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Speaker 1: I hope all of you guys are having a great

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Speaker 1: week so far. Today is my last full day on

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Speaker 1: we're doing a mail bag. UM. I sent out the

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Speaker 1: This one is and I'm gonna butcher some names today,

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Speaker 1: tem Pacas. I'm guessing that's a Greek name. Why is

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Speaker 1: there so much disrespect on the best NBA player? Janice

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Speaker 1: antenna coupo by other players. For example, what Andrea Guadala said, Now,

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Speaker 1: this is a recurring phenomenon throughout NBA history. Janice isn't

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Speaker 1: your favorite players. Like I have a one legged fade

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Speaker 1: away that I use that originated from Dirk. The one

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Speaker 1: that I use is kind of more like what Kevin

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Speaker 1: Durant does, but that's that's a move that I saw

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Speaker 1: in video from those guys, went in the gym, worked

431
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Speaker 1: on a hundreds of times to learn how to do it.

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Speaker 1: My fade away over my right shoulder and left shoulder.

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Speaker 1: I watched Kobe Bryant film. I swing my right leg

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Speaker 1: around when I fade over my left shoulder to try

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Speaker 1: to square a square up in mid air. That took

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Speaker 1: a ton of footwork reps. Learned that from Kobe Bryant,

437
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Speaker 1: watching tape, going in the gym, and working on it.

438
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Speaker 1: I have a very very deep arsenal of different step

439
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Speaker 1: back threes off of various trible combinations. Those are mostly

440
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Speaker 1: from uh from James Harden. My other dribble combination threes

441
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Speaker 1: are like Paul George, you know my form. When I'm

442
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Speaker 1: working on my jump shot form, I try to replicate

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Speaker 1: Clay Thompson as much as possible, like everybody's got a

444
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Speaker 1: a bunch of of of players that they that they

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Speaker 1: look to as basically a um uh like a blueprint

446
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Speaker 1: for how to develop your own skill set. And mine

447
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Speaker 1: has always been a combination of those things. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you went to the gym and you watched me play

449
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Speaker 1: pick up, the guy that I probably resemble the most

450
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Speaker 1: to you is like a Paul George. I'm a guy

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Speaker 1: that uh is. I I dribble the basketball a lot um.

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Speaker 1: I'm mostly a scorer. I I go to off the

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Speaker 1: dribble three's often, but I have the ability to slash

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Speaker 1: to the basket and finish above the rim. Um not

455
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Speaker 1: as athletic because I was when I was younger. When

456
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Speaker 1: I was younger, I was about two hundred five pounds

457
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Speaker 1: and I could get my head at the rim. Now

458
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Speaker 1: it's I'm a few inches below the rim. I way

459
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Speaker 1: two pounds more of a back to the basket. I

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Speaker 1: can use that more back to the basket type of stuff.

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Speaker 1: But I tried to do everything like I try to

462
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Speaker 1: be multifaceted. I try to have floaters and scoop shots

463
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Speaker 1: and and back to the basket stuff, off the dribble stuff,

464
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Speaker 1: and I when I play with my men's league team

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Speaker 1: on Sunday's. I play with a couple of really good guards,

466
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Speaker 1: so I work a lot of my off the ball

467
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Speaker 1: shooting moving and shooting moving without the basketball, cutting things

468
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Speaker 1: along those lines. I'm obsessed with the game. I know again,

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Speaker 1: I'm never gonna get paid again, ord or if I do,

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Speaker 1: I have to convince my wife that I'm gonna leave

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Speaker 1: her for a little bit. Um. But I the reality

472
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Speaker 1: is is to me, it's just fun. I love the

473
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Speaker 1: I I love the process of becoming the best basketball

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Speaker 1: player that I can be, even though it doesn't really

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Speaker 1: result in anything. Um. From a money standpoint, Um, this

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Speaker 1: is from Vic your opinion on the mid season tournament.

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Speaker 1: I don't see any value at all, But maybe you do,

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Speaker 1: And do you think play in is a fair way

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Speaker 1: to decide the playoff spots. I actually like to play

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Speaker 1: in tournament. It's high stakes, it's it's a rescue path

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Speaker 1: for teams to deal with injuries over the course of

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Speaker 1: the season. No issue with the play in tournament. The

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Speaker 1: mid season tournament, I think is stupid. I don't think

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to get guys to care about it.

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Speaker 1: My main issue there, too, is like it's beating around

486
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Speaker 1: the bush and failing to acknowledge the reality of the situation.

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Speaker 1: You guys know, I'm big on self awareness. I'm big

488
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Speaker 1: on admitting when things are not good. And the the

489
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Speaker 1: reality is is the league as an urgency problem if

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Speaker 1: you have just to make the math easy. If you're

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Speaker 1: getting a million people to watch an average regular season

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Speaker 1: NBA game that's on national television, and the numbers are

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Speaker 1: different than that, but I'm just trying to keep the

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Speaker 1: math easy. If it's a million um and you're dealing

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Speaker 1: with everything that we're dealing with now, You're dealing with

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Speaker 1: stars sitting out because of load management. You're dealing with

497
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Speaker 1: injuries causing problems. You're dealing with back to backs and

498
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Speaker 1: scat dual losses and all of these different things that

499
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Speaker 1: are that are upsetting the product to the point now

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Speaker 1: where your t n T Thursday slate is almost always

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Speaker 1: involving at least one of the core teams missing players,

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Speaker 1: if not all four of them, you know, on a

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Speaker 1: typical at TNT Thursday night, it's a problem. That's the issue.

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Speaker 1: So to me, if you can get it from one

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Speaker 1: million viewers to one point five million viewers, again, I'm

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Speaker 1: just using that for easy math. Then that allows you

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Speaker 1: to cut down in the number of games and maintain

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Speaker 1: the amount of revenue as it pertains to what the

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Speaker 1: advertising eyeballs um that the broadcast companies can get. So

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Speaker 1: my thing is like, I would shorten the season down

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Speaker 1: to sixty sixty sixty six games probably, um, I think

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Speaker 1: if you did that, you can get down to three

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Speaker 1: games per per week. Every single week you have at

514
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Speaker 1: least one stretch where you have two consecutive days off.

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Speaker 1: If you did that, that basically bakes in load management

516
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Speaker 1: automatically into the schedule. It's far more likely that the

517
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Speaker 1: ours will play in all the games. You'll be able

518
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Speaker 1: to have more practice time, the overall quality of play

519
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Speaker 1: will be way better. The nationally televised games will have

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Speaker 1: the stars on the floor more frequently. It will lead

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Speaker 1: to an increase in ratings. It will get people to

522
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Speaker 1: buy into the regular season. It also breeds urgency. The

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Speaker 1: sixty six games makes each game worth you know what's

524
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Speaker 1: at roughly fift percent more right, roughly more so. At

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Speaker 1: that point, you're you're you're in. You're basically injecting a

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Speaker 1: ton of good and the prices You're cutting sixteen games

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Speaker 1: from the schedule, right, Obviously that's a significant revenue loss.

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Speaker 1: But if it's a revenue loss, they're all you need

529
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Speaker 1: is a increase in the quality of the product that

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Speaker 1: will eventually manifest in the viewership needed to recoup those losses.

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Speaker 1: To me, the mid season tournament is a bizarre attempt

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Speaker 1: to address that issue by adding games, which doesn't make

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Speaker 1: any sense to me. I obviously I think that I

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Speaker 1: think the plan would shorten the regular season to seventy

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Speaker 1: two games and then add the mid season tournament. I

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Speaker 1: don't see the point shorten it to sixty six. You'll

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Speaker 1: get high quality basketball. Higher quality basketball is what we'll

538
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Speaker 1: save the NBA. The NBA playoffs are super interesting. You

539
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 1: want more of that. You want more high stakes, high

540
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: energy NBA games involving the stars. If you do the

541
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Speaker 1: mid season tournament, you're gonna have the exact same issue

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Speaker 1: with stars sitting out key national, nationally televised games. Um.

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Speaker 1: This is from defaust your reaction to Grant williams comments

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Speaker 1: on the finals from the long Shot podcast A quick

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Speaker 1: hitter here you has. Grant Williams basically just said I

546
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Speaker 1: think we were the better team. They were more disciplined. Yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: that's what I've been saying. However, what qualifies as a

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Speaker 1: good basketball team, Like, I don't think better is the

549
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Speaker 1: right phrase to to explain what Grant Williams is saying.

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Speaker 1: If I was Grant Williams, what I would say is

551
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Speaker 1: I think we were the more talented team, which is true.

552
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Speaker 1: Guys like hey Steph Curry just want a championship with

553
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Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins as the second best player. That was not

554
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Speaker 1: an ultra talented Warriors team. They were talented. They certainly

555
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 1: weren't devoid of talent. Ut they outkicked their coverage because

556
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Speaker 1: they're extraordinarily well, extraordinarily well run from the top down.

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Speaker 1: They have an owner is willing to spend, general manager

558
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Speaker 1: actually knows how to build a modern NBA roster around

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Speaker 1: switchy wings that can do the dirty work, a very

560
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: good basketball coach, their superstars, a fantastic leader and is

561
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Speaker 1: the second best player in the league in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: and then all the guys down the roster were completely

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Speaker 1: bought into the role, very discipline, very smart basketball players.

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Speaker 1: That's why they won. That to me though, makes them

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Speaker 1: the better basketball team. So I instead of saying Grant

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Speaker 1: instead of what Grant Williams said, which is we were

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Speaker 1: the better team, the Warriors were the more disciplined team.

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Speaker 1: I would say the Celtics were the more talented team,

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Speaker 1: the Warriors were the better team. But at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, that's just all semantics. Who cares the

571
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Speaker 1: Warriors have the trophy. This is from my friend Joe JT.

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Speaker 1: Do you think there is any way possible Russ actually

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Speaker 1: is on the team for the first game of the

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Speaker 1: regular season? Thanks, I don't think so. I've talked to

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Speaker 1: some people who would are who are connected with the situation,

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Speaker 1: and they say that that's the top priority all the

577
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Speaker 1: positive Russ talk out there strictly for Leve Ridge. Here's

578
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Speaker 1: the reality situation. It's the same issue with the Kevin

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Speaker 1: Durant thing. You know, like Kevin, Shawn Marks and Josi

580
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: are sick of being in the business of dealing with

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant Kyrie Irving. Why is that they're basketball fans.

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Speaker 1: They want to see a quality basketball product and the

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Speaker 1: product out there on the court wasn't good enough for them,

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Speaker 1: and they believe that Katie and Kyrie were distracting from that. Right,

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Speaker 1: So why would you bring them back into training camp

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Speaker 1: and expect to breed a new basketball focus with Kyrie

587
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Speaker 1: who wants out and has beef with the front office,

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Speaker 1: and Kevin Duray who wants out so and may or

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Speaker 1: may not have beef with Kyrie at this point, like

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Speaker 1: we don't know right So at the end of the day,

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00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: like bringing something like that to training camp immediately derails

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Speaker 1: your attempts to start the season on a good note.

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Speaker 1: This is why I'm not a huge fan of of

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Speaker 1: monumental mid season trades, like mid season trades involving stars, like,

595
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Speaker 1: don't wait to the deadline to make a deal, make

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Speaker 1: the deal in the off season. Because if you can

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Speaker 1: get into training camp and sit down on that first

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Speaker 1: day and Darvin ham can go up to the white

599
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Speaker 1: board and he can write, here are team identity. This

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Speaker 1: is our team identity. These are our rules, these are

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Speaker 1: our goals. This is the tone we're gonna set. And

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00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: from day one you established that and everyone is bought in.

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Speaker 1: That's how you get seasons like the two Warriors or

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, who from the start of the regular season

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Speaker 1: are just whipping everybody's ass. Like the Warriors started eleven

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Speaker 1: and one I think right or fourteen and one, and

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00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: the Lakers started twenty four and three. You know, like

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Speaker 1: they were incredibly dominant from the start of the season

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Speaker 1: because from the opening moment of training camp they were

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Speaker 1: just completely and totally locked in bringing Russell Westbrook back

611
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Speaker 1: when everyone knows you've been trying to move him with

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Speaker 1: all of the issues that he's having. All that does

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Speaker 1: is kick your season off on the wrong note. So

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Speaker 1: I would be absolutely stunned if the Lakers brought Rust back.

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Speaker 1: My guess is if they struggle to trade him, that

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Speaker 1: he'll be waived or or something along those lines bought out. UM,

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Speaker 1: this is from George. I think Ham is now Lebron's

618
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Speaker 1: eighth coach in the NBA. Any advice for him, especially

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Speaker 1: being a head coach for the first time. He won

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Speaker 1: with Vogel, but he but seems he tuned him out

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Speaker 1: in just two seasons after that. UM. A couple of things.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Lebron's in his twenties season, so I

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Speaker 1: don't think if, like, if Lebron tunes him out when

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Speaker 1: he's in his twenty second season, that's who cares. At

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Speaker 1: this point. The idea of of a group buying into

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Speaker 1: a coach and then eventually buying out. That's just normal.

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00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: It's it's fatigue. Any time that a person is in

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Speaker 1: a leadership role over you and they have disciplinary authority

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Speaker 1: over you, it can get fatiguing. That that will happen

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Speaker 1: in every workplace. That's why people like changes the scenery.

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Speaker 1: That's why you look for a new gig at your job,

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00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: or you look to transfer to a different location or

633
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: things along those lines. You just it's authority fatigue. So

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00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: that that's normal. Um, I don't have I'm Darvin Ham

635
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: already has way more coaching experience than I could ever have.

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Speaker 1: So there's nothing that I could offer Darvin Ham advice.

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Speaker 1: My opinion on coaching based on my brief coaching experience

638
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: with high school kids and being around all the college

639
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,959
Speaker 1: coaches that I was around in my life, my opinion is,

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Speaker 1: don't be be be reticent of of clinging to your

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Speaker 1: core philosophy. Basketball is it can be played, coached, taught

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Speaker 1: in so many different ways. I've never tried to tell

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Speaker 1: you guys that my belief system about basketball is the

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Speaker 1: you know, the the unimpeachable, perfect way to go about

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Speaker 1: the game basketball. It's just my belief. This is the

646
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Speaker 1: way that I see the game, this is the way

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Speaker 1: that I coach, this is the way that I would

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Speaker 1: manage a team, or this is the way that I

649
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Speaker 1: would coach in the NBA, or this is the way

650
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Speaker 1: that I would play in the NBA. That's just my opinion.

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Speaker 1: That's all it is. You know. So with with coaching,

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Speaker 1: you have your core philosophy, which is what I just described,

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Speaker 1: But then you have your roster, and your roster is

654
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Speaker 1: gonna have distinct strengths and weaknesses, and it's far more

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Speaker 1: important for you to cater your coaching philosophy towards your

656
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Speaker 1: strengths and away from your weaknesses than it is for

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Speaker 1: you to inflict your core philosophy on people like for instance,

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Speaker 1: you guys know, I'm huge on switching. I hate traditional bigs.

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Speaker 1: I I'm a big I'm a big believer in um

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Speaker 1: in uh. I'm a big believer in driving kick five

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Speaker 1: out basketball, not having someone in the dunker spot. I'm

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Speaker 1: a big believer in in targeting players that are you know, bigger,

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Speaker 1: rim pressuring type of guys. You guys know how I

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Speaker 1: see the game. But if I was running the Lakers

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Speaker 1: this year, I would look at it like, we don't

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Speaker 1: have great wings. We have Anthony Davis and two pretty

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Speaker 1: solid backup center type of players, right, and I've got

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Speaker 1: Lebron James, and then I've got a boatload of small,

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Speaker 1: thin guards. So I don't know that we can do

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Speaker 1: a ton of switching with this group. So even though

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Speaker 1: my core philosophy is to switch, I think you gotta

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Speaker 1: run drop coverage with this group, and you've got to

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Speaker 1: try to funnel everybody to Anthony Davis. You might even

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Speaker 1: have to play big and keep Anthony Davis at the

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00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,879
Speaker 1: four a lot because we don't have enough. They don't

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Speaker 1: have enough guys on the roster that are six six

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Speaker 1: or taller. Right, So it's very important for my core

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Speaker 1: basketball philosophy not to cause me to inflict a poor

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Speaker 1: strategy on my group. And so it'll be really interesting

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Speaker 1: to see. And we don't know what the final roster

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Speaker 1: is gonna look like with the Lakers, but you know,

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Speaker 1: let's let's take a look at how Darvin Ham cultivates

683
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Speaker 1: his personal basketball philosophy but adjust it and and changes

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Speaker 1: it to fit with the group of guys that he

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Speaker 1: has with the Lakers. Uh. This is from King Control

686
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: who's the best Lebron James teammate, Dwayne Wade, Kyrie Rivering

687
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Speaker 1: or Anthony Davis not peak just when they were playing together.

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00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 1: To me, this is so cut and drives. Anthony Davis um.

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Speaker 1: Lebron James won four championships, He's won ten conference championships.

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Speaker 1: I have never ever seen him get consistent support the

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Speaker 1: way that he did from Anthony Davis. I have never

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Speaker 1: seen the game look is easy for him as it

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Speaker 1: did in alongside that group. Largely because of what Anthony

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Speaker 1: Davis does. The first three championships that Lebron James wont

695
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Speaker 1: to have become massively underrated over the years because you

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Speaker 1: think of the Wade Bosh Heat as like a super team,

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Speaker 1: and you think of the Kyrie Kevin love Calves as

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Speaker 1: a super team. They weren't. Uh. The Miami Heat were

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Speaker 1: a bona fide super team in the first season in

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Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, which is why that two thousand eleven

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Speaker 1: finals was such a disappointed collapse. But after that, Dwyane

702
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: Wade fell off a cliff, just wasn't even close to

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Speaker 1: the same player, especially by the time they got to

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Speaker 1: the postseason, and Chris Bosh, you know, in in that

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Speaker 1: third role, was never really a reliable score and by

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Speaker 1: the end was basically just to stretch big, not undercutting

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Speaker 1: what those guys did in their careers. It's just the

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Speaker 1: reality of what that Miami Heat team was. The two

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Speaker 1: thousand twelve two thousand thirteen Heat were a lot closer

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Speaker 1: to the two thousand twenty two Warriors. Very well coached,

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Speaker 1: very well run, very body, very disciplined, very smart, but

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Speaker 1: they weren't the most talented team. That's why the two

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Speaker 1: thousand twelve Thunder were picked as the favorites in Vegas

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Speaker 1: to win the two thousand twelve Finals. That's why them,

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Speaker 1: That's why the two thousand thirteen Spurs were the favorites

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Speaker 1: in the two thousand thirteen finals. No one viewed the

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00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: Heat is high talent. The same goes with the Calves.

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving basically a scoring guard that's undersized, not great defensively,

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Speaker 1: and Kevin Love was was just downright bad a lot

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Speaker 1: of the time when he was in Cleveland. So like

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Speaker 1: to me, the two thousand twenty Lakers with this real

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Speaker 1: bona fide top tier superstar next to next to Lebron,

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Speaker 1: with really quality role players, that was his best team.

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Speaker 1: That was their most comfortable and easy playoff run. As

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Speaker 1: a result of that, Anthony Davis was by far the

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Speaker 1: best player that he played with. UM, let's see we

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Speaker 1: had time for a few more here. This is from Joe.

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Speaker 1: What's your opinion on the Denver Nuggets. You haven't talked

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Speaker 1: about them much yet, so I'm curious. I think they're

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Speaker 1: top four team in the league in the West when

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Speaker 1: they're healthy. Absolutely, I absolutely think they're top four. I'd

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Speaker 1: actually put them there behind the Clippers. Um, if the

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Speaker 1: Lakers do close the Kyrie Irving deal, I put the

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Speaker 1: I put Kyrie Irving above them. But I'm a huge

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Speaker 1: believer in what dever does. I love the k CP signing.

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Speaker 1: I think KCP is going to be a fantastic fit

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Speaker 1: alongside that group. I think he's a better defensive player

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Speaker 1: than Will Barton, and even though I don't think he's

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00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: as skilled offensively, particularly putting the basketball on the floor,

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Speaker 1: I do think he's better at specific things that he'll

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Speaker 1: need to do alongside Jamal Murray and Nickeola Yogis. That's

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00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: spot up shooting and slashing. KCP is actually sneaky, one

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Speaker 1: of the best close out attackers in the league because

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Speaker 1: he's such a good one leg leaper. It's really good

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00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: at jumping off of his left leg, and that's a

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Speaker 1: specific skill for extension um. When you're being pursued by

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Speaker 1: a shot blocker, you want to get the ball to

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Speaker 1: the rim as fast as possible. He's very, very good

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Speaker 1: at um, not only knocking down spot up threes, but

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Speaker 1: beating closeouts, ripping through to the right and finishing with

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Speaker 1: his right hand lay up off the glass. He made

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00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: a ton of huge plays in the NBA Finals that

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Speaker 1: that we're a huge part of why the Lakers won

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Speaker 1: the title. I thought it was a great get for Denver.

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00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: Loved the the extension that they signed for him as well.

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00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: He's worth every penny. Loved that deal. Michael Porter Jr's

757
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: health is obviously a concern, but just the core of

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00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray with Nikola Yo Kitchen, Aaron Gordon, I don't

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00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,439
Speaker 1: know why they picked DeAndre Jordan's I have no idea

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00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 1: why DeAndre Jordan keeps getting deals. I asked some people

761
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: about it in Vegas, and the people that were all

762
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: plugged in and connected say it's because DeAndre Jordan's excellent

763
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: in the locker room. Maybe that's what it is, but

764
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Speaker 1: I mean he'll probably end up playing minutes, so but

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Speaker 1: I'm just being nitpicky there. I think Denver is easily

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Speaker 1: the third best team in the West, absolutely in that

767
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: second tier of contenders where if some things break right,

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Speaker 1: they can win. I would I would just put the

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Speaker 1: Lakers ahead of them if they got Kyrie. This is

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Speaker 1: from Kevin. What do you think is the biggest problem

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00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: basketball wise with the NBA today? Um. I talked about

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00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: it a little earlier with the with players being available,

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Speaker 1: but in terms of like the actual product, the on

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Speaker 1: court product, I would probably go with officiating and fali bating.

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00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: I'm not going to dive into that right now because

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Speaker 1: it's something I've talked about a lot over the course

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Speaker 1: of the playoffs, but the league needs the league needs

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Speaker 1: to find a way to incentivize players playing basketball rather

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Speaker 1: than trying to dupe the referees. It'll just make for

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Speaker 1: a better television products, which will increase the ratings and honestly,

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00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: it's basketball blasphemy and I think it's bad for the game. Um.

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Speaker 1: The one thing I would say in terms of overall

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Speaker 1: basketball development, just in general, I think that players especially

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00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:31,760
Speaker 1: in the youth basses in youth basketball are not building

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00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: well rounded enough basketball skill sets, particularly in the mid

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Speaker 1: range and the short range. UM. You know, there's a

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00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: good reason why analytics is the analytics movement has dissuaded

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Speaker 1: teams from being heavily rely heavily relying on mid range

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Speaker 1: jump shooting. I get all of that um, but every

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00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: time the league does anything, the league involves with it.

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00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,720
Speaker 1: If you look at offensive ratings throughout NBA history, average

792
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: offensive ratings, they kind of cycle up and they cycled down.

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Speaker 1: They cycle up and they cycled down. And the main

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00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: reason why is physicality from the refs, like how much

795
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Speaker 1: the refs allow, what how liberal they are with the whistle.

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Speaker 1: But another big part of it is the defenses evolved too.

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00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: The offense can come up with, you know, high volume

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Speaker 1: three point shooting, five out attack, all these different things

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Speaker 1: to try to generate quality offense in the NBA, and

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Speaker 1: it will work for a little while, but then the

801
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: defense will adjust. And one of the big things that

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00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 1: you're seeing a lot right now is in the same

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Speaker 1: way that offenses are geared towards generating high quality three

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00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: point shots and high quality rim attempts, the NBA defenses

805
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: are giving up driving lanes at the expense of chasing

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00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: guys off the three point line. So if you have

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Speaker 1: a good funneling system. The Utah Jazz are actually really

808
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 1: good at this in the regular season before all the

809
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: before they got blown up. But the idea is there

810
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Speaker 1: is if you can chase the guy off the three

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Speaker 1: point line and you've got Rudy Gobert waiting under the basket,

812
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: and as long as that guard can then rotate to

813
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: the next guy, you're fine. Everything's covered. And so now

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Speaker 1: there's this big opening in the middle of the floor

815
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: between five feet and where there's just nothing going on.

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00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 1: There's not a whole lot of defense. Their rotation is

817
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,399
Speaker 1: not even trying to pick you up there, and so

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00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: there's a shortage. There's an area of opportunity there for

819
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: the best midrange scorers in the league to get high

820
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 1: quality shots. When you look at the math, yes, a

821
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Speaker 1: wide open three simply mathematically is worth so much more

822
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Speaker 1: than a wide open midrange jump shot that it makes

823
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: no sense to take the mid range jump shot. But

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00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 1: if all of the three point shots are contested, because

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00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: that's what the defense is geared towards, taking away and

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Speaker 1: the rim is occupied. Then the mid range shots, even

827
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: though in a vacuum they're less valuable, if they're open

828
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Speaker 1: higher quality shots, the shot quality goes through the roof,

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Speaker 1: and those might actually be your best shots. I I'd

830
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: like to see more young basketball players building out the

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Speaker 1: well rounded game because you don't know what's going to

832
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: happen over the course of of the over the years,

833
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 1: while you're trying to get to the league, how the

834
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: game might change. You might need to be good at

835
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: a specific thing, and you don't want to be caught,

836
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: you know, with your pants down in the league because

837
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: you're not ready for it. Um. So I would like

838
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: to see players get a little bit better in the

839
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Speaker 1: mid range. Um. This is from Leo. Why do you

840
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 1: think MJ is the goat? I agree he is the goat,

841
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,760
Speaker 1: better score, better defender, and more of a team player

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Speaker 1: in terms of fitting in a scheme than Lebron. So

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00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: to me, I disagree on a handful of levels. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think MJ is a more polished score. Lebron is

845
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: a more effective score. I actually think Lebron is a

846
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: better defensive player in terms of his versatility. But make

847
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: no mistake, the UH The reality is, is the results

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00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: favor Michael Jordan's. There's an argument there that that is

849
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Speaker 1: almost unbeatable. If you've won six championships in eight years

850
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: and you're so much better than all of your peers

851
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: that just to mention one of them in your name,

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Speaker 1: in the same sentence with your name is like blasphemy.

853
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: Like if someone said to you, I thought Hakim was

854
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: better than Jordan, you laugh them out of the room.

855
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: If someone said I thought Charles Barkley was better than Jordan's,

856
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: you'd laugh them out of the room. If they said

857
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: that about any of the half dozen players that were

858
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 1: competing with MJ at the top of the league that time,

859
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: none of them were even in the same breath. And

860
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: I thought Lebron was the best player of this era,

861
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 1: and the vast majority of people would agree, But there

862
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: were significant stretches where it was like, hey, Katie's kind

863
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: of right there, or hey STEP's kind of right there,

864
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: Hey Janice is kind of right there, right like the

865
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: Lebron only really in the I would say two thousand twelve,

866
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen, and then maybe two thousand, seventeen thousand eighteen,

867
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: depending on who you ask. There, I don't ever really

868
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: there wasn't really a consistent stretch where he was just

869
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: monumentally better than everybody. And so to me, that's not

870
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: something that i'd hold against MJ. Like Lebron Vans will

871
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: be like, that's because MJ played worst competition. Your competition

872
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: is your competition, and the reality is is MJ could

873
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: have worked hard enough to just be a little bit

874
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 1: better than those guys. That's not what happened. He worked

875
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:07,879
Speaker 1: so psychotically hard that he was monumentally better than all

876
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 1: of them, and as a result, he had the most

877
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: dominant run in modern NBA history six championships and eight tries.

878
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: You guys know him. A huge Lebron fan. Lebron got

879
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,280
Speaker 1: me to fall in love with the game of basketball.

880
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: That's literally why I do what I do. I was

881
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: raised on baseball and football. I saw Lebron playing basketball

882
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six, fell in love with the game.

883
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: I've given it everything I've had for the almost two

884
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:34,240
Speaker 1: decades since then. That's how much I respect Lebron. Huge

885
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,399
Speaker 1: fan of his. He's not He's not m J. He's

886
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: he wasn't his dominant, he wasn't the level of player

887
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: that he was Lebron very well might be a better

888
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: basketball player, And as the game has evolved, I'd probably

889
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,320
Speaker 1: say that's true. Lebron is probably a better player. Have

890
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 1: you plucked the peak of Lebron versus the peak of MJ?

891
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: But the game of basketball is evolving. MJ was so

892
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: far ahead of the curve that he was dominant. Lebron

893
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 1: was slightly ahead of the curve and was slightly less dominent.

894
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: To me, he's the second best player of all time.

895
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: He'd have to win one or two more and continue

896
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: to dominate for longer for me to kind of move

897
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:11,399
Speaker 1: him into that conversation. This is from Bradley, Um, why

898
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,240
Speaker 1: you always giving up a franchise as future slash present?

899
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: This is funny for all star players when you have

900
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: no certainty that that that player will bring you a

901
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: ring now, instead of planning for a future where your

902
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: young players are supposed to be the top brass, you

903
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: have your ass in your hands basically saying that he

904
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: disagrees with my ideology being aggressive and pushing your chips

905
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: in the middle. Look, man, that's just the way that

906
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: I see it. Like if I was running a team,

907
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 1: I would push my chips into the table go for

908
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: a title. As soon as I realized that it was

909
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: a lost cause, I sell the house and accumulate assets,

910
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 1: and then I'd push all the chips in the middle middle,

911
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 1: I'd make a run and then I'd pull back and

912
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 1: I'd accumulate assets. That's just the way that I would

913
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: do it that and the reason why I would do

914
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: that is because I believe that is the most consistently successful.

915
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,919
Speaker 1: I think the Warriors are the exception of the rule.

916
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: I think that they are lucky in the sense that

917
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,919
Speaker 1: they have players who are loyal. Steph is loyal, Clay

918
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: Thompson is loyal, Draymond Green is loyal. So many times

919
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: it ends up like the thunder where you get James

920
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 1: Hardened with the wandering eye, Kevin Durray with the wandering eye.

921
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: It ends up not materializing. So I think the idea

922
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: of building organically through the draft and building that long term,

923
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: you know, continuity, even though even though I think that's

924
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 1: absolutely what's best for the league, even though I want

925
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: the league to try to structure the c b A

926
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,240
Speaker 1: to try to make that a little bit more feasible

927
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: for the teams, I'm pro that, But in terms of

928
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: under the current predicament under the current rules, if I

929
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: was running a team, how I would try to win

930
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: is pushing my chips into the middle, because I think

931
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: that's the most consistently successful. You literally saw that with

932
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,879
Speaker 1: the with the Raptors in two thousand nineteen. You saw

933
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: that with the Lakers in two thousand twenty. You saw

934
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: that with the the Cavaliers when they pushed everything in

935
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: for Lebron. You saw that with the Miami Heat. You did.

936
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: There are these little spurts there, but no one's wrong.

937
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 1: Like if you if you want to go the other way,

938
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: you're right there as well. It worked for the two

939
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 1: thousand fourteen Spurs, it worked for the uh It worked

940
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: for the Golden State Warriors. Again, like I talked about earlier,

941
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: this is just my philosophy on the game of basketball

942
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: based on the current rules. If the rules changed, I'm

943
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: never married to a strategy. This is just the way

944
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: that I see the game. There's no right or wrong answer.

945
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: This is from Joshua. Remember when you said Steph Can

946
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,919
Speaker 1: I added some strolls in here. Remember when you said

947
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: Steph Can no longer average thirty on grade efficiency And

948
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 1: the only people who believed he could do it again.

949
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: Were Steph fans not to be rude? I enjoy your content,

950
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: so uh again. And I have Warriors fans still commenting

951
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: under my YouTube videos, like you picked against us in

952
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 1: the conference finals, and it's like, and I've had people

953
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,399
Speaker 1: that say that I picked against them all four rounds,

954
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: which definitely didn't happen. I picked the Warriors to win

955
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: the first round. I picked them to win the second round.

956
00:47:57,640 --> 00:47:59,919
Speaker 1: I picked them to win the finals, just against Dalla,

957
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: I had. I didn't have a good feel for the series.

958
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to make of it. Dallas just

959
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,919
Speaker 1: beat the best team in the league, like to beat

960
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:07,800
Speaker 1: the living ship out of the best team in the

961
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: league in Game seven in Phoenix, and Phoenix was like

962
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: eight games better than everybody in the regular season. As

963
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: much as I believe in the Warriors, they weren't the

964
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: most talented team in the league, like we talked about

965
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: earlier with the Boston Celtics, like the STEP's best teammate

966
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: was Andrew Wiggins. Like I just it wasn't an anti

967
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: Warrior's take. I'm just trying to predict something that's completely unpredictable.

968
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 1: You guys know, I'm a huge fan of staff, and

969
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of the way the Warriors run

970
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: their team. Don't ever take a prediction personal. UH. Predictions

971
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: are really hard to do. If I had to, UH,

972
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,280
Speaker 1: if I could make predictions for a living, I wouldn't

973
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: be doing this. I'd be in Vegas and I'd be

974
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: making money gambling on sports. That's not the case. I

975
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: do my best to make predictions because that's kind of

976
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,320
Speaker 1: what this job requires. But I I don't think we

977
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: should put that much weight on it um. As far

978
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: as Steff goes like guys like he had a forty

979
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: I think it was like a forty one game sample

980
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: size where he couldn't shoot like it wasn't It was

981
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: the longest, most extended, significant slump of his career and

982
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: nothing else was close. And he's a small guard who

983
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:14,280
Speaker 1: is now I believe, thirty four years old. So that's

984
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: the only reason why I said that stuff. I was like,

985
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: Steph maybe on the decline. But what did I say

986
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,720
Speaker 1: after the finals? I was wrong. I said that Steph

987
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: is at the peak of his powers. I said, this

988
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 1: is the best I've ever seen him. Look, I thought

989
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,320
Speaker 1: this was his most impressive playoff run and he very

990
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: and I said very clearly what happened during the regular

991
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: season was clearly a blip and not a trend. I'm

992
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: gonna be wrong about a lot of stuff, guys like I,

993
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to do the very best I can. The

994
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: one the one promise I can make you guys, is

995
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be a stubborn asshole. If I'm

996
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 1: wrong about something, I'm gonna admit it and move on.

997
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: I was wrong about Steph declining too fast. It was

998
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: never an anti Steph thing. I was reacting to data.

999
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: There was a significant chunk of data where where he

1000
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,800
Speaker 1: didn't shoot well. And then when I watched the games

1001
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: with my eyeballs, I was seeing Steph not getting as

1002
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: much separation, not um, not getting quality looks, and then

1003
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: wasn't making him when he was getting them. That was that.

1004
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: That was just the reality. And if here's the you're

1005
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: you Warriors fans at the time, if you were confident,

1006
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: if you were thinking step will be fine, you weren't

1007
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: basing it on what you were seeing. You were basing

1008
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:25,759
Speaker 1: it on faith in Steph. Faith is is as an

1009
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: invincible thing. There's nothing I can do to to convince you, guys,

1010
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 1: when you have that kind of faith. It's amazing that

1011
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 1: Steph turned it around. I was wrong. Don't ever take

1012
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: anything like that personal. I don't have any sort of

1013
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: beef with anybody with the Warriors or stuff. All right,

1014
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: let's do three more. This from Felipe, Um, what's more

1015
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: important in your opinion? Offense or defense? Talked about this earlier. Um,

1016
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: So I won't go too much further into it, but

1017
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 1: I believe offense is more important strictly because it's something

1018
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: that you can't coach up or convince players to do

1019
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: by playing harder or anything along those lines, especially when

1020
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 1: you get to the NBA postseason. In the defensive end,

1021
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,359
Speaker 1: you absolutely can coach up. You absolutely can make up

1022
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: for a lot of limitations with effort and things along

1023
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: those lines. So if you have a supreme offensive talent,

1024
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: that's always gonna beat a supreme defensive talent in my opinion.

1025
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: This is from Jared. What was the toughest lesson that

1026
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: you've learned as a hooper? This is This is a

1027
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 1: good question, Um, for all of you young kids out

1028
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: there that are trying to play one day, however good

1029
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,359
Speaker 1: you think you need to be in order to be

1030
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 1: good enough, to succeed at the highest levels of college

1031
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: basketball and things like that. You just need to get

1032
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 1: so much better than you would even think. Um, there

1033
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: is a if you think you're a good shooter, you're

1034
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: you're I'll give you. I'll give you some basic parameters,

1035
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,959
Speaker 1: like you need to be able to go on the gun,

1036
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 1: the rebounding machine, or when you have rebounders and you

1037
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: need to be able to consistently hit between seventy and

1038
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 1: three's when you're by yourself, like when you're at the

1039
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:57,359
Speaker 1: gym standing alone on the court, percent of them need

1040
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: to go in. That's that's when you know you're a

1041
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 1: really good shooter. I had a coach once that would say,

1042
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,320
Speaker 1: are you a shooter or are you a maker? Everyone's

1043
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: a shooter. Makers are guys that can in the gym

1044
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 1: knock down them when they're open. That will translate to

1045
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 1: you shooting in a game. Setting UM ball handling like

1046
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: it's ball handling is extremely tedious. It takes a very

1047
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: long time. The progress is so difficult to track because

1048
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: it happens so little by little, and it's boring. No

1049
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: one likes to just go up and dribble a basketball.

1050
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 1: You'd rather shoot or work on or play bask like

1051
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: play pick up and things along those lines. Take the

1052
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: time to develop your ball handling. It is by far

1053
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: the most valuable skill if you want to be a

1054
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: high end basketball player, not a role player. Anybody, any

1055
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: athlete can be a role player like I was in college,

1056
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: who can grab rebounds and defend and do things like that.

1057
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: But if you want to be a a a a

1058
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:51,359
Speaker 1: meaningful offensive folk rum and on a basketball team, you

1059
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: have to be able to dribble the basketball. Take the

1060
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 1: hours and hours and hours that it takes to develop

1061
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: that skill set um and then, most importantly Alex crew

1062
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 1: have said this a long time ago talking about the

1063
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Speaker 1: G League. Understand the job you're trying out for. Like,

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Speaker 1: chances are you're not gonna be so so so good

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Speaker 1: that you can be Mr. All American that does everything

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Speaker 1: offensively and then the rest of the team does the

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Speaker 1: dirty work for you. Chances are, even if you're very good,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be reliable in the little things.

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Speaker 1: Understand the position you're trying out for. You're not trying

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Speaker 1: out for a guy who scores twenty points a game.

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Speaker 1: You're trying out for a guy that can consistently run

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Speaker 1: the coaches defensive scheme and all the elements of it

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Speaker 1: and all the different spots on the floor. The guy

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Speaker 1: that knows all the plays and runs them correctly. The

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Speaker 1: guy that turns and boxes out a man every single time,

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Speaker 1: gets back in transition defense, sits into defensive stance, and

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Speaker 1: contains on the perimeter. Like those are the things that

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Speaker 1: coaches in particular are obsessed with. Never ever, ever let

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Speaker 1: the fun stuff, which I love, the fun stuff. I

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Speaker 1: love working on turnaround jump shots and step backs and

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Speaker 1: things like that. Never let the fun stuff distract you

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Speaker 1: from the fact that you have to be a good

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Speaker 1: all round basketball player to contribute to any sort of

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Speaker 1: good basketball team. Um, let's see. I'm gonna do one more,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna look for an interesting one here. Um

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Speaker 1: and I plan. I try to read the YouTube comments

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Speaker 1: as much as I can for feedback. So anytime you

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Speaker 1: guys have other things you want the show to talk about,

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Speaker 1: or questions, comments, feedback, anything like that, drop it into

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Speaker 1: YouTube comments, drop it in my Twitter mentions. I outside

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Speaker 1: my Twitter d M s open, you guys can send

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Speaker 1: stuff to me there. Um let's see, Okay, I'll do

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Speaker 1: I'll do two more two more fun ones here. This

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Speaker 1: is also from Philip A does your girl hoop to

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Speaker 1: So my wife. My wife was a very good high

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Speaker 1: school basketball player and we went to the same high school.

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Speaker 1: Didn't know each other. It's kind of weird. We met

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Speaker 1: for the first time many years after after high school. Um,

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Speaker 1: I shouldn't say many years. I believe it was five

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Speaker 1: years after. So my wife and I in August s

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Speaker 1: will have been together eight years. In October, we will

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Speaker 1: have been married for four She right now doesn't do

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Speaker 1: anything with the game of basketball, but she actually played

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Speaker 1: in college. She played a Hamlin University up in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: She only played for a half of a season, got

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Speaker 1: sick of it and got out. Um one of the

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Speaker 1: most interesting phenomenon that I've seen. I talked about this

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Speaker 1: a little bit with Rachel Demdo when we had her

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Speaker 1: on the show. But I I never get sick of

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Speaker 1: the game, and I see so many people get sick

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Speaker 1: of it. My wife was one of those people that

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Speaker 1: like was devoted to the game of basketball, like from

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Speaker 1: the time she was twelve to the time she was twenty,

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Speaker 1: and then just one day she was like done with it,

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Speaker 1: you know, And so she's not involved in the game anymore. UM,

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Speaker 1: but she understands it really well because she played in college.

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Speaker 1: And so that's kind of nice for me because I

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Speaker 1: think she just she doesn't have the obsession that I have, obviously,

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Speaker 1: but I think she understands my obsession, which is what

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Speaker 1: allowed her to support me doing this. I did a

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Speaker 1: hundred fifty two episodes of State of the Lakers before

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Speaker 1: I did this, So I've done hundreds and hundreds of

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Speaker 1: of postgame shows up late at night, affecting our social

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Speaker 1: life things like that. She just gets it, she digs

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Speaker 1: it because she understands where where my heart's at. And uh,

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Speaker 1: every once in a while we go out and shoot

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Speaker 1: around a little bit. But she doesn't really come close

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Speaker 1: to the game anymore. UM. Last one favorite character and

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Speaker 1: all of Star Wars. So I am a huge Star

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Speaker 1: Wars fan, always have been. UM. I actually have a

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Speaker 1: Star Wars podcast that I just launched about two months ago.

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Speaker 1: It's called two Sons Podcast. You can find the I

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Speaker 1: typically tweet out the links to that, um, but you

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Speaker 1: can you can either find it on my Twitter or

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Speaker 1: just google two Sons podcast. UM. It's supposed to be

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Speaker 1: a play on words because we're also from Tucson. I

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Speaker 1: do it with my best friend, UM, a guy in

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Speaker 1: a tu Son who is a doctor. Um In him

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Speaker 1: and I have just both been big Star Wars fans

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Speaker 1: forever we started covering the OBI one series. UM to

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Speaker 1: have a really good time with it. I'm like one

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Speaker 1: of those nerds that gets into the expanded universe and stuff.

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Speaker 1: My favorite Star Wars character has always been Darth Bain,

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Speaker 1: and if you've never read it, you absolutely have to

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Speaker 1: read the Darth Pain trilogy. It's the best piece of

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Speaker 1: expanded Universe content. The only reason I'm accepting this as

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Speaker 1: a as a legal answer here is because Darth Pain

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Speaker 1: technically is cannon per the Clone Wars cartoons. But Darth

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Speaker 1: Baine was the original Sith lord who discovered that there

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Speaker 1: couldn't be hundreds of Sith because they they would always

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Speaker 1: group together and betray the more powerful among them, and

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Speaker 1: the Sith were becoming progressively weaker as they would betray

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Speaker 1: each other. And so basically he went on a pilgrimage

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Speaker 1: and went to all these different um Sith temples and stuff,

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Speaker 1: and and came back and was like, I have discovered

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Speaker 1: that we need to only have to Sith, the Master

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Speaker 1: and the Apprentice, the one that teaches blah blah blah blah,

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Speaker 1: but that whole book trilogy and that character. It's it's

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Speaker 1: a very cool look into the Sith and just how

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Speaker 1: ruthless they are and how different the dark side is

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Speaker 1: from the light side of the forest. So there you go,

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Speaker 1: a little little wind go into my second passion, which

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Speaker 1: one of my many passions, but my fan for Star Wars.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, if you want to hear me talk

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Speaker 1: more about Star Wars, you just gotta look for that

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Speaker 1: Two Sons podcast. All right, that's not bad. I think

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Speaker 1: we went about an hour and that's our first ever

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Speaker 1: mailbag mail bag podcast. Um, I really enjoyed that. I

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Speaker 1: want to do that more frequently, even if it's either

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Speaker 1: just like one that we do once a week, or

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Speaker 1: if it's one that we do as a segment at

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Speaker 1: the end of the show. Maybe I can talk to

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Speaker 1: the producers and maybe they'll be down for something like that.

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Speaker 1: But I definitely want to gear the show more towards

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Speaker 1: something that's a little bit more interactive with you guys.

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Speaker 1: I know that it is eventually a plan to try

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Speaker 1: to potentially do something where we can have you guys

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Speaker 1: call into the show kind of like we used to

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Speaker 1: do on Twitter spaces back when I was working with

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Speaker 1: raj um No show, uh tomorrow because I'm getting on

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Speaker 1: the cruise ship. Actually this this one might actually end

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Speaker 1: up being released tomorrow, but on Friday, I believe I'll

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Speaker 1: be able to record again. Not sure what we'll do then.

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Speaker 1: Who knows if someone will get traded at that point.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, that's all I got for today, guys. I

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Speaker 1: sincerely appreciate you guys a support, and I'll see you

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Speaker 1: in a couple of days. The volume m