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Speaker 2: No film right now? Please not do this?

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Speaker 3: Is this because the Mavericks traded Juca Johnson.

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Speaker 4: It's Luka Doncic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I said that, Juka Knockovic.

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Speaker 4: His name is Luka Doncic said that, Luca Nachol, Juka Jabaka.

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Speaker 1: I'm not making fun Luca, Yeah, Juca john.

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Speaker 2: Who do you know that's named Juka?

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Speaker 4: No, his name is Luca.

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Speaker 2: I'm start calling him Juka Johnson because it's Luka Doncic.

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Speaker 4: It's I know, it's Luca Knockoback. Why what is that?

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Speaker 4: It's important to me, It's important for us.

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Speaker 5: Let's see the name together.

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Speaker 1: Okay, ready, Luca, Luca don Chic, j.

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Speaker 5: Good, Good Mornings, swe Welcome to the No Dungs Podcast

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Speaker 5: on the Athletic Network. It's Tuesday, February fourth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 5: I'm Jay Skeets here in the Classic Factory and alongside

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Speaker 5: me as always, Testlous Castle.

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Speaker 5: Trick Kirby Hey and over Yonder making the magic happen.

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Speaker 1: Hello, there's a lot whoa whoa, whoa there a.

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Speaker 2: Jazz listeners that was for you. Now that was embarrassing.

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Speaker 5: haven't lots of games to talk about, some slop to

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Speaker 5: talk about, obviously you're gonna go back to the Luca

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Speaker 5: to here. But we had another wedgie. They come in bunches,

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Speaker 5: that's just how it works. And this one was Quentin

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Speaker 5: Post on the you know, attempt at the put back

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Speaker 5: sticks it in there on the rebound, the offensive rebound.

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Speaker 5: So Leggie number twenty six.

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Speaker 2: The weggieing Dutchman, that's what they call them. Oh yes

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Speaker 2: to hear Kelenna as a bookie on the Warriors broadcast, Yell.

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Speaker 4: Reggie.

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Speaker 1: Hit my heart.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just a former player that excited.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was super excited. Good Reggie.

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Speaker 5: I think only our second like rebound weggie of the

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Speaker 5: year and the first again on the offensive class. I

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Speaker 5: remember a Champagnee had one earlier in the year, but

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Speaker 5: that was a defensive sort of tip situation.

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Speaker 1: Ye, I like it. I like it when it's underneath

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Speaker 1: the rim, it looks weird. Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 5: Hemisphere, So good job by post. Let's get into some games.

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Speaker 5: Picked a few to talk about here with you guys.

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Speaker 5: We watched a lot of these on playback last night.

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Speaker 5: Shouted everybody that joined us, had a lot of fun.

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Speaker 5: Trey Young took over in the fourth quarter against the Pistons,

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Speaker 5: helped the Hawks end an eight game losing streak. I

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Speaker 5: hadn't realized it was that bad, so really needed this one.

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Speaker 4: Trey did his thing.

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Speaker 5: He hit a rainbow jumper TK that was just like

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Speaker 5: a bit of a prayer shot. Malik Beasley then fell

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Speaker 5: as he challenged it. Only both were on the ground,

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Speaker 5: and when Trey got up, he did the old Alan

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Speaker 5: Iverson step over like a I did to Tylo back

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Speaker 5: in the finals. Very reminiscent of that. But seventeen of

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Speaker 5: his thirty four and the fourth for Trey Young they needed.

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Speaker 6: This is the definition of good defense, better offense, because

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Speaker 6: Malik Beasley was all over him. Trey Young doesn't take

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Speaker 6: a side step to the right, one foot behind the

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Speaker 6: He doesn't take that shot very much. He shot it

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Speaker 6: so high up into the air, drops through nicely. Piston's

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Speaker 6: kid Cunningham would have had it been perfect.

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Speaker 1: For it to work.

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Speaker 6: But I was just wondering if Trey Young set up

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Speaker 6: Malik Beasley like that, you know, he fell down, Beasley

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Speaker 6: Bob Rathman called it the Motown stop. I thought that

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Speaker 6: was a great line by Bobby Boy.

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Speaker 1: But it's cool.

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Speaker 6: After all star reserves are announced, it feels like every

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Speaker 6: like first timer in Caid Cunningham versus snub machine and

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Speaker 6: Trey Young. And Trey Young was just a little bit

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Speaker 6: better in the fourth quarter, Like you said, seventeen of

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Speaker 6: So good win for the Hawks.

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Speaker 1: They absolutely needed it here.

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Speaker 6: And if you're Trey Young and you you know you

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Speaker 6: put out your little tweets saying that we're not calling

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Speaker 1: This is a good way to show up against the

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Speaker 1: guy who took one of your spots.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I do think he was surprised that Malik

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Speaker 2: and then he just ad lipped his celebration. He would

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Speaker 2: this guy is under me. I got to come up

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Speaker 2: Motown stomp.

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Speaker 4: He sees him right there. He's like, I'm stepping over you.

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Speaker 1: Got this keeping going.

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Speaker 2: Seventeen fourth court points and he said, and sixteen field

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Speaker 2: goal attempts throughout this game. I mean that's not a lot.

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Speaker 2: He got to the throw line a ton, fourteen free

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Speaker 4: He gave up the switch there. Yeah yeah, and he

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Speaker 4: was on him a lot down.

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Speaker 2: The stage and he did a good jump. Yeah yeah. Although, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Malik Beasley was definitely right in front of him. I

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Speaker 2: don't know about going to Tobias Harris for the game

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Speaker 2: winning attempt. I know the pass wasn't absolutely perfect, but

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Speaker 2: Tobias Harris jumping straight up for the ball also wasn't perfect.

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Speaker 2: He just kind of threw out his arm. But maybe,

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's not Tobias's thing to jump up straight

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Speaker 2: while somebody else probably could have cut it and scored.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, they needed a pinpoint perfect pass. It wasn't.

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Speaker 1: But also you probably have like a bigger margin for.

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Speaker 6: Error if it's Thompson or Jalen Duran being the guy

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Speaker 1: But still what it had to have been an awesome

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Speaker 1: pass from Caiden. It was an okay pass. Yeah, weird playing,

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Speaker 5: Obviously in a close game, fourth quarter three, P forty

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Speaker 4: Now they lose.

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Speaker 5: Now they got to stop and then score. So it

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Speaker 5: was all tied up again after that. But that's gonna

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, And it didn't look like it was going

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Speaker 2: the Hawk's way either late because it looked like they

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Speaker 2: of a shot clock where DeAndre Hunters. Yeah, he could

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Speaker 2: have let it go. It was a beautiful attempt there.

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Speaker 2: It was minute twenty seconds left. It could have been

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Speaker 2: thought they were done. Yeah, it looked like they were

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Speaker 2: done on their side. But the Pistons also farted as well,

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Speaker 2: the little brain farts on either side.

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Speaker 5: There you go, got your hearts in for somebody that

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Speaker 5: wanted that high stream team.

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Speaker 2: I should have said brain fart for immediately, but I

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Dyson Daniels had a good game. Flirting with the

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Speaker 5: five by five, nineteen points, six boards, seven assists, four steals,

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Speaker 5: and one of those steals was huge. That was the

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Speaker 5: poke away on Kid coming Huntingham with like thirty five

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Speaker 4: That was big.

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Speaker 5: And then three blocks, so he had you know, he

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Speaker 5: a majority of the fourth quarter and we were talking,

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Speaker 5: nine minutes of a game, but he ultimately got one

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Speaker 1: I would say he's a candidate. He's a candidate at

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Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, that poke from Kith Canham was so quick.

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Speaker 2: great game scoring. I thought the back door cuts, the

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Speaker 2: the spin move on Isaiah Stewart you definitely don't see

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Speaker 2: Dyson Daniels do that very often. Resets him up one

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Speaker 2: Dyson Daniels. It looks like that game is expanding as

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Speaker 2: your thing, Dyson Daniels, sometimes he makes it work.

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Speaker 5: And because we are you know, the biggest VT Crachy

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Speaker 5: you know, thirteen points off the bench. He made a

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Speaker 5: broken play. You know, they're obviously trying to get the

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Speaker 5: ball back to tray. It found Vet in the corner

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Speaker 5: didn't sort of like panic in that situation. That was

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Speaker 5: a huge timely bucket. So they get the win Hawks

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Speaker 5: one thirty two one to improve improve to twenty three

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Speaker 4: Am I alone.

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Speaker 5: I didn't realize eight straight. I knew they were like

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Speaker 5: really here after the Jalen Johnson injury, but not that bad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah happened. I'd been to two of them and I

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Speaker 2: didn't realize there was that many a thing like that. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: the Jalen Johnson thing obviously gives us the reasoning and

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Speaker 2: we all say, oh, going to drop out of the play.

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Speaker 2: In that being said, this is obviously a big win

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Speaker 2: in the play and race. What also happened in this one,

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Speaker 2: no jailing, no capella, no bug down, bog down about

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Speaker 2: who we all say is bound to be dealt here

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Speaker 2: before the trade touchline. Doesn't hurt them that he's hurt

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Speaker 2: right before the trade deadline. I don't know, but it

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Speaker 5: Okay, let's keep it going here. Let's move to Madison Square,

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Speaker 5: gard fun game between the Rockets and Knicks. Jalen Brunson

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Speaker 5: Dunked it before the other Knicks players could even.

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Speaker 1: Crazy.

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Speaker 5: But you also saw his you know, his youthfulness, I

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Speaker 4: Stuff like that.

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Speaker 5: Knicks only shot six to twenty six from three. You

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Speaker 5: still where he hit six threes. They had fourteen turnovers

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Speaker 5: Very fast, very trails only Patrick Ewing who did it

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Speaker 5: But man, back to that on Mentom's play, Like what

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Speaker 2: Yeah, precious is persistence made it double the yeah highlight

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Speaker 5: Definitely check out the highlights at the very least of

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Speaker 5: We watched the ending of DeRozan leading the Kings one

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Speaker 6: If it was Jayden McDaniels going by him finishing at

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Speaker 6: That's worked for the Kings here. Zach Levine did not

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Speaker 1: But the Kings, as Bullsy's or Bulls West, they should

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Speaker 5: Yeah, seven to twenty one for Aunt twenty one points,

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Speaker 6: This season. They're thirteen and eighteen. They've won forty one percent.

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Speaker 6: in defense as well. They're supposed to be a good

437
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Speaker 6: defensive team. They've got Anthony Edwards, who's supposed to be

438
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Speaker 6: a good defensive player. I don't think he has been

439
00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,320
Speaker 6: this season. McDaniels is looking a little bit better right now,

440
00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:43,639
Speaker 6: but they should be able to get stops. Yeah, this

441
00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,720
Speaker 6: is a team that is built as a defensive identity,

442
00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:47,639
Speaker 6: and they don't really play any defense, especially in the

443
00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:50,439
Speaker 6: fourth quarters, especially in clutch situations, and they just have

444
00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:51,919
Speaker 6: to hope that Edwards is hitting threes.

445
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Speaker 1: It's it's a weird team. That's why they've been so

446
00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:54,760
Speaker 1: streaky this year.

447
00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, they need the Don back. And by the Don,

448
00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,360
Speaker 2: I don't mean Luca, I mean the Dante. I think

449
00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:01,119
Speaker 2: I think they.

450
00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,720
Speaker 3: I didn't know who you meant, so, yeah, clarify he's important.

451
00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,879
Speaker 3: They don't have a identity in the fourth quarter, and

452
00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,240
Speaker 3: I think they started to try and find one by

453
00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,080
Speaker 3: putting Dante in the starting lineup and getting to that

454
00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:17,280
Speaker 3: who they are, because yeah, they're still a good team,

455
00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,200
Speaker 3: but they don't close games out very well, which again

456
00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,000
Speaker 3: was something that happened last year, and they somehow find

457
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:27,560
Speaker 3: it found it enough, especially in the postseason. But there, Yeah,

458
00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,480
Speaker 3: their defense is lacking, especially on the perimeter, there's no doubt.

459
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Speaker 5: Another game of note, Devin Booker became the Suns all

460
00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:38,640
Speaker 5: time leading scorer in a loss to the Blazers. They

461
00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,560
Speaker 5: fall in overtime, but book did pass Walter Davis's franchise

462
00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,800
Speaker 5: record of fifteen six and sixty six points. Hit a

463
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Speaker 5: three there, you know, close to midway through the third quarter,

464
00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:53,200
Speaker 5: hugged his family members at the next time out, given

465
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Speaker 5: a pretty loud ovation I thought from the fans, like

466
00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:59,400
Speaker 5: respect there from the Portland crowd. Pretty classy move. But yeah,

467
00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,119
Speaker 5: Portland got it done in the end. They're hot right now.

468
00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,879
Speaker 5: This team is racking up victories. The Blazers had a

469
00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,320
Speaker 5: three point lead. Ovdya fouled Booker in the corner like

470
00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,320
Speaker 5: he was just like he was just like way too

471
00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,879
Speaker 5: close up on him, under him, got the foul called,

472
00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,240
Speaker 5: but Booker made the first two free throws, missed the

473
00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,320
Speaker 5: third and ate and grabbed his twentieth rebounds.

474
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Speaker 4: That's a lot of roast beef, that's right.

475
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:23,760
Speaker 5: He had a big game twenty five and twenty and

476
00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,080
Speaker 5: Blazers got the one, twenty one to one to nineteen victories.

477
00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,320
Speaker 5: So not good for the Suns. Congrats to Booker. I'm

478
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:32,119
Speaker 5: becoming the franchises all time leading scorer. But man, Portland, Man,

479
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:32,960
Speaker 5: let me.

480
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:33,800
Speaker 1: Cast them up right now.

481
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're still the one in twenty nine. That's not good.

482
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,080
Speaker 6: Thirteenth in the Western Conference. They would be tenth in

483
00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,080
Speaker 6: the East. They're tied with the Bulls right now. Four

484
00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,680
Speaker 6: straight wins. They've won eight of their last nine games.

485
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,880
Speaker 6: They went eight and eight in January, Like, these don't

486
00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,160
Speaker 6: sound good. That was their first five hundred month since

487
00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,640
Speaker 6: December of twenty twenty two. The things that stick out

488
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,120
Speaker 6: to me, first and foremost, Denny Abdia as a starter.

489
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,240
Speaker 6: Now Shadon Sharp went to the bench. That's when the

490
00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,680
Speaker 6: winning started eight of their last nine, like I said,

491
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Speaker 6: and that has been with Obdia as a starter. There

492
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Speaker 6: it means more four minutes for their best defenders in

493
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Speaker 6: Abdia and to Moni Kamara. Abdiya has been awesome on

494
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,160
Speaker 6: the offensive end as well, driving all the time. He's

495
00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:11,000
Speaker 6: generating free throws right now, like Schego, just Alexander, like

496
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:12,960
Speaker 6: Janna Sante to Kumpo. I think those are the only

497
00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,719
Speaker 6: two guys that have more free throws than Denny in

498
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:16,440
Speaker 6: the past.

499
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Speaker 1: Like two weeks.

500
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Speaker 6: Nonetheless, yeah, I'm staying more minutes for their best defenders

501
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,399
Speaker 6: like Kamara. I think part of the reason the Booker

502
00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,159
Speaker 6: missed the free throws to tie the game at the

503
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:25,680
Speaker 6: end was that he had barely touched the ball in

504
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,360
Speaker 6: fourth quarter in overtime because Kamara was all over him.

505
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,240
Speaker 6: They split up Simon's in Sharp, which is huge because

506
00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,920
Speaker 6: you can't survive having both those guys on the cart

507
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 6: court right now, especially Jeremy Grant. He's not really much

508
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 6: of a defender now anyways, So they had a lot

509
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 6: of guys you could go for in the games that

510
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 6: Abdias started their second defense. Tiny sample size, but if

511
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,119
Speaker 6: you go back to January first, that's eighteen games.

512
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,560
Speaker 1: They're ninth in defense.

513
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:49,800
Speaker 6: They have a little bit of an identity right now,

514
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,119
Speaker 6: which I don't think you can say for the Blazers

515
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 6: at all during the Chauncey Billips tenure.

516
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 1: They're looking okay right now.

517
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,640
Speaker 6: And the second thing, Scoot's hoopin. Scoot's playing pretty well.

518
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 6: Fifteen points a couple of three, six assists, and two

519
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 6: turnovers last night. That's his averages since the calendar year

520
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 6: started in twenty twenty five, shooting forty eight percent from

521
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,919
Speaker 6: the field, forty two percent from three, taking.

522
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 1: Almost five a game. He turned twenty one last night.

523
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Speaker 6: He played in goggles all last season because he didn't

524
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:15,879
Speaker 6: know he needed glasses.

525
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,200
Speaker 1: It ain't over for Scoot Henderson, is all I'm saying.

526
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, they have a different team because he's comfortable

527
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,360
Speaker 2: coming off the bench even and he looks good. There's

528
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 2: a bunch of guys that look good. For them to

529
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 2: be twenty one and twenty nine is a heck of

530
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 2: an accomplishment. As weird as that sounds, that's as many

531
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Speaker 2: victories as they had last year they were twenty one

532
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,679
Speaker 2: and sixty one, so kudos to them. Yeah, Danny avdya

533
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 2: Is he looks like a great complimentary player for a

534
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,200
Speaker 2: very very good team. And they just need to get

535
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,399
Speaker 2: better a little bit more, you know, across the board,

536
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 2: that's for sure. But they do have a great defensive player.

537
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,680
Speaker 2: And to mighty Kamara deandret and against his old team

538
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 2: is going to have a good game, There's no doubt

539
00:22:55,840 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 2: about that. He was playing in overtime against roy O'Neil.

540
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 2: The Nick Richards experiment is not going well. Nick Richard's

541
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 2: played in this game. He sat in overtime, he had

542
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 2: he was a minus sixteen in his limited minutes he

543
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,879
Speaker 2: started this game, but they didn't play him in overtime

544
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 2: because the experiment just ain't going that well. He gets

545
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 2: killed in space, that's what's gonna happen, and the Sons

546
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 2: are trying to find something and it was cool how

547
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 2: they got to overtime. Even forty seconds left. Kevin Durant

548
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 2: blocks a three point shot from Jeremy Grant. That's a

549
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 2: beautiful block, but somehow Jeremy Grant just grabs it and

550
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 2: goes and dunks it. It's just a bad bounce for them.

551
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 2: But Booker makes an extra pass to Royce O'Neill for

552
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 2: the time, he.

553
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 5: Could have got a better even look from roy O'Neil.

554
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the night he became the franchise leader for sure.

555
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 2: And then triple b a Bradley Beal block. You don't

556
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 2: see that very often. But then they go to overtime

557
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 2: and yeah, downdray and very good against literally against Royce O'Neil.

558
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 1: I mean that's should he probably should. Hey, he took

559
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: six free throws in overtime. That's like two weeks of games.

560
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah against the old team, and he's gonna have

561
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 2: his best game, that's for sure. Twenty five twenty only

562
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 2: the fifth player this season with the twenty five to twenty.

563
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 2: The other ones are just awesome.

564
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 4: I mean, yo, kitch a hundred times because.

565
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Speaker 2: Probably one and six No, yes, surprisingly Sabonis yet and

566
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 2: two others.

567
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 5: Rudy no Towns yeah, yes, yeah.

568
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 2: And one more he was involved in a big trade,

569
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,400
Speaker 2: not Luca no the guy.

570
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: Yeah he said his last game yet, Well, I had

571
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 1: what forty two twenty three?

572
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 2: I think? Yeah?

573
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 4: No, eight, Wow, joined you can.

574
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 1: See why he went number one.

575
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 5: It's the funny part is like you do see it

576
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 5: every once in a while, like damn, this guy's amazing,

577
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 5: and then you're like it's gone.

578
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 6: And then you're also like, should the Sons have just

579
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,439
Speaker 6: kept him into Mani Kamara?

580
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, yeah, they should have. Yes, they should have

581
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 5: to money come.

582
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 4: Oh my god.

583
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 5: I love the like he's becoming like the three and

584
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 5: D guy because he's hitting threes too.

585
00:24:58,960 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 4: He had five last night.

586
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 5: If you look back over the last little while, he's

587
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 5: had other games where he hit he went five for

588
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,199
Speaker 5: five in a game from deep. He's had another one

589
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 5: where we went four. Got up a lot of attempts

590
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 5: in that one. But like he's generally chipping in you know,

591
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 5: two or three as I think he's like a thirty

592
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 5: six percent three point shooter. But that's awesome when you

593
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 5: pair it with the defense, because he's got to be

594
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,120
Speaker 5: able to like knock those down.

595
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 2: So he's gonna have a great Rising Stars game, you think,

596
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 2: so why not lockdown?

597
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: The thing is pretty impressive though, I guess twenty eight

598
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 1: years old.

599
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,639
Speaker 6: Oh I know, he's first in points and only seventh

600
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 6: in games for the Phoenix Suns.

601
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 4: A lot wait, that doesn't It doesn't really make sense

602
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 4: to me.

603
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 6: But then I'm like, Okay, best player they've ever had

604
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 6: Steve Nash, not a huge scorer, right, and he was

605
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 6: more of a passer. Next best player they had Charles Barkley.

606
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 6: He wasn't there for very long. Amari Stodemeier, great scorer

607
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 6: but had injury problems. So yeah, Walter Davis, that's a

608
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 6: guy I would like to know more about. Yeah, because

609
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,120
Speaker 6: a Hall of Famer was leading the Suns and scoring

610
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 6: for a long long time, like rarely discussed. And then

611
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 6: you go to his basketball reference page, awesome nicknames, Walt Greyhound.

612
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 6: Then it gets sexy Sweet D, candy Man, the man

613
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 6: with the velvet touch. Jesus, what does this guy doing.

614
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 6: I'm going to research Walter Davis on Valentine's Day, That's

615
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 6: all I'm saying.

616
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 5: He was. He's like a six time All Star, right, Yeah,

617
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 5: like decent amount of accolades for sure, But I'm with you,

618
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 5: like nobody talks about Arthur Davis outside of I guess

619
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 5: Phoenix Suns fans.

620
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 1: Sweet D.

621
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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, so congrats to the Booker there, but

622
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 5: congrats to the Blazers on the wind any other takeaways

623
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 5: from Monday's NBA slate to a lot of other games.

624
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 2: Well, I will say Trey Murphy's had back to back

625
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 2: forty point games for the Pelicans. If there is anything positive,

626
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 2: it's that this guy has grown and grown a lot

627
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 2: in this season, maybe grown into a number one or

628
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 2: two guy as an experiment, which could be what the

629
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 2: Pelicans are looking at in the future. Besides that, and

630
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 2: the Pacers won an ugly game that doesn't happen very often.

631
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 2: First game they've won this season shooting under twenty five

632
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 2: percent from three, So that wasn't good. They're twelve to

633
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 2: two in their last fourteen. They've locked themselves into fourth

634
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 2: in the East because the Bucks right behind them lost.

635
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,879
Speaker 2: They lost their fourth in a row. They've got no

636
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 2: defense during this losing streak. They've allowed over one hundred

637
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 2: and twenty five in every game of the losing streak.

638
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 2: And it's not because they had no one. They literally

639
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 2: were playing no one against Okay, see, they weren't playing Yannis,

640
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 2: they weren't playing Lillard, they weren't playing Brook.

641
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 4: So how are they supposed to do this acide on

642
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 4: a schedule loss here?

643
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were doing it. I guess so yeah, I

644
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 2: mean Trey said it yesterday. You're going to see a

645
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 2: lot of different lineups here leading into the trade deadlines.

646
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,360
Speaker 2: So I started thinking, is this gonna happen? They absolutely

647
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 2: can't trade anybody because they're so top heavy that if

648
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: they trade multiple guys for one guy, like if they

649
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 2: trade for a Jimmy Butler or whoever they're looking for,

650
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 2: I just think they get so much weaker during this streak.

651
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 2: Bobby Portis has missed the entire streak, and I know

652
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 2: it's just Bobby Portis, but it hurts. It just hurts

653
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 2: not having him out there. And so I don't think

654
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 2: they make a move here in the next couple days.

655
00:27:58,200 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 2: And there looks like they're going to be locked into

656
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 2: fifth and gonna be going on the road again into

657
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 2: Indiana like they did last year. Hold on, they played

658
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 2: last year in the playoffs. But the home team was

659
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 2: it Pacers, right, I can't remember?

660
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah that game last night in Oklahoma.

661
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 5: I mean, it's insane. Who was playing in this game?

662
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 5: The Thunder one one ninety six. The Thunder scored nine

663
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 5: points in the fourth quarter because they were up by

664
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 5: a million, and then obviously didn't really matter how how

665
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 5: well they played or not in the fourth quarter. But

666
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 5: we had for the Bucks. We got starters Chris Livingston,

667
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 5: Ryan Rollins. These are guys. These are NBA guys. They

668
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 5: started from Milwaukee last night, and then you had on

669
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 5: the thunder bench because it turned into garbage time. You

670
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 5: know Alex Ducas, Bob Ducas's brother, he's got hot tub foot.

671
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 5: Adam Flagler, We've talked about him. Dylan Jones is the

672
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 5: guy playing in this game. I mean, it's it's wild

673
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 5: when you look at.

674
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Speaker 4: This box score.

675
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Speaker 6: I'll be honest, I didn't watch this one skates and

676
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 6: I'm kind of interested to seeing what was going on

677
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 6: with Adam Flagler in the fourth quarter, played the entire

678
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 6: fourth went one for eleven, yeah, oh eight from deep

679
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 6: What was he doing?

680
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 2: I was watching this game at the beginning and the

681
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 2: starting lineup comes up for the Bucks, and I thought, Okay,

682
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 2: this is a malfunctioning. Somebody messed up in the control room. No, glad,

683
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 2: I picked them for their ten and a half. They're

684
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 2: getting ten and a half points. They did not cover.

685
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 5: Any other games you wanted to address here from last night.

686
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 6: I thought a clutch tank loss from the Utah Jazz.

687
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 6: They were up eight with about five minutes left and

688
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 6: they just completely stopped scoring and Siakam was giving it

689
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 6: to him. On the other end, he's making us look

690
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 6: good for having him as an All Star. Ten points

691
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 6: in the fourth quarter in that one. You mentioned Trey Murphy.

692
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 6: These guys on a heater right now. That'll pay dividends

693
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 6: in the second or in next season at the very least.

694
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,959
Speaker 6: And the Wizards they won back to back games now

695
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 6: for the second time this season.

696
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 4: Yes, that's right.

697
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 5: The Wizard's up to I believe, eight wins now on

698
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 5: the season, so you know, like gonna be fear of them,

699
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 5: like having the worst record full time, because it sort

700
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 5: of was like a little in play there when they

701
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 5: only had six wins basically after fifty or so games.

702
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 4: So they're they're gonna be Okay.

703
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 2: Three of their eight wins are against the Charlotte Hornets.

704
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 5: Okay, good for them, three of them, and then two

705
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Speaker 5: against the Hawks.

706
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Actually, I don't know. They want to definitely

707
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:22,959
Speaker 1: beat the Hawks.

708
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 4: I didn't know the Hornets three times.

709
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 5: Good for them.

710
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, they beat the I just saw they beat the

711
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Speaker 2: Hornets every year. A lot, but yes, two against the

712
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Speaker 2: Hawks they gave.

713
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: That's a rivalry gave.

714
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Speaker 5: Let's get into some slop talk, some news. This one

715
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 5: big Yesterday, according to Jake Fisher, the Golden State Warriors

716
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 5: are exploring the possibility of trading for Kevin Durant from

717
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 5: the Phoenix Suns. That's right, reunited potentially can they do it?

718
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 5: What were your reaction and what do you think even

719
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 5: the likelihood of this happening is tk?

720
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's the Warriors, so I ain't gonna hap.

721
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,479
Speaker 6: How many players have they been involved in here so

722
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 6: that they can show to their fans we're trying.

723
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: We're trying.

724
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 6: Trades are hard. That's the go to motto for the

725
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 6: Golden State Warriors. Front offers Anthony Slater reported yesterday basically

726
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 6: saying that they're desperate. Sham's was saying they've called on

727
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 6: every All star in the league. I looked up, that's

728
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 6: sixty seven players. I think they called on Isaiah Thomas.

729
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 6: I know he's in the G League, but he's an

730
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 6: All Star. He might actually help this team. YEA, a

731
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 6: guy who can score with the ball in his hands.

732
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 6: But it does make me think, is there a world

733
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 6: where Kevin Durant is a little bit available right now

734
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 6: because you're seeing some of that reporting as well that

735
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 6: if the Bradley Beal Jimmy Butler thing doesn't get done,

736
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 6: if Beal won't wave his no trade clause, how long

737
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 6: is Kevin Durant gonna want to stick around there? It's

738
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 6: a guy that you can believe would want to leave

739
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 6: a team, I think, And you know it's like, why

740
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 6: would the thunder do that move yesterday? Why would the

741
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 6: Rockets get all those future sons picks during the summer?

742
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 6: Is Kevin Durant in play?

743
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 5: He hasn't seen a contract extension beyond next season. That

744
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 5: does give him a little bit of a control, I

745
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 5: guess about his future. If he wants to be rerouted somewhere,

746
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 5: Phoenix wouldn't maintain a very high asking price, I believe

747
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 5: for Kevin Durant. So you know, you're looking at draft capital,

748
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 5: you're looking at young players. If there's a Warrior's Sun

749
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 5: hypothetical where Katie comes, I assume someone like Jonathan Kaminga

750
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 5: has to be involved in this deal.

751
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 4: But yeah, what do you think is this.

752
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: Likely at all?

753
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 5: It's just great slop here from Fisher.

754
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 2: It would take two things. It would take the son

755
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 2: saying we're not trying to anymore. They go from going

756
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 2: for Jimmy Butler too, all right, we're giving up essentially

757
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 2: if they're trying to give out Kevin Durant. And it

758
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 2: would also take Kevin Durant saying happy to go back

759
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 2: to the Golden State Warriors, which I think there's a tiny,

760
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 2: teeny tiny part of him that isn't too proud to

761
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 2: do not do it because it would just be man,

762
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 2: I went there wasn't the number one guy, but I'm

763
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,719
Speaker 2: comfortable doing it again. I ain't winning here. And if

764
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 2: you're if you're the Warriors, you got to say, yeah.

765
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 2: I think they would give up Jonathan Kaminga for a

766
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 2: couple great years of Kevin Durant, at least probably three

767
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 2: great years including this one, you know, two and a

768
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 2: half full years of Kevin Durant. Yeah, they would do

769
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 2: it in a heartbeat, especially we get this combined rumor

770
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 2: with the Schams Serian your rumor saying that they are

771
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: calling everybody. My only question is would they be calling

772
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 2: for Paul George Now they try to get him in

773
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 2: the off season, but would they be calling to go

774
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 2: get him now under a four year contract where he

775
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 2: hasn't played all that well. I would say no, even

776
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 2: though they've called for every All.

777
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 6: Star, every All Star, a star on the phone for

778
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 6: DeAndre Jordan, DeAndre, come on, DeAndre?

779
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 5: Technicality? Does every all Star mean current All Star or

780
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 5: was ever an All Star?

781
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 2: Question? Ken Simmons bad was an All Star last year

782
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 2: and they were rumored to be wanting him in the

783
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 2: off season. George said they were coming at me, and

784
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 2: now he goes and signs a four year max. I

785
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 2: do not think that they would go get him, do

786
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 2: you guys? Do you guys think that there's a line

787
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 2: in the All Star list that they're looking at.

788
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 5: It does feel like maybe Warriors ownership sees what goes

789
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 5: down over the last forty eight hours or so and goes,

790
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 5: holy crap, Luca going to the Lakers, Okay, Fox getting

791
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 5: moves Zac Lavine, you know, a name that they were

792
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 5: sort of tied to, gets moved to Sacramento. And maybe

793
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 5: they're like, hey, Mike, what are you doing? Are you

794
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 5: even calling anyone? You know?

795
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 4: I get to get working the horns, man, and then

796
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 4: we get like this, oh we're calling everybody.

797
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 5: Suddenly feels honestly, it feels like there's a part of

798
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 5: that that's happening here.

799
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 4: It's like, well, what are we doing?

800
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 6: Two timeliness have the perfect two timeline.

801
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: They actually have a star for the next one.

802
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 4: Yeah.

803
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 5: But Anthony Slater ended his article yesterday for The Athletic

804
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 5: writing that the Warriors have maintained a willingness to take

805
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 5: they're star hunting to the summer if necessary. But Steph

806
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 5: Curry's basketball clock is ticking. He turns thirty seven next month,

807
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 5: and all stars are flying around the trade market as

808
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 5: a greater rate than expected this week end quote they're

809
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 5: from Slater, So yeah, they should be working. I mean

810
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 5: we've been saying this for months. I mean I've definitely

811
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 5: been like saying, what are you doing, Warriors? I think

812
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 5: you're blowing this and you're like, really should be leaning

813
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 5: into give Curry a chance basically for a year or

814
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 5: two here, and that involves moving some of these younger

815
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 5: pieces and whatever draft capital to make it happen to

816
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 5: get a star guy who that is Jimmy, Kevin Paul.

817
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 2: The West became a tiny bit more open yesterday, with

818
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 2: Dallas saying I don't know if we're going to get there.

819
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 2: We're moving from Luka Dancic, So I think that opens things,

820
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 2: But does it open up matt Ishbia's new vision here?

821
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 2: That's the thing. It's up to matt Ishbia saying we're

822
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 2: not going for it for whatever reason. While the West

823
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 2: seems to be opened a little bit. They just freaking

824
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 2: went for it with Bradley Beal and not just but

825
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,399
Speaker 2: I mean they did try and make a Nick Richards move,

826
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 2: so they would be totally doing a oneint eighty to

827
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 2: try and get out of this.

828
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 5: Here's one guy who will not be available to the

829
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 5: Golden State Warriors. Nuggets coach Michael Malone quieted rumors that

830
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 5: Michael Porter Junior could be dealt this week. They had

831
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 5: a big win over the Pels. He played great, MPJ did,

832
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 5: and they said, we're not trading Michael Porter. Okay, that's

833
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 5: the quote, pretty damn clear. He says we're not trading him.

834
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 5: And a lot of people thinking if the Nuggets were

835
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 5: gonna make a move, you know, they don't have a

836
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 5: lot of like salaries, like bigger salaries that you would

837
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 5: have to move to get another sort of star quality

838
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 5: player back. So MPG obviously has a big deal.

839
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 4: But they're saying, no, he's a.

840
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 5: Key part to our success here, has been and continue

841
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 5: to be.

842
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junior. I don't think has turned out what

843
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: the Nuggets thought he was gonna be.

844
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 6: Hasn't become a guy who scores a ton with the

845
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 6: ball in his hands. But good luck somebody who's six

846
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 6: foot ten that shoots fifty from the field forty from

847
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 6: three on sixty three point attempts. Also, he's played every

848
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 6: game this season for the Denver Nuggets. That being said,

849
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 6: it's smokescreen season. You can't believe a word any of

850
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 6: these people are saying. Mike Malone even hedged his own

851
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 6: self talking about this when he said, no, because we're

852
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 6: not trading Michael Porter.

853
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: So I'm not touching base with anybody on that.

854
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 6: And if there's something coming, obviously Calvin Booth will talk

855
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 6: with me and I'm sure we'll communicate with whatever players.

856
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: So he's literally saying.

857
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 6: We're not trading him, but if we're trading him, things

858
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,720
Speaker 6: will change. I think it's more likely that it happens

859
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 6: in the summer or at some point during the future.

860
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 6: He's owed eighty million dollars over the next two seasons

861
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 6: he does make sense as the contract that they would

862
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 6: most likely want to move with his age and how

863
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 6: much he makes, and obviously Jamal Murray is ahead of

864
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 6: him in the pecking order. They're gonna keep yokichin and

865
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 6: Murray together ahead of keeping Jokich and Michael.

866
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: Porter Junior together.

867
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Speaker 6: I don't think it'll happen during this season, but it

868
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 6: wouldn't surprise me if Porter's moved at some point on

869
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 6: this contract.

870
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 2: I love rumors, I absolutely adore them, but I'm not

871
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 2: reading into this one either. I just don't think the

872
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 2: way their offense works, they need a guy number one

873
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 2: who can shoot the three, but it's also just running

874
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 2: plays on the perimeter. You see Russell and you see

875
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 2: Christian Brown and their back door cuts and shooting from

876
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 2: the corners. They need somebody up top to work with

877
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 2: not only Jokic but Jamal Murray a little bit. I

878
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 2: mean the dribble handoffs from Jokic to Michael Porter Jr.

879
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 2: They're lethal, and that is part of their offense. And

880
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 2: I just don't think that they would try and do

881
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 2: something now after they gave up essentially last year by

882
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,280
Speaker 2: giving away Bruce Brown and now going into this KCP.

883
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say gave up, but they gave up their

884
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 2: old chemistry, the one that won the title. So I

885
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 2: don't think they do it right here right now. He's

886
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 2: been really solid for them, and just to throw something

887
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 2: in like that, now, throw that wrench in right here

888
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 2: before the playoffs, when the West does seem open, it

889
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 2: would seem like the wrong thing to do. Although financially,

890
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,479
Speaker 2: as Trey said, yes, and that makes sense at some point,

891
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 2: but I mean, Bruce Brown bye bye, Kentavis Calledbell Pope

892
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 2: bye bye. To do it again, that just means third

893
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 2: they ain't winning, you would feel like.

894
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 5: To me, this just feels like a coach trying to

895
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 5: keep the confidence of his you know, youngish player high

896
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 5: here who's rolling right now. Hey, yeah, your name's in

897
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 5: all these trade rumors. But squash it. Don't worry. We're

898
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 5: not trading. I'm not trading at the very least, is

899
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 5: what he's sort of saying. I believe in you. You're important,

900
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 5: you have been, you will be, and like keep that

901
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 5: sort of flow going. But yeah, will he finish his

902
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 5: entire either contract or career with.

903
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 4: The Denver Nuggets.

904
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 5: Unlikely, but sure right now before the deadline.

905
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 4: I think they will probably stick with him.

906
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 6: They were a fourth quarter away from making it back

907
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 6: to the conference finals last season, so the KCP thing happened.

908
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 6: The Nuggets made the right call on that. He hasn't

909
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,760
Speaker 6: been very good for the Magic. Christian Brown has been awesome.

910
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 6: Westbrook has been a steal for them this season, so

911
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 6: I imagine they will try it again. If they fall

912
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 6: short again this year, that's when I think they really

913
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 6: start thinking about giving Michael Porter junior, just because how

914
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 6: many other ways are there to improve this team. They

915
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 6: still pick to the Magic for the Aaron Gordon trade.

916
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 6: Aaron Gordon's not going anywhere. They just signed him, so

917
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 6: I think that we'll see how the playoffs go.

918
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 5: All right, More reporting around the Mavericks decision to trade

919
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 5: Luka Doncic. It's spilled out over the last couple of

920
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 5: days here since that deal broke. Now the two main stories.

921
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 5: You got one on ESPN from Ramona Shelburne and Tim McMahon.

922
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 5: That one titled unfathomable how this stunning Luca ad trade

923
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 5: came together? And then we got one from the athletics

924
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 5: powerhouse trio of Fred Katz, Joe Varden and sam Amic

925
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 5: writing about the top secret trade negotiations that made Luca

926
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 5: get to the Lakers. So, I guess my question for

927
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 5: you guys, you've read both of these, what was your

928
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 5: biggest takeaway from now these you know, sort of detailed

929
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 5: reporting here from ESPN and The Athletic when it comes

930
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 5: to the Luca ad trade and how it came about.

931
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 2: Well, the first thing is, I'm not a fan of

932
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:58,280
Speaker 2: this slow drip coffee idea that takes eight hours to drip.

933
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: I've tried it, that n coffee.

934
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 2: Well, the yeah, the the inclusion of that little nitro, Yeah,

935
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 2: it sounds cool.

936
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: But it doesn't really do it.

937
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 5: Article.

938
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Ramona Shelburne Boss.

939
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,720
Speaker 5: It's a great setting, the scene of the coffee house

940
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,760
Speaker 5: where the now infamous I guess, first meeting between Polinka

941
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 5: and Nico Harrison went down to start spitball in this trade.

942
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 2: Yes, I've never been to that coffee shop, but I

943
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 2: have had a extreme slow drip Dutch coffee. It's just

944
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 2: a coffee.

945
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 4: It takes eight hours to brew.

946
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 2: We've had better with our man Marty at Broadsheet Coffee and.

947
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: A roasts a great bean.

948
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 2: It does taste like a great bean. That's brewed immediately

949
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 2: and it's good anyway. What this piece said to me was,

950
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 2: especially the ESPN one, was a lot about the chemistry

951
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 2: that Luka Doncic lacks in creating in a locker room.

952
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 2: So there's a lot about his work ethic, but it's

953
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 2: also just about it ain't fun.

954
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 4: To his personality.

955
00:41:58,160 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 5: Culture.

956
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 2: The culture kept being sent a million times by Nico'snicos.

957
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was number one word, but

958
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 2: it was high on. There a lot of culture talk,

959
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 2: and so I don't know's it's being it's like a

960
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,720
Speaker 2: spider vib here, It's it's being thrown out multiple ways.

961
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 2: He's overweight and doesn't want to work all that hard.

962
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 2: The lack of culture is there, the lack of defense

963
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 2: is there. So those are the things that are sticking

964
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:30,240
Speaker 2: out right here right now to seemingly create this reason

965
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 2: for not wanting Luka Tancic around.

966
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're going hard on the conditioning, I think is

967
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 6: basically the smear tactic here from the Dallas Mavericks. But

968
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 6: also I think Luca played the most combined minutes of

969
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 6: anybody in the season last year, including the playoffs, when

970
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 6: he led the entire playoffs and points, rebounds, assystem steals,

971
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 6: So maybe work on his conditioning. Get that's something you're

972
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 6: really working about, which makes you think maybe it's something else.

973
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 6: And it kind of feels like Nico Harrison maybe just

974
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 6: didn't like Luka Dancic right like to trade a Dorian Finney,

975
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 6: Smith's best friend included Maxi Cleeban this trade. They mentioned

976
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 6: how they fired like every coach he liked, all the

977
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,399
Speaker 6: trainers he liked, had to hire new trainers as well.

978
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,399
Speaker 6: At one point, they have a quote from Lucas saying

979
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 6: they get rid of everybody I like. It just seems

980
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 6: like they made it untenable for Luca to want to

981
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 6: stay around. Maybe he hadn't requested a trade, Maybe he

982
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 6: hadn't said anything about not wanting to sign the Supermax.

983
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 6: You know, Nico talked about a tumultuous offseason coming for

984
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 6: the Mavericks in summer twenty twenty five, so there just

985
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 6: must have been a lot of tension, and maybe it

986
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 6: comes from Harrison just not liking the way Luca carries himself.

987
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is interesting.

988
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 6: It's usually players went out, especially players of this stature,

989
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 6: but the Mavericks are back in Nico Harrison.

990
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a quote from Harrison that says there's other

991
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 5: teams that were loading up to acquire Luca as a

992
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 5: free agent. He was going to have to make his

993
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 5: own decision at some point of whether he wants to

994
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 5: be here or not, whether we want to supermax him

995
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 5: or not, or whether he wants to opt out. Yeah,

996
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 5: he keeps bringing up this idea, like and it's like

997
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,280
Speaker 5: they sort of like go hand in hand. It feels

998
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,399
Speaker 5: like it's like, well, he doesn't like me, I don't

999
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,919
Speaker 5: really like him, Therefore I'm worried about first off, handing

1000
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 5: him a super max contract in us continuing our relationship,

1001
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 5: or him hating me so much that he's like I

1002
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 5: don't want to be here because I hate you and

1003
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 5: I want out of here. Like so, like we'll get

1004
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 5: ahead of it and we'll just train him before that. Again,

1005
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 5: if that's what went down, if that's like this like

1006
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 5: conflict of like relationship and they butt heads, okay, strange.

1007
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 5: You can't get over that, Especially from Lucas side of things.

1008
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 5: That hasn't been like I want out of here. We

1009
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 5: haven't heard any of that. They're not saying that either,

1010
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 5: but it's just so odd still that you've just decided

1011
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 5: to talk to Rob Polinka and the Lakers. I can't

1012
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 5: get over that part because they did not enter deep

1013
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 5: negotiations with any other team. I know there's one other

1014
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 5: team that they saw to kick the tires on, but

1015
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 5: like they didn't and he said, or this is from

1016
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,760
Speaker 5: the ESPN article. Well, Harrison decided early on team sources

1017
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 5: said that the best way to trade a player of

1018
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 5: Luca Doncich's caliber was to pick the trade that he

1019
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 5: wanted Nico Harrison, rather than open up the process to

1020
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 5: avoid Luca and his agent exerting their own leverage. It

1021
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 5: would also avoid the crippling fan backlash that might influence

1022
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 5: the deal. This is when we were reacting on the

1023
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 5: emergency podcast and we were trying to figure out what

1024
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 5: the hell's going on here?

1025
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 4: Why'd they do it this way? I brought that up.

1026
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 5: I said, A part of this feels like he wanted

1027
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 5: to do this like secretly, because you're gonna trade Luca.

1028
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 5: And otherwise you had said we're gonna trade Luca auction,

1029
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 5: let's go get your best deals in like the backlash

1030
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 5: would have been insane. It still is, by the way,

1031
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 5: but it would have been nuts and I felt like

1032
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 5: a part of this is why they did that sort

1033
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 5: of in the shadows here, because he's got his tail

1034
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 5: between his legs a little bit, because he knows how

1035
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 5: insane it is what he's doing trading Luca to Yeah.

1036
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good point and it reminds me, and

1037
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 2: it was gone through in the ESPN article how this

1038
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 2: has happened before, where these trades that are on the burner,

1039
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 2: they're gonna happen, but they take some time end up

1040
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 2: being raugh for everybody involved. I remember the Anthony Davis

1041
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 2: deal from New Orleans to the Lakers, when he said

1042
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 2: I want to be dealt to the Lakers, and it

1043
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 2: took them. I guess it was like six weeks. I

1044
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 2: don't know.

1045
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, but guess why they got a better deal they did.

1046
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 2: They did. They just got more than one pick and

1047
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:29,399
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis. And unfortunately, I initially thought that it must

1048
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 2: mean Luca's leaving, but that has definitely not been confirmed.

1049
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 2: And he was just purchasing a fifteen million dollar home

1050
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 2: according to all reports at real reports that he wanted

1051
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 2: in Dallas. Now, I think Nico Harrison should have just

1052
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,839
Speaker 2: gone to the real estate agent said, you know, slow

1053
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 2: this flow. No, I guess he would be giving it

1054
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 2: away if he did that. He can't give it away.

1055
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 2: But he's saying all the things that he wants in

1056
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 2: number one, a guy in the locker room. Number two

1057
00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 2: on the floor when he says defense matters are archetypes

1058
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 2: of players, and then you you take a step back

1059
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 2: and you say basketball is as simple as a guy

1060
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 2: who leads your team to the finals. And the articles

1061
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 2: also says he gets quotes from people like, Okay, this

1062
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 2: guy was averaging twenty seven and nine and nine and

1063
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 2: leading us to the finals. And so there's obviously a

1064
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 2: lot of layers, and we've said how much is this

1065
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 2: guy going to be the same guy in three or

1066
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 2: four years? I suppose because it's also a Nico Arrison said,

1067
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,280
Speaker 2: we're not making this straight just for now, but for

1068
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:35,240
Speaker 2: the future, which is hard to believe when you got older.

1069
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, you like, well, your star player being another mid

1070
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 5: thirty something guy instead of Luca in his mid twenties.

1071
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 5: One thing too, like Nico Harrison's news conference press conference

1072
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 5: when he praised Rob Polenka's ability to keep the talks

1073
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 5: quiet even though they had been going on for weeks. What,

1074
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 5: of course, Rob Polinka is going to keep it quiet,

1075
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 5: like he's not that stupid, Like yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll

1076
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 5: just talk just with you about getting Luka Dancic. Yeah,

1077
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 5: I won't broadcast this to Shams or any other reporters. Yeah,

1078
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 5: no problem, man, we keep this under wraps. Like what

1079
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 5: is he talking about?

1080
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 4: Nico Harrison Like he was like, that's my guy, that's

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Speaker 4: my buddy.

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00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 5: Man.

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00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 4: He kept this quiet.

1084
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, really helped us out.

1085
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, insanity. We did nothing for him, just insane.

1086
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 4: But recommend you go read both these articles.

1087
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 6: I do love the detail of Danny Ainge getting involved.

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00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, you.

1089
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 6: Got some second round draft picks I'll get in this trade,

1090
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 6: only to then find out it's the Lakers getting Luka Dojo.

1091
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: TI must have been the year. That's really fun. It

1092
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,760
Speaker 1: was pretty funny, great curve ball.

1093
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 6: And I was just left wondering, Like when you hear

1094
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 6: conditioning problems, it's always big guys. It's like like Yokich.

1095
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 6: People had questions about his conditioning before. Honestly, before the bubble,

1096
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 6: he came back in great shape and turned into a

1097
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:51,760
Speaker 6: top ten all time player.

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00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid is a guy.

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00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 6: With conditioning issues. DeMarcus Cousins at one point, Shack is

1100
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,919
Speaker 6: obviously a huge one. I mean, Barkley to some ex sense, Okay,

1101
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 6: maybe Barkley is like the closest to Luca dont because

1102
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 6: that's rare to find perimeter guys. I tweeted it yesterday

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00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 6: and people are like, Kyle Lowry fair, I think that's

1104
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 6: a fair one, like Boris Diaal And then people are

1105
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,879
Speaker 6: like klidel a mean, I was like, okay, yes, yeah,

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00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 6: that was a problem for sure, but not quite on

1107
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 6: the same level.

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00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: But it's pretty rare for guards to get called out

1109
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 1: like that.

1110
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good call, and that's why people say, hey,

1111
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 2: twenty eight nine and nine, I just upped his point

1112
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:26,880
Speaker 2: per game. I think I think that was the right

1113
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 2: number whatever it was quoted at, But twenty eight nine

1114
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 2: and nine, you just you can't replicate that.

1115
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 4: So yeah, I.

1116
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:36,800
Speaker 2: Don't see how. I just don't see the physical projection

1117
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 2: of how this isn't going to work out In several years,

1118
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 2: maybe Nico knows more, but he will be playing beside

1119
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 2: Lebron James again, and maybe Lebron can help him in

1120
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:50,720
Speaker 2: that in getting him set on his body a little

1121
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 2: bit more. Yeah, it's it's hard.

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00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 5: It's hard to that's the that's the fear for the

1123
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 5: rest of the league. Yeah, exactly that that, Oh my god,

1124
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 5: that this will be the thing that like some how

1125
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 5: he goes even crazier despite being already one of the

1126
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 5: greatest players at least of his generation here at being

1127
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 5: so young too. So we'll see go read those articles.

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Speaker 5: Final one here, we've got trio of Basketball Hall of Famers.

1129
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,280
Speaker 5: That are the four coaches who will serve as honorary

1130
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 5: head coaches for the Castrol Rising Stars. Yes, Castrol Room room, baby,

1131
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 5: that's oil, right, I think so.

1132
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1133
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 5: I don't know a lot about cars, but I believe

1134
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 5: it is Tim Hardaway, Senior, Chris Mullen, Mitch Richmond, all

1135
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 5: former Golden State Warriors. Yeah, Team T, Team M, Team C.

1136
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,799
Speaker 5: They're gonna serve as honorary coaches. And we got former

1137
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 5: NBA player and Warriors guard Jeremy Lynn as the fourth

1138
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 5: head coach.

1139
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,760
Speaker 4: There were for a team G league. Cool you guys, Okay,

1140
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 4: you like this?

1141
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 2: Then get yeah.

1142
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1143
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 2: At first I laughed at Team T, Team M, Team C.

1144
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 2: Why would you name them that? Obviously it's the Warriors TMC.

1145
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, run TOC and I thought, you know, it's.

1146
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,839
Speaker 2: Better than previous iterations of this Rising stars. Do you

1147
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 2: really remember those the coaches, we all went through them.

1148
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 2: This is you know, for the whole.

1149
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 4: Like Powdersoul has done it a lot.

1150
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 5: Jalen Rose, I guess has done it a lot.

1151
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 1: They have Debt left Shrimp last year.

1152
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 4: Yes he was there.

1153
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 2: We had Darren Williams. Yeah in Indiana area.

1154
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is that's some real sicko behavior.

1155
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 5: Yes, seaming the honorary coaches lost Stars games.

1156
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 2: Noah, Yes, beasted it good. But anyways, it's good for

1157
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,399
Speaker 2: the hometown to have the TMC. Sure flashbacks.

1158
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, it could be some you know, some gently ripping

1159
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 5: between the old guys there, the coaches, right, yeah, you

1160
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 5: might come up and have that.

1161
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 6: Chris Mullen, I think is a known trash talker. I

1162
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 6: like that these guys still look the same as they

1163
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 6: did and they played for the War, which they all

1164
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,439
Speaker 6: got their same haircuts, right, Tim and Mitch they shaved

1165
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:48,360
Speaker 6: their heads, and Chris is sticking with the flatsop.

1166
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1167
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 1: Crazy.

1168
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 6: So twenty twenty six we're gonna be plug The All

1169
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 6: Star Game will be in Los Angeles.

1170
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 5: Who are going to be the honorary coaches in the

1171
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 5: Los Angeles pretty back in them.

1172
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,399
Speaker 1: But it's Clippers into it though.

1173
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 5: Wow, give me a Lloyd bought bring back Lloyd?

1174
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 1: Why not?

1175
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:13,479
Speaker 2: Blake Griffin could be, especially since he's gonna be on

1176
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 2: what is the Amazon or Peacock?

1177
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 1: I don't remember one of them?

1178
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 4: Would it? Would Brent Barry do it?

1179
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:21,439
Speaker 1: It's not bad.

1180
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 4: Rick Barry's done it, has done it? Yes? Yeah?

1181
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 5: Who else?

1182
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 6: Chris Cayman, Chris can lie down, Chris.

1183
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 4: All right, those are some suggestions.

1184
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 1: Let us know Darius.

1185
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 6: Darius, Miles Richards as well for sure.

1186
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that.

1187
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 4: That's good.

1188
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 5: That's a good call. We just gonna find the other

1189
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 5: two and like that start. Yeah, Blake, I think that's

1190
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 5: the story right there.

1191
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 4: And we just need the fourth. We need a G

1192
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 4: League Clipper.

1193
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 6: Guy, Mike Taylor first player ever drafted from the G

1194
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:56,399
Speaker 6: League into the NBA.

1195
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 1: Jesus, I think that's true.

1196
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, let's honor room check the facts, all.

1197
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 2: Right, Jamal Crawford will be used.

1198
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one.

1199
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's we probably just named the four.

1200
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 5: Honestly, if they go Miles in q rich some unfortunate

1201
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 5: news we will not be doing a live show in

1202
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,399
Speaker 5: San Francisco after all. I know, I know, I told

1203
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 5: you on Friday, get ready, tickets are coming here we go.

1204
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 5: Some unfortunate circumstances are not going to allow us to

1205
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 5: get there to San France to do the live show.

1206
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,839
Speaker 5: So apologies if you are planning on joining us on

1207
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 5: February fourteenth. We were going to exchange Valentine's and then

1208
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 5: it was going to be great. It won't be happening

1209
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 5: this year, so sorry, But don't you worry. We got

1210
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 5: some fun things in store for our All Star weekend

1211
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 5: coverage from.

1212
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 4: Here in Atlanta.

1213
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,439
Speaker 2: Maybe better, maybe better, well better than a live show.

1214
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 5: You want to do a live show here in the

1215
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 5: Classic Factory, Yeah, let's open up the garage doors, pile

1216
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 5: them in here.

1217
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: You want to have our own dunk contest? Come over

1218
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 1: to my house?

1219
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 4: Lowder the rim o' gay, always careful.

1220
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: We got a slanty driveway.

1221
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, dangerous on the ankles, but and would like if

1222
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 5: you dunked on your like, would you tear it down?

1223
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 5: Like if you really hung on the net, like it's not.

1224
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 6: Find you know, it was very very sturdy until my

1225
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:12,400
Speaker 6: dad accidentally backed over the water reservoir, completely emptying it.

1226
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 1: Now I got sand bags on top. Thanks Dad.

1227
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 5: Oh geez oh, he like cracked the water reservoir for Yeah,

1228
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 5: it's got a hole in it.

1229
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's definitely not holding us on duncan On.

1230
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 1: It hasn't fallen in over a year.

1231
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 5: Let's risk it, all right, Well, maybe we'll do that

1232
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 5: overall Star weekend. Bring back the dunk contest that we

1233
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:33,439
Speaker 5: used to do. All right, let's get to a pick

1234
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 5: them for tonight. Last night a lot of us took

1235
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 5: the Thunder. We said that might be a schedule victory.

1236
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 4: We were right.

1237
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 5: They easily covered the ten and a half task you

1238
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 5: had the bucks, So you're oh in one here in.

1239
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 2: February, definitely, I was excited about the Lakers going to

1240
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 2: visit the Clippers or is Luca debuting, although that is

1241
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 2: highly highly highly unlikely. So I went with just another

1242
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:00,720
Speaker 2: doozy Boston in Cleveland, one two here in the Eastern

1243
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,880
Speaker 2: Conference Cleveland. Basically, I pick them, They're a favored by

1244
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 2: one and a half. I was surprised that two of

1245
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 2: us picked Cleveland seats and I and two picked Boston

1246
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:10,800
Speaker 2: train ash.

1247
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 5: Okay, we're split splitz is the are those the TNT

1248
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 5: games tonight? Then Boston Cleveland, and then Clips Lakes.

1249
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 2: This one Cleveland Boston is definitely TNT.

1250
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 4: I would think the other one is when you would think, yes,

1251
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 4: yeah it is.

1252
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 5: That's pretty tasty, pretty tasty for Tuesday night. All right,

1253
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 5: so we're split one and a half, Cleveland as the favorites.

1254
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 4: There, let's call it there. Thanks for joining us again.

1255
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 4: Hit the light button subscribe.

1256
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 5: We gotta get off the air because you never know

1257
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 5: when we're gonna have to do an emergency podcast.

1258
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:37,240
Speaker 4: That's how we have to live this week.

1259
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 5: You know, he's got to be always ready, always available.

1260
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 6: Do you think we'll get another one before actual Thursday

1261
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 6: trade deadline day?

1262
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 5: Nora asked me that today, like, are you gonna get

1263
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 5: another big trade?

1264
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 4: And I was like, I don't think so. Until the deadline.

1265
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 5: I agree, like, if Jimmy Butler is traded, maybe Fucevich.

1266
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 5: I mean, well, this kad one's obviously interesting.

1267
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:00,479
Speaker 4: If that happens, that's huge, But yeah, no, I don't.

1268
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 5: I think if we get on it happens on the

1269
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 5: Thursday pass.

1270
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 2: I don't have one. I don't have one that I

1271
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 2: know is happening. Beforehand.

1272
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 5: Okay, well we're gonna be here obviously tomorrow. We'll be

1273
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 5: here on Thursday morning, and then we plan on going

1274
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 5: live for the deadline again on Thursday in the afternoon

1275
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 5: around two or three pm Eastern, probably building up to

1276
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 5: the actual deadline, so two pm Eastern, let's call it.

1277
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 5: So two shows on Thursday, done to drop on Friday.

1278
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 5: So lots of No Dunk's content come in your way.

1279
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 5: Tell then Clipper bros.

1280
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:32,839
Speaker 1: You heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up.

1281
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:34,760
Speaker 1: Love you guys, awesome.

1282
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. And remember the best quote I

1283
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 2: think from the Luca Doncic trade was from Anthony Edwards.

1284
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 2: He said, quote, I'm scared, Tim, if you're gonna trade me,

1285
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 2: let me know.

1286
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 5: Doug.

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00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 4: Praise today people,