker 7: I'd say firmly that Clippers playing matchup scares me. Then

458
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Speaker 7: I got to go Denver because they got a number.

459
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Speaker 7: And then the Lakers, beyond that, kind of feel good

460
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Speaker 7: about a lot of the matchups that they have on

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Speaker 7: the board.

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Speaker 4: Memphis, Houston, all of those guys. You see it coming.

463
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Speaker 3: Memphis, Memphis. I mean, you know, if if if you say, our.

464
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Speaker 7: First round matchup is going to come against the team

465
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Speaker 7: that just fired their coach, the guys pushing each other

466
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Speaker 7: on the sidelines.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: I'll take that. You know, I'll take stability versus whatever

469
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Speaker 3: that is. Like, they got a.

470
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Speaker 7: Bunch of individual talent, but I just don't trust them

471
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Speaker 7: to come together as.

472
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Speaker 3: A team Houston. I mean, what can I say?

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Speaker 7: Since February twenty twenty, there have been as many pandemic

474
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Speaker 7: as a Houston Rockets wins against the Warriors. And I know,

475
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 7: I know they've leveled up this year, but like you know,

476
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Speaker 7: we are sixteen and one. Since yeah, we're sixteen and one,

477
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Speaker 7: and I know that this year is the year that

478
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 7: they've leveled up. We still got their number this year.

479
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Speaker 7: They're exciting, they got all these athletes.

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Speaker 3: Great.

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Speaker 7: I don't trust them to score at all against our

482
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Speaker 7: defense in a playoff series.

483
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Speaker 3: They really just don't scare me that much.

484
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Speaker 7: I mean, really, my hottest take is I think on

485
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Speaker 7: this Warriors team that of all the teams that could

486
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Speaker 7: realistically fall to be the eight seed, I think the

487
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Speaker 7: Warriors have by far the best chance against the Thunder.

488
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Speaker 3: You know, I mean the Thunder are buzzsaw right now.

489
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Speaker 3: They look incredible.

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Speaker 7: But I go back to a matchup we had against

491
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Speaker 7: them earlier this year where it was kind of like

492
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Speaker 7: the old Thunder matchups after Katie and Harden were gone

493
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 7: and it was just Russ and Russ cooking, and they said,

494
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Speaker 7: you know what, Russ, you're getting single c We're putting

495
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Speaker 7: our best perimeter defender on you. Whatever you do against us, fine.

496
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Speaker 3: We're not going to let you pass.

497
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 7: We're not going to let other people get involved. And

498
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 7: they ran that same game plan last time against the Thunder.

499
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Speaker 7: I think Shay got like fifty four on us or something,

500
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Speaker 7: and we we had it the whole way. Yeah, like

501
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 7: he's doing everything he could. But you single cover everybody,

502
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 7: you know, you don't let Jayalen Williams get into space,

503
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Speaker 7: you don't let their shooters get open. They were just floundering.

504
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Speaker 7: And I mean that was still with injuries, you know,

505
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Speaker 7: like Chet wasn't back yet. So it does change things

506
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Speaker 7: on the defensive end of the floor.

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Speaker 3: But I kind of think they got.

508
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Speaker 7: A puncher's chance even against you know, like a what

509
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Speaker 7: should be a seventy win team.

510
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Speaker 1: I don't mind if you did that dirty work. Yeah,

511
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Speaker 1: go ahead.

512
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Speaker 5: I'm personally I'm invested in Golden State or any other

513
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Speaker 5: team if they would like to. If you want to

514
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Speaker 5: get rid of OKC on not our behalf, but yes,

515
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Speaker 5: on our behalf.

516
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Speaker 1: On our behalf, yes, yes please do. I love this

517
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 1: idea of you guys falling to the eighth seat to

518
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 1: then do battle with the thunder. Yes, yes, yes, this

519
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,360
Speaker 1: is a fine idea, This is a fine property, I say,

520
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Speaker 1: I enjoy this. Indeed, all right, let's take a quick

521
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Speaker 1: break and we're going to come back to talk a

522
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:19,679
Speaker 1: little bit more about basketball and maybe actually, no not

523
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Speaker 1: maybe definitely do some contender v Pretender or Chicken tender

524
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:36,440
Speaker 1: after this and we're back. And look, it's not all

525
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 1: guns n' roses for the Lakers.

526
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Speaker 3: You know.

527
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Speaker 1: Sometimes we do wobble a bit. And I just want

528
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Speaker 1: to point something out because this was I think very

529
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Speaker 1: painful for Jabari and I and all my friends who

530
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Speaker 1: are Laker fans on this very chaotic text threat. I

531
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: got going when we played the Chicago Bulls last week.

532
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 1: This was a close game. It was coming down to

533
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Speaker 1: the stretch. The Lakers were going out of body to

534
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Speaker 1: keep this game close, and then we get hit with

535
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: a buzzer beater from old Giddy himself. Okay, and I

536
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: almost turned inside out watching Lebron James make some of

537
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: the most elementary mistakes I was, I truly was watching

538
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: and I was like this, My face turned.

539
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 4: I said, what is it?

540
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: Who is that? Who that? Who is that? That's that Lebron?

541
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Speaker 1: But we were talking about this off Mike and I said, no, no,

542
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Speaker 1: we might as well just talk about this, Jabbar. I mean,

543
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Speaker 1: we'll take this wherever you want to go, because I

544
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: think this was one of those moments that I thought,

545
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Speaker 1: may for a second, we're like, okay, let's see what

546
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Speaker 1: Chicago does. They didn't, They didn't quite take that momentum

547
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 1: into the next couple of games, but it was a moment.

548
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Speaker 5: The entire fourth quarter. I mean, we can, we can

549
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 5: be upfront about this. You know, the Bulls hit eleven

550
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 5: or fourteen from deep wild, I mean you wh yeah, exactly.

551
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 5: But the truth of the matter is, even with the

552
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 5: hot shooting, even with you know, the Lakers selling all

553
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,199
Speaker 5: the way throughout, they had a six point lead with

554
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 5: less than thirty seconds left. Yeah, they had a six

555
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 5: point lead with less than thirty seconds left, and they

556
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 5: ended up they ended up losing that game. You know,

557
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 5: the sky isn't falling, but on that night in particular,

558
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 5: it certainly felt like that.

559
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I really, you know, this is the

560
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: best part about being a Laker fan is that you

561
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,719
Speaker 1: are so unwell mentally that you could just watch Dan

562
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: go up.

563
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.

564
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Speaker 1: I'm throwing it all the way.

565
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Speaker 3: Bro.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it, that's it. I'm a I'm a I'm

567
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: a Sacramento Kings fan. Now I don't care, let's light

568
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 1: the beam. I don't know.

569
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Speaker 7: I'm off this, but this is my shout out to

570
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Speaker 7: the homie Richard normal one of my like Mount Rushmore

571
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 7: tweets where he said, one of the core principles of

572
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 7: fascism is the party in charge has to make themselves

573
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Speaker 7: believe that they are the oppressed party.

574
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Speaker 3: The Los Angeles.

575
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely, absolute.

576
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 7: Yes.

577
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 5: The best way to show that is when this show started,

578
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 5: the Lakers had won a title just two years prior,

579
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 5: right as we were talking about it. You know, I

580
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 5: think it was on the pilot episode that we were

581
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 5: doing with Jack, and I think I said something like, man,

582
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 5: it's been it's been a tough couple of years.

583
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: Man, did we know?

584
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 5: He said, and they basically he just reminded me how

585
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 5: old are you? And I, you know, explained to him

586
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 5: at the time early forties, the Lakers had played you know,

587
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 5: have played in like thirteen finals in my life. You know,

588
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 5: it's something along those lines. But I recognize we are

589
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,199
Speaker 5: you know, as Miles said, we are unwell.

590
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Speaker 1: We are unwell.

591
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 5: It is a true expectation. It is not these aren't

592
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 5: These aren't.

593
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: Acts, because it does it think you're not even watching basketball.

594
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Speaker 1: You're saying and in this year's version of Lakers are

595
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: gonna give me a championship. Yeah, like that's good.

596
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 3: Sexual.

597
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: It's not about how's the team doing. Ever, It's like, well,

598
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Speaker 1: it's yeah here, I'm like exactly, I'm like, y'all, I

599
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: have twenty fingers in toes, So y'all got work. You

600
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: got three more things to do before I fill out

601
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Speaker 1: my whole all my digits.

602
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 4: What are we doing?

603
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna be walking around clinking all day.

604
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, have terrible foot injuries from wearing all these rings

605
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: on my feet. But yeah, I mean, what did you

606
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: have any thoughts on watching that? That regression from Lebron?

607
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: It was just kind of it was it was it

608
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: was breathtaking.

609
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was.

610
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Speaker 7: Jarring because I don't think I've ever seen i mean

611
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Speaker 7: maybe like Miami, like against Dallas when he looked kind

612
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 7: of rattled. That was like the only like I'm so

613
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 7: used to him just being superhuman all the time. Yeah,

614
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 7: that like seeing him just like have a brain fart

615
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 7: is so crazy.

616
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Speaker 4: Right.

617
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Speaker 7: First of all, my main takeaway is Stacey King is

618
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 7: unbelievable at what he does. Like the Elizabeth I'm coming

619
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Speaker 7: home just on the call.

620
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Speaker 3: Was just trying me.

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Speaker 4: That was so good.

622
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Speaker 7: But I like watched it back, you know, because I

623
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Speaker 7: saw like, oh, they got the bucket and then like

624
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 7: steal off the inbound of the three and then rewind

625
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Speaker 7: it because I'm like, wait, wait, wait, it was like

626
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 7: that could not that couldn't have been Bron. It's like

627
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 7: he just threw it right to him. I was like,

628
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Speaker 7: it's not even like you know, it was a little

629
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Speaker 7: off target and it went off the hands or whatever.

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Speaker 3: I was like, he just smoked that one. You know.

631
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Speaker 3: I was like what is this?

632
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Speaker 7: And that was the craziest part to me, you know,

633
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 7: I'm like, you know, wild stuff like that happens, you

634
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Speaker 7: know a few times a year where it's like some

635
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 7: team just gets like ten points and thirty seconds and

636
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 7: turns a game on its head.

637
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Speaker 3: But seeing Lebron be at the center of it, Yeah,

638
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 3: it's crazy.

639
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 4: It is.

640
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Speaker 1: It's like when you see like a grandparents start moving

641
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: a little bit slower and you're like, oh no, no.

642
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: But then but then he but then but then he

643
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: brought it back. I mean like he had a clutch

644
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: block in the Houston game down the stretch and I

645
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Speaker 1: was like, okay, you are you are? That was a

646
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Speaker 1: that was a wobble, like you said, a b fart,

647
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Speaker 1: But I know what you're coming back, coming back.

648
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Speaker 5: I think that's you know that that remains the craziest

649
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 5: thing about Lebron is because the reality is someone with

650
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Speaker 5: the weird tear that he has on his body, you

651
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 5: would expect him to have more instances like that. Charlie

652
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 5: just described the fact that that's the anomaly is still

653
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 5: just the craziest.

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00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: Thing, right, right, right, No, exactly exactly, Well, Charlie, since

655
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Speaker 1: we have a great basketball mind, someone who covers the league, we'd.

656
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Speaker 4: Like to do this.

657
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Speaker 1: Now that we're getting into the postseason, it's time to

658
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: play a little contender verse pretender, and then last week

659
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Speaker 1: we added or chicken tender. If they don't fit either

660
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Speaker 1: of those descriptors, so I guess we'll start. Just give

661
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Speaker 1: us your breakdown, contender, pretender or chicken tender if applicable.

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Speaker 1: First up, the Pacers seven and three over the last ten.

663
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Speaker 1: They are on pace to potentially top the preseason win

664
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Speaker 1: over under projection of forty six and a half. Okay,

665
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: feels like a traditional indie squad, fun competitive, but is

666
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Speaker 1: there enough when facing the top contenders of the disting conference? Yeah?

667
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: Not enough exactly. There go GNX Charlie. What do you

668
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Speaker 1: think now? Can they push through or are they pretending?

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Speaker 1: Or are they battered and fried and delicious?

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Speaker 3: Oh? You know I do. I do fall on battered,

671
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 3: fried and delicious with a nice little, nice little dipping

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Speaker 3: sauce on.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I think what we saw last year,

674
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Speaker 7: they got some good luck, you know, with the Bucks

675
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Speaker 7: being just like decimated with injuries in that first round series,

676
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Speaker 7: which might still be the matchup this year, it depends,

677
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Speaker 7: but and then the Knicks had their issues.

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Speaker 3: They pushed through. I don't think they're in contender status.

679
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Speaker 7: I think when you just look at that top two

680
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Speaker 7: in the East, I don't think anyone else in the

681
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 7: East is touching that. Yeah, but you know, they're not

682
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Speaker 7: quite pretenders to me, because I think a lot of

683
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Speaker 7: what we see out there is real, uh, you know.

684
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Speaker 7: Shout out to one of my guys I've written about

685
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Speaker 7: a few times, aaron Ne Smith. They lost him for

686
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Speaker 7: the majority of the season, and it's no coincidence that

687
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Speaker 7: him being bad has coordinated with them rising up the

688
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 7: standings because he's so crucial to what they do. He

689
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Speaker 7: creates a lot of turnovers on the defensive end, takes

690
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 7: all their primary matchups, handles them really well.

691
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Speaker 3: Guy's just a ball of energy too.

692
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 7: He's getting out in transition, He's just flying into the paint.

693
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Speaker 7: I don't know if you guys have seen the meme

694
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Speaker 7: that I think about all the time with him, where

695
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 7: it's like nobody and then aaron Ne Smith and it's

696
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Speaker 7: uh Ralph Willham diving headfirst through the window him all

697
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Speaker 7: like every time I watch a Pacers game, like he's

698
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Speaker 7: on the ground every three minutes.

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Speaker 3: But he's crucial to that.

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Speaker 7: Obviously, Tyreese like took him a while, like he had

701
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Speaker 7: that late season injury that I think kind of bothered

702
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Speaker 7: him into the early season, you know, like we saw

703
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Speaker 7: he wasn't really playing in.

704
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Speaker 3: The Olympics because of it.

705
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 7: He's still like the star point guard that we all

706
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 7: saw and the Sea Acam trade has still worked out

707
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 7: really well for them at where I heard it, but

708
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 7: they are like, you know, if you need twenty five

709
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 7: out of pascital, he's giving you twenty. And if you

710
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 7: only needed fifteen, he's giving you twenty. You know, he's

711
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 7: just that kind of guy where he's just so steady, consistent.

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Speaker 7: I really like what they're building, but yeah, I can't

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Speaker 7: get all the way to contender.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So but that's the good point because you didn't also

716
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Speaker 1: want to I'm not saying slander them, but you didn't

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Speaker 1: want to mischaracterize them as a pretender. So in this case,

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Speaker 1: they are a chicken tender. Chicken tender, they are delicious

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Speaker 1: and respect to her. Yeah, Okay, like we found a

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Speaker 1: new category. This is how this is what happens when

721
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Speaker 1: you stay fluid, baby.

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Speaker 3: A little bit, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it's not but yeah, and disrespectfully snacking on him

724
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Speaker 1: like to nourish my body. That's respect, you know what

725
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: I mean? Jabari, who's next?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 5: The Minnesota Timberwolves also seven and three over the last ten.

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Speaker 5: You know, but they were a team that, to be

729
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 5: honest with you, I kind of rid them off. Admittedly,

730
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Speaker 5: midway through the year they were hovering around five hundred

731
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Speaker 5: as recently as February. Quietly they are eleven and three

732
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Speaker 5: over the last stretch, but you know, don't look too

733
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Speaker 5: deeply into their strength to schedule over that stretch and

734
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Speaker 5: we'll just ignore that. Exactly where are you on them, Charlie,

735
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Speaker 5: Like are they are they going to be in the

736
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Speaker 5: play in or are they going to do any damage

737
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Speaker 5: this postseason?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so that's where I was going to go and

739
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Speaker 7: meet you already beat me to the spot there.

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Speaker 3: Month of March. We all love Mickey Mouse March.

741
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Speaker 7: Shout out to the home meet till bro dude at

742
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Speaker 7: Uno Ball podcast for that term.

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Speaker 3: That's just lasered into my brain. Now. So they played

744
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 3: in the month of March. How many teams do you

745
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 3: think they played that were five hundred or better?

746
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 4: I think it's one?

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00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was? Is it three?

748
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 3: They got four? Making me real bad?

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Speaker 1: But sorry, we're being dismissive though, that's the point.

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Speaker 7: And two they lost two to the Pacers of all teams.

751
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Speaker 7: In fact, they beat Detroit and they beat Denver. I

752
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 7: believe that was a Denver game other than they did

753
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 7: have yokis my bad. That was a healthy Denver team

754
00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 7: hand up. But still, like I remember looking into it

755
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 7: when the Warriors really hit their stride after the trade

756
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 7: deadline and it's like, Okay, we gotta leave over Minnesota.

757
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 7: We got to leave over the Clippers, we got to

758
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 7: get over the Kings. Like there was a lot of

759
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 7: hurdles that they had to clear. And I remember instantly someone.

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00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 3: Sent me the Wolves rest of the season schedule and

761
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 3: they were just like ugh, like it's.

762
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Speaker 1: Just no, actually it's pronounced oh yeah, yeah, that's a

763
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Speaker 1: real yeah.

764
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Speaker 7: But yeah, I think I think I falled more towards pretender.

765
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Speaker 7: And it's not that I have anything against the Wolves players.

766
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 7: I just think, yes, the salary cap is what it

767
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 7: is now. The cowardice to have the best team that

768
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 7: you had in twenty years and immediately break it up. Yeah,

769
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 7: for you know, for money reasons, Like there was no

770
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Speaker 7: other reason.

771
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 3: You know.

772
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Speaker 7: They they got all the way there, they had such

773
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 7: a good thing going. They finally figured out how to

774
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 7: bear cat and go bear together, Like he've got aunt

775
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 7: taken this leap and then they're like everyone just makes

776
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 7: too much money on a conference finals team, right, and

777
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 7: it's just brutal, Like the shooting leap has been real

778
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 7: this year.

779
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 3: He's still struggling.

780
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 7: With the defensive attention given to him. I like Julius

781
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 7: Randall and small doses. But you know, looking at like

782
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 7: everyone's just like, oh, look at Julius over the last like,

783
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 7: you know, ten, They're like, oh, they've won like the

784
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 7: last ten games they've had together, And I'm like, well, yeah,

785
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 7: of course they've beaten the Hornets, the Heat, the Magic,

786
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 7: the Jazz, right, the Pelicans twice.

787
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: You look at it like this then, yeah, very narrowly

788
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: right here and no other context around that. Yes, fantastic.

789
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 7: Yeah, you like got the horse blinders on, Like I

790
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 7: could see a good team, but I just fall on Pretender.

791
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 3: I think they may they have some teams that they.

792
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 7: Match up well against, you know, like I think if

793
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 7: I'm Denver, I'm looking at them and be like, please

794
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 7: not again, Like I just don't I want to deal

795
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 7: with this, but yeah, I don't know, I just don't

796
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 7: really buy it.

797
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fair.

798
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,760
Speaker 1: And finally, and I think we touched on this before,

799
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: but the Golden State Warriors Pretender, Contender, Chicken Tender, Oh

800
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: like or Bender from Futurama up to you? Is it

801
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: a futuristic robot with a snarky mouth.

802
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, Fender are they yes, Fender Stratocaster.

803
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 4: Huh.

804
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:34,760
Speaker 7: I'm going with the lowest cee, lowest case possible contemper

805
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 7: And it's the same time i feel about like Denver

806
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 7: in La where I'm like, you know, I don't love

807
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 7: them against Okay, see who's clearly the best in the West.

808
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 7: But it's the same how I feel about I'm like, hey,

809
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 7: someone else, you know does the dirty work.

810
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 3: For them and or you know, like injury strikes whatever.

811
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,399
Speaker 7: I feel the same way about like the Warriors, where

812
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 7: I'm like, hey, if they get all the way to

813
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:00,080
Speaker 7: the finals.

814
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 1: Any as possible, oh that point, get out.

815
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 7: Of the blood path. That's the West. I know the

816
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 7: Cavs are incredible. I know the Celtics are incredible. I've

817
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 7: seen what we do to these Celtics and I've seen

818
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 7: it too, seen what we do to teams that try

819
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 7: to run the twin Towers, you know, double big lineup.

820
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 3: I'm like, hmmm, you know.

821
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 7: I see a vision like I see a very narrow path,

822
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 7: but there is a path, you know, on the on

823
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:26,919
Speaker 7: the little Poetrate's tip.

824
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 3: You know, there's a very narrow path.

825
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 7: But you know, I'm looking into the future and I'm seeing, Hey,

826
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Speaker 7: if the matchups break the right way, you know, maybe

827
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 7: they get some some right shooting. Luck we need we

828
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 7: need Arwani Walker right, but you know I see a

829
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 7: world where it could happen.

830
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean great reference. Uh, but can you get

831
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: past Shia who is just kay Alexander?

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00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 7: Uh?

833
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: That's I'm sorry, I really.

834
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 4: Oh boy, guys, trust me, I have not.

835
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Speaker 1: That taking a Okay, we're gonna take a break and

836
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Speaker 1: when we come back to fourth quarter, wrapid fire around

837
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Speaker 1: of questioning with Charlie Cummings, and we're back. Charlie Cummings,

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Speaker 1: It's been a fantastic appearance for you, I must say,

839
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 1: but we are going to have to turn up the

840
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: spice level. We're gonna have to turn up the heat. No, Miami,

841
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: we are going to be very rude and aggressive with

842
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 1: you in this fourth quarter rapid fire round with questioning,

843
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 1: the fastest question and answer a segment in all sports

844
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Speaker 1: podcasting history. We ask you a question, don't do like

845
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: a big intellectual run up to your answer. This is

846
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: a three man weave drill. Don't put the ball down,

847
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: you fire it right back from the chest.

848
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 4: Point four seconds on the clock, exactly half a second

849
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Speaker 4: or last offense.

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Speaker 1: You going there? You go?

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00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 6: You ready, Charlie, let's do it, Bryan start the clock.

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00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 6: Hi Bryan, Okay.

853
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: Jabart please go first as the guest co host.

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00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I appreciate that. Charlie. Are you ready?

855
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, so you.

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00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 5: Already messed up. You've already answered that question. You are

857
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,720
Speaker 5: wasting every time. This is the rapid fire arms. So Charlie,

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00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,919
Speaker 5: are you ready? Thank you kindly.

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00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 4: Okay, you still delayed, so that wasted our time. Yeh?

860
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 5: Did Manta in fact have it all? And how fun

861
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 5: would Monta be in today's game?

862
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 7: Mister have it all? Always would be sick?

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00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: Well mm hmm okay, okay, you do have to give

864
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: us a little bit more than that, a little bit more.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, ooh, I mean any of the don Nelson guys, man,

866
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 7: run it up. The guy could create a shot with

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Speaker 7: the best of them. I love I love yea.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, yeah, more on that later, thanks, Charlie.

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Speaker 1: Next question, man, we got to keep this moving and

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00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Man, clearly you're a fan.

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Speaker 4: But here we go.

872
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: Next question. More dominant player Draymond in MJ's era or

873
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 1: Dennis Rodman starting his career in twenty fourteen to.

874
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 7: Now Draymond with Jordan Rules. Give me that all day. Yeah,

875
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 7: well you can punch in his stomping his way through

876
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 7: the nineties.

877
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 4: I had not thought about that.

878
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that is the perfect is.

879
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 3: What do you do?

880
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: What happened? It gets him a hackeen that.

881
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 4: I don't think.

882
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 7: I'm just saying, I don't think anyone's breaking up that fight.

883
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, okay, keeping it going, keeping

884
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: it going, Yeah, Charlie, Man, that's really on you, bro.

885
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: You really got to keep this thing going.

886
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 5: Man, Okay, you can pick any former dub legend to

887
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 5: make the run with this current squad. Who were you

888
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 5: picking Chris Gatley? Hey, you know what after you get

889
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:31,720
Speaker 5: banged on and you dare.

890
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 7: Hey, I could go sickle poll like Rod Higgins on

891
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 7: some stuff.

892
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 3: I'd love to see a new pol.

893
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 7: But it's Mitch Richmond.

894
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 4: It's got to be at that, yeah Richmond.

895
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just go on because I was a big

896
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,399
Speaker 1: Mitch Richmond fan as a younger. As a younger as

897
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: they say in the UK.

898
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 7: Yes, as a younger. Uh no, you throw in like

899
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 7: Mitch Steph Jimmy Draymond, Like, that's some dogs right there.

900
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:00,280
Speaker 3: That's a hell of a scoring trio.

901
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 7: Oh God give me that.

902
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to see Drake.

903
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: You didn't know about what for all the dogs? Was

904
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: that lineup you just mentioned, Charlie, that's for all the dogs?

905
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 4: You know what I mean that.

906
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: Let's do a little bit of trivia, shall we? Who

907
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: is the all time franchise leader in rebounds per game

908
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: for the Golden State Warriors?

909
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 3: Will yes?

910
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: Do you know what that was?

911
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 3: Like? Twenty four?

912
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 4: He's pretty damn close twenty.

913
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 1: Five point one.

914
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 3: If you need heard.

915
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh and Jabai hit him with the last bit

916
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:31,720
Speaker 1: of trivia.

917
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 5: All right, bonus, best guess how many times does Steph

918
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 5: hit ten.

919
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 3: Or more threes in a game? Forty two?

920
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: Okay, that was a little a little too much dip

921
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: by your chip there.

922
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 4: So this is the thing.

923
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,720
Speaker 5: This is so as as we already know, there's Lakers

924
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 5: fans are spoiled. We are we have, you know, our expectations.

925
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 5: The fact that he went way up that forty it

926
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 5: was but it was also crazy. It lets you know

927
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 5: how spoiled he's been watching stepson Tiger. It was twenty

928
00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 5: six For mortals that don't have you know, suit like that.

929
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 5: That is just a crazy amount, So twenty six times

930
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 5: or more.

931
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: That's like I'm sure for like a Warriors fan hearing

932
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: about seventeen rings or something like that.

933
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.

934
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: It's Ray. It's got a crazy, scary, spooky, hilarious and

935
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: actually no, this is the final question. See, we like

936
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 1: to keep you on your toes during the rabbit Fire

937
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: round of questioning. Charlie Cummings, you can create your own

938
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: version of Coachella or the Up and Smoke Tour using

939
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: the artists of today. Give us your lineup so we

940
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: can get a just a peek into your mind any

941
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: musical taste.

942
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 7: I've got three distinct categories going on. I've got a

943
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 7: Bay Area rap, I've got a rap, and then I

944
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 7: have got rock that your dad would listen to. Uh,

945
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 7: we will go in reverse order. On the rock front,

946
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 7: I've got sticks, I've got heart, and I've gotten shout

947
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 7: out to Ann Wilson. Yeah, shout out to Pieces of

948
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:54,240
Speaker 7: eight by Sticks, one of the all time albums.

949
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: Hmmm yeah yeah.

950
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 7: In my Bay Areas, I have Mac Dre and Andre

951
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 7: Nicotina ideally doing some songs together. Love that Andre and

952
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 7: Andre piece. Yeah, a little bit of my homeboy Chevy.

953
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 7: You know, we got to work that in there, and

954
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 7: also shout out to Equipto. I'm just going full ninety

955
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 7: Bay Area guys.

956
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 3: Uh.

957
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 7: It was tough to cut too short. It was tough

958
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 7: to cut forty.

959
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 4: But oh you like what you like?

960
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, well you're bringing mac Dre back obviously. Yeah,

961
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 1: I mean I get that.

962
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 3: You know.

963
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know I'm Max Forever in a sense. Yeah,

964
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 7: I'm pulling from the grave here. And for the Atlanta section,

965
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 7: gotta have Outcast like always gonna you know, if three

966
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 7: Stacks is going to be there, I'm going to be there.

967
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 7: He can bring his flute if he wants.

968
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, but please, but please, but please also do outcasts,

969
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: you know, like I like the growth as an artist,

970
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: but also I would like to hear Outcast also.

971
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 7: Yes, of course, like we all want to see it.

972
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:00,280
Speaker 7: I gotta have Future and Thug in there too. My

973
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 7: my specific request for their set list. I need Thug

974
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 7: to do Barter six front to back, no skips all

975
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 7: the way through. I need Future on there. I need

976
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 7: him doing the Future Ann Hendricks double side, ideally a

977
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 7: little more on the Hendrix side. Give me that soulful

978
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 7: sad rap. Give me a little crooning. Yeah, close it

979
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 7: all out. I need those two just doing all the

980
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 7: hits off, super slimy.

981
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: There you go. We need it, and you're just being

982
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: honest as he would saying. So, actually, Charlie, you can

983
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: due with us the honor of selecting the game of

984
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: the week. This is the game that we tell everybody,

985
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: all the listeners to check in on as we will

986
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: be discussing it, barring any last minute flexing on our end.

987
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: So we have four options. On Friday, we have OKAC

988
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: at Houston or Nuggies at Golden State. Then Saturday Memphis

989
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: at Detroit or Sunday Lakers at Oka.

990
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 4: See, I know which one on was on?

991
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: Which one is the one that you think will tell

992
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,760
Speaker 1: us the most about what's what's gonna happens to come.

993
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 7: Tell us the most? I mean, I'm gonna be biased.

994
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 7: I'm gonna say Nuggets Warriors. I'm surprised if you skipped

995
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 7: right over our little Thursday tilt.

996
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: But uh oh no, that's light work, bro, That's like work,

997
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:16,879
Speaker 1: you know. That's yeah, that's what I watna get stressed smoke. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no,

998
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: that's why that's why I've skipped it. Because we will

999
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 1: not have anything like that to We're not going to

1000
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 1: put that sort of damnic leaves above our head like that.

1001
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 7: No, yeah, one one, seventeen eighty nine Bronze doing like

1002
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 7: twelve points maybe, Yeah, No, I'm going I'm going Nuggets Warriors.

1003
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:32,720
Speaker 4: Uh.

1004
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,240
Speaker 7: I think, like I said, nine in a row against

1005
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 7: us that I feel like is the best test of

1006
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 7: is this team for real? Right? Like can they get

1007
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,439
Speaker 7: the monkey off their back of just being beaten over

1008
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 7: and over by that team?

1009
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,840
Speaker 1: Hey, we did it, so can y'all you know what

1010
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: I mean?

1011
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, tell them Peso did it?

1012
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 8: But you know, okay, okay, Yeah, I mean I think

1013
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 8: also it is uh will move immovable object versus unstoppable

1014
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 8: force basically because with that lineup, I'm like, yeah, I

1015
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 8: want to I want to see what that eleven and

1016
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,879
Speaker 8: Ozer lineup look like with I mean because the other

1017
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 8: part too.

1018
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: It's always funny when I read all these stats about

1019
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: how how much Jokic has to do on his own,

1020
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: and it is baffling when you're like, who do you

1021
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: who do you truly have at your side? When they

1022
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: look back and like he played with the all time

1023
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,760
Speaker 1: he man, Yeah, who were his teammates kind of feels

1024
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: that way. I mean, no disrespect to Jamal Murray, but

1025
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of a lot of pointing out

1026
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: of like he doesn't have any all star teammates, no

1027
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: all NBA teammates.

1028
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 5: Just do it all jam Old disrespect intended for me though,

1029
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 5: just so you know, Yeah.

1030
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, good to know, good to know.

1031
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,840
Speaker 5: I mean, stale mad at those two game winners in

1032
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 5: the last series.

1033
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 3: Just well.

1034
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: Also, look, we all know that it is because of

1035
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 1: the Kendrick and Drake beef. You know it's it's ugly

1036
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: anyway for you know, as Californians looking at a Canadian

1037
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 1: guy like that.

1038
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, bro, that's true. Yeah, you had to fit

1039
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 7: a little Jamal slander in right at the buzzer though, didn't.

1040
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: You had to because we don't follow the net.

1041
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 3: Don't worry because.

1042
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: We are unwell. Charlie Cummings, thank you so much for

1043
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: joining us on. Miles and Jabari, you got mad Boosti's

1044
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: where they people find you, read you, support you, listen

1045
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Speaker 1: to you, all that kind of stuff.

1046
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, like Jabari said at the top, check my writing

1047
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 7: out on DraftKings Network just jumped on with them. Been

1048
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 7: fun getting to do full time writing for the first time.

1049
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 7: I'll also still be putting out my work on dswitch

1050
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 7: Theory dot com. I always be writing on role players

1051
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 7: through the league. Get some dub stuff in there, other

1052
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 7: random little tidbits that I find interesting. And if you're

1053
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 7: in the need of a little Warriors content, the Warriors Invitational.

1054
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 7: We're still hitting our episodes when we can getting out

1055
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 7: that Dubbs content. So yes, sir, and follow me on

1056
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 7: Twitter at Cleatheist eleven.

1057
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:53,560
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1061
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Speaker 1: the cal Berkeley legend.

1063
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Speaker 5: A Jabori Davison being on Blues Guy. I think I

1064
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 5: am still on Twitter, but you know, talk to me

1065
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 5: on Blues Guy.

1066
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Speaker 4: Get it's better.

1067
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly and look. Also follow us at the

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