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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up?

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire, Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Friday,

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Speaker 1: February eighteen. All Star Weekend is here. I know everybody's

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Speaker 1: pumped for NBA All Star Weekend celebrity game, which I

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Speaker 1: will not be playing in for a I don't know,

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Speaker 1: ten fifteen straight year. It maybe one day I'll get

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Speaker 1: the call from the bullpen, but at that point I'll

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Speaker 1: probably be too old. Um, you got the Dunk Contest,

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Speaker 1: you got the three point shoot Out, the NBA All

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Speaker 1: Star Game Sunday night, which is like basically a playground

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Speaker 1: pickup game that will occupy basically the sports weekend obviously.

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Speaker 1: Now listen, I have a huge game for my guys

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Speaker 1: Nikasa Liga MX to shout out to the seventeen Liga

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Speaker 1: MX fans who listen to the pod Nikosa playing. Uh

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Speaker 1: club Tijuana. Now here's a funny thing. So, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Tijuana ownership. He's murky about it. For all I know,

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Speaker 1: it's like his grandfather or dad owns a team. Um,

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Speaker 1: very cagy about it. But he's like, are you going

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Speaker 1: can just jet set down to Tijuana. And so I'm like,

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Speaker 1: let me check on the map. Tijuana is barely two

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Speaker 1: But then I was like, very unlikely that I will

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Speaker 1: make the game Friday night, you know, given that, Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna head down two and a half hours to

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Speaker 1: a soccer match. I'll see you guys, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: eight hours. You know, it's just it's tough to do that.

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Speaker 1: It's the same thing with playing golf. A lot of

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Speaker 1: guys ask me, hey, man, I know you play hoops,

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Speaker 1: But do you golf? It's like not really. Occasionally I'll golf,

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Speaker 1: like golf is like it's talking about four or five

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Speaker 1: You know you play early enough in the morning, maybe

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Speaker 1: it's like a three hour deal, but eighteen holes is

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Speaker 1: you hit the reins beforehand. Yeah, I'm gonna drink at

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Speaker 1: the turn. It's just such a long thing. I know

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Speaker 1: when I'm playing hoops, minutes tops, great workout, I'm showered,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. What's up? I can watch the kids.

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Speaker 1: I can watch it, you know, Like it's like that's

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Speaker 1: kind of hashtag dad life. What I'm about for sports? Uh,

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Speaker 1: tennis same white. Tennis is even shorter than basketball usually.

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Speaker 1: Um so, so those are the ones I'm into now.

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Speaker 1: Pickle ball is what some buddies are trying to get

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Speaker 1: Apparently someone tried to tell me pickleball is the fastest

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Speaker 1: And you know, listen, any but the barrier is very

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Speaker 1: low to enter pickleball. It's like you just show up,

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Speaker 1: not a lot of running. It's not like tennis. It's

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Speaker 1: fifteen and eight, um Luka done fairly good at basketball

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Speaker 1: and um the obviously the big game was Sixers Bucks.

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Speaker 1: band Cork NOAs however you say his name, Sorry about that,

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Speaker 1: getting an argument, guy, But I put my m v

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Speaker 1: Have you looked at Curry's numbers? I know he's tailed

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Speaker 1: He's got a history of choking in the playoffs. Um

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Speaker 1: Um Anyways, we have a great guest today, Eddie House.

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Speaker 1: and some of them just you know, they're not going

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Speaker 1: this guy did his homework. I respect that Eddie House

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Speaker 1: that show Reacher on Amazon product Guys. It's good, it's

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Speaker 1: it's quick, it's fairly easily, easily digestible. I think you're

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Speaker 1: gonna like this show Man Reacher now Jack Reacher. With Cruz.

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Speaker 1: very good. We update. We finished the first half of Ozark. Um.

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Speaker 1: The other one I want to watch is bell Air.

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Speaker 1: the Suns and I remember Eddie. You know this, Chris

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Speaker 1: Paul a phenomenal point guard, obviously one of the better

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Speaker 1: point guards in UH modern history. However, every year in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs he would get hurt. Remember with the Clippers,

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Speaker 1: Um he got hurt in Houston. It was like this

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Speaker 1: was a Groundhog Day every single year in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But Phoenix is like, we gotta get Chris Paul. He's

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Speaker 1: a star. He doesn't get hurt last year. I mean

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Speaker 1: he had the shoulder a little bit, but he still

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Speaker 1: was able to play through it and they go to

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Speaker 1: the championship and nearly win the title. So could you

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Speaker 1: say the same for Anthony Davis, Like, hey man, he's

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Speaker 1: been brittle, he's been hurt, but we're not selling because

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Speaker 1: if he's healthy, we're right there to win the championship.

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Speaker 1: If he's not. If he's healthy, but then you have

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Speaker 1: games where he gives you seventeen and seven you know

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Speaker 1: it well, and then he's outscored by Nurkis. That's who

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Speaker 1: that was. It was you get outscored, out rebound by

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Speaker 1: nerk I'll played by Nurkis. That should never happen, you know.

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Speaker 1: So when you have those inconsistencies, right well, he's consistently inconsistent.

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Speaker 1: Right now, he consistently is getting hurt, so his play

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Speaker 1: is inconsistent, his availability is inconsistent. And then when he

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Speaker 1: is playing, he'll give you thirty foot three games and

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Speaker 1: then he'll have a game like against Anarkis so again

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Speaker 1: consistently inconsistent. But I think if you're the Lakers, you

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Speaker 1: could sell that point like, well, look Chris Paul, Look

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Speaker 1: how he changed everything for for for the for the

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Speaker 1: Sons when when he was able to go there. If

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Speaker 1: you're the Lakers and trying to sell Anthony Davis, I

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Speaker 1: think that's what could be part of your selling point. Um,

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Speaker 1: let's drill down on your Phoenix Suns for a minute.

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Speaker 1: Forty eight and ten best record in the NBA. Rick

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Speaker 1: Buker thinks it's gonna be Buck Sons again in the championship. Um,

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Speaker 1: Sun statistically or a juggernaut right now lead the league

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Speaker 1: in point differential. I mean, they're awesome, ed, I just

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Speaker 1: I have my reservations only about Chris Paul's health. Other

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Speaker 1: than that, I mean, I don't know who's beating him

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Speaker 1: with the Warriors Warriors Sons. Who you got right now? Who? Who? Man?

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Speaker 1: You know, as a who pad and a bass and

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Speaker 1: a basketball fan, that would be I mean, that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a phenomenal series. I would have to man, oh man,

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Speaker 1: I think that those games seven and right there, it's

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Speaker 1: a coin flip. Who's playing the who has the best

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Speaker 1: game now? I mean to me, I feel like that's

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Speaker 1: the best matchup for the first time in a long time.

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Speaker 1: You could attested it. You could say this, the Eastern

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Speaker 1: Conference is better than the Western Conference top to bottom,

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Speaker 1: top to bottom. Okay, so what what Bucks? Nets? I

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Speaker 1: don't know, who's your third best team? Miami still there?

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Speaker 1: Chicago is a team that's I'm talking about the Eastern Conference.

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Speaker 1: The battle. You look at all those teams that said,

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Speaker 1: look how far down the Nets are? Right? Yeah? You know?

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Speaker 1: And I think the Nets are better than the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: So the Lakers are bringing up the rear uh and

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Speaker 1: trying to have a playing game in the West, right,

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Speaker 1: and Brooklyn is bringing up the rear and Charlotte okay

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Who's a better team between Brooklyn and l

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Speaker 1: A you would take well again, with all the injuries,

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Speaker 1: it's tough, but fully fully healthy Nets are probably the

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Speaker 1: best team in the East. Right, Nets are Bucks? I

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Speaker 1: would definitely tell you, I don't. I think the Calves

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Speaker 1: are young. I think Calves are a team like how

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Speaker 1: the Sons were, right, they you know, never really tasted it.

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Speaker 1: They get a taste of it. They don't go far

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, but they lose, but they know what

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Speaker 1: it feels like to get there. They put together a

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Speaker 1: season that was I I won't say historic, but for

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Speaker 1: them in their mind historic season for them, they weren't

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Speaker 1: expected to be anywhere close to the top of the

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Speaker 1: standings in the East. So for them, they're like, man,

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Speaker 1: we kind of believed in ourselves. We overachieved, but next

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Speaker 1: year we're coming. I feel like this like the Suns.

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Speaker 1: Look at what the Suns did. Everybody thought they over

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Speaker 1: achieved last year, right, and we're uh, they were able

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Speaker 1: to win all circumstances, but they got to the finals

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Speaker 1: and loss. And remember Devin Booker looked at the camera.

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Speaker 1: I mean he gave zoom been on. He was like, right,

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Speaker 1: that feeling resonated through top to bottom everybody in that organization.

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Speaker 1: Now look how they came out and play there on

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Speaker 1: a mission. So I think Cleveland sometimes, as a young team,

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Speaker 1: you lose and then you get that okay, that little

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Speaker 1: callous of like, all right, this is what the playoffs

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Speaker 1: is are like, we have to be a little harder here.

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Speaker 1: Every possession counts. We gotta prepare a little bit sharper

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Speaker 1: than what we did. So I don't Cleveland. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that they'll be there at the end. I think Chicago,

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Speaker 1: when they get healthy, they're gonna be tough. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: be a tough out. Miami is always gonna be a

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Speaker 1: tough out. The Sixers is gonna be tough. Boston, the

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Speaker 1: Sixers are Charmaine soft. Come on, I don't know the

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Speaker 1: Sixers are gonna be tough to beat in the seven

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Speaker 1: game series and seven games series. By the way, on

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Speaker 1: the Sixers, is Joel and Be the m v P

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Speaker 1: of the league. I just have a hard time believing that.

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Speaker 1: Is he the best player in the league this year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I watch a lot of NBA at I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's even top two. What okay, give me

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Speaker 1: your I think he's been playing well. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: I know you guys are gonna think I'm an ask clown.

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Speaker 1: But Lebron is thirty seven years old and he's third

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Speaker 1: in the league in scoring. He is carrying a terrible team,

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Speaker 1: and I know you guys are gonna say he could

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Speaker 1: he put the team together twenty nine seven and six

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Speaker 1: at thirty seven, Jordan didn't put up these numbers. It's

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Speaker 1: a historic season. Has been a disclaimer for you to

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Speaker 1: say that person should be m VB because he was older.

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Speaker 1: So if that was the case, then Tom Brady should

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Speaker 1: have been m VP and not Aaron Rodgers. Uh did

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Speaker 1: you put an age disclaimer on then? And there should not? Well?

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Speaker 1: I thought Aaron Rodgers was a little bit better. What

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was close, But Aaron Rodgers also had

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Speaker 1: the best record in the league. Now that that's what's

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Speaker 1: gonna hurt Lebron. It's tough to make a case for

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Speaker 1: him his m v P. He's eighth in the West

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Speaker 1: and um, not the number one league score. He's eighth

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Speaker 1: in the West. Is he having a phenomenal season like

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Speaker 1: the unbelievable season? Yes? I mean for we well okay,

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Speaker 1: but by that stand, why isn't Chris Paul, the m

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Speaker 1: v P the Sun Tower having an incredible season? Well, Chris, look,

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Speaker 1: he's not the best player in the league. Though you

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Speaker 1: could I could argue to say, what your kids just

541
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Speaker 1: having a better year than Christmaking He's having a damn

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Speaker 1: good year. Did we forget about Janice? Did everybody forget

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Speaker 1: about what Yannae is doing? He just put up fifty

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Speaker 1: the other day? Um, he stayed the game they played

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Speaker 1: against Uns even though they got blue out. I like, uh,

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Speaker 1: don't know what the Lakers excusing me? The game they

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Speaker 1: played against the Lakers. Think about how he started that

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Speaker 1: game off a block shot two dunks. Like this is

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Speaker 1: the type of guy he is. Do we forget about him?

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Speaker 1: You know? Well, I I think he might. It might

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Speaker 1: have to be honest. I don't why why is he not? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Why is he not the leader? I don't understand why

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Speaker 1: em beat is. I mean, look at Yannest lead the

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Speaker 1: league in scoring. If you look at just what he's doing,

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Speaker 1: he has been the best player for his team for

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Speaker 1: the longest period of time, and he's been putting up stupid,

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Speaker 1: ridiculous numbers. I mean, it's it's gonna come down. He has.

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Speaker 1: But but Janice hasn't beat in Eddie. Janice hasn't beat

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Speaker 1: in points per game, in field goal percentage, in rebounds,

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Speaker 1: in assists, uh, and in player efficiency rating. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: and be I gave you you honest. I just gave

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Speaker 1: you honest. I know what Yannest is doing. I just

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Speaker 1: gave the honest. Let's not forget about Yannest. So we're

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Speaker 1: a rein agreement. Yannest MVP. Yeah, I mean, if I don't,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't take it from him. You know, right now,

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Speaker 1: I think that he's doing the most with his team.

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Speaker 1: His team has been banged up to people forget his

568
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Speaker 1: team wasn't healthy. You know, everybody keeps forgetting about you

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Speaker 1: want to talk about the Lakers. Everybody keeps talking about

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Speaker 1: the Lakers. Help Milwaukee hasn't been healthy. They haven't had

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Speaker 1: Brook Lopez, Middleton was out for a while. This guy

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Speaker 1: has been carrying milk. So, I mean you have to

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Speaker 1: take a look at that. Okay, how about this uh

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Speaker 1: pop quiz? Who leads the league in double doubles? Is it? Honest?

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Speaker 1: It's who leads the league in triple doubles? I didn't

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Speaker 1: realize that. I mean, having another great season. Where there

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Speaker 1: are they at fifth? Well, they're tough because no Jamal

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Speaker 1: Murray and then Michael Porter. So I honestly, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if I asked you who who are the other starters

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Speaker 1: in Denver, it's like, gosh, they're missing two starters and

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Speaker 1: they're still six in the West. It's pretty damn good

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Speaker 1: for Yoki. And yeah that is and so he again,

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Speaker 1: we make all these excuses for the Lakers not being healthy,

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Speaker 1: right you. Yeah, they haven't been healthy, but Yoki just

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Speaker 1: finding a way to win. They're moving up in the standings.

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Speaker 1: He's balling. I think those two guys right there, Yoki

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Speaker 1: Jen and Jani's are the two guys that you gotta

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Speaker 1: look at because when you say carrying a team, they're

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Speaker 1: carrying a team. And they got heavy, big time numbers

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Speaker 1: behind them. Yeah, no disclaim. Fox Sports Radio has the

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Speaker 1: listen live. What do you think ends up happening in

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Speaker 1: the East, because it sounds like, you know, you really

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Speaker 1: like the Bucks, but the Nets healthy. Nobody's ever gonna

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Speaker 1: Nobody's ever gonna just miss k d Um By the way,

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Speaker 1: I think this Ben Simmons move helps the Nets. Do

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Speaker 1: you not? Yes? I do. I think it is. I

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Speaker 1: put it like this, I think it's a win. If

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Speaker 1: you ask me who won the trade, I say the Nets.

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Speaker 1: For this reason, they were able to get Simmons, a

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Speaker 1: guy in his prime for four years, a youngster. They

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Speaker 1: were able to get Seth Curry, a guy is a

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Speaker 1: floor spacer, a bucket getter. They were able to get

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Speaker 1: Andre Drummond, who was able to rebound the basketball. You

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Speaker 1: could look possibly say that those three guys could be

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Speaker 1: three starters on on a bunch of teams. Right. You

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Speaker 1: could start the Vin Simmons, Seth Curry and Andre Jrummond

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Speaker 1: and fill into other guys and they could be starters

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Speaker 1: on some teams. Right. Then they got to the two

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Speaker 1: first round picks. To me or just assets to have

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Speaker 1: to do whatever you want to do with those first

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Speaker 1: round picks. Somebody was clamoring for picks you couldn't make

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Speaker 1: a deal for for something like that. Um and Ben

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Speaker 1: Simmons the fit to me. He's a defer. He defers

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Speaker 1: right and everybody knows. But he can defer to Kyrie,

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Speaker 1: he could defer to Seth Curry, he could defer to

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Speaker 1: k D. But he's a rebounder. That's effort, so he

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be in rhythm to do that. He's

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Speaker 1: a great defender, he doesn't have to be in rhythm.

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Speaker 1: Those are all effort plays. He's six ten and he's

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Speaker 1: a good passer. So I think with that that puts

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn ahead in the trade for me, but still a

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Speaker 1: good trade for the Sixers as well. I think it's

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Speaker 1: it's a good trade for the Sixers because they got

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Speaker 1: rid of somebody that didn't want to be there. Mill

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Speaker 1: Stap is a good addition to come guy come off

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Speaker 1: the bench that can bang, use up some fouls, rebound

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Speaker 1: and score stressed the floor. But the picking roll that

631
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: everybody keeps talking about with with James and m B,

632
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: that's gonna be interesting to watch because both of them

633
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: guys are Both of those guys are ball stockers. You know,

634
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: you think James get it. He goes into his package

635
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: when he beat, he goes into his package. He even

636
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: trying to steal some of James package. So it's gonna

637
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: be interesting to watch how that unfolds. Yeah, Um, all right, Eddy,

638
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: we can wrap up with this. Like I haven't looked

639
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: totally at the rookies, but like Kade Cunningham has been

640
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: up and down, Jalen Green has been up and down.

641
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: I just I don't know what to make of this

642
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: rookie class. Like all the teams are drafted higher, very bad. Um,

643
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: what do you think about these young kids coming in

644
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: at now eighteen nineteen. He had a good year at

645
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: Oklahoma Stake but I look at Detroit, man, I'm like, jeez,

646
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: they're like three or four or five years away. Yeah right,

647
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: well yeah, but they Most of the time, when you

648
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: are drafting first, second, or third, you're not really that

649
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: good of a team. Terrible. The only team, the only

650
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: team that I know that has been good like that,

651
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: and I don't know how they did that, was the

652
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: Warriors when they picked Wiseman up. You know what I mean,

653
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: that was amazing. I don't know how you got that

654
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: high of a slot. Well, we do know how they

655
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: worked it out. But for the most part, teams that

656
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: are drafting higher not good teams, um, because two good

657
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: teams usually give up that asset early on because they're

658
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: trying to win right now. Teams that are drafting high

659
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: usually are teams that are looking to build. They're trying

660
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: to pick put their pieces together and move forward. Like

661
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: I said, the Warriors are the exception. Um, Kate Cunningham

662
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: is a talent, but you need other talent around you,

663
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: you know. He You can't ask a rookie to come

664
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: into this league, and Lebron was to accept in the

665
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: coming to league and carry a team. Lebron every keep

666
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: bringing up Lebron about because he was special. Lebron is special.

667
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: Not what, but Lebron is special. So we can't compare

668
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: anybody else to that because that's different. It's hard for

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00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: a rookie to come here the way even Magic Johnson, right,

670
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: Magic Johns came in the rookie he inherited. Yeah, but

671
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: he came in. He had ballers around him, so it

672
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: was for him to just make that transition. Nobody asked

673
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: him to put everybody to put the team on his back,

674
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: and he do it itself. He had guys around him

675
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: to do it. So it's it's tough for these youngsters.

676
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: The guy Evan Mobley, the kid in Cleveland, has been

677
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: awesome and he's but I think he's one of the

678
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: huge reasons that they're all of a sudden, like a

679
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: top five team in the East because of his defense.

680
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: But I just I'm worried about them in the playoffs

681
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: that you know, a young team, um, and you know

682
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: the how the playoffs. You played in a million NBA

683
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: playoff games, that thing slows down. It becomes half court

684
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: who can execute? And I just I don't know if

685
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: Cleveland camp yeah, and it comes down to you know,

686
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: having just the guy, because everybody knows what plays you're running. Okay,

687
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: like you said, ain't slows down. We we'll call out

688
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: your play, you'll call out of play, you'll call out

689
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: one down or whatever. Everybody on the floor that's playing

690
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: defense starts communicating. This is what they're doing. Right at

691
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's gonna get to the

692
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: guy and can that guy beat his guy? And if

693
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: he beats his guys their help when he makes the pass,

694
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: can you make that open shot or can another guy

695
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: make a play that down to in the playoffs? But

696
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 1: with Cleveland, I said it earlier. I think that they're

697
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: young and going through the rigors of the playoff for

698
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: the first time. The lights are bright, it does slow down.

699
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: The preparation is a hundred percent different. It will callous

700
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: them to understand like, oh, we gotta get a little tougher.

701
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: We gotta get a little tougher now physically but mentally

702
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: as well, and be a little bit more prepared. I

703
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 1: think they've been well coached. But Evin Mobbly I followed

704
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,919
Speaker 1: him Um with the Pack twelve at USC. His brother

705
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: is nice to Um. Isaiah probably nice to Um, but

706
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: he's he's a specialty. He reminded. I was telling people

707
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: he reminded me of Chris Boss, just the way his

708
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: movements were. He's long, he's range. I think he's a

709
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: little better sactor, dan better defender than Chris, even though

710
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: Chris CB was a good defender. I think he's a

711
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: little better on the deepensive being I think Chris was

712
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: a little bit more polished offensive offense. Yeah, I agreed,

713
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,760
Speaker 1: But like you look at the rookies in their stats.

714
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: I mean, Josh Giddy's playing out of his mind, you know. Okay,

715
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 1: See he's the kid out of the NBL in Australia.

716
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: You know. I I bring up the NBL because I

717
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,280
Speaker 1: a part owner of a team over there at the Breakers.

718
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 1: Stunt right, Yeah, I got a little flexum. But Giddy, listen,

719
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: Giddy was good over there. I didn't think he'd be

720
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: triple double good in the NBA as a rookie. But

721
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: you can see why Lebron is always trading, wanting to

722
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: trade picks. Like you saw on social media, he was

723
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,240
Speaker 1: pumping up the Rams. GM was wearing that shirt about

724
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: I don't care about draft picks or whatever, and Lebron

725
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: leron don't want draft picks. But I'll say this, Eddie,

726
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves has looked pretty damn good, has he not. Yeah,

727
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: he's playing well. I mean it's I mean, it's when

728
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: you when you have a job to do right and

729
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: you buy into your role. It's it's easy to be

730
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,720
Speaker 1: successful in that when you're not trying to step outside

731
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: of your role and you understand that you have these

732
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: certain things to do. This is all you have to do,

733
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: and just be good at these you know, it's it's

734
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: easy to do that. And I'm not easy like that,

735
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: but it makes it a lot easier for you to

736
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: lock into. Wait only you have to focus, and then

737
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: when you're playing with these greats, they make it easy

738
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: for you too. But him stepping up, I mean, that's phenomenal.

739
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for him. Might me take big shots

740
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: like he took yesterday? Like he's stepping into them shots

741
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: knowing that they're gonna go down. He's not you know,

742
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 1: guys shaking at the knees hoping that he doesn't get

743
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: the past. He's like, I wish he does pass to

744
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 1: me because I'm knock So I love his competent definitely.

745
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: I'm with you, all right, Hey continued success. How are

746
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: how are the twins doing? I know you got young

747
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: freshman sophomores. Oh no, they're they're eighth graders right now.

748
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: There are fifth Oh my gosh, eighth grade. I saw

749
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: the video. I think one of them dounk. Both of

750
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,439
Speaker 1: them are dunking, right, Yeah, Bob, I'm dunking. Uh he's

751
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: uh one of them. Just I'm gonna seeing you a

752
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: clip of him. He just dunked on his dude this

753
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: past weekend. Um. So wait, are you still coaching? Have

754
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: you been through? Remember you famously told me you got

755
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 1: thrown out of AU games. Yeah before, But now I'm

756
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: not coaching. I'm out the way. I'm just uh what

757
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: I do with him? Know, we go every Tuesday and

758
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: Thursday we go hoop at this mountain side. I take

759
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: them so I could because I try to stay out

760
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: the way. Why their coach does what they do. I

761
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: don't want to overload them with my boy. So the

762
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: only that I give them, can you play? You play

763
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: pick up with them? Yeah? Is when we play, stuff

764
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: is happening that I need to teach them teaching points.

765
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: I'm able to do it live, you know, and that's

766
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: you know, are they are they playing without any like

767
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: really like college players or high school or they're they're

768
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: like playing against high school grown man. You know what

769
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: I mean. They're, oh, yeah, we're playing this. It's bump.

770
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 1: It ain't like it's a fast paced game. Guys are strong.

771
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,240
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that it's like the best of the talent,

772
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: but you know it's good for them to feel that.

773
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: But the old man game is good. You know, who

774
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: I played with recently was Matt Leiner's kid, um cole Liner,

775
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: And you know, he was on my team, and I knew.

776
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 1: I had seen the clips and I'm telling you, man,

777
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: he he's he's like six three and he doesn't miss threes. Yeah,

778
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: that's about how tall of my twins. He's about six three,

779
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: six four. The other ones about to um. And these

780
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: guys just drive real. They're fearless going against guys fifteen

781
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 1: years older who were strong, Yeah, but not as polished. Yeah. Uh,

782
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: but it's good for one because then once you play

783
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: against guys your own age, you kind of feel like

784
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: you yeah, you could deep on. But I'm gonna send

785
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: you a clip of him. He dumped that kid from

786
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: his brother goes to Duke Ban Chero's oh Ben Chero. Yeah, yeah,

787
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: that guy's I mean, he's a top ten pick, that's who.

788
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 1: That was his little brother. He flushed on him. Nice dude,

789
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: that's exciting. Sorry, my dog was barking and we got

790
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 1: a new dog and he you know, uh, he's barking.

791
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: He's excited. He knows your he knows your game and

792
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: your video clips. That's why he's excited. All right, what's up?

793
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: That's it? What's up? Dog? Eddie House, keep up the

794
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: good work. I love your NBA analysis and college as well. Man.

795
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking the time, Ed oh good man, thanks

796
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: for having me