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Speaker 1: Morning swimmerl Then, Welcome to the No Dunks podcast on

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Speaker 1: the Athletic Network. It's Tuesday, July sixth, Happy NBA Finals

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Speaker 1: dot com. Before we get into setting up Game one

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Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals tonight, just a reminder if you

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Speaker 1: It's our sort of Megafinals preview dropped it on Monday. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I got some questions for you. The first one big news,

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Speaker 6: Of course they can. Did you watch Game five? In

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's just a fact. I think the Bucks can

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels a little bit lee like the twenty

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Speaker 6: gonna have to get him into Yanny's mode. I think

427
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Speaker 6: that's going to take a couple of games.

428
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Speaker 1: That's my only I just want to push back on,

429
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,520
Speaker 1: like the decoy angle. I just don't think it works

430
00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 1: for a guy like You're honest, because it's one day

431
00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:13,000
Speaker 1: like yeah, I mean Trey Young Harden again, like Kadi,

432
00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,000
Speaker 1: of course, you got to respect that they're still shot

433
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Speaker 1: makers and they can hit a shot from the outside,

434
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:19,640
Speaker 1: so you can't you can actually use them as a deco.

435
00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:21,359
Speaker 1: You can put them somewhere on the floor, and you

436
00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,400
Speaker 1: still got to respect the hell out of it because

437
00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,040
Speaker 1: they're shooters and it's like, you really can't do that

438
00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,399
Speaker 1: with you honest because he can't shoot to that extent.

439
00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,159
Speaker 1: I mean he can, he can. He can bang home

440
00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,560
Speaker 1: the odd three every once in a while, but of

441
00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,159
Speaker 1: course he's not on their level of those guys I

442
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Speaker 1: just listed. So that's the fascinating part. I just like

443
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Speaker 1: I think he's like, he's got to be good enough

444
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,520
Speaker 1: to go and then be the honest where he's attacking, attacking, attacking,

445
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:42,880
Speaker 1: and the ability to get to the rim to set

446
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,240
Speaker 1: up other guys. But maybe they know something I don't,

447
00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,560
Speaker 1: and maybe this is all again I don't think it

448
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,640
Speaker 1: is trade, but maybe this is that they are playing

449
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:54,720
Speaker 1: a little KOI here and we see him suddenly starting tonight,

450
00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,000
Speaker 1: and they just didn't want to let the sons know that.

451
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Speaker 6: Maybe I get that he can't shoot, but maybe they

452
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Speaker 6: I get that he can't shoot, but you kind of

453
00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 6: have to do keep it, have to keep some attention

454
00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 6: to him, especially the game one where you're trying to

455
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 6: feel things out, like he is the MVP, so you

456
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,960
Speaker 6: you just have to keep some eyes on him. So

457
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 6: that opens up space to me. I understand you're playing

458
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:16,600
Speaker 6: off him a bit, but you also have a really

459
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Speaker 6: good ass defender on him. That wouldn't be on somebody else,

460
00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,480
Speaker 6: and you have to do you have to pay some

461
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Speaker 6: attention to.

462
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Speaker 1: Well, the last I checked, the Suns right now for

463
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Speaker 1: Game one are five and a half point favorites Lely's.

464
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Speaker 1: I've seen it up to six and a half, but

465
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Speaker 1: anywhere within five and a half to six and a

466
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Speaker 1: half their favorites to win Game one. I'm sure a

467
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Speaker 1: big part of that is the the honest question mark.

468
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,040
Speaker 1: But I wanted you dig a little deep here this morning,

469
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Speaker 1: hit up bet MGM and find some Game one player props,

470
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Speaker 1: And I just want to know for all of you guys,

471
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Speaker 1: is there one you got your eye on here? You know,

472
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Speaker 1: would you like to call up my buddy Grish and

473
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Speaker 1: make a friendly bet with one of these player props

474
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Speaker 1: you got.

475
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Speaker 7: I did go to bet MGM moment to bet c am.

476
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Speaker 7: Bet Cam's got.

477
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Speaker 4: Big that's Wizards in WARLTS. That's not even on the

478
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Speaker 4: board Cam.

479
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Speaker 7: Well, I did like. I like the props because it

480
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 7: does give you a little bit of interest that doesn't

481
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Speaker 7: necessarily affect the outcome of the game, which is great.

482
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Speaker 7: And so the one I looked at it and I

483
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,919
Speaker 7: sort of addressed a little bit there earlier. PJ Tucker

484
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,960
Speaker 7: since he joined the Bucks were shooting really well from

485
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Speaker 7: three thirty nine percent in twenty regular season games, but

486
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,920
Speaker 7: in seventeen playoff games he's only at twenty nine percent,

487
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 7: and only twenty three percent in that last series against

488
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Speaker 7: the Hawks. But I think it's precisely the rise time

489
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Speaker 7: to get in on PJ.

490
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Speaker 6: Tuck.

491
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Speaker 7: We go heavy on him tonight because to be the

492
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Speaker 7: Bucks first basket, he's plus eight hundred plus sixteen hundred

493
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 7: for the total games first basket and an even juicy

494
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 7: a plus three thousand if that first basket is a

495
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Speaker 7: three pointer. Now, this is PJ Tucker, PJ Tucker in

496
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Speaker 7: the corner. Where's he playing. He's playing in Phoenix. He

497
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 7: knows this court, he knows this arena, And this is

498
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Speaker 7: how I can see it playing out. I think Brook

499
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Speaker 7: Lopez Wi is the tip. I think the Bucks gaining

500
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 7: that first possession, all the Sun's defense is going to

501
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 7: be focused straight on on Middleton, you know, and Drew Holiday.

502
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 7: Pj's just going to be waiting in the corner ready

503
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 7: to cash in. If that play gets a little bit broken,

504
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 7: a bit of a fumble, it goes goes out to

505
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 7: PJ in the corner.

506
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Speaker 4: That's his spot.

507
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 7: He knows. He had a huge three actually against the

508
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 7: Hawks in Game six. It was the only one that

509
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 7: he hit, but it was precisely the right time. So

510
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,399
Speaker 7: I think tonight is a great time to go heavy.

511
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:29,479
Speaker 4: PJ Tucker.

512
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,120
Speaker 7: First basket of the game.

513
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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Okay, it's a three pointer.

514
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,640
Speaker 7: Okay, that's going to get your plus three thousand, whatever

515
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,439
Speaker 7: you want to invest on that.

516
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Speaker 4: I think that's the way.

517
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 7: That's the way to go, jump on PJ Tucker.

518
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Speaker 1: Okay, PJ Tucker is going to start the scoring of

519
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals with a three. Very likely in the

520
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 1: corner is.

521
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Speaker 7: Definitely, It's definitely in the corners, that's for sure. Having

522
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Speaker 7: I just think Brook again, I think he's going to

523
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 7: win the tip, so the Bucks get first position.

524
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Speaker 1: So okay, I mean Eton's got some HAPs there.

525
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 4: Know what's a tips?

526
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 8: You can tell that the nightly watching schedule has slowed

527
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 8: down a bit. Here we got Skates watched Fast and

528
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 8: Furious last night talking about the torque on Giannis's leg. Meanwhile,

529
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 8: Lee is pulling out uncut gems era wrop bets here

530
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 8: calling the tip.

531
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Speaker 4: And the first play.

532
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Speaker 8: But like you're saying, Brent Barry wrote the song PJ.

533
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 8: Tucker's Open in the Corner during his time in Phoenix.

534
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Speaker 4: Lee, this is a great pick here.

535
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Speaker 8: Actually, I think like you're saying, you get plus three

536
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Speaker 8: thousand on whatever your units.

537
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 1: Are making mad money. We'd be able to we'd be

538
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: able to buy a nice car there. Lee hit Race

539
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: Wars in the Desert. Yes.

540
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 4: Yes.

541
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,919
Speaker 1: The Fast and the Furious podcast, like binge watching it

542
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: is happening. Guys, you got all the time in the

543
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 1: world we started watching them now. They're not going to

544
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: release until early August, so you've got some weeks here

545
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: to start banking your watches of Fast and Furious. And man,

546
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,120
Speaker 1: I got a whole lot of thoughts about the first one.

547
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to podcast about it. What okay, le

548
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: He's got PJ. Tucker going a little differently than I

549
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 1: thought the tasks. Is there one you know over underpoint,

550
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,879
Speaker 1: scored assists, whatever, stuff like that or something else that

551
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 1: that you're watching for in game one player prop bet.

552
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 6: I didn't go to a juicy parlay like Leah. It's

553
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 6: a lot more fun, for sure. I went. I went simpleton,

554
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 6: I went with Brook Lopez over one and a half blocks.

555
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 6: It's a it's a low number because he's had three

556
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 6: and four in his last two games. Obviously those didn't

557
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 6: have Yannis Totakupo in them, but he has to do

558
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 6: more on defense when Yannis is either injured or just

559
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 6: not playing at all. So you know, whether you're not

560
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,880
Speaker 6: Yannis plays. I think brook is up for it. He's

561
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 6: he's playing really really well. The first possession of the

562
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 6: last game, he blocked Kevin Herder, you know, sort of

563
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 6: in the mid range. Yeah, this is this is a

564
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 6: massive man, but he can really move his feet. And

565
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,120
Speaker 6: we all know where Chris Paul shoots from. Chris Paul

566
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 6: always gets space in that mid range. But Brooks will

567
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 6: in a go out there. I could see him blocking

568
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 6: a shot from Chris Paul out there. Now, they don't

569
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 6: necessarily have a lot of drivers on the Phoenix Suns,

570
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 6: but Den Booker does get in there at times. I

571
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 6: think Brooke will be up for the task. I mean,

572
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 6: he's he's he's going to be relied upon a lot

573
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 6: on both ends. I think that's a decent bet.

574
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: Two blocks, that's all you're looking for from Brook Lopez

575
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: and then you're hitting it. Yeah, that's not about I

576
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: mean he's he's fascinating in this series, like whether he

577
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: can actually even be on the court, because as we like,

578
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: they got destroyed in game one from Tree Young because

579
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 1: they did their ultimate like drop coverage where Brook stays

580
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: back and that's how they usually play defense, and then

581
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,479
Speaker 1: he dropped forty eight on them, and they're like, oh,

582
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: we better switch this up. And as that series went

583
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 1: on and on they did. They just started switching it

584
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: a whole lot more. And Brooke did a really good job,

585
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: like you said to us Off, like starting to stay

586
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: in front or at least challenge some of these the

587
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,159
Speaker 1: guards on the Hawks players, And can you do the

588
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: same with the Suns because you know they're going to

589
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: be running pick and rolls and you got eight, you know,

590
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: screaming behind you and Lobb into the net. So yeah,

591
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: like I could see Brook having a monster series, but

592
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 1: at the same time, I also see him being played

593
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: off the floor because of just the matchup problem and

594
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: then the Bucks having to go small maybe to stick

595
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: with it, but we will see. Okay, two blocks off

596
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 1: Brook Lopez in game one trait what do you got

597
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: for your player prop? Bet?

598
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 8: I like Devin Booker over thirty two and a half

599
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 8: combined points and assists seems like a big number. He's

600
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 8: thirty plus points in seven of sixteen playoffs or seven

601
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 8: of seventeen playoff games so far. I think five plus

602
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,640
Speaker 8: assists in eight of those seventeens, eight of those seventeen games.

603
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 8: And we've seen already in this playoffs two massive game

604
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 8: ones from Devin Booker thirty four points, eight rebound, six

605
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 8: assists in his first ever playoff game against the Lakers,

606
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 8: very nice, and then obviously that classic forty points, thirteen

607
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 8: rebounds and eleven assists. He's got the skills, he's.

608
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 4: Got the talent. He shows up in these big games.

609
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,439
Speaker 8: And another thing is that I think he's gonna have

610
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 8: the most offense forward matchup here amongst the backcourt guys

611
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 8: because Chris Paul, Drew Holliday, they're probably guarding each other. Drew,

612
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,479
Speaker 8: I suppose, could either be on CP three or Devin Booker.

613
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 8: Middleton's gardened the other guy, but Booker can kind of

614
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 8: hide somewhere because Mikhail Bridges is around. He'll probably take

615
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 8: Middleton just so you can save Booker's legs a little

616
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 8: bit here. That frees him up on offense. And like

617
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 8: you're saying skeets the Bucks in general come out in

618
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 8: a drop coverage, and if you're doing that against the

619
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 8: Phoenix Suns, it's either going to be Chris Paul or

620
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 8: Devin Booker getting into that mid range. I'm thinking Booker

621
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 8: has a little bit better match up to exploit. So

622
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Speaker 8: give me a big game from Devin Booker tonight. I

623
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,640
Speaker 8: like your pick for him as finals MVP. He's kind

624
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 8: of where I'm leaning as well.

625
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm on this, you know, same wavelength here with

626
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: you as a game one player prop. I just went

627
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: points Devin Booker. I saw twenty eight.

628
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 4: And a half.

629
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Speaker 1: I think he hits thirty points tonight, so that would

630
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: be my bet. But you know I've lost the last

631
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: two pick and payoffs and I still owe those during

632
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: the summer, by the way, so you know, take take

633
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: my bet with a with a grain assault. Okay, final

634
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: question here, what's one specific thing you're watching for in

635
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: tonight's scheme? You know, specific xCE and o's x N

636
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: o's is what I'm trying to say, or a specific matchup, Trey,

637
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: what do you got?

638
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 8: I got a bunch of things I'm gonna watch for.

639
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 8: Here's a few minor things. Who's gonna do the anthem

640
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 8: at the first finals game in Phoenix since nineteen ninety three?

641
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 8: Went on Wikipedia found their most famous musical artists, because

642
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 8: you know, like Golden State had Carlos Santana play like

643
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 8: a Bay Area legend, So could be Alice Cooper, could

644
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Speaker 8: be Jimmy eat World.

645
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Speaker 4: Could be c. C.

646
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Speaker 8: Peniston, could be Dirk's Bentley all Arizona legends. Alice Cooper

647
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 8: would personally be bypicked. That would be very cool.

648
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 6: Alis he did. He did halftime in the conference fight.

649
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Speaker 4: There we go. Okay, another thing?

650
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Speaker 6: He was killing it. He was seventy plus.

651
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Speaker 8: Schools out for summer schools are also interested to see

652
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 8: are the Suns going to be the first team to

653
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 8: wear orange jerseys in the finals? Probably not in Game one.

654
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 8: I guess they're going with the Valley jerseys.

655
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 4: They look good.

656
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 8: As for actual basketball stuff, how are the Bucks gonna

657
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 8: play d Because the big decision for Big Bud is

658
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 8: Drew Holliday. The Suns have two great guards, there's only

659
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 8: one Drew. Is he gonna guard Chris Paul Or is

660
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 8: he gonna guard Devin Booker. You're gonna be missing Dante

661
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 8: di Vincenzo. That's a low key important injury here, I

662
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 8: think for the Bucks, just because his athleticism on the

663
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 8: perimeter would at least allow one of those guys to

664
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Speaker 8: take a break. Because you're asking for major two way

665
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Speaker 8: performances from both Holiday and Middleton. And the next question

666
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Speaker 8: from that is playing that drop coverage that the Bucks

667
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 8: like to do, that's.

668
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Speaker 4: The standard for them.

669
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Speaker 8: They tried it on Trey Young, like you're saying, skeets,

670
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 8: and he just destroyed it. But once Brooke stepped up

671
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 8: a little bit more on the pick and roll, once

672
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Speaker 8: they switched a little bit more, and once Drew Holliday

673
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 8: kind of got into Trey Young, things changed. But that

674
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 8: opens up the offensive glass for eight And it's such

675
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 8: a cat and mouse game having players who are versatile

676
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 8: defenders who actually have to guard versatile offensive players. It's

677
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 8: a lot of interesting stuff's gonna be happening. Most likely,

678
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Speaker 8: the Bucks come out play at standard and everybody's saying,

679
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 8: why won't Mike budenholder a joke, why won't this guy adjust?

680
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 8: Then by the end of the series, we're talking about, Oh,

681
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 8: he actually played all of his guys like forty eight

682
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 8: minutes a game.

683
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 4: He played only six guys.

684
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 8: It's fine. He adjusts eventually. Sometimes it just takes a while.

685
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: Okay, lots to watch there from TK. What about you

686
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Speaker 1: task anything.

687
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Speaker 6: Dad, Well, yeah, that I'm really interested in Devin Booker's matchup.

688
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 6: I understand, you know, shooting guard shooting guard, but I

689
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 6: think they try and throw PJ. Tucker at him. It's

690
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 6: gonna be tough for PJ. Tucker to stick with Devin Booker,

691
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 6: but that is absolutely their best matchup decision. I think

692
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 6: their best option is what I'm trying to say, especially

693
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 6: because at finals practice PJ. Tucker was wearing Devin Booker's pe.

694
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 6: He's wearing his Kobe pe is player exclusive shoe. There.

695
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 6: This guy is wearing the shoe of an opponent in

696
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 6: finals practice. I mean, he's really thinking this through. I

697
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 6: think he wants to get in there on books. Otherwise, PJ.

698
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 6: Tucker is not doing much on the floor if he's

699
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 6: guarding Jay Crowder or mckel bridges. I mean, that's it

700
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Speaker 6: just doesn't make a lot of sense to me to

701
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Speaker 6: have him out there other than winning, you know, your

702
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 6: player prop and hitting a shot in the corner. I

703
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 6: would take him off, take him off the floor unless

704
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 6: he's guarding Devin Booker. So I think that's that's gonna

705
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 6: be his job tonight, get into Devin Booker's shoes.

706
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Speaker 1: Lee, what about you?

707
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Speaker 7: What are you watching for tonight whether or not the

708
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 7: Bucks can survive when Budenholz up has to go to

709
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 7: like a Jeff Tigue for a handful of minutes up

710
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Speaker 7: against someone like a Campaign who Campaign has been really

711
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 7: good for the Phoenix Suns in the playoffs. He's younger,

712
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 7: he's quicker, his game has just improved so much for

713
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 7: a guy who's out the league now. Jeff Tige actually

714
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 7: had a decent Game six. Gotta be pre fair to

715
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 7: him in Atlanta, hit some big threes. Other than that,

716
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 7: he hasn't really done anything in the playoffs, and I

717
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 7: think largely because Budenholls really, you know, he can't really

718
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 7: trust him out there for too long. But if you

719
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Speaker 7: can get game six Jeff Tigue, like a Game six,

720
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Speaker 7: ate sixth, But that's I think that's going to be

721
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 7: some crucial minutes there for the Bucks, because you know,

722
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,719
Speaker 7: Budenholz has certainly been playing his stars more, but he

723
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 7: needs to be able to buy, you know, throughout the

724
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Speaker 7: game sort of somewhere between five to eight to ten

725
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 7: minutes of Drew Holiday sitting down and resting or if

726
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 7: he gets in foul trouble or anything like that, and

727
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 7: that's when the Sun's second unit. You know, Tory Craig

728
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 7: has been really good as well coming off the bench,

729
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 7: but Campaign has been the real star of that team.

730
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Speaker 7: He really pushes the pace. He can hit the three

731
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Speaker 7: as well, and those could be some really crucial minutes.

732
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Speaker 7: So I think, you know, with the starters and the

733
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Speaker 7: star players, we know we're going to see, you know,

734
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Speaker 7: the Bucks obviously going to go heavy to Chris Middleton

735
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 7: try to get him going. Chris Paul I expect to

736
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 7: probably take over a little bit more than we've seen

737
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 7: in a little bit earlier, perhaps just because we know

738
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 7: he can get that midranger going anytime he wants. But

739
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 7: it could be that, you know, those crucial minutes could

740
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 7: only be sort of to end a quarter or to

741
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 7: start a quarter, but that could be where the game

742
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 7: could sort of get out of hand if the Bucks

743
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 7: don't keep themselves, you know, under control in that part moment.

744
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 7: So if you trust just Jeff Tige from Game six,

745
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 7: you're probably feeling okay. If you think that was a

746
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 7: bit of an anomaly. You're probably feeling that he's got

747
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 7: a short leash tonight if he's up there.

748
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: I was at the Fortress for Game six and people

749
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: in the crowd were screaming anybody but Jeff t That's

750
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: what they were. I mean, that was that felt cruel,

751
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 1: and Jeff Teague was like playing really well and hitting

752
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 1: big shots against the Hawks in a duo dag game there.

753
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: But yeah, he was he was good, and like, I

754
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: think that can still that same. What you're saying, Lee

755
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: is like maybe that's Forbes hits a couple three eyes.

756
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: It's like you're saying these spot minutes, there's not gonna

757
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: be a ton to go around, especially if the Honest

758
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: is out and then Bobby Port is getting a ton

759
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: of minutes. It's like who just delivers? And that's what

760
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: happens in the finals. That's what makes them actually really fun.

761
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, the stars for the most part sort

762
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: of can come through generally consistently. It's like where are

763
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 1: these like, you know, is there a Tory Craig game

764
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: for crying out loud at some point in these finals?

765
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: Like the revenge game there and then I can bring

766
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: back my cash considerations joke, and you guys can laugh

767
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: a little harder this time. Find out we find out,

768
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 1: we'll find out nine o'clock they're telling us, of course

769
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: on ABC tonight. All nine o'clock starts Eastern time. But

770
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: what's the bulls eye tip? Trey Kirby, like, what are

771
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: we saying for a finals game? We're sticking sticking to

772
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: nine fifteen sixteen seventeen is a little faster because it's

773
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: a later start. Where are we going with the bulls

774
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: eye tip? Bull's eye tip?

775
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 4: Nine oh nine, nine o nine.

776
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. That's tasks. Well, you

777
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: gotta you got a bull's eye tip prediction.

778
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 6: I think Alice Cooper is going to be holding his notes. Yeah,

779
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 6: give me a nineteen nine fourteen. I don't want you

780
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Speaker 6: to miss the start of Game three Skeets Sunday, Game

781
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 6: three eight eastern start.

782
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: Oh excuse me? Okay, good correction.

783
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 6: I thought I saw everybody next go to sleep. You're right,

784
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 6: Sunday Sunday.

785
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 1: You're right, Sunday Sunday a little early start.

786
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 4: Okay.

787
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: So we got game one here Tuesday, Game two on Thursday,

788
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 1: Game three that earlier start on Sunday night. Is that correct?

789
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 3: Ass?

790
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: And then we have the dumb stupid break in game four.

791
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: Isn't it till Wednesday?

792
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 7: And I think? I think it's three days after that?

793
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 7: For every game. I believe yes, because they want the

794
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 7: game seven on a Sunday if it gets today.

795
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Speaker 1: Right, right, you must have a game seven on a seven.

796
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 6: I love I love talking dates. I love talking dates

797
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 6: with you guys. Got to correct you again? Oh no,

798
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,280
Speaker 6: game seven's on a Thursday.

799
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:21,919
Speaker 1: Really I love it that much?

800
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 4: Ah wow?

801
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 7: Okay, well you know what I will say. Okay, you're right,

802
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 7: but I say because they pulled this two days ahead.

803
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 7: That's why then made.

804
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Speaker 1: It use hashtag well actually in TASTA.

805
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Speaker 7: Because I know the schedule used to be Thursday, Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, Monday,

806
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 7: Wednesday Sunday. That's what it used to do.

807
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 1: This scale look at this game. It was his dates. Okay.

808
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,919
Speaker 7: We got to know the TV deals how they work.

809
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,240
Speaker 7: You know, they don't like the Friday night or the Monday.

810
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 7: But it's worth it if you get the Sunday seventh.

811
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: Th thing's going seven. This thing's going seven. We're getting

812
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: Thursday nights Game seven and the.

813
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 8: People on the stream team are mentioning this is actually

814
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 8: low key a big series for Alice Cooper because apparently

815
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 8: he's an Arizona guy, but he's very famous for saying

816
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 8: Milliewaukee in It's gonna be interesting to see who Alice

817
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 8: Cooper is pulling for tonight. Can you imagine Alice Cooper

818
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 8: wearing a basketball jersey? That just seems very weird to me.

819
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: Oh along those lines, who's Eric Bledsoe cheering? Didn't want

820
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: to be in Phoenix? They didn't want him in? I mean, yikes,

821
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 1: which one do you go?

822
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 8: Lee?

823
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 7: Like?

824
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: What's teachering for?

825
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 7: I guess he's probably going for the box.

826
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: I mean, because he's got he's maybe more of a

827
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: connection with those.

828
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 7: Guys, but because I said, you're not good for some of.

829
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: Them, Yeah, that's tough.

830
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 7: Who else? Has must have been a few other Bucks

831
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 7: and Sons crossovers over the years, I mean J Tucker

832
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 7: for one.

833
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, yeah, there's there. I think there's actually quite

834
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: a bit that I can't think of any right now?

835
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 4: What about Robin Lopez?

836
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 8: Is he cheering for the Sons his former team or

837
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 8: his also former team and brother slash adversary Brooklyn.

838
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think he's going for the Suns.

839
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: Actually, Rob probably let's get that pull up at some

840
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: points today a TK who's Eric Blood?

841
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 4: So true?

842
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: I think that's a funny, funny question. All right, let's

843
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: take a quick break and then we'll get to is

844
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: this news. Welcome back to No Dunks. Before we get

845
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: to is this news? I just saw this tweet come

846
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:28,439
Speaker 1: through from at Ryan Thomas Cody. He said, breaking Fernando

847
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: the Sloth at the Phoenix Zoo picks the Suns to

848
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: win the NBA Finals hashtag rally the Valley. Yes, Fernando

849
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: the sloth leet Yeah, yeah, what do you think about that?

850
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 4: Lee?

851
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 1: What do you think about sloths in general?

852
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, these things often come out, you know before a

853
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 7: world couple the Euros. Animal just sort of like gravitates

854
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 7: towards something, and you know people would like to sort

855
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 7: of seek that's a sign that's going to mean something.

856
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 7: I've got a hint for you. It means nothing. Of course,

857
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 7: they're just gonna make the sloth pick that one.

858
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: So you know they need do you think.

859
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 7: I think they said you want do you want to

860
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 7: get fed for the rest of this week, then make

861
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Speaker 7: sure you pick the sug so.

862
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, a sloth.

863
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 7: I mean, how inspirational is a slough?

864
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: I know, it's like, when.

865
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 4: Did they start this?

866
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 1: They have to started the postseason eventually beat his way

867
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: over to the Phoenix. Yeah, I don't know, but thank

868
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: you to uh at at, Ryan, Thomas Cody and for

869
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 1: a couple of people sending that our direction. Okay, let's

870
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: get to is this news? Is this news? Few headlines?

871
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,280
Speaker 1: First one, This is why we do? Is this news? Lee?

872
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: The Hawks meet Nat McMillan permanent head coach? Is this news?

873
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 7: It's not really news now, but when he took over

874
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 7: when the Atlanta Hawks were fourteen and twenty, I think

875
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 7: it probably would have been news back then because if

876
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 7: it wasn't a formality once they made the playoffs that

877
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 7: Nate was probably going to be resigned, it certainly was

878
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 7: confirmed when they beat the Knicks that first round. I

879
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 7: think at that point there was certainly no question the

880
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,919
Speaker 7: Hawks could not give Nate McMillan at least first chance

881
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 7: or first right of refusal for the job going forward

882
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 7: from here. I think he's done a fantastic job, and

883
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 7: I'm for one who said, look, I think the Hawks

884
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 7: made a bad mistake by firing Lloyd Pierce, but that

885
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 7: has proven to not be the case at all. Travis

886
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 7: Schlank made the decision. I'm sure it wasn't easy, and

887
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 7: Nate McMillan was right there. And Nate McMillan turned this

888
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 7: team around and went from a team that was, you know,

889
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 7: probably looking at the playing tournament a best to leading

890
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 7: the Eastern Conference finals, the first time they've ever done

891
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 7: that in their history. So at that point Nate really

892
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 7: just had to agree on a figure, and I think

893
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 7: it was a four year deal. I think that's what

894
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 7: Audzanowski reported yesterday. So congratulations to Nate McMillan. He gets

895
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,919
Speaker 7: another chance here and I think you could see too.

896
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 7: You know, again, it was only a small sample size,

897
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,720
Speaker 7: but a very successful one. He really seemed to connect

898
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 7: with his players, and one of the things he said

899
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 7: after a game recently was like, you know, if a

900
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 7: player made a mistake, old Nate would get on someone

901
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 7: into the in film session the next day, he'd really

902
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 7: sort of you know, call out a guy or make

903
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 7: a point about you know, how upset he was with something.

904
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 7: He said. He's mellowed, He's learned from that and he

905
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 7: realizes he had to communicate better. And you know, people

906
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 7: make mistakes. Players make mistakes, but communication is much stronger

907
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 7: when you don't necessarily react right after a game, when

908
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 7: the emotions are running better or higher, when you've had

909
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 7: time to sleep on it and look at it, and

910
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 7: then you can approach things like that. He seems to

911
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 7: think that players respond better in that situation. So you know,

912
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 7: he's learned. He's coached in Seattle, in Portland, in Indiana,

913
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 7: and now he gets a chance here in Atlanta to

914
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 7: build on the foundation that he's made and of the

915
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,280
Speaker 7: sort of second half of the season of the playoffs.

916
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 7: So congratulations to him. And I think it's it was

917
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 7: a pretty obvious move here for the Hawks to make.

918
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, wasn't it Schlink that said we offered

919
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 1: him a deal at the start of the playoffs, and

920
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: you know, ultimately he waited a little bit and maybe

921
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: got himself some more money in the process. Who knows, task,

922
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, is this newsworthy to you or a surprise

923
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: at all?

924
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 6: Well, it's newsworthy that coaching matters. Some people just think

925
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 6: that coaching doesn't matter at all. This is to me

926
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 6: just shows relationships and and motivation and the influence a

927
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 6: guy can have because it's not so much about the

928
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:22,320
Speaker 6: talent that the Hawks had and you know, just making

929
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 6: that a bigger priority or somehow finding you know, the

930
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 6: skills that guy's had on that roster. It was just

931
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 6: about the relationships. You know, from all the reports when

932
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 6: when Lloyd Pierce was was fired too. Now you can

933
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 6: just see how this guy has connected, how Nate has

934
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 6: connected with so many of his players, to a point

935
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 6: where a guy like Cam Reddish, who you know, came

936
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 6: out in this conference finals, had a little bit of

937
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 6: a showcase there. He's going to play in Summer League.

938
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:52,439
Speaker 6: He said he was going to play in Summer League

939
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:56,359
Speaker 6: long time ago, and you know, second year guy, I think,

940
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,479
Speaker 6: you know, could skip Summer League easily. But I think

941
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 6: you know, that type of effect Nate McMillan has had

942
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,439
Speaker 6: with obviously Trey starting with Trey Young, up and down

943
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 6: the roster. They just love the guy. And I think

944
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 6: that was what was lacking in in Lloyd Pierce's department.

945
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 6: I love Lloyd Pierce, and that was the issue. It

946
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,879
Speaker 6: seemed like, I mean, the locker room just wasn't with him.

947
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 6: But then when they moved on again, it wasn't just

948
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 6: about talent, it was about a belief in Nate McMillan.

949
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,720
Speaker 6: So that's that's what they have going forward. This team

950
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 6: is uh is working really hard for that, dude, I

951
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 6: think when it comes to the start of camp, obviously

952
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 6: they're led by Trey Young, but they have a real

953
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 6: relationship with this coach, and so coaching matters that that

954
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 6: that that connection about, you know, getting the most out

955
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 6: of guys. Nate has done that obviously.

956
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: Now that McMillan's contract is settled, Trey, what what do

957
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: you think the Hawk's biggest off season priority is what's

958
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: next on Travis Schwink's list.

959
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 8: Well, next on the list is figuring out exactly what

960
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,720
Speaker 8: to do with John Collins. We've seen him during regular

961
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 8: seasons be you know, a twenty to ten ish kind

962
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 8: of guy on the fringes, maybe of making an All

963
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 8: Star Game, but it feels like he made himself even

964
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 8: more invaluable over during the postseason just by competing defensively

965
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 8: and really slipping into glue guy mode, doing ever whatever

966
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 8: the Hawks need to win. So he's got his restrictive

967
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 8: free agency over the summer. Trey Young, Kevin Herder, Clint Capella.

968
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 8: Their deals are up after next season. Then after that

969
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 8: it's DeAndre Hunter and Cam Ruddish. Suddenly, a team that

970
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 8: this season twenty fifth in payroll is going to get

971
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 8: really expensive. And you gotta wonder if you're the Hawks,

972
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 8: like how much do you buy into this season?

973
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:45,399
Speaker 6: Right?

974
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 8: You went to the conference finals, but it's your first

975
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 8: time in the playoffs for a long long time. They

976
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 8: took advantage of the seventy six ers and Ben Simmons

977
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 8: kind of melting down there in the playoffs. Obviously, you

978
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 8: know the Nets weren't at full stretch. They barely lost

979
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 8: to the Bucks team that didn't have Giannis. So is

980
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 8: this really a conference finalist team? Or do you kind

981
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 8: of get into the Blazer situation where you make your

982
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 8: conference finals when things line up perfectly for you, and

983
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 8: then suddenly your team a few years later you're like, uh, oh,

984
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 8: did we go all in with the wrong people? I

985
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 8: think the Hawks need another star alongside Trey Young as well.

986
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 8: Perhaps Cam Reddish becomes that guy, Perhaps DeAndre Hunter becomes

987
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 8: that guy. But this is a major market with a

988
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 8: young star and a team that is upwardly mobile with

989
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 8: young pieces around him, like the Hawks should be trying

990
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 8: to get, don't. I don't know if Ben Simmons is

991
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 8: the right fit for them. I don't know if it's

992
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 8: Bradley Beal, But like, the Hawks are going to need

993
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 8: a second guy to compete in the Eastern Conference from

994
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 8: here on out, and I don't necessarily know that it's

995
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 8: on the roster right now. And I think it's easy

996
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 8: to look at the surprising season that you had now

997
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 8: and you've got to be compared to a conference finalist

998
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 8: team from here on out because anything.

999
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 4: Else is going to be looked at as a disappointment.

1000
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 8: So it's going to be interesting to see if the

1001
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 8: Hawks kind of, you know, smash the gas on their

1002
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,399
Speaker 8: rebuild here. They did a little bit last are bringing

1003
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:04,280
Speaker 8: in Gallinari and Bogdanovic, but there's those guys are still

1004
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 8: high end role players rather than second stars. Are Young

1005
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 8: alongside Trey Young. You need two stars to win in

1006
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 8: this league at the very least.

1007
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 1: Well, you brought up Ben Simmons and that's uh, he's

1008
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 1: involved in our next headline here. It's coming from clutch points.

1009
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: So it's been so long the Sixers d Daryl Maury

1010
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: purchases Ben Simmons top shot moment amid trade rumors. Now,

1011
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: I wanted to show you this the graphic because that's

1012
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: where clutching points really comes through. Here. It is for

1013
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: everybody joining us on the stream team or watching on YouTube.

1014
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: I don't know why I love this so much with

1015
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:42,399
Speaker 1: the bitcoin there in the back. But anyway, Trey, is

1016
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: this news Maury purchasing a very expensive Ben Simmons hollow

1017
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: top shop moment there amid the trade rumors?

1018
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 8: Like?

1019
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,399
Speaker 1: What does this mean? Is are they? Are they keeping them?

1020
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: Is he trying to include the top shot moment in

1021
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: a potential trade with another team?

1022
00:46:58,440 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 3: Like?

1023
00:46:58,520 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: What do you think?

1024
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 8: I don't think that Darryl Moury probably paid in bitcoin

1025
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 8: would be my first guess on this, but I'm not

1026
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 8: totally sure.

1027
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: Is this news?

1028
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1029
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 8: This is hilarious news because if you thought tracking social

1030
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 8: media likes and follows with sicko mode in the summer,

1031
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 8: how about a current GM collecting his team's players on

1032
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 8: the blockchain with total transparency. Darryl mory a smart guy.

1033
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 8: He knows that people can see those transactions on the blockchain.

1034
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 8: So not only does he get the joy of riling

1035
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 8: up the internet, maybe it makes it seem a little

1036
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 8: bit more like the Sixers could run it back with

1037
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 8: Ben Simmons. This is not dissimilar to me to responding

1038
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 8: like when somebody asked him, can Joel embiid win the

1039
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 8: MVP this year, He's like, Yeah, I actually think we

1040
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 8: got two players who could win the MVP. Also, Ben Simmons.

1041
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 8: When you're a GM, you gotta be pumping at all time.

1042
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 8: And I wonder if Daryl moriy sees a little Ben

1043
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 8: Simmons in this Ben Simmons moment, because this is an

1044
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,240
Speaker 8: excellent by low candidate by Daryl Moury. There's only twenty

1045
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 8: eight of these hollow reward moments for Ben Simmons, one

1046
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 8: of the most rare moments on all of Top Shot.

1047
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 8: Harrison Barnes bought this exact same moment for sixteen thousand

1048
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 8: dollars in mid April. So maybe Darryl Mory's pulling a

1049
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 8: Ben Simmons with Ben Simmons bringing him in as a

1050
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 8: bylong candidate, flipping the trade value once it gets higher.

1051
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he paid four hundred and forty four dollars.

1052
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 1: I believe for this one, Lee, you got a deal

1053
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 1: compared to Harrison Barnes. I guess but I was fascinated

1054
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: to find out whether Lee thought this was news at all.

1055
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 1: Do you even know what's going on?

1056
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 6: No?

1057
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,760
Speaker 7: No, But the way I read this is that Darryl

1058
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 7: Moury has had a couple of offers come through and

1059
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,240
Speaker 7: he's like dismissive of those.

1060
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:38,720
Speaker 1: Yep.

1061
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 7: Now he goes out and buys this as a sort

1062
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 7: of show of support. I believe in Benson. I'm not

1063
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 7: just going to trade him for the sake of trading in.

1064
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 7: And this is how I'm trying to show Ben, you know,

1065
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 7: publicly as well, like we've got your back here, Ben.

1066
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 4: We believe in you.

1067
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 7: We believe you're going to become a better player what

1068
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 7: he's hoping. Then someone's like, yeah, man, Darryl Mory, he's

1069
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 7: not going to give Ben Ben Simmons away for a snip.

1070
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 7: So we have who we're gonna have to really juice

1071
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 7: these trade offers. Then he's going to start working the

1072
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 7: teams off against each other, and then he's going to

1073
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 7: trade Ben Simmons for.

1074
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: Some huge part of a master.

1075
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 7: Place exactly, exactly exactly, And this is exactly I mean.

1076
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 7: Daryl Mory is a very smart guy. He really likes

1077
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 7: to work the angles here, and I think this is

1078
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 7: just his way of playing that sort of those mind

1079
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 7: games with all those other teams. He's like Ben Simmons

1080
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 7: are still a great player. I'm not just gonna give

1081
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 7: this guy away. If you want him, you're gonna have

1082
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 7: to pay up. You're gonna have to pay up bitcoin

1083
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 7: type money, whatever the hell that means.

1084
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: Darryld Maurie, You're just like, you know, talking this through

1085
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,759
Speaker 1: out loud here, Like would Darryl Moury be fine for

1086
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: tampering tree if he actually went and got like a

1087
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal Hollow momentor you know who.

1088
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 4: CJ.

1089
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 8: Man's a great question because if you look at Darryl

1090
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 8: Morriy's profile, which if you go to NBA top Shot,

1091
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,800
Speaker 8: it's the first one listed, like he's the first certified baller,

1092
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 8: very easy to find, right next to the Ben Simmons moment.

1093
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 4: CJ. McCollum handles moment.

1094
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 8: Appears to have been gifted to Darryl Moury by somebody else,

1095
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 8: which is very funny. If people are just sliding into

1096
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 8: his top shot account and gifting him the moments of

1097
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:15,359
Speaker 8: players they want him to acquire. Somebody in the stream.

1098
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 8: Team said This is a little bit of insider training

1099
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 8: here from Darryl Moury. He knows something's going to be

1100
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 8: happening with Ben Simmons at some point.

1101
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 4: What does he know.

1102
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 7: Daryl Moury got fined for that tweet when the playoffs.

1103
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:31,880
Speaker 7: What I mean, he said, light it up, seth and

1104
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 7: he said, you know, come joinable whatever. He got fine

1105
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 7: for that and he had to issue with a pullet

1106
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 7: or you know, sort of a clarification. So Daryl Moury,

1107
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 7: he's now reaching a point where it's like, I wonder

1108
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,720
Speaker 7: if the NBA can somehow sort of tie this to tampering.

1109
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 7: I think he's just testing them. He's testing the front off.

1110
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: I think you're right, like a GM, a current GM.

1111
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: Let's say, Maury on the Sixers, can he buy a

1112
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: CJ McCollum, Actually, can he make a custom Sixers McCollum jersey?

1113
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:01,360
Speaker 1: And then of it?

1114
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 8: Oh no, no, he is banned from ordering custom jerseys

1115
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 8: for twenty nine other teams.

1116
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: I think, right, right, But this is I mean, this

1117
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: is a maybe a little.

1118
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 7: Boy here that he's tasting exactly if it's not in

1119
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 7: the CBA, then you know, when we saw him.

1120
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,800
Speaker 1: A few weeks ago when we saw him a few.

1121
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 7: When when we saw him a few weeks ago, we

1122
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 7: talked about that that contract that he offered Nana, which

1123
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,319
Speaker 7: was like really sort of geared towards just being able

1124
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 7: to trade him.

1125
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 4: And he was like, I didn't do anything wrong.

1126
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:34,280
Speaker 1: I didn't make any laws.

1127
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:35,399
Speaker 4: But the NBA kind of.

1128
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 7: Like in the Chris Paul sort of trade Veto deal,

1129
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 7: it was kind of like the NBA said, yeah, you

1130
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 7: just can't do that though, you can't do that contract.

1131
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 7: And he's like, why not, You've got to change the

1132
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 7: rules and it's not in the rules. Great, so he's

1133
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 7: going to keep on testing those boundaries, which is great.

1134
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 4: This is perfect.

1135
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 6: When does the CBA come up because they can guarantee

1136
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 6: that NFT class will be inserted for sure, because smart

1137
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 6: employers are already doing that a reading NFT clauses right

1138
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 6: into contracts. I don't know if you can make amendments

1139
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 6: to the CBA. So I don't know. I don't know

1140
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 6: if that'll be a point of conversation in Vegas. Perhaps

1141
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 6: maybe Board of Governors. Let's set this down. We got

1142
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 6: to make money on this.

1143
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. Ben Simmons was also in the news. I don't

1144
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: have the photos in front of me. He was at Wimbledon,

1145
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: I think, lely with a new lady friend, smooching up

1146
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: there in the stands, wearing green too. Yeah, he can't

1147
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,320
Speaker 1: wear green. That means he's going to the Celtics, doesn't.

1148
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1149
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 4: I heard he hits his forehand with his wrong hand.

1150
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: Oh, bully, got it wrong. I saw a lot of

1151
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 1: jokes like he can't hit a Yeah, he can't hit

1152
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 1: a three, but he can he shoots for tens or

1153
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 1: something like that. Very very attractive woman. I don't know

1154
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: who it is, if she's a celebrity or not. Try

1155
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: any idea who she was.

1156
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 4: I don't know they were.

1157
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean she has she had a name that

1158
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: sounds famous, so I was like, well, she must be

1159
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 1: somebody famous, but who knows?

1160
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 6: Who knows?

1161
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:01,280
Speaker 4: World?

1162
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to JD with tweet.

1163
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,959
Speaker 6: Of the night threet o the night.

1164
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 9: Wow, it's really hard to find out who's singing the

1165
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 9: national anthem tonight. I've been searching since you guys were

1166
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 9: talking about it, and how do you Why do they

1167
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 9: keep it a secret or does it? Is it just

1168
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:26,359
Speaker 9: one of those nobody cares kind of.

1169
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 6: Because it's going to be this guy, Alice, Well, that's

1170
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 6: all'sper in a basketball jersey.

1171
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:34,399
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1172
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 6: I took this photo on my TV last week's LATO

1173
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 6: to cut you off there, JD. I sent the video

1174
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:42,760
Speaker 6: to my mother in law because we had Alice Cooper

1175
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 6: came up in conversation in that same night. He was

1176
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 6: performing at halftime and he was giving it. Yeah, it's

1177
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 6: like a long it's a three quarter sleeve T shirt

1178
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,319
Speaker 6: that he's wearing, so he didn't wear a jersey tray,

1179
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 6: but he was giving.

1180
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 1: It like number right.

1181
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's what I was thinking. Yeah, it is

1182
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 6: a campaign. Yeah, cool, amazing.

1183
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 9: Anyways, getting to the tweet, it's actually from this morning

1184
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 9: and is from our very own Trey Kirby, who was

1185
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 9: responding to Darren Ravel who posted this it's this day

1186
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 9: in nineteen ninety four, Forrest Gump is hits theaters, and

1187
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 9: then Trey responded, was a picture of Forrest when he's

1188
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,759
Speaker 9: running during his running years, and Trey says, kind of

1189
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 9: didn't realize I had become Forrest Gump.

1190
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 4: And I mean it's pretty hat.

1191
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 9: When you when you're wearing a hat, it's you kind

1192
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 9: of do look like Forrest Gump. You do have a

1193
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 9: bit of a Hanksian vibe to you a little bit?

1194
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 9: So Yeah, anyways, I thought that was cool. But then

1195
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 9: this caught my attention. In the same thread, Darren Ravel

1196
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 9: owns the Nike shirt that Tom Hanks wore during that

1197
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 9: scene and a pair of random khakis that Forrest Gump.

1198
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 9: I guess he wears a lot of khakis in the

1199
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 9: in the movie. But uh, and that reminded me of

1200
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 9: the the Missus delltfire stuff that went up last week. Yeah,

1201
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 9: and now I'm I've got fomo. I've seriously got fomo.

1202
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:18,399
Speaker 9: I want some some movie memorabilia in our lives, on

1203
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 9: our set or something. There there he is, there is Forest.

1204
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:22,799
Speaker 1: I see it for sure.

1205
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 9: The absolutely Yeah.

1206
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 8: On that first picture too, I noticed that he had

1207
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 8: like a like a polo shirt tucked into a pair

1208
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 8: of tiny shorts.

1209
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, this is eerily accurate.

1210
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,840
Speaker 8: Man, I can't believe I look older than Forrest Gump

1211
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 8: right now. This is honestly a little bit of a bummer.

1212
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,800
Speaker 1: How old was Forrest Gump when he was running across

1213
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:44,320
Speaker 1: the country.

1214
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 6: Though it's great, it's pretty young.

1215
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 4: I was good.

1216
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 1: I didn't think he's not old.

1217
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you run like that, you gotta be pretty young.

1218
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 1: Didn't he run across like four times?

1219
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, correctly, I'd say twenty. He looked like a twenty

1220
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,120
Speaker 6: year old to me.

1221
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 1: Well, no, it wasn't it.

1222
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 7: After the army though, he back from Yeah, he's got

1223
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 7: the Bubba gump happit? Can you bring up what ravel

1224
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 7: has there?

1225
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 3: Too?

1226
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 7: Dirty? Because if you look at the Nike shirt that

1227
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 7: Tom Hanks was wearing there, it looks dirty and sweaty,

1228
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 7: but the white one looks like it's been washed. I mean,

1229
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 7: you don't want to wash that shirt if it's the legit,

1230
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 7: I mean, you want it and it's all it's glory,

1231
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 7: all a sweaty, stinky, smelly legit. You know that that

1232
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 7: makes it legit, like otherwise it's just a clean Nike

1233
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 7: T shirt.

1234
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 4: Saying you want the Hanks it's clean you do?

1235
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it's a great point. I mean, you know,

1236
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 9: let's peek behind the curtain. Tom Hanks didn't run across America,

1237
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 9: so they tart it up this it's fake dirt on

1238
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 9: this naked shirt that he's wearing, and for some reason

1239
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 9: they wash it up. Darren, maybe check that certificate of

1240
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 9: authenticity because I don't know. Yeah, it looks way dirtier,

1241
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 9: and that's how.

1242
00:56:58,080 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 7: You want it. I mean that you wanted to look

1243
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 7: like because the misdoubt fire boobs were like really burnt

1244
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 7: and basically yeah, yeah yeah, I mean you wouldn't want

1245
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 7: someone to repair those.

1246
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 9: No, absolutely, not absolutely, that's all the glory there.

1247
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, what a good week it's been for Tom Hanks.

1248
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 7: I talked about big on yesterday show, Yeah about we.

1249
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 1: Can keep the streak going tomorrow?

1250
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, Yeah.

1251
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 6: Oh I got it.

1252
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 9: I gotten a lot of shit for saying that Forrest

1253
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 9: gumpany that I didn't like it last week too.

1254
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:27,520
Speaker 4: So I'm not.

1255
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 6: I'm not.

1256
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 9: I'm worried about this fast and furious thing.

1257
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going a lot of people love.

1258
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 9: That the whole series, and uh so I'm gonna think

1259
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 9: of good things to say about all these movies. I guess,

1260
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 9: Oh my god, that's gonna be different.

1261
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: All right.

1262
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 8: So the movie opens nineteen fifty one, but we got

1263
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 8: a young forest, and then in nineteen seventy six is

1264
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 8: when he starts running, so he's like anywhere from twenty

1265
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 8: five to thirty. You would have to think, yeah, okay,

1266
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 8: I don't feel I don't feel as bad. I don't

1267
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 8: feel as bad looking ten years older than Fort Gump.

1268
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good.

1269
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 4: Got a few more rings around my trees.

1270
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: I mean, he's also like he's been running across the

1271
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: country for four years. He very like, I don't was

1272
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: he wearing sunscreen? Like, I know he's got a hat on,

1273
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 1: but like he's gonna No, that's my next pick and

1274
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: payoff loss.

1275
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 4: I gotta run across the country. It's gotta be a

1276
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 4: long one. Huh.

1277
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm excited to see if we can

1278
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 1: keep our Tom Hanks streak going on tomorrow show when

1279
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 1: we break down Game one of the NBA Finals. Is

1280
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: it weird that Game one of the NBA Finals is

1281
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: starting tonight and it's between the Bucks and the Suns

1282
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 1: To anybody else, it just doesn't feel like it at

1283
00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:37,919
Speaker 1: all to me that the Finals is starting tonight. Hey,

1284
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: maybe when Alice Cooper starts playing the national anthem, I'll

1285
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 1: get into it. But right now, I don't know. I'm

1286
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 1: all discombobulated task It doesn't doesn't feel like it's a

1287
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: Game one tonight of the Finals.

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Speaker 6: I know, I gotta go back to the old calendar.

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Speaker 6: Let's talk dates again Thursday night. Yeah, oh yeah, bump

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Speaker 6: up on Tuesday. This is crazy right now, we're supposed

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Speaker 6: to be filling time, you know, we're supposed to be

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Speaker 6: filling it with odds and ends of the playoffs news

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Speaker 6: Tom Hanks perhaps.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, we're gonna We're getting awful close to Lee.

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Speaker 1: Counting Down is top ten Tom Hanks movies. Here we

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Speaker 1: go number one Philadelphia.

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Speaker 7: For yeah, Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Citing Private Ryan is an interesting One's.

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Speaker 1: Save it, man, save it. We got a lot of

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Speaker 1: time off between these games. We're gonna need that as

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Speaker 1: a segment. All right, we'll call it there. Guys, enjoy

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Speaker 1: Game one of the NBA Finals tonight. We'll be back

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Speaker 4: Have a great time, turn up, love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for joining us, and remember the slop pick the sons,

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Speaker 6: do Do do doo, The slop pick the sons, and

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Speaker 6: it's all wrong. Bucks at six oh.

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Speaker 1: Embrace the day. People.

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Speaker 3: You could stay oo every day.

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Speaker 6: And Dad you happy every minute. It's been so long

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Speaker 6: that your do funna wait for.

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Speaker 5: This happened already.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be groovy.