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Speaker 2: And welcome to the Not Dumps Podcast presented by Fan Duel.

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Speaker 2: It's Thursday, March twelfth, twenty twenty six. I'm Jay Skeets

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Speaker 2: here in the Classic Factory and alongside me as always

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Speaker 2: tas Melis.

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Speaker 2: Ao Heyo and over Yonder making the magic happen here

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Speaker 1: Super producer JD.

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Speaker 2: Hello to everybody on YouTube. Hello, podcast listeners. Everybody play

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Speaker 2: your part, hit the like button, subscribe, five star ratings

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Speaker 2: and reviews. On today's show, we will once again build

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Speaker 2: the pyramid raking the Eastern Conference teams today. We did

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Speaker 2: the West yesterday. We're doing the East today. But first

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Speaker 2: let's talk a little bit about last night's games and

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Speaker 2: last night's news. We're gonna divide them by conference wins.

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Speaker 2: Let's start in the West, then we'll get to the

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Speaker 2: East batch. But three games in the West, three wins

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Speaker 2: for Western Conference teams. Kawhisk forty five in a Clippers

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Speaker 2: romp over the Wolves. You'll kitch another triple double, huge

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Speaker 2: second half as the Nuggets blew out the Rockets in

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Speaker 2: the third quarter. In the second half, it was close

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Speaker 2: until that second half, and then Murphy and Murray led

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Speaker 2: the Pelicans to the one twenty two to one to

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Speaker 2: eleven win over the Raptors in Brandon Ingram's return to Nolins.

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Speaker 2: Of those three wins, what was the most impressive Western

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Speaker 2: Conference victory last night?

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Speaker 3: I would say the Nuggets is the most impressive. Let's start, though,

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Speaker 3: with the Timberwolves because they are the greatest mystery in

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Speaker 3: the NBA. Losing to Kawhi Leonard, as you said, pot

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Speaker 3: in that first quarter, yeah, eighteen not quite the bam

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Speaker 3: at a bio pace, but that was awesome to watch.

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Speaker 3: The Timberwolves are the biggest mystery because watching this, I

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Speaker 3: had to think, is this the Clippers amazing defense getting

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Speaker 3: Timberwolves just being sloppy, because that's who they are. They

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Speaker 3: have been down in the last seven games by ten

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Speaker 3: or more points. In the last three games, they've been

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Speaker 3: down by twenty or more points. But watching the Clippers

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Speaker 3: defense that they've perfected at this point now with Chris Dunn,

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Speaker 3: who is one of the best defensive guards in the

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Speaker 3: NBA and Derek Jones Junior, who looks like he's healthy

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Speaker 3: at his healthiest this season, along with Hansy Brook Lopez

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Speaker 3: to go along with Kawhi Leonard and Darius Carlin in

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Speaker 3: the backcourt. I mean, they started turning the ball over

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Speaker 3: and that's why Kawhi got hot. It started with two

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Speaker 3: fast break buckets that he just had to lay in

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Speaker 3: dunks because Don had a nice turnover that he created,

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Speaker 3: and then Dante DiVincenzo just gave it up. So then

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Speaker 3: Kawhi started, I'm going right at Rudy Gobert and look

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Speaker 3: in Austin havn't also hitting threes at the same time,

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Speaker 3: So that's how he got up to eighteen. But they

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Speaker 3: the Wolves turned it over twenty four times in this game,

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Speaker 3: so it's a little of which side is it. Is

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Speaker 3: it this athletic team now with Jordan Miller that they're

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Speaker 3: being real, real sloppy. It's hard to say. In that game.

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Speaker 3: I think they are the biggest mystery here going into

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Speaker 3: the playoffs. On both sides, whether it's the East or

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Speaker 1: That's why I had Minnesota fourth on the pyramid yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Just not very trustworthy. Every time it feels like they

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Speaker 1: losing games and looking bad doing so. The Minnesota Timberwolves

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Speaker 1: turned the ball over five times in their first six

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Speaker 1: possessions yesterday, sixteen steals for the Clippers, and like I

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Speaker 1: talked about earlier this week, that has been kind of

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Speaker 1: the Clippers mo since the trade deadline, kind of coinciding

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Speaker 1: with Derek Jones Junior returning to the lineup. Their fifth

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Speaker 1: and opposing turnover rates since the trade deadline. Before that

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Speaker 1: they were twenty seconds. So I think it's a combination

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Speaker 1: of the Timberwolves like to give up the ball and

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Speaker 1: the Clippers are good taking the ball away and it

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Speaker 1: just makes their offense even better. But Kawhi Leonard is

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Speaker 1: on another level right now. He's playing so well. I

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Speaker 1: had to check his awards of availability. He's got a chance.

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Speaker 1: He's only missed fourteen games this season, so he's got

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Speaker 1: to play in fourteen of the last He's seventeen for

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Speaker 1: the Clippers, So of course you got to check the

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Speaker 1: back to backs. They only have three of those left.

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Speaker 1: He could sit out all three. But guess what. Kui

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Speaker 1: has played in both legs of the last five back

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Speaker 1: to backs for the Clippers. He should get MVP votes.

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Speaker 1: Like fifth, he should be on the first team. He's

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Speaker 1: been one of the five best players in the league

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Speaker 1: the season. Twenty eight six and four this season on

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Speaker 1: fifty percent shooting from the field, thirty eight from three

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Speaker 1: Hit his six to three last night, Clippers played by

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Speaker 1: play yelled out and out of hard drive experience. I thought, Brian,

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Speaker 1: Brian Seman, that's his name, that's his name, simple semen Uh.

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Speaker 1: He was on fire last night. This guy called a

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Speaker 1: great game. Jordan Miller had a big donkey yell out

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Speaker 1: Hello nasty. One of my favorite records from high school,

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Speaker 1: for sure. But Kawhi has been really, really good. I

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Speaker 1: mean him missing the first chunk of the season is

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Speaker 1: part of the reason the Clippers were in such a

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Speaker 1: big hole. But now they've completely dug themselves out. The whole.

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Speaker 1: They're the first team to start under fifteen games, fifteen

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Speaker 1: and not the question is like can they get to seventh?

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're playing better than Phoenix is for sure. I

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Speaker 1: think sixth is asking a little bit. But yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: Clippers do have a really easy schedule coming.

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Speaker 2: Up here, and then you wonder like if they're the

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Speaker 2: seventh or the eighth seed, like get into the actual

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Speaker 2: playoffs if they win one of those games, like are

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Speaker 2: they going to scare any of those teams at the

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Speaker 2: top of the Western Conference in the Thunder or the

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Speaker 2: potentially play the Clippers. I mean, look, they're not your

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Speaker 2: But this is different with Kawhi because that's the thing.

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Speaker 2: Kawhi at this level, like you said, whether he's at

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Speaker 2: the end of the MVP ballot where you have them

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Speaker 2: on the All NBA teams, he's making one of those

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Speaker 2: if he qualifies like we've seen it for many teams before,

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Speaker 2: or the guys just invincible and is enough, and then

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Speaker 2: you pair it with the defense done Brook starting Derek

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Speaker 4: You're right, I'm glad you brought him up. He's been awesome.

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Speaker 2: I think he gets like he gets overlooked when we

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Speaker 2: always talk about like the most athletic guys in the league.

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Speaker 2: He's there, man, Like, I mean, we you know, he's

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Speaker 2: a dunk contest winner all that. He just makes plays

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Speaker 2: in the most like, you know, physically impressive league in

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Speaker 4: He does things where like I don't think many people

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Speaker 2: You're like, they have that crazy save last night and

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Speaker 2: awesome tip out rebound that got another chance for the

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Speaker 4: He's impressed.

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Speaker 2: So I don't think they beat the thunder of the

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Speaker 2: Clipper or the thunder of the Spurs. But I don't

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Speaker 2: think they would get waxed with the way they're playing

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Speaker 4: And I hate the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: They wouldn't be over man.

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Speaker 4: They're dropping one hundred and fifty three here having.

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Speaker 2: Fun the broadcasts and Kawi is scary when he's in

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Speaker 2: terminator mode or ambop mode.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're all not reluctant to say that Kawhi

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Speaker 3: is going to play in the postseason. Maybe that's us

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Speaker 3: being stupid, but maybe Kwi is just being healthy. Maybe

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Speaker 3: the Clippers medical staff deserves some awards. I mean, Kawhi

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Speaker 3: looks healthy, extremely healthy. I think Derek Jones junior coming

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Speaker 3: back from two right MCL injuries, right knee MCL injuries,

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Speaker 3: that's difficult to do, and he looks great. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's it's all on him. But to pair with Kawhi Leonard,

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Speaker 3: who's he's a killer against the Wolves. I mean, he'd

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Speaker 3: love to see the Wolves and the last two games

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Speaker 3: against them forty five and forty one, so pretty damn good.

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Speaker 3: But that team and a ty Lou team always gets

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Speaker 3: it going in the second half yea of a season.

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Speaker 3: That's what he does. So yeah, they are extremely scary.

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Speaker 2: And these new pieces, man, what like great starts here

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Speaker 2: for Garland, good game last night, you know, hit five threes,

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Speaker 2: twenty one points at the point guard position. And Benedict

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Speaker 2: Mathren It's like the guy just lives at the free

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Speaker 2: throw line. It's like Kawhi gets there when he wants

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Speaker 2: and then you get this guy off the bench and

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Speaker 2: he had another you know, ten free throws made, got

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Speaker 2: there twelve times, Mathron did scored twenty two. Gotten a

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Speaker 2: little involved in a little tussle at.

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Speaker 4: The end of the game.

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Speaker 2: He really wanted the game ball, give me my ball

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Speaker 2: for who was it, Sean Pendula.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the Clippers scored his first bucket ever.

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Speaker 2: So when I get that for him, and then that's

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Speaker 2: when we had the Joscelyn and the pushing, and that's

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Speaker 2: when Kwi is like, hey, a fight.

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Speaker 1: That's literally what he said. He was talking to Joe

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Speaker 2: He a fight, A fight, not much happening, but pretty

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Speaker 2: funny anyway. Those guys have contributed to k Oh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's completely changed the way the Clippers play,

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Speaker 1: which we talked about earlier this week. They are fast now,

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Speaker 1: they're qui as like I mean Lopez as well. He's

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Speaker 1: got one of the three or four best ISO scores

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Speaker 1: to stop him because he's so big, he's so strong,

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Speaker 1: and his handle is so tight.

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Speaker 3: Benedic Bathroom was involved in that other ball that they

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Speaker 3: wanted to grab after the Pacers play the Bucks. Yeah, yeah, she.

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Speaker 1: Takes it very seriously. We thought that was all Yannest

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a maybe it's mathret and that has like

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Speaker 3: I guess. So he's had some strange moments when you

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Speaker 3: package them all together, like he had that weird moment

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Speaker 3: where post game, I mean it was it was a

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Speaker 3: different game against Yannis where Yannis kind of cup the

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Speaker 3: and Benedict Matherne wasn't evidently didn't like to be grabbed

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Speaker 3: he went to talk to Jannis and got hit with

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Speaker 3: a tech at the free throw line. Just another really

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Speaker 3: weird He's had some weird moments in his very young career.

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Speaker 1: A chip on the shoulder guy for sure. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's all about piece, he said, he's all about piece

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Speaker 3: Yeah, then Nugets need a third and fourth piece. We

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Speaker 3: This is an important time for him to be extremely good,

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Speaker 1: With all these guys playing well exactly. This was two

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Speaker 2: They shot four to thirty three from deep. Okay, there's that.

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Speaker 1: They also shot five of fourteen at the free throw line.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they're not a good free throw shooting team. I

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Speaker 2: Best defensive performance we've seen from the Nuggets. Yeah, Rockets

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Speaker 2: but they were like they were blitzing and they're trapping

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Speaker 3: Uh, kicking butt there, But about just a bad game

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Speaker 3: That seems like a fake NBA name if I've ever

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Speaker 1: There are some good guys playing last night. Crawford, Sean Padula,

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Speaker 3: Oh that's great. Yeah, it's time solid name. That's almost

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's probably I'm sure there's another deep cut on

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Speaker 2: Do you have any thoughts on the Pelicans beating the Raptors.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean we're going to get into this runs

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Speaker 1: Yea. The Pelicans are nine and seven since the start

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Speaker 2: Yeah, their guys are somewhat healthy and exactly obviously not

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Speaker 1: Kind of like the healthiest they've been. They're motivated to

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Speaker 1: de Jontay Murray was talking about making a play in Push.

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Speaker 1: But they're playing veterans basically like it's Derek Queen doesn't

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Speaker 1: for sure, that's sick Jamal Shed down, Well, do you

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Speaker 1: that's I'm glorifying the Pelicans. I know the Raptors stink,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for those that didn't see it, de Jonte's been

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Speaker 2: feeling himself all game, and the Pelicans are playing well,

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Speaker 2: There's his teammates, Shed teammates. They did basically nothing quickly, quickly,

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Speaker 2: This team has no fight. It's pretty embarrassing. I think

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Speaker 2: not saying like you gotta punch the guy, like somebody's

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Speaker 2: gotta like step get the come on. You're getting clowned

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Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm saying I don't even want them

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Speaker 2: They're in the plane now, they've fallen all the way

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Speaker 3: It's brutal man ever since Jamal Shed didn't make team

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Speaker 3: infrastructure on no dunks, he's falling apart. And he is

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Speaker 4: Somebody, somebody has to step up.

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Speaker 2: You have to step recently, and you had Ingram out there,

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Speaker 2: you had Barnes out there again quickly whatever he came over.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't all that impressed with what he did, but

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Speaker 1: The Pelicans.

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Speaker 4: Was it herb Jones?

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Speaker 2: He pushed a chantey Murray harder than anyone on the

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Speaker 2: Raptors did. Now that was a celibratory you're the man

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Speaker 2: Like again, you know, I want to throw around soft

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's literally no fight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, surprising when it's it's brandon Ingram's original team, the

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Speaker 4: He's a pretty chill guy.

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Speaker 3: You got to do it for him. He's not doing it. No,

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Speaker 3: they don't have the guy you would think would do it.

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Speaker 1: He was on the ground exactly. Yeah, that's the problem. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Oh man, this was like not the only time in

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Speaker 4: So he's feeling himself.

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Speaker 2: But nice to see it would be nice to see

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Speaker 2: somebody on the rafter stick up for shit after he got.

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Speaker 3: You know, clowned.

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Speaker 4: Guy's standing over him screaming.

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Speaker 1: He seeked him out.

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Speaker 4: It's wild that nobody did anything.

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Speaker 1: All right, nine and a half games, nine and a

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Speaker 3: No, there's no chance.

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Speaker 4: There's a zero chance.

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Speaker 2: But like I thought about you though, when you were

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Speaker 1: He's playing well. And what did I say to you?

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Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know, man, I'm a little

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Speaker 2: worried they're gonna play well here over this stretch because

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Speaker 1: And they're gonna go run it back. Baby, we could be.

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Speaker 2: Good when our guys play And like, yeah, you sort

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Speaker 2: of can, but you just then you'll start next season

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Speaker 2: and somebody will get hurt, and then another guy will

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Speaker 2: get hurt, and you're just gonna be at back at

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Speaker 2: square one. So that's the worry. Let's show you the

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Speaker 2: Western Conference standings. As of Thursday morning, here they are

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Speaker 2: thunderspurs up top. And then look at the log jam.

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Speaker 2: We got four teams that forty wins. They're all separated

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Speaker 2: I should have noted that Denver now holds a tiebreaker

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Speaker 2: a part, Like I would say, at this point, we

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Speaker 2: potential season series deciding a seed or two here and

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Speaker 2: then you see their Sun seven, Clippers eight, and then

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Speaker 3: We had some Yeah, those four teams, they're running the

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Speaker 3: I mean it is a good race. Forty twenty five

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Speaker 1: Also, you think we're getting some last week shenanigans. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're trying like we don't, we don't want it. We'd

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Speaker 1: be happier being sixth than their third. We're gonna arrest

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Speaker 1: our guys. That happens yeah, it does. It does. That

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Speaker 2: I will say though, like you're you know, your four

433
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Speaker 2: or five matchup or your three six matchup? Uh no,

434
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Speaker 2: I guess yeah, you might want to be three six,

435
00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:29,879
Speaker 2: like if you don't want to see the thunder in

436
00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:31,639
Speaker 2: the second round, like if you have like plans that

437
00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:32,480
Speaker 2: you can go quite far.

438
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

439
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the answer your question, yes, there'll be something.

440
00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we'll all go, oh, that's bulletin board

441
00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:39,919
Speaker 2: material for Team X.

442
00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:41,160
Speaker 4: But will it matter?

443
00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:45,840
Speaker 3: Probably not. Yeah. The last night they've tried to circumvent that, right,

444
00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,960
Speaker 3: because they've tried to schedule it perfectly where all the

445
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,360
Speaker 3: games essentially start at the same time for the Western

446
00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:59,040
Speaker 3: Conference teams, the Rockets, the Wolves, and they start at

447
00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,080
Speaker 3: the same time. The Clippers, but I guess they're not

448
00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,879
Speaker 3: all playing the Nuggets also, so the Nuggets, Wolves, Rockets

449
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,200
Speaker 3: all start at the same time. What's the team I'm missing?

450
00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:13,040
Speaker 2: Scoreboard watching will be happening. It'll be an assistant coach.

451
00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,520
Speaker 2: That'll be his only duty.

452
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Lakers, the Lakers, that's right, Yeah, all three

453
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,880
Speaker 3: for sick they all start at the same time. That's right. Yeah.

454
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Speaker 2: What day is the last day of the regular season? Sunday,

455
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Speaker 2: April twelfth, Thank you a month today?

456
00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 3: Wow?

457
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Speaker 4: Correct, Wow, credible.

458
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Speaker 1: I feel still early in the season, only a few

459
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Speaker 1: more games.

460
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Speaker 2: I've got some news about Golden State Warriors. They've ruled

461
00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:42,840
Speaker 2: out Steph Curry for another ten days with persistent right

462
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:46,840
Speaker 2: knee issues. This is going to stretch Curry's absence at

463
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,639
Speaker 2: least uh five, maybe six games because of their schedule.

464
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Speaker 1: I think it's six.

465
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,119
Speaker 2: He has missed the previous fifteen for what they call

466
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:58,920
Speaker 2: runner's knee, which is typically a swelling pain around the kneecap.

467
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,080
Speaker 2: So I'm not good here. Tass or As have lost

468
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,800
Speaker 2: three straight. I mean, they're losing to the Bulls and

469
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,480
Speaker 2: Jazz at this point with the Curry, so I guess

470
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Speaker 2: they're just maybe they're just looking at the standings like

471
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,000
Speaker 2: we just showed you and they're like, well, we're not

472
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Speaker 2: going up. We're so far behind the seventh eighth, like

473
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Speaker 2: we're gonna be the ninth or tenth team. We have

474
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Speaker 2: no real fear of, like falling out of the play

475
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 2: in because of the team's behind them. Let's just get

476
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,320
Speaker 2: Kurry as healthy as possible and try it that way.

477
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:28,080
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, the unfortunate part of Steph expected to come

478
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Speaker 3: back around the All Star Game, and here we are

479
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,560
Speaker 3: nearing a month later, and I guess there was a

480
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Speaker 3: reason Steve Kirk kept saying we got to reduce the schedule.

481
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's always said that, but he's been saying

482
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Speaker 3: it a lot recently, and I think it's based on

483
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Speaker 3: Steph and trying to get him as healthy as possible

484
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Speaker 3: and not as injured as possible with the old runner's

485
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Speaker 3: knee as it's being called, because the unfortunate party came

486
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Speaker 3: back again expectedly around the All Star Game to try

487
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 3: and get a feel for things, like he was working out,

488
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 3: but he just never was able to overcome it. It

489
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 3: just didn't materialized. It didn't he didn't recover, and so

490
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,240
Speaker 3: that's the scary part here a month later.

491
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's basically said, I've never had my body respond

492
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Speaker 1: this way and it's completely unpredictable. So it wouldn't surprise

493
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Speaker 1: me if he's done.

494
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Speaker 3: For the season.

495
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Speaker 1: There's no read of the real question get him ready

496
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Speaker 1: for next year?

497
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's a good point.

498
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Speaker 4: Possible.

499
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Speaker 2: Like I said, there's six games. What I think it

500
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:31,160
Speaker 2: is behind the Suns in seventh spot, so like there's

501
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:32,399
Speaker 2: like seventeen games left for them.

502
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Speaker 1: Godly these games that he's gonna miss. They've got the

503
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Speaker 1: timber Wolves at home tomorrow on Friday, and then they

504
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,359
Speaker 1: go for a six game road trip. Like there's no

505
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 1: way he's gonna go play any of those games. Maybe

506
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,639
Speaker 1: he's back for the Nets at home on the twenty fifth,

507
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 1: but at that point, why.

508
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean except to get to playoff gate money, Like, well,

509
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 2: maybe make your way through the play and is my point,

510
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:00,440
Speaker 2: but yeah, yeah, uh.

511
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:01,639
Speaker 4: No, I'm with you.

512
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 2: And look, I have a lot more confidence in the

513
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 2: Clippers putting up a fight in a potential first round

514
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:10,400
Speaker 2: series against the Thunder or well, I guess it would

515
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 2: be the Thunder, as you would be in the eighth spot.

516
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Speaker 4: They're not doing anything, even with Curry for being.

517
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 3: Honest, Yeah, they're not. And I'm sure their medical staff says,

518
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, we can try and push you back.

519
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 3: We'll see, But then Steph has to say, I don't know,

520
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,439
Speaker 3: we're not going through the Clippers. So Kawhi may have

521
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 3: ended Steph Curry's career season because you can't get through

522
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 3: the Clippers. I mean, that's how are they going to

523
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 3: beat the Los Angeles Clippers the way the Clippers are playing?

524
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: And they could beat the Blazers, we agree with that.

525
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 3: In the game one of the playing and then could

526
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Speaker 3: they not.

527
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Speaker 1: Beat the Suns if the Clippers beat the Suns.

528
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 3: If the Suns beat the Clippers.

529
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,479
Speaker 1: No, I'm saying, if the Clippers beat the Clippers, are

530
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: in seven eight?

531
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Speaker 3: Right?

532
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, seven.

533
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 2: Seven doesn't play ten and eight doesn't play nine seven.

534
00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 3: Disrespect to the Phoenix Suns that.

535
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Speaker 4: I'm just they could beat him in one game with

536
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:02,919
Speaker 4: Steph Curry they couldn't.

537
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:07,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, But then then the point was, Okay, then what

538
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 2: I mean, Yeah, they're just putting more wear and tear

539
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 2: on his body here.

540
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 4: For what really?

541
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Speaker 3: Yeah, if he can't recover two home playoff games like this,

542
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,120
Speaker 3: it's been it's been a while. That's the unfortunate part.

543
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 3: We've never seen, you know, biz in Steph Curry's career

544
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,239
Speaker 3: where he's just unable to come back. This has been

545
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 3: a long time.

546
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go to the Eastern Conference. Let me chuck

547
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 2: all the big East wins. Last night, Desmond Bine scored

548
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 2: thirty five to help the Magic beat the Cavs one two.

549
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 2: We had the Knicks coming back against the Utah Jazz

550
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,399
Speaker 2: ended up dominating them one thirty four, one seventeen, but

551
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 2: they were down big early.

552
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Speaker 4: They ended a little.

553
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,880
Speaker 2: Two game losing streak and LaMelo Ball scored thirty. Hornets

554
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,199
Speaker 2: beat the Kings one seventeen, one on nine trail. We'll

555
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 2: start with you here. I mean, I think we know

556
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 2: the answer. But most impressive Eastern Conference win.

557
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Speaker 1: You're thinking Hornets over Kings, right, that's right, definitely.

558
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,199
Speaker 4: No, Hey, the Kings had already that. We run a

559
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Speaker 4: one game win streak.

560
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Speaker 1: Hey, I think the Kings have won four of their

561
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Speaker 1: past nine after losing sixteen straight. The Beam, keeping the

562
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Speaker 1: Beam light, the Beam fifty cent Uh No, it's the

563
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: Magic over the Calves. This is a great win, I

564
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 1: thought for Orlando, and a really fun game, a wild ending.

565
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: Like it looked like the or the Magic were gonna

566
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 1: get home pretty easily. They had like a ten point lead,

567
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: and then in the last two minutes between the Calves

568
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 1: and the Magic, five straight made three pointers, culminating in

569
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 1: Desmond Bain hitting that right wing three pointer off of

570
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: a sidelin's out of bound play. It was James Harden

571
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: and Whndell Carter Junior right on the on the right sideline.

572
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 1: They were trying to enter the ball to Carter. Brutal

573
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 1: pass by Desmond Baine. Harden says he didn't touch it.

574
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: You can see him saying to the reft on my life,

575
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: on my life, I didn't touch that ball. But the

576
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: Calves had no challenges and when they slowed it down,

577
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 1: I don't think that the Calves would have won that replay. Anyways,

578
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,400
Speaker 1: it seemed like not enough evidence. Maybe it was off Carter,

579
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: maybe Harden touched it. You just could not tell.

580
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 3: But we need a hawkey.

581
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 1: We need a hawkey for that go hawk mode. But

582
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 1: they couldn't do it. Eight and three though, post All

583
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 1: Star for the Orlando Magic, they got some good wins

584
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 1: mixed in there as well. They beat the Clippers, the Lakers,

585
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves, and then last night the Calves, which I

586
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: think was their best win. Here's a new award I

587
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: would like to propose to you in season most improved Player,

588
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: and it goes to Desmond Bane because this guy was

589
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,439
Speaker 1: brutal through twenty twenty five nineteen points per game, forty

590
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: four from the field, thirty four from three in twenty

591
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty two per game, fifty five from the field,

592
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: forty four from three. He's awesome. He's the reason they

593
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: won this game last night, hitting threes, getting downhill, creating

594
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: for others, and then he hit the dagger that put

595
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: him over the top to beat the Calves. He's been really,

596
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: really good. You throw in Polo playing with better efficiency

597
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 1: during the second half of the season as well. The

598
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: Magic look all right right now.

599
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:47,919
Speaker 2: I was gonna say they might be one two in

600
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Speaker 2: your hypothetical made up award terms of like in season improvement,

601
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Speaker 2: but being leaning it also just check Desmond Bean. He

602
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 2: should be at least on the odds for NBA Clutch

603
00:26:58,800 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 2: Player of the Year.

604
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:00,719
Speaker 4: No, we're insight.

605
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 2: He's in a lot of clutch buckets. Yes, yes, but

606
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 2: it's Shay as the favorite. Then it's Anthony Edwards, Maxi Jokich,

607
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 2: Murray Cunningham. I don't even see I don't even see

608
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 2: Desmond Bane at plus four thousand tasks, and I'm upset

609
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 2: about it.

610
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 3: I've you checked the clutch stats. No I have.

611
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 1: I'm just going on feel on this one.

612
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, he seems to be the guy that they go

613
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 3: to and they need a play at the end of

614
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 3: the game. Whether or not he should have been eligible

615
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 3: to shoot that three ball, it's a good question. Did

616
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 3: go off hard and beforehand, But they got there in

617
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 3: part because Desmond bain and yes, I guess Paulo Bonkaro,

618
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 3: who gets the second votes for most Improved during the season,

619
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 3: because he looks like a different player. He looks like

620
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 3: the game has slowed down for him. When he gets

621
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 3: into the lane, he ain't just forcing things. He can

622
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 3: get two feet into the lane and then make the

623
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 3: right pass, or he can just slow it down and

624
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 3: say I'm bigger than you. I can pump you until

625
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 3: you move a little bit and get that bucket. He

626
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 3: has been so so good since the All Star break.

627
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 3: He is up five points per game. He is up

628
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 3: five field goal percentage points, four three point percentage points,

629
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 3: one more rebound, one more assist since before the All

630
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 3: Star Game, so six per game. So he's making things

631
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 3: happen out there. It looks like an entirely different team.

632
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 3: They're cutting, there's ball movement, there's body movement. They do

633
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,360
Speaker 3: look great. So they got there to the end, and yeah,

634
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 3: Desmond being takes over when Paul boncro sits down. Trista

635
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 3: Silva was really really good in this game. And even

636
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 3: mindel Carter, when the Cavs throwing the zone out there,

637
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 3: Magic said all right, oh wehndll you get to the

638
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 3: elbow and we'll give it to you and you make

639
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 3: some plays. And he did that. Boncaro did that. They

640
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 3: still got Franz to come. This team is a shocker.

641
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 3: It's surprising how hot they've been recently. They look like

642
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 3: again a different team after half. And that's why after

643
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 3: the All Star break specifically, and that's why you know

644
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 3: that article that Mark Spears dropped about Paula boncare is

645
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 3: going to bring that up up Yep, feels real because

646
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 3: Bacaro looks like a different guy again. Him and Baine

647
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 3: are hand in hand and suggs as well as leaders

648
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 3: on this team. But he again different guy. So he

649
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 3: gets votes for most improved during the season too.

650
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 2: He told Mark Spears Ben Carrow did I looked in

651
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 2: the mirror first over the All Star break. I watched

652
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 2: a lot of film over the early part of the season.

653
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 2: I just wasn't happy with what I put out. Some

654
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 2: of that had to do with me being injured and

655
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 2: coming back, but talked about having this better mindset, and yeah,

656
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 2: I must have watched the tape. I'm like, oh man,

657
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 2: what am I doing out there? Because we were talking

658
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 2: about it earlier in the year, like he was forcing things,

659
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 2: seemed hard of the blinders on just that he was

660
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 2: not in any sort of rhythm. But yeah, it's gotten

661
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: going here in the second half of the season or

662
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 2: this last stretch, and we could have this matchup that

663
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 2: they played last night four or five again. I mean,

664
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 2: we've seen these two teams play before. It was a

665
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 2: bit of a dog fight in the playoffs. So maybe

666
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 2: a stays calves magic once again. Yeah, you know, obviously

667
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 2: different teams, especially in Cleveland there with Harden had a

668
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: pretty good game and Mitchell did too, but didn't.

669
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 4: Get a lot from the small forward position last night.

670
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 4: Almost a problem for the Cavs.

671
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: Dean Wade, Deaner the stinker zero zero for Dean. Yeah,

672
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: and no no Jared Allen as well, and that guy's very,

673
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: very important for them. We'll talk about the Cavs a

674
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: little bit as well. But the question is, like Franz

675
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: Wagner theoretically is coming back. They don't need him right now.

676
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: The Polo Franz fit is part of the reason the

677
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: Magic struggled at the beginning of the year, and look

678
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: credit to Polo for looking in the mirror and realizing

679
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: he wasn't playing the way he needed to be. But

680
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: it's also very evident that the two of them on

681
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: the court occupy the same places a lot of the

682
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: time and do a lot of the same things. So

683
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: I think it would kind of throw a wrench into

684
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: things to bring Franz back at this point in the season.

685
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: But also he's maybe their best player, So are you

686
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: gonna do it? Or is Desimon being their best player

687
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: or as Paulo Bancaro their best player. Uncertain you would

688
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: like to know going into the playoffs and it's getting late.

689
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, they just seemed to find a way to play

690
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 3: off each other, so trusting Disilva was in the corner

691
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 3: a lot of times. You can see Franz doing that.

692
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 3: You can see poble Banker doing that as he was yesterday.

693
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 3: I think they can swap basically, is what I mean.

694
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 3: They can because the four guys plus one Del Carter Junior,

695
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 3: you know, sogs Bane, Franz and Ben Carroll will will

696
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 3: lead the way. Plus one del Carter and yeah, Tristan

697
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 3: Silva can be that guy off the bench and Anthony

698
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 3: Black who also not playing right now.

699
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: Any uh, I mean that's Look, they've taken out two

700
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: of their starters and gotten better.

701
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's weird. Yeah, I mean big part, no doubt

702
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 2: Sogs is huge. That guy has to play for them

703
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 2: to be good because he sets OIE identity on the

704
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 2: defensive end and can score right now, can shoot a

705
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 2: little bit. So But you're not wrong, TK, Like maybe

706
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 2: they just have too many of the same things and

707
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 2: you can remove a couple and it works a little

708
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 2: bit better, the flow of.

709
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: The offense and the packing order and all that. Yeah,

710
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: it seems too for sure.

711
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 2: And some of these are impressive wins, Like they've beaten

712
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 2: some crappy teams here, but some quality wins here. Any

713
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 2: other mush share notes on the Knicks or the Hornets

714
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 2: beating some bad teams, I.

715
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: Mean not must share. But the Jazz were up six

716
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: against the New York Knicks. Keante George tweaked his hammy

717
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: and Utah was outscored fifty five to twenty nine the

718
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: rest of the way. Good job by the Knicks, waiting

719
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: just wait just wait and you can pull it out

720
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: at the end. The only other thing I thought that

721
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: was interesting is LaMelo Ball had a great game against

722
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: the Kings, hit a three in front of their bench

723
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 1: and said something to Malik Monk and Russell Westbrook.

724
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 3: That actually made them both laugh.

725
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: Westbrook's not a guy that likes to be trash talked, no,

726
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: so whatever LaMelo said must have been pretty fine. Good

727
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: for it.

728
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, got Westbrook to smile, yeah while playing. Yeah, it

729
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 2: is impressive. Let's show you the Eastern Conference standings. Detroit

730
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 2: still number one, three and a half game lead over

731
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 2: the Celtics too.

732
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 3: There.

733
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Speaker 2: Then it goes Nicks, Calves, Magic Heat. Yes, the Miami

734
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 2: Heat are in the sixth seed, very similar record there

735
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 2: to the Magic and then Raptors have fallen into the plane.

736
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 2: Oh by god, Sixers right behind them, and then the

737
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 2: Hawks and the Hornets.

738
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more.

739
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 2: About these teams when we get into the pyramid ranking

740
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Speaker 2: of the Eastern Conference. Let's take a quick break, and

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Speaker 2: to get started. All right, throw your pyramids up, throw

753
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 2: your illuminaties up. It's time to rank the Eastern Conference.

754
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 2: Trey Kirby got out the rulers, he got out the

755
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 2: pencil crayons, and he got to work ranking them.

756
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: Yes I did. I was very thankful to see that.

757
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: My Western Conference pyramid, if you simply layer a sheet

758
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: of paper over it, works as a perfect blueprint.

759
00:33:59,320 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 4: Excellent.

760
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: The lines are crispy. But I'll say the Eastern Conference

761
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: way harder to make a pyramid four for two reasons.

762
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: First and foremost, a lot of similar color schemes here

763
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference.

764
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 2: What's the most popular color? I know we'll see it

765
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 2: at the end, but most popular color I would say

766
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 2: is red. We got multiple red and blue teams. We

767
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 2: got three red and black teams that are in the

768
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 2: playoff picture. That's not even including the Bulls.

769
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 1: Yeah right, you know, like you don't think of the

770
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: Hawks as a red and black team. They were uniforms.

771
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: Yeah right, a bit.

772
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 2: And you got the Raptors, you got the Sixers of

773
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 2: red and blue. The Pistons are red and blue. Miami, Yeah,

774
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 2: Jesus yeah. I was having to ask the guys.

775
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 3: Which color do I go for?

776
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 1: Which team? The important questions. Also, something that makes it

777
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: a little harder is these teams are a lot closer

778
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: in quality, I think than the Western Conference. You got

779
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: a top four that is pretty similar, and you got

780
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: a bottom six that I think is fairly similar. Sure,

781
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: so we'll start in Tier four. Unfortunately, I gotta go

782
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,760
Speaker 1: to the Atlanta Hawks at number ten. They've won seven straight.

783
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 1: Only one of those was against the winning team. It

784
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: was against the seventy six ers, who added no Joel Embiid,

785
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: no Paul George, and Tyrese Maxey went down with his

786
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: fingy injury there in the clutch. But big credit to

787
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: the Hawks for getting over five hundred, for getting a

788
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: positive point differential, and I guess all of those stats

789
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 1: about over the last twenty five hundred games, they're twelve

790
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 1: fifty and twelve fifty or whatever it may be. They're

791
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 1: a little bit over right now.

792
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're screwing up that a Fox, but.

793
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 1: Okay, longest winning streak in the league right now.

794
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, to me, they're X factors Dyson Daniels. We know

795
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 3: their backcourt c J McCallum and Nikil Alexander Walker, and

796
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 3: then their front line of Jalen Johnson and Jak Konga

797
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 3: and Dyson Daniels. There's going to be production. But I

798
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 3: think Dyson Daniels the guy who's gotten them to the

799
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 3: seven wins. He's been balding fifty assists, only four turnovers

800
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 3: over these seven games. And I mentioned him even though

801
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 3: the stats aren't there, he could be nominated for that

802
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 3: award you mentioned Trey and in season most improved Player.

803
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 3: He has still stunk from the three line, but he's

804
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 3: gotten better at getting into the lane and deciding how

805
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 3: to help guys. Again, those are great numbers. Doesn't turn

806
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 3: it over, so they're gonna try and get him on

807
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 3: the offensive glass as they've done, you know, because he's

808
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 3: like a corner guy. He's going to jump in on

809
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 3: those offensive boards and he's gonna make other plays, plays

810
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 3: for other guys. So that's what can win you playoff games.

811
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 3: And so that's gonna be important in the play in

812
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 3: game and then the playoffs. I think he's he's really

813
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 3: the guy.

814
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: Be interesting to see the Hawks in a play in

815
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: game without Tree Young.

816
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 4: It's gonna be weird.

817
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I've enjoyed watching the Hawks recently a lot

818
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 2: more than I can say I have our last couple

819
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:40,240
Speaker 2: of seasons.

820
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's some fight to them.

821
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 2: I love Jill and Johnson, Like he had that incredible

822
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 2: start and then I think he had a stretch there.

823
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 2: Maybe it was injuries and bald he cooled off a

824
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 2: little bit, but he is attacking defenses right now. That

825
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 2: Sixers game, man, I brought it up the other day,

826
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:55,919
Speaker 2: like I was there.

827
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: He just kept dunking.

828
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 2: He's kept driving and dunking and there was not a

829
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 2: lot of resistance from the Sixers, who were short a

830
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 2: lot of guys.

831
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 4: But it was impressive.

832
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 2: COMINGA coming over here feels you know, have they lost

833
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 2: since Cominga's played? I don't know, but he's barely played.

834
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: Is the other thing.

835
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 2: I think he's only played three games for them. Yeah,

836
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 2: he's a lot of time. He's looked solid when he's

837
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 2: been out there. And then he said the defense like

838
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 2: Dyson Daniels. Hell yeah, he locks in, and so is

839
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 2: this Niki Alexander Walker who then can score. He's having

840
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 2: a nice little stretch here. So they'll they're they're rolling right.

841
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 2: This is the best they've looked in a long time.

842
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 2: The way they played hasn't been the most amazing competition.

843
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 2: So we'll see when they play better teams. But could

844
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 2: they get into the playoffs like through the plan? Yeah,

845
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 2: because you having them tenth here, I got I got

846
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 2: teams that I would have in that position. I'll just

847
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 2: say that right now. So I would have him a

848
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 2: little bit higher. But you got up, of course, in

849
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:46,959
Speaker 2: the right tier.

850
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: Thank you. Number nine. My biggest regret maybe I made

851
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: the pyramid too early. Maybe I built them too early,

852
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: too premature. The Orlando Magic. I got them in ninth. Oh,

853
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: they're third and net rating in the last fifteen games,

854
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: plus the best defense in the league in those fifteen games.

855
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: I would hear arguments for them being fifth, to be

856
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: quite honest, But I also have watched the Magic in

857
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 1: the playoffs the past couple of seasons, so that's why

858
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: they ended up here for me.

859
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have to prove it in the playoffs. But

860
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 3: they're better than they were last year record wise, feel wise.

861
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 3: I mean, they're thirty six and twenty eight at this

862
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 3: point through sixty four games. Last year they were twenty

863
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,479
Speaker 3: nine and thirty five. And yeah, they got the vibes

864
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 3: where they are moving the ball and they are moving

865
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 3: their bodies. It's just way different than they were in

866
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 3: the first half the season. It looks like a different

867
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 3: basketball team. So could they you're vaulting them to fifth

868
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 3: potentially that means, you know, they'd be higher than a

869
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 3: Heat or Sixers or obviously the Raps. Yeah, they ain't stupid.

870
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: They're better than the Raptors.

871
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that they're probably better than the Sixers

872
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 2: just because I mean, who the hell's playing, Yes, like

873
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 2: their main guys are out. The Heat is where I

874
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 2: go ooh, I don't know, because they're both playing great

875
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 2: right now. So that that's the coin flip to me

876
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 2: between the Heat and the Magic. But Toronto should not

877
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 2: be above this team. This team is better. They are

878
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 2: they play with a little purpose. They have a defensive identity.

879
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 2: I mean, I know the Raptors sort of do too,

880
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 2: but then you know, I trust their guys to actually

881
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 2: score a little bit more, and they're just they're clicking

882
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 2: right now.

883
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 3: They're clicking there, and they're the Heat and Magic are

884
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 3: in a similar boat where they got to throw in

885
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,479
Speaker 3: one of the guys that they use all the time

886
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 3: because he's injured. Franz Wagner is huge, and Norman Powell

887
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 3: to go along with Tyler here who just came back

888
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 3: and was playing his best ball. So there's that added

889
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 3: little hurdle in the next month. Here they're both in

890
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,760
Speaker 3: the same, same, similar boats.

891
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: I should say, yeah, actually, I mean, we'll get to

892
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: the Heat later. But I was picking between Miami and

893
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: Orlando who's going to go fifth? And I picked Miami. Yeah,

894
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 1: And I don't know why that meant. I went ninth

895
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: for Orlando. But yeah, man, A lot questions are unanswered

896
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: when it comes to it.

897
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 3: How did they do that?

898
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: Build such a structure really makes you think at number

899
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: eight the Charlotte Hornets, people are gonna say this is

900
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: too low, But I got quite will this style of

901
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: play work in the playoffs. They're great at offensive rebounding.

902
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,320
Speaker 1: They get a lot of great shooting from Conka Nipple.

903
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: LaMelo is a big time risk reward guy, but plays.

904
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: I think he's been playing great this season, had an

905
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: awesome game last night. But teams can focus on the

906
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: offensive bounding. We've seen shooters be taking out of playoff

907
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 1: series when it's game plan mode. So I wonder if

908
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: con will have quite as much space. I still have

909
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: confidence that he will knock him down, and LaMelo like,

910
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: how long are you going to live with him chucking

911
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: up crazy shots in clutch time? So I got them eighth.

912
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: I hope they make it into the real playoffs.

913
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say that, have all the teams

914
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 2: in Tier four, like, this is the one I do

915
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 2: want to just see get in there through the playoff.

916
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 2: I just want to see them, like, even if they

917
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 2: got swept, I just want to see them, And I

918
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 2: want the city of Charlotte and their fan base who

919
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 2: have like started to rally around the team because they're

920
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 2: obviously playing better basketball. Like there's a bit of a

921
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 2: vibe I would say in that place now, which is good.

922
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,359
Speaker 2: I think it would translate well to an NBA TV

923
00:40:58,440 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 2: series Oh yeah or.

924
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: Whatever they but still it'd be fun.

925
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 2: So I hope they get in and I think you

926
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 2: have them in the obviously the right tier and probably the.

927
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: Right spot too.

928
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 3: Everyone loves the kids and that's what this comes down to.

929
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,760
Speaker 3: These are all young guys, so they they win the

930
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 3: fun New Team at the Dance Award. You know, we're

931
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,959
Speaker 3: excited to see LaMelo Ball in the playoffs. The guy's

932
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 3: never played in the playoffs. And Miller, Yeah, and Brandon Miller,

933
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 3: he's just one of the more fun offensive players to watch. Uh.

934
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 3: And you know it's intriguing because yeah, they're new, never

935
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 3: done this before. But also they've got like intriguing guy

936
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 3: in Kankain Nipple, who if he can do this in

937
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 3: his first year, I think that bodes well for a

938
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 3: playoffs appearance and what they're going to do in the playoffs.

939
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 3: They're not gonna get smacked. They're not gonna get swept.

940
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 3: I think I think they.

941
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 2: Because that we got nothing to lose, sort of mentality

942
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 2: to which can work. Yeah, yeah, you can shock a

943
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 2: team the way they play.

944
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they also play older than they actually are

945
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 3: in terms of their uh seniority here in NBA. Playoffs games,

946
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 3: they don't have a lot, but I think Conking Nipple especially,

947
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 3: you know, that kind of stability will help lead guys.

948
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 3: And we're gonna see lots of highlights like Musa Diabat

949
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:14,359
Speaker 3: doing stuff that'll that'll get people excited on the tweeters.

950
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 4: I'm with you. If they make it into the postseason,

951
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 4: they're not getting swept. I'm with you.

952
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 2: They shoot too many threes and they hit too many threes.

953
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 2: They'll don't win a game just on that alone. They

954
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 2: play the Celtics, get ready for a million three pointers

955
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 2: attempted between those two teams in that series. But I'm

956
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 2: most excited to see your pyramid whether you went with

957
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 2: Choe or Jaw.

958
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: Do you want me to give you a spoiler now

959
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 1: or do you hope you went the correct way? I

960
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 1: would never in my life right show? Thank you? It

961
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: looks terrible.

962
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 3: I hate there.

963
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: I have a couple of concerns with basketball reference and

964
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: the way they abbreviate things. I think Chow is bad.

965
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: I think Foe for Phoenix is bad, though I do

966
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: love nachos and I do love fu Yeah, And I

967
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: think BRK is bad. I don't know. I'm with you.

968
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 2: On that one too. How do you feel about Portland?

969
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 2: Do you like a PDX or do you.

970
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: Like a po R? I actually like po R. Just

971
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: me it's it's not an airport, you know. No, it's

972
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: not at number seven the Toronto Raptors. But from what

973
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: I'm hearing, maybe they should be ninth or tenth. I

974
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: thought I was going to be stirring the pot with

975
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: you guys put in the bottom tier. But I think

976
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: you know even less than me.

977
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 4: I do.

978
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 3: I do.

979
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 4: I put the bulls there.

980
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 3: D Miller at least, who would they be above? That's

981
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 3: the tenth if if you if they if there's a

982
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 3: reason to prop them up into tier three, who would

983
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 3: they be above? That's the problem.

984
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, Philly, maybe they're they're a fake team right now.

985
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's the only The only team they would

986
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 3: be above is a team that's extremely banged up. This

987
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 3: is a regular season team. You know, in the playoffs,

988
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 3: defensive teams are going to take away your first action

989
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 3: on a floor. That's going to happen, and you see

990
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 3: that at the end of games. That's exactly what happens.

991
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 3: They get there to close games at the end, and

992
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 3: defensive teams take away their first action and they cannot

993
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,919
Speaker 3: adapt to get them with the second action. They don't

994
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 3: get into the lane enough. They're just not moving defenses

995
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 3: east to west. They don't. So when the playoffs start,

996
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 3: teams are going to play good defense. And that means

997
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 3: the Raptors are a regular season team.

998
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 2: They have not been a very good team in a

999
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 2: long time. The Raptors were like fourteen and six after

1000
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 2: twenty games, and you know they're probably that leaves them

1001
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 2: at least like that's around five hundred. I guess since then,

1002
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 2: they just haven't impressed. Like you said, They've split the

1003
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 2: season series with the Charlotte Hornets. They did take care

1004
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 2: of business against the Heat, at least so far. They've

1005
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 2: played well against the Hawks, though I think they have

1006
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 2: a couple of games left and then right now, as

1007
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 2: we've talked about a million times, it can't beat a

1008
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 2: good team, and last I checked, most teams in the

1009
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,240
Speaker 2: postseason are good teams.

1010
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 1: Most that's going to be a problem. If they're there,

1011
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: I would have them tenth.

1012
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 2: I'd have them in the bottom right hand corner of

1013
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 2: the pyramid because I actually just I hate this team.

1014
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 4: I do not like watching them.

1015
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,320
Speaker 2: I've watched crappier Raptors teams where I have more joy

1016
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 2: and like the fight and how they're sort of constructed

1017
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 2: than I do this. Yeah, I don't know, and maybe

1018
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,720
Speaker 2: people are gonna be like, oh, you're a Debbie Downer.

1019
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:15,839
Speaker 2: I'm just not convinced in this team at all.

1020
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: Well, the good thing is they got most of these

1021
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: guys locked up.

1022
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 4: Exactly.

1023
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, it hasn't been overall season wise, it hasn't been

1024
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 3: extremely disappointing record wise. You know they're there, but when

1025
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 3: you watch an end of game, it's it's easy to

1026
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 3: see that they can't execute. The record is bad against

1027
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 3: good teams, and so how could it possibly change in

1028
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 3: the in the postseason? It's not. Again, the end of

1029
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 3: game execution not so good. I brought up going to

1030
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 3: Brandon Ingram and where he used to play basketball in

1031
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 3: New Orleans. I thought they would just have a fight.

1032
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 3: They gave him a tribute video. You know, we got

1033
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:54,919
Speaker 3: to do this for our guy. Like, there's th think

1034
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 3: Brandon Ingram would have any fight. No, no, no, no, no, no no.

1035
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 3: There are guys for there for him. Who anybody?

1036
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: Who? I mean, they're a scrap. He's done a good

1037
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:04,760
Speaker 1: job carrying the defense.

1038
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 3: Done a good job, but you're gonna keep talking. Well,

1039
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 3: is right?

1040
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: They got no dogs, man, none, no dogs.

1041
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 3: They don't come on coming into the season. They all

1042
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 3: said their defense off the bench, they had scrappy guys,

1043
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 3: and they had those guys, but they don't have an offense.

1044
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 3: And then and so at least fool us with that

1045
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 3: same scrap level that you had earlier in this because

1046
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 3: you're not going to outscore teams, but fight, right, they

1047
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 3: didn't have that.

1048
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 1: Okay in the bottom I can't believe their sevens, but

1049
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: it's fine. Yeah, I mean they got one of the corners.

1050
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,439
Speaker 1: That's one of the most important pieces of a pillar. Yeah.

1051
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: At number six, Tier three major projection. This is team

1052
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: if man the Philadelphia seventy six ers. If Maxi is healthy,

1053
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 1: if embat is healthy, if Paul George is healthy and

1054
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: in rhythm, the Philadelphia seventy six Ers can make for

1055
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: an exciting first round playoff series. Could they win it

1056
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: depending on the right matchup. Yeah, I can squint and

1057
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: see as a world where the Sixers win a first rounder.

1058
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't that long ago, a couple of weeks

1059
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,479
Speaker 3: ago when we saw him beat healthy you start to think, Okay, yeah,

1060
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 3: they could win a series. Wasn't that long ago? No,

1061
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,240
Speaker 3: Maxie was healthy too? Oh yeah, Paul George.

1062
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 2: Their best opponent if, like you said, if, if, if

1063
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 2: these guys are somewhat healthy and can play, who do

1064
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 2: you think you could be? Like the Yeah they could,

1065
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 2: they could upset them. Interesting because we say that, But

1066
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:36,720
Speaker 2: they are gonna have to play one of the top

1067
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 2: four teams.

1068
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I mean if they yeah, I guess they

1069
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: are going to have to. They couldn't get Miami, right,

1070
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: and I think they would take their chances. Maybe Detroit.

1071
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:51,280
Speaker 1: I think that's the team that lower seeded playoff teams

1072
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 1: would want to play, just because of the lack of

1073
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: creation outside of Kade and the experience factor.

1074
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 3: I guess are the Calves included in that group of

1075
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 3: better team? Yeah, yeah, that's them. I think the Sixers. Yeah. Again,

1076
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:09,359
Speaker 3: there's there's so many questions. It's an oblique for him

1077
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,879
Speaker 3: be this ain't even his knee. But yeah, if they're

1078
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 3: all healthy, and that's pretty important because Tyre's Maxi is

1079
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 3: their best player. But maybe it's a blessing in disguise.

1080
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 3: As you guys said yesterday, he plays the most minutes

1081
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 3: in the NBA. But now he can sit and get

1082
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 3: some rest. But there's you know, multiple things here. It's him,

1083
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 3: it's also embiid one hundred percent. He has to be playing,

1084
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 3: and that's a huge question mark. I know the Paul

1085
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 3: George has come back March twenty fifth is supposed to

1086
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 3: be back. That's you know, a good few weeks. I

1087
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 3: guess that's that's good. But but but but there's too

1088
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 3: many butts.

1089
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, Caves have beaten the Sixers four times this year now,

1090
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 2: I don't know how many games and being missed. I

1091
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 2: know he missed the last one. Maybe he missed a

1092
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 2: couple others without going through them. But Calves have done okay.

1093
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:51,919
Speaker 2: Well if they change our team, so things are different.

1094
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 2: They played earlier in the year a couple times, so

1095
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:55,240
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think they'd beat Cleveland.

1096
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 4: I guess he'd try.

1097
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: I get your reasoning, but I'll be taking Detroit if

1098
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: we get a I mean, I would pick against Philadelphia

1099
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:03,760
Speaker 1: and basically every playoff series.

1100
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we know that Jared Allen doesn't play all

1101
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 3: that well in the postseason. We haven't seen it yet,

1102
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 3: so there's there's that factor. I mean, you just start

1103
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 3: knocking guys off the cass potentially here. You know the Wings,

1104
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 3: they got some injury problems, but it's yes, again, I

1105
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 3: wouldn't pick them over the Cavs right now, but I

1106
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 3: think Philip or Joel Embiid's nickname comes in handy right here.

1107
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 3: He's got a weird nickname, Duo one to eighty. That's

1108
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 3: his nickname. Do a one eight. It was one of

1109
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 3: his Basketball Reference nicknames. So you could do a one

1110
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 3: eighty on this team and the prognosis of this team

1111
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 3: if they're all healthy. Could I could do one eight

1112
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 3: because I did one a few weeks ago when Beid

1113
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 3: was playing. But then a no bleak. That's no joke,

1114
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:49,320
Speaker 3: abs Ouch.

1115
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:49,919
Speaker 1: It's a bad one.

1116
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1117
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: The i Phiadelphia seventy six ers, that's who they are

1118
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 1: right at number five. The Miami Heat, you got a

1119
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:59,959
Speaker 1: top five defense. They're experienced, having made each the player

1120
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 1: of each season the last six seasons since Tyler Hero

1121
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 1: and Bam out of Baio have been around. You throw

1122
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 1: in Andrew Wiggins, he's got a ring throwing Norm Powell,

1123
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 1: He's played in a ton of playoff games. And of

1124
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: course Bam could go for eighty plus any night. So

1125
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: this is why I had him so high.

1126
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 3: Norm's got a ring, Yeah, got a ring? Yeah yeah,

1127
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 3: what are you thinking about the heat?

1128
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 1: I think it is the right spot. Sure, I mean, look,

1129
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: there can't be beat.

1130
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 2: If BAM goes for eighty three, that's always gonna be

1131
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 2: a problem undefeated matchup. But uh yeah, I think you

1132
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 2: got them in the right spot, the zombie heat. It's

1133
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 2: like you've become one of these teams. And Simmons always

1134
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:38,760
Speaker 2: saying this, like who wants to see this team? Probably

1135
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 2: not a lot, Like if you had to pick in

1136
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 2: a lot of your postseason matchups, like not them. Sposter's

1137
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 2: too smart. They do have an identity. They are playing better. Yeah,

1138
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,760
Speaker 2: so no, I wouldn't want to, but they're not better

1139
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 2: probably than these other four.

1140
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 4: Teams ahead of them.

1141
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: So you got them in the right up what basically

1142
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: the middle of this damn thing.

1143
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. The timing of when we picked this pyramid

1144
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 3: or when you the permid tray is important here. You know,

1145
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,359
Speaker 3: BAM just scored eighty three. This team's on a six

1146
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 3: game win streak, and I think big factor is Tyler

1147
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 3: Hero and the way he's looked over that six game

1148
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 3: win streak other than when Bam scored eighty three. He

1149
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 3: was sitting for that one. They have been the second

1150
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 3: best offense in the NBA for the last six games. Hey, Now,

1151
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 3: there's lots of lots of duds that they played, and

1152
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 3: they're the Wizards a couple of nets in there, but

1153
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 3: they beat the Hornets, Pistons and rockets in there. And

1154
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 3: so they also have to throw in Norm Powell when

1155
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 3: he gets back, and Andrew Wiggins the two ring holders

1156
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 3: because they're injured, and so they have to fit some

1157
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 3: some puzzle pieces there. So this bottom of the pyramid

1158
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 3: could be like a puzzle piece. You could be switching

1159
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 3: those around a little bit. But we're riding the six

1160
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 3: game win streak for the Heat and they do fight.

1161
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 3: But again, the offense has to be entirely different. I

1162
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 3: shouldn't say entirely different, but it will be different with

1163
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,280
Speaker 3: Norman hero. It's not quite the magic and throwing fronds

1164
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 3: in there, because Powell could come off the bench, as

1165
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,919
Speaker 3: you said, along with Haimahawks. But that is something because

1166
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 3: here hasn't been playing much this year and so he

1167
00:51:58,200 --> 00:51:59,240
Speaker 3: hasn't played with these guys.

1168
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the you think Norm will be a

1169
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: bench guy.

1170
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think so initially, but maybe. I

1171
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 3: mean it's taking Pelly Larson would be the guy who'd

1172
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 3: go to the bench for Norm, which makes sense, but

1173
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 3: Pelly Larson is a good connector guy. Yeah, Norm on

1174
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 3: the bench and just being that score. As at last

1175
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 3: year he was starting for what fifty games and then

1176
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 3: went to the bench at the end of the season

1177
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 3: for the Clippers, So that could happen again.

1178
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: At number four of the Cleveland Cavaliers. There're core four

1179
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,919
Speaker 1: right now, Donovan Mitchell, James Harden, Evan Mobley and Jared Allen.

1180
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: How many minutes have they played together?

1181
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 3: Not a lot. No, they were saying it on the

1182
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 3: broadcast yesterday and I've already forgotten.

1183
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 1: Is it thirty one that's going thirty one minutes together?

1184
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: It's been like Harden was out with his thumb, Mobley

1185
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 1: was out, Allen is out right now. In those thirty

1186
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 1: one minutes, they're massively positive. But we just haven't seen

1187
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: it all together yet for the most part. And it's

1188
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 1: a little hard to ignore. The Cleveland playoff performances of

1189
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: the past couple of seasons, coupled with the James Harden

1190
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 1: playoff performances of the past couple of decades. Yeah, so

1191
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,879
Speaker 1: that's why I had them fourth. Though, if people wanted

1192
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:14,399
Speaker 1: to pitch me on them being a Tier two team,

1193
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: I could understand.

1194
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there is no more team in the NBA

1195
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 2: than the Cavs than a I'll believe it when I

1196
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 2: see it. That's where they are right now, have been

1197
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 2: for a little bit. We know you're good in the

1198
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 2: regular season. We just have to see you string together

1199
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,879
Speaker 2: a couple of these in a postseason. Some of these guys,

1200
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 2: that's it. That's all where I'm at. Hear you, Tier two,

1201
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,720
Speaker 2: tier three, It almost doesn't matter to me. They're good.

1202
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,839
Speaker 2: But can they make a deep run? I mean in

1203
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,319
Speaker 2: this conference you could if it shook out the right way,

1204
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 2: there's an injury or two, you get a little luck

1205
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 2: your advantage. I mean sure, But I like where they are.

1206
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:51,879
Speaker 3: Yes, this is a good spot for them, and their

1207
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 3: first round matchup will be a good one if it's

1208
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 3: Orlando or Miami. But I would take I would take

1209
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 3: them in a series against ye whether it's Miami or

1210
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 3: Orlando or whether it's Philly. Could they can't get up there?

1211
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 3: But uh yeah, they do look good. But it is

1212
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 3: a we'll see what James Harden can do in the postseason.

1213
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 3: More importantly, I think we'll see what Jared Allen can

1214
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 3: do in the postseason because Evan Mobley, as much as

1215
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 3: I love the guy as you're five, without the support

1216
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 3: of Jared Allen is a question mark and he's trying

1217
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 3: to do his thing with Jared Allen out, who is

1218
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 3: supposed to come back really soon. So yeah, this is

1219
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 3: a good spot for them, And again I would take

1220
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 3: them in a first round series and then potentially seeing

1221
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 3: them against the Detroit Pistons in Round two would be

1222
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 3: a good one.

1223
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 2: Two years ago, I definitely took the Magic to upset

1224
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 2: them in the first round, upset them.

1225
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 4: I think it was a four or five.

1226
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 2: Matchup actually two years ago, and that went seven seven years.

1227
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 2: I mean it was close. Did the Cats destroy them

1228
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,919
Speaker 2: in Game seven? Sound familiar and sounds yeah. I feel

1229
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 2: like there was a real big dud at the end.

1230
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 2: But anyway, I was close with that prediction, but we

1231
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 2: could get it again, like we said, But I sort

1232
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 2: of I side with you. I would think i'd take Cleveland,

1233
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 2: but I think it will be a close series. I

1234
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 2: don't think they would destroy them. You know, last year

1235
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 2: the Casuari number one seed and they destroyed the Heat,

1236
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:09,879
Speaker 2: who they took in the first round.

1237
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 4: That was a sweep.

1238
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,879
Speaker 2: I think, so, uh, they're going to have a bit

1239
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 2: of a test. But yeah, it'll be how these guys,

1240
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 2: especially hardened Alan and Mobley.

1241
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: You know, Mitchell's fun.

1242
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 4: You know what you're gonna get from Mitchell in the postseason.

1243
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 1: Okay, you know he's going to lose in round two. Well, yeah,

1244
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,399
Speaker 1: I think it's conference finals are bust for Cleveland, Oh sure,

1245
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: And I mean really they want to make the finals

1246
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: with how much they've invested in this team and how

1247
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: much this is their team at this point.

1248
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 3: That's what makes this Eastern Conference playoffs fun because you

1249
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:39,360
Speaker 3: got them as an Eastern Conference finals or bust. Exact

1250
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 3: same thing for the New York Knicks, the very least

1251
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:44,839
Speaker 3: yep being that they were there last year and then yeah,

1252
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 3: other teams could disappoint.

1253
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:49,919
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Knicks, there are first team in Tier

1254
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,919
Speaker 1: two at number three. It's the Knicks. They are very

1255
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,800
Speaker 1: similar to me to the Wolves in the Western Conference.

1256
00:55:56,040 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: They have good wins and equally as dispariting losses. They

1257
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 1: got some conference finals continuity they do have the second

1258
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:06,959
Speaker 1: best defense in the last fifteen games. As we've talked about,

1259
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: Landry Shammitt has been a huge fine for them after

1260
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:12,919
Speaker 1: barely getting into the rotation last year. He's helped the team.

1261
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: Jose Alvarado has helped the team. I think we're kind

1262
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: of getting the best interplay between Brunson and Towns that

1263
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 1: we've seen since Kat came to New York. But I've

1264
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: seen so many bad losses for the next that it

1265
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: kind of just leaves a sour taste in my mouth

1266
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:28,799
Speaker 1: at times, which is why I have them at three

1267
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 1: rather than two.

1268
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, looking at their schedule, the Knicks should and I

1269
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 2: say should because they played down to their competition at times.

1270
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:40,720
Speaker 2: They should win their next six games. They play garbage teams,

1271
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 2: they play the Pacers, they play the Warriors. Sorry without stuff,

1272
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 2: they're bad. They play the Pacers again at home, they

1273
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 2: play the Nets, they play the Wizards, and they play

1274
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 2: the Pelicans. Okay, who are at least fighting a little

1275
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:54,879
Speaker 2: bit here because they you know, not tanking by any mean,

1276
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 2: but that should be five or six and obviously could

1277
00:56:58,239 --> 00:56:59,439
Speaker 2: help their chances to move up.

1278
00:56:59,320 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 4: In the standings.

1279
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 2: The Knicks, I know, I'm making excuses for them, but

1280
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 2: they feel like a team that is like just like,

1281
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 2: can we just start the postseason already?

1282
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 1: Like it's not good.

1283
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 2: I don't want that from a team that has plans

1284
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 2: to go far, But like I can understand it a

1285
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 2: little bit.

1286
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 4: It's where they are. That's what I see from them.

1287
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 2: Like, because that's why we get these amazing performances in

1288
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 2: some of the bigger marquee games and then these duds.

1289
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 2: They're just like, let's go. Can we just flip the

1290
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 2: calendar to April and whatever? The playoffs start fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,

1291
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 2: w whatever it is. And I have more confidence in them,

1292
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 2: is my point. Like, I think that once we get there,

1293
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 2: you know, and then these are big games and the

1294
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 2: stakes are high. I think they're still one of the

1295
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 2: top two, probably best teams in the Eastern Conference.

1296
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 3: Oh so I would, yeah, PLoP them over Detroit, I

1297
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 3: think so. Yeah. I think got a terrible draw in

1298
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 3: the playoffs because their second round mashup would be Boston

1299
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 3: wish they did last year, but this time it's also

1300
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 3: on the road, right, which it wasn't last year, and

1301
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 3: so they'd have to overcome that. That stinks.

1302
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:00,080
Speaker 4: That's why.

1303
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 2: That's why this six game stretch here. I mean, they

1304
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 2: could win all those games and you could jump the Celtics.

1305
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, and try and get the two.

1306
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a two game difference right now.

1307
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 3: And so they've got three more losses than the Boston Celtics.

1308
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 3: That's something they got to overcome. That's that's tough. Now,

1309
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:18,919
Speaker 3: they should win the first series, first round series, whoever

1310
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 3: they play, they should, but the second round series is tough,

1311
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 3: and then it's disappointing. That's when the headlines come out.

1312
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 3: This team fired TIBs for this to fall back into playoffs.

1313
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 3: You yeah, last year they overcame the Pistons then the Celtics,

1314
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 3: but this is different. This should should be a different

1315
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 3: Celtics team, especially now that they don't have home court

1316
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 3: advantage like they did last year.

1317
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: At number two, it's the Detroit Pistons. They just smoked

1318
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:47,439
Speaker 1: the Nets but lost their previous four. We were talking

1319
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: about kid looking a little bit run down. They're getting

1320
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 1: him some rest and definitely had a rough patch here.

1321
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: They got a little experience having that great first round

1322
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 1: series against the Knicks last year. The question for me

1323
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 1: is who's better between Detroit and New York and I

1324
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 1: signed up with the Pistons, okay yesterday, Yeah, I agree.

1325
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 3: They have to be above the Knicks. They've smacked them

1326
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 3: three times this season. They played them three times, they

1327
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 3: won three times by an average of twenty four points.

1328
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,520
Speaker 3: There's a lot of points smacked them. And so it

1329
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 3: feels every time that they play they're trying to avenge

1330
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 3: last year's playoffs loss to the Knicks, and it seems

1331
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 3: like they will. Like they are that hard nosed team

1332
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 3: coached by J. B. Bickers staff, they ain't gonna lose.

1333
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 3: It feels like they would beat the Knicks in a

1334
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 3: playoff series, even though you know, as I said, the

1335
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 3: timing is important when we make these pyramids, it doesn't

1336
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 3: seem all that great for Detroit. I still think in

1337
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 3: the postseason I would take them over the Knicks. It

1338
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 3: just feels exactly like the story that you're right when

1339
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 3: as team has taken their lumps from a squad, you know,

1340
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 3: they taken it from Big Brother. As Reggie Miller will

1341
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 3: say on the broadcast, they go and smack Big Brother

1342
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 3: and will they be able to overcome that? Now Reggie

1343
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 3: doesn't say that, but I think they they can avenge

1344
00:59:57,880 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 3: those lumps that they took from the Knicks. So I

1345
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 3: think the this is the only spot you can't put

1346
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 3: them below and they killed them exactly.

1347
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, but there are instances where that has happened

1348
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 2: before and it should matter because otherwise what are we

1349
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:13,280
Speaker 2: doing like the regular season games in the series. But like, yeah,

1350
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 2: but I always think of it was the Sun's Wolves

1351
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. They had swept them, and

1352
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 2: we were like, well, that's got to mean something. They

1353
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:23,919
Speaker 2: got their number. You know, I was picking the Suns.

1354
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 2: A lot of people were picking the Suns and they

1355
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 2: got embarrassed. I'm saying that will happen. They're completely different

1356
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 2: squads and all that, and there's like the revenge factor,

1357
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 2: and they played last year. A great series could have

1358
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 2: gone either way.

1359
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 4: I get it.

1360
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying sometimes sometimes it actually means very little.

1361
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 2: And I think, again, I sort of feel Knicks are

1362
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 2: going through the motions here. I could be a hell

1363
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:46,440
Speaker 2: of a series if we get it again. I think

1364
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 2: I would take the Knicks over Detroit if they play again.

1365
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 4: I hope we get it. I hope we see it.

1366
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: I can't see it, and I would choose a media

1367
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: hitting the arena, but we'll see no offense to these

1368
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 1: two teams that I hate at the top of the

1369
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:09,680
Speaker 1: pyramid in the Eastern Conference, the Boston Celtics. Wow, I'm

1370
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:12,920
Speaker 1: buying it. I'm buying Jason Tatum. I'm in. They're already

1371
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 1: great at the possession game. They're a low turnover team.

1372
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:16,760
Speaker 1: They don't force a ton of them, but they at

1373
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 1: least don't give the ball up. They do rebound on

1374
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 1: the defensive end. They're great offensive rebounding, though, like I

1375
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 1: said earlier with the Hornets, that doesn't always come through

1376
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But I liked that their second in offense,

1377
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 1: so they're making these extra possessions count. They added a

1378
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 1: top ten player in the league in Jason Tatum, assuming

1379
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: he gets into rhythm, shakes some of this rust off here.

1380
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:42,960
Speaker 1: And of course they've got a pedigree of making the playoffs,

1381
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 1: winning in the playoffs, going to conference finals, winning finals,

1382
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 1: losing finals. They've done it all with Tatum and Brown

1383
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 1: in the side court. You know, one of them's a guard,

1384
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 1: one of them's a forward, I suppose, but they got

1385
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 1: a lot of guys who have done a lot of

1386
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,560
Speaker 1: stuff in the playoffs. I like this team.

1387
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, can't argue it, especially when Tatum comes back only

1388
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 3: three games back into that last game. They put a

1389
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 3: lot of pressure on him, or they they allowed him

1390
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 3: to just carry the team with Jalen Brown out that

1391
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 3: game after getting tossed, plus Peyton Pritchard was out, and

1392
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 3: so to see him operate like that like oel Tatum

1393
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:21,439
Speaker 3: again five days into his NBA season, because he's played

1394
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 3: three games in five days, he's questionable for tonight with conditioning.

1395
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 3: He had a day off in between. So I don't

1396
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 3: know why they do that. That would be four games

1397
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 3: in seven days, but I don't know. You see that

1398
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 3: and you say, Okay, Jalen Brown's an MVP candidate, and

1399
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 3: then you put Tatum beside him and Derek White and

1400
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 3: Peyton Pritchard are for real. You know, we all question

1401
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 3: their their center spot at the beginning of the season,

1402
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 3: their depth, But then you get a Shireman and a

1403
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 3: Sam Houser and Kada how he's performed, and then a

1404
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 3: vuch will eventually come back. That's the recipe for a

1405
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 3: championship team.

1406
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you got him in the right spot.

1407
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 2: They're basically to me like they're the Nuggets of the East,

1408
01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 2: but they have a defense defense that and Joey nas Man,

1409
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 2: he's plugging all these guys in.

1410
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 4: They've got reps.

1411
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 2: I think it could, you know, play a part in

1412
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:10,000
Speaker 2: these postseason matchups. One of these two of these guys

1413
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:12,720
Speaker 2: be it Begging, Bilbo, bagging or whatever we're calling the

1414
01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 2: Shireman himself, Gonzalez or whoever, like, they could have a

1415
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 2: moment and we could.

1416
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:17,840
Speaker 3: We will.

1417
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 2: We shouldn't be surprised when they do because they've got

1418
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:22,160
Speaker 2: a lot of opportunity. And part of that was Tatum

1419
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 2: missing basically the whole season, but that can play off

1420
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 2: in a series that you know they need them. So

1421
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 2: you got him in the right spot. I was wondering

1422
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:35,040
Speaker 2: did Jill and Brown get fined for his social media

1423
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 2: tweet that you know didn't say the refs, but was

1424
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 2: about the refs after he got ejected there for the

1425
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:42,640
Speaker 2: two technical files. I hadn't heard yet, so I don't see.

1426
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe he'll avoid that one, yea, so good for him.

1427
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 1: He didn't specify anything.

1428
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:51,280
Speaker 2: He just said this I know anything you know, it's

1429
01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 2: true he had ad a slow upload speed on this

1430
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 2: Twitch stream. I don't know, could have been anything, you know,

1431
01:03:57,360 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 2: at halftime of the game he was ejected from could

1432
01:03:59,240 --> 01:03:59,720
Speaker 2: have been anything.

1433
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 1: Yep, take a look at the pyramid. Let's see it. Yeah,

1434
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: let's see it. I'm going to do a top to

1435
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: bottom this time. At the top, it's the Boston Celtics

1436
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: alone in tier one. Tier two, we've got the Pistons,

1437
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: followed by the Knicks. In Tier three it goes Cavaliers,

1438
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: Heat seventy six ers, and down at the bottom and

1439
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 1: the lowest tier. I would change almost every single one

1440
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 1: of these I'm looking at it. But right now it

1441
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: goes Raptors, Hornets, Magic Hawks. I would go Orlando Hornets,

1442
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:30,000
Speaker 1: so I'd go Magic, Hornets.

1443
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:32,160
Speaker 2: Hawks, Raptors, I think. So that's what I too, But

1444
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 2: I too, I think you did a better job on

1445
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,440
Speaker 2: this one. I love the colors. They're really popping.

1446
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:40,439
Speaker 1: Well, thanks, thanks for saying that. Here's what I'll say

1447
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 1: with regards to the construction of this pyramid. Yeah, I

1448
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 1: went out of my way to make sure that the

1449
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:47,680
Speaker 1: points lined up and they looked nice. Yeah, they're very nice.

1450
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,960
Speaker 1: I made sure for you Ski Scam that I scammed

1451
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 1: it perfectly. And then I edited on my phone with

1452
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 1: the grid to make sure that the bottom line was perfectly.

1453
01:04:58,520 --> 01:04:59,880
Speaker 4: Perpendicular, very very good.

1454
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 1: It was parallel, Sorry, it was parallel. Yeah, however my

1455
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: brickwork on the bottom tier. What's going on with this

1456
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 1: corner piece with Toronto Raptors. I knew you would notice.

1457
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 2: Oh, I was going to say, why did you make

1458
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:13,440
Speaker 2: this decision to take a chunk out of the pyramid

1459
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 2: with the L? That line should be going that the hawks? L? Yeah,

1460
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 2: shouldn't the pyramid line be going through?

1461
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 4: Said L?

1462
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 1: There is a place where I came back, Absolutely there is,

1463
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 1: But I didn't really even notice that. I mean, yeah, okay,

1464
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 1: we got one small brick there. That's where the pharaoh enters. Yes, yes, yes,

1465
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 1: you just can't see the door behind the choes otherwise. Man,

1466
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:39,320
Speaker 1: I like it, Man, I like it a lot of

1467
01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 1: It's fun to draw, just nice to draw something every

1468
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:45,919
Speaker 1: now and then. And man, if you if you get

1469
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:49,000
Speaker 1: the right Instagram algorithm, you can see some amazing doodles,

1470
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 1: new ways to draw stick figures. If you can draw

1471
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:55,919
Speaker 1: a triangle that's half shaded, guess what you can draw

1472
01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 1: a landscape. All I can do is make letters. But

1473
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 1: I also do watch some like graffiti tutorials, so I'm

1474
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 1: nice with the bevils now. I'm trying to step my

1475
01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 1: art drawing game up, and this is step one.

1476
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 3: It is fun. My daughter's brought me each a sheet

1477
01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 3: yesterday where you're supposed to recreate a shape into an animal.

1478
01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 3: So just doing it with the circle, Yeah, I just

1479
01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:22,600
Speaker 3: made it the face of an owl. But it's fun.

1480
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:25,680
Speaker 3: It's fun. Well then, I yeah, I screwed up with

1481
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 3: it's this trace of anyways, I'm not going to get

1482
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 3: into it was a dumb I picked a dumb a

1483
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 3: dumb route with my other one. But it's fun to draw.

1484
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 3: You're totally right. I like the colors you picked. Would

1485
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 3: you you sent us a message about Raptors versus Heat.

1486
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 3: They're red and black, but which team is more prominent? Red?

1487
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 3: You made the right choice. I think with the Raps

1488
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 3: versus the Heat went all black, no doubt. But I

1489
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 3: do a little disrespect for the Raps. I would take

1490
01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 3: the Wraps over the Hawks in a play in, and

1491
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:58,520
Speaker 3: I really hope they play each other. I really hope

1492
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 3: they play each other, and then we'll be and then

1493
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:05,120
Speaker 3: your l will make sense. It'll it'll have a it'll

1494
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:07,320
Speaker 3: have a role because they are gonna get the l

1495
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:10,400
Speaker 3: if they play the Toronto Rappers, and it very well

1496
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:15,920
Speaker 3: could happen for the eighth seed. Baby, right now, right now,

1497
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 3: And let's say the Sixers are healthy, it would be

1498
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:20,200
Speaker 3: wrap Sixers in one match up in the play and

1499
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:22,480
Speaker 3: Hawks Hornets and the other one. So you could see

1500
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:26,200
Speaker 3: the Raps. Yeah, actually no, the horns are beat the Hawks.

1501
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 3: I take that back either way. Either way, wraps are

1502
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:32,640
Speaker 3: not at the bottom of the pyramid. Well like at

1503
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:36,160
Speaker 3: the bottom corner of the they're at the bottom, yes,

1504
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 3: but not at the bottom, bottom bottom.

1505
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:38,919
Speaker 1: Great pyramid work.

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01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:42,400
Speaker 2: If you enjoyed those two segments yesterday, today you hit

1507
01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:44,440
Speaker 2: that like button, you subscribe, You say something nice to

1508
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:47,919
Speaker 2: Tray Kirby in the comments, you say good coloring, good coloring, boy,

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01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:50,000
Speaker 2: you did.

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01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 1: A good job on that project. A sticker, that's your

1511
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 1: sticker that you're giving. I got to use the like

1512
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:59,040
Speaker 1: the maroon pen for the Cleveland Cavaliers. First time I've

1513
01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:02,120
Speaker 1: uncapped that one. These were These were pence. These were

1514
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:04,440
Speaker 1: not like a felt tip marker.

1515
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they almost look on the screen to me

1516
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 2: like pencil creons. But okay, maybe the scan job. You

1517
01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 2: got a good scanner at home.

1518
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have a scanner. I do too,

1519
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: and I don't.

1520
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 3: I don't.

1521
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:16,280
Speaker 1: I don't have a good one, though it does its part,

1522
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:20,800
Speaker 1: but it's not good. I probably have an entry level scanner, Yeah,

1523
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:21,679
Speaker 1: I do. For sure.

1524
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:23,880
Speaker 2: You probably we got a nice scanner home just because

1525
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 2: Danny maybe would have it for I feel like you

1526
01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 2: got a better one than me. No, I don't stop

1527
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 2: ragging about your scanner, man, Jesus, it's always.

1528
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 1: Never shuts up about these documents copying or yeah. Well

1529
01:08:36,320 --> 01:08:36,720
Speaker 1: up the night.

1530
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:41,240
Speaker 2: Sponsored by Trey Mouder, who wrote in Here's to BAM's

1531
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:45,280
Speaker 2: eighty three points and twenty years for the podcast. Thank you, Trey,

1532
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that sponsoring Wi Boy. Here a couple

1533
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:53,000
Speaker 2: of nominees des when bane Great Game thirty five filled

1534
01:08:53,040 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 2: up the box score. Demarto Rosen had a great game,

1535
01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:59,720
Speaker 2: awesome game for the Kings. He was under consideration, but

1536
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 2: why Leonard gets it forty five points in the Clippers win.

1537
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 2: Very efficient the aim bot as we called them, fifteen

1538
01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:10,960
Speaker 2: to twenty six and nine from deep nine to ten

1539
01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:13,599
Speaker 2: at the line, five rebounds, five assists, and he had

1540
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:14,240
Speaker 2: two steals.

1541
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 4: He did all of this in thirty two minutes too.

1542
01:09:16,439 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 3: Was this more impressive than bam Adebayo's eighty three points.

1543
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:27,840
Speaker 1: No, it was a little bit more than half as impressive. Okay, whatever,

1544
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:31,760
Speaker 1: forty five divide eighty three. Will you be doing Worse

1545
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:33,799
Speaker 1: of the Week tomorrow on the Drop podcast?

1546
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:35,479
Speaker 4: Well, I asked.

1547
01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:38,040
Speaker 2: Because I'm wondering if any of the bam discourse will

1548
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:40,400
Speaker 2: make most of the week because there were some pretty

1549
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:41,839
Speaker 2: insane takes in my opinion.

1550
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:47,280
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's the NBA is curious fandom for you. Yeah, yeah,

1551
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,040
Speaker 3: be sure, Okay.

1552
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 1: Pick them tonight. I'm two and six, tast six and two,

1553
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:54,320
Speaker 1: Trey five and three.

1554
01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:55,040
Speaker 4: Where are we going?

1555
01:09:55,160 --> 01:09:57,760
Speaker 3: We're going to Okay, see where Boston is visiting. It

1556
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,439
Speaker 3: feels like we have a potential finals previous every single

1557
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:04,000
Speaker 3: night in the NBA. They're emulating the NFL late in

1558
01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:07,479
Speaker 3: the season. You know, just some good scheduling right there. Okay,

1559
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:09,960
Speaker 3: see you favored by Big one six and a half

1560
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:11,559
Speaker 3: feels big, feels big.

1561
01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 4: Who's not playing for the Celtics for that.

1562
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 3: Line to be that Tatum and Derek White are considered questionable. Tatum,

1563
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 3: you know it's conditioning. It's also his right achilles conditioning

1564
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 3: for his achilles, So you know Derek White his knee

1565
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 3: prett sure Tip be back. Vooch is out as as

1566
01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 3: we know, Ji, Yeah, for sure. Maybe they saw Butch

1567
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:41,879
Speaker 3: Junior as you call him. On the Washington Wizards, Tristan

1568
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 3: Bukchevich get destroyed by bam Adebayo Hartenstein and Jalen Williams

1569
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 3: are up.

1570
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:49,920
Speaker 1: So that's why so Chests back.

1571
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:51,320
Speaker 3: Is big Chet's back.

1572
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:52,840
Speaker 1: He was out with an illness. I think for the

1573
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 1: last game.

1574
01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:54,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, he should be back.

1575
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,080
Speaker 2: I imagine, well I got the thunder, but they got

1576
01:10:57,080 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 2: to win by seven, and you guys are teaming up

1577
01:10:59,120 --> 01:10:59,719
Speaker 2: here once again.

1578
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:03,720
Speaker 1: Take Celtics and the points. Yeah, like those points. This

1579
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:06,360
Speaker 1: is uh, this is the top of the pyramid game.

1580
01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 1: I just realized, Wow, pyramid versus pyramid. That's cool, very

1581
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:11,080
Speaker 1: very cool.

1582
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 4: Pharaoh's will be into this one.

1583
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:18,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be watching the Pharaoh. Would that be a

1584
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:19,880
Speaker 1: cool nickname for a guy.

1585
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're in the era of no doubt where we

1586
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:25,000
Speaker 2: say something.

1587
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 1: That'd be a cool nickname. It would be cool doctor Sauce.

1588
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,360
Speaker 2: I saw like you had some fun on on social

1589
01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 2: media and people suggesting guys that could be doctor Sauce.

1590
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:33,840
Speaker 1: A lot of votes for Jared McCain.

1591
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:42,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't love I like Kanti George's doctor Sauce.

1592
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:46,280
Speaker 1: Okay, George Sauce something like them for some reason why

1593
01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 1: he plays to me.

1594
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 3: But like the game, like his on court game.

1595
01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit.

1596
01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:53,800
Speaker 3: There was Skuy Rerving thrown out there. You know, guys,

1597
01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:54,840
Speaker 3: a handle.

1598
01:11:55,400 --> 01:11:57,719
Speaker 4: You almost need. We need like a newer player.

1599
01:11:57,760 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 2: I feel like to bestow doctor Sauce the uncle drew

1600
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 2: ing Gon to suddenly be a doctor.

1601
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 1: It's too late to go to school, Yeah, that's never

1602
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:08,599
Speaker 1: too late to learn. Kyrie Irving seems like a lifelonger.

1603
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:11,760
Speaker 1: I'll say that, but we would like to get in

1604
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:14,120
Speaker 1: early on a Kyrie Irving for a doctor Sauce. We're

1605
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:16,200
Speaker 1: still for the next guy. Yea, I think we're.

1606
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:17,840
Speaker 2: Gonna Here's what I'm gonna say. I call this right now,

1607
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:20,160
Speaker 2: we are going to find our doctor Sauce. This postseason

1608
01:12:20,479 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 2: great because that's when you make a nickname. That's the mission, right,

1609
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:26,080
Speaker 2: that is a good mission. I did say you weren't here,

1610
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:27,840
Speaker 2: So I'm going to say this dumb idea I had

1611
01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:29,840
Speaker 2: I told Trey before we went live, because we're talking

1612
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:32,519
Speaker 2: about Jared McCain. Would be cool if he hit a

1613
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:35,360
Speaker 2: three right and then with his I think he's right handed,

1614
01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:37,920
Speaker 2: so he shoots the three and then he throws out

1615
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 2: the three like this, and then he goes for the

1616
01:12:43,479 --> 01:12:46,519
Speaker 2: podcast listener, I am painting my three nails on the

1617
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:47,320
Speaker 2: three ball.

1618
01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: Because he's always painting his nails, and you get everybody

1619
01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:51,439
Speaker 1: doing that polished.

1620
01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:52,879
Speaker 4: It's a pretty good celebration.

1621
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 1: Try it out.

1622
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 3: It's pretty good.

1623
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:58,519
Speaker 1: Somebody tell Jared we should be consulting.

1624
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:01,719
Speaker 2: Hey, schlect tell Jared he needs to paint his nails

1625
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:02,639
Speaker 2: after a three pointer.

1626
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:07,200
Speaker 1: NBA branding consultants will give you nicknames, we'll give you celebrations. Yeah,

1627
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:08,320
Speaker 1: they might be bad, but.

1628
01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 3: We'll give them to you.

1629
01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:10,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, a million ideas.

1630
01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 3: He's got all of the celebrations. Man, he pulls not

1631
01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 3: on the court, but on the top dances. Yeah, he

1632
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:22,440
Speaker 3: was doing it with Richard Jefferson, impressing him. It's impressing everybody.

1633
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 2: No Buffs Episode three of Survivor fifty coming up later

1634
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:32,720
Speaker 2: today one pm Eastern. We go live over on No

1635
01:13:32,840 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 2: Buffs on YouTube feeds, on podcast feed so make sure

1636
01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:36,840
Speaker 2: you subscribe to that.

1637
01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: Perfect time to get in a bit of a tribe swap.

1638
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:44,160
Speaker 2: Early Oh, it's in the hands of the fans and

1639
01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 2: they want chaos. So yeah, we switched it up last night.

1640
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:50,559
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that, how these teams or tribes broke

1641
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:53,559
Speaker 2: down and what happened and who went home and Jeff

1642
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:55,360
Speaker 2: Propes was wrapping tass.

1643
01:13:55,400 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if you caught last night's episode, but.

1644
01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:02,040
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, one of the cringiest moments in Survivor history,

1645
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:04,000
Speaker 2: and that is saying something Jeff Propes.

1646
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:08,760
Speaker 1: He literally asked everybody before setting up a challenge. He goes, hey, hey,

1647
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:10,160
Speaker 1: can I get a little snap?

1648
01:14:12,120 --> 01:14:14,439
Speaker 4: Everybody started doing this the.

1649
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:16,880
Speaker 1: Little boom bap.

1650
01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:20,000
Speaker 4: It was something.

1651
01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:20,880
Speaker 3: They aired it.

1652
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:23,439
Speaker 4: It was something, and they aired it and.

1653
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:26,519
Speaker 1: They that's a great point. It wasn't live. They could

1654
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:27,360
Speaker 1: have taken it out.

1655
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,559
Speaker 2: He's like, put that in. That's good stuff right there.

1656
01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 2: So we'll talk about that and a whole lot more.

1657
01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 2: We always have a blast breaking down Survivor with Norah

1658
01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:36,600
Speaker 2: here in the Classic Factory. So join us again one

1659
01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:40,719
Speaker 2: pm Eastern otherwise we're back tomorrow. It's Friday. It's the drop.

1660
01:14:41,360 --> 01:14:43,599
Speaker 2: I assume we'll talk a little Celtics thunder. If the

1661
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 2: you know, game lives up to the hype and whatever,

1662
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 2: else happens. But we're also going to do our NBA Oscars.

1663
01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 2: We've done this for a couple years running now best

1664
01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:58,880
Speaker 2: uh you know, Best Highlight, Best Supporting Actor, best Player,

1665
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:01,720
Speaker 2: stuff like that. Well, you know, an NBA spin on

1666
01:15:01,760 --> 01:15:04,680
Speaker 2: the Oscars, which are this weekend, and I want to

1667
01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:08,400
Speaker 2: hear from TK, n j D and Test too, But

1668
01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:12,519
Speaker 2: like your opinions on the actual Oscar race, especially Best

1669
01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:13,880
Speaker 2: Picture with the tem nominees.

1670
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:15,599
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1671
01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:18,280
Speaker 1: Yeah. We were talking Best Picture at the dinner table

1672
01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 1: last night for the girls and I was using as

1673
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:23,080
Speaker 1: a way to say, what was your favorite movie you've

1674
01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:25,040
Speaker 1: seen in the past year, And then they were asking

1675
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:26,720
Speaker 1: about the real Oscars and they're like, well, what's going

1676
01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:28,280
Speaker 1: to win. I was like, well, it's between one battle

1677
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:32,200
Speaker 1: after another in Sinners. So they asked what it was about,

1678
01:15:32,640 --> 01:15:38,320
Speaker 1: and I gave the worst explanations. It's about legacy. It's

1679
01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:41,320
Speaker 1: about the failures of revolutionary politics and what we leave

1680
01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:43,960
Speaker 1: to our children. And they're like, I lost track what

1681
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:46,439
Speaker 1: you were saying. It's it's about a dad finding his

1682
01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: daughter and vampires. Yeah, those are the two. That's much

1683
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:52,880
Speaker 1: more straightforward. All right, Well, I can't wait to hear

1684
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 1: your thoughts.

1685
01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:56,120
Speaker 2: On the movies and our NBA Oscars will go through

1686
01:15:56,160 --> 01:15:58,320
Speaker 2: nominees and who we pick and all that. Always have

1687
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:00,559
Speaker 2: a fun show doing that. So join us tomorrow at

1688
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:02,360
Speaker 2: Tending Mister. Until then, Clipper Bros.

1689
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:04,760
Speaker 1: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up,

1690
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:06,640
Speaker 1: love you guys awesome.

1691
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, and remember the five second back

1692
01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:13,680
Speaker 3: down rule in the NBA still exists. Happened last night.

1693
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:18,800
Speaker 3: Albern Schenkund got called for putting his butt into a

1694
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:21,519
Speaker 3: guy for five seconds. Can't do that.

1695
01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:24,800
Speaker 1: It is one of his moods.

1696
01:16:25,080 --> 01:16:26,679
Speaker 3: It's been a while three point.

1697
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:28,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, he would kind of be the guy I would

1698
01:16:28,280 --> 01:16:30,160
Speaker 1: think I was. I don't remember it, but I was

1699
01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 1: going to guest.

1700
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 4: But I'm glad it was Okay, good.

1701
01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:34,519
Speaker 1: We'll see guys tomorrow and brace the day people,