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Speaker 1: Good mornings, Sweet were and welcome till the Not Dungs Podcast,

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Speaker 1: presented by Fan Duel. It's Monday, February ninth, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jeez Eats here in the Classic Factory and alongside

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Speaker 1: me as always.

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Speaker 2: Task mellus byecast listeners, this is for you.

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Speaker 1: Next to him, it's my top shott boy Trey Kurby

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Speaker 1: ay yoh, and over Yonder making the magic happen. Super

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Speaker 1: producer JD. Hello, there he is here. We are Valentine's

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Speaker 1: Day right around the corner. So the studio. We got

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Speaker 1: hearts everywhere, heart lights, felt heart hanging from the roof, heartlights,

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Speaker 1: beautiful new monitor behind me. Good job JD, Good job Jackson.

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Speaker 1: I assume he helped with us one or did it all?

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Speaker 1: Maybe he did it all? Okay, great, great, Yeah. Valentine's

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Speaker 1: Day this weekend in addition to All Star Weekend, and

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Speaker 1: we're going to be having a couple live watch parties.

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Speaker 1: Hope you join us on Saturday and Sunday. We'll get

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Speaker 1: to that. L We got so much to talk about here.

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Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts on the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: on the Olympics, on the NBA weekend, winners and losers.

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Speaker 1: But we had two weggies. We got to show you

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Speaker 1: both on Saturday night. Start with Cooper Flag in San Antonio.

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Speaker 1: Was that crazy, unique, high arching weggie that's stuck in

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Speaker 1: there for weggie number forty four, his third of the season.

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Speaker 1: He is our clubhouse leader. And then not long after

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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag, Jalen Suggs in Orlando sticks the classic three

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Speaker 1: point weggie and that's number forty five and you just

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Speaker 1: love to see it because we're on pace for a

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Speaker 1: remarkable sixty six weggies according to Wedgie Tracker.

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Speaker 3: Come.

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Speaker 1: Wow, And that's just big, that's just big news. I

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Speaker 1: was thinking a lot to talk about kan Ka nipple

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Speaker 1: Man hot start as a rookie. This guy one day

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Speaker 1: going to pass Steph Curry for most three pointers. Mate,

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Speaker 1: that's cool. We can table that though. What about Cooper Flag,

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Speaker 1: He's already got three. Russell Westbrook our all time leader

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Speaker 1: in weggies at seven. Wow, Cooper Flag is on a

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Speaker 1: torrid pace here to one day have it.

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Speaker 2: So I don't think there's a question. Yeah, yeah, three

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Speaker 2: in his rookie year. It's got to be the most

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Speaker 2: in a rookie season.

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Speaker 3: He said, three in a month here yeah, no matter

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Speaker 3: how many he's ever had in his life, right, Like,

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Speaker 3: it's impossible to Actually, that's got to be the most.

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Speaker 2: He might know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah he might.

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Speaker 1: Can I get your Super Bowl takeaways? And really your

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Speaker 1: Bad Bunny halftime performance thoughts? Uh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, My daughter Aida nailed it. Midway through the second quarter.

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Speaker 3: She pointed at the TV screen and said, this trash

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Speaker 3: is boring, like defense, Eh, welcome to the Snoozer Bowl.

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Speaker 2: That was boring.

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Speaker 3: I mean the first half was just brutal to watch,

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Speaker 3: especially with every ad was an AI AD in the

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Speaker 3: first even though there were so many AI's out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we got about clack the iads now trying to

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Speaker 1: tell us we're better than this AI company.

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Speaker 5: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we got morals. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was a Unless you like defense, unless you're a

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Speaker 3: big fan of Witherspoon. This was all over Gonzales diving

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Speaker 3: making plays. No Bad Bunny was the best.

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Speaker 1: Part for me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Chris Collinsworth will try and sell

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Speaker 2: you the defense.

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Speaker 1: He did. He did.

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Speaker 2: He said this literally could be the most impressive defense

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Speaker 2: in Super Bowl history. He said that pulled it out.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it is, but it is interesting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The commercials ho hum, the first half. They pulled out

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Speaker 2: all the good ones at half. Is it because people

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Speaker 2: are watching more people.

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Speaker 1: People will be tuning in for Bad Bunny.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well just in general, people tune in for halftime. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: your your daughter just along with the same with my wife.

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Speaker 2: She didn't watch a second of football. She just watched

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Speaker 2: the commercials. So literally pulled her head up just to

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Speaker 2: watch the commercials. That's what she commented us, like, Oh,

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Speaker 2: this team scored, how did they do that? I don't

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Speaker 2: know they scored?

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Speaker 5: Was another field goal?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's not that was going to win the MVP.

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Speaker 5: That would have been hilarious. That would have been the

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Speaker 5: icing on the cake.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And Bad Bunny's performance, big fan two thumbs up.

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Speaker 2: Great show. Yeah, obviously, great show. Great to hear the

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Speaker 2: mention of every country in America. I love that part.

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Speaker 2: That part was super nice where he ripped off you

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Speaker 1: It was fun to hear.

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Speaker 2: And obviously the message at the end countries from the

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Speaker 2: America's represented together. We are America on the football there.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that part was great. Yeah, it was a

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Speaker 2: good show.

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Speaker 1: I love the tree people too. Tree People were hilarious.

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Speaker 1: I clucked in early. I was like, I think that

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Speaker 5: I think that's a person in their movie.

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Speaker 1: And all this footage came out of all these people

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Speaker 5: I thought the trees were going to dance.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but they were just I guess so you could

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Speaker 3: set it up more quickly.

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Speaker 1: And like move the camera locations.

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Speaker 5: I think so too crazy?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, JD. What was your thoughts on the production

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Speaker 1: of it all? The Bad Bunny performance?

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Speaker 4: I thought it was good.

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Speaker 6: I only caught the last half of the Bad Bunny performance.

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Speaker 5: You were watching k Rock.

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Speaker 3: He was on the turning point stream on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: He was right at the end of the turning for

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Speaker 2: the USA. I clicked over to see he was the headliners.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, cool, the American bad Hold on, hold, why did

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Speaker 1: you only catch the second half of Bad Buddies? Because

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Speaker 6: Performed, I know, because Jack was in here doing these decorations.

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Speaker 6: He wanted me to have a look and we adjusted

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Speaker 1: It was the pause button, my man, I know I.

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Speaker 4: Was watching the cock I don't know, you.

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Speaker 3: Must be yes, I paused it right before the anthem,

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Speaker 3: and then it like fast forwarded into the anthem.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what sketchy for sure, but anyway, it's

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Speaker 4: out there. It seemed like a very joyful apartments like a.

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Speaker 1: Jessica elbow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, a lot of Ricky Martin's back.

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Speaker 2: That was Ricky Martin. Awesome, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 5: That was That was the biggest pop in our Yeah

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Speaker 2: Shake a BM bond and he looks totally different. I said,

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Speaker 2: that's Ricky Martin and said, no, great, that's not him.

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Speaker 1: I think he's had some work done. Yeah, probably, but

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Speaker 1: he does look great. Yeah, it looks awesome.

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Speaker 5: Good work.

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Speaker 2: And the Little Lady Gaga performance was nice.

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Speaker 1: Ye ship, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: That was good.

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Speaker 2: They had one hundred beautiful women shaking their ass off.

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Speaker 1: That was awesome.

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Speaker 5: That was the parts for sure.

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Speaker 2: That was great.

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Speaker 5: The vibes are awesome, the songs are good.

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Speaker 1: You can watch it on YouTube GD So it's already there.

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Speaker 1: It was probably there a minute after. Yeah, and what

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Speaker 1: about the Olympics. Any Olympics taken in this weekend from

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Speaker 3: Extram quite a bit, at least on Friday and Saturday.

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Speaker 3: I never really got around to couldn't stay up for primetime.

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Speaker 5: In Milan after the Super Bowl. But I like the

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Speaker 5: opening ceremony.

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Speaker 3: I like the part where they had like the paint

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Speaker 3: driplet's coming down and mix it into all the different people.

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Speaker 5: I thought that was cool.

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Speaker 3: And I really liked the nod to Georgia Armani with

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Speaker 3: also loved when they would cut away to because they

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Speaker 3: had like, they have so many different locations for the Olympics,

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Speaker 3: and they would cut to the different places. They're actually

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Speaker 3: like letting the people far away get their opening ceremony moment.

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Speaker 3: And the snowboarder location was awesome. They were going people

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Speaker 3: on shoulders in back cliffs. They were having a great time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that seemed to stand out to need

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Speaker 1: They've never done this. Yeah, these multiple locations, Oh they

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Speaker 1: did it the ceremony.

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Speaker 1: Then they've quickly cut to them walking through the sonic

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Speaker 2: More so, they did their little emphatic whatever was on

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Speaker 2: I'm on camera what they pulled off? A move?

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Speaker 1: Them is awesome. It's unbelievable, So much better than just

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Speaker 1: like the stationary cameras where that if they just come

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they said it wasn't because of her acl

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Speaker 3: a point to make it to this Olympics coming back

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Speaker 3: from injury and also has had a lot of like

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Speaker 3: huge career moments in Courtina apparently, so a bummer way

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Speaker 3: for her to go out. But I also enjoyed a

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Speaker 3: the team figure skating competion, Yeah, chalking baits, Yeah, that

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Speaker 3: all around. You know whoever the downhill skier guy was

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Speaker 3: oder Mott from Austria didn't even meddle.

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Speaker 3: Did the first backflip since Sria Bonilly back in the

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Speaker 3: in the killed it in for put up one.

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Speaker 1: High. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: That was cool.

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Speaker 5: I got the Cleveland Cavaliers as a winner of the weekend.

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Speaker 5: I know what you're thinking.

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Speaker 3: Did it take thirty five points from Donovan Mitchell to

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Speaker 2: To go the Boston Celtics. They're also winner for a

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Speaker 2: be some post ups, whether it's a mismatch or whatever.

444
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Speaker 2: And it was working. They're giving it to him in there.

445
00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:36,920
Speaker 2: He was making some nice passes, skip it to the

446
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Speaker 2: other corner to the cutters. It was unbelievable. In his debut,

447
00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,320
Speaker 2: they had a highlight pack of his assists sponsored by

448
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Speaker 2: f W Web assist in the Boston Celtics broadcast that

449
00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,080
Speaker 2: he's doing a good job of assisting and then on

450
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Speaker 2: the he'll either you know, shoot those threes. But he

451
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Speaker 2: was doing doing a decent job of that. On the

452
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Speaker 2: defensive end, he's vouch. You could see Bam Metabio's eyes

453
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Speaker 2: light up. Oh he's on me, you know, back him up,

454
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Speaker 2: back him up a little bit and shoot over him.

455
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Speaker 2: And he was getting beat. He just doesn't have the

456
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Speaker 2: ability to block shots at the rim. I don't know

457
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Speaker 2: if it's the fast twitch muscles he lacks or whatever,

458
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Speaker 2: but he was out there like the using those Ostrich

459
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Speaker 2: strides that he has, like big long strides. He's just

460
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Speaker 2: a little bit slow, but he was working his butt

461
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Speaker 2: off as much as he could. He's a plus eleven

462
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Speaker 2: in that game that they beat the Miami Heat. Then

463
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Speaker 2: against the Knicks. I mean, the Knicks were coming back

464
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Speaker 2: from an embarrassing loss against the Pistons on Friday. They

465
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Speaker 2: lost like thirty eight, so they were ready Brentson was ready.

466
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Speaker 2: He was four of twenty against the start Thompson. He

467
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Speaker 2: was awesome on Friday. He was twelve of twenty one

468
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Speaker 2: against the Celtics on Sunday, dropping thirty one. The Celtics

469
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Speaker 2: didn't even have Houser in this lineups on Sunday, so

470
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Speaker 2: they're playing Kada, Garza and Baylor Shireman to start. But

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Speaker 2: you can see what Vouch is gonna be doing strictly

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Speaker 2: off the bench. And you know he had some whistle

473
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Speaker 2: problems in this one, but he was fighting cat. We're

474
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Speaker 2: fighting Karl Anthony Towns with those spectacles that he's wearing

475
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Speaker 2: to protect his eyes. We'll get to that a little

476
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Speaker 2: bit later. But he got beat pretty bad in this game.

477
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Speaker 2: He got cooked in this game. Yeah, that was a

478
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Speaker 2: bad one, definitely bad one, and they were going at him.

479
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Speaker 2: But you can see why he's playing second units just

480
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Speaker 2: so you get less of the first unit roasting him.

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Speaker 2: You know, he'll try, he'll try out there, but he's

482
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Speaker 2: doing what he's gonna do. He's gonna score. He's going

483
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Speaker 2: to be a different sort of offense for them in

484
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Speaker 2: post up situations, picking slips or pick and shoot that

485
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Speaker 2: three minor winner posey Alvarado in this one his debut,

486
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Speaker 2: yea good, good stuff, oh you good stuff, doing the

487
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Speaker 2: dirty work, shooting threes and then putting his face in

488
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Speaker 2: close enough for Jalen Brown to give him an offensive

489
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Speaker 2: foul with that elbow, and then poking stealing one behind

490
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Speaker 2: Jalen Brown. So classic Alvarado stuff where Madison Square Gardener

491
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Speaker 2: would have been going nuts if it wasn't Madison Square Garden.

492
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Speaker 2: But this one was in Boston. But he's doing his thing,

493
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Speaker 2: so looking good.

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Speaker 1: So how are the Celtics the winner? Then? I'm confused

495
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Speaker 1: in all this the Tatum part, your eye on Tatum

496
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Speaker 1: is coming back. I mean they had to come back

497
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Speaker 1: from like twenty two down to beat the Heat and

498
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Speaker 1: then they got spanked by the Knicks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're gonna get spanked by the Names, and they.

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Speaker 1: Lost like basically the second seed because of it, could

501
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Speaker 1: lose the tiebreaker.

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Speaker 2: Well they're tied for the second seed right now.

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Speaker 1: Well they don't have the tiebreaker, kick her.

504
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Speaker 2: Up to Well, I didn't know about the type.

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Speaker 1: Either way.

506
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Speaker 2: Either way, they're lined up to face a great team.

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Speaker 2: They're the second seed. Okay, they're the third teed w

508
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Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it without their best player.

509
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Speaker 2: And now they've got a guy coming off the bench,

510
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 2: and they're banged up and they're injured. They're playing like

511
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Speaker 2: they should. Vucevic is in his role. Okay, he's not sorry.

512
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Speaker 2: They basically they said, four guys, you're out of here.

513
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Speaker 2: Simon's you're out of here. Why not, you're out of here?

514
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Speaker 2: Who else was Tilman? You're out here, Bouche, you're out

515
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Speaker 2: of here. Here comes Vouch. They've got a line up

516
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Speaker 2: in here where people last year they expected when they

517
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Speaker 2: obviously when Tatum went down. Oh, they've gotta stink. They're

518
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Speaker 2: the freaking second seed. Excuse me, TI break the tie breaker,

519
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Speaker 2: third seed, whatever you want to call it. And the

520
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 2: Knicks just got embarrassed by the Pistons. They're gonna come

521
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Speaker 2: back and I have a way better game, and yet

522
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Speaker 2: they did against Baylor Shireman, who had a decent game.

523
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Speaker 2: But they're starting Keda, they're starting Garza and they're starting Shireman.

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Speaker 2: What do you want the Celtics to do win a

525
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Speaker 2: championship with that roster.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to around.

527
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Speaker 5: I told you winners.

528
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Speaker 2: I told you their player, their best player. Their best

529
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Speaker 2: player is two hundred and seventy three days since he

530
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Speaker 2: was injured and tore his achilles. Things are looking better.

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Speaker 2: He's playing five better.

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Speaker 1: On five action. It's gonna get hurt again. Mazool ain't

533
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Speaker 1: gonna take it easy on them, put them in a

534
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Speaker 1: figure four.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm not so super confident in this next team, just

537
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Speaker 2: because they are very banged up. In this game against

538
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Speaker 2: the Botton Celtics, Brunson, it's a classic Brunson thing. He

539
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Speaker 2: had to go back to the locker room. He stepped

540
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Speaker 2: on who go Gonzalez's foot and then he heard his

541
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Speaker 2: knee a little bit. Karl Anthony Towns, We'll get to it.

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Speaker 2: He's got eye problems. I'm not locked in on the Celtics.

543
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: Sag right now too.

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Speaker 2: Oh geez out. This Eastern Conference it's open, baby, it's open.

545
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Speaker 1: It is all right.

546
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Speaker 5: That's interesting.

547
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Speaker 3: I think that the Celtics fans got the full Vooje

548
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Speaker 3: experience this weekend. He looked pretty good on Friday against

549
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Speaker 3: the Clippers, kind of just exploiting a lot of space

550
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Speaker 3: and being the big guy down there. That was good

551
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Speaker 3: for them, But it was really Pritchard and White that

552
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Speaker 3: brought him back in that game and one and format

553
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Speaker 3: against Heat, I guess the Heat. And then on Sunday

554
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Speaker 3: you got the bad Booge where if he's on the court,

555
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Speaker 3: they're gonna go at him every time they put him

556
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Speaker 3: in a pick and roll. It felt like every single

557
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Speaker 3: possession down the floor, Bruntson and cat or Brunson and whoever.

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Speaker 5: And it was easy offense for the Knicks. So bad

559
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Speaker 5: team the Heat. Boch's gonna be okay, good team like

560
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Speaker 5: the Knicks. You don't need to play him, yeah, yeah,

561
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Speaker 5: they'll have an option.

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Speaker 1: The positive is.

563
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Speaker 2: That they don't start him and don't have to. He's

564
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Speaker 2: not going to be a forty minute guy. Like even

565
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Speaker 2: against the Heat, they were going at him and scoring.

566
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Speaker 2: But it worked out on the other end because he's

567
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Speaker 2: able to score and set guys up.

568
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Speaker 1: And so they're.

569
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Speaker 2: Missoula in the front office, even though they went minus

570
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Speaker 2: four guys and basically added one. So their minus three guys,

571
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Speaker 2: they know what they're doing, uh, and they're not. They

572
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Speaker 2: don't have to use him every single possession.

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Speaker 1: They know what he is.

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Speaker 2: And again he was working his butt off, and yeah,

575
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Speaker 2: the Knicks were beating them, but the Celtics also just

576
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Speaker 2: missing lots of open threes in this one. They're just

577
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Speaker 2: banging in and out and so they kept fighting and

578
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Speaker 2: to make it a good game until the third quarter

579
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Speaker 2: when it got blown out essentially. But again, no disrespect

580
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Speaker 2: to Baylor Shireman, but when you're running a Kada Garza

581
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Speaker 2: Shireman lineup.

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Speaker 1: And what are we going to do here?

583
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Speaker 5: That was a crazy to start Kata and Garza back

584
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Speaker 5: to back. I don't know about that. Yeah, but it's

585
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Speaker 5: experiment time.

586
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Speaker 2: But Kaita will be starting for the foreseeable future. There's

587
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Speaker 2: no I think he's their starting center. Ohoch is coming

588
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,719
Speaker 2: off the bench, but Garza you out of here as

589
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Speaker 2: soon as Tatum gets through those five on five screens

590
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 2: just whatever those mean, whatever those mean, but he is

591
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Speaker 2: definitely he's getting closer.

592
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Speaker 5: He's getting closer.

593
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Speaker 1: NBA Weekend Winner to All Star Saturday Night. It's this Saturday, guys.

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Speaker 1: We'll be watching it live here in the Classic Factory.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you'll be joining us on YouTube as we have

596
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Speaker 1: some fun watching it because we've got a new order

597
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Speaker 1: of events. Hell, we got an event returning. I want

598
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Speaker 1: to go through all this with you guys. In a

599
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Speaker 1: change from the norm, the three point Contest is going

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Speaker 1: to kick off All Star Saturday. We have talked about

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Speaker 1: this before. Maybe we should start with a banger. It's

602
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Speaker 1: usually pretty good. Well, they're going to give it a go.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be followed by the Shooting Stars competition

604
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Speaker 1: and then the Dunk contests. I guess the Skills competition

605
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Speaker 1: is out at least for this year after Chris Paul

606
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Speaker 1: broke it and took Webby to the dark side with him.

607
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Speaker 1: But yeah, let's look at the actual three Point Contest

608
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Speaker 1: participants because we know who's all in it and the

609
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Speaker 1: big name that got everybody a little shocked over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: I was like, what what's going on here? Damian Lillard,

611
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Speaker 1: who has not played this season while recovering from a

612
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Speaker 1: horn achilles tendon, is gonna go in this thing. He's

613
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Speaker 1: gonna participate. This guy hasn't missed it three all year.

614
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: So if Dame wins, he would join Larry Bird and

615
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Speaker 1: Craig Hodges as the only three time winners. But he's

616
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Speaker 1: joining a hell of a list here. I think he's

617
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Speaker 1: joining twenty eighteen three Point Contest champ Devin Booker along

618
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Speaker 1: with rookie Konka Nipple and then a bunch of All

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Speaker 1: Stars Tyres, Maxie Donovan, Mitchell, Jamal Murray, Norman Powell, and

620
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Speaker 1: Bobby Porters. Junior gets in here also invited. He's shooting

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Speaker 1: very good from three this year. And that's the list.

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Speaker 1: Let's get your reactions, guys. Let's start with the Damian

623
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Speaker 1: Lillard of it all. A fan of this upset, like

624
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Speaker 1: some people are like that should go to somebody else.

625
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: What's going on here? Your takeaway?

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Speaker 5: I think it's cool?

627
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Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I mean, if you're a Blazers fan, you

628
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 3: were sad to see Dame Lillard go and maybe even

629
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Speaker 3: pulled for the Bucks during those couple of seasons he

630
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,360
Speaker 3: obviously hasn't been able to play. This season, you get

631
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Speaker 3: to see him on a court wearing a Blazers jersey.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I guess we have seen Damian Lillard wear

633
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Speaker 3: other jerseys to these events, like he's worn a Weaver

634
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 3: State jersey the Lake City All Star events for sure,

635
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 3: but I assume he'll be in a Blazer's jersey and

636
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 3: that's cool, So yeah, I can. I don't know who's

637
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 3: who's a notable exception here? No Io Desum timber One

638
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 3: fans are going to be irate that the guy leading

639
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:15,719
Speaker 3: the league in three point percentage isn't there.

640
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Speaker 5: I don't know. I think it's cool.

641
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 2: It's totally cool. It's totally cool we see guys able

642
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 2: to practice three point shots. It's not like he's not

643
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 2: going to be able to do it because he's been injured.

644
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 2: This isn't basketball. It's just firing away from three point lane.

645
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Speaker 2: And they're brilliant in starting Saturday night with the three

646
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Speaker 2: point You like this?

647
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: Oh? I thought you would. We have talked about this before.

648
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, put the event where people are going

649
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 2: to watch it first. They don't care about the Skills Challenge.

650
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 2: Do we care about getting to our seats appointment viewing

651
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Speaker 2: to watch the Skills Challenge.

652
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Speaker 1: At eight pm?

653
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 2: NA, sometimes we missed ten to fifteen minutes. But this

654
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Speaker 2: is the premiere event of the night.

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Speaker 1: I think you're right this year basically, don't contest. Expectations

656
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Speaker 1: are quite low. We'll get to that field a second.

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Speaker 2: But whoever's doing the CPM where he's doing the ad

658
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 2: sales says to people, all right, people are gonna be

659
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,239
Speaker 2: watching at eight pm. AD sales p Easter go up.

660
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: What are you exactly?

661
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 2: Yeah?

662
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, even so the.

663
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 2: Cost sails go up and people will be watching. Usually

664
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 2: this is the premiere event. Let's be honest.

665
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: It's always good, that's the thing. It's always good to

666
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: above average.

667
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 2: Hopefully it is the down contest, but right, ye, yeah,

668
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 2: this could have.

669
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 5: Been a good year to try doing the three point contest.

670
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: Last last yeah. Well, two other notes on the field.

671
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: There one guy who maybe could have been invited with

672
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: Luke Canard, the Nard Dog himself. He's shooting nearly fifty

673
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: percent from three this year. I think he's at like

674
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: forty nine point seven. And he has played in LA

675
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: with the Clippers for a couple of years. Now he's

676
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: on the Lakers. You know, it's Luke Canard. It's not

677
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: like people are like, ah, give me my Nard Dog

678
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 1: in the three point contests't give me my but the

679
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: guy's probably deserving and and so people are like, oh,

680
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: they're upset, like Damien gets his spot or whatever. It's like, really,

681
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: they should have just had nine shooters in it, Like

682
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: who cares? Just add another shooter. He could do that anyway.

683
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: And Devin Booker, who I love, who's won this thing before,

684
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: as I said, who has been a really good three

685
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: point shooter in his career. Not the case this year.

686
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: He's shooting thirty percent from three this year. He's like

687
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: the eighth or ninth best three point shooter on his team.

688
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: I'm not even exaggerating. So he gets in there. He's

689
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: an All Star. He wants to go in it. That's cool,

690
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: and he'll probably win the thing for a crying a lot.

691
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,479
Speaker 1: But I just thought that was funny. There's a lot

692
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: of guys on the Sun shooting better from deep than

693
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: Devin Booker. But I got the stars. Name the star

694
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: names in this one for sure.

695
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 5: Cam Spencer, that's crazy.

696
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: No Cancer Spencer. All right, let's go to the NBA

697
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: Shooting Stars competition, which returns to All Star Weekend after

698
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: an eleven year hiatus. We haven't seen this thing in

699
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: over a decade. Wow, we've got Spurs rookie Dylan Harper,

700
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: his brother Ron Harper Junior of the Celtics, and their father,

701
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: five time NBA champ Ron Harper. They're going to find

702
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: themselves in this competition that includes three other teams made

703
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: up of two current players and one retired NBA player.

704
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: So Team All Star, headlined by Scotty barnes Chet Holmgren

705
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: and Rip Hamilton got Team Cameron, which is all Duchies

706
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson, Canipple, and Corey mcgetty. And then Team Nix

707
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: is Jalen Bruns and Karl Anthony Townsend Alan Houston. So

708
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: teams are given seventy seconds to score points by hitting

709
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: shots at seven locations on the court, with each team

710
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: member shooting in a set order at each spot. Shooting

711
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: Stars is back, Skills competition is gone. You like this

712
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: switch up here?

713
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 2: Sure?

714
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: Yeah.

715
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 2: It's funny that the NBA doesn't have the rights to

716
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 2: the name Duke. You can call it Team Duke. You

717
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 2: have to call it Team Cameron, probably because where they

718
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 2: play hilarious. It's yeah, this seems to be there's a

719
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 2: little bit more on the line here when you know

720
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 2: it's Team Nicks and Team Harper and Team Cameron whatever,

721
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 2: the Team All Star when I don't really get they

722
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 2: just want a three fourth team with three guys a

723
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 2: legend in Rip Hamilton Scotty Barnes. Not your typical I mean,

724
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 2: it doesn't shooter, no, not at all.

725
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: But either way, yeah, it can't be worse than the

726
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: skills and in fact, something else we've talked about on

727
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: the show before. It's like, bring back shooting stars. That

728
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: means cool was great at hitting half court shots, like

729
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: it was fun. It was like obviously it wasn't nothing incredible,

730
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: but whatever, it was better than what the skills competition

731
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: had become.

732
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, joke, can waste of time. I do like half

733
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 3: court shots. Yeah, I think I favored Team Nicks. Here.

734
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 5: Looks like they got the best crew.

735
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Alan Houston, Yeah, I.

736
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 3: Mean Corey mcgeey and Ron Harper SENI you're no offense,

737
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 3: not shooters. Yeah right, Paton's at least a shooter. But

738
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 3: how is there not an LA team? That doesn't make

739
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 3: any sense at all.

740
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: Yep. I could have got the nerd dog in here.

741
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, literally could have got the nerd dog.

742
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: Brent Berry nerd dog, and uh why sure.

743
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,479
Speaker 3: Like literally he'll be there as an All Star. Now,

744
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 3: maybe there's a conflict of interest, but it's weird to

745
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 3: go Team Nicks. There's no connection to the Clippers at

746
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 3: their own home All Star game.

747
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: You bring up a great point. TK. Finally, the NBA

748
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: announced the four participants for the twenty twenty six NBA

749
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: Slam Dunk Contest. We got all newbies Carter Bryant, Jackson,

750
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: Hayes Keyshaw Johnson, and Jace Richardson.

751
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 2: Uh.

752
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: Speaking of Jace Richardson, The Orlando Magic tweeted their support

753
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: for Richardson, Let's get it rook, to which he replied,

754
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: I guess with a laughing and shrug eboji. Oh boy.

755
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: This guys did not probably want to go in this thing.

756
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: But hey, your dad was a dunker. He was awesome.

757
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: He was one of the best. You gotta go in it,

758
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: but I'm six one. I barely dunk. I don't care

759
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: you're in it. You're gonna be putting on his jersey

760
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: at one point in this dunk better wear that jersey.

761
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

762
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: Expectations quite what happened to Jayalen Duran. He was supposed

763
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: to be in this thing.

764
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 2: Yeah maybe because he is injured. Yeah no, And I said, no,

765
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 2: I'm not going, but he's he's gonna be there. I

766
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 2: assume that weekend.

767
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 5: He'll be there. I hope be having fun.

768
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 2: But Jace Richardson gets in because of the name power.

769
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 2: I assume it sounds like Jason. Yep, that's what he's

770
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 2: there for. But this is it has to be a

771
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 2: low expectations.

772
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, big time, zero expectations.

773
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got three dunk contest champions in here though,

774
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,720
Speaker 3: Jason Richardson, Vince Carter, and Kobe Bryant.

775
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 5: Carter Bryant's gonna win.

776
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah that's your pick, sure, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay.

777
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 2: I think he might be the best dunker.

778
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 3: It's probably gonna be Key Shot Johnson. He seems to

779
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 3: me to be a McClung like character. Oh he's just

780
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 3: a super athlete. Okay, Okay, that's why he's there. That's

781
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 3: why he's there. No one else knows who he is.

782
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 5: I don't really know.

783
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: I mean I think I saw something going around like

784
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes maybe has fifty to sixty dunks this year

785
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: as a big guy for the Lakers. That makes some sense.

786
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: The other three guys combined have like nine dunks, ten dunks,

787
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: something like that. Let's go. Not a lot, not a

788
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 1: lot of clips to pull for the NBA's social media

789
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 1: accounts to hype this one up, but see what they

790
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: can do. That's the last event on All Stars Saturday night,

791
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 1: and again we'll be here live in the Class Factory.

792
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: Let's do another round of winners real quick, where you

793
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: want to go.

794
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 3: Stefan Castle, to me is a winner of the weekend,

795
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 3: but forty twelve and twelve in a win against the

796
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 3: Mavericks on Saturday. Final points came on a monster tip

797
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 3: dunk and he said afterwards, yeah, I knew I had

798
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 3: thirty eight.

799
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 5: I was going for forty.

800
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 3: That was pretty sweet. Mavericks were giving him a ton

801
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 3: of space in this one. They were guarding him with

802
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 3: Daniel Gafford their center. He was playing at basically the

803
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,959
Speaker 3: three point or the free throw line when Castle's bringing

804
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 3: the ball up, but the jumper was money. Went three

805
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 3: of five from three, three of four in the mid

806
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 3: range as well, and he was doing a really good job.

807
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 3: I thought of attacking space with basically dribble handoffs, like

808
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,720
Speaker 3: he'd catch the ball immediately go into dribble handocks handoff

809
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 3: a lot with Fox coming out of the corner. Fox

810
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 3: would get downhill, get an easy basket piled up some

811
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 3: assists that way.

812
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 5: I think it's kind of interesting though.

813
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 3: The Spurs have Stefan Castle handle the ball, bring it up,

814
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 3: be their point guard a lot more than they did

815
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 3: with Fox, a lot more than they do with Dylan Harper,

816
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 3: and Castle's probably got the worst handle of those three.

817
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 3: Definitely the worst decision maker of those three. He's got

818
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 3: a lot of turnovers this year. He's averaging seven assists

819
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 3: the game. That's nice, three and a half turnovers per game,

820
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 3: shooting under thirty percent from three on the season. This

821
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 3: is how he's gonna be guarded when it comes playoff time.

822
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 3: We're gonna throw a center on you and just have

823
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 3: that guy muck everything up. Can you beat us from

824
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 3: the outside. He was able to do that against Dallas,

825
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 3: and it's good for him to get those kind of

826
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 3: reps seeing that kind of defense, because certainly that's how

827
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 3: he's going to be guarded in the postseason. Kessl is

828
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 3: an interesting player, Like I think he's super talented, but

829
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 3: he gets out of control a lot, and he has

830
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 3: a good connection with Wemby on these lobs and that

831
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. But an awesome game from Castle, super

832
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 3: aggressive and just look like the best player on the court.

833
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, forty point triple double. Only David Robinson had done

834
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 2: that in Spurs history. I remember last year, I think

835
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 2: it was after the season, we were looking at the

836
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four draft class. Deefon Castle obviously the Rookie

837
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 2: of the Year, and we said how many combined also

838
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,320
Speaker 2: appearances are going to get from this class and the

839
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 2: over under was super low, super low. I forgot. I

840
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 2: don't remember the number, but it was like two and

841
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 2: a half maybe, I think, maybe, yeah, And there were

842
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 2: some unders. All Stefan Castle is ready to do the over.

843
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 2: He seems like he's he's got it all together. You're right,

844
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 2: he does rush things, there's no doubt. And it is

845
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 2: odd when you're giving the guy the ball to start everything,

846
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 2: to give it the guy who does rush things and

847
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,959
Speaker 2: not balance it out and a little bit more because

848
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 2: sometimes like the games against okay See, it was super

849
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 2: balanced when they were able to overcome okay See, it

850
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 2: was like, okay, it's your tirn Tilan Harper. It was

851
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 2: a little bit more balanced. But this was like this

852
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 2: was the Stefan Castle show. In this game, I felt like,

853
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 2: it's like do it man.

854
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. He went fifteen to nineteen in this forty point

855
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: triple double two, which in terms of percentage wise like

856
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: only Wilt has ever done that shot that great in

857
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: a forty point triple double. So joined some rarefied air

858
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: there and David Rumson with the Spurs part and then

859
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: Wilt with the field goal percentage part of a monster game. Yeah,

860
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: they beat them out twice. This weekend. They scored a

861
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: whole bunch of points against Ellas Mavericks. So the Spurs

862
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: stay winning there. What do you got for another winner?

863
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 2: I'm going to stay in the Western Conference where the

864
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets have four starters back, they just got to

865
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 2: be a little bit more excited that the guys are

866
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,439
Speaker 2: coming back to be healthy around Jokic and Jamal Murray.

867
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 2: They literally we're playing with zero starters for a while. Well,

868
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 2: game Johnson came back. He had missed twenty three games,

869
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 2: hadn't played since December twenty third, and the recent part

870
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 2: for him was he didn't really start the season all

871
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 2: that well, but the few weeks before December twenty third

872
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 2: when he went out, the shot was coming back and

873
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 2: hopefully he was going to be able to carry that

874
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 2: into this weekend's game against the Chicago Bulls, and he did.

875
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 2: First possession. Did they run it for him? I think

876
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 2: they did. Corner three, bang, he hits it. So he

877
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 2: hit a couple in this game. The cuts in this

878
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 2: game were good. The drives in this game were good,

879
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 2: especially against the Bulls. Shorty like Yabusele playing at center.

880
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 2: He had it all together fourteen points, so good for that.

881
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: Him joining Jokic and Jamal Murray along with Christian Brown

882
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,720
Speaker 2: who is there who has been there for three games

883
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 2: now and returned thirty two minutes forty two minutes in

884
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 2: the previous two games before the Bulls game, so he's

885
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 2: coming back. Although that shot is not there quite yet.

886
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:07,959
Speaker 2: He missed a couple of free throws against the Bulls.

887
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 2: He's shooting very poorly from three point line. He's not

888
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 2: never been a guy who gets up a lot of threes.

889
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,760
Speaker 2: He doesn't need to. But he's only played in seventeen

890
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 2: games this season. So they need to get things together

891
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 2: because Peyton Watson is out until you know, near the postseason.

892
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 2: And I always wondered with Cam Johnson out and Peyton

893
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 2: Watson playing extremely well, there may be a day where

894
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 2: Cam Johnson is out of the starting lineup, but it

895
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 2: doesn't look like, well, that's not gonna happen now with

896
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 2: Peyton Watson out, Aaron Gordon is still out of that

897
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 2: starting lineup. He's the only one that's out from the

898
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 2: from the five. But they need to get back. They

899
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 2: just need to get guys back. And Jamal Murray has

900
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 2: got ninety nine points in the last three games combined.

901
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: Looks awesome, but he does need some rest.

902
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 2: And you could hear David Adaman in his pregame conference

903
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 2: post or pregame press conference, he said, we need to

904
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 2: rest man. Maybe that's what he essentially said, like we

905
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 2: need days off because Jamal Murray needs day off. But

906
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 2: also these guys just need to get back playing together.

907
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 2: So it is a good sign. It is a good

908
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 2: sign considering the other team in Okay, see that they're

909
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 2: they're always eyeing I'm sure has so many injuries themselves

910
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 2: and Jalen Williams and stuff. So a good, good weekend

911
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 2: for the weekend for the Nuggets, just to see the

912
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 2: Cam Johnson back period.

913
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: And you're gonna get a week off very soon here, yeah,

914
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: because I'll start weekend is here, and yeah, Jamal Murray

915
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: will play in the game and will be in the

916
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: three point contest. But like everybody gets like four or

917
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: five days off basically with the way the schedule is now,

918
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 1: so you get a little rest period here for these teams.

919
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: Everybody can hit the beach. I can kind of hit

920
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: the beach, rest up, and be nice.

921
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 3: The number one thing for the Nuggets is they just

922
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 3: need Aaron Gordon to be healthy in the playoffs. Like

923
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 3: it's great that Christian Brown's back, great that Cam Johnson

924
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 3: is back, but Gordon is the key for them. He's

925
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,240
Speaker 3: the only guy that can really guard on the perimeter

926
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,439
Speaker 3: the way they need. He is kind of their small

927
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 3: ball five when they go to their bench lineups as well,

928
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,879
Speaker 3: and he's just been so unreliable this season only twenty

929
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 3: games played so far, played a huge chunk at the

930
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:02,800
Speaker 3: beginning of the season, came back, got hurt in the

931
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 3: exact same way, so that's really worrying. They were going

932
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 3: to need him to come back, like keep him out

933
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 3: as long as they possibly can, but they'll need him

934
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 3: back in like mid March probably to kind of get

935
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 3: back in the rhythm of actually playing with everybody else

936
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 3: who's been injured going forward. So I kind of think

937
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 3: they have their least essential guys back healthy right now,

938
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 3: which is kind of unfortunate because Gordon and Watson to

939
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 3: me are major players for them to actually make noise

940
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 3: in the playoffs with the two way play that they

941
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 3: really bring m M.

942
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, hopefully he's supposed to be back in March.

943
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 2: And so it's not like a long term thing for

944
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon like it is for Peyton Watson, is it.

945
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 3: I mean it's kind of a long term thing for

946
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 3: Aaron Gordon. He's been dealing with leg injuries since last playoffs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

947
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 3: you want to seed him healthy. I know they need

948
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 3: they need him like he's so much. He's he's the guy.

949
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 5: He's like there O g Ananobi.

950
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 3: He's the one guy that can really swing a playoff

951
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 3: series for them because you're expecting Murray to raise his game.

952
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 3: He usually does in the play is a killer in

953
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 3: the playoffs. You're getting good performances from those guys, but

954
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 3: who can be the number three along with them?

955
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he has to instigate, initiate, I guess the

956
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 2: better word is for that second unit. A lot of

957
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 2: time it's him or it's Jamal Murray, but they need

958
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 2: somebody that they can rely on. There's no doubt. But

959
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 2: this week off, they get seven days off. I checked

960
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 2: nice chilling.

961
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: Let break a couple other mini winners here last week

962
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: on Friday's Drop after you did your worst of the

963
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: week nominees I pitched Elprinchen Gun as a worst of

964
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: the week I thought deservedly so for his week and

965
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: all the things he did and not making the All

966
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: Star Game and all that. Well, I got him as

967
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: a mini winner here over the weekend because he did

968
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: express remorse for repeatedly calling a female referee the B

969
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: word there, and he said he apologized immediately after the game.

970
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,919
Speaker 1: He seeked her out in the referees locker room and said,

971
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: you know, I lost my temper there. Shouldn't have said

972
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: that all that, So he owned up to that, and

973
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,879
Speaker 1: then he was named to the All Star World Team

974
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: over the weekend to replace the injured Shake Gilders Alexander,

975
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: who I guess is not going to play in this game,

976
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: so he is an All Star in the end, that

977
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: All Star World team, I got a lot of bigs,

978
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: a lot of big boys on that team, especially no SGA.

979
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: Now it's like, who are their guards? It's Lucas Jamal Murray.

980
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: I guess Avdia can sort of play a point forward.

981
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: Am I forgetting anyone otherwise? It's like all big guys,

982
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: a lot of big boys. Yeah, I wonder who starts

983
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: Like I was wondering like, well, Jamal Murray, get us

984
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: start here now as maybe one of the guards, like

985
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: a point guard. I mean, I know Luca can play

986
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 1: point guard. It's an all star. But I was wondering.

987
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, the Hornets push their win streak up

988
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: to nine, still hot, still on the play in now

989
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: they're locked in, so they're not gonna leave the play

990
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 1: in spot. No, probably not.

991
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, maybe they could get up to like six,

992
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 5: but they're not going to be at eleventh.

993
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, dipping back. Ain't nobody actually chasing him anymore? Yeah? Yeah,

994
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,720
Speaker 1: starting lineup of Lamello, con Brandon, Miller, Bridges and Musa

995
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: thirteen and one. Now, so this is a fun story,

996
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: and I think they have a big game tonight, do

997
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,320
Speaker 1: they not? I'm pretty sure they do. Everybody's all in

998
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: on the Hornets right now.

999
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 3: Tonight they play against the Detroit Pistons. There you go,

1000
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 3: a potential first round matchup. Good call, that'll be fun.

1001
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,280
Speaker 3: But my winner of the weekend face protection. Big weekend

1002
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,919
Speaker 3: for face protection. Let's start with Ayaka and Coongu. Last week,

1003
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 3: he suffered a dental fracture when he was elbowed in

1004
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 3: the mouth from jail and brown teeth, roll over the place,

1005
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 3: blood dripping out of his mouth. Missed a couple games

1006
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 3: and missed one or two games, but he returned to

1007
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 3: action over the weekend in a mask that made him

1008
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 3: absolutely look like Ban. This is a villain in the

1009
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 3: Batman universe. And there's even a photo of Bane to

1010
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 3: compare the two.

1011
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, what a look. And the black jerseys sort of too,

1012
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: there the Peachtree jerseys.

1013
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was like show your family at the dinner

1014
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 3: table kind of like you've never seen something like this.

1015
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 3: You a lot of times will like have a rapid

1016
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 3: fire question about accessories or something, and you like google

1017
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 3: craziest accessories and it's all things from the nineteen seventies

1018
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 3: and eighties before they'd.

1019
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 5: Really figured out how to make cool stuff.

1020
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 3: So you'll see a guy wearing like a hockey helmet

1021
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 3: that has the face cut out of it for some reason.

1022
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 3: But to see this in twenty twenty six, that's pretty crazy.

1023
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 5: Bro, Look at this guy.

1024
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 3: Did he ask for the most bane looking maskass? I

1025
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 3: mean a good way to keep your mouth safe? Yeah,

1026
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 3: I guess, Yeah, like didn't. Kawhi had a plexiglass version

1027
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 3: recently that like had his nose almost like a balaklava cutout,

1028
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 3: but it didn't look as wild as this. Yep, nop,

1029
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:32,439
Speaker 3: this looks great.

1030
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: So that's one, you know, positive for face protection. The

1031
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: other was Karl Anthony Towns, who did play against the Celtics,

1032
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: and he was rocking protective goggles to help protect his

1033
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: really his sixteen stitches that were around his eye from

1034
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: a game last week. And apparently these are the same

1035
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: specs worn by Amari Stodameier during his tenure in New

1036
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: York from twenty ten to twenty fifteen. That's what the

1037
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: parting was saying that they literally found them. Yeah, here,

1038
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: put these on. Yeah, and so Cat was rocking the

1039
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 1: protective goggles there, So there you go.

1040
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 2: And you can tell he didn't like it because he

1041
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 2: took him off for the second half.

1042
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: He took him off.

1043
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 2: These are these are bothering me. He kept on kept

1044
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 2: on dealing with them when he was at the free

1045
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 2: throw line and he kept dealing with the cut that

1046
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 2: he had on his face. Yeah, they are apparently what

1047
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 2: the equipment staff found. Yeah, like these aren't even his

1048
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 2: and they just gave it to him. Predict your eyes, man,

1049
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 2: but he just yeah, no, thank you.

1050
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: I'll just do it. They're just hoarding them. Can't get

1051
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: rid of them. Never know when they're gonna be ne

1052
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: he keep them, Amari.

1053
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 5: He played on teams after the Knicks.

1054
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, left them behind.

1055
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:46,760
Speaker 5: Probably.

1056
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: I'm sure they had more than.

1057
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:49,839
Speaker 5: One go to a sunglass hut.

1058
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: It's actually crazy to me that they just re used

1059
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 1: ten year old specs. Yeah, he didn't like them, so

1060
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: they're outdated. They weren't comfortable anymore. I don't know, like

1061
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: you said, and you already brought up Elvarado. He played

1062
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: really well in his first appearance for the nixt their

1063
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: twelve points two or six from deep obviously rabid defense,

1064
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: little playmaking, shoot a little bit and a good start

1065
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: here for him. And as they beat the Celtics there

1066
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 1: massive run in the third quarter. Yes, no trace Jackson,

1067
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: Davis Love.

1068
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 2: Hey, he's live.

1069
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: Got eight offensive rebounds. That's pretty good, pretty good. I

1070
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: can't believe you didn't try and convince me the Bucks

1071
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: as a winner of the weekend. I could have with

1072
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: Cam Thomas coming over, that's going to keep you, honest happy.

1073
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 2: Right, they're maybe they're desperate.

1074
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:36,720
Speaker 5: It's crazy.

1075
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: The guy like is a twenty point per game scorer

1076
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: like last couple three seasons, three seasons. I think yeah,

1077
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 1: signed the qualifying offer and then just waved. They just

1078
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 1: cut him. I know, it's crazy, crazy, but he's with Milwaukee.

1079
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 1: They said they wanted him.

1080
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,280
Speaker 2: They said they apparently have wanted him for several years.

1081
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 5: Not enough to sign him when they had a chance.

1082
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 1: We wanted you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are our winners.

1083
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 1: We'll do losers in a second. First, a quick break

1084
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:04,000
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Speaker 1: We'll start with you too.

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Speaker 2: Well, the Utah Jazz, hilarious stuff. They go in to

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00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,840
Speaker 2: host the Utah Manager or are they sorry? They're playing

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00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 2: at the Orlando Magic. Things are looking good. Their new guy,

1103
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:06,439
Speaker 2: Jared Jackson Junior is looking real good, I mean post moves,

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00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 2: working it into the post, shooting threes eleven in the

1105
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 2: first quarter, twenty two through three quarters. Great stuff. Yeah,

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00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 2: it look good. And then Larry marking in beside him,

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00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 2: also looking good, twenty seven points through three quarters. Also

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00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 2: the guy beside him, use from Nurkic playing out there,

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00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 2: fourteen boards through three quarters.

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Speaker 5: They won this one, right, Yeah, I mean they're dominating

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00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 5: through three quarters.

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00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're leading by seven. It looked great. And those

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00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 2: three guys I mentioned didn't play a second in the

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00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 2: fourth quarter. You guys who got us this lead against

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00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 2: the Ortlanto Magic in Orlando. Nah, have a seat, we

1116
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 2: don't watch you there. And you could see User from

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00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 2: Nurkic actually went to the Twitter after the game and said,

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00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 2: what the.

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00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: Is going on here?

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00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 2: Tweeting a photo of his teammate when Larry Market kind

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00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 2: of hands in the rug emoji, like what are we

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00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:05,840
Speaker 2: doing here? Kyle Philipowski didn't play all three quarters, but

1123
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 2: they needed him for every second in that fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: It's one of those things that those guys could have

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00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 2: won the game. It's like we flashed back to last year.

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00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 2: It was the Raptors doing it. Jacoby Walter was out

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00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 2: there hitting game winners because he just happened hit a

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00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:21,959
Speaker 2: game winner. But this is weird.

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Speaker 1: This is just weird.

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00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 2: It's strange. They're leading and they just say, all right,

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00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 2: you know what, we want to keep this pick as

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00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,280
Speaker 2: close to number one as we possibly can, so let's

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00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 2: lose it. They lost that send point lead and they

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00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 2: lost the game to the Orlando Magic not playing the

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Speaker 2: best guys?

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Speaker 1: So what's only going to do about this? If anything?

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00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:46,240
Speaker 1: Or should they? Can they do anything? I mean moving forward?

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00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: Obviously like not this season. They can't do anything. But

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00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: I mean, yess yeah, you can't even This is like

1140
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 1: the loophole a little bit, right. Yeah, there's a lot

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00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: of like, well are your guys healthy, well they have

1142
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: to play? Are they all stars that have to play?

1143
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 1: Or we're going to find you all that that song

1144
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: and dance and it feels like when we got there

1145
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,320
Speaker 1: because there's so much betting on games now, so you

1146
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 1: gotta know the gambler needs to know who's playing. But

1147
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 1: this is the loophole. It's like, we'll play our guys,

1148
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: we'll get them in there, and then we'll just shut

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00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: them down mid game and like, what are you gonna

1150
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:14,760
Speaker 1: do about it? Silver? And there's a lot of articles

1151
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: like you are just gonna see NonStop like oh my god,

1152
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: how's the NBA going to fix the tanking? Because this

1153
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: might be the perfect sort of storm for tanking this

1154
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: season with the draft being as loaded as it is,

1155
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,800
Speaker 1: maybe the next couple drafts not looking all that impressive,

1156
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: and then all these pick protections too, where all these

1157
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 1: teams are like, oh I got to stay top four,

1158
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: we got to stay top eight and all this and

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00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: this is how we got to hear what's your opinion

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00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: on the tanking of it all? Is this like like

1161
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,399
Speaker 1: a real issue for the league or is this gonna

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00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: be a one year thing and it's gonna sort of

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00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:45,839
Speaker 1: go back to a little bit more normal next year.

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00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 5: Maybe it will be a little bit more normal next year.

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Speaker 3: Since twenty twenty seven draft isn't quite as hyped up

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00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,760
Speaker 3: as the twenty twenty six draft is, but it's pretty

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00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 3: disappointing that teams are tanking away the last two months

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00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 3: of the season, even before the All Star break, and

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00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,720
Speaker 3: it's gonna keep happening. The Bulls and the Nets play tonight.

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00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 3: Neither team wants to win that game, so things like

1171
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 3: this are gonna happen every single night. The only silver

1172
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 3: lining is is that since it's taking place before the

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00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 3: All Star Game, Silver's gonna have to answer questions when

1174
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 3: he has his press conference during the All Star weekend

1175
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:16,319
Speaker 3: festivities because people are going.

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Speaker 5: To bring this up.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we're hearing now that like Anthony Davis was

1178
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 3: allegedly going to sit out the entire rest.

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Speaker 1: Of the season, but now it's just going to be

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00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: a few weeks with his hand injury.

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Speaker 5: But I don't know.

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00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:29,800
Speaker 3: I would rather a team be straightforward with it, like

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00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 3: the way the Wizards are doing it. We're keeping our

1184
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 3: stars out. They're being very honest about what they're doing.

1185
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 3: We're trying to tank and keep our pick. The Jazz

1186
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 3: are faking the funk a little bit here, using the

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00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 3: loophole playing a competitive game and then throwing it away.

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00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 3: In the end, it's just not the way professional sports

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00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 3: should happen. So Silver's gonna have to answer some questions.

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00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:52,399
Speaker 3: And honestly, if he came out and said, look, tanking

1191
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 3: is a good strategy for teams, I would be happy

1192
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 3: to hear him say that, because then it's like, at

1193
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 3: least you know there's a problem and you're not doing

1194
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 3: anything about it, rather than trying to pitch us on

1195
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 3: the player participation policy and all these things they've tried

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00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 3: to do to make it more likely that teams give

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Speaker 3: a full effort for the season. But as long as

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00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 3: you're rewarding the worst teams in the league with the

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Speaker 3: best players, teams are going to want to be the

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Speaker 3: worst team in the league sometimes.

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00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 2: So yeah, and then here comes the lottery balls. Because

1202
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 2: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Like the Utah Jazz

1203
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 2: have been trying to get the number one pick for

1204
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 2: a while, but they haven't been able to do it

1205
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 2: and they drop down to the five spot. What we're

1206
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 2: seeing here, unfortunately, though, is the casual fan gets upset

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00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 2: by it. It's still a thing with casual fans. I

1208
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 2: was sitting with somebody yesterday who said, I haven't been

1209
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 2: able to watch games for a few years, and tanking

1210
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 2: is the biggest issue to him, and it's a thing.

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00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,439
Speaker 2: It is a thing, and now with live betting even

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00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 2: more so. You look at this particular scenario with the

1213
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 2: Utah Jazz winning after three quarters, and if there is

1214
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 2: inside information, teams can know that they're going to sit

1215
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 2: a guy for the fourth quarter or guys in this

1216
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 2: instance where they sat. Everybody count De George was hurt

1217
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:01,799
Speaker 2: played twelve minutes in this game. He did get hurt,

1218
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 2: but those the three guys, their front court of markt

1219
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 2: and Jeron Jackson Junior and Usef Nurkic, who was upset

1220
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 2: after the game, they sat because they wanted to lose

1221
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 2: in this instance. Now I bring up the lottery balls

1222
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 2: because that's that has been the attempted remedy for this,

1223
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 2: Like you don't want to be the first worst, but

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00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 2: it doesn't because you only have a fourteen five percent chance.

1225
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 2: But it doesn't work. Unfortunately, it doesn't work all the way,

1226
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 2: doesn't get you all the way there to playing harder.

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00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 2: That's the unfortunate.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's why when Silver gets asked about this inevitably

1229
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 1: at All Star weekend, it's gonna be fascinating to hear

1230
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: what he says, Like he's going to do the whole

1231
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:39,879
Speaker 1: like we're going to talk about it, we're gonna dress

1232
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,720
Speaker 1: it in the offseason, whether it we'll be like extreme

1233
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: with our measures because like some people are like give

1234
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:49,799
Speaker 1: every non playoff team the exact same odds right out

1235
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 1: of the number one pick. There's that sort of like

1236
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: was what Leewan was saying when he was here, you know,

1237
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:58,879
Speaker 1: basically like no penalize bad teams. Do the opposite. There's

1238
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: this whole idea of like giving wins the teams after

1239
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: the All Star break that are the bad teams to

1240
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: help their chances. I think one small thing is to

1241
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 1: honestly get rid of the protections on a lot of

1242
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 1: these picks, because that's where I think we really have

1243
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: this again perfect storm of like oh damn, we don't

1244
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: keep our pick if it's not top eight. In case

1245
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: of like the Wizards and who's the other team top

1246
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:24,879
Speaker 1: eight it's the Jazz is not the Jazz, thank you? Yeah,

1247
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: And then there's obviously the pacers of it all there

1248
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 1: the top four or ten, like I think get I

1249
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: think get rid of that. It's like you trade the pick,

1250
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:34,760
Speaker 1: you trade the pick, and maybe not putting being allowed

1251
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: to put these protections on, because man, we have seven

1252
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: or eight teams that are just going to be it's

1253
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: going to get to the point. I mean I almost

1254
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,399
Speaker 1: want it to because it'd be hilarious. I want teams

1255
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 1: to start scoring on their own basket, Like let's take

1256
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 1: this to the next level. Let's really tank boys. But

1257
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 1: it's not good. And you're right, I think, like we've

1258
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:53,439
Speaker 1: we've done this for twenty years.

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Speaker 2: Nobody has an answer. I'm saying, tried the idea of

1260
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 2: penalizing teams that are bad.

1261
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Speaker 1: Teams are bad, some teams are just bad'ranking. Yes, I'm

1262
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: with you, but like the bad publicity of it all

1263
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 1: and these instances where teams are shutting down star players

1264
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: and the fourth not a good look. And you're right,

1265
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: goes against sort of the nature of competitive sports. It's

1266
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: like the whole point is to try and win. You're

1267
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: actively not trying in different ways. All these teams have

1268
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:23,720
Speaker 1: done it, and everybody's guilty. This isn't like just piling

1269
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: on the jazz here, Like even though we have the

1270
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 1: miss of it loser of the weekend.

1271
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 2: Like that's the one that stands out from this particular.

1272
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: But you said it. The Raptors did it last year.

1273
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 1: They did in a game. Other teams have done it,

1274
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 1: other teams are going to do it. They do it

1275
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 1: in different ways. I mean, you can just completely fake

1276
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 1: injuries too, is a whole part of this, and they do.

1277
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: But maybe I do wonder, like, don't freak out over

1278
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: this one crazy year, and maybe it does go back

1279
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 1: to somewhat of a more normal sort of there's a

1280
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: couple of shitty teams. There's a lot more competitive teams.

1281
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:55,359
Speaker 1: Like I think this is just like the year where

1282
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh, yeah, we can get an elite player

1283
00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:00,879
Speaker 1: under contract forever when it comes to the deals, which

1284
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 1: is also part of the equation here. Maybe I look

1285
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: into changing that. I don't know, but we sort of

1286
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: want bad teams to have a chance to get better

1287
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 1: players through the draft. Yes, but maybe you can only

1288
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: do it one or two years in a row. That's

1289
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: another idea people have come up with to fix this,

1290
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: Like you only get one crack every couple of years,

1291
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: and then you're more sort of in the middle where

1292
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 1: you can still hit an obviously talented player. That's the

1293
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: funny part of this whole thing. So just buckle up.

1294
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: There's gonna be so many more of these. There's ten

1295
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: teams that don't care to win.

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00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 2: I know.

1297
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: That's not good. That's a third of the league. It's

1298
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: very bad.

1299
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna have to do the thing where at

1300
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 3: some point during the season it switched to who wins

1301
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 3: the most gets the best lot ofy odds.

1302
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 5: That's what it's gonna have to be.

1303
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe it will. But so what do you do,

1304
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 1: Like after the All Star break, you're like, yeah, maybe

1305
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 1: all right, for every win, you guys now pick up.

1306
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 1: But then what you're saying almost is like and maybe

1307
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: it's a I don't know, it's a crazy concept. Like

1308
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 1: we have our also, our teams decided at the.

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00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:04,959
Speaker 5: All Star break, and you mean playoff teams.

1310
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: Excuse me, we have our playoff teams decided at the

1311
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: All Star break. Like, these are our ten teams that

1312
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: are in the postseason. They can still jockey for position

1313
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: and they will all you other crappy teams from here

1314
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: on out, every win you get actually helps your chances

1315
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: in the lottery.

1316
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 3: Well, the playoff teams wouldn't be set, the records would

1317
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 3: be locked. Say we play sixty games, the records are

1318
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 3: locked then, and then we start counting wins from there, so.

1319
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 5: You can still make the playoffs.

1320
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 3: Like if you were twelfth, ink, if you were twelve

1321
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 3: in the Eastern Conference, you win twenty two straight games,

1322
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 3: you're gonna make the playoffs. Guess what, you're in the playoffs.

1323
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 3: You're not getting a lottery pick anyways. But the team

1324
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 3: that got knocked out, maybe they went eleven and eleven.

1325
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 3: That's a decent enough record that probably puts them in

1326
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 3: the middle of the lottery outs. Like, there's got to

1327
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 3: be a way to incentivize winning for every single team,

1328
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 3: because right now there's not a way to incentivize winning

1329
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 3: for every team.

1330
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: No, And that's the thing. It's again, it's not almost

1331
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:55,959
Speaker 1: like on a team thing. This is how the league

1332
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: has set this up. You get elite players in the draft,

1333
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: and you can get them locked up under market contracts

1334
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 1: for a very long time because of the way it's

1335
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 1: set up with the CVA. So that's the incentive to

1336
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: do it. And we just have this weird year where

1337
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: we have like, yeah, now would you say ten teams, Yeah,

1338
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: it's nine or ten teams probably gunning for it or

1339
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: keeping their picks is the other part of it too,

1340
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:18,800
Speaker 1: So okay, I'm sure we'll be talking about this a

1341
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 1: lot more here over the week. Who do you have

1342
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: for a loser of the weekend?

1343
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 3: Minnesota Timberwolves really ugly weekend for them. On Friday night,

1344
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:27,959
Speaker 3: they blew an eighteen points second half lead to lose

1345
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 3: to the Pelicans, who were trying to win.

1346
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 5: It's not good enough to win. Rudy Gobert called the

1347
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 5: team out after this one.

1348
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 3: He said, it should start with ourselves, but it seems

1349
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 3: like we don't have that, so I think at some

1350
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 3: point it has to come from the coaches.

1351
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 5: He continued.

1352
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 3: At some point, if the players don't have accountability, someone

1353
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 3: has to have accountability for the players, kind of calling

1354
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 3: out Chris Finch and I guess the entirety of the

1355
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 3: team saying, yeah, we're not trying hard enough. Somebody tell

1356
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:51,439
Speaker 3: us to try hard enough.

1357
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 1: So it starts with me.

1358
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:54,919
Speaker 3: If I'm not giving an effort bench me. But he's

1359
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 3: basically saying, Anthony Edwards and Julius Randall, step your game up.

1360
00:59:58,000 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 3: So they followed that up by getting smoke by the Clippers.

1361
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 3: Gave up forty one to Kawhi Leonard, who was just

1362
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 3: on fire. He was making ridiculous shots. But the Timberwolves

1363
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 3: made eight threes, had twenty turnovers, and they only scored

1364
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 3: ninety six points, only the second time all season they

1365
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 3: have been under one hundred points this year. The Timberwolves

1366
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 3: consider themselves a championship contender. They've made the conference finals

1367
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 3: the last two years. They definitely can elevate their game

1368
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 3: in the playoffs, but they are so inconsistent. They really

1369
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 3: lack discipline, and to me, it comes down to ant

1370
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 3: not taking games seriously during the regular season. They think

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01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 3: they can always come back and win a game. They

1372
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 3: think they can beat these bad teams just by showing

1373
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 3: up and playing. But he was just giving up some

1374
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 3: brutal backcuts and easy, easy buckets, particularly on Friday night

1375
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 3: against the Pelicans. I think Randal Randall's just up and

1376
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 3: down from a mental standpoint a lot of the time.

1377
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 3: I think if things start going poorly for him, he

1378
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,760
Speaker 3: kind of checks out and probably takes his cues from

1379
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 3: Edwards as well. So just a disappointing weekend for the Timberwolves.

1380
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 3: Like every time, I want to buy into them as

1381
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 3: a team that can actually make some noise. It's like

1382
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:05,920
Speaker 3: they have dumb losses like these two, losing to teams

1383
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:07,640
Speaker 3: that are under five hundred. I think their last three

1384
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 3: losses are all against teams under five hundred, and they

1385
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 3: lose to some bad teams and then they'll beat the Nuggets. Oh,

1386
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 3: they'll beat the Thunder or something like that. They can

1387
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 3: play with the best teams, but they just don't care

1388
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 3: enough to beat the bad teams, which I think is

1389
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 3: a sign of immaturity.

1390
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:24,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you said, it seems to fall on Anthony

1391
01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 2: Edwards and his ability to take every game seriously. I

1392
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 2: guess he wasn't listening to Michael Jordan when he did

1393
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 2: have his NBC interview that basically said, you want to

1394
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:40,440
Speaker 2: be playing all games. This whole managing your games doesn't

1395
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,360
Speaker 2: do well for your camaraderie, and it didn't for Io

1396
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 2: Desumu's first game with the Minnesota Timberwolves. He was a

1397
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:49,160
Speaker 2: minus thirty three coming off the bench playing against the

1398
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Slippers. Because nobody was putting it all together.

1399
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:56,400
Speaker 2: It was a bad weekend for the Wolves. I did

1400
01:01:56,440 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 2: find it funny. Rudy Gobert's comments were addressed by former

1401
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 2: Nuggets head coach Michael Malone who said they don't listen

1402
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 2: to Rudy anyways. At first I thought, Okay, he's part

1403
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 2: of the coach Brethren that always defends coaches, so maybe

1404
01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 2: he's just a fan of Chris Finch. But then he

1405
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 2: said it's on Anthony Edwards, and I think he's right.

1406
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:23,120
Speaker 2: That's that's where it seems to fall on this particular

1407
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 2: team that's really good, and I'd assume he should have

1408
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 2: made them better. You'd want to have a great game

1409
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 2: in his first game appearance, but they just they pooped

1410
01:02:32,240 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 2: it and the.

1411
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 1: Wolves are lucky. The Suns dropped their two games recently.

1412
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:38,960
Speaker 1: I think they lost to the Sixers and the Warriors

1413
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly. But I bring that up because

1414
01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: if they had it and the Son maybe had won,

1415
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: one of those Timberwolves could have been down into the

1416
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 1: play it because they're in the sixth spot right now,

1417
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 1: and they're half a game up on Phoenix in a

1418
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 1: sort of thirty two and twenty two Phoenix thirty one

1419
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: and twenty two in the in the six seven there

1420
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: you go race right now in the Western Conference. So yeah,

1421
01:02:57,880 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 1: I had I had the Wolves in the running. Here

1422
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 1: as an excuse me, a loser of the Weekend as

1423
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: well my final one, though I'm sure you guys saw

1424
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: the clip. Sacramento King's owner Vivic Ranadive he had rapper

1425
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: Travis Scott sitting courtside with him as his guest on Saturday,

1426
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 1: when the Kings hosted the Cavaliers. So King's owner run

1427
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 1: a DVE. He's got Travis Scott there. I think he's

1428
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: been there before and whatever, They've got some sort of

1429
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 1: weird relationship. Not a big deal, right, Why would that

1430
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 1: be a loser of the weekend. Well after the game,

1431
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 1: Travis Scott, who was holding a custom Kings jersey because

1432
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 1: again he's there as a guest of the Kings, and

1433
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 1: run a DV. He's immediately jumping up and celebrating with

1434
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:44,040
Speaker 1: new Cavalier James Harden following the team's win over the Kings.

1435
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 1: It's all happening at first, like right there with Ruana

1436
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: Dive standing right there. I love awkward comedy. The UK

1437
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:56,720
Speaker 1: version of the Office is my favorite comedy of all time.

1438
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,120
Speaker 1: I love it. But even I was like, oh, this

1439
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: is this is awkward. This is pretty cringe here because

1440
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 1: Travis Scott's going nuts with James Harden. Holding a King's

1441
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 1: jersey after they beat them, and the Kings have now

1442
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 1: lost twelve in a row. That's another part of the story. Here,

1443
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 1: longest losing streak since nineteen ninety eight. But the Silver

1444
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 1: Linings they're playing their they're young guys, and they looked

1445
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 1: a little promising. They had a little energy and maybe

1446
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:22,960
Speaker 1: there'll be some development from guys you listed there in

1447
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 1: Clifford Carter plowed in Cardwell, right now, there's that.

1448
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:27,680
Speaker 5: That's good.

1449
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 1: Oh my god, well that was awkward. I didn't like that.

1450
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 5: I can't invite them back.

1451
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:34,000
Speaker 1: That's bad.

1452
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would not if I was vivic.

1453
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 1: He will though exactly I agree because he's a loser.

1454
01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 1: That's why it's like, oh, Travis Scott likes me, got

1455
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 1: him sitting here. Here's a jersey, Travis, please don't cheer

1456
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:51,080
Speaker 1: for the Calves and Jayson. It was like running out

1457
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:53,120
Speaker 1: with James Harden on the court like they won the championship.

1458
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 1: He's like crashing the game. Like interview with Serena Winter,

1459
01:04:57,120 --> 01:04:58,919
Speaker 1: she's like holding onto the mic for dear Life. Travis

1460
01:04:58,920 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: Scott was trying to rid her from her hands.

1461
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 2: He likes James Harden, that's for sure. I just just

1462
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 2: don't invite him to whatever team that James Harden gets

1463
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:08,840
Speaker 2: traded to. Don't invite him to that. Okay, I think

1464
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 2: it's just a James Harden thing. Oh okay, So they're

1465
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 2: just in run of the defense. Maybe they had this

1466
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 2: on the schedule for a while pre hardened trade.

1467
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 5: Hey, we're gonna have you out to this game.

1468
01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 1: You're gonna sit courtside with me at this game. And

1469
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 1: then yeah, the hard and trade happened. All suddenly he's

1470
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 1: playing on the Cavs. Damn. Yeah, I think you got

1471
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:29,880
Speaker 1: to cancel the tickets there though. You gotta say we

1472
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 1: can't have you. I know a tight you are with

1473
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:35,720
Speaker 1: James anyway. Looser the weekend, Yeah that's tough. Yeah, that's

1474
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:39,840
Speaker 1: pretty tough. Any other thoughts on winners, losers, anything else

1475
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:40,880
Speaker 1: from the NBA weekend?

1476
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 5: No, I'm good.

1477
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 1: Well, well, but of the Night sponsored by James Standon

1478
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:50,600
Speaker 1: from Great Britain, Kawhi Leonard gets will Boy the night

1479
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:55,000
Speaker 1: forty one points. He was awesome, like TK said against

1480
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:58,080
Speaker 1: the Wolves. Shot fourteen to thirty from the field, hit

1481
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:01,400
Speaker 1: five threes, eight to ten at the line, grabbed eight rebounds,

1482
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 1: swiped four steals, just a monster game from this guy.

1483
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 1: It's like playing the best basketball of his career right now.

1484
01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:15,160
Speaker 1: Kawhile Enard gets one. Blay Scotti Barnes had good. There

1485
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 1: was many games on yesterday because of the Super Bowl.

1486
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: We had like four early games runs and had a

1487
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 1: good games. Scottie Barnes had a good game. Somebody else

1488
01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:25,560
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting a decent one, but Kawi gets it here.

1489
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 1: Pick them, pick them up Monday night. Where are we going, tasks?

1490
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:32,760
Speaker 1: We got ten games tonight.

1491
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 5: Well, that's NBA season though it is see if football.

1492
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:38,720
Speaker 1: Football is officially over.

1493
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 2: I heard that's what I calls their table. Yeah, well

1494
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:45,520
Speaker 2: the Calves at the nuggets closest line here. Nuggets are

1495
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 2: just a one and a half point dog hosting the

1496
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:56,280
Speaker 2: Cleveland Cavaliers. I understand going with the Calves skeets. This

1497
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 2: one is kind of a It's a coin flip, man,

1498
01:06:58,320 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 2: it really is.

1499
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 1: Yeah. Are you hopefully Travis Scott is in attendance for

1500
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: James Harden's biggest calves.

1501
01:07:05,720 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 2: He's as the Calves.

1502
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,120
Speaker 1: We'll tray. You've got the Nuggets as I do. Why

1503
01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 1: are you taking the nuts?

1504
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 5: Well?

1505
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 3: I just think they can win this game and so

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01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 3: they get points saying they're at home. Yeah nuggets for me.

1507
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And I think they have lost their last

1508
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 3: home game.

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01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 2: That's they had a three game losing streak before they

1510
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:27,480
Speaker 2: were able to beat doubles. So they're coming off with

1511
01:07:27,520 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 2: three game losing streak. Yeah, so I figure they're going

1512
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 2: to win their next home game.

1513
01:07:31,040 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 1: They lost three straight they had before the yeah, right

1514
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:36,560
Speaker 1: to be this Yeah yeah. These games before this All

1515
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,480
Speaker 1: Star week though, are always a little funky, man, like

1516
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:42,520
Speaker 1: you do, Like I like watching these games because you're like, yeah,

1517
01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 1: who is taking this, Like who has that like sort

1518
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 1: of championship uh not pedigree, but or at least aspirations

1519
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:52,760
Speaker 1: because they're like, hey, let's close this out here before

1520
01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 1: we all go away for a week. Let's take care

1521
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:56,960
Speaker 1: of business, let's get these you know, Cleveland is putting

1522
01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:58,320
Speaker 1: things together here as they try and get back in

1523
01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:00,840
Speaker 1: the mix in the Eastern commerce. So yeah, it's a

1524
01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 1: bit of a coin flip. I'll take the calves. Hey,

1525
01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: heads was right, man? You called it?

1526
01:08:05,760 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 5: I thought I said it was tails.

1527
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:10,080
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, yeah, okay, it was heads.

1528
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 3: And heads for sure everybody and tails said, but you

1529
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 3: are a tails I'm a tails man.

1530
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 1: Tails never fails. Yeah, but it does.

1531
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:19,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I said, I was my favorite part of

1532
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:20,719
Speaker 5: Bad Bunny was the tails.

1533
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:27,000
Speaker 1: Is that bad Bunny as a NEPO baby? What do

1534
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:32,599
Speaker 1: you mean bugs Bunny? Yes, I do. That's not mine.

1535
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:33,479
Speaker 4: I saw that online.

1536
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:36,960
Speaker 1: That's a good dad joke, all right. Uh, Calves Nuggets,

1537
01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 1: that's a good one.

1538
01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:41,320
Speaker 2: Fourteen and ten at home doesn't very good.

1539
01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:42,639
Speaker 3: Bet good.

1540
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 5: I want my pick change. It's on the graphic.

1541
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:47,639
Speaker 1: It's on the graphic. We're both two and three tests

1542
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:49,680
Speaker 1: and I sorry, Trey and I and Tasta is four

1543
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:52,559
Speaker 1: and one here in the month of February, Okay, we'll

1544
01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 1: call it there. Lots of winners and losers. I think

1545
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:57,679
Speaker 1: we're gonna have more, uh, some big topics from the weekend,

1546
01:08:57,760 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 1: maybe later in the week with Worst of the Week.

1547
01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:02,000
Speaker 1: Ilieve it had a couple nominees from the weekend. I

1548
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:04,920
Speaker 1: think we'll be here though, talking about games, talking about

1549
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 1: everything else that goes down in the association. Join us

1550
01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:09,720
Speaker 1: at TENNEM Eastern, hit the lake button, subscribe, Tell then

1551
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:10,400
Speaker 1: Clipper bros.

1552
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:11,599
Speaker 5: You heard it here first.

1553
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: Have a great time, turn up, love you guys awesome.

1554
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:18,479
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, and remember those trees were real

1555
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 2: aspirational at the super Bowl.

1556
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:24,400
Speaker 1: That was the dad joke going around for the aspiration

1557
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:29,120
Speaker 1: the Kawhi letter, the planted all of them. Oh so

1558
01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:31,080
Speaker 1: he planted all these trees. They just got up and

1559
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 1: walked away. Just couldn't find them. That's their defense brace

1560
01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:35,920
Speaker 1: today people