Speaker 1: Well, well, t USA is locked in and ready for
Speaker 1: the FOEBA Men's World cub in the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia altogether. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: NBA teams, what we're about the month away, a little
Speaker 1: bit more than a month away from training camps, and
Speaker 1: we're continuing our preseason team by team prediction series today
Speaker 1: with the Central Division with writer and podcaster Justin Rowan.
Speaker 2: On today's episode.
Speaker 3: I am Miles Gray and I am Jack O'Brien, and
Speaker 3: this is Miles Davis.
Speaker 2: D driving spinning Curry, a three quarter stop cry from
Speaker 2: go tell the.
Speaker 4: Game, to be honest, to tell shut time, you got.
Speaker 2: What's up? Hit us?
Speaker 1: We're here, Yeahue we here, We made it, and we're
Speaker 1: here with Justin Rowan, you know, host of the Chase
Speaker 1: Down pot part of the Calves media family.
Speaker 2: You know we were.
Speaker 1: Gonna be talking about the Calves, which you can help
Speaker 1: illuminate many things for me because I'm I have a
Speaker 1: bit of a one track mind today and we'll get
Speaker 1: to that as we get we break down all the teams.
Speaker 2: But how are you justin? What's new? What's good? I'm
Speaker 2: doing great? Thank you guys so much for having me
Speaker 2: back A lot of fun. I'm looking forward to doing
Speaker 2: a little more preview content. I mean there's so little news,
Speaker 2: Like there's the potential for news, right like you got
Speaker 2: the Bamian Lillard James Harden thing kind of hovering in
Speaker 2: the ether, but there's.
Speaker 4: Nothing well potentially yeah.
Speaker 2: Hey there's a great point. Maybe maybe he gets traded
Speaker 2: to a Central Division team. Who knows. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: There's just not a whole lot going on, but that
Speaker 2: I do think that the Central Division is really interesting
Speaker 2: to talk about.
Speaker 5: So I'm excited to be on with you guys. Yes,
Speaker 5: this night's one of us. Man, this division looks like
Speaker 5: ace newsfest.
Speaker 2: Not for me.
Speaker 1: My mouth is watering as a Lakes fan where I
Speaker 1: see some future Lakers out there that I will.
Speaker 5: I will say the conversation that we had before before
Speaker 5: justin joined before we started rolling, was one of the
Speaker 5: most toxic things I've ever heard from.
Speaker 4: A Lakers fan. And that's saying all that.
Speaker 5: It is locker Laker fandom toxicity on a on a
Speaker 5: whole new level.
Speaker 4: Listening to this man talk about.
Speaker 5: Some some other players, some players from other teams, well they're.
Speaker 1: They're they're really our players that are just sort of
Speaker 1: we're catching them on the timeline where they're not currently
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 2: They just don't know it yet. That's what it really is.
Speaker 2: They're wearing the wrong jersey in the picture. That's it,
Speaker 2: and we'll sort that out over time.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think I just met my future ex wife.
Speaker 5: That's what's the Lakers energy for real?
Speaker 2: Right? Oh yeah, what are we starting with? When?
Speaker 4: When did you start out out as a Cavs fan?
Speaker 2: Oh? God? That Yeah, that would have been like two
Speaker 2: thousand and two maybe two, like right around just before
Speaker 2: Lebron and then it just kind of got more intense
Speaker 2: over the years. But yeah, it's it's been a long
Speaker 2: time coming, and it looks like they have one of
Speaker 2: the best teams that they've had in the time that
Speaker 2: I've been a fan. So I'm pretty excited for what
Speaker 2: the season might bring.
Speaker 5: Not according to Vegas Vegas, they're going to be worse
Speaker 5: than last year. Yeah, which seems to be. That seems
Speaker 5: to be like a lot a lot of their takes
Speaker 5: on teams that did well last year not this year.
Speaker 5: They're gonna stink, just bored with all that success that
Speaker 5: they had, you know, the one playoff win they got
Speaker 5: fat off of that.
Speaker 2: And you're just not going to get that same effort anymore.
Speaker 5: Before you joined Super producer Jabari was saying that one
Speaker 5: of the first or maybe the first game you ever
Speaker 5: attended in Cleveland was two thousand and nine Lebron Shack,
Speaker 5: the Lebron Shack season. I had totally memory hold that
Speaker 5: I did not remember that Shack ever played with Lebron.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my first calv game that I attended live was
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine. It was that season. It was
Speaker 2: actually in Minnesota, Delonte Weston playing that game because he
Speaker 2: had the shotgun and the guitar case incident Desperado we
Speaker 2: call that. Yeah. I got to see Shaq, got to
Speaker 2: see Big Z and all those guys. And then the
Speaker 2: first game that I saw in Cleveland was actually Lebron's
Speaker 2: last game in Cleveland as a member of the Heat.
Speaker 2: So that was kind of cool to check out. But
Speaker 2: uh yeah, me been traveling to see them for a
Speaker 2: long time from up here in Canada. Right. What was
Speaker 2: the energy like in that game? That game was wild?
Speaker 2: Like the unfortunate thing every time I fly down to
Speaker 2: Cleveland someone gets hurt, like then the night before and
Speaker 2: unfortunately for me that stretch it was Kyrie. He tore
Speaker 2: his shoulder, so we still was a close game. Dion
Speaker 2: Waier's going off a lot of fun there, Lakers legendary
Speaker 2: Dion Waiers. Then you know, the next year when I
Speaker 2: flew down, Kevin Love got his arm torn out of
Speaker 2: its socket by Kelly Olynnok the Iron Form flight. I've
Speaker 2: gone down for the opening weekend the last two years
Speaker 2: in Cleveland and Garland has gone hurt both times. So
Speaker 2: you know, I'm I'm I'm really a bad luck charm.
Speaker 2: The one year that I didn't fly down was twenty
Speaker 2: sixteen and they won a championship. So maybe have the
Speaker 2: Cavs just got to keep me at arm's length at
Speaker 2: all time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because this is this seems like a very lucrative opportunity.
Speaker 1: Either the Cavaliers as a franchise will actively pay you
Speaker 1: to keep you from visiting the city, or rival teams
Speaker 1: will wind you and dine you, fly you across the
Speaker 1: globe because you have this to get you.
Speaker 5: Do you think it would work if you were just
Speaker 5: in the same city or do you think you need
Speaker 5: to be in the game at least planning, because.
Speaker 2: I think I need to have the game tickets just
Speaker 2: negotiating to get as much as possible here. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to I'm not going to try to short change
Speaker 2: myself on this off Every time it happens, I'm sitting
Speaker 2: court side every single time, every single it's the weirdest thing.
Speaker 2: And it's first five obviously, my first class five stars
Speaker 2: only for the hotel. But anyway, that's me, that's me.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 5: Should we get into uh are you are you guys
Speaker 5: watching any of.
Speaker 4: The Foba Foba b ball have Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the highlights, Yeah, that's been about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I'm pretty sure that's the only way
Speaker 5: the international basketball is allowed to be consumed, whether with
Speaker 5: Webbingyama or international game. Yeah, I think that's all the
Speaker 5: only only way it's available.
Speaker 2: But even Team Canada highlights here, you know, the sports
Speaker 2: stations are too busy showing like high school hockey instead
Speaker 2: of you know, actually broadcasting those games. So that's always
Speaker 2: a little bit discouraging.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are they really prioritizing They're not prioritizing high school hockey,
Speaker 1: not hockey, but they're they will.
Speaker 2: Put highlight shows on instead of those games.
Speaker 1: Wow, They're like Winnipeg Jets greatest bloopers.
Speaker 2: Like exactly why something you got to ask them. I've
Speaker 2: only been complaining about it basically my whole life, right right, right, hey.
Speaker 5: I will say from the highlights i've seen Anthony Edwards
Speaker 5: we've been talking about that, there was like something towards
Speaker 5: the end of last season that it seems like he
Speaker 5: figured out on defense.
Speaker 4: He already was just like getting what seemed to be
Speaker 4: like on.
Speaker 5: A steady uptick continuum of like just getting better and
Speaker 5: better on offense, but like on defense, he was like
Speaker 5: doing these like weird like steals and like pass interceptions
Speaker 5: that like I'd never seen somebody do before, and like
Speaker 5: using his athleticism on defense in a weird way.
Speaker 4: That was very exciting to me.
Speaker 5: So we had our eye on him, and he's been
Speaker 5: looking he's been looking really good for Team USA.
Speaker 2: Mm hm, he's looked great. And Halliburn's look good too,
Speaker 2: our Central Division star Tyre Aburn.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I like that for now, we'll see, we'll just because.
Speaker 2: The toxicity that I missed out. He looks good. He
Speaker 2: looks good to me.
Speaker 5: His miles mouth is watering and they're just on roll
Speaker 5: out of his mouth.
Speaker 2: A team value not valuing him enough, you missed the
Speaker 2: chance to get him from the King's as. I think
Speaker 2: Justin will see we'll see about that. But I guess
Speaker 2: hey what let's let's let's dive in to our central
Speaker 2: division over under predictions, shall we.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I will say the other thing, like FOBA,
Speaker 5: I'm now interested because I noticed like a lot of
Speaker 5: the talking heads aren't picking the USA, like they're like,
Speaker 5: the USA I don't think would even be the favorite,
Speaker 5: and then in the international ranking they aren't even They're
Speaker 5: the second ranked team in the world. So you know,
Speaker 5: the the USA is underdogs. You can't say that a
Speaker 5: lot in basketball.
Speaker 4: So it'll be interesting to watch.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean like I'm being a toxic Lakers
Speaker 5: fan of No.
Speaker 2: Jack, No, you're you're two.
Speaker 1: You're you haven't suffered like I have all the psychic
Speaker 1: damage that brings you here.
Speaker 2: So you're fine.
Speaker 5: You're fine psychic damage as a Lakers fan. It's Jack,
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, what have you struggled through?
Speaker 2: Oh, when we signed Lebron, I was like, we don't
Speaker 2: need this guy. We're storied enough without him. What is this?
Speaker 1: You don't need to just be some you know hole
Speaker 1: you punch on your car to say you played for the.
Speaker 2: Storied Los Angeles Lake.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that must work difficult.
Speaker 5: I'm sure the Calves fan justin the you can you
Speaker 5: can identify that must have Oh yeah, yeah, you must
Speaker 5: feel for him. All right, all right, So we're gonna
Speaker 5: go through Central Division. We're gonna do some overs, We're
Speaker 5: gonna do some unders. The Calves they have so last
Speaker 5: year the Calves went fifty one to thirty one in
Speaker 5: the regular season. I had a bad postseason. I would
Speaker 5: say that's the the wrap for this division.
Speaker 4: Had a bad postseason.
Speaker 5: The Central Division did not did not acquit itself that
Speaker 5: well in the postseason. But the Calves for this year,
Speaker 5: they're over under is right at where they are, but
Speaker 5: a half game under where they were last year. Fifty
Speaker 5: point five wins with players who are only on the
Speaker 5: upside of their career. They also got my man, gorgeous Kneang.
Speaker 2: You were just.
Speaker 5: From the sixers who I love like he's and he
Speaker 5: was a bucket, like he would come in, he would
Speaker 5: not make mistakes, and he like he got better and
Speaker 5: better and was a really strong shooter by the end.
Speaker 5: I see no problems. I see no reason that the
Speaker 5: Calves shouldn't just keep getting better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me either. I think last year the Calves were
Speaker 2: among the league leaders for injured games missed, and Donovan
Speaker 2: Mitchell and Darius Arland were playing through a lot of
Speaker 2: injuries last year and one of the biggest issues they
Speaker 2: had was depth. They just didn't have enough guys to
Speaker 2: go to and I think that was a contributing factor
Speaker 2: in the Knick series. You look through the first five
Speaker 2: games of that series, and the starting lineup did have
Speaker 2: a positive net rating in that series. They just didn't
Speaker 2: have guys to go to it. And that was with
Speaker 2: them playing poorly, Like Darius Garland had that game where
Speaker 2: he was like over thirty. Donovan Mitchell, outside the first game,
Speaker 2: was probably their third best guard after that point, behind
Speaker 2: Garland and Lavert. Evan Mobley played terribly. Jared Allen had
Speaker 2: a strong first two games and then after that just
Speaker 2: was kind of out of the mix. But they didn't
Speaker 2: have depth and they didn't have shooting.
Speaker 5: What was going on with Mitchell in the postseason, because
Speaker 5: he has been good in the post Like his rookie year,
Speaker 5: he was really good in the postseason. He's had really
Speaker 5: good postseason games the last two years. He's been bad
Speaker 5: in the postseason. Has he been injured? What's going on
Speaker 5: with that man?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: I think sometimes we were spoiled as Kaz fans of
Speaker 2: having Lebron, you know, where it's just every single playoff
Speaker 2: series you can expect them to show up. When you're
Speaker 2: dealing with a guard, it's just a little bit different, right,
Speaker 2: Like the things defenses can do to you are different,
Speaker 2: and I think really you need to have that frontcore
Speaker 2: playmaker that makes things easier. Otherwise defenses are always going
Speaker 2: to be able to take away someone that's under you know,
Speaker 2: six or five. And for Donald Mitchell, you know, he's
Speaker 2: had good series, he's had bad series. Is the last
Speaker 2: who haven't been good? I know he was playing with
Speaker 2: a splint on his left hand, but he was playing
Speaker 2: great towards the end of the regular season even with
Speaker 2: that dislocated finger. So I don't think it's necessarily that.
Speaker 5: I just think with seventy last season, I can't remember, Like,
Speaker 5: I don't think I did that very often in my
Speaker 5: career playing basketball. Put up seventy in a single game?
Speaker 5: Did Yeah, that's pretty rare.
Speaker 2: You did remember maybe a couple times, you know, in
Speaker 2: mind rare but yeah, I think he just missed some
Speaker 2: shots that he normally would make, and Evan Mobley struggling
Speaker 2: to the extent he did, really didn't help things. And
Speaker 2: they were just congested. And I thought a lot of
Speaker 2: times too, it wasn't like the Donovan Mitchell show where
Speaker 2: he was taking over and everyone else was kind of
Speaker 2: standing around. He was trying to keep guys involved in.
Speaker 2: It seemed like there was a decision there. I think
Speaker 2: things are going to be a lot easier. They went
Speaker 2: out and they added two of the best shooters on
Speaker 2: the free agent market, and both Max Strus and George Nang.
Speaker 2: They added Ty Jerome, you know, a six or five
Speaker 2: guard that they can play alongside either of those guards.
Speaker 2: He can shoot. Damian Jones is a nice depth piece
Speaker 2: at center, although I don't think he's really going to
Speaker 2: be part of the rotation. So when you look at
Speaker 2: how injured they were last year, the amount of depth
Speaker 2: that they added, the fact that you know, Evan Mobley's
Speaker 2: twenty two, Isaaca Corrols twenty two, Jared Allen just turned
Speaker 2: twenty five, Garland's twenty three, right, like, these are all
Speaker 2: guys that probably should get a bit better. So I'm
Speaker 2: pretty comfortable saying the over here. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: just me being a Homer, although there's a lot of
Speaker 2: homework sprinkling in a lot of my tics.
Speaker 1: H Hey, well, look that take came straight out of Springfield.
Speaker 1: Think you're gonna best fifty one?
Speaker 2: Like you do? You see it going far beyond?
Speaker 1: Like when you look at fifty and a half, you like,
Speaker 1: I think we can add a couple of games.
Speaker 2: Do you think you're just right? Like it's right around there? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think honestly, I have them around fifty five to
Speaker 2: fifty six wins this year. I think that they're better positioned.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's necessarily going to be a massive
Speaker 2: regular season leap. I think they easily could have got
Speaker 2: there last year. They had a few games that were
Speaker 2: blown and, like I said, a lot of injuries. But
Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to jump up to like
Speaker 2: a sixty win team or anything like that. I think
Speaker 2: they might approach the regular season a little differently, try
Speaker 2: some things out, But I just think there's so much
Speaker 2: deeper now, and I'm just such a believer in the
Speaker 2: talent that they do have. I think Garland can make
Speaker 2: that leap from you know, an All Star snub to
Speaker 2: being in even the All NBA conversation. So I'm pretty
Speaker 2: high with where he can go and where this team
Speaker 2: can go. If I'm correct about how good this core is.
Speaker 4: Struce is a nice edition.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be interesting like seeing how these Miami Heat
Speaker 5: players who kind of came out of nowhere and we're
Speaker 5: suddenly like really reliable, Like how they actually look this
Speaker 5: year for you know, you guys are you know, Gabe
Speaker 5: Vincent on the on the I forget where.
Speaker 2: He ended up this It's fine. It's a storybook team
Speaker 2: called the Los Angeles Lakers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was
Speaker 2: gonna say, some small market franchise that doesn't get any shine. Yeah, exactly, exactly,
Speaker 2: And I just I just one day we'll get their
Speaker 2: respect we deserve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, alright, the bulls are giving under moving on, They're
Speaker 5: giving you under, They're.
Speaker 4: Giving me under. I don't know. The Bulls are just
Speaker 4: kind of a bummer. We tried.
Speaker 5: We were talking about it before the show, and there
Speaker 5: wasn't a whole lot to not be bummed out about just.
Speaker 1: I mean hearing Lonzo Ball you know, talk about just
Speaker 1: like then they I feel bad for the GMS, you know, they.
Speaker 4: They tried to build something, yeah, like.
Speaker 1: Build something around me, and now my knee is just
Speaker 1: ceased to exists. It's a cartilage transplant, right, I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's sounds very complex, and I'm not sure what that
Speaker 1: means for him long term. And that's why that's why
Speaker 1: it feels like just doubly sort of heartbreaking, because I
Speaker 1: really like Lonzo.
Speaker 4: It's serving heartbreaky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's giving heartbreak. It's yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm in
Speaker 1: it exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm bummed with the Bulls. And I also think that
Speaker 2: they got potential to kind of blow things up to right,
Speaker 2: Like you joke about future Lakers, I think you look
Speaker 2: at someone like the Martyr growth and I could see
Speaker 2: something like that happening. I could see the next going
Speaker 2: after zach Lvine. There's been rumored interests there, right. If
Speaker 2: things aren't going well for the Chicago Bulls, like, I
Speaker 2: just don't think that they can kind of toil in
Speaker 2: the middle. I believe they finally own their own pick
Speaker 2: this year after giving up you know, the last two
Speaker 2: lottery picks for Vusvic. They're just in a position to
Speaker 2: actually kind of hit the reset button. And that would
Speaker 2: be beyond the fact that I just don't think this
Speaker 2: roster is good to begin with. I think the potential
Speaker 2: to blow this up is the reason why i'd go
Speaker 2: under with them.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's take a quick break and we'll come back,
Speaker 5: because I've got a real puzzler. We got two hot takes, well,
Speaker 5: one is coming from the Bucks and the other the Pacers,
Speaker 5: which we're just of different opinions of who their best
Speaker 5: player actually plays for.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 5: And last year, the Milwaukee Bucks, who have a guy
Speaker 5: who have a guy by a name Janni Sante Kupo
Speaker 5: on their team. They went fifty eight and twenty four
Speaker 5: in the regular season. You may remember they lost to
Speaker 5: the Heat in the first round. Everybody was like, these
Speaker 5: guys stank, and you know, a lot of the focus
Speaker 5: was on how Bucks completely melted down. So the over
Speaker 5: under for them, they have them three or five games
Speaker 5: worse than last season, which I get that, like they
Speaker 5: didn't look good in the postseason, but they like they've
Speaker 5: shown what they can do in the postseason.
Speaker 4: I feel like this is.
Speaker 5: I don't know why they're this much worse. I don't
Speaker 5: understand the argument here other than if you think that
Speaker 5: just the fact that two of their stronger pieces are
Speaker 5: at that point in their career where they're getting slightly
Speaker 5: worse instead of slightly better season to season with like
Speaker 5: Chris Middleton and you know, Brook Lopez. But it it
Speaker 5: feels like too much of a drop off to me.
Speaker 2: I don't get it because Middleton missed like the majority
Speaker 2: of last year and wasn't good like Milwaukee. When you
Speaker 2: look at the top of the Eastern Conference or like
Speaker 2: the top six, I think Milwaukee and Cleveland are basically
Speaker 2: the only knicks as well. They're the only teams that
Speaker 2: didn't get worse, right, like the Bucks basically to push
Speaker 2: they kept all their guys, But I don't think that
Speaker 2: they got worse in any way. If you have a
Speaker 2: full season Middleton being healthy, I think that that's helpful
Speaker 2: in the league. Beasley, I thought was a nice little addition.
Speaker 2: You know, they've got some guys that can improve from inside,
Speaker 2: and like they took it easy last year and Middleton
Speaker 2: missed time. I just don't see why you would have
Speaker 2: them this low. I don't think. I don't think the
Speaker 2: rest of the East has improved enough to really justify
Speaker 2: this because I think the only way you get here
Speaker 2: is if there's just such parody in the Eastern Conference
Speaker 2: that all of a sudden, you know, there's no standout team,
Speaker 2: there's no one that wins fifty five games. I think
Speaker 2: I think the Bucks have a clear path to be
Speaker 2: the one seed in these.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this would be my lock.
Speaker 5: And I know, like this is a podcast that gambling
Speaker 5: sharps come to, oh for our shrewd take some millionaire.
Speaker 4: But this this feels pretty like a.
Speaker 5: Really like a really safe not safe. But I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't know, it just feels very way way low
Speaker 5: to me.
Speaker 4: We'll see.
Speaker 5: I feel like Yanna's gonna be pissed off. I feel
Speaker 5: like Middleton will probably be better. We'll see, unless he's
Speaker 5: just like falling off a cliff and like it's over
Speaker 5: for him. But I don't I don't know why that
Speaker 5: would be.
Speaker 2: Even if he's like fallen off like twenty percent from
Speaker 2: what he was at his best, that's better than you know,
Speaker 2: fifty games of Grayson Allen starting instead of Chris Middleton. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I feel like bootleg version of himself is still an
Speaker 2: improvement from what they dealt with most of last year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, and then we have the two teams
Speaker 5: that Vegas actually thinks could improve this year. We got
Speaker 5: the Pacers going from thirty five wins up to thirty
Speaker 5: seven and a half wins. I assumed this was based on,
Speaker 5: you know, Halliburton continuing to improve. But Miles, you were
Speaker 5: saying that Halliburton doesn't even play for them.
Speaker 1: No, no, Halliburton, Tyres. Halliburton is a laker. That's We've
Speaker 1: seen this already. I was watching Team USA in very
Speaker 1: brief clips on Twitter, and I see the chemistry between
Speaker 1: him and Austin Reeves and it is nailed on. So uh,
Speaker 1: I just want to you know, warn the Pacers front office,
Speaker 1: prepare yourself. We're gonna figure out what what what kind
Speaker 1: of you know deal we can make here. But I
Speaker 1: figure some late first rounders and assigned DJ and Bega
Speaker 1: Jersey and we can get this thing moving.
Speaker 4: We're gonna wind you, we're gonna dine out.
Speaker 5: We're gonna thirty nine yea as in offer you the
Speaker 5: thirty pig and then they stick.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you know it's a big TV
Speaker 1: market too, you know, something to think about.
Speaker 2: Uh, And I just think there's just there's just a
Speaker 2: lot of good stuff on. It's a lot offer for
Speaker 2: him and I.
Speaker 4: Might get a shoe deal. You want a shoot deal, son.
Speaker 1: You want to shoot deal? You want to billboard because
Speaker 1: we can hook you up. Okay, And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: We've got it all baby. And I don't know what
Speaker 1: this Indiana Pwkers whatever, this club he's with now, but
Speaker 1: you got something.
Speaker 2: You got a lot of admirers in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: This is actually happening like online, as as people have
Speaker 5: watched Austin Reeves and Haliburton like play off, play well
Speaker 5: off of each other in the FOBA like warm up games.
Speaker 4: Everyone's like, I mean, do I have to even say it?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's gonna be on the Lakers, right, I mean
Speaker 5: that's what he's gonna He's already lacer right.
Speaker 2: Like, I don't love that. The implication of you know,
Speaker 2: when Lebron, Wade and Bosh were playing for Team USA
Speaker 2: and Dwayne Wade, Lebron, they're all kind of plotting there
Speaker 2: the star power that joined star power that ended up
Speaker 2: convincing them all to kind of team up and form
Speaker 2: what they did in Miami. We're assuming the same things
Speaker 2: happening with Austin Reeves right with Aliburn's just just looking
Speaker 2: into his eyes, being like, man, this guy Ron James
Speaker 2: of the modern NB Star.
Speaker 6: It's come on now, this guy Austin Reeves is the
Speaker 6: ball handler that's so good that he put Lebron off
Speaker 6: ball right, Like he wouldn't do that for you, right,
Speaker 6: Like he wouldn't do that for anybody this sea.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't do that for Kyrie. Austin Reeves is the
Speaker 2: one that you know, changed everything. It's it's shifted the
Speaker 2: higher NBA landscape. And I guess the question is, like,
Speaker 2: can you even have the three ball handlers right Like,
Speaker 2: I think you'd have to go Austin Reeves, Tyri's Haliburn
Speaker 2: and find a way to move off of Lebron to
Speaker 2: let those two shine.
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely thank you for saying that, justin because I
Speaker 1: think that's precisely what I've been saying for a long time.
Speaker 1: I watched the postseason and I said, this guy take
Speaker 1: him out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Turkey's done. You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: You know, because and the rest of the league is
Speaker 4: you or a farm? Is your?
Speaker 2: I said no, I said, they're all feeder teams.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the NBA is a feeder system to the Lakers dynasty.
Speaker 2: The Lakers, I've always been willing to take on money
Speaker 2: for some assts. They'll probably take Lebron off your hands.
Speaker 2: They'll maybe you know, a second round pick to swing considerations.
Speaker 2: Y'all are losing them anyway.
Speaker 4: So just sit down.
Speaker 1: What I mean, truly sickening, Jack, This is what happens
Speaker 1: when you are truly sick man, when you are paying
Speaker 1: everybody else's bills for these poverty franchises.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: You got to make demands.
Speaker 4: By paying their bills.
Speaker 5: You mean like allowing your team to play there so
Speaker 5: that they can sell tickets exactly.
Speaker 1: And I didn't want to say it like that, but
Speaker 1: here's the deal, the deal, Jack, here's the deal.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 1: You look, I'm yeah, sure, you got them locked up
Speaker 1: for maybe six years or something like that.
Speaker 2: But we're going to figure something out. You know what
Speaker 2: I mean, We're going to figure something out. So just
Speaker 2: come sit down. But until the until you do, I'm
Speaker 2: taking you over. Because the Pacers had a winning record
Speaker 2: last year with Haliburn adding Bruce Brown, that they've got
Speaker 2: that Matherin's going to take a step forward to you know,
Speaker 2: I got a shout out.
Speaker 5: Was there one signing that everybody was like, man, it
Speaker 5: would be great to get Bruce Brown. I think I
Speaker 5: think he'd love it to be on the seventy six
Speaker 5: ers because everybody seems to love being on the seventy
Speaker 5: six ers.
Speaker 2: Vibes are immaculate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Lakers.
Speaker 5: Lakers really thought they were gonna get him, and they
Speaker 5: got just it was like a It's like in a
Speaker 5: like fantasy draft when everybody like has the same sleeper,
Speaker 5: you know, I feel like Bruce Brown was that guy
Speaker 5: and the Pacers at him.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but you know, like I mean, Tyree's think
Speaker 2: about it, you know what I mean. We love you.
Speaker 2: We love you, man, we love him.
Speaker 1: We love him, don't we. Yeah, we love him, don't we. Folks,
Speaker 1: we love him already. They're already children out here with
Speaker 1: your jersey.
Speaker 2: Okay, so just come on home.
Speaker 5: Jabari said that the Pacers are actually has picked to
Speaker 5: win the title this year. So yeah, that's I mean,
Speaker 5: you can take that to the bank. He said, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he nailed on, nailed on.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means.
Speaker 5: But the other team that has like where all these
Speaker 5: wins are coming from, you know, with all the other
Speaker 5: more noteworthy teams increasing in losses. The teams that are
Speaker 5: picking up wins. According to Vegas, the Pacers going up
Speaker 5: two and a half wins and the Pistons going up
Speaker 5: eleven and a half wins. I did not realize they
Speaker 5: were seventeen and sixty five last year.
Speaker 4: That is not good.
Speaker 5: But they you know, Cad looks great, Thompson looks like
Speaker 5: he's going to be a good addition, and I don't know,
Speaker 5: we'll see, Jade and Ivy will see if he kind
Speaker 5: of progresses. A Wiseman was thirteen and eight through the
Speaker 5: twenty four games that he played in Detroit, So I
Speaker 5: don't know, don't eleven and a half seems like a lot,
Speaker 5: But when Caid is out there, they do look pretty
Speaker 5: pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a hard one for me. Like I
Speaker 2: I'm such a big fan of kid. I really think
Speaker 2: that he's a special talent. And the Pistons have guys
Speaker 2: up and down the roster that I like, and I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: this all kind of I'd like to have that guy
Speaker 2: on my team. I like to have that guy on
Speaker 2: my team. But all together, it's just kind of weird.
Speaker 2: I don't know who's going to get minutes, and especially
Speaker 2: when you look at the big man rotation, like if
Speaker 2: Durren's out there getting you know, the starters minutes that
Speaker 2: he should be getting. I think that's awesome. I think
Speaker 2: you play him with Kate Cunningham, you get kind of
Speaker 2: that one five pick and roll going. But is he
Speaker 2: going to lose minutes to Bagley? Is he going to
Speaker 2: lose minutes to Wiseman because they just want to try
Speaker 2: things out. It just gave Isaiah Stewart basically a max
Speaker 2: Strus contractor a little bit more, right, so they have
Speaker 2: to justify playing him. I just don't know who's going
Speaker 2: to be playing for this team. I don't know what
Speaker 2: their motivations are going to be, and I'm worried that
Speaker 2: they're going to pull kind of the ripcord and you know,
Speaker 2: try to get one more high pick. Usually when you
Speaker 2: have this many young guys, you just don't win games,
Speaker 2: and especially if they move off Bogdanovich, I kind of
Speaker 2: lean under, but I can see a path to over
Speaker 2: just because of how good kid is. But it scares me.
Speaker 2: I'd stay away, would too?
Speaker 1: I see, yeah, yeah, eleven could be a lot, but
Speaker 1: I just for me in my heart.
Speaker 2: I just always want to see the Pistons do well.
Speaker 2: I just like, I like, I think that's just me
Speaker 2: being nostalgic for like late eighties, early nineties NBA stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm like, they gotta be a team, so please.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were a classic franchise. You ready to make
Speaker 5: some bold predictions justin for the upcoming NBA season.
Speaker 2: Not some dud ones like I just made, like really
Speaker 2: really swing for this.
Speaker 4: We want you going hard, yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I want you to get to that. I
Speaker 2: usually go nuanced, but I can come out swinging a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, get I know you are from Canada, but
Speaker 1: try and be out of your mind American for a moment.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, let me just put on some fake championship
Speaker 2: rings over here. Let me just go ahead and do that. Well,
Speaker 2: they're at the desk, they're always really I'm sorry, but
Speaker 2: like when I I really need like seventeen rings to
Speaker 2: put on my hand when I started talking like that,
Speaker 2: just and so you can hear them fall off my
Speaker 2: hands as I gesture.
Speaker 1: I think that would complete the bit of the unhinged
Speaker 1: Laker fan.
Speaker 2: The p CFL and Calves rings. Let's go baby, all right?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: First one, what is your absolute boldest prediction for the
Speaker 1: upcoming NBA season. Like, it doesn't have to be specific,
Speaker 1: not specific to play or whatever, but just give us
Speaker 1: something so outlandish that when it happens to you, we're
Speaker 1: gonna say. You know what, Justin said that on Miles
Speaker 1: and Jack got mad Boosti's and be it gets traded.
Speaker 4: What cool that was?
Speaker 5: Actually that was actually Jabbari, Like, so Jabari has been consistent. Yeah,
Speaker 5: producer Jabbari for this show has been consistent since the
Speaker 5: end of like the season before anybody was talking about
Speaker 5: He was like, you know what, Jack, I got it.
Speaker 5: I got a pretty crazy idea. I think MB's gonna
Speaker 5: get traded. I think he's gone. And I did not
Speaker 5: like it when.
Speaker 4: He said that.
Speaker 5: Still don't like your computer, but he keeps bringing it
Speaker 5: up like I've forgotten.
Speaker 4: Like, but today before we recorded, he was like, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Was thinking about Yeah he said it like that.
Speaker 5: He was like, you know what, I was just thinking, yeahmember,
Speaker 5: how I said that before. I thought he was going
Speaker 5: to be like, so now I don't think that because
Speaker 5: of this piece of news. He was like, I've come
Speaker 5: back to it. I was like, yeah, man, you can
Speaker 5: assume that I think you think that.
Speaker 2: He's moving forward. That's just an understanding between you two.
Speaker 5: He's at which the seventy six ers are falling apart.
Speaker 5: Like I don't I don't know how bold this prediction.
Speaker 5: It is like that that plane crash video where like
Speaker 5: being like, I bet the other wing falls off after
Speaker 5: the first one fell off, right, It's like, yeah, man,
Speaker 5: things are things are things are falling apart a rabbit
Speaker 5: pace here. This is this is not good. So anyways,
Speaker 5: I but I appreciate the sentiment. I do think people
Speaker 5: are gonna go wild.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Do the Knicks have a lot of picks to trade back?
Speaker 5: Like they there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, They've got like just a ridiculous amount of first
Speaker 2: round picks.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's good. Yeah the sixers.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm warm.
Speaker 4: We'll just go back to you know, and you.
Speaker 2: Know, at the end of the day, like Darryl Morey
Speaker 2: thinks that, you know, centers should just be like Clint Capella,
Speaker 2: you know, like scene but not heard from, like the
Speaker 2: children in the twenties. So I think, you know, find
Speaker 2: a rim running five. Maybe it's Mitchell Robinson along with R. J.
Speaker 2: Barrett and some picks that that might make him happy
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and me as a Sixers Frand by the way,
Speaker 5: I am fully out on the Sixers the second they
Speaker 5: trade em Be. I was only in it for the
Speaker 5: Embiid that I liked them so long as they had Embiid.
Speaker 2: I am. So would you just return to just being
Speaker 2: like a Lebron fan or do you fan another?
Speaker 5: It would be like seasonal, you know, I would get
Speaker 5: into a certain team each season.
Speaker 1: This is where you do the inevitable transition to I've
Speaker 1: I've ascended the fandom and have died inside. I no
Speaker 1: longer need fandom, but I merely love the game, Like
Speaker 1: you think you'll get to that point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I might still root for Embiid if he like
Speaker 5: goes to the Knicks.
Speaker 2: I mean in the next jersey. I kind of like that.
Speaker 5: Look yeah, I mean my dad was was an assistant
Speaker 5: for the Knicks when they had eing Like something about
Speaker 5: like a Knicks team with like a powerful center, like
Speaker 5: a really good point guard. There's something exciting about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I just love the idea that your backup plan. Okay,
Speaker 2: I know how I'm going to kind of salvage my fandom.
Speaker 2: Here are my my backup plan is to go root
Speaker 2: for a guy that's going to retire New York two.
Speaker 5: Oh Lebron. Yeah, I know, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I like rooting for the Lakers. It's fun. The fans
Speaker 5: are like that, some of.
Speaker 2: The some of the best people, right.
Speaker 5: Sickest humans that I've ever met, like.
Speaker 1: That, say, we were so sick, bro, We're sick. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: go on, go on, go on, yeah.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: But I'm not, by no means im I diehard Sexers fan,
Speaker 5: so I will. I am a die easy Sixers fan,
Speaker 5: and I will die so easily. I will die like
Speaker 5: one of those children in the twenties, so easily.
Speaker 4: If you trade M D so.
Speaker 1: During your ship why during your ship triangle shirt waist
Speaker 1: fact exactly.
Speaker 5: But I'm one of the ones who goes before the
Speaker 5: fire just from from a cough. Yeah man, all right,
Speaker 5: what team do you think has the biggest increase in
Speaker 5: wins over last year?
Speaker 2: I actually think it's going to come from the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 2: I think it's either going to be Indiana, you know,
Speaker 2: fully healthy season at Bruce Brown. I could see them
Speaker 2: jumping all the way up or Orlando. I like, you know,
Speaker 2: another team that started winning towards the back half of
Speaker 2: the year. I think that they can make a big leap.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, next one, where are Jack? Do you want
Speaker 1: to finish the pronunciation of this one? Where our Pascal Pascal,
Speaker 1: James Harden, and Dame Lillard playing on opening night? And
Speaker 1: do they finish the season in those respective locations?
Speaker 2: I'm going to say Miami for name, real bold, real crazy?
Speaker 2: Now where'd you come up with that? Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Is chet gp to figure that one out? You know what?
Speaker 2: It's one of those things where like we can get
Speaker 2: creative and and be like, oh, well, what if Toronto,
Speaker 2: you know, makes a makes a move like Minnesota. Yeah,
Speaker 2: predictable stuff happens. Man, It's the NBA, Like this is
Speaker 2: always how it plays out. Hardener, I think is actually
Speaker 2: going to start the season in Philly. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's going to end there, but I would assume Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: But it does say playing on opening night, and he
Speaker 5: will not be playing.
Speaker 2: He will not be playing. Yeah, maybe maybe he will,
Speaker 2: Maybe he will. Maybe maybe he'll be wearing a underneath.
Speaker 4: Like he'll be doing it sarcastically.
Speaker 2: You know what he's going to do to not get
Speaker 2: fined is he'll go through kind of the pregame warm
Speaker 2: ups and then just like fake fall in the layup line,
Speaker 2: like slip on, you know my ankle is a little
Speaker 2: bit sore. Yeah, and just go from there.
Speaker 1: Or did you see like or he does a thing
Speaker 1: like just he's trolling out there on the court. If
Speaker 1: you remember the Office with the basketball episode when like
Speaker 1: Michael's all pumped up because Stanley is black and he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be balling, and then he starts dribbling and he's.
Speaker 2: Like, oh no, ye had a hand out. Hard is like, okay,
Speaker 2: you want me out there? Well this is what you get. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do this dang thing.
Speaker 4: I haven't really been paying attention to the sac rumors?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 4: Where where is he expected to go?
Speaker 2: That's the weirdest thing that it seems like he's having
Speaker 2: a hold in basically like that he wants to like
Speaker 2: demand a trade to the Raptors and Toronto doesn't want
Speaker 2: to give him. Then extension, I don't know. I I
Speaker 2: saw Atlanta come up. I assume he starts the season
Speaker 2: in Toronto just because miss I just likes to, you know,
Speaker 2: keep too much value. Yeah, Okay, miss I turned down
Speaker 2: a trade for Tyrese Maxi for Kyle Lowry, Like this
Speaker 2: is this is what he does. He's not moving anyone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, and you're do you have a wild
Speaker 5: card title title prediction?
Speaker 4: You think it's gonna anybody?
Speaker 2: You know? Titles tough. You know, let's go Bucks, Bucks
Speaker 2: get back and win the championship. I think people are
Speaker 2: writing them off a little too soon. I think Gianni
Speaker 2: is going to come back motivated. Uh the back and
Speaker 2: forth conversation of who the best player is between him
Speaker 2: and Yoka. I think Milwaukee's going to get this year.
Speaker 4: The title returns to the cinch.
Speaker 2: Who's the wait, so who's in that finals? Do you
Speaker 2: think you think it'd be Milwaukee, Denver, Milwaukee? Okay? I
Speaker 2: think Denver gets bat again.
Speaker 4: Like to see if somebody beat that.
Speaker 2: But you know what, I think two one seeds in
Speaker 2: both conferences are going to make the NBA finals.
Speaker 4: Variable I did a spit take over on this son
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 2: See that, but for audio listeners they might have missed it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, alright, should we take a quick break and then
Speaker 5: come back and do the fastest yeah podcast basketball history?
Speaker 3: Do it.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 4: And we're bad.
Speaker 5: And just as youful you are in for it, you've
Speaker 5: really stepped in at this time. Friend, it's a rapid
Speaker 5: fire to close it out. Segment of Basketball Show Miles
Speaker 5: Jack ib Mat Boosties.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: This is the third podcast we recorded today. My brain
Speaker 4: no longer working.
Speaker 2: So fast, Miles, so furious, just as you are.
Speaker 4: Just you've done it.
Speaker 1: Once you've done it, I could care less about my
Speaker 1: co host struggling.
Speaker 2: I just want to colese you right now. I just
Speaker 2: want to quiz you away. So justin this is the
Speaker 2: fastest segment in sports podcasting history.
Speaker 4: We can ask you about the team's struggle.
Speaker 2: We're gonna ask you a question. You just send it
Speaker 2: right back. No bloviating, no expanding, none of that. Just
Speaker 2: get it, just efficient. And if we start rambling on,
Speaker 2: you gotta cut us off because we have to keep
Speaker 2: the title of fastest sports questioning segment in all of
Speaker 2: all sports podcasting history. Okay, okay, I'll keep you good
Speaker 2: as a character. All right, thank you so much. Justin
Speaker 2: here we go, start the fuck.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 2: You're going first, orm I going first.
Speaker 5: Come on, you can come on, all right, you can go.
Speaker 5: I don't know, it's over for me?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: For me?
Speaker 2: Hose justin.
Speaker 1: ESPN recently decided to rework the NBA crew obviously jeff
Speaker 1: Mark Jackson.
Speaker 2: Being let go with my brothers covering alongside Mike Breen.
Speaker 2: Let's just get to it.
Speaker 1: Who is your dream in game commentary team? You can
Speaker 1: assemble whoever I'm talking about. Anybody doesn't even have to
Speaker 1: be from the NBA cinematic universe. It could be just
Speaker 1: three minds or whatever. Mind Yes, Joe Namath, Susie Colbert,
Speaker 1: and who else.
Speaker 2: I want. I'm gonna have Mike Breen. I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 2: gonna keep him there. We need someone to keep on track.
Speaker 2: Rashid Wallace I want, and Richard Jefferson. I'm sticking in
Speaker 2: the NBA universe. I can't think too fast. I want
Speaker 2: to keep them is fast. But that's that's my three Wow.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, any any non NBA people you don't bring in,
Speaker 5: like any like a Fields someone.
Speaker 2: I've had a long day to my my brain isn't working.
Speaker 2: I don't even know anyone that's not in the NBA.
Speaker 2: He so hyper specialized. Just got with the medieval times.
Speaker 1: Look, I got a lot of tables, man, answer cable guys.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, he's telling me to He's giving me the
Speaker 5: wrap it up finger. All right, BESTBA city in terms
Speaker 5: of food choices, and what's your go to dish?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to get love with We're going.
Speaker 4: Cleveland, hoping you would say that, what's the dish.
Speaker 2: We're We're going Mabel's just outside of the stadium, and
Speaker 2: I'm getting the brisket. I love my barbecue. Yeah, is
Speaker 2: it like? Is it? Is it pretty fatty? Is it lean?
Speaker 2: The brisket? You can you can get either the fatty
Speaker 2: or you can get the lean. I always get the
Speaker 2: fatty day dust in my man. That's what I know
Speaker 2: that about you. You like the flavor, although you're cardiology
Speaker 2: may not appreciate it. Oh no, it is what it
Speaker 2: despises me that probably kind of like amazed with How
Speaker 2: like when I eat a fatty brisk and I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of you know what, I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: think of it as flavor flavor modules. All right, Sorry,
Speaker 2: texting my wife, good brisket broker, texting my brisket broker?
Speaker 2: Were you letting her know how fast this segment has
Speaker 2: been happening quickly? It's going by. You're just like this
Speaker 2: justin guy's a speed demon.
Speaker 5: You could have any player's skill set for a day.
Speaker 5: Who are you going with? What skill set are you
Speaker 5: stealing from them?
Speaker 2: Like, ooh, mon stars style, I'm thinking steps shooting just
Speaker 2: because I don't want to like break any of my
Speaker 2: joints or limbs. I'm just going to take a shooting
Speaker 2: because me walking around, you know, just a little bit
Speaker 2: of shape firing away and hitting absolutely everything would just
Speaker 2: be obnoxious as hell.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the right answer. It's definitely the right answer.
Speaker 5: You also raise a good point about like have you
Speaker 5: ever see that video where it's like a it's a
Speaker 5: video game conference, and like one of the kids in
Speaker 5: line starts like dancing to like win a contest, and
Speaker 5: his leg just breaks because because he's just like not
Speaker 5: never jumped before, Like yeah, you know, he's a gameer,
Speaker 5: so he hasn't like jumped in like, it's not like
Speaker 5: a dramatic break. It's just like he's like jumping and
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden he like falls down and
Speaker 5: he's like I don't know, and then they're like.
Speaker 4: Your leg is broken.
Speaker 5: Sure, So like that I feel like my answer, which
Speaker 5: is like I would just like to suddenly have Anthony
Speaker 5: Edwards athleticism. All of the bones in my body would break.
Speaker 2: Like all those bones, all those ligaments, Like that's still
Speaker 2: the same, like the land, right.
Speaker 1: I think we can adjust it that at that point.
Speaker 1: Your body is built to handle It's like you're saying,
Speaker 1: let's put a jet engine on like a like a
Speaker 1: Ford pinto.
Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards's body.
Speaker 2: Well, your body could hear the current.
Speaker 4: Look if I'm if I.
Speaker 2: Get the body of a pro athlete for one day,
Speaker 2: basketball is not what I'm doing, which okay, which one pizzas?
Speaker 2: Oh I'm I'm I'm going out of the town. I'm
Speaker 2: seeing what I can do is a little bit more
Speaker 2: handsome than myself. Even as a marror man. My wife
Speaker 2: would understand.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh well, I mean yeah, not everybody's going
Speaker 1: to be this beautiful and cut like that. You're a
Speaker 1: Calves fan, so I like to ask this of any fan,
Speaker 1: give me your favorite.
Speaker 2: Deep cut Calves player, like throw out a random for
Speaker 2: the band. Oh god, dolanthy West was right up there. Man.
Speaker 2: I loved him. I loved him so much. I think
Speaker 2: he was the perfect combo guard. Obviously, the mental health
Speaker 2: stuff all sucked in and I wish him well, but
Speaker 2: I think he was so to appreciate from those teams.
Speaker 4: Great answer. Do you remember here's a deep cup for you.
Speaker 5: Do you remember any of the games from the early
Speaker 5: two thousands when they would play I think I asked
Speaker 5: you this last time, actually, but I'm gonna ask it again. Yeah.
Speaker 5: That they didn't have actual clips from movies like on
Speaker 5: the audio, like the drops you know that they would play,
Speaker 5: but they had like soundalikes.
Speaker 4: So they had one.
Speaker 5: I went, I went to a Calvs game, one Calves game,
Speaker 5: and I will never forget that they whenever like a
Speaker 5: call happened that they didn't like it.
Speaker 4: It was really liberally applied.
Speaker 5: They would play this sound clip that was an Austin
Speaker 5: Power soundlike guy going hey, hey, hey, what is this?
Speaker 5: And my friend, my good friend Sean who lives in Cleveland,
Speaker 5: was at the game with me and we've never stopped
Speaker 5: talking about that, and like it's not from anything, you know,
Speaker 5: it's like it's like get up, yes, son of a bitch,
Speaker 5: because Mickey loves you, or you know, like these like
Speaker 5: famous quotes, but they just like made one up. And uh,
Speaker 5: I don't know if you ever remember that, But I
Speaker 5: remember it was when they had so drunas Ilgauskas.
Speaker 2: See, here's the thing. My first time watching a game
Speaker 2: in Cleveland was twenty fourteen, so I missed out on
Speaker 2: the movie clip era unfortunately.
Speaker 1: So you see Chris Mim tearing it up with Trajan Langdon,
Speaker 1: Those those were the days.
Speaker 2: No, those those are days where just daydreamed of watching
Speaker 2: that instead of actually being able to attend right right right.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: You can place any former CALVS great on next year's roster,
Speaker 5: do we?
Speaker 2: This is the movie.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it can't be Ron James, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know with uh, you know, guards, Mitchell Garland, Mobile
Speaker 2: Allen like some someone fill in a small form. Man.
Speaker 4: I just don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a tough one, you know what you usually
Speaker 5: if you say rapid fire.
Speaker 4: But we'll let you think on this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, give it a thing, you know, like if he
Speaker 2: wants to, you know, win two rings match, Mike, he
Speaker 2: can come on a mid level exception after next year
Speaker 2: and we can get things going. Man, the small forward position,
Speaker 2: because that that's really what this comes down to. And
Speaker 2: like that's that's the amazing thing is when Lebron's not
Speaker 2: on this team, it's like Alonzo g Jeddi Osman right, like, uh, Tomato,
Speaker 2: Samuel's like the small Ford rotation has been a little
Speaker 2: bit rough, so God, you can also pick Jamaine Jones
Speaker 2: like Larry Nance Senior. I don't know, like you run
Speaker 2: into the you run into the shooting issue. I wish
Speaker 2: Anthony Parker was younger when he was on the couch.
Speaker 2: He would be a perfect role player. Jamorrio Moon, let's
Speaker 2: bring him back. I don't know that.
Speaker 4: Ja Mario Moon. Wow.
Speaker 5: I mean we got the we got the deep cut
Speaker 5: and and this question answered in the same one.
Speaker 2: It was a bit of an impossible question.
Speaker 1: So apologies for that because they're like, yeah, yeah, take
Speaker 1: your time, actually.
Speaker 2: Ruin our reputation as the fast for the movie.
Speaker 1: Second uh, and finally the most important question, justin Jack
Speaker 1: or Miles.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think last time I went, Miles, what you're
Speaker 2: you're coveting a little too few, too many players and
Speaker 2: come in thy neighbors roster and Jack's going for enough
Speaker 2: right now? You know the whole embad thing. And like, dude,
Speaker 2: we lost in the Western Conference finals terribly. You don't
Speaker 2: think I'm going through something right now?
Speaker 5: You got to the You know how much I would
Speaker 5: give to get to a conference finals.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Aren't you supposed to be there every year?
Speaker 2: At least.
Speaker 4: The second round? Is there?
Speaker 5: Do they keep playing after the second round? I thought
Speaker 5: that's just where it ended as.
Speaker 2: The after the first I have no idea.
Speaker 4: What sure? That what everybody's talking about.
Speaker 1: Oh man, we always a pleasure having you on justin
Speaker 1: Where do people find you and check you out and
Speaker 1: support you and all that stuff?
Speaker 2: Yeah, find the Chase Down Podcast wherever you're listening to
Speaker 2: this podcast. You can also find us on Twitter or
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Speaker 2: YouTube channel. We post the pot on twitter x whatever
Speaker 2: that is. I'm not used to any of that. It's
Speaker 2: all stupid, but yeah, wherever you find your podcast, find
Speaker 2: us there. We have a good time. We're currently going
Speaker 2: through some team previews teams that I think are good
Speaker 2: enough to be in the conversation for missing the playing
Speaker 2: in the Eastern Conference. So we're gonna have Jackson frank
Speaker 2: On tonight to do a six ers previews, so hopefully
Speaker 2: we get to have a little more fun at and
Speaker 2: beats expense. Jackie tuning in for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be I'll be there with bells on you.
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Speaker 6: Bye bye,