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Speaker 1: tracking wedgies as far as they keep coming fast and furious.
Speaker 1: Weggie thirty eight and thirty nine last night both block
Speaker 1: Weggies and they almost happened at the exact same time.
Speaker 2: First one in Chicago, Jackson Hayes with an emphatic.
Speaker 1: Chased down from behind Block Weggie on Josh Giddy and like, legit,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like sixty seconds later, maybe a minute
Speaker 1: or two later, Robert Williams the third blocking Jordan Wall.
Speaker 2: She also fouled them. But it's stuck.
Speaker 1: There long enough, according to baby Bird Eagle. Uh so
Speaker 1: we're counting it, baby bird, baby bird, No what Eagle? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that Jackson Hayes block was Oh yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it looked like Giddy just said it next to
Speaker 4: the rim. So that Jackson Hayes good wedging in for him.
Speaker 2: I agree, I said, I tweeted last night.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be scoring that one quite high when
Speaker 1: it comes to ranking all the weggies on stack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good one.
Speaker 5: I was surprised take it to the other one. I'm
Speaker 5: sorry to go back and reference something very old, but
Speaker 5: to hear grand Hill say he'd never heard of a
Speaker 5: block Weggie. You're a colleague on the Inside Stuff broadcast.
Speaker 5: Was our host on the Starties. Wow when we gave
Speaker 5: away the wedgie of the Year to a block Wedge.
Speaker 1: You're talking Kriss, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, in grand Hill's defense, I guess Noah Eagles has
Speaker 1: started calling it a bledgie, a block and a wedgie,
Speaker 1: which is great. We love it.
Speaker 2: Maybe that Grant was a little.
Speaker 5: Confused, right yeah, sure, yeah, he's got brought up Kristin
Speaker 5: Budloe saying a block wedgie. We gave it to Dorian
Speaker 5: Finney Smith, who was who accepted the award. Oh wow,
Speaker 5: it was a good day twenty seventeen. Here's that It
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Speaker 5: If he was reading, if he was looking at the
Speaker 5: screen anyway, Bledie, Okay.
Speaker 2: Do you think Grant Hill still likes music?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I agree, Yeah, give.
Speaker 2: It you imagine he didn't.
Speaker 1: I'll be breaking news Grant Hill stops liking music.
Speaker 4: Catch out to me, has no choice.
Speaker 1: All right, let's recap some of last night's games and
Speaker 1: stories from yesterday in the updown Report.
Speaker 4: Its Maddie m p. Sixteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're throwing thumbs this morning.
Speaker 2: A figure.
Speaker 1: We got our body moving, throwing thumbs up or down.
Speaker 1: Try and stay one yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: first one here, Luka Doncic forty six points, eleven assists,
Speaker 1: seven rebounds helped the Lakers cool off the hot Chicago
Speaker 1: Bulls with the one twenty nine to eighteen victory last night.
Speaker 1: Lebron did work early in this game. He had twenty
Speaker 1: of his twenty four in the first half. LA improved
Speaker 1: to three and one on this eight game road trip
Speaker 1: here a game trip. According to FanDuel, Luca is now
Speaker 1: a plus one thousand bet to win his first ever MVP,
Speaker 1: so he's second in the odds SGA remains the favorite.
Speaker 1: Yo Kich is now off the board because he probably
Speaker 1: is not going to hit the games played. Quote up,
Speaker 1: but are you up or down? Especially after last night's
Speaker 1: scheme and how they're playing right now On Luca Daunt's
Speaker 1: MVP chances, legit chances to win his first ever MVP.
Speaker 5: I picked the guy, but I'm still down. In comparison
Speaker 5: to Shae, there is no comparison. Chase played one hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty more minutes, made a hundred more shots, made
Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty more two specifically, played in eight
Speaker 5: more games. His team has won nine more games. He's
Speaker 5: scored the most points in the NBA. Even though Luca
Speaker 5: is leading in the per games.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 5: I can't the hundred sports writers and broadcasters I vote
Speaker 5: for this thing at the end of the season, are
Speaker 5: they going to look at Luca, look at a team
Speaker 5: that's way below Okay, see I'm saying that because I
Speaker 5: believe that will still be the case.
Speaker 3: Are they going to give it to Luca? I highly,
Speaker 3: highly doubt him.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're still saying down despite he's missed.
Speaker 5: He's missed eight games. I know that's not a ton
Speaker 5: in today's NBA, but but but you know, you know,
Speaker 5: it's something in comparison to Shay. I think, just all
Speaker 5: those categories, why why not give it to Shape because
Speaker 5: he's won it before.
Speaker 3: That would be the only reason. I suppose that doesn't
Speaker 3: make sense.
Speaker 1: It's happened before. When it comes to MVP voting, maybe
Speaker 1: won't be the case.
Speaker 4: Again, usually not on a on a one time winner.
Speaker 1: No, no, true true. What do you think, TK like?
Speaker 1: Upper down, one thumb up? I'm a tiny bit Okay, I'm.
Speaker 4: Up because I think this is going to be the
Speaker 4: highest finish of Luca's career in MVP voting. He finished
Speaker 4: third in twenty three, twenty four, and like you said,
Speaker 4: right now, he's second in odds, a little bit ahead
Speaker 4: of Caid. I mean, I don't know, toss up. I
Speaker 4: guess between Caid and Luca. Caid's team has outperformed Lucas
Speaker 4: as well, but they're in the easier conference. I don't know. Luca, though,
Speaker 4: is leading the league in scoring points per game only
Speaker 4: m hm. He's got the Lakers apparatus. That matters. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: absolutely matters, and the Lakers do have a great clutch record,
Speaker 4: so you can say, look at this guy come through
Speaker 4: when his team needs it the most. He's oddly low though,
Speaker 4: on like clutch points per game, mostly because when it
Speaker 4: comes down to it, teams are just going to double
Speaker 4: Luka Doncuch and say anybody else on the Lakers beat us.
Speaker 4: They have been good doing it. And I will say,
Speaker 4: if he is allowed to go against Nicola Vucha bitch
Speaker 4: every single night, Luca will win the MVP. I'm always
Speaker 4: talking about. You can tell how hard Luca had to
Speaker 4: work during a game by how sweaty he looks. This
Speaker 4: guy was dry last night. He maybe got like a
Speaker 4: little glaze on his forehead in the fourth quarter, but
Speaker 4: like not the dripping hair. He didn't have sweat on
Speaker 4: his jersey. This was easy stuff, just like put vouch
Speaker 4: into a screen and roll sometimes like a double screen
Speaker 4: and just keep dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble,
Speaker 4: ri whipple pass or score over the top of it.
Speaker 4: Was easy stuff for Luca against the balls last night.
Speaker 4: But I think Lucas had a great season. Anytime he
Speaker 4: makes some sort of an effort on the defensive end,
Speaker 4: it's getting clipped out. You know they're gonna put together
Speaker 4: a list of players where Luca's trying on defense. And
Speaker 4: the fact that he's got the Los Angeles media behind him,
Speaker 4: I think helps. Anytime around the Lakers, you get a
Speaker 4: little bit of a bump. So I think he will
Speaker 4: finish second.
Speaker 1: You think he still make in clipse maybe Kate Cunningham,
Speaker 1: like you said, they're like in the two three sports
Speaker 1: behind the Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: I mean he had the three balls dropping last night.
Speaker 2: That was the big part.
Speaker 1: Eight to fourteen from deep, and this is one area
Speaker 1: this season he has struggled in terms of consistency hitting
Speaker 1: a three, but knockdown eight of those. I love seeing
Speaker 1: Luca when he's operating around the free throw line too,
Speaker 1: Like just like he's a monster dude. I think maybe
Speaker 1: it's forgotten just because he's the way he plays out
Speaker 1: on the perimeter and sort of a point guard. He
Speaker 1: is huge, like easily scoring over Kobe White when he
Speaker 1: matched on got buckets, like just it's too small, They're
Speaker 1: too small for him. So I like, I like when
Speaker 1: he just like mixes it up with the three balls,
Speaker 1: going a little inside work, and then obviously he's one
Speaker 1: of the best playmakers. He had that beautiful baseline pass too.
Speaker 1: Was it Vanderbilt cutting in baseline on the on the
Speaker 1: corner there, Like they threw a couple of bulls at
Speaker 1: him in the corner and he just waited and waited
Speaker 1: and waited for who he wanted to cut under it
Speaker 1: and flinging it under.
Speaker 3: He had so many good passes.
Speaker 5: He had a behind the back skip pass way out
Speaker 5: to Gabe Vincent who had to one touch it to
Speaker 5: ruyaction and work because it wasn't the most perfect behind
Speaker 5: the back skip passes, but it was far. And then
Speaker 5: the classic Luca get underneath ball fake pump fake and
Speaker 5: another fake and then the pass out to the corner.
Speaker 5: That's a classic Luca. When he needed to get open,
Speaker 5: he used those two hands to push off. I would assume,
Speaker 5: get off me.
Speaker 3: Man. He was doing a great job.
Speaker 5: Although it was funny to hear him post game in
Speaker 5: the interview saying, all right, you're four games into your
Speaker 5: eight game trip. He rolled his eyes, He's ah, eight
Speaker 5: game trip. I don't like that. He didn't say a word,
Speaker 5: but his eyes said it all. It isn't like being
Speaker 5: on the road, I guess for that long. But I
Speaker 5: will say we all projected that okay Se would probably
Speaker 5: win seventy games.
Speaker 3: Now they're not. Is there a chance that okay See
Speaker 3: falls back.
Speaker 5: Even further from where they are, just like they've hilt
Speaker 5: from that seventy mark to now to it whatever it is,
Speaker 5: a sixty five win mark.
Speaker 3: They're losing games.
Speaker 5: I think that the Jalen Williams injury is a factor
Speaker 5: that he hasn't been able to help out this season.
Speaker 5: I think it's more of a factor in the playoffs,
Speaker 5: considering he has to get going to be the second
Speaker 5: best scorer on that ok See team. I know there's
Speaker 5: chet and all that, but they depend on Jaalens to
Speaker 5: be their second best ball handler. So that's the worst
Speaker 5: part and that may factor int m VP.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe all right, next one here, Donovan Mitchell scored
Speaker 1: forty five points as the Cavaliers beat the Magic one
Speaker 1: to fourteen ninety eight. That's their fourth straight win. The
Speaker 1: run puts Cleveland a season best eight games over five
Speaker 1: hundred at twenty eight and twenty. So the up down question,
Speaker 1: and I could have gone negatively with the Magic side
Speaker 1: of things, like are you upper down on the Magic
Speaker 1: getting it together? But let's be positive, piets here, upper
Speaker 1: down tray. When it comes to your confidence in the Cavaliers,
Speaker 1: with how they're playing right now and this run.
Speaker 4: I'm up compared to early season. I'm down overall. I
Speaker 4: don't actually believe that the Cabs are going to be
Speaker 4: a threat in the playoffs, but we shall see. They've
Speaker 4: looked better though. On the entire season thirteen and sixteen
Speaker 4: against teams five hundred better. But in their last eleven
Speaker 4: games against five hundred teams they're eight and three, and
Speaker 4: that includes wins against the Spurs, the Suns, the timber Wolves.
Speaker 4: You know, like they beat the Magic twice, they are
Speaker 4: technically a five hundred team. I don't think it's all
Speaker 4: that impressive to beat the Magic. At this point though, however,
Speaker 4: the Cavs are one to eight against the teams that
Speaker 4: are ahead of them in the Eastern Conference oh and
Speaker 4: two against Boston, one and one against Detroit, oh and
Speaker 4: two against the Knicks, oh and three against Toronto. Their
Speaker 4: fourth and fandul odds to win the Eastern Conference behind Detroit,
Speaker 4: New York and Boston. And that seems about right to me,
Speaker 4: just because I've got massive questions about them in the playoffs,
Speaker 4: their depth, their health, their toughness, like who is their
Speaker 4: actual number two option out there? They've lost four to
Speaker 4: one in the second round the last two seasons in
Speaker 4: Cleveland after I mean, they destroyed the Heat last year
Speaker 4: for sure, but they struggled against the Magic the year prior.
Speaker 4: You can also throw in the fact that Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 4: has never made a conference finals despite playing for two
Speaker 4: number one seeds. There are questions to be answered for
Speaker 4: the Calves, But Donovan Mitchell's hoopin right now. This guy
Speaker 4: dominated last night forty five, four and four from Mitchell.
Speaker 4: He's averaging thirty points per game, basically twenty nine and
Speaker 4: a half. It's a career high five rebound, six assists.
Speaker 4: He's almost at fifty forty ninety for the season. When
Speaker 4: he scores thirty or more than seventeen to eight, the
Speaker 4: question is always going to be who can go along
Speaker 4: with Donovan and Mitchell and can they actually defend if
Speaker 4: the guy that's supposed to go along with him is
Speaker 4: Darius Garland, who didn't play last night. So I don't know.
Speaker 4: The Calves are getting it together here. I think that's good,
Speaker 4: but I still don't know that I think this team
Speaker 4: is really going to do anything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's very similar to last year in the playoffs
Speaker 5: because their second best player in Darius Garland, their other
Speaker 5: ball handler is hurt again and that was a part
Speaker 5: of last year and what happened to them in the
Speaker 5: second round. He had offseason big toe surgery on his
Speaker 5: left big toe and now he's got his right big
Speaker 5: toe that he's hurt. So he's got problems down there
Speaker 5: and that's an issue now. I will say I'm up
Speaker 5: Evan Mobiley. I think looks his best that he's looked
Speaker 5: this season. I think he has got one move that
Speaker 5: he's getting to in that spin to his left. He
Speaker 5: gets into the lane that spins to his left and
Speaker 5: either goes over top of somebody or is able to
Speaker 5: pump and go past them if it's a big player
Speaker 5: like Wendell Carter Junior.
Speaker 3: So he is feeling better now.
Speaker 5: Those were mostly dunks that he had last night, and
Speaker 5: those are he's taken the path when it's there. He
Speaker 5: doesn't really have that go to move that everyone expected
Speaker 5: coming into the season, but that spin, he's ready to
Speaker 5: plant that foot and do something with it.
Speaker 1: So that's better.
Speaker 5: But I do agree that who is going to be
Speaker 5: their second best player, Who is going to be their
Speaker 5: go to guy? They need Garland and again both toes
Speaker 5: have been a problem. I just don't know if he's
Speaker 5: going to be on the floor. And so you can
Speaker 5: see it that they've got depth coming through and these
Speaker 5: young guys and Jalen Tyson has been for again awesome.
Speaker 5: There's lots of guys coming through, but I don't know
Speaker 5: if they have guys you can depend on. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Trey Kirby recently, well today I should say, dropped Week
Speaker 1: fifteen Power rankings, Calves a little up, cracking the top ten,
Speaker 1: but the magic falling all the way to twenty first
Speaker 1: TK with the little down arrow and then you wrote
Speaker 1: I want to get you to elaborate on this the
Speaker 1: magic I'm out, So yeah, expand on that.
Speaker 4: Changes they're needed. I don't know what it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: I mean, Franz didn't play last night. You can't blame
Speaker 4: it on Polo and Franz. Though Paula was hooping, he
Speaker 4: had finished with thirty nine, thirty seven let me see,
Speaker 4: let me see, so like an actually accurate throwing down.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But also like I'm listening to the broadcast and Brad
Speaker 4: Doherty's like he reminds me of Demarta Rosen. I was like, uh,
Speaker 4: Demarta Rosen is good, but he is a mid range
Speaker 4: player that hasn't had a whole bunch of playoff success.
Speaker 4: And that's not what Paula's should be. That's not what
Speaker 4: he should be as a player. A mid range trying
Speaker 4: to get to nineteen footers doesn't make any sense at all.
Speaker 4: You look at their defense. I think they're maybe fifteenth
Speaker 4: on the year, but their bottom ten in fast break
Speaker 4: points allowed, They're bottom ten in points in the paint.
Speaker 4: How does that even make sense? They've got giants out there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they can never be good on offense. I don't think
Speaker 4: it is ever gonna happen with the coach they have
Speaker 4: and with the schemes that they're trying to run. Because
Speaker 4: one guy starts dribbling and nobody else is guarded, there's
Speaker 4: four other guys just waiting in the lane the entire time.
Speaker 4: Deathmond Bain is the only threatening three point shooter. I
Speaker 4: just don't see this team as good enough offensively now
Speaker 4: that they've fallen off on the defensive end. They need
Speaker 4: to be a top five defensive team, and they need to,
Speaker 4: like hope to be twentieth on the offensive end. I
Speaker 4: think they're twentieth right now, which is like a great
Speaker 4: season for the Magic offensively, but they just don't have
Speaker 4: the right mix. They don't have the enough creativity, I
Speaker 4: don't think I don't think they have enough playmaking. They
Speaker 4: just don't get anything from their perimeter guys outside of
Speaker 4: like scavenging points is what it feels like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're a half court offense. It's tough to watch.
Speaker 1: I mean, even if Franz is there, for being completely honest,
Speaker 1: cause it's like, come over, they set a pick for
Speaker 1: one of their guys, Paalo or Franz, they get sort
Speaker 1: of a mismatch and then everybody just stands around and
Speaker 1: they're just watching. It's like, all right, see what you
Speaker 1: guys can do. See if you can barrel your're in
Speaker 1: there or get your shot. And it's like nobody's a
Speaker 1: three point threat. And you know, another rough game last night,
Speaker 1: eleven to thirty nine. They can't, like nobody can shoot
Speaker 1: really outside of Desmond Bane. He hasn't had a lights
Speaker 1: out season, so it's tough and I wonder will they
Speaker 1: will they make a move here at the deadline as
Speaker 1: we had closer and closer. What is it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think it.
Speaker 5: It reminds me of the Raptors a little bit, where
Speaker 5: they need a little bit from everybody. And if Franz
Speaker 5: is in there slashing, then you can hope you can
Speaker 5: depend on Desmond Ban, Anthony black A.
Speaker 3: Jalen sucks to do that as well.
Speaker 5: And I don't mention Palabon Caro because he should be
Speaker 5: able to do that and he should be able to pass,
Speaker 5: but he is more of a mid range type of guy.
Speaker 5: So yeah, they're just kind of relying on all those
Speaker 5: guys to contribute. I don't know why Franz went and
Speaker 5: played in Europe and then all of a sudden can
Speaker 5: play again. You know, the injury is bugging him. Maybe
Speaker 5: he should have just stayed out longer instead of having
Speaker 5: to play in his home country. That was strange, and
Speaker 5: this whole team is strange watching them without Franz. When
Speaker 5: Franz is in there, he is their motor to get
Speaker 5: all those other guys, as I mentioned, going to get
Speaker 5: more slashing because they don't have it. It is a
Speaker 5: jump shooting team.
Speaker 1: It feels like the baton has been passed between these
Speaker 1: two teams of like disappointing teams this year because it
Speaker 1: was Cleveland.
Speaker 2: For a very long stretch.
Speaker 1: They sort of got to going down and they just
Speaker 1: handed it over to the Magic, Like all right, you're
Speaker 1: the new disappointing team here in the Eastern Conference because
Speaker 1: they should be better than this. It's like three years
Speaker 1: running where they had the exact same record. It was like,
Speaker 1: what was it, twenty three and twenty one. They're now
Speaker 1: twenty three and twenty two after another loss last night,
Speaker 1: like after big additions. Obviously the big Desmond main move too.
Speaker 1: Part of an injury, yes, but at a certain point
Speaker 1: it's like it's what they run, it's the personnel. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't make sense in today's modern NBA especially, Yeah, thoughts.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't think the Magic had a good stretch
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 1: No, well, right, I'm saying I'm saying the Cavs were
Speaker 1: more disappointing. I think maybe just because of expectations. They
Speaker 1: were assisted four year Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they weren't kicking ass. They were fourteen and ten.
Speaker 3: That was there. Yeah, that was peak. Yeah, Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: what it felt like. That was the front best.
Speaker 5: Franz as the number one guy, and then he got
Speaker 5: hurt and then it all helped them.
Speaker 4: We'll see what they do if they do anything. That's
Speaker 4: hard for them to do anything. I know they traded
Speaker 4: everything Desmond Bane and it hasn't worked. They didn't change anything.
Speaker 4: They're like Desmond Bane. You'r KCP for US and KCP
Speaker 4: had a down season when he was there for the
Speaker 4: met at least he played defense. At least defense. I
Speaker 4: don't know. Uh, they just need some They need like
Speaker 4: an offensive coordinator cause like literally just compare them to
Speaker 4: the Raptors. They move the ball like crazy, guys are
Speaker 4: cutting everywhere. Compare them to the Charlotte Hornets. They play fast,
Speaker 4: They've got a lot of movement on the weak side.
Speaker 4: When LaMelo's doing something up at the top the magic.
Speaker 4: It's like, can you score one on one or can
Speaker 4: you draw people and maybe hit a wide open three pointer?
Speaker 4: That's the only question, or like that's the only strategy
Speaker 4: they have offensively. So yeah, they need somebody who has
Speaker 4: ideas on the offensive end. It feels like to me, all.
Speaker 1: Right, let's take a quick twenty second time out here
Speaker 1: in the updown report because I want to show you
Speaker 1: the other games from last night, and then we'll go
Speaker 1: back to the thumbs up and thumbs down. Here's the
Speaker 1: slate of games he had. The Celtics winning at home
Speaker 1: against the Blazers, Big Hornets win. I'm sure we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about that. In a second. Hawks beat the Pacers.
Speaker 1: That game was moved up. They scored a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of points. Lakers beat the Bulls. Talked about that. Wolves
Speaker 1: got a little revenge over the Warriors, but a bunch
Speaker 1: of guys didn't play in it. In the Rockets beat
Speaker 1: the grizz TK any of those games you want to.
Speaker 4: Jump on, Yeah, Alprin Cheng Gun was hilarious last night,
Speaker 4: thirty three points on fifteen of seventeen, shooting one of
Speaker 4: his Misses was a three point grenade, so he basically
Speaker 4: went fifteen for sixteen. He had won real miss last night,
Speaker 4: and he looked absolutely offended to me that the Grizzly
Speaker 4: decided to guard him with Santi al Dama. He went
Speaker 4: at him every single time, and he hit him with
Speaker 4: the left to right spin move every single time. Santy
Speaker 4: had no clue why was Jaron Jackson Junior not guarding him?
Speaker 4: I mean he got cooked too. Yeah, but it was
Speaker 4: finally enough like shng Gon had literally done four straight
Speaker 4: spin moves. It was hilarious on Santi al Dama at
Speaker 4: this point, drew foul on one, scored on the other three,
Speaker 4: so they're like, all right, we got to send out
Speaker 4: our defensive player of the year same move. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 4: The Grizzlies have given up is kind of what it
Speaker 4: felt like to me, and shan Gun was just beastial.
Speaker 4: Kevin Durant also had thirty three. This was a nice
Speaker 4: win for the Rockets. They turned it on the second half.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think the Grizzlies have given up. I
Speaker 5: mean they are leading this game by eight and a
Speaker 5: third quarter, but yeah, the defensive move was kind of weird.
Speaker 1: No, I don't get it.
Speaker 5: Oldman knew it was coming, he knew that spin was common,
Speaker 5: but he got every single time. Yeah, as far as
Speaker 5: the Rockets go, it's funny we never talked about Dorian Facemith,
Speaker 5: not for one second. He is I think even though
Speaker 5: he's not shooting well because he has been injured, he
Speaker 5: is contributing more and he looks like he's more part
Speaker 5: of the team. And we'll hopefully see Fred van Vliet
Speaker 5: come back. I mean it's almost February. Not a word
Speaker 5: about Fred van Vliet. This is an interesting part for
Speaker 5: the Rockets. Do they make a move to go get
Speaker 5: another ball handler because I don't see Fred being able
Speaker 5: to come back and just be Fred because last year
Speaker 5: he wasn't when he was out for a long period
Speaker 5: of time. I don't know if he's trying to be
Speaker 5: you know, MJ in ninety five, trying to just come
Speaker 5: back and be like, you know, I'm MJ.
Speaker 3: But that that's that's the unfortunate part for the Rockets.
Speaker 3: That's a good question.
Speaker 5: As for like those afternoon games you mentioned the Hornets
Speaker 5: beating the Sixers, that Hornet's starting lineup. They're now nine
Speaker 5: and one, when they start together. LaMelo, Conkin, Nipple, Brandon Knight,
Speaker 5: Miles Bridges. I don't know why I call him.
Speaker 2: With this one. This one is strange to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I need a new name. I need a new
Speaker 3: name for him.
Speaker 4: Brandon Miller's better than Brandon Knight has ever been. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: he's playing awesome right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then Moussa Diaba.
Speaker 5: He should be mentioned as well, because I think that's
Speaker 5: how they play defense.
Speaker 3: Is that guy switching everything but.
Speaker 5: Those other guys, LaMelo especially not trying to be the
Speaker 5: LaMelo we all know and trying to shoot. Every time
Speaker 5: he's playmaking, he's literally saying, Okay, I'm playing really well.
Speaker 3: Is it just because it's before the trade deadline? I
Speaker 3: don't think so.
Speaker 5: I think he's just buying in to not being the
Speaker 5: guy at all times. So they moved it a ton
Speaker 5: and Brandon Knight. Don't call me Brandon Miller. He had thirty.
Speaker 3: I changed it up. I changed it. I know it's
Speaker 3: Brandon Miller. Don't call me grandite. But his shooting was
Speaker 3: I mean, that was the Obviously they're healthy and they're
Speaker 3: playing really well together. That's the best part.
Speaker 5: This is the best time in Charlotte Hornet's basketball history
Speaker 5: in the last five years and.
Speaker 1: In a very long time. Yeah. Yeah, they're twelve and ten,
Speaker 1: I think in their last twenty two games, and their
Speaker 1: offense is arguably the best in the league. During this stretch,
Speaker 1: they outscored the Sixers eighty one to thirty seven, and
Speaker 1: the second and third quarters combined last night. There was
Speaker 1: no Jowell Empie, there was no Paul George, but there
Speaker 1: was a bunch of other guys playing for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: And then Nikki said, man, the Hornets with this starting lineup.
Speaker 1: You had your eye on them for a while, TK,
Speaker 1: and they're continuing to play. And the Diabante part guise
Speaker 1: like just everywhere he is out there to not really
Speaker 1: worry about scoring or he's obviously not a shooter. It's okay,
Speaker 1: we got enough of those. You do all the dirty work.
Speaker 1: And he seems to be reveling in that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, his sweet is good. Twelve points last night,
Speaker 4: six to seven shooting. He had four dunks. He was
Speaker 4: doing this running up and down the moose celebration.
Speaker 2: Very cool.
Speaker 4: I love to see a low level player with his
Speaker 4: own signature celebration. Twelve dunks on the night for the Hornets,
Speaker 4: including six for Ryan kalk Renner. He had one that
Speaker 4: was like an alley open, barely tipped it in, and
Speaker 4: Eric Collins says to Dell Curry, are they gonna give
Speaker 4: him a dunk for that? And Dell says yeah, he goes.
Speaker 4: Eric Collins goes, heck, yeah, I thought that was so funny. Miller, though,
Speaker 4: thirty points last night, six of eight from three, scored
Speaker 4: twenty or more in seven straight games. They're plus five
Speaker 4: points per one hundred possessions with LaMelo, Miller and Conkin
Speaker 4: Nipple on the floor, they fall to minus ten points
Speaker 4: per one hundred possesions when it's just k Nipple and Miller.
Speaker 4: Lamello is good and he is helping the team win.
Speaker 4: You're right. His usage is down, his assist percentage is up,
Speaker 4: and he gets off the ball. He's making better decisions.
Speaker 4: He still makes a lot of dump If it's a
Speaker 4: clutch game, he's probably going to take it bad a
Speaker 4: three pointer at some point. But he's grown up a
Speaker 4: little bit. Yeah, the talent around him has gotten better.
Speaker 4: He's trusting him more and it's making everybody on the
Speaker 4: team better. So this is kind of like idealized version
Speaker 4: of Lamello ball right here. He can still get better,
Speaker 4: for sure, he can still get smarter about the way
Speaker 4: he plays. But he's playing winning basketball right now, and
Speaker 4: I don't think that's something people ever say about LaMelo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's a good stretch. It's a good stretch.
Speaker 5: As far as the moose celebration, I mean, the Bucks
Speaker 5: do it from time to time, not very rarely. Myles
Speaker 5: Turner and pull it out. Ganis has pulled it out.
Speaker 5: Who should have it? Who should don't? Just because his
Speaker 5: name is Musa Diabat.
Speaker 4: But he's never dunked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was his first three of the season last
Speaker 3: night as well? Was it Miles?
Speaker 4: Doesn't you know they didn't give him a three for that?
Speaker 4: He had a foot on the line. Oh, the people
Speaker 4: celebrating like crazy he was.
Speaker 5: He did belong to Unfortunately, Plumbley was even celebrating with him, like, wow,
Speaker 5: you can shoot man, that's cool. Did do a lot
Speaker 5: before we move on? Do we like their halftime thing?
Speaker 5: Basically fans is a line of fans. I guess because
Speaker 5: they bumped up this game from a night game to
Speaker 5: an afternoon they didn't have the same halftime show.
Speaker 2: There's been a.
Speaker 1: Lot of weird halftime performances because of all the moving
Speaker 1: around of start times and stuff.
Speaker 5: But so it was just like ten fans line up,
Speaker 5: you get to have half court shots. Essentially, they knew
Speaker 5: each one's name. They came out, they had a little
Speaker 5: drum rollo, and then they took one and.
Speaker 3: They won one hit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, banker was only a thousand bucks.
Speaker 3: Though, Yeah, they have that's it.
Speaker 1: It's like that's a lot of payout, a low payout
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you guys get lower?
Speaker 1: I forgot to bring it up on yesterday's podcast. Did
Speaker 1: you guys see the Spurs guy that hit the half
Speaker 1: court shot? It went off the shot clock. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: hit shot clock first?
Speaker 4: That nobody he did it hit.
Speaker 1: The shot clock first. Must have thrown it to the
Speaker 1: moon and then but it literally dropped in.
Speaker 2: Cool and like Jordan who's like he's like faces, like,
Speaker 2: holy crab.
Speaker 1: That was try that.
Speaker 2: It's cool.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I thought they count more.
Speaker 3: Should they count that if it hits the shock lock?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it goes in and goes in. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: lucky as hell, but yes, I should give you more money.
Speaker 3: But you wouldn't.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't count that ANBA watch player, I guess it
Speaker 1: would be technically out for an NBA I think so, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I think so. Not to get all Joe bor, but.
Speaker 1: That's where they were the Headsets. Now they're watching half
Speaker 1: court shots during the halftime performance. Joe BORGI is like,
Speaker 1: call it off, no thousand dollars for him. But it
Speaker 1: was great to see the Hornets playing well right now.
Speaker 1: I just like always get terrified when we ever do
Speaker 1: notice the Hornets are doing something great. Especially Brandon Miller
Speaker 1: comes to mind because we've done this before where he
Speaker 1: had a really nice stretch and then.
Speaker 2: He inevitably gets hurt.
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to look at it, I don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about it. But Hornets fans, good fan base.
Speaker 1: They're having a lot of winning obviously, so they're getting back.
Speaker 2: I mean there's still.
Speaker 1: Obviously well below five hundred, but sniff in all play
Speaker 1: in I think they're three and a half maybe back
Speaker 1: somely that maybe three.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Hawk's gotta win yesterday as well, so three
Speaker 4: and a half for the Hornets. But Dyson Daniels did
Speaker 4: make his first three pointer since December fourteenth.
Speaker 1: Hey, everybody was on fire.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he took three of them. He doesn't usually
Speaker 5: take that many. That's a lot and you could see
Speaker 5: though the one went in. But the form is he
Speaker 5: just he fades back a little bit on the shot.
Speaker 5: It's just an odd form. Why isn't our man leelis
Speaker 5: out there guiding him. But the fact that he took
Speaker 5: three shots, he made one of them, I guess that's
Speaker 5: positive stuf.
Speaker 1: But the dunk that he had that was all right.
Speaker 1: Back to the updown report, there will be no return
Speaker 1: of the Mac. You guys like music music.
Speaker 4: That's a rap.
Speaker 1: Mac McClung, the three time defending NBA Dunk Contest champion,
Speaker 1: will not participate in the event next month in La
Speaker 1: McClung told an interviewer over the weekend that he would
Speaker 1: not compete this year, and he added in an X
Speaker 1: post that he will release the dunks week came up
Speaker 1: with after the contest. We will see the dunks that
Speaker 1: maybe he would have done if he was in there,
Speaker 1: but he's not going to do it. I guess his
Speaker 1: father also said, yeah, Max taking this one.
Speaker 2: Off, so I want to start a trade here.
Speaker 1: So Tray's had a lot of opinions in the past
Speaker 1: on Mac McClung and the Dunk Contest. Up or down
Speaker 1: on Mac McClung, you know, sitting this one out here, he's.
Speaker 4: Done his part. Thank you to Mac McClung for coming
Speaker 4: in being at least entertaining UH in the Dunk contest,
Speaker 4: though I did laugh when he was saying that he
Speaker 4: hasn't prepped for a fourth contract for a fourth contest,
Speaker 4: and also it's kind of odd that he's not in
Speaker 4: it since this was his first year having a standard
Speaker 4: NBA Like, weird, you're really an NBA player now, Not
Speaker 4: that he's played a ton, no, but at least he
Speaker 4: got a standard NBA contract. But I did see UH,
Speaker 4: and I think ESPN's right up that he doesn't like
Speaker 4: being known as only a dunker. Nobody does, but this
Speaker 4: guy is certainly known he as only a dunker. So
Speaker 4: thank you for your service.
Speaker 1: Okayla, what do you think, casser down? Are you sad
Speaker 1: that Mac mcclomby isn't back here to you know, defend
Speaker 1: his title three years.
Speaker 5: In a row running, considering how good he's been, I
Speaker 5: am a little surprised and a little disappointed because I
Speaker 5: know he would participate and he would be good. I
Speaker 5: understand he doesn't want to be known as a dunker.
Speaker 5: I get that too late. Yeah, it's the real Zach Lavine,
Speaker 5: Vince Carter even scenario. Everybody doesn't want to be a dunker,
Speaker 5: even though you're an incredible dunker.
Speaker 1: But I would have liked to see him.
Speaker 5: Uh And and it's obvious that he had He's literally
Speaker 5: has been prepping them as as.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, in the last few weeks.
Speaker 3: So what is what's what's the deal? Why not go
Speaker 3: out there and do it?
Speaker 5: If you've literally been practicing, You're you're confident enough in
Speaker 5: them that you're going to release them afterwards, like he's
Speaker 5: going to release some sort of video of this is
Speaker 5: what I had planned, but I didn't pull it out.
Speaker 5: It's just a little surprising, Yeah it is. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's he's g leaguing it right now. I couldn't believe
Speaker 5: to see that he had played on five and NBA
Speaker 5: teams literally played five on five NBA played a nine games,
Speaker 5: nine games, he got it.
Speaker 3: He's got five jerseys if they were quick runs with
Speaker 3: each team. I'm just a little surprised.
Speaker 4: He's a Windy City Bowl right now.
Speaker 1: I believe, Yeah, he is. He is a bull. I
Speaker 1: also made a note that you brought up trade. It
Speaker 1: is funny this is the one year he's not going
Speaker 1: in it because he did have an actual contract with
Speaker 1: the Pacers there. He only played like three games, but
Speaker 1: he did have his first ever standard NBA contract that
Speaker 1: he signed back in the late October. But I'm also
Speaker 1: thumbs up on this. I do wonder this whole thing
Speaker 1: is like I have the dunks and all that, like,
Speaker 1: is it possible at the league? I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's try and get some like new guys in here,
Speaker 1: new blood in here. Maybe that's good sign that some
Speaker 1: guys have said yes, I don't know, and that they
Speaker 1: allowed Mac McClung to like almost say like I'm electing
Speaker 1: to not go in it. I have no idea if
Speaker 1: that's true or not, because also the league probably would
Speaker 1: want him in because he has a good show and
Speaker 1: he has put on a pretty good performance the last
Speaker 1: three three years running. So I don't know, but uh so,
Speaker 1: there's so many other guys that.
Speaker 2: Have it's just a little odd that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I'm just wondering, is the NBA like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's we've had a great run of Mac McClung. And
Speaker 1: now let's get some new guys in here. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then Mac you can say you're not going to Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then maybe you want to come back next year.
Speaker 1: We'll do that. But anyway, we'll see. I did see
Speaker 1: online on social media Chuck Milan, the official dunk coach
Speaker 1: of the NBA. He think he helped Mac mclung win
Speaker 1: those three titles. If I remember correctly, he was spending
Speaker 1: time in San Antonio. Saw him in the gym. Does
Speaker 1: that mean Castle is going to give it a go again?
Speaker 1: Somebody else on that team Bryant maybe maybe, so that'd
Speaker 1: be fun. Yep, he was in San Antonio, so you
Speaker 1: gotta assume somebody was from the from the squad is
Speaker 1: going to at least compete again.
Speaker 4: So we'll see number one guy I want in the
Speaker 4: dunk contest this year, Bronnie James.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 4: I saw him do an East Bay recently. Him Lebron
Speaker 4: going back to back, father and son go in between
Speaker 4: the legs. They're in LA. I mean, he's like similar
Speaker 4: to Mac mcclun. He is on the edge G League
Speaker 4: an NBA. He's a good athlete. This could be like
Speaker 4: a good people have always wanted to see Lebron James
Speaker 4: in the dunk contest. Wow, let's give it to him.
Speaker 4: Ron James, j But's hill.
Speaker 1: You know, that's how they sell Lebron James and.
Speaker 5: Michae will be Jordan. Yeah, the old Lebron would Probably
Speaker 5: he'll give him some passes, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: He'll be there.
Speaker 3: Sure, that's a good one. I like the idea of
Speaker 3: trying to get some small guys in there, some shorter
Speaker 3: guys to take over mac mcclough.
Speaker 5: I think Malik Monk should do it. I know he's older.
Speaker 5: He's older. Nice, he's a great dunker.
Speaker 2: It looks cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, next one here. Trey mentioned this on
Speaker 1: Monday's pod. Rich Homie Flom, a blogger who covers the
Speaker 1: La Clippers. He wrote on axt a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: if the Clippers go fifteen and three in any stretch
Speaker 1: this season, I will print and eat this tweet. Well,
Speaker 1: the Clippers have gone fifteen and three, and true to
Speaker 1: his word, Flom printed the tweet and ate it on
Speaker 1: the podcast last night. I was just a short clip
Speaker 1: of a guy taking a piece of paper and putting
Speaker 1: in his mouth and swallowing it. But it was a
Speaker 1: longer show. He spaced it out over the length of
Speaker 1: the show. Yeah, it was like thirty minutes plus him
Speaker 1: taking down pieces of paper. So I'll start with you
Speaker 1: task up or down on rich Homie Flom eating his
Speaker 1: clippers tweet.
Speaker 3: Absolutely up.
Speaker 5: Respect to Rich Homi Flamm for doing it eating an
Speaker 5: eight by eleven piece of paper.
Speaker 3: It sounds like if he ate it for thirty five minutes.
Speaker 3: I only watched the clip. I only tuned in.
Speaker 5: He has a podcast, but I didn't watch all thirty five.
Speaker 5: I thought he's eating it. He ripped him off and
Speaker 5: he ate it, But it sounds like he ate a
Speaker 5: whole piece of paper.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the entire sheet, but
Speaker 1: it was a good part of the tweet, Like have
Speaker 1: you printed it off and then maybe cut it out? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think it was the whole whole sheet.
Speaker 5: I'm up on it because he didn't put it in
Speaker 5: a mixer. He didn't make it part of a drink.
Speaker 2: As I love the shrug out to eat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just going with it.
Speaker 5: Though she didn't didn't put water on it. That seems
Speaker 5: like a dry piece of paper.
Speaker 1: He had some sort of sauce or water. He had
Speaker 1: the Yeah, he had something he.
Speaker 4: Said he was going to use, soy yeah, something.
Speaker 3: I'm happy for him. You're giving it all right, what.
Speaker 2: Do you think, nails.
Speaker 4: He's a man of his word. He did it, and
Speaker 4: he said it was going to be anti climactic, and
Speaker 4: it was. He told the truth the entire time, piece
Speaker 4: by piece. Smart for the tummy, yeah, not as good
Speaker 4: for content. You did all at once, yep. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: how we would have done it. Let's be honest there,
Speaker 4: That's how we would have done it. You wouldn't have
Speaker 4: torn it into small pieces to make it more eatasily digestible.
Speaker 4: He just would have chalked it on down. But this
Speaker 4: is what Twitter is supposed to be about. Not supposed
Speaker 4: to be about fighting with each other. It's supposed to
Speaker 4: be about making hilarious jokes that somehow make their way
Speaker 4: to the actual NBA. Like we said, people were canting
Speaker 4: eat that tweet during the game. The Clippers played like
Speaker 4: that is that's like a twenty twelve era Twitter kind
Speaker 4: of stunt and I love to see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And the Clippers were asked about a bunch of their players,
Speaker 5: John Collins said, get your fiber in man, make.
Speaker 3: Sure should you take care of that?
Speaker 5: Jim Jackson, the analyst on the Clippers broadcast, said, put
Speaker 5: it in some water. Yeah, Tyler said, yeah, get it
Speaker 5: printed for him. Let him know that this is happening.
Speaker 5: You had the Kawhi Leonard thing say he shouldn't do it.
Speaker 5: I don't think that's healthy or whatever.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 5: So everybody getting it on it. Everybody getting that. The
Speaker 5: Twitter love that. The Twitter tweets for the record.
Speaker 1: Flom now says the Clippers will finish forty five and
Speaker 1: thirty seven. Cool, So I don't think you put anything
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 4: Okay, just so you know, Yeah, he said, I'm not
Speaker 4: eating any more of this. Understandable. I didn't realize when
Speaker 4: we first started talking about this that the Clippers started
Speaker 4: their fifteen and three run the day he tweeted that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was like the next December twenty. You're eating right now.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 4: It's pretty funny.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, it is wild that he went.
Speaker 1: Somebody said it yesterday he went the Clippers went the
Speaker 1: exact record that he tweeted.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it is weird, Like fifteen and three is
Speaker 1: sort of a nod thing to say.
Speaker 2: Sure, so they ever go fifteen to three this year
Speaker 2: over an eighteen game stretch.
Speaker 1: I'll eat this tweet. It's like, it's just so strange.
Speaker 1: It's like Bill Simmons doing this type of weird numbers.
Speaker 1: All right, let me give you the top seventeen plays.
Speaker 1: But they did it, and yeah, it's pretty funny.
Speaker 3: It was funny. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Tyler was told that that's what the original tweet was.
Speaker 3: He said, what exactly fifteen and three? That's amazing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like how Tyler doesn't believe everything on the internet.
Speaker 3: He questioned that. He said, what, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Just some stats about the Clippers trying to get into
Speaker 1: the playoffs here after starting six and twenty one. I
Speaker 1: saw this going around. Of the one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: one teams that started an NBA season with a record
Speaker 1: of six and twenty one or worse, only two actually
Speaker 1: reached the post in that year. They are a very
Speaker 1: memorable team. The fifty two to fifty three Baltimore Bullets.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, listen to this. They finished sixteen and
Speaker 1: fifty four. They made the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, that's when
Speaker 1: they finished fourth in a five team division in a
Speaker 1: year when eight of the NBA's ten teams made the postseason.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's bad now?
Speaker 1: I think we have too many teams making the postseason.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: They that year fifty two to fifty three is at
Speaker 3: the East.
Speaker 1: What's called Yeah, they were yeah, whatever it was called.
Speaker 1: They're in that side.
Speaker 5: The era of the NBA, you know, early two thousands
Speaker 5: was bad in the East.
Speaker 3: But that, yeah, go back.
Speaker 1: To the fifties.
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 4: I looked at the team, the names they have on
Speaker 4: this all right.
Speaker 2: Give me some Baltimore Bullets from fifteen.
Speaker 4: Their leading scorer was Fred Scolari. Scores a lot fourteen
Speaker 4: points per game, but I definitely like Bob pretty, ray
Speaker 4: Lump and Dick Bunt. I did make a breath, bro
Speaker 4: to say Dick Bunt only four points per game for
Speaker 4: Dick Bunts ray Lump over to Dick Bun.
Speaker 2: The other team to finish that stat.
Speaker 1: Eighty four eighty five Cleveland Cavaliers, And this is a
Speaker 1: more normal record, thirty six and forty six they finished,
Speaker 1: but that got him in to the postseason. So down year,
Speaker 1: I guess there in the East as well. So the
Speaker 1: Clippers are trying to do, you know, a pretty rarefied
Speaker 1: air here to start six and twenty one and to
Speaker 1: actually make the postseason, it would be pretty shocking. And
Speaker 1: it's like the chances are pretty high right now with
Speaker 1: these other teams falling off. I mean that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Will account if they make the play In? No, shouldn't, right,
Speaker 1: they got to get into the postseason. Yeah, I win
Speaker 1: a couple of games, maybe they do. Yeah, there's some
Speaker 1: jokes in there.
Speaker 5: The first team that Chris Paul ever played on that
Speaker 5: was started six and twenty one has entered the play
Speaker 5: In or has entered the postseason or whatever, because the
Speaker 5: Chris Paul era was part of the the negative side
Speaker 5: of things. But also Kawhi Leonard just coming alive and
Speaker 5: being one of the best players in the game the
Speaker 5: last while.
Speaker 3: He's been incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's aspirational.
Speaker 2: Final one.
Speaker 1: We had some breaking news at halftime in Chicago last
Speaker 1: night with Derek Rose's jersey being retired over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Benny the Bull has officially changed his uniform from number
Speaker 1: one to number ninety nine. Trey up or down on
Speaker 1: Benny's the Bull changing his uni to number ninety nine.
Speaker 4: I hate to say I'm down.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, why he wore it first.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4: He's a Hall of Famer. They stot retired it for
Speaker 4: both of them. And I also think ninety nine is
Speaker 4: a really weird choice. Sixty six for the year it started,
Speaker 4: that would have made sense, Okay, would look weird on
Speaker 4: basketball uniform six for six titles. Ooh, ninety six for
Speaker 4: the seventy two and ten team. Like, I think there
Speaker 4: are other choices.
Speaker 3: Maybe, Yeah, I mean Kobe White is wearing it.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's a little weird.
Speaker 2: I think he should have kept one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not a player. Yeah, you can wear it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm down on this too.
Speaker 2: It doesn't I mean, it doesn't look right.
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 4: I don't like it.
Speaker 5: Bullet ye yeah right, And he did it first. I
Speaker 5: was watching in the first quarter. There was a break
Speaker 5: in play and they teased this. They had a little
Speaker 5: blanket over whatever, cover over it, and they said, all right,
Speaker 5: we'll here we are, We're going to reveal the number
Speaker 5: that Bull is going to wear. Here he goes here
Speaker 5: we go five four three two? What wait till halftime?
Speaker 5: He uncovered it outside waity till LFT time. Yeah, they
Speaker 5: got me too. I was waiting for it. I was
Speaker 5: waiting for a number. But yeah, Benny has been there
Speaker 5: longer than Derekrose forever. Yeah, as Todd said. Todd was
Speaker 5: on the mic in game Arena guy, he said he's
Speaker 5: been there for what twenty twenty something, twenty four?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think two thousand and four is when they
Speaker 4: came out with this version of Ben.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's not the same person inside, so kind
Speaker 5: of lied to us, Tod either way. Yeah, the one
Speaker 5: is better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's almost like I sort of like him still
Speaker 1: rocking the one because then you're reminded of Derek Rose
Speaker 1: even exactly. Yeah, there was quite a bit of backlash
Speaker 1: to this, so I wonder if they'll actually go back
Speaker 1: to one.
Speaker 5: Reason for ninety nine, oh other because tre brings up
Speaker 5: a good point, you know something.
Speaker 3: Six I think for the title.
Speaker 1: Junny the Bull loves hockey for the great one.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think they did.
Speaker 1: But unless I missed it, they're just like a number
Speaker 1: that nobody would wear.
Speaker 4: I guess they're like, Okay, I've had a lot of
Speaker 4: guys in the nineties. That's true that Drew gooden Ward
Speaker 4: ninety Rodman War ninety one. I think that's is that it?
Speaker 5: Speaking of hockey, you know, you know how broadcaster he
Speaker 5: gets all the assignments of saying things about the opposing
Speaker 5: team air calls of the Hornets said something about Quentin
Speaker 5: Grimes of the seventy six ers.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that his brother plays in the NHL.
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 5: That's that's the first brothers, first pair of brothers that
Speaker 5: has played in the NBA and the NHL period.
Speaker 3: Full stop. Hu.
Speaker 1: Now we've had a father son by Jones, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: high draft pick. Yeah, Oh that's I did not know Grimes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's his name is Tyler Myers. They share
Speaker 5: the same mom.
Speaker 3: And that's it.
Speaker 5: Tyler Myers played in the NHL for a long real time.
Speaker 1: He still played.
Speaker 2: Oh who's he played for?
Speaker 5: I think he plays for the Canucks. Yeah, up north
Speaker 5: Tyler Myers.
Speaker 2: All right, that's the updown report.
Speaker 1: Let's hear from you guys in the stream team and
Speaker 1: you podcast listeners up or down, especially that last one.
Speaker 1: How do you have strong opinions about Benny the Bolt
Speaker 1: chaining his uniform numbered in. We're going to take a
Speaker 1: break and when we come back, we're going to draft
Speaker 1: the rising stars teams.
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Speaker 2: Where is super Bowl sixty taking place?
Speaker 3: California?
Speaker 1: Santa Clara?
Speaker 3: All right, I don't know. I know it's in the
Speaker 3: state of California.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so it's gonna be warm. This is why
Speaker 1: I'm asking because I'm freezing cold right now.
Speaker 4: I'm so cold and.
Speaker 1: Dreaming of VI Stadium. Where is that, Santa Clara?
Speaker 4: That's right, bring you jeans.
Speaker 5: I imagine the stadium will be closed either way, it's
Speaker 5: not going to be played outdoors.
Speaker 1: Oh is it a dope?
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's not. Actually no, I just I just
Speaker 3: have I just had a Google.
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Speaker 4: We asked earlier in the show, is it good to
Speaker 4: be sick when it's cold?
Speaker 2: Six people voted no, No, yeah, but I disagree.
Speaker 4: Would you rather be sick when it's warm?
Speaker 1: No way exactly.
Speaker 4: But I mean, you know, maybe people are just voting
Speaker 4: for no sickness. Yeah. Yeah, maybe I didn't phrase it perfectly.
Speaker 1: So this is the best time to be sick, Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: because I'm not, I don't have to go out anywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: After this, I'm just going to wrap up.
Speaker 1: Hit the catch. That's right, Yeah, right, okay, that's my
Speaker 1: point too. Okay, guys, if you're just joining us, Hit
Speaker 1: the Light Bund subscribed. The twenty twenty six Castro Rising
Speaker 1: Stars were announced last night on Peacock. The annual showcase
Speaker 1: will once again feature a mini tournament with four teams
Speaker 1: and three games, spotlighting the league's top rookies and second
Speaker 1: year standouts and some G leaguers. The selected NBA players
Speaker 1: will be drafted onto three teams tonight on Peacock. That's
Speaker 1: when they're doing it. That's when they're doing their draft.
Speaker 1: But we don't need to wait. We can do it
Speaker 1: first before we get to deciding on the order and
Speaker 1: how we're going to draft these. I was reminded that
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, we spent five minutes playing
Speaker 1: Bay Blades to decide who would draft number one. It
Speaker 1: is so goddamn funny us trying to play bay Blades
Speaker 1: here at the desk. I was laughing my ass up.
Speaker 1: You couldn't get and not get this damn thing to work,
Speaker 1: and when you finally did on your last rip, it
Speaker 1: missed the arena and went flying in the studio. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it was very funny and I pulled it off. I
Speaker 1: think in the end, I think I had the number
Speaker 1: one pick. But we're not doing it again this year.
Speaker 3: A yeah, those were fun.
Speaker 1: Actually, it had to have been the worst five minutes
Speaker 1: of podcasting of all that.
Speaker 2: We're not at our mic. We're like yelling, just.
Speaker 1: Like, oh.
Speaker 3: So crazy for us for the listener.
Speaker 1: But.
Speaker 2: That was not for you. But I thought, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna draft third, but I want to decide between
Speaker 1: you guys who gets the first pick in a Rising
Speaker 1: Stars draft.
Speaker 3: I think you got the best pick. Third. Snak in
Speaker 3: it right now.
Speaker 1: We didn't snake the last year at the time we
Speaker 1: did this, so we don't need a snake. I don't
Speaker 1: care who. This is literally just filling a block.
Speaker 3: I'm so locked in.
Speaker 5: I watched NBA TV do this last night oh did
Speaker 5: they They did?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna do it better.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna do Okay, fine, but here's how we're
Speaker 1: going to decide, and I want to sort of if
Speaker 1: you guys are good, I want to go back and
Speaker 1: forth until somebody cannot name a name. Here's how we're
Speaker 1: deciding the number one pick in our Rising Stars draft.
Speaker 1: You guys need to name any player from last year's
Speaker 1: Rising Stars winning team.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I'm gonna let you go first. I think
Speaker 2: there's one very obvious answer.
Speaker 1: But I mean, this is the Rising Stars and nobody
Speaker 1: even remembers so very obviously, or jump in. You know
Speaker 1: what if you know a guy from the Rising Starts
Speaker 1: winning to you last year, say it, Oh it wasn't.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I want you say very obvious.
Speaker 2: Well, there's an MVP, so maybe you remembered the MVP.
Speaker 3: Well, I was thinking it was the Rookie of the
Speaker 3: Year last year, but it wasn't overall for the whole season.
Speaker 3: But I guess it wasn't.
Speaker 1: We'll say the name wasn't Castle, it was okay, yeah, okay, yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Got one name. Now, Trey, you have one.
Speaker 1: Chance here to keep this going or tass will get
Speaker 1: the number one picked Shepherd. No, sorry, it was Castle, MVP,
Speaker 1: Dalton Connect, Keyante, George Ryan Dunn, Zach Edie, Jalen Wells,
Speaker 1: and Trace Jackson Davis. That was your winning team last year.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: The final score twenty five to fourteen tournament, fucking hat tournaments.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing I hate about these tournaments. To
Speaker 1: score five so stupid looking. Oh, I want MVP scored
Speaker 1: eight points.
Speaker 2: You know, I hate it. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: I hate it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's why this tournament style is not ideal for
Speaker 5: these rosters. It would be great to go back to
Speaker 5: the rookies versus sophomore in this case.
Speaker 1: Yes, especially in this case. Yeah, yeah, yes. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's show you the rising Stars pool here, podcast listeners.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to read all the names, but we
Speaker 1: will say all these guys because we're gonna draft them all.
Speaker 2: But there they are.
Speaker 1: We have ten rookies, we have eleven sophomores. Again, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have three teams here. These will be drafted into
Speaker 1: squads and then there will be the G League team.
Speaker 1: We'll show you that in a second. I'll say the
Speaker 1: most notable missing name I mean, it's sort of pretty
Speaker 1: crazy if you're a Hawks fan. Zachary Resachet not on
Speaker 1: this now. He's injured right now, so maybe I played
Speaker 1: a part. He's been out for like three weeks here.
Speaker 1: I think he's missed some time. But number one pick
Speaker 1: last year not on it.
Speaker 3: Not good. Ace Bailey not being on there either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no jazz rookie, I thought was a bit surprising
Speaker 1: in Acet Bailey or Walton Clayton junior.
Speaker 5: Or any sophomore they got. They have three sophomores not
Speaker 5: on here yep.
Speaker 1: And then uh, the only other one on the other
Speaker 1: one Like no Caleb Love, who's had a really good
Speaker 1: year for the Blazers. Now he's like he's an old rookies,
Speaker 1: like one of these twenty four year old rookies. But
Speaker 1: they had to draw the line somewhere.
Speaker 3: He could trade the team. Mike, Yes, well, I.
Speaker 1: Don't think he's playing in the G I don't think
Speaker 1: he is young, hasn't. We'll show him later.
Speaker 3: Wait iought he would, but maybe not.
Speaker 1: You have famously said before they'll trade there are no
Speaker 1: snubs when it comes to the rising stars. Cool, that's right,
Speaker 1: And so even if we named some guys that maybe
Speaker 1: could have made it tough luck.
Speaker 4: You're saying, yeah, tough luck, get better for next year.
Speaker 1: There you go, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4: Where's no last sun?
Speaker 1: Gay?
Speaker 4: He played one second year?
Speaker 1: You're coming for a second. I was like, get out
Speaker 1: of here, all right. So tass, you got the number
Speaker 1: one pick. Uh, we don't need to snake. Let's just
Speaker 1: go one two three, one two three, perfectly making our
Speaker 1: way around the table. So I think this is a
Speaker 1: little interesting where you go, because there's like, what three
Speaker 1: maybe four guys you could convince yourself for deserving of
Speaker 1: a number one pick here in the Rising Stars, it.
Speaker 3: Is an interesting one.
Speaker 5: I'm going with a guy's name who we've said a
Speaker 5: billion times, it's Cooper Flag time. I would like to
Speaker 5: see him be prideful and try and win this thing.
Speaker 5: Is he already done a little too much this season
Speaker 5: where this game doesn't.
Speaker 1: Mean a ton to him?
Speaker 3: You know, like, does he does he care about this game?
Speaker 3: That's the question.
Speaker 5: God, I think I think he should. I think he
Speaker 5: will the game. I shouldn't say does he care about
Speaker 5: this game? Does he care about these games?
Speaker 1: Tournament?
Speaker 3: You have to play.
Speaker 5: Several games, several games I guess it's just two.
Speaker 3: It's two, right, Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is it just too?
Speaker 5: I think it is too unlike what happens on Sunday,
Speaker 5: which is a little round robin thing, or play three
Speaker 5: games if you get to the fund.
Speaker 1: No, you're right, this one is just there's two semi
Speaker 1: finals games and then there's the anyways, they played a
Speaker 1: forty I think in the semi finals game they played twenty.
Speaker 5: Te so not several. Several does not count us too.
Speaker 5: Good luck to Cooper flag okay, number one pick?
Speaker 4: I thought several was seven?
Speaker 1: Nice survivor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I might take Jolinski here.
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, Okay, who do you got?
Speaker 4: I'm taking the only three time rising Star on the board.
Speaker 4: Mantas Boozellis. Oh wow, yeah, he played for the G League.
Speaker 4: Now he had a game winner in a Rising Stars
Speaker 4: tournament game. He's got the experience. Mantus Bozellis, You're on
Speaker 4: my team.
Speaker 1: Okay, good pick good pick?
Speaker 4: Sure? Are there better players? Maybe? Look, hey, nobody's played
Speaker 4: as much as him.
Speaker 1: He's good. He's good. I will I thought maybe, I
Speaker 1: thought maybe this guy potential that he would go number one,
Speaker 1: and that is Kanker Nipple. Yep, so I thought about
Speaker 1: if the Hornets rook who's obviously Matt efficient, who in
Speaker 1: these type of games when it's not a lot of
Speaker 1: defense being played and just fire up threes? Who's a
Speaker 1: better three point shoter than this guy from these rosters?
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody, So uh, I'll take I'll take
Speaker 1: con I'm a conhead.
Speaker 3: All right, So we're not snaking.
Speaker 2: No, we're not sneaking back to you.
Speaker 5: Good good, because now I get to take a guy
Speaker 5: who played high school basketball with Cooper Flag Derek Queen. Wow,
Speaker 5: like two years together, and you know he could be
Speaker 5: in the conversation for Rookie of the Year. He's not
Speaker 5: gonna win Rookie the Year, but he's very very good,
Speaker 5: a big man who could pass and shoot it.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be fun to play with Derek.
Speaker 1: Queen on the board.
Speaker 2: This is like fun.
Speaker 1: Here, like four guys selected already, three of them rookies,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people were pointing out when you
Speaker 1: looked at the rookie selections, it's like all lottery picks. Yes,
Speaker 1: And then you look at the sophomores and it's like
Speaker 1: a lot more of like second rounders and late first
Speaker 1: round picks. And stuff like that speaks to the draft obviously.
Speaker 1: But TK, you got your fifth pick here overall.
Speaker 4: Raining Rookie of the Year, reigning rising Stars, m VP.
Speaker 4: I gotta go Stopt.
Speaker 3: It's a good pick.
Speaker 4: I got to, mister, you got to.
Speaker 1: You got the old guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got the old guys. Building a defensive backbone
Speaker 4: with Boozellis and Castle trying to hold teams the fourteen?
Speaker 1: All right, who am I pairing with khan Ka Nipple.
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with a rook Give me, give me VJ.
Speaker 1: Edgecombe of the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Nice, probably third
Speaker 1: on most people's list of Rookie of the Year race
Speaker 1: when it goes con Or Cooper one, two and then
Speaker 1: and then VJ.
Speaker 2: So I got two rooks, two exciting rooks.
Speaker 4: Very nice.
Speaker 2: Back to you.
Speaker 3: Tasks, Where do I go?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with Dylan Harper because if we're looking
Speaker 5: at tweets and just everything going around while this game
Speaker 5: is happening, him going against his brother Ron Harper Junior,
Speaker 5: who plays for the G League team, might get some clicks.
Speaker 5: So I'm doing everything I can. I'm playing every sort
Speaker 5: of direction here. Give me Dylan Harper Okay, Trey.
Speaker 4: I need some shooting on my team. I got Boozells
Speaker 4: and Castle, so I'll go with Reed Shepherd.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, I'm going all sophomores here. Read Shepherd
Speaker 1: his second time playing in this as well. He was
Speaker 1: a g leaguer last year.
Speaker 4: It was only on the did not make.
Speaker 1: The rookie team.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. They snuck him in there like they've done
Speaker 1: with a couple of guys this year, chip On Young
Speaker 1: and uh all right, Reied Shepherd got some shooting, Yeah
Speaker 1: he could. He could fill it up in this game too.
Speaker 1: That's a good pick.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Back to me Ooh, he's a little banged up right now.
Speaker 1: Will he be back in time because I'm taking a
Speaker 1: Homer pick here? Yeah, I'm with your task. Give me
Speaker 1: Colin Murray Boyles, little playmaking from my big two here
Speaker 1: to go with my shooters and my high flyer and VJ.
Speaker 1: So I got three rookies building a straight rookie team.
Speaker 5: I think that means he will be back, considering they
Speaker 5: put him on this list. Yeah, so that's a good sign.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 5: All right, who we go with? Who's coming to play with?
Speaker 5: Cooper flag Derrek Queen and Dylan Harper. There's a plenty
Speaker 5: of options here on the board. I'm gonna take Cam Spencer.
Speaker 5: I know he'll be ready to play.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: If there's anything that may be lacking in these games.
Speaker 5: It's a little fireball, a little heart, and I know
Speaker 5: Cam Spencer's going to bring that. Oh yeah, a winner,
Speaker 5: some would call him. He's on my team.
Speaker 1: Okay, back to you, Trey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Schumann is here in the stream team. He's advocating
Speaker 4: for somebody to try and get all the Yukon guys
Speaker 4: on the same team. But now those hopes are dashed
Speaker 4: as Castle and Spencer have been separated. Too bad. I
Speaker 4: could go clinging here. Yeah, he has a low on
Speaker 4: my draft. Yeah, he doesn't like dirty work guys.
Speaker 3: I don't want him.
Speaker 4: I only want highlights, and for that reason, it's a
Speaker 4: toss up. Give me Jeremiah Fears Jeremiah. Okay, don't be
Speaker 4: surprised if he has the best highlights coming out of
Speaker 4: the Rising Stars draft. Crazy handle, he could do something. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Kyrie Irving on brand new fighte sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yep, I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that. Okay, back to me here. My fourth pick.
Speaker 1: I got con VJ and CMB I'm gonna take my
Speaker 1: first sophomore.
Speaker 2: Would he be there another round?
Speaker 1: Probably? Is he one of the better players on this list,
Speaker 1: I think, so give me a J Mitchell. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: taking Mitchell. You can get some buckets in this game.
Speaker 1: He's off the board. Back to you, tas Millis.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna stick with the sophomores because I think this
Speaker 5: guy gets a little bit just underrated. Kishawn George s
Speaker 5: having a great season. Fifteen and a half points, six boards,
Speaker 5: five assists, fairly efficient.
Speaker 3: It's like AJ Mitchell numbers Keishawn George. He can do
Speaker 3: it all.
Speaker 4: Okay, try I gotta do it following my draft board
Speaker 4: trying to get buckets. Trey Johnson, Welcome to Trey's team. Oh,
Speaker 4: Trey has to draft. I got no big guys yet,
Speaker 4: but I don't care. I got a lot of guys
Speaker 4: who like the score points. That's all that matters.
Speaker 1: There are only two rookies left, Coward and Joeman of
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets. I was thinking with Yegor tonight's actual draft,
Speaker 1: he's going to be there for a long time because
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be terrified to try and
Speaker 1: say his name.
Speaker 2: I don't know something.
Speaker 4: Situation.
Speaker 1: But do I want a big here? Will a big
Speaker 1: make it around? Oh no, there's three bigs left. I'll
Speaker 1: be fine. I'm taking Cedric Coward.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's a good one, nice one.
Speaker 1: So one rookie remaining task.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not mine. Somebody else can have it.
Speaker 1: He would be fun in these games too, you know.
Speaker 5: What, I'm going large, Give me a work going large man, Okay,
Speaker 5: I wanted one.
Speaker 1: I was happy that there was three really big guys left.
Speaker 4: One of the very big guys.
Speaker 1: And you took. Sorry you took, thank you?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's hard to keep track of all these guys. Yeah, Khalil,
Speaker 1: where was my sixth Man of the Year pick in
Speaker 1: the preseason?
Speaker 4: By the way, Yeah, I think he's had a disappointing season.
Speaker 3: Yes all around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, people are like, oh, could he be the new Wemby?
Speaker 4: Could he be the new Anthony Davis? What if he's
Speaker 4: the new Christian Wood? Something to think about.
Speaker 1: Spolster also doesn't even admitted Yeah, like I'm sort of
Speaker 1: messing with his minutes a little too much, Like he
Speaker 1: play well and then he'd bury them.
Speaker 2: A strange but he's in this game, all right, Trey, who.
Speaker 4: You got I got two bigs on a board. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: Sorr and Clinging.
Speaker 2: I'll take the other one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're getting cleaning, I'm taking sorrow, all right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: cling cong I'm just I'm just guessing a Sarr highlight
Speaker 4: is cooler than a Clinging highlight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're probably right.
Speaker 3: I think that's a given.
Speaker 1: You're probably right. You're probably right. But I'm happy with
Speaker 1: Clinging to fall late here and get my big, my
Speaker 1: one big, all right, back to you tasks after a
Speaker 1: saw and Clinginger off the list here.
Speaker 5: So do you want a versatile guy in Jalen Tyson
Speaker 5: who plays hard or a guy who plays really hard
Speaker 5: defensively in Jalen Wells or agor Gemmen because it's a
Speaker 5: fun name for some to say, I'll take Tyson, give me,
Speaker 5: give me long, give me some life.
Speaker 1: So you're taking Jalen Tyson.
Speaker 4: Yep, Okay, Jalen's left the bottom three wouldn't happen in
Speaker 4: the actual All Star draft.
Speaker 1: I don't think all right, trade talk it out your
Speaker 1: final two guys left on the board here.
Speaker 4: I told you I'm going for all highlights, and I
Speaker 4: think Yegor Joemen is more highlight worthy than Jalen Wells,
Speaker 4: so give me the eager Demon.
Speaker 1: Okay, the last rookie selected. That leaves Jalen Wells for me.
Speaker 1: And if everybody was keeping track of their team, we
Speaker 1: can recap them quickly. Task you had the the number
Speaker 1: one pick, so go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, Cooper Flag.
Speaker 5: Yeah, is going to be playing with his his high
Speaker 5: school teammate Derek Queen, as well as Dylan Harper, Cam Spencer, Keishaw, George,
Speaker 5: Jalen Tyson and Khalil Ware.
Speaker 4: Okay, TK hold on, I'm highlighting everything because I've got Matus, Bozelli,
Speaker 4: Stefon Castle, Reed Shepard, Jeremiah Fears, Trey Johnson, Alex Sar,
Speaker 4: and Jegor Joeman.
Speaker 1: Definitely a smaller team, but smaller highlights heavy, That's all
Speaker 1: I care about.
Speaker 4: I got a very skinny team as well. If there's
Speaker 4: anybody on my team over two hundred pounds Boozellis, Castle, Shepherd, Fears, Johnson,
Speaker 4: Sar and Joe.
Speaker 1: Well, you do have a very skinny team.
Speaker 3: Stinks you're gonna be You're.
Speaker 2: Gonna be pushed around by my teammate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean stars probably over two hundred pounds on
Speaker 4: a kind of bones, but barely he still probably wears
Speaker 4: like a twenty eight waist jeans. Yeah, he's like a
Speaker 4: twenty eight by forty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna body your team, man, listen to this squad.
Speaker 1: I got Conk Nipple as my number one pick VJ Edgecombe,
Speaker 1: Colin Murray, Boyles, AJ Mitchell, Cedric Coward, Donovan Klingen, and
Speaker 1: Jalen Wells.
Speaker 2: So there it is.
Speaker 1: Let us know who drafted the best squad and really
Speaker 1: who you think will go one, two three. I think
Speaker 1: that's the exciting part with this one.
Speaker 2: Fourth team will feature G League players.
Speaker 1: As I said earlier, here's that squad for everybody joining
Speaker 1: us on YouTube. I'm not reading all the names. Happy
Speaker 1: to see Elijah Martin there chapters nine oh five.
Speaker 3: Young Hanson playing for the G League team.
Speaker 1: Yep, the Rip City Remix. I always forget that that's
Speaker 1: their G League name. It's a good name.
Speaker 2: Yeah they you know.
Speaker 1: I love how A snuck in a couple of those
Speaker 1: those rooks there because they've just been down in the
Speaker 1: G League like they did with Ree Shepherd.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's time to go back to all
Speaker 4: rookies and sophomores. Oh yeah, they launched this G League
Speaker 4: playing in the Rising Stars because they were doing G
Speaker 4: League IG Nite at the time and as a way
Speaker 4: to like get eyeballs on these guys who were supposed
Speaker 4: to come and be stars, and the NBA G League
Speaker 4: I Knite has gone away. I would like I'd rather
Speaker 4: see Reesa Shay than like twenty six year old guys.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the G League wasn't a just as much
Speaker 5: of an established thing overall back then either, with every
Speaker 5: single team having a G League team. You know, they
Speaker 5: were trying to promote basketball league as a minor basketball league.
Speaker 5: Every team has one now, so it's very different. It's
Speaker 5: a different time, that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I'm with you. I wish we just went
Speaker 1: back to it. We don't even need to draft like
Speaker 1: twelve sophomores than twelve for its just make it ten
Speaker 1: and ten sure, keep it simple like that. And then
Speaker 1: they play one game and like we get to see
Speaker 1: the guys more too, Like in this scenario, like these games,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see like a guy for like two minutes,
Speaker 1: Like you know, true, maybe gets in the earlier game
Speaker 1: a little bit more, but it's pretty damn quick. Sometimes
Speaker 1: depending on how fast the game goes because they're playing
Speaker 1: to a final score. But we have Hall of famers Carmelo, Anthony,
Speaker 1: Vince Carter, and Tracy McGrady. They will serve as the
Speaker 1: honorary coaches for the Rising Stars Mini tournament, and then
Speaker 1: Austin Rivers will coach the GLA team. I know what
Speaker 1: you're wondering. Did Austin Rivers play ever play in the
Speaker 1: G League?
Speaker 3: That's what we're wondering.
Speaker 2: We don't think so, we don't think so.
Speaker 1: Buddy is a broadcast around Peacock and he will have
Speaker 1: the honor of coaching the g Leigue team which did
Speaker 1: make the finals last year. They did win the first
Speaker 1: round game. But Mello, Vince and Tracy are be going
Speaker 1: to be drafting tonight. So that's at seven o'clock. I
Speaker 1: cook tonight on Peacock, Peacock, Peacock.
Speaker 4: I think that's going to be the first episode of Cousins.
Speaker 4: Vince and Tracy will have Carmelo on to talk about
Speaker 4: how they broke down their draft boards.
Speaker 1: Probably not a lab.
Speaker 4: Whatever Melo's podcast is called has got a time in.
Speaker 1: Its seven pm in Brooklyn, I think is what it is, right.
Speaker 1: I will say a small part I am excited about
Speaker 1: All Star Weekend this year is that it's like it
Speaker 1: is on NBC and Peacock like, which is a huge
Speaker 1: change because we've had decades of All Star Weekend being
Speaker 1: on Turner Sports.
Speaker 2: I think that's like a little something a little different.
Speaker 1: To look forward to. But I was like a little
Speaker 1: surprised last night how little fanfair there was in announcing
Speaker 1: the teams. I was expecting a little bit more, but
Speaker 1: it was basically what we just did. Showed you the
Speaker 1: graphic and they talked a little bit about who would
Speaker 1: go number one. But then and then, but then I realized,
Speaker 1: while they're doing the draft tonight, so that'll be like
Speaker 1: playing up a little bit more. So we'll find out
Speaker 1: who they picked tonight and how much it matches up
Speaker 1: with our squads that we did here. All right, Well, bye,
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Speaker 2: It's been watching since the condo party.
Speaker 1: Room days, going way back to my old condo. He
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Speaker 1: here today a man Luca gets the woe boy. Though
Speaker 1: there was a couple in the running sheng gun like
Speaker 1: you said, barely missed and Donnovan Mitchell was a monster.
Speaker 1: But Luca poured in a game high forty six points.
Speaker 1: He shot fifteen to twenty five from the field. He
Speaker 1: had eight threes, also had twelve assists and seven rebounds
Speaker 1: in the victory.
Speaker 2: As he goes whooa, I thought.
Speaker 4: He was saying boom dry maybe yes, yes, yes, that's
Speaker 4: paper there sweating at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, pick them. I'm eight nine Task nine and eight
Speaker 1: Trey ten and seven. Final week of January. I have
Speaker 1: completely fallen apart. I think I had a great record.
Speaker 1: I think I was eighting three or eighting four at
Speaker 1: one point. I'm on a slide right now, man, I
Speaker 1: need this task. What's the game?
Speaker 5: I thought tonight's most interesting line was the Nuggets hosting
Speaker 5: the Pistons and getting six and a half points. So
Speaker 5: if you're taking the Pistons, you got them by seven
Speaker 5: or more. Nuggets can lose by six or fewer.
Speaker 3: They've got a.
Speaker 5: Ton of injuries, and that's why I think you guys
Speaker 5: are comfortable taking those Pistons going to Detroit, excuse me,
Speaker 5: going to Denver and winning this game.
Speaker 3: Is am I right?
Speaker 1: Vice, Jamal Murray is questionable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I Thinkston's recording.
Speaker 1: Is out right?
Speaker 3: Is he okay? So I think so that was the
Speaker 3: That was the one for me. But that's still a
Speaker 3: big Yeah.
Speaker 5: He is out. I just checked he's out. Christian Brown's out,
Speaker 5: yoke obviously, Cam Johnson out. Jamal Murray looks like questionable.
Speaker 5: I saw he was probable at some point. I guess
Speaker 5: he could be questionable. Peyton Watson also may not play
Speaker 5: on his family Tuness may not play. Jesus well here,
Speaker 5: I'm getting Jamal Murray probable one hour ago. So I
Speaker 5: believe you. Peyton Watson and ands Fall Tunis likely will play.
Speaker 5: Those are on the probable list according to the Nuggets.
Speaker 5: I do believe them. So you know, there we go.
Speaker 1: I do believe that.
Speaker 3: I have to I have to confirm.
Speaker 5: This is the internet, who knows, but this was the
Speaker 5: Nuggets Twitter account. I do believe the Nuggets, gay good,
Speaker 5: legitimate execut right.
Speaker 2: Well, you have Denver, so you better believe.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you got a lot of points play with
Speaker 1: Tray and I need the Pistons win by seven or
Speaker 1: more on the road, and I really need this. I
Speaker 1: need this to tie tie up our records with tasts
Speaker 1: here again because I am in the hole. Not good.
Speaker 1: That's today's No Dunk's podcast. Thanks for joining us live
Speaker 1: on YouTube, Thanks for watching later, thanks for listening. Five
Speaker 1: star ratings and reviews. We're back tomorrow. I'll throw it
Speaker 1: out there. We might want to hit the beach. It's
Speaker 1: so cold in there. I'll try and wind it up.
Speaker 2: Should we take some questions.
Speaker 4: It's a good idea.
Speaker 1: From the fans.
Speaker 3: Well, let's do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've got some bangs. We got some good ones.
Speaker 5: Because let's be a completely honesty. The Slayer games. Ain't
Speaker 5: that sexy.
Speaker 1: It's not good. I haven't even checked. I got to
Speaker 1: be honest. Sexy beach time. I mean, we obviously have
Speaker 1: Pistons and Nuggets, but a lot of guys. We got Bucks, Sixers, Kings, Nicks, Yeah, Blazers, Wizards, Pelicans,
Speaker 1: thunder Nets, Suns, Clippers, Jazz.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's a rough one.
Speaker 3: Is there a good one in there? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think the Nuggets Pistons might be because how well
Speaker 5: the Nuggets are playing without their guys.
Speaker 2: But we might have the guys.
Speaker 1: We might talk about for fifteen minutes about traxy McGrady
Speaker 1: how he drafted his rising stash back down the draft
Speaker 1: really breaking winners and losers. Got a couple to check it.
Speaker 4: Going on here, skeets, you got the most votes for
Speaker 4: best rising stars for nine for tests, twenty four for me.
Speaker 4: And then I rephrase this question best weather to be sick?
Speaker 1: Cold or hot?
Speaker 4: Eighty two cold, yeah, eighteen percent hot tho sum are
Speaker 4: arguing that you get healthy quicker when it's hot.
Speaker 1: I maybe that's true. I sort of agree with that.
Speaker 1: I always get sick. I get sick in the summer.
Speaker 1: That's when I generally get sick because of the like
Speaker 1: the temperature changes. I'm convinced I'm going hot to cold,
Speaker 1: hot to cold hot, So I'm more of a summer
Speaker 1: get the to get the cold. But yeah, I'd rather
Speaker 1: now JD come here, cough on me, cough in my mouth,
Speaker 1: pick up a weird one like it. I'll do it
Speaker 1: all right, guys, thanks for joining us. We'll see you
Speaker 1: tomorrow and get your beat. Step in questions and I
Speaker 1: know we have a few, but why not try and
Speaker 1: solicit some more? Drop them in the YouTube comments or
Speaker 1: tweet it at no Dunk Stink Tell tomorrow, Clipper bros.
Speaker 1: You heard it here first.
Speaker 4: Have a great time, turn up. Love you guys awesome.
Speaker 5: Thanks for joining us. And remember when you said that
Speaker 5: Vince Carter and Tracey mcgrady's podcast made debut. I guess
Speaker 5: their Cousins podcast. I had a good laugh because watching
Speaker 5: NBA TV's broadcast yesterday of their draft of the Rookie
Speaker 5: Sophomore Game, I heard that Cedric Coward is related to
Speaker 5: an NBA media member and they're, you know, air quotes cousins.
Speaker 5: This NBA media member is first cousins with this player's
Speaker 5: dad that he just found out when he was drafted
Speaker 5: or something. Guys don't know, you hardcorees don't know this. Vince,
Speaker 5: why would you know? Will Yeah, good guess, Christines, Christanes.
Speaker 1: That's a good guess.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: NBA TV should have given Yeah.
Speaker 3: Damn cool, cool story, bro, very cool.
Speaker 1: That is a good story. Praise the Day, people,