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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that's always tough.

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Speaker 3: You gotta know what's gonna come as jokes for them,

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Speaker 1: Trying to put my personality out there and you know,

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Speaker 4: Good mornings, sweet world.

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Speaker 1: And welcome to the Nodunks podcast on the Athletic Network, Thursday,

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Speaker 1: February twenty seventh. Happy Chili day, y'all. I'm Jay Skeets

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Speaker 1: alongside me as always Tasmel.

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Speaker 4: Happy chili day, everybody. I had no idea.

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Speaker 1: Did you hope you brought some?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: For sure.

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Speaker 4: It's in the slow cooker, so it's not here, but

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Speaker 1: Excellent. We got the beard to one Trey Kirby. Hey,

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Speaker 1: oh hey yo, the international man of mystery, taking it

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Speaker 1: to the Max Leelis and last but not least, making

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Speaker 4: It's JD.

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Speaker 1: Hello, there he is, and here we are. Your voice

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Speaker 2: I think that just shows you know, once you hit

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Speaker 1: Take a big swig of that boots you got there,

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Speaker 1: I think, a big old swig a little bit. And

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, you gotta.

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Speaker 1: Really coat your throat. There you go, all right? Follow

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Speaker 4: it's it's just a bad sign period, and good teams

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're terrible on the road. And I got lucky

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Speaker 2: Gone if they can make it to the second round.

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Speaker 1: That would be enough to ya.

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Speaker 2: I think if you lose to the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: There is still time here, I guess. I mean what

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Speaker 1: Trey for Philly, something else happens, and it's like two

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I'm still like I remember the season when Embiid went

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Speaker 2: No, they haven't bought six. They have one game at

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Speaker 2: Like that, to me really shows that Quinn Snyder has

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't think. I don't think he made the decision.

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Speaker 4: Somebody must have spoke out, because if the first report

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Speaker 4: Mike Conley look good. I don't think. I just don't

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Speaker 4: They're twenty four and twelve with Joe Ingles in the

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Speaker 2: It should be Snyder's decison. He's the coach. Should he

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Speaker 4: Yeah, why would they change? I can understand maybe Conley's

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Speaker 1: Right, We've talked about that in the past, that you

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Speaker 3: And I mean part of it's got to be the

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Speaker 3: Maybe will be good again. Maybe that's Snyder's thinking if

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Speaker 2: And Joe Ingles just has just struggled when he's tried

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Speaker 2: And could never get any sort of flow going there.

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Speaker 2: But really, unless it's coming from the team ownership or

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Speaker 1: And Mike Conley also does not feel like the type

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I think.

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Speaker 1: It's right, like anything to do to help the team.

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Speaker 1: It's better for me coming off the bench. Let's do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's definitely it's definitely a bad look for

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Speaker 4: I think somebody else got involved. But I've you know,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, guys who can handle and score from ten, twelve,

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Speaker 4: but that's where he should be getting involved, not way

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Speaker 4: I think we're probably skimming over the Celtics being awesome

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Speaker 1: Yeah, four losses since the All Star Break have now

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Speaker 1: Because again, Conley wasn't he wasn't brutal offensive, He was

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got thirty two million dollars player option next season,

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Speaker 4: the ball in his hands as much anymore because Donovan

435
00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,560
Speaker 4: Mitchell does join does and then when he gets it

436
00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:04,960
Speaker 4: he just fires. And some of the threes went down,

437
00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,080
Speaker 4: but the twos he just he doesn't have touch inside.

438
00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,720
Speaker 1: He used to have that floater drop and left right,

439
00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,000
Speaker 1: I don't know what's disappeared on it.

440
00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:12,920
Speaker 4: And then the weird thing is you go to the

441
00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:14,960
Speaker 4: bench and then Jordan Clarkson is getting all the shots too, So.

442
00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:17,399
Speaker 1: Just gonna say that, Yep, that's exactly right. It's like this,

443
00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:19,399
Speaker 1: where's a spot now for him on this team? But

444
00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,000
Speaker 1: again it comes back also to the defense, and I

445
00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,200
Speaker 1: think you're what you were saying, Trey is a spot

446
00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:26,080
Speaker 1: on the idea of like you got like your guy,

447
00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:28,240
Speaker 1: your defensive player of the year here in Rudy Gobert

448
00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:32,000
Speaker 1: is he's checked out because because of probably the other end,

449
00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,440
Speaker 1: they're missing them and he's getting not touches and they

450
00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,119
Speaker 1: got to get this going here. It's weird to have

451
00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:37,680
Speaker 1: like three of these teams that we were so high

452
00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,120
Speaker 1: on for a stretch that early in the season in Miami,

453
00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:44,080
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and in Utah are all in the slumps

454
00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,600
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, bad timing still six seven weeks, like

455
00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,120
Speaker 1: we said before the playoffs, but you got to get

456
00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:51,439
Speaker 1: it going, turn it around here, all right. Final one,

457
00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,160
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook delivered another dominant performance in the Rockets one

458
00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,600
Speaker 1: forty one to twelve winners with the Grizzlies last night.

459
00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:00,000
Speaker 1: Rust led the way with thirty three points, nine boards,

460
00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:03,160
Speaker 1: says four steals in just thirty four minutes. Before the game,

461
00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,000
Speaker 1: John Morant told reporters that Westbrook's play is taken for

462
00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,480
Speaker 1: granted and that he's highly disrespected. So I thought this

463
00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,200
Speaker 1: was a fun one. True or false, Jo's raight. Westbrook

464
00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,360
Speaker 1: is taken for granted, slash disrespected in a way.

465
00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,040
Speaker 2: I think it's false. I think I think like you're

466
00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:20,760
Speaker 2: disrespecting him.

467
00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:22,040
Speaker 4: No, not at all, not at all.

468
00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,959
Speaker 2: Look, I think we've given Russ plenty of praise over

469
00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,200
Speaker 2: the years. I'm talking big picture here, I'm not just

470
00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:31,080
Speaker 2: talking this season or this stretch. And Russell Westbrook, no doubt,

471
00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,560
Speaker 2: he's been a fantastic player, but he's got some bad

472
00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,919
Speaker 2: habits that have cost him big time in big moments

473
00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,800
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. And I think this is what we

474
00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,399
Speaker 2: have seen of him recently, is a completely different player

475
00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,359
Speaker 2: and he's having much better results, and so he's being

476
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,679
Speaker 2: highlighted in a different way. But I don't think he's disrespected.

477
00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,240
Speaker 2: I mean, I think we all respect what he has

478
00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,520
Speaker 2: been able to do as far as averaging a triple

479
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,119
Speaker 2: double for three years, incredible stuff.

480
00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,240
Speaker 3: But isn't that a way of disrespecting him by saying, yeah,

481
00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,040
Speaker 3: he averaged a triple double for three street seasons and

482
00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:02,520
Speaker 3: now he's playing the best in his career.

483
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:04,760
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think so, because I think they're just

484
00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,520
Speaker 2: two completely different stages of his playing career. I mean,

485
00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:10,680
Speaker 2: going into the playoffs the last couple of years, I

486
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,359
Speaker 2: remember myself thinking like, he can't get out of his

487
00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:15,159
Speaker 2: own way, and that's going to affect his team. And

488
00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,639
Speaker 2: that clearly happened against the Blazers and the Jazz, you

489
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,080
Speaker 2: know where he only won three games in those two

490
00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:26,160
Speaker 2: whole series and the Blazers they swept the Blazers during

491
00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,360
Speaker 2: the regular season, you know. So Russ has that problem

492
00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,959
Speaker 2: is that he gets caught up in these little pissing

493
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,480
Speaker 2: contests within a game and it cost him. So I

494
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,040
Speaker 2: don't think it's disrespectful to point that out. I think

495
00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,560
Speaker 2: it would be disrespectful if you say something like, this

496
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 2: guy's not a Hall of Famer. He shouldn't be, you know,

497
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,800
Speaker 2: he shouldn't be in the All Star Game. No, No,

498
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,960
Speaker 2: So I think he's fairly raided, But he has to

499
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,480
Speaker 2: now play the way he's been playing in the playoffs

500
00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 2: almost like a Dirk you know, where it's like, Okay, now,

501
00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:58,879
Speaker 2: Dirk didn't really change the way played, but he just

502
00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,080
Speaker 2: got over the hump. Westbrook needs to get over the

503
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,879
Speaker 2: hump in the playoffs. Of course, He's been to the

504
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,119
Speaker 2: finals a long time ago, but this is now a

505
00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 2: stage of his career where it's like, are you a

506
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 2: different player or are you just a different regular season player.

507
00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:13,800
Speaker 4: I just think this is John Moran's first year, so

508
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 4: I don't think a young man's looking big picture. I

509
00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:20,120
Speaker 4: think he's talking about right now. And some people didn't

510
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:21,800
Speaker 4: think Russell Westbrook should be in the All Star Game.

511
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,439
Speaker 4: We all had him sort of on the periphery and

512
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 4: didn't have him as our picks. And yeah, he's turned

513
00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 4: it on since then, and he's got a special skill

514
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 4: that I think Josh Moran just appreciates the fact that

515
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,240
Speaker 4: he can't teach you motor and that's it. I think

516
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,680
Speaker 4: that's simple as that. I think Joh's just appreciating him.

517
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, and John Moran, even back to his Murray State days,

518
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,320
Speaker 1: he's been often compared to Westbrook. Yeah, the idea of

519
00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,800
Speaker 1: that speed and explosiveness, so that makes sense that he

520
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 1: would like a guy like Westbrook if you see similarities

521
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,640
Speaker 1: in his game. But Russ has played this is maybe

522
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,400
Speaker 1: the best stretch of his career, these twenty five games.

523
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,640
Speaker 1: He's averaging thirty two, eight and seven in the past

524
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,359
Speaker 1: twenty five shooting over fifty percent from the field. That's

525
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,719
Speaker 1: really the only stat when you talk about Westbrook that's

526
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,359
Speaker 1: usually the knock against him. It's like, yeah, okay, triple doubles,

527
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 1: thirty point triple doubles, but your efficiency stinks, and oh yeah,

528
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 1: you're also not a three point shooter, but you jack

529
00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:14,480
Speaker 1: like five or six a game. Yeah, but he's cut

530
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 1: that out. He's like not really doing that now.

531
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 3: Forty two attempts in twenty twenty, Yeah, that's it. Yeah,

532
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 3: fifty seven in January alone, seventy four in November.

533
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:22,720
Speaker 1: He's it's amazing.

534
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,120
Speaker 3: He stopped shooting. And now that now that he's playing

535
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:27,840
Speaker 3: the way people wanted him to play, that's why you're

536
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 3: hearing that Russell Westbrook is having the best stretch of

537
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 3: his career. And you know, shout out to Mike D'Antoni

538
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 3: and Darryl Morey who decided Westbrook's good enough as a

539
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 3: big guy, basically as a secondary playmaker that we can

540
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,359
Speaker 3: go with all smallies. Yeah, and you know there aren't

541
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 3: a lot of guys who are six to four in

542
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,800
Speaker 3: a guard that make that team possible. But he you know,

543
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,400
Speaker 3: the the Rockets were getting crushed on the glass when

544
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,359
Speaker 3: Clint Capello was around in Westbrook said I'll just go

545
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,639
Speaker 3: get them all. Yeah, and that really changed the season

546
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,920
Speaker 3: for the Rockets because they figured out, oh, okay, our

547
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,199
Speaker 3: point guard's gonna rebound. That's awesome. I guess we'll go

548
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 3: with that. And it's worked out perfectly so far. We'll

549
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 3: see what happens in the playoffs. Things change when you're

550
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 3: able to scout it and you're not getting surprised by

551
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 3: playing against a bunch of six seven sixty nine guys.

552
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 3: But right now it looks nice.

553
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, especially if you watch that Grizzlies game.

554
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,439
Speaker 1: I know they blew him out, but like, you know,

555
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: they're going against a giant guy. Like in Valentunis. Westbrook

556
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,159
Speaker 1: was on him like half the time and they just

557
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 1: front him and they're like, well, what I mean in

558
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:21,680
Speaker 1: Valentutis is a guy that, like you're not really worried

559
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: about the lob threat there. He's not that athletic, but

560
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 1: he just plays so damn hardy fronts and he's helping

561
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 1: and then and then they finished the possession by he

562
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: goes up and gets a rebound amongst all the trees

563
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 1: because he just humps jump higher than all these guys.

564
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: So yeah, this is this is really what's happened with

565
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 1: Westbrook is like you know how people are, like with

566
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 1: Lebron or a guy like Westbrook over the years, are

567
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 1: just like, why do you just go to the hole

568
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 1: every time? Why do you just drive every time? And

569
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 1: it's like so not fair to say, because if it

570
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: was that easy, they would do that, but it's actually,

571
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 1: you know, it's taxing, it's exhausting, it's like just not realistic.

572
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: But Westbrook is getting damn close to that. There was

573
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 1: like in the second quarter of that game last night,

574
00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,639
Speaker 1: he had like five or six layups where he's just attack, attack, attack,

575
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,920
Speaker 1: and then finishing left and right. He's becoming as close

576
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 1: as you can possibly get to like why do you

577
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,119
Speaker 1: just go to the rim every time? And smart with

578
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: a guy like Kim when you can't shoot the three.

579
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's increased his efficiency, like you said, everywhere

580
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 4: on the floor and especially at the rim, and that

581
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 4: was the worrisome part. Last year, it just looked like, yeah,

582
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 4: he'd kind of get to the room, but there would

583
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 4: be a center there. Clank clank, clank, just wouldn't go

584
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 4: in in the postseason. Now there isn't a center. There's

585
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 4: or it's Rudy Gobert or somebody that or Jonas valentiunas

586
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 4: that he can get around. They've what they've done, I

587
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 4: think is just given this team a real identity and

588
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,239
Speaker 4: now they have like this mental confidence that, yeah, we're

589
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:36,919
Speaker 4: gonna play this way. This is our style. We're the

590
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 4: only team playing this style. And they feel good, yeah

591
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 4: going into every game.

592
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 1: The pocket Rockets it is weird too. To me, I

593
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: don't know what it is here, Maybe just because he's

594
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,679
Speaker 1: been so dominant, and not that Harden hasn't, but it

595
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: feels like it's like veered toward this team being in

596
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,160
Speaker 1: a weird way. Westbrook's team.

597
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 3: Come on, come on. It feels like when people said

598
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 3: it was Paul George's team with the thunder last year.

599
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,959
Speaker 3: This is still Harden's team. He's still their best player,

600
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,679
Speaker 3: but Westbrook has had an impact, no doubt there are

601
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 3: Rockets were bottom five in pace last year. Now they're

602
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,719
Speaker 3: third in pace because Westbrook is taking the ball off

603
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 3: the glass and pushing it go. And you know, I

604
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 3: think switching to the pocket Rockets style combined with the

605
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 3: Westbrook energy, like you have to play harder when it's

606
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 3: all small guys, because like Westbrook has to give a

607
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 3: ton of effort to guard and to front a Jonis Valentiunis,

608
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 3: even if Valentiunas isn't a huge offensive threat, it's just

609
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 3: everybody is locked in and everybody has given full efforts

610
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 3: right now. Well, that's part of that is Westbrook for sure.

611
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 2: And Westbrook is taking back to backs off, so he's

612
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 2: kind of preparing himself better. You know that he's that

613
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 2: he's not going every single game so that when he

614
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 2: does play, he can give one hundred percent because he's

615
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 2: not the sort of guy who can who can pull

616
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 2: it back. He has to go top.

617
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 4: Speed all the time. So that also appears to be

618
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 4: working for the Rockets. Yeah, kudos to the Rockets that

619
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,679
Speaker 4: they're definitely resting him for the playoffs. This is the

620
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 4: first time in his career that he's sitting games period,

621
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 4: and the first time sitting and resting has ever entered

622
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 4: into the same sentence with Russell Westbrook. It just doesn't happen.

623
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: He might be some more in the next coming weeks.

624
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 1: He picked up his NBA high fourteenth technical foul last night,

625
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: so if he receives two more, he will be suspended

626
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: for one game. So maybe he's got that in his

627
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 1: little back pocket there not only the.

628
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 3: First night of a back to back, so that he

629
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 3: gets spended for the second night anyways.

630
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 1: Right, smart possible. So Houston has won five straight. Now

631
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 1: they're two games out of the number two seed, and yeah,

632
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 1: just rolling.

633
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 4: And I just want to mention one thing about that,

634
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 4: Like Trey mentioned that they're all sort of they all

635
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 4: feel like they have to play harder, you know when

636
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 4: you don't have a big like, oh, we got to scramble,

637
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 4: We've got a rebound together. Robert Covington, who is He

638
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 4: used to be six' nine when he was With, philadelphia

639
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,439
Speaker 4: but now he's six seven with The. Rockets he's averaging

640
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 4: two and a half blocks a game with The rockets

641
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 4: in eight. Games it's a lot of, blocks yeah for

642
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 4: a little Dude's and it's, infectious, Right like they're all

643
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 4: scrambling and they're all playing the same, way and they

644
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,360
Speaker 4: all they all love. It can't wait till.

645
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 2: Playoffs that rocket's on the first round, game first round, matchup.

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Speaker 1: Today all, right let's get to some news, here. Guys

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00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: this broke. Yesterday The Charlotte hornets Guard Malik monk has

678
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: been suspended indefinitely without pay for violating the NBA's anti drug.

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00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: Program the suspension started With charlott's game last night and

680
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: will continue Until monk is determined to be in full

681
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: compliance with the. Program The hornets did tweet a statement

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00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: and they, said, quote we are disappointed In malik's decision

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00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: making that resulted in his. Suspension as an, organization we

684
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: do not condone his. Behavior, however we are committed to

685
00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: Supporting malik during this. Time who had been playing actually

686
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: really well in the last little. STRETCH i, know nobody

687
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: gives a damn about the, hornets but he had been

688
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: averaging like eighteen points per game the last, seven which

689
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: was you, know getting going.

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00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 2: Here indefinitely is the concern? Here usually it's a twenty five. Gamer,

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Speaker 2: yeah so this is?

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Speaker 1: Marijuana can We uh, WELL i don't know if it.

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Speaker 2: IS i would say it probably. Isn't i'm guessing why

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Speaker 2: wouldn't they just announce? IT a twenty five game is.

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00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: Five games the first you don't jump right to twenty.

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Speaker 1: FIVE i.

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00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 4: DON'T i don't.

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Speaker 1: Know my point, IS i don't think this is like

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Speaker 1: what eat and got dingged for and uh, right And

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Speaker 1: collin's Like, pete, yeah, exactly thank. You, yes that's my,

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Speaker 1: guess complete. Guess the Sticky.

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Speaker 2: YEAH i just think way, BACK i just think it

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Speaker 2: could be more serious because it's given that. Indefinitely like

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Speaker 2: that is.

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00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 3: A weird, phrasing for.

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Speaker 1: SURE i heard, yeah you're, right.

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00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 4: Yes but some in some places it's saying if if it,

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Speaker 4: was if it's, indefinitely then it was.

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Speaker 1: Not, weed, Right, oh, okay, okay.

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Speaker 4: That's because it would have an assigned. Stipulation assigned number to,

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Speaker 4: that so.

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00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: We will find, Out oh who knows as a, bummer

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00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: because if you, remember when we were doing our preseason

714
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: picks or, questions we had one that was, like who's

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Speaker 1: a player entering a make or break? Season AND i

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00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: Picked Malik, monk you, know being here in his third.

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00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: Year he had been great At, kentucky had shot the

718
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: ball well there and had struggled in his first two,

719
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: seasons AND i, thought maybe there'll be a chance he

720
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: gets more consistent minutes and he has a bit of a.

721
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: Breakout and when we were talking about, that he had

722
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: The horns hadn't even picked up at the time his

723
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: fourth year player. Option now they, did you, know a

724
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: couple of days after we recorded. That so he's got

725
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: that four, year five point three million dollars next. Year

726
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: but you, know again he had it going a little

727
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: bit here and it was a make or break. Season,

728
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: again in my, opinion this doesn't help his. CHANCES i,

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00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: know he's under contract for a year and you can

730
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,719
Speaker 1: mounce back from this and we'll find out what it

731
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: is and how severe it. Is but just still a

732
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: bit of a, BUMMER a little bit of a. Bummer

733
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: this is not a, reports. Guys according to The Athletics Seam,

734
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: Sharanya warrior Star Stephen curry will return to The Golden

735
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: state lineup This sunday against The, wizards completing his comeback

736
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: four months after surgery on his broken left. Hand there's

737
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: no word though on if he'll be on any type

738
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: of minutes, restriction But curry is coming back this, weekend hopefully.

739
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 3: Great news for The kirby. Household my girls asked me every,

740
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 3: morning Did Steph curry play last?

741
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 4: Night?

742
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 3: Nope still. Hurt what happened To, himila he broke his.

743
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 3: Hand you're, right so they'll be, excited and you know

744
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 3: it'll be. Good Maybe Andrew wiggins will get a. Win you.

745
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 2: Can't, yeah when's the last time he.

746
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 4: Won the last.

747
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 3: Game he won Was january. Ninth come, On timberwolves beat

748
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 3: The Portland. Trailblazers so it is honestly, good, though to

749
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 3: Get Steph curry, back Because i'll make The warriors a

750
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 3: little bit more watchable and they'll get a few games

751
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 3: to see what he looks like next To Andrew, wiggins

752
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 3: to see if he can bring anything out Of.

753
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 2: Wiggins you can't tell, you girls That Seth curry's. Playing

754
00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 2: can you late?

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00:31:58,240 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: It?

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00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 3: Oh they know all About Seth, curry but just not the.

757
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 3: Same they're more excited That boban also plays on The Dallas.

758
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: Mavericks is no one concerned at all about this? Idea

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00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: in a year where you're twelve and forty six and

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00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: you're by far the worst team in the, league and

761
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: you obviously don't Have, Clay, LIKE i don't, know you

762
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: still want to bring Back curry for a final five

763
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: or six weeks even THOUGH i, Know, yeah why? NOT i,

764
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: mean that's What kerr. Said he addressed, This Steve, Kerr,

765
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: no he's perfectly. Healthy if the point is he might get,

766
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: hurt what's the point of ever playing? ANYBODY i guess

767
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: the argument is we're not making the, playoffs so are

768
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: we not trying to entertain our? Fans yeahurse thinking about the.

769
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: Fans curry's good to. Go he should be.

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00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 2: Playing and that's WHY i doubt he'll have a minute's

771
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 2: restriction because an injury like, this like it's not like a,

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00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 2: Muscle yeah it.

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00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: Is it is the, hand, right those Like banes fell on, him.

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00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 2: Right wasn't that what?

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00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 4: Happened? Yeah, Exactly, YEAH i hear.

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00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 1: You it's you're, right it's not a strain in the.

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00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 2: Leg, yeah he's coming back from a hamstring or, something

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00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 2: or a.

779
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: Knee injury or something like. That.

780
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 3: Fair.

781
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 4: Fair and he's always had the green light to shoot any.

782
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 4: Shot but now when there's nothing on the line and

783
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 4: he doesn't have, clay he's going to be shooting from.

784
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 4: Everywhere so the clip half court pull, ups, YEAH i

785
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 4: hope so pretty. Close definitely logo pull.

786
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: Up, well, yeah it's the four year anniversary of him

787
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: hitting that bomb in overtime Against. Okay see that's. Right

788
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: or he just pulled up from basically the logo or.

789
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 4: Just over aft That saturday night. Game what's A saday?

790
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 2: Game that was?

791
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 4: Fun the clip or the video that THE Nba twitter

792
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 4: account shared this week Of steph pulling up already was

793
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 4: that got me.

794
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 2: EXCITED i mean.

795
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 4: He was in rhythm from the. Logo, Yeah i'm. Ready

796
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 4: i'm ready to watch stuff.

797
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 3: Again and he's get some shots up in The Chase center,

798
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 3: Too that's. True remember the very first preseason game pulled

799
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 3: up from half court complete. Airball it was only shot

800
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 3: eleven for thirty one In Chase. Center you got to

801
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 3: get used to those site lines for next season wheneverybody's.

802
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: Ready good, point and it could be fun to see

803
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: The warriors And curry play some sort of like playoff

804
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: spoiler in like big games where teams are trying to

805
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs or whatever positioning. Possible if he

806
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: can make The, warriors who have basically sort of A

807
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: G league, team if you can make them confident enough

808
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: to win some games here with him And, WIGGINS i will,

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00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: say Though espionation's Matt ellentucky had a good. POINT i,

810
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: thought had this year's draft class had like A Zion

811
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: williamson or, like you, know A luk or something like

812
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,240
Speaker 1: a a like bona fide star in the making appear

813
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: to be at least you wonder if The warriors would

814
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: have leaned a little harder into, like, eh you know,

815
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: what just take off the final six weeks, here we'll

816
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: lean a little harder into the. Tank now they have

817
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: a comfortable lead in that position, anyway and the smooth

818
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: dout lottery, odds you, know help everybody's. CHANCES i guess

819
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Speaker 1: you don't need to be the, worst is my, point

820
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: to get that twenty five, percent because that's gone now

821
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: you're at. Fourteen BUT i think it's fair if there

822
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: was like A, zion maybe they don't rush as.

823
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 3: Much they've got five fewer wins than the next. Word,

824
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 3: yeah that's WHY i said a, lot and, honestly player guys,

825
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 3: like If Steph curry is, healthy play. Him everybody was

826
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 3: excited to See Steph curry this year to be. Unleashed

827
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 3: he was a POPULAR mvp pick because he was gonna

828
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 3: have No Kevin durant, around No Klay thompson for the

829
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 3: first part of the. Season people were, pumped myself included

830
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 3: to See Steph curry this. Year so it's nice that

831
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 3: we're actually going to don't lean into the, tank that's.

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00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: Silliness final piece of news, Here Lebron james is going

833
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: to lean into the. Tank lebron will miss tonight's game

834
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: against The warriors because of a sore, groin not sure

835
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: about his. Larynx the team announced this On. Wednesday ad

836
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: also listed as. Probable he's got the sore left. Elbow

837
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: BUT i think this is more of a just we're

838
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: playing The warriors and.

839
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 2: Careries that's, fine. Though lebron's earned the right to take

840
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 2: a game, off you, know whether it's load management OR

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00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 2: i think.

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00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: You've really truly earned it until year. Eighteen in my,

843
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: OPINION i think it's a little.

844
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 2: Premature you, think, Yeah i'm fine with. It lebron's been

845
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 2: brilliant and, Honestly lebron has, said AND i believe, him

846
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 2: that he wants to play every. Game so if he's

847
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 2: not one hundred, PERCENT i understand him seeing this one and,

848
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 2: Going i'm going to sit this one out because a.

849
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 2: Groin this is the.

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00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 4: GROIN i want to play every game where he does, Want, no.

851
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 2: No he wants to, play but he had that injury

852
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 2: to his groin last year that cost him six weeks

853
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 2: and basically ended his. Season so if any way he's

854
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 2: got a tweak or a, twine he wants the.

855
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: Counter to, that he's probably had a sore growin all

856
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: year here and there because everybody's on his dick and

857
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: you can pick or choose or you don't want to. Play,

858
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: look he's played almost every. Game, Yeah i'm with, you

859
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: AND i would take off the game against The warriors,

860
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: too get some more. Rest and he's they're you, know

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00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: gearing up for obviously what would hope to be a,

862
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: long long playoff, run and you're gonna Want lebron at

863
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 1: his peak.

864
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 4: Powers but they've done a good job of separating themselves

865
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 4: from The. Nuggets and it's a five game, spread SO

866
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 4: i think that they're a little bit more comfortable sitting. Him,

867
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Speaker 4: yeah that's helped fair.

868
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: Enough let's get to tweet in the, night.

869
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 4: Tweet over, night, wowwitt IT'S.

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Speaker 3: Tbt so this is an, old old. Tweet it's From march,

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Speaker 3: eighteenth twenty, eighteen from A Izzy han writer who, says

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Speaker 3: my aunt just pronounced larynx as larynix And i'm screaming it's, larynx. Guys.

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00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 3: Wow moving on to the actual, tweets and then we,

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00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 3: asked yesterday.

875
00:36:58,719 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 4: You just Google?

876
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 3: Twitter, YEAH i google pronounce. Larynx what you? Got Red

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Speaker 3: vines Are? Twizzlers what do you guys think the vote.

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Speaker 4: Was hard hardcore Red?

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Speaker 3: It?

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Speaker 3: Redvine then eighty, Twenty twizler seventy. Thirty It's twizzler country

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Speaker 3: down here as.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay now for the real tweet of.

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Speaker 4: That oh, man, YEAH i saw that. POLL i saw

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Speaker 4: VINE i saw was running away with the.

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Speaker 1: Pools promoting these. Poles, Interesting, yeah the, boost.

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Speaker 4: That's a great point in real gallop. Pool, well and.

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Speaker 3: Skeets you mentioned That canada Is twizzler. Country we got

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Speaker 3: a Huge canadian, audience so maybe our results are skewed

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Speaker 3: yea and so it happens good, stuff all. Right so

894
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 3: those were the opening acts for the true tweet of the,

895
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 3: night which comes From Kirk, goldsberry who tweeted out the

896
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 3: leading late clock. Scorers we're talking minimum hundred shots taken

897
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 3: with less than six seconds on the shot clock this.

898
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 3: Season who are the top five players in late clock?

899
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 3: Scoring the guys who are going to get you a

900
00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 3: bucket when things break? Down, Well Chris, pole no, kitch,

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Speaker 3: Yes Nicola yokitch number two last six seconds of a shot.

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00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: Cut, okay and just scoring or sis as well as yeah,

903
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: Yeah lebron number one, Okay lebron Jokicch we.

904
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 4: Got No Lillard James.

905
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 3: Harden James harden of course tied for third with another

906
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 3: guy who has a similar game To Damian. LILLARD i

907
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 3: would Say, Beale, nope No beale an all star this.

908
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 3: Season we watched him play last, night had a good

909
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 3: scoring game last, night didn't get the. Win, However Kris Kris,

910
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 3: LeVert No All star house COULD i describe this. Guy

911
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 3: he's the guy who gets the ball when when the

912
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 3: team breaks, down for, sure Not. Devon, also he's on

913
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Speaker 3: par With.

914
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Speaker 2: Devon Not, williams Not lou William.

915
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 3: Nope Not, tatum Not. Tatum this man is a first

916
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 3: Time All. Star he's god Another All Star weekend trophy

917
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 3: in his trophy case from last.

918
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:05,879
Speaker 1: Season from last.

919
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,879
Speaker 3: Season, yep it wasn't An All.

920
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 2: Star shoot out dunk contest two seasons.

921
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 3: Ago two seasons, ago he won the dunk. Contest it's

922
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 3: crazy that you guys have already forgotten this. Man we

923
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 3: talked about him earlier this. Episode but, no, no, no

924
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 3: this guy's An All. Star he's a great. Dunker he's

925
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 3: got the ball at the end of every. Game if he's,

926
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 3: hitting his team is probably. Winning but they're not winning

927
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 3: a lot right. Now, mitchell that's, Right Donovan, Mitchell Remember Donovan.

928
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 3: Mitchell number FIVE a super surprising. One i'm not even

929
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Speaker 3: gonna let you guys. Guess Julius. Randall, Wow Julius randall

930
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 3: getting buckets for The New York.

931
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: Knicks i've gotten to that.

932
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 3: One, YEAH i Heard Alonzo treer's name again last.

933
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:50,879
Speaker 4: Night he's.

934
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: Amazing yeah, Good nick's. Uh nick's lost again last night,

935
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: though right to The. Hornets hornet's sure a lot of

936
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Speaker 1: people were, watching all, right pick them. Results oh my

937
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: month of hell. CONTINUED, i along With, tasks Had, utah

938
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Speaker 1: who were favored by four and a half at Home

939
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Speaker 1: boston last game of the road. Trip Thought utah might

940
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Speaker 1: get it together all those lineup. Changes, Nope tatum thirty

941
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: three and. Eleven another great game from The. Celtics they

942
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Speaker 1: got THE w hit the money, line So trey And

943
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Speaker 1: lee they. Win tass AND i got the. L's here's

944
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: where we. Had i've already officially lost the month Of.

945
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: February you got a suggestion for the pick and, payoff

946
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Speaker 1: tweeted in at no dunk sac hashtag no? Dunks what

947
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 1: do you want me to do to pay it? Off

948
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: but we figured let's do one more pick for the

949
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: month Of. February and here's, why you. Guys the three

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Speaker 1: of you guys are. Tied you're all eight and, six

951
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: so why NOT i have one more? Game doesn't MATTER i,

952
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 1: pick but let's see who is the best picker when

953
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: it comes to the month Of february here in the.

954
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: Office so what's our, Game, Tassi, well.

955
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 4: We talked About lebron sitting out tonight against The Golden State.

956
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 4: Warriors they're going Into Golden. State they're favored by eleven

957
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 4: and a, half even With lebron's injury Because Anthony davis is.

958
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 4: Probable it's not a lock, lock but. Probable AND i

959
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 4: would Guess Draymond green's gonna sit. Too he's also game time.

960
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 4: Decision but If Rich paul Says, lebron you're, sitting quite

961
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 4: often The Rich paul bros sit. Together so.

962
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 2: What you got a?

963
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 4: Lot they got a? Cover what AM i?

964
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 2: Going i've got eleven points in my?

965
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 4: Bag? Yeah, yeah you got in my? BAG i don't.

966
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: Know you want to get your bag up? Here and,

967
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Speaker 1: yeah which?

968
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Speaker 3: Pocket you got those?

969
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 4: Points all?

970
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: Right so you got The? Warriors, yeah plus eleven and a.

971
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 4: HALF i gonna take The warriors, too.

972
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 3: All, Swervel why not give me The?

973
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: Lakers i'll take The lakers as. Well you're in. Trouble but,

974
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: yeah you don't want me touching your pick right?

975
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 3: Now three get away from my, pick, man.

976
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: Brutal we got A that's that's the second. Game of

977
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: THE tnt double, header the first one fascinating FOR t AND.

978
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: T you don't see this at eight o'clock often The

979
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: blazers playing at the eight o'clock slot versus The. Pacers

980
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: just an interesting game again Interesting, yeah Got Nick sixers

981
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:15,919
Speaker 1: as well tonight And Kings thunder could be the best

982
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,520
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983
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,640
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00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,680
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00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,719
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994
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,600
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