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Speaker 4: I got to go man, I got an appointment.

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Speaker 4: That's just got to take my son to the doctor.

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Speaker 1: I don't know with you. Sometimes sometimes I think I

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Speaker 2: Doesn't matter if we're done or not. Lee will just

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Speaker 1: hoop Talks Live March twenty eighth in Toronto, come on

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Speaker 1: later today. But some pretty good games on Tuesday night

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Speaker 1: in Education. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. Let's

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Speaker 1: start with Lebron going for forty points, his season high,

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Speaker 5: And he tried his best, but Lebron just kind of said,

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Speaker 3: That's the problem.

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Speaker 2: That's their best option. And legitimately he doesn't get back

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Speaker 1: I love a Lonzo playing with Zion Williams and two

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Speaker 3: You should hop you on my team?

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Speaker 1: Oh you feeling it tonight?

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Speaker 4: You love a rebound highlight.

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Speaker 5: There was that one of Zion against Dwight Howard of

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Speaker 1: That was very solid rebound.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I think that's sexy.

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Speaker 5: I think rebounds can be sexy and solid, But that

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Speaker 1: Do you think the Pelicans, who are currently here in

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Speaker 1: give us a one E Zion versus Lebron matchup? You

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Speaker 1: what do you think here? Which which team do you

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Speaker 7: I mean, the Grizzlies, thank you very much for losing

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Speaker 7: I would rather it be the Grizzlies or Pelicans, right, Okay,

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Speaker 4: But if the Pelicans are at full squad, full strength.

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Speaker 5: Certainly they can make that a competitive five game series,

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Speaker 5: I think. And we get another Pelicans Lakers game this

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Speaker 5: to see if the you know how the Pelicans come

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Speaker 5: it'd be pretty amazing. I think I said yesterday on

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Speaker 5: that would just be an incredible achievement by him. Obviously

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Speaker 5: it's not entirely him that they've got other players playing

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Speaker 5: very well, but certainly he would give it that bump,

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Speaker 5: you know, the Zion bump, and the story would sort

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Speaker 1: Which would I mean, Silver is salivating over the idea

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Speaker 1: It was intense for a late February game between two

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Speaker 2: First time Jannis had to pull out his passport this season,

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 1: So defensively, the Raps are you are totally fine, you think,

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Speaker 1: it's the offense. It's trying to score on the best

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Speaker 2: Yeah, franchise, franchise, I thank you.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's the game plan from the Bucks. We

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Speaker 1: it was every time the Raps did penetrate, it was

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Speaker 1: This crazy They're just gigantic in there, and that's the

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Speaker 5: They only gave him five in the end. I thought

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Speaker 5: mean said Jabacca had ten to three point attempts, might

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Speaker 5: The defensive end, he's just again brilliant, even though and

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Speaker 5: Want your best player up there saying we're not giving

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Speaker 1: Yees, especially when two other starters are shooting and combined

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Speaker 2: Well, it stinks when he is the field goal attempts

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Speaker 2: that's exactly what the Bucks were begging them to do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then and then Lowry. I mean one of

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Speaker 1: his worst games that I can recall from this year

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Speaker 7: L the Happy Gilmore scene where he's like, I'm the

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Speaker 7: try to stab somebody. Kyle Lowry might be the only

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Speaker 7: I guess Nate Robinson sorta did it once upon a

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Speaker 3: But it's a little easier for Nate Robinson.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. He is smaller than Lowry is That

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Speaker 1: You can probably get a better shot than that. Guys,

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Speaker 7: something that's not usual. It makes you wonder what the Raptors'

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in Pascal Siak and when he wants to change

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Speaker 2: seven because their bench was monstrous and Matt Thomas and

437
00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,639
Speaker 2: Chris Bouchet and then Terrence Davis found it. Those guys

438
00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,120
Speaker 2: that don't have don't understand what pressure is. Uh, those

439
00:17:58,119 --> 00:17:59,840
Speaker 2: were the guys really that made this thing happen. The

440
00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:05,600
Speaker 2: lucky and it was, yeah, the curveball at Lowry, Siakam

441
00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,240
Speaker 2: and Van Vliet as lead guys. Now that's it's got

442
00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:10,120
Speaker 2: to be up to them.

443
00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,679
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton for the Bucks too, He was missing an

444
00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,240
Speaker 1: action in the first half, did basically nothing, but then

445
00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,320
Speaker 1: caught fire there in the third, went three for three,

446
00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,080
Speaker 1: scored nine points there, helped that big third quarter from

447
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Speaker 1: the Bucks. He finished with twenty two overall, and I

448
00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,439
Speaker 1: forgot you know Middleton, and we talked about it yesterday.

449
00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:29,400
Speaker 1: To me like he is that player that that crazy,

450
00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:33,359
Speaker 1: crazy wild card, if you will, to the Bucks chances

451
00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,080
Speaker 1: of actually winning a title in that series versus the

452
00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:38,320
Speaker 1: Raptors last year. I mean, he he had one good

453
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Speaker 1: game in the four losses when they went to and

454
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Speaker 1: then they lose a four straight. He had that thirty

455
00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,200
Speaker 1: point game. He was garbage in the other three games,

456
00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:50,399
Speaker 1: like garbage for your All star second guy. So on

457
00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:53,760
Speaker 1: a night, especially where these two elite defenses, everybody's locked in,

458
00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,480
Speaker 1: everybody's trying to try, you know, to scramble around, and

459
00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,920
Speaker 1: they're on a string. Somebody's got to score. Somebody's just

460
00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,560
Speaker 1: got to hit shots. And in a game where not

461
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Speaker 1: a lot of guys could knock him down, he was

462
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Speaker 1: that's good enough, you know, twenty two. I think did

463
00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:07,919
Speaker 1: he ty Pascal Siakam, I think for most points in

464
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Speaker 1: the game. So he is such such a wild card

465
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Speaker 1: to me this team, for this team, in my opinion,

466
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Speaker 1: the Raptors too. Though. All that said, Van Vliet he

467
00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,080
Speaker 1: had the the that play, where was it the three

468
00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,320
Speaker 1: point play or he hit the three? Was it not?

469
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,879
Speaker 1: Then they forced the steal, yeah, and he let it

470
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Speaker 1: alive from it was like what are you doing van Vleet.

471
00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:30,480
Speaker 1: I mean he was feeling it, I guess, and that

472
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Speaker 1: would have made it a very very close game late.

473
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Speaker 1: But he missed that and I think the bus came

474
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Speaker 1: back the other way, and then that may have been

475
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Speaker 1: the honest three in the corner if I remember correctly,

476
00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:40,840
Speaker 1: blew the game opening and it was over a.

477
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Speaker 7: Couple of corner threes for your honest yeah, yeah, I

478
00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,080
Speaker 7: mean you don't see him standing in the corner, so

479
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Speaker 7: I guess he probably won't get a lot of attempts there,

480
00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:48,840
Speaker 7: but that's the easy one.

481
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Speaker 3: And if he's gonna.

482
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Speaker 7: Shoot him consistently and shoot a lot of them, I

483
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Speaker 7: don't know. I mean, maybe the guy Alwerpin forty five

484
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Speaker 7: points a game if he starts becoming a quarter to

485
00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:00,560
Speaker 7: three point shooter because he's unstoppable. Even the the Raptors

486
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,440
Speaker 7: had a good game. They had a great job keeping

487
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Speaker 7: him off the line, and he's still almost a triple

488
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Speaker 7: double nineteen nineteen.

489
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Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, and he played. You know, the Bucks

490
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Speaker 1: wanted this game. I think that was pretty evident. He

491
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Speaker 1: played thirty eight minutes, he honest, Yeah, and I know

492
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,080
Speaker 1: because he had fouled out the game prior. This is

493
00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,560
Speaker 1: back to back situation, so maybe the legs were good,

494
00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:17,480
Speaker 1: but that was his second most minutes he's played in

495
00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,080
Speaker 1: a game this season. They wanted it, you know, to

496
00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:20,800
Speaker 1: send that message.

497
00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:22,800
Speaker 3: Well, Drake showed up with the championship belts.

498
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Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, wow.

499
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Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, the Reps have the championship belt and

500
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,520
Speaker 3: the Bucks are doing all their wrestling stuff before games,

501
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,080
Speaker 3: so I think that's actually a pretty fair taunt.

502
00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,960
Speaker 1: Well, are the Reps, like the undisputed boxing champions were

503
00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:35,800
Speaker 1: three belts?

504
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:36,680
Speaker 4: Yeah?

505
00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:38,000
Speaker 2: Were there three belts?

506
00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:39,359
Speaker 1: That's the part I couldn't figure out.

507
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:44,000
Speaker 7: Raiding champion, Canadian champion. They are, you know, by default, right,

508
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 7: I don't know what the third one is. I mean,

509
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 7: a good question. Yeah, but you're right, Drake was trolling

510
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,159
Speaker 7: hard less. That's saying this wasn't the Wizards he had

511
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,600
Speaker 7: the Fred van Vliet hat that he was handing out

512
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Speaker 7: to Jack and Devlin, Frederico.

513
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Speaker 1: He was damning, he was, That was Peake Drake.

514
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, Night Jones pointed out, though you've got to sit

515
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 5: the center plight of those belts on your shoulder. Yes,

516
00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:10,159
Speaker 5: you can't dangle it off the side.

517
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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you think he was when he

518
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,440
Speaker 1: carried the man. You had them a little too low. Yeah,

519
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 1: you're saying, yeah, you've got.

520
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Speaker 4: To put it on your shoulder like that, so you

521
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:17,879
Speaker 4: know it's.

522
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Speaker 3: Wearing a slippery sweater.

523
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:19,160
Speaker 4: Yeah.

524
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Speaker 3: The problem.

525
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,320
Speaker 1: The Bucks improved to fifty and eight this year. Only

526
00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 1: four teams in NBA history have reached fifty wins with

527
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 1: fewer losses eighty two eighty three Sixers, the ninety five

528
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Speaker 1: ninety six Bowls, the ninety six ninety seven Bowls, and

529
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Speaker 1: the fifteen to sixteen Warriors. This is a juggernaut of

530
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Speaker 1: a team.

531
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Speaker 7: You said, the headline was they're the best team in

532
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Speaker 7: the East by far. Are they not the best team

533
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Speaker 7: in the NBA?

534
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yes, yes they are. Because you know I

535
00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 1: saw Zilla write this in his uh in his what

536
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Speaker 1: are your newsletters this morning? The Bucks are now six

537
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Speaker 1: and two against the best teams in the league. Best

538
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Speaker 1: teams being teams above you know, a six to fifty

539
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Speaker 1: winning clip. So Lakers, Raptors, Celtics, Nuggets, and Clippers. Milwaukee's

540
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Speaker 1: three and zero against all the LA teams. They're two

541
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Speaker 1: and zero. Now it's Denver, Denver gotta win off them.

542
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,919
Speaker 1: But they split one with the Celtics. They're yeah, they're

543
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:08,400
Speaker 1: they're amazing. They destroy the bad teams and now they're

544
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 1: and they're beating all these really really good teams too.

545
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're the best team.

546
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Speaker 5: Next Friday night, March six in Los Angeles versus.

547
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Speaker 3: The like Kings, that's the question. The Bucks. Anybody's favorite

548
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Speaker 3: right now for the championship.

549
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Speaker 7: I feel like most of us would probably take both

550
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Speaker 7: LA teams over the Bucks.

551
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't take the Clippers over the Bucks.

552
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,160
Speaker 3: I know you're you're sort of out them the Clippers.

553
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you would you take Lebron and the Lakers

554
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:34,680
Speaker 1: versus probably I probably I probably would still take Lebron. Yes,

555
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:36,440
Speaker 1: because of Alex Crusoe.

556
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Speaker 4: He was good last night. Yeah, Yeah, wow, what a

557
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 4: bluck that was highlight.

558
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 1: Highlight block dropped the pass between.

559
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Speaker 4: The Yeah, that was gorgeous.

560
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and his points or whatever he leads to points,

561
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Speaker 1: they're worth more. Man with that crowd, Yeah, crowd just

562
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 1: goes bonkers for anything he does. I don't know, Like,

563
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: would you have the Bucks is like as a favorite? Yeah, yeah,

564
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Speaker 1: just over an LA team.

565
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 2: Both LA teams? Yeah, yeah, all the teams. I mean

566
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Speaker 2: those would I think I would take the Clippers over

567
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 2: the Lakers. But the Bucks have proven that they're they're

568
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 2: the best team period and to me that they were

569
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,680
Speaker 2: able to not buckle at halftime of this game. They

570
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:18,399
Speaker 2: look like a different team than what happened in the

571
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 2: playoffs last year because they just they just didn't have

572
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 2: the experience last year. But I'm guessing that they're confident

573
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 2: enough to beat even Lebron, even the juggernaut that they

574
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,640
Speaker 2: they are. They're they're just the confidence has oozed down

575
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 2: even to Chris Middleton. Chris Middleton was the x factor

576
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 2: in this game. And yep, sometimes he fades, but he

577
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 2: showed up. And I think it's like it's coming from Giannis.

578
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,880
Speaker 2: Like he even postgame when when they asked him about Drake,

579
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 2: Jered Greenberg asked him about Drake, he just said, come

580
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:53,199
Speaker 2: come on, that's that's Drake. I got bigger fish to

581
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:59,199
Speaker 2: fry here, and the whole team is following that dude's lead. Eventually,

582
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 2: he's scary. Actually, he's gonna break through, and it seems

583
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 2: like it's going to be this year.

584
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,159
Speaker 1: But all that said, it wouldn't it be so almost

585
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 1: perfect for Lebron if the Bucks win seventy plus games, right,

586
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: they roll through the Eastern Conference, the Lakers, you know,

587
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: in battles with all these teams in the West. They

588
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Speaker 1: somehow get there and Lebron the Bucks go up three

589
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: to one in the finals. Again, just lets them go

590
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 1: up three out yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. They just can't

591
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: see the games. We don't even play the first four games.

592
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 1: It's just we started with a three to one lead

593
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 1: for the Bucks in the finals, and see what happened. No,

594
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,639
Speaker 1: I I am with you. It's a honest is so

595
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: locked in. It's like if they don't win a championship,

596
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: he will completely think this is a failure of a season.

597
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 1: Like that, that is the level they're at for a

598
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,199
Speaker 1: team that hasn't even gotten to the finals yet with

599
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 1: him as their head guy. But that's that's good. That's

600
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 1: what you want from your lead guy. And he brings

601
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 1: it every night, all right, Next one here, Kobe White

602
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,919
Speaker 1: makes NBA history by by becoming the first rookie reserve

603
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Speaker 1: to score thirty plus in three straight games. Bulls did lose,

604
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Speaker 1: but Kobe White going for a career thirty five in

605
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: his third consecutive game of over thirty points.

606
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Speaker 7: Is it too late for him to win Rookie of

607
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 7: the Year. Yes, oh yes, yeah, you're probably right. But

608
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 7: he was on fire. Zach Lavine caught fire there in

609
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 7: the last minute too. It looked like he was mad

610
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 7: at Jim Boylan for calling a time out with about

611
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 7: twenty seconds left, which then, of course, did leave the

612
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Speaker 7: Balls without a time out for the final eight seconds

613
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,360
Speaker 7: when they could have maybe ran a play. But apparently

614
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 7: he was actually mad at the rest for not giving

615
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 7: him a foul call on a night when he had

616
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 7: forty expecting some superstar calls. Didn't get the All Star

617
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 7: call from Adam Silver, didn't get the All Star calls

618
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 7: last night.

619
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Speaker 1: But I don't know.

620
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Speaker 3: It's looking tough for the Balls to make the playoffs.

621
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 3: But they got a winning streak in their pocket somewhere right.

622
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,160
Speaker 3: Oh wow, they still got it. They still got it.

623
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Speaker 5: This was one of those amazing ones where I looked

624
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 5: early and the Thunder up seventeen points and you thought, Okay,

625
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 5: they're just going to kill this. And then at the

626
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 5: end of the third quarter the Bulls somehow got ahead.

627
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 4: Incredible stuff.

628
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Speaker 5: So I was like, all right, I'm going to tune

629
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 5: in here because Kobe White there was a lot of

630
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 5: talk about him, and the Bulls made it. You know,

631
00:25:58,080 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 5: they had a chance. I missed that shot at the

632
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 5: buzzer which would have won the game for them. So

633
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 5: it was kind of a fun, exciting end to that game.

634
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 5: But yeah, tough for tougher Bulls fans and Steven though

635
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 5: I know he follows the he rides for the Bulls,

636
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 5: for the athletic man.

637
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 4: Follow him.

638
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 5: Follow him any night the Bulls are playing. Man, He'll

639
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 5: keep you entertained for sure, because some of the things

640
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 5: that the Bulls do, some of the possessions they have

641
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 5: either end of the floor, just hilarious. It's amazing that

642
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 5: they somehow had a chance to win this game.

643
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 4: It really is. Chris Paul once again closes the game.

644
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, Thunder improved to seventeen to nine in games decided

645
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: by six points or less, road winning streak I think

646
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: is at nine nets can't lose away from Okase and

647
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,160
Speaker 1: usually Chris Paul. Of course, Dennis Shrewder once again. I mean,

648
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: he had twenty one points and he made that huge

649
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 1: defensive play in the fourth to help Oksey hold on

650
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: for this victory. I think he's running away with six

651
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: men of the year. I know there's a couple of Clippers,

652
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: obviously lou trying to go back to back to back.

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Speaker 1: Montres Harrald deserves some love. Jordan Clarkson's been good, you know,

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Speaker 1: even Gordon Dragic though he missed the ten games, and

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Speaker 1: the heat have sort of fallen back to earth here.

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Speaker 1: I think Shrewd's running away with it. I agree, I

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Speaker 1: agree deservedly. I mean, and it helps that his team's

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Speaker 1: winning a lot of games, and they're rising up the

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Speaker 1: Western Conference, you know, a playoff picture here. But he's

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Speaker 1: like a nearly a twenty point per game score. He's

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Speaker 1: obviously out there in all these closing lineups and all

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Speaker 1: these close games making plays, and his efficiency is great,

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Speaker 1: forty seven percent from the floor, thirty nine percent from three,

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Speaker 1: good at the line. I don't see how he doesn't

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Speaker 1: win it at this point.

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Speaker 5: Right, yeah, Louse numbers aren't all different now compared to

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Speaker 5: last season, but he doesn't seem to have had that

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Speaker 1: But they've gone down, down and down here in the

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Speaker 1: last three and you're right, I think the impact comes

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Speaker 1: into play too, and that's probably a part of also. Oh,

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Speaker 1: now you're on a team with Kawhi Leonard and when

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Speaker 1: Paul George is healthy, maybe that's in.

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Speaker 5: There as well, because around the deadline there's a lot

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Speaker 5: of tok The thunder mind look to move Shrewder and

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Speaker 5: I was surprised by that because he's been very important

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Speaker 5: with Alexander and Chris Paul and coming off the bench,

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Speaker 5: you know, embracing that role. So I was I'm not

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Speaker 5: where I'm making the playoffs and now they're definitely going

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Speaker 1: here Tatum thirty six points, Celtics down the Blazers one

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Speaker 1: eighteen one oh six Tatum. Another monster game's on fire

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Speaker 1: right now? Yeah, I tweeted it out this morning. You

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Speaker 1: can hand him February's Eastern Conference Player of the Month

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Speaker 1: if you care about those things. He's averaging thirty point

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Speaker 1: three points per game in February, seven point two rebounds,

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Speaker 1: three sis, shooting splits fifty forty nine point five and

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Speaker 1: seventy eight percent from the line Celtics eight and two

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Speaker 1: in February. His usage percentage is over thirty and it's

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Speaker 1: I mean, Giannis is amazing, but jannest even missed a

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Speaker 1: couple of games, and his numbers are not even like

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Speaker 1: that high in terms of scoring the ball and shooting

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Speaker 1: the ball in the month of February, So I think

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Speaker 1: Tatum has that wrapped up. But eight career high eight

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Speaker 1: three pointers for Tatum are the Celtics, I mean, where

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Speaker 1: do you have them in your like contenderless for a

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Speaker 1: title or at least getting there. I mean, are they

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Speaker 1: better than the Raptors? Are they better than the Sixers?

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Speaker 3: That's a good question. It's they're better than the Sixers.

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Speaker 7: I would say they're better than the Sixers, despite maybe

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Speaker 7: the Sixers having a little bit better.

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Speaker 3: High end talent.

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Speaker 7: But I don't know where do you put them in

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Speaker 7: the contenders? Against the Bucks? The thing I would worry about,

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Speaker 7: can they get enough stops? I'm not entirely sure. I

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Speaker 7: think Giannes would kind of run wild against the Bucks,

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Speaker 7: but are against the Celtics. But the Celtics do have

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Speaker 7: a lot of guards who are willing to play in

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Speaker 7: that mid range and can get their own shots. Tatum

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Speaker 7: obviously was money from deep last night, but he's just

746
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Speaker 7: been so determined. I feel like with his decisions, like

747
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 7: he makes a decision and he's going at it right away.

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Speaker 7: He's not taking his time and then figure out your shot.

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Speaker 7: It's like I'm pulling up for a three, or I'm

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Speaker 7: going to the rim, or maybe I'll get a little

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Speaker 7: mid ranger here. He's just, uh, he's really coming to

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Speaker 7: his own. And you know, with Kemba Walker being out

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Speaker 7: for the past couple of games, it's been nice to

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Speaker 7: see Tatum step up and be their best player because

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Speaker 7: if he's gonna be their best player for the rest

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Speaker 7: of the season, Kemba Walker is an awesome number two guy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Jalen Brown even has been a really awesome, like

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Speaker 1: one two punch with these teams. Yeah, on both ends.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's the new pecking order and

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Speaker 2: that's okay. Kemba going to the number two role and

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Speaker 2: that's ideal really because Kemba Walker has a number one guy.

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Speaker 2: We saw it in Charlotte, wasn't It wasn't Primo pastin

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Speaker 2: saus it didn't really work out all that well. So

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Speaker 2: Jason Tatum has taken on that role. And I would

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Speaker 2: worry about them getting bombarded by Yannists Kompo in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: They have a really good defense, but watch what the

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Speaker 2: Raptors do and ganging up, building that wall, building that shell.

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Speaker 2: To guardianis the Celtics. I don't think they can do

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Speaker 2: it the same way the the It's gonna fall probably

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Speaker 2: on Jason Tatum a little bit and Jalen Brown, and

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Speaker 2: they can they can gang up against him, but I

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Speaker 2: think Bucks will score too many points. But at the

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Speaker 2: other end, Tatum is not going to fear the moment whatsoever,

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Speaker 2: like a couple of years ago without Kyrie Irving, I

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Speaker 2: think he's going to thrive in that number one role

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Speaker 2: when it comes to the postseason and he's he's going

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Speaker 2: to be a bad, bad man and he's going to

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Speaker 2: be on the national stage for the first time. I

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Speaker 2: think in the in the playoffs really as a number

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Speaker 2: one guy, really really kick him.

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Speaker 1: But you believe in the Beadtown boys, I do, yeah

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Speaker 1: for sure.

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Speaker 5: And Titan last night what I liked he was feeling

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Speaker 5: that three point and he was seeking it out and

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Speaker 5: knocking them down. He was celebrating, he was doing the

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Speaker 5: like three to the sleeve and all that.

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Speaker 1: And if you looked at his shot chart too, it

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Speaker 1: is all really the threes or at the rim. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he didn't settle for any of the mid range jumper.

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Speaker 5: He knows that he can just get to that room

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Speaker 5: anytime he wants to right now. That that, I mean,

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Speaker 5: we've talked about that a lot this season. It's so impressed.

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Speaker 5: He didn't get any free throws though last night, which

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Speaker 5: is interesting, but yeah, he's he's taken that step up

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Speaker 5: to you know, super player, you know, not superstar. I

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Speaker 5: wouldn't a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of them, like there's a superstar and then there's

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Speaker 1: a super You've.

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Speaker 5: Got the bronze and you've got your yarns. He's not

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Speaker 5: at that level yet. Yeah, he's he's the next year

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Speaker 5: super player.

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Speaker 3: One of just a star.

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Speaker 4: He's better than a star.

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Speaker 3: I think he's star, super player, superstar, all right.

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Speaker 5: I mean it's just it's been so impressive seeing him

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Speaker 5: him developed this season and grow, and you know, I

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Speaker 5: wonder how much of that comes from the experience with

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Speaker 5: tam Usa over the summer, because he went out there

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Speaker 5: and he played well for the Team USA, but just

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Speaker 5: being around other you know, star and superstar players helped

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Speaker 5: his development because I think when you're a young guy,

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Speaker 5: I think it's very important to be on those teams,

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Speaker 5: you know, when you're a bit of an older play

815
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Speaker 5: out like you know, someone like Lebron, you don't need

816
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Speaker 5: to be around these younger guys as much, but someone

817
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 5: like Tatum can really learn from and benefit from those

818
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Speaker 5: sorts of experiences. And he's an All Star. I mean,

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Speaker 5: he's he's knocking on that door of All NBA. I mean,

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Speaker 5: that's a tough spot forward. There's a there's a lot

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Speaker 5: of good players in that position, but he's going to

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Speaker 5: get some consideration.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well Middleton and him exactly.

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Speaker 5: He's battling someone like Middleton, you know, because Jannis and

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Speaker 5: Lebron are the first team. Yeah, unquestionably, Sam's in the

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Speaker 5: mix still, Kawhi Anthony Davis a forward exactly, Like I mean,

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Speaker 5: you know, all these guys. Yeah, there's a lot, there's

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Speaker 5: a lot of depth at that position. But you know, yeah,

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Speaker 5: I think I think Tatum's got a pretty strong case

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Speaker 5: right now.

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Speaker 1: No, he definitely does. I do think he might come

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Speaker 1: up just short. But look, I mean he has another

833
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Speaker 1: month like you just did here in February then yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean great timing with obviously the voters making their

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Speaker 1: decisions that would help him, and he's he's if he

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Speaker 1: doesn't make it this year, he's knocking on the door,

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Speaker 1: as you said the twelve time Tatum there and again

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00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: once like I saw Celtics Blog writing about it. You know,

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Speaker 1: all the attention there has been a lot of attention

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00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: to Tatum, but again Jill and Brown continually to like

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00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: he's making his little leap as well or in conjunction

842
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Speaker 1: with Tatum. Another good game, twenty four points, eight to nineteen,

843
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Speaker 1: shooting the seven boards, hit some threes, he got to

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Speaker 1: the line plus fifteen out there, and then he gives

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Speaker 1: you a great defense where he's like, oh, yeah, I'll

846
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Speaker 1: take one of the best guys on the other team.

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Speaker 1: That's not a problem. They are like just so complimentary

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Speaker 1: of each other, the idea of like the one guy

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Speaker 1: being sort of the go to offensive guy and the

850
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 1: other guy being your lockdown guy but can also give

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00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: you points on that end as well.

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Speaker 3: I think they're both honestly like that.

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Speaker 7: I thought it was so impressive watching him play the

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Speaker 7: Lakers over the weekend, even though they lost. Was that

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Speaker 7: Tatum and Brown regarding Lebron and Anthony Davis, like that's

856
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 7: a huge challenge for a couple of young guys, and

857
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 7: they were both willing to take it on while also

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Speaker 7: still playing well. Offensively on the other end, like you're saying,

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Speaker 7: though Brown is a little bit defense first, also good offense.

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Speaker 7: Tatum offense first with pretty solid defense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for a.

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Speaker 7: Guy who is still a young player. I mean people

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Speaker 7: compare them a little bit too. In the future, maybe

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Speaker 7: they could be Paul George Kawhi Leonard. It's not far off.

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Speaker 1: No, No, definitely, and that race, I mean, you're gonna

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00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: want to like both these teams, raptor Celtics or anyone

867
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: really heat Sixers, You're gonna want that two or third spot.

868
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 1: You're not. You don't want to be in the fourth, fifth,

869
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: because then you're getting Milwaukee in the second round. So

870
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: that is that, there's no doubt there's be something to watch.

871
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: They'll be like, yeah, we'll play each other in the

872
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: second round, be it the Celtics, Raps, or whoever gets

873
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: into one of those positions, like let's save Milwaukee for

874
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: as long as we possibly can. Maybe Middleton rolls in

875
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: Anklorian's rolls and something like that, so you just have

876
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: to push it off. Or or maybe even it's a

877
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: team like the Sixers, who are a good matchup in

878
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: theory against the Bucks are the ones that can give

879
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: them the you know, the toughest fight. It's all matchups

880
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: when he gets to the playoffs and you can sort

881
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: of throw out the seating to some extent.

882
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:48,919
Speaker 2: That second round. Oh see conference, My goodness, whether it's

883
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 2: the looks like you know, the heat sixers in that

884
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 2: four or five, whoever gets through to battle the Bucks.

885
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it meets like Celtics raptors or something

886
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: like that.

887
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 2: We did. We have the same feeling last year going

888
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 2: into the playoff. So am I right into the Eastern

889
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 2: Conference playoffs like it was the.

890
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 3: Second round was going to be money? Yeah, definitely.

891
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 2: And did it work out that.

892
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: Celtics Bucks Celtics box not so much. Kyrie sort of checked.

893
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 6: Out that the first day they won a game that

894
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 6: was the one I was therefore, I believe it was.

895
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: That was Boston Marathon weekend. I think I think that

896
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: was the game I saw. Wait, no, who would have been?

897
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: I saw game three? I saw Game three.

898
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, they won that game and then and

899
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 2: then they romped them. And that's the worrisome part of

900
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 2: the Bucks going up against the Celtics just feels like

901
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 2: a feels like they can't stop Yiannis. And that was

902
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 2: a four to one series series and Al Horford was there.

903
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: But Jason Tatum is a bigger boy now and uh yeah,

904
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 2: it's it's crazy to think how young he is. He's

905
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 2: going to turn twenty two in a few days, and

906
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 2: uh he was born with this. Lee talked about the

907
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 2: the thing going on at just what you take from

908
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 2: being an international competition. But in his rookie year he

909
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 2: was a playoff performer like this guy is. He's going

910
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 2: to prove hopefully ill prove me wrong and give Younis

911
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 2: a good run in the if they make it, if

912
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 2: they play raptors, you can do it too.

913
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: That was a really fun night in the association. Let's

914
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: hit the beach, little beach teas here will be stepping

915
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: fully on the beach before Lee has to leave later today,

916
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 1: So keep your eyes and your ears on that pack.

917
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: But we'd like to get in the mood here a

918
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: little tease, you know, just flick a little sand around,

919
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: give you an idea. Here, the here, the here, the

920
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: waves lapping a little bit in the background. And I

921
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: thought this was a good question coming through Twitter at

922
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: Jetpack Randy. He wrote in great name the ear ring

923
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 1: talk got me thinking a lot of ear ring talk

924
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: over last couple of days, dangly earrings off a way?

925
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: Did you wear one today?

926
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 3: Or I didn't wear one today? My ear was honestly hurting.

927
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 3: I hadn't worn an earring for decades and then wore

928
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 3: a heavy one. I was struggling walking sideways.

929
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: You have a limpit? Oh, he wrote at jet Pack Randy,

930
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 1: who are your early predictions for playoffs? Studs and sleepers?

931
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 1: Lee's favorite earrings? Studs and sleepers? Who is going to shine?

932
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: No doubt? That's a stud and who will be a

933
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: surprise hooper?

934
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 2: Nice?

935
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 4: Very nice?

936
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: The sleeper there? That's He even threw in the hashtag

937
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: no dunks there at jet Pack Randy. Okay, studs and sleepers,

938
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: Let's start with the studs. Who's your stud going into

939
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: the playoffs?

940
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 4: Who's my stud? He's going to be well, I was

941
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 4: looking at you.

942
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 2: I'll say, I'll say, oh, I'll jump in your stud.

943
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis has never been really on a national stage

944
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, Like, he's won one playoff series and

945
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 2: that was against the Blazers. That that quickie and then

946
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:48,280
Speaker 2: they got romped by the Warriors. So Anthony Davis, especially

947
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 2: after playing in New Orleans. Like you said, it's a

948
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 2: tiny market. This this is his breakout stud Go ahead, Lee,

949
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 2: I was.

950
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 3: Actually with you as well as us. I'll give Lee

951
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 3: a chance to research the playoff teams playing well here.

952
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:06,479
Speaker 2: Shots asked this question, there is a sleeper, I've got sleep.

953
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 4: I wasn't expecting the question to be teed up like that.

954
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 1: Because you thought I was going to go a sleeper.

955
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, because it really is Eric Ledsoe. That's who

956
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 4: it is for me, okay.

957
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 5: Because you know, as great as everything's been for the Bucks,

958
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 5: that they do have a weakness in the playoffs and

959
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,720
Speaker 5: that has been Bledsoe. And if he is bad again

960
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 5: in the playoffs and it changes things. Now they've got

961
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 5: good depth. I think you know that some of their

962
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 5: with George Hill coming off the bench and Devincenzo, you know,

963
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,240
Speaker 5: and who's the other guy I'm thinking of Pat Connaton

964
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 5: as well.

965
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, Marvin Williams in the post.

966
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 4: Lie, Marvin was great.

967
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 5: He's got a lot of good players, you know, I

968
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 5: mean Bledsoe. He's the starting point guard. He's the all

969
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 5: star caliber player from in that position, and they need

970
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 5: him to step up because that has been exposed in

971
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 5: the last couple of years where it's like Bledsoe can't play,

972
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 5: you know, confidence do I I don't know. I don't know,

973
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 5: because last year he teased me as well. Year he

974
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 5: was also a borderline all start and I thought, okay

975
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 5: the first season because he came half well, not even

976
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 5: halfway through early into the season to Milwaukee was a trade,

977
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 5: and then the whole thing with Terry Rozier and the

978
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 5: playoffs got into his head and the Boston crowd tough

979
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 5: place to play, so you sort of throw that one out.

980
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 5: Got a chance to do it again in the following season,

981
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 5: and the Bucks are on the brink of making the finals.

982
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 5: And again not all entirely his fault, but certainly he

983
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 5: didn't step up, so he has to step up. I

984
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 5: think this season really for the Bucks. I mean, they

985
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 5: can probably survive without him anyway.

986
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. But even if he's not playing well, it.

987
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 7: Does seem like there's less pressure on Bloodsoell. Now, which

988
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 7: is odd because Brogden left, so you know you're gonna

989
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 7: need more from Bloodsoe as a point guard. But I

990
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 7: think it's a Middleton's growth and just his takeover ability

991
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 7: really means that Bloodsoe. You're hoping he gives you, you know,

992
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 7: twelve to fifteen points a couple of assests and then

993
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 7: the defense that he's there defensively, that's gonna be his

994
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 7: biggest contributions. But you're lately he's he's a game that's

995
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 7: been exposed in a couple of straight playoffs, So you've

996
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:58,240
Speaker 7: got to be watching.

997
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: He shot in the six games for the Raptors in

998
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: that series last year, Bledsoe shot twenty nine percent from

999
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: the floor and seventeen percent from three on nearly five

1000
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: three point attempts per game. Yeah, he's got to you

1001
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: gotta be a little bit better than that. You know,

1002
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: you're not acting for much more, but uh, you know

1003
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: he had the boards and the assistant there and doesn't

1004
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: really turn it over all that much. But you can

1005
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: to be able to shoot a little bit better than that.

1006
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 5: You can see to fix his game though, Yeah, his

1007
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 5: confidences dropped. His shoulders, those gigantic shoulders slump a little

1008
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 5: because he's just not feeling it. And you know, so

1009
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 5: that's that's the question for the Bucks.

1010
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: Okay, that's your sleeper. Do you guys have sleepers? I

1011
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: got a sleeper.

1012
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,240
Speaker 3: The Ferk man.

1013
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a sleeper.

1014
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: The Sixers are.

1015
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:38,240
Speaker 3: Better when he plays.

1016
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 7: In twenty twenty, he's averaging eleven point eight points per game,

1017
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 7: shooting forty one point three percent from three. Basically when

1018
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 7: the Corkman's hitting threes, there's enough room out there. And

1019
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 7: I mean, who knows what's gonna happen with Ben Simmons.

1020
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 7: We found out that he has a nerve impingement in

1021
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 7: his back, which does not sound good. Could be out

1022
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 7: for the rest of the season, could be back at

1023
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 7: some point. There's got to be somebody that can score

1024
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 7: from the perimeter for the seventy six ers. And I

1025
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 7: don't think you're gonna get much deeper of a sleeper

1026
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 7: than the ferk Man.

1027
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, good one, No you're not. I tried to stay

1028
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 2: away from teams that could get bounced in the first

1029
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 2: round because they're not allowed. They're not they're not memorable.

1030
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 2: They just aren't even if you get, if you lose,

1031
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 2: And so the Ferkman good sleeper, but he could lose

1032
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 2: in the first round to the Miami Heat. Can't wait

1033
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 2: to see that. But I also took a guy. I'm

1034
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,720
Speaker 2: going against my rules here because I took Boy Ambog Danovich,

1035
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 2: who who's a similar guy to Firk in a way.

1036
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 2: I mean, he's going to bury you from three point land.

1037
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 2: But he's got that swagger, he's got that Euro swagger.

1038
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 2: He really does. He's he's a really confident guy. And

1039
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 2: he'll be out there for the Utah Jazz. I mean people,

1040
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 2: people will forget about him because they always do. They've

1041
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 2: got other things, They've got other assignments on that jazz team.

1042
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 2: So he'll do some damage.

1043
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: Right if they can get out of the first round. Yeah, yeah,

1044
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: they get the rocket too. He's a problem, could be

1045
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 1: a problem, all right. So let's hear from you guys.

1046
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: That's a fun one again from at Jetpack Randy, the

1047
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: Studs and Sleepers. Randy already talking playoffs here a lot

1048
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: on this show here in late February. We're getting excited.

1049
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: Nobody cares about merch Madness. Are you excited for Duke?

1050
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: I am too.

1051
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 3: Uh No, there's no Duke fans in this room, that's

1052
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 3: for sure, Madness. It's not excited.

1053
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: What's our team? The jack Rabbits, the Jacks South Dakota State,

1054
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: North Dakota State, South Dakota State.

1055
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 3: How are they doing this year? I don't know. I

1056
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 3: feel like with those small schools, they just win their conference.

1057
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 1: Was that the women's team that was hitting all the

1058
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: half court shots? Were they the jack Rabbits?

1059
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 5: I don't know, man, I think that tweet you taging

1060
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 5: uns in that because these girls were hitting.

1061
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the jack Rabbits were our team. That's yeah,

1062
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: I think that. I think that was the women's.

1063
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 7: Quick google South Dakota State currently first in the Summer

1064
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 7: the Summer League. Surely they have a tournament.

1065
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 2: To play in.

1066
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 3: But things are looking good.

1067
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: For the Jacks. Yeah, they are Jacks. They always are.

1068
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to tweet of the.

1069
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 2: Night tweed over now, Wow.

1070
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:07,280
Speaker 1: Twitter, I don't want to spring this on you.

1071
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 4: You do know, yes, I do, I do it. Guess what.

1072
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 5: I don't have one, but not a specific tweet, because

1073
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 5: several people were tweeting about this last night and it

1074
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 5: came from the Lakers in the Pelicans game, and it

1075
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 5: was late and Lebron was seen on the sidelines of

1076
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 5: eating what appeared to be either red vines or twizzlers.

1077
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 5: Now I believe it was red vines because the TNT

1078
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 5: broadcast there showed someone who had like an open packet

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00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,879
Speaker 5: sitting close to Lebron probably passed it down.

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00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 4: Yeah. So the debate that raged.

1081
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 5: Online was what is better red vines or twizzlers? Or

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00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 5: and one other question, do you guys just eat straight

1083
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 5: black licorice? Like we haven't Australia.

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00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: You know you've been love love black, But.

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00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 5: This, the licorice in North America is way more sweetened

1086
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 5: because black licorice is a tough, tough thing to eat.

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Speaker 4: So have you ever had a train if you have

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00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:00,720
Speaker 4: a had.

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Speaker 1: Like black liquorice.

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Speaker 3: Of course I hated it.

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00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 7: I hated the annis taste, but I think I would

1092
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 7: like it more now as an adult.

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00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 5: So good anyway, So you guys know, I mean this

1094
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 5: is in your wheelhouse, the red vines or the twizzlers

1095
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 5: you got.

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Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, what is a red vine? Like?

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00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 1: How is it that much different than a twizzler?

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00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 7: A red vine definitely has like more of a circular

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00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 7: shape and more of a hole in the middle. I

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00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 7: would say, there's it feels like there's less product to it,

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00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 7: less red products.

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00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's less dense than at right, it's.

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00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:37,760
Speaker 2: A little softer, it's a little bit more tubular. Okay, Yeah,

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00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 2: the Twizzler. It's it's more of a stick. It would

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00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 2: hurt more if you whip somebody.

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00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 3: Okay, that's what.

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00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I.

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00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 2: I can't tell the flavor. The flavor I don't remember.

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00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever had a red vine, so

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Speaker 2: I don't know the flavor difference.

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00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think red vines are that popular in Canada.

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00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: It's a Twizzler country up there.

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00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 3: Twizzler country.

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00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's Twizzlers are the parents, and nibs are

1115
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 2: their kids. So those are that's the family of red

1116
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 2: liquorice and Canadas. I passed that down to my kids,

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Speaker 2: your nibs.

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00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll grow up in the Twizzler's household exactly. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: Twizzlers are definitely more commonplace. I think red vines maybe

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00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,240
Speaker 7: have a little bit more flavor. But I just actually

1122
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 7: came up with a new game in my head that

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Speaker 7: might make for a good.

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Speaker 3: Pick and payoff. We've had ice chest. What about Twizzler

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Speaker 3: whip snap one down on the wout hurt not too much?

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Speaker 1: Not too much? Yeah, because it's not long enough. Maybe

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00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 1: we need to like tie a couple of Twizzlers together

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00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: in real Indiana Jones, crack of the whip, crack of

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00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: the twizz I mean, I'm gonna be losing. You want

1130
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: to slap me with Twizzlers?

1131
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 4: Sure?

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00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,399
Speaker 5: The thing is now that someone that Lebron has given

1133
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 5: such publicity to Red Vines. I'll bet you this stuck

1134
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 5: price goes through the roof in the next couple of days.

1135
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:00,760
Speaker 4: I'll bet you it does. Man, a bit of sales

1136
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 4: go up, are they? Yeah?

1137
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 3: They must be.

1138
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 4: They must be.

1139
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 5: Really, I mean, I don't think the advertising and it's

1140
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,359
Speaker 5: like everyone's talking about its. People are gonna go out

1141
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 5: today and be like, hmmm, I got a tweet.

1142
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 3: Up candy fit for a king.

1143
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're all over it. Oh, this is great. Guess Hey,

1144
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: let's play guess who tweeted it. As of ten a m. Eastern,

1145
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: Lebron has garnered two point six million dollars so far

1146
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: for Red Vines in the equivalent advertising for team radio,

1147
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:31,240
Speaker 1: news print, digital social media, according to at Apex Marketing,

1148
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: who tweeted it, Darren, Yeah.

1149
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 4: But it's true, doesn't that?

1150
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 5: Just Just like I wonder if Lebron had that pretty

1151
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 5: set up or someone was just eating them and he's like, hey,

1152
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 5: you give me some twizz He's he.

1153
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: Is playing chess out there and thinking ten steps ahead

1154
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 1: on and off the court with you know, basketball and

1155
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 1: then his business. But I don't think he's thinking tonight

1156
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: tonight that I'm gonna grab a red vine and and

1157
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 1: I've already bought tons of stock.

1158
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 4: I'm well, see, that's it you. He wants you to

1159
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 4: think that.

1160
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: But in actual fact, I saw someone who appears to

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00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 1: be sitting, like you said, by the bench having a

1162
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: red vine and they either said, hey, Brian, you want one,

1163
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: or he saw it and did the classic look at

1164
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: one of those. Right, Okay, so what are you a

1165
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: redvine or a Twizzler? Because I think I'm liked tasks.

1166
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:18,879
Speaker 1: I can't really remember.

1167
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 4: Having a red Yeah, I can't either.

1168
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure that I'm familiar with twizzlers from my

1169
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 5: Canada days. But yeah, yeah, I mean give me the

1170
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 5: black licorice.

1171
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: Okay, you like that?

1172
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's funny.

1173
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 5: It is a tough taste as a kid, but then

1174
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 5: you sort of get through that stage like it's actually delicious.

1175
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: It is it is.

1176
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 3: I think it.

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00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: Tastes a lot like like uzo. Well it's the same,

1178
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: which yeah, which is I really like And yeah I

1179
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,439
Speaker 1: liked it as a kid. I drank early as a kid.

1180
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 5: But so you know the black, like like with the

1181
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 5: color layers, licorice in Australia.

1182
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:56,959
Speaker 4: Like the pink and yeah yeah yeah, like you don't

1183
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 4: have that in in North America.

1184
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 3: A hard candy, isn't it like all sorts?

1185
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,399
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, liquorice ye yeah yeah, I know you can't

1186
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 5: get it in Canada.

1187
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, but what is the what is the paints?

1188
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 4: It just strawberry.

1189
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,839
Speaker 5: I think they are sweet sweet, just to sort of

1190
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 5: take a bit of the uh, you know, hashness out

1191
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 5: of the taste of strike.

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00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:21,479
Speaker 4: Okay, I think.

1193
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:25,439
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, we're learning a lot here today. Good tweet man,

1194
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: thanks pull that off all right. Pick up results from

1195
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: Tuesday night Celtics Blazers. Celtics were favored by five and

1196
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: a half on the road and they got it. Tatum

1197
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: Brown and company smart hitting threes there. So that's a

1198
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: win for Task and Tray who had the Celtics Lee

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00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: and I had the Blazers. I mean I had to

1200
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 1: swerve how so far back I had to try and

1201
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 1: catch Trey Kerby. It's over. That's officially over. Tass Is

1202
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: eight and five, so he's fine. Trey and League seven

1203
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,399
Speaker 1: and six in February and three and ten my worst month,

1204
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 1: my only losing month so far this season. So I've lost,

1205
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: so it's it's a done deal. You might be smacking

1206
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,760
Speaker 1: me with twizzlers, Twiddler, Maybe you guys have a better suggestion.

1207
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 1: Let us know at no dunk sin hashtag no dunks

1208
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: for my payoff for losing this month, But why not

1209
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: pick it at least for tonight. Maybe we'll do it

1210
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: even for the rest of the week. Just why not?

1211
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 2: You know, why not?

1212
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 3: I don't want let's.

1213
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 1: Not start it over yet, but let's just continue with it.

1214
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: But what's our getting time?

1215
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 2: People want to see it? Yeah, the Boston Celtics again,

1216
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:29,720
Speaker 2: Let's do it again?

1217
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:31,760
Speaker 1: Wow again, they're crazy, They're.

1218
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 2: Going into utah m hmm. That's what makes it interesting.

1219
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 2: The Jazz struggling, but they're four and a half point

1220
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 2: favorites against the Boston Celtics. Oh wow, whoa what do

1221
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 2: you got this game on ESPN? Looking forward to it.

1222
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 1: A couple of nights ago, the Jazz were what eight

1223
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 1: and a half point favorites with the Sun's coming to town.

1224
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: Sun's bullied them twenty point win.

1225
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you just wonder if the Celtics this is

1226
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 5: the last game of that road trip back to back,

1227
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 5: and I like you go to Boston.

1228
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,839
Speaker 7: You know, Celtics three and two on the road on

1229
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 7: the second night of the Bat's back the season's nice research,

1230
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 7: that's right, Brad Stevens gets some going.

1231
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: So what do you think Celtics?

1232
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:10,280
Speaker 4: Wow?

1233
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 5: Same, yeah, test those three Utah games disgusting.

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00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take the I'll take the Jazz.

1235
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna take the jazz too, all.

1236
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 1: Right, Tess and I got the Jazz. I gotta win

1237
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 1: by five or more. Of the other guys have the

1238
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:26,280
Speaker 1: Celtics and again, get your pick of ideas in tweet

1239
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: at us at No Dunk saying cash Tech no dunks,

1240
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: Email us no dunks at the Athletic dot com. Keep

1241
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: your eyes in ears on the lookout for our mailbag

1242
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: only episode of Beach Step in that drops later today.

1243
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 1: We got some good fun questions once again in the

1244
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: document Have you looked at the document? Lead? You know

1245
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 1: what we're gonna be talking about?

1246
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:44,439
Speaker 4: Just about to stop?

1247
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 5: Oh excellent, I've got to put my son's screen on,

1248
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 5: put my board shorts on.

1249
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you put a little zinc on your nose.

1250
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:52,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, yeah, you.

1251
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 1: Put a lot of zinc on that.

1252
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got it.

1253
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: Grisha from guys, make sure make sure to check out

1254
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: the other great podcasts on the Athletic Network, count the Diggs,

1255
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: Back to Back, Hoops Adjacent, so many more. Yeah, grisham

1256
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 1: my buddy. Gris caught a stray there by me. I

1257
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:24,479
Speaker 1: was called for apologies to parenting last night d because

1258
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: his son Andreas my god son, super into the raptor

1259
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:29,879
Speaker 1: super into basketball. I mean, he just wants to watch

1260
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: basketball all the time. But so I texted him. I

1261
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,399
Speaker 1: texted Day was like, did you let him stay up?

1262
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: You know how late? Did you let him go to

1263
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:37,440
Speaker 1: watch the game? Who was around the end of the

1264
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: first quarter, said nope, I had to send him to bed.

1265
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 1: He's being a real jerk all day and he was

1266
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: apparently having a meltdown because you know, it was an

1267
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: entertaining first quarter. He's all into it, wraps Box that's

1268
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 1: his team. Oh yeah, it was good. But he's like,

1269
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: you guys know, his parents like the empty threats, like

1270
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 1: you can't follow through on them.

1271
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of steam coming out of Grisham's nose.

1272
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 7: Huh, he's going forehead and forehead with his son.

1273
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:07,879
Speaker 3: You're going to bed.

1274
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,959
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're a fast and furious guy. Tray.

1275
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 2: I told Grisham that he should go as Vin Diesel

1276
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 2: for Halloween. You can pull it off. Just put a

1277
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 2: little ball cap on. Well, that's it. That's the whole costume.

1278
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:22,320
Speaker 3: That's the whole costume.

1279
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: A lot of people think he looks more like Nick Cage,

1280
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: right Cage?

1281
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:27,720
Speaker 4: Really yeah, if he gets out, went a walk, gone.

1282
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 3: In sixty seconds.

1283
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: All right, guys, big stuff, but coming out later today.

1284
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 4: Have a great time.

1285
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:36,320
Speaker 3: Turn up. Love you guys, awesome.

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00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. And remember the parent company for

1287
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:43,919
Speaker 2: red vines. Their stock went way up. American Liquorice Company,

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00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 2: their stock went way up, although they don't have a

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Speaker 2: stock at all. I guess not.

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Speaker 1: They should embrace for the eight people.

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00:54:51,520 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 4: You could stay every day. Be happy.

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Speaker 1: It's been so long that Yahvana waiting for

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Speaker 4: It happened already.