WEBVTT - 15 Games, 15 Takeaways

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<v Speaker 2>Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks

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<v Speaker 2>NBA podcast. It's Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026. I'm J.E. Skeets

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<v Speaker 2>here in the Classic Factory and alongside me, as always,

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<v Speaker 2>Grass Mellis.

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<v Speaker 1>It's more like Rash Mellis. I've been wearing this 20 minutes.

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<v Speaker 2>And you're already itchy?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm itchy.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, boy.

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<v Speaker 2>Next to him, it's my Top Shot hot boy, Trey Kirby.

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<v Speaker 1>Ayo. Ayo.

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<v Speaker 2>And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer, JD.

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<v Speaker 1>Hello.

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<v Speaker 2>There he is. Here we are. Yes, Tass lost the

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<v Speaker 2>Pick'em Tiebreaker with Trey Kirby last night. And as a result,

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<v Speaker 2>has to pay it off all week by wearing one

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<v Speaker 2>of the last costumes left on the Spirit Halloween shelves.

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<v Speaker 2>We didn't go shopping until November 1st, so that's on us.

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<v Speaker 2>That's our bad. But here he is as the sugar

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<v Speaker 2>cane grass costume worn during Bad Bunny's 2026 Super Bowl

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<v Speaker 2>halftime show.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, shout out to Bad Bunny and the idea there

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<v Speaker 1>behind the Super Bowl, because this is nice. I got

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<v Speaker 1>to be honest. I needed a line there, so I

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<v Speaker 1>said rash mellis, but... I feel great.

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<v Speaker 2>Should you be wearing safety goggles, though? Because those look

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<v Speaker 2>like sharp blades of grass.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you guys helped me lace up the sleeves here.

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<v Speaker 3>It was a group production.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and as you were doing it, I was getting

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<v Speaker 1>poked in the ear. I thought I had a Q-tip

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<v Speaker 1>in my ear. Pointing me. But anyway... Uh, here we are.

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<v Speaker 3>You remember this cultural moment from 10 months ago? Of course.

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<v Speaker 1>It was like bad buddy.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, it's funny. I actually, maybe my algorithm knew

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<v Speaker 2>we were thinking about this costume for the pick and

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<v Speaker 2>pay off.

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<v Speaker 1>That's got to move sets like they do in TV.

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<v Speaker 1>Move around the studio.

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<v Speaker 2>I saw a lot of people wearing this. People were

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<v Speaker 2>doing this.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So like families were doing it, right? I dressed the

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<v Speaker 2>little kid up as Bad Bunny with the white suit

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<v Speaker 2>and the football. Yeah, my algorithm was sending me tons

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<v Speaker 2>of people.

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<v Speaker 3>But anyway. I'm definitely worried about this tall one when

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<v Speaker 3>you look down at your notes. It could be a, uh-oh.

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<v Speaker 2>Right in the ass.

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<v Speaker 3>That's fine.

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<v Speaker 1>It's totally fine.

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<v Speaker 3>Totally fine.

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<v Speaker 2>All right. So all week long, Tass paying it off

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<v Speaker 2>for losing the short month of October coming up one

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<v Speaker 2>game short of TK there. uh before we get into

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<v Speaker 2>tackling all of the basketball last night because all 30

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<v Speaker 2>teams played we had another wedgie only one but it

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<v Speaker 2>was cj mccollum don't be afraid of the music jd

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<v Speaker 2>yeah let it go man i thought you're gonna play

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<v Speaker 2>a little bad bunny maybe instead but that's all right

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<v Speaker 2>we don't want to get copyright issues uh cj stuck

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<v Speaker 2>it there because he got fouled and if you get

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<v Speaker 2>fouled on the shot attempt and it wedges we count

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<v Speaker 2>it so number seven let's go nice cj mccollum's fifth

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<v Speaker 2>career wedgie we have a hell of a race at

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<v Speaker 2>the top of the all-time leaderboard when it comes to

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<v Speaker 2>wedgies there's like five or six guys that are like

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<v Speaker 2>vying for it vying for the crown so cj gets

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<v Speaker 2>it all right like i said all 30 nba teams

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<v Speaker 2>played across a massive 15 game slate last night ahead

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<v Speaker 2>of the league's election day break which is today so

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<v Speaker 2>what the boys are nothing if not thorough so let's

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<v Speaker 2>tackle them all no game left behind That's right. A

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<v Speaker 2>takeaway from every single game last night. We are just

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<v Speaker 2>going to go around the horn talking about every single one. Trey,

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<v Speaker 2>you get us started. Where do you want to go?

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's the game of the night. OK, the

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<v Speaker 3>Pelicans beating the Grizzlies in overtime, handing Memphis their first

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<v Speaker 3>loss of the season back and forth all night long.

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<v Speaker 3>This game was Pelicans had a lead. Up by nine

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<v Speaker 3>with a minute 45 left in the fourth quarter. Ty Jerome,

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<v Speaker 3>nine straight to force overtime. Then Zion comes up big

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<v Speaker 3>in overtime. Nine points for him. But I'm giving the

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<v Speaker 3>game ball to Carlo Metkovic. Game ball for Carlo. Career

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<v Speaker 3>high 25 points. Hit five threes. Got an offensive rebound

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<v Speaker 3>with seven seconds left in overtime. Gets the ball to

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<v Speaker 3>Jeremiah Fears, who knocks down a couple of free throws

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<v Speaker 3>to win. Gotta say... The play-in potential Pelicans are looking

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<v Speaker 3>pretty good.

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<v Speaker 2>Are they the best, worst team in the league?

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<v Speaker 3>Interesting. Three straight wins after starting 0-4. They've got the

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<v Speaker 3>Jazz up next.

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<v Speaker 1>Could be 500.

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<v Speaker 3>Could be 500. You look at their losses. Two of

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<v Speaker 3>them came by one possession. Another one came in overtime

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<v Speaker 3>in another universe. They're the team with a 6-1 start.

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<v Speaker 3>And you're watching the Grizzlies. You're watching the Pelicans last night.

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<v Speaker 3>You're like, kind of similar teams. A lot of talent

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<v Speaker 3>on these teams. A lot of guys you've heard of.

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<v Speaker 3>Young guys, old guys. Both teams have 13 players who

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<v Speaker 3>play between 14 and 32 minutes, so they're getting these

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<v Speaker 3>guys in. The difference is, when it comes down to it,

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<v Speaker 3>Memphis knows exactly what they want to do. We're playing

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<v Speaker 3>pick-and-roll basketball. Ty Jerome, maybe you'll get a switch. Maybe

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<v Speaker 3>you'll stick with the guy that's on you. Create us

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<v Speaker 3>a good shot. We can play high-low if we need to,

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<v Speaker 3>but generally, Ty Jerome is the man.

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<v Speaker 1>New Orleans.

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<v Speaker 3>They're just winging it out there. It feels completely freelanced

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<v Speaker 3>what they're doing offensively in these fourth quarters. Zion was

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<v Speaker 3>one of the guys last night, but sometimes it was like, hey,

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<v Speaker 3>Sadiq Bey, you got a shot in you. Trey Murphy,

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<v Speaker 3>you got a shot in you. Feels very much like

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<v Speaker 3>Jamal Mosley's offense with the Orlando Magic last year. Just

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<v Speaker 3>roll the ball out. We'll see if anybody can create.

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<v Speaker 3>You look at their clutch ratings. Memphis, fourth in the

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<v Speaker 3>league in net rating in the clutch. New Orleans, 23rd.

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<v Speaker 3>That's why one team is 6-1 and one team is 3-4.

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<v Speaker 3>The organization. But last night, it didn't matter. Pelicans, big win.

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<v Speaker 3>Beating the Grizzlies for the first time this season.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I look at this game and say, have the

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<v Speaker 1>Pelicans figured out their starting center spot in Carlo Makovic?

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<v Speaker 1>And that's because they've been blessed with a little injuries

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<v Speaker 1>with Yves Missy going out and maybe just him allowing

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<v Speaker 1>Zion Williamson to have more space because Carlo is out

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<v Speaker 1>there shooting threes defensively. splashing five of them. And so

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<v Speaker 1>Zion went to work in overtime. I think that's a

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<v Speaker 1>legitimate help for him and for this team, because I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think you want to start Derek queen who came

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<v Speaker 1>off the bench and was really, really good, but starting

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<v Speaker 1>beside him, besides Zion is just allows, you know, it's a,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a carousel into the lane for the other team.

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<v Speaker 1>It's way too easy. So I think that's a legitimate question.

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<v Speaker 1>And again, Listen, the Grizzlies didn't deserve to be there

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<v Speaker 1>in overtime, really. That was a Ty Jerome ending to

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<v Speaker 1>regulation where he went 9-0 on his own. That was

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<v Speaker 1>pretty cool to see. But the Pelicans, yeah, maybe they

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<v Speaker 1>are that team. And also with DeJounte and Murray having

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<v Speaker 1>personal reasons, Jeremiah Fears has been thrown into the starting lineup,

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<v Speaker 1>so they just got to float going right now.

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<v Speaker 2>And also Jamal Mosley has gone to Herb Jones in

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<v Speaker 2>the starting lineup. There's that part of the equation as well.

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<v Speaker 2>He started the last three games and he's played really well.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's helped obviously on the defensive end, but he's

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<v Speaker 2>also contributing a little bit offensively too. And he's been

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<v Speaker 2>a really good in the plus minus for all three

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<v Speaker 2>of these games, all three of these wins. Now, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>they came against the Kings, the Hawks who have their

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<v Speaker 2>own issues. And then the Grizzlies, they finally knocked off

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<v Speaker 2>a really good team there. But I think he's in

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<v Speaker 2>there now, but I wonder if it is because of

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<v Speaker 2>injuries and personal reasons. And he's like almost forced his hand,

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<v Speaker 2>but I don't think you can sort of go away

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<v Speaker 2>from it now at this point with these results.

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<v Speaker 3>It's also probably a bit of a showcase for Herb Jones.

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<v Speaker 3>If this is a guy that other teams want to

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<v Speaker 3>trade for, they'd probably want to see him on the

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<v Speaker 3>court and see what he's able to do. So good

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<v Speaker 3>that he's getting a start. And I guess Makovic maybe

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<v Speaker 3>does make sense as their starting center. He can at

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<v Speaker 3>least shoot it a little bit from the outside. So

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<v Speaker 3>you get some space there and, this is a pretty

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<v Speaker 3>good dunker and can defend the rim well enough. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>We had some barking at the end of this game too. Uh,

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<v Speaker 2>beef stew. Uh, he was a little upset there and

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<v Speaker 2>a dirt queen was, uh, yelling back at him. He

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<v Speaker 2>was yelling, whoop, that trick just kept yelling at beef

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<v Speaker 2>stew and getting angrier and angrier as they had to

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<v Speaker 2>be separated at the end.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Beef stew always involved. Uh, and it had a

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<v Speaker 1>big block in this game. That was pretty sweet. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>but he'll fight. Uh, that's, that's his thing. Um, How

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<v Speaker 1>about Croatian Sensation as a nickname for Karlo Makovic? I

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<v Speaker 1>know it's been done before. Kukoc has been.

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<v Speaker 2>Out of the league for a long time.

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<v Speaker 3>Been a while.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if Goran Ivanisevic had it in tennis.

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<v Speaker 1>It feels like he did. Maybe.

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<v Speaker 3>It feels like it.

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<v Speaker 1>But Karlo Makovic, take it.

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<v Speaker 2>Is Karlo sensational enough is the question?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I know. It's forced. I'll give you that much.

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<v Speaker 1>What I like about him is he's been around a while,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's not a kid that Jamal Mosley's throwing into

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<v Speaker 1>the lineup. And I think he likes that, too, because

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<v Speaker 1>Jamal Mosley, he talked up Yves Messi in the preseason. Like,

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<v Speaker 1>this guy is so good defensively. He's going to be everywhere.

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<v Speaker 1>Just roll with it, Jamal. Just roll with Carlo because

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<v Speaker 1>it's working right now. Because at the beginning, when they

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<v Speaker 1>lost those close games, I felt like, okay, they are

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<v Speaker 1>going to fall apart. But this is a great bounce

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<v Speaker 1>back and easily could be 500 after Wednesday.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, one down, 14 to go. What's your game here?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to the Celtics Rockets, the one that cost

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<v Speaker 1>me the grass here. That game was in the mud.

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<v Speaker 1>It was in the grass. It was a fight from

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<v Speaker 1>the get-go. It was really so many bodies on the floor,

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<v Speaker 1>and this played right into the hands of the Houston Rockets.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what this team does. That's who Marcus Smart is.

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<v Speaker 1>I would have loved to see Joe Mazzulla go up

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<v Speaker 1>against Ime Udoka at halftime or something. A little boxing

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<v Speaker 1>match between the two?

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<v Speaker 2>Two?

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<v Speaker 1>Sure.

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<v Speaker 3>We would all like to see that.

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<v Speaker 1>Mazzulla loves a BJJ.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a Okay, you said the last J, never mind.

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<v Speaker 1>That's allowed, yeah. We don't, come on.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't hear the last J for a second, I'm sorry.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what he does. We are above that here on

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<v Speaker 1>this show. As I sit in grass. But the Celtics,

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<v Speaker 1>I love how they combated what the Rockets were doing,

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<v Speaker 1>fighting everything by going big. The Celtics literally started in

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<v Speaker 1>the second half, they're two bigs in Mitchell Robinson, And

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<v Speaker 1>to me, Ishketa. And thankfully for those guys, they held

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<v Speaker 1>this team in the game because they were off coming

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<v Speaker 1>off a back-to-back. Jason Tatum did not look like himself.

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<v Speaker 1>He shot the shortest three-point shot airball of his career,

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<v Speaker 1>I think. I mean, even a turnaround from 12 feet

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<v Speaker 1>looked off. He was off. Sam Houser doesn't miss open

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<v Speaker 1>threes the way he does. He was 0 for 5

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<v Speaker 1>from 3. So was Peyton Pritchard, 0 for 5 from 3,

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<v Speaker 1>but they're big guys. Mish Keita, Mitchell Robinson grabbing offensive rebounds, fighting.

0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.900
<v Speaker 1>Garza was splashing 4-3. Shireman was splashing 3-3s. But then

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<v Speaker 1>the Rockets turned it. Late in the third quarter, I

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<v Speaker 1>thought Alperen Shengun was the guy. He had a huge

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<v Speaker 1>recovery block when they were up 4 points. And it

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<v Speaker 1>turns around and a three-point shot goes the other way

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<v Speaker 1>at seven. He had another one in the fourth quarter.

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<v Speaker 1>He just looks so good at mastering his skills because

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<v Speaker 1>Fred is there at the point guard spot. Albert Shanklin

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<v Speaker 1>looks like such a great distributor. He had nine assists

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<v Speaker 1>in this game. His passing is on point. 26 points,

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<v Speaker 1>those nine assists, two steals and two blocks. But the

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<v Speaker 1>fight was in the mud and the Rockets won it.

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<v Speaker 1>Marcus Smart, literally, I think he went to the ground

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<v Speaker 1>20 times. He also threw up. A couple of birds.

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<v Speaker 1>He flipped two birds.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he's going to get fined. He's got to get fined.

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<v Speaker 2>By the way, they're playing in Houston. I mean, he's

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<v Speaker 2>not giving it to the home crowd.

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<v Speaker 3>He's just giving it to the Celtics or something. He

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<v Speaker 3>was broke, but that one went in.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and he was just mad at Peyton Pritchard. They

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<v Speaker 1>kept on falling over each other. And so maybe he

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<v Speaker 1>was mad at the refs. I assume that was a

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<v Speaker 1>big part of it. But again, a double bird. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>And it was like to the crowd. I mean, he

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<v Speaker 1>was doing it, I guess. So he wasn't doing it

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<v Speaker 1>to the refs. He was aiming it at the crowd. Again,

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<v Speaker 1>he's at home. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>They're cheering for him.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>That was the Marcus Smart experience.

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<v Speaker 1>It was.

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<v Speaker 2>In a nutshell. I mean, hell, he drew the charge

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<v Speaker 2>and then he did the kip up.

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<v Speaker 3>I know.

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<v Speaker 2>Everyone went nuts. Yeah, exactly. We were like, oh, we

0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.199
<v Speaker 2>haven't seen that from you in a while. And then

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<v Speaker 2>he hit the two threes, one in the corner and

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<v Speaker 2>one sort of on the wing there. And that's when

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<v Speaker 2>the double birds came out. But I think he'll be

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<v Speaker 2>fine for that.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought this was a perfect opportunity for me to

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<v Speaker 1>try a kip-up in grass.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, if you want to have a go at it.

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<v Speaker 1>JD, don't do it, man.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>There's no way I can kip-up. That's way too hard.

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<v Speaker 1>I know we've got a big studio here, but I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know if we have even... It's on cement floor, too,

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<v Speaker 1>if you don't successfully get up. It's pretty cool to

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<v Speaker 1>see anybody do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's always great. Shawn Michaels style, man. He's just

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<v Speaker 2>a sexy boy.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that was a fight. Rockets won. It wasn't surprising.

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<v Speaker 1>Paul George sitting on the second half of back-to-back, I

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<v Speaker 1>was dumb enough to think that he may not, because

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<v Speaker 1>he didn't earlier this season, played in both ends of it.

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<v Speaker 1>But they looked broke, as you put Marcus Smart, or Trey, again.

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<v Speaker 1>A lot of their guys missing wide open shots, and

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<v Speaker 1>Tatum not looking right.

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<v Speaker 2>So the Rockets 7-1. Top of the West here. Only

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<v Speaker 2>the one loss to their name here. I read something

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<v Speaker 2>from a great website, No Dunk Substack page.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, what?

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<v Speaker 2>From a writer named Trey Kirby. His fingers still work.

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<v Speaker 2>He wrote this morning. This is hot off the press here.

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<v Speaker 2>Watching them this week, talking about the Rockets. It struck

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<v Speaker 2>me that Kevin Durant has become Barry Bonds. I'm talking

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<v Speaker 2>early 2000s, giant steroid head, socking dingers nonstop Barry Bonds

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<v Speaker 2>when he would get one pitch to hit in an

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<v Speaker 2>entire game and then smash it out into the bay

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<v Speaker 2>for the fishermen. KD is taking a career low 13

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<v Speaker 2>shots per game, but it feels like he makes every

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<v Speaker 2>single one he takes. That's a fun comp there, TK.

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<v Speaker 2>KD is the steroid head Barry Bonds right now.

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<v Speaker 1>I love it.

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<v Speaker 3>He was cooking, whoever was writing over there. But KD,

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<v Speaker 3>I guess I forgot to update the stat. He's down

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<v Speaker 3>to 12 shots a game. Only took six last night.

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<v Speaker 3>Five for six from the field. Nine the game previous.

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<v Speaker 3>He had 20 in the game before that. And then

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<v Speaker 3>nine the game before that. I wonder how many times

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<v Speaker 3>Kevin Durant has taken single-digit shots in three out of

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<v Speaker 3>four games. Probably the only time in his career.

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<v Speaker 1>Jesus, yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Unless you're like, maybe an injury sort of thing.

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<v Speaker 1>But yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>We've talked about it a few times. It's like Durant

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<v Speaker 3>doesn't feel like an essential part of this team, except

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<v Speaker 3>for that he's giving you 20 points a day. He

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<v Speaker 3>only got to 12 and 14 in these last two

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<v Speaker 3>games where he took 15 total shots. But it just

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<v Speaker 3>feels like his points are just like randomly added to

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<v Speaker 3>the team's total at the end because he's not pressing it.

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<v Speaker 3>He's playing in such a good flow. He's obviously not

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<v Speaker 3>being selfish about the way he attacks offensively. Look, if

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<v Speaker 3>the Rockets start losing, will he advocate to start getting

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<v Speaker 3>some more touches? Probably. And he probably should at that point.

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<v Speaker 3>But they're rolling right now. The offense looks great. So

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<v Speaker 3>if he's just like the greatest decoy you could possibly have,

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<v Speaker 3>that works for Houston.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think he's happy to do that late in

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<v Speaker 1>his 30s because he doesn't have to bring the ball

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<v Speaker 1>up with Fred VanVleet starting this year. Did he want

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<v Speaker 1>to do a little bit more of that, be more

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<v Speaker 1>like that when he was in Phoenix, when he had

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<v Speaker 1>Bradley Beal and Devin Booker? I think so. Maybe. But

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<v Speaker 1>it didn't work out, obviously.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, my first game here that we can address,

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<v Speaker 2>my takeaway from Cavs Thunder is SGA single-handedly carried OKC

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<v Speaker 2>to that victory last night. He attempted 35 shots. That's

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<v Speaker 2>the most in the NBA during the first two weeks

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<v Speaker 2>of action here. He made 14 of them in the

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<v Speaker 2>fourth quarter. He took it, felt like, every single shot.

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<v Speaker 2>And if he didn't, it was an assist. And they

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<v Speaker 2>got some big buckets. Hartenstein hit a little, his patented

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<v Speaker 2>little push floater off an SGA dime as he sort

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<v Speaker 2>of sneaked into the, sneaked through the grass, into the paint.

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<v Speaker 2>And then there was a big A.J. Mitchell bucket late, too.

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<v Speaker 2>But this was just, it's just SGA, man, putting pressure

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<v Speaker 2>on the defense. He had that look in his eye.

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<v Speaker 2>It was like, hey, man, we're going to win or lose,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's going to be on my watch here tonight

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<v Speaker 2>because I am taking every shot. And he was missing

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<v Speaker 2>at times. And then there was, unfortunately for the Cavs,

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<v Speaker 2>like a couple that he did miss. They couldn't secure

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<v Speaker 2>the defensive board. There was one that led to another

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<v Speaker 2>shot for OKC. They scored. And then there was one

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<v Speaker 2>where the Cavs fumbled the ball out of bounds late.

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<v Speaker 2>And it gave OKC another possession there. And that ended

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<v Speaker 2>in that huge sidestep three there from SGA, which was

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<v Speaker 2>a backbreaker. So, You know, they did it to themselves

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit, the Cavs, and we can get into

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit more, but it was SGA. Like, he

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<v Speaker 2>just carried this team. And you start to go, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>my God. Has he got one more MVP run in him?

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<v Speaker 2>Is this the Kobe run? Because that's what J-Dub took

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<v Speaker 2>to social media to point out, shared the stats from

0:16:47.290 --> 0:16:52.970
<v Speaker 2>SGA last night and put 0-5-0-6, alluding to Kobe's carrying

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<v Speaker 2>of that Lakers team and getting MVP. But, man, he

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<v Speaker 2>just looked exhausted. I see this one game, and I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>how's he going to do this for an entire year, Kenny?

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<v Speaker 1>But anyway, that's from this one. Yeah, 35 shots, and

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<v Speaker 1>he also tied the most he's ever had in a game.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought A.J. Mitchell's second quarter of 12 points really

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<v Speaker 1>helped them buoy the run that they needed from Shea Gilgis-Alexander,

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<v Speaker 1>but it really was the Shea show. But A.J. Mitchell

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<v Speaker 1>is going to be really, really important to help out

0:17:20.780 --> 0:17:23.960
<v Speaker 1>Shea towards the end of the season. But yes, this

0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:28.379
<v Speaker 1>was a single game, MVP-like, for sure. We'll get to

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<v Speaker 1>Luka a little bit later, but Yes, great stop. And

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<v Speaker 1>then even in Cleveland, walks off the floor and signs autographs,

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<v Speaker 1>taking the time to sign plenty of autographs in Cleveland.

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<v Speaker 2>What a good guy. He got a lot of respect

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<v Speaker 2>from a lot of guys in this league because even

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<v Speaker 2>after the game, and it was a fun game. It

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<v Speaker 2>was like a million lead changes, like so many. After

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<v Speaker 2>the game where everybody lines up, daps it up, you know,

0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.399
<v Speaker 2>he's like hugging all the guys, both his team and

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<v Speaker 2>then the opposing Cavs. I saw like Peyton Watson who

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<v Speaker 2>didn't play. He was like, I forget what he said,

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<v Speaker 2>but it was like, you could see he was like, wow,

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<v Speaker 2>that was pretty awesome. You know, he's like respect and

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<v Speaker 2>good luck and all that. So that was just the

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<v Speaker 2>SGA show. He just, he just decided it was like, again,

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<v Speaker 2>we might lose, but it's not going to be because

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, you know, not taking the tough shots and

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<v Speaker 2>trying to force the action. He played nine fourth quarter minutes, Trey.

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<v Speaker 2>And again, he was involved in every single play.

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<v Speaker 3>Nine fourth quarter minutes, he took 13 shots. I mean,

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<v Speaker 3>he was shooting it every single time. We talked about

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<v Speaker 3>the Thunder are going to need to find new ways

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<v Speaker 3>to win if they're going to be missing all of

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<v Speaker 3>these all-defense players, and one of those ways is going

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<v Speaker 3>to be, sorry about your efficiency, Shea. Yeah. But we

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<v Speaker 3>need you to shoot as many times as you possibly can.

0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.300
<v Speaker 3>He's shooting a career low from the field right now, 45%.

0:18:37.300 --> 0:18:41.139
<v Speaker 3>He's shooting a career-high field goal attempts at 24 per game.

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<v Speaker 3>So that's what it's going to have to be. He's

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<v Speaker 3>their number one creator, and he's a great scorer, and...

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<v Speaker 3>If that means he shoots under 50% for the first

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<v Speaker 3>time in five seasons, so be it. You'll take that

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<v Speaker 3>rather than losing, I guess, is what it comes down to.

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<v Speaker 3>I did see Malik Thomas ran out of his shoe

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<v Speaker 3>in this game. He did. He played like four possessions

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<v Speaker 3>without a shoe.

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<v Speaker 1>It was wild.

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<v Speaker 3>It kept going. That was one of the longest stretches ever. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>One foot. He missed the three, though. That was too bad.

0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.830
<v Speaker 3>He got a stop on Shea with one shoe on.

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<v Speaker 3>Had a three from the top of the key.

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<v Speaker 2>It rattled in and out, too. Rattled in and out.

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<v Speaker 3>That would have been nice. Two guys ran out of

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<v Speaker 3>their shoes last night.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>I was amazed.

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<v Speaker 1>It's happening more in the NBA.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't wear them tight enough.

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<v Speaker 3>Who was the other one? I don't remember, but I

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<v Speaker 3>was like.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Multiple happened.

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<v Speaker 3>And I was like, uh-oh. Two shoes came off and

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<v Speaker 3>only one wedgie. It is what it is.

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<v Speaker 1>It's happened before last night. Guys... take their shoe off,

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<v Speaker 1>get their shoe hit off, and they keep playing. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>they're taking Wemby's advice that you can just, you can

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<v Speaker 1>use your feet.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody play barefoot.

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<v Speaker 1>Use your feet. Although Shea could have hit more shots

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<v Speaker 1>in this game. Oh, yeah. Some of these misses were

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<v Speaker 1>just misses, and he could have hit them.

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<v Speaker 2>His patented when he gets to that baseline, like, that space,

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<v Speaker 2>and he missed a couple of those.

0:19:51.970 --> 0:19:52.210
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>You're like, oh, that's usually a layup for him.

0:19:54.010 --> 0:19:56.620
<v Speaker 3>He threw his hands up in thanks one time after

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<v Speaker 3>making a shot.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>But he doesn't care. He's got the mentality. He's like, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>I missed that one.

0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:03.160
<v Speaker 3>Who cares?

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<v Speaker 2>This will be the best shot we'll get here on

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<v Speaker 2>this next possession, so I'll just take it again. He

0:20:07.060 --> 0:20:10.590
<v Speaker 2>had Austin Rivers disgusted on the broadcast. Because they had

0:20:10.630 --> 0:20:13.790
<v Speaker 2>them on the benches. Austin Rivers was just like, when

0:20:13.830 --> 0:20:16.669
<v Speaker 2>Shea was hitting his insane spins off balance, he's like,

0:20:16.850 --> 0:20:20.389
<v Speaker 2>it's disgusting. And he was getting upset. People call this

0:20:20.410 --> 0:20:25.190
<v Speaker 2>guy the free throw merchant. That's basically the most offensive

0:20:25.210 --> 0:20:26.710
<v Speaker 2>thing you could say. This guy's unreal.

0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:27.689
<v Speaker 1>It's like, yeah.

0:20:28.100 --> 0:20:29.760
<v Speaker 2>Those are some of the shots he was making. But, oh,

0:20:30.060 --> 0:20:33.120
<v Speaker 2>Malik Thomas, great to see this rookie playing well. He

0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.280
<v Speaker 2>missed a wide open layup late where, I don't know

0:20:36.300 --> 0:20:37.780
<v Speaker 2>if it was Mitchell or Harden found him inside. He

0:20:37.820 --> 0:20:40.530
<v Speaker 2>just lost the defense. Mm-hmm. I think he must have

0:20:40.570 --> 0:20:42.930
<v Speaker 2>thought somebody was right behind him because he sort of

0:20:42.990 --> 0:20:45.840
<v Speaker 2>rushed a little sort of reverse layup. There was no

0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.040
<v Speaker 2>one even close to him. He got a stop, turned around,

0:20:49.420 --> 0:20:52.000
<v Speaker 2>spun the ball a little bit, whatever. So he botched that.

0:20:52.020 --> 0:20:52.920
<v Speaker 2>And that was a big miss.

0:20:53.180 --> 0:20:53.420
<v Speaker 1>It was.

0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:55.700
<v Speaker 2>In this game. And also the Cavs like missed a

0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.460
<v Speaker 2>million free throws. They did themselves no favor. 14 to

0:20:58.460 --> 0:21:00.530
<v Speaker 2>24 from the line, five missed in the final quarter.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:21:02.010 --> 0:21:04.210
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. This was their game to win until Shea stole

0:21:04.270 --> 0:21:04.889
<v Speaker 1>it in the fourth.

0:21:05.450 --> 0:21:05.530
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:21:05.570 --> 0:21:09.090
<v Speaker 1>Malik Thomas getting his first start of his career. Looking

0:21:09.130 --> 0:21:12.109
<v Speaker 1>good until that moment there. That was the only moment

0:21:12.150 --> 0:21:16.629
<v Speaker 1>that was the red mark on his resume from this game.

0:21:16.890 --> 0:21:20.050
<v Speaker 1>He started for Peyton Watson, who they're managing an injury,

0:21:20.090 --> 0:21:23.050
<v Speaker 1>so he's out. But Mario Izzonia, I thought, did as

0:21:23.230 --> 0:21:25.710
<v Speaker 1>good a job you could do on Shea Gilgis-Alexander as possible.

0:21:26.310 --> 0:21:28.330
<v Speaker 1>That big body gets in the way and he doesn't jump.

0:21:29.109 --> 0:21:29.590
<v Speaker 1>He was decent.

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<v Speaker 3>How about the Croatian sensation?

0:21:34.190 --> 0:21:37.389
<v Speaker 2>He just looks like, to me right now, like Mario Zogna,

0:21:37.430 --> 0:21:39.780
<v Speaker 2>like a bully in like a high school, right?

0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:41.320
<v Speaker 3>Yes, he does.

0:21:41.580 --> 0:21:43.200
<v Speaker 2>Like a senior in a high school and he's the

0:21:43.220 --> 0:21:45.580
<v Speaker 2>bully guy that comes in and throws you into the locker.

0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:47.240
<v Speaker 2>It's exactly what he looks like.

0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:47.859
<v Speaker 1>He's wide.

0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.160
<v Speaker 2>We had some OKC news here too. The Thunder announced

0:21:50.180 --> 0:21:53.680
<v Speaker 2>they will retire Russell Westbrook's number zero in the rafters

0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.419
<v Speaker 2>on February 7th. So this season, a member of the

0:21:56.480 --> 0:22:00.430
<v Speaker 2>NBA's 75th anniversary team in 2021, Russ announced his retirement.

0:22:00.940 --> 0:22:02.820
<v Speaker 2>this off season. This is sort of funny. Cause some

0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:06.340
<v Speaker 2>people were going, could OKC bring back Russell Westbrook here?

0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:08.919
<v Speaker 2>They're short on all these guys. Well, you can put

0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:10.550
<v Speaker 2>that to bed. He is retired and they're going to

0:22:10.570 --> 0:22:12.389
<v Speaker 2>put the Jersey up. So his number zero will be

0:22:12.410 --> 0:22:15.090
<v Speaker 2>the second Jersey retired by the Thunder joining Nick Collison's

0:22:15.670 --> 0:22:20.210
<v Speaker 2>number four, February 7th, Sunday night. I checked Nick's in town.

0:22:20.270 --> 0:22:21.210
<v Speaker 2>So that's a big game there.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Any, any thoughts on this? No one's surprised by any means.

0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:26.230
<v Speaker 1>I think he deserves it.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes.

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<v Speaker 2>He, uh, He was a nine-time All-Star, nine-time All-NBA selection,

0:22:32.570 --> 0:22:35.470
<v Speaker 2>and I think all but one of those, at least

0:22:35.530 --> 0:22:38.810
<v Speaker 2>All-Star selections, probably All-NBA too, came without the Thunder. Like

0:22:38.850 --> 0:22:41.629
<v Speaker 2>a majority of them were with the Thunder, spending a

0:22:41.650 --> 0:22:44.510
<v Speaker 2>good chunk of his 18-year career with them, and obviously

0:22:44.570 --> 0:22:45.290
<v Speaker 2>one MVP as well.

0:22:46.030 --> 0:22:48.109
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he would be nice in the lineup. I mean,

0:22:48.130 --> 0:22:52.560
<v Speaker 1>they went and grabbed Micah Peavy, who has moved around

0:22:52.580 --> 0:22:55.590
<v Speaker 1>a couple times this offseason recently. released by the Grizzlies

0:22:55.650 --> 0:22:59.379
<v Speaker 1>as a defensive wing. I thought he was good at that. Yeah,

0:22:59.410 --> 0:23:00.859
<v Speaker 1>you'd look at the Thunder, you'd say, well, this guy

0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:03.560
<v Speaker 1>that they plug and play, classic Thunder move to be

0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:06.660
<v Speaker 1>able to do that. Bennett Sturtz as a rookie looked

0:23:06.700 --> 0:23:09.060
<v Speaker 1>good too, but they just need somebody to splash some

0:23:09.100 --> 0:23:13.080
<v Speaker 1>threes to support Shea Gilgis-Alexander. And luckily AJ Mitchell had

0:23:13.100 --> 0:23:16.619
<v Speaker 1>that second quarter, but a lot of guys, like Jared McCain,

0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:20.570
<v Speaker 1>Jalen Williams has had a bad start to his season

0:23:20.590 --> 0:23:23.030
<v Speaker 1>shooting the ball. He's He is, what, like 5 of

0:23:23.030 --> 0:23:26.710
<v Speaker 1>24 now to start the season. Those guys just need

0:23:26.730 --> 0:23:29.369
<v Speaker 1>to splash. McCain, Ofer in this game. But she did it.

0:23:29.710 --> 0:23:30.070
<v Speaker 1>She did it.

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<v Speaker 2>All right. Lots of games left. Where do you want

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<v Speaker 2>to go?

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<v Speaker 3>We're going to Dallas.

0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:36.280
<v Speaker 1>Dallas.

0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:40.510
<v Speaker 3>And we're lighting the beam, baby. Sacramento Kings got their

0:23:40.609 --> 0:23:44.169
<v Speaker 3>first win of the season. And the Bulls got destroyed

0:23:44.210 --> 0:23:48.990
<v Speaker 3>again last night. Sacramento moves up to 29th in margin

0:23:49.010 --> 0:23:52.170
<v Speaker 3>of victory. Huge night for the Kings. They're not the

0:23:52.190 --> 0:23:54.909
<v Speaker 3>worst team in the league anymore. I thought the backcourt

0:23:55.070 --> 0:23:59.189
<v Speaker 3>dominated last night for Sacramento. Darius Acuff, 25 points on

0:23:59.190 --> 0:24:02.590
<v Speaker 3>21 shots, plus six assists. Zach Levine had 23 points

0:24:02.630 --> 0:24:06.320
<v Speaker 3>and five assists. Malik Monk, 24 points and seven assists.

0:24:07.350 --> 0:24:10.930
<v Speaker 3>Those guys went for 19, 14, and 13, respectively, in

0:24:10.950 --> 0:24:13.080
<v Speaker 3>the second half, and they were really the difference. They

0:24:13.100 --> 0:24:16.780
<v Speaker 3>were just blow-by after blow-by against the Mavs perimeter defenders.

0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:19.159
<v Speaker 3>They would get a switch and just get straight to

0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:22.670
<v Speaker 3>the rim, get a bucket. Dallas didn't have Kyrie, so

0:24:22.710 --> 0:24:23.730
<v Speaker 3>they went 7 of 33 from 3, had 19 assists.

0:24:26.390 --> 0:24:30.580
<v Speaker 3>to 16 turnovers the dallas offense just looked completely disjointed

0:24:30.970 --> 0:24:33.679
<v Speaker 3>i thought leaky black and emmanuel sharp had coop in

0:24:33.700 --> 0:24:34.919
<v Speaker 3>a straight jacket all night.

0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:36.980
<v Speaker 2>Yeah three of 19 for cooper flag.

0:24:36.740 --> 0:24:40.280
<v Speaker 3>Three of 19 six assists but six turnovers as well

0:24:40.900 --> 0:24:43.560
<v Speaker 3>finally missing his little floaters and i just thought really

0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:47.180
<v Speaker 3>good solid defense by the kings who like midway through

0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:49.820
<v Speaker 3>the third quarter as they were starting to score and

0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:52.399
<v Speaker 3>the mavericks were struggling you could feel the kings are

0:24:52.420 --> 0:24:56.600
<v Speaker 3>like oh my goodness i We got a chance. This

0:24:56.650 --> 0:24:57.270
<v Speaker 3>is the one.

0:24:57.400 --> 0:24:57.810
<v Speaker 2>You heard it.

0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:02.100
<v Speaker 3>I was watching a little NBA whip around last night,

0:25:02.580 --> 0:25:06.080
<v Speaker 3>and Doc Rivers was like, tonight's the night. They were

0:25:06.100 --> 0:25:09.740
<v Speaker 3>getting fired up, man. It was like a legendary win

0:25:09.780 --> 0:25:11.760
<v Speaker 3>for the Kings to get their first win of the season.

0:25:12.040 --> 0:25:14.480
<v Speaker 2>Hey, 20 wins to go for the Sacramento Kings to

0:25:14.500 --> 0:25:17.100
<v Speaker 2>hit the over. Maybe we put it like that. It's nothing.

0:25:17.300 --> 0:25:17.920
<v Speaker 2>It's nothing.

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<v Speaker 1>Doug, or excuse me, Doc in the studio. probably felt

0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:25.020
<v Speaker 1>the itch i can go replace doug christie give it

0:25:25.040 --> 0:25:27.380
<v Speaker 1>to me man i know how to coach the mediocre

0:25:27.440 --> 0:25:30.720
<v Speaker 1>players give it to me right here right now and

0:25:30.770 --> 0:25:33.430
<v Speaker 1>he felt it uh i think cooper also felt not

0:25:33.470 --> 0:25:35.930
<v Speaker 1>having kairi irving beside him in general just to have

0:25:35.970 --> 0:25:38.770
<v Speaker 1>another ball handler who's sitting out this game.

0:25:38.590 --> 0:25:40.449
<v Speaker 2>Yeah did the mavs do the classic like oh the

0:25:40.490 --> 0:25:42.330
<v Speaker 2>kings are coming to town i think so have a

0:25:42.350 --> 0:25:44.070
<v Speaker 2>seat bud we got it and it blew up in

0:25:44.090 --> 0:25:45.090
<v Speaker 2>their face maybe.

0:25:44.850 --> 0:25:48.570
<v Speaker 1>Yeah that could be part of it um but we

0:25:48.609 --> 0:25:51.700
<v Speaker 1>all questioned like can Darius Acuff ever close a game?

0:25:51.720 --> 0:25:53.640
<v Speaker 1>I think that was a big question about this guy

0:25:53.880 --> 0:25:57.770
<v Speaker 1>in general. He closed it. He led a team there

0:25:57.810 --> 0:26:00.090
<v Speaker 1>scoring on eight of their last possessions, or eight of

0:26:00.130 --> 0:26:02.940
<v Speaker 1>their last 11 possessions, I should say. And you mentioned

0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:06.360
<v Speaker 1>Malik Monk. I'm glad you did because he has not

0:26:06.400 --> 0:26:08.290
<v Speaker 1>been mentioned on this show once this season.

0:26:08.310 --> 0:26:10.899
<v Speaker 2>I was just thinking that. I was like, oh, Malik Monk, yeah.

0:26:11.140 --> 0:26:13.990
<v Speaker 1>One of our strengths is how thorough we are, but

0:26:14.050 --> 0:26:15.550
<v Speaker 1>it has not happened. I mentioned him last year because

0:26:15.570 --> 0:26:18.609
<v Speaker 1>I thought some team should be willing to get a

0:26:18.630 --> 0:26:21.650
<v Speaker 1>guy who could change a quarter in a playoff game.

0:26:21.970 --> 0:26:24.629
<v Speaker 1>And Malik Monk could. He's still young enough, but he

0:26:24.650 --> 0:26:27.350
<v Speaker 1>hasn't done much for the Sacramento Kings until this game.

0:26:28.830 --> 0:26:30.149
<v Speaker 2>No, he had done dick all.

0:26:30.190 --> 0:26:30.350
<v Speaker 1>Yes.

0:26:30.590 --> 0:26:32.650
<v Speaker 3>No, but he was cooking last night for sure.

0:26:32.670 --> 0:26:33.810
<v Speaker 1>He was money. He was money.

0:26:34.340 --> 0:26:35.780
<v Speaker 2>All right, Malik Bunk, back in our lives.

0:26:35.900 --> 0:26:39.460
<v Speaker 1>Sacramento Kings, best names in the NBA? I think they're...

0:26:40.119 --> 0:26:41.129
<v Speaker 1>The Emmanuel Sharp.

0:26:41.150 --> 0:26:41.650
<v Speaker 3>Okay.

0:26:41.950 --> 0:26:44.790
<v Speaker 1>I think that's just a great name. Squeezing a leaky

0:26:44.869 --> 0:26:45.869
<v Speaker 1>black whenever he plays.

0:26:45.890 --> 0:26:47.550
<v Speaker 2>That's one of the best names in the league. I'll

0:26:47.570 --> 0:26:47.990
<v Speaker 2>give you that.

0:26:48.050 --> 0:26:48.930
<v Speaker 1>Daquan Plowden.

0:26:49.250 --> 0:26:49.570
<v Speaker 2>Good name.

0:26:49.590 --> 0:26:50.210
<v Speaker 1>That's a good name.

0:26:50.350 --> 0:26:51.530
<v Speaker 2>Nick Clifford is not a bad name.

0:26:51.570 --> 0:26:53.229
<v Speaker 1>No, it's not bad. Maxime Raynaud.

0:26:53.490 --> 0:26:54.229
<v Speaker 3>We haven't seen him yet.

0:26:54.270 --> 0:26:55.530
<v Speaker 1>That's a great name.

0:26:55.570 --> 0:26:57.930
<v Speaker 3>I heard somebody call him Max Raynaud on a podcast

0:26:57.950 --> 0:27:00.380
<v Speaker 3>this week. Didn't know we were so familiar.

0:27:00.400 --> 0:27:04.159
<v Speaker 1>I was watching this guy... It's good, man. Alex Caravan,

0:27:04.260 --> 0:27:06.419
<v Speaker 1>I think is a good name. Get in the caravan.

0:27:06.480 --> 0:27:07.070
<v Speaker 1>Let's go.

0:27:07.119 --> 0:27:10.470
<v Speaker 3>Hop in the caravan. Emmanuel Sharp went three for three

0:27:10.510 --> 0:27:13.209
<v Speaker 3>from three last night. When he shoots his jumpers, he

0:27:13.250 --> 0:27:15.350
<v Speaker 3>jumps very high in the air and clicks his heels together.

0:27:16.250 --> 0:27:16.830
<v Speaker 3>Quite whimsical.

0:27:17.050 --> 0:27:17.330
<v Speaker 1>Wow.

0:27:17.350 --> 0:27:17.889
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I like it.

0:27:17.890 --> 0:27:19.930
<v Speaker 2>I thought you were going to say when Sharp hits

0:27:19.970 --> 0:27:21.990
<v Speaker 2>three for three from deep, the Kings are undefeated. That's

0:27:22.020 --> 0:27:22.480
<v Speaker 2>what I thought you.

0:27:22.460 --> 0:27:23.180
<v Speaker 1>Were going to say.

0:27:23.320 --> 0:27:24.000
<v Speaker 2>Maybe true, yeah.

0:27:24.140 --> 0:27:24.800
<v Speaker 1>It's got to be true.

0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:25.340
<v Speaker 3>He's the bellwether.

0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:26.620
<v Speaker 1>Exactly. All right.

0:27:26.960 --> 0:27:28.020
<v Speaker 2>Next game here, Grassman.

0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:33.770
<v Speaker 1>Well, the Lakers won. Behind Luka's 42. Is that a surprise? No.

0:27:33.850 --> 0:27:35.970
<v Speaker 1>What's surprising is that the Miami Heat have one of

0:27:36.010 --> 0:27:40.560
<v Speaker 1>the worst defenses in the NBA. That's surprising when you

0:27:40.580 --> 0:27:42.460
<v Speaker 1>think of Eric Spolstra and you think of Davion Mitchell,

0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:45.680
<v Speaker 1>Andrew Wiggins, Yanis Tatakoumbo, and Bam Anabayo primarily as big

0:27:45.780 --> 0:27:49.180
<v Speaker 1>four guys. So the question is, what do they do?

0:27:49.240 --> 0:27:51.600
<v Speaker 1>In this game, they decided we're going to double Luka

0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:55.770
<v Speaker 1>a lot, and that led to Luka's season high in assists,

0:27:56.070 --> 0:28:00.170
<v Speaker 1>finding guys all over the place, 12 helpers, Excuse me,

0:28:00.170 --> 0:28:02.450
<v Speaker 1>13 helpers for him. He had eight in the first half.

0:28:02.950 --> 0:28:05.930
<v Speaker 1>And that just let their role players feel good about themselves.

0:28:06.280 --> 0:28:08.390
<v Speaker 1>We always say the NBA is full of good players.

0:28:08.430 --> 0:28:09.480
<v Speaker 1>And when you get an open shot, they're going to

0:28:09.500 --> 0:28:12.399
<v Speaker 1>hit them. The Lakers hit 19 threes. Now, Luka's going

0:28:12.420 --> 0:28:15.459
<v Speaker 1>to embarrass anybody. I think I mentioned Andrew Wiggins, who

0:28:15.480 --> 0:28:17.800
<v Speaker 1>is supposed to be part of a good defense. It's

0:28:17.820 --> 0:28:22.350
<v Speaker 1>supposed to be their best perimeter defender on wings. Davion

0:28:22.390 --> 0:28:24.710
<v Speaker 1>Mitchell's too small for Lucas, so they threw Wiggins out there.

0:28:25.310 --> 0:28:28.629
<v Speaker 1>He's been meh all season. And I've discussed maybe Klay

0:28:28.670 --> 0:28:31.480
<v Speaker 1>should go to the bench. Maybe it's Andrew Wiggins to

0:28:31.619 --> 0:28:34.520
<v Speaker 1>switch it up and put Pella Larson out there. The

0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:37.820
<v Speaker 1>Heat now have the second worst three-point defense in the

0:28:37.900 --> 0:28:41.620
<v Speaker 1>NBA at 41% allowed. That's just a lot of shots

0:28:41.680 --> 0:28:44.800
<v Speaker 1>being made. A lot of it is... The athleticism, a

0:28:44.840 --> 0:28:46.880
<v Speaker 1>lot of it is not being able to defend and

0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:48.860
<v Speaker 1>guys just were trying to recover. But then when they

0:28:48.900 --> 0:28:50.780
<v Speaker 1>try and recover, they also get hit in the paint.

0:28:50.800 --> 0:28:53.360
<v Speaker 1>And that's what happened in this game. 60 points in

0:28:53.380 --> 0:28:56.380
<v Speaker 1>the paint for the Lakers. So 30 buckets versus 19

0:28:56.380 --> 0:28:58.920
<v Speaker 1>buckets for the Miami Heat. That shouldn't happen against the

0:28:58.960 --> 0:29:04.670
<v Speaker 1>Giannis and Bam center or back line, I should call them.

0:29:05.050 --> 0:29:06.430
<v Speaker 1>They should be able to protect the rim, but they're

0:29:06.450 --> 0:29:10.010
<v Speaker 1>scrambling everywhere because their open three is happening. And so

0:29:10.030 --> 0:29:12.070
<v Speaker 1>they're not defending the rim all that good. And there

0:29:12.110 --> 0:29:14.710
<v Speaker 1>they are. They got smoked. Of course, Luka's going to

0:29:15.070 --> 0:29:18.480
<v Speaker 1>smoke anybody, but I think, you know, not to second-guess

0:29:18.520 --> 0:29:21.580
<v Speaker 1>Eric Spolstra, but there should have been a lot more one-on-one,

0:29:21.600 --> 0:29:24.040
<v Speaker 1>man-on-man coverage, and that would have helped out the other

0:29:24.100 --> 0:29:27.260
<v Speaker 1>guys defend the role players who were splashing for the Lakers.

0:29:27.740 --> 0:29:29.420
<v Speaker 3>Did you say 30 baskets in the paint?

0:29:29.640 --> 0:29:34.050
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. And 19 threes. That's a bad record. Yeah, exactly.

0:29:34.090 --> 0:29:36.030
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. So where did you stop them?

0:29:36.330 --> 0:29:38.850
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they did not. 145 points. Yeah.

0:29:39.010 --> 0:29:39.930
<v Speaker 2>But you make a good point.

0:29:39.990 --> 0:29:42.890
<v Speaker 3>It's like Wiggins has been very underwhelming to start the season,

0:29:42.930 --> 0:29:46.190
<v Speaker 3>but clay Thompson is the biggest target defensively for the

0:29:46.210 --> 0:29:48.550
<v Speaker 3>Miami heat. So which of these guys do you really

0:29:48.570 --> 0:29:51.180
<v Speaker 3>sub in for? Because they probably should get Larson some

0:29:51.200 --> 0:29:53.260
<v Speaker 3>more playing time. It doesn't look like Yeovitch is doing

0:29:53.300 --> 0:29:56.000
<v Speaker 3>much this season, but at least Larson gives a good effort.

0:29:56.060 --> 0:29:58.640
<v Speaker 3>He's a ball mover. He plays on the defensive end

0:29:59.180 --> 0:30:02.840
<v Speaker 3>as well. Clay's been shooting the ball better than he

0:30:02.860 --> 0:30:05.380
<v Speaker 3>was the first week of the season. So that's encouraging

0:30:05.420 --> 0:30:08.940
<v Speaker 3>at least for Miami, but they're just getting lit up

0:30:08.980 --> 0:30:11.280
<v Speaker 3>from the three point line. It's like they're worse than

0:30:11.320 --> 0:30:14.570
<v Speaker 3>the league percentage wise and number of attempts allowed, which

0:30:14.620 --> 0:30:16.960
<v Speaker 3>means they're worse than the league at number of makes

0:30:17.180 --> 0:30:18.930
<v Speaker 3>allowed as well. And they're a team that's going to

0:30:18.950 --> 0:30:22.410
<v Speaker 3>be primarily two point focused with Giannis. So it feels

0:30:22.430 --> 0:30:24.110
<v Speaker 3>like they're losing math wise as well.

0:30:24.130 --> 0:30:24.270
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:30:25.990 --> 0:30:26.170
<v Speaker 3>All right.

0:30:26.190 --> 0:30:28.870
<v Speaker 2>My next game here, Indiana had a starting five on

0:30:28.890 --> 0:30:32.940
<v Speaker 2>Monday night. And a reserve. And that was it. The

0:30:32.960 --> 0:30:36.959
<v Speaker 2>Pacers had 11 players representing 93% of their payroll out

0:30:37.000 --> 0:30:40.700
<v Speaker 2>with injuries. The starting five graphic, which I think JD has,

0:30:41.440 --> 0:30:45.830
<v Speaker 2>that the Pacers shared before the game, it looked like

0:30:45.870 --> 0:30:49.250
<v Speaker 2>a YouTube title and thumbnail. And the only thing it

0:30:49.290 --> 0:30:53.340
<v Speaker 2>was missing was, I played in an actual NBA game. Uh,

0:30:53.740 --> 0:30:57.580
<v Speaker 2>just spot on reference from one of my Twitter followers

0:30:57.640 --> 0:31:00.459
<v Speaker 2>after I shared this graphic. It's just so perfect. It's

0:31:00.530 --> 0:31:02.930
<v Speaker 2>exactly what they look like because it's a bit of

0:31:03.290 --> 0:31:05.510
<v Speaker 2>who is this? So the Pacers starters were Jay Huff,

0:31:05.890 --> 0:31:09.170
<v Speaker 2>Quinton Jackson, Jairus Walker, and then two players on two

0:31:09.190 --> 0:31:18.550
<v Speaker 2>way deals, Brayden Smith and Jalen, um, Starts with an S. Swim, swam, slippy, slappy, slim, salmon, simon, swan, swinson, slosson.

0:31:18.610 --> 0:31:21.080
<v Speaker 2>That's it. It was on the briefcase the whole time.

0:31:21.460 --> 0:31:23.740
<v Speaker 2>And then they had another two-way guard in Kobe Brown

0:31:24.300 --> 0:31:27.740
<v Speaker 2>as the lone reserve. That's all they had. This is

0:31:27.820 --> 0:31:30.740
<v Speaker 2>stuff you sometimes see in April games.

0:31:30.800 --> 0:31:31.080
<v Speaker 1>Yes.

0:31:31.420 --> 0:31:34.130
<v Speaker 2>Right? Where it's like guys are completely banked up, rest guys,

0:31:34.150 --> 0:31:36.610
<v Speaker 2>and there's like six or seven guys only playing. Weird

0:31:36.650 --> 0:31:39.530
<v Speaker 2>to see two weeks into the start of the season.

0:31:39.810 --> 0:31:39.970
<v Speaker 3>Oh, yeah.

0:31:40.560 --> 0:31:42.660
<v Speaker 2>And then the Pacers put up a fight. These six

0:31:42.740 --> 0:31:44.680
<v Speaker 2>guys gave it a go. I mean, they had this

0:31:44.700 --> 0:31:47.979
<v Speaker 2>down to a one possession game down the stretch. Luckily

0:31:48.030 --> 0:31:51.790
<v Speaker 2>for the Hawks, Nikhil Alexander-Walker was hitting the three ball,

0:31:51.950 --> 0:31:53.630
<v Speaker 2>hit enough of them for them to get this, or

0:31:53.670 --> 0:31:55.870
<v Speaker 2>this would have been brutal. I mean, it would have been,

0:31:56.210 --> 0:31:59.290
<v Speaker 2>it's an embarrassing win, if we're being honest, to sort

0:31:59.350 --> 0:32:01.910
<v Speaker 2>of be that close to the severely undermanned Pacers team.

0:32:01.930 --> 0:32:05.650
<v Speaker 2>But they got the W. But wow, I watched a

0:32:05.770 --> 0:32:07.630
<v Speaker 2>lot of this game. We had a million games all

0:32:07.670 --> 0:32:09.570
<v Speaker 2>last night. I was like infatuated with this game. I

0:32:09.590 --> 0:32:11.690
<v Speaker 2>was like, can Braden Smith do it? Like, oh my God,

0:32:11.710 --> 0:32:12.550
<v Speaker 2>let's see what happens here.

0:32:12.570 --> 0:32:14.710
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, he got cramps at the end of the game.

0:32:14.730 --> 0:32:15.290
<v Speaker 3>He literally got cramps.

0:32:15.310 --> 0:32:16.890
<v Speaker 2>He got cramps from playing so much. It may have

0:32:16.910 --> 0:32:17.570
<v Speaker 2>lost him the game.

0:32:17.690 --> 0:32:18.670
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah.

0:32:18.810 --> 0:32:20.490
<v Speaker 2>It really may have because he had to miss the

0:32:20.550 --> 0:32:21.410
<v Speaker 2>last couple minutes.

0:32:21.450 --> 0:32:23.590
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was very funny. I thought of Trey Kirby

0:32:23.670 --> 0:32:26.760
<v Speaker 1>cramping here at the table. I mean, he was getting

0:32:26.800 --> 0:32:29.840
<v Speaker 1>his first start of his NBA career, playing 43 minutes defensively.

0:32:30.770 --> 0:32:33.610
<v Speaker 1>By far the most he's ever played in his career.

0:32:33.850 --> 0:32:37.670
<v Speaker 1>So that hurt. But yeah, almost a disappointing win for

0:32:37.690 --> 0:32:38.930
<v Speaker 1>the Atlanta Hawks in a way.

0:32:38.950 --> 0:32:42.510
<v Speaker 3>Very underwhelming. It's like he needed nine threes from Nikhil

0:32:42.610 --> 0:32:45.390
<v Speaker 3>Alexander Walker. He was trying to get the 10th one

0:32:45.630 --> 0:32:48.010
<v Speaker 3>in the fourth quarter and they barely squeaked it by.

0:32:48.050 --> 0:32:51.410
<v Speaker 3>So this was a bit of an underwhelming win to me.

0:32:51.890 --> 0:32:53.150
<v Speaker 3>I was feeling like Tass was going to come in.

0:32:53.650 --> 0:32:56.470
<v Speaker 3>with some Cavs energy for this Hawks team and be like, yeah,

0:32:56.490 --> 0:32:58.290
<v Speaker 3>you won, but you suck for doing it.

0:32:58.310 --> 0:33:01.229
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah. Nikhil's trying to pull the guys together. Like,

0:33:01.260 --> 0:33:05.100
<v Speaker 1>let's get it together. But he couldn't do it. Speaking

0:33:05.120 --> 0:33:07.680
<v Speaker 1>of threes, I know I don't want to harp on

0:33:07.760 --> 0:33:09.980
<v Speaker 1>how bad Dyson Daniels has been the last couple of

0:33:10.000 --> 0:33:11.320
<v Speaker 1>years because he does a lot of other things that

0:33:11.360 --> 0:33:13.420
<v Speaker 1>are very good. He took one in this game. It

0:33:13.560 --> 0:33:16.100
<v Speaker 1>was like three feet behind the line when he's now

0:33:16.160 --> 0:33:19.090
<v Speaker 1>shooting 10% from three. I don't get it. He's like,

0:33:19.120 --> 0:33:21.350
<v Speaker 1>I'm just trying. I'm just trying. And I'm just going

0:33:21.370 --> 0:33:23.720
<v Speaker 1>to see if it goes down. It did not. I mean,

0:33:23.760 --> 0:33:26.920
<v Speaker 1>that was a deep three. Blew an easy layup. That

0:33:26.980 --> 0:33:30.380
<v Speaker 1>other Malik one for the Cavs. I mean, this was

0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:34.760
<v Speaker 1>just a blown layup. That touch, something's going on there. Which,

0:33:34.920 --> 0:33:36.880
<v Speaker 1>you know, we kind of saw last year, but it's

0:33:36.900 --> 0:33:37.240
<v Speaker 1>getting worse.

0:33:37.300 --> 0:33:40.720
<v Speaker 2>It's getting worse somehow. All right, round three here. Back

0:33:40.760 --> 0:33:41.580
<v Speaker 2>to you, TK.

0:33:41.660 --> 0:33:44.820
<v Speaker 3>All right, round three. Denny Obvia leads the Blazers to

0:33:44.860 --> 0:33:46.840
<v Speaker 3>a win over the Nuggets. This was a game of runs,

0:33:46.960 --> 0:33:48.600
<v Speaker 3>and it was kind of odd because it felt like

0:33:48.700 --> 0:33:50.920
<v Speaker 3>the entire time the Nuggets were in control, they would

0:33:50.960 --> 0:33:53.770
<v Speaker 3>stretch the league out. Stretch the lead out. The Blazers

0:33:53.810 --> 0:33:55.710
<v Speaker 3>would hit back. They would get close, and then the

0:33:55.750 --> 0:33:58.690
<v Speaker 3>Nuggets would stretch the lead out a little bit more

0:33:58.730 --> 0:34:02.360
<v Speaker 3>until the fourth quarter when Portland's run extended long enough

0:34:02.380 --> 0:34:05.520
<v Speaker 3>that they actually got to play from ahead. Jamal Murray

0:34:05.560 --> 0:34:08.160
<v Speaker 3>hit a three-pointer to cut Portland's lead to three. A

0:34:08.680 --> 0:34:13.219
<v Speaker 3>minute 18 left on the other end. Complete miscommunication for

0:34:13.260 --> 0:34:16.960
<v Speaker 3>the Nuggets. Wide open three for Tumani Kamara in the corner.

0:34:17.000 --> 0:34:20.140
<v Speaker 3>That was the backbreaker to me. The Blazers were relentless

0:34:20.340 --> 0:34:23.630
<v Speaker 3>attacking the paint. 28 points, five assists for Denny Avdia.

0:34:23.950 --> 0:34:27.650
<v Speaker 3>Dame had 20 and six. Drew Holiday was awesome. 17 points,

0:34:27.650 --> 0:34:31.810
<v Speaker 3>10 assists. Denver just could not contain the ball. It

0:34:31.850 --> 0:34:34.290
<v Speaker 3>was all straight line drives. It felt like for these guys,

0:34:34.350 --> 0:34:36.629
<v Speaker 3>not a ton of resistance. 54 points in the paint

0:34:37.070 --> 0:34:40.050
<v Speaker 3>for the Blazers. They also outshot Denver from three, 15

0:34:40.050 --> 0:34:43.390
<v Speaker 3>to nine. They also had 21 offensive rebounds. Kling Kong

0:34:43.510 --> 0:34:45.690
<v Speaker 3>was going nuts out there. 17 and 18 for this guy.

0:34:47.219 --> 0:34:51.000
<v Speaker 3>Turned into 15 more shots for the Blazers in comparison

0:34:51.120 --> 0:34:53.520
<v Speaker 3>to the Nuggets. Those have been problems for Denver all year.

0:34:53.540 --> 0:34:55.940
<v Speaker 3>They're 24th in the league in points in the paint allowed.

0:34:56.340 --> 0:35:00.170
<v Speaker 3>They're 26th in the lead in offensive rebound percentage allowed.

0:35:00.190 --> 0:35:02.670
<v Speaker 3>And just giving up everything inside right now. And I

0:35:02.710 --> 0:35:06.770
<v Speaker 3>thought this was a particularly concerning game for Aaron Gordon.

0:35:07.250 --> 0:35:10.230
<v Speaker 3>Five points, six rebounds, two of six from the field.

0:35:10.670 --> 0:35:13.550
<v Speaker 3>And he looked a step and a half slow guarding

0:35:13.590 --> 0:35:17.340
<v Speaker 3>Denny Abdiah all night at one point. Dame catches the ball,

0:35:17.400 --> 0:35:21.860
<v Speaker 3>jab steps him, touched earth. Aaron Gordon did spun him around.

0:35:22.200 --> 0:35:25.700
<v Speaker 3>He's 36% from the field so far this season, 35%

0:35:25.700 --> 0:35:29.040
<v Speaker 3>from three and half of his shots are coming from three.

0:35:30.480 --> 0:35:32.400
<v Speaker 2>And we talk about it over. I know if we

0:35:32.420 --> 0:35:34.410
<v Speaker 2>were making an all wash team early in the season,

0:35:34.489 --> 0:35:37.050
<v Speaker 2>he would be leading that team. He'd be on the thumbnail.

0:35:37.070 --> 0:35:37.710
<v Speaker 3>Totally different.

0:35:37.730 --> 0:35:37.969
<v Speaker 2>Yes.

0:35:38.489 --> 0:35:38.830
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:35:38.890 --> 0:35:39.780
<v Speaker 2>And it's sort of sad to see.

0:35:39.790 --> 0:35:41.930
<v Speaker 3>We don't need you being a three point shooter. I'm

0:35:41.969 --> 0:35:44.810
<v Speaker 3>glad you, live in a barn and can shoot threes now.

0:35:44.870 --> 0:35:47.009
<v Speaker 3>But I remember when he was a dunking guy and

0:35:47.070 --> 0:35:48.650
<v Speaker 3>now it's like, he's got to get by on his

0:35:48.710 --> 0:35:51.550
<v Speaker 3>skill and savvy and that's not necessarily his strength.

0:35:52.010 --> 0:35:53.509
<v Speaker 2>And, and we look at him as such an X

0:35:53.530 --> 0:35:56.070
<v Speaker 2>factor for the nuggets. So that's concerning if you're a

0:35:56.380 --> 0:35:58.879
<v Speaker 2>Denver Nuggets fan, I think with how he's looked so far. Yeah.

0:35:59.180 --> 0:36:01.239
<v Speaker 1>And I don't know, it kind of flew under the

0:36:01.280 --> 0:36:03.919
<v Speaker 1>radar for me after he had a 20 point game

0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:06.799
<v Speaker 1>to start the season and he's looking all right. Uh,

0:36:06.969 --> 0:36:12.010
<v Speaker 1>and then he started to skim along. Um, While Jamal

0:36:12.050 --> 0:36:14.230
<v Speaker 1>Murray is the story for this team and how much

0:36:14.290 --> 0:36:17.549
<v Speaker 1>he is carrying this squad. He is having his best

0:36:17.690 --> 0:36:21.870
<v Speaker 1>career year now, this season, after he had it last year.

0:36:21.910 --> 0:36:24.070
<v Speaker 1>Here he is in his 29th year.

0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:25.800
<v Speaker 2>29th year.

0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:30.400
<v Speaker 1>In the world. He's 29. He's 29 years old.

0:36:31.239 --> 0:36:32.960
<v Speaker 2>29th year in the world.

0:36:33.040 --> 0:36:35.100
<v Speaker 1>That's a good way to say it. Yeah, for sure.

0:36:35.300 --> 0:36:38.700
<v Speaker 1>Change it up. He's leading the NBA in minutes per game.

0:36:39.230 --> 0:36:41.360
<v Speaker 1>For a guy, you know, we questioned, like, how good

0:36:41.380 --> 0:36:42.980
<v Speaker 1>is he going to be? Can he make an all-star team? Obviously,

0:36:43.020 --> 0:36:45.879
<v Speaker 1>he did last year. And now he's carrying this team

0:36:46.000 --> 0:36:50.100
<v Speaker 1>so much so because of where Aaron Gordon is and

0:36:50.120 --> 0:36:52.839
<v Speaker 1>the way he was falling apart in the last couple

0:36:52.860 --> 0:36:54.779
<v Speaker 1>of playoffs. Like, he wasn't– Aaron Gordon wasn't injured the

0:36:54.800 --> 0:36:58.250
<v Speaker 1>last couple of playoffs. He just looks slow. So, really,

0:36:58.450 --> 0:37:00.190
<v Speaker 1>what this team– what it comes down to with this

0:37:00.230 --> 0:37:03.910
<v Speaker 1>team is Cam Johnson is their ceiling, I think, for

0:37:03.950 --> 0:37:07.989
<v Speaker 1>me because– after letting Peyton Watson go, who is going

0:37:08.030 --> 0:37:10.710
<v Speaker 1>to be their third best player? And Christian Brown is

0:37:10.750 --> 0:37:13.690
<v Speaker 1>decent as he's been so far. He's never going to

0:37:13.790 --> 0:37:17.180
<v Speaker 1>elevate to a level that Cam Johnson could be and

0:37:17.260 --> 0:37:20.520
<v Speaker 1>seemingly was at times for the Brooklyn Nets. But Cam

0:37:20.540 --> 0:37:23.779
<v Speaker 1>Johnson also left this game grabbing his hamstring. It was

0:37:23.820 --> 0:37:27.239
<v Speaker 1>his first game back after an ankle injury. He has

0:37:27.280 --> 0:37:31.230
<v Speaker 1>missed plenty of games in the last couple years. So

0:37:31.270 --> 0:37:34.150
<v Speaker 1>here we are. This is scary times. Now, I think...

0:37:35.370 --> 0:37:38.130
<v Speaker 1>this Nuggets team, it's 500 and they lost to the

0:37:38.170 --> 0:37:40.130
<v Speaker 1>Portland Trailblazers who are a good team. Yeah. So they

0:37:40.150 --> 0:37:42.350
<v Speaker 1>can still go out and beat sub 500 teams and

0:37:42.370 --> 0:37:46.380
<v Speaker 1>still float along until Nikola Jokic decides I'm going to

0:37:46.400 --> 0:37:49.620
<v Speaker 1>be awesome again and carry this team somewhat as well.

0:37:51.219 --> 0:37:53.960
<v Speaker 1>But a championship level, it's really, I think is, is

0:37:54.000 --> 0:37:55.880
<v Speaker 1>Cam Johnson got to be the third best player and

0:37:56.300 --> 0:37:59.170
<v Speaker 1>he's not been, he's not been so far. No.

0:37:59.450 --> 0:38:02.930
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the Blazers 5-1 here now, 4-0 on the road,

0:38:02.969 --> 0:38:05.029
<v Speaker 2>which is great. Obviously going into Denver, tough place to

0:38:05.050 --> 0:38:06.549
<v Speaker 2>play and win, so they took care of business there.

0:38:07.050 --> 0:38:08.770
<v Speaker 2>They're one of my favorite watches in the league right now.

0:38:08.950 --> 0:38:12.590
<v Speaker 2>I love the balance between the defensive-minded guys in Kamara

0:38:12.870 --> 0:38:15.109
<v Speaker 2>and then Klingin, and then Drew Holiday comes in with

0:38:15.150 --> 0:38:19.830
<v Speaker 2>the offensive-minded guys like Dame Still, Denny Avdia, scooters into

0:38:19.850 --> 0:38:21.690
<v Speaker 2>the starting lineup with John Moran out. It's just a

0:38:21.950 --> 0:38:25.170
<v Speaker 2>really fun balance, and everybody's contributing every game I've seen

0:38:25.190 --> 0:38:28.220
<v Speaker 2>with the Blazers. It was a good win. against obviously

0:38:28.239 --> 0:38:30.759
<v Speaker 2>a good team, but one that's like, it's strange to

0:38:30.800 --> 0:38:34.020
<v Speaker 2>think that Donovan Klingin probably outplayed Jokic last night overall.

0:38:34.040 --> 0:38:34.580
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, probably.

0:38:34.600 --> 0:38:37.910
<v Speaker 2>It's like, whoa. Good for Klingin, but that's just weird

0:38:37.930 --> 0:38:39.850
<v Speaker 2>to say and to wrap your head around right now.

0:38:40.530 --> 0:38:42.469
<v Speaker 3>Took it to him on the glass for sure. DeMar

0:38:42.489 --> 0:38:44.090
<v Speaker 3>DeRozan had a sick pass.

0:38:44.150 --> 0:38:44.710
<v Speaker 2>That was sick.

0:38:44.730 --> 0:38:46.930
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, like caught it on a fast break, spun, and

0:38:46.969 --> 0:38:49.320
<v Speaker 3>then dropped it off behind his head and around a

0:38:49.360 --> 0:38:50.300
<v Speaker 3>defender as well.

0:38:50.719 --> 0:38:53.040
<v Speaker 2>Two guys throw incredible dimes that you don't think of

0:38:53.100 --> 0:38:54.060
<v Speaker 2>as passers last night.

0:38:54.120 --> 0:38:54.580
<v Speaker 1>DeRozan.

0:38:55.100 --> 0:38:58.000
<v Speaker 2>with that one. Uh, Rudy Gobert had an insane pass

0:38:58.020 --> 0:38:59.320
<v Speaker 2>too last night.

0:38:59.560 --> 0:38:59.840
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:38:59.860 --> 0:39:00.960
<v Speaker 2>What was going on here last night?

0:39:01.660 --> 0:39:01.980
<v Speaker 1>All right.

0:39:02.340 --> 0:39:03.040
<v Speaker 2>Uh, back to you, Tess.

0:39:04.260 --> 0:39:07.109
<v Speaker 1>Raptors Clippers. Uh, for me, I'm starting with two things

0:39:07.250 --> 0:39:09.210
<v Speaker 1>that stood out to me for the Toronto Raptors. The

0:39:09.250 --> 0:39:11.989
<v Speaker 1>first one is Emmanuel quickly decided I'm the best point

0:39:12.030 --> 0:39:14.569
<v Speaker 1>guard on this floor and he played like it. That

0:39:14.590 --> 0:39:17.850
<v Speaker 1>was his best game of his season. He decided to

0:39:17.890 --> 0:39:21.010
<v Speaker 1>get to the line plenty. He had 11 free throws

0:39:21.050 --> 0:39:23.569
<v Speaker 1>most of the season by far. That's not his thing.

0:39:24.070 --> 0:39:26.160
<v Speaker 1>and he had six makes in the paint. It is

0:39:26.200 --> 0:39:27.960
<v Speaker 1>sort of on the perimeter of the paint, because he's

0:39:27.980 --> 0:39:31.540
<v Speaker 1>a floater machine, but still. that's where you needed him

0:39:31.580 --> 0:39:34.380
<v Speaker 1>to be. 27 points for Manuel Quickly. Second thing, in

0:39:34.400 --> 0:39:37.100
<v Speaker 1>the fourth quarter, Scotty Barnes decided, I'm the best player

0:39:37.140 --> 0:39:40.029
<v Speaker 1>on this floor and in this arena. Cheer for me

0:39:40.070 --> 0:39:41.469
<v Speaker 1>because it seemed like it was a bit of a

0:39:42.190 --> 0:39:45.310
<v Speaker 1>road game for the Los Angeles Clippers. There was Raptors

0:39:45.350 --> 0:39:48.390
<v Speaker 1>fans in Los Angeles cheering for this team. Scotty Barnes...

0:39:48.540 --> 0:39:50.680
<v Speaker 1>just took it upon himself. 15 of us, 22 in

0:39:50.700 --> 0:39:52.899
<v Speaker 1>the fourth quarter, the Raptors were down 13 going into

0:39:52.940 --> 0:39:58.100
<v Speaker 1>that fourth quarter. And again, they're cheering for Scotty Barnes. I, I,

0:39:58.219 --> 0:40:01.430
<v Speaker 1>I don't like throwing conspiracies out there saying there's misinformation,

0:40:01.530 --> 0:40:05.489
<v Speaker 1>but apparently the Clippers attendance this year is at 96.1%

0:40:05.489 --> 0:40:08.830
<v Speaker 1>capacity at 17,299 fans. No way.

0:40:10.340 --> 0:40:10.990
<v Speaker 3>No, no.

0:40:11.540 --> 0:40:13.960
<v Speaker 2>You know, sometimes maybe sold those seats, but nobody coming.

0:40:14.219 --> 0:40:18.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. You don't want to show the empty seats as

0:40:18.700 --> 0:40:21.489
<v Speaker 1>a broadcast. And they had, sometimes they did. Even I

0:40:21.530 --> 0:40:24.629
<v Speaker 1>was watching at halftime, like going into the third quarter,

0:40:24.650 --> 0:40:27.010
<v Speaker 1>there's just empty seats out there. There's no way there's 17,000.

0:40:27.010 --> 0:40:29.729
<v Speaker 1>How's the wall looking at least? The wall's all right.

0:40:29.910 --> 0:40:32.230
<v Speaker 1>You know, the super fans are still out there cheering.

0:40:32.370 --> 0:40:35.310
<v Speaker 1>I don't mind. The broadcaster says when a free throw

0:40:35.350 --> 0:40:38.610
<v Speaker 1>is missed, add another brick to the wall. That's good.

0:40:38.650 --> 0:40:42.030
<v Speaker 1>It's pretty good. It is pretty good. So is Kobe Sanders.

0:40:42.230 --> 0:40:44.170
<v Speaker 1>I think Kobe Sanders needs to be talked about a

0:40:44.190 --> 0:40:46.810
<v Speaker 1>little bit more with the Los Angeles Clippers. I bigged

0:40:46.830 --> 0:40:50.009
<v Speaker 1>him up as a potential growth guy, breakout guy, and

0:40:50.030 --> 0:40:51.570
<v Speaker 1>this was only his second start of the season. He

0:40:51.590 --> 0:40:52.810
<v Speaker 1>missed a lot of camp, and I think that may

0:40:52.830 --> 0:40:55.790
<v Speaker 1>be part of it, but he's looking good. 26 points,

0:40:55.790 --> 0:40:57.739
<v Speaker 1>11 in the first quarter, just like he had 11

0:40:57.739 --> 0:41:00.899
<v Speaker 1>in the first quarter of the night before. So Kobe

0:41:00.940 --> 0:41:03.700
<v Speaker 1>Sanders looking solid, but he's filling in for a bunch

0:41:03.719 --> 0:41:07.819
<v Speaker 1>of guys. No Brandon Ingram, no Rui Echimura. Bradley Beal played. No,

0:41:07.840 --> 0:41:12.850
<v Speaker 1>he didn't. So that's all they have. Kobe Sanders, that's

0:41:12.890 --> 0:41:14.550
<v Speaker 1>all they have to look forward to. And Darius Garland

0:41:14.570 --> 0:41:17.049
<v Speaker 1>is now leading the league in turnovers. I'm surprised by that.

0:41:17.070 --> 0:41:20.690
<v Speaker 1>It was Luka's title, but now it's Darius Garland's.

0:41:22.890 --> 0:41:25.939
<v Speaker 2>Like the Hawks beating the six pacers that they played

0:41:25.980 --> 0:41:29.020
<v Speaker 2>last night, this was a bit of a concerning win

0:41:29.060 --> 0:41:31.080
<v Speaker 2>in a weird way for the Mavs. This is a

0:41:31.140 --> 0:41:33.799
<v Speaker 2>funny watch for me because I went to bed. At

0:41:33.820 --> 0:41:35.440
<v Speaker 2>the end of the third quarter, I'm like, oh my God,

0:41:35.480 --> 0:41:38.420
<v Speaker 2>what are we doing? By then I was going blind

0:41:38.440 --> 0:41:40.239
<v Speaker 2>with all the basketball on as well. So I was like, oh,

0:41:40.260 --> 0:41:42.560
<v Speaker 2>I'll see what happens in the fourth quarter. Expecting to

0:41:42.600 --> 0:41:45.320
<v Speaker 2>wake up and see that the Raptors probably lost because

0:41:45.360 --> 0:41:48.380
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't looking great. But then they scored 47 points

0:41:49.040 --> 0:41:52.320
<v Speaker 2>in the fourth quarter, 47 to 27, led by Scottie

0:41:52.340 --> 0:41:56.069
<v Speaker 2>and Quickly to come back and get the W in

0:41:56.110 --> 0:41:57.950
<v Speaker 2>a sort of a needed win against not a great

0:41:57.989 --> 0:42:00.750
<v Speaker 2>Clippers team. But it's like, oh, it took a while

0:42:00.830 --> 0:42:03.600
<v Speaker 2>to like start playing defense and first off and just

0:42:03.640 --> 0:42:05.440
<v Speaker 2>start realizing that you should be the better team of

0:42:05.500 --> 0:42:08.640
<v Speaker 2>these two squads. So, you know, I'm not, I'm not,

0:42:08.719 --> 0:42:11.740
<v Speaker 2>I'm not like super pumped here as a Raps fan today.

0:42:11.760 --> 0:42:14.200
<v Speaker 2>I shouldn't take until fourth quarter and 47 points to

0:42:14.219 --> 0:42:14.529
<v Speaker 2>beat them.

0:42:14.910 --> 0:42:15.220
<v Speaker 1>I hear you.

0:42:15.230 --> 0:42:15.390
<v Speaker 3>Right.

0:42:15.770 --> 0:42:20.529
<v Speaker 1>I liked the move by Darko Yakovic to start Colin

0:42:20.550 --> 0:42:23.569
<v Speaker 1>Murray Boyles and start of, instead of tracing Jackson Davis

0:42:23.610 --> 0:42:25.950
<v Speaker 1>in place of Yakupurto, who's out with the shoulder bursitis,

0:42:26.590 --> 0:42:28.610
<v Speaker 1>they're keeping Colin Murray Boyles on the bench, but I

0:42:28.670 --> 0:42:31.350
<v Speaker 1>liked the idea of starting your five best guys. Just

0:42:31.390 --> 0:42:33.890
<v Speaker 1>get him out there. We can't lose these games while

0:42:33.910 --> 0:42:37.120
<v Speaker 1>Kawhi is out. Even though it didn't start well, those

0:42:37.160 --> 0:42:39.399
<v Speaker 1>first three quarters, it was not great until they turned

0:42:39.440 --> 0:42:40.580
<v Speaker 1>around in the fourth.

0:42:40.600 --> 0:42:43.020
<v Speaker 2>No, you're right about Scottie sort of leading this team, though, too.

0:42:43.080 --> 0:42:44.520
<v Speaker 2>And he had a sore back, and there was a

0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:46.680
<v Speaker 2>little bit of a scare there. But, I mean, he

0:42:46.940 --> 0:42:49.780
<v Speaker 2>cranked it up defensively and then obviously put the pressure

0:42:49.820 --> 0:42:49.980
<v Speaker 2>on them.

0:42:50.000 --> 0:42:50.779
<v Speaker 1>They cranked it.

0:42:50.800 --> 0:42:54.000
<v Speaker 2>Unfortunately, don't love seeing Scottie Barnes continue to miss all

0:42:54.020 --> 0:42:58.089
<v Speaker 2>these free throws. 8-15 at the line. hell's going on

0:42:58.110 --> 0:43:00.640
<v Speaker 2>there rj barrett he always misses free throws he's four

0:43:00.680 --> 0:43:02.160
<v Speaker 2>of eight they're just leaving a lot of points on

0:43:02.180 --> 0:43:04.880
<v Speaker 2>the board but 125 118 they got it done four

0:43:04.900 --> 0:43:06.440
<v Speaker 2>and three wraps and the clippers are one and six

0:43:06.460 --> 0:43:07.819
<v Speaker 2>we have so many teams in this league that one

0:43:07.860 --> 0:43:11.300
<v Speaker 2>win it's like are we like seven teams or something

0:43:11.340 --> 0:43:13.669
<v Speaker 2>with one win everybody's got a win now seven teams

0:43:13.690 --> 0:43:16.670
<v Speaker 2>with one win yeah okay there it is all right

0:43:16.710 --> 0:43:19.330
<v Speaker 2>my next game here uh curry scores 34 points as

0:43:19.350 --> 0:43:22.090
<v Speaker 2>the warriors hold off the suns in a testy game

0:43:22.310 --> 0:43:24.990
<v Speaker 2>let's start with the testy takeaway Someone.

0:43:24.810 --> 0:43:25.410
<v Speaker 3>Get hit in the nuts?

0:43:25.489 --> 0:43:28.450
<v Speaker 2>Draymond Green, no, no. But you won't believe who was

0:43:28.510 --> 0:43:32.640
<v Speaker 2>involved in the testy dust-up here. Draymond Green ejected early

0:43:32.660 --> 0:43:37.720
<v Speaker 2>in the second half for consecutive technical fouls. Malowatch came down.

0:43:37.760 --> 0:43:41.060
<v Speaker 2>He sort of, I guess he pushed Green sort of

0:43:41.140 --> 0:43:43.890
<v Speaker 2>establishing position. I thought Green sort of flopped a little

0:43:43.930 --> 0:43:47.350
<v Speaker 2>bit too. Anyway, Green goes down. Malowatch catches it. Green

0:43:47.450 --> 0:43:50.489
<v Speaker 2>pops back up, then wraps him up, tries to wrap

0:43:50.530 --> 0:43:53.130
<v Speaker 2>him up to prevent the layup. Didn't work because he

0:43:53.170 --> 0:43:56.230
<v Speaker 2>scored it, but then Green sort of chucks Malowatch to

0:43:56.250 --> 0:43:59.589
<v Speaker 2>the ground. That was the immediate first technical. You saw

0:43:59.630 --> 0:44:01.979
<v Speaker 2>it right away there from the official. Well, here comes

0:44:02.020 --> 0:44:04.460
<v Speaker 2>Dylan Brooks, baby. Now this is sort of a slick move,

0:44:04.520 --> 0:44:06.440
<v Speaker 2>I thought, from Dylan Brooks. It's like, okay, I just

0:44:06.480 --> 0:44:08.919
<v Speaker 2>saw what happened. Draymond Green sort of punked my guy

0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:10.660
<v Speaker 2>and he's standing up for his guy too. Like I

0:44:10.700 --> 0:44:12.799
<v Speaker 2>give him respect there, but it's like, Oh, Draymond Green

0:44:12.820 --> 0:44:14.780
<v Speaker 2>just did that. Well, if I get up in his face,

0:44:15.960 --> 0:44:18.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to probably get him to do something. He

0:44:18.140 --> 0:44:20.300
<v Speaker 2>shouldn't get the second technical. And that's exactly what happened.

0:44:20.760 --> 0:44:23.160
<v Speaker 2>Dylan Brooks sprints in just to get in there, you know,

0:44:23.200 --> 0:44:26.060
<v Speaker 2>say what he's got to say. And they pushed and

0:44:26.080 --> 0:44:28.280
<v Speaker 2>they shoved. And then Green took it a little too far,

0:44:28.320 --> 0:44:30.230
<v Speaker 2>probably just putting, you know, sort of getting up in

0:44:30.270 --> 0:44:32.430
<v Speaker 2>the neck area of Brooks and grabbing up there and

0:44:32.450 --> 0:44:34.950
<v Speaker 2>stuff like that. and that got him the second technical.

0:44:35.010 --> 0:44:37.049
<v Speaker 2>Brooks got one, but that got Draymond a second, and

0:44:37.090 --> 0:44:41.759
<v Speaker 2>he was tossed. On the other hand, Brooks maybe played himself,

0:44:41.840 --> 0:44:44.480
<v Speaker 2>because Draymond Green, you know, being out there, maybe the

0:44:44.520 --> 0:44:46.980
<v Speaker 2>Suns actually win this game. He's having a huge impact

0:44:47.040 --> 0:44:48.840
<v Speaker 2>on the success of the Warriors right now, so it's

0:44:48.860 --> 0:44:51.319
<v Speaker 2>sort of funny. It may have backfired, but that was

0:44:51.380 --> 0:44:54.239
<v Speaker 2>the testy part. Any comments on Draymond Green and Dylan Brooks,

0:44:54.260 --> 0:44:56.230
<v Speaker 2>of all people, getting into it?

0:44:57.340 --> 0:45:00.980
<v Speaker 3>I mean, Dylan Brooks would know, right? Like, the devil,

0:45:01.020 --> 0:45:04.420
<v Speaker 3>you know, I feel like he's like, yes, yes, I

0:45:04.460 --> 0:45:12.549
<v Speaker 3>can definitely get you kicked out for this. So what?

0:45:12.570 --> 0:45:15.490
<v Speaker 3>That's like back to back incidents for Dylan Brooks.

0:45:15.570 --> 0:45:15.810
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:45:15.830 --> 0:45:17.660
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. After the kick and he got tossed. Yep.

0:45:18.400 --> 0:45:19.759
<v Speaker 1>He's living in the rhythm here.

0:45:20.100 --> 0:45:20.640
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah.

0:45:20.680 --> 0:45:21.980
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah. He had a good one earlier in the

0:45:22.000 --> 0:45:25.370
<v Speaker 1>year too. Um, Who's he getting it into? He didn't

0:45:25.390 --> 0:45:26.710
<v Speaker 1>get tossed for it, but he's.

0:45:26.550 --> 0:45:28.370
<v Speaker 2>Got into it with somebody. Yeah, you're right.

0:45:28.410 --> 0:45:29.410
<v Speaker 1>He's having a great start.

0:45:29.850 --> 0:45:32.450
<v Speaker 2>Um, but then down the stretch here, uh, I just

0:45:32.469 --> 0:45:33.890
<v Speaker 2>want to talk a little bit about Steph Curry. As

0:45:33.950 --> 0:45:36.580
<v Speaker 2>I said, scored 34 points. Um, he finally missed a

0:45:36.600 --> 0:45:39.759
<v Speaker 2>free throw. It was his final attempt. It was like

0:45:39.800 --> 0:45:42.960
<v Speaker 2>five seconds left. He had made every free throw up

0:45:43.020 --> 0:45:45.620
<v Speaker 2>until that point all season long. So, ah, you know,

0:45:45.660 --> 0:45:47.590
<v Speaker 2>we want to see a perfect season from somebody at

0:45:47.610 --> 0:45:49.290
<v Speaker 2>the line there, but 51, uh, for 51 until he missed.

0:45:50.810 --> 0:45:54.330
<v Speaker 2>But Curry at age 38, I had to look this up.

0:45:55.250 --> 0:45:58.509
<v Speaker 2>He's played six games. Again, he's 38 years old. How

0:45:58.530 --> 0:46:03.890
<v Speaker 2>did you put it? 38th season on Earth. How did

0:46:03.910 --> 0:46:04.509
<v Speaker 2>you do that?

0:46:04.550 --> 0:46:05.240
<v Speaker 1>I thought 29th year.

0:46:05.260 --> 0:46:06.620
<v Speaker 2>Is that what you said? Yeah, 29th year.

0:46:06.660 --> 0:46:07.299
<v Speaker 1>That's right.

0:46:07.320 --> 0:46:08.000
<v Speaker 3>38th year of life.

0:46:08.280 --> 0:46:12.680
<v Speaker 2>It's Steph Curry's 38th year on the world.

0:46:13.680 --> 0:46:14.080
<v Speaker 1>On the world.

0:46:15.060 --> 0:46:18.870
<v Speaker 2>But– He is averaging 30 points per game. So I

0:46:18.950 --> 0:46:19.420
<v Speaker 2>looked it up.

0:46:19.810 --> 0:46:20.009
<v Speaker 3>All right.

0:46:20.270 --> 0:46:25.210
<v Speaker 2>Guards over the age of 38 years old. Guards, not

0:46:25.250 --> 0:46:27.350
<v Speaker 2>point guards. I mean, Steph has always sort of been

0:46:27.370 --> 0:46:28.970
<v Speaker 2>a point guard and a shooting guard. So it's perfect.

0:46:29.030 --> 0:46:34.600
<v Speaker 2>So all guards over the age of 38. And who

0:46:34.620 --> 0:46:37.120
<v Speaker 2>scored over 10 points? That's what I wanted to see.

0:46:37.160 --> 0:46:38.029
<v Speaker 2>Not 30.

0:46:38.030 --> 0:46:38.400
<v Speaker 3>10.

0:46:38.400 --> 0:46:41.620
<v Speaker 2>Because this is old. 38 is freaking old. I mean,

0:46:41.640 --> 0:46:43.290
<v Speaker 2>Steph Curry is sort of ageless. That's the weird thing.

0:46:43.350 --> 0:46:43.509
<v Speaker 1>But.

0:46:44.090 --> 0:46:45.690
<v Speaker 2>Here are the guys that did it. Reggie Miller did

0:46:45.710 --> 0:46:47.810
<v Speaker 2>it a handful of times, okay? That makes sense. He

0:46:47.830 --> 0:46:49.790
<v Speaker 2>did it in his 38th year and his 39th year.

0:46:50.030 --> 0:46:53.250
<v Speaker 2>He scored 10 points per game and then 14.8 points

0:46:53.310 --> 0:46:55.910
<v Speaker 2>per game. John Stockton did it a couple of times.

0:46:56.130 --> 0:46:58.450
<v Speaker 2>Obviously not a huge score. Did it three times though

0:46:58.510 --> 0:47:01.230
<v Speaker 2>as he aged up in 38, 39 in his 40th year.

0:47:01.630 --> 0:47:05.430
<v Speaker 2>Everywhere between 10.8 and 13.4 points per game. And then

0:47:05.469 --> 0:47:08.169
<v Speaker 2>two other guys. Steve Nash scored 12.7 points per game

0:47:08.210 --> 0:47:10.630
<v Speaker 2>in 50 games for the Lakers at age 38. And

0:47:10.650 --> 0:47:15.140
<v Speaker 2>then Sam Cassell, of all guys, did 11.2 for the

0:47:15.219 --> 0:47:19.590
<v Speaker 2>Celtics and Clippers. And then here is Steph Curry. I mean,

0:47:19.610 --> 0:47:22.529
<v Speaker 2>we don't get almost combined everybody else. And, uh, he's

0:47:22.570 --> 0:47:25.650
<v Speaker 2>going 30 a game right now. It's just amazing. It's

0:47:25.670 --> 0:47:27.950
<v Speaker 2>just taken for granted. I do it. I, um, I

0:47:28.050 --> 0:47:31.170
<v Speaker 2>fully admit, I just take them for granted at this point. Um,

0:47:31.190 --> 0:47:34.069
<v Speaker 2>and it's just a bonker sort of statistic there puts

0:47:34.090 --> 0:47:36.170
<v Speaker 2>it in perspective, like these other hall of fame guys.

0:47:36.190 --> 0:47:38.890
<v Speaker 2>It's like guards at that age are just like, you don't,

0:47:39.050 --> 0:47:41.210
<v Speaker 2>you don't contribute all that much in terms of scoring.

0:47:42.030 --> 0:47:42.430
<v Speaker 2>Not with Steph.

0:47:43.219 --> 0:47:44.900
<v Speaker 3>I'm laughing because I was like, how are you not

0:47:44.920 --> 0:47:50.040
<v Speaker 3>saying Michael Jordan here? 23 per game as a 38-year-old.

0:47:51.040 --> 0:47:52.799
<v Speaker 3>But he was listed as a small forward on the Wizards.

0:47:52.820 --> 0:47:53.279
<v Speaker 1>Oh, that's why.

0:47:53.320 --> 0:47:54.540
<v Speaker 2>It was a stat head thing.

0:47:54.580 --> 0:47:56.140
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah.

0:47:56.360 --> 0:47:57.680
<v Speaker 1>Stat head will get you sometimes.

0:47:57.880 --> 0:48:01.690
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean, the saying with Steph early in his

0:48:01.730 --> 0:48:05.230
<v Speaker 3>career was like, he's going to age great. He's going

0:48:05.250 --> 0:48:06.870
<v Speaker 3>to be able to play forever. His shooting's not going

0:48:06.890 --> 0:48:07.770
<v Speaker 3>to go away. Guess what?

0:48:08.290 --> 0:48:09.210
<v Speaker 2>We were right.

0:48:09.270 --> 0:48:10.850
<v Speaker 3>Everybody was right. We called that one. Yeah, you get

0:48:10.890 --> 0:48:12.340
<v Speaker 3>better at shooting the more you do it.

0:48:12.450 --> 0:48:12.589
<v Speaker 2>So.

0:48:13.290 --> 0:48:15.549
<v Speaker 3>He's still got it. It's just a matter of how

0:48:15.590 --> 0:48:17.230
<v Speaker 3>long he wants to play. He's got the two years

0:48:17.270 --> 0:48:20.799
<v Speaker 3>with the Warriors after this. Nobody's going to want to

0:48:20.820 --> 0:48:22.620
<v Speaker 3>see him retire, even if he's 40 years old.

0:48:24.140 --> 0:48:26.839
<v Speaker 2>Any other takeaways from that game itself there? Dubs getting

0:48:26.860 --> 0:48:27.799
<v Speaker 2>the win in a close one?

0:48:28.640 --> 0:48:29.120
<v Speaker 1>Not for me.

0:48:29.890 --> 0:48:33.230
<v Speaker 2>A different starting lineup for your Warriors? Still holding your stock?

0:48:34.110 --> 0:48:34.810
<v Speaker 2>It's ticking up.

0:48:36.050 --> 0:48:38.910
<v Speaker 3>Over 500 Charles Bassey had a good game 19 points

0:48:38.930 --> 0:48:40.969
<v Speaker 3>I think it was his career high that's a good

0:48:41.010 --> 0:48:43.710
<v Speaker 3>guy that like a random third center who will just

0:48:43.750 --> 0:48:46.030
<v Speaker 3>put up a big night every now and then playing

0:48:46.070 --> 0:48:50.100
<v Speaker 3>with effort and energy basically he's just a good energy

0:48:50.120 --> 0:48:52.640
<v Speaker 3>guy and I think Niang has been pretty solid for

0:48:52.719 --> 0:48:56.200
<v Speaker 3>the Warriors as well yeah Charles Bassey comes off the

0:48:56.239 --> 0:48:58.500
<v Speaker 3>bench and is able to block a shot here or

0:48:58.560 --> 0:49:01.950
<v Speaker 3>there you know he's a little Isaiah Stewart-ish you know

0:49:01.989 --> 0:49:04.660
<v Speaker 3>he can he can be that type of guy It's

0:49:04.880 --> 0:49:06.800
<v Speaker 3>surprising to see him in the starting lineup.

0:49:07.820 --> 0:49:08.799
<v Speaker 1>You're laughing just at my sounds.

0:49:08.840 --> 0:49:11.840
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, everyone's the wind came through.

0:49:12.020 --> 0:49:15.109
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I need to turn around. George Neang has been

0:49:15.410 --> 0:49:19.950
<v Speaker 1>super impressive. I know it's George Neang and he's never.

0:49:20.400 --> 0:49:22.759
<v Speaker 1>going to be super impressive in terms of his game

0:49:22.840 --> 0:49:26.420
<v Speaker 1>on the floor. But if he's splashing threes and he's

0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:28.319
<v Speaker 1>in the right position, that's all you can ask him.

0:49:28.340 --> 0:49:33.460
<v Speaker 1>That's what he's providing. So yeah, still solid with them.

0:49:33.640 --> 0:49:37.270
<v Speaker 1>Still holding onto that stock. Waiting for the day that

0:49:37.310 --> 0:49:44.050
<v Speaker 1>Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody- also come back, especially Jimmy Butler.

0:49:44.110 --> 0:49:46.810
<v Speaker 1>The light workouts have begun, and because he was injured

0:49:46.830 --> 0:49:50.649
<v Speaker 1>in January, modern medicine is allowing Steph Curry to run

0:49:50.710 --> 0:49:53.230
<v Speaker 1>circles around guys in his late 30s. It feels like

0:49:53.250 --> 0:49:54.649
<v Speaker 1>Jimmy's coming back at some point.

0:49:56.290 --> 0:49:58.270
<v Speaker 2>All right, six games left. Where are you going, TK?

0:49:58.690 --> 0:50:02.470
<v Speaker 3>Lomelo Ball in his 25th year of life, 34 points

0:50:02.510 --> 0:50:05.089
<v Speaker 3>for the Wolves. They beat the Bucs. He was coming

0:50:05.110 --> 0:50:06.930
<v Speaker 3>off a game where he went for 10 points and

0:50:07.010 --> 0:50:10.390
<v Speaker 3>two of 10 shooting against the San Antonio Spurs. Chris

0:50:10.450 --> 0:50:12.359
<v Speaker 3>Finch went to the media and was like, they're all

0:50:12.430 --> 0:50:15.319
<v Speaker 3>over him. They're playing so handsy, complaining about the physicality.

0:50:16.160 --> 0:50:19.160
<v Speaker 3>This wasn't that at all. Pretty much the exact opposite

0:50:19.280 --> 0:50:22.860
<v Speaker 3>from the Milwaukee Bucks. A comfortable game for the Timberwolves,

0:50:22.920 --> 0:50:25.680
<v Speaker 3>I thought. A lot of freedom of movement. Lomelo went

0:50:25.739 --> 0:50:28.530
<v Speaker 3>for 34, six threes. It's his first 30 plus point

0:50:28.570 --> 0:50:31.870
<v Speaker 3>game since coming to the Timberwolves. Ayo, really, really good

0:50:31.910 --> 0:50:35.509
<v Speaker 3>as well. 19 points, 12 boards, eight assists. It just

0:50:35.550 --> 0:50:38.030
<v Speaker 3>felt like these two guys could dial up a straight

0:50:38.070 --> 0:50:41.680
<v Speaker 3>line drive to the hoop. anytime they wanted. In four

0:50:41.719 --> 0:50:43.819
<v Speaker 3>games as a starter, Io's at 20 points per game,

0:50:43.860 --> 0:50:47.940
<v Speaker 3>eight rebounds, four assists, 64% true shooting. Looks nice next

0:50:47.960 --> 0:50:50.339
<v Speaker 3>to Lomelo in a different way that Ant looked nice

0:50:50.660 --> 0:50:53.140
<v Speaker 3>next to Lomelo. Obviously, Ant has a lot of higher

0:50:53.280 --> 0:50:56.410
<v Speaker 3>end outcomes. He's a better three-point shooter than Io, but

0:50:56.469 --> 0:50:59.790
<v Speaker 3>the quickness to get downhill and attack the basket, great

0:51:01.150 --> 0:51:06.089
<v Speaker 3>alongside Ball. So an easy win, I thought, for the Timberwolves.

0:51:06.110 --> 0:51:07.900
<v Speaker 3>You could even hear it on the broadcast. They're like,

0:51:08.300 --> 0:51:11.280
<v Speaker 3>not a lot of teeth from this bucks defense so far.

0:51:11.420 --> 0:51:14.069
<v Speaker 3>And it really didn't feel like it. Now the game

0:51:14.090 --> 0:51:16.230
<v Speaker 3>was probably closer than it should have been. Like a

0:51:16.290 --> 0:51:19.609
<v Speaker 3>lot of these games where one team is far ahead

0:51:19.650 --> 0:51:22.330
<v Speaker 3>of the other team. And it just felt like after

0:51:22.370 --> 0:51:24.989
<v Speaker 3>the first quarter, the Timberwolves are like, all right, we

0:51:25.010 --> 0:51:27.350
<v Speaker 3>got this one. If we play a few good minutes

0:51:27.390 --> 0:51:29.010
<v Speaker 3>here and there, we'll be able to stretch out leads

0:51:29.350 --> 0:51:31.250
<v Speaker 3>when we need to. And that's exactly what happened.

0:51:32.150 --> 0:51:32.270
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:51:32.290 --> 0:51:34.170
<v Speaker 1>I liked Lomelo coming out of this game and just

0:51:34.290 --> 0:51:36.739
<v Speaker 1>firing away. You know, there are, Wondering if he was

0:51:36.760 --> 0:51:38.160
<v Speaker 1>going to play with the wrist injury, then he just

0:51:38.300 --> 0:51:41.089
<v Speaker 1>first three is a 26-footer. Next one's a 32-footer. I'm

0:51:41.130 --> 0:51:46.270
<v Speaker 1>just firing away, boys. And yes, the Bucs just didn't

0:51:46.330 --> 0:51:48.930
<v Speaker 1>have it. And that's not surprising.

0:51:49.110 --> 0:51:50.100
<v Speaker 2>Burry's got the start, though.

0:51:50.360 --> 0:51:50.899
<v Speaker 1>Burry's, yeah.

0:51:50.940 --> 0:51:54.100
<v Speaker 2>He looked all right. good looks like a good draft

0:51:54.120 --> 0:51:56.259
<v Speaker 2>pick obviously for a team in rebuild mode but yeah

0:51:56.280 --> 0:51:58.239
<v Speaker 2>they're one of the worst teams yeah so they're gonna

0:51:58.260 --> 0:51:59.140
<v Speaker 2>be in the running here.

0:51:59.219 --> 0:52:01.390
<v Speaker 3>He was four for 15 and he was getting blown

0:52:01.430 --> 0:52:04.650
<v Speaker 3>by it all night but he started yeah like why

0:52:04.690 --> 0:52:06.870
<v Speaker 3>would he did not look that good and another guy

0:52:06.890 --> 0:52:08.250
<v Speaker 3>who i don't think has looked good for the bucks

0:52:08.290 --> 0:52:11.350
<v Speaker 3>so far that you would like to see development wise

0:52:11.390 --> 0:52:15.189
<v Speaker 3>is like hello where where are you yeah he's doing

0:52:15.250 --> 0:52:19.350
<v Speaker 3>nothing out there just having zero impact and that's maybe

0:52:19.370 --> 0:52:21.649
<v Speaker 3>like the biggest centerpiece of the trade they got back

0:52:21.870 --> 0:52:22.330
<v Speaker 3>for Giannis.

0:52:22.650 --> 0:52:25.840
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they activated his option for next season, bring him

0:52:25.860 --> 0:52:30.080
<v Speaker 1>back for his year four, the fourth year for him

0:52:30.320 --> 0:52:34.819
<v Speaker 1>in the NBA. And yeah, the question is, they're throwing

0:52:34.860 --> 0:52:36.680
<v Speaker 1>out all these guys. Like I do like the way

0:52:36.719 --> 0:52:41.350
<v Speaker 1>Kasparas Yakishonis has looked for them. And I didn't mind

0:52:41.390 --> 0:52:44.430
<v Speaker 1>the way Brain Brewers was playing really hard yesterday. I

0:52:44.450 --> 0:52:46.380
<v Speaker 1>guess that was the primary takeaway, but he takes the

0:52:46.420 --> 0:52:49.700
<v Speaker 1>place of Ryan Rollins in the starting lineup. So they're just,

0:52:50.300 --> 0:52:53.180
<v Speaker 1>they're picking and choosing right now and Khalil Ware coming

0:52:53.200 --> 0:52:55.390
<v Speaker 1>off the bench and it's not working quite yet.

0:52:56.310 --> 0:52:58.029
<v Speaker 2>All right, Tass, what's your game here as we get

0:52:58.070 --> 0:52:59.089
<v Speaker 2>down to the final few?

0:52:59.530 --> 0:53:02.469
<v Speaker 1>Well, the wizard's magic game. I was disappointed to see

0:53:02.510 --> 0:53:05.969
<v Speaker 1>that Anthony Black was sitting in this game with right

0:53:06.050 --> 0:53:10.860
<v Speaker 1>ankle injury management. That's how you get around, um, an

0:53:10.920 --> 0:53:14.040
<v Speaker 1>actual player's injury by calling it management. He was on

0:53:14.060 --> 0:53:18.160
<v Speaker 1>a back-to-back, and I was just disappointed in general. No

0:53:18.180 --> 0:53:23.339
<v Speaker 1>Paolo Bancaro, no Jalen Suggs, and then you remove Anthony Black.

0:53:23.380 --> 0:53:27.790
<v Speaker 1>This was a team that I super locked, as in over,

0:53:28.050 --> 0:53:32.190
<v Speaker 1>and unfortunately... When you're not playing a bunch of your players,

0:53:32.730 --> 0:53:35.009
<v Speaker 1>this is going to be a huge factor in the

0:53:35.050 --> 0:53:37.069
<v Speaker 1>way the Wizards just came out and crushed them. Anthony

0:53:37.110 --> 0:53:39.370
<v Speaker 1>Davis looking like the best player on the floor. DeAndre

0:53:39.390 --> 0:53:41.810
<v Speaker 1>Ayton getting his first start of the season. He plays

0:53:41.870 --> 0:53:44.029
<v Speaker 1>basketball for the Wizards, but with Alex Sarr out, he

0:53:44.050 --> 0:53:45.469
<v Speaker 1>gets his first start. And that's a nice guy you

0:53:45.489 --> 0:53:49.670
<v Speaker 1>can throw into the starting lineup. It was just odd

0:53:49.690 --> 0:53:53.609
<v Speaker 1>out there. I was just disappointed. Alex Morales was out

0:53:53.630 --> 0:53:55.810
<v Speaker 1>there playing for the Magic. I mean, he could go

0:53:55.890 --> 0:54:00.830
<v Speaker 1>as Miles Morales and tag team with Chris Webber. You know,

0:54:00.969 --> 0:54:04.569
<v Speaker 1>that was weird. I did hear on the broadcast that

0:54:04.670 --> 0:54:07.780
<v Speaker 1>Wizards head coach Brian Keefe went as Wizards head coach

0:54:07.820 --> 0:54:10.500
<v Speaker 1>Brian Keefe for Halloween. Nobody knew who he was. Like,

0:54:10.520 --> 0:54:16.220
<v Speaker 1>who are you? That was a, it was just disappointing.

0:54:16.520 --> 0:54:17.500
<v Speaker 1>Why do you have to sit, Anthony? Why do you

0:54:17.520 --> 0:54:18.580
<v Speaker 1>have to sit a guy, a young guy?

0:54:18.600 --> 0:54:20.460
<v Speaker 2>Because he's 22 years old, Tess. He's got to rest. Yeah,

0:54:20.500 --> 0:54:21.000
<v Speaker 2>I know.

0:54:21.160 --> 0:54:22.510
<v Speaker 1>I know. No, I know.

0:54:22.530 --> 0:54:26.230
<v Speaker 2>Maybe he's got, yeah, that ankle is maybe actually banged up.

0:54:26.310 --> 0:54:27.210
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Okay.

0:54:27.310 --> 0:54:27.870
<v Speaker 2>But it is weird.

0:54:28.070 --> 0:54:30.029
<v Speaker 3>I actually was kind of watching it last night and

0:54:30.070 --> 0:54:31.830
<v Speaker 3>seeing how many guys were sitting. I was like, they

0:54:31.870 --> 0:54:34.569
<v Speaker 3>don't need to play 15 games tonight. No. They didn't

0:54:34.610 --> 0:54:37.250
<v Speaker 3>need to. And that's why you had so many guys

0:54:37.290 --> 0:54:39.600
<v Speaker 3>sit out for so many of these games and it

0:54:39.620 --> 0:54:40.780
<v Speaker 3>turns into weird results.

0:54:41.040 --> 0:54:41.219
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:54:41.239 --> 0:54:43.259
<v Speaker 3>I was like, that's maybe a little too much just

0:54:43.280 --> 0:54:45.720
<v Speaker 3>to make an event for a Monday night for no reason.

0:54:46.260 --> 0:54:49.430
<v Speaker 1>That's a good point, yeah, because they're making the election

0:54:49.489 --> 0:54:52.330
<v Speaker 1>here today a thing. But as a result, you do

0:54:52.350 --> 0:54:54.089
<v Speaker 1>have a lot of back-to-backs that do happen. And it's

0:54:54.110 --> 0:54:56.270
<v Speaker 1>not just because of the election. It's because of other events,

0:54:56.450 --> 0:54:59.989
<v Speaker 1>like the NBA Cup. There's only a few games. There's

0:55:00.010 --> 0:55:02.210
<v Speaker 1>only a few teams playing in this quarterfinals night or

0:55:02.230 --> 0:55:04.430
<v Speaker 1>this semifinals night or this finals night. So the other

0:55:04.489 --> 0:55:06.550
<v Speaker 1>games get bunched up. And the back-to-backs are the things

0:55:06.590 --> 0:55:10.020
<v Speaker 1>that everybody hates. We're all talking about how guys are

0:55:10.080 --> 0:55:14.820
<v Speaker 1>running too much and they're running farther and longer and faster.

0:55:15.630 --> 0:55:17.359
<v Speaker 1>So the back-to-back suck. Yeah, that's a good point.

0:55:17.940 --> 0:55:18.960
<v Speaker 2>Hey, man, Wizards are 4-3.

0:55:19.040 --> 0:55:19.219
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:55:20.219 --> 0:55:22.660
<v Speaker 2>About 500 here, seven games in. I said they were

0:55:22.680 --> 0:55:25.400
<v Speaker 2>going to have a decent start in our preseason predictions.

0:55:25.520 --> 0:55:28.590
<v Speaker 2>I think I had them as 7-3 through their first

0:55:28.590 --> 0:55:31.730
<v Speaker 2>10 games. So that's going to be pushing it. But still,

0:55:31.750 --> 0:55:35.450
<v Speaker 2>if they're over 500, it's a great start. And yeah,

0:55:35.469 --> 0:55:38.850
<v Speaker 2>the Magic, man. I'm happy I took the under. I

0:55:38.890 --> 0:55:41.609
<v Speaker 2>will say that after seven games. Not feeling it with

0:55:41.640 --> 0:55:44.739
<v Speaker 2>this team. Sean Sweeney has not unlocked the Magic here yet.

0:55:45.180 --> 0:55:45.550
<v Speaker 1>Not yet.

0:55:46.250 --> 0:55:47.229
<v Speaker 3>He hasn't really had a chance.

0:55:47.290 --> 0:55:47.830
<v Speaker 1>Everybody's hurt.

0:55:48.270 --> 0:55:50.690
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, what a shock. Exactly.

0:55:50.690 --> 0:55:53.590
<v Speaker 3>21 for DeBonsa on 7 of 17 shooting. He's been

0:55:54.250 --> 0:55:56.819
<v Speaker 3>double digits every all three games he's played so far.

0:55:56.969 --> 0:55:58.759
<v Speaker 3>Looking really good. But I don't know what's going on

0:55:58.800 --> 0:56:01.700
<v Speaker 3>with Will Riley. Guy doesn't play anymore. Four minutes last night.

0:56:01.719 --> 0:56:03.820
<v Speaker 3>He's averaging like three minutes a game after a solid

0:56:04.239 --> 0:56:06.299
<v Speaker 3>end to his season last year. Had a really good

0:56:06.360 --> 0:56:09.370
<v Speaker 3>summer league. Seemed at least like a guy who would

0:56:09.390 --> 0:56:11.970
<v Speaker 3>get some rotation minutes. But there's just a ton of wings,

0:56:12.010 --> 0:56:14.520
<v Speaker 3>I guess. on this Wizards team, and it's hard to

0:56:14.660 --> 0:56:18.400
<v Speaker 3>find out minutes for Brian Keefe in his Brian Keefe costume.

0:56:19.070 --> 0:56:22.200
<v Speaker 2>And three number one picks starting for the Wizards last night.

0:56:22.239 --> 0:56:27.010
<v Speaker 2>Isn't that exciting? Because DeAndre Ayton started alongside A.J. DeBansa

0:56:27.050 --> 0:56:27.990
<v Speaker 2>and then Anthony Davis.

0:56:29.370 --> 0:56:31.490
<v Speaker 1>Wow. Wow. Triple Ds.

0:56:31.530 --> 0:56:31.950
<v Speaker 3>Pretty crazy.

0:56:32.570 --> 0:56:34.290
<v Speaker 2>Along with Trey Young there. High draft pick as well.

0:56:34.410 --> 0:56:37.530
<v Speaker 1>Maybe Will Riley ate too many calories this summer. Apparently

0:56:37.550 --> 0:56:39.850
<v Speaker 1>he's eating 7,000 calories a day. Maybe he's feeling a

0:56:39.890 --> 0:56:40.830
<v Speaker 1>little slow.

0:56:40.890 --> 0:56:41.230
<v Speaker 2>Too many?

0:56:41.610 --> 0:56:46.550
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I mean, I'm just pulling at grass here to

0:56:46.570 --> 0:56:50.230
<v Speaker 1>find something, why he could be out. But yeah, the

0:56:50.250 --> 0:56:53.430
<v Speaker 1>Wizards just had more players. And even, I know it

0:56:53.469 --> 0:56:56.410
<v Speaker 1>was kind of far-fetched for you to say they're going

0:56:56.430 --> 0:57:00.210
<v Speaker 1>to have a good start. But when they're starting, Anthony Davis,

0:57:00.230 --> 0:57:03.730
<v Speaker 1>the best player in the game, plus Treon, plus DeBasa. Yeah,

0:57:03.830 --> 0:57:05.609
<v Speaker 1>there's talent. There's a lot of talent out there.

0:57:06.370 --> 0:57:08.220
<v Speaker 2>All right, my game that I'm going to take next

0:57:08.260 --> 0:57:13.640
<v Speaker 2>here is the Pistons destroying the Hornets last night, 124-91.

0:57:13.719 --> 0:57:17.480
<v Speaker 2>But my takeaway is Cade Cunningham is so consistent. He

0:57:17.520 --> 0:57:22.330
<v Speaker 2>has the NBA YouTube page confused. Cade scored a season-high

0:57:22.330 --> 0:57:23.689
<v Speaker 2>33 points last night, okay?

0:57:23.930 --> 0:57:24.310
<v Speaker 1>Again, 124-91.

0:57:25.490 --> 0:57:28.030
<v Speaker 2>He was 13-20 from the field, seven assists, five steals,

0:57:28.130 --> 0:57:30.970
<v Speaker 2>five rebounds in three quarters. He did not even play

0:57:31.010 --> 0:57:33.490
<v Speaker 2>in the fourth quarter because they were cooking him. which

0:57:33.530 --> 0:57:36.080
<v Speaker 2>is why you might be a little confused if you

0:57:36.120 --> 0:57:39.950
<v Speaker 2>clicked on the NBA YouTube official video today that said

0:57:40.090 --> 0:57:42.670
<v Speaker 2>Cade Cunningham was cooking with 33 points versus the Hornets.

0:57:43.270 --> 0:57:45.290
<v Speaker 2>And then you saw and you watched those highlights and

0:57:45.350 --> 0:57:48.230
<v Speaker 2>Cade was playing in the fourth quarter. Why? Because the

0:57:48.330 --> 0:57:53.110
<v Speaker 2>NBA posted the wrong Cade highlight reel of him destroying

0:57:53.150 --> 0:57:55.400
<v Speaker 2>the Hornets. They just played a couple days ago.

0:57:55.420 --> 0:57:56.360
<v Speaker 3>He scored 30.

0:57:56.340 --> 0:57:57.900
<v Speaker 2>They put up the wrong one.

0:57:57.920 --> 0:58:00.580
<v Speaker 1>I'm watching it going, hold on.

0:58:00.600 --> 0:58:02.460
<v Speaker 2>I thought this game was in Charlotte. And then like,

0:58:02.480 --> 0:58:04.800
<v Speaker 2>I thought Kobe White was playing. I'm like so confused.

0:58:04.880 --> 0:58:06.400
<v Speaker 2>It's like six o'clock in the morning. I'm trying to

0:58:06.420 --> 0:58:09.210
<v Speaker 2>make sense of all this. And then I'm like, oh,

0:58:09.370 --> 0:58:11.990
<v Speaker 2>somebody screwed up and they put the wrong Cade one up.

0:58:12.050 --> 0:58:14.850
<v Speaker 2>But anyway, I found the right one and he was

0:58:14.890 --> 0:58:17.510
<v Speaker 2>just as good. Even better. Even better than the game

0:58:17.550 --> 0:58:20.530
<v Speaker 2>in Detroit the other night where he scored 30 in

0:58:20.550 --> 0:58:22.680
<v Speaker 2>that one, this one 33, and just a piston, man.

0:58:22.720 --> 0:58:24.820
<v Speaker 2>This is peak pistons right now. This type of game,

0:58:25.340 --> 0:58:28.760
<v Speaker 2>they shot 57% from the floor and 48% from deep.

0:58:29.220 --> 0:58:31.800
<v Speaker 2>That was with extended garbage time, bringing down those numbers

0:58:31.840 --> 0:58:36.120
<v Speaker 2>a little bit. Duncan Robinson is on a heater. He

0:58:36.140 --> 0:58:38.600
<v Speaker 2>went six for nine from three last night. He's shooting 45%

0:58:38.600 --> 0:58:43.210
<v Speaker 2>from three on the season. He's making four three-pointers a game,

0:58:43.230 --> 0:58:48.070
<v Speaker 2>obviously taking just over eight a game, incredible percentages. The

0:58:48.110 --> 0:58:50.890
<v Speaker 2>other part from Detroit you love, they forced 25 Charlotte turnovers.

0:58:50.930 --> 0:58:53.209
<v Speaker 2>That led to 27 fast break points. And then Cade

0:58:53.250 --> 0:58:55.910
<v Speaker 2>did have his first, let's call it his first superstar

0:58:55.970 --> 0:58:58.470
<v Speaker 2>quarter of the year, of the season. He scored 17

0:58:58.470 --> 0:59:01.240
<v Speaker 2>points in the third. Most of those came in like

0:59:02.040 --> 0:59:03.720
<v Speaker 2>a three and a half minute section of the game.

0:59:04.460 --> 0:59:07.530
<v Speaker 2>And he just had the mid-range drop in. slicing through

0:59:07.550 --> 0:59:10.420
<v Speaker 2>the d4 layups hitting the three off the catch and

0:59:10.440 --> 0:59:12.880
<v Speaker 2>shoot threes and and suddenly the game was like blown

0:59:12.920 --> 0:59:15.040
<v Speaker 2>wide open so kid cutting him in the pistons i

0:59:15.060 --> 0:59:17.710
<v Speaker 2>mean they're definitely going under the radar here with everybody

0:59:17.730 --> 0:59:21.070
<v Speaker 2>talking about teams struggling and other surprise teams like maybe

0:59:21.090 --> 0:59:23.350
<v Speaker 2>the rockets and grizzlies and blazers but like here are

0:59:23.370 --> 0:59:24.730
<v Speaker 2>the pistons racking up.

0:59:24.890 --> 0:59:28.310
<v Speaker 1>W's six and one maybe the schedule isn't all that

0:59:28.350 --> 0:59:30.350
<v Speaker 1>sexy and that's part of it. You know, kind of

0:59:30.380 --> 0:59:33.560
<v Speaker 1>like the Lakers are six and two against it. Okay. Schedule,

0:59:33.580 --> 0:59:35.800
<v Speaker 1>but Lucas, you know, doing some crazy things there. So

0:59:35.860 --> 0:59:38.040
<v Speaker 1>the Pistons kind of do flow on a fly under

0:59:38.060 --> 0:59:41.220
<v Speaker 1>the radar. This is our Tuesday show on, on Monday show.

0:59:41.240 --> 0:59:44.240
<v Speaker 1>People are saying, Hey, give some love to the Pistons

0:59:44.420 --> 0:59:46.720
<v Speaker 1>who are now five and one over the weekend. And I,

0:59:46.800 --> 0:59:48.860
<v Speaker 1>I did, I wanted to talk about Ron Holland scoring

0:59:48.860 --> 0:59:50.740
<v Speaker 1>12 straight points against the Brooklyn Nets, but it was

0:59:50.780 --> 0:59:52.680
<v Speaker 1>the Brooklyn Nets and there's a billion other times to

0:59:52.720 --> 0:59:57.010
<v Speaker 1>talk about. So this is good for them. Uh, Obviously,

0:59:57.070 --> 0:59:59.050
<v Speaker 1>they're kind of a franchise that always kind of flies

0:59:59.110 --> 1:00:02.140
<v Speaker 1>under the radar. That's just the way it goes, unfortunately.

1:00:02.760 --> 1:00:05.700
<v Speaker 1>On the other side, the Hornets getting Kobe White back.

1:00:05.720 --> 1:00:08.800
<v Speaker 1>That's good. That's good. But it didn't work out well.

1:00:08.820 --> 1:00:09.840
<v Speaker 2>Did not translate last night.

1:00:10.040 --> 1:00:10.380
<v Speaker 1>His first game.

1:00:10.420 --> 1:00:11.320
<v Speaker 2>With a guy coming back, yeah.

1:00:11.580 --> 1:00:14.910
<v Speaker 1>With his new teammates, too. So, yeah, things didn't look

1:00:14.930 --> 1:00:17.350
<v Speaker 1>good as you watched him. He just wasn't. All that great.

1:00:17.510 --> 1:00:19.530
<v Speaker 2>There's flying under the radar and then there's flying under

1:00:19.550 --> 1:00:22.290
<v Speaker 2>the radar so much that the official NBA YouTube page

1:00:22.350 --> 1:00:24.550
<v Speaker 2>is posting the wrong highlight reel for you.

1:00:24.830 --> 1:00:25.590
<v Speaker 1>That's the problem.

1:00:25.610 --> 1:00:26.390
<v Speaker 2>I mean, there's too many games.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. And too many games.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. And I will extend that to podcast saturation. I

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<v Speaker 1>know there's podcasts happening every day talking about the NBA.

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<v Speaker 1>And I've listened to a couple on locked on NBA

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<v Speaker 1>who do reports from each arena generally or from they've

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<v Speaker 1>got their reporters in each arena. And that's exactly what

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<v Speaker 1>they did, what you just said with the NBA. They

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<v Speaker 1>played the wrong game from a previous game. Just the

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<v Speaker 1>wrong link. The wrong report was clicked on. And that's

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<v Speaker 1>what you get sometimes with this oversaturation in podcasts. Who

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<v Speaker 1>can do it every day? Who can do it every day?

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<v Speaker 1>We're still good. We're still good. We're still doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just talking myself into a happy place right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Either way.

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<v Speaker 2>Three games left.

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<v Speaker 3>Three games left. Take your pick. Oh, the Bulls got

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<v Speaker 3>destroyed again. Okay, you take the Bulls. Yeah, they got

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<v Speaker 3>smacked once again. This time by the 76ers, but it's A.G.

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<v Speaker 3>Caleb Wilson had 24, 7, and 4 with four steals. Dunks, threes.

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<v Speaker 2>Nice dunks.

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<v Speaker 3>Off the dribble threes. Off the dribble tough finishes. The

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<v Speaker 3>Bears dominated the Seahawks, so I was fine.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Super Bowl, Super Bears. This was close for a half,

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<v Speaker 3>and then the Sixers literally ran away in the second half.

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<v Speaker 3>That's just their MO so far this season. 31 fast

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<v Speaker 3>break points for Philadelphia, the old team in this matchup here.

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<v Speaker 3>Three guys stood out to me for the Sixers. Vijay Edgecombe,

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<v Speaker 3>we barely talked about this guy at all to start

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<v Speaker 3>the season. 21 points last night, four dunks. Jalen Brown

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<v Speaker 3>had 25 points, 11 rebounds. It's his second 25-point game

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<v Speaker 3>for the Sixers, also his second double-double. And I thought

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<v Speaker 3>Dean Wade... was very helpful. He's recently come back from injury,

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<v Speaker 3>eight points, a couple of threes. He was a plus 19.

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<v Speaker 3>And I think the Sixers lineup looks really good when

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<v Speaker 3>he's basically, I don't know who you would say is

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<v Speaker 3>their small ball five. It's either him or it's LeBron.

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<v Speaker 3>That's their front line. Those guys with some fasties out

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<v Speaker 3>there just flying up and down the court. They made

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<v Speaker 3>the Bulls look old and slow, and they're the young,

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<v Speaker 3>fast team. This was barely a game. LeBron was drinking

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<v Speaker 3>wine in the stands.

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<v Speaker 2>That was amazing.

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<v Speaker 3>He got an and one in the fourth quarter and

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<v Speaker 3>was twerking, and then Tyrese Maxey got an and one,

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<v Speaker 3>and he decided to do some dances. They were doing

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<v Speaker 3>bits the entire second half.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I was getting some, I was getting some Lebronto flashbacks

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<v Speaker 2>of LeBron toying with the Raptors and he was approaching

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<v Speaker 2>this game like that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>When he went screaming into the stands, bumped into a

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<v Speaker 2>guy that had a glass of wine. So the wine

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<v Speaker 2>sort of went everywhere. And then he like took the

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<v Speaker 2>cup and took a drink, gave it back to him.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's how serious he was taking the game.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they didn't even let the Bulls inbound the ball.

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<v Speaker 3>They whistled the play dead.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they were like, this is going to be funny.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's see what LeBron does here. That's not fair. That's

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<v Speaker 2>totally unfair. It's like, watch this. He's going to drink

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<v Speaker 2>some wine.

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<v Speaker 1>That's cool. I think that is cool.

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<v Speaker 2>He likes it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, sharing germs is cool.

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<v Speaker 3>That's not what the guy said.

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<v Speaker 1>What did he say?

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<v Speaker 3>The guy's like, I threw away the cup and got

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<v Speaker 3>a new glass.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he was like almost pissed about it. It was like, relax, man.

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<v Speaker 3>Everyone else is like, I'm saving this forever.

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<v Speaker 1>He's like, ugh. Do you think LeBron can tell the

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<v Speaker 1>difference between what wine he's drinking? Because he's a big wino.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, yeah, he is a big wino.

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<v Speaker 3>He's a big wino.

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<v Speaker 2>That would have been great if he had spit it out.

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<v Speaker 2>He's like, oh, this is swill.

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<v Speaker 3>Last guy I heard called a wino was Johnny Depp

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<v Speaker 3>back in the day. I think it's an onophile if you're,

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<v Speaker 3>is the nice way to say you're a drunko on wine.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, I didn't mean he was a drunko.

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<v Speaker 2>He likes his wine.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he likes his wine.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he does.

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<v Speaker 2>He does.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's all I meant.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, Tass, two games left, unless you got anything

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<v Speaker 2>else to add to the Sixers destroying the Bulls. There's

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<v Speaker 2>two games left. Are you taking the Knicks win or

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<v Speaker 2>the Spurs win?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm taking the Knicks win. It's less about the game

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<v Speaker 1>for me. Watching Julius Randle play in Madison Square Garden

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<v Speaker 1>where he played and helped the Knicks transition from a

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<v Speaker 1>terrible team to a better team. And then eventually a

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<v Speaker 1>championship team after he left. Made me think he should

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<v Speaker 1>be celebrated a little bit in New York. Just a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit.

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<v Speaker 3>It's okay.

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<v Speaker 2>Once a Knick, always a Knick.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>Give it time. In 20 years, he'll be sitting courtside.

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<v Speaker 1>I hope so. But the thing is, I don't think,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to think of guys now, as you say that,

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<v Speaker 1>that have been celebrated in the 2000s that were on

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<v Speaker 1>the New York Knicks. Barely anybody. I mean, a little Carmelo,

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<v Speaker 1>a little Amare.

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<v Speaker 3>Amare, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>But not much.

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<v Speaker 2>No, there's some dark days.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>I get that. And that's why Julius Randall should be

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<v Speaker 1>at least just noted and given a little bit of celebration.

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<v Speaker 1>A little one, a little one. Not a lot.

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<v Speaker 3>It's true. He was kind of the first one, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>the next ship is heading towards disaster for 20 years, basically.

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<v Speaker 3>And he was the first one to be like, let's

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<v Speaker 3>turn it around a little.

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<v Speaker 2>Try to turn the wheel.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the years, in the 2000s, they

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<v Speaker 1>have done nothing. The last guy that they've retired a

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<v Speaker 1>number for was Patrick Ewing, who last played for them

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<v Speaker 1>in 2000. And shortly after they gave the legend a

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<v Speaker 1>retired number. I don't think that Julius Randall should be retired.

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<v Speaker 1>And I guess, as you say, you use the term there, right?

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<v Speaker 1>The ship, I guess Mello did that sort of, uh, and,

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<v Speaker 1>and Amari did that sort of, but it didn't lead

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<v Speaker 1>to a championship and Julius Randall was there and, and, Well.

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<v Speaker 2>Julius Randle didn't lead to a championship.

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<v Speaker 3>Trading Julius Randle led to a championship.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I guess in a way.

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<v Speaker 3>Exactly. Carl Anthony Towns was awesome. Having his contract available

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<v Speaker 3>to be traded was very beneficial to the Knicks. I agree.

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<v Speaker 3>And he was all NBA for the Knicks. Yeah, he

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<v Speaker 3>was a great player, or a good player for a while,

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<v Speaker 3>and then. He was given thumbs downs and it was over.

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<v Speaker 3>And then they traded him. They got a better player

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<v Speaker 3>and they won the championship. But they couldn't have done

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<v Speaker 3>it without him.

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<v Speaker 1>Exactly. That's a long period of time not to celebrate anybody, really.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm looking at other organizations like the Charlotte Hornets right

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<v Speaker 1>now who said, Del Curry, we're retiring your number. Was

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<v Speaker 1>there a lot of playoff success for Del Curry?

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<v Speaker 2>No.

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<v Speaker 1>Was there a lot of playoff success for Julius Randle?

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<v Speaker 2>No.

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<v Speaker 1>And in this storied franchise, I think it's a, hey,

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<v Speaker 1>we're not going to retire your number, Julius, but... We're

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<v Speaker 1>going to give you a smaller ring or something. A

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<v Speaker 1>smaller ring is weird. Just like you said, they are

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<v Speaker 1>so good at celebrating their former players. He's not retired.

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<v Speaker 1>He's still playing.

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<v Speaker 2>He's playing for the other team in the state. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think you can go celebrating him right now.

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<v Speaker 1>I get what you're saying, but... Yeah, just a little.

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<v Speaker 3>This is your takeaway.

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<v Speaker 2>There's too many games on when this is your takeaway

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<v Speaker 2>from Nick's Nets, but hey.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, hey man, that's all they had. The Knicks won

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<v Speaker 1>the game.

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<v Speaker 2>They pulled away late. They held them in 90, which

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<v Speaker 2>obviously is super low scoring in today's NBA.

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<v Speaker 1>90 points is nothing. I just want James Dolan the

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<v Speaker 1>ownership to be a little dignified to show a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit I always write down all of the former players

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<v Speaker 1>that are there in the playoffs I'm trying to think

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<v Speaker 1>of all the guys that I wrote as they went

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<v Speaker 1>on their championship run and if any were somewhat recent

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, you had a Tim Thomas out there. You

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<v Speaker 1>had a Chris Childs out there occasionally.

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<v Speaker 2>They're not recent.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I know. That's why. I just want a little, hey, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you for what you did.

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<v Speaker 2>Why am I drawing a blank? Steve Novak? Steve Novak.

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<v Speaker 2>When did he play?

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<v Speaker 3>Was he there?

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<v Speaker 2>He's definitely been celebrated before.

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<v Speaker 3>He would have been a 2010s-er probably.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah. He's around the game. He's still in broadcasting.

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<v Speaker 1>He's around the game. He's probably celebrated. I say he's

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<v Speaker 1>around the game because he's probably celebrated when he's there

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<v Speaker 1>with the road team. And they say, hey. Steve Novak's here. Uh, anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>give Julius Randall a little bit of love and respect

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<v Speaker 1>that he deserves. And a small ring. Yeah, that's weird.

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<v Speaker 1>They shouldn't do that.

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<v Speaker 2>Can't even wear it.

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<v Speaker 3>Too tiny.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh, yeah, that one definitely was, it was a bit

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<v Speaker 2>of a, with so many games on, it was a

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<v Speaker 2>sort of an afterthought, but a dominant fourth quarter from

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<v Speaker 2>New York there in MSG.

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<v Speaker 1>28 to 11. Classic mix.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Turn on the fourth quarter. That's right.

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<v Speaker 2>So they're, they're back to, well, there's three and four,

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<v Speaker 2>so they're under 500, but the Nets, uh, 1-6. All right,

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<v Speaker 2>the final game, that leaves me with Harper and Wemby

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<v Speaker 2>leading the Spurs past the Jazz 1-19-97. Here's my weird

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<v Speaker 2>takeaway from this game. Maybe not as weird as Tass's

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<v Speaker 2>Julius Randle deserves a small ring, but weird nonetheless. The

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<v Speaker 2>Spurs respond well to an angry Mitch Johnson because San

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<v Speaker 2>Antonio came out of the gate here on fire. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>really defensively just locked down the Jazz. Only 16 points

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<v Speaker 2>in the opening quarter. That's a season low for Utah.

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<v Speaker 2>This is one thing they can do is score a lot,

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<v Speaker 2>but the Spurs were locked in defensively. But because this

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<v Speaker 2>is the NBA, second quarter, Utah makes their run. They

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<v Speaker 2>cut the Spurs lead to 36-35. Johnson was furious. He

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<v Speaker 2>called a timeout. He was like, sort of like, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>pounding his fist into his hands. He was visibly upset.

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<v Speaker 2>After that timeout, whatever he said to those guys, they responded.

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<v Speaker 2>14-5 run.

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<v Speaker 1>Boom.

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<v Speaker 2>Had a lead going into halftime. Then in the third...

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<v Speaker 2>You know, it was like a little back and forth,

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<v Speaker 2>but then the Spurs blew like a transition defense. Just

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<v Speaker 2>bad coverage. Keontae George, I think, hit a three in

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<v Speaker 2>transition and Mitch Johnson called another timeout. He was again

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<v Speaker 2>angry and they responded again. They went on a 23

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<v Speaker 2>to 11 run, took full control of the game and

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<v Speaker 2>sort of like coasted from there. But Mitch Johnson, he

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<v Speaker 2>was just calling some good timeouts last night. That was

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<v Speaker 2>my takeaway. Just like, hey, come on, this team stinks.

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<v Speaker 2>But like, get your head in the game here. And

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<v Speaker 2>they seem to take that to heart. The only other

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<v Speaker 2>takeaway was we got a meme of Harrison Barnes lying

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<v Speaker 2>on the ground with his arms like this, sort of

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<v Speaker 2>like judging. It's a pretty good meme.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, I'm going to look at this meme real quick.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's a new meme drop. But the Spurs, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>they listen to Mitch. Mitch showing some fight. Yeah, I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>that's pop-like to me, you know, as he matures in

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<v Speaker 2>his coaching experience here. So it's good to see. You

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<v Speaker 2>see the Harrison Barnes meme? Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, it's

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<v Speaker 2>pretty funny.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I like it's his hands crossed on his chest is

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<v Speaker 2>the funny part to me. Oh, he's looking.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>He looks like he's waking up from a nap while

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<v Speaker 3>watching football.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, Oh yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. All right.

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<v Speaker 1>See you later.

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<v Speaker 2>Back to sleep. All right. That's all 15 games. Some

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<v Speaker 2>solid takeaways and some weird ones as it went on there,

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<v Speaker 2>but that was a lot of basketball. Love it. Love it.

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<v Speaker 2>Love it on the night. Fantasy line of the night.

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<v Speaker 2>Luca going back to back with woe boys. Very rare.

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<v Speaker 2>But he scored a game-high 42 points versus Miami. Shot

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<v Speaker 2>14 of 24 from the field. He hit six threes,

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<v Speaker 2>eight of 10 at the line, 13 assists, seven boards,

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<v Speaker 2>two steals. Did it in 36 minutes of action. Only

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<v Speaker 2>had two turnovers, too. And he was a plus 26

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<v Speaker 2>in this game as well. Luka cooking right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Incredible start. The reduced turnovers, big.

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<v Speaker 2>That's big.

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<v Speaker 1>Because he was leading the NBA in turnovers.

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<v Speaker 2>13 assists, only two turnovers. He'll take that any day

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<v Speaker 2>of the week.

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<v Speaker 1>But he's leading the NBA now in points, 38.3. Field

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<v Speaker 1>goals attempted per game, 23.6. Threes attempted, 13.7. And free

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<v Speaker 1>throws attempted per game in 10.1. He's leading a lot. Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>And he's leading the Lakers to near the top of

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<v Speaker 2>the Western Conference right now. Not the greatest competition, but

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<v Speaker 2>racking up these wins for sure. All right. That's all

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<v Speaker 2>15 games. We did it. How are you feeling, Grassman? Hot?

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<v Speaker 2>Are you hot in that day?

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like I've grown.

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<v Speaker 3>Grown?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh. My grass has grown.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you put some water on? Did you sprinkle some

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<v Speaker 2>water on you? You got nice lights in here.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the humidity. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right.

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<v Speaker 2>So Tass will be wearing this for the rest of

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<v Speaker 2>the week, including tomorrow, even though there's no games on tonight.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>We have a guest.

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<v Speaker 1>That's weird.

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<v Speaker 2>Joining us tomorrow.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, guest.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Would you like to talk to some grass?

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<v Speaker 2>What's the classic Mo Verney grass.

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<v Speaker 1>Line, Trey?

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<v Speaker 3>Let's go get some grass.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll pull it.

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<v Speaker 3>Don't worry.

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<v Speaker 1>Good. You're going to want to hear that. All right.

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<v Speaker 2>Thumbs up for Grass Mellis here. If you're joining on YouTube, subscribe.

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<v Speaker 2>Podcast listeners, come check it out. Got to see Grass Mellis.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a good costume. Like, we didn't skimp. Again, there

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't much left on the shelves, but it wasn't cheap.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>And I can see why.

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<v Speaker 1>You're right. I think it is well made. You always

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<v Speaker 1>get worried when you order something online. Like, oh, is

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<v Speaker 1>it going to be a cheapie?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>And maybe you're just, we felt like maybe we're just

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<v Speaker 1>paying too much for an inadequate costume. But no, that

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<v Speaker 1>$ 90 was worth it.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, geez, you gave it away.

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<v Speaker 1>I gave it away.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, it's cutting your chin there a little bit.

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<v Speaker 1>Can we get on with it, JD?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, all right.

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<v Speaker 1>Can we move? I am hot. Don't talk to me.

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<v Speaker 2>Clipper bros, clipper bros. You heard it here first.

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<v Speaker 3>Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for joining us. And remember, tomorrow I'll be wearing this,

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<v Speaker 1>but I'll be wearing it without pants.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I'm too hot.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, it's too hot in these pants.

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<v Speaker 2>It does look hot. I'll give you that.

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<v Speaker 3>Pretty good costume, you know, for a thing that you

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<v Speaker 3>wouldn't have even thought existed. They're like, how are we

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<v Speaker 3>going to make a bad bunny grass man?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Don't worry. We got an idea. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you. There we go.

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<v Speaker 2>As we sign off.

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<v Speaker 3>Respect.

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<v Speaker 1>Respect.