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Speaker 2: Good morning, swivel and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast

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Speaker 2: on the Athletic Networks, Wednesday, January fourth, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: I'm j Skis here in the Classic Factory, and alongside

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Speaker 2: we got four or five fun questions to tackle before

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Speaker 2: we get into last night's games. Could I do a

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Speaker 2: little errors and omissions from yesterday's podcast, let's go. I

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Speaker 2: know we were fact checking our ass off at the

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Speaker 2: end of yesterday.

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Speaker 3: More.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's more. I got shooed hard, I said when

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Speaker 2: we were talking about Donovan Mitchell scoring seventy one yeah,

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Speaker 2: I said, wow. Actually, that Calves comeback was a twenty

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Speaker 2: one point comeback that was the largest of the NBA season.

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Speaker 2: I threw that out there. I had read that on

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Speaker 2: and I didn't fact check it myself. You know, Shoe

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Speaker 2: said hashtag. Well, actually, my man, no it's not. It's

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Speaker 2: not even the second or third biggest comeback in the

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Speaker 2: NBA this season. Shoe tweeted it all the Suns won

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Speaker 2: a game in which they trailed by twenty four this season.

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Speaker 2: It was in a game where Booker went off.

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Speaker 4: Opening Night, I think Phoenix versus Dallas else got up

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Speaker 4: huge and everybody's like, oh, Phoenix, you jokers, your season

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Speaker 4: is over already. Game one. They came back and won.

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Speaker 2: So do you remember that? So the Calves twenty one

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Speaker 4: Thompson, Okay, you want you want to keep fact checking it.

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Speaker 4: I said Luk at Doncips had two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 3: We watched you on score fifty five. Kind of surprising

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a bit point in Greek, n um, Jdy you

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Speaker 5: Yes, got me anyway, So there are so many damn

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Speaker 3: And you could say that Jokic is the default guy.

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Speaker 3: I'm saying he's tied with Luca in terms of forty

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Speaker 3: just he's the horse that keeps coming. I know Jokic

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Speaker 3: say any meaning mighty mo, that's the guy. But they

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Speaker 3: have to finish high in the standings and that ain't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fifty five points, twenty thirty three, shooting fifteen to

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Speaker 2: sort of laughable watching this one back. You know, we're

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. I mean, really, anybody in the league

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Speaker 2: In this game, the Wizards are.

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Speaker 4: Just too skinny, That's what it is.

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Speaker 4: They didn't have anybody with enough bulk to handle Yannis

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Speaker 4: Kristaps porzingis half as wide as Yanis is. It didn't matter.

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Speaker 4: oh for three from three point line. He did bank

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Speaker 4: nobody on the Wizards could handle that guy.

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Speaker 2: So the taunt of this season has been too small, right,

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Speaker 2: you scored over them. Do you think, Trey, we could

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Speaker 2: start seeing guys maybe, like the Bucks, start going too thin.

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Speaker 2: You're too skinny, you're not fat enough. You ain't got

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Speaker 4: the muscles. Yeah, be honest, that guy's jacked more than any.

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Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. Gianness is averaging forty seven point

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Speaker 3: I did, I did a control left. I see it

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Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, but no answer for the Greek freak.

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Speaker 2: He was like, I would have been a good one.

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Speaker 2: I would have been on House of Highlights. You talked

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Speaker 4: That was on House of Highlights. I literally was.

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Speaker 2: And he had a sick windmill too. He threw that

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Speaker 4: I prefer a maid dunks. I think I think the

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Speaker 2: Mmm. He made anythink Yeah, I agree, I agree.

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Speaker 2: He wanted to let the league remind remind the league

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Speaker 3: We're prancing.

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Speaker 2: He was prancing like a deer move or something. The

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Speaker 3: I guess Mariah's his wife's words got to him. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Fox scored thirty seven points huge in the fourth bucket

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Speaker 2: it's tough. Tough. That is tough. They've lost by one point,

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Speaker 4: The dunk was crazy.

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Speaker 4: thing kept happening. Next time it was he blew Clarkson again,

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Speaker 4: The Jazz really don't play defense. They were pretty good

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Speaker 4: Will Hardy said that there's one possession in each of

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Speaker 4: these games are for the Jazz right now. But great

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Speaker 4: sabonas as well. This guy's unstoppable right now. Walker Kessler,

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Speaker 4: great shot blocker, and he just ate him up. He

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Speaker 3: Although this is interesting between these two teams, it may

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Speaker 2: Is yeah, one is going to be there. But it

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Or or Marketing it like it was some Marketing

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Speaker 3: through this five game win streak thirty points per game.

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Speaker 3: He has not stopped this season. He ain't. Andrea Barniani

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Speaker 3: Andrea Barniani's All Star case stopped. I believe at like.

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Speaker 3: It's still going. It's still going. It would be it

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Speaker 3: would suck if he doesn't make it. And this five

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Speaker 3: a part because it's tough. It's tough in the West,

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Speaker 2: their twentieth victory?

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Speaker 4: Sixty nine?

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Speaker 2: Nice? Fifty five? Yeah, so not too bad, I guess

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Speaker 2: rough night. Shawn Holmes gave them a couple turnovers and

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Speaker 2: didn't matter when when Fox took over and so Bonis.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it feels like both of those guys are deserving,

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Speaker 2: but you got to go start going through and you're like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, does somebody get squeezed and do they

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Speaker 2: cannibalize each other? Votes a little bit from some of

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Speaker 2: it'd be a selection, but yeah, they're they're both playing

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Speaker 2: it obviously at all star level, and it helps that

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Speaker 2: the wire, fun fun matchup. Next game, This one won't

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Speaker 2: take long. The Thunder blew out the Celtics one fifty

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Speaker 2: and maybe rewatching it this morning or the game whatever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, before I watched it, I wanted to harp on

435
00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,560
Speaker 3: the Celtics for sure. I wanted to say, what is

436
00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,920
Speaker 3: going on after that performance on New Year's Day against

437
00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,600
Speaker 3: the Denver Nuggets where they didn't hit the Nuggets, they

438
00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,840
Speaker 3: didn't come out physically, and Jalen Brown said, maybe it

439
00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,560
Speaker 3: was the New Year's celebrations. We didn't We just weren't

440
00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:24,160
Speaker 3: physical on the perimeter and they got to the rim Championship.

441
00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,520
Speaker 3: Teams just don't lose two games in a row like that.

442
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,119
Speaker 3: Like that. But even though I started with the Celtics,

443
00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,640
Speaker 3: I want to start with a thunder. I thought maybe

444
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,800
Speaker 3: maybe the Celtics thought, looking on the other side, that

445
00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:42,080
Speaker 3: team is tiny. They started basically six five guys across

446
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:47,440
Speaker 3: the front line. See yeah, other than Jalen Williams Jay

447
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 3: Dubb's hair as they call him, which you know makes

448
00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:51,880
Speaker 3: him six nine six ten, I mean they're they're really

449
00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:53,359
Speaker 3: The front line was like six five six six. The

450
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,400
Speaker 3: biggest players point guard and Josh Giddy. So maybe they thought,

451
00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,840
Speaker 3: we don't have to be physical, we don't have to

452
00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,840
Speaker 3: protect the rim. But that's exactly what happened. Okaysee was

453
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,720
Speaker 3: so athletic at getting to the rim. Over and over

454
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,160
Speaker 3: and over again. Boston just didn't help. They just did

455
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,360
Speaker 3: not help whatsoever, And there just wasn't anything at the rim.

456
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,679
Speaker 3: That second quarter was where it got blown open. It

457
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,959
Speaker 3: was a forty point okay See second quarter and then

458
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,679
Speaker 3: forty eight in the third quarter. As they continued on,

459
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Speaker 3: I mentioned j Dubb. So fun to watch this guy,

460
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 3: great personality. Yeah, so much bounce. Trey Mann's got the

461
00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,640
Speaker 3: wiggle to get to the rim as their six man.

462
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Speaker 2: Last night, Isaia, Joe can't miss a three right now. Yes,

463
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,200
Speaker 2: he's on fire. He's fifty of his sixty eight field

464
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:40,240
Speaker 2: goals this year a three pointer.

465
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Speaker 4: Sixers just let him go.

466
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Speaker 2: What where did you come from? Where did you go?

467
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 3: That's a good call. Yeah, the Sixers did let him go.

468
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,080
Speaker 3: Let him go, and he.

469
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Speaker 4: Needed shooters for like six seasons straight.

470
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Speaker 2: Just let him go. Yeah.

471
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And we know going into okay See, is not

472
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,520
Speaker 3: an easy win. We as basketball sickos. We know that

473
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Speaker 3: they're sixteen to twenty one. They got a record at home,

474
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,640
Speaker 3: they're really really solid at home. I probably shouldn't said

475
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 3: yesterday on playback, I said, we were talking about relegation

476
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:12,119
Speaker 3: and teams like, Okay, see, who are are solid? And

477
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 3: you know, I said, they're, you know, one of the

478
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 3: the worst teams in the NBA, and they're just they're

479
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 3: really good in a way. You know, they can't win games,

480
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 3: but they have so much talent across the board. They

481
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Speaker 3: are so fun to watch. And the Celtics, I'm just

482
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Speaker 3: I'm surprised they took them lightly. I know Shaye wasn't

483
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 3: in the lineup, but I'm surprised two games in a

484
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 3: row that would happen. Yeah.

485
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Speaker 2: I saw Adam Taylor NBA tweeting that the Celtics have

486
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,000
Speaker 2: played eight road games against Western Conference teams this year

487
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,359
Speaker 2: and they're they're five hundred, so not too bad, right,

488
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,640
Speaker 2: four and four on the road against the West, which

489
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 2: is pretty loaded. They started with two wins in November

490
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,400
Speaker 2: against Memphis and New Orleans, great wins. Then they won

491
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Speaker 2: in Phoenix. But then they lost their next two of

492
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,159
Speaker 2: three in California. But it was a tough part of

493
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 2: their schedule. It was one of those three games in

494
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 2: four nights. They lost to the Warriors, they lost to

495
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Speaker 2: the Clippers. They did beat the Lakers. But now you said,

496
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 2: here in twenty three tests where They've lost to the

497
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets and then this like spank job here from

498
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 2: ok See, which is the surprising one, giving up one

499
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty points. So again four and four in

500
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 2: those eight road games against the West. But they're in

501
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 2: a little strange, little funk. Part of that happens to

502
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 2: all the good teams, and I don't think anyone's gonna overreact.

503
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 3: I'm not going to overreact. But this is more than

504
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 3: just two straight losses. This is three losing streaks in

505
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 3: the last month, a two game losing streak, then a

506
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,720
Speaker 3: three game losing streaking out another two game losing streak.

507
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's a losing streak, losing to it, Yeah.

508
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 3: Tough, Yeah, I think it is. I think it's just

509
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 3: they've never been the favorite in a regular season and

510
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,120
Speaker 3: maybe that's affecting them to some degree, like they've never

511
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 3: been a number one seed this way, I think it

512
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 3: is something to worry about to some degree. I don't

513
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 3: think Champs don't do this this often.

514
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Speaker 2: Any other thoughts on this game or the Celtics or

515
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 2: the thunder.

516
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Speaker 4: What have I got thoughts?

517
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Speaker 2: Wise?

518
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Speaker 4: I'm personally not worried at all for the Celtics. I

519
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,199
Speaker 4: think they're just totally board right now. They blew the

520
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 4: doors off the league for the first month and a

521
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 4: half of the season started. What twenty two to five

522
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 4: could not miss a three. Now they're struggling to miss threes.

523
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 4: I think it was Malcolm Brogden said, we saw that

524
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 4: Shaye wasn't gonna play and took a big, deep breath

525
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 4: and relaxed, and we shouldn't have done that. It looked

526
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 4: like the Celtics to at the start of last season

527
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 4: where they thought they could just get by on talent,

528
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,159
Speaker 4: and obviously you can't just get by on talent. You

529
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 4: got to play out there, and the thunder came out

530
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 4: and took it to them. The losses against like the

531
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Speaker 4: Clippers and the Warriors, the close game against the Lakers

532
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 4: that was without all of their starting front court right

533
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 4: like Horford was missing, Robert Williams hadn't come back yet.

534
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Speaker 4: There were reasons for that, like they went as far

535
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Speaker 4: as they could go with h Grant Williams and Blake

536
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 4: Griffin playing huge minutes. So I don't know. To me,

537
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Speaker 4: it's just this is kind of one of the down

538
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,119
Speaker 4: times of the season. December into January, things start getting

539
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 4: really weird. You see a lot of weird blowouts when

540
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,639
Speaker 4: we're trying when it still seems like it's early in

541
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,679
Speaker 4: the season. But some teams have actually gotten bad. So

542
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,240
Speaker 4: some teams are slacking. I think that's what is up

543
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 4: to the Celtics right now. They think we are a

544
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 4: team that went to the finals last year. We've proven

545
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 4: ourselves as one of the best teams in the league,

546
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Speaker 4: so we should be able to come in and just

547
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 4: push over a team like the Thunder. You still got

548
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 4: to play. Every team is good now.

549
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, okay, see it is now sixteen and

550
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 2: twenty one, which is the exact same record as our

551
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 2: Bulls and our Raptors, same as the Lakers, probably one

552
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 2: game behind the Wolves. I mean, they have sort of

553
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 2: proven at least this season. Okay, se has that they're

554
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 2: not one of the worst teams. You know, they're not

555
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 2: those teams with ten or eleven wins. They're a tiny

556
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,880
Speaker 2: step up and you know, are knocking on a play

557
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 2: in trying to chase Utah for a potential ten seeds.

558
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 2: So yeah, they've been really fun watch too, and a

559
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 2: tough team to play. Like you said in the old

560
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 2: what is it pe Com Center is that what it is?

561
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 2: A big ass logo on the floor.

562
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Speaker 3: I think it's pey comya the chesapeak to.

563
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 2: Me, it's pay com. It's huge. Those the biggest logos

564
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,959
Speaker 2: on the floor. I'm telling you, I'm massive.

565
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 4: U saw guy made a half court shot though, Yeah,

566
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 4: twenty k you got he knew he was gonna make it.

567
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,719
Speaker 4: Look it was like looking dead in the eyes of it,

568
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 4: like let's go, let's give me the shot already.

569
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Speaker 2: And that was smooth man. Respect to that guy. Teaches

570
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 2: your ways. Man, he's wearing a hat too, was wearing

571
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 2: a hat.

572
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Speaker 4: Pretty impresivet didn't even go backwards.

573
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Speaker 2: That's awesome. Twenty k. Well, the pig com living up

574
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Speaker 2: to its name.

575
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Speaker 3: Was there a five k in Utah last night? Or

576
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Speaker 3: am I just imagining this?

577
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 4: They said something about it on the broadcast, That's what

578
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 4: I heard.

579
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like, oh, if.

580
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Speaker 4: You're wondering why the fans are celebrating somebody just won

581
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Speaker 4: five thousand dollars.

582
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Speaker 2: It must have been not a half court then maybe

583
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Speaker 2: it was one of those Yeah, maybe I don't know.

584
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Speaker 2: Somebody tell us in the stream team I got some

585
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 2: injury news talk about test you're not gonna like this.

586
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 2: No Pelican stars. Zion Williamson. He's gonna miss at least

587
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 2: at least three weeks with a right hamstring strain sustained

588
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 2: in Monday's loss to the seventy six ers. That's the

589
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 2: one where he like you know, no contact, pulls up,

590
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 2: starts limping off, didn't return to that game. We thought, Oh,

591
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 2: hopefully nothing serious. This is serious enough, especially with a

592
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 2: guy like Zion on. Yeah, what do you think here?

593
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:07,360
Speaker 3: Oh, I think that my NBA watching is it's it's

594
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 3: hurt right now because I think he was my favorite

595
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 3: player to watch over the first couple of months, because

596
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 3: I just since we started this show a very long

597
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 3: time ago. Anniversary coming up though for for the.

598
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Speaker 2: Seventeenth anniversary Corner Boys get the cakes in the sham.

599
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 3: I don't think and this isn't just hyperble. I've never

600
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Speaker 3: seen his ion since we started the show or even before.

601
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Speaker 3: I know, we've we've had a Shacker, we've had barkleyar,

602
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 3: but we haven't had we haven't had a Zion is different.

603
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 3: This dude in the last month twenty nine and a

604
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 3: half seven boards, five assists. That's Barkley assisted. But this

605
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 3: this guy's five assists. He's a point guard out there.

606
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 3: He's been my favorite player to watch, So it sucks,

607
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 3: uh and you can't rush him back. We just saw

608
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 3: what happened with Bradley Beal, and what's gonna happen if

609
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 3: during this rehab, I mean, he's it's going to take

610
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 3: a while. He's can't I suppose on hamstring. So I

611
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 3: think this just hurts their postseason chances as well. They

612
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 3: haven't played a lot together with their starting lineups at all,

613
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,679
Speaker 3: and so I've thought of them as a potential bubble

614
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 3: team to be able to get to the finals. Maybe

615
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,400
Speaker 3: he can sneak in if things really fall right for them,

616
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 3: But if you have another month here in January leading

617
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 3: up to the trade deadline, which is another thing we

618
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 3: can talk about, I think it hurts their playoff chances.

619
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Speaker 3: I think that's where they just won't have any chemistry,

620
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 3: really any chemistry. They've only played ten games.

621
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Speaker 2: Together they're projected starting line up. Yeah, McCollum, Herb, Jones, Ingram,

622
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 2: Zion and JV only ten games together. No good news

623
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 2: is there's six and two without Zion this year. This

624
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 2: is like now his fourth different injury this season. Now,

625
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 2: he played a lot. He's played twenty nine to thirty

626
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 2: seven games, but he missed a couple with that lower

627
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 2: back like hip contusion after that hard fall against the

628
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 2: Jazz I think it was. And then he missed three

629
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 2: games with a right foot contusion. Then he got sick.

630
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 2: I mean health and safety protocol, so not really an injury.

631
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 2: And then now this one here with the hamstring TK.

632
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 2: Can the Pelicans, hopefully getting Ingram back somewhat soon, Can

633
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 2: they stay around the top of the Western Conference sands

634
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 2: or we're going to see them have a bad week

635
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 2: two or three here and start to slide down.

636
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 4: Doesn't take much, Yeah, it doesn't take much, and the

637
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 4: standings are super tight, but I think they can at

638
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 4: the very least stay in like the seven to eight

639
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 4: range at the absolute worst, especially if Brandon Ingram comes back.

640
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 2: There were reports over.

641
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 4: The weekend that he could be coming back tonight. I

642
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 4: guess we'll figure that out as the day goes on.

643
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 4: But the Pelicans are a really, really deep team. Yeah,

644
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 4: so you know, as long as they're able to get

645
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 4: one of one of these two back in Zion and Ingram,

646
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 4: I think they can.

647
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 2: Probably tread water play at about.

648
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 4: Five hundred, maybe win some cool clutch games or something

649
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 4: like that as the season goes on and stay in

650
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 4: the mix. But the problem is they're not going to

651
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 4: be the team we want to see in the playoffs

652
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 4: because I agree with tasks like you need to have

653
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 4: Ingram and Zion on the court together to figure out

654
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 4: who's handling the ball, especially when you consider CJ. McCollum

655
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 4: a high usage guy as well. They you just need

656
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 4: to figure out how the three of them are gonna

657
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 4: fit together and make each other better rather than it

658
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 4: being your turn, my turn, your turn, my turn, which

659
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 4: is probably what it's gonna have to end up being

660
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 4: for this season because they just won't have a chance

661
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 4: really to build the chemistry. Not to mention it's three

662
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 4: weeks then reevaluate like this could get pushed longer and longer,

663
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 4: and they're gonna be obviously very careful with Zion because

664
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 4: you don't want them to come back and then have

665
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 4: to leave, come back, then have to leave. So, yeah,

666
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 4: it takes a little wind out of the sales for

667
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 4: the Pelicans, no doubt.

668
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, how many games have Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram

669
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 2: even played together and they're not a career. It's not

670
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 2: a ton obviously with Zion missing all of last season,

671
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 2: and I'm sure there was some the year before that,

672
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 2: but not a ton this year. Yeah, I'm with you, guys.

673
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 2: That's a concern when you get to the playoffs, those

674
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 2: reps like those regular season reps with your sort of squad.

675
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 2: But they are a deep team. There's sort of if

676
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 2: any team can sort of handle these unfortunate injuries, it's them,

677
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 2: just because they have a lot of good guys on

678
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 2: that bench.

679
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 3: They're more opportunity four and one without Zion and yeah, yeah,

680
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 3: which is surprising, but they are really deep and maybe

681
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 3: they can still achieve just having some playoff experience. Trade

682
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 3: doesn't really think that they can go deep into the

683
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 3: postseason because they'd never been there before. So at least

684
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 3: if they, you know, take their time with Zion, they

685
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 3: can at least do that. You know, they can at

686
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 3: least go get reps with the healthy Zion. I Zion's

687
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 3: really angry. Will Gillory of the Athletic as their beat writer,

688
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 3: continuously says Zion just wants to be on the floor.

689
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 3: He said, I miss so much time last year. I

690
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 3: want to go out there. I want to go out there,

691
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 3: but I think they're gonna have to hold him back,

692
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 3: and I think they're gonna have to hold President Basketball

693
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 3: Operations David Griffin back from making a trade because David

694
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 3: Griffin and he likes to wheel a deal, and I

695
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 3: think I don't think really anything would stop him from

696
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 3: trading anybody. But I think with the trade deadline five

697
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 3: weeks away, even with a hurt Zion, I still think

698
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 3: he wants to make a deal, still still go for it,

699
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 3: and they have so many parts. Maybe you don't have

700
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 3: to hold him back. Maybe you can trade everything. He's

701
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 3: gonna trade whatever he wants. But I don't nothing is

702
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 3: held down with the Pelicans. I think you can. They

703
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 3: He could deal so many players from that roster, and

704
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 3: I think he might. I think he might still see

705
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 3: an opportunity to go for it. Here five weeks five weeks?

706
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 2: Boys, what does this mean for Zion Wimson in the

707
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 2: All Star Game? Going to hold him out of that

708
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 2: if he is either voted in or selected probably deserving,

709
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 2: Maybe it opens up a spot for a I mean

710
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 2: it's enough time away, it's like five or six weeks away. Yeah, six, yeah,

711
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 2: But then again reassessed after three weeks and like, do

712
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 2: they really want him? I mean, he might get selected

713
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 2: and then just not playing the game. That could happen.

714
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 2: Sure disappointing, but well we'll see. It's it's enough time away.

715
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 2: All right, let's take our first break. When we come back,

716
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 2: we'll hit the beach and read some of your tweets.

717
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 2: All right, back in the Classic Factory. I'm taking Cooper's

718
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 2: word here in the stream team, but apparently that five

719
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 2: K that was won at the Jazz game last night

720
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 2: was a putting game. Ah yeah, not a half court

721
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 2: shot or even like a layup, free throw, three pointer

722
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 2: type thing.

723
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 3: Putting, like what a ten footer? Cooper too short?

724
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 2: Let's cop yeah, or my guess because I've seen these before,

725
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 2: these like little games like the on the floor, right yeah,

726
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 2: like the whole thing, give it on the floor. Yeah,

727
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 2: I know, they get very lucky.

728
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 3: Like the length of the floor you're saying.

729
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 2: Possibly, wow, twenty plus twenty plus feet? Okay, so that's

730
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 2: the pot to the floor. It's a putt. It's a

731
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 2: put on hardwood. Not easy. Steph curR con do it

732
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 2: in sleep.

733
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, Steph probably does a pregame. He doesn't get ripped

734
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 3: like DeAndre Ayton does pre game.

735
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 4: No.

736
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 3: Uh, but you know those ones where you like usually

737
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 3: I think it's usually a hockey stick where you shoot

738
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 3: it the length of the floor into a small little

739
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 3: hole type thing. Those are fun. Can't wait for the

740
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 3: NHL All Star Game Challenge, Skills Challenge, whatever it's called

741
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 3: on Saturday. Remember last year they did it in the Bolagio.

742
00:33:51,560 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, a blast. It's rivaling NBA Saturday Night out here.

743
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 3: You yep, it's good. You should watch it. It's so good.

744
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 3: I love it.

745
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 2: All right, enough, enough ice talk. Let's get to the beach, Janie.

746
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 3: We're watching it on playback, the NHL Skills we are.

747
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 2: I want to watch the World Rumble with you guys

748
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 2: on play all right, Yeah, I want to take a

749
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,280
Speaker 2: picture with a bunch of Montreal Canadians moms guys on playback.

750
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 2: Shut Alex. We were looking up the ages last night

751
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 2: of a Vegkin only thirty seven. I thought he was

752
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 2: way older. And then uh, y yager army or yogurt

753
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 2: ye fifty still playing in a check league, scord getting buckets.

754
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 2: All right, we're on the beach. Yeah, that's what we're

755
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 2: doing here. We are answering your questions and comments. A

756
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 2: lot of these came through on Twitter yesterday, so thanks

757
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 2: for sending them all in. First, one from the Hoop

758
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 2: Troop wants to know which team is under the most

759
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 2: pressure to make a move this deadline. Oh, like Karen though,

760
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 2: the waves crashing up on the shore, But we're talking

761
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 2: pressure here.

762
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 3: It's like the opposite of pressure. Yeah, the water crashing happen.

763
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,280
Speaker 2: You got well. I mean there's a lot of teams

764
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 2: we can pick from, but who does under the movest pressure.

765
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,840
Speaker 3: I think it's the Clippers. This is year they.

766
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 2: Didn't expect the Clippers. I'm being honest.

767
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're they're middling right now. You know, they're a

768
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 3: mid team and this is year four of the experiment.

769
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 3: They did make a conference final, but that's it through

770
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 3: this Paul Georgian Kawhi Leonard experiment and doesn't feel like

771
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 3: these dudes are getting better with age. So I think

772
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 3: they kind of have to do something.

773
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 2: Now. You say do something, you mean get more talent

774
00:35:58,800 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 2: around them.

775
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 3: Yea, yeah, I don't think not blow it up, oh no,

776
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 3: but just some life support, some some backstops here because

777
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 3: it just ain't working all that well. Now it's gonna

778
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,479
Speaker 3: come down to Kauahi being Kawhi. That's what it's gonna

779
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 3: come down to. But I think if you just try

780
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 3: and do something, it's it's it's gonna be hard to

781
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 3: do something. I guess I'm thinking more internally, it just

782
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 3: feels like this is their last gasp at this experiment

783
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,399
Speaker 3: of Paul George, because not only has Kawhi injured every

784
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 3: single season, but it feels like Paul George's and he

785
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 3: is in and out of the lineup, so his injuries

786
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 3: are concerned talking about injuries, but at the same time,

787
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 3: this feels like this is year four or four and

788
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 3: where does it go from here? Kwai signed long term.

789
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 3: I guess they're thinking still long term, but it just

790
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 3: feels like they gotta go for it.

791
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,399
Speaker 2: That's sort of their get out of jail free card.

792
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 2: Though with this right, we'll try to say that they

793
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 2: don't need to like make a move, there's not pressure

794
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 2: to make another trade, even though they've done moves obviously.

795
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 2: normOn Palence like that last year. It's like, hey, if

796
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 2: these guys play, we're awesome. But it turns out availability

797
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 2: is an importability, and so I don't know That's why

798
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 2: I was interested or surprised you took the Clippers. But

799
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:14,959
Speaker 2: I hear what you're saying.

800
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 3: But they're not even that awesome. That's the thing.

801
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 2: No, they're not that bad. When they play, they're really good.

802
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 3: The record is is it?

803
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's better than their overall one percentage? But what

804
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 2: team mean with.

805
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 4: I'm also in LA, but I think it's the Lakers.

806
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 4: I think at this point, Lebron is basically saying, you

807
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 4: better make some trades because I'm tired of balling out

808
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 4: here all by myself. You know, he's calling basically calling

809
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 4: out Rob Polinka, saying, I'm not here to just be

810
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 4: playing basketball. I'm here to be competing for championships. And

811
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,280
Speaker 4: the Lakers are not a championship competing team right now.

812
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 4: They looked good when Anthony Davis was playing his absolute best.

813
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 4: Lebron is still obviously an incredible player, But that's it.

814
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 4: And even if it's those two guys, they would be

815
00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 4: a scary team to face in a playoff matchup. But

816
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 4: you're probably taking most of the teams that are going

817
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,959
Speaker 4: to actually have home court advantage rather than a Lakers

818
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 4: team that's going to be playing through the play in

819
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 4: tournament once again. It would be nice for them, I'm sure,

820
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 4: to not have to play those extra couple of games

821
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 4: and actually be able to prepare for a playoffs series

822
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 4: going forward. So I think with the how well Lebron

823
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 4: is playing right now and the comments that he is

824
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 4: saying to the media, the fact that he deleted a

825
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 4: tweet saying I'll never miss the playoffs again, I think

826
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 4: he's fretting a little bit here, which means there's going

827
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 4: to be a lot of pressure put on their front

828
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 4: of us.

829
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,919
Speaker 2: You would think. So, I think you could pick from

830
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 2: all these teams that have disappointed so far this season.

831
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,720
Speaker 2: I'm talking about my Raptors, probably the Bulls, the Hawks,

832
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 2: the Wolves. The pressure there is from the expectations. You know,

833
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 2: a lot of those teams I just listed most people

834
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 2: thought would be very easily a forty five plus win team,

835
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 2: probably a fifty win team in a lot of their cases.

836
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 2: And they are like sub five hundred teams that look

837
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 2: bad on most nights, and it's like, do you need

838
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,760
Speaker 2: to shake it up? Is it just a coaching change?

839
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 2: In some situations, like there's ways to go about it.

840
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 2: But I'll be pretty shocked if those four teams I

841
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 2: listed at least one of them. Two of them don't

842
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:12,720
Speaker 2: make some move to try and turn their season around.

843
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 2: With you know, still half a season to go.

844
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 3: Let's get some moves going. Thirty six days till the deadline.

845
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 3: I think we should do what we thought we could

846
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 3: have possibly been doing eleven years ago and put ourselves

847
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 3: in a box during the walkout. Yeah, until they resolved

848
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 3: the lockout issue. We should put ourselves in a box

849
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 3: till there's a trade.

850
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 2: This factory isn't that big. Yeah, this is just a

851
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 2: big box man.

852
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 3: Thirty six days. Wow, so many teams to deal so much.

853
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, I thought that feels long. The

854
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 2: deadline was like two weeks from now.

855
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 3: In my head, January is a long ass month.

856
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 4: It's one of the longest that's up there for the

857
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 4: longest fact.

858
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 2: A month and change till the deadline.

859
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 4: The Hawks is interesting though, because they switched their GM

860
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 4: in the middle of the season. Travis Schlank resigned and

861
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,399
Speaker 4: now Landry Fields is the guy making the decision. Their

862
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 4: coach wants to quit or he doesn't want to quit.

863
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,439
Speaker 4: Their players like each other when they're away from the court,

864
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 4: but maybe not playing on the court, it feels like

865
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 4: the Hawks have so much to figure out in thirty

866
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 4: six days. No, and they've been trying to figure out

867
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 4: how to trade John Collins for thirty six years. It

868
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 4: feels like So I don't know if Landry Field is

869
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 4: going to finally crack the code, but the Hawks, with

870
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 4: the way this season is going, combined with the way

871
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 4: last season went after going to the conference finals, something

872
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 4: is going to have to change, which is crazy because

873
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 4: something has changed a lot for the Hawks in the

874
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 4: past two seasons.

875
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 2: Yeah.

876
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a combustible situation. I think what also flew

877
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 3: under the radar yet Landry Fields took over the day

878
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 3: to day operations, but they also let go of three

879
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:50,439
Speaker 3: other front office executives that Showan's reported just didn't see

880
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 3: that coming. The senior adviser Rod Higgins, director of pro

881
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 3: scouting and vice president of player Personnel, Stephen Giles, and

882
00:40:58,160 --> 00:40:58,800
Speaker 3: Derek Pierce.

883
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:00,479
Speaker 2: They really shuffle the deck.

884
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 3: So it feels like things are changeable. Nate is staying on. Yeah,

885
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 3: it's it's tough because they could have easily beat the Warriors.

886
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 3: They do play some good stretches, but.

887
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, great, next one, what do you got.

888
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 3: I got this, Carrie says, with the Pistons, Rockets, Magic, Thunder,

889
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 3: et cetera. All in rebuild mode, who do you think

890
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 3: has the best blueprint?

891
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 2: Pistons, Rockets, Magic Thunder. There is an et cetera there

892
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 2: you can have some more teams, Trey, which team you

893
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 2: going with? Who's set up the best here? And why?

894
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:44,760
Speaker 4: Here's my order? I'm going Thunder, Rockets, Magic, Pistons of these.

895
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 4: Look at these four teams that Carry is talking about here,

896
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 4: I think I got the Thunder first because they got

897
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 4: the best player in Shake Gilgess Alexander. That's a great start.

898
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 4: Jalen Williams is looking like a pretty solid guy, really

899
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 4: good cutter. I feel like he plays sideways a lot,

900
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 4: which is pretty strange. Rather than going north and south,

901
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 4: he goes east west. But it works because it's such

902
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 4: a unique thing. Last night was different. He just went

903
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 4: down the lane like one hundred times. I think he

904
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 4: had four dunks in the half court and it was

905
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 4: like one dribble moves. It wasn't anything spicy, but he

906
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 4: does a little bit of everything. A nice wing guy.

907
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 4: Giddy seems to be a pretty solid player. But I

908
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 4: think Shay and both Josh Giddy are gonna have to

909
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 4: get better at three point shooting for them to be

910
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 4: a realistic combination of a back court. Shaes at thirty

911
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,240
Speaker 4: five percent, Giddy's at thirty four percent league average. That's fine,

912
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 4: but they barely take any threes, so they got to

913
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 4: figure that out. I think the Rockets, though, as a whole,

914
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 4: have the best collection of talent. I think they have

915
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 4: the makings of a big three in Jalen Green and

916
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 4: Jabari Smith in Ouprihing sheng Gun. The question for them

917
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,919
Speaker 4: right now is when do they move off of Kevin

918
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 4: Porter Junior as a starter and primary ball handler. And

919
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 4: I think they're going to need a new coach going

920
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 4: forward because Silas doesn't seem to necessarily realize what he

921
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 4: has in sheng Gun went on to my eyes Magic,

922
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 4: they need a point guard, but they might get two

923
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 4: top ten picks and Detroit. It's all on Ky Cunningham's shoulders, really,

924
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 4: and he's out for the season. They don't have any

925
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 4: picks coming in or out, so it's gonna be whoever

926
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 4: they pick this season and whatever Kate ends up being.

927
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 4: So I got them lowest on the total Paul, but

928
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 4: they're doing all right, yeah.

929
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 2: All four of them, Like in terms of rebuilding, there

930
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 2: are pieces there, Like just to add to what you're

931
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 2: saying with the with the Magic, obviously, Pallo looks I

932
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 2: mean he's one rookie year basically already and looks like

933
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 2: the real deal and a guy you can like build

934
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 2: your franchise around. I would add to the Thunder who

935
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 2: I would have number one again in large part because

936
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:28,720
Speaker 2: of Sga being the best player on these four teams.

937
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 2: They have chet helt holmgrin too. Yeah, they have the

938
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,240
Speaker 2: number two pick obviously not playing at all this season,

939
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 2: we don't think so he'll be there. But yeah, like

940
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,359
Speaker 2: with Kid and with all the Rockets talent, like they're

941
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 2: set up here, they're like you see it right that

942
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 2: it could take another year in most cases maybe two

943
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 2: to get back into the mix. But no one's like

944
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 2: all four of those. I don't go like, oh they're screwed.

945
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 3: Yeah right, Yeah, it's interesting. I think the Rockets have

946
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 3: a lot of solid guys and it's solid across the board.

947
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 3: But I think the Magic and Pistons just have a

948
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 3: touch more star power in Boncaro and Kate Cunningham. So

949
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 3: they've done they all four have done really well to

950
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 3: get solid guys and you're just looking for a star, baby.

951
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 3: And it's interesting how the Thunder got their star when

952
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 3: you look back how they were able to acquire shake

953
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 3: bills as Alexander. It wasn't even through the draft. It

954
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 3: was through the trade via Travia Travi a trade. It

955
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 3: was Paul George that they had that they got because

956
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 3: of Victor Oladipo, who they got in a trade originally

957
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,240
Speaker 3: from the Magic So that was for Serge of Baka.

958
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 3: So they got their star through a whole bunch of trades.

959
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 3: Everybody's looking for a star the Rockets. I wonder you

960
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,399
Speaker 3: know who materializes. Is it gonna be Jayalen Green scheng Gun?

961
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 3: Obviously they both look great, but Buoncaro and Kate. You

962
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 3: can build around those guys and super excited for the

963
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 3: Thunder like the Rockets are doing. They have so many

964
00:44:55,840 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 3: athletic guys to go around Shay and chat, so I

965
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 3: think they have the makings of just being good for

966
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 3: a long time. So hopefully the Rockets get a star

967
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 3: to do that as well.

968
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 2: Next question here from vic Vic. Do you see a

969
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:16,720
Speaker 2: scenario where no team in the Western Conference cracks fifty wins, Vicvic.

970
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of parody potential that we

971
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 2: don't even have a fifty win season. They would have

972
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 2: a response to this is Vicvic reaching on this one.

973
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,879
Speaker 3: The man is reaching, he's reaching a man or woman.

974
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 3: No man, man or woman, woman here is reaching, Vicvic.

975
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 3: It would be hard. That would be very hard to do.

976
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,720
Speaker 3: Like the Nuggets are twenty four and thirteen. They're thirty

977
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 3: seven games in, so if they're won and three the

978
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 3: next four games, they're basically on pace, you know, halfway

979
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 3: through the season. To be a fifty win team, they'd

980
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 3: have to No, they don't have to lose to each other,

981
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 3: and somebody's got to win games. It just doesn't really

982
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 3: make it.

983
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:58,360
Speaker 2: I went back through Basketball Reference, like all the seasons

984
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 2: for the last like basically this century, right, so since

985
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 2: like two thousand, I can only find when you remove

986
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 2: shortened seasons of course, like the lockout and the last

987
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 2: couple of seasons that we had because of the pandemic

988
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 2: and all that, where they took away games. But I

989
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 2: can only find one instance where in one conference we

990
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,359
Speaker 2: only had one fifty win team. I couldn't find one

991
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 2: over the last like twenty two plus years where there

992
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 2: was none in either conference, and it was you you'll

993
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 2: never guess it. But the two to three season in

994
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 2: the East, we only had one fifty win team and

995
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 2: it was the Pistons at fifty to thirty two. And

996
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 2: then there was a lot of forty nine.

997
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, bad times at the easternence rectly two.

998
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 2: Thousand and you know, there's a couple other instances where

999
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 2: there's only two fifty win teams in a conference. Usually

1000
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 2: it's a lot in the East. In the West there

1001
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 2: was usually a lot more. But I don't think this

1002
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 2: is happening here.

1003
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 4: Three teams are on pace to win fifty games right now,

1004
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 4: so I think there'll probably be two as the season

1005
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 4: goes on. The bad teams that are competitive right now,

1006
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 4: those are gonna be easy wins come March in April,

1007
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,439
Speaker 4: so that's how you end up stacking up win So yeah,

1008
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 4: I think I think we'll get.

1009
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 2: A couple of teams, yeah, how many?

1010
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,720
Speaker 3: Respect though respect to vic Vic's foresight here, the West

1011
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 3: is oh yeah, filled with parody, there's no doubt, But yeah,

1012
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 3: there will be a split at some point.

1013
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 2: Do you hope one day one conference every team will

1014
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 2: be well, I guess every team in the league both

1015
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 2: and will all be decided by tiebreaker charity.

1016
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. I love thinking about that.

1017
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 2: All right, Sorry, vic Vic, I don't think it's happening.

1018
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a couple of fifty win teams, not

1019
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 2: a lot, probably, but it will be a lot of

1020
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 2: like we've seen before, like forty eight win teams, forty

1021
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 2: nine win teams, something like that.

1022
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 3: I'll tell you one thing that there's no parody with

1023
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 3: these email names that are being sent in this one

1024
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 3: from Buddha Bee.

1025
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 2: Well, these are tweets.

1026
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,720
Speaker 3: Well whatever, yeah, yeah, and today's day and age their names.

1027
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:53,280
Speaker 3: Buddha Be says, what is your starting five quote? Most

1028
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 3: fun players to watch? Team from the East specifically, and

1029
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 3: from the West. Let's do them both. Then, which team

1030
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 3: do you think would win a best of three series?

1031
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 3: All right, fun team to watch in the fun team

1032
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 3: to watch in the West. And who would win a

1033
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 3: best of three?

1034
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll give you mine, just my most fun players

1035
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 2: to watch Fun time is obviously very very subjective. These

1036
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 2: are not the best players in the league, but ones

1037
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 2: that I want to see play. I did take out

1038
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 2: some guys that were sort of injured like I took

1039
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,359
Speaker 2: Zion like out of the mix just because he picked

1040
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 2: up this injury. But anyway, I'll start in the East.

1041
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:28,760
Speaker 2: My most fun team to watch this season. I got Yannis,

1042
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 2: I got Kevin Durant, I got Kyrie Irving, I got Halliburton,

1043
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:36,879
Speaker 2: and then I was struggling with my fifth. If I'm

1044
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 2: being honest, I went with a wild pick for myself.

1045
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 2: But I love this guy when he's on. He's got

1046
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 2: a dog in them. Jimmy Butler. I went with Jimmy.

1047
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 2: He's fun. So the honest Katie, Kyrie, Tyrie's Haliburton and

1048
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler. Okay, that's my East. Please hold your thoughts

1049
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 2: on who will win a best of three series in

1050
00:48:54,320 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 2: the West? Jokic Luca Curry. Though I just broke my

1051
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 2: rule that I said, you know, no injured players, but

1052
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 2: I'm putting Curry in there. John Morant and then you

1053
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 2: know me, I'm a big SGA fan and I love

1054
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 2: the way that guy slithers around. Uh So I went

1055
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 2: with those The Joker, Luca Curry, jaw s g A.

1056
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 2: Who's winning that battle? I love that it's a best

1057
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 2: of three, not one game, not five not seven, just three.

1058
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,760
Speaker 2: Which team's better? It's got to be the West.

1059
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, by far, I mean you're taught Luca, Jokic,

1060
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:35,399
Speaker 4: Curry and jaw Yeah yeah, that's uh, that's that's four

1061
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 4: m vps.

1062
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 2: Basically, what about that defense from Jannis and Jimmy Butler?

1063
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 2: Not a lot to play? You're okay? Who has some

1064
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 2: emissions on your I'm sure there's some other names. Of course,

1065
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 2: you love him.

1066
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 4: I love watching Kuzma. I mean, yeah, you can pick

1067
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 4: the most famous guys in the league. Those guys are fun.

1068
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,439
Speaker 4: Shanguon is on my list. He's one of my three

1069
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 4: most watchable players this year. I got de Rosan over

1070
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 4: Jimmy Butler and and I've got embiid over Kyrie Irving.

1071
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,840
Speaker 3: Okay, yep, well yeah, I had him beat over Kyrie.

1072
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 3: I think he named them all the ones I was

1073
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 3: looking at. That's it done. No more fun players in

1074
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 3: the league. There's a lot of fun players in the

1075
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 3: National Basketball Association right now. I enjoyed Darren Fox a

1076
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:22,800
Speaker 3: lot last night. There's a whole bunch, but well done, everybody.

1077
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 2: Next one final one from Jobber ninety nine classic with

1078
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 2: NBA players taking better care of their bodies to maximize longevity.

1079
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 2: Is it finally time to bring back the old timers game?

1080
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 2: Make it a half court if you have to ask,

1081
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:39,959
Speaker 2: you're talking about All Star Weekend. You said it's bad.

1082
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 2: Now you said you'd rather watch Hockey's All Star Skills

1083
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 2: Challenge whatever it is.

1084
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:47,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's more to do with the NHL skills.

1085
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 3: It's just damn good. Okay, But yeah, we could have

1086
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 3: a free throw missing contest at All Star Weekend. We

1087
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 3: could also have the oldies go play. That's a great

1088
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 3: question from jobber, And I think you may have to

1089
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 3: fill out some of the roster with some jobbers. I mean,

1090
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 3: just with some guys who can run up and down

1091
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 3: the floor, because I don't think you can fill out

1092
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 3: full rosters of old guys.

1093
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 2: They used to do this.

1094
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 3: They used to do this, and guys got injured, so

1095
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 3: they stopped. Tommy Hinson's big belly, God rest, his soul

1096
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 3: was going up and down the floor. Pull the hammy,

1097
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 3: get him off the floor. So it makes But but

1098
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 3: I like jobbers question here because guys are just way

1099
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 3: more conscious of keeping it shape. That being said, you know,

1100
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 3: thirty minutes in Planet Fitness on the treadmill a little

1101
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 3: differ than runn up and down the floor. But if

1102
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 3: you pass a fitness test, I think you got to

1103
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 3: go through a little fitness test to be able to play.

1104
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 2: Just put that on the air too, like that Friday

1105
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 2: Night old Timer.

1106
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, for the Sichos on ESPN two. Whatever you can

1107
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:57,240
Speaker 3: he ha spend news. Maybe watch that. Sure Ray Allen

1108
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 3: can go play right now?

1109
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 4: You know how old what constitutes an old time midtimers

1110
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:03,880
Speaker 4: will be easy. Like it's called the Big Three. They

1111
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:04,399
Speaker 4: do it all the.

1112
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 2: Time, right right, right, right, Okay.

1113
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 4: I don't think it would be hard to fill out

1114
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 4: rosters at all. It's like there's an entire roster at

1115
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 4: NBA TV of guys who just got out of the league.

1116
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 4: There's an old another roster of guys who have their

1117
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 4: own podcast. There's a whole other roster of guys who

1118
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 4: are on the broadcast call like roll Stacy King out there.

1119
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 4: Let's see if he can play Stacy King versus Ryan Hollins.

1120
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 4: Those are a couple of guys who are on broadcast.

1121
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 4: JJ Reddick still looks great. Richard Jefferson was playing in

1122
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 4: the league like two seasons ago. There's a lot of

1123
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 4: guys who were just out of the league who could

1124
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 4: easily go and play.

1125
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 2: So yah, but would you want to watch that game?

1126
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 4: No, I don't watch that Big Three.

1127
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 2: I watched the NBA. Smart.

1128
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 3: That's smart because those guys are we're talking like forty

1129
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,320
Speaker 3: max those are the Big Three guys like they're around

1130
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 3: that age. Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, but the old timers

1131
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 3: game was.

1132
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 2: They were well, but that I guess this is the

1133
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:59,240
Speaker 2: point that Job's saying, like forty forty twenty years ago.

1134
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 3: You know, fell fell old.

1135
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 2: But these guys are, you know, playing so much longer

1136
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 2: that there's probably still in fairly good condition and they

1137
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 2: don't feel as old. But maybe that's me saying that

1138
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:10,839
Speaker 2: as a forty two year old.

1139
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 3: No, they can get up and down and they can play. Okay,

1140
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 3: you're right, the Jobber's right, they could play. Yeah, we're

1141
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 3: what age are we going here? Even if you go

1142
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 3: a little older, there's some older guys, like I said,

1143
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 3: ray Allan, Reggie Miller cycles up and down mountains in California.

1144
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:26,359
Speaker 3: Yeah he can play.

1145
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 2: Yeh yeah. Look, they put like usually what to aside

1146
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 2: in the celebrity game, like they pick they pick a

1147
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 2: couple old like legends. You know, Pippens played before, I think,

1148
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 2: and the Mullein's played I mean, just like off the

1149
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 2: top of my head here, But like so there's there's guys.

1150
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,439
Speaker 2: It's just the question is, does anybody care to watch

1151
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 2: the game? I guess maybe because it's been so long,

1152
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 2: I could see, like, oh, let's let's see if ray

1153
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 2: Allen's still got the three points shot. It might be

1154
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 2: interesting for a half or something. But do it every

1155
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 2: like one through ten years. I guess sure. I don't

1156
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,359
Speaker 2: think it needs to be every season. Ex Players, Yeah,

1157
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 2: I like it.

1158
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 4: That's why I think he got to involve all the

1159
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 4: people who have their own media empires. That way they

1160
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 4: can talk trash about it.

1161
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1162
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,760
Speaker 2: I like that podcasts Okay, so like we're getting Gilbert

1163
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:11,760
Speaker 2: Aarinas out there.

1164
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 4: Exactly, Gilbernarina's talking trash all JJ Reddick couldn't gard you're

1165
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 4: in the NBA. He can't guard me, now, that kind

1166
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 4: of thing. Get the knuckleheads, Get the knuckleheads, Get Steven Jackson,

1167
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 4: get Matt Barnes. There's a lot of guys around who

1168
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 4: were just recently.

1169
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 2: Playing create content around the game.

1170
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 4: They already missed the chance to do my greatest idea,

1171
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,319
Speaker 4: what have been perfect? At NBA seventy five? Can they

1172
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 4: still dunk? Get all the seventy five players out there,

1173
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 4: Let's just see if they can still dunk. Doctor J

1174
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 4: dunk at sixty five, that'll be pretty cool.

1175
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 3: It's true. I brought that up with my family over

1176
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 3: Christmas weekend. Doctor J walking by him at All Star Weekend,

1177
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,440
Speaker 3: still looking cool at sixty And the second thing I

1178
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 3: said was he dunked at sixty. Yeah, it's pretty impressive. Yeah,

1179
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 3: everybody loves the guy who can dunk.

1180
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 2: You got something there, Jobber ninety nine. We're in for

1181
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 2: at least one one year of it. I was tested

1182
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,799
Speaker 2: out this old timers game a half quarter. No, it

1183
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Keep your questions coming, though, Tweet them in

1184
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 2: at No Dunk Sinc, Email them in No Dunks at

1185
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 2: the Athletic dot Com, or drop them in the YouTube comments.

1186
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 2: Gotta take our final break when we come back, pick

1187
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 2: them results and tweet them the night. Wow. We are

1188
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 2: now playing Classic ad Reads TBT, the classic small throat

1189
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 2: ad Reads. It's legendary pick of results. Last night it

1190
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 2: was that Wizard's Bucks game Milwaukee. They were the favorites

1191
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 2: by eight and a half points, so I had to

1192
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 2: win by nine or more and they pull it out

1193
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 2: in the end. Oh boy, we were watching on playback,

1194
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 2: living and dying with every final possession. So that's a

1195
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 2: win again for Trey. You're a perfect in twenty twenty

1196
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 2: three or two and oh I'm one and one with

1197
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 2: that victory and task oh to two. Still looking for

1198
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 2: your first one here in January. Million games on tonight.

1199
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 2: Because it's Wednesday, I assume.

1200
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 3: A big slate tonight, and the Bulls are hosting the

1201
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 3: Nets in one of the big games, and there's a

1202
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 3: big line in it. Five and a half points. The

1203
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:05,399
Speaker 3: Chicago Bulls are getting as the home dah and lose

1204
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 3: by five in cover.

1205
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:11,399
Speaker 2: Okay, I get trade taking the Bulls. What why are you.

1206
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 3: Five and a half points at home? I'm taking lock.

1207
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 3: I don't care who's playing.

1208
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the one twelfth straight man.

1209
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 6: You know.

1210
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:22,319
Speaker 2: If Katie's gonna score fifty eight tonight, that's a what

1211
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 2: do you think is over under his it's gotta be

1212
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 2: thirty five plus five and a half.

1213
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of a lot of season highs against

1214
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 4: the Chicago Bulls if you're over six ft two, Uh,

1215
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 4: so yeah, I'll be honest with you. I had BKN

1216
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 4: in there and I switched up to Chicago.

1217
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 2: I couldn't do it.

1218
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 4: I couldn't do it to my guys. But uh, I

1219
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 4: don't know. I watching that last two minute report. Hey,

1220
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:45,320
Speaker 4: something to complain about tomorrow.

1221
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:49,399
Speaker 2: Hey, Look, as we as we could just saw last night,

1222
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 2: anything can happen in this league. I think a lot

1223
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 2: of people probably would have the Celtics steamroll in the

1224
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 2: thunder without SGA. Instead, they got one hundred and fifty

1225
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 2: put on their head. All right, so the Nets got

1226
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 2: to win by six. Are more on the road in Chicago.

1227
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:08,399
Speaker 2: Tweet in the nighttime, tweet over night.

1228
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,799
Speaker 3: Wow.

1229
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, A couple of things real quick. First of all,

1230
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 4: shout out to all of our listeners.

1231
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 2: On pocket casts.

1232
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, trying to shout out some of the other

1233
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 4: third party apps out there that people listened to. You know,

1234
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 4: it's not all pod being, not all pod being out there.

1235
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 4: Number two, circle back right here, Kevin Durant over under

1236
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:32,439
Speaker 4: for tonight according to bet MGM twenty eight and a half.

1237
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 2: Take the over, take it, take that over. I mean,

1238
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 2: I guess your one concern would be if they blow

1239
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:43,479
Speaker 2: them out. I mean he only had like what twenty five? Yeah, thirty? Yeah, okay,

1240
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 2: but hit the.

1241
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 3: Over Yeah yeah.

1242
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 4: Bulls have actually been playing their best basketball this season

1243
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 4: right now, so maybe they will keep it close. That'd

1244
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 4: be nice. But like, like we said, there was a

1245
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 4: million games on on Monday Night. Also a million games

1246
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 4: on tonight. This we missed from a Monday night game.

1247
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 4: This is a tweet from Jackson Rank, who alerted the

1248
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 4: internet to a funny ending to the Philadelphia seventy six ers.

1249
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 4: James Harden closed out Monday's game spinning the ball on

1250
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 4: his finger for like fifteen seconds drawl. Embiid offered to

1251
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 4: take the shot clock violation and turnover, but Harden didn't

1252
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 4: care about the turnover. They just wrestled for the ball.

1253
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 3: That's just a funny ending to a game, yeah, Luri.

1254
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 4: Usually it's like, hah, I'll pass you the ball at

1255
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 4: the very last second, you sucker. Now you got a

1256
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 4: shot clock violation turnover. But these guys like each other

1257
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 4: so much that they're fighting over a turnover. Undeniable evidence

1258
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 4: that the vibes are great in Philadelphia right now. I

1259
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 4: don't know if you would have said that a month

1260
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 4: and a half into the season, but hardening embiid they

1261
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 4: seem to be getting a lawn. Yeah, spinning and.

1262
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 2: Joe, that's, by the way, way more disrespectful to the

1263
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 2: other team than a team like throwing down a fast

1264
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 2: risk here. Yeah, that's way more dis have to agree, Like,

1265
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 2: we're literally Harlem Globe trotting on your ass here because

1266
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 2: we beat You know, I love it, don't run.

1267
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 4: We're very funny, so bad we're argue over who gets

1268
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 4: a two?

1269
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is bad. Right, It's like Devonte Green excuse me,

1270
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 2: Graham like steps in there. It almost looks like what

1271
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 2: should I do here? Should I? Should I slap the ball? Aways?

1272
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 3: I get it?

1273
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 2: Let them just keep spinning it, yeah yeah, and beans

1274
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 2: sort of blocking up so I can't get to it.

1275
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 3: Hilarious on both counts. I would say, if I was

1276
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 3: em beat, I would know that Harden wouldn't give a

1277
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 3: crap about a turnover, right, Well it would Harden hair.

1278
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 2: Is it a team turnover? Yeah, but it's it's a

1279
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 2: stranger you got it.

1280
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm surprised there wasn't a little bit more of

1281
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 3: a defender James Harden last night. This is how bad

1282
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 3: gambling is. Last night, We're watching on playback ten points spread,

1283
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 3: twenty four seconds to go, and Milwaukee is dribbling out

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Speaker 3: the clock. Games over. They're up ten, but the line

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Speaker 3: was eight and a half. So if the Wizards steal

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Speaker 3: the ball and score, the shot clock was off. But

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Speaker 3: I was thinking play d because I because I took

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Speaker 3: the Wizards at the same same time, gambling is rough,

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Speaker 3: I'll say that, and also don't do it. And also

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01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 3: you got to play the last second. Everybody's got We.

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Speaker 2: Don't even podcast in the last second, man, let alone

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Speaker 2: play a competitive basketball game. We don't. We mail it

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Speaker 2: into the Sea blog all the time.

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Speaker 3: How you said the Sea blocks the best blog.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's coming back because I gonna come back this.

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Speaker 2: This is a good question. The Sea blog is only

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Speaker 2: good because of the stream team. So we're talking about

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Speaker 2: spinning it on his finger like harden ones. What are

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01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 2: like the most disrespectful things or funny things you could

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Speaker 2: do at the end of the game. GiMA says, put

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Speaker 2: the ball under your jersey like you're pregnant.

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Speaker 4: Good one, what talk it that jersey?

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Speaker 2: Son? I like that one. Let's think of some other ones,

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01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:48,480
Speaker 2: like just how about to really be disrespectful?

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Speaker 4: If you lay down as the basketball is a pillow bead,

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Speaker 4: taking night night to the next level.

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Speaker 2: This would get you a fine but just straight punt

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Speaker 2: the ball like kick it.

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Speaker 3: A globe trotter has put it on your right arm.

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Speaker 3: Get it over to you, go back and for it.

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Speaker 3: I would get you a tecker.

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Speaker 2: Two. We're gonna need Jerome to photoshop in a basketball

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Speaker 2: moving across the back of your eye. You send it,

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Speaker 2: send it from you, all right, We'll see how this goes.

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Speaker 6: We going, okay, balls right here right now? Fake ballaball?

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Speaker 6: All right, go to the solid You said we don't

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Speaker 6: podcast the last second.

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Speaker 2: That is great. That's great audio right there. I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you that. That's why you got to join us on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: Everybody fun fun. Ending to the show. Thanks again for

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Speaker 2: all the questions, guys, love the stream team, Hit the

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01:01:57,600 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 2: like button, subscribe if you haven't, share the show with

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01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:01,439
Speaker 2: your friends leaver boys. If five star rating and review.

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Speaker 2: If you are a podcast listener, five star Friday on

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Speaker 2: the Drop podcast this week. Let's call it there though,

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Speaker 2: back tomorrow to try and recap how many games eleven twelve? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: many lots, but we'll be here at ten am Eastern

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Speaker 2: Live from the Classic Factory, from this box that we

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01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 2: put ourselves in every day. Cut a roast. You heard

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01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:20,920
Speaker 2: it here first, have a great time, turn up.

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Speaker 4: Love you guys, awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us. And remember I was hoping that

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Speaker 3: we weren't going to podcast hard until the last second

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01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 3: because I'm I'm tired. As you could tell, it was

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01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 3: a little loopy off the top and throughout this show.

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Speaker 3: No sleep last night. Oh a lot of rain storms here,

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Speaker 3: rack of.

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Speaker 2: Thunder, thunder was rolling agar. It was loud. Man, I slept.

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01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 2: I usually sleep like a damn baby. I was up

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Speaker 2: all night last night being woken up from the storm.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully everybody's all right. Yep. We go from tornado

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Speaker 3: warnings to flash flood warnings today and Georgian's not the

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Speaker 3: best drivers.

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Speaker 2: I'll say, be careful. I'd be very careful driving up today.

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Speaker 2: All right, We'll see you guys. Throw morning braceday people.

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