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Speaker 1: best Miles Gray here, guys, the basketball keeps coming. The

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Speaker 1: trade deadline madness all around the NBA. We'll discuss some

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Speaker 1: the state of the Houston Rockets with ten year NBA Vett,

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Speaker 1: current Rockets analyst. Host of the podcast NBA Rookie Life,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Hollins on today's episode, I'm Jack O'Brien and I'm

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Speaker 1: Jebory Davis kin for Milesbury, and this is still Miles

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Speaker 1: and Jack Gott Matt Boosts nailed it, Bryan, what's going on?

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us with our usual

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Speaker 1: have you in here. Hosted the NBA Rookie Life podcast

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Speaker 1: of the NBA and I heart drafted in oh six

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Man? How are you doing. What's going on? Guys?

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Absolutely, We're thrilled to have you.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on being an amazing athlete. That's cool to have

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Speaker 1: league of vast conspiracy. What's going on in how how

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Speaker 1: another tough year, but from years like this, great things bloom.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the a golden time for these

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Speaker 1: mentioned him with Magic, and we said earlier with Kevin Durant,

425
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Speaker 1: Luca that name, you you mentioned him with Steph Kurr.

426
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Speaker 1: You don't bat an eye. He's in that conversation with

427
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Speaker 1: those type of guys. So, um, I'm I'm happy to

428
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Speaker 1: see what it is and I'm happy for Kyrie, And UM,

429
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Speaker 1: I think he gets intriguing guys that we look forward

430
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Speaker 1: to say, hey, you know, did they lose those assets

431
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Speaker 1: for nothing? You know, are they gonna be able to

432
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Speaker 1: um sign resign him? This is gonna be a quiet

433
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Speaker 1: Leonard type of deal, you know that the Dice roll

434
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Speaker 1: that Toronto rolled, and then he ends up going to

435
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Speaker 1: l A, you know, and I think, hey, or is

436
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Speaker 1: this gonna be the Paul George move where no one

437
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 1: really saw him staying in Okay see, and he was

438
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Speaker 1: like Paul was like, they gave up draft picks, they

439
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Speaker 1: committed to me. These people rock with me. I'm gonna

440
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Speaker 1: stay here. You know, in Dallas is a beautiful city. Man.

441
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Speaker 1: I played in Dallas. I played for Mark Cuban. It's

442
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 1: a fun city man. And as an owner, Um, you know,

443
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Speaker 1: Mark doesn't rock away. He steps up, So I'm happy

444
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Speaker 1: for him. I'm intriguing to see how it works. And

445
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 1: the NBA drama keys rolling fellas. Yeah, there are some

446
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,879
Speaker 1: questions I think people have about like, well, what you know,

447
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 1: they're both ball dominant players. They're both uh, you know,

448
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 1: not the foremost defenders of their positions. But at the

449
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Speaker 1: same time, the more I think about it, the more

450
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Speaker 1: I hear you talk, the more it's just like, I

451
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Speaker 1: don't know, man, that that level of shot making, like

452
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 1: two of the best, if not the two best shot

453
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Speaker 1: makers in the league, Like just the two players who

454
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Speaker 1: I'm like, how how do they do what they do?

455
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 1: Like it seems almost supernatural. Their ability to put the

456
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Speaker 1: ball in the basket, like at so many different levels

457
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Speaker 1: that so many different angles that's going to be hard

458
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Speaker 1: to defend, would be would be my hot take. Alright,

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Speaker 1: let's let's talk about some of the best performances of

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Speaker 1: the week. Uh mad boost These great performances of the

461
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Speaker 1: week is the is what we've cleverly called this segment

462
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Speaker 1: of the show. You know, just just first of all,

463
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Speaker 1: Clay Thompson still out here doing it, you know. Uh

464
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Speaker 1: he put up forty two on twelve of six team

465
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Speaker 1: from three on. Okay, see um in a blowout win

466
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Speaker 1: without Steph Wiggins, looking like he's back in the form

467
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Speaker 1: we saw him in during last year's title run. And yeah,

468
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Speaker 1: I don't know that. I love seeing Clay go off.

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Speaker 1: I also want to talk about Keegan Murray with thirty

470
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Speaker 1: to the Kings and scoring and win over the Rockets.

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Speaker 1: Keegan Murray rookie eight for twelve from deep. He's shooting

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Speaker 1: from three on over six attempts a game as a rookie.

473
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Speaker 1: Just you need if you need a six? How tall

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Speaker 1: is he sees like, I just I love this this again.

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Speaker 1: This is one of my favorite things to highlight the

476
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Speaker 1: progressiveness of the league of one of the things we've

477
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Speaker 1: already hit on hitting on my second favorite team. Nobody

478
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Speaker 1: knows anything when it comes to people coming into the

479
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Speaker 1: league and you know all the the you know sports

480
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Speaker 1: guys where we're out here with the well, you know

481
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Speaker 1: this big mistake for the Kings. The Kings have done

482
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Speaker 1: it again. They could. They missed out on a great piece,

483
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Speaker 1: great opportunity to get a piece. Who who what? Who

484
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Speaker 1: shoots from three at six eight? Like? Is one of

485
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Speaker 1: already like a premier shooter in the league as a

486
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Speaker 1: rookie for the third place team in the US. UM,

487
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Keepan Mary did? Did you? Were you

488
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Speaker 1: on that game? It was? Um? The beautiful thing we

489
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Speaker 1: talked about saponis earlier. Um, he's in a situation when

490
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Speaker 1: veterans around him where he just has to play his role.

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Speaker 1: Between Sabonus and Fox, those guys generate a lot of

492
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Speaker 1: ball movement and a lot of corner threes. So when

493
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Speaker 1: you start to simplify things for a young guy, he

494
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Speaker 1: knows his role, which is to catch and shoot the basketball.

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Speaker 1: It first off started with him just kind of getting

496
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Speaker 1: open looks and just being aggressive, and then it was like, well,

497
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Speaker 1: he's not that open, he's just hitting these contexted threes.

498
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Speaker 1: And then he got that like little you know, like

499
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Speaker 1: you gotta get that pep in his step, like they

500
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Speaker 1: start seeing the ball go in before it's if you

501
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Speaker 1: know they even had the ball, they get that different

502
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Speaker 1: a little run. He had that, So I think he's

503
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Speaker 1: it's extremely impressive, um because he's a fit. And I

504
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Speaker 1: think that Sacramento knew they didn't need like a boom

505
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Speaker 1: er bus potential guy. They needed a guy who could

506
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Speaker 1: come in right now and play. And Keegan Murray, I

507
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Speaker 1: think if you you know, you kind of followed him.

508
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Speaker 1: He's a little older, but he's ready now. And Sacramento

509
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 1: got a guy that's ready now. And if you even

510
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Speaker 1: go beyond that, UM, I would say the trade that

511
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Speaker 1: they made with Indiana Halliburton's like it won't for both sides.

512
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Speaker 1: It's not often you see those trades win for both sides. Um.

513
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Speaker 1: Both all stars like both playing well and sometimes it's

514
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Speaker 1: just it's just a change of scenery. And I think

515
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Speaker 1: it's really cool for both sides. Someone didn't have to

516
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Speaker 1: win and someone didn't have to lose. But I think

517
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Speaker 1: um both ended up being really good fits because, like

518
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Speaker 1: you said, how could you trade Halliburt? Why would you

519
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,360
Speaker 1: do that? Because we're better? Because it fits and then

520
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 1: he's better there like like well you love to have him, yes,

521
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,119
Speaker 1: but like it just it works that way. And because

522
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Speaker 1: you the basketball media are underrating darn Fox because you

523
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: you know, he hasn't been doing what you know, like

524
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Speaker 1: when we've seen more of him, we know that he

525
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 1: has this in him. Uh, you guys just don't know

526
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Speaker 1: that yet. So yeah, this is the was the right

527
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: move for the Kings. Yeah, I don't know that's it's exciting.

528
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Speaker 1: The Kings are exciting the Kings. Do we think we

529
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Speaker 1: think they're gonna be there in the in the Western

530
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Speaker 1: Conference Finals? They gotta shot it just much is anybody

531
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Speaker 1: right now? Because you can look at those numbers and

532
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 1: say it's a team that doesn't defend. I think they're

533
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: under size. They're gonna struggle to guard the rim. It's

534
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: just part of it. But you gotta understand part of

535
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: their defensive numbers are so bad. There's an element of

536
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: they play fast and their paces up so when you

537
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: play fast, you're gonna give up shots on the other end.

538
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,160
Speaker 1: But when you're scoring, you know, one thirty a night

539
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 1: and you're giving up one twenty, Like that's just part

540
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: of like you kind of man, I get Golden State

541
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: vibbed from Mike Brown and that team, like in the

542
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: sense that that they kind of run and then in

543
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: a half court they'll get disciplined. They'll run their stuff

544
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: like they're in a sweet little groove. And I think

545
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Speaker 1: that they've got to play just enough defense, and I

546
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,959
Speaker 1: think it becomes tough because you don't they don't have

547
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Speaker 1: that a racer back there, Like the Bonus is a

548
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 1: great defensiveverybody, but they don't have that eracer where man,

549
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: we made a mistake guys like day that that that

550
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: Robert Williams just came over and blocked the shot and

551
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: helped us out. They don't have that part that that piece.

552
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: But they do rotate, they do play together, and they

553
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: really pressured the basketball. So there there's I wouldn't want

554
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Speaker 1: to necessarily match up with the King is right now

555
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Speaking actually to that, you know, we've

556
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Speaker 1: already discussed We've already discussed the Kings just recently we

557
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: discussed you know, the Warriors earlier. Um, this is something

558
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: that you know, Jack and Miles have discussed it, you know,

559
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: in weeks past the West. I personally have never seen

560
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 1: it as I don't want I don't know whether it's

561
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: competitive or whether it's just you know, like a higher

562
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: level of parody or whatever the whatever you want to

563
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: attribute it to. But the four seed in the twelve

564
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: seat as still less than five games apart from one another.

565
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,479
Speaker 1: How does this shape up? You know? Like, so, who

566
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Speaker 1: who's gonna be on the outside looking in when you

567
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: know in another games or so, somebody's gonna be real upset,

568
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna emerge, somebody's gonna be real upset. I think,

569
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Speaker 1: what's tough right now? And you see you're kind of

570
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: saying it with like New Orleans. You gotta be healthy

571
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: in these moments. Health is gonna be such a big

572
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: part of it. But like everybody can't go on the party. Man,

573
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: there's a there's a you know that there's a fee

574
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: at the door. The fire marshals out and parties popping.

575
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: Everybody ain't gonna make it, you know, And I think

576
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: you look back, what about two or three years now.

577
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: Thank you NBA for the playing the game. Man, this

578
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: this playing game about to turn up. Okay, So there's

579
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: gonna be something you know, you know really you know,

580
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: really cool to see and look forward to. And I think, man,

581
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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't understand, like it's it's tough

582
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: on my young Rockets because more than ever I see

583
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: the Rockets going into games and these are like must

584
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: win games at this time of year, like we can't

585
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: afford to drop, well, we're gonna drop five spots and

586
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: lose this game. And teams are for our poor young

587
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: guys man, like they're coming at them in a different

588
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: way man, every night, because this race is so tight,

589
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: there's no nights. All. I want to say. The Rockets

590
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: might have played three or four teams as young as

591
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: they are this season, like like kind of like hey,

592
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: like go go pound for pound, like you know, like

593
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: in terms of age, and you know, like I think

594
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: we've seen Detroit, San Antonio, which is they still play

595
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: hard at heck and um Orlando. Maybe it feels like huge,

596
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: like a lone stars. It's like it's like yeah, man,

597
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: so it's tough, it's competitive and it's tough. Yeah, I

598
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: do want to talk about real quick. Cam Thomas is

599
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: going out of his mind, put up forty four off

600
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Speaker 1: the bench in a win against Porzingis and the Wizards

601
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Speaker 1: without Kyrie and k D and then also have forty

602
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: seven and a loss to the Clippers in a starting

603
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: role for the Nets right after the Kyrie trade, making

604
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Speaker 1: him the youngest guy since Lebron to score forty four

605
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Speaker 1: or more in back to back games. And Jabara, you were,

606
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: you were asking a good question like how many cam

607
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: Thomases are out there just waiting to go off, just

608
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: like waiting for for their moment to just get the

609
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: ball something get fed? Ain't many. I don't think it

610
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: was an act neither, It ain't many. I think that

611
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: young boy in Dallas what had twenty seven, I forget

612
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: his name. The other night man, Jade Hardy, Jade Hardy

613
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: is on Dallas kind of had a similar kind of like, hey,

614
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: you don't need to bring him in. I could do it.

615
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: Like their performances. And I think that's the fun thing

616
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: about the league. And you know, I think our question

617
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: is this is this for real? You know, is it's

618
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: for real? I think that the league is training in

619
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Speaker 1: a way where, you know, We're gonna see more of

620
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: those moments because it's such a three point uh dominant league.

621
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Speaker 1: I don't want to just say that guy don't defend anymore.

622
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: It's just it's hard to Like when I was in

623
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: the league, spacing wasn't near the same. Your power forward

624
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: shot fifteen footers. You couldn't contest the paint and run

625
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: them off of the three point the excuse me, the

626
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: free throw line. That's three point line. Now you got

627
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: chase these guys off the line at twenty six ft

628
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: you know, ft away from the basket. So it's hard

629
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Speaker 1: to defend, you know. So, um, I think you will

630
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: see more of these performances. And I think that I

631
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: think that you have a number of these guys now

632
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: there's more of a role where before they were like

633
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: they were, well before, these guys were like gunners. They

634
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: were gunners. They were selfish. That guy's too small, he's

635
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: not a point guard. He can't play in this league

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Speaker 1: just scoring. Like you got a lot of those guys

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Speaker 1: now in the league to do that, and I think

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Speaker 1: you we will see more of those performances. All right,

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Speaker 1: So I want to I want to talk about a

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Speaker 1: thing that we've been we've been calling a business decision

641
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Speaker 1: for the past like three episodes. We've been talking about

642
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Speaker 1: players who when they're about to be dunked on. You know,

643
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Speaker 1: John said, jump with me if you want to go viral.

644
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Speaker 1: And sometimes when people make a business decision and like

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Speaker 1: they might jump, but then the rest of their body

646
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Speaker 1: goes dead, like they're trying to defend off like a

647
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Speaker 1: bear attack because they know what what about to happen.

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Speaker 1: So just just the phenomena of business decisions, you know.

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Speaker 1: We we saw Norman pal baptized Julius Randall after a

650
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Speaker 1: poor business decision. Uh that's uh. We we saw in

651
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Speaker 1: the Lakers Pels game, a d make a very coherent,

652
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Speaker 1: visible business decision on a brandon Ingram dunk in the

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Speaker 1: second quarter. Is that something? Do you remember ever making

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Speaker 1: a business decision Ryan in your career? Yeah? I have.

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Speaker 1: I mean, were you just too late? Like I get

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Speaker 1: like like but here's a big part of it too.

657
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Speaker 1: I remember like Matt Harpring ripped me off the rim

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Speaker 1: and like clothesline me and like I hit the floor

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Speaker 1: like back first, and it's like like like and the

660
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: referee was like you have two free those get up

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Speaker 1: and go and I'm like, this guy just assaulted me

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Speaker 1: in forty states. There's no call two free throws what

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Speaker 1: so you can't do that like just the same o

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Speaker 1: G like no dunk rule, no more, like you know,

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Speaker 1: like you can't just get away with it. So I

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Speaker 1: think that's why you do see some more of the

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Speaker 1: business decisions. I think there is like like come on, man,

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Speaker 1: like you can't be soft like like like some of

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Speaker 1: that like came you don't forget the Internet highlights, you know,

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Speaker 1: And somebody was even telling me that the other day

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Speaker 1: that you know, this was unheard of. I've never checked

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Speaker 1: my phone until after the game. I would never be

673
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Speaker 1: in a movie and hear my phone buzzing. It would

674
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Speaker 1: be on silent Jack. It was, and it was just

675
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: blown up my hip. I was like, these kids are

676
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Speaker 1: on their phone at halftimes, they seeing highlights at halftime,

677
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: like you come in there on there like that's like

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Speaker 1: players and being played today are on their phone at halftime.

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Speaker 1: I would have been, man, what if one of the

680
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Speaker 1: bests would have jumped down my throat they saw me

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Speaker 1: on my cell phone a half you know, So it's

682
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: it's it is, it's a it's a different era. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's a mix of you can't flame, you foul,

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Speaker 1: you can't just go hurting players anymore, and some of

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Speaker 1: these guys are making them, you know. So what we

686
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Speaker 1: grade the business decisions now, but there are more than

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Speaker 1: ever Who would you make the most business decisions against?

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Speaker 1: And the reason why I asked the questions because look,

689
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Speaker 1: you came into the league when Shack was still there.

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Speaker 1: It was in the back half of his career. But

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Speaker 1: you're still They're still active, still moving around. You know,

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Speaker 1: Duncan was still around. Who were the guys that made

693
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: you make the most business decsions? Man? I really didn't.

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Speaker 1: I just like I just tried not to be late.

695
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 1: But Shat Shat got me, and Maria Stodomar got me,

696
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Speaker 1: and the business decision wasn't mine. It was Kevin Love.

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Speaker 1: I was something so mad at Kevin. Kevin Love was

698
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Speaker 1: like getting backed down by a MARII and like at

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Speaker 1: the last second, like he like whipped his shoulder out

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Speaker 1: the way and then like in turning, I just get

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Speaker 1: facial and like, all right, if you you know, you

702
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Speaker 1: bump them, I'm gonna come come meet him upstairs. And

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00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: you like like like Kevin has just set me up.

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Speaker 1: The marge Dot of Brus set me up. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was just always early and like you know, you

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Speaker 1: kind of have especially as a shot blocker in your mind,

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00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: the guys who can go like, hey, I can't be

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00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: late with him, like you know, so I would just

709
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Speaker 1: be lebron Wade. I would be outside the block. I

710
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: wasn't waiting for them to get there. Um. You know,

711
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: so we have this, you know, fantastic play that we

712
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Speaker 1: watched for years, Shack it's backing me down. I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: this is just gonna be just like shoot around. He's

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Speaker 1: backing me down. The help is gonna comes, gonna kick

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Speaker 1: it out. Roads are around the corn and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get a contest of three box up rebound that we

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Speaker 1: go to. Let right, he's backing me down, nobody comes,

718
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Speaker 1: backing me down, Nobody comes. He's backing me down. Nobody comes.

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Speaker 1: At this point, he's size eight. Teens are in the paint.

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Speaker 1: He turns elbows me across the face and duns over me.

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Speaker 1: And I realized, never again guard these guys like that

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Speaker 1: double teammate coming because live on a d C, no

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Speaker 1: double team came, and I was, you know, I was out.

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Speaker 1: I was out out to sail, so you know what

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Speaker 1: like a you know, like I just gave Shack the

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00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: greatest contest ever. But still like you you know, you learned.

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Speaker 1: You learn that lessons your teammates and when the lights

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Speaker 1: come on, they don't you know, they care about you

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Speaker 1: like you thought they would. All right, Ryan, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a quick break. We're gonna come back. We're gonna

731
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Speaker 1: put you in the hot seat for the rapid fire

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Speaker 1: round of questioning, the fastest round of questioning in the

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Speaker 1: history of podcasting. So just you know, get get loosened

734
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Speaker 1: up during the break, and we'll be back. And it's

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00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: gonna be so fast. If you put a hat on,

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Speaker 1: the hat would's been around on your head like that.

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Speaker 1: That's how fast this Well, we'll be right back, and

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Speaker 1: we're back, and it is time for the rapid fire

739
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 1: round of questioning, where we might try and slow things down.

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00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: You gotta keep us on pace. You got you gotta

741
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Speaker 1: just move your chest. It's it's like they are there

742
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Speaker 1: any wrong answers? Yeah, And in fact, we prefer wrong answers.

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Speaker 1: We prefer answers that you haven't even thought about. That's

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00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: how quick they're coming out of your mouth. All right, Jabari,

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Speaker 1: would you like to do the honors and take the

746
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: first question? Sure you don't want to go Yeah, no,

747
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: I'll take it. That's right, Um, all right, Ryan, if

748
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,479
Speaker 1: you could bet on any So we were recently talking

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Speaker 1: about how the Pacers had somebody hit layup, pre throw,

750
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: free pointer, half court shot and they won five dollars

751
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: for hitting all those shots in a row, because I

752
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: guess they have high expectations for for their shot making

753
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: ability in the state of Indiana. If you could bet

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00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 1: on any fan base to make the in arena challenge shots,

755
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: which fan base are you betting on? Houston man in

756
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Speaker 1: the crowd? What are you now? If you're expanding outside

757
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: the world of sports to just any fan base, can

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00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: be Star Wars fan base, start t fan base, UM,

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00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:14,720
Speaker 1: Olympic darts, Olympic archery. I probably say I probably say

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Speaker 1: the golfers and offers have an eye for the ball.

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00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: They have a good eye. I think a golfer would

762
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: would would knock the shot down. Definitely translates with Steph.

763
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: He's got that pretty that pretty swing and the ability

764
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: to He's a pretty good shooter too. I think I

765
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: take Tiger. I take Tiger over Brady and it just

766
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Speaker 1: make that shot. Oh, that's yeah. We should we should

767
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,240
Speaker 1: change this question to be about like other athletes athletes,

768
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Speaker 1: which athletes should you? Would you take? But you've never

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Speaker 1: seen shoot shoot a basketball before? If a golfer does it,

770
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: do you have to do the golf clapper? Can you accordingly?

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Speaker 1: They drained half, They secretly want to just turn up

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Speaker 1: they want it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, Bran,

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Speaker 1: if you get all I have to ask is if

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Speaker 1: you could just keep us going. You know, we we

775
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: we slowed down there that that question took a lot

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Speaker 1: longer than what we're The standard is here. If you

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Speaker 1: don't mind, I appreciate it. So I'm coming to you

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Speaker 1: with this basketball refer Oh boy, basketball reference has yours.

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Speaker 1: Oh you knew fake news. So for the for the

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Speaker 1: benefit of the listeners, you know, feel free to let

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Speaker 1: Google be your friend. But Basketball Reference has Brian's nickname

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Speaker 1: as Booty Call. Can you shed some light on the

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Speaker 1: origin of that, or if it's not safe for this podcast,

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Speaker 1: can you give us some other really good Oh Tony

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Speaker 1: Tony Allen. It's one of those homies that you have

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Speaker 1: that doesn't know and like sign if he don't got

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Speaker 1: nothing to say, like he just feels like he always

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Speaker 1: has to say something. He's that and he's that friend.

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Speaker 1: He was doing an interview Ryan Honna is playing great

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Speaker 1: for you guys. He's showing up. He's been here through camp.

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Speaker 1: You know. He comes in, he doesn't miss a beat.

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Speaker 1: What what do you guys? What do you have to

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Speaker 1: say about him? Kill? We called him the call, We

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Speaker 1: call him he ready to go to Why would you

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Speaker 1: say that? I have never been called that in the

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Speaker 1: locker room or my life, and most importantly I have children,

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Speaker 1: So basketball reference, you're gonna get a defamation lawsuit from

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Speaker 1: me if you don't change that soon. Kids, Man, what's

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Speaker 1: wrong with it? I've never been called that in my life. Man. Listen, listen,

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Speaker 1: come on to me and call you that. Call me

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Speaker 1: that if you like, and we'll see how that ends

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Speaker 1: up your Nighteings and my Night's equivalent of like microwave

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Speaker 1: from the eighties, the modern equivalent of booty call. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: when you call, he's ready to go. Um. Anthony Edwards

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Speaker 1: recently acknowledged a three bag per day habit of hot

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Speaker 1: Cheetos fries. What was your wildest eating habit when you

807
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Speaker 1: were a young athlete, and what was the wildest thing

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Speaker 1: you witnessed diet wise when you were in the league.

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Speaker 1: I was told at my eating was equivalent to an

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Speaker 1: NFL defensive tackle. Um, I couldn't gain a pound. My

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Speaker 1: metabolism is just ridiculous. You called it the gift and

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Speaker 1: the curse. I can eat anything I want. And the

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Speaker 1: joke would be that instead of like dessert, I would

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Speaker 1: just order more food for dessert like treis Um eating habit.

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Speaker 1: My boy, shout out Adam Morrison before the game, he

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Speaker 1: would eat like a like a six ounce six or

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Speaker 1: eight ount steak, full mashed potailoes, everything before an NBA

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Speaker 1: game as a rookie. And Jabari's stomach just turned as

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Speaker 1: he thought about that and then going to the game

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Speaker 1: and play, and he was like that was his thing.

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Speaker 1: And he'd go into the our little like entertainment room

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Speaker 1: and he'd eat it. Where where's he's just like ordering

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Speaker 1: in from like Morton's to the to the It would

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Speaker 1: kind of make it for him and bring it with

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Speaker 1: like a little top on like it was this thing.

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Speaker 1: It was the It was the oddest. Adam did it

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Speaker 1: and he lived by it. And yeah, all right, keeping

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Speaker 1: it going, we'd all star are weakened in mind. We've

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Speaker 1: asked this question, you know, several different ways, but I'll

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Speaker 1: come to you it. Actually I'm gonna remix it a

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Speaker 1: little bit. You can put together four dunkers all time.

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Speaker 1: Give me your four dunkers, Joel Green, Aaron Gordon, Okay,

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Speaker 1: see where you going, Zach Levine and um m M

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Speaker 1: number four. I'll say so No Jordan's no fence, no VC,

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Speaker 1: I'll go VC. Okay, like honestly, like we just rocked

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Speaker 1: with Bean and Mike. They was doing stuff. He's seen

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Speaker 1: guys jump further like an honorable mention, Nate, Nate Robinson,

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Speaker 1: honorable benching Like like Nate, like I could slide Nate

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Speaker 1: in there because he brought he brought the energy with it.

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Speaker 1: He was little. We could rock. We were shout out

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Speaker 1: Nate Robinson. Man all right. And then similarly, same same

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Speaker 1: time machine that we just brought those players from their

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00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,439
Speaker 1: prime with, you can now get in that time machine

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Speaker 1: go back and watch any single NBA game from throughout

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Speaker 1: history in person. Which game are you choosing? I could

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Speaker 1: watch any game in history, Um NBA game, I think

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Speaker 1: that I want to see the Malice of the Palace dog. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean not not a finals game, not a serious

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Speaker 1: matchup at down the stretch of a season, down the

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Speaker 1: playoff put a game in like November. Okay, my mind

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00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: went and said, let me see Magic jump Center, you know,

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Speaker 1: and the sky hook and and then I was like

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Speaker 1: yo that like yo, like the brawl like in person,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be fighting, and I don't. I

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Speaker 1: just want to watch like, oh he just went he's

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Speaker 1: in the hands, like I think like seeing it, like

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Speaker 1: the people up close and personal got a different view. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd say that was one of the more interactive fan

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Speaker 1: experiences that we got history experience. Forgive me, guys, no, no,

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Speaker 1: all right. Then finally we have a question that we

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Speaker 1: ask everybody. Is it going to be Jack or Jabari

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00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: for what you gotta pick? And I'm not leading the

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Speaker 1: witness at all. I'm just you know, you know Jack,

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Speaker 1: that guy or you know me. I'll go to Jabari. Man,

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Speaker 1: we break streaks here. We are here to break streaks,

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Speaker 1: so like there's no rhyme or reason. I just had

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Speaker 1: to pick one of you whatever. And Jack was on

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00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: at least a three streak. Yeah, Jabari, you sold it slightly.

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00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: I didn't. I did. If you want to change your mind,

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00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: that's fine. My mind went there. You listen, we said,

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00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 1: don't even think about it. You clearly didn't, UM when

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00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: you made your decision. That's that's fine. Ryan Holland, has

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00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: been such a pleasure having you on the show. Uh

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00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 1: for like percent of the show, such a pleasure. You

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00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: nailed it and then, but thank you so much. Where

876
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: where can people you know find you? Follow you here?

877
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: You all that good stuff? First off, my my day

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00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 1: job is with the Houston Rockets. Shout out for the Rockets, Um,

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00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: color commentator. I'm living the dream. I can't believe they

880
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: still allow me in the building. I wasn't supposed to

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00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: be there as a player, and now I get to

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00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:31,839
Speaker 1: be there as an analyst and get to talk about

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00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: the game that I love. So I'm having to blast

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00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 1: myself and Craig Acroman just have fun on the broadcast

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00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: and NBA Rookie life. You gotta check out a pot

886
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 1: it just started. It it's a short, it's a fun listen. Um,

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00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get NBA's future stars on, have those young

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00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: guys on talking about their experience and what they're going

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00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 1: through as rookies. I'm gonna have some of the o

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Speaker 1: G the Legend of Veterans on. I'm talking about their

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00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: rookie experience, and I think people need to know what

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00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 1: these young guys go through. Imagine, imagine like dreaming about something,

893
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,240
Speaker 1: you live through that dream. So just kind of getting

894
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: these guys, and I think it'd be real fun as

895
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: the pod developed to look back and hear some of

896
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 1: these guys how excited that we were, how bright they were,

897
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: and uh, we we have some fun with him. But

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's really cool and you can check it

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Speaker 1: out anywhere through my heart and the NBA. So I

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00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: am a blessed happy man to sit around and talk basketball. Man. Guys,

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00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: you know we could we could do this a lot longer,

902
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: Like I really really like basketball. Yeah, man, this was

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00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: really fun. Thank you. We are happy men to have

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Speaker 1: had you on. You don't sound happy, Jack, You know

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00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 1: I took that loss a little hard. I'm not. I'm

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00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: not gonna lie to you. I'm choking back a sob

907
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,919
Speaker 1: as you can see, I mean the listeners can't see,

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00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: but there are tears streaming down my face. But that's

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00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: you know, that's normal. It's normal. It's it's what happens

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00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: sometimes when you lose um. But yeah, honestly, Bryan, thank

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00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 1: you so much. What anytime, guys, huge fans and you know,

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00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: keep up, keep up the work, seriously, keep it up,

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Speaker 1: keep going. Man. We did we had hoop talk. Is

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Speaker 1: it keeps our spore going? Awesome? Man, We'll certainly try

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Speaker 1: all right, Ryan arab Boost. These listeners of the week

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Speaker 1: were Paul Garaventa, Uh one of the greats for making

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Speaker 1: sure we saw an absolute bomb from Dame where it

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00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: wasn't even like the shot clock was running down. He

919
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: was just like, so you're not gonna guard me out here. Look,

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00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: we've seen long shots before, but he was legitimately standing

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Speaker 1: just inside the half court him, him and step to that.

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00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:37,879
Speaker 1: At the All Star Game a couple of years back,

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Speaker 1: when they were just like trading mid court shots, just

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00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 1: casually pulling up and drilling them every time, was that

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00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: last season? That was last year, last year of the

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Speaker 1: year for yeah, it was recent, but this was like

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Speaker 1: an actual game. So yeah, I appreciate how the players

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Speaker 1: just continue to push the boundaries of what we thought.

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Speaker 1: You know, what we once thought the game you should

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Speaker 1: or or did look yeah? So you can follow us

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Speaker 1: on Twitter at Matt boost These. We are back next

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Speaker 1: week with a whole another episode of the show. Until then,

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Speaker 1: Bye bye, happy NBA. Watching this has been Jack and

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Speaker 1: Jabari signing out. I don't know how to sign out

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Speaker 1: like it. I just want to keep talking. This is

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Speaker 1: I don't mean to laugh. I'm laughing because you said

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Speaker 1: bye bye by my and my famous sign off, bye

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Speaker 1: bye