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Speaker 1: Podcast presented by FanDuel. It's Tuesday, April fourteenth, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: to everybody on YouTube. Hello, podcast listeners. On today's show,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk Doug Christy, We're going to talk

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Speaker 1: Mike Breen, We're going to talk Anthony Davis. That's all

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Speaker 1: in the up Down Report. But we start with our

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Speaker 1: NBA playoff previews and predictions. We're going to start with

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Speaker 1: Round three of the Nuggets Wolves. Yeah, it's the rubber match, baby.

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Speaker 1: Nuggets beat Minnesota in five games in the first round

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Speaker 1: of the twenty three playoffs, but the Wolves exacted revenge

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Speaker 1: in the twenty four semi final. They won that epic

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Speaker 1: seven game series. Jamal Murray really kept in check during

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Speaker 1: that series. Ken Minnesota do it again this time? Around

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Speaker 1: though Denver, They've won their last twelve games coming into

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Speaker 1: the postseason. They have home court advantage against Minnesota that

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Speaker 1: sort of limped to the finish line. Big part of

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Speaker 1: that was injuries, but nine to ten over their last

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Speaker 1: nineteen games, if you care, Denver won three of the

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Speaker 1: four meetings against Minnesota this season, including the overtime classic

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Day. Jokic with the triple double fifty six points,

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Speaker 1: sixteen rebounds, and fifteen assists and scored forty four in

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Speaker 1: the loss. Hell of a game.

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Speaker 3: Good game.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we have a hell of a series here. Let's

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Speaker 1: break it down. We'll get to our predictions at the end.

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Speaker 1: But what's one thing you're watching task when it comes

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Speaker 1: to Nuggets Wolves Round three.

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Speaker 2: I'm starting at the top in terms of how the

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Speaker 2: Minnesota Timberwolves try and slow down niklokicch which which they

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Speaker 2: can't do. But a couple of years ago when they

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Speaker 2: played in the playoffs against those Timberwls and the Timberwlves

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Speaker 2: one seven games, there was a Karl Anthony Towns that

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Speaker 2: they were able to throw at Nikola Jokicic after Rudy

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Speaker 2: Gobert went to the bench. This is different obviously, No, Kat,

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Speaker 2: and you said those stats on Christmas. I mean the

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Speaker 2: stats are ridiculous. Through the four games that they played

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Speaker 2: this year. They're bumkers. Thirty six points, fifteen boards, eleven assists,

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Speaker 2: the percentages sixty five percent from the floor. Just think

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Speaker 2: of that ten shots he took, six and a half

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Speaker 2: the three point line. Fifty percent of those were going

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Speaker 2: And Kat did a good job at taking away space.

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Speaker 2: I think that Rudy does poorly against Jokich is he

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Speaker 2: gives him too much base. He's one of those feel

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Speaker 2: Jokic just takes advantage of those situations. And if they

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Speaker 2: try and get the ball out of his hands, Jamal

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Speaker 2: Murray will kill him. Jamal Murray had his best season.

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Speaker 2: I think that's clear to a lot of people, But

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Speaker 2: I don't think his numbers are appreciated, especially technically his

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Speaker 2: and off the dribble just as good as he's ever been,

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Speaker 2: so those two guys. I know it's super simple, but

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Speaker 2: that's the important part. And I think the reason why

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Speaker 2: years ago, the Timberwolves were able to throw Cat at him.

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Speaker 2: And now when Rudy Gobert goes to the bench, are

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Speaker 2: It's scary. I know he's too tiny for Nikoli Jokic,

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Speaker 2: but how are they gonna try it? They're gonna try

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Speaker 2: difficult to think that the Nuggets are gonna fall out

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's the most important thing for me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Rudy's going to have to play basically every single

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Speaker 4: the exact same time. That's the thing that's pretty exciting

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Speaker 4: about this series is that Jokic is dominated against the Timberwolves.

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Speaker 4: Murray is dominated against the Wolves. Anthony Edwards has dominated

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Speaker 3: Like one of the.

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Speaker 4: Best Yokic moments in his career for me is whoever's

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Speaker 4: the kind of way Yokic plays against Gobert. He's gonna

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Speaker 4: light him up, absolutely, but it goes the other way

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Speaker 4: as well. That's what I'm watching is how does Denver

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Speaker 4: possibly even try and guard Anthony Edwards This season thirty

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Speaker 4: He hasn't played in a couple of weeks. That's bad

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Speaker 4: some really funky stuff getting the ball out of Anthony

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Speaker 4: John Krasinski of the Athletics as he's as healthy as

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Speaker 4: to be at playoff level because he's been a great

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Speaker 4: advantageous matchup. It's just a matter of how can he

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Speaker 1: Health is important, not only for Ant but some of

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Speaker 1: convinced is sort of back to one hundred percent. He

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Speaker 1: the stretch. The Wolves are a funny team heading into

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Speaker 1: They sort of fell into their seating, didn't have a

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Speaker 1: great year. I think we can all agree with that.

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Speaker 1: I think most people thought they'd easily be a fifty

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Speaker 2: Short because they got the same number of wins is

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Speaker 2: last season. Yeah, but it's a different ending.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but a least like Anthony Edwards is a good example.

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Speaker 1: Like he's played like seventy five minutes over the last month,

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Speaker 1: Like some people are saying, like this one's gonna be

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Speaker 1: sort of a cakewalk here for the Nuggets the way

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Speaker 1: they're playing and being one of the championship contenders, But

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. Like the matchups we've seen between

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Speaker 1: be another battle. I think here going long is my impression.

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Speaker 4: This could definitely be the best series in the entire

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Speaker 4: first round of the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: No doubt.

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Speaker 4: But I think the reason that people would look sideways

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Speaker 4: They're terrible against bad teams. They can be good against

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Speaker 4: seen Ant have an awesome Round one, an awesome Round two,

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Speaker 4: This is more like a conference finals level matchup with

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Speaker 4: the Nuggets. But like you're saying, the Nuggets are pretty

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Speaker 3: It feels like are the ones going down with injuries.

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Speaker 4: That's certainly a concern against Anthony Edwards specifically, And I

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Speaker 4: he'll come up definitely in the X factors when we're

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Speaker 4: talking about that. But yeah, I mean, these are two

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Speaker 4: back when they had two seven footers. That's not the

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Speaker 4: case now. So yeah, it's exciting. I mean, this is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. And then I think it's by far

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Speaker 2: the best first round series I know. People will say, yeah,

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Speaker 2: the Timberwolves are nine to ten their last nineteen going

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Speaker 2: to the playoffs. Well, last year they're seventeen to four,

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Speaker 2: best that they had been all season. Julius Randall was

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Speaker 2: absolutely cooking going into the playoffs, where people questioned Julius Randalls,

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Speaker 2: I think it's way different this forty nine wins season

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Speaker 2: But Anthony Edwards, even though he only had seventy five minutes,

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Speaker 2: he's only played three games in a month. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's not a lot. It's won every three days. It's

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Speaker 2: just not a lot. But you watch him against the Rockets,

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Speaker 2: looked so good. He wasn't turning it over. That turnover

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Speaker 2: number is so important going into the playoffs against the

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Speaker 2: We know that, we know Anthony Edwards can't get what

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Speaker 2: I think will be totally fine. I think, Julius, they're

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Speaker 2: all healthy enough to me. But at the same time,

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Speaker 2: that other team is cooking. And that's why this is

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Speaker 2: the best first round series I think by far, because

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Speaker 2: they have a rivalry and because as Denver absolutely looking

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Speaker 1: I think, let's do X factors get a start at

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Speaker 1: tk W. What are you going with?

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Speaker 4: I hesitate to call him an X factor, but Julius

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Speaker 4: Randolph is the biggest question mark for me in this

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Speaker 3: Just look at the playoffs last year.

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Speaker 4: First two rounds he was awesome twenty four points per

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Speaker 4: turnover ratio. Then in the Conference finals against ok SE

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Speaker 4: he was kind of back to the bad Randal seventeen

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Speaker 4: eighteen turnovers. They need him to be a secondary creator because,

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Speaker 4: like I said before, I'm sure the Nuggets are going

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Speaker 4: to do everything they can eventually to get the ball

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Speaker 4: out of Anthony Edwards hands. Like they'll probably play standard

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Speaker 3: Mark coming over from New York.

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Speaker 1: I got a few names. I mean, I was just

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like Io as an X factor.

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Speaker 1: Who is the most pressure on them in this series?

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Speaker 2: From the Nuggets side, I think there's just gonna be

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Speaker 2: could swing this. Yeah, totally. Third man is important for

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Speaker 4: Aaron Gordon thirty nine percent from three this year, most

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Speaker 3: But I was like, I don't know if I buy this.

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Speaker 4: He went ten for eleven in Game one, literally the

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Speaker 3: You know, like he's become reliable, but you know.

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Speaker 4: There's a difference between forty percent from three and thirty

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Speaker 4: has got to be Chris Finch. I don't know how

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Speaker 4: things will go for him if Minnesota loses in Round one,

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Speaker 4: especially if they lose in a sad fashion. I'm not

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Speaker 4: necessarily thinking that's gonna happen, but if it's a five

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Speaker 4: they had motivation problems where they didn't take a step forward,

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Speaker 4: they didn't take a step back, but it felt worse.

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Speaker 3: If they don't make it back.

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Speaker 4: To the conference finals, like literally anything but the conference

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Speaker 4: I think that they would rather go further, right, Like,

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Speaker 4: it's it's more likely that Minnesota comes up short this

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Speaker 1: Yep, it's a good pick, all right, Let's get to

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Speaker 1: predictions here. Then, where you're going? Is this a short series,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's difficult to say. It's a short series against

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Speaker 2: the Timberwolves, but I'm doing it. I think the Nuggets

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Speaker 2: I think the Timberwlves, Yeah, not ending the season well

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Speaker 2: margin victory against those teams are twenty and six against them,

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Speaker 2: and it doesn't bode well against the Nugget team. I

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Speaker 2: close it out. I'm taking them. I think they're Yeah

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Speaker 2: this You mentioned the Chris Finch offseason and how that goes.

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Speaker 2: I think that is going to be a big swing

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Speaker 1: Okay, Nuggets in five. From tests? What about you?

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Speaker 3: TK did First of all, do you guys consider this

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Speaker 2: Good question?

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Speaker 4: A third time in four years they're playing so that Yes, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I did. Didn't feel like they hate each other though, No, no,

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Speaker 4: Like Murray and Aunt aren't going to guard each other obviously,

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Speaker 4: yokicen Aunt are going to guard each other.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And like they met in the first round in

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Speaker 1: it's on the precipice, I'll say.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the way they ended it that the Timberwolves ended

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Speaker 2: seventh game in Denver, Denver was up. Yeah, I mean yes,

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Speaker 2: that makes it a rivalry. I just think that Denver

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Speaker 2: It feels rivalry ish. We need a little bad blood though.

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Speaker 4: We need young Valentunis to throw somebody around, probably Kyle Anderson.

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Speaker 3: I could see those guys and in a fight with

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Kyle Anderson of course fought his teammate once on the

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Speaker 3: But he's back now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one.

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Speaker 3: Forgot about that. I do you go, Beert? I did

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Speaker 3: J McDaniels broke his hands in the game.

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Speaker 1: Weird, it was the weird stuff.

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Speaker 4: Weird stuff from the timber walls back in the day.

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Speaker 4: I think this goes a little longer than tasks. But

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Speaker 4: I'm still on the Nuggets here. I'll take Nuggets and six.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you, Nuggets and six. I am excited to

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: Is Kevin Garnet going to be intendant? They're going to

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Speaker 1: Denver and six. They're just like to go back to Yo,

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Speaker 1: McDaniels gave Jamal Murray fits when they did win the

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Speaker 1: Murray's playing at a higher level here, obviously healthier than

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Speaker 2: But Alexander Walker, yeah, who.

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Speaker 1: Played a part. McDaniel's got a lot of the credit

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Speaker 1: I think Jamal, with the way he's playing with Yoka

432
00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,200
Speaker 1: right now, just unstoppable. So I'll go nuggets and six,

433
00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,120
Speaker 1: but entertaining. I think a close, some close games here

434
00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:34,639
Speaker 1: down stretch.

435
00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,280
Speaker 2: We might get some fights. Kyle Anderson may fight someone

436
00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,960
Speaker 2: on the Rudy Gobert. I guess. I think that is

437
00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,200
Speaker 2: why they brought back Kyle Anderson in the middle of

438
00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:46,359
Speaker 2: the season, and Mike Comley is to try and get

439
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:51,920
Speaker 2: this thing. They didn't bring him back to fight, more

440
00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,920
Speaker 2: so to bring this locker room together because they're glue guys,

441
00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,520
Speaker 2: that's what they are. They're just raw roy. Yeah, we'll

442
00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:03,880
Speaker 2: see if they can do that and hopefully push somebody ideally,

443
00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:05,159
Speaker 2: you know, little little fights.

444
00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,240
Speaker 1: We had the poll going I saw here in the

445
00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,240
Speaker 1: stream team on YouTube. Do we have the results.

446
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a big landslide victory here for the Denver Nuggets.

447
00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,240
Speaker 4: Eighty five percent going with the Nugs.

448
00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,320
Speaker 1: Okay, that was just a straight up pick who's winning. Yeah,

449
00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,360
Speaker 1: well that's options. Yeah, I can't give you the full eight.

450
00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,200
Speaker 1: You don't want to do the classic Nuggets in four

451
00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,280
Speaker 1: or five. It gets in six or seven.

452
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Speaker 3: Okay.

453
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Speaker 4: My guess is that we would if you could split,

454
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Speaker 4: If I would have split it up like that, I

455
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Speaker 4: think it would be uh forty percent saying Nuggets in

456
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Speaker 4: six or seven.

457
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I maybe even go higher.

458
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,439
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, so yeah, I either go higher, So

459
00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,080
Speaker 2: you'd think sixty percent in four or five. That's high.

460
00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 3: No, some people would pick the other.

461
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Speaker 1: Yeah, fifteen on the Temples.

462
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Speaker 2: Ready, Yeah, okay, maybe my bad math there. Uh yeah,

463
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,440
Speaker 2: it's it's one of those things with Timberwolves fans. They say, hey,

464
00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:55,800
Speaker 2: we won the same amount of gas last year and

465
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 2: we got to the conference finals. But I think it's

466
00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,600
Speaker 2: so different going up against the Nuggets versus the Los

467
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Speaker 2: Angeles Lakers that you had in the first round last

468
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 2: year that you were super athletic, and then Steph went

469
00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,880
Speaker 2: down in the second round. Very very different. So fIF

470
00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:13,280
Speaker 2: believe the Wolves. Fine, I excit I accept.

471
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Speaker 1: He's accepting that we got Nuggets in six here and

472
00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,200
Speaker 1: then test Nuggets in five. Let's hear from you guys

473
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Speaker 1: down in the comments. Let's talk about the Lakers and

474
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,600
Speaker 1: the Rockets four or five matchup in the Western Conference.

475
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,359
Speaker 1: Lakers won two of the three regular season meetings, but

476
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Speaker 1: Luca was pretty good in those matchups. He totaled seventy

477
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 1: six points in their two March wins in Houston. Doesn't

478
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 1: sound like Luka Donta just playing to start this series, though.

479
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,000
Speaker 1: He's returning to Los Angeles this Friday after spending the

480
00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 1: last week in Spain where they are, you know, just

481
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:50,879
Speaker 1: putting multiple injections into his left handstring by the sounds

482
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Speaker 1: of it. Who knows what they're doing over there. But

483
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Speaker 1: so he's going to be with the team, should be

484
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Speaker 1: on the bench. I don't think he's starting. I'm sure

485
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Speaker 1: you guys agree with me. Starting game one here in

486
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 1: this series unlikely if it goes long. Can we see

487
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,960
Speaker 1: him near the end of it? Maybe Austin Reeves sounds

488
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,640
Speaker 1: a little bit more even banged up and less likely

489
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Speaker 1: I think to return even in this series. So they're down,

490
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,639
Speaker 1: guys here, huge part of it. Task, But what are

491
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Speaker 1: you watching for in Lakers Rockets?

492
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Speaker 2: Well, for the Lakers to have any chance here, I

493
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,199
Speaker 2: think we're gonna see some throwing out of lineups by

494
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 2: JJ Reddicks just to just have his defense scrambling, rotate

495
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 2: and crating some turnovers. Because they're not going to out

496
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Speaker 2: talent the Rockets. We all know that. And so how

497
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 2: are you gonna guard Durant to start? I bring up

498
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 2: all the bodies getting thrown at him, because you're gonna

499
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,400
Speaker 2: have Ruy most likely getting the primary responsibility, but you'll

500
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 2: probably get some Jared Vanderbilt, who played for JJ reddicks

501
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 2: team last year in the playoffs sixty minutes, so they'll

502
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,880
Speaker 2: see some of that. You'll see eighty two game Jake

503
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,680
Speaker 2: la Ravia out there as well. I think they may

504
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 2: go small a little bit, even though this Rockets team

505
00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 2: is huge. I think you're just going to see these

506
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,720
Speaker 2: weird lineups that JJ Redick is watching is thrown out there.

507
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,640
Speaker 2: I think that is super important to try and get

508
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 2: some extra possessions because the Rockets play super slow. We

509
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 2: know that they're the twenty ninth slowest team in the NBA,

510
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 2: the twenty ninth longest to shoot the ball, as our

511
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,920
Speaker 2: man John Schumann pointed out of the ten NBA players

512
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 2: who have taken the most shots in the final four

513
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 2: seconds of a shot lock, the Rockets have three of them.

514
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 2: They're super slow. If the Lakers can somehow get extra

515
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 2: possessions and take this to the forty seventh or forty

516
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 2: eighth minute of a game where it's still close, that's

517
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Speaker 2: when maybe they can win these games. I think we're

518
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Speaker 2: going to be watching a lot of JJ and see

519
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 2: if he can somehow get some turnovers and just really

520
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 2: throw things up, you know, throw the play. Yeah, fo,

521
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 2: you'd love to, You would love to.

522
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Speaker 3: Yeah, He's like watch this, Luke.

523
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Speaker 4: Do you know all the guys that played age two

524
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Speaker 4: games now? He brought it up yesterday, the eighteen guys

525
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 4: he just dropped eighty two game, Jacob his nickname.

526
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Speaker 2: Know that mostly mostly I couldn't tell you many of them,

527
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 2: but I know eighty two game. Jake will be playing

528
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 2: some small ball five I guess. I mean it would

529
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 2: be weird.

530
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Speaker 4: He's gonna play a lot, a lot, play a lot.

531
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Speaker 4: Marcus Smart is going to be important. Like I think

532
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 4: he'll probably guard Kad and try to frustrate him a

533
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 4: little bit. Get up underneath him, get up into his nips,

534
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. It would be awesome to see

535
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 4: Lebron and KD guard each other in this series, but

536
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Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna happen basically at all. There's

537
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 4: no way Lebron guards KD for the majority of the series.

538
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe, well, a couple of possessions at the

539
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,679
Speaker 4: end of games or something like that. More likely, I think, uh,

540
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 4: Lebron will hide on Amen Thompson. Amen Thompson will probably

541
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Speaker 4: guard Lebron on the other side.

542
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Speaker 3: And that's a little exciting to me. Yeah, can Lebron

543
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Speaker 3: do it?

544
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 4: Man?

545
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:45,400
Speaker 3: Can he throw it back?

546
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Speaker 4: This guy's the reigning Western Conference Player of the Week.

547
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 4: He had a great four or five games there.

548
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Speaker 1: You know, all the guys that played eighty two games,

549
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: this guy knows Player of the Weeks.

550
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Speaker 4: That's right, almost twenty five a game tasks.

551
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 3: It was a low number.

552
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's number for him, but it is.

553
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: But nobody was playing the exact couple.

554
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 3: Of games exactly.

555
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they destroyed Phoenix, right, so he just chilled

556
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 2: for the second half either.

557
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty funny, but it's gonna be fun to

558
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 4: see if Lebron can just totally backpack the Lakers because

559
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 4: I'm with you. It feels like at least Luca is

560
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 4: going to miss the first couple of games here, which

561
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 4: means Lebron would have to go Jalen Brunson mode. When

562
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 4: Brunson took over for the Mavericks when Luca was out

563
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 4: against the Jazz back in the day, Reeves maybe comes back.

564
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 4: I think he's going to be out for the entirety

565
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 4: of the first round. Oblique injuries take forever to come

566
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 4: back from. And what he can't go to Arkansas and

567
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 4: get a whole bunch of injections. They don't have that

568
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 4: kind of stuff. They don't have medicine, they.

569
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Speaker 2: Don't have it.

570
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 4: They don't have the same steroids that they have in

571
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 4: Spain apparently. But yeah, seeing Lebron as the number one

572
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,360
Speaker 4: option when we just spent a month and a half

573
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,719
Speaker 4: talking about this guy did such a great job of

574
00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 4: buying into the number role. Guess what, he's back, baby,

575
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 4: number one guy. Just like Jax Taylor. It's interesting to

576
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 4: think what kind of style is he going to play?

577
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 2: Like?

578
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 3: Is he going to go even slower than the Rockets scene.

579
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Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking, because you because you said,

580
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: you've seen this before where Lebron has led a team

581
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: that's completely outclassed because of talent, because of injuries, and

582
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: he has just slowed the game to a goddamn krawl. Yes,

583
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: but you're playing the Rockets, who are like, we love

584
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: that type of place. Yeah, So that's where it's a

585
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: little facet You're not playing this run and gun team

586
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: where maybe it gets them in a funk and they

587
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 1: don't want to play that way and it really bogs

588
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 1: it down. But that's not the case in this matchup,

589
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 1: and they're to their depth. That's the thing to watch

590
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: for here. It's like, yeah, you said Luke Canard is

591
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup, ruy Hachamura is in the starting

592
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: lineup along with Lebron, Ayton and Marcus Smart. That's a

593
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: crazy starting five. Crazy he's for a number three seed

594
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference. It really is. And then that

595
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: means all these other guys, the Jake Lauravia's and and

596
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: everybody else coming off the bench, like you know, they're

597
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 1: put into a bigger role because they're you're taking away

598
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 1: like over sixty points base from from Luca and Reeves

599
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: being gone. That's a tough ass.

600
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are going to see some weird stuff from

601
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 2: JJ Rex just throwing bodies out there, Like Marcus Smart

602
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 2: is gonna hit somebody. He's gonna get hit Kevin Durant.

603
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,360
Speaker 2: We all mentioned the injuries of Luca and Austin Ree's

604
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 2: what about Luke Canard's finger? What about hits hurt? He's

605
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 2: wearing a splint on his index finger of his shooting hand.

606
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 2: Nobody cares he played through it. It's not good and

607
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 2: the whole Lucas think it's so so funny that it's

608
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 2: a story because he's in the United States.

609
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 3: That's why.

610
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 2: That's why God's Customs playing basket. Yeah, he's well I

611
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 2: shouldn't say's play basketball. Yeah, his body got through Customs

612
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 2: and he can maybe play again. It's so weird, man,

613
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:47,959
Speaker 2: that's a story.

614
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: But it's going to be a story hanging over the

615
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: entire series of like Kenny Willie is he.

616
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 2: But injury it's just highly unlikely.

617
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: I mean, does it depend on how the series starts,

618
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 1: you know, like if they lose the first two games

619
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: at home, I don't think we're seeing Luca. I don't

620
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: think they're gonna try and salvage the series and come back. Yeah,

621
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: maybe maybe they're obviously advanced, and then it's a different equation.

622
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 1: I'm watching for it. To talk about the Rockets a

623
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: little bit here. Turnovers with them is always a story.

624
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 1: When they take care of the ball, they're pretty good,

625
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,199
Speaker 1: and more recently, you know, the off ball movement's been

626
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: a little bit sharper down the stretch here. They look

627
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: really good when they do that, So you know, teams

628
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: are forced to try and slow Katie, try and slow

629
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: sheng Gun. They throw multiple guys at them, so things

630
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: open up. They get a nice little flow going. They

631
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: can pound the glass, we know that, but they just

632
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: have to take care of the ball. Because we go

633
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: back to that game that they played about a month ago.

634
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: The Lakers forced nine to fourth quarter turnovers against the

635
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: Rockets as they just fell apart in the clutch, and

636
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 1: you went, you said that task like, can these games

637
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: get close in the final five minutes? If they are,

638
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: then maybe the Lakers can pull out a couple of

639
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: victor he's here despite two of their best guys not playing. Ye,

640
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: the Lakers turnovers have declined.

641
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, so who are you betting on in the last

642
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 2: few minutes. That's that's the key. If they're close. If

643
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 2: they're close, it's Lebron or it's During. That's that's who

644
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 2: you're betting on. And and like you said in late

645
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter, in that game, the Rockets struggled obviously,

646
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 2: and they couldn't close out obviously. As the next game

647
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 2: they got better. And so you know, maybe that bodes

648
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 2: well for the Rockets that they've had some some history,

649
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 2: some experience of dealing with that defense that Ridick is

650
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:32,959
Speaker 2: going to throw out.

651
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Speaker 1: There X factors in this Lakers or Rockets? What are

652
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Speaker 1: you looking at?

653
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 4: Ruy Hacha Mura just became very important at work. He's

654
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 4: going to have to guard Katie a lot. I think

655
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 4: he will be the number one defensive option for JJ.

656
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 4: I think he kind of has to be the second

657
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 4: scorer for the Lakers as well. With the injuries that

658
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 4: they're dealing with. It'll be by committee. Eighty two game.

659
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 3: Jake will be.

660
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 4: Involved, Hurt Finger Luke will be involved as well. But

661
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 4: ruly is the most reliable off offensive option that the

662
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 4: Lakers have left outside of Lebron. I gotta think he's

663
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 4: got to hit the glass as well. Like I think

664
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Speaker 4: that's an area that Ruy can contribute at He's got size,

665
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 4: he's got athleticism. We know the Rockets like to offensive rebound.

666
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Speaker 4: You're talking about the possession game, Skeets. It's very important

667
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 4: that the Lakers control the defensive glass. We know eight

668
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 4: and can be a good rebounder. He almost had a

669
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Speaker 4: big beef in a finals game. Came up one rebound short.

670
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 4: I forget who stole it from him. Somebody did on

671
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 4: the Suns there. He got really upset.

672
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Speaker 3: But they need to rebound. The Lakers to part of

673
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Speaker 3: that is Rui.

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Speaker 4: He's got a lot to do in this series, with

675
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Speaker 4: Luca going down, with Reeves going down, getting elevated back

676
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Speaker 4: into the starting lineup, He's got to perform.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like the Lakers just are full of

678
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Speaker 2: X factors. Ruy definitely is one, but it keeps trickling

679
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Speaker 2: down because of the lack of depth. So I'll say

680
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Speaker 2: DeAndre Ayden. I mean, he could easily be their second

681
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Speaker 2: best player. I know Rui's probably their second best creator now,

682
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 2: but you're gonna rely on deandreton a lot. And he

683
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: hasn't played in the playoffs in a while since he

684
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 2: was with the Phoenix Suns. It's been three years. It

685
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 2: was twenty twenty three. He played the Clippers and Zubats

686
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 2: in the first round, did pretty well, and then the

687
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 2: second round played Jokic got burned. They pulled Jock Landale

688
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 2: off the bench to help out. It was a good

689
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 2: Jock series. He was He was all right against Jokich.

690
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 2: But the question is can JJ writ get him to

691
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Speaker 2: keep on playing like he has been the last couple

692
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Speaker 2: of weeks. He has been really good in that role.

693
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 2: Playoffs could be different. You might have you Donnis Haslam

694
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Speaker 2: on the Amazon broadcast talking them up again, trying, hey, JJ,

695
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 2: can you get Eudonnas Hasleb on the mic and talk

696
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 2: up Deandreton like you did last week, saying you're doing

697
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 2: You're so good in that role. Man, You're doing so

698
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 2: good in that role. You're you're excelling. It was hilarious

699
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 2: hearing that. But that's what essentially JJ Wright is gonna

700
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 2: be doing, getting the most of Deandreton and ruly to

701
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Speaker 2: see if they can help.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're the underdogs in this because of the injury,

703
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: so they have the playing i don't know, playing with

704
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: house money a little bit because nobody's expecting them to

705
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: go all that far. Led by a forty one year

706
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: old Lebron and then this like ragtag bunch with no

707
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,719
Speaker 1: Luca and Reeves. A couple X factors on the Rockets.

708
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: I think Reid Shephard is interesting. I saw Schumann had

709
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: the numbers. Rockets are out scored by twenty nine points

710
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: in Shepherd's about eighty minutes on the floor against the

711
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: Lakers this season. He struggled from three in those three games,

712
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: just five of eighteen. But we know he needs to play,

713
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: and we saw down the stretch when he was inserted

714
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Speaker 1: in the starting lineup and when he was shooting and playing,

715
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Speaker 1: the Rockets just look so much better. They're spacing for Shnguon,

716
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: They're spacing for Kevin Durant to work in the mid

717
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Speaker 1: range area. So Reid Shepherd I got my eye on.

718
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: And Tarry Easen wants to do the dirty work steely

719
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: Dan style. He's active man, he's active on the offensive glass.

720
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Speaker 1: He can create turnovers, they can get some easy points

721
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: which they could always use. So I think he's going

722
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: to be all out there too, running around and getting

723
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Speaker 1: someone and getting against maybe Lebron at times. So Tory Easton,

724
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Speaker 1: I got another X.

725
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 2: If he's clicking. The Rockets are kicking ass.

726
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's cutting and beating the secondary defense like he's

728
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 2: the secondary playmaker. He's just cutting and slashing and then

729
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 2: turnovers and reoffensive rebound. He's the guy.

730
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, he's like he.

731
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 4: Was cold though second half of the season, and that

732
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 4: was a big problem for the Rockets on the offensive

733
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Speaker 4: end because even if he isn't shooting the ball, well,

734
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 4: he's still doing whatever he wants to out there. He's

735
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 4: a very feast or faming kind of player. So I

736
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 4: kind of think all the guards are super important for

737
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 4: the Rockets. Read like you're saying, has to make threes,

738
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 4: has to not get picked on the entire time, which

739
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 4: kind of favorable matchup for him with Luca and teams

740
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 4: going out a men. Thompson has to be a threat

741
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 4: on the offensive end, and neither of them can turn

742
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 4: over the ball. Like that's the easiest way for the

743
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 4: Lakers to score.

744
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: Let's get to predictions here, Lakers, Rockets, you go first.

745
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: He kicked.

746
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 4: Well, this is a gift for Houston. They I think

747
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 4: were probably a lot of team. A lot of people

748
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 4: would have picked them to be a first round playoff loss.

749
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 4: If they're going into this series against a full strength

750
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 4: Lakers team and against any of the top four in

751
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 4: the Western Conference instead, they have a clear talent.

752
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 3: Advantage over Los Angeles.

753
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 4: Right now, it's just impossible to know how much Lucas

754
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 4: specifically is going to play.

755
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 3: I will go Rockets in six games.

756
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 2: I'm saying Rockets in five. I just think they're athleticism,

757
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 2: their length it's going to show out in this series

758
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 2: against the Lakers. They're going to be ready from the

759
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 2: get go. That little experience recently dealing with the Lakers

760
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 2: offense or excuse me, defense in the fourth quarter, I

761
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 2: think that plays a factor. So I think you'll get

762
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 2: some good minutes from all their long, athletic guys. We

763
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 2: don't even mentioned Alpern chan gun and doing really well

764
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 2: against this team. I think he's going to be awesome.

765
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'll take the Rockets in five.

766
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: This is from Schumann here. Statistically, Houston has been the

767
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: much better team this year, outscoring opponents by five point

768
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: four points per one hundred possessions. That's the league's sixth

769
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: best mark. It's three times better than the Lakers differential,

770
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: and Shoe notes that's a similar situation to last year

771
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: when the Lakers were the number three seed versus the

772
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: six seeded Wolves, who the Lakers lost to, the Wolves

773
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: had a better regular season point differential compared to the

774
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: Lakers of last year, So maybe that holds here as well.

775
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: This in a four or five match, him set in

776
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: three six, I'm going Rockets in six. But this comment

777
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: made me laugh from the athletics somebody down in the

778
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: comment section that I saw quote Marcus Smart front rimming

779
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: threes early in the shot clock, eight, missing defensive assignments,

780
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,280
Speaker 1: Lebron being asked to play thirty eight minutes per game.

781
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: The one team that could lose to that squad, it's Houston.

782
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 1: I'm calling it out. Eikis gonna get fired. And it

783
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: made me laugh because I was like, oh god, there

784
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 1: might be a lot of truth in that. Oh yeah,

785
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: which is like you went Rockets in five. You know

786
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: they should be the favorites here with no Luker or Reeves.

787
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: But I'm like, well, this is going to go longer.

788
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: It's gonna get a little more uncomfortable than it probably should.

789
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: I think I go Rockets in six ultimately, but it's

790
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: not going to be convincing.

791
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 4: No, No, this broke pretty perfectly for the Rockets for

792
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 4: them to even be getting picked here. If you knew

793
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 4: that Luca came back in game three, what would your

794
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 4: pick be? No Reeves, nos Reeves. You know Luca's back

795
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 4: in Houston.

796
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: He's returning. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would go Lakers

797
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 1: in seven.

798
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 2: I would not I'd go Rockets in seven.

799
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: Okay, I've flipped the Lakers as well. Okay, okay, do

800
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: you think we see them at all? I mean, I

801
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: know we're completely He'll be there, he.

802
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 4: Ses, I bet he plays Game five flow Yeah, limpy, limpy,

803
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 4: Luca Game five.

804
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 3: Forty forty points on one leg and a loss. Wow,

805
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 3: still looks good.

806
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 2: Forty.

807
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: Do you think like Jose Calderon's hams will come up

808
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: or something like that. That's what they were feeding them.

809
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 3: With the strings?

810
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, strings from Spain. He's got a farm there, yeah,

811
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 5: which breeds those hands that. I do think he will

812
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 5: come back.

813
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 2: I can't help but buy these reports that she's coming

814
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 2: to play. But I don't see a forty spot leg

815
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 2: that good. I mean when he was when he was

816
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 2: holding that thing, it felt like he knew it was

817
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 2: going to be well. I mean, I don't know I

818
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 2: don't think we see them. I haven't checked the schedule.

819
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a lot of days off in between.

820
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: Oh, they take a long time.

821
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 3: They said, that's a great point. Yeah, it's a long time.

822
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: It goes six or seven, it takes two weeks. Yeah,

823
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: all right, let's hear your predictions that we have a

824
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: poll on that one where we have a poll on

825
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: that one.

826
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Speaker 3: Seventy percent of people think it's the rackets.

827
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: Okay, rackets seventy to thirty. Yeah, all right, all right, excited.

828
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Speaker 1: I can't wait for actual postseason basketball here. We're gonna

829
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Speaker 1: take a break when we come back the up Down Report.

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Speaker 1: for the second season of the NBA year by giving

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Speaker 1: us a five star rating and review. We really appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: I got trivia question for you to ask, who's the

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Speaker 4: only team that had two players play eighty two games

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Speaker 4: this season?

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Speaker 2: Actually, I actually don't know.

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Speaker 1: Wow, there's was there eighteen guys total?

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Speaker 3: Eighteen guys?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, eighteen guys and.

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Speaker 3: One team had two of them?

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Speaker 1: Desmond, I mean, is it the magic No, he didn't

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Speaker 1: like a silver or something played with bane.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, yeah, yeah, we obviously got a bridges.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, Well I'll say this.

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Speaker 4: Your your body was close to one of these men

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Speaker 4: this this very season.

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Speaker 1: My body, whose body?

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Speaker 3: Our body? Your body, that man's body, my body.

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Speaker 2: Elvin Johnson job.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 3: And Julian Champagne san Antonio very good, very very good.

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Speaker 3: Eighty two games. Julian they call him.

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Speaker 2: People are so mad when we didn't give last week.

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Speaker 2: We picked the awards and Kelvin Johnson has the best

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Speaker 2: odds of winning the six Many people were so it

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Speaker 2: was first fans, I assume, but a lot we were

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Speaker 2: basically saying, I'm a hawk. Has I mean, is a

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Speaker 2: better story. I guess those were my words that m

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Speaker 2: Hawk has was a better story. Not enough, not enough.

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Speaker 2: Love for Kelvin Johnson, but I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's probably probably will win this. I mean an

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Speaker 1: interesting for him.

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Speaker 2: Good for him.

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Speaker 1: I would just there's a big article on his farm

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Speaker 1: that he's got and is Lamas and all his other animals.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad he got them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, even though they didn't win the cup.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right right.

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Speaker 3: It turns out I did the math that I could

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Speaker 3: still afford the Lamas and the feet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the the attire he had. It didn't look

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Speaker 2: like a farmer in those photos I saw with Jared Vice,

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Speaker 2: you know who wrote it. Yeah, that's right, Jareddvice looked

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Speaker 2: more like I'm a farmer. Wow, I don't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Kevin Johnson looked more like to me, the cowboy hat on. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but he looked a little too pristine, you know, no

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Speaker 2: hard work and yeah, a little too farmer. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, big farmer calling him out. Let's get into the

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Speaker 1: up down report.

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Speaker 3: The updown report.

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Speaker 1: I got a few questions for you guys, Thumbs up

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Speaker 1: or thumbs down when it comes to these three topics.

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Speaker 1: First one, despite a twenty two and sixty record that

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Speaker 1: has them at the bottom of the West standings. The

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Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings are reportedly retaining coach Doug Christy for next season.

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Speaker 1: The decision seems to center on the poor roster that

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Speaker 1: Christy inherited and along with injuries that he entered. There

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Speaker 1: were a lot of injuries to the Sacramento Kings, and

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Speaker 1: they're saying, Okay, Doug Christy had a rough go of it,

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Speaker 1: let's give him another chance. Are you up or down

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Speaker 1: on the Kings running back with Doug Christie next season.

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Speaker 2: I'm both up and down on this. I think it's

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Speaker 2: all dependent. It's all dependent on that roster and if

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Speaker 2: they move on from some of their starters that they

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Speaker 2: had at the beginning of the season, because all those

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Speaker 2: guys are signed through next year, Levine, the bonus it

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Speaker 2: keeps going. De Rozan, DeAndre Hunter, who they got.

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Speaker 1: Malik Monk.

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Speaker 2: Malik Monk. Yeah, I don't disrespect Milik Monk, who's coming

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Speaker 2: off the bench. I think it was a little different

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Speaker 2: in those four guys there I mentioned off the top.

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Speaker 2: If you're bringing them all back, Doug Christy's going to

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Speaker 2: do the same job, right, He did a way better

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Speaker 2: job in the second half of the season. There's no

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Speaker 2: but there was more ball movement or player movement with

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Speaker 2: the young guys, with Clintony Clifford out there, Maxim Reno

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Speaker 2: playing way more minutes, even some Devin Carter good minutes

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Speaker 2: out there. I think it makes sense to bring this

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Speaker 2: guy back, who has a contract through next season. I

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Speaker 2: don't belittle the front office for making this decision, because

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Speaker 2: I think he had them working extremely hard. But if

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Speaker 2: you're gonna just insert all these same ingredients into the

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Speaker 2: recipe and say, hey, do it again but better somehow,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't really make sense. They have to move on

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Speaker 2: from some of these guys, and those are gonna have

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Speaker 2: to be through trades where they're probably attaching it picked

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Speaker 2: potentially Yes with some of these guys, so yes and no.

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Speaker 2: I mean again, they played hard for Doug Christy the

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Speaker 2: second half the season, but not those guys I mentioned,

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Speaker 2: Not the old guys I mentioned, the young guys I mentioned.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think DeRozan is like non guaranteed so they

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Speaker 4: can cut him. Part of Lavien is like Lavine is

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Speaker 4: like I don't even know if I want to be

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Speaker 4: around anymore. I might to climb my option and just

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Speaker 4: go into free agency.

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Speaker 1: It's like he's like a forty million dollars player off

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Speaker 1: juke guyeh forty eight.

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Speaker 2: How would he get that?

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Speaker 1: That would be silly, man.

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Speaker 3: I mean the Bulls have cap space. If you come,

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Speaker 3: they would do it.

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Speaker 4: If I'm telling you, if Doug it, If Doug's back,

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Speaker 4: I'm locking in the Kings over again.

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Speaker 3: Oh I get ready.

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Speaker 4: I thought he deserved a shot after the twenty four

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Speaker 4: to twenty five season. He went twenty seven and twenty

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Speaker 4: four after they fired Mike Brown kind of got one.

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Speaker 4: But like you're saying, the starters never played a minute

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Speaker 4: together this season, actually unbelievable. He doesn't deserve another shot.

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Speaker 4: This is a management decision.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: They gave him a three year deal before the beginning

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Speaker 3: of this year, and it just seems to me like

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Speaker 3: they probably don't want to have to pay two coaches.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it is weird.

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Speaker 1: Coaching turnover has been pretty frequent since the Veak round

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Speaker 1: of Dve has taken over and purchased the Kings in

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. Christy is the seventh permanent coach the Kings

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Speaker 1: have had since then. If he finishes next season, Doug

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Speaker 1: Christy as head coach. If he goos all season long,

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Speaker 1: eighty two game Doug as we'll be calling him, he

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Speaker 1: will have been the second longest tenured Kings coach in

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Speaker 1: the Vivek era, behind Dave Yeager. If he goes next season,

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Speaker 1: that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Eighty two game Doug. That's a good nickname for him

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Speaker 2: because as a player, this guy would play eighty two games.

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Speaker 2: This guy would work as ass. And that's why I

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Speaker 2: don't think this is a terrible decision, because he somehow

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Speaker 2: connects with the guys to work hard. As far as

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Speaker 2: the young guys go. Again, there's player move, there's ball

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Speaker 2: mood was it was a different team.

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Speaker 1: The counter is could if anybody had done that, could

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Speaker 1: you have done that? Slid into that role and say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're not playing all the old guys while first off

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Speaker 1: they're injured. Doug would probably have played them if they weren't.

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Speaker 1: But then yeah, play play rental, play card well play

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Speaker 1: card play Clifford like like let him go now. They

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Speaker 1: it was look you get into Mickey Mouse March. They

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Speaker 1: did win games, so that they won like ten games.

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Speaker 1: You could also turn around and go there were winning games.

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Speaker 1: They probably should not have been winning and all that,

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Speaker 1: because they hurt their chances in the draft lottery. And

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Speaker 1: we'll see, maybe they'll be blessed by the ping pong

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Speaker 1: lottery gods because of that. But I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: guess what I'm getting at. Is he really a good coach?

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Speaker 1: He literally got investigated by the NBA because they're like,

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Speaker 1: is he tanking?

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Speaker 3: Why is he fouling? It's just actually pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: He messed up. Yeah, and and yeah, well I just

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Speaker 2: wanted to say Keagan Murray didn't play too. That's the

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Speaker 2: reason I was right away, right, yeah, the reason why

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Speaker 2: they didn't have all their starters play. I hear what

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Speaker 2: you're saying, But this Kings team allows himself the easy

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Speaker 2: ability to decide you're out of here, like thirty games

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Speaker 2: into the next season, and say, hey, we're trading everybody

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Speaker 2: who wants the bonus that I think. I say Sabonis

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Speaker 2: first and foremost, because that's the guy that everybody wants,

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Speaker 2: nobody wants, nobody wants.

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Speaker 3: He was available at this dead line.

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Speaker 1: The Raptors tried to get them, but they were like,

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Speaker 1: you're taking back Perdle, and the Kings wisely said no,

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Speaker 1: we're not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what.

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Speaker 1: The reports say.

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Speaker 2: I will say, more wanted than Levine. Let's rank them

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Speaker 2: the guys that would be wanted by other teams. I

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Speaker 2: mean we're basically talking Levine, de Rozan s Bonus, the

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Speaker 2: Big Three.

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Speaker 4: I think number one just got it. Like if he

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Speaker 4: says I'll be a bench scorer.

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Speaker 1: Right right, right, that's sure much more affordable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah's body doesn't look all that's the worrisome part.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, Doug's gonna get another go.

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Speaker 3: What do you think the over under for the Kings

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Speaker 3: is going to be next year?

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Speaker 2: Good question.

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Speaker 3: It was high this year, it was high, and I.

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Speaker 2: Still was it.

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Speaker 1: Thirty five wins, yeah, thirty four and a half.

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Speaker 3: They went twenty two and sixty.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. They had twelve wins at the All Star break.

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Speaker 1: They were the worst team at the All Star yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then actually won some games in the second half.

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Speaker 1: What will it be next year? It's gonna be low, man.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be twenty nine and a half.

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Speaker 4: Oh, like you even under that? Yeah, I mean I

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Speaker 4: have twenty four and a half. I guess, I guess

1048
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Speaker 4: it could be you're taking the old dog. Whatever it is,

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Speaker 4: we believe in you, Doug.

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Speaker 3: Look, I mean it's also just fun to call it,

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Speaker 3: coach Doug.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. May tenth is huge though for the Sacramento Kinks.

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Speaker 1: I mean that is the draft lottery. They are going

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Speaker 1: to find out where they are in the top eight selection.

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Speaker 1: Are they going to be at the back end of it?

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Speaker 1: Or can they actually get some luck here and get

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Speaker 1: one of these very high picks. Let's say top four

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Speaker 1: even they'd be laughing top three of course, so we'll see.

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Speaker 3: I just have one spin on take athon number two

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Speaker 3: for the Kings.

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Speaker 1: Oh geez, and take that baby.

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Speaker 4: Hell yeah, get Marvin Bagley right right, that's true for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the higher they finish, the more they can

1064
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Speaker 2: trade their picks along with their guys to get rid

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Speaker 2: of them. Right aside from that high pick, because I'm

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Speaker 2: going right now to see what their other picks are

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Speaker 2: to attach. Yeah not that topic, no, no crazy uh

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Speaker 2: yah know, another pick with some restrictions. And that's why

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Speaker 2: the draft lottery is great, because their front office shows

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Speaker 2: up and says, hey, well you want DeAndre Hunter, We'll

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Speaker 2: give a man a pick.

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Speaker 1: You think they're going to send Doug Christy to the

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Speaker 1: draft lottery? Will he be sitting in the big chair there.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Doug, this smell insults.

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Speaker 1: Unveil. That'll be good. Let's do it next one. As

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Speaker 1: part of the NBA's NBA excuse me. As part of

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Speaker 1: the NBA's new media deals, local broadcasters are completely shut

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Speaker 1: out of postseason games. I'm not sure how many people

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00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 1: realize this. In the past, the first round of the

1080
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 1: playoffs always aired nationally, yes, but also locally. Not now.

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00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: Mike Breen not happy about this change. On the broadcast

1082
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: on Sunday when he's calling the next game, he said, quote,

1083
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a small party said, I personally think

1084
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 1: it's a poor decision, is what Breen said. Fans want

1085
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:05,919
Speaker 1: to hear their team's announcers, at least in the first

1086
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: round because for so many of us and all of

1087
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 1: my favorite teams growing up, the home team announcers they

1088
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: became part of the family. He added, I just think

1089
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: the fans deserve to be thrown a bone once in

1090
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: a while. So Mike Breen, expressing his displeasure here in

1091
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 1: the NBA Playoffs TV change up or down on this

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00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: TK I'm up.

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00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 4: I think he's right, and I think it's pretty cool

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00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 4: that it's Mike bringing the guy who's saying it. He's like, hey, literally,

1095
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 4: you're gonna hear me again. I'm basically talking about Clyde Fraser.

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00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 4: We got a great Knicks team here, and he's not

1097
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 4: going to be talking about him at all. Getting towards

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00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 4: the end of his career, you would have to imagine

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00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 4: as well, Clyde's like eighty years old almost right, Like

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Speaker 4: he is he Wow, okay, so he's he's an old fellow.

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00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, it's good for fans to be

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00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 4: able to have the option. Like I watch the national games,

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00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 4: but if you're a Knicks fan living in New York,

1104
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 4: why would you not want to hear Mike Breen and

1105
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:58,839
Speaker 4: Clyde Fraser on the call.

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00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 3: It's good for the announcer. They're a part of the team.

1107
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 3: They travel with these guys, they're with them the entire season, and.

1108
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 4: It's just part of the bonding and like the experience

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00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 4: of being a fan. So, yeah, this is kind of

1110
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 4: disappointing and not something I'd really considered either until my Green,

1111
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 4: of all people, comes out and says it.

1112
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:19,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the case for every single organization out there.

1113
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 2: It stinks. Yeah, it is sort of conventional tradition for

1114
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,839
Speaker 2: the broadcasters just to be able to carry it through

1115
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 2: the first round. It is wonderful to hear the guy

1116
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 2: who's going to be on the call for ESPN in

1117
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:36,359
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals to be saying this. It is very,

1118
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 2: very refreshing for this guy to come out and say

1119
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 2: it sucks. Yeah, me and Clyde, who's eighty one, I

1120
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,359
Speaker 2: said he's eighty he's eighty one because we just had

1121
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 2: his birthday. Yeah, just get him on the call for

1122
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 2: at least at least the first round. That's all he

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00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 2: was saying, just the first round.

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00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: I think it is important that it's Mike Breen saying

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00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: it because if this is just whatever random Maddie Devlin

1126
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: mad Well, Maddy Devlin has done also a national broadcast.

1127
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 1: I was trying to think of just somebody that only

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00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 1: does their local broadcasts. Then you're like, okay, you're just salty,

1129
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: because of course want.

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00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 4: To do it.

1131
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: But Mike Brain he does both. He does the Knicks

1132
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: games and then he's the lead voice for ABC and ESPN,

1133
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,319
Speaker 1: So it carries more weight to me him saying this,

1134
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: even said it, he's like, I'm going to be on

1135
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:23,399
Speaker 1: the call, like I'm paid handsomely. And he knows it's

1136
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: because the new media deal with Prime and NBC and ESPN,

1137
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,800
Speaker 1: like they paid millions upon millions to get these games.

1138
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,839
Speaker 1: So he understands it, but he's at the same time,

1139
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: come on, man, what about the local fan bases of

1140
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: these squads and these broadcasters too. It's really weird when

1141
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:40,439
Speaker 1: you think about it. It's like you do all eighty

1142
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,800
Speaker 1: two games and then they're like, all right, bye, we

1143
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: got it from here. Yeah, it's like I can't even

1144
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 1: get a first round, get in on the fun of

1145
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,879
Speaker 1: like the crazy crowds and stuff like that for this.

1146
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 1: So we're all with Mike Breen on this one. But

1147
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: these are going to be on you know Prime. I

1148
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 1: mean it's a national and televised streaming service. It's not

1149
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: even on the air, like over the air, these first

1150
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 1: three games right on Saturday.

1151
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:05,919
Speaker 3: It's a great point.

1152
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:08,280
Speaker 1: It's weird, weird.

1153
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense.

1154
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people have Prime. A lot of

1155
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: people have Prime.

1156
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:15,959
Speaker 3: A lot of people don't people.

1157
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:17,800
Speaker 1: I saw people very upset about this, like are you

1158
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: kidding me? Like playoff games are not on traditional television. Yeah,

1159
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: first three won't be on Saturday. I know that. I

1160
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: guess that last one is Lakers Rockets you see.

1161
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder something that they change for next year.

1162
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 2: If people are upset about it enough, they could just

1163
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 2: to have it over the air. In some ways, I

1164
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 2: know that's paid for it. But going back to last

1165
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,399
Speaker 2: the last TV deal, I mean they allowed the broadcasters

1166
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,719
Speaker 2: to just have it through the first round. What's the

1167
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 2: big I don't I don't really understand the monetary difference.

1168
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 2: I'm not doing the books, but still I don't think

1169
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 2: it's a huge deal. I don't know. I don't know.

1170
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 2: I don't know the monetary reasons. But it is funny

1171
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 2: how it stops after the first round too. It's like,

1172
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 2: that's it, right, Traditionally traditionally, yes, second round, you're just

1173
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 2: getting the national broadcast. Yeah.

1174
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 4: Does Prime still have games further into the playoffs like

1175
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 4: round two, Conference finals?

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00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,959
Speaker 1: Uh? The top of my head, I want to say no.

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00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 1: They have it in their their media deal package. Though

1178
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 1: eventually they're going to get like like Western Conference finals,

1179
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: but that's like down the year. Yeah, they're down the line. Yeah,

1180
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 1: a couple of years in it.

1181
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 4: They do have the movie Mercy on Prime video. I

1182
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 4: watched that last night with no NBA going on. It's

1183
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 4: basically reverse AI Minority Report with Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson,

1184
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 4: and I just have to say, don't watch it.

1185
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 3: It's terrible, really bad, But the NBA games will be good.

1186
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: What if Clyde Fraser was on the call for that

1187
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: movie Mercy Hating and invested?

1188
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,399
Speaker 3: Interesting? Yeah? Final one.

1189
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis made it clear Monday that the Washington Wizards

1190
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,800
Speaker 1: must present a credible path to contention this summer before

1191
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: he's like officially locked in on this squad eighties stopped

1192
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: well short of requesting a trade, acknowledging his contractual obligations.

1193
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 1: He even said I love my money.

1194
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 2: He was joking.

1195
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: He was joking, but he left the door open depending

1196
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 1: on what discussions with the front office do produce here,

1197
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,279
Speaker 1: and apparently he's going to meet with them over the

1198
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:27,840
Speaker 1: coming weeks. Are you up or down on Anthony Davis

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00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: wanting a championship plan from the Wizards before like committing

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00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:34,280
Speaker 1: long term to this franchise.

1201
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 2: I'm both up and down. I know I'm sort of

1202
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 2: playing at neutral. Here's tonight. Well, I will say Jesus when.

1203
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 1: People do that today, it's morning.

1204
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 2: When Anthony Davis was traded, I thought the Wizard should

1205
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 2: not be giving him extension. So I'm up on that

1206
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 2: that they won't be giving him an extension immediately because

1207
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 2: he signed through next season and then a player option

1208
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 2: for the following season, and he played twenty games this year.

1209
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 2: I don't see how that front office just says, hey,

1210
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 2: long term deal for somebody who's limited. At the same time,

1211
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 2: sort of down like you didn't have to tell people.

1212
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 2: You didn't You didn't have to go on a podcast.

1213
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 2: This was on Draymond Green's podcast and tell people that

1214
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 2: you're not extending You don't have to do that. I

1215
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 2: like the idea of Anthony Davis being there for a

1216
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 2: full season and probably for that player option he picks

1217
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 2: up in that second year and potentially be dealt during

1218
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 2: that second year just to be that old guy for

1219
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 2: Alexander sar mostly to see how you play defense, how

1220
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 2: you go about things. So I like him there, But

1221
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 2: I also like this idea of not extending him it. Yeah,

1222
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 2: I don't understand how you would extend him for a

1223
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,399
Speaker 2: big contract at this point. I understand the Wizards aren't

1224
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:50,320
Speaker 2: paying anybody really right now. But to lock into somebody

1225
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 2: like that doesn't make a lot of sense.

1226
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:54,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're mostly going to be paying Trey Young and

1227
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis if he decides to re up with them,

1228
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 4: because everybody else is on rookie contracts, Which is why

1229
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis was like, I love these young guys.

1230
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:03,800
Speaker 3: They're like my children.

1231
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 4: He is so much older than mostly everybody.

1232
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:09,760
Speaker 3: He was so much older.

1233
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 4: What plan can they possibly give Anthony Davis that like, yeah,

1234
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 4: this is a championship plan. That's believable. They haven't made

1235
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 4: the playoffs since twenty twenty one. Yeah, they haven't had

1236
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 4: a five hundred record since twenty eighteen. They haven't won

1237
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 4: fifty games since nineteen seventy nine. I don't understand a

1238
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 4: realistic plan. You could show Anthony Davis here to see

1239
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 4: him want to re sign with the Wizards, but they

1240
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 4: wouldn't have traded for him if they didn't want him.

1241
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 2: Is it just they get a high draft pick and

1242
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 2: have a great player that they draft. Is that the

1243
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 2: idea for Anthony Davis? I maybe, but he also you

1244
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 2: thought that he didn't have a great time with Cooper

1245
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 2: Flag this year with the young guy who was the PI.

1246
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 2: He didn't. He wasn't high fiving him.

1247
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 3: He was never high fiving him. So he likes balla

1248
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 3: cool Bali.

1249
00:57:57,640 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 2: He likes Balal and all those.

1250
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 4: Other Kidsington tells funny jokes. He thinks that Will Riley

1251
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 4: is a picky eater, but that's fine. He'll make him

1252
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 4: peanut butter on toast with honey every single day if

1253
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 4: that's what he wants.

1254
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 2: Sons a good kid, I'll give you a peanut butter.

1255
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 2: Uh yes, a weird listen. I liked him on the

1256
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 2: Draymond Green podcasts. Well some of this, by the.

1257
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: Way, some of this was him talking to the media,

1258
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 1: was because this blew my mind Monday when he did.

1259
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 1: This was Anthony Davis's first formal availability with the Washington

1260
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: area media since the surprise trade from the Mavericks in

1261
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 1: early February. Man just lurking behind the wall the entire

1262
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: time we talked to you. He's like, just back here.

1263
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: That's crazy. So this is why he had a lot

1264
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: to say. And you know, yeah, he's joking about the

1265
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 1: money and he's joking about the kids. He did say like,

1266
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 1: I'm pretty impressed with the Washington sort of organization. A

1267
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: shithold here it was not that bad. But yeah, the

1268
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: whole money part. He's owed nearly fifty nine million dollars

1269
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: in twenty six twenty seven, so that's next year. Then

1270
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: he has a sixty three million dollar player option for

1271
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty eight. But the industry speculation is

1272
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: he wants additional years here on this current deal, and

1273
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: that's where we get into will it be with Washington

1274
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: or not? Or is he just doing the whole Like yeah,

1275
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 1: I mean it's not a bad place here, but I

1276
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: don't really want to be here long term because like,

1277
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 1: come on, we're not going to be competing. He's probably thinking,

1278
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 1: I'm getting near the end of maybe my career, I

1279
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: guess thirty three years old, but I want to compete

1280
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:30,959
Speaker 1: and it's not gonna happen here in Washington anytime soon,

1281
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 1: no matter how good these kids are, no matter no

1282
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 1: matter how good trade you're to see it, which it's

1283
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: just fair. But then you could say, like, does Ad

1284
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: should he have that? Is he allowed to have like

1285
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: that sort of like demand? You know what I mean?

1286
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not really.

1287
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 1: Convinced he should.

1288
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 4: It is kind of weird for him to be like

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Speaker 4: I played twenty games zero for this franchise. Prove it

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Speaker 4: to me that we're gonna win, right, right, they should

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Speaker 4: be like, prove it to us, you're gonna play. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he was a hurt finger on his non shooting hand.

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01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 4: Luke Canard is laughing about Kenny Davis were not playing.

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Speaker 4: Will they make the postseason next year? They ain't making

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Speaker 4: the playoffs. They're not going to be a top six team.

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Speaker 4: Could they be a top ten team in the Eastern Conference?

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Speaker 3: This year?

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Speaker 4: For the first time in ages, every team in the

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Speaker 4: top ten was actually over five hundred. Miami finished forty

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Speaker 4: three and thirty nine. That is a twenty six game

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Speaker 4: difference with the Washington Wizards.

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Speaker 1: I look, I think it's gonna be tough because the

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01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: Pacers should be right back in the mix. I don't

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01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence in the nets jumping up

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01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 1: into the conversation yet the Bulls probably not because they're

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01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 1: finally in rebuilding mode. Milwaukee is a fascinating one. What

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01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: happens there, But I'll say no, But then starting to

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01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: run out of teams here that Washington I feel comfortable

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01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 1: sort of leaping right. They should be in a play

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Speaker 1: in race. They should be in a.

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Speaker 3: Play in race. It'd be great for that to be

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Speaker 3: playing race.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I wouldn't. I'm not locking it in

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Speaker 1: that they're a top ten seed in the Western Conference

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Speaker 1: next year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hear what you're saying. I can talk myself into

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01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 2: it with Trey Young and Anthony Davis being out there,

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01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 2: along with a very good pick in this draft.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there was talent on the team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a drastic drop off from tenth to eleventh.

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Speaker 2: As you said, forty three wins for the tenth seed

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01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 2: to thirty two wins for the Bucks in the eleventh seed.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Davis, I guess was just talking as you said,

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Speaker 2: he was talking to the media. I do think that,

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Speaker 2: especially if you're talking to Draymond Green, you know, future

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01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,840
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer, they're just starting to say, hey, I

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01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 2: want to be here for a long term, and I

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01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 2: think I think that's where the hey, I want to

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01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 2: be extension. And he didn't say I want to be extended,

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01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 2: but that conversation was with Draymond Green, so I can

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01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 2: understand why. You know, prior to the Brotherhood, they're part

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01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:50,240
Speaker 2: of the future Hall of Famer, both future Hall of famers,

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01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 2: so I can understand him just talking. But at the

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01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 2: same time, if you're in the front office, you're not

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01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 2: just extending this guy this off season. That would be

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01:01:58,440 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 2: bananas to me.

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Speaker 1: That's the updown report. Thanks for throwing your thumbs on that. Look,

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01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:07,280
Speaker 1: they weren't the sexiest updown questions. Okay, I'll add that

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01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: nice block for everyone. We got there. We got there

1340
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:11,680
Speaker 1: in the end. Send in questions, you know, we might

1341
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 1: have to have a nice little beach step in sesh

1342
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: this week. Email in your questions no dunks, inc i

1343
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:22,880
Speaker 1: n C at gmail dot com. Because tomorrow we will

1344
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: be previewing and predicting the two playoff series in the

1345
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference that we know Nix Hawks CAKA and Cavaliers Raptors.

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01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:33,440
Speaker 1: So we'll do those tomorrow. We've got playing games tonight.

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01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:37,160
Speaker 1: That's right. Some are saying this is the best batch

1348
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: of teams since the play ins inception in twenty twenty

1349
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 1: one because just one team with a losing record and

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01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 1: it's the Warriors exactly. Yeah, so that is the fewest

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01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: in the play In's history in terms of like losing teams.

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01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 3: Fewer losers. Yeah, that's good.

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01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 1: Nay, Maybe there's something there, maybe some truth there that

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01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: first game tonight of the play in Tournament. We're gonna

1355
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:01,360
Speaker 1: be live on YouTube. It's gonna be a watch party, gay,

1356
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: an absolute hang second screen experiencing.

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01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 3: Out with my friends.

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01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: You got Prime on one tablet and you got AWESO

1359
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 1: on the other. Come hang out. I'll get that. Uh.

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01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 1: I'll get that stream going on YouTube a little bit

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01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 1: later today. But the game is at seven thirty pm

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01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 1: Eastern on Prime, so we'll just be hanging out, chatting

1363
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 1: it up and keeping our eye on hopefully an entertaining

1364
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 1: heat Hornets game. I think it's gonna be high scoring,

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01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: hopefully not a blowout.

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01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm into both these games tonight. Yeah.

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01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:33,240
Speaker 4: And speaking of questions, I saw a great one today

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01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 4: on NBA Reddit from user tough today twenty five to

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01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 4: sixty three, who says the post is titled colonoscopy prep

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01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:42,920
Speaker 4: versus NBA play in Tournament?

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01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 3: What would you do?

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01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 4: I'm about to face a serious dilemma. Hornet super fan

1373
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 4: right here. Haven't missed a game all season. However, I

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01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:53,960
Speaker 4: have a kolonoscopy scheduled on Wednesday tomorrow, which requires prep

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01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 4: beginning six pm the evening before I could reschedule. But

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01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 4: there's a one thousand dollars eight rescheduling.

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01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 3: I can't justify that.

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01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 4: Would just suck it up and go to the game

1379
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:07,120
Speaker 4: and try to make the fast break to the bathroom

1380
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:10,840
Speaker 4: or stay home and wallow watching from the toilet.

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01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 3: This is not a joke. I really am torn.

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01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:14,360
Speaker 2: Hope.

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01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 3: I think it comes out pretty easy when you're prepping.

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01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:26,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've done it twice. Yeah, you cannot go to

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01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:27,200
Speaker 2: the Yeah, I.

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01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:29,160
Speaker 3: Was gonna say, just stay watch from home.

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01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:33,840
Speaker 6: Oh no, reschedule a kolonk one thousand dollars. It's a

1388
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 6: play it's a playing game.

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01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 3: It might be their only one though.

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01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, a thousand dollars plus the cost of tickets.

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01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 2: Can you call management and say, this is my situation.

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01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 2: Can I have a seat pretty close to a bathroom? Wow?

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01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 2: Just close to a bathroom?

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01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 1: Oh?

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01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 3: Yeah? Can I sit on.

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01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 1: The No, it's not not What if it's not an option?

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01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 1: What if they brought, like, you know, a porta potty

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01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:07,960
Speaker 1: in and put it. But there's a window and you

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01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:10,480
Speaker 1: can see the arena.

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Speaker 2: I like it.

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01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:14,400
Speaker 3: I like it for just this guy. Yeah, this guy.

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Speaker 6: Okay, but then okay, look it lasts all night though, right,

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01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 6: so you're like, there after the game for the entire night. Basically,

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01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 6: we're not getting in a car going somewhere. What do

1405
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 6: you think these things through?

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01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 1: You know what about the bag that's a colostom.

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01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a different Well, calling quick, get

1408
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 3: me a bag.

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01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:44,560
Speaker 4: I'm not coming in for the colonoscopy, but I'm doing

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01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:45,800
Speaker 4: something cold and related.

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01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 2: You're referring to the the guy with the purple backpack,

1412
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:53,600
Speaker 2: the hardcore interesting that bag ready to go.

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01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: That's maybe a good lay. I hope we find out

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01:05:59,120 --> 01:05:59,439
Speaker 1: the answer.

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01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 2: Yes, this guy, I hear a great question.

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01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:01,600
Speaker 3: Follow up.

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01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 1: We'll see you tonight on YouTube hopefully, if not tomorrow

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01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:07,280
Speaker 1: morning here at ten am Eastern, to break down two

1419
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 1: of the Eastern Conference series and talk about tonight's playing games.

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01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 1: Clipper Bros.

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Speaker 3: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up.

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01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:14,920
Speaker 3: Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, and remember, if you're looking for

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01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:21,240
Speaker 2: great stats, The Finder with Tom Haverstrow has a great

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01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 2: substack page. I mentioned it because it's a great page

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01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 2: for stats. Also because I didn't give him love for

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01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 2: a stat I said earlier, and so I squeezed him

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01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:32,200
Speaker 2: in here. It's so late.

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Speaker 1: By god Man Brace today people,