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Speaker 1: Hello, it's Monday again.

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Speaker 2: Yippie, Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the Nodunks

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Speaker 2: podcast on the Athletic Network.

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Speaker 3: It's Monday, November twenty ninth, UMG skeets and alongside me,

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Speaker 3: as always, we got Tasmellos.

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Speaker 4: What's up Bros?

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Speaker 3: What's up?

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Speaker 4: Bro?

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Speaker 3: Got our top shot, hot boy rubbing um lips, Trey Kirby,

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Speaker 3: Hey out heyo. Got the international Man of Mystery back

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Speaker 3: here in the US, taking it to the max as always,

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Speaker 3: leellis friend really last, certainly not least making the magic happen.

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Speaker 3: Super producer GD. Hello, there is and here we are.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back.

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Speaker 5: Ley.

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Speaker 3: No problems getting back into the country.

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Speaker 5: Uh no, No, I got in safe and sound. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Answer, Well, it's.

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Speaker 5: Just because now there's a few more protocols you have

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Speaker 5: and things like that, and the airport sort of check

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Speaker 5: is a little longer than normal. So yeah, I got

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Speaker 5: in safe and sound, but you know, just a little

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Speaker 5: more stressful than it used to be anyway.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because there if there's anything Lee Ellis does perfect.

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Speaker 3: share of the show. Very busy week here at the

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Speaker 3: Classic Factory. Later today, Trey and I are going to

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Speaker 3: around two pm Eastern. Again, that's on the official Top

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Speaker 3: top Shot twitch stream. Easy for me to say, so

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Speaker 3: you can join us there. On Wherednesday, Trey and Great

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Speaker 3: and Gordian who just had a birthday by the way,

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Speaker 3: Happy birthday, Gigi. You guys have a brand new No

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Speaker 3: channel and of course in our podcast feed. On Thursday,

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Speaker 3: we got the No Buffs episode where we'll be breaking

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Speaker 3: down the latest Survivor show. That's around five thirty pm Eastern.

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Speaker 3: No Buffs it's got his own separate thing. It's on

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Speaker 3: this week, so we'll be breaking down that. And then

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Speaker 3: on Friday, well it's the No Dunk's Christmas Party. Baby,

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Speaker 3: maybe we'll live stream it. What do you think? Tes

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Speaker 3: just fire up a camera and just go for a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well we film everything else, right.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, That's what I'm saying. We'd probably do pretty good

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Speaker 3: numbers if you ask me on Friday night sitting there

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Speaker 3: and losers of the long NBA weekend because it's been

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Speaker 3: a while, But we also had a couple wedgies to celebrate.

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Speaker 3: Weggies number ten and what is you number eleven? Yes,

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Speaker 3: it was the night before Thanksgiving. There we had Piston's

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Speaker 3: guard saving Lee sticking that one on another little lay. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and then Friday night in this crazy Kings Lakers game,

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Speaker 3: Mundy healed with, yeah, the off sort of balance three

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Speaker 3: point wedgies stuck in their real nice as you saw there,

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Speaker 3: you go, Yeah, number ten and eleven. That's great. We're

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Speaker 3: on pace for forty eight forty two wedgietracker dot com. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's okay, it's all right. We've got a long time

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and that pace does tend to fluctuate throughout the season,

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Speaker 5: Wilson balls seems to be wedging in nice and firmly too.

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Speaker 5: I think maybe we need to start tracking that as well,

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Speaker 5: how long they actually stay wedging. It feels like they're

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Speaker 3: Little bit more doing that. We already tracked way too

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Speaker 5: Now we're gonna start what about the shout out to

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Speaker 5: the Milwaukee Bucks fans chanting Weggie? What an exasp moment?

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Speaker 5: That was just magnificent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up because I was

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Speaker 3: grabbing the clip and I'm like, am I hearing them?

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Speaker 3: Sh I was like, oh now I'm going like full

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Speaker 3: crazy like Wegi channing. But yeah, it was confirmed that

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Speaker 3: the Bucks sort of fan section fired up the wedgie chant.

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Speaker 3: I mean tas it was a boy out victory. The

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Speaker 3: to see a weggie in person, why not start a

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Speaker 3: little chant. I'd like to see that catch on tasks.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to see every time there's one, you know,

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Speaker 3: a small fan base start up the champ.

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Speaker 4: It's unbelievable. You go to a game, you might have

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Speaker 4: a dumb wave you have to do. What if you

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Speaker 4: could do a wedgie? What if you could do a

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Speaker 4: weggie chant? Isn't that That's what dreams are made of

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Speaker 4: the fact if that happens in reality, if that actually

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Speaker 4: waves across the entire NBA. We're all doing what I mean,

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Speaker 4: I actually.

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Speaker 3: Have some hope for it because it's fun to chant.

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Speaker 3: Like it's perfect. You know, there's the weg Gee weg

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Speaker 3: Ge and you know, in a blowout situation, Yeah, why

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Speaker 3: not have some fun, I Trey, I think we're gonna

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Speaker 3: hear it again. That's my prediction.

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Speaker 6: At least you don't even need a blowout skeatzy because

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's the cousin.

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Speaker 1: To the airball chant.

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Speaker 6: We get an airball chant anytime you see an airball,

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Speaker 6: we should get a weggie chant anytime a ball sticks

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Speaker 3: It's a great point. Okay. So if you're, of course

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Speaker 3: a game soon and you see a weggie, oh you're

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Speaker 3: if you're oh so much to see a weggie in person,

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Speaker 3: start it up. All it takes is one one person

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Speaker 3: to start the chant, uh, and then maybe you'll get

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Speaker 3: some other people chiming.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 3: Winners of the NBA Weekend, Trey, who do you have first?

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Speaker 6: Well, only two teams really had a chance at leading

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Speaker 6: got a lot in common. Excellent records, Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 1: Kerr and or Javail McGee. So who will be the

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Speaker 1: winner of the weekend? It's the Phoenix Sung Lady and Gentlemen.

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Speaker 6: Sixteen straight wins for Phoenix after they straight up dominated

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Speaker 6: Friday night, beat the Knicks by twenty one, didn't trail

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Speaker 6: after the four point fifty mark of the first core.

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Speaker 6: On Saturday night, back to back, went to the Clays,

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Speaker 6: that's what they call it, beat the Nets there, didn't

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Speaker 6: trail the entire game, so what.

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Speaker 1: Six or seven minutes and ten seconds of trailing in

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Speaker 1: two victories for the Suns over the weekend.

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Speaker 6: They handled both of these games pretty easily. Dominant weekend

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Speaker 6: for Phoenix because coming into the holiday weekend, both of

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Speaker 6: these games were kind of pitched as potential losses for Phoenix.

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Speaker 6: The Knicks was kind of like, maybe this could be

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Speaker 6: a trap game with the big game against the Nets

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Speaker 6: on Saturday night obviously a cross country back to back

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Speaker 1: They just took care of business.

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Speaker 6: Devin Booker had thirty two points on Friday night, thirty

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Speaker 6: on Saturday, Chris Paul had fourteen and ten, then had

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Speaker 6: twenty two and five. Became the first player with twenty

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Speaker 6: thousand points ten thousand assists in five thousand rebounds in

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Speaker 1: That was a surprising stat to me. Also getting some

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Speaker 1: incredible contributions from their smaller stars.

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Speaker 6: You would say Mihale Bridges steals in two games. He

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Speaker 6: had seven against the Nets. He's really been key for

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Speaker 6: DeAndre Ayton had a double double against the Knicks. JaVale

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Speaker 6: McGee had one against the Nets. Everybody on Phoenix is good.

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Speaker 6: They don't really have an MVP candidate right now, but

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Speaker 6: they got four guys in Booker, Paul eton In Bridges

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Speaker 6: if the Western Conference was worse, they certainly could be.

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Speaker 6: They know exactly how they want to play. So it

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Speaker 6: was either going to be the Warriors or the Suns

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Speaker 6: sitting here in the number one slot. But a sixteen

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Speaker 6: game win streak takes the cake. And guess what these

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Speaker 6: two teams play twice this week. Incredible stuff from the

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Speaker 6: schedule makers. So great weekend for the Suns. Sixteen straight

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Speaker 6: somehow they're still in second place. Yeah, that's the crazy

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Speaker 3: Of course, get to the Warriors here in a second.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, task last Monday, I think we had the

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Speaker 3: streak was still intact, and then were looking at the schedule, going, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 3: four game road trip here, Okay in San Antonio, that's

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Speaker 3: probably winnable. In Cleveland they're a scrappy bunch. Who knows. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Then they go to MSG. Oh, the Knicks, they play

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Speaker 3: then the Nets. I think I said it, there's no

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Speaker 3: way this winning streak is still intact, like, and not

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Speaker 3: that it would be a bad thing. You would just

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Speaker 3: expect at least one, maybe even two losses from that

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Speaker 3: four game road trip. And here they are still with

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Speaker 3: the winning streak going at sixteen strong. It's pretty crazy.

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Speaker 4: It's phenomenal. We get those two two teams on Tuesday night,

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Speaker 4: with this happening on Saturday, especially the Barclay Center. I thought,

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Speaker 4: final game of this stretch, you know that Nets could

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Speaker 4: do it waiting for these Phoenix Suns in the Clays.

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Speaker 4: As you said, Trey, I don't know if I got

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Speaker 4: Thanksgiving brain. I think Turkey brain still but Clays, what

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Speaker 4: a weird need the Clays. I don't like that for

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Speaker 4: the Barclay Center, No thank you. But the Suns went

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Speaker 4: in in there and they're never ever, ever going to

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Speaker 4: beat themselves. I think that's that's that's that's the way

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Speaker 4: they played ball. As Trey said, they're you know, one

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Speaker 4: through nine, one through ten just too fricking good. And

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Speaker 4: the Nets beat themselves by turning it over and over

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Speaker 4: and over, and the Sun's he just you're not going

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Speaker 4: to beat a Phoenix Suns team like that. They're just

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Speaker 4: far too solid. They're just too damn good.

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Speaker 3: I see people here in the stream team or at

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Speaker 3: least one person saying the Nets are trash. Stop piping

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Speaker 3: them up. Well, okay, the Nets are the number one

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Speaker 4: I would have strug against good teams. I get what

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Speaker 4: people are I mean, I guess. I guess people are

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Speaker 4: going with and be included at the beginning of the

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Speaker 1: Sorry to get the credit though, the poker or the no, the.

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Speaker 5: I just think that, you know, you can read the

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00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,520
Speaker 5: lane sometimes and intercept the ball versus like one on

431
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Speaker 5: one battle, like going up against James Harden and then

432
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,399
Speaker 5: you just like steal the ball off, you take it

433
00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,080
Speaker 5: off him versus him making a bad pass or you

434
00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 5: intercepting his pass.

435
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well you can track deflections already, yes, stuff like that.

436
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,840
Speaker 4: Poke anyways, Yeah, yeah, Steph was reading the lanes obviously.

437
00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:39,560
Speaker 4: Like the dedication on the defensive end for that team,

438
00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:43,360
Speaker 4: for every guy on that team is pretty remarkable, and yeah,

439
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,280
Speaker 4: in the offense, of course, they're going to be incredible.

440
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 4: He had he had thirty two on Friday, and then

441
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,600
Speaker 4: Steph had thirty three on Sunday after a referee really

442
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,200
Speaker 4: pessed him off and didn't give him a call, and

443
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,920
Speaker 4: then he hit a huge three afterwards, and yeah, one

444
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,600
Speaker 4: up the referee go, you know, giving him the tea

445
00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,399
Speaker 4: signal kind of do that to me. Yeah, Steph, you

446
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,639
Speaker 4: gotta love seeing that from stuff because it's rare. He

447
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,720
Speaker 4: doesn't show up the officials very often, but he did

448
00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:14,440
Speaker 4: right there, and he's ready, as is Klay Thompson as

449
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 4: is this team to obviously lay it all out. I

450
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,840
Speaker 4: think they've been. Yeah, they have been the best team

451
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,720
Speaker 4: in basketball, even though the Suns have been, you know, remarkable.

452
00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,639
Speaker 4: They are just there every possession, the way they blow

453
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Speaker 4: every team out. And I hope we don't get a

454
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,000
Speaker 4: blow out Tuesday Night on TNT when we see Warriors Suns.

455
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,560
Speaker 4: But man, they're just they're just too good. They're too good.

456
00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 4: And yeah, here comes Clay. It seems yeah, we're you know,

457
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,199
Speaker 4: nearing December, and it should be around Christmas that he

458
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 4: comes back. And Marcus Thompson wrote about the Klay Thompson

459
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 4: moment on the bench. You should read that on the

460
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Speaker 4: Athletic Go get that Turkey deal while you still can.

461
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Speaker 4: But when he comes back, I think he's gonna be

462
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Speaker 4: ready to go. I don't think he's gonna be half

463
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 4: fast in it, like this guy's been. This guy hasn't

464
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Speaker 4: played basketball and two and a half years. It's been

465
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 4: a freaking long long time for him.

466
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Speaker 3: Lee, who do you have for a winner of the weekend?

467
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm going with the Milwaukee Bucks because look, they

468
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,120
Speaker 5: had two pretty comfortable wins over the weekend. They've won

469
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,879
Speaker 5: seven straight. Now. The first fourteen games of the season,

470
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:16,880
Speaker 5: they were six and eight, but they dealt with some

471
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 5: COVID there to Chris Middleton and Drew Holiday had an injury.

472
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,239
Speaker 5: Since those guys have come back, they've won seventh straight. Now.

473
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Speaker 5: The two wins over the weekend Denver on Friday night

474
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:29,159
Speaker 5: and then Indiana last night hasn't been a super tough schedule.

475
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 5: But again, when you're the champs, you just got to

476
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 5: go out there and pound your opponents. And Mike Budenholz

477
00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 5: is even, I think, trying to make sure his team

478
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 5: doesn't lose focus. Here. He's saying he's a little bit

479
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 5: worried that they're not like keeping up these huge leads

480
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:41,920
Speaker 5: that they've got, they're sort of letting them slip. But

481
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 5: that's kind of when a coach is like, man, we're

482
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,479
Speaker 5: just pounding bad teams right now. He wants to make

483
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 5: sure they don't lose their focus and nugget.

484
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Speaker 3: But the funny boat is they're hammering these teams like

485
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 3: the victory is fifty.

486
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Speaker 5: What do you want from his bootenhorders, Well, that exactly

487
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,680
Speaker 5: that's what Bodenholder has to do right now to make sure,

488
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,359
Speaker 5: you know, they stay focused Now, look, the Nuggets that

489
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:00,880
Speaker 5: we know are a bit of a mess right now, lost

490
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 5: six straight. Jokic didn't play on Friday night, and then

491
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 5: the Paces last night. Now the Pacers pounded Chicago. Sorry Trey,

492
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 5: but they did. And then they've also beat Utah on

493
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 5: the second night of a back to back, So you're like,

494
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,679
Speaker 5: are they a good team or not? Who knows? You know,

495
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,360
Speaker 5: last night Sabonus and Miles Turner combined for six points.

496
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,640
Speaker 5: You know, at home. This is the sort of team

497
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 5: that you look at and you think, I think the

498
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 5: Paces are actually okay, and then you're like, nah, nah,

499
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 5: I don't think they are.

500
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Speaker 3: So I don't really know.

501
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 5: Sometimes they just look like the Magic in disguise, you know,

502
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 5: because like last night, they really weren't that close. Now

503
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 5: the Bucks are only now a game and a half

504
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,439
Speaker 5: back of the Nets from top of the East. But

505
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 5: I think it's a pretty safe bet to say that

506
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 5: the Bucks will get there in the next couple of

507
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 5: weeks and probably hold on to that top or certainly

508
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 5: no worse than second spot. And he is the only

509
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,439
Speaker 5: real concern for them right now is Brook Lopez, that

510
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 5: back injuries, only played one game opening night, seemingly there's

511
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,199
Speaker 5: no real timetable for his return, and the Bucks actually

512
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 5: then went out and added to Marcus Cousins to a

513
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Speaker 5: non guaranteed deal over the weekend to give them a

514
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 5: little bit of security or insurance, if you like, in

515
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 5: that big man spot, because it's been Bobby and yarnis

516
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,640
Speaker 5: really playing that role as the center. They tried Yannis's

517
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 5: brother there the NASAs didn't really you know, he's fine,

518
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 5: his energy, but he's not really able to play that

519
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 5: role consistently. So Cousins is somehow only thirty one years old,

520
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,400
Speaker 5: he seems a lot older. He hasn't played obviously meaningful

521
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 5: minutes for a long time. He was on the Ruckets

522
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 5: and the Clippers last year, didn't really you know, he

523
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Speaker 5: can give them ten minutes. If they can get ten

524
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Speaker 5: minutes out of Boogie Cousins, then that'd be great for

525
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 5: the Bucks. But who knows exactly what they're going to

526
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Speaker 5: get out of him. He's obviously dealt with some injuries himself.

527
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Speaker 5: He's a big guy, but yeah, thirty one years old,

528
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Speaker 5: so it's not like he's, you know, the thirty nine

529
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 5: year old guy who's washed up. If he can keep

530
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Speaker 5: himself in shape, then maybe Boogie can just give them

531
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 5: a few little bit of help there. So overall though,

532
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 5: Bucks cruising along as we thought they would everyone when

533
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,640
Speaker 5: they're at full strength, they're a very very good team

534
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 5: at both ends of the floor. Seven straight winnable games.

535
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 5: But I think it's safe to say the Bucks are back.

536
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you think tray of the Cousins edition?

537
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,200
Speaker 3: Because I saw some people are like, eh, not bad,

538
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 3: you know, non guaranteed there. He's a big guy. We've

539
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 3: seen flashes even from Boogie Cousins over the last couple

540
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 3: of years. But then other people go, whoa, whoa, whoa.

541
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Speaker 3: If they're doing this, what does that mean the status

542
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 3: is with brook Lopez? Does that mean like this back

543
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 3: is a real, real issue and he could be out

544
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 3: for a very long time. But what'd you think?

545
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the big question is when and if brook

546
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 6: Lopez will be back, because I actually do think the

547
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 6: Bucks are seriously missing him. He's kind of the missing

548
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 6: piece to everything the Bucks have going on right now.

549
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 6: They're middle of the pack on as a defensive rebounding team,

550
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 6: and they've been a top three defensive rebounding team for

551
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 6: the past three seasons. When they've been a top five

552
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 6: defense because brook Lopez goes out there and puts a

553
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 6: body on somebody, so everybody else can grab the rebounds. Basically,

554
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,159
Speaker 6: they're missing him, so some of these possessions end up

555
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 6: being a little bit longer Defensively, That's all they need

556
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,120
Speaker 6: to get from Boogie is hitting the glass, which he's

557
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 6: been great at throughout his entire career, and being a

558
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 6: huge guy. Like ultimately he should be the third big

559
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 6: for the Bucks, which means maybe he plays eight minutes

560
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 6: a game when it really matters. My guess is that

561
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 6: he's not going to be a big time playoff performer,

562
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 6: but if he can sop up some minutes here during

563
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 6: the regular season until the Bucks actually get brook Lopez back,

564
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 6: they need to do it just to save Giannis from

565
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 6: having a play center so much likely said they've got

566
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 6: Bobby Porters is their other big guy right now, but

567
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 6: with no real news about what's going on with brook,

568
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 6: they got to do something to run a big guy

569
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 6: out there. So, yeah, why not take a shot on

570
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 6: a guy like Boogie who has the talent to maybe

571
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 6: outperform a tiny little contract like this and give you

572
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Speaker 6: something down the line.

573
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Speaker 3: Yeah, any thoughts there on Cousins going to Milwaukee. Test Oh.

574
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Speaker 4: I was in his corner when he joined the Clippers

575
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 4: last year for that championship run, and he had some

576
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 4: minutes in the playoffs. Tylu thru him out there as

577
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,640
Speaker 4: big and you know he can score no matter what.

578
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 4: It's just on the other end, he gets out on

579
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 4: an island a little bit, and yeah, he can be

580
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,919
Speaker 4: taken advantage of. Brook cannot be taken advantage of. So

581
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 4: this is just a connector here to try and get

582
00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,439
Speaker 4: Brook Lopez back for sure. But yeah, you got in

583
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 4: DeMarcus Cousins squad. I mean he'll go off for a quarter.

584
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,880
Speaker 4: You remember the little playoff run there he had when

585
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 4: he put him into the game, he scored six straight.

586
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,159
Speaker 4: He's awesome offensively, But yeah, they don't want him to

587
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 4: play too many minutes. But remember a Brook Lopez did

588
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 4: in the playoffs with the Bucks. I mean he is Yeah,

589
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 4: he can bail any team out. When Giannis went down

590
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 4: against the Hawks, he had a thirty three point night.

591
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 4: I think he had monster games in the conference finals

592
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 4: and then in the finals. So yeah, you can give

593
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 4: the Bucks a loser of the weekend. If this means

594
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 4: Brook Lopez isn't coming back for a long time because

595
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 4: they really just have kept that on the down low.

596
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 4: He played one game, as Li said, and then he disappeared.

597
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's a giant dude with back issues. Never

598
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 3: never get I have a winner of the weekend going

599
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 3: to the Washington Wizards. Yeah, because they're still in the mix. Lee,

600
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 3: They're still up there. And I like this because they

601
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 3: had a brutal loss to the Pelicans last week. You know,

602
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,439
Speaker 3: they got hammered by like twenty five points.

603
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:55,360
Speaker 1: But then this.

604
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 3: Weekend they come with two straight victories in a back

605
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 3: to back situation. Now they eat them to win in

606
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 3: OKC versus the Thunder. You're like, Okay, that's maybe not

607
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 3: all that great. But then the next night on Saturday,

608
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 3: quality win in Dallas. No Spencer dinwity in that one,

609
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 3: because he's yet to play in the second half of

610
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 3: a back to back this season after having surgery to

611
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 3: repair the ACL injury there in January. So to go

612
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 3: in there and do that again, I love. There's a

613
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 3: bunch of bunch of teams that start hot at times

614
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 3: and then you know they come back to earth a

615
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 3: little bit and you're like, Okay, that was a fun

616
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 3: ten fifteen games whatever, and it maybe looked like Washington

617
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 3: was doing that. But these are two really quality wins

618
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,880
Speaker 3: where you're like, huh, that that really much improved defense.

619
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 3: Maybe it's legit, and Beal gets to going enough, and

620
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 3: they have all these guys. Every time the Wizards win,

621
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 3: I swear Kuzma has like a ten point fourth quarter,

622
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 3: like he just like hits like timely threes, big shots.

623
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 3: It like happens time and time again. So I thought

624
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 3: it was a pretty impressive, you know, weekend of for

625
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 3: the Wizards to bounce back, Like I said, after that,

626
00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 3: Pelicans lost and they got some reinforcements sort of here

627
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 3: or coming. Burton's he has returned from injury, but this

628
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 3: guy is this guy can't hit a shot to save

629
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 3: his life right now. And then Ruy Hachimura is ramping

630
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 3: up apparently for a possible return in December. But Burton's leave,

631
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean in his three games back over five,

632
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 3: over three, one for ten, and before he left because

633
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 3: of injury, it was the exact same sort of stat lines.

634
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 3: The guy makes sixteen million dollars in the next for you,

635
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 3: like I do wonder would they look to move him,

636
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 3: and it's a movable contract. Yeah, and you could see

637
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 3: a team convincing themselves that, well, the guy can shoot.

638
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,959
Speaker 3: We he's in a slump right now, but you know

639
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 3: he could stretch the floor for us. I you know,

640
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 3: he doesn't work in this Wizard system where they want

641
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 3: guys to play a little defense. Now too, it's another

642
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 3: part which he doesn't know. I think they love to

643
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 3: move him.

644
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's an awful defensive player, but I think it

645
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 5: was against the horness last year he hit eight threes

646
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 5: in a row as well, Like that's what he's gonna

647
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 5: do in a couple of games here. You know, he'll

648
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 5: probably hit eight and seven and six and he'll hit

649
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 5: some big ones for them. But yeah, he is feast

650
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 5: or famine big time. And they signed him to that contract.

651
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean who who would sort of who

652
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 5: could use a guy like that just coming off the

653
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 5: bench just to fire away the weathers.

654
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 6: They're pretty bad at three pointers actually, Yeah, but he

655
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 6: made more sense honestly with like a Westbrook or a

656
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 6: Wall as the point guard.

657
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 3: Is the problem, like, yeah, creating for him, I mean

658
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 3: sort of built differently now.

659
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you've got like k C. P And Coups

660
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 5: who seemed just more a love Kou's a really good point.

661
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 5: He has hit some huge fourth quarter threes. He had

662
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 5: that game in Cleveland where he did hit the four

663
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 5: in the quarter in the last quarter there. He hit

664
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 5: that big one against the Celtics in that double overtime

665
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 5: game as well. Kuzman's been fun to watch this year,

666
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 5: no doubt about it. He seems a lot more loose

667
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 5: and freer out there and just believe. But you know,

668
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 5: not the pressure of playing on the Lakers and in

669
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 5: LA and with Lebron where the expectations are so much higher.

670
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 5: This year, it's kind of like, you know, the Wizards

671
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 5: have been a pleasant surprise. There've been fun team to watch,

672
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 5: and they're winning, and Kus feels like, you know what,

673
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 5: with the comes to me, I'm taking that shot and

674
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 5: it's great for him. So yeah, this is good. It's

675
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 5: good to say the Wizard's actually playing believable basketball.

676
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 3: That's I think you're still there thirteen and seven here

677
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 3: through twenty games.

678
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 4: That's Solids have to do. Sorry started. What the Wizards

679
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 4: have to do is like the Bucks brought into the

680
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 4: Nazismbo because he's a bro. They got to bring in

681
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 4: Damas Burton's bro just to be on the bench. Do

682
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 4: you remember Daris Burton's No, I don't, But if he

683
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 4: was on the bench, he still wouldn't remember him. But

684
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 4: he's got his bro there hanging out. He used to

685
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 4: play in the NBA. He played with the Pelicans very

686
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:36,239
Speaker 4: brief one.

687
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't even know that. I was like, this

688
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 3: is either setting up for a really weird joke here,

689
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 3: like there's gonna be a pun here. No, he's giving

690
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 3: us a fact.

691
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 4: There's there's easy puns. His name is Darius. I dare you, Daris?

692
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 4: You to bring him over? That's not great.

693
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 5: It's like Drugget, that's right, Yeah, exactly.

694
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 3: Well, the Raptors could get zor on I guess, or

695
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 3: he's left unfortunately personal reasons. He's not even on the

696
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 3: squad right now.

697
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 6: Trey, you were Yeah, great game from Beale. He had

698
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 6: a really efficient game in this one, ten to fourteen shooting,

699
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,479
Speaker 6: also added seven assists, which got a great quote from

700
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 6: Kyle Kuzma post game.

701
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: He's talking about how Beal has.

702
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 6: Grown as a player and how he is a scorer,

703
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 6: but he's working on his playmaking and obviously there's a

704
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 6: lot more Wizards who can make plays there, so Beal

705
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 6: doesn't have to do quite as much. Kyle Kuzma set

706
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 6: of Bradley Beal. He's gonna make the right play seven

707
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 6: or eight times out of ten.

708
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: That's awesome. You never hear that, but it was like

709
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: a super compliment.

710
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 6: He's like, hey man, that guy makes them right place

711
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 6: seventy percent of the time.

712
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: He's going a digit that sometimes you just gotta chuck

713
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: it up and shoot it. Why not.

714
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 6: Great great line from Kuzma, and we'll see how much

715
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 6: the Wizards can hold up here. They've got eleven of

716
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 6: their next fifteen on the road, a lot of them

717
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 6: on the West Coast. The Bulls just went on their

718
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 6: big road trip. It went pretty well. So if the

719
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 6: Wizards do the same, you get a lot of confidence

720
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 6: playing against some other teams out on the West.

721
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

722
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 3: I think they're okay on the road right now too, right,

723
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 3: I think they're maybe like a six and five or

724
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 3: something like that. So they played played decent if I

725
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 3: have that right anyway, thin they're about a five hundred

726
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 3: team on the road. Okay, Tash, you got a little

727
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 3: mini winner the week, and hear what you got?

728
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, Darris Berton's former team, the New Orleans Pelicans. I

729
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 4: was pretty pumped just to see an underhand pass in

730
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 4: the middle of a game that led to a game winner.

731
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 4: It's just sweet to see Brandon Ingram loves doing this,

732
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 4: and he set up Davante Graham with a beauty underhand

733
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 4: pass for a game winner on Friday Nights.

734
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 3: Nice.

735
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 4: I just like it. He could go chest easy, but

736
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 4: it's a lot pretty serving it.

737
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 3: Fair to it.

738
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, It's like, you know, like a volleyball serve,

739
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 4: go underhand just to mix it up. Overhand's probably more efficient,

740
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 4: but this is pretty. It's just a nice still set up.

741
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 3: That will not be happening at my first basketball practice tonight.

742
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 3: He'll be kicked out of the gym if I see

743
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 3: any of that lee. I want a two hand chess pass.

744
00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 3: I want, in fact, I want to fake a pass.

745
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 3: Make it even on the fast breaks.

746
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 5: You're gonna do a look pass, like like Spence didn't

747
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 5: what he said about.

748
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was all right. Let's let's actually take

749
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 3: our first break. Then we're gonna talk about John Wall

750
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 3: and the Rockets, that weird situation, and we'll get to

751
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 3: our losers of the NBA weekend. But we'll be right back,

752
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 3: all right. Another mini winner the weekend. It could have

753
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 3: been actually the Houston Rockets, who, despite their three and

754
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 3: sixteen overall record, they won two straight games for the

755
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 3: first time this season. Tray shaking his head because they

756
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 3: beat the Bulls on Wednesday home. My goodness, thought that

757
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 3: was down back. And then they followed that up the

758
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 3: Rockets did with a win against the Hornets on Saturday.

759
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 3: Those are two really good teams in Chicago and Charlotte,

760
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 3: so that's good. But in other h Town news, John

761
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 3: Wall reportedly told the Rockets he wants to play now

762
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 3: and have a starting role and compete to maintain it.

763
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 3: But the franchise says that they want the five time

764
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,760
Speaker 3: all start to come off the bench. So the outcome

765
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 3: of the conversations is that Wall is gonna continue to

766
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 3: sit out games while remaining a pro and being around

767
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 3: the team and all that, and the sides will continue

768
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 3: to talk as the season unfolds. Lealy, this got a

769
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 3: lot of buzz over the last couple of days. What

770
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,800
Speaker 3: do they do here, who's in the wrong? You know what,

771
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 3: what's the next move? Because yeah, there might be a

772
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 3: lot of teams sort of interested in John Wall, but

773
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 3: not with two years and ninety one million dollars left

774
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 3: on his deal, Like, there's just really, you can't find

775
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 3: me a trade that's gonna make any sense here. So

776
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 3: he wants to play though now, but he only wants

777
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 3: to start, which is a little weird. And they say, no,

778
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 3: we don't want you to start. We think Kevin Porter

779
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 3: Junior is better than you. Yeah right, We just don't

780
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 3: want to win too many games. But what do you

781
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 3: think Lee of this weird, weird situation here?

782
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: Now?

783
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, well I'll start this. We may have discovered the

784
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 5: first ever untradable contract in the NBA. No nobody wants that.

785
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 5: Of course, you know, he's gonna opt into the next

786
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 5: year of forty seven million, So that's that's why he's

787
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 5: stuck in Houston. They're not gonna buy him out of

788
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 5: that either, because they don't just want to give him money.

789
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 5: So if John Wore wants to play, great, he doesn't

790
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 5: just say well I'm starting though, as all, that's not

791
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 5: his decision to make. But if he comes off the

792
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 5: bench and plays hard at both ends of the floor

793
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 5: and makes it tough for Steven Silas to make a

794
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 5: decision as to who he's starting is, then he can

795
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 5: earn that spot. But you don't just walk into the team.

796
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter who you are when you've been sitting

797
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 5: out for this long and demand to start. Even though

798
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 5: it's a bad team and they could use his presence

799
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 5: out there, he has to earn that. So I think

800
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 5: this is also becoming about because of the situation there

801
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 5: in Philadelphia with Ben Simmons, the old sort of you know,

802
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 5: we want you to play, but then in Houston it's like, no,

803
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 5: you stay away, we don't want you to play. And

804
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 5: John Wall apparently there was some conflicting reports as to

805
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 5: the agreement he had before the season started there with

806
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 5: the Ruckets. So I think it's almost like I wouldn't

807
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 5: be surprised if the NBA said, you know what, if

808
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 5: he's healthy, let's get him out on the court there.

809
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 5: This is not a good look for everyone, and there

810
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 5: is a bit of a you know, a contradiction being

811
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 5: played out. So John Wall, if he's serious, then work

812
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 5: your backside off, go in there to that team and

813
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 5: come off the bench again. John Will missed basically two

814
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 5: years through injury. He's no longer the all Star All

815
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 5: NBA talent he was, but he can still play and

816
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 5: be a veteran presence on a team and at least

817
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 5: give them some professionalism out there. But it's not up

818
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 5: to him to decide the minutes and the role immediately.

819
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 5: He may earn that with his play, but he has

820
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 5: to actually now accept whatever role they can give him

821
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 5: at the start.

822
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 3: What do you think, tass? Do you agree with what

823
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 3: Lee is saying? If Wall wants to play and says

824
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 3: he does, well, it's not up to you if you

825
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 3: get to start. Man, although usually that is the case,

826
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 3: the five time All Star starts and the guy that's

827
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 3: like still trying to prove himself in the league, and

828
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 3: Kevin Porter Jr. He would come off the bench and

829
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 3: try and take away minutes from the starter, the star.

830
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 3: But do you think it's fair with Lee saying it's

831
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 3: actually flipped around here and that's the franchises, you know,

832
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 3: that's their priority.

833
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 4: Sure, they can definitely go the young route if you

834
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 4: listen to John Wall though, and what he's saying on Twitter.

835
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,959
Speaker 4: He called somebody out who said John Wall just wants

836
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 4: to start and be the number one option. Everybody else

837
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 4: can be the number two option. John Wall said, that's

838
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 4: a goddamn lie, right, and so he said that directly,

839
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 4: And so you can't necessarily read these reports and think

840
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 4: that John Wall just wants to be the number one

841
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 4: dude and only the number one dude. It would be

842
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 4: weird for a guy who's started his entire career to

843
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 4: come off the bench behind guys who are not establishing

844
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 4: in this league, for sure, But you see a lot

845
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 4: of guys. I just talked about Clay Thompson going down

846
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 4: to the Santa Cruz Warriors to get reps. I mean,

847
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 4: he's not coming back to be a bench player with

848
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 4: the Golden State Warriors. But you see guys throughout the

849
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,760
Speaker 4: league come back in different roles knowing that they're trusted

850
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 4: and they'll get the role that they deserve. And so

851
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 4: John Wall can come back and play fifteen minutes a

852
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 4: night off the bench, and then eventually twenty five minutes,

853
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 4: and then eventually somebody will say, hmm, okay, we'll give

854
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 4: him a shot and trade for him. Whether it's a

855
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 4: you know, it's a buy out where the Rockets get

856
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 4: off ten mil of next year or whatever, like, there's

857
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 4: a way to do it. And I think John Wall's not.

858
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 4: I don't think he's that hardheaded that he thinks he's

859
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 4: an All Star and he's got to play forty minutes.

860
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 4: I read more into what he said on Twitter talking

861
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 4: to somebody than these reports. I think I think he

862
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 4: just wants to play and he realizes, like unlike you

863
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 4: know what's going on with Kyrie and the Brooklyn Nets,

864
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 4: john Wall realizes that his value is on the floor

865
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 4: and he's got to play soon and not just sit

866
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 4: out until the trade deadline. Has got to show people

867
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,879
Speaker 4: that he can play. And in those minutes last year,

868
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 4: I mean, he was fine. You know, he wasn't great,

869
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 4: but he was not. He's not like a shell of

870
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 4: him for um orself. I think he's you know, a

871
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 4: big shell of in for him, his for him stuff,

872
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 4: Like he's you know, a decent player still in the league.

873
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:39,280
Speaker 4: He can still contribute.

874
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 5: Yeah.

875
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 3: Well, I mean a lot of people are saying Trey

876
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 3: that John Wall, if he wants to get out there

877
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 3: and play again, should lean into like the Derrick Rose

878
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 3: mentality of like, okay, become become a guy off the

879
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 3: bench and end games for crying out loud. But he

880
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 3: maybe thinks otherwise though he's sort of saying, yeah, he's

881
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 3: pushing back on Twitter that this is a lie. What

882
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 3: do you make of it?

883
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 5: I don't know.

884
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,439
Speaker 1: I think there's no harmon starting John Wall.

885
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 6: He started forty games for the Rockets last year and

886
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 6: they won seventeen games. Like, they had enough time to

887
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 6: play John Wall significant minutes. They had enough time to

888
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 6: play Kevin Porter Junior significant minutes. Right now, Eric Gordon

889
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 6: is starting for the Rockets basically in a showcase mode

890
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 6: at this point, so that he can be traded at

891
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 6: some point. You're telling me John Wall couldn't step into

892
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 6: the starting lineup there, but he should just come back

893
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 6: on the bench and then he'll be starting within a

894
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 6: couple of weeks because it'll be tough to keep him

895
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 6: off the court. There's no problem. He's not gonna ruin

896
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 6: the tank. It went fine last year and you might

897
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 6: actually get a draft pick out of it. Keeping him

898
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 6: off the court is pointless for the Rockets, and it's

899
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 6: pointless for John Wall.

900
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 3: Yeah. The part that's strange, if you believe it, is

901
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 3: prior to the season, the Rockets and Wall they agree

902
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 3: that he's just gonna not play. He's gonna continue to practice,

903
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 3: He's gonna work out with the team. He's gonna be

904
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 3: a pro, like he say, he's gonna be around the squad,

905
00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:01,320
Speaker 3: but not active as Houston sought out trades areas Lee.

906
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 3: But I mean, were they naive to think there was

907
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 3: a trade to be made, Like you call it untradable.

908
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 3: Now people push back. Any contract can be traded in

909
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 3: this league. They can find a way, like task said,

910
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 3: you can get very creative. But it's just weird, Like

911
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 3: it's weird that this is happening now, Like in this

912
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 3: I mean the strange that they thought twenty games ago

913
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 3: that they were going to be able to move them

914
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 3: and then John Wall's just sitting there going, uh oh,

915
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 3: so this isn't going to happen. Well, I guess I

916
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 3: might as well play again, but I would I would

917
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 3: prefer to start if I'm com back.

918
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well it's again. It's it's really I think

919
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 5: just comes down to that player option for next season.

920
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 5: And I wouldn't be surprised if the Rockets did have

921
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,919
Speaker 5: conversations with some teams and they're like, listen, maybe there's

922
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 5: a deal here, but John has to sort of say

923
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 5: he's not going to opt into that will take on

924
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 5: maybe one year at forty plus, maybe he can come

925
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 5: off the bench, but we just don't want to be

926
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 5: on the hook for potentially forty seven and then that's

927
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 5: the albatross of the contract. But I mean, look, Westbrook

928
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 5: got traded twice with massive deal, but he's obviously playing

929
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 5: and in fact, yeah, it was war for Westbrook, wasn't it.

930
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 5: So a deal can be had. It's just I just

931
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 5: think that second year is just like, that's what's turning

932
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 5: teams off there, like, no way, no, we're having that

933
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 5: just in case he opts into it. So but it's

934
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 5: so much money, and John Wall's like, what's he going

935
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 5: to give back on that max? Five million? Ten million?

936
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 5: That's a lot of money still to give back. But

937
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 5: he just doesn't want to walk away from it, which

938
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 5: is understandable. But the Rockets, you know, they traded for

939
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 5: him knowing he had this contract, so yeah, you may

940
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 5: as well showcase him because I think that Derek Rose

941
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 5: comparison is a fantastic one. Rose was was kind of

942
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 5: out of the league for a while, you know, like

943
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 5: the teams. Rose himself said he wondered if he was

944
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 5: even going to come back, and now he's found and

945
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 5: really flourished in that role as a six man to

946
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 5: the point where you know, he's been the Knick's best

947
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 5: or second best player a lot of times in the

948
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 5: last season since he came over from that trade from Detroit.

949
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 5: So I think john Wall at his age, given that

950
00:42:57,719 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 5: he's got a sort of similar style game, he's got

951
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 5: that explosiveness, that pace, not a great jump shot, but

952
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 5: Rose has turned himself into an incredibly serviceable backup, and

953
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 5: I think john Wall should absolutely try to become the

954
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 5: same thing.

955
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, see, it feels like there's rockets moves to

956
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 3: be made, you know, like you said, Eric Gordon, there, Trey,

957
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 3: I mean, look, they would definitely move john Wall if

958
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 3: they can find another team that want to dance and

959
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 3: can make it work with the money. Though that seems

960
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 3: really really far, you know, unlikely, I guess, But Sean

961
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 3: says there's four things right now. If there's no buyout,

962
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 3: it's gonna be they work them back into the roster,

963
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 3: as awkward as that, maybe off the bencher starting whatever

964
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 3: the decision they come to. Or they could wave him

965
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 3: and set an offset clause in his contract to recoup

966
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 3: any money he makes over the next two years. But

967
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 3: that means significant dead money on their cap. Houston could

968
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 3: just keep Wall around and we can just continue what

969
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 3: we're doing, or they can decline Wall's desire to play

970
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 3: and they can just send him home, while of course

971
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 3: having to continue to pay him. But that part, that

972
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 3: last one task, I think gets really weird with potentially

973
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 3: the Players Association. Like if Wall is like well is

974
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,439
Speaker 3: paid to be a professional basketball player, and they're like, okay,

975
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 3: we'll pay you, but we don't want you around. I

976
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 3: just want I wonder what complications or potential pushback from

977
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 3: the Players Association happens in that right. If he's like

978
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 3: I want to play, I forget the starting or off

979
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 3: the bench part, Like I want to play, I'm healthy,

980
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 3: I can play, I can contribute, and they're like, no,

981
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 3: it's okay. You literally are just a number to us

982
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 3: on our books and we'll just pay you and please

983
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 3: don't be around here. That's weird to me.

984
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 4: Yeah.

985
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 3: Yeah.

986
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 4: If it's a another sort of Ben Simmons situation where

987
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,399
Speaker 4: they're paying him to not be around, that would be weird.

988
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:52,240
Speaker 4: But he's I think he is playing at this point.

989
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 4: He figured the first twenty games, maybe somebody would want

990
00:44:56,239 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 4: him that obviously didn't pan out. But I think wants

991
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 4: to be around and play and be part of the team.

992
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 4: I don't think he wants to be a diva.

993
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 3: I don't think.

994
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 4: I don't think he wants to be out there and

995
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 4: play every single second and take every single shot. So

996
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 4: they're going to pay him. They have to pay him.

997
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know. I believe in John. I

998
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,439
Speaker 4: think he'll be back because he wants to play ball

999
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 4: again and they have. Yeah, the weird thing is figuring

1000
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:26,280
Speaker 4: this whole balance out. But yeah, come come come figure

1001
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 4: it out, John, Come figure it out, man, Let's play

1002
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 4: some ball.

1003
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 3: Losers of the weekend league gets started. Who do you have?

1004
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 5: Well, I'm going with Ja Morant because he suffered one

1005
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 5: of those non contact injuries on Friday night against Atland Hawks.

1006
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 5: Sometimes those look look to be the worst, or they

1007
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 5: turn out to be the worst. That doesn't appear to

1008
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 5: be the case here. He's going to miss a couple

1009
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 5: of weeks, although a couple is a little unclear at

1010
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 5: this point. He doesn't seem to have a timetable when

1011
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 5: he's going to return, So obviously that's a huge blow

1012
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,720
Speaker 5: for the Grizzlies and It's a huge blow for fans

1013
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 5: of the Grizzlies because he's such a fun guy to watch.

1014
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 5: But he kind of went in a move there and

1015
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 5: it almost just like jarred his leg and then he

1016
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 5: sort of hopped off and was down straight away. So

1017
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,760
Speaker 5: you just obviously hope he's back as soon as possible,

1018
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 5: because you know, he's such an important part of everything

1019
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 5: the Grizzlies do. But then last night they got to

1020
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 5: win against a non serious team in the Sacramento Kings.

1021
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 5: I mean, like, if they could play the Kings for

1022
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 5: the next three weeks, then the Grizzlies, it'd be fine,

1023
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 5: because the Grizzlies just I mean, they have a great

1024
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 5: win against the Lakers three overtimes on Friday night, and

1025
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,879
Speaker 5: then they just don't think sorry, sorry the Kings. Yes,

1026
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 5: they don't even turn up last night against a team

1027
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 5: where it's like missing their best player. That's another chance

1028
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 5: for the Kings to get a win. They couldn't do it. Now.

1029
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 5: The Grizzly schedule over the next couple of weeks overall

1030
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 5: isn't too bad, but when you were the worst defensive

1031
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 5: team in the league, every game sort of becomes tougher

1032
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 5: than it needs to be and that's the real problem

1033
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 5: here with the Grizzlies. One of those weird stats I

1034
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 5: found though, Grizzlies are better defensively when jaum Morean's off

1035
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 5: the floor. But we just know obviously they're a better

1036
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 5: team when he's on the floor. So they need to

1037
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:01,399
Speaker 5: just hang in there. And the other good thing for

1038
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,839
Speaker 5: them is, you know, Kings, Pelicans, Rockets, the Spurs and

1039
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 5: the Thunder are below the Grizzlies in the standings right now,

1040
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 5: so they might actually be able to tread water here

1041
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 5: for the next couple of weeks until Jark comes back.

1042
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 5: But I think the most important news out of this

1043
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 5: is that they are expecting him back, you know soon

1044
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 5: in that you know couple two to five week bracket,

1045
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 5: because obviously when you see a guy just got of

1046
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 5: his kneat, there was a very minor buckle, but it

1047
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 5: sort of did that thing that we've seen before that's

1048
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:31,439
Speaker 5: kind of wipe guys out for a seat.

1049
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 3: So well, yeah, the good news was that we didn't

1050
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,399
Speaker 3: hear from the Grizzlies a day or two later say

1051
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 3: he is out for the season. Yes, that's where your

1052
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 3: mind immediately goes when you see that type of injury

1053
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 3: like you said, where it's like, what even happened there?

1054
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 3: Oh oh yeah, but they're saying a couple of weeks

1055
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 3: and hopefully that's all it is. So yeah, unfortunate news.

1056
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 3: But they got the victory like you said there too,

1057
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 3: against the good old Sacramento Cans. What a weird, weird team.

1058
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 3: All right, let's keep it going, Trey, what do you

1059
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:57,760
Speaker 3: have for lis of the weekend?

1060
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: I kind of thought it.

1061
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 6: Was tough to find some losers this weekend because, like

1062
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 6: Lee is saying, you'll see a team get completely rolled

1063
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 6: and then bounce back and have a decent game. That's

1064
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 6: even kind of the case for my losers of the

1065
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 6: weekend because the Hawks shot thirty five percent at home

1066
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 6: in a loss to their rival, the dastardly New York Knicks.

1067
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 6: But a lot of misshots means a lot of potential rebounds.

1068
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 6: Jd roll That beautiful beef footage.

1069
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: Clint Cappella had twenty one rebounds. Great to see he's

1070
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: back to beefroom.

1071
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 6: That's a lot of roast beef, which is rebounds. Oh yeah,

1072
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 6: first big beef of the season for Clint Capella.

1073
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: His traditional sloppy beef. Nice to see him get back

1074
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: in the beef column.

1075
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 6: After leading the league in rebounds last season.

1076
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: But like I said, that lost to the Knicks.

1077
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 6: It was an ugly one and it was made worse

1078
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 6: because a couple of Hawks went out with injury. Kim

1079
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,360
Speaker 6: Reddish sprained his wrist. He's day to day. The bigger

1080
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 6: concern is bogdan Bogdanovich. He landed on Clint Capella's foot

1081
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 6: on one of those rebounds. Actually, he's out at least

1082
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,760
Speaker 6: two weeks with the sprained right ankle. And that comes

1083
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 6: just after finding out that DeAndre Hunter is going to

1084
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 6: be missing a couple of He's gonna be missing eight weeks.

1085
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 6: We found that out a couple of weeks ago. The Hawks,

1086
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 6: though they're a deep team, they've got an easy kind

1087
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 6: of stretch of games coming in the next month. They

1088
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 6: did win seven straight, that's nice before this loss against

1089
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 6: New York, but they're eleven and ten right now. The

1090
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 6: East is pretty tight, honestly, from two to thirteen, only

1091
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 6: a few games separate all those teams, So they're missing

1092
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 6: a bunch of wings at this point. Luckily for the Hawks,

1093
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 6: coming into last season, the question was do they have

1094
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 6: too many players? Then they got banged up this season,

1095
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 6: and they came back with basically the same team. Basically

1096
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 6: the same stuff is happening. They just get getting banged

1097
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 6: up here. So's it's gonna be stressful times for the Hawks.

1098
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 6: I think they'll obviously be able to keep their head

1099
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 6: above water. They're certainly going to be in the mix.

1100
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,319
Speaker 6: But you know, you think you'd be going the right

1101
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 6: way with a seven game win streak, then you lose

1102
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 6: a couple of players over the weekend.

1103
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: Not the greatest.

1104
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're one hundred percent right about especially over this

1105
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 3: long weekend for us, because we haven't had a show

1106
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 3: since Wednesday where it has If you know, you see

1107
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 3: a team get hammered, you're like, ooh, that reeks of

1108
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 3: loser the weekend, and then they follow it up with

1109
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 3: a win or vice versa. There was a lot of

1110
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:37,879
Speaker 3: like sort of splitting even like we're getting like these

1111
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 3: like you know, back to back sets where the teams

1112
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 3: play twice like in a pretty short turnaround, and a

1113
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 3: lot of those times it's like the underdog beats the

1114
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 3: favorite and then the favorite just hammers them in the

1115
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 3: next game. That's been happening a lot too. But where

1116
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 3: do you go for a loser of the weekend. Is

1117
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 3: it a team? Did you find one? Or is it

1118
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 3: a player?

1119
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, it took me forever. It's I blame it on

1120
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 4: the Thanksgiving here in the US, nobody including basketball players,

1121
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 4: really focused on basketball. They get other things to think about.

1122
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 4: You know, they're not gonna go sweep to game. So yeah,

1123
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 4: it was a lot of win one lose one, win

1124
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 4: one lose one. Just back to the Clint Capella, the

1125
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 4: grabbing a free throw rebound. Love seeing grabbing a free

1126
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 4: throw rebound in the beef every rebound counts. One game

1127
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,399
Speaker 4: that we didn't even talk about was a wild one

1128
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 4: that Philadelphia Minnesota overtime game on Saturday night where they

1129
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 4: executed a missed free throw perfectly for a tap in

1130
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 4: to send it to overtime. That was amazing. Andre Drummond

1131
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,399
Speaker 4: got on the beef boards. They look like linebackers there

1132
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 4: in the free throw lineup him and Joel Embiid and

1133
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 4: able to tip it in. That was a wild, wild

1134
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 4: game on a Saturday night, that Wolves Sixers game. I

1135
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 4: went a little off the board here, not on basket,

1136
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 4: not on the basketball floor at all with my loser.

1137
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 4: James Wiseman who was the number two pick last year

1138
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 4: twenty twenty the Golden State Warriors. He's kind of hasn't

1139
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,760
Speaker 4: been talked about this season because he hasn't played at all.

1140
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 4: I'm calling him a loser of the weekend because he's

1141
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 4: not certain when he'll be back. He's also going to

1142
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 4: play with the Santa Cruz Warriors now. He suffered a

1143
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 4: miniscus injury about seven and a half months ago, so

1144
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 4: he'll probably be back in January at some point. But

1145
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 4: where is he going to find minutes with this club?

1146
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 4: With the Warriors the way they're playing, I don't see anywhere.

1147
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 4: If you remember a few years back when the Warriors

1148
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 4: are going through their championship run, there was minutes at

1149
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,919
Speaker 4: backup center, like Jordan Bell was playing here or there,

1150
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 4: set a pick for Steph Curry, grab a board, do

1151
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 4: a little rim running. But now they're so set at

1152
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 4: the big man position with Kevon Looney having a reincarnation

1153
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 4: playing amazing again. Draymond Green is their backup five. He's

1154
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 4: been revitalized. And then the way they play on their

1155
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 4: second unit with Gary Payton the second sort of being

1156
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 4: their rim runner and then big that can shoot like

1157
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:58,240
Speaker 4: outto Porter and Nemen. You be Elitza. Where's James Wiseman

1158
00:52:58,280 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 4: going to play? So it's just a really weird situation.

1159
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 4: It's no discredit to him. He came and they tried

1160
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 4: to figure something out with him last year wasn't really

1161
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,359
Speaker 4: working all that well. Then he got hurt. But now

1162
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 4: it's just such a strange scenario for a number two pick.

1163
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 4: I don't really see a great role with him, especially

1164
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 4: because they're also playing like Jonathan Kuminga, who fits more

1165
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 4: their three and D style. He fits more perfectly into

1166
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 4: their lineups, So they're playing a young guy there. They've

1167
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 4: got Moses Moody who they would play a little bit.

1168
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 4: I don't know if James Wiseman is going to play

1169
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 4: at all if he comes back, I mean, just like

1170
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 4: garbage minutes. So I'll call him a loser of the weekend.

1171
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 4: But hopefully, you know, he finds a place somewhere. But

1172
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 4: it's just strange because he was a number two pick,

1173
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,320
Speaker 4: like whatever it was twenty twenty fifteen months ago. I

1174
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 4: don't know. I don't know timelines anymore. But he's a

1175
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:48,720
Speaker 4: good basketball player.

1176
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, theory, I did find a team that went oh

1177
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 3: and two over the weekend, so I'll throw them some

1178
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:58,839
Speaker 3: loser of the weekend. Love it's Toronto Raptors. I hate

1179
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 3: watching this team. Ah God, I can't stand it. I

1180
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 3: really do not like watching Raptors games, which is I

1181
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 3: haven't been able to say in a long long time.

1182
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 3: But they lost by seventeen to the Pacers. It's at

1183
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 3: the end of a long road trip, their longest road

1184
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 3: trip of the season. That happens. I get it, Like

1185
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 3: you said, Lee, the Pacers one night look amazing, the

1186
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 3: next night look like garbage. So that's tough. But then

1187
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 3: they come home on Sunday and they lose to the

1188
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 3: Boston Celtics by twelve. Overall, they had injuries Gary Trent

1189
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,959
Speaker 3: Junior he was out deep calf bruised. Kem Burch missed

1190
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 3: another game with the knee swelling. I believe it is

1191
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 3: og on a nubi he set out at this one too.

1192
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,800
Speaker 3: He's got the hit pointers, so they're short on guys.

1193
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:39,839
Speaker 3: I get it. But once again the Celtics. Second time

1194
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 3: this season Celtics have beaten the Raptors and played like

1195
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 3: really uninspiring ball themselves, I thought, and still get like

1196
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 3: the ten point victory. The Raps are now nine to

1197
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 3: twelve on the year and are a miserable two and

1198
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 3: seven at home weird for a couple of reasons, tasks. Historically,

1199
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 3: they've always been one of the better home teams, like

1200
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 3: over this last you know, a couple of years where

1201
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 3: they've been in the playoffs and always there and the

1202
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 3: championship year and all that. And the other part is

1203
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 3: like we had for us as Raps fans, like the

1204
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 3: excuse of them playing in Tampa last year. Wow, wait,

1205
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 3: you just wait until they're back in Toronto. That's a

1206
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 3: that's a guaranteed, you know whatever, five to ten wins,

1207
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 3: just playing at home, great crowds, like and that's been

1208
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:23,760
Speaker 3: flipped on its head here two and seven and they're

1209
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 3: just they're bad, you know, they're not. They're not. There's

1210
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:30,399
Speaker 3: like there's obviously some bright spots. Scottie Barnes still looks

1211
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 3: great at times. Van Vliet like is the only one

1212
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 3: that looks like he can create a times on this team,

1213
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 3: like when he's out, oh boy, and then Siakam sure,

1214
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,320
Speaker 3: but like that was a game last night. Siakam should

1215
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:42,439
Speaker 3: like take over. He has to be the star. There's

1216
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 3: no og. Gary Trent Junior who's played well for the Raptors,

1217
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 3: he's out and he just has this very whole hum

1218
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 3: average game. So I don't know if you're panicking at all.

1219
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 3: If you're exactly what they are, you thought they would

1220
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 3: be sort of a team that might be on the

1221
00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 3: outside looking in on the playoff tournament.

1222
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:04,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's easy to just play the injuries card and

1223
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 4: there's so many bodies moving in and out of the lineup.

1224
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:09,919
Speaker 4: The biggest worry is that Fred van Vliet is leading

1225
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 4: the league in minutes because he has to, because they

1226
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 4: just they have no other option to create. And as

1227
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 4: as we expected coming into the season, Gordon dragitic is

1228
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 4: on this roster, thought he'd be a playmaker for this team,

1229
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,440
Speaker 4: but now he's leaving the team with for personal reasons,

1230
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 4: and he was sort of.

1231
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 5: It was.

1232
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 4: It was behind the rotation to not only Fred van Vliet,

1233
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 4: but Delano Banton and even Malachi Flynn, guys that they're

1234
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 4: trying to push ahead in their timeline. They're doing a

1235
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 4: little Houston Rockets pushing I think, you know, not not

1236
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 4: trying to win every game, but trying to get some

1237
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 4: development going. So there's there's excuses I think because they

1238
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:49,359
Speaker 4: don't have every I mean, og is big not being there,

1239
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 4: and yeah there's lots lots of guys in and out

1240
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 4: of the lineup, but yeah, it's it's disheartening to see

1241
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 4: them two and seven at home. I thought for sure

1242
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 4: not having to use their passport every single time or

1243
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 4: not playing it Amali Arena. Amale is the name of

1244
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 4: the arena in Tampa. I always have fun saying that

1245
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 4: I do my peloton in Amali Arena. I thought they

1246
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 4: would win games. They're two and seventy. Yeah, that's weird.

1247
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 3: It's weird. I mean even Van Fleet was talking about

1248
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 3: it's like, this is strange. We're really good at home

1249
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 3: usually and we can't get a victory right now. And

1250
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 3: again they're not even like these teams aren't coming in

1251
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 3: and playing amazing ballers, like, oh we would have never

1252
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 3: beaten that team last night. No, they're like they're just

1253
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 3: not playing great and maybe this is the team they are.

1254
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 3: This is why I wasn't touching this team when it

1255
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 3: came to like betting the over under at the start,

1256
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 3: like I could see it going this way. And you

1257
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,520
Speaker 3: have to wonderly if the losses continue to pile up

1258
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:42,919
Speaker 3: because of injuries or not, does it make it more

1259
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 3: likely a guy like Siakam is potentially packaged and move

1260
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 3: them really leaning with Iigeria and wraps into development, rebuild, rebuild,

1261
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 3: and you get back like a young or two, you know,

1262
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 3: promising player and a pick or two. You know you

1263
00:57:58,040 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 3: could see that happening.

1264
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, yeah, I've said it a few times

1265
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 5: now and started to think Sam just needs a new

1266
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 5: fresh start as well. His body language is not good

1267
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 5: out there, and last night he didn't have the touch

1268
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 5: and look you talked about Jason Tatum had a stinker

1269
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 5: himself last night in terms of shooting ball. They weren't

1270
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 5: pounded by Brown and Tatum. They just couldn't stop them.

1271
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 5: This was a winnable game, but the Raptors weren't there,

1272
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 5: and they need when you're down a few bodies, as

1273
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 5: you guys mentioned there, someone like should be like, all right,

1274
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 5: I'm going for forty tonight. I'm just going to take

1275
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 5: over this team and dominate. And he just doesn't have

1276
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 5: it right now. He may get it back, but it's

1277
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 5: I'm starting to lose a bit of hope that because

1278
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 5: he just hasn't found it yet. He hasn't had a

1279
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 5: run of like eight games, nine games. You're like, Okay,

1280
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 5: now he's in his bag. He's not. He's left his

1281
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 5: bag in the it's a buzz word right now, it's

1282
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 5: a buzzword. You know, everyone's in their bag. But I

1283
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 5: think he left his new Tampa and in fact, did

1284
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 5: he even take it to Tampa. Maybe he just got

1285
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 5: lost when they were moving down there. So and Precious,

1286
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 5: I mean, oh my god, Precious. There are times what

1287
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 5: is what is he doing out there? His decision making

1288
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:07,880
Speaker 5: and his IQ let him down a lot, because skillfully,

1289
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 5: I think he's okay, you know, you can shoot the three.

1290
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 5: He does find himself in the right position. But there

1291
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 5: are other times he's got the ball and it's like

1292
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 5: he had a wide open three last night, gave that

1293
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 5: up and then sort of dribbled into like traffic, and

1294
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 5: then I think he either turned the ball over or

1295
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 5: just had a bad contested shot. And those are the

1296
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 5: sorts of things that they can't afford right now. The Raptors.

1297
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 5: They need good decision making and they're not getting it.

1298
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 5: But it's leadership from Pascal is really what they need

1299
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 5: right now. They need him to just take command of

1300
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:38,920
Speaker 5: this team instead shoulders are slumping, not looking good, complaining

1301
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 5: with the refs, all those things. I mean, star players

1302
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 5: have it happened to them during patches. It just feels

1303
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 5: like he's in a real long, bad patch right now.

1304
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 3: Where is the Sacramento Kings Toronto Raptors trade proposal? Le

1305
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 3: get to work on the tree. Here's gotta be something

1306
00:59:56,040 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 3: there to come for the beans. There's something there's yakam

1307
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 3: for Wiseman. I saw suggested in the stream team.

1308
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: Wow, I mean, why would the war or why does

1309
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:12,479
Speaker 1: the Raptors do that? Yeah, I mean I guess they're

1310
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:13,520
Speaker 1: they're bad at defense.

1311
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 6: That's the weird thing about the Raptors to be twenty

1312
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 6: fourth in defense right now. I thought they were going

1313
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 6: to be a good defensive team and would be twenty

1314
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 6: fourth on offense, and that has not been the case.

1315
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 6: I felt sorry for y'all this morning when I opened

1316
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 6: Tom Ziller's newsletter and it said the Raptors are missing

1317
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 6: yakub peerdl.

1318
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: I was like, things are bad in Toronto right now.

1319
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 1: You got a championship for trading yakab peerdl, but you

1320
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:36,400
Speaker 1: still want them back. I don't love that.

1321
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 6: So I don't know where the improvements become come here

1322
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:40,560
Speaker 6: because it's just.

1323
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 1: Been an uninspiring start.

1324
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 6: So play some defense, tell Siyakam to have a forty

1325
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 6: point game every now and then its all good.

1326
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, getting your bag, baby, I got one more loser

1327
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 3: of the weekend. But like, I'm really stretching the definition

1328
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 3: of weekend because I think this happened on Wednesday night.

1329
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 3: If I'm remembering correctly, the loser of the weekend goes

1330
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Speaker 3: to Curtis Blair. There it is, there it is. Yeah,

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01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 3: Curtis Blair. You don't know Curtis Blair. I thought you

1332
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 3: guys were true NBA fans. He is the official that

1333
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 3: waved off Anthony edwards spectacular fourth quarter dunk over Gabe

1334
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 3: Vincent says, no, no, no, that's a charge. Come on, Curtis,

1335
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:31,640
Speaker 3: what are you doing. I don't even think it was

1336
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 3: the right call. I think there was a lot of

1337
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 3: sliding in there. I don't think he was really established.

1338
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 3: And also like, man, he you know, Anton like nearly

1339
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 3: just straight jumps over him. It probably would have been

1340
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 3: on the very very short list for dunk of the Year.

1341
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:49,480
Speaker 3: Ley what Curtis Blair's gotta call it that?

1342
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 5: Can you challenge that call. I espicially could couldn't you

1344
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:58,560
Speaker 5: You could, but Finchy chose not to in that one. Yeah, yeah,

1345
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 5: I mean it's like someone I think it was, Michael

1346
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 5: Lee said. Michael Lee said, he's the Fed's Curtis player

1347
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 5: for calling a charge on that. I mean, that's one

1348
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 5: of the most spectacular plays in the game of basketball

1349
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 5: to see just that pure athleticism. He's a great dunker.

1350
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 5: He had a nice windmill against the Sixers. I think

1351
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 5: it was as well. He's athletic. He just sprung up

1352
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 5: there like that. We want to keep that memory. I

1353
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 5: think for the most part, people are just gonna say,

1354
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 5: you know what, who cares, let's just count that in

1355
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 5: our top ten dunks of the year, Like why not?

1356
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 3: No, No, you can't excute it.

1357
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 5: You know, I mean, because it's not one of those ones.

1358
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 3: That's two points, that's why.

1359
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, But it's not one of those ones where the

1360
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 5: defender almost the defender heard the whistle and sort of

1361
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 5: didn't go through it, like that was still a proper

1362
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 5: official play, if you know what I mean. So, I

1363
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 5: think I think it just counts. I just I mean,

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01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 5: if you're making it, if you're compiling a list put

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01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 5: that in it or else your Curtis player as well.

1366
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, okay, So anybody that's compiling dunks of the year, Lisa, yeah,

1367
01:02:57,640 --> 01:03:01,120
Speaker 3: include it. I mean it's other people have Like if

1368
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 3: Gabe Vincent doesn't put his arms up, tray, you could

1369
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 3: convince me that Anthony Edwards is clearly leaping over him,

1370
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:12,320
Speaker 3: like may have cleared him. Vince Carter a French fise style.

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01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:15,320
Speaker 3: It's it's possible, like it's the arms up, it's sort

1372
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 3: of like prevents it from happening. And he still puts

1373
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 3: his hand on his head, sort of Blake Griffins style.

1374
01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 3: I guess what we've seen do before. But what do

1375
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 3: you think of the non dunk here as we take

1376
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 3: another look at it?

1377
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, foul on Vincent. But as c W. E.

1378
01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 1: Crocker is saying, Curtis Blair was unfortunately in his bag

1379
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 1: taking our dreams.

1380
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:39,440
Speaker 6: Far jumps from to still basically be going up at

1381
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 6: the time of the dunk.

1382
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 1: That's too bad. I'm still putting it in my top

1383
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 1: ten charges up the season.

1384
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 3: Okay, tass is it the top ten charges of this Yeah?

1385
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:51,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's number one of my charges less that's.

1386
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:54,439
Speaker 3: A slick way to do it. I like that idea. Gabe, Yeah,

1387
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 3: tasks anything to add to the call taken away or

1388
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 3: the dunk taken away.

1389
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's unfortunate. I guess the only way you can

1390
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 4: really include it in a top ten dunks list is

1391
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 4: if it was, you know, retroactively called a block, like

1392
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:11,680
Speaker 4: if it was in the last two minutes report and

1393
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 4: it was called a foul on Gabe Vincent, then maybe

1394
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 4: you can say, hey, it's it was actually because it

1395
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:20,920
Speaker 4: was the wrong call he was. He slid under as

1396
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:24,480
Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards had started his upward motion. That's that's the rule.

1397
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 4: You start your upward motion, you're shot. It's just it's

1398
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 4: just it took so long that upward motion to start

1399
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 4: an end because he left outside the key basically, and

1400
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,560
Speaker 4: so yeah, it seemed like Gabe was there, but he

1401
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 4: wasn't there.

1402
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 5: Ga Gaye puts his hands up as if he's abod

1403
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 5: to get shot there as well. Yeah, oh my god,

1404
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:46,920
Speaker 5: don't do this to me. But yeah, he got saved

1405
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 5: by the referees with so bad stuff.

1406
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 3: I think Gabe Vincent took the Twitter too and put

1407
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:53,760
Speaker 3: charge shrug.

1408
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:56,120
Speaker 1: Good on him.

1409
01:04:56,440 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, playing with Kyle Lowry. He's taking charges. Yeah, be

1410
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 4: taken charge like Kyle Lowry taking the charge at this weekend.

1411
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 5: Yeah that was bad that against the Bulls. Wasn't that

1412
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 5: on Saturday?

1413
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:08,160
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1414
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 5: That was a bad charge.

1415
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:13,000
Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards has to go in the dunk contest. Oh

1416
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:17,880
Speaker 3: my god, please please please, sir, showing you the photo

1417
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 3: here as the goes into full jumpman logo there. Oh

1418
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:23,720
Speaker 3: crazy stuff.

1419
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 4: Isn't it too much time?

1420
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 3: The Wolves are like a good example of what you

1421
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:30,640
Speaker 3: were talking about, the possibility of like, oh, they could

1422
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 3: have been a winner of the weekend and then you're like, oh,

1423
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 3: but they literally got destroyed by the Hornets in one

1424
01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:38,439
Speaker 3: of the games. Since being gone. I was like, ah, tough,

1425
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 3: tough to do it? All right, So let's hear from you, guys,

1426
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:45,160
Speaker 3: winners and losers of the NBA Weekend. Let us know

1427
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 3: in the stream team some of you have already let

1428
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 3: us know in the YouTube comments below, or you can

1429
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 3: tweet them in at no dunk Sank will take our

1430
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 3: final break here and then get to tweet of the night.

1431
01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 3: All right, Let's get to tweet of the night.

1432
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 4: Tweet out the night. Wow? All right?

1433
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:11,800
Speaker 3: Enough? Basketball Talk Hour fifteen that's enough for me. NBA

1434
01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 3: weekend winners and losers, been there, done that. Yeah, I

1435
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 3: got something that has nothing to do with hoops. It's

1436
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 3: from Survivor winner Tyson Apostle. He tweeted universal pizza rule.

1437
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 3: If you have infinite pizza, eating the crust is optional.

1438
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:31,840
Speaker 3: If there is a finite amount of pizza, eating the

1439
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:35,920
Speaker 3: crust is mandatory. Okay, Lee, I want to get your

1440
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:38,920
Speaker 3: take on this. Are you a crust man or not?

1441
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 3: And what do you think of Tyson's breakdown there? You know,

1442
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 3: if there's yes infinite amount, sure, then you it's optional

1443
01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 3: to eat the crust. But most of the times there's

1444
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 3: a finite amount of pizza, you gotta eat the crust.

1445
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:53,520
Speaker 5: Yeah wow, what a what a good bite here, because

1446
01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:55,720
Speaker 5: the biggest, the biggest problem I have with my boys

1447
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,680
Speaker 5: is not eating their crusts, but then then wanting more pizza.

1448
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 5: Then we're out of peta. So eat your.

1449
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 4: Crust, pizza, Dad, Come on? Yeah?

1450
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 5: Well I try, you know, I try to give them

1451
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:10,400
Speaker 5: enough pizza, but you know they do just chomp and

1452
01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 5: stop at the crust and I'm like, okay. The challenge

1453
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 5: for me, though, then, has been to make the crusts

1454
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 5: nice and soft and edible, of course, so that's what

1455
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 5: I do. I try to make the crusts enjoyable and

1456
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 5: then they get through. We've I think we talked about

1457
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 5: this before. I take it as a really positive sign

1458
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:27,200
Speaker 5: that my pizzas that I've cooked on the Big Green

1459
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 5: Egg have been well received when my boys, especially my

1460
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 5: nine year old, eats the whole crust. So you've got

1461
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 5: to make the crust tasty and enjoyable, not just like, oh,

1462
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:39,400
Speaker 5: it's the crust and dismiss it. I know pizza hut

1463
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:40,960
Speaker 5: to do the garlic and the cheese and all that

1464
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 5: sort of stuff, but that's really you know, you're just

1465
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 5: trying to like you're trying to pull the wool over

1466
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 5: their eyes. Make the crust not too thick, but thick

1467
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 5: enough that it's separate from the pace, if you know

1468
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 5: what I mean.

1469
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 1: That's a tough one.

1470
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:56,440
Speaker 3: I sign in the comments to this tweet from Taysin.

1471
01:07:56,840 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 3: I thought this was a great reply from Doug brwn.

1472
01:07:58,560 --> 01:08:01,360
Speaker 3: It's basically what you're seeingly. If you don't want to

1473
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 3: devour the crust, then you bought the rom pizza, or

1474
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 3: you mean the wrong pizza in your case, yeah, in

1475
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 3: the crust.

1476
01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, I just don't also like, because again my

1477
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:14,480
Speaker 5: nine year old goes in to a pizza with like,

1478
01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:16,240
Speaker 5: I don't have to eat the crust. I'm not going

1479
01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 5: to eat the crust, and I'm like, well, we're not

1480
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 5: just going to throw that away. I want you to

1481
01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:23,800
Speaker 5: understand that if we make food or buy food, I

1482
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:26,120
Speaker 5: want you to expect you to eat it all before

1483
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:27,880
Speaker 5: you know. You don't say, well, I'm done with my

1484
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,280
Speaker 5: pizza now I'm ready for ice cream, and there's still

1485
01:08:30,320 --> 01:08:32,800
Speaker 5: four crusts left over. It's like, well no, no, no,

1486
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 5: let's finish off the other food there first. So I'll

1487
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 5: tell you what though, when you get a good crust

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01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:43,599
Speaker 5: on the green egg, brilliant, really really good, really good, Yeah,

1489
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 5: I still struggle a little bit with my consistency in

1490
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 5: my yeast, that's the still.

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01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 3: Oh you just start saying he's in his egg more

1492
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:50,840
Speaker 3: than in his bag.

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01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 5: Okay, is really.

1494
01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 4: That's good? Actually?

1495
01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:02,479
Speaker 3: Okay, Well we got Lee's take.

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01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:03,240
Speaker 1: That's really what.

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01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:07,560
Speaker 3: You need to add your pizza. Man, What do you

1498
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:08,639
Speaker 3: feel about Tyson's tweet?

1499
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:08,840
Speaker 4: Here?

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01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 6: I got one kid who eats a full piece of

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01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:16,759
Speaker 6: pizza and one kid who only eats crusts. So really,

1502
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 6: if there's crusts around there getting eaten in this house,

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01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:22,240
Speaker 6: I would love to add.

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01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:25,000
Speaker 1: Infinite pizza is my main takeaway for this, Like, if

1505
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,519
Speaker 1: you could keep coming, would I eat the crusts? I

1506
01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:29,599
Speaker 1: don't know. It really makes you think.

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01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:31,760
Speaker 6: I think I would have only ever been in a

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01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 6: finite pizza situation. Feels like most situations are finite pizza situation.

1509
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:41,920
Speaker 6: But I mean, if you can go straight toppings, toppings

1510
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 6: are better than crust, There's no doubt about it. I

1511
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 6: feel like now I'm questioning myself. Am I only eating

1512
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 6: crust because I know I have to? Or am I

1513
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 6: just a completionist? You know? I want to see every

1514
01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:56,040
Speaker 6: Fast and Furious movie. I want to eat every piece

1515
01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:56,840
Speaker 6: of the pizza.

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01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:57,519
Speaker 1: Things like that.

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01:09:57,600 --> 01:09:59,720
Speaker 6: I don't know, eat your crust or don't. But if

1518
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 6: you don't eat your crust, give it to my daughter.

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01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:04,679
Speaker 3: Okay, there you go, tass, Are you you know what's

1520
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 3: happening over in the Mellows household?

1521
01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:11,439
Speaker 4: I love this from Tyson Apostle. The Apostle has spoken,

1522
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:17,719
Speaker 4: yeast has risen. Good good stuff from Tyson. I'm I'm

1523
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 4: in the camp that listen. You can do whatever what

1524
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 4: you want with the crust. Like sometimes you're in a

1525
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 4: crust mood, sometimes you're not. I mean, I do consider

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01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 4: it part of the pizzas so it's like you eat

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01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:31,280
Speaker 4: the thing. But sometimes you're just not a crust mood. Yeah,

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01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:33,439
Speaker 4: and sometimes you don't get a good crust. It depends.

1529
01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 4: Like sometimes you can also be in a particular crust mood.

1530
01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 4: Sometimes you want a crusty crust. Sometimes you want a

1531
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:40,760
Speaker 4: puffy crust. And if I have a puffy crust one,

1532
01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 4: I want a crusty crust, then I'm not eating a

1533
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:45,360
Speaker 4: puffy puff you know, Like it depends. It depends on

1534
01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 4: the crust. There's all different types of crust and not

1535
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,799
Speaker 4: just not just stuffing it with cheese like a Pizza

1536
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:54,760
Speaker 4: Hut or a Papa J's or whoever. Sometimes you just

1537
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,679
Speaker 4: you don't want a bready one, you want a crusty one.

1538
01:10:57,800 --> 01:10:59,479
Speaker 4: It just depends on the kind of mood you're in.

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01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:03,120
Speaker 4: So no rules, no rules on the crust to me,

1540
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 4: But I can understand why a kid doesn't want to

1541
01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:08,559
Speaker 4: eat crust. It's just, you know, it's not super fun.

1542
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 4: It's not the most fun thing. I'd rather eat the

1543
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:13,520
Speaker 4: pizza than the crust, so no heart feeling.

1544
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:16,040
Speaker 3: Jd any thoughts on this from Tyson.

1545
01:11:17,240 --> 01:11:21,680
Speaker 7: Very few thoughts on this. I eat the crusts. My

1546
01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:25,000
Speaker 7: kids don't eat the crusts. I have an insane way

1547
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 7: of eating pizza because once I get close to the crust,

1548
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 7: I will take that, I'll spin it, and then I'll

1549
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:35,640
Speaker 7: have the crust with the toppings still and sort of

1550
01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:38,320
Speaker 7: nibble my way down. I don't like the waist so

1551
01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:41,400
Speaker 7: and I actually like the crust. But I get that

1552
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:44,400
Speaker 7: if you're if you don't plan ahead and then you

1553
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 7: just have crust and yeah, I don't know, people don't

1554
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:49,400
Speaker 7: want to eat that, and I get that I'm eating it.

1555
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:53,920
Speaker 3: I'm just get something to dip your crust in. It's fine,

1556
01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:56,799
Speaker 3: gives it a little more flavor. It's all good, puffy

1557
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:58,559
Speaker 3: puffy or krusty crusty.

1558
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:05,000
Speaker 7: I knew a guy who ate it backwards, you know,

1559
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:10,080
Speaker 7: Like it's like eating your broccoli first, right, you eat

1560
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:12,360
Speaker 7: the thing that you don't want to eat the most

1561
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:14,840
Speaker 7: on your plate, so you just start with the crust

1562
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:16,080
Speaker 7: and then it's just all topping.

1563
01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:18,599
Speaker 3: The difficult part with that. That actually makes a lot

1564
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:21,280
Speaker 3: of sense, but it's like it makes it difficult to hold.

1565
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:22,120
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1566
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:25,240
Speaker 4: True, that's the part.

1567
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,599
Speaker 5: That's the part I was immediately thinking. It's just harder

1568
01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:29,599
Speaker 5: to sort of maneuver it that way than you you know,

1569
01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:31,599
Speaker 5: loses its weight.

1570
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 7: Well then you know it's fork and knife time. Is

1571
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 7: that crazy? Is that nuts?

1572
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:38,759
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1573
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:43,360
Speaker 5: That's crazy. Yeah, it is for pizza. It is even

1574
01:12:43,360 --> 01:12:45,200
Speaker 5: when you're in a restaurant with friends. It's like it's

1575
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 5: a pizza. It's fine to pick it up, like you

1576
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 5: can cut it obviously, but you don't need to knife

1577
01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:50,439
Speaker 5: and form.

1578
01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:52,920
Speaker 3: About the rolling techniquely or the fold of course.

1579
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:55,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's fine.

1580
01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:57,479
Speaker 3: It's fun on how floppy the pizza.

1581
01:12:57,600 --> 01:12:59,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right. You get some that are thicker than

1582
01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:02,600
Speaker 5: and the harder to fold over, and others that just

1583
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:05,640
Speaker 5: simply have to be folded over else they sort of really.

1584
01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:08,840
Speaker 3: Hey, this would be a great content for our Friday night.

1585
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:12,680
Speaker 5: Yeah Christmas, are we going to have Mattio And like,

1586
01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:16,400
Speaker 5: you know, he would have some thoughts. I'm sure you

1587
01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:19,160
Speaker 5: don't put him on the Instagram live or something like

1588
01:13:19,240 --> 01:13:21,640
Speaker 5: that just to get him to contribute.

1589
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:24,639
Speaker 3: Tune in this Friday night. Well, we all go to

1590
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 3: dinner together for.

1591
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 8: What about that We'll make make pizzas to bring to

1592
01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:37,639
Speaker 8: an Italian the guys in his egg Hi, yeah, will

1593
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:40,000
Speaker 8: make you able to bring white this question, I'm not

1594
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:41,439
Speaker 8: sure if I'm bringing you on pizza.

1595
01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:44,120
Speaker 5: Imagine that you turn up with a bigger what you

1596
01:13:44,160 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 5: good there? Just some pizza bases if you don't mind

1597
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 5: just just slipping those in the oven out there? What

1598
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:49,800
Speaker 5: type it?

1599
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:50,400
Speaker 3: How hot?

1600
01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:50,640
Speaker 4: Is it?

1601
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 5: All right?

1602
01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:52,519
Speaker 4: You know what?

1603
01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:56,840
Speaker 5: Let me just do Yeah?

1604
01:13:56,960 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 3: Okay, great stuff, Tason, thank you for for have a

1605
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:03,040
Speaker 3: very fun tweet there for us to talk about. Everybody

1606
01:14:03,080 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 3: loves talking pizza. Okay, picking results from way back, I

1607
01:14:06,240 --> 01:14:10,759
Speaker 3: mean this would be Yeah. Wednesday night was the last

1608
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:14,840
Speaker 3: show we did, so Heat Wolves was the game and

1609
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,680
Speaker 3: Minnesota was the dow. Heat were favored by two and

1610
01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:19,880
Speaker 3: a half on the road. I really needed it. I

1611
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:23,719
Speaker 3: took Minnesota soda Task, Trey took Miami Soda Lee, Minnesota

1612
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:26,000
Speaker 3: got it done. That was a really nice victory from them.

1613
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 3: Task goes to fourteen and four in the month of November.

1614
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:32,000
Speaker 3: Hell of a record there. Tassy Lee drops to eleven

1615
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 3: and seven. But he's fine because it's a race between

1616
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:39,320
Speaker 3: Trey and I. I'm eight and ten Trey's nine and nine,

1617
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 3: and it basically will well, it could get close to

1618
01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:46,160
Speaker 3: being decided tonight. All depends if I lose. So big

1619
01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:50,120
Speaker 3: game task, what is it really focusing on the picks

1620
01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:50,960
Speaker 3: between Trey and I.

1621
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, two nights left here in November for you guys,

1622
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 4: one game apart. So I decided to go with a

1623
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 4: real tough one, two teams with losing records. I combined

1624
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:06,839
Speaker 4: nine and twenty nine records between the Thunder and the Rockets.

1625
01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:09,120
Speaker 4: Who the heck are you gonna pick in this two

1626
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,439
Speaker 4: and a half point spread? The Rockets are favored at

1627
01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:16,920
Speaker 4: home tough one, so you guys definitely took opposite teams.

1628
01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:20,719
Speaker 4: He had to. Yeah, the two Skeet's taking okay see

1629
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:23,000
Speaker 4: on the road plus two and a half. Trey minds

1630
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:24,920
Speaker 4: two and a half at home for the Houston Rockets

1631
01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:27,559
Speaker 4: along with Lee, I'm taking okay see, I have no idea.

1632
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:30,840
Speaker 4: I never know what these games when who's feeling good? Trey,

1633
01:15:30,880 --> 01:15:31,519
Speaker 4: You're feeling good?

1634
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 3: You know good?

1635
01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:34,519
Speaker 4: But this Rockets pay not at all.

1636
01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 6: Rockets have won two straight games, and now I'm thinking

1637
01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:38,760
Speaker 6: they're gonna win a third. So either we're in the

1638
01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:42,599
Speaker 6: best stretch of Rockets basketball this season or we're all

1639
01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:43,439
Speaker 6: tied up tomorrow.

1640
01:15:44,439 --> 01:15:48,800
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, ye feeling combat? Who knows? Who knows?

1641
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:51,680
Speaker 3: Is this the first time the Rocket's been favorites all

1642
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:52,280
Speaker 3: season one?

1643
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,120
Speaker 5: Maybe they've probably played the Pelicans or someone.

1644
01:15:55,880 --> 01:15:58,680
Speaker 6: But maybe once the first night of the year and

1645
01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:02,479
Speaker 6: the yeah, second game, so those possibly could be well

1646
01:16:02,520 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 6: se Yeah.

1647
01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:06,040
Speaker 3: I'm seeing the stream team if they are to be believed,

1648
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:10,559
Speaker 3: saying Michael Porter Jr. Might be out for sure now

1649
01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:14,439
Speaker 3: out uh indefinitely here with surgery happening.

1650
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:17,560
Speaker 5: Word reporting that yes, yes, yes.

1651
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:26,200
Speaker 1: Okay, surgery on his lower back. Yikes, definite period, Yeah.

1652
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:26,719
Speaker 3: All right, Sending the best to Michael Porter Jr.

1653
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:26,840
Speaker 4: There.

1654
01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:29,360
Speaker 3: Hopefully he bounces back from surgery and can make his

1655
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:31,639
Speaker 3: way back into this league. That is not not good.

1656
01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 3: We're gonna call it there though. On that dour note. Sorry, Uh.

1657
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 3: Send your emails in No Dunks at the Athletic dot

1658
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:41,759
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1659
01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:43,760
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1660
01:16:43,800 --> 01:16:45,000
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1661
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1662
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1664
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1665
01:16:56,760 --> 01:17:01,880
Speaker 3: dry down here in Atlanta. Dry hands now, probably because

1666
01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:02,320
Speaker 3: the heats on.

1667
01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:05,280
Speaker 1: I guess that happened to have a piece of puppy crust.

1668
01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:07,320
Speaker 1: Maybe drive you down.

1669
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:10,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have until midnight. Go ahead.

1670
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:12,519
Speaker 4: They got to make a beam with a humidifier for

1671
01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:15,599
Speaker 4: your bedroom. Oh that's some water actually, while it's spitting

1672
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 4: out some Kevin Costner lines.

1673
01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:21,160
Speaker 3: Oh so nos, let's talk about that. The humidifier soundbar.

1674
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 4: It does everything else. It turns down the volume, it

1675
01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:26,839
Speaker 4: gives you close, it does everything.

1676
01:17:26,920 --> 01:17:30,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really does. Let's make it a humidifier. Next, guys,

1677
01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:31,960
Speaker 3: you have until midnight to take advantage of the deal

1678
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:35,120
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Speaker 3: best sports coverage on this planet. Yes dot com slash

1680
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 3: no dunks. Again, you have until midnight here on Monday night.

1681
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:44,679
Speaker 3: All right, you top shot hot boys and girls join

1682
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 3: Tray and I live around two pm Eastern for some

1683
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Speaker 3: fresh threads. Hopefully everybody scores a pack, but we'll be

1684
01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:55,280
Speaker 3: keeping your company while you wait in line. So uh,

1685
01:17:55,600 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 3: come hang out with your boys. We might have to

1686
01:17:57,439 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 3: rip some packs while we're just hanging out, right, we're

1687
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:03,679
Speaker 3: gonna do for ninety minutes. Just look at her talking

1688
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:06,760
Speaker 3: about talking about humidifiers. All right, guys, we will see

1689
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 3: you tomorrow here with no dunks till then. Clipper bros.

1690
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:12,920
Speaker 1: You heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up,

1691
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 1: Love you guys awesome.

1692
01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:17,439
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us, and remember as we get into

1693
01:18:17,439 --> 01:18:20,800
Speaker 4: the colder months, Like Kyle Kuzma, keep cozy.

1694
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:25,600
Speaker 3: Embrace the day. People, you could stay.

1695
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:28,280
Speaker 2: Every day.

1696
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 5: And that you happy every minute.

1697
01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:42,040
Speaker 1: It's been so long with your fana way, it's having already.

1698
01:18:43,479 --> 01:18:54,200
Speaker 4: It's gonna be gravy.