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Speaker 1: The Atlanta Hawks dismiss head coach Lloyd Pierce. Let's discuss

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Speaker 1: it was a historic meeting of the Melos, and James

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Speaker 1: Harden puts up a historic line, no hyperbole. It had

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Speaker 1: never been done before. Hey, I'm Tasmelos and this is

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Speaker 1: what you need to know. In the NBA they call Lamelomelo.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'll try and keep these straight. Carmelo Anthony

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Speaker 1: versus La La La. Oh, yeah, Carmelo's married to Lala

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Speaker 1: versus LaMelo Ball in the battle for the official name

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Speaker 1: of Melo. You could tell old head Carmelo Anthony was

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Speaker 1: enjoying meeting LaMelo Ball for the first time. And of

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Speaker 1: course LaMelo's gonna pull out all the tricks. He's got

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Speaker 1: all the confidence in the world, and he should. He's

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Speaker 1: shooting the three ball like he's an NBA vet. He

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Speaker 1: had thirty points, including five threes, with one of them

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Speaker 1: in Carmelo's eye, and he did Carmelo's signature three to

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Speaker 1: the dome gesture right in front of him. Although Carmelo

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Speaker 1: was good with it after the game, saying, quote, I

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Speaker 1: blessed him, let him know that he can carry it on.

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Speaker 1: What a quote LaMelo is at league average shooting the

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Speaker 1: three ball, which is incredible after shooting twenty five percent

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Speaker 1: in Australia last season. Carmelo had a season high six

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Speaker 1: threes himself and had twenty nine points, and said he

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Speaker 1: had watched LaMelo in high school and he wanted to

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Speaker 1: see him in person. They did not disappoint. Carmelo's six

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Speaker 1: threes were part of a Blazers franchise record twenty four

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Speaker 1: threes in their win, and of course, the jersey exchange

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Speaker 1: took place after the game. Carmelo and Alamelo. I think

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Speaker 1: we can officially call LaMelo Melo, although that will always

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Speaker 1: be weird for me. In the second coach firing of

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Speaker 1: the season, the Atlanta Hawks have let Lloyd Pierce go

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Speaker 1: after the Hawks went for it in the offseason. Their

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Speaker 1: fourteen and twenty record just wasn't cutting it, But the

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Speaker 1: players they acquired weren't cutting it either, all of them,

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Speaker 1: not one of them. Bogged down. Bogdanovic has been injured,

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Speaker 1: Chris Dunn hasn't played a minute, Danilo Gallinari hasn't been

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Speaker 1: moving well. Rajon Rondo has looked like preseason Rondo and

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Speaker 1: been injured, as has number six draft pick on Yeka

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Speaker 1: and Kagwu. They've all missed significant time. There's no hyperbole there.

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Speaker 1: They all have and at fourteen and twenty record, it's

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Speaker 1: not out of it. No matter how many times you

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Speaker 1: turn those standings. There are only three and a half

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Speaker 1: games out of home court. I just keep coming back

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Speaker 1: to the fact that Lloyd Pierce is an incredible human being.

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Speaker 1: So I'm a little biased here, but I come back

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Speaker 1: to what Greg Popovich said about him after he heard

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Speaker 1: that the firing happened. Pop said, quote, He's the kind

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Speaker 1: of guy you can build a culture around. The record

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Speaker 1: isn't good, but why not give him till the end

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Speaker 1: of the season. Why Because the front office is on

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Speaker 1: the clock just as much as the head coach was,

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Speaker 1: So they made a move. Nate McMillan has been named

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Speaker 1: interim head coach. James Harden has been incredible for the

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Speaker 1: Nets in Kevin Durant's absence. He's averaging a near triple

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Speaker 1: double on the season, and versus the Spurs, he played

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Speaker 1: the role of point guard perfectly because he didn't turn

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Speaker 1: it over. A historic performance because no one had ever

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Speaker 1: gone for thirty plus points, fifteen plus assists, and ten

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Speaker 1: plus rebounds without a turnover before twenty twenty one, and

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Speaker 1: Harden did it with thirty fifteen assists, fourteen rebounds and

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Speaker 1: zero turnovers. Okay, someone may have done it before they

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Speaker 1: started counting turnovers in the seventies, so my apologies to

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Speaker 1: Wilt Chamberlain or someone else who may have done it. Wilt,

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Speaker 1: he would have scored two hundred points in today's game

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Speaker 1: with passes like Kyrie's, no look, ali up and all

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Speaker 1: the scoring. Am I right? Kyrie also had an efficient

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Speaker 1: twenty seven in the nets ot win. Just a note

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Speaker 1: on Brooklyn's Bruce Brown. He had twenty three points on

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Speaker 1: ten of thirteen shooting, and his shot chart is kind

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Speaker 1: of like Wilts, mostly everything at the rim. For a

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Speaker 1: six five guard who is shooting fifty nine percent from

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Speaker 1: the floor this season, he takes only one to three game.

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Speaker 1: Steve Nash, you evil genius. The Nets hadn't won a

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Speaker 1: regular season game in San Antonio in nearly twenty years.

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Speaker 1: The year was two thousand and two and Bruce Brown

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Speaker 1: was five years old, And I hope he wasn't listening

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Speaker 1: to Bobby Brown, but that's his prerogative. The big Man

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Speaker 1: is alive and well, very well. In fact, Nikola Jokich

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Speaker 1: couldn't be stopped by the Chicago Bulls. They threw every

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Speaker 1: guy at him, didn't matter. Too big, too skilled, too good.

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Speaker 1: He had thirty nine points, seventeen of him in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. And I think I'm already taking Jokich's game

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Speaker 1: for granted. Yeah, I think I'm at that point. Jokich

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Speaker 1: also had fourteen boards and nine assists, narrowly missing out

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Speaker 1: on his fiftieth career triple double. Sticking with the big men,

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Speaker 1: Joel Embiid had twenty four points in a win versus

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Speaker 1: the Pacers. Only twenty four, you may say in today's NBA. Well,

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Speaker 1: even though the Pacers had a defensive Player of the

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Speaker 1: Year candidate guarding Embiid in Miles Turner, Indiana was bringing

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Speaker 1: the double so Embiid had to pass out. That's how

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Speaker 1: lethal Embiid is. Shake Milton and the Furk it's a

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Speaker 1: good band name. Ferk and Korkmaz took advantage, dropping twenty

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Speaker 1: six and twenty four respectively. Speaking of respect after the game,

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Speaker 1: Embiid said this of Turner, I say this respectfully, but

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Speaker 1: that's a matchup I've dominated since I came in the league.

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Speaker 1: One more big man to report on point big man,

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Speaker 1: Zion Williamson went to work on the Utah Jazz. Zion

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Speaker 1: had twenty six points, tennisis and five rebounds. The Jazz

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Speaker 1: have cooled to touch their effort. Wasn't there on enough

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Speaker 1: possessions in this game. It's to be expected They've lost

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Speaker 1: two or three, but they still own the best record

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Speaker 1: in the league. Looking forward to seeing how they bounce

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Speaker 1: back as Joel Embiid gets another tough matchup in two

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Speaker 1: times Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert in the Jazz.

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Speaker 1: On Wednesday, Colin Sexton had thirty nine as the Calves

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Speaker 1: handed Houston their twelfth straight loss. Houston desperately needs their

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Speaker 1: big man back. The losing streak started when Christian Wood

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Speaker 1: went down with that ankle injury. In the last game,

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Speaker 1: Luca had a beautiful no Luca pass in a win

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Speaker 1: over the Magic Thanks to the score for that pun.

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Speaker 1: That's it for me. Make sure you check out the

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Speaker 1: full No Dunks episode here on Tuesday. I'll be back

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Speaker 1: Wednesday to give you the news as fast as I

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Speaker 1: possibly can see it. Then