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Speaker 1: closes so much trouble. Good morning, Swirl and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the No Dungks podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Thursday,

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Speaker 1: May thirteenth, Skeleton Crew this morning. Trey's dentist appointment is

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Speaker 2: Friends, still pluralized, still paralzed. The's two of you.

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Speaker 1: the myth, the legend making the magic happen is JD.

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Speaker 3: Lay. I'm gonna have to give you a verbal warning

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Speaker 3: for being out of uniform this morning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you didn't get the memo. Well, yes, Jadie and

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Speaker 1: I rocking the No Dunk's Crew next. But it's okay.

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Speaker 1: Lee's got the No Dunks sort of we believe Warriors shirt.

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Speaker 1: No Dunk saying Lee is laughing because well we hit

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Speaker 1: the beach yesterday and holy shit, was that an episode again?

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Speaker 1: Just go listen to it or you know what, don't

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Speaker 1: Lee Ellis an hour outside of Melbourne, of Sunbury, mounting

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Speaker 1: just like just it was crazy. Lee was like taking

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Speaker 1: some more larfs eight thirty pm Eastern, live on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Here it's the No Dunks Happy Hour charity drive. First

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Speaker 1: time we've ever tried this. Gonna be raising money for

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Speaker 1: Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital. Our fundraising goal, I'm just

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. I don't know, it's almost shocking last

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Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd be weird to have two guys out there

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's gonna wear a mask.

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Speaker 2: Make it look cool, because Lebron looked awesome in his

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Speaker 1: Come on, all right? Next game here, or at least

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Speaker 1: put at five, six seven. Uh not in that order.

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Speaker 1: In that order where the Blazers keep the fifth seed,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nearly backfired on them, and I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: But then the.

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Speaker 2: And then the MAVs they pretty much blew out the Pelicans.

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Speaker 1: Have the jazz.

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Speaker 2: Let me let me throw it up here for it,

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Speaker 2: Nuggets and Sons, I think it is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, take a look.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I mean it's so close. I mean I

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Speaker 2: Well, I just I just have a feeling the Lakers

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Speaker 1: I just haven't really. Yeah, I mean, they will not

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Speaker 2: So the Mavericks have got the Raptors, so and the

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Speaker 2: that game. This was not like the Jazz is just

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Speaker 2: kind of Myota day or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: The Blazers are the hottest team in the league right now.

431
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Speaker 1: They have won nine of their last ten, which sort

432
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Speaker 1: of snuck up on me that they put together this run.

433
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Speaker 1: But they're playing great basketball at the right time here.

434
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Speaker 1: Of course, as we get closer and closer, I'm thinking

435
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Speaker 1: the Lakers are going to stay in the seventh spot

436
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Speaker 1: here because I got some confidence, I guess in Portland

437
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Speaker 1: to win out right, even though I think they have

438
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Speaker 1: I don't have it in front of me. I know

439
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Speaker 1: the Suns is one of the game. Yeah, and then

440
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Speaker 1: they have another opponent for sure. Yeah, that's right. But

441
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Speaker 1: I'd like in them because those and those other teams.

442
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Speaker 1: You know, of course they're still jockeying. But at some

443
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Speaker 1: point the Suns are going to be locked into the

444
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Speaker 1: second seed, and you know, the Nuggets might be ended up.

445
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Speaker 1: They got home court advantage, they know that much. So

446
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Speaker 1: it's going to be three or four anyway. The point is,

447
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Speaker 1: or the question is I saw this on ESPN Factor. Fictionally,

448
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Speaker 1: the Lakers should be favored in a first round playoff

449
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Speaker 1: series no matter where they finish. Will that be the

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Speaker 1: case or is there a matchup that you could see

451
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Speaker 1: hypothetically that you say, no, no, no, they wouldn't be

452
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Speaker 1: the favorite in that series, like maybe the Clippers or

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Speaker 1: something like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's assume that Conley and Donovan Mitchell are

455
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Speaker 2: both out for that first round series. What let's just

456
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Speaker 2: just well just just for the point of this year,

457
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Speaker 2: because if they're both out then and Lebron and Anthony

458
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Speaker 2: Davis are in, then I think the Lakers probably do

459
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Speaker 2: become favorite in that series because we simply know that,

460
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Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't matter for the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what about are more likely Suns Lakers matchup two seven?

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Speaker 1: Let's say, and Phoenix fully healthy, who's the favorite in

463
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Speaker 1: that series?

464
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Speaker 2: I would probably take the Lakers, I think because well, yeah,

465
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Speaker 2: because I think that. And you've seen the Suns in

466
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Speaker 2: these last couple of games against the Jazz and against

467
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Speaker 2: the Warriors, teams that are playing to win something, and

468
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Speaker 2: they've lost both of both of those games. Now I

469
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Speaker 2: mentioned yesterday, I think if the Suns can sort of

470
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Speaker 2: learn from those losses and understand, hey, this is what

471
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Speaker 2: it's going to be like every single night in the playoffs,

472
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Speaker 2: then maybe it's good for them in that sense. But

473
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Speaker 2: it's very hard to pick, even though they've obviously got

474
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Speaker 2: Chris Paul.

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Speaker 1: Very hard to pick.

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Speaker 2: Against Lebron in a first round series just because it's

477
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Speaker 2: two seven, it makes no difference to me. It's like,

478
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Speaker 2: it's Lebron, it's the Lakers. You know, he's getting a

479
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Speaker 2: split at minimum in one in that.

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Speaker 1: First first two game.

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Speaker 2: I would put my life on that happening.

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Speaker 1: And then so you're saying, if the Lakers play the

483
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Speaker 1: Suns two seven matchup, you'd bet the house on the

484
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Speaker 1: Lakers at least splitting the first two games in Phoenix.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lebron, remember had some crazy record like twenty nine

486
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Speaker 2: straight series in a row where he won a road game.

487
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Speaker 2: You know, you know he was able to do that,

488
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Speaker 2: and you just know it's in the playoffs, that's what

489
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Speaker 2: it's about. And then immediately that puts so much more

490
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Speaker 2: pressure on the Suns to go and then have to

491
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Speaker 2: split in La, which they could do, but it's that's

492
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Speaker 2: the sort of scenario that really plays into Lebron's hands

493
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Speaker 2: where it's like, yep, I'm going to steal home court

494
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Speaker 2: and then we're going to go home and put all

495
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Speaker 2: that team that is inexperienced outside of Chris Paul under

496
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Speaker 2: a lot of pressure. So now just going back to

497
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Speaker 2: the Jazz. If the Jazz are healthy, I think the

498
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Speaker 2: Jazz would be favorite in that series, and healthy, beaning

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Speaker 2: Conley and Mitchell both playing, I would probably pick the

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Speaker 2: Jazz in a long series. But you know, I just

501
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Speaker 2: feel that if you're the Suns, you've got so much

502
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Speaker 2: to prove in the playoff for a team that hasn't

503
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Speaker 2: been there before.

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Speaker 1: Okay, one more question with all of these hypotheticals, would

505
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Speaker 1: you prefer the Lakers stay in the seven seed and

506
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Speaker 1: play the Warriors in this play in game? Obviously when

507
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Speaker 1: and you're in very exciting bron Curry, I imagine it

508
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Speaker 1: would do massive ratings. Or would you prefer the Lakers

509
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Speaker 1: up to sixth, whoever of the Blazers MAVs slipping back

510
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Speaker 1: into the plan and that we would get hypothetically a

511
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Speaker 1: Clippers Lakers battle for LA in the first round. That

512
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Speaker 1: was a series we wanted last year. It obviously never happened.

513
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Speaker 1: Nuggets coming back there in that series versus the Clips?

514
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Speaker 1: Which one? Which one's more exciting to you as a

515
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Speaker 1: basketball fan? The cheers for all thirty teams in the Yeah, well,

516
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Speaker 1: that's the thing.

517
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Speaker 2: When you sort of have a horse in every race,

518
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Speaker 2: but no horse in any race at all, it's great.

519
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 2: You can sort of really sit on the fence. I

520
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Speaker 2: want to see Lakers worries in a battle for that

521
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Speaker 2: eighth spot. That's what I would love to happen, where

522
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Speaker 2: it's like one of these teams misses out and we're

523
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Speaker 2: going to have a one game decider between you know,

524
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Speaker 2: two of the greatest players we've ever seen in the

525
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Speaker 2: game in Lebron and Steph Curry. So that's what I

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Speaker 2: want to see. I would love it for it to

527
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Speaker 2: happen like that. Probably won't. Probably won't because of the

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Speaker 2: way things are lined up right now. But if I

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Speaker 2: could pick, I want that before I want Lakers Clippers

530
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Speaker 2: because I just think, again, for this playing tournament, that

531
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Speaker 2: is the ideal scenario for the league, even though obviously,

532
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Speaker 2: you know, for TV ratings, I would like the Lakers

533
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Speaker 2: to go further into the playoffs.

534
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Speaker 1: But for this do or.

535
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Speaker 2: Die, winner takes all situation, give me Lakers Warriors. I

536
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Speaker 2: think it'll be fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, look who it is. Hopefully Cavity free Tke

538
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Speaker 1: joining us. What's up?

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Speaker 5: Hey, how these bat raiders look as easy looking, real

540
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Speaker 5: good chumpers.

541
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Speaker 2: You're like ross in friends when you when you had

542
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Speaker 2: that you know, the teeth glowing stuff on it, it's shiny.

543
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Speaker 5: Oh thank you, you know, first dentist check up and

544
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Speaker 5: what I don't know, sixteen months, eighteen months something like that.

545
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Speaker 4: My mouth is so sore.

546
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Speaker 5: It feels like I just got the deepest tissue massage

547
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Speaker 5: exclusively on my gums. But feeling clean shiny. I saw

548
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Speaker 5: somebody had tweeted a task said you got the best

549
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Speaker 5: smile on no dunks. So I immediately scheduled a dentist

550
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Speaker 5: appointment to go and get a clating real quick. I

551
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Speaker 5: gotta get shined up here before the big happy hour tonight.

552
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Speaker 1: How was dentist A Rod?

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Speaker 4: He was looking good, man, It was great to see him.

554
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Speaker 5: I saw he's upgraded his his dentist goggles now are Nike,

555
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Speaker 5: so you know, that's pretty cool, pretty cool for doctor

556
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Speaker 5: A Rod. Turn in two there.

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Speaker 1: Ball all right, But we were just talking about some

558
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Speaker 1: of last night's games and some of the hypothetical you know,

559
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Speaker 1: playoff matchups and who's in the plane and all that trade.

560
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: But we got some more news here and We'll throw

561
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Speaker 1: this first one at you. Oh boy, Victor Oladipo season

562
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 1: ending surgery on his right quadriceps tendon, so he is out.

563
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Speaker 1: He ended up playing what four games, yeah, for the

564
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Speaker 1: Miami Heat, which is pretty baffling here now, Barry Jackson

565
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Speaker 1: of the Miami Herald, he says that the tendon isn't

566
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Speaker 1: ruptured like it was when he underwent a similar surgery

567
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Speaker 1: in January twenty nineteen. That prior injury kept him out

568
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Speaker 1: for like the calendar year, so hopefully this isn't as bad.

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Speaker 1: But are you shocked at all by this this news here? TK?

570
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Speaker 1: Does it matter at all to the Heat moving forward?

571
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Speaker 1: What impact does this have on his free agency? You know,

572
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 1: have at it.

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't think it matters to the Heat going forward.

574
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Speaker 4: This season.

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Speaker 5: They've been playing some pretty good basketball as of late.

576
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Speaker 5: Like we talked about on yesterday's Beach step In, Jimmy

577
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Speaker 5: Butler is having a really good season. The Heat seemed

578
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Speaker 5: to be the healthiest they have been the entire year.

579
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Speaker 5: They're peaking at the right time, so you know, they

580
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Speaker 5: picked up Oladipo just as a little bit of insurance

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Speaker 5: for guys like Goran dragicch maybe Kendrick Nunn, even Jimmy

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Speaker 5: Butler himself.

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Speaker 4: But those guys are all playing well right now.

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Speaker 5: They're all actually on the court, so Oladipo wouldn't have

585
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Speaker 5: a massive role, especially considering those guys on the Heat

586
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 5: were already there. They've got that continuity together going to

587
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Speaker 5: the finals during that bubble season. From a free agency standpoint,

588
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Speaker 5: you know, the silver lining I would say for Oladipo

589
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Speaker 5: is he will probably get to pick where he wants

590
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Speaker 5: to play since he's not going to likely get quite

591
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Speaker 5: as big of a deal as he would have been

592
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Speaker 5: if he would be completely healthy going into this season.

593
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 5: But man quadriceps tendons seem to be a massive problem

594
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Speaker 5: and something that really really lingers. That was a similar

595
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Speaker 5: injury that Kawhi Leonard had that ended his tenure with

596
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Speaker 5: the Spurs, something that he still manages to this day.

597
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 5: Tony Parker had something similar with the Spurs as well.

598
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Speaker 5: That you know, I mean, he was at the end

599
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Speaker 5: of his career. It didn't really end his career, but

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Speaker 5: it made it harder for him to continue when he

601
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Speaker 5: eventually went to the Charlotte Hornets. But I don't know,

602
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Speaker 5: it feels like the quadriceps tendon is a problem, and

603
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Speaker 5: you know, Oladipo, it doesn't seem like completely had it

604
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Speaker 5: managed this season, he still had a decent year from

605
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Speaker 5: accounting standpoint, almost at twenty points per game, only shot

606
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Speaker 5: forty percent from the field though thirty two from three.

607
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Speaker 5: He doesn't have the explosion that he used to have obviously,

608
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Speaker 5: and I guess that's part of why he would want

609
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Speaker 5: to have this surgery now, to try and get back

610
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Speaker 5: to a little bit closer to that all NBA level

611
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Speaker 5: that we've seen him at before, or at the very

612
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Speaker 5: least he's just a guy who's going to be able

613
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Speaker 5: to continue to contribute and be a big part of

614
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Speaker 5: a team rather than just a random role guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Oladipo he turned down a two year, forty

616
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Speaker 1: five million dollar extension. You know, was wanted to get

617
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Speaker 1: out of there, you know, if Houston didn't want to

618
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: be locked up long term there not even all that

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Speaker 1: long term, but wanted to get to Miami and he did,

620
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Speaker 1: but again only played four games. Would the Heat have

621
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Speaker 1: been better off at this point ly in keeping Kelly

622
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Speaker 1: Olinok and Avery Bradley, who were like the pieces mood

623
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Speaker 1: for Olidepo or was it worth the risk and you know,

624
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Speaker 1: bring him in, see if he's got it, See if

625
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Speaker 1: he can fight through injuries here, because you're obviously getting

626
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: a better player if he is healthy than those guys.

627
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Speaker 1: So what do you think about that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, now that the injuries coming to play,

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Speaker 2: sure you would redo the trade if you're the hate

630
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Speaker 2: because Kelly Olynox a solid, you know, reliable, big guy,

631
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Speaker 2: can scratch to floor and he knows the system. Avery

632
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 2: Bradley didn't really play this season with Miami himself, so

633
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,479
Speaker 2: he's not really going to be missed. But yeah, all

634
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Speaker 2: the depot. But you know, on the surface, you do

635
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 2: the trade because, as you say, the side of Oladipot

636
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 2: is much greater than Kelly Olinik. I mean, he's the

637
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Speaker 2: type of guy who can go out there and have

638
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 2: a thirty point performance in a game and in the playoffs,

639
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 2: that's what they're hoping for. But yeah, I think you know,

640
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Speaker 2: Oladipo's camps probably now go. Man, that forty five million,

641
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Speaker 2: two year was looking pretty good. I just don't sort

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Speaker 2: of see.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's looking at the.

644
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Speaker 2: Free agency class next year. You know, guys like Lowry

645
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 2: Deroz and I think Mike Conley's a free agent as well,

646
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 2: so there's other guys sort of in his position. I mean,

647
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 2: he's a bit of a you know, he's a bit

648
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 2: of a combo guard himself. But given now he's had

649
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 2: so many injuries that have knocked him out for so long,

650
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 2: I just wonder what his value will be to a

651
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 2: team and how much anyone's prepared to pay him, because

652
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 2: I sort of think a long term deal is probably

653
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 2: unlikely at this point, just because he has these these

654
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 2: nasty injuries. So we'll see, but you know, that's it. Yeah,

655
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 2: the Heat I don't think really are going to miss

656
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 2: him all that much, just because they didn't have him

657
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 2: there for long enough to see an impact, so you know,

658
00:28:58,640 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 2: they'll be fine.

659
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Speaker 1: Final piece of news, we'll start with you, Leally, the

660
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: Pistons signed Dween Kesey to a contract extension. He had

661
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: two years left on his original five year deal there

662
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: in Detroit, but will now be extended for one more season.

663
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Speaker 1: You Laker disliked this move by the Pistons management team there.

664
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Speaker 2: I'm very surprised that they would do this when he's

665
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 2: got two years left on his deal. It's sort of

666
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 2: felt like he was you know, maybe on his way out.

667
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 2: But I think they have done an okay job this season.

668
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 2: I guess he's hit the goals that the internally that

669
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 2: the team wanted him to hit otherwise, you know, and

670
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 2: they're happy with the job he's done. Otherwise, I can't

671
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 2: see why they would extend him. But good on him,

672
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 2: because he's gone from a situation there in Toronto where

673
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 2: the team was good. He leaves and they win a

674
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 2: championship to a team Detroit, Like Detroit, where you know

675
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 2: it's not a destination. They've had a change of ownership

676
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 2: too recently. You know, Blake Griffin was there, Derrek Rose

677
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 2: was there. They basically just moved on from them. So

678
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 2: you can sort of see normally a team would be like,

679
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 2: let's start completely fresh and hit the restart button with

680
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 2: a new coach. But obviously they feel that Dwayne Casey

681
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 2: is doing the right thing there. But the Pistons have

682
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 2: been a story this season that you know, you've kind

683
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 2: of overlooked. No one's really paid too much attention because

684
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 2: they started off badly. I will say this, though they

685
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 2: have been competitive most of the season. You know, that's

686
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 2: one thing I will say. They never like the thunder

687
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 2: have been awful for a lot this season. They just

688
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 2: haven't been competitive. The Pistons have battled. So maybe that's

689
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 2: the thing that they were hoping to see from Dwayne Casey,

690
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: that despite the hand that he was dealt, he got

691
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 2: his team to play at least competitively, even though you know,

692
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 2: they've never been really really close to the playing tournament

693
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 2: at any point during the season.

694
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Speaker 1: This is Casey's third year in Detroit. He had forty

695
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: one and forty one in that first year, then twenty

696
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: and forty six last year, and then twenty and fifty

697
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: right now this year. What do you think, TK, This

698
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: was a glowing press release. I don't know if you

699
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: had a chance to read it, like from Tom Gores,

700
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: the owner, Troy Weaver, the GM like everybody just talking

701
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 1: up Casey. So this feels like to me, like, yeah,

702
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: we love at least this guy instills a culture. I

703
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: saw it as a Raptor, like there's no doubt of

704
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: course he moves on or they do. The Raptors decide

705
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: to move on from him, and they bring in Nick

706
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: Nurse and it works out for everybody because they win

707
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: a title. But he does Dwayne Casey get teams to

708
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: play hard and be competitive. He's a good teacher, and

709
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: you know, his development record does speak for itself with

710
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: the Raptors, and then even early here with a lot

711
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: of these young guys on the Pistons, you know, seeing

712
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: some promising things. So is this what they're seeing? They're

713
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, I mean he should be able to

714
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Speaker 1: see this out because a lot of the times you

715
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: bring in these coaches, they got all these young squads,

716
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,479
Speaker 1: we suck, You lose a bunch of games, and then

717
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, bye, you know your record sucks, so

718
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: by we'll just bring in somebody else. But instead they're

719
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: doing the opposite of like I guess it's sort of

720
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: Brett Brown like a little bit hard ways with the Sixers, like, eh,

721
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: you almost deserve this and at least you are instilling this,

722
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: like what appears to be at least a culture and

723
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Speaker 1: to play hard for him. What do you think?

724
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 5: Just like with Brett Brown and the Process Sixers, it

725
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 5: shows up on the defensive end. The Pistons are sixteenth

726
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 5: in defensive rating over the course of the season, which

727
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 5: is kind of impressive considering they haven't had much to

728
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,959
Speaker 5: play for for the majority of the season. You see

729
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 5: the instant growth from Jeremy Grant just being empowered to

730
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 5: have the ball in his hands and make some plays.

731
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 5: And you know the development already of Sadik Bay and

732
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 5: Isaiah Stewart. Shout out to the Beefs too, both of

733
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 5: those guys have been solid rookies. Jeremy Grant was a

734
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 5: great guy to bring in. You see that little bit

735
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 5: of growth right there, just this season, despite the fact

736
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 5: that the team hasn't really done anything.

737
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Speaker 4: Yeah, why wouldn't you keep Dwayne Casey.

738
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 5: To build that culture to bring you back to respectability

739
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,719
Speaker 5: kind of like what happened with the Raptors early on

740
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 5: in their rebuild. They just started getting better, playing harder,

741
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 5: developing some good habits, making it happen on the defensive end.

742
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 5: Perhaps at some point you're gonna have to upgrade to

743
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 5: the next level of coach, just like the Raptors did.

744
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 5: But there's definitely a benefit in bringing back these guys

745
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 5: who who have started the rebuild and who have you know,

746
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 5: got guys on the right page and got them to

747
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 5: be doing the right things, so that theoretically down the

748
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 5: line three or four years from now, when you're ready

749
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 5: to actually try and make some moves and try and

750
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 5: win some games and get back to the playoffs, that

751
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 5: sort of thing. I think perhaps that's when you make

752
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 5: the next move. By bringing back Dwayne Casey, I think

753
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 5: is a great call from the Pistons.

754
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: Congrats to coach Casey. We love him here on this show.

755
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: We had him on the starters a long time ago,

756
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: and he is a class act. That's all you hear

757
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: said about Done Casey one hundred percent true. It really is.

758
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: He's like one of the nicest men I've ever met,

759
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: at least in the NBA universe. There, So congrats to

760
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: him on the extension. Let's get to the real sick

761
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: Oh shit, Okay, it started as a joke. Obviously, we're

762
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: talking all NBA teams, and oh man, there's so many

763
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: good guys. There's gonna be so many snubs left off

764
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: that All NBA third team. And I said, hey, let's

765
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: just go deeper. Let's have an All NBA fourth team,

766
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: fifth teams, six teams and whatever. Just keep going. We

767
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: could just like get all four hundred and fifty players

768
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: on an All NBA team if we really wanted to.

769
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: He just got to put the work in. So that's

770
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: what I've done here, Guys, I didn't get I'm not

771
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: gonna put all four to fifty on teams, but I

772
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: am going to go ten teams deep, all NBA style.

773
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: All right now, I want to start this off by

774
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: saying I had to decide on a games played cutoff.

775
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,720
Speaker 1: I just have to, and I went with forty five

776
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: games played. That to me feels right in this weird season.

777
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: I generally like a higher percentage of games played when

778
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: it comes to this stuff. I like around a seventy

779
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: percent mark. If you can get there, forty five out

780
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: of seventy two, what is that? That's like sixty two

781
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,399
Speaker 1: sixty three percent. But this is a weird year. We've

782
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: had COVID, We've had guys of course, like resting or

783
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: nursing injuries even longer because of this weird schedule, so

784
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,240
Speaker 1: action packed. So I'm fine with forty five games played.

785
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: So who does that get rid of right away? Well,

786
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: there's no Anthony Davis, there's no Kevin Durant, there's no SGA,

787
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: there's no Gordon Hayward, there's no no Porzingis. Well, I

788
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 1: got to say these guys, because we're doing.

789
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 4: All they would be on.

790
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 2: They put them into a team, put him into the

791
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:51,959
Speaker 2: all didn't qualify team.

792
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: But here is the problem Lebron James right now at

793
00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: forty three games played, James Harden, after playing last night

794
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: forty three games played. So here's what I'm gonna do,

795
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: all right, these are my rules. Tweet at me. Most

796
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: people say, don't tweet me, don't at me. You can

797
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: tweet at me, go nuts.

798
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 4: I don't care.

799
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to guess that Lebron James is gonna play

800
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: the final two games here Lakers, of course, playing for something.

801
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: I think he wants to get a few reps in

802
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: here before a potential playing game. Don't forget not a

803
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: first round series where he just always gives away game one. No, no, no,

804
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: this could be like, oh god, we might want to

805
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: win this to get in the playoffs. Pull me down

806
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: for Lebron playing the last two games of the Lakers,

807
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: that gets him to forty five, gets them in the

808
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: mix here for one of my all NBA teams. Harden,

809
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: on the other hand, I am going to just predict

810
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: that he doesn't play the final two games. I think

811
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 1: he'll sit one of them, coming up a little bit short.

812
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: I'm also, of course gonna hold against him a little

813
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: bit what happened in Houston. We can almost like pretend

814
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: those games were not really games played. I forget how

815
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: many ended up playing for the Rockets. It was at

816
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: seven or eight something like that. Yeah. So again, just

817
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: for the sake of this, I'm saying Harden is not

818
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: going to make my cutoff of forty five games played,

819
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: all right, So he's not gonna be on an all

820
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: NBA team. I think James Harden is one of the

821
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,919
Speaker 1: definitely top fifty players in the league, more like top ten.

822
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: But for the sake of this, he won't be there. Okay,

823
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: I think.

824
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 2: I'll just say I think you're right there, because they

825
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 2: have a back to back too in the two. That's right.

826
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 2: I think he doesn't play in both of us.

827
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: Okay, forty five games played, very important, all right, So

828
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: let's get to it, and JD's gonna help me out

829
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: for everybody in the stream. Team here, he's gonna flash

830
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: my teams up at the bottom of the screen. Here

831
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: all NBA first team. This wasn't all that hard. I

832
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: went with the guards being Luka Doncic and Steph Curry.

833
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: My forwards are Kawhi, Leonard, who is just criminally underrated

834
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: in this league. It's okay, he's awesome, Yannis, and then

835
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: Yo Kicch. Yeah you're noticing there. I didn't put him

836
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: beat as a forward on my All NBA team because

837
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: that is stupid. All right, It's dumb, and I'm not

838
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: doing it. Second team, Damian Lillard is a guard. Kyrie

839
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: irvings Is is also a guard, and I'll get to

840
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: him in a second. Jimmy Butler and Julius Randall are

841
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: my forwards, and then Joel embiid Is of course, because

842
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: he's an MVP candidate there he's going to finish second.

843
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: He is on the second All NBA team at the

844
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: center position, you know the position he plays one hundred percent.

845
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 4: Of the time.

846
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 2: How many games as Jimmy Butler played Just that.

847
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: I don't have in front of me. But he's over

848
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: the forty five. Yeah, he's got enough Leely okay, I

849
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: mean reference, you can fire it up there too.

850
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 5: I don't know, hard you're gonna go fifty players and

851
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 5: you're keeping James Harden off because he didn't play like

852
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 5: two games.

853
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're made up rules. Yeah, I don't know. Also,

854
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 1: on hold on you can't discredit the eight games he

855
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: played in Houston as a complete joke.

856
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 5: And three and five, three and five in those games,

857
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 5: how many wins do the Rockets have?

858
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, come on, Uh, it's my team. My

859
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: rule five is the cut up. I told you that,

860
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: all right? So I think most people will say what

861
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 1: the hell is going on with Kyrie everything? Because I

862
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: think I have him higher than almost anybody else out

863
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: there that I've heard do their All NBA predictions. I

864
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: think it's a joke that he's not on some people's

865
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 1: teams when it comes to All NBA. I think it's embarrassing.

866
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,479
Speaker 1: He's averaging twenty seven to five and six. He's played

867
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: fifty two games, so you can't you know, he's played

868
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,359
Speaker 1: enough games. A lot of these guys are around that mark.

869
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: His shooting splits are fifty from the floor, Leale thirty

870
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,720
Speaker 1: nine point seven from three ninety two point two excuse

871
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: me at the line. So it's the most efficient he's

872
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: ever been. He's been an All NBA player before, and

873
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: the only reason people don't want him there, let's be honest,

874
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 1: is because he has taken time off and it hasn't

875
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: really been because of a physical injury. And here's what

876
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: I push back to this. All we do. It feels

877
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: like when a Demarta Rosen or Kevin Love or other

878
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,720
Speaker 1: NBA players rightfully come out and talk about how important

879
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: mental health is to themselves moving forward to everybody in

880
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: this world, and everybody applauds it. Yes, yes, preach good.

881
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:00,919
Speaker 1: You're right. We should be talking talking about mental health

882
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: like it is, you know, just the same way we

883
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: talk about a physical injury. But then when Kyrie or

884
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: other players appear to again, it's it's what happens is

885
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: it's personal, so we don't get the full story. But

886
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: I am jumping to conclusions that at times it is

887
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: a mental health break for whatever the reason is for

888
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: that person. That then we shit on, Oh geez, he's

889
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: just gone, well what's going on? Well, which one is it?

890
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 1: Do you want to applaud these guys for being advocates

891
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: for mental health and you know, taking care of your

892
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: mind just as much as your body, or or do

893
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 1: you not because this is what happens with Kyrie in

894
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: my opinion, because I think he's incredible. I think he's

895
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: been the best NETS player this year, and I know

896
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: that will open up some eyes because I think it's

897
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: just you know, of course playing more than Durant helps

898
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: and then hard and missing twenty games there too. So

899
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: I got Kyrie on the l NBA squad. I got

900
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: on his high a second. But I am shocked Tree

901
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: that I see a lot of people not even having

902
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: them on their legit, you know, all NBA first, second,

903
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: or third ties. I think that's I don't know, I

904
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: just think they're holding something against because they don't like him.

905
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 4: I think you're totally right.

906
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 5: There have been multiple times this year where Kyrie has

907
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 5: refused to speak to media, and that's the kind of

908
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 5: thing that people seem to remember.

909
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 4: Kyrie Irving has.

910
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 5: Been the most consistent part of the Nets and they

911
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 5: have been one of the best teams.

912
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 4: In the league.

913
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 5: I completely disagree with your James Harden take, but I'm

914
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 5: loving this Kyrie take, so I will be adding you

915
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 5: after the show.

916
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: Okay, great, let's go to all NBA third team. Look,

917
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: this is where it does start to get actually difficult,

918
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: especially with the guards. I do have Lebron on the team,

919
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: you know, I am assuming he's going to play these

920
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: final two games, so he gets the forty five games played. Mark,

921
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: So he's in there, and it just feels also icky

922
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: not to have him on an all NBA team. I

923
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: get it, Trey Sam could be silver hardened, but he's

924
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: coming up a little short for me. Paul George my

925
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,439
Speaker 1: other forward, Rudy's the center. And then the guards. My god,

926
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: there are like ten guards to pick from. That's why

927
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: we're going all NBA ten teams deep here. I went

928
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: with Chris Paul and I went with Bradley Beal. I

929
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: really got down to like trying to decide between the

930
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: Suns player in Chris pauler Den Booker, I'm then a

931
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: Wizards player in Russell Westbrook or Bradley Beal. I went

932
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: with these two. The best part about this is not

933
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: gonna matter because these other guys are just gonna be

934
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: on the next team or the next team, so they're

935
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: gonna be in the mix here. But it is a

936
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: difficult decision, and I actually don't envy people that really

937
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: are filling out their All NBA balance when it comes

938
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: to this third team guards, Trey, who would be your two?

939
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you may not have Kyrie I guess as

940
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,720
Speaker 1: high as I had, but and I guess you're assuming

941
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: or I'm assuming you're putting hard in it as well.

942
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: But like it's tough to leave some of these guys

943
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: not on an All NBA team after the incredible seasons

944
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: they've had.

945
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and Skeet's just to circle back here real quick,

946
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 5: James Harden will have played one hundred and forty more

947
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 5: minutes than Lebron James so far this season, so he's

948
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 5: played more basketball, but it hasn't specifically been the games.

949
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 4: This is gonna be your biggest bugaboo here. I don't know.

950
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 5: I mean, you're exactly right. The calls between the Suns

951
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 5: and the Wizards. Are you going Chris Paul or are you

952
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 5: going Devin Booker? Are you going Russell Westbrook or are

953
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 5: you going Bradley Beal? I kind of think I would

954
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 5: go Westbrook over Beal if I'm being honest here, because

955
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 5: the Wizards got a lot better when Bradley Beal had

956
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 5: the ball less. You know, Russell Westbrook started up in

957
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 5: his usage rate, clocking all those triple doubles, and that's

958
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 5: when the Wizards turned around. When Bradley Beal took the

959
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 5: smallest back seat to Russell Westbrook, and the Wizards became

960
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 5: a rough kind of team.

961
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 4: That's when they took off. So I think I'm going

962
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:21,959
Speaker 4: Westbrook over Beal.

963
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean, look, I'm not going to be angry

964
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: with that. The guy is scoring thirty one points for

965
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 1: a game. I mean it's tough. Yeah, you're splitting Hairslee,

966
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,399
Speaker 1: you're a Beal guy? Do I have this one right?

967
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: Is he an All NBA thirteen guy?

968
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 2: Sure? Yeah? But honestly, how much fun is it been

969
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 2: watching Westbrook over these last six weeks?

970
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 4: Lee doesn't talk about Bradley Beal anymore because.

971
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 2: The Wizards at seventeen and thirty two, it was like,

972
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 2: you know what a complete waste this season is? And now,

973
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 2: largely due to Westbrook's just incredible play by getting these

974
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,240
Speaker 2: triple doubles, they're in the playing tournament.

975
00:42:58,280 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: So I'm definitely pulling.

976
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 2: Are they I thought they left the bull No?

977
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 4: No, okay, Wizards are still going to blow it.

978
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 1: The Wizards have to lose the wrestler games.

979
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 2: Bulls have to win wrestler games, which is right right,

980
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 2: I'm I mean it could come down to Hornets and

981
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 2: the Wizards for that plane, and I'm not sure because

982
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 2: they've both been so much fun to watch this season

983
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 2: but I think I'll be pulling for Westbrook because I

984
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 2: want to just see crazy chaos and I desperately want

985
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 2: to see somehow, somehow the Nets and the Wizards in

986
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 2: the first round have a I haven't.

987
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: I know you do. I'm going to keep it podcast

988
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: to go off the rails here that this week, right, Okay,

989
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 1: here's here's a god.

990
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 5: Here's a good argument though from JFK. Not that JFK

991
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 5: and the stream team who says Westbrook wasn't good for

992
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 5: half the season, Beal was good the whole season. That's

993
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 5: a that's a pretty solid point because unfortunately for Russell

994
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 5: Westbrook the first half of the season when the Wizards

995
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 5: were pretty bad.

996
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 4: Yeah he was, he was playing back.

997
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: This is the problem with these really all the awards, right,

998
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: that happens like you just for get about the first

999
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: six to eight weeks in the season, and you like

1000
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to remember the last six eight

1001
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, where like a guy like Westbrook

1002
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: is dominant. That is the truth that's helped a guy

1003
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: like Jimmy Butler's case of course too, Like he's just

1004
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: been incredible over the last little bit and you're like, oh, well,

1005
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: he wasn't all that. He wasn't playing all that well

1006
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: early on. Well, it doesn't matter. Timing is everything, timmans everything.

1007
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: But it's a great point. That's why I got Bill

1008
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:27,399
Speaker 1: in there. Okay, So All NBA fourth Team, it's never

1009
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: been done. Oh my god. Okay, So, well you see

1010
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,439
Speaker 1: it there. It's the two guards I was debating from

1011
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 1: those two teams where I put Chris Paul and Beal, well,

1012
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: it's the other ones. I'm going Devin Booker obviously, you know,

1013
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: crediting him here for my ow NBA fourth team because

1014
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: of the Sun's success. He's been really, really solid. Yes,

1015
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: his numbers sort of went down from those crazy scoring

1016
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: numbers he was doing, especially in the bubble there, but

1017
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 1: that's fine. He's become a better player alongside Chris Paul.

1018
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: It's helped. And then Westbrook, we talked him about him enough.

1019
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 4: Forwards.

1020
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 1: I went Jason Tatum and I went Zion Williamson for

1021
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: my All NBA four squad, and then the center. This

1022
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:04,919
Speaker 1: was the easiest pick of my All NBA four team.

1023
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: Probably it's bam Adebayo.

1024
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 5: Uh.

1025
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: He might find a way into the actual All NBA

1026
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: for a second to third teams like obviously that third

1027
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,879
Speaker 1: team probably is where he would fall, depending if people

1028
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 1: get really sneaky with that embiid move and putting him

1029
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: to forward, because then Gobert probably slides up to the

1030
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: second team. Then BAM's in there on the third team.

1031
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: So we will see. But I got him on my

1032
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: fourth team. Any any issues with that one? Guys, where

1033
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:28,439
Speaker 1: we can keep moving here a lot of teams still,

1034
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: that's nice, that's a nice person. Snow that one feels good?

1035
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: Right now? It feels good.

1036
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 4: It's really nice.

1037
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: Uh, it's probably when we get to the All NBA

1038
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: fifteen where you stick going. Really really are we doing this?

1039
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: There are still great guards to pick from. I got

1040
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: no problem with Trey Young and Zach Levine as my

1041
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: backcourt of my l NBA fifth team. Treyung, of course,

1042
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: has the Hawks in a home court advantaged position right now.

1043
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 1: He is He's actually gone really under the raider. I

1044
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: feel like this year has not been a ton of

1045
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: talk about him, but the numbers solid. Zach Lavine, I

1046
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: think he has to be as high as this. When

1047
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: you're going this deep, there are other guards Mitchell Simmons,

1048
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,439
Speaker 1: you know, we'll get to them, but twenty seven point

1049
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: five points per game from Zack Lavine, shooting over fifty

1050
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: percent from the floor, over forty one percent from three.

1051
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 1: Just to put this into perspective a little bit here,

1052
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: Zach Lavine like is like a super charged Klay Thompson

1053
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: right now this year, throw out the defense. Klay Thomps

1054
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: is an unbelievable defender. Zack Lavine, you know, still has

1055
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: lots of room to grow on that end, but offensively, like,

1056
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,720
Speaker 1: those are what I'm getting is like those are like again,

1057
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 1: like like just amped up Clay like numbers from in

1058
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: terms of the mount of three point attempts in a

1059
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 1: game Leley obviously the percentage of course scores more than

1060
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: a guy like Clay has over the like let's say

1061
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 1: last three years where Clay you know, took an average

1062
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. That forty one percent from three

1063
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,240
Speaker 1: on like eight attempts, that is Clay, Like, that's amazing

1064
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,839
Speaker 1: to me. So, you know, deserving of an All NBA

1065
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: fifth Team, not all right, everybody, I love.

1066
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love as no. Yeah.

1067
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:05,879
Speaker 5: One of the worst time missings of the season, Zach

1068
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 5: Lavine missing almost four weeks as the Bulls traded for

1069
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 5: Nick Vuchovic completely submarine the season. But yeah, if you're looking,

1070
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 5: especially at the first half, Levine was on fire. I

1071
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 5: mean he's on par with me, for Trey, with Trey Young,

1072
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 5: even Bradley Beal. The way he's able to get to

1073
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 5: his shots. Just an unstoppable score, except for maybe in

1074
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 5: the last thirty seconds of the game, where I feel

1075
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 5: like he was one for ten on pull.

1076
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 4: Up jumpers this season.

1077
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 5: But he made some incredible strides this year, close to

1078
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 5: a fifty to forty ninety guy while putting up twenty

1079
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 5: seven a game.

1080
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 4: Impressive stuff.

1081
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: Huge the forwards, this was fun. Demarta Rosen. I think

1082
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: a lot of people out there still think Tomarto Rosen

1083
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: is a shooting guard. He's not. He's a power forward

1084
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: basically on the spurs, which is really weird. You know,

1085
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,280
Speaker 1: seventy percent of his minutes or at the power forward

1086
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: position and then you don't even play guard anymore. Although

1087
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: he's like a bit of a you know, they run

1088
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: things roughm of course, he's Demartin Rosen, so he's got

1089
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: to get a lot of assists. He's a bit of a

1090
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: point forward. And is that a really good year? I

1091
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: got him in here in my all NBA fifteen. I

1092
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: teased this one earlier, Sabonis, he's a lock for the

1093
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: OLNBA fifteen, twenty twelve, and seven. He's going to be,

1094
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 1: in my opinion, one of the true biggest snubs from

1095
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: the LNBA forirst second or third teams there, and he

1096
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: won't make it, and he probably won't even be deserving,

1097
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: but he'll have to be at the top of the

1098
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,439
Speaker 1: snub list. And then my center, Oh felt good. We've

1099
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: talked about him a lot because of the big beef

1100
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: segments and this guy just bullying all these little, puny

1101
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: pretend centers we have in this league. It's Jonas Valanciunas

1102
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: for the Grizzlies. I'm slipping them in here as the

1103
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:38,319
Speaker 1: fifth best I guess center seventeen and thirteen. You know,

1104
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: if you round up a little bit there, but a

1105
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: top fifteen player efficiency rating. Again, we talked about him

1106
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 1: a lot. It feels like for a guy that doesn't

1107
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: get a lot of credit elsewhere, probably across the NBA

1108
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 1: media landscape, he's been good lately. JV. I was happy

1109
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 1: to put him here.

1110
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 2: I think he's been awesome this season for the Grizzlies

1111
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 2: and a big part of why they are in the

1112
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 2: position they're in because he has been a bully at

1113
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 2: both ends of the floor. You could probably even put

1114
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 2: him ahead of BAM. I think for actually, listen, Bamm,

1115
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 2: I know JV wasn't an All Star, but Bam, remember

1116
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 2: he wasn't really sort of.

1117
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: All that much better than last year.

1118
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know that, but I'm just saying,

1119
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 2: in terms of the impact he's had on his team,

1120
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 2: I think Valentunas this season. You know, you could make

1121
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 2: an argument for him to be in the most improved conversation.

1122
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 2: I just think he's been that good for the Grizzlies.

1123
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,799
Speaker 2: But but it's it is, it's the Grizzlies, and it

1124
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 2: is It's like people aren't watching them outside of Ja Morant,

1125
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 2: and I just think that he's been great. So I'm

1126
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 2: glad he's at least on the fifteenth good squeezed in.

1127
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I was Jimmy Copella.

1128
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,240
Speaker 4: Gimme Cappella over JV.

1129
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 5: I mean they're pretty similar cases, to be quite honest,

1130
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,879
Speaker 5: But Cappella has is leading the league in rebounding. He's

1131
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 5: the only guy who plays defense on the Hawks, and

1132
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,919
Speaker 5: their team is better. I think Capella has it has

1133
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,400
Speaker 5: a bit of a chance over Bam as well. If

1134
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 5: I'm being completely honest, But I think he blows JV

1135
00:49:58,600 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 5: out of the water here.

1136
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: Oh the you won't like who's the center on the

1137
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: All NBA six team, which will be ironic. Let's get

1138
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,240
Speaker 1: to it, JD. I put Vouch there as the SEB.

1139
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: Don't worry, Capella's coming up next. But yeah, I hear

1140
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: you on that, Capella. I was moving them around even

1141
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: up into the last minute here, but I got Vouch

1142
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: as the center on the All NBA six team. My

1143
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: forwards Middleton and Harris because they're the same player. Yeah,

1144
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 1: they're like just they're going to go into the Hall

1145
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: of Very Good. They're just they're really good players. They're

1146
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: obviously been very efficient both of them this year, so

1147
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 1: they're deserving of this spot. And then the guards, I

1148
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: went Donovan Mitchell. It feels criminally low to me, but

1149
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 1: I'm being honest. But then we just went through all

1150
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,720
Speaker 1: those guards and I don't know, I struggle to bump

1151
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: him ahead of some of them. I know the Jazz

1152
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:43,919
Speaker 1: have a better record than a lot of the guys

1153
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: I mentioned, but I think he's been hurt here by

1154
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: missing some games lately, it would have been different if

1155
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: he's probably putting up some twenty five thirty point games

1156
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 1: will last a little bit, so maybe that's why he's sliding.

1157
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: And then Ben Simmons, I mean this is a huge

1158
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 1: not of course to his defense. As we start getting

1159
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: into these deeper teams, I do start giving some love

1160
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: to some defensive players a little bit more, as you'll see.

1161
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: But simo, there Leley coming on the sixth team with Donovan, Middleton,

1162
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:08,320
Speaker 1: Harris and Vooch.

1163
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, I think it's funny that you've got

1164
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 2: Mitchell and Simmons on the same team there.

1165
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 5: The rivals, and then you got Middleton and Harris the

1166
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 5: same player, and Vooch ye all by himself on Vooch Island.

1167
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 5: My favorite comments that we're seeing in the stream team

1168
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 5: are these.

1169
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:25,880
Speaker 1: The sixth team? Would smack?

1170
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 4: I love it like it's a real game between these two.

1171
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, look somebody out there. Hell, we should talk

1172
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,800
Speaker 1: to our guy king of the fourth quarter? Can he

1173
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: beat them? I don't know, make these teams and play

1174
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: against each other two k or something. Let's see, Uh

1175
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:44,879
Speaker 1: who really is the best squad? Okay, all NBA seventh team.

1176
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: We got a few to go here still the guards,

1177
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday and Jalen Brown. Forwards, Brandon Ingram, Michael Porter Jr.

1178
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: And then the center there is Clint Capella, who I

1179
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: do agree Tray could have could be your all NBA

1180
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,800
Speaker 1: fifth or even sixth center, but well, slide him into seventh.

1181
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: He has had a dominant year though. And yeah, a

1182
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: couple of these names I started to like almost surprise

1183
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 1: myself a little bit.

1184
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 4: II.

1185
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: Colporter Junior. I mean, he's gotta be in the mix

1186
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 1: for a top fifty player, So I don't care if

1187
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: you're throwing him on the seventh, eighth, ninth or whatever team,

1188
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: but he's in here. Ingram quietly a really you know,

1189
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 1: good year in terms of scoring the ball. But Pelican's

1190
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: disappointed all the attention went to Zion and rightfully so.

1191
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 1: But he's still good man. And then Jalen Brown, Oh man,

1192
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:30,839
Speaker 1: what a horrible injury. Awesome, awesome first half of the season. Though,

1193
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: I you know, Tatum is a star, but Jalen Brown

1194
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,320
Speaker 1: at many times this season looked like the best player

1195
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: on the Celtics, especially what he brings defensively. And then

1196
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday, you know, hey, believe he's the best defensive

1197
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: player in the league. He believes he's like Gary Payton

1198
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 1: two point zero and I do too at times for sure.

1199
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 1: So Drew Holiday All NBA seventeen, that's good. That's a

1200
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: good squad there for an All NBA seventeen. Like, look

1201
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 1: at the NBA is in good hands, man, When that's

1202
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: the All NBA seven team.

1203
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,439
Speaker 4: That's all Stars team right there.

1204
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,320
Speaker 5: People who are going to be hyping up this seventh

1205
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 5: team put them on the cover of Slam Magazine, the

1206
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 5: seventh best players at each of their position.

1207
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 4: These guys are awesome. I love it. This is a

1208
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 4: hype for this team. Sketzee.

1209
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: Okay, good, it's getting it's starting to get even crazy

1210
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: about now we're up to the All NBA eighth Team again.

1211
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: I still think we have really good guards here in consideration.

1212
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: No oh no, it's my fault. That's my fault in

1213
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: justin Jrant, John Rant. Apologies, JD. That's that's my bad there,

1214
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 1: if you want to edit that. My guards for the

1215
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: All NBA eighth Team are Ja Morant, Mike Conley, and

1216
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: then the forwards are Pascal Siakam, Draymond Green, and Karl

1217
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns a very weird team.

1218
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 4: Hmm.

1219
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,800
Speaker 1: Okay, just with Sakham. Don't drop a homer card on me. Okay,

1220
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: I know he's had a really weird disappointing you obviously

1221
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 1: missed a ton of game winners and stuff like that.

1222
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: Very Zach Lavine like in a weird way. He couldn't

1223
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: hit a three to save his life, unlike Zack Lavine.

1224
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 1: But Sakam's still average twenty two to seven and five.

1225
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: So if this was a herbage season, a terrible bad

1226
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: season for this guy, then okay, maybe that's a sign

1227
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: of good things to come. That's still a damn good year.

1228
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: And he's still in the mix here for one of

1229
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: the all NBA ten teams. So I got him here

1230
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: on the eighth team. There it is John Morant to dream,

1231
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: of course, because the defense Karl Anthony Towns has played

1232
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 1: forty seven games. This is probably hilariously low for a

1233
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: guy like cat But you know, it's a season. It

1234
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: was a nightmare season from the jump with obviously what

1235
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: happened in the offseason, but still twenty five, ten and five. Guy, Lee,

1236
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: you love cat Man, dude.

1237
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's performed when he's been out there playing, but

1238
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 2: it's just been a it's been a pretty bad season

1239
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:39,360
Speaker 2: that never really got going there in Minnesota. But man,

1240
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 2: we've got three Jazz and the first Raptor on the

1241
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 2: eighth team. And the Raptors a, you know, kind of

1242
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 2: stunk in. The Jazz are the best team in the league.

1243
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 2: So Itskethy, how many more rap is he gonna squeeze?

1244
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 2: And then we're gonna see a Freddy Van leading, then we're.

1245
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: Gonna see Saler. You're not they're not, Yeah, I held

1246
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 1: back vile and not not not gonna have a little

1247
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: light you say he can slip into the Tames. Man,

1248
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: he's like giving up on it season. Kyle's done. He's

1249
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:04,359
Speaker 1: gone got this you already, buddy, all right? So okay,

1250
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,800
Speaker 1: so not too many if you have qualms at this

1251
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:11,919
Speaker 1: point with you, but yeah, all right, all NBA ninth

1252
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: Team Darren Fox, CJ McCollum, Jeremy Grant gets in. Baby,

1253
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 1: had to slip a millions on one of these teams.

1254
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:23,239
Speaker 1: I went with Boyan Bogdanovic for the Jazz, not having

1255
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: as greatest season as he did last year when he

1256
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 1: was like a twenty point per game scorer, but he's

1257
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:29,719
Speaker 1: turned it on, you know, as of late and then

1258
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: and I'm also, of course, you know, awarding his team's

1259
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:34,799
Speaker 1: success a little bit, and he is important. And then

1260
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton, that's the big guy, uh for the Suns

1261
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 1: there at the center position. McCollum, I was moving around

1262
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 1: until the final second here before we went live. I

1263
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 1: was confused as where to put him because he was

1264
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: averaging like twenty seven points per game before his injury.

1265
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: He was playing incredible. And then he's come back and

1266
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 1: of course he's like, you know, started slow coming back

1267
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: from the injury, but now he's got it going again,

1268
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: and like he's I'm good. I love seej mcclellm. I

1269
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: just have so much faith in a guy like that

1270
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 1: at the end of a game that he can get

1271
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 1: you a bucket. So this feels right to me. Missing

1272
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: a huge chunk of time, but having played enough games

1273
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:11,839
Speaker 1: because he started the season there and then he's played

1274
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: over the last little bit, so he's there. Fox had

1275
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 1: a great year on a crappy Kings team. Blah blah

1276
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,320
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Final team will wrap this up and

1277
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 1: then we'll get to some snubs All NBA Tens team.

1278
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: I just gave it to the Hornet's back, right, the

1279
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 1: Lamello and Terry Roseier. Here you go, Terry Rozier a

1280
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:29,399
Speaker 1: twenty point per game score. Lamello, you know I'm gonna

1281
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: win Rookie of the Year very very likely. Uh Like

1282
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: it came down to a lot of guys who I'll

1283
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: get to for that. These final spots went with Kris

1284
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: Laverta is the forward, John Collins is the other forward,

1285
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 1: and then Jared Allen as the center. So there it is. Wow,

1286
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: ten all in eighteen. Now let's get to the snub.

1287
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 4: That's all.

1288
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's about all right? Who did I snub? Well,

1289
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: you set a couple of raptors Ley, let's throw him

1290
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 1: in there, Van Vlei Lowry okay, whatever? Uh I you know,

1291
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: I think they're both better than a lot of players

1292
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: that we had on these lists, but brutal season. I

1293
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: don't even want to like award them for anything. I

1294
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 1: almost didn't even have Siakam there, but I had to

1295
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 1: convince myself to put them on. But they're in the mix.

1296
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: Jordan Clarkson and Joe Ingles sure snubs. Malcolm Brogdon snub

1297
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 1: Colin Sexton probably the highest point per game score that

1298
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 1: I don't have in the mix on the cast.

1299
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 5: There it is.

1300
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 1: He's a snub. Dereck Rose has got to be a

1301
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 1: snub at this point, especially the way he's played over

1302
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 1: the last you know, six weeks or so. Anthony Edwards,

1303
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 1: I said, if I got LaMelo in there, yeah, sure

1304
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: you could make a case for Anthony Edwards another Knicks

1305
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 1: actually two more Knicks players RJ. Barrett. I really really

1306
00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: it was close to having him in there as like

1307
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: one of the forwards near the end of these teams.

1308
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 1: And sure you could Neurlen's Noelle oh I love, but

1309
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it, Trey because you would have mocked

1310
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: me until the end of time. Yall could Pearl as

1311
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: a center, Yakub Peerl could have got some center love,

1312
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: but didn't. And then finally I got a couple more

1313
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: names and then you guys can throw it an when

1314
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: I missed Tim hardiway a junior was consideration for the

1315
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 1: tenth team, mckel Bridges for the Suns, who's been great,

1316
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: and just for the stream team. Everybody drop it in

1317
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: the stream team right now. All Caps locks, esclimation, baby.

1318
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 4: Dort Roar Doors.

1319
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 1: So there it is by all NBA ten teams with snubs,

1320
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: true sick o shit. So yeah, but anyway, who am

1321
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: I missing? Who I'm missing?

1322
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 5: The stream team is saying the biggest snub Jordan Clarkson. Okay, yep,

1323
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 5: did you just say you got to be a starter

1324
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 5: to make one of these?

1325
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: No? No, no, no, he was he was inconsidered, like

1326
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 1: he's if I had done this at the All Star break, Yeah,

1327
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 1: he's in. He's one of these ones where like timing

1328
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: has not helped him, you know, I know he just

1329
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: had the big forty one point zero. Yeah, he's just like,

1330
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 1: you know, he's gone away. He's getting his right now.

1331
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: With the backcourt being out, he was him and Ingles

1332
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: almost like sort of like I was torn between the

1333
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 1: two of them. So I guess they canceled each other out.

1334
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: But he's a snob, no doubt. Who else anyone else?

1335
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 4: I'm trying to remember any of the other four.

1336
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: I guess I nailed it.

1337
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 4: Where's Tyree Halliburton?

1338
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: Where's no getting out of here?

1339
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 2: Now?

1340
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 4: You're being Wigans? How about Wiggins?

1341
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: Wigans? That's a name I didn't say. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure,

1342
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: I'm not agree with that.

1343
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 5: This is the hardest game of What about this guy

1344
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 5: of all times pull out these deep cuts.

1345
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 4: Some deep cuts, Battius Young? Maybe at uh, maybe at all.

1346
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 1: Too?

1347
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 2: What about being solid for.

1348
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: You guys? Didn't do that well, Kizie.

1349
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 2: I know you did your top ten teams there, so

1350
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 2: I decided to come with something as well. And I'm

1351
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 2: gonna do the top twenty candidates for Coach of the Year.

1352
00:59:56,640 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 2: Go go ahead, dude, No, I just might.

1353
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great. That's great, all right, So tweet at

1354
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: me at Jay Skeets. Let us know in the YouTube comments,

1355
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 1: do you agree with Trey first off?

1356
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 2: Uh?

1357
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: That James Harden. Let's say he only plays forty four games,

1358
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 1: he's got to be in the mix. What do you

1359
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,479
Speaker 1: think about that? Do I have capella too low? Should

1360
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 1: I have more raptors in the mix? Do I have

1361
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: enough jazz players in the mix? Let's hear it all uh?

1362
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: And you know, keep going is what I say. Somebody

1363
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: do the all NBA elevens team. Somebody do the twelve team,

1364
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 1: just like, get a chain going in the YouTube comments.

1365
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 1: Have some fun with it. It's embarrassing how much the

1366
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 1: actually effort I put into that. I'm not gonna lie

1367
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 1: where I started like had to catch myself going, holy shit,

1368
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 1: none of this match? What am I doing?

1369
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:47,919
Speaker 5: The McCollum where he goes you went again for ninth team,

1370
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 5: because once that ninth team showed up and it was

1371
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 5: boy On Bogdanovic actually time down, I was like, oh man,

1372
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 5: this well, just.

1373
01:00:56,760 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: Put de Bugdano do it. That's just what'dous bog down

1374
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: in the in the mix he was in contention.

1375
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 2: Sounds like you were Andy Dufraying crawling through the tunnel

1376
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 2: at the end of showshankred emptioniin that way, like you

1377
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 2: couldn't go back.

1378
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 1: You had to just keep on going to the end

1379
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: and absolutely well I got to the seventh team and

1380
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 1: I was gonna stop. But then it's hilarious. Who start going, Man,

1381
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 1: I don't got John Moran on a team, Like all right,

1382
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 1: let's just keep going. Oh god, okay, there it is Correcully.

1383
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:29,600
Speaker 1: That was fun for some of you out there. Let's

1384
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 1: get to tweeted the Night, tweet out the Night. Wow, Twitt,

1385
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: I'm piggybacking off my man tass on what you need

1386
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 1: to know today with tweeted the Night because Nick Depaula

1387
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: coming through with this tweet last night, he tweeted, Wow,

1388
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 1: Blake Griffin has mclovin thirty five's on tonight with his

1389
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 1: own Hawaii id info. There's the close up enhanced jad

1390
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:57,840
Speaker 1: nice work. Yeah, we're looking at it here on the

1391
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: stream team Blake's uh mclovin kicks TK, Like, have you

1392
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 1: ever seen these? I mean, I assume not, But what

1393
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:06,960
Speaker 1: do you think of these?

1394
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 4: I love them?

1395
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 5: Uh, super bad. It's on my list of the funniest

1396
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:14,440
Speaker 5: movies in the past twenty years. Obviously, Blake Griffin is

1397
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 5: a comedy fan. I like the Jordan thirty five. You

1398
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 5: throw a little bit of Hawaii rainbow in there. These

1399
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 5: things are beautiful, especially I guess you would call that.

1400
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 5: I guess they were matching the nets uniforms last night,

1401
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:28,920
Speaker 5: but that's sort of a Carolina blue always a great color.

1402
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:32,000
Speaker 5: Makes sense with the Jordan. Yeah, two thumbs up from me.

1403
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:34,560
Speaker 1: All right, Lee, what do you think of these mclovin's.

1404
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder what inspired them though to just go

1405
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 2: with the whole mclovin thing, Like was you know, has

1406
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 2: Blake got some connection there to it or something? I'm

1407
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 2: not sure, but you know, if you're gonna go in,

1408
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 2: you may as well, do it all the way like that.

1409
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 2: So yeah, thank Greg.

1410
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 1: What is he gonna do with them now? Is you

1411
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 1: wear them again? Give them away?

1412
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 2: Have another set there? Sell them?

1413
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 1: How do a knife from them? Pretty slick like the

1414
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 1: customized id there for Blake, right, that's all.

1415
01:02:59,240 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, driff with his signature, brilliant, good stuff.

1416
01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, attention to detail there all right. Let's uh,

1417
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 1: let's see your thumbs thumbs up, her thumbs down there

1418
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 1: in the stream team right now for Blake's mclebbns that

1419
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: he was rocking last night, Okay, pick him. Results drought

1420
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 1: to you by Bett mgl It was the Celtics Calves game.

1421
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:20,640
Speaker 1: Boston was favored by nine and a half on the

1422
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 1: road in Cleveland. Oh my goodness, the Calves straight up win.

1423
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 1: Kevin Love back with a vengeance. He won Woe Boy

1424
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: last night. Quick trivia question, can you name the three

1425
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 1: Kevins to have won a Woe Boy this year?

1426
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 4: Kevin Porter Junior? Yep, did he get one for that fifty?

1427
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:38,520
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1428
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 4: What other Kevin Well, yeah.

1429
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:42,200
Speaker 1: The other one's a lot easier.

1430
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, nice nice, nice.

1431
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 1: Kady Kevin Porter Junior. Now Kevin Love, take him over

1432
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 1: by last night anyway, Calves won. So that's a nice

1433
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 1: victory for Trey. Who goes to seven and one here

1434
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 1: at the month of May, with only two nights left

1435
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 1: for this short pick the battle. Well, Lee, you got

1436
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 1: the victory, so you've taken the lead over Tassie. You're

1437
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 1: not in the last year three and five. Task took

1438
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 1: the Celtics. He's two and six. I took the Celtics.

1439
01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: I'm five and three. So tonight's game Philly Miami, Philadelphia

1440
01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 1: favored by one and a half points on the road.

1441
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 1: Keep playing really well. One of the hotest teams in

1442
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: the lead, probably the hottest team in the East, right

1443
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 1: got the Blazers in the West, heat in the East.

1444
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 1: But Philly's trying to lock up that number one seed.

1445
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 4: Where do you go with this one?

1446
01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 1: Ley? You like Philly to win by two or more

1447
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: or the Heat to get this done.

1448
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 2: I feel the heater gonna grind this one out and

1449
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 2: get the victory. Yeah, Hey, that's it.

1450
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the heater, the heater balling right now. Embead

1451
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 5: is listed as questionable. He's got a non COVID illness.

1452
01:04:56,840 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 5: I'm going Miami as well. I'm trying to pick the winner.

1453
01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 5: I don't know if Lee's still trying to put out

1454
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 5: at this point, but I think Miami will at least

1455
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 5: keep it closed, and I think they'll probably win this one.

1456
01:05:08,080 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 1: Lee only either talks for ten minutes straight about something

1457
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 1: or ten seconds. There's no one between with this guy.

1458
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 1: All right, So you're taking Miami as well?

1459
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 4: Ye, Chica?

1460
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's find out who excuse me, task

1461
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 1: is going with?

1462
01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 4: Ah?

1463
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, looking forward to this one on TNT. I will

1464
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 3: be keeping half an eye on it during our charity

1465
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:31,640
Speaker 3: fundraiser for Saint Jude Children's Research on Thursday night. Status

1466
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 3: of both stars Embiad and Butler is questionable. So I'm

1467
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:36,040
Speaker 3: going to go with the team that's playing a little

1468
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 3: bit better ball, Miami rolling into the postseason, and I

1469
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:40,919
Speaker 3: like the fact that the Sixers have won the first

1470
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,920
Speaker 3: two games of this season series. Miami's got to get

1471
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 3: one of them. Give me Miami, all right.

1472
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,080
Speaker 1: We got three of you guys taking my mel swerve.

1473
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 1: I don't think I really have anything to lose. Pass

1474
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 1: Can you even catch me? I don't think so. I

1475
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:56,680
Speaker 1: don't know anyway, I'll take five. Let's live a little.

1476
01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 1: I'll take the Sixers.

1477
01:05:57,760 --> 01:05:57,880
Speaker 2: Too.

1478
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, everybody else taking Miami to cover

1479
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 1: the spread. There they are getting one and a half points.

1480
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 1: All right, let's call it there. What a show? My goodness,

1481
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 1: we got another one to get ready for tonight, Tassie

1482
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:15,720
Speaker 1: said it. It's the NBA Happy Hour charity drive raising

1483
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:19,280
Speaker 1: money for a great cause, say Jude Children's Research Hospital.

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Speaker 1: Our goal twenty six and one dollars. We'll get this

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Speaker 1: started live on YouTube at eight thirty pm Eastern. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what. We're praying for a wedgie wedging number

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Speaker 1: fifty to happen while we're doing tonight's show. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: play some games, have some drinks. Actually going to go

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Speaker 1: through a few no dunks awards, Yeah, it's our own awards.

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Speaker 1: Are we dressing up for this thing? You guys want

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Speaker 1: to wear, you know, a suit and a bow tie

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Speaker 1: or something like that. Ley, you wanna wear a flashy shirt?

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Speaker 1: What are you gonna do?

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Speaker 2: Maybe I don't have a bowtie charity drive.

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Speaker 1: I feel we should be dressed up a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll see, yeah, I'll see what I can doget.

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Speaker 2: I haven't dressed up for so long. I don't remember

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Speaker 2: how to wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: It be nice though, And that'd be a nice feeling

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Speaker 1: put on some slacks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well I'll probably have show it's on

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Speaker 2: no matter what. But I might yeah, up upstairs, I

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Speaker 2: might be looking a bit nicer. So yeah, I'll see

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Speaker 2: what i've got.

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Speaker 1: Do you want a top hat?

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.

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Speaker 4: You're saying you're thinking so much about it as you

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Speaker 4: used to have one and now you might not have.

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Speaker 2: I might have had one for, you know, for comical purposes.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I have to look up in the attic.

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Speaker 2: I've got to Yeah, it rained the other day, so

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Speaker 2: I've got to check the attic anyway, So well, I'm

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Speaker 2: not there.

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Speaker 1: Maybe used the top hat as a bucket for your.

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Speaker 2: Liking, Yeah, because actually you know in the house, you know,

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Speaker 2: with kids with their dress ups and that sometimes you

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Speaker 2: have things like that.

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Speaker 1: You were you were doing some coin tricks on the

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Speaker 1: beach yes day. Maybe you had to out yeah warriors,

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Speaker 1: all right, if you had a top hat, please wear

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Speaker 1: one today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'll see if I can find one.

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Speaker 4: I'll be wearing a mash tank top and a robe personally,

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Speaker 4: that's how I dress up.

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Speaker 1: Okay, very cool I got to figure out what I'm

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Speaker 1: wearing now, but away. Join us tonight eight thirty pm

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Speaker 1: Eastern for the No Dunks Happy Hour charity Drive. Like comments,

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Speaker 1: subscribe to No Dunk on YouTube. Email's your NBA questions

1529
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Speaker 1: and comments for the next beach step in podcast No

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Speaker 1: merch over at no dunks dot com. And if you

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Speaker 1: haven't already, please please please subscribe to the Athletic. You

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Speaker 1: will not regret it. Go to the Athletic dot com

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Speaker 1: slash no dunks so they know that we sent you.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, enjoy your day. See you boys tonight

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Speaker 1: for the charity drive.

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Speaker 4: Clipper Bros. You heard it here first. Have a great

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Speaker 4: time turn up. Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for joining us, and remember in the year twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty one, most people have top hats for comical purposes,

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Speaker 5: not for style purposes. They have fallen out of favor

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Speaker 5: a little bit here, but if you've got one, usually

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Speaker 5: good for a joke.

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Speaker 1: Embrace the day, people, you could stay.

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Speaker 5: Every day.

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Speaker 1: Dang me happy every many. It's been so long that

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Speaker 1: you're the one I've waited for.

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Speaker 5: It's happened already. It's gonna be good me