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Speaker 2: So today is actually a really exciting day. It marks

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Speaker 3: Good day, Sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks.

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Speaker 3: One month in podcast, the show where we're going to

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Speaker 3: look back and take stock of the young twenty nineteen

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Speaker 3: award front runners, surprises, disappointments, predictions, we want back, and

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Speaker 3: so much more. I'm Jay Skeets here in Atlanta with Task,

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Speaker 3: Tray and Lee and joining us up in Canada making

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Speaker 4: JD.

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Speaker 5: What's up, guys?

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Speaker 2: What's up? JD?

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Speaker 5: Guys.

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Speaker 3: We're going to tackle this sort of recap across three

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Speaker 3: different categories. One awards, two teams, and three the frivolities.

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Speaker 3: Not that serious, the frivolities.

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Speaker 5: Usually we're super serious on these podcasts. It's good to

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Speaker 5: hear we're going to be having some fun, that's right.

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Speaker 3: But we're gonna start with awards, and we're not going

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Speaker 3: to do all of them, but we'll do three or

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Speaker 3: four here. In the first one, let's start with the

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Speaker 3: grandaddy of the hall, the MVP guys. One month in,

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Speaker 3: Who is your most Valuable Player?

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Speaker 6: Lebron? James Manuel, I think Lebron has been the best

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Speaker 6: and his numbers are great, but the Lakers are winning.

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Speaker 6: They've got the second best defense in the league. He

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Speaker 6: has been the catalyst to all this. Anthony Davis has

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Speaker 6: been great. They've been getting some great support from all

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Speaker 6: the player. Everyone who's played for the Lakers has contributed

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Speaker 6: in some way. But I think Lebron coming into this season,

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Speaker 6: was a little concerned that maybe he was just the

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Speaker 6: clearly that's the case. He looks re energized, he looks motivated,

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Speaker 6: and the results on the floor are clearly reflecting when

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Speaker 6: someone like Lebron leads the way everyone else follows and

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Speaker 6: the Lakers win games. I mean, they've only lost two

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Speaker 6: So I think overall, Lebron has has certainly reasserted himself

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Speaker 3: And I would like to stress this is not who

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Speaker 3: we're going that we think is going to win your word,

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Speaker 3: you know, come April million.

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Speaker 2: Jude This is right now. This is what Lee's doing.

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Speaker 2: He's looking at that.

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Speaker 3: You know, four and a half weeks of the NBA

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Speaker 2: The King at the top of your list. I think

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Speaker 2: I have Lebron third or fourth on my MVP ranking.

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Speaker 3: This is.

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Speaker 4: I'm joining Lee. I'm doing it. I know it might

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Speaker 7: You might think, well, James Harden putting up that PPG

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Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, I understand the hard pick. But Lebron and

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Speaker 7: That's the best in the NBA. And I'm giving a

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Speaker 7: and Lebron's doing the opposite, even if he isn't producing

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Speaker 7: as sexy aibles, they're hot, they're wearing lingerie, they are quite.

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Speaker 3: So you're buying that clip that was going around the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll play defense this year. Yeah, and it's a

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Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks for pointing that out, because they have the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he is definitely energized right now on that end

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Speaker 2: I agree with that and all of the he's got all.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you want to give him the credit

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Speaker 2: The defense has been it's a juggernaut.

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Speaker 5: It surprised me.

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Speaker 7: I I just going down the roster. If Dwight Howard

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Speaker 7: I just I just find that that's really really important. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: I think I think leading that locker room and just

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Speaker 3: Else, so mu's going to I assume, what do you got, Trey,

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Speaker 3: allow me to choose James Harden.

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Speaker 5: We're a month in and the guy is killing it.

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Speaker 5: There have been twenty forty plus point games this season.

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Speaker 5: He's averaging thirty eight six and seven and a half.

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Speaker 5: He's ninth in assists right now, but he's creating fifteen

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Speaker 5: The guy could easily be averaging over ten. He could

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Speaker 5: Coming into the season, we said that the Rockets were

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Speaker 5: This is a major problem. Uh oh, Gerald Green got hurt,

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Speaker 5: They're one of sixteens I think with ten or more wins.

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Speaker 5: So I mean, yeah, James Harden cares about the regular season.

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Speaker 5: Not a lot of players do. And you know, people

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Speaker 5: regular season. Maybe it's all right, I love this.

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Speaker 3: I've got Yanis, I've got Gyani, says the most valuable

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Speaker 3: his efficiency they're up. You know, they're for the basically

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Speaker 3: The threes have been coming on as of lately, last

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Speaker 3: to me, it's like, what has he done to take

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Speaker 3: You guys are making great cases for Harden for Lebron.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure maybe someone could be out there's

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Speaker 3: to this. What about Luka Doncic and all that. But Nis,

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Speaker 3: there's no reason that he's still not the MVP. He's

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Speaker 3: gotten better, and it's similar maybe to a Curry back

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Speaker 3: I think it's the honest I think you know, Nate

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Speaker 2: We haven't really talked about him all that much.

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Speaker 3: I know they got to a bit of a sluggish start.

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Speaker 2: They've had the toughest schedule. That's the other part.

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Speaker 3: They've only played four games at home, ten games on

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Speaker 3: And then like you were talking about with hard and

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Speaker 2: He's not there right now.

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Speaker 3: And jan is still putting up like in his sleep,

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Speaker 5: Is pretty impressive to me. Just another reason he's shocked

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Speaker 5: because people are not talking at all about You're not

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Speaker 5: And the only thing you ever hear is what's up

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Speaker 3: Where do where do you have? Where do you have

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Speaker 3: Luka Doncic? I mean in your in your MVP race

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Speaker 6: One one thing, I probably have him fourth or fifth. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: Harden and Yannis of course round out the top three.

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Speaker 6: But after that then there's been guys. Littard started off hot,

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Speaker 6: a little bit injured too. But yeah, I think Doncic

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Speaker 6: has also just elevated his game from like hey, this

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Speaker 6: You know, we don't really know.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 3: Bill Simmons and Mark Stein they were talking on their

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Speaker 3: pockets built Luca, the Lucamenia, the lucasm as they called it.

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Speaker 2: You can get the cream City, d I know. It's

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Speaker 3: How many wins though, would it take for the MAVs

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Speaker 5: Sixty nine.

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Speaker 3: So what if he averages a triple level and Westbrook

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Speaker 3: and then you know, here's Westbrook just putting up historic

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Speaker 2: Like I'm like, like a fifty four to fifty five win, which, man,

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Speaker 6: It seems a little high fifty five, but but yeah,

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Speaker 6: fifty I think is probably what they could.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so great.

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Speaker 7: Race right now, but we all believe in Luca, right,

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Speaker 7: like this is oh yeah, he's he's not good, Like

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Speaker 7: look at Lebron's second year and he's twenty seven, seven

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Speaker 4: You know, you know, it's a new fast game.

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Speaker 7: That's about right, it's about equal, and that's I don't know,

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Speaker 7: you know, it's it's do you just believe in this?

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Speaker 7: Do you say I'm putting all my chips in. I

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Speaker 7: But it's no, he is that good.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's weird with that though. I almost wonder him being

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Speaker 3: way too? Could you get some sort of like if

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Speaker 5: Of like gotta wait's gonna win.

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Speaker 3: Let man just wait your turn. Yeah, you're you're fine,

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Speaker 7: I don't know. People want to vote for the new thing, though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's that's fair.

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Speaker 3: Well with all of these guys, you got to tweet

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Speaker 3: that us at no dunk's ink to hear who you

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Speaker 3: into the season, any other names? I know we're gonna

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Speaker 3: this guy you said Lillard? Yeah, Anthony Davis has gotta

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Speaker 6: I guess he's top ten. I mean, he's had it,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's why I I mean, I didn't take

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Speaker 3: be still for Lebron to win another MVP when he's

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Speaker 2: So I got a bit.

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Speaker 3: I thought Anthony Davis would be the clear cut number

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Speaker 5: It's still Lebron, he's still the man. He's still just

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Speaker 5: like eating out of his hand when he's putting up

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Speaker 5: these highlights. The crowd is going crazy. It seems like

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Speaker 5: every play he makes is designed to be the number

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Speaker 2: Any other guys, any other guys you said, you said Lillard? Yeah, no,

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Speaker 7: I mean, we don't have to make people feel good.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well we deep there's six deep now.

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Speaker 6: The guy who burst out of the blocks of his towns.

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Speaker 6: He was brilliant those first week or sorry, but that

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Speaker 2: You know, well, what we've talked about it before.

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Speaker 3: What's the what's the perfect table size for a dinner

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Speaker 3: you go out with friends?

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Speaker 2: What's the you think.

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Speaker 7: Turn it on its side. It's the infinity symbol. It's mellow.

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Speaker 2: I think it's You're right. I think it's six to eight.

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Speaker 3: I think six is actually a better, more enjoyable because

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Speaker 3: we can everybody can you know, you can converse with

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Speaker 2: You're a little bit like tree, what's going on?

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Speaker 5: But a lot of apps come in, you know, four

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Speaker 5: we cut these? Should you want? You want an extra one?

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Speaker 5: I don't know. We order to now we got an

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Speaker 3: Okay, well leave it at that. We'll leave it at that,

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Speaker 3: all right. Next one here, I don't care who gets

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Speaker 2: One month in. Who is most improved player? Who's got it?

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Speaker 4: Yack him, Pascal? Yes, everybody, everybody agree, everybody agree, back

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Speaker 7: It's fine. It's harder to do what he's doing now

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Speaker 7: Now he's gone from very good.

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Speaker 4: To great yep.

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Speaker 7: And it's ridiculous where he's at right now. What he

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Speaker 7: on the secret menu on this at this restaurant. My god,

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Speaker 7: the chef cooked up something amazing where where he can

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Speaker 7: He's got a pull up game, he's got a spin

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know who did see it coming? You know

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna take my quick victory lap with this one.

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Speaker 3: This is all I'm gonna say.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you. I think it is Siakam right now,

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Speaker 3: That's very likely happening a lot, maybe all NBA honors.

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Speaker 3: I think that's very much in play now. Still get

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Speaker 3: he's like check check check check all those you know,

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Speaker 3: and obviously we haven't got to the All Star Game

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Speaker 6: It's a great pick. I just wonder if, let's say

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Speaker 3: Definitely the number one sort of like that people are

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Speaker 7: rate at forty two percent. That's what makes them really

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's an absolutely lost So not a surprise.

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Speaker 2: The two Raptors fans here taking it past tre Who

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Speaker 2: do you go with for mip?

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Speaker 5: Get me a six inch steak and cheese because it's

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Speaker 5: Andrew Wiggins is the most improved player of the season.

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Speaker 2: Like go far, I didn't see this coming.

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Speaker 6: I got the.

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Speaker 5: Honest career highs in points, rebounds, and assists. Coming into

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Speaker 5: Andrew Wiggins was was maybe he could score eighteen to

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Speaker 5: His handle is better, he passes the ball better, he's

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Speaker 6: This is the story that sort of just you keep thinking,

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Speaker 6: But he's been able to maintain a consistent level so far,

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Speaker 7: Hy've missed. We're going back. Last night's haircut looking good,

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Speaker 7: would just it would just be fun to give him

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Speaker 3: Oh, we're actually sending out these awards, are we, right awards?

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Speaker 2: And we're pritting these up and so no, no, maybe

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Speaker 5: You'll only get like one sixth of it though, so

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Speaker 5: you have to get all of them from months to

438
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Speaker 5: join it together, like a Power Rangers of Ultron sort

439
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Speaker 5: of thing.

440
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Speaker 7: Like the Heat Championship puzzle Hilario Brad puzzle pieces.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I like that.

442
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Speaker 4: Donkeys the Donkey Awards.

443
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you got? Lead?

444
00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,639
Speaker 6: Going with a guy who has clearly improved, not only statistically,

445
00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,960
Speaker 6: but the eye test as well. Has not failed this

446
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Speaker 6: man at all. It's Brown and Ingram in New Orleans.

447
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Speaker 6: He has been brilliant. He's averaging twenty five game. He's

448
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Speaker 6: also missed a game or two here through injuries.

449
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Speaker 3: Honestly, percent of the league is averaging Twenty's true, it

450
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Speaker 3: is true.

451
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Speaker 5: That's almost like you look at contracts, you think, man,

452
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Speaker 5: that guy's on a twenty million dollar contract, because that

453
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Speaker 5: seemed like a lot when we were growing up watching

454
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Speaker 5: the NBA. Now it's nothing. Twenty points per game is

455
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Speaker 5: almost nothing in the NBA. That guy's everaging thirty easily.

456
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Ingram though taking the most shots he's ever taken

457
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Speaker 6: at eighteen a game, shooting over fifty percent from the field,

458
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Speaker 6: and he's he's like a Dema de Rosen in those

459
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Speaker 6: sort of early developmental years where he's getting to his

460
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Speaker 6: spots to excuse me, knockdown shots. He's hitting forty four

461
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Speaker 6: percent from three on five a game, and he's shooting

462
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Speaker 6: the best from the free throw line over also getting

463
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Speaker 6: seven rebounds and the cists. He's doing it all out

464
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Speaker 6: there in New Orleans. They obviously their season got off

465
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Speaker 6: to a slow start. Excuse me when when.

466
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Speaker 4: That code opening out, I took something out of here long.

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Speaker 6: You know, the Pelican season just got set back when

468
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Speaker 6: when Zion went down. But brandon Ingram to me is

469
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Speaker 6: really thriving in this role where he's away from the

470
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Speaker 6: spotlight of Los Angeles and he's the focal point of

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Speaker 6: a team. But he's also shown that he's actually increased

472
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Speaker 6: his range. You know, he's able to really stretch the floor.

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Speaker 6: So I love what I've seen from him so far,

474
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Speaker 6: and I think, you know, again he's up to twenty

475
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Speaker 6: five a game from eighteen last season in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like you need a ginger shot.

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Speaker 6: I do.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

479
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Speaker 4: Twenty three guys averaging twenty or more range.

480
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Speaker 2: Wow, wow.

481
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Speaker 4: A decade ago it was sixteen.

482
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I can go, let me, let me go.

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Speaker 2: Two decadestesticly worries.

484
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Speaker 4: They were setting up this website, John Schumann, I can

485
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Speaker 4: just click.

486
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Speaker 2: And using NBDS like.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I actually twenty years ago there was twenty oh okay, okay,

488
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Speaker 7: Jones was number twenty oh.

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Speaker 3: Eddie Joels shot Eddy joneson. Okay, this is a good

490
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Speaker 3: category for Hey, what about this guy? Because a couple

491
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Speaker 3: more guys I'll throw out there. Malcolm Brogden, you know,

492
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Speaker 3: obviously being asked to be the man in Indiana, he's

493
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Speaker 3: done a damn good job. He's averaging twenty five and eight.

494
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Speaker 3: And he that's a guy that went from making like

495
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Speaker 3: a million and a half to being a twenty million

496
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Speaker 3: dollars per year guy getting the deal there to be

497
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Speaker 3: with the Pacers and with Noel Ladipo and Turner not

498
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Speaker 3: even there and stuff like that.

499
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Speaker 2: He's had.

500
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Speaker 3: He's been asked to lead the team and he has.

501
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Speaker 3: He's been pretty solid. They beat the crappy teams and

502
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Speaker 3: they can't win against the great teams right now, but

503
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Speaker 3: still solid starts.

504
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Speaker 2: So Brogden Jonathan Isaac.

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Speaker 3: You know, I would have the numbers are are not

506
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Speaker 3: high enough for me because he was one of my

507
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Speaker 3: picks for MIP. But he's averaging twelve and seven. But

508
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Speaker 3: the defense is elite already with this kid, and he's

509
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Speaker 3: averaging nearly three blocks per game. He had that one

510
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Speaker 3: gamer he was one steal away from the the five

511
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Speaker 3: y five. Yeah, I think he's gonna do it at

512
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Speaker 3: some point.

513
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Speaker 5: It makes sense.

514
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Speaker 3: Guy racks up the defensive numbers, but just like that twelve,

515
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Speaker 3: like he's gotten better. He's definitely gotten better, but I

516
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Speaker 3: don't think it's enough of like Siakam last year, like

517
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Speaker 3: the year before, he.

518
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Speaker 2: Hasn't made that jump enough yet. But obviously lots of

519
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Speaker 2: lots of time left.

520
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Speaker 3: What about I hate it the second year guy having

521
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Speaker 3: the jump, but luka Doncic the dunk, the donk and

522
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Speaker 3: maybe like a DeVante Graham a lot of people throw

523
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Speaker 3: out there.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but you know, Shake Gills is Alexander in that category, right.

525
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Speaker 2: I'm just not a big fan of that rookie to

526
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Speaker 2: the second year Fred Van.

527
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Speaker 7: Vliet, no doubt.

528
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Speaker 6: What about that guy?

529
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Speaker 2: That's why we're doing that.

530
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Fred has been brilliant as well. I

531
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Speaker 6: mean has obviously been the superstar the Toronto but Fred,

532
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Speaker 6: I mean against that game against the like as Fred

533
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Speaker 6: was instrumental.

534
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Speaker 3: Steady Freddie baby, Yeah, Steady Freddy has been great. Okay,

535
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Speaker 3: let's hear from you guys, most improved that no dunk

536
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Speaker 3: sink next one, We're gonna make this our final award here,

537
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Speaker 3: who is the Rookie of the year one month?

538
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Speaker 2: Then who's the Rookie of the year front runner?

539
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Speaker 5: That should be a short one. That's John Moran easily.

540
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 5: He's first in points and assists and he's got the

541
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Speaker 5: best highlights of any rookie.

542
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Speaker 4: Lock it in shortest conversation, shortest name Jay.

543
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Speaker 5: He can even drop the A if your lead, just

544
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Speaker 5: call him Jay.

545
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, must watch television too, That's right. He really,

546
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Speaker 3: he truly truly is well.

547
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Speaker 6: His name is actually Timitrius Jamel.

548
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Speaker 2: You can somehow you can someholp pronounce that better than job.

549
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Speaker 2: That makes a lot of sense.

550
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, you want to make a case for

551
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Speaker 6: other guys, but no one's quite a He's.

552
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Speaker 2: Leveled, who would you try and make a case for it.

553
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Speaker 6: Well, Barrett, Jay, Barrett's been good took.

554
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Speaker 5: But thirteen points second in assists, He's good at defense,

555
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Speaker 5: He's the best player on the next he just doesn't

556
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Speaker 5: have any moments, Like, he doesn't have any cool moments yet.

557
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Speaker 5: The only thing we've ever talked about the NIXT is

558
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Speaker 5: how soon are they going to fire their coach?

559
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Kendrick Nunn deserves some love. One month and guy's

560
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 3: averaging seventeen points per game. I went undrafted, right, he wasn't.

561
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Speaker 6: Even drafted and had him, uh some league maybe.

562
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Speaker 3: And you know he's on a like a minuscule contract

563
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 3: of course with Miami. But what he's doing starting, you know,

564
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Speaker 3: hitting big shots and the heater rolling. I know we'll

565
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Speaker 3: probably get to them when we maybe talk surprises and

566
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Speaker 3: stuff like that. But Ketrick Dunn, little love love him.

567
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Speaker 3: Eric Pascal, Yeah, I mean the numbers are impressive.

568
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Speaker 2: I guess somebody's got to do it on the Warriors,

569
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Speaker 2: the depleted Warriors, the shock people. Yeah.

570
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Speaker 7: The fun part about John rants he makes other people

571
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Speaker 7: better and that's a unique skill for a rookie, you know,

572
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Speaker 7: to really get others involved and make sure they're good.

573
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Speaker 7: That doesn't all the other guys that we've listed. Hasn't

574
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Speaker 7: happened with RG Barrett quite yet. He's just a talented dude.

575
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Speaker 3: All right, let's talk teams. One month in. Who's been

576
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Speaker 3: the biggest surprise?

577
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Speaker 6: Well, you said it there, Miami Heat for me. Okay,

578
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 6: they were a team. They made the big splash in

579
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Speaker 6: the summer by signing Jimmy Butler. But it was a

580
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Speaker 6: bit of a weird move for a lot of people

581
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Speaker 6: because we thought they weren't really a contender and I

582
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Speaker 6: don't put them in the contender class right now. But

583
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Speaker 6: they're ten to three, unbeaten at home, third best defense

584
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Speaker 6: in the entire league.

585
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Speaker 2: I feel like we haven't talked about them very much.

586
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Speaker 6: Because I don't I don't think we consider them to

587
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Speaker 6: be a real even a real contender in the East.

588
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Speaker 6: But Eric Spots has got them defending the three point line,

589
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Speaker 6: which right now, that's what you have to defend in

590
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Speaker 6: the NBA. They do that the best out of anybody.

591
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Speaker 3: Now, are they really truly defending it or is it

592
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Speaker 3: a weird thing where it's like a bit of a

593
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Speaker 3: small sample says theater, or just teams are not knocking.

594
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Speaker 6: Them down, probably both, probably both this early into the season.

595
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Speaker 6: But I think the way that they've integrated Jimmy Butler

596
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Speaker 6: into that team, and he has come in and not

597
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Speaker 6: really gone in there to try to say, Hey, this

598
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Speaker 6: is my team, I'm the boss. Everyone do what I want.

599
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Speaker 6: He's actually kind of been happy to adjust his role.

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent. I think it's a big part of

601
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Speaker 3: the reason why we don't talk about them a lot. Yeah,

602
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Speaker 3: I think we'd be talking on them way more of

603
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Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler was averaging twenty five twenty six a game

604
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Speaker 3: and you know, game winners and stuff like that.

605
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Speaker 2: But he's not doing that, And you're.

606
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Speaker 3: Right, he's because he hasn't had to or he's felt

607
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Speaker 3: comfortable with these other guys.

608
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Speaker 6: He's being a real leader right now, you know, by

609
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Speaker 6: just quietly going about doing the job. And he missed

610
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Speaker 6: the first three games of the season to do to

611
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Speaker 6: the birth of his child.

612
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Speaker 2: Maybe that was a blessing of this in some ways.

613
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Speaker 6: Possibly. Yeah, they're getting great play out of the rookie

614
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Speaker 6: E Metric Kendrick Nunn Dragis has gone to the bench.

615
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Speaker 6: He's accepted that role very well. There was talk about

616
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Speaker 6: them perhaps being interested in trading for Chris Paul. I

617
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Speaker 6: don't think that's something they really want to do right now,

618
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Speaker 6: and I think they would need that. I think they're

619
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Speaker 6: getting good play out of their point guard. The only

620
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Speaker 6: distraction they've had has been the d On Waders incident.

621
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Speaker 6: And he's not even really a part of the t

622
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Speaker 6: he's just a contract right now.

623
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

624
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Speaker 3: So if you and you said the third best defense, yeah,

625
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Speaker 3: Justice winslows Barel even play. Yeah, he's one of the

626
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Speaker 3: better defenders on the team. That's amasy.

627
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Speaker 6: Yeah. So they're quietly just going about their business very

628
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Speaker 6: very well. And that's sort of I think again, what

629
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Speaker 6: what pat Riley and Spolster like. It's like, just go

630
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Speaker 6: out there, play hard and rack up some wins. And yeah,

631
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Speaker 6: I think I think the d On wad To thing.

632
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Speaker 6: He'll have a chance to get back into team only

633
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Speaker 6: because I think they can't trade him. But if they can,

634
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Speaker 6: they'll they'll move on from him, I think, pretty quickly.

635
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Speaker 7: But doesn't get getting Chris Paul and make them a contender.

636
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Speaker 7: Nobody wants to up in on the Chris Paul day wagon,

637
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Speaker 7: but I.

638
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Speaker 2: Don't think it makes them a contender.

639
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 3: No, it makes them I guess it makes them more

640
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 3: difficult out yeah, in the playoffs.

641
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean he certainly aren't you gonna don't you

642
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 7: want to do this for Jimmy Butler's prime. His priame

643
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 7: is not gonna last for it.

644
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Speaker 6: I mean, but if if I know it's not sexy

645
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 6: though that the you know, they don't need him.

646
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Speaker 4: And he said, you said that they're not a contender.

647
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Speaker 6: I know, yeah, well yeah, good point.

648
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 3: They're like they're sort of like the Nets from last year, aren't.

649
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:32,959
Speaker 3: Like they have like seven guys on this team averaging

650
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 3: over ten points per game. And yeah, you know, you know,

651
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 3: Butler is a souped up version of you know, like

652
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Speaker 3: I said it would be D'Angelo Russell last year.

653
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Speaker 2: You know, so as your go to guy down the stretch.

654
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Speaker 7: How long is Jimmy Butler's prime. I think it's this

655
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Speaker 7: year and maybe next year. He's thirty.

656
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 5: It's a worry if you grew up in the Bulls system,

657
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 5: it's a worry that you could fall off it. Literally

658
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 5: anytime it happened with Louell Dang, it happened with Joe

659
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 5: Kim Noah. Jimmy Butler, maybe he got out early enough.

660
00:27:58,720 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 5: You know, he put on a ton of miles when

661
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 5: he was younger. But uh yeah, I mean, surely the

662
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 5: Heat have something in the works, right They never just

663
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 5: bring in one guy and be happy with that.

664
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have a lot of guys they can trade

665
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 4: a lot of.

666
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 2: That's a good pick though. LEA like that one as

667
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 2: a surprise team.

668
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 4: What about you guys, give me the Boston Celtics. Okay,

669
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 4: you're surprised, believe Yeah, I'm surprised.

670
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 7: That they've come out and just forgotten about the Kyrie

671
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 7: Irving era and and it feels like it's two years

672
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 7: ago and Jason Tatum and is a player on the

673
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 7: rise all of a sudden again. You know, we are

674
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 7: so quick to just dismiss guys after having one mediocre year.

675
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 7: We did that with Jason Tatum, did it with Jalen Brown. Oh,

676
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 7: he's also on the rise. Crazy And they're top seven

677
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 7: right now on offense and defense. They've had an easy schedule.

678
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 7: That's one hundred percent true. It looks like a team

679
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 7: that's really built for the regular season and maybe could

680
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 7: get out it in the postseason. Maybe they're not the

681
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 7: elite elite in the Eastern Conference because they don't have

682
00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 7: go to guys necessarily, but shake it all down, they

683
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 7: have a really good player, so it's more of a

684
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 7: sum of their parts kind of team rather than, hey,

685
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 7: we got the best players, but.

686
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 4: Why is it working so well?

687
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,239
Speaker 7: Maybe it's a Brad Stevens thing that he doesn't need,

688
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 7: he doesn't do superstars.

689
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 4: All that well.

690
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 7: Or maybe maybe.

691
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 4: No sexy time or maybe well.

692
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 6: Just with the Brad Stevens. I know the way that

693
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 6: the season ended last year, some Celtics fans were starting

694
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 6: a little bit of a to turn on him, right,

695
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 6: you know, sure because they won that first game gets Milwaukee,

696
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 6: then then had the douchebag sweet but clearly coming into

697
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 6: this season he seems to have that locker room back

698
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 6: in his corner.

699
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, and all the guys feel like they're part of

700
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 7: the team again. And and and Jelen Brown. There's a

701
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 7: good article about the athletic how we talked about anxiety

702
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 7: and how he didn't feel right last year. Now he's back.

703
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 7: Gentannum he's back baby. And Gordon Hayward he's back baby.

704
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 7: That's probably due to injury, but everybody is buying in

705
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 7: and they're going to be looking to make a deal

706
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 7: for a center and then and now they're trying to

707
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 7: be the Detroit Pistons, where yeah, maybe we have you know, good,

708
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 7: good to great players, but we don't have superstars. And

709
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 7: I mean the Detroit Pistons from the two thousand and

710
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 7: fourth serious season when they won it, but maybe they

711
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 7: can win it.

712
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 3: I was just gonna ask you, do you are they

713
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 3: closer in your mind to the Heat or let's say,

714
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 3: to the Bucks in terms of being an actual championship contender,

715
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 3: like at least an Eastern Conference, you know, finalist.

716
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 7: Because they've been there. I would say closer to the top.

717
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I think I would have the Celtics over

718
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 5: the Heat. Okay, I don't know. I mean I think

719
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 5: that Butler is probably the best player between those two teams,

720
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 5: between the Heat and the Celtics. But uh, the team,

721
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 5: the team aspect, no doubt what the Celtics has been impressive.

722
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 5: They like each other, good summer. Good summer. Would have

723
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 5: been nice to see this camaraderie on Team USA. But

724
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 5: nonetheless it's working out for Boston.

725
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 3: I love that he's the one guy that feels like

726
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 3: left in the America that won't forget that bad.

727
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 5: Well thanks for letting us down. Thanks for letting us

728
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 5: down in Boston, Celtics. I'm sure you guys will choke

729
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 5: it away when it comes down to the playoffs in

730
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 5: the future, just like you did for your country.

731
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, do you hear that? You're like,

732
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 2: I don't know, you're like some feet pattering of feet.

733
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 5: I think it might be the Betail Boys see a

734
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 5: big green hack.

735
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 6: Coming over the hill?

736
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 5: Wor JD.

737
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 3: We need you to drop in like a weird like

738
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 3: little Irish tune or the music from Gangs in New

739
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 3: York or.

740
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 2: Something like that. Jeeves, the Beantown Boys.

741
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 7: Great, are.

742
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 6: Okay?

743
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 5: Peter's gonna gate?

744
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 2: Who do you have that surprise?

745
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 5: We're staying in the East, baby.

746
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

747
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 5: Charlotte Hornets, everybody thought they were gonna be terrible and

748
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 5: horrible to watch, and somehow they are neither. I mean,

749
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 5: they're six and nine, so the record is not great.

750
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 5: It is nice. They're twenty fifth in offense and defense,

751
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 5: both not great. But you watch a Charlotte Hornets game

752
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 5: and somehow they are fun to watch. You go into

753
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 5: the season thinking, here's what they got. Bismack Biambo, Cody Zeller,

754
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 5: Marvin Williams. Maybe Marvin Williams is their best player. Nicola

755
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 5: Batoom still around somehow, but they have entertaining guys now.

756
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 5: DeVante Graham has been a great watch.

757
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 2: PJ.

758
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 5: Washington seems like a really solid player. Dwayn Bacon. It's

759
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 5: got real thick thighs, but.

760
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 2: A thick cut bacon.

761
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 5: For some jerkey bacon and throw us up that cut

762
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 5: bacon in with your Brussels sprouts and call it a night.

763
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 5: A Lake Monk has also been good. A lot of

764
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 5: guys have had moments for the Hornets. This is a

765
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 5: team to me that come March we're not gonna be

766
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 5: talking about yet at all. But they have been a

767
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 5: pleasant surprise in November.

768
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the Phoenix Suns for a surprise

769
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 3: because I didn't see this. They're seven and six right

770
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 3: now as of recording this. You know they would be

771
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 3: in the playoffs if they were to start today in

772
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 3: the Western Conference.

773
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, they started very, very hot.

774
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 6: We needed to do this a week ago.

775
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's fine. Let's show them the love right now.

776
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 3: Look, I remember the preseason we were saying, well, what's

777
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 3: gonna be a good season for the Suns? We said,

778
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 3: thirty wins would be incredible season. Well, you know, they're like,

779
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 3: what nearly one third of the way, They're already only

780
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 3: one month in. I mean that that's their run pace

781
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 3: for that and that would be solid, of course. And

782
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 3: we were also talking about, like, what are they what's

783
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 3: their identity? Are they good off team? Really a good

784
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 3: good defensive team because they've been garbage at both ends

785
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 3: of the floor for a couple of years now, and

786
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 3: then here comes Monnie Williams and now right now you

787
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 3: know they're top ten offensive team.

788
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 2: They're top twelve defensive team. Okay, that's great.

789
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 3: I was saying, just pick one side of the ball

790
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 3: to I can try and improve on. Right now, they've

791
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 3: improved on both. And like they're a fun team to

792
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 3: watch too. I've this is the and I'm a huge

793
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 3: Devin Booker fan, so I was actually watching some of

794
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,959
Speaker 3: those crappy Suns teams. This is the most Suns basketball

795
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 3: I've watched in years years, because they're they're a fun

796
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 3: watch with with Booker as their their scorer and Rubio

797
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 3: has been great at that. That pairing made sense at

798
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:38,719
Speaker 3: the time, like, oh yeah, a little defense, I think

799
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 3: I could be a bit of a playmaker.

800
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 5: Sounds like, Frank, yeah that's true or not.

801
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 3: So they've just you know, they've surprised your boy bans

802
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 3: he can't miss three.

803
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kelly O Bray Junior has been fun.

804
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 5: Yeah.

805
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 3: And this is this is with the whole DeAndre Eton

806
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 3: thing too, where you know, he has a great first game,

807
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 3: like think you put up like eighteen and eleven four

808
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 3: blocks in that game and like and then he gets

809
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 3: you know, dinged for the PDS and misses twenty five

810
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 3: games and then you're like, Okay, well this is gonna

811
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 3: get bad in a hurry again.

812
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 2: And yeah, they're falling back to earth. We said that

813
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 2: was gonna happen.

814
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 3: But still they've been a huge surprise, not only in

815
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 3: the win category but also just pure entertainment category. Like

816
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 3: you sort of want to root for these guys in

817
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 3: front for their fans to have finally a little bit

818
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,240
Speaker 3: of success down there in the desert.

819
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 5: But like we've mentioned, they have played one hundred percent

820
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 5: of their games at home somehow, like every time you

821
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 5: turn it on like at home. So their schedule will

822
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 5: get road heavy at some point and that's when they'll

823
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 5: fall off. But that like you're saying they are fun

824
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 5: to watch and they try hard.

825
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they got they got a nice pace of

826
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 3: play to them, you know, again in the top ten there.

827
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 2: So they're they're they're a little.

828
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 3: Love to the Phoenix Suns disappointment one month in. Who's

829
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 3: been the biggest disappointment The Blazes.

830
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 6: Uh, this was a team that we thought perhaps could

831
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 6: drop out of the playoff race. Right now, they are

832
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 6: really struggling. Lil It's hurt. He was the he was

833
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 6: bawling early on. But he looks exhausted. He looks like

834
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 6: he's carrying that team. They can't stop anyone defensively. Their

835
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 6: offense is okay, But the real problem for the Blazers

836
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 6: for me, is how they get out of this. I

837
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 6: think that they I don't think they're going to trade.

838
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,720
Speaker 6: They're certainly going to trade Little, maybe they trade McCollum.

839
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 6: But I just feel like this season is very, very

840
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 6: quickly sort of falling away from them, and it's going

841
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 6: to be They've been a very good regular season team

842
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 6: the last couple of years. If they can't get it

843
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 6: going early on, I think they're in a bit of

844
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 6: trouble here. And they are, you know, they're a team

845
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 6: that made it the conference finals last year, and they

846
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 6: had those two great playoff series against the Thunder and

847
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 6: the Nuggets.

848
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 4: And Lillard.

849
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 6: We know he's an All NBA player, he's a star,

850
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 6: but it feels like they haven't got enough help for him.

851
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 6: And it's, yeah, it's looking grim right now for Portland

852
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 6: one month in.

853
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm the Blazers as well, and like you're saying,

854
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 5: grim is the word for it, they're just they look

855
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 5: like they have zero joy. Yeah, look like no fun

856
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 5: out there. Dark Revers has talked about how teams eventually

857
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 5: go stale, and that's just what this seems like to me.

858
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 5: It's like, what is our identity? We're supposed to be

859
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 5: good at offense. We got Hassan white Side out there,

860
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 5: who's gotta play. He has to play for this team.

861
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 5: And when he's at his best for the three or

862
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 5: four minutes a night, they look good and it looks

863
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 5: like they're the old Blazers again. But then as soon

864
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 5: as he gets back to white Side itis, it infects

865
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 5: the whole team and they're just like, oh, and it's

866
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 5: a bummer because the Blazers have been really fun to watch.

867
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,399
Speaker 5: McCollum when he's hot, is great to watch, Lillard time

868
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 5: must watch TV. Anthony Simons is a fun player to watch.

869
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 5: But yeah, they have been less than the some of

870
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 5: their parts, for sure.

871
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 7: Yeah. I don't think they just sit back and allow

872
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 7: Damian Lillard's twenty nine year old season to go to

873
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 7: waste because he's been so loyal to them. I think

874
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 7: they they throw a hail Mary, like you know, teams

875
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 7: did this offseason at Stars, because that's what teams are doing,

876
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,720
Speaker 7: trading a lot for star players, and I think Portland

877
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 7: will try and do the same.

878
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 2: Unless that back injury is serious.

879
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 7: That's the dame. Yeah, I mean that's fair.

880
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 3: Who knows, you hope it's just a spasm, as I

881
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 3: guess they were called it, But that's always a scary,

882
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 3: scary injury for any NBA player.

883
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 7: For a very very very durable guy. Yeah, yeah, which

884
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 7: is crazy. Through his first seven seasons, He's played three

885
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,479
Speaker 7: seasons where he played every stinking game and no less

886
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,720
Speaker 7: than seventy three. So that's yeah, that's a fair worry,

887
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 7: but I think the guy's been loyal. They're gonna try it,

888
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 7: you know, any any way, shape or form. They're just

889
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 7: not going to let a season go to waste for

890
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 7: a guy who's who's been good to that franchise.

891
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 2: And the question is what do they do and who

892
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 2: could they even get? Ken?

893
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 3: Do they have the pieces to get a love? Do

894
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 3: they have the pieces to get even a Gallinari?

895
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 7: Do you know I fantasy?

896
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, you keep saying yeah, so you know they need something.

897
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 3: I mean that's look, I don't think it's gonna be

898
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 3: mellow that's gonna save the season. I mean they just

899
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 3: got desperate. They had to with no Nerk and then

900
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 3: the really unfortunate Collins injury, no doubt, and then the

901
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 3: chunk of time he's gonna miss. But yeah, the Blazers

902
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 3: very very very disappointing.

903
00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 7: I will say you mentioned Collins. I'm disappointed in another Collins,

904
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 7: John Collins getting suspended in Atlanta because they looked great

905
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 7: to start the year. Things couldn't have started out better

906
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 7: for the Hawks, and now you know it's it's over. Essentially,

907
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 7: it feels like because John Collins is out twenty five games,

908
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 7: their lack of depth really shows now. And it's just

909
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 7: it's too much for Tree have to put on his shoulders.

910
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 7: The youth is just too much to overcome on this team.

911
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 7: So they're fine with it because they've got sixty million

912
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 7: coming off the books this summer. They're well suited for

913
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 7: the next few years. But they but this could have

914
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 7: been it. This could have been a charge like Trey

915
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 7: thought about the Bulls. This could have been the same

916
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 7: thing happening here in Atlanta, and it's it's the Peachtree

917
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 7: jerseys are aesthetically nice, sure as a city edition jersey,

918
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 7: but that whole place could have been aesthetically rocket. It

919
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 7: could have been fun to be there, It could have

920
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 7: been fun to watch. Not so good now even though.

921
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 3: They're in the East, they're like, what two games out

922
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:57,359
Speaker 3: of the playoff race.

923
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 2: I mean, so it's you know, I know what.

924
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 4: You're saying, you're right games out?

925
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 7: Yeah, but yeah, at four and ten, it's just like

926
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 7: they're there's no U doesn't It doesn't feel like they

927
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 7: can recover anytime soon, right, Like you watch them play

928
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 7: and where's it going to come from?

929
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 5: Yeah?

930
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 3: No, there's not a lot of confidence, especially in the defense.

931
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 3: They're gonna pray, I would say, like the Trey Young

932
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,439
Speaker 3: continues to be a show, and you know, they don't

933
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 3: burn him out over the over the year, asking him

934
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 3: to do everything offensively, and then they're gonna really pray

935
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 3: that at least one of those two draft picks in

936
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 3: DeAndre Hunter or Cameras, I mean hopefully both, but at

937
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 3: least one of them let they hit and that they

938
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 3: look like a really really solid piece to add to Collins,

939
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 3: to add to her, and then you then you've got

940
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 3: something there.

941
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 5: And a draft pick coming gotta be a good one.

942
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Okay, so you're a little disappointed in

943
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,439
Speaker 3: the Hawks here. Yeah, Louck, you're in Atlanta. You want

944
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 3: to go down there and see that barn right, see

945
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 3: the fortress.

946
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 2: Just bumping, he said.

947
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 3: We go down to the fortress and we watch a

948
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 3: man drink two champagnes.

949
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 2: He leaves about three minutes ago. See Lena, gotta beat

950
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 2: the traffic.

951
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 6: No, it's to the end.

952
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 2: Last night, I don't know, I was taking a dump.

953
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 6: That's that's that's actually like a time out for you.

954
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 2: I was just kidding about around. I do not know

955
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 2: why I really wanted to say that to him. We

956
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 2: stayed to the end. Yeah, you were a quarter late,

957
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 2: but yeah.

958
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 6: Wow, yeah, crazy stuff, man, he was taking it dump.

959
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a lot of cheese. We did have

960
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 2: a lot of cheese. Nice cheese.

961
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 6: We got cheese.

962
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 7: Nice renovations that they put into you know, those two

963
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 7: hundred million dollars bathrooms are nice. I understand why to

964
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 7: use them.

965
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 2: It's very, very nice. You're right.

966
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 3: My disappointment for my team. I'm not even to Brooklyn Nets.

967
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 3: They're six and eight, so you know, they're in the

968
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 3: playoff race in the East. But they're just bad on

969
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 3: both sides of the ball right now, and that's they're

970
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 3: not They're not that much of a fun watch, you know.

971
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 3: Injuries to Kyrie Irving has played part played some very

972
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 3: entertaining games games very early in the season, but as

973
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 3: of late, not as great. Carosel Burt injured again, He's

974
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 3: always injured, obviously, no KD. I just feel like the

975
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 3: Nets so far this season, they're they're hanging out with

976
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 3: the wrong crowd. They need to take off those nerdy glasses,

977
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 3: let their hair down, you know, start hanging out with

978
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 3: the cool kids. Start start smoking doobies out behind the bleachers,

979
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 3: the Celtics and the Sixers. Instead they're eating lunch with

980
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 3: the Magic and the Hornets. They shouldn't be Okay.

981
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 5: The Celtics and the Sixers are smoking.

982
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,919
Speaker 2: Dude, you're the cool kids. Okay, you want to hang

983
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 2: out with those.

984
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 5: All right, So look at Douneters hanging out with the

985
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,479
Speaker 5: cool kids as well. Mark Cuban is there. We gotta

986
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:33,919
Speaker 5: get the nuts there. I see what you're saying.

987
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 3: Ye, the Nets are just like they're hanging out with

988
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 3: the wrong crowd right now.

989
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 2: They need to again like come.

990
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm making a weird analogy here, but you

991
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about. They just they shouldn't be

992
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 3: there with those teams, in my opinion, they should be

993
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 3: a little bit closer to your to your Celtics and

994
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 3: your Raptors and stuff like that. They're they're in the

995
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 3: wrong spot right now. I guess maybe my hopes were

996
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 3: a little too high for them. I'm not sure. But

997
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,439
Speaker 3: lots of lots of time to still turn it around.

998
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,720
Speaker 7: But yeah, they've had some it's an excuse for close

999
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:06,359
Speaker 7: losses that could flip their record. Jay Crowder comes out

1000
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 7: of nowhere and it's a game winner on that.

1001
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 5: But what's this?

1002
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 2: What's this team's identity?

1003
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 3: What what is it right now?

1004
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1005
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,439
Speaker 3: I will say Jared Allen had an awesome last game

1006
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 3: and they gave him minutes and he put up great numbers.

1007
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 3: It was a much needed win, to be honest, against

1008
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 3: the Hornets.

1009
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 5: That was good.

1010
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 6: But what are they Yeah, they're certainly not what they

1011
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 6: were last year, sort of everyone scrapping and fighting and

1012
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 6: battling for everything. They seem more like we've got to

1013
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 6: get Kyrie and make him happy. That's what it's.

1014
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 3: And again we talked about they're in this weird like

1015
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 3: holding sort of year because I don't worry about it.

1016
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 2: Kevin drink and then we'll be one of the best

1017
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:41,799
Speaker 2: teams in the East like that.

1018
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 6: And I think because of Kyrie's reputation of bringing a

1019
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 6: little bit of baggage, you know, these losses early on,

1020
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 6: people sort of say, well, see Kyrie's star player, but

1021
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:52,919
Speaker 6: does he actually help your team a lot? He gets

1022
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 6: kind of hit with that.

1023
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 2: So they'll be fine.

1024
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 6: I do think they should be. Yeah, they should be.

1025
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 7: You mentioned that you would like to see them up

1026
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 7: at the top with the Celtics and the Box and

1027
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 7: the Raptors. Well, my disappointing team. I've got a second

1028
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 7: on here. It's disappointing that they're not amongst the conversation

1029
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 7: with those elite Eastern Conference teams the Philadelphia seventy six ers.

1030
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 4: Oh yes, right, yeah, let's dig.

1031
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:18,800
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1032
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 7: I find it difficult to watch this team, especially on offense.

1033
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 7: They could figure it out. It's early. It's a very

1034
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,879
Speaker 7: very unique team where you got a bunch of non

1035
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:34,439
Speaker 7: shooters surrounded surrounding a ridiculously great center in Joel Embiid.

1036
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 7: There's a great article by Zacal on ESPN talking about

1037
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 7: where Ben Simmons is standing in practice. He's standing in

1038
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 7: the dunker spot and he's not basically not allowed to

1039
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 7: leave that zone in between sort of the rim and

1040
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 7: the sideline in that little area because it kind of

1041
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 7: cramps Joel Embiid's space. And watching games you see how

1042
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 7: ugly it is on the offensive end for them, it's

1043
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 7: it's just like bumper cars in there where you can't

1044
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 7: get around it anybody. They're all in the lane and

1045
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 7: it's difficult to watch. And I think, you know, they're

1046
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 7: nine and five and again it's going to take to

1047
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 7: work out a team with no shooters and Tobias Harris

1048
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 7: is really struggling. But I think that nine to five

1049
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 7: record sort of masks where they are. They've got the

1050
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 7: fourteenth best point differential in the entire league. And they've

1051
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 7: got a great defense. We all know that. But I

1052
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 7: just can't stand Joel Embiid shooting more threes than he

1053
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 7: did last year. It's not a huge jump up, but

1054
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 7: I thought this was the year We're just going to

1055
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 7: rely on Joel Embiid to be in the post. Finally,

1056
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,720
Speaker 7: this is going to be it, and it's not happening

1057
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 7: quite yet. And I didn't know how it was going

1058
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 7: to work. I'm not the expert here. Prett Brown supposed

1059
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 7: to figure that out. Prett Brown is supposed to get

1060
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 7: him down there with four non shooters. Essentially, they have shooters,

1061
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 7: but they're sort of deeper on the bench, and Ben

1062
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 7: Simmons and Tobias Harris hasn't been that guy, and Josh

1063
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:54,320
Speaker 7: Richardson hasn't been that.

1064
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 3: Their two best three point shooters in really Tobias Harris

1065
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 3: and Josh Richardson horrible from three this year.

1066
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 7: They're horrid. So maybe maybe they find their flow. Yeah,

1067
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 7: but maybe the chemistry isn't great on this team, and

1068
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 7: maybe it's not going to happen in having their five

1069
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 7: course meals. Maybe it's not just not gonna happen. Zach

1070
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 7: low went into their their meal plans and how they're

1071
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 7: enjoying each other and where.

1072
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 5: Does Ben Simmons stand for meal plans? Where do they

1073
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 5: stand up?

1074
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 4: Where's he standing?

1075
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,439
Speaker 5: Yeah? Is the first in line or is the second line?

1076
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 5: I imagine MBI gets the first choice of food, But

1077
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 5: it's tough to say. When you watch the six.

1078
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 7: He likes his sauces because he's in the Dunkers boot.

1079
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 4: Anyway, that's good.

1080
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 5: They have a breakfast buffet. But uh, it looks like

1081
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 5: a TimewARP. When you watch the Sixers, you you zoom

1082
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 5: back in, It's like, this looks like nineties defense. This

1083
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 5: looks like nineties offense. There's guys just standing in the lane.

1084
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 5: There's a million people bumping into each other. Maybe it'll

1085
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 5: get better when Harris and Richardson start hitting threes. But this,

1086
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 5: to me is what the team is going to be.

1087
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 5: A tough defense that's hard to score on, and then

1088
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 5: issues to figure out on the offensive end.

1089
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 7: Yeah, and maybe it'll never and never work out because

1090
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 7: Tobias Harris, that's the big worry. They gave him one

1091
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 7: hundred and eighty million dollars and maybe he can't WHOA.

1092
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 6: Now, that was an awful contract.

1093
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, and maybe he can't be that guy. He has

1094
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 7: all the freedom to be their number one perimeter option.

1095
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 6: This should be a perfect system for him.

1096
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:18,399
Speaker 7: Maybe he can't be that guy.

1097
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 4: Maybe that's why he's been traded four times.

1098
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 6: No exactly why he's only twenty seven And I think

1099
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 6: a lot of teams go, you know, we can he's

1100
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 6: always on that cringe all star.

1101
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 2: He's good.

1102
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 6: But there's a reason as well why I think you

1103
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 6: just hop it tight away around. I think because because

1104
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 6: of that, you sort of keep thinking he's better than

1105
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 6: he actually is. Twenty six percent from three point right now,

1106
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 6: I mean that's awful.

1107
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 2: I cannot hit a three right now.

1108
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 3: And I think Richardson's like just above thirty percent, but

1109
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 3: low low thirty percent.

1110
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's but they're nine and five and it's like

1111
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 2: they were though I know, yeah, that's what I was

1112
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 2: going to say.

1113
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 7: But they're getting by teams, like, you know, just by

1114
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 7: the skin of their Yeah, and that's why they've got

1115
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,359
Speaker 7: a middle of the road point differential. Like you said,

1116
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 7: there's stop people. They're amazing, They're not done amazing.

1117
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 2: Defensively, they're not as elite as we thought they were going.

1118
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 7: To be yeah, top ten, but yeah, just right there.

1119
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think we were all like, they're going

1120
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 3: to be one two lead in the league, no doubt.

1121
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 3: You got Horford and bead like, oh my god, you

1122
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 3: got Josh Richardson, like, but yeah, they're good, but they

1123
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 3: just haven't been elite yet. But if they if this

1124
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 3: record was, yeah, I don't know, seven and six or

1125
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 3: something like that, like a little closer five hundreds not

1126
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 3: that far from it there, the sky would be falling,

1127
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 3: I think a little bit. But they're they're helped out

1128
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 3: by at least a decent a decent ninety five record earlier.

1129
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 7: Fine, and yeah they I don't know how Brett Brown's

1130
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 7: going to do it, but they could figure it out.

1131
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 7: I guess it is early for that many parts. But

1132
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 7: I guess I'm also upset because I just want it.

1133
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 7: I want it to look nice when I turn on

1134
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 7: the TV. It's not pretty. And they barely beat the

1135
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 7: next on Wednesday Night. They shouldn't have beat the Knicks

1136
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 7: the way they're playing, but it's the Knicks.

1137
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 3: They lost one month in Guys, what's a prediction you'd

1138
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 3: love to have back?

1139
00:47:57,800 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 5: Let's stick with the sixers. I picked Joel ANDMBI to

1140
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 5: an MB it ain't gonna happen. He's averaging twenty three,

1141
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 5: eleven and three right now, that's fair. Okay, numbers are

1142
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 5: gonna come back up. He'll be higher than that. His

1143
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 5: numbers will look like an MVP from two thousand and five,

1144
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 5: I'm sure. But he has zero buzz. He's not gonna

1145
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 5: come close to winning the MVP. He's missed four games already.

1146
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 5: A couple of them were for a suspension, but he's

1147
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,280
Speaker 5: gonna miss games. He's playing less than thirty minutes per game,

1148
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 5: which seems odd to me. I mean, he said he

1149
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,439
Speaker 5: was in a lot better shape. Maybe it's a load

1150
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 5: management thing. They want him to be fresher in the playoffs.

1151
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,479
Speaker 5: As we saw, he was getting sick, he was getting

1152
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 5: dinged up. But it just does not look great. He's

1153
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 5: less than fifty percent on two pointers. I mean, yeah,

1154
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 5: he can't shoot threes, but fair enough. You should be

1155
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 5: able to make more than one out of every two

1156
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 5: shots if you're one of the biggest guys on the

1157
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 5: court with the best post moves in the game.

1158
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm totally with you. This is also my prediction

1159
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:47,439
Speaker 7: that I got cute with.

1160
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:48,399
Speaker 2: You guys both picked him.

1161
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought it was sort of down

1162
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 7: the bead town boys. It was. Yeah, it was sort

1163
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 7: of down the rankings in terms of the odds for MVP.

1164
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 7: So yeah, it's fun to be a little cute go

1165
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,479
Speaker 7: against the grain. But I was buying that he lost

1166
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 7: weight and he was in shape, and my worry is

1167
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 7: that he's not healthy. And I think, like you said,

1168
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:14,320
Speaker 7: if this most talented big in the league is shooting

1169
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,439
Speaker 7: less than fifty percent on twos and when somebody comes

1170
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 7: around a pick on the defensive end, he doesn't jump out,

1171
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 7: He just kind of hangs back.

1172
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 4: I mean this.

1173
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 7: He told Zachlo he lost twenty pounds. He wasn't he

1174
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 7: was taking things out of his diet. He's supposed to

1175
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 7: be ready to jump out on those picks. He's supposed

1176
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 7: to be healthy. I don't get it. I just watching

1177
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 7: him play. It doesn't look like an MVP, And I

1178
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,279
Speaker 7: don't know. Maybe there's something wrong with the legs. Maybe

1179
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 7: it's a carryover from the playoffs last year where he

1180
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,800
Speaker 7: sat out and was sick, and he just doesn't look great.

1181
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 5: Get him a.

1182
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 3: Giter shot, Oh yeah, especially poffs. All right, So these

1183
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 3: guys taking taking a mulligan on their MVP pick of him, Beid, where.

1184
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 6: You going sticking with the awards, I'll take a mulligan

1185
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 6: on a Lonzo Ball for most Improved. I fell in

1186
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 6: love with that new restyle jump shot. It was looking

1187
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 6: beautiful in the preseason. Also, him and Zion were working

1188
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:04,800
Speaker 6: really well in the preseason games, and I thought.

1189
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:05,800
Speaker 2: Why do you care about the preseason?

1190
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 6: Well because I just like to see the chemistry. And

1191
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 6: I thought, okay, this is again a bit like Brandon

1192
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 6: Ingram I was saying earlier away from the Lakers, Away

1193
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 6: from that, that spotlight and the drama. I thought that

1194
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 6: he could really thrive in this situation and the fact

1195
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 6: that he was a good player with an awful shot.

1196
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 6: The shot got me, It seduced me.

1197
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 3: He's knocking down three pointers well, the best clip of

1198
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 3: his career. Yeah, he's hitting nearly thirty seven percent fromstance.

1199
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 6: Yeah I know, I know, but he hasn't He just

1200
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 6: hasn't improved his game to that sort of like those

1201
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 6: other guys who talked about Fred and Brandon Ingram and

1202
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 6: who else do we say other guys anyway, But the

1203
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,800
Speaker 6: other concern, the other concern with Loonso again he's injured.

1204
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 6: Now he's been out for a few games, and historically

1205
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,479
Speaker 6: he tends to miss a lot of games, and that's

1206
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 6: not good. A guy who's never played more than fifty

1207
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 6: two games throughout his career missing games a lot early on.

1208
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 6: So I'd like to see him back out on the floor.

1209
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 6: Maybe when Zion comes back that that that what I

1210
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 6: saw in the preseason won't be a mirage. Maybe, but

1211
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 6: clearly he's not going to win that award, but I

1212
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 6: would like to see him have success in New Orleans.

1213
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,800
Speaker 7: He's using his time to write some good Players Tribune articles.

1214
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 2: So Players Tribute just got sold, didn't it.

1215
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 4: Wow?

1216
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, he writes an article and I sell it.

1217
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 2: Although I'm not putting it on love.

1218
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 7: I should write an article for Big Butler Brand.

1219
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 3: Okay, my prediction that I'd love to have back everything

1220
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 3: I said about the Chicago Bulls, absolutely everything, specifically the

1221
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 3: dumbest probably prediction I've ever made, maybe saying Jim Boylan

1222
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 3: would win Coach of the Year.

1223
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:41,720
Speaker 2: That's gotta be up there is one of the dumbest

1224
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 2: things that said.

1225
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 3: I've been doing this a long long time, Tess, and

1226
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 3: I've been podcasting since two thousand and six, we've done

1227
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 3: a lot of these, and that's up there.

1228
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 6: That was dumb.

1229
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:51,879
Speaker 2: I mean, I bought into the idea that the Bulls

1230
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 2: were going to be a bit of a you know,

1231
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 2: a bit of a scrappy surprise team.

1232
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 3: I liked the idea of Fatteus Young coming in there

1233
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 3: in Saturansky and look, all their young guys were injured

1234
00:51:59,360 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 3: last year.

1235
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 2: Maybe they stay healthy.

1236
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 3: There's a squad here, and they're gonna play hard for

1237
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 3: Boiling and you know, the wins are gonna be there,

1238
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 3: and then maybe he'll get a very weird sort of

1239
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 3: coach of the year.

1240
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 2: That is not happening.

1241
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 3: I mean, at this point, it's more likely he'll be

1242
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:15,760
Speaker 3: fired than win coach of the year. Though they usually

1243
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 3: go hand in hand, don't they Coach of the year

1244
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 3: and then you get fired. Anyway, interesting little point there,

1245
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 3: But yeah, Bulls.

1246
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 2: I mean, the Bulls have just disappointed me. They're five

1247
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 2: and ten as of recording this.

1248
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:29,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're dumb, but they're gonna bounce back. We're gonna

1249
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 5: be talking about them in December. I suppose it might

1250
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 5: be January two months in The Bulls are back, biggest

1251
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 5: pleasant surprise of the second month of the season. They

1252
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 5: have gotten a little bit of bad luck with missing shots.

1253
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 5: They're not shooting very well from three, but it is

1254
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 5: the Bulls understandable. They're also giving up a ton of

1255
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,760
Speaker 5: three pointers. So maybe Jim Boylan looks at the tape

1256
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 5: and decides, we got to change our scheme a little here.

1257
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 5: Let's not allow guys to shoot wide open three es.

1258
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 5: When that changes, the Bulls will start winning, and then

1259
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 5: the boiling buzz shall I can't wait.

1260
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 3: Well, I mean you and I like during one of

1261
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 3: our rides into the office, we were talking about like

1262
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:07,879
Speaker 3: some of the guys on the Bulls and how at

1263
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 3: times like disappointing they've looked like Zach Levine. I remember

1264
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 3: you were talking talking up Levine in the preseasonly a.

1265
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 2: Lot he is. He is not impressed at all.

1266
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 3: He's been quite frankly, I think bad in a lot

1267
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 3: of the games I've caught, and Lowry Marketing every once

1268
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 3: in a while has an amazing game and then he

1269
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:28,959
Speaker 3: looks brutal at times too.

1270
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 5: Well, those are the two guys who are touted as

1271
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 5: potential first time All Stars as well, and they haven't

1272
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 5: shown up to begin Levine to me is he's not

1273
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 5: going to be a number one guy.

1274
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 2: Ever.

1275
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 5: The hope for the Bulls is that he becomes DeMar

1276
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:42,959
Speaker 5: de Rosen, where he's good enough to trade for somebody

1277
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 5: who's really, really good. That hasn't been the case so far.

1278
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 5: Market has been banged up. They said he's had some

1279
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 5: core issues, but he just looks lost. And I came

1280
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,280
Speaker 5: into the season liking a lot of the Bulls players,

1281
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 5: and we're a month and and now I'm like Kobe

1282
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 5: White and when dal Carter are the only guys I

1283
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 5: care about on this team. We don't need anybody else.

1284
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 5: Just let them do everything. Well.

1285
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 6: Kobe's funny.

1286
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's basically had two good games, but they're great. Yeah,

1287
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:06,879
Speaker 5: those two were great?

1288
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:08,800
Speaker 7: Yeah, crazy?

1289
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 3: All right, final one guys, one month. Then, what's been

1290
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 3: the funniest moment you can go anywhere?

1291
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 6: Obviously with this, I think it has to be Austin

1292
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 6: Rivers hitting his dad with the tea on the side.

1293
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 6: It was just a great moment because I think.

1294
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:23,839
Speaker 2: You were putting yourself in Austin and.

1295
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 6: As Duck hitting with the t yeah maybe.

1296
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1297
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 6: The best thing about it though.

1298
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 4: Was what would Dicky do to earn a tea.

1299
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 3: I don't know your dad at all, but your dad,

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00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 3: in my head seems like the nicest man in the world.

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Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, he coached. He coached all three of us too.

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Speaker 6: You know, he must have coached probably a couple of

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Speaker 6: hundred coach.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really realized.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, not not there.

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Speaker 2: This is an as situation exactly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Well, I do remember one time with there was a

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Speaker 6: hoop next door in the drive where we used to play,

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Speaker 6: and we were playing twenty one and it was like,

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Speaker 6: you know, two points from the free throw line and

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Speaker 6: one point from everywhere else, and Dad was on like eleven,

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Speaker 6: and then he just hit like five in a row,

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Speaker 6: and I said, you won, and he was just like,

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Speaker 6: just give me the ball, give me the ball, give

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Speaker 6: me the ball, and he knocked in twenty seven.

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Speaker 5: In a row.

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Speaker 2: I still remember it.

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Speaker 6: I still remember because he was just like it was

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Speaker 6: it was automatic.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, my dad's.

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Speaker 5: I think.

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Speaker 2: But it was great.

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Speaker 6: He was like he didn't care about twenty one. He

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00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:31,840
Speaker 6: was just like I'm just I'm on fire now, so

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Speaker 6: you know, we're just shooting.

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Speaker 7: Dad.

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Speaker 6: No, Yeah, I was just trying.

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Speaker 3: To think, Sorry, what would he do? I mean I

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Speaker 3: did jump in. I think TAS's question, did you answer that?

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00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 3: But what would Dicky do to warrant? Yeah, hmm, I

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00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 3: don't know. Yeah, yeah, he never used to screen.

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Speaker 6: He never liked us like backchatting to the referee or

1334
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 6: anything like that. Oh you know, just play the game.

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00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 2: And does your dad lay golfing as well?

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00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 6: Yeah, he still plays golf.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we just start calling him Docky Rivers. Well that's

1338
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 8: middle name is Rivers. He's Richards seriously holy.

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Speaker 9: Blown right now you're the Australian Rivers fairly us hotly Wow,

1340
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 9: great joke. I'm back man, put it.

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Speaker 5: Up on the board.

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00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 2: You like that moment though, very.

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00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 6: Funny, great moment because you know he didn't try to

1344
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,360
Speaker 6: subtlely do it Austin Rivers. He did it right in

1345
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 6: front of that and he was oh yeah.

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00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 3: He kept going for like minutes like wa even call

1347
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 3: he call me dad? And then the Instagram post talking

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00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 3: about how Thanksgiving beautiful very.

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00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:55,399
Speaker 7: Funny, and then doc jumping on Instagram. Yeah oh yeah right,

1350
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 7: doctor Rivers has an Instagram account. Does Dick you have

1351
00:56:57,640 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 7: an Instagram account?

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00:56:58,640 --> 00:56:58,839
Speaker 9: Yes?

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00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 4: He does, see verified no.

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00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 6: Verified, zero posts.

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00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 5: He just.

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00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 2: You see the kids kids. Yeah, smart, smart A man.

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00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 2: I love this. Okay, what's can anyone beat that? Funny moment?

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00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 5: The only thing that's even on par Is it was

1359
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 5: Dean Waiters getting suspended for overdosing on a weed gummy

1360
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 5: aka freaking out on a weed gummy. The difference is

1361
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 5: that we didn't see it. It was just the news, right,

1362
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 5: But being on Twitter when everything was going down a

1363
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 5: great time.

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00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 3: That's that's that's true. Do you think there's the possibility

1365
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 3: of a D'Angelo Russell Nick Young, you know, someone recording

1366
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 3: it him freaking out.

1367
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 5: Somebody's got to have a wonder phone. There's no way

1368
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 5: they took a flight for you know, I mean, what's

1369
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 5: it is? In an hour flight from Phoenix, LA, somebody

1370
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:46,439
Speaker 5: had their phone out at some point.

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00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 2: I wonder, what do you have?

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00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 7: I don't have a haha, funny moment. But Ben Simmons

1373
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 7: hitting that three, it's just, you know, it's a it's

1374
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 7: a moment where we're cheering for pfessional basketball players making twenty.

1375
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 4: Nine million next season.

1376
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 7: In a few years and twenty three twenty four he's

1377
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 7: and making nearly thirty six million. He made a basket,

1378
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 7: you know, and the world erupted.

1379
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 2: We talked about it.

1380
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 3: On Thursday's Daily Show in pretty great detail. You can

1381
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 3: go listen to that.

1382
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 2: But you're not wrong. I think it is funny, but

1383
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 2: it's also weird.

1384
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 3: Like you're saying, my favorite moment, funniest moment from one

1385
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 3: month in, it's a two for one. I think James

1386
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 3: Harden hitting himself in the face with the ball and

1387
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 3: then Josh Hart's reaction to hard and popping himself here.

1388
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 2: Say that's a two for one.

1389
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 3: You got the actual funny incident where Arden just freaks

1390
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 3: out and the bull pops him in the beard in

1391
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 3: the face and then heart's a great mimable look.

1392
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 5: And then he didn't Josh Hart do it as well?

1393
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 5: He did that joke. Well, that's oh, you love to

1394
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 5: build a comedy pyramid.

1395
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 2: That's absolutely right.

1396
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 3: Let's hear from you guys, what's been the funniest moment

1397
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 3: both on the basketball floor and here.

1398
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 5: On the No Dunks podcasts. There's a good question for.

1399
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 6: It in Bowmanville as well. JD tell us what's been

1400
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 6: funny Boenville?

1401
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 4: Not very much?

1402
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 6: Isn't that just funny itself? That you're in.

1403
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 2: Jenny ever coming back?

1404
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 5: The only time will tell you straight up.

1405
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:17,959
Speaker 2: Living in Canada now pretty much.

1406
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 1: I literally haven't left the house. I haven't exited the

1407
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 1: house since Sunday evening.

1408
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 2: No, no, calm, Yeah.

1409
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: It's true.

1410
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 4: Four days, four days.

1411
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 2: Oh my god, JD, get outside.

1412
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: I know, for a walk or something.

1413
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you working out in the house at all?

1414
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 7: Are you now?

1415
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 5: JD?

1416
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 1: I've given up wearing my slippies shuffling around.

1417
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 7: Wow, nothing funny here.

1418
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 2: It's a depressing way.

1419
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 7: That none of that good comedy shows, comedy acts come

1420
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 7: through Bowmanville.

1421
00:59:57,400 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 1: You know what, I just as I was not less

1422
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 1: litening to this show. You just James and Doomians at

1423
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: the comedy bar this weekend. So I think I'm gonna

1424
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna venture out for that.

1425
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 2: That'll cheer you up. That will cheer you up.

1426
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 5: Man.

1427
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 3: Look, you know what, Jady, I got a good feeling.

1428
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:15,040
Speaker 3: I got a good feeling. I think you're gonna we're

1429
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 3: gonna get some good news soon. You're gonna be back

1430
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:18,960
Speaker 3: somewhat soon. All right, keep your head up.

1431
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 7: Keep you're gonna get into the big city. Dad gonna

1432
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 7: give you a.

1433
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 1: D Dad's gone to Mexico. I'm oh, we're gonna that

1434
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: was party taking the bus.

1435
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 2: So this is all right, guys, check this out.

1436
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 3: We are going to host a live Q and A

1437
01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 3: over at the Athletic tomorrow, that's Friday, November twenty second,

1438
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 3: at one pm Eastern, to discuss this one month in podcast,

1439
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 3: any other questions you have, whether JD's still holding up

1440
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 3: by then. We'll make sure to share that tweet like

1441
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 3: the information, will tweet it across or put it up

1442
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 3: on all social media channels so you'll know where to go.

1443
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 3: We'll share that link, I should say, but you need

1444
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 3: to have an Athletic subscription to get in on this

1445
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 3: Q and A. So if you've been sort of like

1446
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 3: sitting on the fence a little bit about whether to

1447
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 3: dive in and get one, maybe this will help encourage you.

1448
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 2: We obviously highly recommend it.

1449
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 3: Not only will you have access to our live Q

1450
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 3: and a's is something I hopefully it goes well and

1451
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 3: we do more of them in the future, but you

1452
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:20,360
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1454
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Speaker 5: I think that's fair to say. I think it is

1455
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 5: the best sports right now. You can it in man.

1456
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 3: I could barely keep up. If someone you struggling to

1457
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:30,600
Speaker 3: keep up with the podcast that we're releasing. I can't

1458
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 3: keep up with all the great athletic content, just the

1459
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 3: NBA athletic content, let alone all the other sports that

1460
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 3: I don't even give.

1461
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 2: It, that I don't care about. I can't keep up

1462
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 2: with the great NBA content.

1463
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:42,960
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1466
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:54,600
Speaker 2: You get that forty percent off. Everybody's happy, everybody's a winner.

1467
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 2: But again, we'll share that information. We'll be doing that

1468
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 2: live Q and A Friday one pm. We'll see you there.

1469
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 2: Hopefully you heard it here first.

1470
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 5: Have a great time, turn up, Love you guys, awesome.

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01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 7: Thanks for joining us. And remember, Luka Doncic is a

1472
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 7: shoe free agent. It's a fun fact. From the first month.

1473
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 2: Brace the day, people, you could stay.

1474
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:23,120
Speaker 7: Every day and that be happy every minute.

1475
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 5: It's been so long that your mona waiting for, It's

1476
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 5: happened already.

1477
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 7: It's gonna be groovy.