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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've noticed this through the years

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Speaker 2: of us doing this, Ephraim, I kind of use this

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Speaker 2: as a Sunday night with someone I think is a

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Speaker 2: very smart person. It's a little bit of a okay,

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Speaker 2: it's a reboot. It's kind of a little therapy mixed

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Speaker 2: in let's get ready for the week ahead.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: And so when people say sometimes they go what would

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Speaker 2: Jesus do? Sometimes I like to play what would Ephram do?

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Speaker 4: First of all, how you doing, I'm getting the man

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Speaker 4: good evening?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So let's let's put your let's put your Cooper

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Speaker 2: flag shoes on, okay, and tell me what wud he

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Speaker 2: from do?

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Speaker 5: We talked about this. So you you do know we

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Speaker 5: do a weekly show, right, I've heard about it and

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Speaker 5: it's a pretty good weekly show. And so I remember

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Speaker 5: maybe a wee uh, maybe two weeks ago, we were

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Speaker 5: having a conversation and I made a comment of I'm

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Speaker 5: not sure sure he's leaving yep, And you.

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Speaker 3: What why why?

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, and I was explaining right, Number one,

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Speaker 5: his price tag is gonna increase. Makes about six million

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Speaker 5: in IO right now, that'll go up to probably close

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Speaker 5: to ten h And he's on the second year of

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Speaker 5: a two year shoe contract, which we'll expire if he

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Speaker 5: stayed in college after next season and r after his

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Speaker 5: rookie year in the NFL, I mean NBA. So I said,

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Speaker 5: I can see him staying. Number one, he'll make more money.

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Speaker 5: Number two, when he does leave and enter the draft,

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Speaker 5: he'll still be the top pick in the draft, and

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Speaker 5: he'll be a free agent. When it comes to shoes, Now,

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Speaker 5: what that does is it allows you to enter the

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Speaker 5: market at a high before you even play. You can't

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Speaker 5: enter the shoe market any higher outside of coming in

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Speaker 5: and being a perennial All Star and so on and

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Speaker 5: so forth. So business wise, why wouldn't I enter my

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Speaker 5: rookie year as a top pick in the draft with

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Speaker 5: the brand new two hundred, two hundred and ten million

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Speaker 5: dollar shoe contract, which whichever shoe that is. Now, given

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Speaker 5: what happened yesterday, I'm one hundred percent coming back because

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Speaker 5: just listen, I am those other two five star freshmen.

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Speaker 5: Where are they projected to go? And I think this

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Speaker 5: is what a lot of people are not understanding in

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Speaker 5: terms of it's no coincidence that guys end up at

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Speaker 5: college together as freshman phenoms. There's no coincidence that they

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Speaker 5: all end up in one place because there's communication being had.

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Speaker 5: I can promise you they talked about winning the national

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Speaker 5: championship together and riding off into the sunset. I can

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Speaker 5: promise you they felt like this was an opportunity where

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Speaker 5: they were going to do that because they were phenomenal team.

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Speaker 5: Cooper Flag is by far the best player in college

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Speaker 5: and so that didn't happen, and it didn't happen the

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Speaker 5: way it didn't happen, And you can just see on

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Speaker 5: the face of Cooper and what's the other kid's name,

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Speaker 5: the other two guys, two other freshmen, Well.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm not even going to tell you because

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Speaker 2: you're making you're making my rebuttal point. But anyway, go ahead, No, No,

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Speaker 2: it's fine, it's fine.

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Speaker 3: What is it?

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Speaker 5: But that's the that's the whole point. They may not

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Speaker 5: be anything to us, but to each other. That's the difference.

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Speaker 5: What AAU has taught us is that brotherhood, that bond

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Speaker 5: is a real thing.

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Speaker 4: And if you guys said, look, it's not like they're

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Speaker 5: Of course, it's not like, oh I gotta go because

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Speaker 4: That is not the case.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you because I I do acknowledge that there

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Speaker 3: Decision to be made.

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Speaker 2: However, I will caution like, just because you have dreams

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Speaker 2: you have the best players, Listen, I'm gonna go to

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Speaker 2: But they didn't win, and in fact, they outplayed Houston

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Speaker 2: the entire night, the entire night, and then ninety seconds

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Speaker 2: went the wrong way. Ninety seconds went just completely erroneously

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Speaker 3: A lot of it was their own doing.

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Speaker 2: I thought that over the back call on Cooper flag

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Speaker 2: was a terrible call. These are the things that happen.

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Speaker 2: This is the nature of college basketball. You've got a

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Speaker 2: one and done tournament, and you can't have a bad ninety.

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Speaker 3: Seconds against the wrong team at the wrong time. You can't,

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Speaker 2: And so I would think real long and hard if

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Speaker 2: I'm Cooper Flag about what is my actual goal and

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Speaker 2: how likely and attainable are all these goals?

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Speaker 3: And now you and I can't sit here and answer

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Speaker 2: I have no idea where that sits on on his

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Speaker 2: list in terms of of of money shoes, national championship.

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Speaker 2: And what I'd like to add to the conversation is

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Speaker 2: who gets the number one pick? Like, to me, that's

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Speaker 2: one of the very compelling things.

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Speaker 4: And that's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: If Utah gets the number one pick. I played for Duke.

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Speaker 2: I play for Duke. I'm not going to Washington. That

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Speaker 2: one's interesting.

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Speaker 3: Number one pick. I hear you, I hear you.

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Speaker 2: But at least it's the nation's capital, a major market.

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Speaker 5: Sto Washington bullet or excuse me, the Bullets.

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Speaker 4: No, Washington Wizards is not a major market.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean it's okay, yeah, no, I hate it's

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Speaker 5: so if the now there's the caveat if San Antonio

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Speaker 3: Now we're cooking, guys.

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Speaker 4: I really love playing with you guys, exactly, but I'm

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Speaker 4: about to go play with somebody who no one has

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Speaker 2: Well, let me throw some teams at you, cause we

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Speaker 2: mentioned And by the way, I've got the current NBA

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Speaker 2: Tankathon lottery odds in front of me right now, and

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Speaker 2: there are three teams that have equal fourteen percent chances

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Speaker 2: forty two percent chance that one of these three teams

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Speaker 2: has the number one overall pick. Utah Jazz, Washington Wizards,

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Speaker 2: and the Charlotte Hornets. Are any of those getting Cooper

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Speaker 2: Flag out of college?

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Speaker 3: No? Okay.

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Speaker 2: Next on the list of twelve and a half percent

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Speaker 2: New Orleans Pelicans.

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Speaker 3: No okay.

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Speaker 2: So now we're already over fifty to fifty. It is

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Speaker 2: a better than fifty to fifty chance that.

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Speaker 3: That's one of the choices.

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Speaker 2: But after that, because we're only at about fifty four,

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Speaker 2: so there's a forty six chance that one of these

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Speaker 3: What about Philadelphia? No? No, no, no, really.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, really, why I think they're in a in the

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Speaker 5: process of figuring out the Joel Embiid experience is not

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Speaker 5: working and there's going to be uh, some trepidation and

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Speaker 3: There a lot of other pieces there. Yeah, Max is

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Speaker 4: Paul George.

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Speaker 2: Paul George were the injuries, you know? And and now

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Speaker 2: don't forget.

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Speaker 4: The biggest piece is the big the piece that.

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Speaker 3: Matt, Yeah, of course, and I think it's you.

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Speaker 5: We're just talking about underperforming man, And I don't want to.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to have this metric of all the

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Speaker 5: teams that underperform won't get Cooper Flagg or won't spark

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Speaker 5: his interest. That's not the case. But Philadelphia has to

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Speaker 5: figure some things out. And do you want to be

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Speaker 5: in the middle of them trying to figure that out?

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Speaker 5: That's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Next up is Brooklyn, New York.

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Speaker 4: Oh No, nobody's going to Brooklyn.

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Speaker 3: Nobody's going to Brooklyn.

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Speaker 4: Nobody's going to Brooklyn.

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Speaker 3: Why not? Why? The better question is why would you?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, three NBA superstars just shows that place

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Speaker 2: three years ago, and.

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Speaker 4: What happened to those three NBA superstars?

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Speaker 2: I mean, nothing honestly has happened for any of them

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Speaker 2: there or since.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, it's called a black hole.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: And I know Dallas made the you know, Dallas made

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Speaker 2: totally dismiss Kyrie Irving.

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Speaker 3: But how about.

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Speaker 2: Toronto, no shot, no shot the country, no good young players.

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Speaker 4: Now we're not going out to country though. That's double Texas.

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Speaker 2: So San Antonio is at six percent, that's the only

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Speaker 4: So far, so far the teams, did you geet Portland.

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Speaker 3: Four and a half percent? No, Miami three percent?

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Speaker 2: Yes, how we're talking, Yes, Okay, how about Phoenix at

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Speaker 3: He'll he'll say yes to play with kd Well.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know if he's gonna be there are

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Speaker 2: Devin Drinker or something like that.

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Speaker 3: But no, Chicago Bulls. Big brand, that's a huge brand.

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Speaker 3: That's a big brand.

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Speaker 5: It's a huge brand that's enticing Sacramento Kings.

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Speaker 3: No Dallas Mavericks.

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Speaker 4: Yes of course.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, now that's a half of one percent

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Speaker 2: at this hour because they're probably not going to they

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Speaker 2: may not even end up in the LIS.

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Speaker 4: So.

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Speaker 5: But what I'll say with all those things, and this

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Speaker 5: is just based on me, this is my opinion.

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Speaker 4: People this is not gospel.

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Speaker 3: You add it up to about ten percent, right.

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Speaker 5: So out of all of those things, that's in one hand,

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Speaker 5: and on the other hand is we're going to increase

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Speaker 5: your yearly salary by four million dollars. You get to

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Speaker 5: play it place you love, with the friends that you love,

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Speaker 5: and we really have an opportunity to really win this thing.

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Speaker 5: This time, we were ninety seconds away from playing for

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Speaker 5: a national championship. All right, Which one of those I

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Speaker 5: hear you makes me feel fuzzy, warm and fuzzy inside?

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Speaker 2: I know exactly which one makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

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Speaker 2: The question is, is what I'm looking for warm and

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Speaker 2: fuzzy is not what I was Because you have control.

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Speaker 2: That's the that's the difference. Ah see, you have the control.

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Speaker 2: Now we arrive at the question. To me, that is

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Speaker 2: the absolute ultimate question here and it is not under

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Speaker 2: his control. And I want to ask you that coming

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Speaker 2: up next to me, this is the real, real question

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Speaker 2: and if you can answer with one hundred percent certainty

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Speaker 2: that the answer is yes, that I'm willing to hear

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Speaker 2: this idea about staying in college. But I'm going to

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Speaker 2: ask you that question coming up next.

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Speaker 2: So I trust a thoughtful response here, because you're good

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Speaker 5: But I've been domesticated, so.

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Speaker 3: So you know then you're just you're wrong, You're wrong.

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Speaker 4: It happens. Well, this is what we sign up for.

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Speaker 4: Damn right we do?

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Speaker 5: You got guys who come in and they pop here,

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Speaker 3: What says that's going to be any next year?

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Speaker 5: to is that a good idea? And then you see

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Speaker 5: In other words, no, no, no, no, you get two

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Speaker 4: Does that make sense?

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Speaker 3: No, that would make sense to me.

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Speaker 2: That's something that people don't know about. And I think

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Speaker 2: When it comes to professional sports drafts, when you're eligible

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Speaker 5: Now you've gotta also understand like football is completely completely different.

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Speaker 5: And so yes, in theory, yes, when it's time, it's time,

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Speaker 4: He's fine. A little bit different.

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Speaker 3: Now, of course it's fine.

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Speaker 2: But like, okay, are you going to start believing in

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Speaker 3: Then? I mean that's my next.

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Speaker 5: Orlando did get back to back first round, you know,

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Speaker 2: So do you already do you already believe in manipulation

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Speaker 5: Look, all I know is this the Pelicans traded tried

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Speaker 3: I'm listening.

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Speaker 4: For a package that would have got them better.

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Speaker 5: The deal was xnay by David Stern by the league. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: the Pelicans that April got the first pick in the draft.

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Speaker 5: I'm just saying I may or may not have had

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Speaker 3: I know that you have.

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Speaker 5: So so what I'm telling you is business is business

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Speaker 5: for sure.

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Speaker 4: And you can read whatever you want to read into that.

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Speaker 2: Can you at least acknowledge that when the Pelicans did

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: In other words, it always works out it so it I.

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Speaker 3: Fair, that's fair. I get that. I get that.

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Speaker 2: So I guess what I'm saying is if you believed

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Speaker 2: listening to you correctly, the NBA has got to go compete.

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Speaker 3: To get its number one overall picks. Yeah, to join

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Speaker 4: And you know what, I love that.

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Speaker 2: And there's only one way to do that, and that

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Speaker 2: Hey man, I like that they compete to go get

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Speaker 2: They never had to do that before.

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Speaker 5: I like that because now, look, these kids have options.

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Speaker 4: Yep, these always really have options.

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Speaker 3: That was not a piece of the puzzleble Force.

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Speaker 2: No, it was just about branding and marketing in the

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Speaker 2: that draft. In that draft, if there's no Cooper Flag,

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Speaker 4: Period, draft period.

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Speaker 3: So there you go.

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Speaker 5: And that's the beauty of the situation we're in right now.

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Speaker 5: This is great. I like guys staying college longer. I

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Speaker 5: those two games were amazing.

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Speaker 3: They were amazing.

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Speaker 4: That's what we as fans.

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Speaker 3: That's what we want to say. That's that's what we

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Speaker 4: Wo No, no, no, no, I'm talking about the purity of

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Speaker 2: Sure, but the the NBA does not want Cooper Flag

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Speaker 3: No, Yeah, the NBA wants him. They want him now

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Speaker 3: and yeah or whatever or Spurs Jersey.

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Speaker 5: Our Spurs Jersey. I know I'm saying they want him now,

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Speaker 5: no matter who's the face.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I loved your point about the Spurs last week and

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Speaker 4: Oh it's it's over, right that it's over.

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Speaker 2: So you're talking about a lot of money at stake

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Speaker 2: based on this one decision.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of money at stake.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and and and it's bigger than you know, the

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Speaker 7: It's nice that you call the person something that involves true,

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Speaker 3: I think that's a fair retort.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, no, lie. The Lakers just took care of

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Speaker 7: The final of one twenty six to ninety nine at OKC,

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Speaker 2: You can try to erase last Thursday all you want,

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Speaker 2: gonna have go back last week. We're gonna have a

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Speaker 3: Thirty points today.

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Speaker 7: Those two will play each other again on Tuesday, also

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Speaker 7: the NBA regular season ends next Sunday. A lot of

450
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Speaker 7: NBA games have just in it, so most of the

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Speaker 7: Sunday schedule is complete, including another Celtics victory one twenty

452
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Speaker 7: four to ninety over the Washington Wizards. And this is

453
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Speaker 7: even without Jason Tatum sprained ankle he sat out. Hawks

454
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Speaker 7: win one forty seven, one thirty four over the Utah Jazz.

455
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Speaker 7: Cleveland lost at home to Sacramento Kings won twenty to

456
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Speaker 7: one thirteen the final Demantis Sabonis twenty seven points, nine rebounds,

457
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Speaker 7: seven assists wins for Portland and the Raptors. Chicago got

458
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Speaker 7: to win today. Kobe White thirty seven points in the

459
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Speaker 7: Bulls victory at the Hornets one thirty one, one seventeen,

460
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Speaker 7: and the Knicks have him back. Jalen Brunson is playing.

461
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 7: He's been out a month with the sprained ankle. Nicks

462
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Speaker 7: leads sixty seven fifty five against the Phoenix Suns mid

463
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Speaker 7: third quarter. As for other NBA news, yes, a week

464
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Speaker 7: left in the season and then those playing games that

465
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Speaker 7: don't actually count as statistics For some unknown reason, those

466
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Speaker 7: will be taking place. Speaking of statistics not counting in

467
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Speaker 7: the NHL, Alex Ovechkin of the Caps with career goal

468
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Speaker 7: number eight ninety five that is the most in the

469
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Speaker 7: history of the NHL, he passes is Wayne Gretzky. Of course,

470
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Speaker 7: the NHL doesn't count the stats from Gretzky's rookie season.

471
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Speaker 7: The Islanders defeated Washington four to one, Minnesota in overtime

472
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Speaker 7: beat Dallas three to two. We had the Women's National

473
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Speaker 7: Championship game in Hoops today, no contest. Yukon wins over

474
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Speaker 7: South Carolina eighty two fifty nine, twelfth national title for

475
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Speaker 7: the Connecticut program. Brian Harmon took the Texas opened by

476
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Speaker 7: three strokes in San Antonio. Mark Leishman won the live

477
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Speaker 7: golf event in Miami by one. Yes, We've got the

478
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Speaker 7: Masters starting Thursday. Denny Hamlin was the NASCAR winner at

479
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Speaker 7: Darlington Nascars on FS one again next Sunday from Bristol, Tennessee.

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Speaker 7: The IndyCar Series is off until next weekend. All the

481
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Speaker 7: IndyCar races this year on Fox TV, so that would

482
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Speaker 7: include the Indy five hundred in late May. And to

483
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Speaker 7: Major League Baseball, The Sunday night game is going to

484
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Speaker 7: the bottom of the fourth at Boston. It's Red Sox

485
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Speaker 7: ten to two over the Saint Louis Cardinals. Earlier today

486
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Speaker 7: Miami at Atlanta rained out the Raves are one in

487
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Speaker 7: eight so far. Wins for Colorado and the Angels. Pittsburgh

488
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Speaker 7: beat the Yankees in eleven, Houston got a ten inning

489
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Speaker 7: win at Minnesota.

490
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Speaker 3: San Diego with.

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Speaker 7: A run in the ninth, beat the Cubs eight seven,

492
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Speaker 7: and Philadelphia won a great game against the Dodgers eight seven,

493
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Speaker 7: the final Jose Alvarado to save and excitement for the

494
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Speaker 7: Giants at home, they get a walk off win five

495
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Speaker 7: to four over the Seattle Mariners, and in that game,

496
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Speaker 7: mike Yastremsky came through for his team. He says, I

497
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Speaker 7: get to get a shout out to my daughter. Let's

498
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Speaker 7: let's hear it. Today, I got to give a shout

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Speaker 7: out to my daughter Quinley, honestly, because she asked for

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Speaker 7: a home run, and well, that's all it takes lay

501
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Speaker 7: and he did deliver a three run shot.

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Speaker 5: You get good good luck, buddy, that's gonna be well.

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you something, if you just do everything

504
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Speaker 3: your daughter asked exactly. I get.

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Speaker 7: She's a little young and probably doesn't realize at this

506
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Speaker 7: point how difficult it is to hit a home run.

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Speaker 3: It's like that these kils like she has the power. Though.

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Speaker 7: It's like the old LESSTV sketch about somebody. I think

509
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 7: it was John Candy dressed up as Babe Ruth visiting

510
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Speaker 7: the kid in the hospital.

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Speaker 3: Can you hit two runs day? Kid?

512
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Speaker 7: Do not know how difficult this is? Anyway, The Giants

513
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 7: are eight and one. The best nine games start in

514
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 7: the franchise's history is nine to zero. You'd have to

515
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Speaker 7: go back to nineteen eighteen for the last time that.

516
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Speaker 3: Happened to Drance history.

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Speaker 7: Wilmer Flores had the walkoff single, bottom of the ninth

518
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Speaker 7: game winner. He now has thirteen career walkoff plate appearances

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Speaker 7: Since the start of twenty fourteen. He Wilmer Flores is

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Speaker 7: tied with Bryce Harper for the most walkoffs in Major

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Speaker 7: League Baseball in that span.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, man, that's crazy and even crazier that

523
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 2: somehow the Dodgers never lose but find themselves in second

524
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 2: place at this hour like.

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00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 3: That just bonanza nuts.

526
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, the NL West, those top three, I mean, what

527
00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 2: what an insane couple of weeks to start off that division.

528
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 2: If anyone's paying attention, the Giants are eight and one,

529
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers are nine and two, the Podres are eight

530
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Speaker 2: and two.

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Speaker 7: In other words, they are all at eighty percent or

532
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Speaker 7: better and wins. Nobody else in the majors is over

533
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 7: eighty percent, winning twenty five and five collectively. And unfortunately

534
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 7: Dodgers don't play the Padres until June.

535
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Speaker 3: Same with and Giants as well. Same.

536
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that like the balance schedule. Normally the word balance

537
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 2: is like that's a positive in life. You want to

538
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 2: be balanced, right, like you want balance in your life,

539
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 2: not in your baseball schedules.

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Speaker 3: God, it stinks.

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Speaker 2: It's look at all these teams are playing right now, Like,

542
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 2: just was it the Tigers? That was that the Dodgers opening?

543
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Speaker 7: Yes, it was because it was interleague. It couldn't be

544
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Speaker 7: a four game weekend series that the Dodgers had the

545
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Speaker 7: Sunday off. Remember, oh gosh, they're only Sunday off this year.

546
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Speaker 4: So anyway, but anyway, I will say it's exciting though

547
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 4: they're all they're all playing unbelievable.

548
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Speaker 2: Yes, over the yep, yep, yep Yankees, Yankees six and

549
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 2: three and uh and then the Rangers. The other team

550
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 2: that's off to uh a pretty good start, Phillies two.

551
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 2: But yeah, that nationally West has gotten off to a

552
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 2: blazing beginning, kind of like Yukon in the tournament.

553
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 3: Can we talk that out for just a second?

554
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Speaker 4: Sure?

555
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 2: Like, and I know I follow this, you you follow

556
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 2: this though even even more? How did Ukon? First of all,

557
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 2: they're Yukon, and I know this team wasn't, at least

558
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 2: during the regular season cracked up to be the same

559
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Speaker 2: as some of the Yukon teams of the past, just

560
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 2: overly overly dominant.

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Speaker 3: How did you kN end up a two seed? Can

562
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Speaker 3: you answer that for me?

563
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 4: Oh? That part, I can't. I cannot answer that.

564
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 3: I mean, they and.

565
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: I know Juju Watkins got hurt and that changed that,

566
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 2: That changed the dynamic of that bracket. I get, But

567
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 2: watching what Yukon they did not even sweat in the

568
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 2: whole tournament, And to get to South Carolina today and

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Speaker 2: do this and Page Beckers didn't even score that much,

570
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Speaker 2: Like it was such a full team, I didn't understand.

571
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Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a minute, you can't be that dominant

572
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 2: but hiding somehow in the bushes the whole time, only

573
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 2: had three losses all year. Man, they blew the competition away.

574
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Speaker 3: I was crazy, crazy.

575
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Speaker 5: They were on a mission and they remember the last

576
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Speaker 5: time they felt they faced South Carolina.

577
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Speaker 3: Didn't go the way the Geno.

578
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Speaker 5: And the Huskies wanted it to go, and I had

579
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Speaker 5: a little retribution on their mind. I was in the

580
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Speaker 5: middle of watching that game intently, and then I had

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Speaker 5: to rush out of the house because I have a

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Speaker 5: ten year old. So you rush every ten year old boy, yep,

583
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Speaker 5: who as a ten year old boy? And so we

584
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Speaker 5: spent the better part of the early afternoon, late morning

585
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Speaker 5: in the emergency was literally going to be like you

586
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Speaker 5: already know this sentence going to end in the you've

587
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Speaker 5: been there all you have to say, you've been there.

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Speaker 3: You said, I have a ten year old.

589
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Speaker 2: So we decided to spend the damn like the answers

590
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Speaker 2: emergency room.

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Speaker 4: He's the number one answer, number one answer man.

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Speaker 3: Is he all right?

593
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's all right. Instead of.

594
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Speaker 5: Walking into the house from the backyard and coming out

595
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Speaker 5: of the front door.

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Speaker 3: No no, no, no, that'd be too easy.

597
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 5: He decides, Oh, the gate's not opening, I'm going to

598
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Speaker 5: climb it. Well, as you may realize that a ten

599
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Speaker 5: year old isn't all that equipped to parkour our American

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Speaker 5: ninja warrior over a wrought iron fence with the spikes

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Speaker 5: at the top. Oh god, And so when he ran

602
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Speaker 5: in the house. A piece of his arm was missing

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Speaker 5: a chunk.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh wait, is this related to the whole fence

605
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Speaker 2: thing that happened in the backyard?

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, okay, no no.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know if that was because of some sort

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Speaker 2: of temporary wall that had got put up or all right,

609
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 2: you got a lot going on in that house.

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00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 4: They still haven't fixed that backyard.

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Speaker 3: Well, of course not. It sounded like a complete disaster.

612
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been a month and a half. I still

613
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Speaker 5: have a hold in my fence. But that's another story.

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Speaker 3: Who's got time for that because we're at the.

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Speaker 2: speaking of disasters, I'd like to talk to you about

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Speaker 2: to get to with the Lakers, the Warriors too, the

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Speaker 2: Western Conference. We get to it at the top of

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Speaker 2: the hour, although I guess we'll jump right into the

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Speaker 2: Western Conference right now.

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Speaker 3: Seventy five thousand dollars for.

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Speaker 2: Gun finger pointing gestures from Jamarant.

633
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Speaker 3: Look, we're all human beings.

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Speaker 2: We come from different places in spaces, different cultures, different opinions,

635
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Speaker 2: my god, different opinions, and so I don't I don't

636
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 2: like for people to have to fit into some sort

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Speaker 2: of a box.

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00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 3: That is not my thought, my goal, none of that.

639
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Speaker 2: Big fan of be you, and I'm a big fan

640
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 2: of self expression. You should see the shoes my son

641
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 2: just picked out from the store today. Woo my goodness,

642
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 2: those are bright. But whatever, man, that's what you like,

643
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Speaker 2: that's how you want to express yourself.

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Speaker 3: Let's go. There's got to be certain exceptions, and this

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00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 3: is one that, for the life of me, E like,

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Speaker 3: I just don't understand. I don't understand how after.

647
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Speaker 2: Everything that that man and that organization have been through,

648
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Speaker 2: I don't understand, Like, what is the point that you're

649
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 2: trying to drive home is what is the hold up?

650
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:59,959
Speaker 2: Here and then the larger point for me, this is why,

651
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 2: And I know it's all bunched up and everybody's moving

652
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 2: seeds every day.

653
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Speaker 3: Right now in the.

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Speaker 2: West, the Memphis Grizzlies currently sit in eight. It like

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00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 2: it was about three weeks ago they were three and

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00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 2: now they're eight. They fired their coach right before the

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Speaker 2: playoffs start, and this is their best player. They've got

658
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 2: a massive leadership problem and it is not threatening to

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Speaker 2: get better anytime soon.

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Speaker 4: This is one of those situations where.

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Speaker 3: You know, you.

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Speaker 5: At a certain point, as a young player that's had

663
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Speaker 5: that level of success in that amount of money based

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Speaker 5: on his abilities, you just tune everybody else out and

665
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Speaker 5: be like, I'm just gonna do me.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: The problem with doing you is you don't pay you.

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Speaker 3: M hm.

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Speaker 4: That's the difference. You don't pay you.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 5: With that said, their consequences to your actions. And you know,

672
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Speaker 5: Jah Morant in general is not.

673
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Speaker 4: A bad kid.

674
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 5: Right Like most young adults in today's society, the notion

675
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 5: of self expression is paramount above all because of the

676
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 5: advent of social media and podcasts and being able to

677
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 5: be unapologetically yourself. So although he was disciplined, he lost

678
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 5: a bunch of money last year for his actions. He's like, look,

679
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 5: I haven't gotten in any trouble this year. I'm just

680
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 5: doing me. This is part of myself, you know expression,

681
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 5: and and I don't mean nothing by it, but this

682
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 5: is what we're doing.

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00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 3: Right.

684
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 5: He's not the only person that does it's a bunch

685
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 5: of guys with the NBA doing it. So he's thinking, well,

686
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 5: if they can do it, I can do it.

687
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:26,760
Speaker 3: Now.

688
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 4: They don't have his past and the grand scheme of things.

689
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 5: If if I'm a franchise or organization, I wouldn't want

690
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 5: him to do it to bring up feelings of you know,

691
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 5: what he went through last year. But the reality of

692
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 5: the situation is he's gonna be who he's gonna be.

693
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,240
Speaker 5: He's not hurting anybody. If they don't want the gesture

694
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 5: on the court, then they have to find everybody, not

695
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 5: just him. That's the point, right, You can't no, no, no, no,

696
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 5: This is this real thing, Okay, Like, if you don't

697
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 5: want the gesture on the court, you have to find

698
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 5: anyone who does it because you don't want it on

699
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Speaker 5: the court. You're not saying as a league, we just

700
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 5: don't want you to do it. Okay, everybody else can

701
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 5: do it. That's that's that's a recipe for disaster.

702
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 3: It is.

703
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 2: I'm not disagreeing with you, But the reason I hesitate

704
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 2: there is I think it's a faux thing that we

705
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 2: chase in life that everybody lives by the same rules.

706
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks and Draymond Green and get technicals faster than

707
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:35,720
Speaker 2: other players.

708
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's a different thing.

709
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 3: And there's a reason for that because they've earned that.

710
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right, But the difference is in that very

711
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 5: same game against Golden State, Buddy Hill did it to him.

712
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 3: Yep, I get it.

713
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 4: So he does it back.

714
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Speaker 5: You can't, like if you have to make a blanket

715
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 5: statement like the NFL NFL when guys were doing the

716
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 5: cut the throat thing.

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Speaker 2: Sure, anybody who does it as a fine, but Jah

718
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 2: wasn't drawn into this is doing it again the next night.

719
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Speaker 3: Yeah he did. I mean that's just as part of

720
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 3: his celebration. Now. Yeah, well, so they can't do that.

721
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 5: So what I'm saying is he's gonna keep taking those

722
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 5: fines because he doesn't care.

723
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 4: He's got four hundred million dollars.

724
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 5: But what you can do as a league if you

725
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 5: don't want it in your game, you have to ban

726
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 5: it now. You can't say everybody else can do it,

727
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 5: and you can't. Of course, the nbap A is gonna

728
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,399
Speaker 5: have a field day with that. No, I understand that's

729
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 5: the problem they're having right now. Until they banned the gesture.

730
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Speaker 4: Then he has a right to do it, whether it's

731
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 4: smart on his behalf or not.

732
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Speaker 3: But but you earn the reputation, like I.

733
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Speaker 5: Said, Like, if I'm not saying it's smart.

734
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 3: You earn the reputation you have. Man, you earn the

735
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 3: reputation you have. You earn it.

736
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Speaker 2: Like I get what you're saying. I'm not disagreeing with

737
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 2: you at all. But if John Moran is like, hey,

738
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 2: different rules for different people. Yeah, exactly, different rules for

739
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: different people. All Right, we'll get to the Lakers and

740
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 2: the Warriors coming up next.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: I mean I said, I said, we need to have

743
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 2: a conversation, and we're about to have a conversation, are we.

744
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,320
Speaker 4: We're gonna have some conversations. We've been having a conversation.

745
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:25,240
Speaker 2: Oh we're gonna keep going. Oh yes, we're.

746
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 3: Talking to dude. All right, we got we gotta do

747
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Speaker 3: more hours to do it. So we do. Yeah, we do.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna use them.

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Speaker 2: buying should be. I'm not gonna sit here and tell

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Speaker 2: you that there is any panic with the Los Angeles Lakers.

755
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,839
Speaker 2: They've they've largely had a good week. Great right if

756
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: you look at it as a whole. Right now, they've

757
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 2: moved into the three seed by a full game over

758
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 2: the Nuggets.

759
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 3: The Nuggets are playing right now, so are the Warriors.

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00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 2: There's a lot going on every night in the Western Conference. Literally,

761
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 2: the space between the three seed and the eight seed

762
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 2: is two games. It two games, and everybody's all up

763
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 2: in there. So the Lakers have not had a bad week. However,

764
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 2: we always say styles make fights, and I do think

765
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 2: that from the perspective of some teams, and the Warriors

766
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 2: are now one of them. I think the Lakers they

767
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 2: got worse at the deadline. I just think that. I

768
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 2: think that it makes sense long term, but I believe

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00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 2: that the Los Angeles Lakers for some playoff matchups are

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Speaker 2: now an easier target.

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, when you take a player like ad out

772
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 5: out the middle of the court, and yeah, obviously, but

773
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 5: that also allows you to be able to consistently score

774
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Speaker 5: from the outside. In the league, that's based on scoring

775
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 5: from the in the outside.

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Speaker 4: And so.

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00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 5: I think adding more shooting, wing defense, which we have,

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Speaker 5: and being able to have Lebron off the court and

779
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 5: not having to slow the game down and you know

780
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 5: post something someone who doesn't even want to play in

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Speaker 5: the post.

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Speaker 3: I think bowls well for us.

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Speaker 5: Now we got small, but there's not a lot of

784
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Speaker 5: big in the Western Conference.

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Speaker 4: So you just got to be able to play with

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Speaker 4: that level of.

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Speaker 5: You know, intensity and what you they you know, Steph

788
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 5: Curry was unbelievable last week.

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Speaker 3: It was great Steph Curry.

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Speaker 2: And just to let you know, I know people are

791
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 2: listening all over the country. In the Bay Area, this

792
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 2: week was referred to as the Gauntlet, So the Warriors

793
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 2: came in needing some victories. It felt pretty nerve wracking

794
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 2: playing tournament is looming, and that at the start of

795
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 2: the week they were the sixth seed and they were

796
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 2: playing in succession the five seed, the four seed, the

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00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 2: three seed, and the two seed. They are playing the

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Speaker 2: two seed right now as we speak and leading by

799
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,399
Speaker 2: six at the end of one quarter. But so far

800
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 2: through the gauntlet they are three and zero and it

801
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 2: was playing extremely well. So that was a road win

802
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 2: in Memphis followed by a road win in LA against

803
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 2: the Lakers. Those were games five and six of a

804
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 2: road trip. Coming off that six game road trip, they

805
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 2: had a plane flight home where they discussed kicking the

806
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 2: next game because it was twenty four hours later in

807
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 2: their own building against none other than the Denver Nuggets.

808
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 2: The Stars decided not to kick it. They went out

809
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 2: there and fell down by double digits right away and

810
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 2: somehow had the wherewithal to come back and win it

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Speaker 2: going away.

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Speaker 3: And so even with all that, they've clinched.

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Speaker 2: Nothing like I said, everybody is just in this big

814
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 2: bucket of teams. But when I when I like Steph

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Speaker 2: Curry in these first three games he from has scored

816
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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five point Yeah, he's out of control,

817
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Speaker 2: So I get all that.

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Speaker 5: How great was that game down to stretch with Lebron

819
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Speaker 5: and Steph going out.

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Speaker 3: Well and throwing Austin Reeves and everybody else.

821
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Speaker 2: It was just three pointer followed by three pointer followed

822
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Speaker 2: by three It was amazing. It's wonderful theater, and Luca

823
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 2: had a really off night. But I don't know, man,

824
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at the Lakers from a larger view of

825
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 2: what does playoff basketball look like. I feel you when

826
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 2: you say, look better better scoring from the outside that

827
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Speaker 2: runs the league. Now, this helps Lebron get off the court.

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Speaker 2: All of that makes sense. But man, somewhere in this conversation,

829
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Speaker 2: somebody's gonna say the phrase defense wins championships, and I

830
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Speaker 2: just I they can play defense, I've got, but not

831
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Speaker 2: like they could before.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but when you take an all defensive player and

833
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 5: quite honestly, was on track to be the defensive player

834
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 5: of the year off the court, that's like if you

835
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 5: if Draymond left Golden States, they could right, you wouldn't

836
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 5: have the same defensive pop. Not saying that you guys

837
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 5: couldn't guard anymore, but you wouldn't be able to have

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Speaker 5: that same defensive pop, Which I get, I understand that.

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Speaker 5: But in a playoff series, a seven game series, with

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00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 5: time and adjustments, I believe the Lakers will be okay.

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00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 5: I think they got better in terms of taking some

842
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:57,760
Speaker 5: of the pressure off their star, which is a Lebron James.

843
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 5: And they added a generational town which is a Luka Doncic.

844
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Speaker 5: And so now with Vanderbilt healthy, with Gabe Vinson showing

845
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 5: up three and D guy like they have several three

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00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 5: and D guys they have, uh.

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Speaker 4: Darren Finny Smith tremended.

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Speaker 5: All of these guys are tremendous wing defenders, which is

849
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 5: what you need in the playoffs. You got to be

850
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 5: able to run people off the line. You got to

851
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 5: be able to rotate, you got to be able to switch.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 5: And and I think that bowls well for them in

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00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 5: a series because in a series, you're gonna have to

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00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 5: deal with a Luca and a Lebron James, which is

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00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:45,280
Speaker 5: going to be extremely and excuse me, and Austin Rivers.

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00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:53,399
Speaker 5: Excuse me, Austin Reeves. Uh, that's a that's a tall task.

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Speaker 4: You ask any other coach and everything.

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00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,359
Speaker 3: Sure, I'm not here to tell you they're not still

860
00:46:58,400 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 3: a good team.

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Speaker 5: What it sounded like that's what you were saying. It

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00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 5: sounded like you were like they got worse.

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Speaker 3: They did.

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Speaker 4: I don't think so.

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Speaker 3: I think so.

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Speaker 2: Like I think they got worse for this year, and

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Speaker 2: actually in about six minutes seven minutes, I want to

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00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 2: have actually a conversation about the future with the idea

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00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 2: of everything surrounding Luca Datchets, and so we'll do that

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Speaker 2: in a little bit.

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Speaker 3: But as of right now, like.

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Speaker 2: Maybe worse is the wrong word. The right word is different.

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00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 2: That's good, we can agree on that. I think there

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00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 2: are certain matchups though, where they are an easier target,

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00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 2: and so playoff basketball is different. And what I think

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00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,720
Speaker 2: the Lakers have now become and you've watched that this week.

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00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 2: This week, those three and D guys that you were

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00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,280
Speaker 2: talking about, they were hot and they were hitting shots.

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00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 2: And when those guys are hitting at that level Phinney

880
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 2: Smith's and the gate Vincent's, when they're hitting the way

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00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 2: they were today, well the Lakers can beat absolutely anybody.

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00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 3: But as you know, that can be very fleeting.

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00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 2: And so now they've I just feel like they've gone

884
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 2: from one of the most physically imposing teams in the

885
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 2: West to now just another make or miss team. And

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00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 2: maybe they've got the better players than most, but they've

887
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 2: become a make or miss team. And when those threes

888
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 2: go cold, man, it's just not that like Luca was

889
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 2: cold the other night and it was not that hard.

890
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 3: Of a team to beat.

891
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like the whole world was set up for the

892
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 2: Lakers to win that game on you.

893
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:44,959
Speaker 4: But that's like if if Steph goes cold to.

894
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 5: A degree, I no, no, but you gotta remember a

895
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 5: couple of weeks, a couple of days ago, what he

896
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 5: had thirty five Like if that.

897
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 3: Well, he's been on a heater.

898
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 2: But they from since Jimmy Butler arrived, they've lost two

899
00:48:57,880 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 2: games when they both play.

900
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's not been hot for all of them.

901
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 3: I get it that they've got different pitches that they

902
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 3: can throw at you.

903
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, they do, they do. I remember when they

904
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 4: started the season off twelve and one or something like

905
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:12,720
Speaker 4: that and they were playing twelve guys.

906
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:13,240
Speaker 3: Yep.

907
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 5: Right, everything changes when it changes, yep. And in the playoffs. Look,

908
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 5: I'm not going to bet against Golden State in the playoffs.

909
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 5: I'll bet against them against the Lakers in the playoffs.

910
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 5: I don't think they match up well in the series.

911
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 5: But outside of that, I'm not going to take a

912
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 5: team over Golden State if it's not the Lakers. And

913
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 5: same with the Lakers, same with the Lakers. I'm not

914
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 5: taking okay See over the Lakers in the seven game series,

915
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 5: absolutely not.

916
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 3: The're no shots really, no shot.

917
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 5: No, no, I'm not taking Houston over the Lakers.

918
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 4: I'm not taking Houston. I'm not taking ok See over

919
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 4: Golden State.

920
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 3: You're taking Are you taking anyone over the Lakers?

921
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 4: The only team that gives me pauls is Denver. That's

922
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 4: literally Denver, because that's the team with the size, right,

923
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 4: that's it.

924
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 5: But other than that, no, we we we're rolling, We're

925
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 5: gonna run it. And I think that's the team that

926
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 5: gives Golden That gives Golden State trouble too, because of

927
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 5: the size.

928
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 3: You can't hold on real quick. This is the quick aside.

929
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 2: You can't hit me with a sixty four and fourteen

930
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 2: basketball team and use the phrase no shot.

931
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 3: You can't. I can.

932
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,280
Speaker 4: When it comes to the playoffs, I mean, come on, man,

933
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 4: hey man, they're good, they are good. They're good, they're

934
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:35,760
Speaker 4: good today.

935
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 2: Well today, I wonder if Oklahoma City is not in neutral.

936
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 4: No, they're not in this game. No, no, no, no, no no.

937
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 4: I'll tell you why.

938
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 5: Everybody was there, everybody was available, is going to look

939
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:49,280
Speaker 5: a lot different.

940
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 3: You're damn right it. Well, I'll bet you.

941
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:58,240
Speaker 5: Don't think that the Lakers ain't anybody Bronnie might start, well,

942
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:01,320
Speaker 5: because I don't need that one. They need to Oh,

943
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 5: they need Wednesday's game. They need the Dallas Mavericks game.

944
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 5: That's the game they need.

945
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 3: Well, that's Lucas return.

946
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 5: Yes, so they need that game. And we're talking about

947
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 5: in the back to back. You don't need the first

948
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 5: of the back to back.

949
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 2: No, No, I mean, look, you want home you want

950
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:19,879
Speaker 2: home court backage a round one.

951
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 5: But I understand that. So what I'm saying is, if

952
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 5: you punt on Tuesday, you take Wednesday Dallas, then Friday

953
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 5: at home against Houston against and then.

954
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 3: You should be you should be locked in.

955
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,399
Speaker 5: You should be locked in to wherever you're going to be,

956
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:48,919
Speaker 5: and on that Sunday at Portland, you let the other

957
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 5: guys go and get to get them some minutes and

958
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 5: and try to shake out what your playoff roster is

959
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 5: gonna be.

960
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 2: You gotta remember, you got a lot more confidence than

961
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:58,919
Speaker 2: I do that this thing is gonna be figured out

962
00:51:59,000 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 2: by Saturday.

963
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 5: Well, well it'll will have an understanding, right, like maybe yeah,

964
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 5: because that's three games. Three games, it's not gonna come

965
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 5: down to the last game. Somebody's gonna fall, somebody's gonna move,

966
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 5: somebody's gonna you know, we'll have that understanding going into

967
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:20,359
Speaker 5: that final day on Sunday about who's who and what's what.

968
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 5: So all I'm saying is if they take two out

969
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 5: of the next three, we're good. Based on the lose

970
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 5: based on the lost column. Okay, based on the lost column.

971
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 2: Based on the lost column, right, I mean where right

972
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 2: now you are a game ahead of the Nuggets and Warriors.

973
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 5: One game yep, we're playing right now. Yeah, both tough

974
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 5: games for both of these teams.

975
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,879
Speaker 3: And both winning right now at this moment, yep.

976
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 4: And the first happen it's early, Yeah, it's very in

977
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 4: the first act. So we did our work today.

978
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 5: I'm hoping that Houston does their work and that the

979
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 5: Pacers do their work.

980
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, you got a lot more confidence than I

981
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 2: do in the way this thing going to shave.

982
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 4: Well, that's how it's supposed to be.

983
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 5: I mean, based on the way they play today and

984
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 5: based on the way they can play then, yeah, I

985
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 5: would think I would think they would have the same

986
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 5: type of urgency as I'm having as a fan.

987
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 4: On the outside looking in.

988
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 3: Do you watch the Lakers the same way most people golf,

989
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 3: which is anytime anything bad happens like that one didn't count.

990
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 4: No, no, no, that's not true. That's not true.

991
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 5: They I thought they played terrible on Thursday and came

992
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 5: back in the fourth quarter and had an opportunity.

993
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 4: I thought they could have played much better.

994
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 5: Of course, just with that knowledge, I'm like, oh, okay,

995
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 5: we got I see what this is. I mean, and

996
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 5: that stopped them from being the Golden State from being

997
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 5: swept by the Lakers this year.

998
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 3: So it's correct. You know.

999
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,400
Speaker 2: I would argue that that that series has only had

1000
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 2: one game because Luca and Jimmy Butler about that these

1001
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 2: are completely different teams.

1002
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get it. But the fact of the matter

1003
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 4: is you guys got one.

1004
00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 3: I get it. I get it. One. It didn't count

1005
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 3: because they lost. I got it. No, No, now I

1006
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:02,720
Speaker 3: know the rules. I'm glad.

1007
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:06,319
Speaker 2: Now now I understand why the Lakers are definitely gonna

1008
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,880
Speaker 2: win the title because the losses don't.

1009
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 3: I got it now, all right, I got I got more.

1010
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 2: Luca questions calm the chaos with the shipping software that

1011
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 2: delivers use code Sports for a free trial at shipstation

1012
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 2: dot com. That shipstation dot com code sports. Yeah, Mark

1013
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 2: Willardy from Salam Luca the Future. I really want to

1014
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 2: challenge the way Laker fans look at this. I got

1015
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 2: some questions for you on it. Coming up next on

1016
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. Okay live tyrack dot Com Studios with

1017
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 2: me from Salam Mark Willard. Good Sunday evening to you

1018
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,320
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1019
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:49,080
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1020
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,840
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1021
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:56,080
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1022
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:58,720
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1023
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:00,800
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1024
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 2: the app is that you can select Fox Sports Radio

1025
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 2: is one of your presets, just like the presets on

1026
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:09,320
Speaker 2: a radio dial. So be sure to preset Fox Sports

1027
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 2: Radio in the iHeartRadio app and it will always pop

1028
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 2: up at the top of your screen, all right, like always.

1029
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask for some real honesty here, I guess

1030
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 2: I'll start with this. Remove all the standings and the

1031
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 2: wins and the losses, just just watching Luca play basketball.

1032
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 2: Do you find it entertaining.

1033
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 3: To a degree that pauses all I needed to hear,

1034
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 3: but go ahead, No, to a degree I do.

1035
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 5: I think Number one, I think he gets away with

1036
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 5: travel and carry almost every possession.

1037
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 3: Yep.

1038
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 4: I mean, I've never seen so many discontinued dribbles in

1039
00:55:56,200 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 4: my life, and those little extra feet of extra shuffles,

1040
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 4: and you know, when he gets around the basket, it's like.

1041
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 3: WHOA, everybody's flying by.

1042
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know why everybody's flying by. But because I'm

1043
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 4: on the beneficial end of those non calls, I'm okay

1044
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 4: with it. That's just how fandom goes.

1045
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 3: I asked for honesty, and I got it.

1046
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 4: I'm always gonna be honest. I'm just gonna give it

1047
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:25,919
Speaker 4: to you.

1048
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, so.

1049
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 5: I understand what you're saying, and I get it.

1050
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 3: I get it. I just say that.

1051
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:45,760
Speaker 2: Look, I'm not someone who will just say this about

1052
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 2: any player who's not on my favorite team. I love

1053
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:54,720
Speaker 2: this game. There are a number of players around the league,

1054
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 2: and I can immediately just like I can look at

1055
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:00,120
Speaker 2: a board and tell you some of the players that

1056
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 2: I think are just like Cad Cunningham.

1057
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 3: I love watching him play.

1058
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum, I love watching him play. I love the

1059
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 2: guards for Cleveland. I like watching them play. I like

1060
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 2: watching Pascal Siakam play. I like there's a lot of guys.

1061
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards I think is incredibly entertaining. I love watching

1062
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 2: basketball when you are not rooting for the team that

1063
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 2: houses Luka Doncic. That's one of the most frustrating watches

1064
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 2: in the whole league. And so there's that side of it.

1065
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 2: It's it's a lot of what you just said, which

1066
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 2: is like, it's not even that he gets away with stuff.

1067
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 2: It's that when you're the person who gets away with stuff,

1068
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 2: don't then also double down and complain after every possession.

1069
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 2: And this was the thing in Dallas, right, The thing

1070
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 2: in Dallas was this guy would try to drive to

1071
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 2: the hoop and if he didn't get the foul call,

1072
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 2: like he's talking to the ref while his teammates are

1073
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 2: playing four on.

1074
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 3: Five on the other end.

1075
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 2: But that's not even what I'm getting at, Like, that's

1076
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 2: a part of it, and I'm glad you brought it up,

1077
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 2: But what about what about this? The second this trade happened,

1078
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 2: I heard from everybody, Oh, this is the Lakers solidifying

1079
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 2: their future. There's always a Hall of Fame talent on

1080
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 2: the Lakers, and that's why this is a no brainer deal.

1081
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 2: And right, I totally get that side of it. But

1082
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 2: the part that I don't get is does this guy

1083
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 2: actually fit that bill? You're the entertainment capital of the world,

1084
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 2: and the people who have held that job before are

1085
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 2: Magic Johnsen and Kobe Bryant and Shock and now Lebron James.

1086
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 3: You're telling me that that.

1087
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 2: This style of play, this very large, lumbering, traveling, whining,

1088
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 2: fall away three point artist, that that's the entertainment capital

1089
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 2: of the world. Like, what is this when Lebron leaves Aphraim,

1090
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:39,080
Speaker 2: when Lebron's forty eight, what are we doing?

1091
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 3: That is that really going to tell? Talk to me?

1092
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 3: Of course, I don't think that he alone gets.

1093
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 2: Him outside of one playoff run.

1094
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:54,919
Speaker 3: What do we got?

1095
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 4: He won't be alone.

1096
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 3: This is l A. I understand that he won't be alone.

1097
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 2: You know that he won't be a But I'm also

1098
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 2: talking about entertainment and and.

1099
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:07,040
Speaker 5: Oh he's he's he's a crowd favorite. Now you go

1100
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 5: to them games, there's rocking in there. So that's not

1101
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 5: that's not the problem. That's not the problem.

1102
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 2: He's uh, Lebron's on the team, like I'm not talking

1103
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 2: about right now, I get it.

1104
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 3: I'm talking about when the offense.

1105
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 4: Is they love him. They love him here, they.

1106
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:31,040
Speaker 2: Love him right Remember when they loved David Beckham when

1107
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 2: he came to the Galaxy as well.

1108
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 3: You know what thing l A loves not just a winner.

1109
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 2: They love something brand new and and and that's what

1110
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 2: they've got right now. But dude, you're gonna need a

1111
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 2: real interesting surrounding cast.

1112
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 3: It's l A.

1113
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 5: That's not that's that's not okay, the difficult thing, Okay, okay,

1114
01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 5: but that's not.

1115
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 4: I have plenty of guys whore gonna want to come

1116
01:00:57,280 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 4: play with Luca.

1117
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 2: I can promise you that well, but it's not even guys,

1118
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 2: it's gonna it's gotta be a certain Look.

1119
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 3: This is not Kobe Bryant.

1120
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 5: Brother, no, no, no, no, no, one's Kobe Bryant. Magic

1121
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 5: wasn't Kobe is Kobe wasn't magic And it's not But

1122
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 5: it's not either a Brons not Kobe.

1123
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:15,960
Speaker 3: But it's not him either.

1124
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:20,480
Speaker 5: No, it's it's not the great thing about remember that

1125
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 5: Jerry West.

1126
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 3: Magic wasn't Jerry West.

1127
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 4: Understood right like that? You know, Kareem wasn't Wilt.

1128
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 3: Understanding.

1129
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:36,439
Speaker 2: Shaq wasn't Kareem Shack was entertaining. Yeah, but what I'm

1130
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,439
Speaker 2: telling is still entertaining. Shock is more entertaining than Luca now.

1131
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 2: And all he's doing is talking on the left.

1132
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 5: End, telling you is l A is not gonna worry

1133
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 5: about that. It's trust me, it's built in. It's built in.

1134
01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:57,400
Speaker 3: Now.

1135
01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:01,120
Speaker 5: There was a downtime when it was Sidel three and

1136
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 5: Eldon Campbell, right, it was like, what is happening right now?

1137
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 3: Well, you didn't have a good player, right. It was like,

1138
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 3: oh boy, I'll grant you got a good player. I

1139
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 3: don't know about the look.

1140
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 5: He got a generational player. Yeah, it is the last

1141
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:17,960
Speaker 5: five years first team All NBA. That's not a sure

1142
01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 5: not a good player. That's a great player.

1143
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:20,920
Speaker 3: It's a great player.

1144
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,440
Speaker 5: And what happens when LA gets a hold of a

1145
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 5: great player, they become.

1146
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 3: Legend ooh we oh okay.

1147
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 5: I did right there, which brings me this is called

1148
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 5: a segway people to our legend.

1149
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 4: Steven L. De Seger, I've been in this business for

1150
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 4: a while. He is a professional.

1151
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:40,959
Speaker 7: Do not try that at home.

1152
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:43,640
Speaker 3: I would have gone Stephen W. De Seger.

1153
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 2: If that's the point if we're talking about W's but

1154
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 2: anyway onward we go.

1155
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 7: He'll always talk about the Dubs.

1156
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 4: We're talking about legends.

1157
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 7: By the way, the NBA record has fallen most three

1158
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:56,160
Speaker 7: pointers made in a season. This is by the whole

1159
01:02:56,280 --> 01:03:00,120
Speaker 7: league combined the thirty teams. We're over thirty one one

1160
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 7: thousand three pointers made this season. Precious few by the

1161
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:07,480
Speaker 7: Suns tonight as they lost at New York. Knicks won

1162
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 7: twelve ninety eight the final Phoenix from three point range

1163
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 7: four for thirty four. The Knicks did have Jalen Brunson

1164
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 7: back in the lineup. He had fifteen points, about half

1165
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 7: of that from the free throw line. He had missed

1166
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 7: a month with a sprained ankle. Janisan Tenecumpo out for

1167
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:27,800
Speaker 7: Milwaukee tonight with a bad shoulder. That's among the late games.

1168
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,520
Speaker 7: It's halftime. Milwaukee leads fifty eight to fifty three at

1169
01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 7: New Orleans, Gary Trent Junior eighteen points. Golden State has

1170
01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 7: tied late first half against Houston forty seven to all,

1171
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 7: and the Nuggets lead early third quarter sixty eight sixty

1172
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:45,240
Speaker 7: five over the Indiana Pacers. Among the earlier games, the

1173
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 7: Lakers won at Oklahoma City won twenty six to ninety

1174
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 7: nine Luka Doncic thirty points. Those two will play each

1175
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 7: other again on Tuesday, also in Oksee road wins for

1176
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 7: Toronto and Chicago. For Sacramento as well, the Kings won

1177
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 7: at Cleveland one thirteen Zach Lavine of the Kings with

1178
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 7: thirty seven points dominance from Yukon. And the women's basketball

1179
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 7: National Championship Game Connecticut eighty two fifty nine over South

1180
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 7: Carolina in Tampa. In San Antonio, Monday night is the

1181
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 7: men's final Florida versus Houston. Nebraska won the College Basketball

1182
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 7: Crown the New week long tournament on Fox that was

1183
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:25,160
Speaker 7: in Las Vegas. They beat UCF in today's finals seventy

1184
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 7: seven sixty six. Along the eight NHL games, Alex Ovechkin

1185
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:33,479
Speaker 7: scored for the Caps. That's career goal number eight ninety five,

1186
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:36,440
Speaker 7: most in NHL history. It was the only tally for

1187
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 7: the Capitals. Washington was beaten four to one by the

1188
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 7: New York Islanders. Minnesota in overtime defeated Dallas three to two.

1189
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 7: Brian Harmon won the Texas Opened by three strokes. Mark

1190
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 7: Leishman took the Livegolf event in Miami by one Denny Hamlin,

1191
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 7: the NASCAR winner at Darlington to Major League Baseball. The

1192
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 7: Red Sox are leading sixteen to two over the Saint

1193
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:59,800
Speaker 7: Louis Cardinals top of the seventh inning. This will be

1194
01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 7: a bubble header sweep after yesterday's rainout. Boston already won

1195
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 7: a game today against Saint Louis, five to ten innings.

1196
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:10,040
Speaker 7: San Francisco won its seventh game in a row, beating

1197
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 7: Seattle five to four. Colorado and the Angels each with wins.

1198
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 7: Miami at Atlanta reigned out. They'll make it up with

1199
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 7: a doubleheader in August. Pittsburgh over the Yankees and eleven innings,

1200
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:23,480
Speaker 7: five to four. Philadelphia beat the Dodgers eight to seven,

1201
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:26,320
Speaker 7: Padres with a one run in the ninth one eight

1202
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 7: to seven at the Cubs, and the Mets have won

1203
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 7: four straight, defeating Toronto two to one. I got to

1204
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 7: mention as far as the women's hoops season ending today,

1205
01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 7: coach Gino Oriema now with his twelfth national title, all

1206
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 7: at Connecticut and this unlikely run. As you mentioned earlier,

1207
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:46,080
Speaker 7: they were a two seed, not a one. They beat

1208
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 7: three number one seeds in a row these last three

1209
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 7: games to win the tournament and to win a final

1210
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 7: four game by at least twenty points. His clubs have

1211
01:05:56,920 --> 01:06:00,920
Speaker 7: done that twelve times. To say that's the most in

1212
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:04,760
Speaker 7: women's final four history is an understatement, because if you

1213
01:06:04,840 --> 01:06:09,080
Speaker 7: add up all the other teams in Division one women's history,

1214
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 7: they have eleven such blowouts in the Final four. Just

1215
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 7: Yukon now has done this twelve times, and this was

1216
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 7: by a lot more than twenty today eighty two fifty

1217
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 7: nine the final against South Carolina, which has been dominant

1218
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 7: in its own right in recent years.

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01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:28,040
Speaker 2: Back to you, all right, great stuff, Steve, Yeah, that

1220
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:29,840
Speaker 2: was By the way, Can I add one other thing

1221
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 2: about that women's final e.

1222
01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:34,800
Speaker 3: From Is there anything better in sports?

1223
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,040
Speaker 2: And maybe this is what you're getting at with regard

1224
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 2: to Cooper Flag, But Paige Becker's to have it end

1225
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:45,520
Speaker 2: that way, to have it in that way, she had

1226
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 2: no championships, best player in the game back at school,

1227
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:55,960
Speaker 2: WNBA number one overall pick everybody knows it, and then

1228
01:06:56,680 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 2: you know, boom, this is this is the way it

1229
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 2: ends with this kind of a run.

1230
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 5: Well, I guess if you stay in college long enough,

1231
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 5: you're bound to get one.

1232
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:07,920
Speaker 3: I guess how many years has she been in in

1233
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 3: college that was twelve twelve years Like seriously, like, if

1234
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 3: you if you're a player.

1235
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 4: Of that caliber and you stay in college long enough,

1236
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 4: eventually you're gonna fall into one.

1237
01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:21,560
Speaker 3: That's just what it is. Yea. And so.

1238
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 4: That's where that's where I sit. I mean, look, she's

1239
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 4: twenty four years old playing against eighteen year olds. That's

1240
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 4: a real thing.

1241
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 3: Yep.

1242
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:40,000
Speaker 4: And I know women have to stay longer than than mena.

1243
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 4: There's no one that done.

1244
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:42,200
Speaker 3: Yes, correct, But.

1245
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 5: I mean if you chase something long enough, if you

1246
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:48,400
Speaker 5: have the skill level, you eventually catch it.

1247
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:51,720
Speaker 3: Well, it was a great moment though, Oh yeah, it

1248
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:52,080
Speaker 3: was great.

1249
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:55,920
Speaker 5: She deserves it, It's fantastic. I'm a Gino fan. I

1250
01:07:56,000 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 5: think he's been tremendous for women's basketball at the collegiate level,

1251
01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 5: but overall, and so I'm like, you know, it's one

1252
01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 5: of those things where she got it.

1253
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:16,400
Speaker 4: She escaped having to go through juju, which it was

1254
01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:17,360
Speaker 4: gonna be musty TV.

1255
01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:19,479
Speaker 3: We want to die that one. That is no joke,

1256
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:20,600
Speaker 3: no joke.

1257
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 4: You know, And that's see you know, try but they couldn't.

1258
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 3: You know.

1259
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 5: That's thirty plus points missing with eight assists missing, off

1260
01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:30,040
Speaker 5: a team that's.

1261
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:31,439
Speaker 3: Hard to replace. Yeah, no doubt.

1262
01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 5: And so a situation where I'm happy for she will

1263
01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:39,640
Speaker 5: be the first picking in the w NBA draft. She

1264
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 5: finally got her championship, and you know, was she going

1265
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:45,679
Speaker 5: to stay another year if she didn't get it?

1266
01:08:46,439 --> 01:08:51,559
Speaker 4: I mean, you know what the COVID years and all

1267
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,280
Speaker 4: of that is over right, what is this six for her?

1268
01:08:53,320 --> 01:08:56,040
Speaker 3: Right? So six years? And I'm serious being honest, I

1269
01:08:56,800 --> 01:08:58,479
Speaker 3: don't even know off the top of my head. Yeah,

1270
01:08:58,560 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 3: I don't even know off the top of my head.

1271
01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 3: Would have to look it up.

1272
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:06,320
Speaker 2: But if she got there at eighteen, yeah, carried the

1273
01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:07,719
Speaker 2: three three yeah, four.

1274
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:08,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1275
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:13,120
Speaker 5: But I mean, like, cool moment, great, great moment. I

1276
01:09:13,160 --> 01:09:14,920
Speaker 5: want to take any thing from her. I think the

1277
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 5: team was extremely dynamic. I think it was great. Uh

1278
01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 5: well coached.

1279
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 4: Uh and Carolina ran into a bus, so it really did.

1280
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:26,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep.

1281
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 4: And they were locked in early in that game, they

1282
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:30,400
Speaker 4: were going for it. They were getting getting after every

1283
01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:33,680
Speaker 4: fifty to fifty ball. You know, they just you can

1284
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:37,400
Speaker 4: tell they just wanted it more. That's what it is.

1285
01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:38,679
Speaker 4: They just wanted it more.

1286
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 3: No doubt.

1287
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Speaker 2: while Steve was talking kind of like piggybacking on the

1299
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 2: conversation we were just having. I like what he said,

1300
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:19,680
Speaker 2: he goes, you know, the word that might help this

1301
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 2: conversation is showman. Is Luka Doncich enough of a showman

1302
01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 2: to play this role?

1303
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 3: Like? I got no.

1304
01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:33,160
Speaker 2: Issues with Luca as far as a great talent, a

1305
01:10:33,240 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 2: great player, but does he have the showmanship to step

1306
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 2: into the role the future role? But it sounds like

1307
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 2: the Lakers are giving him. I got questions about that.

1308
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 2: Not very fun to watch my opinion.

1309
01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:54,559
Speaker 5: The W's man, I hear you the WS, but that

1310
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:55,759
Speaker 5: remains to be seen.

1311
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:57,400
Speaker 3: Step back threes.

1312
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 4: Right, wrap around, But did you see what was happening today?

1313
01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:05,360
Speaker 4: Just jump up behind the night, behind the head, flip

1314
01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:07,879
Speaker 4: to the corner for the three again. Don't that's a showman.

1315
01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:08,759
Speaker 4: It's a showman.

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01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:11,040
Speaker 2: Don't be a presenter of the moment he was. He

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01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 2: was gross on Thursday night. He was awful, like absolutely

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Speaker 2: objectively awful in a huge game on three nights rest.

1319
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:22,080
Speaker 2: Their record since he showed up is not any better

1320
01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:24,880
Speaker 2: than it was before he got there. I don't like

1321
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 2: we're moving too far. We're jumping ahead with this whole

1322
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:34,320
Speaker 2: idea that he automatically means wins. I think he hasn't

1323
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:36,559
Speaker 2: proven that, and La would be the first one to

1324
01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:44,120
Speaker 2: say that, because it's all about rings, right, yes, okay,

1325
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:48,479
Speaker 2: nothing else. So he's achieved nothing now.

1326
01:11:48,520 --> 01:11:53,719
Speaker 4: But we'll take someone who just played in the the

1327
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:59,040
Speaker 4: final NBA Finals to join a team that two years

1328
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:02,559
Speaker 4: ago was in the Eastern I mean Western Conference front Like,

1329
01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:05,240
Speaker 4: we're yeah together.

1330
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:08,680
Speaker 2: I'm not suggesting you don't do the deal. I'm suggesting

1331
01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:13,640
Speaker 2: there have been some conversations in my ears that have

1332
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:17,160
Speaker 2: sounded like the cards before the horse I got you

1333
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:20,480
Speaker 2: as far as the future, like we're solidified.

1334
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:27,040
Speaker 3: Now for the next ten are you are you? Ah?

1335
01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I've got an NFL question for you. Okay, Yeah,

1336
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:37,880
Speaker 2: a very under the radar signing this week that had

1337
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 2: me scratching my head. So uh, let's get to that

1338
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 2: coming up next on Fox Sports Radio. Hey, Ephraim, Yes, Well,

1339
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:50,440
Speaker 2: first of all, we're live in the Tireck dot Com studios.

1340
01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 2: But while we're all getting into it about all this stuff,

1341
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:57,519
Speaker 2: we've got a couple of games going on right now. Okay,

1342
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:01,599
Speaker 2: we got some games going on. The Pacers have cut

1343
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:03,800
Speaker 2: it to one, No, they've tied it. The Pacers and

1344
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:09,200
Speaker 2: Nuggets are tied. Three minutes to go third quarter halftime,

1345
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:12,719
Speaker 2: Golden State rockets up by a point.

1346
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:16,080
Speaker 3: And one thing that I think might just be might

1347
01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 3: just be the deal.

1348
01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:20,760
Speaker 2: I don't know that Dylan Brooks and Draymond Green at

1349
01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:23,640
Speaker 2: the same court the same time as a workable situation.

1350
01:13:25,400 --> 01:13:29,439
Speaker 2: Just not sure if that's something that anyone involves can hand.

1351
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 2: Holy crap, it's getting chippy. It is getting hot at

1352
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:42,680
Speaker 2: Golden State halftime came just in time. Everybody, go to

1353
01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:48,519
Speaker 2: your corners and breathe for just a minute. So we're

1354
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:50,679
Speaker 2: gonna be watching both of those games coming down the stretch,

1355
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:55,600
Speaker 2: because they are monstrous basketball games in the Western Conference.

1356
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:58,920
Speaker 2: You've already had today as far as other games that

1357
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:02,160
Speaker 2: have mattered. Obviously, the Lakers very very big win at

1358
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:03,040
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City.

1359
01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:06,799
Speaker 3: They throttle them. Now, they rushed them, came in.

1360
01:14:06,680 --> 01:14:11,800
Speaker 5: And you know, like like I was saying earlier, we

1361
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:14,120
Speaker 5: had to give one of these. Now, no one's expecting

1362
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:14,840
Speaker 5: them to win both.

1363
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 3: Oh right at all. No, you take a split, but.

1364
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:19,920
Speaker 5: You got to take the split, especially on the road.

1365
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:25,800
Speaker 5: They did their job. They did their job. Now they're

1366
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:31,200
Speaker 5: playing with house money on Tuesday. Luca, Lebron and Rory

1367
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 5: and Austin Reeves would all be resting on Wednesday. Yep,

1368
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:39,080
Speaker 5: that would And then I let the you know, and

1369
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:41,639
Speaker 5: who knows, we might you know, catch a spark.

1370
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:45,840
Speaker 2: Yeah maybe. I mean, like I just look at it.

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01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:48,880
Speaker 2: I'm not disagreeing with you from an emotional standpoint. You

1372
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:51,240
Speaker 2: take a split when you go on the road twice

1373
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:55,240
Speaker 2: at Oklahoma City with sixty four wins, like, sure, you

1374
01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:59,680
Speaker 2: take the split. The idea though that any game at

1375
01:14:59,720 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 2: this hour doesn't matter to any of these teams.

1376
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 3: I just don't look at it that way.

1377
01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:07,320
Speaker 5: I think it would matter but you're not gonna blow

1378
01:15:07,360 --> 01:15:08,879
Speaker 5: yourself out, No, no, no.

1379
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:14,800
Speaker 2: No, absolutely absolutely, But I like it is, like, just

1380
01:15:14,840 --> 01:15:16,840
Speaker 2: as an example for those of you who aren't locked

1381
01:15:16,880 --> 01:15:19,679
Speaker 2: into these standings, the Nuggets and Warriors are both playing

1382
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:22,640
Speaker 2: right now. If the Nuggets were to lose and the

1383
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:26,040
Speaker 2: Warriors were to win, the Warriors are the four seed.

1384
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:29,760
Speaker 2: If the Warriors lose this basketball game in the trail

1385
01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:32,719
Speaker 2: by one at half, I don't even know what seed

1386
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 2: they would be. I fee would be in a four

1387
01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:40,720
Speaker 2: way tie for five, six, seven, eight. Yeah, all four

1388
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 2: of those teams are the exact same record, and somebody

1389
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 2: else's guess is as good as mine in terms of

1390
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:49,960
Speaker 2: how that would shake out, though it doesn't matter because

1391
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:53,200
Speaker 2: the season doesn't end today, But all of them would

1392
01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:58,439
Speaker 2: have the exact same record and then head into next

1393
01:15:58,479 --> 01:16:03,880
Speaker 2: week and and everybody's got varying levels of difficulty with

1394
01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 2: regard to what is in front of them this week.

1395
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,240
Speaker 4: Let me say this, Nicola Jokic is the best player

1396
01:16:10,240 --> 01:16:10,799
Speaker 4: in the NBA.

1397
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:17,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is a pretty.

1398
01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:21,400
Speaker 4: Special, unguardable force yep in the NBA.

1399
01:16:21,680 --> 01:16:21,920
Speaker 3: Yep.

1400
01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:28,960
Speaker 5: Like, seriously, he's the one guy. There's nothing you can

1401
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:30,759
Speaker 5: do to stop him.

1402
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 3: Pretty much did you watch them play the t Wolves

1403
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:36,200
Speaker 3: last week? Yeah?

1404
01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 2: Okay, this was hah was that Tuesday night? So we're

1405
01:16:41,439 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 2: going back. We're going back almost almost almost the whole

1406
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:48,960
Speaker 2: week here. I think it was Tuesday night, the nightcap

1407
01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:52,080
Speaker 2: of what was a great day of NBA hoops all

1408
01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 2: across the board. But that was the game where Nicole

1409
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:58,720
Speaker 2: scored over sixty yes, and it went right sixty one

1410
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:01,799
Speaker 2: points and double overtime.

1411
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:04,439
Speaker 3: And all of that, and you could tell it was

1412
01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:05,599
Speaker 3: just like it got to a point.

1413
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:09,479
Speaker 2: He played fifty three minutes, he from he played fifty

1414
01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:13,800
Speaker 2: three minutes, and they put everything they had to do it,

1415
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 2: and in the overtime it was just like, here, take

1416
01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 2: the ball and just start moving people until you get

1417
01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:22,519
Speaker 2: to a spot where you feel like you want to

1418
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:22,920
Speaker 2: shoot it.

1419
01:17:22,960 --> 01:17:25,440
Speaker 3: And he would do it over and over and over again.

1420
01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:27,519
Speaker 2: And you got all the way down to the end

1421
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,120
Speaker 2: and Russell Westbrook just ruined it.

1422
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:35,759
Speaker 3: He just ruined it for everyone, which he is prone

1423
01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:36,000
Speaker 3: to do.

1424
01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:39,599
Speaker 4: One that is Look, I've always been a Russ fan,

1425
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:43,320
Speaker 4: but when he came to the Lakers, it drove me

1426
01:17:43,439 --> 01:17:47,599
Speaker 4: crazy because I was like, what is he doing? Oh dude,

1427
01:17:48,840 --> 01:17:52,400
Speaker 4: I didn't know he would he would himself.

1428
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:56,160
Speaker 5: Stop an eleven oh run, Like if the Lakers were

1429
01:17:56,720 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 5: were on an eleven old run to get back into

1430
01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 5: a game, he himself would stop it, yep, and throw

1431
01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:06,240
Speaker 5: the momentum out of that like it was. I was

1432
01:18:06,360 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 5: like that lay up underneath the rim, don't get it

1433
01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:11,600
Speaker 5: over it, like all of it, bru. He used to

1434
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:16,360
Speaker 5: drive me for airball to three pointer for no reason.

1435
01:18:16,479 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 3: Well, that's the thing.

1436
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:20,080
Speaker 2: Sometimes this guy will splash a three and on the

1437
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:23,679
Speaker 2: next possession he'll pull up from sixteen feet and throw

1438
01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:27,880
Speaker 2: it twelve. It's like what I've never seen an NBA

1439
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:31,280
Speaker 2: player like him is so hot, just like what it's

1440
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 2: not even hot and cold like it is. But it's

1441
01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 2: also like, how's that possible? Like you're in the NBA,

1442
01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:42,120
Speaker 2: you have an e trophy like and that crazy.

1443
01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:42,679
Speaker 3: Oh my god.

1444
01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:43,960
Speaker 2: So the end of the game, for those of you

1445
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:46,920
Speaker 2: who didn't see it, Denver's up one. He does a

1446
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:49,599
Speaker 2: great job by getting a steal. He gets the ball.

1447
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:53,040
Speaker 2: There's twenty seconds to go. You have the lead, you

1448
01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:55,680
Speaker 2: have the ball. Do the math. What do you do,

1449
01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:58,240
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen when you've got the lead and the

1450
01:18:58,280 --> 01:18:59,920
Speaker 2: ball and twenty seconds to go?

1451
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:01,040
Speaker 3: What do you do?

1452
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:05,439
Speaker 2: Well, if you're Russell Westbrook, you run like a bat

1453
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:10,880
Speaker 2: shot out of heaven, straight for the hoop and try

1454
01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:17,200
Speaker 2: to break as if somebody's chasing you. Run to the hoop,

1455
01:19:17,760 --> 01:19:20,559
Speaker 2: try a layup and hit the bottom of the rim

1456
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:20,880
Speaker 2: with it.

1457
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:25,200
Speaker 4: And then and then, not to.

1458
01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:29,040
Speaker 2: Be out done, but the other way and double your

1459
01:19:29,120 --> 01:19:32,759
Speaker 2: mistake by fouling a three point shooter with zero point

1460
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:34,639
Speaker 2: one seconds left on the clock.

1461
01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:35,960
Speaker 3: Amazing.

1462
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:39,560
Speaker 2: It's the most incredible finish I've ever seen from an individual.

1463
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:45,240
Speaker 3: Unbelievable, un be believable.

1464
01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 2: All Right, I didn't get to ask you my NFL question,

1465
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:51,639
Speaker 2: but we have another hour to go, so that works out.

1466
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:53,760
Speaker 3: Well, we'll do that coming up next.

1467
01:19:55,080 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 2: You're listening to sports down the stretch we come.

1468
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:03,440
Speaker 3: I'm into the night on Fox Sports Radio. College basketball

1469
01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 3: is down to two. You go, Draymond, here we go. Yeah,

1470
01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:11,639
Speaker 3: we got a lot, Yeah we go. Yeah.

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01:20:11,720 --> 01:20:14,200
Speaker 2: It's had that look the whole night. It's a little

1472
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:16,400
Speaker 2: bit of a throwback Draymond game. He's been on his

1473
01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:19,759
Speaker 2: best behavior this year, but I would say for about

1474
01:20:19,760 --> 01:20:22,120
Speaker 2: the last forty five minutes, this has had the look

1475
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:22,839
Speaker 2: of a game.

1476
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 3: That he's just not long for. So anyway, there is.

1477
01:20:28,760 --> 01:20:32,160
Speaker 2: There is a review underway right now Golden State on

1478
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:36,120
Speaker 2: what may be an offensive foul and Draymond's fifth foul

1479
01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:38,120
Speaker 2: of the game, or it.

1480
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:40,759
Speaker 3: May get overturned and be an end one. We'll see.

1481
01:20:41,240 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 2: But it's hot and heavy there with Houston up by

1482
01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:46,040
Speaker 2: seven there later in the game in Denver where the

1483
01:20:46,040 --> 01:20:48,920
Speaker 2: Pacers with nine minutes to go lead by three. So

1484
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:54,720
Speaker 2: we're yeah, yeah, Laker fans are clapping right now broadcasting

1485
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Speaker 2: live tyrack dot com studios. Tyrack dot com will help

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1490
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:14,760
Speaker 2: Not the biggest of names though it was a few

1491
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:17,599
Speaker 2: years ago, but I would really love to know what

1492
01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 2: your thoughts are on Trey Lance signing to be a

1493
01:21:23,560 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 2: backup quarterback to Justin Herbert with the Los Angeles Chargers.

1494
01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:31,759
Speaker 2: Thing he's great for him, Okay, doesn't he need to play?

1495
01:21:31,880 --> 01:21:33,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, but he's not gonna play. There's not a team

1496
01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:36,400
Speaker 5: that's gonna take a shot on him being a starter

1497
01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:41,000
Speaker 5: without him in the NFL without him, where's he gonna go?

1498
01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:43,200
Speaker 5: Did UFL or Canadian?

1499
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:45,200
Speaker 4: You don't why that?

1500
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:45,760
Speaker 3: Why?

1501
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:50,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you don't leave the league to go somewhere

1502
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:54,320
Speaker 5: to get back to the league. That's hustling backwards. As

1503
01:21:54,360 --> 01:21:57,800
Speaker 5: we say in the neighborhood, right, you don't leave the

1504
01:21:57,920 --> 01:22:01,719
Speaker 5: league to go somewhere to get back to the league.

1505
01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:08,880
Speaker 5: You stay in the league. And you know, look at

1506
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:12,360
Speaker 5: the rebirth of Sam Darnold, look at the rebirth of

1507
01:22:12,439 --> 01:22:16,040
Speaker 5: Geno Smith. Look at they They didn't go to the

1508
01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:20,760
Speaker 5: UFL or to Canada so they can play. They're all

1509
01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:25,120
Speaker 5: first round draft picks. No, you write it out. If

1510
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:27,840
Speaker 5: you get an opportunity to get in a game, you

1511
01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:30,920
Speaker 5: got to show up and show out. If someone gets hurt,

1512
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:33,639
Speaker 5: you have to be able to get into the game

1513
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:39,559
Speaker 5: and win a game, win a couple of games. That's

1514
01:22:39,600 --> 01:22:42,280
Speaker 5: the If you're not coming into a team as a starter,

1515
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:45,280
Speaker 5: then you got to come in. You gotta learn the system.

1516
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:48,000
Speaker 5: You got to prepare like you're the starter, and if

1517
01:22:48,040 --> 01:22:55,599
Speaker 5: given opportunity, uh with something unfortunate happening with injury, then

1518
01:22:55,680 --> 01:23:04,280
Speaker 5: you step up and you actually Jimmy Jimmy Garoppolo became

1519
01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 5: a starter because Tom Brady was out and they didn't

1520
01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:14,560
Speaker 5: miss a beat. Matt Flynn got a bag from Seattle.

1521
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:18,400
Speaker 4: Yes he did, from coming for coming in for a

1522
01:23:18,479 --> 01:23:21,240
Speaker 4: hot second in Green Bay.

1523
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 5: That's the formula. You don't go away from there to

1524
01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:30,880
Speaker 5: show people you can play against inferior talent.

1525
01:23:32,040 --> 01:23:33,240
Speaker 3: To try to get back.

1526
01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:39,599
Speaker 5: No, I'd rather do my playing in practice, and if

1527
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:44,800
Speaker 5: he gets an opportunity, then yeah, if I was him,

1528
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:47,640
Speaker 5: I would have went down to Miami. I would have

1529
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:51,800
Speaker 5: signed with Miami. If I was Miami, I would have

1530
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:56,000
Speaker 5: signed him. But I think that's a great pickup by

1531
01:23:56,439 --> 01:23:58,200
Speaker 5: the Chargers.

1532
01:23:59,120 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 3: Why why Miami?

1533
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:05,920
Speaker 4: Me because just given the injury history of Tua.

1534
01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:10,280
Speaker 2: No, but I like, why would Miami be interested in him?

1535
01:24:10,400 --> 01:24:12,280
Speaker 4: Oh? No, I mean they well who do they have

1536
01:24:12,320 --> 01:24:12,920
Speaker 4: as a backup?

1537
01:24:13,120 --> 01:24:13,800
Speaker 3: I don't even know.

1538
01:24:13,880 --> 01:24:16,080
Speaker 5: We ran into a bus all edge. It was just

1539
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:17,599
Speaker 5: grabbing guys from the stands.

1540
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 3: Well, but isn't that what like?

1541
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:22,720
Speaker 2: Okay, here's something I struggle with when it comes to

1542
01:24:22,760 --> 01:24:24,720
Speaker 2: players like Trey Lance. I don't want to make it

1543
01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:28,080
Speaker 2: about Trey, but what does it say about a player

1544
01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:33,320
Speaker 2: when very highly drafted and it goes a certain place

1545
01:24:33,880 --> 01:24:36,439
Speaker 2: and he kind of never really gets an opportunity. Look,

1546
01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:39,680
Speaker 2: he was the starting quarterback to start a year, but

1547
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:42,200
Speaker 2: he got hurt. He got hurt in the second week

1548
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:46,479
Speaker 2: of the year, and that really effectively that was it,

1549
01:24:46,520 --> 01:24:48,760
Speaker 2: because it led to the rise of Brock Purty. And

1550
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:51,120
Speaker 2: he never really got another chance, and they had to

1551
01:24:51,120 --> 01:24:53,800
Speaker 2: get him somewhere else, and they did, and off he

1552
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:58,880
Speaker 2: went to the Dallas Cowboys, and the Dallas Cowboys took

1553
01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:00,439
Speaker 2: a look at him for a couple of year, yea,

1554
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:04,640
Speaker 2: and their starting quarterback got hurt.

1555
01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 3: And he's still never got on the field.

1556
01:25:08,880 --> 01:25:11,640
Speaker 2: I mean for a hot second here and there, but

1557
01:25:11,680 --> 01:25:14,880
Speaker 2: he never really got a chance. And so I never

1558
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:18,720
Speaker 2: know what to do when someone goes, hey, like, you

1559
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:21,679
Speaker 2: still don't know what Trey is. He's never he's never

1560
01:25:21,760 --> 01:25:22,519
Speaker 2: had a chance.

1561
01:25:22,640 --> 01:25:23,040
Speaker 3: We don't.

1562
01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:26,080
Speaker 5: The great thing about backup quarterbacks, yeah, you don't need

1563
01:25:26,120 --> 01:25:29,639
Speaker 5: them until you need them, understood, And so he's gonna

1564
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:32,040
Speaker 5: be in a system, he'll be able to get reps

1565
01:25:32,040 --> 01:25:34,080
Speaker 5: in practice and all of that if he does get

1566
01:25:34,120 --> 01:25:36,000
Speaker 5: to a situation. That's why I would have picked Miami

1567
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:38,880
Speaker 5: just given you know, I don't know if it was

1568
01:25:38,920 --> 01:25:40,639
Speaker 5: even offered, but you want to be in.

1569
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 4: A position to where you know something happened.

1570
01:25:45,240 --> 01:25:46,080
Speaker 3: Are you gonna make the shot?

1571
01:25:47,320 --> 01:25:50,439
Speaker 4: You get into a position where I'm watching all watching

1572
01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:52,759
Speaker 4: all the you know, I've got a nice little.

1573
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:57,240
Speaker 3: But I don't. You know.

1574
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:02,640
Speaker 5: He gets to go uh and learn under hardball. He

1575
01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:05,200
Speaker 5: gets to learn from a Justin Herbert who's a dynamic

1576
01:26:05,280 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 5: passer of the of the football. And so all of

1577
01:26:09,439 --> 01:26:14,559
Speaker 5: this is just him, you know, sharpening his tools. So

1578
01:26:14,640 --> 01:26:17,559
Speaker 5: when he gets a he gets an opportunity to cook.

1579
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:20,120
Speaker 5: He doesn't have a dull knife.

1580
01:26:19,920 --> 01:26:20,720
Speaker 3: I got you.

1581
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:23,720
Speaker 2: I guess what I guess what I'm getting at is

1582
01:26:23,800 --> 01:26:26,599
Speaker 2: whenever someone says, well, we haven't we haven't seen him,

1583
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:30,720
Speaker 2: my thought is, well, actually two different NFL coaches have

1584
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:31,719
Speaker 2: seen him every.

1585
01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:35,280
Speaker 3: Day for years, for a period of years.

1586
01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:40,200
Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan saw him for two and a half years.

1587
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:42,439
Speaker 5: Well, I think they had Kyle had to get off

1588
01:26:42,479 --> 01:26:46,439
Speaker 5: of him, right because they made the mistake. Okay, if

1589
01:26:46,479 --> 01:26:49,240
Speaker 5: you can't count, though, they made the mistake. So the

1590
01:26:49,320 --> 01:26:50,680
Speaker 5: furthest you can get away from the.

1591
01:26:50,640 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 3: Mistake, fair the better. Totally fair.

1592
01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 2: But then the Cowboys had him in practice for two

1593
01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:58,960
Speaker 2: years and and and Dak Prescott missed the better part

1594
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:03,360
Speaker 2: of a season, and they still didn't seem interested in doing.

1595
01:27:03,120 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 3: Anything about that.

1596
01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:08,800
Speaker 2: And so somewhere in that without my own eyes, I

1597
01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:13,080
Speaker 2: have to be able to infer that nobody's that impressed

1598
01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:16,200
Speaker 2: by him.

1599
01:27:16,520 --> 01:27:19,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, but going to the UFL or canon Canadian football,

1600
01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:21,400
Speaker 5: that's not going to change that.

1601
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:24,439
Speaker 3: That I understand that. Like, I get your point there,

1602
01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:28,120
Speaker 3: I guess I just I don't.

1603
01:27:28,200 --> 01:27:30,360
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do with this idea that

1604
01:27:31,160 --> 01:27:34,960
Speaker 2: a player like him quote hasn't had his chance.

1605
01:27:35,040 --> 01:27:36,599
Speaker 5: You know, they used to know he's had a chance.

1606
01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:40,320
Speaker 5: He hasn't done anything right, and injuries has stopped him

1607
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:42,960
Speaker 5: have a prolonged chance.

1608
01:27:43,120 --> 01:27:43,479
Speaker 3: I don't.

1609
01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:47,160
Speaker 2: I don't feel like talent at the professional level stays

1610
01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:51,080
Speaker 2: on the sideline for too long. It just does true

1611
01:27:51,360 --> 01:27:53,200
Speaker 2: like you're gonna find your way to the field.

1612
01:27:53,240 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, but one man's trash is another man's treasure. And

1613
01:27:56,320 --> 01:27:58,640
Speaker 5: two years Trey Lance could be a starting quarterback in

1614
01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 5: this league. And and and we're going to be having

1615
01:28:02,320 --> 01:28:06,559
Speaker 5: a whole different conversation. This past year and the last

1616
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:09,719
Speaker 5: couple of years has shown us rebirth is possible.

1617
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:11,120
Speaker 4: Look at Baker Mayfield.

1618
01:28:11,680 --> 01:28:13,680
Speaker 5: Look at these guys, man, these guys have come in

1619
01:28:14,720 --> 01:28:18,960
Speaker 5: and whatever the narrative was in any given year, they've

1620
01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:24,759
Speaker 5: changed it dramatically, and so just as long as they're working,

1621
01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:30,679
Speaker 5: they're getting better, they're understanding their craft and what's required

1622
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:33,080
Speaker 5: of them, then they got a shot. They obviously can

1623
01:28:33,120 --> 01:28:35,839
Speaker 5: throw the football, but can you do all the other things?

1624
01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 5: And that's sometimes it takes a little bit longer.

1625
01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:41,080
Speaker 3: Understood.

1626
01:28:41,400 --> 01:28:46,839
Speaker 2: No, I got you, but by the same token again

1627
01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:51,840
Speaker 2: to me, especially when you're talking about the politics of it,

1628
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:55,280
Speaker 2: when you're the number three overall pick, when you when

1629
01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:59,160
Speaker 2: you put all of all of those assets into into

1630
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:02,920
Speaker 2: picking that player, You've got teams, even the Cowboys. The

1631
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:06,519
Speaker 2: Cowboys it became like, oh, let's just do a flyer,

1632
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:09,679
Speaker 2: Like they gave up a fourth round draft pick, Yeah,

1633
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:11,240
Speaker 2: to bring him in and do nothing.

1634
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:13,240
Speaker 4: Now, I don't think it brought.

1635
01:29:13,120 --> 01:29:15,840
Speaker 3: Him in to just let him go two years later.

1636
01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:18,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know if they were doing a lot

1637
01:29:18,240 --> 01:29:20,519
Speaker 5: of developing over there. They got their own issues and

1638
01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:25,360
Speaker 5: their own problems. Uh, clearly, its hard enough for them

1639
01:29:25,400 --> 01:29:27,080
Speaker 5: to get a backup Braddy, he got to get starters

1640
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:29,719
Speaker 5: ready so that a little bit more on their plate.

1641
01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:35,200
Speaker 5: Didn't have the bandwidth to really develop someone, you know

1642
01:29:35,240 --> 01:29:37,480
Speaker 5: what I mean. So it's It's one of those situations

1643
01:29:37,479 --> 01:29:38,880
Speaker 5: where it's like, oh, okay, we get it.

1644
01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:40,960
Speaker 4: They're moving on. They got a lot of other questions

1645
01:29:40,960 --> 01:29:44,000
Speaker 4: to answer outside of sure, what are you doing with

1646
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:44,559
Speaker 4: Trey Lance?

1647
01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:46,680
Speaker 3: For sure? No, I got you.

1648
01:29:47,120 --> 01:29:50,560
Speaker 2: The whole the whole journey, The whole journey that's unfolded

1649
01:29:50,560 --> 01:29:53,680
Speaker 2: for him just leaves me scratching my head. Yeah, it's

1650
01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:59,240
Speaker 2: a head It's a complete head scratcher. Now in multiple places.

1651
01:29:59,240 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 2: It's a bigger head scratcher in his first place then

1652
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:02,160
Speaker 2: the second place.

1653
01:30:02,439 --> 01:30:05,080
Speaker 3: But the whole thing to me is just what a

1654
01:30:05,439 --> 01:30:06,479
Speaker 3: what a weird dude?

1655
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:09,080
Speaker 4: The kid only played sixteen games, and.

1656
01:30:09,240 --> 01:30:11,639
Speaker 2: That's what I mean, Like, he's not like the college

1657
01:30:11,680 --> 01:30:14,320
Speaker 2: experience followed by the NFL experience. The kids still barely

1658
01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:18,800
Speaker 2: played football yet yet millions of dollars and tons of

1659
01:30:18,880 --> 01:30:21,760
Speaker 2: draft assets have been poured into him.

1660
01:30:22,120 --> 01:30:27,000
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, I get it. It's weird, weird situation, man.

1661
01:30:28,040 --> 01:30:31,799
Speaker 2: Okay, I want to grab a little bit of something

1662
01:30:31,840 --> 01:30:35,720
Speaker 2: that's a not only happening in the NBA right now,

1663
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:40,639
Speaker 2: but also last night with Cooper Flag and the Duke

1664
01:30:40,680 --> 01:30:44,360
Speaker 2: Blue Devils down toward the end of that game. There's

1665
01:30:44,400 --> 01:30:47,519
Speaker 2: a call that is going to be talked about for

1666
01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:50,439
Speaker 2: a long time, and it's the one where Cooper gets

1667
01:30:50,439 --> 01:30:53,240
Speaker 2: called for going over the back on a rebound.

1668
01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:55,880
Speaker 3: And let's just call it what it was. It was

1669
01:30:55,920 --> 01:30:57,719
Speaker 3: a bad call. It's a bad call.

1670
01:30:57,960 --> 01:31:00,599
Speaker 2: It's not the only bad thing that Duke did down

1671
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:03,280
Speaker 2: the stretch, so they earned their loss in the end,

1672
01:31:03,680 --> 01:31:06,120
Speaker 2: but it's a very bad call that could have twisted

1673
01:31:06,160 --> 01:31:08,080
Speaker 2: the game in a different direction.

1674
01:31:08,880 --> 01:31:12,880
Speaker 3: Let's get into the anatomy of a bad call.

1675
01:31:13,880 --> 01:31:18,320
Speaker 2: From the perspective of a fan and how to kind

1676
01:31:18,320 --> 01:31:21,920
Speaker 2: of move through that when a bad call hits your

1677
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:23,679
Speaker 2: team at the wrong time.

1678
01:31:24,120 --> 01:31:25,200
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1679
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1701
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Speaker 2: I bet you have one or two of these or twelve. Like,

1702
01:32:31,479 --> 01:32:39,679
Speaker 2: think back to your career. Any calls still bother you, man,

1703
01:32:42,320 --> 01:32:44,080
Speaker 2: It's gotta be some of course.

1704
01:32:44,120 --> 01:32:46,599
Speaker 5: I mean you played one hundred and fifty nine games

1705
01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:52,840
Speaker 5: or something like that. Yeah, you know, but.

1706
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:58,759
Speaker 4: You know, the no calls, the calls, it's.

1707
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:02,720
Speaker 5: All part of the game. Sure, it literally is all

1708
01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:05,920
Speaker 5: part of the game. And to get hung up on the.

1709
01:33:08,400 --> 01:33:11,120
Speaker 4: You know, the one that's called or not call, it's

1710
01:33:11,560 --> 01:33:16,160
Speaker 4: it's Ebbs and flows, man, big game, small games.

1711
01:33:17,280 --> 01:33:20,320
Speaker 5: Should that call have been called No, not at that moment.

1712
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:25,840
Speaker 5: Did he make contact from behind him? Yeah, it was

1713
01:33:25,880 --> 01:33:28,760
Speaker 5: a good box out, But would I have made that call?

1714
01:33:28,880 --> 01:33:28,960
Speaker 4: No?

1715
01:33:29,400 --> 01:33:33,040
Speaker 2: Interesting, So so you thought it was about timing and

1716
01:33:33,160 --> 01:33:35,400
Speaker 2: by the way, for those yeah I did. We're talking

1717
01:33:35,400 --> 01:33:38,719
Speaker 2: about Cooper flag getting called for the over the back foul.

1718
01:33:39,120 --> 01:33:41,880
Speaker 2: I didn't even see it as a foul at any time.

1719
01:33:41,880 --> 01:33:44,400
Speaker 2: I didn't see it as a foul with with ten

1720
01:33:44,439 --> 01:33:45,280
Speaker 2: seconds into.

1721
01:33:45,040 --> 01:33:47,080
Speaker 3: The game, I did not see that as a foul.

1722
01:33:50,120 --> 01:33:54,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, but it's like most files are interpreted

1723
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:55,639
Speaker 5: for interpretation.

1724
01:33:55,160 --> 01:33:57,800
Speaker 3: So yeah, I guess, you know, I guess.

1725
01:33:57,840 --> 01:34:01,080
Speaker 5: I mean, was there contact as a player was boxing

1726
01:34:01,080 --> 01:34:03,320
Speaker 5: out at you tried to go over the top of them?

1727
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:06,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, well, I mean boxing out in and

1728
01:34:07,000 --> 01:34:08,360
Speaker 2: of itself is contact.

1729
01:34:08,520 --> 01:34:09,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.

1730
01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:14,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, the defender doesn't have the right to elevate over

1731
01:34:14,520 --> 01:34:17,760
Speaker 5: the shoulder or make contact forcibly in the back of

1732
01:34:18,280 --> 01:34:21,040
Speaker 5: the player in position for the rebound.

1733
01:34:21,160 --> 01:34:24,639
Speaker 4: That's the that's what the law, the letter of the law.

1734
01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:28,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I yeah, I saw it as pretty as pretty clean.

1735
01:34:28,320 --> 01:34:31,519
Speaker 2: But I the larger and that's fine, you know, you

1736
01:34:31,520 --> 01:34:33,599
Speaker 2: you say it one way, I see it another that sports,

1737
01:34:33,640 --> 01:34:34,439
Speaker 2: but I I like.

1738
01:34:35,320 --> 01:34:39,840
Speaker 5: Let me tell you this hit me. These two games

1739
01:34:39,840 --> 01:34:40,880
Speaker 5: are magnificent.

1740
01:34:40,960 --> 01:34:42,559
Speaker 3: They're pretty, they're preretty good.

1741
01:34:42,640 --> 01:34:46,320
Speaker 5: Team point eight seconds left in the Pacers Nuggets game.

1742
01:34:47,439 --> 01:34:52,599
Speaker 4: The Pacers are up by two. Yep, Denver had the ball.

1743
01:34:53,080 --> 01:34:57,400
Speaker 5: Nikola Jokicz just turned it over with fifteen seconds left.

1744
01:34:57,439 --> 01:35:02,000
Speaker 5: Obviously the Pacers have to foul. H Man, this is

1745
01:35:02,160 --> 01:35:07,120
Speaker 5: great Golden State and Houston seventy seven, seventy four left

1746
01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:07,920
Speaker 5: in the third.

1747
01:35:07,840 --> 01:35:12,240
Speaker 3: And chippy and chippy, hippy, chippy. Draymond's got five fouls he's.

1748
01:35:12,120 --> 01:35:16,120
Speaker 2: Been on the bench and uh yeah, this this one.

1749
01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:18,000
Speaker 4: High level basketball. Yeah right now.

1750
01:35:18,120 --> 01:35:20,639
Speaker 5: But the thing I love about this is because it's

1751
01:35:20,680 --> 01:35:24,800
Speaker 5: coming down the stretch and teams are jockeying for playoff playoffs,

1752
01:35:25,160 --> 01:35:26,760
Speaker 5: and this is playoff basketball.

1753
01:35:28,479 --> 01:35:30,800
Speaker 3: This is playoff basketball. That's exactly what it is.

1754
01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:34,639
Speaker 2: That's exactly what it is, which is why I kind of, well,

1755
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:39,759
Speaker 2: I fully understand where you're coming from. Like, that's why

1756
01:35:40,400 --> 01:35:43,760
Speaker 2: the idea of hey, we're gonna set our players for

1757
01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:45,280
Speaker 2: the set, Like, do you really think the Lakers are

1758
01:35:45,280 --> 01:35:46,240
Speaker 2: gonna sit a bunch of people?

1759
01:35:47,320 --> 01:35:49,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would.

1760
01:35:49,640 --> 01:35:50,720
Speaker 3: Play that a different way.

1761
01:35:51,520 --> 01:35:55,559
Speaker 2: I really would like I'd go in with the idea

1762
01:35:55,680 --> 01:35:57,720
Speaker 2: that maybe let's see if we can peel off some

1763
01:35:57,840 --> 01:36:00,200
Speaker 2: minutes here or there. And if you're in the north

1764
01:36:00,320 --> 01:36:04,080
Speaker 2: quarter and you're down by seventeen, sure, take a seat.

1765
01:36:04,520 --> 01:36:07,360
Speaker 2: Take a seat. No, I'd give it a look, though,

1766
01:36:07,439 --> 01:36:10,759
Speaker 2: he who knows. Maybe maybe your role players are raigning

1767
01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:15,200
Speaker 2: threes again, and Oklahoma City, who's lost to in a row,

1768
01:36:15,479 --> 01:36:18,880
Speaker 2: maybe maybe their mojo is, you know, maybe their confidence

1769
01:36:19,000 --> 01:36:20,639
Speaker 2: is a little shaken after today.

1770
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:23,120
Speaker 3: I'd give it a look and try to win that game.

1771
01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:26,200
Speaker 5: I think they can win that game without suiting those

1772
01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:29,280
Speaker 5: guys up, really, because I don't know who OKAC is

1773
01:36:29,280 --> 01:36:30,040
Speaker 5: gonna be suiting up.

1774
01:36:30,200 --> 01:36:32,840
Speaker 3: Well, if you know they're done, they're done.

1775
01:36:32,880 --> 01:36:36,519
Speaker 5: There is nothing that can happen. Well, they're done there.

1776
01:36:37,600 --> 01:36:39,960
Speaker 5: I think that there's nothing that can happen. They can

1777
01:36:40,040 --> 01:36:42,200
Speaker 5: lose the last four games.

1778
01:36:42,479 --> 01:36:45,519
Speaker 2: No, they could lose home court advantage in the NBA Finals.

1779
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:49,080
Speaker 2: If they do that, Oh, what's that good? There are

1780
01:36:49,080 --> 01:36:52,400
Speaker 2: two games up right now on Cleveland. I don't know

1781
01:36:52,400 --> 01:36:57,000
Speaker 2: if they're worried about Cleve Well, but I don't. I don't.

1782
01:36:57,640 --> 01:36:58,960
Speaker 3: I don't know either. I don't know.

1783
01:36:59,040 --> 01:37:02,040
Speaker 5: He got that's that that's the problem. Once you over

1784
01:37:02,120 --> 01:37:03,320
Speaker 5: there they got some size on it.

1785
01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:04,240
Speaker 3: They've got size.

1786
01:37:04,320 --> 01:37:07,240
Speaker 2: They've got they definitely have size.

1787
01:37:08,080 --> 01:37:11,760
Speaker 3: They've also really cooled off. I don't know if you

1788
01:37:11,840 --> 01:37:13,519
Speaker 3: notice what they do down there today. Oh yea, yeah,

1789
01:37:13,560 --> 01:37:16,160
Speaker 3: the Kings was on them. They lost a home game.

1790
01:37:16,560 --> 01:37:20,240
Speaker 5: But look to but look what I'm saying is the

1791
01:37:20,360 --> 01:37:23,240
Speaker 5: Kings are playing for a play in and a playoff

1792
01:37:23,280 --> 01:37:27,600
Speaker 5: birth sure, and so all of these games. This is

1793
01:37:27,640 --> 01:37:30,519
Speaker 5: when this is the real sweet spot of the NBA season,

1794
01:37:30,600 --> 01:37:33,439
Speaker 5: especially with the play in the last few years, since

1795
01:37:33,439 --> 01:37:35,960
Speaker 5: the play in this last week of the NBA has

1796
01:37:35,960 --> 01:37:37,080
Speaker 5: been unbelievable.

1797
01:37:37,120 --> 01:37:37,919
Speaker 3: It's been incredible.

1798
01:37:37,960 --> 01:37:41,120
Speaker 5: It's been everybody's playing, everybody's given what they I mean,

1799
01:37:41,320 --> 01:37:44,759
Speaker 5: the Lakers went into the number one seed by a mile,

1800
01:37:45,760 --> 01:37:53,160
Speaker 5: by seventeen games and asserted their dominance. That's a message

1801
01:37:54,000 --> 01:38:01,679
Speaker 5: for sure. That's sending a message, and everybody sending messages.

1802
01:38:01,720 --> 01:38:03,720
Speaker 5: I mean you you look at these players playing there.

1803
01:38:03,920 --> 01:38:09,320
Speaker 5: They're playing, and the Pacers are gonna come away with

1804
01:38:09,360 --> 01:38:10,640
Speaker 5: the victory.

1805
01:38:11,920 --> 01:38:15,439
Speaker 3: Yes, one down, one to go, that's big. One down,

1806
01:38:15,479 --> 01:38:18,639
Speaker 3: one to go, that is big. Ye yeah, come on, Austin.

1807
01:38:18,840 --> 01:38:24,160
Speaker 2: The Denver Nuggets have quietly lost four basketball games in

1808
01:38:24,160 --> 01:38:27,280
Speaker 2: a row. Yep, and it also you know, we were

1809
01:38:27,360 --> 01:38:28,960
Speaker 2: laughing and going crazy over that.

1810
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:29,919
Speaker 3: Russell Westbrook.

1811
01:38:29,960 --> 01:38:33,160
Speaker 2: Think last Tuesday night, the Nuggets lost that game one

1812
01:38:33,200 --> 01:38:34,800
Speaker 2: hundred and forty to one hundred and thirty nine and

1813
01:38:34,840 --> 01:38:39,639
Speaker 2: doublet They had to play the very next night against

1814
01:38:39,680 --> 01:38:42,559
Speaker 2: San Antonio. But this zat everybody butt Russ, which felt

1815
01:38:42,640 --> 01:38:45,320
Speaker 2: like a punishment. I don't know if you took it

1816
01:38:45,360 --> 01:38:49,599
Speaker 2: that way, but everybody good on Denver sat and they're like, here, Russ,

1817
01:38:49,680 --> 01:38:54,080
Speaker 2: you go play, and and he did, and he scored

1818
01:38:54,120 --> 01:38:56,679
Speaker 2: thirty and they still lost. They lost that home game

1819
01:38:57,040 --> 01:38:59,800
Speaker 2: to the Spurs. Then there was the aforementioned trip to

1820
01:38:59,800 --> 01:39:04,040
Speaker 2: Golden State on Friday night where the Warriors came in

1821
01:39:04,040 --> 01:39:09,320
Speaker 2: in theory exhausted but won by They won by fourteen points.

1822
01:39:10,320 --> 01:39:14,800
Speaker 2: And now this back home, rested and you lost to Indiana.

1823
01:39:14,960 --> 01:39:18,840
Speaker 4: Like I said, all of these that's wild, man, Yeah,

1824
01:39:18,880 --> 01:39:20,320
Speaker 4: that's do you.

1825
01:39:20,280 --> 01:39:23,960
Speaker 2: Want to know what no one's even thought about, brother,

1826
01:39:24,000 --> 01:39:26,320
Speaker 2: The Nuggets could end like if this doesn't go well,

1827
01:39:27,640 --> 01:39:31,839
Speaker 2: the play in tournament, Like, no joke.

1828
01:39:31,720 --> 01:39:33,840
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right. Right now they are.

1829
01:39:33,720 --> 01:39:38,320
Speaker 2: A half game clear of the play in tournament and

1830
01:39:38,439 --> 01:39:40,960
Speaker 2: uh and and looking at what they've got coming up

1831
01:39:41,120 --> 01:39:44,040
Speaker 2: next after this lost to Indiana, they have to go

1832
01:39:44,080 --> 01:39:46,559
Speaker 2: to Sacramento their rest now for a couple of nights.

1833
01:39:46,920 --> 01:39:49,040
Speaker 3: They'll go to Sacramento on Wednesday.

1834
01:39:49,680 --> 01:39:52,679
Speaker 2: They have Memphis come them on Friday, and they finished

1835
01:39:52,720 --> 01:39:53,919
Speaker 2: in Houston on Sunday.

1836
01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:56,280
Speaker 3: There's no picnics in.

1837
01:39:56,240 --> 01:40:04,800
Speaker 2: There, no picnics, all three teams that need those wins. Yeah,

1838
01:40:05,000 --> 01:40:07,920
Speaker 2: that is a concept I hadn't even thought of until

1839
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:10,680
Speaker 2: just now, that the Nuggets could end up in the

1840
01:40:10,680 --> 01:40:11,479
Speaker 2: playing tournament.

1841
01:40:14,160 --> 01:40:17,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, because as it sits now, they're tied for.

1842
01:40:17,479 --> 01:40:24,160
Speaker 2: Six right, Yeah, they're forty seven and thirty two and

1843
01:40:24,200 --> 01:40:26,960
Speaker 2: everyone else is forty six and thirty two. And the

1844
01:40:26,960 --> 01:40:29,280
Speaker 2: Warriors are forty six and thirty one. But they trail

1845
01:40:29,320 --> 01:40:31,200
Speaker 2: as they start the fourth quarter against Houston.

1846
01:40:31,360 --> 01:40:34,719
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1847
01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:35,280
Speaker 4: Whoa.

1848
01:40:35,800 --> 01:40:37,840
Speaker 5: That's why that game today was so important for the

1849
01:40:39,160 --> 01:40:40,200
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness.

1850
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:43,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was big. It was big. It was big.

1851
01:40:43,720 --> 01:40:49,559
Speaker 2: But you know, you're sort of advocating kicking to a

1852
01:40:49,640 --> 01:40:53,880
Speaker 2: degree the game on on is it Tuesday, yes, Kik,

1853
01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:58,800
Speaker 2: But what if you also don't win on Wednesday?

1854
01:40:58,840 --> 01:41:00,960
Speaker 3: I know you got to win, but but you might

1855
01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:01,400
Speaker 3: not know.

1856
01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:03,360
Speaker 4: But you have to but but you might not No,

1857
01:41:03,400 --> 01:41:04,000
Speaker 4: but you have to.

1858
01:41:04,280 --> 01:41:08,879
Speaker 3: Well, Okay. I know I've watched a lot of sports.

1859
01:41:08,880 --> 01:41:10,920
Speaker 2: You're not allowed to just say we have to and

1860
01:41:10,920 --> 01:41:12,559
Speaker 2: then that automatically means it happened.

1861
01:41:12,600 --> 01:41:15,000
Speaker 3: No, but you have to, like you have to go,

1862
01:41:15,400 --> 01:41:16,639
Speaker 3: but you gotta go win that game.

1863
01:41:16,720 --> 01:41:18,120
Speaker 4: You're right, but it's it's not.

1864
01:41:18,000 --> 01:41:20,719
Speaker 3: Gonna be easy. That's going to be a very emotional environment.

1865
01:41:20,880 --> 01:41:25,000
Speaker 4: Obviously, good emotions, all of that stuff, right, Gotta win

1866
01:41:25,040 --> 01:41:25,360
Speaker 4: that game.

1867
01:41:25,439 --> 01:41:27,680
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis is getting ready for that game too. He

1868
01:41:27,800 --> 01:41:28,639
Speaker 3: is getting ready for the game.

1869
01:41:28,640 --> 01:41:33,000
Speaker 2: He's probably gonna have fifty if I were him, If

1870
01:41:33,040 --> 01:41:35,439
Speaker 2: I were him, I would be the most motivated guy

1871
01:41:35,479 --> 01:41:36,240
Speaker 2: out of all of them.

1872
01:41:36,600 --> 01:41:40,439
Speaker 3: Draymond's back in the game. Is hegel foul out at

1873
01:41:40,479 --> 01:41:45,760
Speaker 3: some point? We'll see how it goes? Black someone Eye? Yeah?

1874
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:53,160
Speaker 3: You know who else is back? Uh, Steve the Sayer, Yeah,

1875
01:41:53,280 --> 01:41:53,960
Speaker 3: that's he's back.

1876
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:57,639
Speaker 7: Hello again, gentlemen. And it wasn't just a Denver loss

1877
01:41:57,680 --> 01:42:00,320
Speaker 7: at home. It was a loss where Nicole yo Kitch

1878
01:42:00,360 --> 01:42:03,479
Speaker 7: had another triple double and it was forty one points,

1879
01:42:03,880 --> 01:42:08,720
Speaker 7: twelve rebound, fifteen rebound excuse me, and thirteen assists. But

1880
01:42:08,800 --> 01:42:12,000
Speaker 7: the Pacers win one twenty five one twenty at Denver,

1881
01:42:12,080 --> 01:42:15,080
Speaker 7: which leaves us to the two late games. They've started

1882
01:42:15,120 --> 01:42:18,080
Speaker 7: the fourth quarter at Golden State. The lead is Houston

1883
01:42:18,160 --> 01:42:21,320
Speaker 7: eighty three seventy nine over the Warriors. And in this

1884
01:42:21,479 --> 01:42:24,599
Speaker 7: game Golden State Steph Curry is one of eight shooting

1885
01:42:24,640 --> 01:42:28,240
Speaker 7: from the floor three points, Starter Moses Moody one of seven,

1886
01:42:28,400 --> 01:42:33,280
Speaker 7: three points, Draymond Green one of five two points and

1887
01:42:33,400 --> 01:42:38,000
Speaker 7: five fouls, and they're still in this game. Milwaukee up

1888
01:42:38,040 --> 01:42:40,439
Speaker 7: one O one ninety five at New Orleans with under

1889
01:42:40,479 --> 01:42:43,360
Speaker 7: four minutes to go. Janis Antenakumpo out tonight with a

1890
01:42:43,360 --> 01:42:46,080
Speaker 7: bad shoulder, twenty six points for the Bucks, Gary Trent

1891
01:42:46,200 --> 01:42:49,240
Speaker 7: Junior everything else as a final. New York beat Phoenix

1892
01:42:49,280 --> 01:42:52,759
Speaker 7: one twelve ninety eight. Jalen Brunson returned, had fifteen points.

1893
01:42:52,800 --> 01:42:54,920
Speaker 7: He missed a month with a sprained ankle. Og On

1894
01:42:55,000 --> 01:42:57,680
Speaker 7: and Obi thirty two points for the Knicks. Boston and

1895
01:42:57,720 --> 01:43:00,840
Speaker 7: Atlanta each one at home Portland, as well road wins

1896
01:43:00,840 --> 01:43:04,400
Speaker 7: for Chicago, Toronto and Sacramento, which won at Cleveland won

1897
01:43:04,439 --> 01:43:08,000
Speaker 7: twenty to one thirteen. Zach Lavine of the Kings thirty

1898
01:43:08,080 --> 01:43:11,240
Speaker 7: seven points. He was fifteen of twenty one shooting from

1899
01:43:11,240 --> 01:43:14,600
Speaker 7: the floor. The Bulls Kobe White thirty seven points in

1900
01:43:14,640 --> 01:43:18,120
Speaker 7: their win at Charlotte won thirty one one seventeen, and

1901
01:43:18,160 --> 01:43:21,040
Speaker 7: the Lakers won at Oklahoma City won twenty six to

1902
01:43:21,160 --> 01:43:24,639
Speaker 7: ninety nine. Talk about it despite shay Giljes Alexander having

1903
01:43:24,720 --> 01:43:29,599
Speaker 7: twenty six points, Nina Sis one turnover, Lukadoncic with thirty points.

1904
01:43:29,600 --> 01:43:31,920
Speaker 7: In fact, the Lakers shot fifty five percent from the

1905
01:43:31,960 --> 01:43:35,679
Speaker 7: floor from three point range twenty two for forty Today.

1906
01:43:36,040 --> 01:43:39,479
Speaker 7: The Lakers lead in the second quarter was seventy three

1907
01:43:39,520 --> 01:43:42,439
Speaker 7: to forty four. These two will play each other again

1908
01:43:42,520 --> 01:43:46,560
Speaker 7: on Tuesday, also in OKC. Lakers at Dallas on Wednesday.

1909
01:43:46,960 --> 01:43:50,479
Speaker 7: Dominance in the women's basketball National Championship game in Tampa,

1910
01:43:50,840 --> 01:43:54,800
Speaker 7: Yukon over South Carolina eighty two to fifty nine. The

1911
01:43:54,840 --> 01:43:58,679
Speaker 7: men's finalist Monday night, Florida versus Houston and SEC school

1912
01:43:58,760 --> 01:44:01,000
Speaker 7: has not won the National time Idol in men's hoops

1913
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:05,320
Speaker 7: since twenty twelve. Kentucky Nebraska took the College Basketball crown

1914
01:44:05,360 --> 01:44:08,400
Speaker 7: the New week long tournament in Vegas, NHL. Among the

1915
01:44:08,439 --> 01:44:11,839
Speaker 7: eight games, alex alex Ovechkin of the Caps did score

1916
01:44:11,960 --> 01:44:14,639
Speaker 7: a goal today, but it was the only one for Washington.

1917
01:44:14,680 --> 01:44:16,360
Speaker 7: For what it's worth, they lost four to one to

1918
01:44:16,400 --> 01:44:20,320
Speaker 7: the Islanders, but for Ovechkin career goal number eight ninety five,

1919
01:44:20,400 --> 01:44:24,160
Speaker 7: the most in NHL history. At the UFL Spring Football

1920
01:44:24,240 --> 01:44:26,640
Speaker 7: League on FS one tonight Saint Louis twenty six to

1921
01:44:26,720 --> 01:44:30,120
Speaker 7: nine over San Antonio. Danny Hamlin on FS one today,

1922
01:44:30,200 --> 01:44:33,479
Speaker 7: the NASCAR winner at Darlington. NASCAR's on FS one again

1923
01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:36,799
Speaker 7: next Sunday. It's a Major League Baseball Everything's now final

1924
01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:40,120
Speaker 7: because Boston was a winner tonight eighteen to seven over

1925
01:44:40,160 --> 01:44:43,679
Speaker 7: Saint Louis. After beating the Cardinals earlier today in ten innings,

1926
01:44:43,720 --> 01:44:47,240
Speaker 7: five to four. After yesterday's rainout, they sweeped two from

1927
01:44:47,280 --> 01:44:51,080
Speaker 7: the Cards today, five straight wins for Boston. San Francisco

1928
01:44:51,120 --> 01:44:54,000
Speaker 7: won its seventh in a row, five to four over Seattle.

1929
01:44:54,320 --> 01:44:57,440
Speaker 7: The Mets won their fourth straight, to to one against Toronto.

1930
01:44:57,560 --> 01:45:01,240
Speaker 7: Extra inning victories for both Houston and p Wsburg Miami

1931
01:45:01,320 --> 01:45:04,360
Speaker 7: at Atlanta rained out. Texas won its fifth straight game

1932
01:45:04,600 --> 01:45:07,920
Speaker 7: four to three over slumping Tampa Bay. And to the golf.

1933
01:45:08,000 --> 01:45:09,800
Speaker 7: We did get a win at the Texas Open for

1934
01:45:09,920 --> 01:45:12,920
Speaker 7: Brian Harmony won by three strokes. In San Antonio. The

1935
01:45:12,960 --> 01:45:16,759
Speaker 7: Master starts Thursday. Mark Leishman took the LIB golf event

1936
01:45:16,840 --> 01:45:20,320
Speaker 7: in Miami by one stroke. Sergio Garcia finished two back.

1937
01:45:21,360 --> 01:45:23,479
Speaker 7: The weather was not great for the PGA event in

1938
01:45:23,520 --> 01:45:26,720
Speaker 7: San Antonio, but a guy from Georgia now heads to

1939
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:31,040
Speaker 7: the Masters, winning this weekend's tournament. This guy, Brian Harmon,

1940
01:45:31,800 --> 01:45:34,800
Speaker 7: shoots a seventy five in the final round and still

1941
01:45:34,840 --> 01:45:38,080
Speaker 7: wins today in the wind and the cold. It is

1942
01:45:38,120 --> 01:45:41,799
Speaker 7: the highest final round score this season for a winner.

1943
01:45:41,960 --> 01:45:46,240
Speaker 7: In fact, the average score today was seventy five. Oh

1944
01:45:46,320 --> 01:45:51,639
Speaker 7: my goodness, it's this guy's first, his first PGA Tour

1945
01:45:51,720 --> 01:45:54,040
Speaker 7: title since winning the Open a couple of years ago,

1946
01:45:54,200 --> 01:45:57,559
Speaker 7: known for bad weather. His winner's check about one point

1947
01:45:57,720 --> 01:46:02,400
Speaker 7: seven million dollars. The unknown finishing second gets a million dollars.

1948
01:46:02,560 --> 01:46:07,120
Speaker 7: Very impressive. And then there's Andrew Novak, who was in

1949
01:46:07,120 --> 01:46:13,599
Speaker 7: contention and bogeyed fifteen, bogied seventeen, bogied the eighteen, eighteenth thoual.

1950
01:46:13,720 --> 01:46:15,840
Speaker 7: It wasn't just that on the eighteen he had a

1951
01:46:15,880 --> 01:46:18,559
Speaker 7: par putt and left it short and that dropped him

1952
01:46:18,600 --> 01:46:18,880
Speaker 7: to a.

1953
01:46:18,840 --> 01:46:19,679
Speaker 3: Tie for third.

1954
01:46:20,360 --> 01:46:23,320
Speaker 7: The difference between tying for third or tying for second

1955
01:46:23,400 --> 01:46:27,439
Speaker 7: place is two hundred and eighty five thousand dollars. That

1956
01:46:27,600 --> 01:46:32,280
Speaker 7: came down to that final putt of his ouch. The

1957
01:46:32,360 --> 01:46:36,599
Speaker 7: Live Golf Miami winner the Aussee Mark Leishman gets his

1958
01:46:36,640 --> 01:46:40,240
Speaker 7: first win since joining them and his first worldwide victory

1959
01:46:40,320 --> 01:46:43,360
Speaker 7: in four years, winning by a stroke over Charles Schwartzwel.

1960
01:46:43,400 --> 01:46:46,000
Speaker 7: He also gets extra cash because he was part of

1961
01:46:46,040 --> 01:46:48,599
Speaker 7: the team title as well that they do and Live Golf.

1962
01:46:49,320 --> 01:46:53,719
Speaker 7: Sergio Garcia finished third and takes home one point five

1963
01:46:53,800 --> 01:46:55,880
Speaker 7: million dollars for three days of golf.

1964
01:46:56,040 --> 01:46:56,559
Speaker 4: Quick math.

1965
01:46:56,760 --> 01:46:59,839
Speaker 7: That's a half a million dollars a day this weekend

1966
01:47:00,439 --> 01:47:02,920
Speaker 7: that he earned for golfing in Miami.

1967
01:47:03,120 --> 01:47:03,519
Speaker 4: Goodness.

1968
01:47:03,560 --> 01:47:09,759
Speaker 7: Great Carlos Ortiz finished fourth and takes home one million dollars.

1969
01:47:09,840 --> 01:47:12,559
Speaker 7: It was nice that the PGA second place guy a

1970
01:47:12,600 --> 01:47:15,960
Speaker 7: million dollars fourth place got a million at the live

1971
01:47:16,040 --> 01:47:19,519
Speaker 7: golf event and that guy Carlos Sortiz did finish just

1972
01:47:19,560 --> 01:47:24,080
Speaker 7: ahead of Bryson de Shambo and Phil Mickelson. This weekend again,

1973
01:47:24,120 --> 01:47:26,280
Speaker 7: the Masters is coming up Thursday.

1974
01:47:26,320 --> 01:47:28,839
Speaker 3: Back to you, Thank you, Steve, great stufford.

1975
01:47:28,840 --> 01:47:32,040
Speaker 2: We always love our golf update at seven thirty seven

1976
01:47:32,160 --> 01:47:35,120
Speaker 2: thirty our time out here in the in the West

1977
01:47:35,320 --> 01:47:36,880
Speaker 2: and uh even you know.

1978
01:47:36,840 --> 01:47:38,720
Speaker 4: When Steph Curry has three points.

1979
01:47:38,680 --> 01:47:40,920
Speaker 3: Three points, by the way, no, three points.

1980
01:47:40,920 --> 01:47:43,719
Speaker 5: No, I'm just saying like three points in the quarter

1981
01:47:43,840 --> 01:47:44,920
Speaker 5: and he only has three.

1982
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:47,040
Speaker 2: And did you see the three that he has? Yes,

1983
01:47:47,760 --> 01:47:49,760
Speaker 2: it was a pull up from about thirty five. Oh

1984
01:47:49,800 --> 01:47:52,519
Speaker 2: my god, what is happening it.

1985
01:47:52,560 --> 01:47:54,960
Speaker 3: With two seconds left to go in the uh in

1986
01:47:55,040 --> 01:47:59,080
Speaker 3: the in the magic the first that Juju ran out? Man,

1987
01:47:59,120 --> 01:48:01,000
Speaker 3: that magic we ran out.

1988
01:48:01,120 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 7: So in other words, aside from that shot, he'ser of

1989
01:48:03,560 --> 01:48:04,360
Speaker 7: eight from the floor.

1990
01:48:04,560 --> 01:48:08,599
Speaker 2: Correct, yeah, correct, yeah, good is great in twenty nine minutes.

1991
01:48:08,720 --> 01:48:11,719
Speaker 2: You know what I'm seeing from them right now? I'm

1992
01:48:11,760 --> 01:48:13,160
Speaker 2: seeing from them right now.

1993
01:48:13,280 --> 01:48:16,479
Speaker 3: You know. Have you ever like kind of pulled the

1994
01:48:16,560 --> 01:48:17,280
Speaker 3: all nighter?

1995
01:48:17,600 --> 01:48:19,840
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, or you do the thing where you're like,

1996
01:48:20,040 --> 01:48:21,720
Speaker 2: I gotta be up to get to the airport at

1997
01:48:21,760 --> 01:48:22,720
Speaker 2: three point thirty.

1998
01:48:22,400 --> 01:48:24,200
Speaker 3: In the morning. Yep, I'm just going to stay up.

1999
01:48:24,240 --> 01:48:26,519
Speaker 2: And you're like, I'm gonna be exhausted, and then you

2000
01:48:26,600 --> 01:48:29,840
Speaker 2: do it and you're you're kind of not You're not exhausted,

2001
01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:33,280
Speaker 2: but then you are the next day, yeah, catch or

2002
01:48:33,360 --> 01:48:37,760
Speaker 2: the two days like that's and Houston, Houston beats you up.

2003
01:48:37,960 --> 01:48:41,080
Speaker 2: They're a good defensive team and they've come in with

2004
01:48:41,120 --> 01:48:42,160
Speaker 2: a pretty good game plan.

2005
01:48:42,240 --> 01:48:44,160
Speaker 3: That's how this thing got real chippy here.

2006
01:48:45,040 --> 01:48:50,559
Speaker 2: But yeah, they look Steph, Steph looks he looks tired.

2007
01:48:51,320 --> 01:48:52,519
Speaker 3: He looks tired on this one.

2008
01:48:52,640 --> 01:48:55,760
Speaker 4: They put a lot of shots up last week.

2009
01:48:55,760 --> 01:48:58,240
Speaker 3: One hundred and twenty five points in the first three games.

2010
01:48:58,360 --> 01:49:00,160
Speaker 3: Is that a way out when seven.

2011
01:49:00,200 --> 01:49:05,879
Speaker 2: Now he's got one hundred and twenty eight, Yeah, rockets

2012
01:49:05,920 --> 01:49:08,880
Speaker 2: are up ten. Just went on a little rug that

2013
01:49:08,880 --> 01:49:11,040
Speaker 2: it's fro up ten six and a half.

2014
01:49:10,840 --> 01:49:11,599
Speaker 3: Minutes to go.

2015
01:49:12,600 --> 01:49:16,160
Speaker 4: Come on, y'all, yeah, come on that game on Tuesdays

2016
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:18,200
Speaker 4: looking less and less important.

2017
01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:20,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean.

2018
01:49:20,840 --> 01:49:23,880
Speaker 2: The wild thing is though, like as you say that,

2019
01:49:24,200 --> 01:49:26,800
Speaker 2: you sit here right now and say that, let's say

2020
01:49:26,800 --> 01:49:29,479
Speaker 2: that the Lakers do go ahead and kick that, and

2021
01:49:29,520 --> 01:49:32,680
Speaker 2: then they go to forty eight and thirty one. Like,

2022
01:49:34,200 --> 01:49:37,320
Speaker 2: that's that's a that's a game ahead. That's a game

2023
01:49:37,360 --> 01:49:38,840
Speaker 2: ahead of all the teams that are in the play.

2024
01:49:38,880 --> 01:49:41,040
Speaker 5: The magic number for us as fifty. We get to

2025
01:49:41,080 --> 01:49:42,320
Speaker 5: fifty wins, we're gonna.

2026
01:49:42,080 --> 01:49:44,160
Speaker 3: Be alright, which you should do.

2027
01:49:44,600 --> 01:49:47,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna be We get to fifty. That's that's

2028
01:49:47,479 --> 01:49:48,040
Speaker 4: that's the goal.

2029
01:49:48,120 --> 01:49:50,519
Speaker 2: Get to fifty does the does the and I we

2030
01:49:50,640 --> 01:49:53,280
Speaker 2: have this conversation. I feel like probably every other year

2031
01:49:53,320 --> 01:49:56,960
Speaker 2: of my life in watching NBA ball, But does the

2032
01:49:57,040 --> 01:50:01,040
Speaker 2: league ever have any interest in I mean, look at Okay,

2033
01:50:01,240 --> 01:50:06,160
Speaker 2: eighth in the West. Eighth in the West is forty

2034
01:50:06,240 --> 01:50:09,559
Speaker 2: six and thirty two. Let's just give all these teams,

2035
01:50:09,600 --> 01:50:11,400
Speaker 2: let's say they essentially.

2036
01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:13,559
Speaker 3: Play five hundred ball the rest of the way.

2037
01:50:15,040 --> 01:50:19,280
Speaker 2: Somebody who wins forty eight games is going to play

2038
01:50:19,320 --> 01:50:20,720
Speaker 2: for their lives.

2039
01:50:20,280 --> 01:50:21,000
Speaker 3: On the road.

2040
01:50:22,600 --> 01:50:23,360
Speaker 4: That's crazy.

2041
01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:24,120
Speaker 3: And if they.

2042
01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:28,000
Speaker 2: Lose that game, they'll get a home game one and done,

2043
01:50:28,240 --> 01:50:31,840
Speaker 2: like they get a March Madness game to see if

2044
01:50:31,840 --> 01:50:34,439
Speaker 2: they can make the playoffs, and if they do, they

2045
01:50:34,439 --> 01:50:38,720
Speaker 2: get to go to Oklahoma City two days later. Meantime

2046
01:50:41,600 --> 01:50:46,240
Speaker 2: on the other side of the country. Good lord, everybody

2047
01:50:46,280 --> 01:50:50,559
Speaker 2: in the play in tournament is under five hundred, all

2048
01:50:50,600 --> 01:50:53,479
Speaker 2: of them, all of them. And in fact, if you

2049
01:50:53,520 --> 01:50:55,760
Speaker 2: want to get all the way down to ten, and

2050
01:50:56,400 --> 01:50:59,280
Speaker 2: they've all clinched it, that's the other thing, my right,

2051
01:51:00,040 --> 01:51:02,759
Speaker 2: I'm a heat are thirty five and forty three.

2052
01:51:02,760 --> 01:51:05,080
Speaker 4: And they have a shot to be in the playoffs.

2053
01:51:04,600 --> 01:51:08,920
Speaker 2: And they have already locked up the ten seed because

2054
01:51:08,960 --> 01:51:11,240
Speaker 2: of all of the other teams doing such a wonderful

2055
01:51:11,320 --> 01:51:15,600
Speaker 2: job of tanking. The Raptors, Nets, Sixers, Hornets, and Wizards

2056
01:51:15,680 --> 01:51:19,200
Speaker 2: have all already been eliminated. Oh my god, what do

2057
01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:19,960
Speaker 2: we do with that?

2058
01:51:20,200 --> 01:51:20,400
Speaker 3: Man?

2059
01:51:20,560 --> 01:51:22,519
Speaker 4: Cooper Flag is looking at that like you, I'm not.

2060
01:51:24,840 --> 01:51:29,920
Speaker 2: Detroit Pistons have locked up a playoff spot, as have

2061
01:51:30,040 --> 01:51:33,640
Speaker 2: the Bucks, and both of them would be in the

2062
01:51:33,680 --> 01:51:37,080
Speaker 2: bottom bracket, the bottom half of the play and tournament.

2063
01:51:36,680 --> 01:51:37,160
Speaker 3: In the West.

2064
01:51:38,080 --> 01:51:47,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, if they were in the West. Yeah, it doesn't

2065
01:51:47,080 --> 01:51:50,519
Speaker 2: seem right. It's right, literally, don't right? That isn't it?

2066
01:51:50,520 --> 01:51:52,000
Speaker 4: It always is, always like that.

2067
01:51:52,720 --> 01:51:54,960
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01:51:55,040 --> 01:51:57,759
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2070
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2071
01:52:04,120 --> 01:52:07,840
Speaker 2: touches on this one. Mark Willardy from Salam Fox Sports Radio.

2072
01:52:10,240 --> 01:52:13,240
Speaker 2: All right, let's play with this tyreq dot Com Studios.

2073
01:52:13,320 --> 01:52:16,680
Speaker 2: Mark Willardy from Salam. Just about a handful seven or

2074
01:52:16,720 --> 01:52:18,680
Speaker 2: eight minutes left for us before we hand it over

2075
01:52:18,680 --> 01:52:23,080
Speaker 2: to PLANKT Spaniard. You'll be good on this. I want

2076
01:52:23,080 --> 01:52:27,760
Speaker 2: to ask you if you buy or sell this idea.

2077
01:52:28,880 --> 01:52:32,320
Speaker 2: Every year we get to this time, people are talking

2078
01:52:32,320 --> 01:52:36,639
Speaker 2: about playoff seedings and who scares them and who doesn't right,

2079
01:52:36,680 --> 01:52:38,800
Speaker 2: who's a good matchup, who's a bad matchup? You said

2080
01:52:38,800 --> 01:52:42,080
Speaker 2: it earlier, Denver is the only team you're kind of

2081
01:52:42,120 --> 01:52:47,120
Speaker 2: looking to avoid. And unless there is a at least

2082
01:52:47,120 --> 01:52:50,320
Speaker 2: a mini miracle here, Houston's gonna get this win at

2083
01:52:50,320 --> 01:52:52,720
Speaker 2: Golden State tonight. They're up by thirteen with three and

2084
01:52:52,760 --> 01:52:57,240
Speaker 2: a half left to go. So what I hear people

2085
01:52:57,320 --> 01:53:03,360
Speaker 2: say is, boy, if they haven't done it before, then

2086
01:53:03,439 --> 01:53:07,120
Speaker 2: you don't know if they can do it. So everybody

2087
01:53:07,240 --> 01:53:11,000
Speaker 2: loves the idea of that opponent that is sort of

2088
01:53:11,160 --> 01:53:17,160
Speaker 2: like new as far as the playoff advancement is concerned.

2089
01:53:17,160 --> 01:53:21,240
Speaker 2: That's why I hear people go no, no, no, Like you

2090
01:53:21,280 --> 01:53:24,440
Speaker 2: said it earlier, you got no worries about playing Oklahoma

2091
01:53:24,479 --> 01:53:28,120
Speaker 2: City despite the fact that they've lost a game like

2092
01:53:29,439 --> 01:53:32,920
Speaker 2: once every two weeks all year long, like they barely

2093
01:53:32,920 --> 01:53:36,640
Speaker 2: ever lose basketball games. You're like, yeah, piscake, because they

2094
01:53:36,680 --> 01:53:38,840
Speaker 2: haven't done it before. And I hear it even more

2095
01:53:39,360 --> 01:53:44,439
Speaker 2: about this team. This team, this is the team no

2096
01:53:44,479 --> 01:53:51,280
Speaker 2: one's talking about. And they're the ones who quietly separated

2097
01:53:51,360 --> 01:53:56,679
Speaker 2: themselves from this bucket of teams in the West that's

2098
01:53:56,760 --> 01:54:00,120
Speaker 2: all jumbled up. You know who's really chilling this week

2099
01:54:00,760 --> 01:54:06,479
Speaker 2: is the Houston Rockets and their babies, their pops. They're athletic,

2100
01:54:06,800 --> 01:54:11,360
Speaker 2: they defend, they've got moxie, they'll make you mad. Dylan

2101
01:54:11,400 --> 01:54:14,960
Speaker 2: Brooks is on the team, all of that stuff, But like,

2102
01:54:15,040 --> 01:54:16,920
Speaker 2: where are you with these guys?

2103
01:54:20,160 --> 01:54:24,479
Speaker 4: I think they're young and energetic and fun, and.

2104
01:54:26,000 --> 01:54:33,400
Speaker 5: That's not what the playoffs are. The playoffs aren't young,

2105
01:54:33,600 --> 01:54:39,480
Speaker 5: energetic and fun. It's a grind, it's a slugfest. It's

2106
01:54:39,560 --> 01:54:46,840
Speaker 5: adjustment after adjustment after adjustment. It's can you survive without

2107
01:54:46,840 --> 01:54:51,600
Speaker 5: your top player being your top player? Yeah, that's what

2108
01:54:51,640 --> 01:54:55,840
Speaker 5: the playoffs are. Well coached and and yeah, well coach,

2109
01:54:55,880 --> 01:54:56,600
Speaker 5: of course, coach.

2110
01:54:56,760 --> 01:55:00,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you've got to be able to go through it,

2111
01:55:00,240 --> 01:55:01,920
Speaker 4: like you gotta know what that is.

2112
01:55:02,680 --> 01:55:05,200
Speaker 5: We saw it with Minnesota and and Edwards last year.

2113
01:55:06,240 --> 01:55:08,520
Speaker 5: Remember how fun and energetic he was when he was

2114
01:55:08,560 --> 01:55:12,800
Speaker 5: going against KD and doing all of that, and he

2115
01:55:12,880 --> 01:55:19,600
Speaker 5: ran into a bus. Saw Yeah, exhausted. Yeah right, he'll

2116
01:55:19,640 --> 01:55:21,600
Speaker 5: be better in the playoffs this year.

2117
01:55:21,760 --> 01:55:22,160
Speaker 3: He won.

2118
01:55:22,360 --> 01:55:25,200
Speaker 2: He won a game seven on the road against the

2119
01:55:25,240 --> 01:55:28,440
Speaker 2: defending champs. Yeah you know, I mean, yeah, he ran

2120
01:55:28,480 --> 01:55:30,560
Speaker 2: into a buzzsaw, but that I don't know if that

2121
01:55:30,680 --> 01:55:31,680
Speaker 2: means he can't.

2122
01:55:31,680 --> 01:55:34,240
Speaker 4: No, no, But what I'm saying is he'll be better

2123
01:55:34,360 --> 01:55:36,400
Speaker 4: this year. Yes, right.

2124
01:55:37,160 --> 01:55:41,800
Speaker 5: This is the team where they're like the hardest thing

2125
01:55:41,960 --> 01:55:45,360
Speaker 5: and the toughest thing for young players and including myself.

2126
01:55:45,360 --> 01:55:49,520
Speaker 5: I'm speaking from experience. I remember when we won the

2127
01:55:49,640 --> 01:55:56,680
Speaker 5: NFC Championship game many moons ago, and Adam Schreiber, our

2128
01:55:56,720 --> 01:56:01,280
Speaker 5: backup center who was starting because our center got hurt.

2129
01:56:00,760 --> 01:56:02,080
Speaker 3: Was sobbing on the ground.

2130
01:56:02,920 --> 01:56:08,320
Speaker 5: I'm talking about like fetal position sobbing, and I was like,

2131
01:56:09,320 --> 01:56:15,400
Speaker 5: what's happening? He was he couldn't even talk. This was

2132
01:56:15,600 --> 01:56:20,120
Speaker 5: that was his fifteenth year in the league and the

2133
01:56:20,160 --> 01:56:25,360
Speaker 5: first opportunity he ever had to get to the Super Bowl, and.

2134
01:56:27,720 --> 01:56:31,160
Speaker 4: It was one of those things where you're like, oh, okay.

2135
01:56:31,440 --> 01:56:33,160
Speaker 4: I didn't understand that because it was my first I

2136
01:56:33,160 --> 01:56:39,240
Speaker 4: had been in the league for three months essentially, and

2137
01:56:39,440 --> 01:56:42,080
Speaker 4: here I am in the super Bowl after starting nineteen

2138
01:56:42,200 --> 01:56:47,280
Speaker 4: of the nineteen possible games. So for me, I'm like, okay, man,

2139
01:56:47,320 --> 01:56:50,360
Speaker 4: get up, man, We're going to the super Bowl. I'd

2140
01:56:50,400 --> 01:56:54,440
Speaker 4: never sniffed the Super Bowl since, so I didn't know

2141
01:56:54,520 --> 01:56:57,360
Speaker 4: what I didn't know until I knew it, if that

2142
01:56:57,480 --> 01:57:01,880
Speaker 4: makes sense. So these guys are playing unbelievable. They're fast,

2143
01:57:01,920 --> 01:57:04,640
Speaker 4: and they're they're clicking, they're well coached, they're doing all

2144
01:57:04,640 --> 01:57:10,720
Speaker 4: of this until there's a brick wall in front of you.

2145
01:57:10,720 --> 01:57:17,920
Speaker 4: You can't outspeed everyone in the playoffs because that's when

2146
01:57:18,960 --> 01:57:23,360
Speaker 4: the game slows down, the matchups slow down, the bench

2147
01:57:23,960 --> 01:57:24,640
Speaker 4: is shortened.

2148
01:57:24,760 --> 01:57:27,040
Speaker 3: Are you sure they're not built for that? I don't know.

2149
01:57:27,680 --> 01:57:29,840
Speaker 3: That's the whole point. That's kind of what we don't know.

2150
01:57:30,040 --> 01:57:32,600
Speaker 2: No, we don't know, but but that means that we

2151
01:57:32,680 --> 01:57:34,960
Speaker 2: don't know it in both directions.

2152
01:57:35,440 --> 01:57:36,560
Speaker 3: And and you know.

2153
01:57:36,520 --> 01:57:40,360
Speaker 2: I kind of hear the assumption that the top two

2154
01:57:40,400 --> 01:57:45,600
Speaker 2: seeds in the West, the much harder conference, are very

2155
01:57:45,800 --> 01:57:49,959
Speaker 2: likely to just wilt when when.

2156
01:57:49,800 --> 01:57:51,480
Speaker 3: Not wilt, not wilt.

2157
01:57:51,920 --> 01:57:55,360
Speaker 5: But what I'm what I'm saying is there it's a

2158
01:57:55,400 --> 01:57:57,839
Speaker 5: different it's a different feel and it's hard to explain.

2159
01:57:58,960 --> 01:58:00,880
Speaker 5: But when you see it, you're like, oh, Okay, they're

2160
01:58:00,920 --> 01:58:05,000
Speaker 5: a year away. It's a reason why people say that.

2161
01:58:04,920 --> 01:58:08,680
Speaker 2: We thought that about Washington too in the NFL are

2162
01:58:08,840 --> 01:58:09,680
Speaker 2: they are a year away.

2163
01:58:09,760 --> 01:58:11,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you could argue that, but.

2164
01:58:11,160 --> 01:58:11,839
Speaker 4: They are away.

2165
01:58:12,080 --> 01:58:14,800
Speaker 2: They advanced, they advanced did and it ocked out the

2166
01:58:14,840 --> 01:58:15,320
Speaker 2: top seed.

2167
01:58:15,440 --> 01:58:18,640
Speaker 4: And it happens. But then they ran into a train.

2168
01:58:18,720 --> 01:58:20,920
Speaker 2: Right, they ran into the best team as it turns out,

2169
01:58:20,920 --> 01:58:23,440
Speaker 2: which was kind up hiding in the weeds.

2170
01:58:23,520 --> 01:58:27,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you don't know that until like once you're

2171
01:58:27,040 --> 01:58:35,080
Speaker 4: in the game. It's hard to make those adjustments like that.

2172
01:58:35,280 --> 01:58:40,280
Speaker 5: Like case in point, So, we had won the Valley

2173
01:58:40,280 --> 01:58:43,120
Speaker 5: Regional championship, right, we got a banner. So now we

2174
01:58:43,120 --> 01:58:45,880
Speaker 5: were playing in the city championship. So we played against

2175
01:58:45,880 --> 01:58:48,600
Speaker 5: the Palisades. I think I talked about this last week.

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Speaker 5: We're playing against the Palisades.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 5: Our whole focus and intent was to get that banner

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Speaker 5: for the Valley, and then I had to repump the

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Speaker 5: guys up, my kids, it's up to go play for

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Speaker 5: the city, which didn't have the same We got boat

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Speaker 5: raced by the Palisades. JJ Reddick and his son, they

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Speaker 5: were there Saturday, J J. Redicks son, and they advanced

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Speaker 5: scouting the whole nine yards. I'll get into that story

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Speaker 5: next week, but I say that to say, if you're

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Speaker 5: a team that's doing something that you haven't done before,

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Speaker 5: once you get to that thing, we did it number

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Speaker 5: one seed, it's hard to carry that the whole way

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Speaker 5: until you win the championship.

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Speaker 4: That's why they say they're a year away. That's it.

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Speaker 3: I got you.

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Speaker 4: Shout out to the Palisades, they deserved it.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to the Rockets and the Pacers as well. Man,

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Speaker 2: all right, talk to you next week.