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Speaker 1: Good day, sweet world. It's Thursday, September fifth, twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning into the Free Agents podcast. Still looking

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Speaker 1: for that Supermax. Don't you worry, It's coming. I'm Jay

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Speaker 1: Skeets running today with the Bearded One Trey Kirby. Hey oh,

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Speaker 1: back from Australia. The international man of Mystery. Lee ellis

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Speaker 1: good and finally making all this magic happen live from

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Speaker 1: his basement here in Atlanta. JD. Hello, there he is

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Speaker 1: and here we are, just the four of us today.

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Speaker 1: Got two names on the inactive list. It reads Mellis

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Speaker 1: Comma Tassos DNP traveling in Israel. Got a little beach

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Speaker 1: life going. He stepping on the beach, I think right

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Speaker 1: now reading some emails in case they mad at that.

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Speaker 1: And then I also have here. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: it's listed. Austin Kamma Matt d n P quit He's gone. Wow,

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Speaker 1: but he's across America. He has landed or driven finally

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Speaker 1: to California. He's there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: More Instagram story action than I've ever seen from Matt Austin.

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Speaker 3: I feel like in the past two weeks we've seen

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Speaker 3: as many stories as he's had in the previous. I

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Speaker 3: don't know, three years of stories existing, He's seen a

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Speaker 3: lot of nature.

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Speaker 2: Maybe this is a new beat for him. He's going

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Speaker 2: to Instagram.

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Speaker 3: You're following his journey. Oh, I'm following that journey hard.

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Speaker 3: I'm screenshot and stuff that will come in handy later.

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Speaker 3: I would imagine, I don't save it for his birthday.

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Speaker 2: He's you know who the other influence.

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Speaker 1: So yes, just the form of shure. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: into the Foeba World Cup. We gotta get into that.

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Speaker 1: They've just wrapped up the first round. The group play

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. It's so confused.

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Speaker 2: Another group place, Yeah, another group plays.

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Speaker 1: Starting and then you got qualification for the teams from

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Speaker 1: seventeen to thirty two. And we'll get into it, but

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Speaker 1: we got to start with Lee. You've been gone, I

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Speaker 1: swear to guy, all summer long, all summer long, you

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Speaker 1: were gone. A good chunk of it spent in Australia

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Speaker 1: where you caught when you saw history, Let's be honest,

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Speaker 1: saw the Boomers beating Team USA and one of those

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Speaker 1: exhibition matches. But you know, we'll get into that game

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Speaker 1: and that experience and what the heck you were doing

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Speaker 1: there you were just playing a bunch of legends in basketball.

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Speaker 1: But how was the overall Australian trip, because I know

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Speaker 1: you were there a family for a good trunk of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, first time I've been back in eight years. I

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Speaker 2: took my two boys out there in Roxtanwna and Roxanne

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Speaker 2: had been there before. But really fun, emotional time, really

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Speaker 2: see family and friends and so what you were in.

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Speaker 2: So Melbourne is where my family's from, where Dad still

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Speaker 2: lives and my brother lives. So that's where we spent

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Speaker 2: most of the time. We went down to Tasmania, had

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Speaker 2: some cousins down there. They live on a dairy farm.

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Speaker 2: That was an incredible weekend. Oh my god, that was

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Speaker 2: so much fun. Just the cows, just the cows and

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Speaker 2: just seeing again like our always playing with like I

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Speaker 2: guess they're second cousins anyway, kids, you know, and just

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Speaker 2: out out with nature. It was. It was beautiful, beautiful setting.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, overall.

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Speaker 1: Tasmania for those that don't know, that's that little island

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Speaker 1: at the bottom all right. So you take a ferry,

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Speaker 1: you can take a fare.

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Speaker 2: It's only like a one hour flight. Yeah, like the

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Speaker 2: it's about a nine hour ferry and having having done,

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Speaker 2: having done sixteen hours across the Pacific, I want to

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Speaker 2: get to play, sure because they can.

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Speaker 1: See those cows about milk.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Really seeing some old friends, of course, you know,

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Speaker 2: most of my friends have kind of got kids who

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Speaker 2: you know they're they're moving to that point and so.

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Speaker 1: And these are people you've stayed in touch with some

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Speaker 1: pieces or some.

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Speaker 2: Friends you know, just yeah, Facebook friends as well. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: you know, you sort of lose touch with people a

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Speaker 2: little bit. But I got to see almost everyone I

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Speaker 2: was hoping to see, which was great at different intervals.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I had a little gathering at our

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Speaker 2: at some some were planned and some were a little impromptu.

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Speaker 2: It yeah, it was, And it was just a really

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Speaker 2: fun experience. In so many ways. It was I was

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So in some ways it was like going in

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Speaker 2: a time machine.

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Speaker 1: That like, were you sleeping in your bedroom? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Anything still hanging on the walls, you already hanging on.

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Speaker 2: No, but but dad, dad has you know, as you know,

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Speaker 2: he's kept all my old memorabilia and I dug it out.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't believe how much stuff I had, how much,

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Speaker 2: Oh my god. I had some USA Today newspapers that

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Speaker 2: I bought off my mate Tomo.

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Speaker 1: I still had the story that, yeah, his dad pilot,

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Speaker 2: He used to work on, you know, maintenance and cleaning

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Speaker 2: the aeroplane. So he used to just get all the

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Speaker 2: USA Today's. This is back in the end the nineties,

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Speaker 2: and I used to just get them for the box

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Speaker 2: scores and it was incredible. I cannot believe I dug

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Speaker 2: some of them out. The Michael Jordan sixty nine point

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Speaker 2: game was in there for one of them. And there

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Speaker 2: was also before before the Malice in the Palace, there

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Speaker 2: was the Big Sixers and Pistons fight Bill Ambier and Bark.

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Speaker 2: You've probably seen that. That was one of the games

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Speaker 2: as well. There. It was just incredible to go through

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Speaker 1: I remember that, yeah, first.

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Speaker 2: But I mean those old those hoop magazines and Basketball Digest,

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Speaker 2: Street and Smith's that dad has kept. They are in

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Speaker 2: immaculate condition and he's got them. But He's got them

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Speaker 2: in the little shed out the back like this plastic

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Speaker 2: bucket gets minus temperatures in the winter and then it

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Speaker 2: gets about six hundred degrees in some of They're still

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Speaker 1: So why did you just pull them all out, looked

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Speaker 1: what put them all back?

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Speaker 2: That's what are you going to do?

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Speaker 1: He said, what are you going.

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Speaker 2: To do it? I'm like, well, I mean it's going

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Speaker 2: to cost me about a thousand bucks to ship all

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Speaker 2: this stuff back. And he said, well, just leave it

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Speaker 2: here for a while. I said, okay, I'll wait until

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's amazing. So you got a blast with family

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Speaker 1: and France catching up of course, and being in the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it wasn't so obviously. The big event was

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Speaker 2: these two USA VERSUS Australia basketball games, and so a

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Speaker 2: and so I just reached out to him and said, hey, listen,

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Speaker 2: do some stuff, right And it was like, yeah, let's

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Speaker 2: before the before the USA arrived, I was still going

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Speaker 2: to BENI and I said, you know, I don't know

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Speaker 2: They'll probably be it'll probably be like a podium type

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Speaker 1: Like we've seen obviously exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I said, so it could be tough to

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Speaker 2: He said, all right, you know what, get a camera.

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Speaker 2: Let's just go and see what we can do. USA basketball.

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Speaker 2: I have to say it was the most incredibly accessible

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Speaker 1: Say, yeah, hey, you camboy, can I tie for exactly?

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Speaker 2: And you know, there was a lot of scrums because

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of media. But if you could get

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Speaker 2: able to do that and it was just incredible and

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Speaker 1: Was there a lot of media.

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Speaker 2: There was not as much as I was hoping for

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Speaker 2: the first day. So they arrived on a Monday morning

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Speaker 2: then they took Friday off, which is fair, you know,

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Speaker 2: So the reason to work the problem, the reason I

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Speaker 2: media outlets in Australia were like, oh, they've canceled this

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Speaker 2: And you know, I spoke to so many of those

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Speaker 2: but I got some good little features out for NBA,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, gotcha.

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Speaker 2: And you know, a couple of the guys like Myles Turner,

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Speaker 3: Him, so matching again.

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Speaker 2: No, I was going to ask him about that actually,

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Speaker 2: but that was the thing part of the reason, you know,

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Speaker 2: I had no real questions prepared, just see what I

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Speaker 1: And then who was the nassy?

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Speaker 2: I mean yeah, was say Pop. I led the popovichacram

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Speaker 2: pretty much all three days. I was the first one

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Speaker 2: firing in the questions. Good thing you've been watching?

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Speaker 1: You were ready? Well.

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Speaker 2: It was funny because the first two days Pop I

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Speaker 2: asked him some questions. I said, first thing I said

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Speaker 2: to him on the day one was like, you know,

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Speaker 2: you talk about you'd like guys to be round and

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Speaker 2: travel and have experience, How does that help them? And

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Speaker 2: he answered that well. And then the second day I

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Speaker 2: asked him something about I can't remember what, just about

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Speaker 2: preparing for a different team in a different situation, and

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Speaker 2: he answered that. And then on the third day, I said,

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Speaker 2: you know, you've talked a lot about how difficult it

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Speaker 2: systems where you have maybe this three well there's four Celtics,

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Speaker 1: So it was great, okay. And so then what mixed

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Speaker 1: Yeah, where you Gavin hugs, high fives.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a few fist pumps, you know, like

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Speaker 2: I was way back really well, it was in the

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Speaker 2: it's great to watch football. But yeah, we were mile

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. That's awesome. It's pretty cool. You got

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Speaker 2: enormous amount of starters fans. It was going to be

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Speaker 2: my next questionerformous amount of starters fans like I could

439
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Speaker 2: not believe.

440
00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,080
Speaker 1: So if you're I don't know, a G celebrity here

441
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Speaker 1: in America, what are you are you when you're.

442
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:05,520
Speaker 3: In Melbourne like Craig Sagers here, there is.

443
00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:10,160
Speaker 2: I mean in that arena at that time. You know, yeah,

444
00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:15,439
Speaker 2: I was someone I mean I had I had so

445
00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,840
Speaker 2: many people stop and asked for a selfie. But what

446
00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,520
Speaker 2: was incredible was how many people stopped me to tell

447
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 2: me a story about our show. There was guys going

448
00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,920
Speaker 2: through breakups girlfriends, and I was like, I was down

449
00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,720
Speaker 2: and I was depressed, like people just pouring it out simply.

450
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Speaker 1: We've we've received similar emails, of course, and.

451
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Speaker 2: I think because the fact that a lot of people

452
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,480
Speaker 2: felt that if they wanted to see me, that was

453
00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,280
Speaker 2: the best chance to get me. So it was like,

454
00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 2: I got to tell you this story. And there was

455
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 2: another story about a guy who was paralyzed on one

456
00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,480
Speaker 2: side of his body for a while. He couldn't see

457
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,760
Speaker 2: and he said his girlfriend was just playing like our

458
00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,680
Speaker 2: podcast over and over and he.

459
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:54,600
Speaker 1: And he got worse.

460
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:03,399
Speaker 2: But you know, there was another guy, you know, going

461
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,159
Speaker 2: through a tough time in his life, and it was.

462
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,760
Speaker 2: I mean, I tried to get as many you know,

463
00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 2: I stopped for everyone and try to take a photo

464
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 2: with everyone I could.

465
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 1: Kind of thumbs up.

466
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:13,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

467
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,280
Speaker 2: A few people sort of messaged me and said can

468
00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 2: we can we all go on the phone. I sort

469
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,720
Speaker 2: of said, listen, I can't really tell you I'm going

470
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,359
Speaker 2: to be at this certain place, but if you stop me,

471
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:21,040
Speaker 2: I'm all yours.

472
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:25,359
Speaker 1: You should have warned like Red and waed Streps and

473
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:26,720
Speaker 1: is already got.

474
00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,560
Speaker 2: But you know, as fun as as it was like

475
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,240
Speaker 2: to know that we actually, you know, touch people's lives

476
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,879
Speaker 2: like that was really cool, very very and everyone was

477
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:37,640
Speaker 2: like pulling for us, like, I hope you guys get

478
00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,159
Speaker 2: a show, so I hope you comes. You see how

479
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:43,360
Speaker 2: many people ask about us man, every honestly, like everyone, no, everyone, everyone.

480
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,720
Speaker 2: It wasn't obviously me being there made it more about me,

481
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,920
Speaker 2: but people were more interested in the show and where,

482
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,639
Speaker 2: you know, when we're going to be back and what

483
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,040
Speaker 2: we're going to be doing, and uh, it was just incredible.

484
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 2: And of course the big one I send it to

485
00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 2: straight to you on on Twitter at Instagram. I ran

486
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:05,200
Speaker 2: into the v esp data collector that's right. Yeah, ah man,

487
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,360
Speaker 2: it was so cool to meet did you Seelshi on.

488
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Speaker 1: The dairy plots of it?

489
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, it was it was. It was so

490
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 2: cool meeting him because he's been a part of the

491
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 2: show for a lot of years for sure, and it

492
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 2: was awesome.

493
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,719
Speaker 3: So you know, really ask him if he can make

494
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Speaker 3: his grafts on his smaller I.

495
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:26,960
Speaker 2: Said, We've got to send skin message, you know, you

496
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 2: know he'll complain about something.

497
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 1: It was fun. It was fun to Lake Badyell going

498
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Speaker 1: across America to follow your journey while you're in Australia

499
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 1: with these games and seeing all the photos and stuff

500
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,359
Speaker 1: that shut out. Everybody that came up to Learly had

501
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 1: some kind words I hope to see about the show.

502
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I didn't hear any nasty comments. I didn't

503
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 2: hear them. They're probably one or two out there. But

504
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 2: but but truly like it was more about the group

505
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,640
Speaker 2: rather than specifically me. You know, people liked me being there,

506
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 2: But if all of us were there, I'm telling you man,

507
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:57,359
Speaker 2: it would have been white.

508
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Speaker 1: I mean we you told them, Yeah, from what I remember.

509
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 2: There was one funny moment too. I played basketball. I

510
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 2: played a couple of games while I was out there

511
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,400
Speaker 2: and one night after the game, it was like, remember when.

512
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 1: Were you playing like with your old like run like.

513
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 2: Old friend in my in my in the gym that

514
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 2: I grew up in. I played one night and there.

515
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 2: Yeah that was awesome. Yeah. I played for the arch

516
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 2: Enemy too that night.

517
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:26,160
Speaker 1: Whoa.

518
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, because my friend Tim we used to play on

519
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 2: the same team and.

520
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Speaker 1: So please call him Timmy Timmy and uh, and so

521
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Speaker 1: I messaged him.

522
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 2: I said, you know, any chance I can get it,

523
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 2: get onto a run here. He said, yeah, no worries,

524
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 2: and so we went up there and uh and it

525
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 2: was for our arch enemy as as as kid, he

526
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 2: just moved. At some point, I had to get a

527
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 2: clearance as well, like a transfer what like, because I

528
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 2: used to play for another team in that same league.

529
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,400
Speaker 2: They had no way. They had to make a treat

530
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 2: you played for that team. Hello, last time I played

531
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 2: was nineteen ninety eight.

532
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Speaker 3: I still got you.

533
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 2: Because one of the guys, one of the guys afterwards

534
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 2: said he said, oh, yeah, I had to fire your

535
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Speaker 2: paperwork so you can play.

536
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Speaker 1: That's incredible. It's a well run.

537
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

538
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great.

539
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 1: So you got out there and got so that was

540
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Speaker 1: your game.

541
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,679
Speaker 2: Now, no, Raff the first one. Yeah, you know, I

542
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,880
Speaker 2: think I think the Australian now standard three point line

543
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 2: is the NBA three point line, even at like like

544
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,679
Speaker 2: what like at just our regular gym, which is you know,

545
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Speaker 2: I mean, I remember when we shot like the three

546
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 2: point shootout, so it feels way like when we shot

547
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 2: in the super Dome, like the three point shoot out there.

548
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 2: That feels like the most emptiest state of it's weird

549
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 2: to shoot. And this gym like there's like five or

550
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 2: six courts there, and it felt even further back in

551
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 2: that gym when I turned because I was like, I

552
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 2: was thinking, oh, yeah, probably just like you know, get

553
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 2: a couple of shots and c and I was like,

554
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 2: oh my god, this is you didn't represent that. I

555
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 2: didn't connect from down. I played a couple of other

556
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 2: games and the last game you remember the Dream Team

557
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 2: when like Charles Barkley, I think it was at the

558
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 2: free throw line and one of the guys for Angola

559
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 2: or someone got subbed off and he wanted a photo

560
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 2: or he wanted an autograph something something crazy like that

561
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 2: after the game. After the game, I think, well, that

562
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 2: happened in one game that I played that the like

563
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 2: we get a photo man.

564
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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course.

565
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 2: Around. I was halfter the game.

566
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 3: The throw line.

567
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah. Basketball is a really huge, huge down

568
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 2: under and it was great. It was great.

569
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Speaker 1: Hello are you guy?

570
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Speaker 3: Hello?

571
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Speaker 1: Are you there?

572
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 2: Well? Five weeks there? Yeah, we were there five weeks

573
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 2: and Roxanna and our and our other oldest son came

574
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 2: back two weeks early, so just me and our three

575
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 2: year old for the last two weeks.

576
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Speaker 1: So the flight home with just oscar was taxing.

577
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, so Melbourne to LA actually wasn't too bad.

578
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 2: It's like fifteen hours or so, but we got a

579
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 2: spare seat, so I was like, okay, but you fly

580
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,360
Speaker 2: at eleven o'clock in the morning, so it's like it's

581
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 2: the worst time for a kid because he's got all

582
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 2: his energy, he's ready to go. Yeah, so he fell

583
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 2: asleep a couple of times, you know, two hours here,

584
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 2: two hours there. We got to l A. Not too bad,

585
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 2: not too bad. Had three and a half hours in

586
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 2: LA before connecting to Atlanta. It's having in the airport

587
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 2: and LA domestic airport there to do there as well. Anyway,

588
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 2: so he wasn't too bad. He gave him some food

589
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,479
Speaker 2: and you know, the iPad and like I was like,

590
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 2: there's no limits on ipaddle screen.

591
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: You eat with your diet with whatever. Yeah, consumption of television.

592
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 2: A flight from LA to Atlanta, and he just zonked

593
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 2: out the first two hours. He was just out cold.

594
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 2: And then he woke up.

595
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 1: He'd had enough of airplanes.

596
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 2: By them.

597
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: We're still oh boy.

598
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 2: So and the seating was I was on the middle,

599
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 2: he was on the window, and there's a lady on

600
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 2: the aisle and it was a full flight and he

601
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 2: was just like, all right, dad, that's it.

602
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: I am done like reading, oh right.

603
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 2: Honestly, for half an hour he was just like I

604
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 2: don't want this. I don't want the iPad.

605
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 1: Get it out of here.

606
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 2: Squeezes, get it out of here. Chop chop, lollipops, get

607
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 2: him out of here. He was like, Dad, you do

608
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 2: not give me anything right now. I just want to

609
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 2: fight you to the death.

610
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: And then you said it like fired up other kids. Well,

611
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 1: so that was the good.

612
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 2: The good thing about it was there was at least

613
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 2: four or five other kids, babies, toddlers on this flight,

614
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 2: and all of them lost at it. Yeah.

615
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: The good The good thing for those other passengers that

616
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: are playing with no kids.

617
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 2: I tell you the lady next to us. You know,

618
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 2: I don't know if she had kids or not, and

619
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 2: I was like, this is either this could be birth

620
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 2: control for her. She's like like looking at him, just

621
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 2: going because because you know, for the first two hours,

622
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:00,719
Speaker 2: oh what a sweet little three year old, and then

623
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 2: it's just half.

624
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: An hour of just like, well, luckily you were close

625
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: to me.

626
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 2: I guess not close enough honestly that it felt the

627
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 2: last hour of that flight felt longer than the fifteen

628
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 2: hours over the Pacific, because you're just like, come on, man.

629
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: I won't chop.

630
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a couple of safeties that you got

631
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 2: with you. It's not lollipop, no doubt, no lollipop gonna show.

632
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 1: But it got to the.

633
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 2: Point where I was like I tried everything. I was like,

634
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,239
Speaker 2: I tried bargaining with him, reasoning with him, you know,

635
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: bribing him. Then it sort of turns to bullying, intimidation,

636
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 2: and then it just his outright rage.

637
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: Shut the hell up.

638
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 2: But I'm alright, everyone don't worry because everyone don't pay

639
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 2: attention to me for a minute here. But you're just like, well,

640
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 2: you shut the fuck up, please, he starts.

641
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: Because you're also like like you're done with this. Yeah,

642
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: twenty four hours of traveler.

643
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 2: And we left Melbourne in winter, right, so you know

644
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 2: it's cold, and then you go from and it's basically

645
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 2: you know, by the time you arrive it's it's warm.

646
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 2: And then you've got the all day flight from LA

647
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 2: like it's all day. It's almost just one hundred degrees

648
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 2: on the airplane as well. So I'm sweaty and disgusting

649
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 2: and hungry and dirty entire Ah.

650
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, so these games, like these

651
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: exhibition games in Melbourne in Australia obviously a big hit,

652
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: a precursor to an NBA game happening there, or is

653
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: this I don't know. This flight is just scares everybody.

654
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 2: Honestly, the flight is it's no different going to China

655
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 2: or that it's I mean, if you're going thirteen hours,

656
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 2: then you're going fourteen hours. It doesn't, you know, make

657
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 2: any difference. And again and yeah they're they're not flying economy, they're.

658
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly.

659
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 2: But I would say, I would say there is very

660
00:29:53,760 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 2: likely going to be more NBA, you know content in Australia.

661
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Speaker 3: I would say, I mean, why I.

662
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: Talked to a few people out there. I mean, I

663
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: think it's well, I think it's going to happen.

664
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Speaker 2: So you sold out one hundred thousand people to two

665
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 2: exob exhibition games. You know, that's that's incredible. And that's

666
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 2: with people complaining because there's no Lebron, there's no step Now,

667
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 2: let's say, because Lebron's basically said he wants to play

668
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 2: Tokyo next year. And I think if Lebron goes, I

669
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 2: think Steph goes, I think Kevin Durant. Maybe all these

670
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,719
Speaker 2: guys have a sort of last like all right, especially

671
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 2: if America doesn't win gold at the World Cup, whichcause

672
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 2: you know very likely they.

673
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Speaker 1: Will break it down. I promise you get to it.

674
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Speaker 1: So I wouldn't.

675
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 2: I mean maybe maybe they were who knows, but they're

676
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 2: certainly not a lock. I mean if you had, if

677
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 2: you had Lebron and Stephan everything, you would probably say

678
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 2: they're still they're going to do it easily. But anyway,

679
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 2: the thing is, I think the fact that Australia put

680
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 2: on such a good show it's going to be something

681
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 2: that they can sell now to.

682
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Speaker 1: So what you think it possibility again before the Olympics,

683
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Speaker 1: that there'd be sort of tune up games could possibly

684
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Speaker 1: just especially being on that side of the world, absolutely

685
00:30:58,520 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: does makes sense.

686
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 2: And if you yeah, exactly because you fly to Australia,

687
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 2: there's still eight hours to Tokyo or whatever. But you're

688
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: going to go somewhere to do this exhibition. They always

689
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 2: go to China, they always go to other places in Asia,

690
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 2: so I wouldn't be surprised if they go back there

691
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 2: next year. And again, if you have that huge, huge lineup,

692
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 2: then it's going to be it's gonna be great.

693
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about an A game? What about an NBA game?

694
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 2: Well, the chances of getting a preseason game I think

695
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 2: are good because again they're flying to India this year

696
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 2: and the Raptress, Yeah, I think Kings and is it

697
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 2: the Kingdom Raptors. I think definitely the Kings because of

698
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 2: Vivek but gets the Raptors, ay, yeah, I would. I

699
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 2: would be surprised if there's not an NBA pre preseas

700
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 2: game there within the next couple of years.

701
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Speaker 1: Anyway, So all right, amazing, Yeah, any other Australian stories

702
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: you feel like you need to share, great, I'm sure

703
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: you have.

704
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll sort of come along naturally. I think it's

705
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 2: sort of think of them. But well, I did the

706
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 2: other thing with Popovich. I recommended a restaurant to him.

707
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 2: I don't know if he took it everywhere, but Chickens

708
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 2: right now in America to check. While you're right, Chicken

709
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 2: Sandwich explored. That was a hilarious meme with that Popeyes worker. Yeah,

710
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 2: Jordan's me going next to that's great.

711
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what did what did you recommend restaurant?

712
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 2: He was a Lebanese restaurant. Yeah.

713
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: Interested.

714
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 2: And the thing is with Pops. So after his little scrum,

715
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 2: I said to him, I said, you know, you have

716
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: found any decent restaurants? And he's like yeah. I said,

717
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 2: you want another little tip and he said, oh yeah,

718
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 2: what is it? Okay, it's all I said, a great

719
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 2: place and check it out. He said, okay. I said

720
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 2: you can walk there too from your hotel. That was

721
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 2: the other thing I thought, I can't tell him, you know,

722
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 2: go half an hour away, like pop you walked there.

723
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 2: You have a great time?

724
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 3: Are you guys actually whispering back?

725
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 2: You know, I had the mic down, so it was

726
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 2: it was off camera. I didn't want him to think

727
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: I was sort of stealing an extra interview there with him.

728
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 2: But you know, that's the thing I knew. Wine and restaurants.

729
00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 2: That's Pops weeks mort Yeah.

730
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Speaker 1: Did the other players from what you could tell, were

731
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: they enjoying Australia and Melbourne in general?

732
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, they seem to be. I mean, honestly, they arrived

733
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 2: at Melbourne, they go to the hotel, yeah, practice, yes,

734
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 2: you know, and there were a few beautiful city. Yeah,

735
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 2: they had a few events on at night and stuff

736
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Speaker 2: as well. So how cold was it it was in

737
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 2: Celsius around you know, eleven degrees.

738
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I was, I was in Melbourne.

739
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 2: It a little bit warmer during the day, but at

740
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 2: night definitely dropped dropped down a little bit chill, you know,

741
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 2: but great experience, Really happy I was there for it.

742
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: Sure. All right, well let's get into the Feeble World Cup.

743
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: It's going on. I hope you guys. I'm sure some

744
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: of you listening to this are watching the games. If

745
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,239
Speaker 1: you're in America, you got ESPN Plus to watch them,

746
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: unless you got an illegal stream going. I've in Canada,

747
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: the Zone.

748
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 3: Maybe Zone content. Yeah, it's like the NBA in Australia.

749
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 3: You're seeing a lot of design.

750
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's ways to watch these. You gotta you gotta

751
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: search for it, you gotta pay maybe a little bit

752
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: of money to get them. But for you, guys, are

753
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: we are through the first round group play. Look, there

754
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: are thirty two teams I think we could get into

755
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: whether or not that's maybe too many teams, but there

756
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: are these weird there's weird qualification just to even get

757
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: into this, and then of course there are Olympic bursts

758
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: on the line. From winning your zones in your area,

759
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly is a mess. And then you've got

760
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: these group things that lead into a second group stage

761
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,720
Speaker 1: and then eventually you get to the top eight teams

762
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: to a knockout quarterfinals and that will be awesome. There's

763
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you guys have watched, obviously

764
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: talking to Trey and Lee here, but there's been some

765
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: pretty entertaining games. There's been a lot of blowouts too.

766
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. There are a lot of like

767
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: forty to fifty point blowouts where just one team is

768
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: completely overmatch. But there's been some close games and there

769
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: looks to be like, I don't know, you can talk

770
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: yourself into three or four teams, you know, winning this thing.

771
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: You really could playing well and winning it just stringing together.

772
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: I guess what it would be at that point in

773
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: the quarterfinals, what three games? Three wins? So is that right?

774
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 1: For three or four wins you'd have to win to

775
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Speaker 1: win a gold. I can't even do math.

776
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 2: Well, there's definitely two three. I think it's four, right,

777
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 2: I think there's two more qualification.

778
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: Don't worry about those.

779
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't make nice.

780
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: Point is there's like four or five teams probably that

781
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: could win this thing. Here's what we got right now.

782
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: Sixteen teams are through to group stage two. They call

783
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: this thing round two of the group play because they

784
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: do a sort of a round robin type ish thing.

785
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: Though you carry over your so all that matters. There's

786
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 1: going to be probably a lot of weird tiebreakers in

787
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: this sort of second stage moving on and determining those

788
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:38,240
Speaker 1: final eight. But here they are Argentina, Poland, Venezuela and Russia.

789
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,720
Speaker 1: Group J. That was group by Group J, Serbia, Spain,

790
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: Italy and Puerto Rico. Group K, the States, Czech Republic, Brazil,

791
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: and Greece. Having won this morning against New Zealand, book

792
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: there ticket through that that second round and then Group

793
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: L France Dominican Republic, Australia, and Lithuania. Australia still a

794
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: perfect three, and oh they beat Litho wunning in a

795
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,479
Speaker 1: really really good game. So those are the sixteen teams.

796
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: The other sixteen teams now they play games that are

797
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,800
Speaker 1: important and we'll get into Canada. I'm sure at some

798
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: point in terms of winning a qualifying spot for then

799
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 1: a qualifying tournament to then hopefully qualify for the Olympics,

800
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: I think I have that right. A lot of qualifying. Yeah,

801
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, teams like Canada and stuff like

802
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 1: Germany are in that sort of you know, almost like

803
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: a toilet bowl sort of section of the tournament, but

804
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: they're playing for something anyway. My first question for you

805
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: guys from all of this, what's been the biggest surprise

806
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: after the first round, after all these teams have played

807
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: three games, what's the biggest surprise, be it a team,

808
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: beat a game, bet a player, or whatever you want.

809
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 3: I mean, I hesitate to say it's the biggest surprise

810
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 3: because there was a lot of buzz preseason. I guess

811
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 3: that's what you would call it. With the United States

812
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 3: losing to Australia, but they played Turkey so close. Yeah,

813
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 3: the way it ended, the four miss free throws, somehow

814
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 3: the USA pulled it off and then Turkey still doesn't advance.

815
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, it makes it look even crazier than the

816
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 3: USA played so close. I mean, perhaps there's a little

817
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:04,919
Speaker 3: bit of Turkeys playing the game at their lives.

818
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 4: You know.

819
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 3: Iliasova came out. He was a mad man, cheddi Asman

820
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 3: was a mad man for Kankorkus. They were all playing

821
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 3: outside of their their standard sort of a production, just

822
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 3: because this is a huge game for them. But that's

823
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 3: awesome to watch. Shout out to ESPN plus. I was

824
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 3: streaming at a breakfast table trying to get my my

825
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 3: French toast out. I was taken forever. Luckily I had

826
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 3: a chance to subscribe and throw down the game. But

827
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 3: I mean that game was That was an awesome game

828
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 3: to watch.

829
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Speaker 1: The big surprise is not the Team USA. It's sort

830
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 1: of like this B or C version of Team USA.

831
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: These guys they're representing their country. Not that they almost lost,

832
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 1: because I I mean we were, well, you and Task

833
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: were like pretty ninety nine percent sure that with this

834
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: cold metal I was trying to say, like I don't know,

835
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 1: it was like maybe a better chance whatever when we

836
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: were doing sort of a pre FEBA talk here on

837
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,439
Speaker 1: the podcast. But it's the Turkey team. It's a team

838
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 1: that was like rank seventeenth I think in the world,

839
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: like you said, didn't even advance to this second stage.

840
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: That's the sort of surprise. Not a Serbia, not an Australia, Lithuania,

841
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: France or whatever one of these other maybe sort of

842
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 1: quote unquote powerhouse teams. It's like a Turkey team like

843
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: took them to the brink and should have won the game.

844
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: Doukinitly should have should have won that game. They hit

845
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: they probably hit one of those free throws maybe too.

846
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 2: Well fail and the fail on Tatum just to get

847
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 2: him to the free throw as.

848
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: Well, cheddy Osman trying to close out and contest it,

849
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: but he definitely fouled them for sure.

850
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 2: Yeah. But yeah, that and then Turkey had a chance

851
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 2: still obviously this morning, to go through and then lose

852
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 2: the check. You wonder if that sort of just played

853
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 2: into it a little bit maybe you know, who knows,

854
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 2: But that's that to think that Turkey were that close

855
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 2: to taking down America and now they're done is is

856
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 2: tough for them.

857
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: Right, and makes you question even more Tmos's chances to

858
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: win this thing.

859
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,479
Speaker 2: Well, they need everyone healthy, and Tatum didn't play today

860
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 2: against your Pande won by about six hundred points, so

861
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 2: that doesn't matter, but they certainly need everybody healthy. I

862
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 2: just think that teams the team that's impressed me the

863
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 2: most so Fars Serbia. I have just been unbelievable to

864
00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 2: watch ninety three assists on one hundred and eleven field goals.

865
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,479
Speaker 2: I think it is right now that ball is fizzing around.

866
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: Think Schuman said out the number one offense.

867
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're just watching them on offense. That ball

868
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 2: just never sticks. Yeah, never sticks. That that's a big

869
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 2: part of the reason why they have so many assistance.

870
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: They don't even catch the balls you've Yeah, yeah, they're

871
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: looking really really good.

872
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 2: I mean the USA obviously is one of the teams

873
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 2: that can win. I think Greece if Yannis. They had

874
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 2: a bit of a well against Brazil. I mean, but

875
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 2: that's okay. You can lose and still you know you're

876
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 2: not out of it yet. I would say Lithuania again.

877
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm surprised Australia handled them as easily as.

878
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: Australia is playing really well.

879
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 2: Spain, Argentina, those teams are always good. So there's a

880
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 2: lot of good teams. America is clearly there, but I

881
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 2: think I would have Serbia as a favorite right now

882
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 2: just from what I've seen, and I think that, you know,

883
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 2: what they benefit from is a lot of these guys

884
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 2: who kind of play together a lot, you know, at

885
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 2: different international tournaments, whereas the USA team, a lot of

886
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 2: these guys they might have played at different levels together

887
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 2: at some form, but not at a not in a

888
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 2: men's national level.

889
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: They're rolling together.

890
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're still, they're still, and they're a little thin too.

891
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 2: At point guard they're a little thin. And even their

892
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 2: bigs are a little thin. I mean, you've got Miles Turner,

893
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 2: who's great but plumbly. He's a good body. And then

894
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,879
Speaker 2: there's someone else, figure Brook Lopez, Yeah, who's who's a big,

895
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 2: but he's not a traditional big. He's more a modern big,

896
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 2: which is fine, but I think they're gonna need I

897
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 2: think they need another body there, some of like bam Adebayo,

898
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 2: who was a late cut. He actually wouldn't have been

899
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: a bad player for a tournament like this alone. Athletic

900
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,240
Speaker 2: can run, can jump, you know, but still.

901
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 1: It is physical. I'm sure I've heard Simmons talk about it.

902
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: He's not wrong. It's weird though. I mean there's some

903
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: games I watch where it's like every second play is

904
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: a foul call that. There was the Canadian game with Lithouen. No,

905
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: who do you can playing the second game? No second

906
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,959
Speaker 1: game was Lithuania. Excuse me they played them. Every second

907
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: play was a ticky tag file. There's no flow to

908
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: the game. And you do see some games like that,

909
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: and then other games they just let them play. I mean,

910
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 1: like they're like, it's sort of like it always. I

911
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: think it's because you would get some of these older

912
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: guys too that used to used to play in the

913
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 1: NBA are still playing the NBA or just now rotation guys, uh,

914
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: sort of role player type guys, but dominating international play,

915
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: like like Verjao and Skull and stuff like that. Even

916
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: Elias Silva is something incredible. I know, but it's like

917
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 1: it reminds me of like a rec League game where

918
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, it's gonna be a lot more physical

919
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: because halftime you're not gonna have refs, and all the

920
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: older guys are all crafty and they're still good. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

921
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: So it's uh, it makes it entertaining for sure. But

922
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: the Turkey scare was no doubt. It was real and

923
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: Kemba did prove though. I thought he stepped up to

924
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: be the like he was the guy like like, hey,

925
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: we need a basket. You know, he was big in overtime.

926
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 2: I know, I know.

927
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: Mitchell made some plays. He also had some brutal turnovers

928
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: and Joe Harris same thing. Hit some big shots, grabbed

929
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: a big rebound, a big steel, but also had some

930
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: bad plays like Turner as well. Both good and bad

931
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: I think at times. But I thought Kimball really was like, Hey,

932
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: I'm going to be the guy when we need a

933
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: bucket or need to stop the bleeding here, and it'll

934
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if you can do that sort

935
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:16,720
Speaker 1: of continuing in this in the tournament.

936
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kemba is it seems like he's the takeover guy,

937
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 3: and they got to have somebody who is just established

938
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 3: as when it comes down to it, he's taken the

939
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 3: shot for him or for me, It's gonna either be

940
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 3: him or Chris Middleton. I thought it's been awesome every

941
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 3: time he's on the court. I think the team looks better,

942
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 3: maybe just because he's got a little bit of size.

943
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, on the wing.

944
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 3: Where that, to me is where they're really lacking is

945
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 3: the guy in between, having a big guy at the

946
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 3: rim and somebody who can pass, like if Draymond Green

947
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 3: were willing to play in this tournament, he would be perfect.

948
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 3: Because the thing that killed the USA against Turkey that

949
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 3: you saw again a little bit against Japan, it didn't

950
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 3: matter because the talent is so much different. But they

951
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 3: don't have a guy who can catch the ball at

952
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 3: eighteen feet and either take two dribbles and make a

953
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 3: layup or pass it to the guy in the corner

954
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 3: on time before the defense has a chance to recover.

955
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 3: Raymond would be great at that. Aaron Gordon, they mentioned

956
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 3: on Zach Lowe's podcast today, there are guys out there

957
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 3: who can play like that. Marcus Smart I think might

958
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 3: be a guy you could use sort of in the

959
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 3: the big guy distribution role, which is kind of weird

960
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,439
Speaker 3: since he's a little guy. Obviously was hurt, but there's

961
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 3: got to be somebody who can kind of connect the

962
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 3: inside to the outside. There's nobody that does that right now.

963
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 3: Kemba can get going, but I still think like him,

964
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 3: Donovan Mitchell. They're not necessarily such great isolation players that

965
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 3: they're making plays for other guys. Maybe they get around

966
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 3: their first their first matchup, but then the way you

967
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 3: can pack the paint in the Phoebe game, it makes

968
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 3: the passes toff for sure, and you're just clogging it

969
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 3: up in the middle, getting hands up and trying to

970
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 3: trying to close things down, and it's been working so far.

971
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 3: I feel like the US is over penetrating and just

972
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 3: thinking too much.

973
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 2: I think what happens when you're playing for the first time,

974
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,760
Speaker 2: or from an Australian point of view, that Andrew Bogett

975
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 2: plays that role very well exactly. You know, he can dribble,

976
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 2: he's got a decent handle, and he understands how to

977
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 2: make a pass or just to use his body to

978
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 2: even sort of set his own screen to get the

979
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 2: gout counting around. And then you've got guys like Joe

980
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 2: Ingles who's doing the same thing. Given the ball is

981
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 2: not the fastest in the world, but he knows how

982
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 2: to make it. It's a fever pass. You know. It's

983
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 2: a slightly different game. And again that comes back to

984
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 2: what I'm seeing with Serbia though, like do they even

985
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 2: really have a run a point guard. It's more just

986
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 2: sort of like get the ball down. Everyone just keeps

987
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:19,800
Speaker 2: on moving, keeps on cycling around, and they seem to

988
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 2: get so many uncontested or open looks, particularly around the rim,

989
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 2: because it's very hard to defend when guys just keep

990
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 2: on moving like that, whereas the US game tends to

991
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 2: be a little bit more like Kember, you know, you

992
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 2: can do it, go and do it, but it's less

993
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 2: reliable if you're having a guy I have to do

994
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 2: that all the time.

995
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 1: Well, it serves too like so many like they'll do

996
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: the inside out game because like Bug Donovan the last

997
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:42,879
Speaker 1: game where you hit like five threes in a row

998
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: one or something and then had a bunch of steals

999
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,439
Speaker 1: as well, Like it's you're right, it's pretty and they're

1000
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: winning these games like they have what arguably the second

1001
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: best player in the whole tournament in your kitchen. It's like, yeah, really,

1002
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: you haven't heard a whole It's not like, oh, you

1003
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: got to go to yok you just got to get

1004
00:44:58,160 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: us thirty to win these games, like not even close.

1005
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 3: But he's also like eighty five percent from the field

1006
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 3: when he touches it, somebody else scores or he makes

1007
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 3: this shot. I know they don't.

1008
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, actually they're just so. They's so such a cohesive unit.

1009
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: No doubt that that's scary, like because you know, he

1010
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 1: could go win them a game like that if they

1011
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: play like a.

1012
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 2: Big team like Teammategdanovich is sixty yeah, no five a

1013
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 2: game out of seven and a half mics.

1014
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 1: They're on fire. I will go back to Team USA.

1015
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 1: I think they have proven here, especially with how many

1016
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: guys they play, and pop yikes to get in there.

1017
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:29,800
Speaker 1: And you could argue whether that's good or bad, but

1018
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,760
Speaker 1: the emphasis, I think they've looked at their team and go, yeah, okay,

1019
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: I know we got NBA players, but our offense may

1020
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: not be near like great enough to win games. We

1021
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: got to win these with defense. And that's how the

1022
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: I think going forward, that's why they want to play

1023
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys playing in short bursts. Bust your

1024
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: ass when you're out there on defense, and let's just

1025
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: hold teams, you know, quite low, and then you know,

1026
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: hopefully scrape together enough offense to get it done. I

1027
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: think that to me sort of looks to be the

1028
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: Popovich sort of current game plan here, Like we got

1029
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: the athletes where we should not be easy to be

1030
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: scored on. And I know there are some you know,

1031
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,280
Speaker 1: you could Myles Turner, I think is a fine defensive

1032
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 1: player at times. He got blown by there in that

1033
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 1: Turkey game, but he's good. It's like you just hope

1034
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: those guys don't end the foul trouble. But yeah, is

1035
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: this makes it way more interesting this tournament though, with

1036
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: Team USA, not like oh yeah they got Lebron or

1037
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: Kadi or Steph, Like yeah, they're gonna win every game

1038
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: by twenty.

1039
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 3: Well, especially the way it happened as well with in

1040
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 3: the Czech Republic game, the US was great on defense.

1041
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 3: I thought they were flying around making a ton of

1042
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 3: plays and they you know, they basically blew the checks

1043
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 3: out of.

1044
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:28,839
Speaker 1: The eleven other twelve players in like the first quarter

1045
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: of that.

1046
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And like like you said, Myles Turner had

1047
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 3: a bunch of blocks, like Jason Tatum was getting chased

1048
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 3: down blocks. The the US players are going to be

1049
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 3: more athletic than their counterparts for the most part, so

1050
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 3: that has to show up on the defensive side of

1051
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 3: the ball, which it did in Game one. But Game two,

1052
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 3: the offensive struggles threw him out of whack defensively. So

1053
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 3: maybe after game one you say, oh, look at this

1054
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 3: huge athleticism advantage. There's no way anybody's going to beat

1055
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 3: the US. And then the very next game, same guys

1056
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 3: having trouble stop getting stops defensively, having trouble scoring. Now

1057
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 3: it's anybody's game. Like you're saying, Lee, I would say

1058
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 3: that the field is the favorite of the United States

1059
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 3: for sure.

1060
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that, and I think someone like

1061
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 2: Bogdanovic in this role, he's just more comfortable playing like

1062
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 2: this where it's like if you're hot, be elitesa as well,

1063
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 2: he's firing threes. Again, just just these guys when they've

1064
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 2: played together at different levels growing up, and when they

1065
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 2: go to the NBA, they have to accept a different

1066
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 2: role with different guys that they're just not used to.

1067
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 2: That I don't stand out, but in this environment it's

1068
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:26,280
Speaker 2: just so much.

1069
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: Although they're also just more used to the actual ball

1070
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: they're playing with. Yeah, the environments, you know, some of

1071
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: some of the crowds and stuff like that. I know

1072
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 1: they're not like playing like in front of us. They're

1073
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: like twenty thousand Serbians I get that, but still there Lithuians,

1074
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: I know, like there are pockets, yeah, exactly and some

1075
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: of them, but like just the atmosphere and stuff like that. Obviously,

1076
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 1: the rules, I'm sure we'll get into that crazy Brazil

1077
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,919
Speaker 1: grease one where Bruno wisely off the free throw knocks

1078
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:53,439
Speaker 1: off to him. You know, there are these little little,

1079
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: like little different rules that you got to know, and

1080
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: it's tough to like, it's tough. I would imagine it'd

1081
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: be difficult for any NBA player to suddenly pick that

1082
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: up and like, oh, yeah, I can do that. That's

1083
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 1: not easy to remember after playing your entire entire career. Yeah,

1084
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 1: you know, you can't do that. Now you can do

1085
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: that for these couple of weeks, which is weird. So yeah,

1086
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: know that they have a little bit of a leg

1087
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: up the Americans. By the way, we'll go up against

1088
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: Greece on Saturday, so they're gonna play Greece and you're honest,

1089
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and then they play Brazil on Monday, and

1090
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: those are the and then the top teams of course

1091
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: from that group will advance. And should the United States

1092
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 1: go through to the quarterfinals, they're probably gonna then face

1093
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: either Lithuania, France or Australia. So none of these teams,

1094
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: I mean the France of the team we haven't really

1095
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, quietly going about their business and

1096
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: playing well. And Spain sort of getting it done up,

1097
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 1: blowing teams out. They're always sort of like in a

1098
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: game at the half, but then they pull away. Yeah,

1099
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: they start they start to go to market. Like every game.

1100
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: It feels like I watch with theirs, like, yeah, Marcus's

1101
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: not really all that, you know, used all that much

1102
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: in the first half. It's a close game at the half,

1103
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: and then you see like in the third or fourth

1104
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: quarter they're like, now let's just start running things through

1105
00:48:58,520 --> 00:48:59,359
Speaker 1: big Spain here. Yeah.

1106
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're a China fan, you've got to

1107
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 2: be shattered that they can't even get out of this

1108
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 2: first round. Yeah, that was that's pretty bad for them that.

1109
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 2: I mean, they're the host nation. Basketball is on the

1110
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 2: rise there, and.

1111
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: They think it was sort of set up for them

1112
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: too to go through.

1113
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:17,240
Speaker 2: To Poland, Venezuela and Ivory Coast and they couldn't get pasted.

1114
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 2: They couldn't get past Venezuela and Poland. I mean, that's

1115
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 2: that's bad for them. I mean yeah, I mean seventeen

1116
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 2: years ago he was a number one pick and you

1117
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 2: know we were sort of told that we'd start seeing

1118
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,400
Speaker 2: you know, an improvement there, and for them to not

1119
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 2: even be able.

1120
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: To that's bad. Yeah, that is rough. There are some dispoints. Well,

1121
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,320
Speaker 1: that was my next question. Maybe that's your answer. Biggest

1122
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: disappointment through through the first group.

1123
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has to be. It has to be really,

1124
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 2: I mean basketball, it's it's apparently overtaken soccer and Chine.

1125
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's statistically actual or not. Maybe

1126
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,800
Speaker 2: Schumann can find out for us. But yeah, that that,

1127
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,880
Speaker 2: I mean, they're still playing these games, but you're not

1128
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 2: playing for the gold medal still, so it's it's a

1129
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 2: waste of time there really for them.

1130
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 3: No, I just pack it.

1131
00:49:57,880 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 2: But you know you mentioned off the top thirty two

1132
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 2: that is too many. But because there have been some

1133
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 2: really good games, and I think you can keep the

1134
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 2: tournament a lot more compact. You don't need to have

1135
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 2: so you don't need to have like well, I mean

1136
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 2: Serbia beat the Philippines by sixty or something like that.

1137
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: So and there are some brutal blow up Yeah, so

1138
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: that clean and I think a big reason too, that

1139
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: is those those points, your margin of victory could end

1140
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: up counting yes, in those first and second groups to

1141
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: help you move on. So I think you start to

1142
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 1: see a little bit of like, well we gott to

1143
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: keep running up to score. Yeah, because that team beat

1144
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: that team by forty five. Well, okay, we better on

1145
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,759
Speaker 1: my forty seven exactly. Yeah, So I think that sort

1146
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,760
Speaker 1: of helps these scores look maybe even worse than they are. Otherwise,

1147
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: maybe you get more of a little bit more into

1148
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: the bench guys in and maybe it's not as bad. Okay,

1149
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: So China is a good one. That is a disappointment.

1150
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: I'm not getting to the second round.

1151
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 3: Who do you go with the Canadian experience, I think

1152
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 3: is just talking about it. They should have a top

1153
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:55,320
Speaker 3: five team in international basketball with the talent that that

1154
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 3: is in the NBA from Canada, and you know, they've

1155
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 3: got a handful of players on the team. But they

1156
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:04,800
Speaker 3: got caught. They got caught up in the United States.

1157
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 3: They got caught up in the United States, all their

1158
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 3: guys leaving, So then all the Canadian guys left, and

1159
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 3: it's a bummer.

1160
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, they I think there's off the top of my head,

1161
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:16,440
Speaker 1: I think there's something like seventeen NBA Canadian players, but

1162
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: only two are there representing this team. It's Corey Joseph,

1163
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: who was a very very last second edition. You know,

1164
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:24,800
Speaker 1: shout out to all these guys that are going and

1165
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: represent their country. I mean, they're they are, they are

1166
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: like I would like to think I would do it

1167
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 1: if I was at their level, and you'd want to

1168
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 1: play with, you know, your country on your chest. But

1169
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: a lot of them obviously don't or don't care about

1170
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 1: the World Cup. But Corey Joseph going and Kem Burch

1171
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: are the only two NBA players on this squad. Now,

1172
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: some were injury, like Kelly Olennok was on the squad.

1173
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he was going, but then he gets injured.

1174
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray, that's a bit of a wishy wash. You

1175
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: want that, Yeah, you think he just doesn't want to play.

1176
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 2: He didn't want to play, he pulled out.

1177
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:55,800
Speaker 1: No, it's it's embarrassing. I mean, especially I just can't

1178
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,240
Speaker 1: wrap my head around a guy, let's say like Andrew Wiggins.

1179
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins not looking at this tournament like as some

1180
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: sort of way that he could sort of build back up,

1181
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: any sort of reputation.

1182
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 2: Sure, go there, you.

1183
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: Know, ball out, try and put you know, get your

1184
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 1: team to some wins and maybe you like actually help

1185
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 1: your NBA reputation a little bit. I don't get that.

1186
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: And I know, and look, I know people are gonna

1187
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:21,720
Speaker 1: like get my Twitter mentions like oh he was upset

1188
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: about that time he was on the squad and then

1189
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: didn't play in the fourth quarter against Venezuela, Like there

1190
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: are these instances. I get that, but like, come on, man,

1191
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: like that's pathetic. It is because like you could see,

1192
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: and I know, I know Bill Simmons had the whole

1193
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,320
Speaker 1: thing about Devin Booker and then he got raked for that.

1194
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: And Bill Simmons is saying, why isn't Devin Booker playing

1195
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 1: for this right? Like again, a young guy has never

1196
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 1: really played on any sort of meaningful games in the NBA,

1197
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: having played for the Suns, why wouldn't you want this

1198
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,919
Speaker 1: opportunity to get great coaching, obviously, play with some great talent,

1199
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: play in like hostile environments and games that mean something.

1200
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: I agree with Simmons, I mean, I truly do, Like

1201
00:52:57,520 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: I think maybe he came across a little like bit.

1202
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:03,879
Speaker 1: No it all in the tweet itself. But yeah, he's right,

1203
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: there's no doubt and we've seen it. There's like a

1204
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: track record of guys playing in these in these tournaments

1205
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and then it carries over in

1206
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 1: the next season because they get better.

1207
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 3: And yeah, like you have to feel pretty confident about

1208
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:19,280
Speaker 3: Nicola Jokic heading into this season because he's playing basketball

1209
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 3: right now. He's playing competitive basketball. The one question about

1210
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 3: him throughout the years is this guy gotta be in

1211
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 3: shape when the season starts. He will be now he's

1212
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 3: playing right now, he's in basketball shape. You get the rhythm,

1213
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 3: you make, the connections, you are you know, when it

1214
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,359
Speaker 3: comes to team I say this is where a lot

1215
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 3: of the future super teams are formed. Maybe it would

1216
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 3: be good for Andrew Wiggins to get in the mix

1217
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:41,439
Speaker 3: and you know, just just network with these sort of guys.

1218
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 3: Not to mention you take like a bog Don Bogdanovic.

1219
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 3: He's looked amazing. Kings fans are excited about him now, right,

1220
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 3: how excited with Timberwolves fans see that Andrew wins putting

1221
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 3: up twenty fifteen something like that.

1222
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:53,839
Speaker 1: But but it could be it could be good.

1223
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,359
Speaker 2: You've been if Canada's at full strength. They're a chance.

1224
00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: I said that when we were sitting here last time.

1225
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: I got all bum because all these guys were dropping out.

1226
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: And I know the type was about teams, but at

1227
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:05,839
Speaker 1: that time a bunch of these Canadian guys were driving

1228
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: out too, and I was like, oh my god, this

1229
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: was there. Yeah, for the like, honestly sort of for

1230
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 1: the teking to at least go to the Olympics, where

1231
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 1: you haven't been since you know, the Steve Nashty, Yes,

1232
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Team Canada. I mean there's like, think

1233
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 1: just won their you know it was against Senegal their

1234
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: final game of this group stage. That was their first

1235
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,919
Speaker 1: World Cup win in like seventeen years.

1236
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that and that, and that's pathetic because those

1237
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 2: guys that you mentioned haven't done enough in the NBA

1238
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,880
Speaker 2: to earn that rep. Steph Curry, Lebron James. Fine, you

1239
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 2: guys have done enough to you can sit out this tournament.

1240
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 2: But if you're a young guy, this is your chance

1241
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 2: to go on the stage and say, you know what,

1242
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 2: I can show my coaches back in America. I can

1243
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,800
Speaker 2: do something else. I can do more than this. Canada

1244
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 2: played Australia in two games in exhibition games before they

1245
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:54,879
Speaker 2: played the ASA and the SO and that's a thing

1246
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 2: when it was like, oh this Canadian team, Jamal Murray

1247
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 2: is not here, Alynux not here. It's like Australia's gonna

1248
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:02,240
Speaker 2: win by forty points. Nick Nurse had that team ready

1249
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,400
Speaker 2: to play to the point where they blew out Australia

1250
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 2: in the first game and in the second game Australia

1251
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 2: had to play basically as competitive as as they could

1252
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 2: down the stretch just to win that game. So Nick Nurse,

1253
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 2: despite the fact that he didn't have the best talent available,

1254
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 2: he had those guys ready to play. He's taking it seriously.

1255
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:21,359
Speaker 2: He's doing everything he can when he sees these young guys.

1256
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,359
Speaker 2: And Nick Nurse just won the championship. If you want

1257
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 2: to take the summer off, I wouldn't like, fine, do

1258
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 2: it to see these young guys. I need to do

1259
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,800
Speaker 2: some pick up runs to stay in shape when I

1260
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 2: could be out there really playing for your country. Is

1261
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 2: It's awful, man.

1262
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 1: It really stings as a Canadian when I watch the

1263
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:42,400
Speaker 1: Australians particularly or you know, the Argentinians or whoever, Serbians Lithuanians,

1264
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: like you see those guys, like the bond they have

1265
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 1: Like Australians I think are perfect example. Like you see Mills,

1266
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 1: you're seeing goals. I'm talking about NBA guys too that

1267
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:51,879
Speaker 1: Oh by the way, yeah, I'm sure would maybe want

1268
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: the summer off too, but don't because they prefer to

1269
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: play with this and it looks like they're having a

1270
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: lot of fun as well, competing for their country. It's

1271
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: like you just see the bond and here's the thing. Well,

1272
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: you saw it firsthand. Patty Mills is forever now, I

1273
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: mean hell already was I get to some extent, but

1274
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 1: like he's an Australian hero, yes, like sporting hero for

1275
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: the you know, catching on fire and beating team to say,

1276
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: you can't tell me, like if that's Jamal Murray or

1277
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: if you know whoever else Canadian like Shake Gilde, just

1278
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 1: Alexander whoever. Like these guys like they ball out, that

1279
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 1: would be the same. I guarantee. Maybe it's not as

1280
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 1: crazy as it is in Australia. Like basketball, the popularity

1281
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: obviously growing in Canada and with the Raptors winning and

1282
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 1: all that, they would be they would be like sort

1283
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:34,879
Speaker 1: of quote unquote heroes. If you beat a big team

1284
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:36,799
Speaker 1: and you got a medal or whatever you did.

1285
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 3: That's the thing.

1286
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:40,840
Speaker 1: Tristan Thompson is a minor Canadian basketball hero for showing

1287
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:42,239
Speaker 1: up crazy, for showing up.

1288
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:43,800
Speaker 3: By very single time. That's all you have to do,

1289
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,919
Speaker 3: and exactly right you have. If Wiggins has a thirty

1290
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,240
Speaker 3: five point game and you know it's a shocking upset

1291
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 3: of who I just have our team they're playing, they'll

1292
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 3: talk about Andrew Wiggins as a Canadian legend forever instead

1293
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 3: of just being a guy everybody's angry with.

1294
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,280
Speaker 2: Well, And that's the thing. Going back to win Australia

1295
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 2: by America. That's why even though it didn't count for anything,

1296
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 2: it count in terms of like this is how much

1297
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 2: it means to Australia to win a meaningless exhibition game.

1298
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 2: And even this morning watching against Lithuania in that game

1299
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 2: that didn't I mean it counts, but it didn't really

1300
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 2: count because they were both through the way Australia played,

1301
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 2: particularly like Aaron Baines throwing his body around, trying to

1302
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 2: sort of send a message like we care about every

1303
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 2: single performance in this tournament, and you know the players

1304
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 2: are all rallied around each other, and you know it

1305
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 2: does mean so much to so many people, so to

1306
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 2: see the Canadians sort of shrug it off as if like, well,

1307
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 2: you know, we're a basketball powerhouse anyway.

1308
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: That's what they don't get. They're not, I know, I mean,

1309
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: be that squad, be these NBA guys, especially a lot

1310
00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 1: of these young NBA guys that suddenly puts Canada back

1311
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: on the basketball map. We're not a powerhouse.

1312
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 2: We're close, but they act like they are by not

1313
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 2: showing up by sort of Lan Barrett.

1314
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: Is the GM of Team Canada. Now is Son you know,

1315
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 1: just drafted. I get that a little bit more. He

1316
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: hasn't even played in the NBA. I sort of get it.

1317
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 1: You're like, you want to risk injury? I guess.

1318
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 2: Brad Stevens was asked about that with Jason Tatum the

1319
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 2: other day and he said, look, this could happen at

1320
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 2: any song.

1321
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: When they got just happened to DeMarcus Cousins exactly.

1322
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 2: Like like you can't you can't go and say well,

1323
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 2: I'm not going to play these guys in case they

1324
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 2: get injured, because that can happen at any point. I

1325
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 2: think the overall experience of being around and especially for

1326
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 2: the us USA, you guys the young guys being around Popovich,

1327
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 2: I think is going to be so good for that.

1328
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 1: It can't be bad, that's the thing. It can't be

1329
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: bad and against That's definitely something Simmons was going on,

1330
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: and you got a lot of backlash because, of course,

1331
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: right after he tweeted that whole thing about Booker, his

1332
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 1: guy is Celtics player Tatum twist his ankle and then

1333
00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: Booker very slyly, I thought, with the prayers up for

1334
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: for Tatum, but yeah, I think he's there's some truth

1335
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 1: to that. It's just frustrating, and I was already frustrated

1336
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: as I said, heading into this, this whole thing. I mean,

1337
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: I'm not shocked by that. I wasn't shocked by this

1338
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 1: at all. But the old come for Canada.

1339
00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 2: They can still qualify for Tokyo though they still can.

1340
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got big games here, one of them being

1341
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,920
Speaker 1: Germany is the huge game that they got to win

1342
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: to help their chances of again like sort of qualifying

1343
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: for a qualifying tournament because in the Olympics, I believe

1344
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: it's only twelve teams, is that right? Possibly, Yeah, it's

1345
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 1: very little because you don't have a lot of time

1346
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: to play all the games.

1347
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 2: I think it's twelve, yeah that yeah, I mean it's

1348
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 2: two weeks, so yeah, you gotta squeeze it all in there.

1349
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: I saw the breakdown of these second round teams in

1350
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: the World Cup here by continent. Europe has nine, the Americas,

1351
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 1: by the way, have six. Canada is not one of them.

1352
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: That's crazy, right, Argentina, Argentina, excuse me, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico,

1353
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: Brazil and Venezuela. And then of course with Tmosa there too,

1354
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 1: it's uh one, two three, Yeah, that's no six. I

1355
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 1: don't know why Tmosa is not included in that.

1356
00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 2: That's one.

1357
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: I can't that's crazy. And then Australia the only Oceanic team.

1358
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: Asia and Africa zero.

1359
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 2: Wow, that's bad.

1360
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: The Asian teams went it combined one in seventeen in

1361
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 1: this turn. Yeah, that's good, not good, not good. Anyway.

1362
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 1: I could go on a whole other rant about Canada

1363
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:05,080
Speaker 1: actually getting pretty screwed in this World Cup of their

1364
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 1: bracket and how it makes very little sense. Michael Grange hadweed,

1365
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 1: but basically saying like Canada went ten and two in

1366
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: World Cup qualifying against a lot of these teams. I

1367
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:18,400
Speaker 1: just mentioned those other America's teams, but somehow they got

1368
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: put in the bracket with Australia ranked eleventh and Lithuania

1369
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 1: ranked sixth. Where all these other teams Aretina, Dominican Public,

1370
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, Brazil, Venezuela, they're all going to the second

1371
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 1: round because they beat teams ranked you know, for the

1372
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: most part in the thirties and higher, forty ninth and

1373
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 1: fifty first and sixty. I mean that's yeah, that doesn't

1374
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: make a ton of sense.

1375
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 2: It doesn't. But that's a problem for another day.

1376
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 1: Really, I know, I know well where it is. Yeah,

1377
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:45,959
Speaker 1: that is that was the group of death, Australian with Awaia,

1378
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 1: great teams and only two going out of that. But

1379
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:50,760
Speaker 1: they they should have they should more talent there and

1380
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,560
Speaker 1: they would have been better, I think. Any other random notes,

1381
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: have you guys enjoyed, uh, have you enjoyed watching the

1382
01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: Phoebe beginnsort of asked that off the top, but the

1383
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 1: Foeba rules and I like watching it in the morning.

1384
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 1: I love it the morning watch super early breakfast.

1385
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 2: They're quick. The games.

1386
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 3: I love the.

1387
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: To the.

1388
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 2: Goaltending rule. Let's talk about that for a second. Because

1389
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 2: of what Bruno did the other day. Don't love it, Okay,

1390
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 2: don't love it. Why I I think you've got to

1391
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 2: just leave the ball up there a little longer.

1392
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: It's going to counter three.

1393
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1394
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, okay, that's a hang on.

1395
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:34,680
Speaker 2: That's no, you got to leave that one. You can

1396
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 2: contest other ones, but not that you know, it's I

1397
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 2: don't know, it's it's so you don't want to see

1398
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 2: it in the NBA, not to that degree. No, what

1399
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 2: do you on it.

1400
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: Once it hits the rim? No?

1401
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:47,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

1402
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: I mean I will admit, like every time they do

1403
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 1: it in Fever, I'm like what, Like, I'm so weird.

1404
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 2: And then I'm like, oh yeah, Kawhi Leonard Game seventy,

1405
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 2: that would have been knocked off for sure for sure

1406
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 2: the yeah someone jumps up.

1407
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 3: Yeah. But then it's also weird that like Donovan Mitchell

1408
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 3: gets the offensive interference when he grabbed the rim like

1409
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 3: laid against Turkey. Remember, like he went up for an

1410
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 3: offensive rebound and they got a bucket somehow else, like

1411
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 3: it got tipped in or whatever, but he happened to

1412
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 3: be up there, so he grabbed the rim. But that's

1413
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 3: against the rules. Even though he could be interfering with

1414
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 3: his team's own shot. It's strange. It's definitely strange, and

1415
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 3: it always throws you off and you see it. The

1416
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 3: other thing that I didn't know was new, and maybe

1417
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 3: it isn't, but I thought that you couldn't wear numbers

1418
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 3: over fifteen. Oh yeah, right, because Michael Jordan was the

1419
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:36,120
Speaker 3: most famous number twenty three over the guy was nine forever.

1420
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 3: Lebron obviously was nine a little bit, he was six,

1421
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 3: But there's like a ninety two. Bruno was a fifty. Yeah,

1422
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 3: I guess this is the thing.

1423
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 1: Looks like they're staying. Yeah, they loyal to the fifty

1424
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: sit under whatever it is that is that is strange.

1425
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 1: The brutal play was pretty cool though, It's just because

1426
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: like you don't see a game end like that ever.

1427
01:02:56,720 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 2: No, no, that's right, that's right.

1428
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 1: Where he knocks off a free throw. Do you get

1429
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: credit for a block?

1430
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 2: Probably?

1431
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:06,640
Speaker 1: Well, like, okay, not on a free maybe not on

1432
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: a free throw, but on a shot. Do you get

1433
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 1: a block?

1434
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 3: I have a free throw'd be weird block or a

1435
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 3: rebound probably stealing maybe three?

1436
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 1: Who knows.

1437
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 2: I will say that great for bosstball, it's been a

1438
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 2: great tournament. I think there's been a lot of buzzing.

1439
01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: Just get better.

1440
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:25,919
Speaker 2: It should, it should, and I think this is really

1441
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 2: healthy for basketball. I think it's great that there are

1442
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 2: genuinely five teams that could win the go medal.

1443
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:33,960
Speaker 1: Probably yeah, and that is you said you would like

1444
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: to see less teams. I sort of agree with that.

1445
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:38,600
Speaker 1: Maybe they're but I get why they're doing this because

1446
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:40,760
Speaker 1: they are trying to build this. It's the World Cup

1447
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:42,640
Speaker 1: of Basketball. This is pretty new, really.

1448
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 2: But does it help if you see teams get beaten

1449
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:46,480
Speaker 2: by fifty?

1450
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,439
Speaker 1: No, but you could argue maybe it does help having

1451
01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 1: a representative from you know, whatever part of the country

1452
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 1: world there, even if you know for the first couple

1453
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: of tournaments they are blown out by fifty or well

1454
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:00,919
Speaker 1: maybe one of those years they pull off an upset

1455
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 1: and it's like, that's good for the game.

1456
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:05,640
Speaker 2: That part possible. But again, you mentioned the Asian stat

1457
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 2: there of the Asian teams, that's shocking to me that

1458
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 2: they all perform so badly.

1459
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 1: Can you explain something for me? Are they cheering or

1460
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:18,520
Speaker 1: jeering Andrew Boget every time he touches the ball? What's

1461
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:18,880
Speaker 1: going on?

1462
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:20,000
Speaker 2: I think it's cheering.

1463
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: I think so too. Why, no idea did he play that?

1464
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:27,520
Speaker 1: I missed, no idea, But but but they honestly watch it,

1465
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 1: they go the crowd goes crazy. Anytime Boget touches the ball.

1466
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: There's like an audible like again, I don't know if

1467
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 1: it's cheers or cheers.

1468
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 2: But it could be either way for Boget, that's the thing.

1469
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 2: But I think it's cheering.

1470
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:41,280
Speaker 1: I think so too, But I don't know why.

1471
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 2: But but speaking of weird things, when Canada played the

1472
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:49,440
Speaker 2: US in Sydney right the last exhibition, the crowd went

1473
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:53,360
Speaker 2: crazy for brook Lopez, to the point where Pop had

1474
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 2: pull him up off the bench to get him out there.

1475
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:01,040
Speaker 2: Nobody knows where it came from, nobody why, but everyone

1476
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 2: loved it. Brooks a lovable guy then yeah.

1477
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:05,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's a very is he joking he's like

1478
01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: the prime Minister?

1479
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:09,560
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, yeah, yeah, but that side of the.

1480
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: World just loved giant guys just like guy. According to

1481
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 1: these newspaper headlines, these are.

1482
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:20,520
Speaker 3: Booze for okay, boomer boomer. Boget deserves the China booze

1483
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 3: and he'll thrive on that.

1484
01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 1: What's the reason? What did he I can't figure that out.

1485
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 3: I can't figure that out.

1486
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 1: Must have said something, surely he did.

1487
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay, he was outspoken on swimmer son Yang.

1488
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 3: I don't know what that means.

1489
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 1: But if he was the other side of it, okay, okay,

1490
01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 1: here we go.

1491
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was the swimmer, the Chinese swimmer who won

1492
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 2: at the World Champion John if you yeah, I saw.

1493
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:47,200
Speaker 3: I don't know what the event was, but it's leading

1494
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 3: up to the Olympic.

1495
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Australian and the British swimmer I believe

1496
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:53,920
Speaker 2: didn't stand on the d s to uh like when

1497
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 2: he won the gold medal.

1498
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:57,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, but what's the reason because what did they say?

1499
01:05:57,120 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 2: He's been caught doping? Yes, yes, he's been caught multiple times. Okay,

1500
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 2: we got to the bottom of this, so and so boge. Yeah,

1501
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 2: that makes sense if he maybe tweeted something or said something.

1502
01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 3: That would have been my swimmers who medal versus son

1503
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 3: Yang should break the podium with hammers.

1504
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:13,040
Speaker 1: That's what he tweeted.

1505
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:16,880
Speaker 3: Oh all right, plenty upset and the fifty two hundred replies.

1506
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:19,800
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I'm glad we figured that out. Well, that

1507
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 1: makes me feel great. But it was like driving me.

1508
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:25,120
Speaker 2: Nuts, I'm like he does yea, yeah, he loves it.

1509
01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:28,160
Speaker 1: He loves it, Yes, I believe. Right, do you guys,

1510
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:29,920
Speaker 1: Do you guys have an m v P so far

1511
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 1: of the first round, just be a personal preference MVP too.

1512
01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 2: Sluie Scola.

1513
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:38,200
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, he's averaging seventeen a game.

1514
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:42,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's and he looks amazing. Yeah, he looks young.

1515
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:46,440
Speaker 2: Absolutely he does. I thought he sort of just retired

1516
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:49,080
Speaker 2: and that was it, but he's out there pulling out

1517
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:49,840
Speaker 2: for Ragentina.

1518
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:53,840
Speaker 3: Same with j I don't remember Anderson verj Ever doing

1519
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:56,200
Speaker 3: a post move in his entire NBA ture and he

1520
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 3: was like going like the torture chamber down there with him.

1521
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 3: That's an awesome think about watching the FIVA tournament too,

1522
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 3: is the guys that have kind of aged out of

1523
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 3: the NBA or you know, just had a little cup

1524
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 3: of coffee are still amongst the best players for their

1525
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,919
Speaker 3: international country. So you can see him and their roles

1526
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:12,760
Speaker 3: are expanded and they're just like out there ball and

1527
01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:17,320
Speaker 3: it's crazy. I always love seeing Sergio. You, my guy's

1528
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 3: like a highlights mainsta. Yeah, finally get him over here.

1529
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:22,120
Speaker 2: Darryl Moorey, I.

1530
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 1: Guess from my MVP, I probably have Agdanovich would be

1531
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 1: up there right now, just through the group stage. You know,

1532
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 1: Joe Jingles, Jingling, Joe, whatever you want to call him.

1533
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:37,240
Speaker 1: He's been awesome. He's not even like he's not like even,

1534
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:40,760
Speaker 1: but he is dominating games like you said he is.

1535
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 1: He's been great. My next question, Funny brought up Sergio

1536
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: there my favorite oh shit, that guy moment. Have you

1537
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 1: had a guy that you've seen you're like, oh my god,

1538
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 1: that guy. I love that guy. I mean maybe it

1539
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:57,440
Speaker 1: is one of these like old Barbosa Brazil and there

1540
01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:01,680
Speaker 1: Win was great. Feels like every guy who people have

1541
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 1: tweeted at me. That guy looks like you.

1542
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 3: It's playing in the Fever World Cup. It was like

1543
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:09,360
Speaker 3: Luigi de to Versus from Serbia. I was like, yeah,

1544
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 3: I get those ones. Compared quite of that.

1545
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 4: Is.

1546
01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:15,439
Speaker 3: He seemed to be there and he grew on along

1547
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:16,840
Speaker 3: beard and now he's got a ponytail.

1548
01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:23,080
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I'm going with bald. Nick Kathis, Yeah,

1549
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: he played with the Grizzlies there, Yeah, but he had

1550
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:28,320
Speaker 1: he did the right thing. He went full bald.

1551
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 3: He went full bald.

1552
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:32,360
Speaker 1: Yeah too, because he had the bad, the bad, Like, wow,

1553
01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 1: that guy's an NBA player, Like the straight up bolding.

1554
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:37,680
Speaker 1: I'm keeping it on the sides and stuff. But it

1555
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:40,360
Speaker 1: was fun seeing him. But he's I always thought in

1556
01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 1: my head he was like a small, tiny guy. He's

1557
01:08:42,320 --> 01:08:45,080
Speaker 1: like a pretty big point guard. He's six. Yeah, he's

1558
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:47,439
Speaker 1: not tiny. You got a ship that guy.

1559
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:49,800
Speaker 2: But I mean, scolt just yeah, you know, just because

1560
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:51,960
Speaker 2: I honestly didn't even know who was playing, and then

1561
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:54,400
Speaker 2: he was playing. Really he's like every seventeen a night. Yeah, no,

1562
01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:57,839
Speaker 2: it's and Argentina is doing really well. It's incredible.

1563
01:08:57,960 --> 01:09:00,840
Speaker 1: It's so wild seeing these guys that you like. Again,

1564
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:02,360
Speaker 1: we're sort of bit players near the end of the

1565
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 1: career in the NBA, and like they're just like the

1566
01:09:04,320 --> 01:09:07,960
Speaker 1: stars on their team for sure, like just lead their squad.

1567
01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:11,960
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. I guess that's really a couple other

1568
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:12,599
Speaker 1: random ones.

1569
01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 3: I love.

1570
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:18,479
Speaker 1: I love how many slow mo reaction shots in a

1571
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:22,000
Speaker 1: FOBA produced game. You get so many. Damn, They're like

1572
01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:24,479
Speaker 1: there should be someone out there making these all gifts

1573
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 1: and gifts whatever you want to say it. There's so many.

1574
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, every reaction shot, always slow mo guys celebrating

1575
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:32,679
Speaker 3: and fast.

1576
01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:35,000
Speaker 1: It's always slow mo and I love it. It's like

1577
01:09:35,080 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 1: and it's like sort of not even anything, but it's

1578
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:41,200
Speaker 1: like yao ming like yeah, and it's a it's awesome.

1579
01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:44,280
Speaker 1: Got schools haircut down there as well. And uh do

1580
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:47,640
Speaker 1: you like the you like how they sit behind like

1581
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 1: that big like uh sort of partition or like the

1582
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 1: billboard on the side. It's really weird. It's just weird

1583
01:09:54,520 --> 01:10:01,679
Speaker 1: not seeing the player's legs. Yeah, it's almost like they're

1584
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:03,960
Speaker 1: like playing hockey coming over the boards. They should have

1585
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 1: to jump over the boards when they check in. All right, Anyway,

1586
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 1: so it's been it's been fun so far. It's only

1587
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:10,760
Speaker 1: gonna get better. I'm sure. I'm sure we might be

1588
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 1: able to squeeze in another podcast when we get into

1589
01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:16,439
Speaker 1: maybe into the quarterfinals or at least the knockout stages

1590
01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:18,439
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, especially if we do see a

1591
01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 1: team USA get knocked off. I think it's definitely in play.

1592
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 1: I actually when we were talking about it leading into

1593
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 1: the tournament, and I'm not joking here, and I'm not

1594
01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 1: like making this up or revisionist history. One of the

1595
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:29,360
Speaker 1: questions I had for you guys when we came in

1596
01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:31,880
Speaker 1: No Lee Lee was in Australia, still shooting jumpers. Is

1597
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 1: on Houston, but it was you know, task was Heroes Trey.

1598
01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 1: We were talking about the chances of TSA not winning

1599
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 1: and I had written down on my page. I had

1600
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:43,439
Speaker 1: written down fifty percent. I was like, I think there's

1601
01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:46,040
Speaker 1: a fifty percent chance this squad, this TMSA squad doesn't

1602
01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:47,760
Speaker 1: win it. And then we got in here and you

1603
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 1: and Tasty like, you guys were so confident still You're

1604
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:52,920
Speaker 1: like they still got twelve NBA players, man, like they're

1605
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:55,439
Speaker 1: still awesome. Thing that popped like they're still good. And

1606
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:56,720
Speaker 1: I was like sitting there the whole time, like, oh,

1607
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:58,360
Speaker 1: you're right. I was gonna go fifty percent. I get you.

1608
01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:01,640
Speaker 1: Guys were going one percent chance they don't win. So

1609
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:03,960
Speaker 1: I changed it to ten percent. I wish I didn't

1610
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: walk it back. It scared me.

1611
01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:06,960
Speaker 3: The USA is still going undefeated.

1612
01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:10,320
Speaker 2: This game against is huge.

1613
01:11:10,479 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 1: I don't see I don't I don't think the Greeks

1614
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:14,000
Speaker 1: have not impressed me that much.

1615
01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:15,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Giannis wants this one bad.

1616
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 1: It was a nice bounce back game from.

1617
01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:22,559
Speaker 3: Game Yeah, like basically just a center forum and it's

1618
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:24,760
Speaker 3: it's a lot easier for teens to take Giannis out

1619
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 3: of the Foba game. It seems like, I don't know,

1620
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 3: seven shots in a game yet. That was weird.

1621
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:31,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's a lot easier when your teammates in

1622
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:34,040
Speaker 1: theory are not you know, Middleton for sure and broken. Yeah,

1623
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:36,200
Speaker 1: and then there's some good guys. Don't get me wrong

1624
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:38,240
Speaker 1: on Grease, but Brazil did a good job and Bruno

1625
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 1: and that squad they played them really well. I mean

1626
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:42,080
Speaker 1: they were making it very difficult because that's what your

1627
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:45,040
Speaker 1: game plan can be for when you plays just shut

1628
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 1: him down and see if nickolaythis.

1629
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:48,759
Speaker 3: Can be there and every time he dribbles.

1630
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:50,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he did have a nice bounce back game

1631
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:52,640
Speaker 1: today in the win over New Zealand, because like right

1632
01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:54,320
Speaker 1: from the get go he's like, no, no, no, We're

1633
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:56,599
Speaker 1: we're winning this. And it was it was tight throughout

1634
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:58,320
Speaker 1: the game, but they pulled away and they're through and

1635
01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:00,599
Speaker 1: you think they maybe you can make some noise against team.

1636
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:02,479
Speaker 2: I think I think it's possible. I mean, they haven't

1637
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 2: played their best, but if they if they get it

1638
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 2: together on Saturday morning against the US, it shouldn't they shouldn't.

1639
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:10,360
Speaker 2: It should be a pretty close game. I mean, it

1640
01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 2: should be a handful for America. Particularly again, Tatum is

1641
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 2: not playing. I'm pretty sure of that game. Marcus Smart

1642
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:17,840
Speaker 2: didn't play as well this morning, but that was probably

1643
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:19,880
Speaker 2: more because playing Japan.

1644
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:22,040
Speaker 1: But the best thing that may have happened to the States.

1645
01:12:22,080 --> 01:12:25,680
Speaker 1: We're losing these games, both the friendly to Australia and

1646
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 1: and and sorry losing that one and nearly losing the Turkey,

1647
01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:30,840
Speaker 1: which they should have last Turkey could hit a free

1648
01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:34,600
Speaker 1: throw and turned into Nick Anderson. You know, it's a

1649
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:36,920
Speaker 1: good hell of a week up coom. Although I do

1650
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:39,400
Speaker 1: feel like they had a pretty healthy like respect for

1651
01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:41,880
Speaker 1: the other teams heading in. At least that's the story.

1652
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:46,200
Speaker 2: There's no doubt that there's no arrogance coming out of

1653
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:49,559
Speaker 2: the US team. Yeah, right now they're humbled, definitely because

1654
01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:50,720
Speaker 2: they're not a sure thing.

1655
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 1: You know.

1656
01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 2: You know who who is the star on the team.

1657
01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:57,360
Speaker 2: It's probably Kember sort of the older elder statesman of

1658
01:12:57,400 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 2: the team, you know, but he hasn't had a streets

1659
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 2: NBA career as far as playoff success goes. I mean,

1660
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 2: he's a good player. We know that he's an All Stars,

1661
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:06,639
Speaker 2: he's been All NBA, but he's not like a Steph

1662
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 2: Curry or anybody like that. He's not. And I think

1663
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:11,240
Speaker 2: Popovich looks at that team and he's like, you know,

1664
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 2: it could be kember tonight, it could be Donovan one night.

1665
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:15,840
Speaker 2: It could be Chris Middleton another night. There's not like,

1666
01:13:16,120 --> 01:13:17,760
Speaker 2: all right, just throw the ball to again.

1667
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:19,880
Speaker 1: That's why I think he's like, we gotta win with defense. Yeah,

1668
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:22,160
Speaker 1: we gotta shut down the other team, and then you're right,

1669
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:24,920
Speaker 1: get a little fifteen here, sixteen here from these guys,

1670
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:27,800
Speaker 1: hit some threes, and then we pull out the win. Yeah, yeah,

1671
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:30,639
Speaker 1: should be awesome. All Right, I got a little fun

1672
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:32,599
Speaker 1: fever inspired Top five.

1673
01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:46,880
Speaker 4: Top top top five, top top five, Top Fight, top five,

1674
01:13:46,960 --> 01:13:47,880
Speaker 4: top fight.

1675
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:51,519
Speaker 2: All right, my uh.

1676
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:57,360
Speaker 1: You gonna stop that? Yeah? Okay, there we are. Oh

1677
01:13:57,439 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 1: you couldn't hear that, fainling. No, but we can work

1678
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:06,560
Speaker 1: on this setup.

1679
01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 2: That's going to have to come back.

1680
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:14,719
Speaker 1: And well, I'm sure it sounds perfect to the listeners,

1681
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:17,040
Speaker 1: but the three of us here with the headphones on,

1682
01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:19,800
Speaker 1: it was just blaring in my ear. I was like,

1683
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 1: you're gonna diet, it doesn't matter. Top five favorite Foeba

1684
01:14:25,479 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 1: commentator sayings that I've heard so far because you got

1685
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:31,519
Speaker 1: the international flavor in there, that little flair, and you

1686
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:34,120
Speaker 1: hear some things that you don't generally hear in an

1687
01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:37,880
Speaker 1: NBA game. So these are sort of just basically sayings terms,

1688
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:41,439
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call them. At number five, makes

1689
01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:45,000
Speaker 1: the throw for a free throw I had never heard

1690
01:14:45,040 --> 01:14:48,200
Speaker 1: of makes the throw. Okay, okay, I've never heard that.

1691
01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 1: One's part of my in the lexture, Fron makes the throw.

1692
01:14:53,479 --> 01:14:57,280
Speaker 1: At number four, no joy for tm X here. I

1693
01:14:57,400 --> 01:15:00,719
Speaker 1: love this like they're in a tough spot, they're losing.

1694
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 1: No joy for Team USA here. Let's say like they

1695
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: put in either the team or a player. No joy

1696
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:10,519
Speaker 1: for a teammxer. I love that number three shot connection

1697
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:14,160
Speaker 1: made basket shot connection.

1698
01:15:14,080 --> 01:15:16,680
Speaker 3: Shot connections. That's a good one.

1699
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:20,240
Speaker 1: Number two sort of goes well with shot connection. Ring protection.

1700
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:24,960
Speaker 1: You hear a rim You hear a lot of rim

1701
01:15:25,080 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: talk in the NBA world. You don't hear a little

1702
01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:32,080
Speaker 1: ring talk. But they you know that again that international, Yes, yes,

1703
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:36,720
Speaker 1: but my number one favorite FOBA I guess commentator saying

1704
01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:41,600
Speaker 1: that I've heard so far slammer. There's one guy I

1705
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:44,040
Speaker 1: don't know his name. I wish I did, he says

1706
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:47,040
Speaker 1: instead of slam dunk instead of jam instead of throw down.

1707
01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:48,559
Speaker 1: I like to throw down. You don't get a ton

1708
01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:52,000
Speaker 1: of that in the NBA either, But Slammer. Slammer's got

1709
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:54,880
Speaker 1: the Slammer playing pods.

1710
01:15:57,160 --> 01:15:59,280
Speaker 3: On that one, So that's good.

1711
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:02,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure you got some other ones. Tweet at us

1712
01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 1: at the Free Agents nineteen on Twitter or Instagram. I'm

1713
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:09,680
Speaker 1: sure you've got some more out there. Before I go,

1714
01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:12,800
Speaker 1: Before we go, I want to share one little quick story.

1715
01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:17,599
Speaker 1: A guy named Beard Jam a longtime fan of the show.

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01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:19,719
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah on Twitter. He hit me up on Instagram

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01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:21,599
Speaker 1: actually right, and I had to share this. I cleared

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01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:22,960
Speaker 1: it with him. I said, can I can I say

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01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:24,920
Speaker 1: this on the area? Said yeah, absolutely, no problem. So

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01:16:25,040 --> 01:16:26,680
Speaker 1: he hit me up last night. He said he had

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01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 1: sent in an email that maybe got you know, lost

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01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:30,800
Speaker 1: in the shuffle. I didn't see it. Maybe one of

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01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 1: you guys did. But he works on He is working

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01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 1: on the upcoming season of Curby Your Enthusiasm. This is

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01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:40,040
Speaker 1: beer Jam. Okay, now this gets even betterly you're gonna

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01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:43,640
Speaker 1: love this. And he sent me I'm pulling it up

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01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 1: on my phone right now. But he sent me a

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01:16:45,080 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 1: photo again through DM the other night Instagram DM where

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01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:53,080
Speaker 1: one of the episodes coming up, Larry has a business

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01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:57,800
Speaker 1: idea where he basically designs I'm kid you not the

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01:16:57,960 --> 01:17:05,760
Speaker 1: leapye toilet. So this is going to be eventually coming up.

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01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:07,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you guys right now the photo and

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01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:11,879
Speaker 1: I'll make sure to tweet this out. So there's indentse

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01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:14,880
Speaker 1: on the side of it. It's almost like you'd be

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01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 1: riding like I don't know, it, almost like a horse

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01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:20,560
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, got a lot down there. Yeah, so

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01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 1: this you know, the infamous leape story where you mount

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01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:26,680
Speaker 1: the toilet where you are facing the tank because for

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01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:28,400
Speaker 1: whatever reason, you're in the middle of the night, you

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01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:32,080
Speaker 1: can't turn around it faster. Yeah, it's a faster you can.

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01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 2: Do your sleep.

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01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:36,439
Speaker 1: So I guess this is gonna be I mean on

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01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:39,559
Speaker 1: an upcoming episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm he says, maybe

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01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:42,080
Speaker 1: like episode five or six or something like that. Larry,

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01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:45,320
Speaker 1: I guess refers to it as a female urinal. But

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01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 1: to us, we know this is there's no way you

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01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 1: can't call this the leape toilet. This is wild.

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01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:54,040
Speaker 2: Bit jam, I want in on that episode. I want

1749
01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 2: to be like the guy when like Larry walks in

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01:17:56,479 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 2: and he sees me mounting.

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01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:00,479
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, yeah, great idea.

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01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:03,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I say that's way easy, man, it's more comfortable,

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01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:03,519
Speaker 2: it's clean up.

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01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:06,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, like you're saying, the story would be like he uh,

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01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:09,320
Speaker 1: he has like his car breaks down. He's got like

1756
01:18:09,400 --> 01:18:11,639
Speaker 1: for some reason, he runs into like a stranger. He's

1757
01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:12,800
Speaker 1: got to crash at their house.

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01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:16,120
Speaker 1: Then during the he can't sleep, so he gets up

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01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:18,880
Speaker 1: and like while he's up, he like sees the guys

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01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:21,680
Speaker 1: that house he's at, like stumbling to the washrooms. What

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01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 1: was this guy stumbling for? And anybody, like the door

1763
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:26,479
Speaker 1: still open, the lights on, like the little bathroom light,

1764
01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 1: and he sees the guy mount the toilet.

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01:18:28,400 --> 01:18:28,559
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 1: And then Larry must be like, whoa, what the hell

1767
01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 1: is going on here? And then it's like that guy

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01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:35,720
Speaker 1: might be a genius. Yeah, and he's talking to the

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01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:38,320
Speaker 1: guy like why do you mount the toilet? Like you know,

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01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:40,920
Speaker 1: you gotta try it, man, yeah, yeah yeah. And then

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01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:43,240
Speaker 1: then then Larry tries it, of course, Yeah, loves it,

1772
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:45,439
Speaker 1: loves it. Why why isn't this that?

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01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:46,080
Speaker 3: Yeah?

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01:18:46,080 --> 01:18:48,840
Speaker 2: But then but then it's gonna like the story's gonna

1775
01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:54,880
Speaker 2: act back. Yeah, someone walking in on Larry, what the hell? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, something.

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01:18:56,720 --> 01:19:00,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, anyway, I had to show that's all right, Benja.

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01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:03,639
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