WEBVTT - Brainstorming Non-Lillard Trade Options For The Blazers

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<v Speaker 1>What are your plans for the rest of the year,

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<v Speaker 1>eat Brandon desserts and just get on fat and sassy.

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<v Speaker 2>Good morning, sweerl and welcome to the Nodongs podcast on

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<v Speaker 2>the Athletic Network. It's beautiful network. It's Tuesday, December seventh.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm j E.

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<v Speaker 2>Skeets alongside me as always. That's task melus.

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<v Speaker 4>Hey fellas well, that's up tasty.

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<v Speaker 2>You got our top shot hot boy Trey Kirby. Hey, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>the international man of mystery taking it to the Max

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<v Speaker 2>Leellis friend lady certainly not least making the magic happen.

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<v Speaker 2>Super producer JD. Hello, there is he here. We are

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<v Speaker 2>shout out to the stream team. Joining us live right

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<v Speaker 2>now on YouTube, Subscribe, like, comment, share, quick heads up.

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<v Speaker 2>Later today right here on this very feed. On this

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<v Speaker 2>YouTube feed, we will have a new No Breaks, which

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<v Speaker 2>is our F one podcast with TK and Grating Gordian.

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<v Speaker 2>That one goes live at two pm Eastern if you

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<v Speaker 2>want to join the boys in the paddock otherwise we'll

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<v Speaker 2>flip that into a podcast as soon as humanly possible

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<v Speaker 2>two pm Eastern. If you're an F one fan or

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<v Speaker 2>if you're just sort of new to the sport, like

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<v Speaker 2>I know a lot of us are with the drive

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<v Speaker 2>to survive on Netflix. You guys do a great job.

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<v Speaker 2>I gotta say that, especially like greating. Gordian is so good,

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<v Speaker 2>Like you got questions for him and he can like

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<v Speaker 2>really tell you because he's been a longtime fan of

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<v Speaker 2>Like what the hell's going on?

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<v Speaker 3>Right, TK, exactly right. We usually say this about Survivor.

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<v Speaker 3>Now it's a great time to get in for half one.

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<v Speaker 3>We got only one race you gotta care about. And

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<v Speaker 3>like you're saying, skeets, Graydon actually knows what he's talking about.

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<v Speaker 2>So anytime I have a dumb question.

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<v Speaker 3>When you were on, you were asking him dumb questions,

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<v Speaker 3>He's got a smart answer for it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's perfect. He's really really good at this stuff. All right,

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<v Speaker 2>we got a fun podcast here today. We're talking more

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<v Speaker 2>trades later on in the show. I'm gonna hit you

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<v Speaker 2>guys with some traine for the Blazers to make get

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<v Speaker 2>your opinions on them, you know, moving everybody basically accept

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<v Speaker 2>Dabian Lillard if that's the first step that the Blazers

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<v Speaker 2>ultimately try and decide to do. So, I'll throw some

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<v Speaker 2>at you at you guys, and you guys, can you know,

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<v Speaker 2>thumbs up or thumbs down them, or tweak them a bit,

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<v Speaker 2>whatever you want. But let's start with the games, because

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<v Speaker 2>there was a lot of games on last night. We'll

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<v Speaker 2>start with Demart de Rosen having to enter COVID nineteen

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<v Speaker 2>health and safety protocols soon before the Bulls game. But

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<v Speaker 2>that's okay. In the end, they go on to get

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<v Speaker 2>the victory against the Nuggets, who are very shorthanded as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Zach Lavie scored thirty two TK to get the Chicago win.

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<v Speaker 2>But unfortunate news with DeRozan, of course, right on the

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<v Speaker 2>heels of being named Eastern Conference Player of the Week. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>no doubt.

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<v Speaker 3>It's been a blessed start for the Bulls, despite the

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<v Speaker 3>fact they've had some injuries, they've had some COVID protocol concerns,

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<v Speaker 3>like you're saying, but they're seventeen and eight right now,

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<v Speaker 3>second in the East, undefeated against the first place team.

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<v Speaker 3>They had that great West Coast road trip where they

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<v Speaker 3>swept both games in LA and then they swept a

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<v Speaker 3>couple more games in New York City as well. But

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<v Speaker 3>I've actually found a couple of things really challenging with

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<v Speaker 3>this team. Number One, I like to wear Bulls gear

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<v Speaker 3>on the show the day after a big win, and

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<v Speaker 3>it's getting hard to keep up with this laundry. As

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<v Speaker 3>the Bulls stack win after win after win after win,

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<v Speaker 3>and number two, it can be hard to find the

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<v Speaker 3>words to express just how back the Chicago Bulls are, because,

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<v Speaker 3>like you're saying, Skeets, DeRozan was a scratch about two

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<v Speaker 3>hours before tip off, right after he won Eastern Conference

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<v Speaker 3>Player of the Week. Some of y'all might have started thinking,

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know, the Bulls might not be back. As

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<v Speaker 3>it turns out even more back than you could imagine.

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<v Speaker 3>No DeRozan, no Kobe White, no Javonte Green. They're all

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<v Speaker 3>in COVID protocols right now. Even Stacy King missed the

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<v Speaker 3>game last night. We had silly Billy Winnington on the call.

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<v Speaker 3>Alex Caruso a late scratch as well with a hamstring injury.

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<v Speaker 3>Patrick Williams he's out right now, likely for the season

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<v Speaker 3>due to risk surgery. So five of the bulls top

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<v Speaker 3>ten guys are out, and it did not matter because

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<v Speaker 3>the Nuggets are equally shorthanded and the Bulls have not one,

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<v Speaker 3>but two all NBA MVP candidates. Last night, it was

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<v Speaker 3>Zach Levine thirty two points, a season high, eight assists,

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<v Speaker 3>and honestly dominated in the third quarter. Had twelve points,

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<v Speaker 3>had three assists. The step backs were looking nice, The

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<v Speaker 3>twisty layups were looking Jordan esk. He played the entire

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<v Speaker 3>quarter and keyed every single Bulls run. They had a

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<v Speaker 3>seven oh run, they had an eight to one run,

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<v Speaker 3>they had a seven to zero run. He went into

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<v Speaker 3>takeover mode on a night when the Bulls really really

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<v Speaker 3>needed it. Levine was the star last night, but this

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<v Speaker 3>was a team win. Twenty points, ten rebounds, four threes

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<v Speaker 3>and four blocks for Lonzo Ball last night. He put

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<v Speaker 3>an exclamation point on the w catching a huge oop

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<v Speaker 3>midway through the fourth quarter. In this one, Sweet Vuccie Baby,

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<v Speaker 3>he couldn't shoot eight for twenty four, still put up

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<v Speaker 3>twenty and ten hit a big three in the fourth quarter,

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<v Speaker 3>because that's what he does. Most importantly, helped hold Nikola

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<v Speaker 3>Jokic to a quiet triple double seventeen points on seventeen shot,

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<v Speaker 3>and honestly, the Bulls looked better defensively when it was

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<v Speaker 3>just Vucevic straight up against Jokic. Anytime the Bulls were

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<v Speaker 3>doubling it was an easy three pointer for the Nuggets.

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<v Speaker 3>So in the second half, Vuch was just competing defensively,

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<v Speaker 3>made it tough on Jokic and I got to give

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<v Speaker 3>a huge shout out to Io de Summu his first

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<v Speaker 3>career start got introduced as from Chicago.

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<v Speaker 2>Played a career high forty.

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<v Speaker 3>One minutes and fifty something seconds, finished with eleven points,

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<v Speaker 3>six boards, eight assists. Derek Jones Junior was good, Troy

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<v Speaker 3>Brown Junior was good. Tony Bradley he was back in

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<v Speaker 3>the rotation.

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<v Speaker 4>He was good.

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<v Speaker 3>Even Matt Thomas hit a three last night. The Bulls

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<v Speaker 3>could have turtled this one away instead. One of the

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<v Speaker 3>best wins of the season. Incredible stuff. I saw people

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<v Speaker 3>saying they were the best team in the Eastern Conference

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<v Speaker 3>last night. Kind of tough to say considering we're going

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<v Speaker 3>to be talking about the Bucks next. Nonetheless, awesome win

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<v Speaker 3>for Dupples last night.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, U tast We didn't have you on yesterday's show,

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<v Speaker 2>And one of the questions we were asking was are

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<v Speaker 2>the Bulls like squarely in the upper echelon that upper

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<v Speaker 2>tier of Eastern Conference teams? Like do you include the

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<v Speaker 2>Chicago Bowls at this point of the season here, especially

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<v Speaker 2>with these victories missing guys like Trey took us through

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<v Speaker 2>with Derosen. They're the star player probably from this season.

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<v Speaker 2>Are they right there with the box and nets? Are

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<v Speaker 2>they still a tier below them in your mind? Or

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<v Speaker 2>is there anybody else in that mix? What do you

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<v Speaker 2>think that?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, they're definitely part of that tier. If they've got

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<v Speaker 4>Trey Kirby wearing undershirts just to preserve his dirt bag move.

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<v Speaker 4>He's got an undershirt on self proclaimed dirt bag move

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<v Speaker 4>with the sweater on top. You've got to wear undershirts.

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<v Speaker 4>Now that's a double bulls. You got a bowls on top.

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<v Speaker 5>And a b I like that.

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<v Speaker 2>You're calling it a dirt bag move. I thought it

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<v Speaker 2>was a scumbag.

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<v Speaker 4>I love it. Same same deal, Chuck Swarsky. They're dancing

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<v Speaker 4>here on YouTube if you missed it. It was cool

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<v Speaker 4>to see Chuck Swirsky and Bill Wennington on front row there.

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<v Speaker 4>I was watching the in game arena stuff going on.

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<v Speaker 4>It was good to see a billy chopping on some

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<v Speaker 4>gum there. Courts Eye and Chucky Swerski there, our good

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<v Speaker 4>old friend from Toronto. Yeah, I think they definitely belong there.

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<v Speaker 4>It stinks for Demarto Rosen having to go into save

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<v Speaker 4>health and safety protocols as Bill Billy Donovan said that

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<v Speaker 4>he has been extremely careful. And I'm not sure how

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<v Speaker 4>Billy Donovan knows that they hanging out all the time,

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<v Speaker 4>but I guess he knows that he's been extremely careful.

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<v Speaker 4>He's had to enter health and save the protocols. It

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<v Speaker 4>sinks because Damars had such a great start to the season,

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<v Speaker 4>but it's cool to see last year Zach Lavine again

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<v Speaker 4>just having to do everything because it's cool to see

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<v Speaker 4>how he's evolved. And I like to focus on Zach Levine.

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<v Speaker 4>Sometimes I can only focus on one player at a time.

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<v Speaker 4>It's hard for me to focus on multiple players. But

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<v Speaker 4>it's cool to see Zach Lavine and what he's turned

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<v Speaker 4>into over the last several years because it was our

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<v Speaker 4>crazy athletic guy, you know, for the first few years,

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<v Speaker 4>and he's just so fun to watch because he's so

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<v Speaker 4>unique athletically, and I think myself, others included, wondered is

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<v Speaker 4>he just going to be a crazy athlete and not

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<v Speaker 4>really turn into a basketball player? But now he's got

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<v Speaker 4>every move in the bag. There was the move he

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<v Speaker 4>went right at Nikola Yokich had a little sort of

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<v Speaker 4>a push dribble, pushed it a head towards the baseline

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<v Speaker 4>and then just rose up and hit over him. At

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<v Speaker 4>any point you can think, oh, maybe Zachlavine's kind of

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<v Speaker 4>lost in his move, and then he'll just rise up

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<v Speaker 4>because he can jump over anybody. So it's kind of

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<v Speaker 4>cool to see last year Zachlavine, like Trey described there

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<v Speaker 4>where he had to kind of do everything. But Trey

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<v Speaker 4>also described going through the roster iowed from Chicago and

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<v Speaker 4>Matt Thomas the day he had his little avatar on

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<v Speaker 4>Basketball reference dot com. Was that a coincidence that he

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<v Speaker 4>came out and played yesterday. I almost didn't recognize him

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<v Speaker 4>on Basketball Reference, but he came out and played yesterday.

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<v Speaker 4>Everybody on that roster, Troy Brown all the way down.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a deep team. And as zach Lavine said after

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<v Speaker 4>the game, it's worn on him that they've been losing

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<v Speaker 4>year after year after year. But a different mindset in Chicago,

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<v Speaker 4>and yeah, they've got to be part of the top tier.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't see how you don't include them.

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<v Speaker 2>Back to Trey wearing a Bulls T shirt under his

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<v Speaker 2>bull sweatshirt while he wears a Bulls hat. Efac here

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<v Speaker 2>in the stream. Team says it's like when you cut

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<v Speaker 2>up in a belt pepper and there is a little

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<v Speaker 2>pepper inside of it. That's like TK with his balls.

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<v Speaker 2>I always do love when you find a secret pepper

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<v Speaker 2>inside of pepper. And that's Tray right now. I'll lead

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<v Speaker 2>you have anything to add about the balls are back

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<v Speaker 2>and all that stuff. And why don't you ever see

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<v Speaker 2>Homer on TK? He would never fucking start, But I.

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<v Speaker 1>Was talking about I don't you know, I don't want

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<v Speaker 1>to Sully the mood.

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<v Speaker 6>Tray is so happy right now.

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<v Speaker 1>It has been a while since the bulls have been back,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's fun to see. It's like also one of

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<v Speaker 1>those Russian dolls, you know, where you'd take it off

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<v Speaker 1>and there's just another one, a little misskin and I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's called something like that. Anyway, I really just

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<v Speaker 1>want to focus on two players. Io to soon move

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<v Speaker 1>I thought was just incredible. Trait obviously touched on him

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<v Speaker 1>there he got the start, and it really says a

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<v Speaker 1>lot about a rookie who can come into the starting

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<v Speaker 1>lineup and play the.

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<v Speaker 6>Way that he did.

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<v Speaker 1>Because this guy I believe earned his spot there primarily

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<v Speaker 1>because he's worked hard on the defensive end all season long.

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<v Speaker 1>He's all always hustling, he's always trying to get in

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<v Speaker 1>the way and affect the game on that end because

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<v Speaker 1>he knows, especially not only just as a rookie, but

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<v Speaker 1>on a team with so many other guys who can

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<v Speaker 1>score and shoot and have plays run for them, he's

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<v Speaker 1>not going to get plays run for him offensively. He

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<v Speaker 1>has to find ways to be effective, whether that's you know,

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<v Speaker 1>getting little tip ins or put backs or broken plays

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<v Speaker 1>that come his way. But also as well, last night

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<v Speaker 1>you saw just past the guys who are the scorers

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<v Speaker 1>and the shooters on your team, because that's a way

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<v Speaker 1>to get the respect from the veterans and the coach

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<v Speaker 1>to be like, you know, don't go out there and

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<v Speaker 1>try to replace Demarta Rosen's shots in minutes, because that's

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<v Speaker 1>not what he's being asked to do. But instead go

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<v Speaker 1>out there and do what you've done by being effective defensively,

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<v Speaker 1>starting that break in transition and then just pass the

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<v Speaker 1>ball to those other guys because that's what you're supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to do. He'll return to the bench obviously when DeRozan

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<v Speaker 1>comes back, but he really has shown that he's a

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<v Speaker 1>mature rookie, and he's talked a good game about saying,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I've got to be ready to wait for

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<v Speaker 1>my opportunity and do the right thing. But then he

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<v Speaker 1>actually went out and proved it. So I think that's

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<v Speaker 1>really really good. So for a young guy, second round pick,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, a lot of rookies, you know, they're impatient

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<v Speaker 1>and they're not quite ready for the NBA, and they're

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<v Speaker 1>not quite ready for that moment. He proved he was

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<v Speaker 1>last night. And then the other point is Lonzo Ball.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to play psychologists here, which is always fun.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going back to that NETS game where DeRozan found

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<v Speaker 1>him for that three pointer because he hadn't been shooting

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<v Speaker 1>the ball all that well, and I do believe those

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<v Speaker 1>things can have a knock on effect in the next game.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought Lonzo Ball was really confident last night shooting

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<v Speaker 1>the ball, and I think that that comes from the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that his teammates, you know, trusted him even though

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<v Speaker 1>he was having a bit of an off couple of

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<v Speaker 1>games there when he needed to step up again, there's

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<v Speaker 1>more shots there. Last night without DeRozan, he stepped up

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<v Speaker 1>and he made them, and he also made the defensive

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<v Speaker 1>plays and he was rebounding the ball. So all those things,

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<v Speaker 1>to me, really tell you that the Chicago Bulls team

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<v Speaker 1>is on the same page right now.

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<v Speaker 6>DeRozan goes out and it's not like, well, what are

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<v Speaker 6>we going to do here?

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<v Speaker 1>Everyone else just sort of lifts, does a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>more chips in here and there, and they also understand

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<v Speaker 1>just what is expected on them. There's no excuses. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not like, well, DeRozan not there, we can afford to

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<v Speaker 1>lose this game. That go out there and play just

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<v Speaker 1>the same way. So really, really good signs to me

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<v Speaker 1>that this locker room is on the same pageant and

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<v Speaker 1>really in sync with each other.

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<v Speaker 2>There's been so much talk too about like Caruso defensive

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<v Speaker 2>player of the Year. He's got to be in the

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<v Speaker 2>mix or at least on an all defensive team or

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<v Speaker 2>you know which. I think he will be maybe in

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<v Speaker 2>the end, But I think the same should be said

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<v Speaker 2>about Lonzo Ball. This guy is unbelievably he is elite

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<v Speaker 2>on that end. I think he's flirting with like he's

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<v Speaker 2>getting close to like two steels per game, and he

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<v Speaker 2>chips in a block a game at his position, which

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<v Speaker 2>is sort of rare, so you know, I'd like to

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<v Speaker 2>see his name sort of be included there at least

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<v Speaker 2>and talks about oh being one of the and I

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<v Speaker 2>know he has been before, but it's just been all Caruso, Caruso, Caruso.

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<v Speaker 2>He's just as good, right, Trey, Like what he can

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<v Speaker 2>do on the defense beend especially.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And it was actually kind of funny to see

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<v Speaker 3>last night because Lonzo had a couple of blocks, like

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<v Speaker 3>in the first couple of minutes of this game, and

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<v Speaker 3>the way he plays generally, he's like running around like crazy,

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<v Speaker 3>gambling for steels, gambling for help, trying to get deflections.

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<v Speaker 3>And usually that's at its best when Caruso is also

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<v Speaker 3>on the moor, because Cruso can really make up for

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of Lonzo's gambles, like cover for his spot

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<v Speaker 3>where he's left it behind.

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<v Speaker 2>That was not.

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<v Speaker 3>Happening with the Bulls in the first half. Lonzo was

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<v Speaker 3>running around a little bit too crazy. It led to

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of open threes for the Nuggets, so the

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<v Speaker 3>Bulls decided to play it a little bit more straight

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<v Speaker 3>in the second half, and Lonzo's just he's just reeks havoc.

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<v Speaker 3>And then he's he's so good at then turning defense

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<v Speaker 3>to offense that it rubs off on the other Bulls

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<v Speaker 3>as well. So they're not always a great half court team,

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<v Speaker 3>but they're a great full court team, and a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of that is Lonzo doing defense to offense. Another cool

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<v Speaker 3>thing last night, the Bulls had a six point possession.

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<v Speaker 3>They hit a three and got called for a flagrant

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<v Speaker 3>foul on the old Zaza Patula land under so went

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<v Speaker 3>to the free throw line.

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<v Speaker 2>Lonzo had two free throws to make one very weird.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, yeah, hit it.

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<v Speaker 3>But the Bulls then get the ball back and they

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<v Speaker 3>got a dunk. I think it was a Derek Doones

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<v Speaker 3>junior dunk. So they got a four point play, then

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<v Speaker 3>the dunk. Six points on one possession plus the two

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<v Speaker 3>to one. That doesn't happen very often.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like it's like John Schuman's wet dream session. Oh

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<v Speaker 2>my god, get some get some crazy hard. Sorry to

0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:20.440
<v Speaker 2>put that visual in your head, John Shuman hard. That'll

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<v Speaker 2>never be able to shake that one all day, willari

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<v Speaker 2>all right? Our next game here, Joel Embiid a monster.

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<v Speaker 2>This one got me hard. Forty three points, seventy six

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<v Speaker 2>ers held off the pesky Hornets, who are very short

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<v Speaker 2>man right now, a lot of guys in health and

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<v Speaker 2>safety protocols as well. Hornets won twenty seven excuse me

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<v Speaker 2>six ers one over Charlotte in overtime. I was locked

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<v Speaker 2>in on this one. Task was one of the earlier games.

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<v Speaker 2>Obviously fairly any very entertaining. What do you think of

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<v Speaker 2>this one?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, came down to the wire and the Hornets broadcasters

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<v Speaker 4>thought they were going to pull it out with a

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<v Speaker 4>very short handed team and the stars in the health

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<v Speaker 4>and safety protocol no lamellow ball right now, but it

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<v Speaker 4>was coming down to the wire. And it's a true

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<v Speaker 4>small market team with the broadcasters that are true homers.

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<v Speaker 4>When they're on the broadcast, they're just pulling for the

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<v Speaker 4>home team. They're just yearning for the home team. And

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<v Speaker 4>they were just saying, basically, with four minutes left, they

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<v Speaker 4>had the lead, it looked like, you know, it looked

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<v Speaker 4>like they could pull it out, and they're just saying,

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<v Speaker 4>we just need.

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<v Speaker 6>A couple stops.

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<v Speaker 4>So we just need a couple of stops, and this

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<v Speaker 4>will be a signature win, a huge win. This could

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<v Speaker 4>turn our season around. And that made it fun because

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<v Speaker 4>then Joel Embiid ripped their heart out because it was

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<v Speaker 4>pretty fun to see the Joel Embiid of last year.

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<v Speaker 4>Just talked about zach Lavina. Last year, Embiid has been,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, not quite himself, not quite the runner up

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<v Speaker 4>in the MVP voting. And I thought he had his

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<v Speaker 4>best game in this one. Everything going through him. Charlotte

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<v Speaker 4>had no answer for him. He had a forty two

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<v Speaker 4>point night a couple weeks ago. He's playing Karl Anthony Towns,

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<v Speaker 4>but this one was forty three against the Hornets team

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<v Speaker 4>Again that's too small, so they're doubling him. And he

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<v Speaker 4>only took two threes in this one, so it's pretty cool.

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<v Speaker 4>And that jump shot with their seconds left, it looks

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<v Speaker 4>like a bad shot for a lot of big men.

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<v Speaker 4>But he was able to tie the game from the

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<v Speaker 4>mid range, where is where he killed everyone last year.

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<v Speaker 4>That is where Joel Embiid made his money last year.

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<v Speaker 4>They just were able to find him with you know

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<v Speaker 4>those entry passes in the mid post, because the Sixers

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<v Speaker 4>do and did in this game, struggle to get him

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<v Speaker 4>the ball in the post. Bad passes, bad angles, just

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<v Speaker 4>struggling to find it there. But if Joel Embiid, like

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<v Speaker 4>with thirty seconds left, can take the ball up top

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<v Speaker 4>and just drag his defender into the mid range and

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<v Speaker 4>hit shots like he did last year at an incredible rate.

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<v Speaker 4>That's why he was so good. They're unstoppable, and that's

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<v Speaker 4>how the Sixers pulled this one off. And Kelly Ubray

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<v Speaker 4>helped out by taking a bad shot there, although he

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<v Speaker 4>had a big three and then he took a bad

0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.040
<v Speaker 4>shot because that's the Kelly Ubray experience. But yeah, the

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<v Speaker 4>Hornets olmost pulled it out. But yeah, what's that LaMelo

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<v Speaker 4>ball really running the show? I thought that kind of

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<v Speaker 4>heart at the end with that Ubray shot. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>great great effort at home in the uh yeah, the

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<v Speaker 4>gradient jury, the Kellyambre jerseys and they almost pulled. That

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<v Speaker 4>would have been as much as Dell and Air Collins

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<v Speaker 4>wanted it the broadcasters there, that would have been a

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<v Speaker 4>really big win. But yeah, that was a that was

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<v Speaker 4>a dagger there by Joel Embiide to pull it into

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<v Speaker 4>overtime and then yeah, they pulled it off.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, what a monster line. The forty three points, fifteen boards,

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<v Speaker 2>seven assists on fifteen to twenty shooting for embiid twelve

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<v Speaker 2>or fourteen at the line there as well, Leley, and

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<v Speaker 2>I think Task is right. That's what I thought watching

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<v Speaker 2>this games, like, oh yeah, Joelle Embiid last year was

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<v Speaker 2>a legit MVP guy and you know, hasn't really been

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<v Speaker 2>the case for a whole chunk of this season because

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<v Speaker 2>you missed a big chunk of it too, with his

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<v Speaker 2>own worries there with COVID, and he's talked about that.

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<v Speaker 2>So it was cool to be reminded of, like, oh, yeah,

0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.960
<v Speaker 2>this guy can can sort of tilt a playoff series

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<v Speaker 2>or you know, obviously like a favorite even in an

0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.280
<v Speaker 2>Eastern Conference when he plays like that, because when the

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<v Speaker 2>mid range is going, I don't really know how to stop.

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<v Speaker 1>Him, no, and it certainly helps when they done don't

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<v Speaker 1>really have a big, tall guy who can get.

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<v Speaker 2>Up there with PG. Weisher didn't that.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's I mean, that's a problem that the Hornets

0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.439
<v Speaker 1>have faced a lot this season. Plumbley's out right now anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>so and Plumbley's not a great defender, but he's at

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<v Speaker 1>least tall. I can maybe get his hand up a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit higher than Washington. But all things considered, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>the Hornets had a chance to win this game. They

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<v Speaker 1>still nearly could pull it off. Kelly Hubra, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>what a what a fantastic overall game he had, But

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<v Speaker 1>he did have like that mislay up at the start

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<v Speaker 1>of overtime as well, So he had a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>those plays that just kind of take a little off

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<v Speaker 1>the table despite the six threes that he had going

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<v Speaker 1>into the starting lineup. But yeah, Eric Collins a couple

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<v Speaker 1>of times, I mean openly just like saying, oh and

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<v Speaker 1>beads settling, bang, knocked it in and bead settling bang.

0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.560
<v Speaker 1>Avin Dell pulled him into line and said, you can't

0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:49.840
<v Speaker 1>say that's settling because that's exactly he's knocking those in.

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<v Speaker 6>So it was great.

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<v Speaker 1>But Embiid also talked about I think you know, he's

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<v Speaker 1>had that coronavirus, so was out for a while and

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<v Speaker 1>that probably affected his conditioning, and he sort of said

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<v Speaker 1>he was looking back at tape and he's got to

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<v Speaker 1>establish a bit more of that position down low because

0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:07.120
<v Speaker 1>that's where he really is unstoppable again, especially against smaller guys.

0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.919
<v Speaker 1>Now they're tougher guys, but MBT is just a better player.

0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:11.879
<v Speaker 1>So it was good to see him really put his

0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:15.000
<v Speaker 1>dominance on this game last night. He only had seven

0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.200
<v Speaker 1>points in the fourth quarter and six in the overtime.

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<v Speaker 1>Now I say only because it felt like he had

0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:21.040
<v Speaker 1>way more than that. It felt like it was one

0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:22.800
<v Speaker 1>of those games where he had you look at the boxer,

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<v Speaker 1>he's had, well, he must have had, you know, eighteen

0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.040
<v Speaker 1>points in the fourth quarter. He didn't quite dominate in

0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.240
<v Speaker 1>that aspect, but his presence was clearly the difference here

0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.080
<v Speaker 1>between these two teams. But the crowd last night seemed

0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.280
<v Speaker 1>really into it as well. Charlotte's not one of those

0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:37.679
<v Speaker 1>arenas that you looked at where the crowd's going crazy,

0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.480
<v Speaker 1>but they were last night because it was such an

0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.600
<v Speaker 1>entertaining game. So really good win for the Sixers to

0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.680
<v Speaker 1>pull that out. Good performance by the Hornets all things considered.

0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.320
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, Eric Collins and del Curry must listen to

0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.240
<v Speaker 1>those guys. They're always so entertaining.

0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.119
<v Speaker 2>Oh man, Collins was going nuts on a couple uh

0:19:54.680 --> 0:20:00.640
<v Speaker 2>dunks last night gee saw and then book note huge

0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.719
<v Speaker 2>put back dunk in the fourth quarter where Collins was

0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.920
<v Speaker 2>losing his mind. Yeah, I mean, if the Hornets are playing,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm always listening to the Hornets broadcast. I mean, it's

0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.160
<v Speaker 2>it's just too it's just too much fun. It makes

0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:14.800
<v Speaker 2>the game so much more enjoyable. And the Hornets play

0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.200
<v Speaker 2>a bunch of these insane games too. No one plays deep,

0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:19.000
<v Speaker 2>they don't play defense. Yeah, that's awesome.

0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.320
<v Speaker 3>I think they've given up like one hundred and thirty

0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.480
<v Speaker 3>points or thereabouts to almost every opponent this year.

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<v Speaker 2>The JT.

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<v Speaker 3>Thor dunk was hilarious. Of course, Eric Collins hits us

0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:31.000
<v Speaker 3>with he threw a lightning bowl. That's expected, right, the

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<v Speaker 3>guy's last name is Thor. My favorite line he had

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<v Speaker 3>on it, though, was I think he just cleared his

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<v Speaker 3>sinuses too? What's literally?

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<v Speaker 2>What does that mean?

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<v Speaker 3>The only the only bigger question I had was afterwards.

0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:47.240
<v Speaker 3>According to the ap doc, Rivers called this game for

0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:51.199
<v Speaker 3>Joel Embiid a feed the pig game. YE don't like

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<v Speaker 3>that at all, very much like bore on the floor,

0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.040
<v Speaker 3>very disgusting. But I like to see the deeper post

0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.359
<v Speaker 3>ups from Embiid. Like he does have a nice midrange jumper.

0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:03.840
<v Speaker 3>I feel like he can get a little bit too

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<v Speaker 3>patrick ewing at times where he would rather shoot the

0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:10.080
<v Speaker 3>midranger than get that boost inside. But only five misses

0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.359
<v Speaker 3>on the night he got started inside and then worked

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<v Speaker 3>his way out to the mid range game. He's taken

0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:16.840
<v Speaker 3>double digit pre throw attempts in four or five games

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<v Speaker 3>since coming back from COVID, so you can tell he's

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<v Speaker 3>rounding in this shape and really mashing guys down low.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Tobias Harris was also good I think for the Sixers

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<v Speaker 2>last night. I think a twenty to ten game, twenty

0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:29.960
<v Speaker 2>one and eleven something like that, contributing there. He had

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<v Speaker 2>been in and oute of this lineup too, So Sixers,

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<v Speaker 2>I think I heard maybe there on the Daily Ding

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<v Speaker 2>this morning. First time the Sixers have won back to

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<v Speaker 2>back games in like a month. Yeah, so you know,

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<v Speaker 2>obviously they want to start rising back up the Eastern

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<v Speaker 2>Conference standings as they get these players back, and we

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<v Speaker 2>wait and see whether or not they of course make

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<v Speaker 2>a move. All right, let's keep it going here. The

0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:55.560
<v Speaker 2>Hawks hit twenty five to three pointers twenty five to

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<v Speaker 2>beat the Timberwolves one twenty one, one ten. Get startedly.

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<v Speaker 6>Well.

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<v Speaker 1>The Hawks needed a convincing victory because they lost the

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<v Speaker 1>night before at home to the Hornets and then on

0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:07.040
<v Speaker 1>Friday night at home to the Sixers. Now, okay, that's fine.

0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:08.720
<v Speaker 1>The Sixers are a team that they can afford a

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<v Speaker 1>lost to and then they came out last night and

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<v Speaker 1>just pounded Minnesota from deep twenty five threes, as you mentioned,

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<v Speaker 1>only forty nine attempts, and every single player except for

0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:21.600
<v Speaker 1>Clint Capella hit a three for the Hawks last night.

0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:25.720
<v Speaker 1>Timothy Lua wu At Cabiri went seven to fourteen in

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<v Speaker 1>the Star.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, John Collins three Italian ones, Yeah yeah, No Frenchies,

0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:35.439
<v Speaker 3>Trey hit for Danilla.

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<v Speaker 1>Gallinari off the bench had four, Kevin Huerta had two,

0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:42.760
<v Speaker 1>Gorgy Jiang even hit three last night. So honestly, the

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<v Speaker 1>Timberwolves didn't play terrible. They didn't defend the three point

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<v Speaker 1>line well, but they were just chasing the Hawks all night,

0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:51.639
<v Speaker 1>and the Hawks just didn't cool off. And so you know,

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<v Speaker 1>this is this is a real modern day game the

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<v Speaker 1>way it's played, where you just came down and was

0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:58.800
<v Speaker 1>like everyone spreads the floor out and if everyone gets hot,

0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:01.600
<v Speaker 1>becomes contagious. We know that sometimes teams can go just

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<v Speaker 1>as cold from outside as the Hawks got hot last night,

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<v Speaker 1>and the Timberleves just didn't really have an answer. They

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<v Speaker 1>didn't have D'Angelo Russell last night. Now I'm not sure

0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:12.400
<v Speaker 1>that helps them defensively, but offensively they could have used

0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:14.560
<v Speaker 1>him out there to at least try to keep up

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<v Speaker 1>with the Hawks, but they just weren't able to timbles.

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<v Speaker 1>Another one of those little runs they go on where

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<v Speaker 1>it's like are they okay or are they not very good?

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<v Speaker 6>Last night was more in the column of like they

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<v Speaker 6>just they just.

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<v Speaker 1>Can't seem to ever solidify a position where you think, Okay,

0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:32.879
<v Speaker 1>maybe this team is good. Edwards and cat sure, fine,

0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:36.160
<v Speaker 1>but they were just down last night and just never

0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:39.399
<v Speaker 1>really got into the game because they couldn't stop the

0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:41.760
<v Speaker 1>Hawks hitting threes. I mean, like I say, when everyone

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<v Speaker 1>off the bench is just coming out there firing away

0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:47.600
<v Speaker 1>like that, it's pretty hard to stop. And Chris finch Finchy,

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<v Speaker 1>he talked about their defensive effort, and it's like, Yep,

0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:52.480
<v Speaker 1>you can talk about it all you want, but if

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<v Speaker 1>a team's lighting you up for four straight quarters, then

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<v Speaker 1>it's really on the players, I think.

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<v Speaker 2>Chah So, I know you were locked in a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit on this Hikeswolves game, so he tweeted about it

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<v Speaker 2>last night. I think to add to Lely's breakdown there

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<v Speaker 2>from a very solid Hawks win there on a back

0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:07.200
<v Speaker 2>to back situation.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, franchise record twenty five threes because timoth A Lulu

0:24:11.480 --> 0:24:14.000
<v Speaker 4>Cabrero was not part of the game plan for the

0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:15.960
<v Speaker 4>Minnesota Timberwolves. They just left him open.

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<v Speaker 5>Understandable.

0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:19.880
<v Speaker 4>He went seven to fourteen from three bang bang bang bang.

0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:23.480
<v Speaker 4>That was huge, and Danilo Gallinari looked like it was

0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:25.920
<v Speaker 4>ten years ago. He looks spry off the bench. He

0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:29.159
<v Speaker 4>looked like a totally different guy. He looked like he

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<v Speaker 4>was having some Italian wine. Now, Lee, are you saying

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<v Speaker 4>there was only Italian wines on the because you missed

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<v Speaker 4>his section?

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<v Speaker 5>I told I told you too, I told you right then.

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<v Speaker 4>But anyways, it doesn't matter. The wine was fine, no

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<v Speaker 4>matter what JD says. It was fine.

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<v Speaker 5>I didn't say it was bad. What are you talking about?

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<v Speaker 4>No, yeah, oh, I thought you said it was pissy.

0:24:54.800 --> 0:25:00.680
<v Speaker 4>I thought you word pissy. Oh what was the word

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<v Speaker 4>you used?

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<v Speaker 7>Delicious?

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<v Speaker 5>I don't know what.

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<v Speaker 7>I don't remember saying anything bad about the winy order.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody relaxed. He didn't he didn't mind the wine that

0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:12.000
<v Speaker 2>Lee picked at Dark Christmas Dinner on Friday night.

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<v Speaker 7>People were upsett me because I said Charraz sucks. That's it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, people.

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<v Speaker 7>Were, which it does. I stand by that it's horrible.

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<v Speaker 7>You know it's a grape. Don't come at me because

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<v Speaker 7>of a single grape. There's a whole litany of delicious

0:25:29.000 --> 0:25:32.840
<v Speaker 7>wines out there. I just don't like chiraz anyways, carry on,

0:25:33.040 --> 0:25:33.359
<v Speaker 7>There are a.

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<v Speaker 4>Lot of grapes. There are a lot of grapes out there.

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<v Speaker 4>When you think about it, there's hundreds millions of grapes.

0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:44.920
<v Speaker 4>You don't think of that. There's a lot of grapes anyway. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>Danilo Gallinari was squishing some grapes between his feet. He

0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:49.679
<v Speaker 4>looked great out there. Twenty five threes. Yeah, they were

0:25:49.720 --> 0:25:52.840
<v Speaker 4>just moving the ball so nicely. The Hawks, I think,

0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:55.840
<v Speaker 4>were a little pissed off after their last their last

0:25:55.840 --> 0:25:58.880
<v Speaker 4>loss on the weekend, and yeah, they look like they

0:25:58.920 --> 0:25:59.600
<v Speaker 4>turned it around.

0:25:59.600 --> 0:25:59.719
<v Speaker 3>Now.

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<v Speaker 4>Didn't have D'Angelo Russell, and I think that was a

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<v Speaker 4>big part of why they looked the way they looked

0:26:05.080 --> 0:26:07.600
<v Speaker 4>in Karl Anthony Town's coming back from from that injury

0:26:07.600 --> 0:26:09.960
<v Speaker 4>in his first game. But yeah, the Hawks weren't gonna

0:26:10.000 --> 0:26:12.440
<v Speaker 4>lose this game. The way they were moving it around.

0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:15.640
<v Speaker 4>Twenty five doesn't seem like it should be a franchise

0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:17.640
<v Speaker 4>high for that team, the way they let it fly,

0:26:17.840 --> 0:26:20.560
<v Speaker 4>But yeah, that's it. Is a lot of threes, even

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<v Speaker 4>in today's game.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, our next game, just really quickly here Jannis

0:26:25.520 --> 0:26:29.280
<v Speaker 2>scored twenty seven points on his twenty seventh birthday as

0:26:29.320 --> 0:26:31.640
<v Speaker 2>the Bucks beat the Cavs one twelve, one oh four.

0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:35.479
<v Speaker 2>It gets even better than that because Bleacher Report pointing

0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:39.600
<v Speaker 2>out that he also played in twenty seven minutes. Lately

0:26:40.280 --> 0:26:44.840
<v Speaker 2>you like the numbers? Are you numerologist? What does it mean?

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<v Speaker 3>What does it mean?

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<v Speaker 2>I really just wanted to ask you, Lee, what you

0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:50.919
<v Speaker 2>did on your twenty seventh birthday and if you totally

0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:51.600
<v Speaker 2>you could show us.

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<v Speaker 6>Yes, give me a minute and I'll get one, because

0:26:54.960 --> 0:26:55.440
<v Speaker 6>it was the.

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<v Speaker 2>Just tell me about it.

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<v Speaker 1>It was the Champions League Final in two thousand and three,

0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:03.080
<v Speaker 1>three at Old Trafford in Manchester. It was Icee Milan

0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:05.159
<v Speaker 1>versus Juventus. I was there for that game was on

0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:09.120
<v Speaker 1>my birthday. So your twenty seventh birthday, yes, eight, two

0:27:09.200 --> 0:27:10.040
<v Speaker 1>thousand and three.

0:27:10.680 --> 0:27:13.800
<v Speaker 2>Honestly amaze me. I was getting ready for the show

0:27:13.800 --> 0:27:16.280
<v Speaker 2>this morning, showering, thinking, oh, I'll ask Lee what he

0:27:16.320 --> 0:27:19.439
<v Speaker 2>did on his twenty seventh birthday. I doubt he'll even know,

0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:21.080
<v Speaker 2>because I was like, I don't know what he did

0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:23.840
<v Speaker 2>on my twenty seventh. No clue, but of course you know,

0:27:24.280 --> 0:27:25.920
<v Speaker 2>you know exactly where you were, and you have a

0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:27.680
<v Speaker 2>photo that you're searching for right now.

0:27:28.119 --> 0:27:30.720
<v Speaker 6>Yes I am.

0:27:30.800 --> 0:27:36.040
<v Speaker 2>Anyway from this game, another feisty performance from the Cavs.

0:27:36.080 --> 0:27:38.399
<v Speaker 2>Tasks like they're they're in a lot of these games.

0:27:38.440 --> 0:27:40.000
<v Speaker 2>They were. They had a chance to take the lead

0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:43.439
<v Speaker 2>in the fourth quarter. Obviously come up short, but that's okay.

0:27:43.800 --> 0:27:46.399
<v Speaker 2>The fight is there. But the Yeah, the Bucks are

0:27:46.440 --> 0:27:48.280
<v Speaker 2>just too good when their three guys are playing. They're

0:27:48.280 --> 0:27:51.560
<v Speaker 2>still undefeated if anybody's keeping track when Jannis Middleton and

0:27:51.600 --> 0:27:54.120
<v Speaker 2>Drew Holiday are in the lineup. So that's good.

0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:54.960
<v Speaker 6>Uh.

0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:57.480
<v Speaker 2>Joannis hit all three of his threes last night. Also

0:27:57.560 --> 0:27:59.680
<v Speaker 2>nice twelve boards. You know, he was returning from this

0:27:59.760 --> 0:28:02.600
<v Speaker 2>sore right calf. The Bucks had split those two games

0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:04.399
<v Speaker 2>that he missed, so they're not too upset with that.

0:28:04.520 --> 0:28:07.639
<v Speaker 2>But also an in state insane stat in the AP report,

0:28:07.800 --> 0:28:11.520
<v Speaker 2>the Bucks are forty three and four forty three and

0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:15.440
<v Speaker 2>four against the Central Division since Budenholzer took over as

0:28:15.440 --> 0:28:19.600
<v Speaker 2>coach in twenty eighteen. Holy crap, that is I know

0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:21.560
<v Speaker 2>it's I know the Bulls have had some rough years,

0:28:21.680 --> 0:28:25.680
<v Speaker 2>right right, TK, Yeah, there's a lot of pittass in

0:28:25.720 --> 0:28:27.760
<v Speaker 2>the central Pistons and who's the final one?

0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:32.119
<v Speaker 4>I'm for you have Bulls, Pistons, Boots and the Pacers.

0:28:32.240 --> 0:28:36.600
<v Speaker 2>That's that's wild though only four losses. I mean some

0:28:36.640 --> 0:28:38.320
<v Speaker 2>of those teams are bad, you guys are right, but

0:28:38.520 --> 0:28:42.080
<v Speaker 2>that's still this is the NBA's that's a crazy stat.

0:28:42.320 --> 0:28:46.400
<v Speaker 2>So they have taken care of business against the central division.

0:28:46.400 --> 0:28:50.480
<v Speaker 4>I'm surely what's that n that that site that you

0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:53.040
<v Speaker 4>referenced there with the with the trade the other day

0:28:53.080 --> 0:28:53.560
<v Speaker 4>than the.

0:28:53.640 --> 0:28:55.280
<v Speaker 2>NAMBA Analysis Network.

0:28:55.280 --> 0:28:57.760
<v Speaker 4>I think Analysis Network that's the one. I'm sure they've

0:28:57.760 --> 0:29:01.720
<v Speaker 4>got a report on it. They love doing division reports. Yes,

0:29:02.400 --> 0:29:08.600
<v Speaker 4>they go division by division hard on the uh so yeah, Yeahannis, Yeah,

0:29:08.640 --> 0:29:10.240
<v Speaker 4>he just he pulled it out the end. I think

0:29:10.240 --> 0:29:12.240
<v Speaker 4>it is easy to forget as he said that they

0:29:12.240 --> 0:29:14.400
<v Speaker 4>haven't been healthy. I know we talk about Brook Lopez

0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:15.840
<v Speaker 4>a lot, but everybody has been in and out of

0:29:15.840 --> 0:29:18.720
<v Speaker 4>the lineup. So unbeaten with their big three and uh

0:29:18.720 --> 0:29:20.920
<v Speaker 4>feeling good about themselves is they're you know, part of

0:29:20.920 --> 0:29:24.280
<v Speaker 4>the nets Bulls, a little triumvirate at the top. Thing

0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:27.760
<v Speaker 4>they feel great and Yannie, yeah it was it was

0:29:27.800 --> 0:29:29.960
<v Speaker 4>in the fourth quarter where he just kind of like

0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:33.480
<v Speaker 4>finished the game. And I had picked the Calves to

0:29:33.520 --> 0:29:35.040
<v Speaker 4>cover that six and a half point spread, and then

0:29:35.080 --> 0:29:37.920
<v Speaker 4>Yanni's just splashed a three in the last minute just

0:29:37.960 --> 0:29:40.560
<v Speaker 4>to ice it. But the Calves are always going to

0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:43.280
<v Speaker 4>be there for sure. They're always going to fight, and

0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:46.440
<v Speaker 4>uh yeah, they're not going to cover if Yanbo was

0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:49.440
<v Speaker 4>hitting three pointers. Yeah he looks. He looks great a

0:29:49.440 --> 0:29:52.680
<v Speaker 4>couple of games off, feeling good on his twenty seventh birthday.

0:29:53.120 --> 0:29:54.880
<v Speaker 5>Happy Birthday, Yanni.

0:29:55.400 --> 0:29:56.840
<v Speaker 2>Uh well did you find it?

0:29:56.920 --> 0:29:57.040
<v Speaker 6>Lee?

0:29:57.120 --> 0:30:00.600
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I have to kick come on, I just

0:30:00.640 --> 0:30:02.880
<v Speaker 2>want to see this photo. Now, that's definitely going to

0:30:02.960 --> 0:30:06.760
<v Speaker 2>be underwhelming. It's going to be you standing outside a building.

0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:09.760
<v Speaker 2>Let's see it. Here we go, Happy twenty seventh birthday.

0:30:09.760 --> 0:30:15.800
<v Speaker 2>Oh it's standing inside a building. Okay, this's actually blue shirt.

0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:18.960
<v Speaker 5>Oh why are you wearing a bat blue shirt?

0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:19.240
<v Speaker 3>Oh?

0:30:19.520 --> 0:30:21.960
<v Speaker 5>Well that was in that bag? What you got in

0:30:22.040 --> 0:30:22.520
<v Speaker 5>that bag?

0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:23.200
<v Speaker 6>Yeah?

0:30:23.320 --> 0:30:25.560
<v Speaker 1>You know, I lived in Canada for a year before that,

0:30:25.880 --> 0:30:28.640
<v Speaker 1>so I was still in my Canadian you know, sort

0:30:28.680 --> 0:30:29.200
<v Speaker 1>of phase there.

0:30:29.280 --> 0:30:30.440
<v Speaker 5>But yeah, but you got that.

0:30:30.520 --> 0:30:33.760
<v Speaker 2>Shirt free in a case of beer. That's you didn't

0:30:33.760 --> 0:30:33.960
<v Speaker 2>buy it?

0:30:34.080 --> 0:30:40.160
<v Speaker 6>Probably yeah, yeah, probably most likely yeah, yeah, so yeah.

0:30:40.960 --> 0:30:43.720
<v Speaker 2>Hey, happy belated birthday too, Thanks man, Thanks.

0:30:43.560 --> 0:30:44.760
<v Speaker 6>I appreciate it for sure.

0:30:44.760 --> 0:30:48.160
<v Speaker 2>You're twenty seventh birthday twenty all right, great one the

0:30:48.240 --> 0:30:49.840
<v Speaker 2>other games from last night, I'll just throw them all

0:30:49.880 --> 0:30:53.000
<v Speaker 2>at your task, go wherever you want. Grizzlies won their

0:30:53.040 --> 0:30:56.240
<v Speaker 2>fifth straight, led by Desmond Bean and his big arms

0:30:56.240 --> 0:30:58.800
<v Speaker 2>and then Dylan Brooks and his crazy face. The thunder

0:30:58.960 --> 0:31:03.000
<v Speaker 2>rallied to beat the Pistons. They ended their eight game skid.

0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:06.000
<v Speaker 2>Ok see Detroit will actually touch on that later, of course,

0:31:06.040 --> 0:31:08.400
<v Speaker 2>with the pick them Pacers pulled away early. They held

0:31:08.440 --> 0:31:10.360
<v Speaker 2>off the Wizards for the one sixteen one to ten win.

0:31:11.080 --> 0:31:13.120
<v Speaker 2>Chris Paul did his thing twenty one and ten Suns

0:31:13.160 --> 0:31:15.320
<v Speaker 2>beat the Spurs one O eight one oh four. Korean

0:31:15.360 --> 0:31:18.120
<v Speaker 2>Wiggins led the Warriors to a blowout victory over the Magic,

0:31:18.200 --> 0:31:20.680
<v Speaker 2>and Paul George scored twenty one as the Clippers took

0:31:20.720 --> 0:31:22.960
<v Speaker 2>care of the shorthanded Blazers one two ninety Any of

0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:24.000
<v Speaker 2>those games you wanted to touch on?

0:31:24.800 --> 0:31:28.720
<v Speaker 4>Well, the thunder jumping back from a seventy three point loss.

0:31:28.800 --> 0:31:32.120
<v Speaker 4>That's pretty good, they tweeted after their seventy three point loss.

0:31:32.480 --> 0:31:34.080
<v Speaker 4>A photo of a couple of their guys with the

0:31:34.160 --> 0:31:37.440
<v Speaker 4>caption regroup and back at it Monday. Everybody laughed at

0:31:37.480 --> 0:31:39.880
<v Speaker 4>them regrouping back at it Monday.

0:31:39.600 --> 0:31:39.840
<v Speaker 6>Ha ha.

0:31:40.200 --> 0:31:43.120
<v Speaker 4>And they came back at one on Monday. They followed

0:31:43.200 --> 0:31:45.920
<v Speaker 4>through on the Twit good for them, and they were down.

0:31:45.800 --> 0:31:47.840
<v Speaker 6>And then that was down eighteen points at this yeah

0:31:47.920 --> 0:31:50.200
<v Speaker 6>as well. So what does that say about the Pistons?

0:31:50.320 --> 0:31:53.760
<v Speaker 2>I mean, well, according to you, they should be investigated

0:31:53.880 --> 0:31:57.479
<v Speaker 2>for tanking and uh Silver should step in and stripping

0:31:57.480 --> 0:31:58.760
<v Speaker 2>out in the front office.

0:31:58.520 --> 0:31:59.000
<v Speaker 6>Of the role.

0:32:00.480 --> 0:32:00.520
<v Speaker 5>That.

0:32:00.800 --> 0:32:03.840
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that was a that was a very impressive bounce

0:32:03.880 --> 0:32:05.880
<v Speaker 1>back there from the night. Now, they obviously had Giddy

0:32:05.920 --> 0:32:08.640
<v Speaker 1>and gilges Alexander back as well, which helped. But the Pistons,

0:32:08.680 --> 0:32:11.200
<v Speaker 1>I mean, come on losing having an eighteen point game

0:32:11.280 --> 0:32:12.720
<v Speaker 1>and then a lead and then losing.

0:32:12.520 --> 0:32:14.080
<v Speaker 6>By did they lose? What double digits? Was it in

0:32:14.120 --> 0:32:14.360
<v Speaker 6>the end?

0:32:14.360 --> 0:32:15.880
<v Speaker 1>I know it was out there to double digit I'm

0:32:15.880 --> 0:32:18.320
<v Speaker 1>not sure what the final was. But what about the

0:32:18.400 --> 0:32:22.360
<v Speaker 1>Memphis Grizzlies also, let's give them some love. Five consecutive

0:32:22.440 --> 0:32:25.360
<v Speaker 1>games now where they have not trailed at all.

0:32:25.800 --> 0:32:29.600
<v Speaker 6>That is unbelievable. So now the heat, obviosly they're down

0:32:29.640 --> 0:32:30.960
<v Speaker 6>a few players. Jimmy Butler was.

0:32:30.960 --> 0:32:33.880
<v Speaker 1>Back there last night. He played, I think, yeah, he

0:32:34.000 --> 0:32:36.640
<v Speaker 1>picked up another injury. But even still, for the Grizzlies

0:32:36.680 --> 0:32:39.720
<v Speaker 1>to be doing all this still without Jar Morant is

0:32:40.480 --> 0:32:44.480
<v Speaker 1>quite an incredible achievement by them. So their defense is unbelievable.

0:32:44.600 --> 0:32:48.200
<v Speaker 1>Right over those last five games, the defensive rating is

0:32:48.360 --> 0:32:50.160
<v Speaker 1>ninety unbelievable.

0:32:50.200 --> 0:32:51.720
<v Speaker 6>Stuff unbelievable.

0:32:52.840 --> 0:32:57.680
<v Speaker 2>Some people are saying they should trade Drumrean, trading to

0:32:57.720 --> 0:32:58.280
<v Speaker 2>the Pistons.

0:32:58.360 --> 0:33:00.680
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, this is.

0:33:01.320 --> 0:33:03.239
<v Speaker 2>Tk any of those games I threw at the end

0:33:03.280 --> 0:33:04.600
<v Speaker 2>that you want to do touch on quickly.

0:33:04.920 --> 0:33:08.440
<v Speaker 3>Steph Curry made seven threes, So now he is fifteen

0:33:08.640 --> 0:33:11.959
<v Speaker 3>threes away from passing Ray Allen, or for tying Ray

0:33:12.000 --> 0:33:14.640
<v Speaker 3>Allen for most all time, sixteen away from passing him

0:33:14.680 --> 0:33:17.760
<v Speaker 3>for most in the regular season. He's not ruling it

0:33:17.840 --> 0:33:20.120
<v Speaker 3>out for the next game they play against the Blazers,

0:33:20.120 --> 0:33:23.560
<v Speaker 3>which is a perfect perfect opponent to try and go

0:33:23.720 --> 0:33:26.440
<v Speaker 3>for a sixteen to three game. As he mentioned, he

0:33:26.680 --> 0:33:29.200
<v Speaker 3>knows that what that would do for Klay Thompson's current

0:33:29.320 --> 0:33:32.920
<v Speaker 3>record for most threes in a game. So, yeah, seven

0:33:33.000 --> 0:33:35.200
<v Speaker 3>threes last night, but it's really just more exciting to

0:33:35.240 --> 0:33:37.200
<v Speaker 3>see what Steph Curry does in his next game, because

0:33:37.200 --> 0:33:38.840
<v Speaker 3>it kind of feels like he's going to at least

0:33:38.920 --> 0:33:39.800
<v Speaker 3>try to go for the.

0:33:39.840 --> 0:33:41.240
<v Speaker 5>All time three point record.

0:33:41.520 --> 0:33:44.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, sign me up, I'll watch. Is it is it

0:33:44.440 --> 0:33:46.480
<v Speaker 2>in Potland or it's in Golden State?

0:33:47.360 --> 0:33:47.600
<v Speaker 4>Okay?

0:33:47.720 --> 0:33:50.720
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so it's at home. Like Trey said, he needs

0:33:50.760 --> 0:33:55.200
<v Speaker 2>sixteen to surpass Rayaleen for regular season three pointers made.

0:33:55.240 --> 0:33:57.360
<v Speaker 2>If it doesn't happen then, which I mean that would

0:33:57.360 --> 0:33:59.840
<v Speaker 2>be a record sixteen threes, then they're on a five

0:34:00.200 --> 0:34:02.080
<v Speaker 2>road trips, so it would be happening probably on the

0:34:02.160 --> 0:34:07.560
<v Speaker 2>road lately. Uh, Philadelphia, Indiana, New York, Madison Square, Guarden there,

0:34:07.720 --> 0:34:08.720
<v Speaker 2>Boston and Toronto.

0:34:09.600 --> 0:34:12.320
<v Speaker 1>He then he's gotta if he doesn't do it against

0:34:12.360 --> 0:34:14.280
<v Speaker 1>the Blazes, he's got to do it in the Garden,

0:34:14.360 --> 0:34:14.719
<v Speaker 1>doesn't he?

0:34:14.800 --> 0:34:15.040
<v Speaker 4>Really?

0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:16.320
<v Speaker 6>I mean that's the next biggest.

0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:18.000
<v Speaker 2>I mean yeah, but you'd have to miss a lot

0:34:18.040 --> 0:34:20.439
<v Speaker 2>of threes on purpose to get to Game four.

0:34:20.960 --> 0:34:22.560
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, so it's got to.

0:34:22.560 --> 0:34:23.160
<v Speaker 2>Be the Blazers.

0:34:23.239 --> 0:34:25.960
<v Speaker 3>Would I would also accept against the Philadelphia seventy six

0:34:26.040 --> 0:34:29.000
<v Speaker 3>ers with his brother there? Oh yeah, well maybe you

0:34:29.080 --> 0:34:31.880
<v Speaker 3>can rest against the Pacers on that Monday if you're

0:34:31.920 --> 0:34:34.840
<v Speaker 3>not there, do it in the garden right, just basically

0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:36.120
<v Speaker 3>anything except for the Pacers.

0:34:36.480 --> 0:34:38.359
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, do you think he'll do You think he'll legit,

0:34:38.480 --> 0:34:39.799
<v Speaker 2>give it a go on Wednesday night?

0:34:40.239 --> 0:34:40.439
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:42.400
<v Speaker 6>I think so. Why not?

0:34:42.560 --> 0:34:44.960
<v Speaker 4>It'd be a great way to do it, he's saying.

0:34:45.080 --> 0:34:47.319
<v Speaker 4>He said after the game, I know exactly where I'm at.

0:34:47.520 --> 0:34:50.360
<v Speaker 4>He's definitely aware of what the hell's happening. This is

0:34:50.440 --> 0:34:52.359
<v Speaker 4>one that he knows. Yeah, the best shooting in the world.

0:34:52.400 --> 0:34:54.560
<v Speaker 4>He's going for it. Man. That play at the end

0:34:54.560 --> 0:34:57.200
<v Speaker 4>of the first quarter was so amazing where he's in

0:34:57.280 --> 0:34:59.840
<v Speaker 4>his backcourt and Gary Harris poked it from him and

0:35:00.000 --> 0:35:01.600
<v Speaker 4>scored seven seconds left in the courter, and then he

0:35:01.719 --> 0:35:04.600
<v Speaker 4>just goes up, shoots a half court shot and buries

0:35:04.640 --> 0:35:06.799
<v Speaker 4>it in Gary Harris's eye. That was amazing.

0:35:07.160 --> 0:35:09.799
<v Speaker 2>I swear to god, he's done this like it feels

0:35:09.880 --> 0:35:11.799
<v Speaker 2>like three straight games where he's hit like a half

0:35:11.880 --> 0:35:14.719
<v Speaker 2>court shot to end a quarter or end a half.

0:35:14.880 --> 0:35:17.680
<v Speaker 2>I mean, at least it's two. Maybe I'm stretching it

0:35:17.719 --> 0:35:20.399
<v Speaker 2>to three, but it feels like every game. Rightly, there's

0:35:20.400 --> 0:35:22.440
<v Speaker 2>a Steph Curry highlight where he hits something at the

0:35:22.520 --> 0:35:25.319
<v Speaker 2>end of a quarter or a half from forty five

0:35:25.400 --> 0:35:26.080
<v Speaker 2>feet forty.

0:35:25.920 --> 0:35:28.279
<v Speaker 1>Feet, and that's why guys should try to do it

0:35:28.719 --> 0:35:31.120
<v Speaker 1>rather than save their field goal percentage, because it's way

0:35:31.200 --> 0:35:34.640
<v Speaker 1>better when guys knock them in. But everyone tries. Everyone

0:35:34.880 --> 0:35:37.719
<v Speaker 1>just releases it just after the buzzer. I think Worldwide

0:35:37.800 --> 0:35:40.160
<v Speaker 1>calls it the field Goal Percentage Savings Club.

0:35:43.880 --> 0:35:47.520
<v Speaker 2>His name is world or Worldwide, you know I'm talking

0:35:47.560 --> 0:35:47.880
<v Speaker 2>about that.

0:35:50.440 --> 0:35:52.440
<v Speaker 1>He changes his name after someone has a big knoight.

0:35:52.440 --> 0:35:54.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure if he's changed it from anyone from

0:35:54.560 --> 0:35:57.160
<v Speaker 1>last night, like to one bead or someone you.

0:35:57.200 --> 0:35:59.520
<v Speaker 6>Know, But that's why I just got to go with

0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:01.600
<v Speaker 6>the Worldwide had.

0:36:01.760 --> 0:36:03.680
<v Speaker 1>He had a funny video up the other day after

0:36:03.719 --> 0:36:06.000
<v Speaker 1>the Knicks lost to the Nuggets.

0:36:06.040 --> 0:36:08.319
<v Speaker 6>I don't know if you guys saw it, but one

0:36:08.360 --> 0:36:11.400
<v Speaker 6>of those ones a minute long and you're watching it

0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:13.360
<v Speaker 6>and he doesn't say anything.

0:36:13.880 --> 0:36:16.279
<v Speaker 2>Oh I watched that because you keep white.

0:36:16.280 --> 0:36:18.920
<v Speaker 1>It's a great video because you're like, you're waiting, waiting,

0:36:19.040 --> 0:36:21.080
<v Speaker 1>is it And then you're like, have I done something wrong?

0:36:21.160 --> 0:36:23.160
<v Speaker 6>Is it's frozen or whatever? And then you just realize

0:36:23.200 --> 0:36:25.880
<v Speaker 6>that's that says so much without saying anything.

0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:34.600
<v Speaker 2>First name, world, last name, wob. Why just what we're

0:36:34.640 --> 0:36:35.040
<v Speaker 2>talking about?

0:36:35.160 --> 0:36:37.319
<v Speaker 4>That's not about about a guy who's I'm not sure

0:36:37.360 --> 0:36:40.040
<v Speaker 4>whose name if his first name is George or Paul, Paul, George,

0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:44.439
<v Speaker 4>George Paul. Anyway, fifty percent in October from the floor,

0:36:44.520 --> 0:36:47.000
<v Speaker 4>forty one percent in November now down to twenty nine

0:36:47.040 --> 0:36:49.920
<v Speaker 4>percent in December. From an MVP candidate does it every year?

0:36:50.120 --> 0:36:54.000
<v Speaker 4>That's shocking, every shocking that it happened again because he

0:36:54.160 --> 0:36:56.759
<v Speaker 4>was an MVP candidate to start. Now he's he's fallen off.

0:36:56.760 --> 0:36:59.960
<v Speaker 4>Although yeah, they squeaked one out there against the Blazer

0:37:00.040 --> 0:37:02.480
<v Speaker 4>because they always squeaking out. But uh, yeah, the Blazer's

0:37:02.480 --> 0:37:02.920
<v Speaker 4>falling off.

0:37:02.960 --> 0:37:05.040
<v Speaker 5>We'll get to them, won't We hold on the Thunder

0:37:05.200 --> 0:37:06.760
<v Speaker 5>the Thunder, I know, we laugh about.

0:37:06.560 --> 0:37:08.359
<v Speaker 4>The Thunder and ha ha ha. Yeah, they've got more

0:37:08.360 --> 0:37:10.719
<v Speaker 4>wins than the Pistons. But the guy who turned around

0:37:10.719 --> 0:37:13.239
<v Speaker 4>that game was Kenrich Williams. I thought he was just

0:37:13.360 --> 0:37:15.920
<v Speaker 4>like the scrappy guy off the bench. Now if they

0:37:16.000 --> 0:37:18.960
<v Speaker 4>trade him, that's the reason to shut that team down.

0:37:19.120 --> 0:37:21.799
<v Speaker 4>Shut down, shut down, because he's he is a guy

0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:24.320
<v Speaker 4>who's like he's a winner. He just he comes in

0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:27.480
<v Speaker 4>and just turns the game around. And to me, yeah,

0:37:27.520 --> 0:37:30.919
<v Speaker 4>Shay was back. Obviously, Giddy was back. They look good,

0:37:31.719 --> 0:37:33.560
<v Speaker 4>and how can they be shut down if they have

0:37:33.640 --> 0:37:36.279
<v Speaker 4>more wins than the Detroit Pistons. It's because of how

0:37:36.400 --> 0:37:40.440
<v Speaker 4>they handle their players. And to me, last year they

0:37:40.480 --> 0:37:43.680
<v Speaker 4>weren't reprimanded for the Horford and the Shay sitting down.

0:37:44.360 --> 0:37:47.399
<v Speaker 4>I'm looking forward to January and February if they trade

0:37:47.480 --> 0:37:50.600
<v Speaker 4>Kenrich Williams to a team that needs a guy that

0:37:51.520 --> 0:37:54.399
<v Speaker 4>you know has a little spark plug and they're just well,

0:37:54.440 --> 0:37:56.640
<v Speaker 4>what do they do it? It's gonna happen. Anyways, It's

0:37:56.680 --> 0:37:57.120
<v Speaker 4>gonna happen.

0:37:57.239 --> 0:38:00.120
<v Speaker 3>It'll happen between the six point possession and all is

0:38:00.200 --> 0:38:03.600
<v Speaker 3>Kenrich Williams talk. This might be John Schumann's favorite episode

0:38:03.640 --> 0:38:04.160
<v Speaker 3>of B it.

0:38:04.280 --> 0:38:09.560
<v Speaker 2>Is he loves Oh yeah, crazy haircut. All right, let's

0:38:09.560 --> 0:38:11.319
<v Speaker 2>take our first break. When we come back, we will

0:38:11.400 --> 0:38:15.000
<v Speaker 2>talk some non Dmian Millar trades for the Blazers. Lee

0:38:15.040 --> 0:38:18.960
<v Speaker 2>what you got? I'm almost afraid to ask JD. But

0:38:19.080 --> 0:38:21.400
<v Speaker 2>how is the classic factory coming along?

0:38:22.280 --> 0:38:25.600
<v Speaker 7>It's come along. We're making progress, so I mean, I'm

0:38:25.640 --> 0:38:29.080
<v Speaker 7>not I'm not exaggerating when I say that everything doesn't

0:38:29.160 --> 0:38:30.840
<v Speaker 7>work when I first plug it in.

0:38:31.120 --> 0:38:33.879
<v Speaker 2>Actually really shocking to me. You think this stuff at

0:38:33.920 --> 0:38:36.320
<v Speaker 2>this point twenty twenty one. You know, you're plugging this

0:38:36.400 --> 0:38:38.480
<v Speaker 2>stuff and it just and it just goes. Yeah.

0:38:39.080 --> 0:38:42.839
<v Speaker 7>Now, now when you reach sort of like we're we're

0:38:43.000 --> 0:38:46.440
<v Speaker 7>leveling up, so we're in sort of the pro land assertive.

0:38:46.600 --> 0:38:49.759
<v Speaker 7>We're that like the prosumer land, right, So it's like

0:38:50.400 --> 0:38:53.640
<v Speaker 7>there's very little instructions that come with this stuff. And

0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:56.200
<v Speaker 7>then you got to call the you gotta call and

0:38:56.640 --> 0:39:00.520
<v Speaker 7>you get attitude man like oh god, these gear head man,

0:39:00.600 --> 0:39:01.040
<v Speaker 7>they're like.

0:39:01.640 --> 0:39:04.040
<v Speaker 5>Well, of course it doesn't. That's a fifty six K light.

0:39:04.120 --> 0:39:04.920
<v Speaker 7>Of course it doesn't.

0:39:05.200 --> 0:39:08.879
<v Speaker 5>You can't warm that up. You need gel man, man.

0:39:08.920 --> 0:39:11.239
<v Speaker 7>I just I just want to make a podcast, bro.

0:39:12.960 --> 0:39:16.760
<v Speaker 7>All right, progress though, we're getting there, we're getting. Short

0:39:16.760 --> 0:39:17.840
<v Speaker 7>answer is we're getting.

0:39:17.640 --> 0:39:20.240
<v Speaker 2>That, all right, baby steps guys to the Classic Factory

0:39:20.320 --> 0:39:26.040
<v Speaker 2>coming together. Okay, so let's get into some Blazers trade talk.

0:39:26.840 --> 0:39:29.440
<v Speaker 2>I can't tell if people like this stuff or hate it,

0:39:29.480 --> 0:39:30.080
<v Speaker 2>but who cares.

0:39:30.160 --> 0:39:30.680
<v Speaker 7>We're doing it.

0:39:31.760 --> 0:39:33.919
<v Speaker 2>You know, we talked a lot about on yesterday show

0:39:33.920 --> 0:39:36.920
<v Speaker 2>at least about the direction the Blazer should go. Should

0:39:36.960 --> 0:39:39.680
<v Speaker 2>it be like blow it up and that means trade

0:39:39.760 --> 0:39:41.680
<v Speaker 2>Damian Lillard because he would want out of there. Or

0:39:41.840 --> 0:39:44.399
<v Speaker 2>is it like try and keep at happy and shake

0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:46.839
<v Speaker 2>it up by moving some of these other potential guys

0:39:46.880 --> 0:39:49.799
<v Speaker 2>on their roster. I'm a column a nurkic, a covey team.

0:39:49.800 --> 0:39:51.239
<v Speaker 2>So that's what we're gonna do here. I tweeted it

0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:53.680
<v Speaker 2>out yesterday. I said, hey, MBA Sickles, let's see your

0:39:53.760 --> 0:39:58.279
<v Speaker 2>best non Damian Lillard trades for the Trailblazers. And I said,

0:39:58.360 --> 0:40:00.120
<v Speaker 2>you know, those three guys make the most sense. What

0:40:00.239 --> 0:40:04.520
<v Speaker 2>you got. People love trades, holy crapp lely. A lot

0:40:04.640 --> 0:40:07.520
<v Speaker 2>of responses, a lot of like decent ones, a lot

0:40:07.600 --> 0:40:10.520
<v Speaker 2>of convoluted ones. I will say, where you get into

0:40:10.640 --> 0:40:14.160
<v Speaker 2>like the three team deals, the four team deals. It's

0:40:14.200 --> 0:40:16.520
<v Speaker 2>a little it's a little much to try and talk

0:40:16.520 --> 0:40:18.520
<v Speaker 2>about on a podcast at times. But I did find

0:40:18.600 --> 0:40:20.920
<v Speaker 2>some that I thought are like, Okay, let's throw that

0:40:21.000 --> 0:40:22.640
<v Speaker 2>at the guys. Let's throw it at the stream team

0:40:22.680 --> 0:40:24.920
<v Speaker 2>and everybody listening and see what they think. So we'll

0:40:24.960 --> 0:40:28.200
<v Speaker 2>go through them sort of player by player here. We're

0:40:28.200 --> 0:40:31.120
<v Speaker 2>starting with CJ McCollum, and I'm just gonna put aside

0:40:31.200 --> 0:40:33.240
<v Speaker 2>the Sixers move, which I think is the most obvious.

0:40:33.280 --> 0:40:35.080
<v Speaker 2>I think a lot of us agree is probably the

0:40:35.160 --> 0:40:37.280
<v Speaker 2>most obvious in terms of trying to get Ben Simmons.

0:40:37.680 --> 0:40:40.040
<v Speaker 2>Maybe it includes McCollum and then other pieces and picks

0:40:40.080 --> 0:40:41.880
<v Speaker 2>to make it happen. But we've talked enough about that,

0:40:42.000 --> 0:40:45.239
<v Speaker 2>so some other ideas to set up McCollum. I want

0:40:45.280 --> 0:40:48.040
<v Speaker 2>everybody to know, thirty year old shooting guard. He's not

0:40:48.080 --> 0:40:49.759
<v Speaker 2>as young as you sort of think. I always think

0:40:49.800 --> 0:40:51.440
<v Speaker 2>of McCollum as like a twenty five to twenty six

0:40:51.560 --> 0:40:54.000
<v Speaker 2>year old, but he's not. He's in his thirties. He

0:40:54.120 --> 0:40:56.080
<v Speaker 2>probably would have made his first All Star Game last

0:40:56.160 --> 0:40:57.640
<v Speaker 2>year if he didn't get hurt. He was definitely in

0:40:57.680 --> 0:41:00.959
<v Speaker 2>the running, but he's never made that This year, Shade

0:41:01.040 --> 0:41:03.400
<v Speaker 2>under twenty one points per game, forty two percent shooting

0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:05.680
<v Speaker 2>from the floor. Those are those are really bad numbers

0:41:05.719 --> 0:41:08.600
<v Speaker 2>for CJ. McCollum since he's become a starter. I think

0:41:08.640 --> 0:41:10.000
<v Speaker 2>a lot of it has to do with all of

0:41:10.080 --> 0:41:12.440
<v Speaker 2>this trade talk and his name being included in a

0:41:12.480 --> 0:41:15.400
<v Speaker 2>lot of these deals. I know he's talked to to

0:41:15.600 --> 0:41:17.640
<v Speaker 2>UH Jason Quick about it. On the athletic he's also

0:41:17.680 --> 0:41:19.960
<v Speaker 2>having a baby. I think some off court distractions are

0:41:20.000 --> 0:41:22.120
<v Speaker 2>in play here, But he looks a little disinterested and

0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:24.080
<v Speaker 2>he doesn't look like the CJ. McCollum from years prior.

0:41:24.600 --> 0:41:27.640
<v Speaker 2>He makes nearly thirty one million dollars for this year,

0:41:28.200 --> 0:41:30.600
<v Speaker 2>and that only goes up for the final two years

0:41:30.960 --> 0:41:34.279
<v Speaker 2>thirty three, next year thirty six. After that task, it

0:41:34.360 --> 0:41:37.520
<v Speaker 2>does not become easy to trade a CJ. McCollum because

0:41:37.560 --> 0:41:39.680
<v Speaker 2>it makes a lot of money. So of course salary

0:41:39.760 --> 0:41:41.839
<v Speaker 2>has to be coming back. But I want to get

0:41:41.840 --> 0:41:45.120
<v Speaker 2>your take on this one task. There was two similar

0:41:45.239 --> 0:41:50.279
<v Speaker 2>trades thrown at me with McCollum going to the Cavaliers, yes,

0:41:50.320 --> 0:41:52.800
<v Speaker 2>the Cleveland Cavaliers. So the first one was from Taylor.

0:41:53.560 --> 0:41:57.719
<v Speaker 2>It was McCollum and let's say, Nesir Little to the

0:41:57.800 --> 0:42:01.760
<v Speaker 2>Calves for Kevin Love and call and Sexton. Colin Sexton

0:42:01.880 --> 0:42:03.800
<v Speaker 2>is the key piece in both of these. And the

0:42:03.880 --> 0:42:06.480
<v Speaker 2>other one I saw or heard from Sam Vessini and

0:42:06.520 --> 0:42:09.920
<v Speaker 2>Dannie LaRue was McCollum and nobody else really, just McCollum

0:42:10.040 --> 0:42:14.160
<v Speaker 2>to the Cavs for Ricky Rubio, Colin Sexton and Jeddi Osman.

0:42:15.280 --> 0:42:17.440
<v Speaker 2>I just want to ask you, McCollum to the Cavaliers

0:42:17.719 --> 0:42:19.800
<v Speaker 2>with something, a big contract of course, going back to

0:42:19.840 --> 0:42:22.160
<v Speaker 2>make it happen, make any sense at all to you.

0:42:22.280 --> 0:42:26.080
<v Speaker 2>Tasks from either side or no, thanks, I've got gum.

0:42:27.480 --> 0:42:31.279
<v Speaker 4>I am absolutely a Cleveland Cavalier's head. This is what

0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:33.720
<v Speaker 4>I do in my spare time. I follow the Cleveland

0:42:33.760 --> 0:42:37.920
<v Speaker 4>Cavaliers basketball club. I do not think they would make

0:42:38.000 --> 0:42:42.080
<v Speaker 4>such a move. I just understand that he would be

0:42:42.120 --> 0:42:45.080
<v Speaker 4>an upgrade. He is better than what he is This year,

0:42:45.560 --> 0:42:48.759
<v Speaker 4>he was kind of on his way to being an

0:42:48.760 --> 0:42:51.239
<v Speaker 4>All Star before getting hurt. Last year shooting eleven three

0:42:51.320 --> 0:42:54.560
<v Speaker 4>is a game looking phenomenal twenty six points per game.

0:42:54.800 --> 0:43:00.279
<v Speaker 4>That was his best year I am. I just don't

0:43:00.280 --> 0:43:03.279
<v Speaker 4>think he's on the timeline of the Cleveland Cavaliers. As

0:43:03.360 --> 0:43:06.600
<v Speaker 4>you said, thirties. It's not his, it's not his, it's

0:43:06.640 --> 0:43:08.880
<v Speaker 4>not his place there in Cleveland. They have such a

0:43:08.960 --> 0:43:12.160
<v Speaker 4>good thing going on right now. Kobe Altman has made

0:43:12.239 --> 0:43:15.080
<v Speaker 4>some incredible moves to sneak in and grab Jared Allen

0:43:15.600 --> 0:43:18.040
<v Speaker 4>in the four way James Harden deal, and then to

0:43:18.200 --> 0:43:21.520
<v Speaker 4>draft Evan Mobley and Ricky Rubio. Yeah, he's not long

0:43:21.640 --> 0:43:24.640
<v Speaker 4>for Cleveland most likely he's in his thirties too. But

0:43:26.760 --> 0:43:29.080
<v Speaker 4>an upgrade there, it just doesn't make a ton of

0:43:29.239 --> 0:43:32.680
<v Speaker 4>sense to me. I would rather stay young and you

0:43:33.080 --> 0:43:35.279
<v Speaker 4>described Eric was said there and he's snuck in there

0:43:35.320 --> 0:43:37.239
<v Speaker 4>that Jason Quick on the Athletic has talked to c

0:43:37.400 --> 0:43:41.040
<v Speaker 4>J McCollum recently. The start of that article this morning,

0:43:41.840 --> 0:43:44.680
<v Speaker 4>it's not usually. It's not a usual start to the

0:43:44.800 --> 0:43:48.080
<v Speaker 4>article to an article. I was reading Jason Quick's article

0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:50.840
<v Speaker 4>about c J. McCollums, so this I want to read it.

0:43:50.920 --> 0:43:52.880
<v Speaker 4>I want to read Jason Quick's start here.

0:43:53.160 --> 0:43:53.880
<v Speaker 5>This is how it starts.

0:43:53.920 --> 0:43:57.400
<v Speaker 4>I was driving home Monday after the trail Blazer's latest loss,

0:43:57.600 --> 0:44:00.279
<v Speaker 4>deep in thought about a ten minute conversation I just

0:44:00.400 --> 0:44:02.400
<v Speaker 4>had with CJ. McCollum in the back hallway of the

0:44:02.480 --> 0:44:05.839
<v Speaker 4>Motive Center when my phone pained it was McCollum. As

0:44:05.880 --> 0:44:07.600
<v Speaker 4>I looked down at this text message, I was taken

0:44:07.640 --> 0:44:11.120
<v Speaker 4>aback enough so that I pulled over and read it again.

0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:15.120
<v Speaker 4>This is the quote for mccollumn. Oregon is my home

0:44:15.480 --> 0:44:18.120
<v Speaker 4>always will be. I got married here, my son will

0:44:18.160 --> 0:44:21.160
<v Speaker 4>be born here. We bought three hundred and eighteen acres here,

0:44:21.960 --> 0:44:25.080
<v Speaker 4>that's a brig and started planting our vineyard here. This

0:44:25.200 --> 0:44:27.320
<v Speaker 4>city and organization have been very good to me and

0:44:27.480 --> 0:44:31.440
<v Speaker 4>my family were forever grateful and Jason quick writes. As

0:44:31.480 --> 0:44:32.920
<v Speaker 4>my car idled on the side of the road, my

0:44:33.040 --> 0:44:35.360
<v Speaker 4>mind raced that I miss something. Did McCollum get traded.

0:44:35.400 --> 0:44:36.840
<v Speaker 4>I did a quick search. Nothing.

0:44:37.320 --> 0:44:37.600
<v Speaker 5>Damn.

0:44:37.640 --> 0:44:39.600
<v Speaker 4>I texted back. You made it sound like a goodbye.

0:44:39.800 --> 0:44:42.040
<v Speaker 4>It's not a goodbye, he replied. I'm still here. My

0:44:42.200 --> 0:44:46.600
<v Speaker 4>friend mccollm wants to be there forever. He ain't going anywhere.

0:44:46.800 --> 0:44:49.279
<v Speaker 4>It's like him saying, I like it here. I don't

0:44:49.280 --> 0:44:51.920
<v Speaker 4>want to go anywhere. But they have to make a

0:44:52.000 --> 0:44:54.759
<v Speaker 4>move obviously, as we've talked about forever and ever and ever,

0:44:54.840 --> 0:44:57.160
<v Speaker 4>and he could be in on that. But I don't

0:44:57.239 --> 0:45:01.480
<v Speaker 4>see the Calves thing. I'm out. I'm out on the

0:45:01.560 --> 0:45:02.000
<v Speaker 4>Cavs thing.

0:45:02.440 --> 0:45:04.719
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Trey, what do you think of a McCollum to

0:45:04.800 --> 0:45:07.400
<v Speaker 2>a Cavaliers type of deal, which again has to include

0:45:07.440 --> 0:45:09.600
<v Speaker 2>basically a love or a Rubio type contract, and then

0:45:09.640 --> 0:45:11.560
<v Speaker 2>Colin Sexton, I guess, being the key piece going back

0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:15.799
<v Speaker 2>to the Blazers. I don't mind it. From the Cavs perspective. CJ.

0:45:15.920 --> 0:45:18.920
<v Speaker 3>McCollum is an Ohio guy. Maybe a homecoming does him well.

0:45:19.000 --> 0:45:20.920
<v Speaker 3>There would be a spot for him. I think as

0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:24.320
<v Speaker 3>the two guard it would be not dissimilar to playing

0:45:24.320 --> 0:45:28.320
<v Speaker 3>alongside Damian Lillard playing alongside Darius Garland in Cleveland, and

0:45:28.880 --> 0:45:32.440
<v Speaker 3>they would be turning Rubio and expiring contract and the

0:45:32.840 --> 0:45:36.200
<v Speaker 3>potential and the restricted free agency of Colin Sexton, a

0:45:36.200 --> 0:45:38.680
<v Speaker 3>player that doesn't seem to be in their plans, turning

0:45:38.719 --> 0:45:40.719
<v Speaker 3>him into a guy and McCollum who's got a couple

0:45:40.800 --> 0:45:43.319
<v Speaker 3>more years on his contract. I think that's pretty good

0:45:43.360 --> 0:45:45.200
<v Speaker 3>for the Calves, to be quite honest, and I think

0:45:45.239 --> 0:45:48.320
<v Speaker 3>it definitely makes them better, especially considering they're not getting

0:45:48.320 --> 0:45:50.279
<v Speaker 3>anything from Sexton for the rest of this year.

0:45:50.880 --> 0:45:54.239
<v Speaker 2>Lee final thoughts on this one, I actually diminded as well.

0:45:54.320 --> 0:45:56.520
<v Speaker 1>And now it may only get the Calves a few

0:45:56.640 --> 0:45:58.440
<v Speaker 1>more wins and so to get them into the playoffs.

0:45:58.480 --> 0:46:00.839
<v Speaker 1>But he's a steady veteran in a apart from last season,

0:46:00.880 --> 0:46:03.560
<v Speaker 1>he's pretty reliable and durable c J. McCollum, and so

0:46:03.680 --> 0:46:06.359
<v Speaker 1>he can give them that veteran presence of another guy

0:46:06.400 --> 0:46:09.359
<v Speaker 1>who can score sextant. I think they probably are moving

0:46:09.400 --> 0:46:11.360
<v Speaker 1>on from him, and yeah, Rubio is not really a

0:46:11.400 --> 0:46:12.839
<v Speaker 1>part of their future either. So if you can get

0:46:12.880 --> 0:46:15.239
<v Speaker 1>c jn it's only thirty, it can be looked at

0:46:15.320 --> 0:46:16.920
<v Speaker 1>as like well that's old, or you can say, well

0:46:16.960 --> 0:46:18.520
<v Speaker 1>he's still got a good two or three years left

0:46:18.560 --> 0:46:21.360
<v Speaker 1>to sort of help this team continues its ascension. So

0:46:21.960 --> 0:46:24.760
<v Speaker 1>I don't mind it. I think there's something there the Cavs.

0:46:24.880 --> 0:46:28.080
<v Speaker 1>I think clearly Garland, Jared Allen and Evan Mobley is

0:46:28.080 --> 0:46:29.680
<v Speaker 1>their sort of core. But if you can get a

0:46:29.719 --> 0:46:31.720
<v Speaker 1>good veteran who you know can get you a bucket

0:46:31.760 --> 0:46:33.840
<v Speaker 1>on the side there, that's not a bad little return

0:46:33.920 --> 0:46:36.000
<v Speaker 1>for a team that's kind of moving on from those

0:46:36.040 --> 0:46:36.920
<v Speaker 1>other pieces anyway.

0:46:37.560 --> 0:46:40.360
<v Speaker 2>Okay, the other one I had from Brad was McCollum

0:46:40.480 --> 0:46:44.680
<v Speaker 2>to the Timberwolves from a league Beasley and Torrian Prince.

0:46:45.280 --> 0:46:48.360
<v Speaker 2>I don't think that's going to wow anyone here on

0:46:48.719 --> 0:46:52.600
<v Speaker 2>the call, but yeah, what do you think of that move?

0:46:52.680 --> 0:46:55.239
<v Speaker 2>Let's say for the Blaezer, is that enough? I mean

0:46:55.280 --> 0:46:57.719
<v Speaker 2>it works obviously in the train machine tree Beasley and

0:46:57.800 --> 0:47:02.040
<v Speaker 2>Prince get some wing help there for McCollum and moving

0:47:02.080 --> 0:47:03.239
<v Speaker 2>off of him. I think that would be if this

0:47:03.440 --> 0:47:05.120
<v Speaker 2>is something like that were to go down, there would

0:47:05.120 --> 0:47:07.200
<v Speaker 2>be other trades to be had. Of course, Yeah, you'd

0:47:07.280 --> 0:47:07.640
<v Speaker 2>have to do.

0:47:07.960 --> 0:47:10.319
<v Speaker 3>Some of their moves as well, because that's not enough.

0:47:10.360 --> 0:47:12.879
<v Speaker 3>When Ben Simmons is potentially on the table. I would

0:47:12.960 --> 0:47:16.160
<v Speaker 3>rather have the Rubio Sexton love package as well. So

0:47:16.440 --> 0:47:19.879
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, two bench guys for your your second

0:47:19.960 --> 0:47:20.480
<v Speaker 3>leading score.

0:47:20.640 --> 0:47:23.320
<v Speaker 2>That doesn't make sense. Yeah, yeah, I mean it becomes

0:47:23.400 --> 0:47:26.080
<v Speaker 2>difficult with this just path that the Blazers might try

0:47:26.080 --> 0:47:29.480
<v Speaker 2>and take. Here, Lee this idea of like you'd be

0:47:29.520 --> 0:47:34.640
<v Speaker 2>trading these guys McCollum, Nurkic Covington for in theory good

0:47:34.719 --> 0:47:37.760
<v Speaker 2>players now, because you'd want to be appeasing Damian Lillard

0:47:38.360 --> 0:47:40.640
<v Speaker 2>and saying, hey, we're still good, we can be good,

0:47:40.680 --> 0:47:42.440
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna be a playoff team, We're gonna go even

0:47:42.480 --> 0:47:45.480
<v Speaker 2>further than we've gone. That's not obviously easy to do.

0:47:45.960 --> 0:47:48.160
<v Speaker 2>It's much It sort of becomes easier to trade guys

0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:51.120
<v Speaker 2>for like future pieces for flyers on young guys for

0:47:51.280 --> 0:47:53.840
<v Speaker 2>picks and stuff like that. But then if you do that,

0:47:54.440 --> 0:47:57.719
<v Speaker 2>Lillard's gonna be like, what wtf, man, why are we

0:47:57.760 --> 0:47:59.799
<v Speaker 2>doing that? And then and then suddenly you could see

0:47:59.800 --> 0:48:01.160
<v Speaker 2>your off in the summer of him going well, I

0:48:01.200 --> 0:48:03.080
<v Speaker 2>want out of here if that's the plan. So it

0:48:03.160 --> 0:48:05.239
<v Speaker 2>becomes I think that's the dance here. That's difficult for

0:48:05.960 --> 0:48:07.920
<v Speaker 2>Joe Krohnin or whoever is making.

0:48:08.440 --> 0:48:11.759
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, it doesn't make sense to trade those guys

0:48:12.000 --> 0:48:14.640
<v Speaker 1>unless you're going to get some other draft capital in return,

0:48:14.680 --> 0:48:16.640
<v Speaker 1>and then say, Okay, we've got to make this trade

0:48:16.680 --> 0:48:19.520
<v Speaker 1>work financially, but we're doing it mainly so that we

0:48:19.600 --> 0:48:21.719
<v Speaker 1>can start the rebuild process. And if you're doing that,

0:48:22.160 --> 0:48:24.640
<v Speaker 1>then clearly you need to also move on from Lillard.

0:48:24.680 --> 0:48:26.520
<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's no point in putting him in a

0:48:26.560 --> 0:48:30.640
<v Speaker 1>rebuild situation right now. But yeah, on the surface, two

0:48:31.160 --> 0:48:35.280
<v Speaker 1>bench kind of journeyman for a solid starter just doesn't

0:48:35.320 --> 0:48:38.200
<v Speaker 1>That doesn't improve Portland at all. So I don't see

0:48:38.200 --> 0:48:39.960
<v Speaker 1>why they would do that. But if the Wolves say, yeah,

0:48:40.040 --> 0:48:42.160
<v Speaker 1>we really want that guy as a scorer, We'll give

0:48:42.200 --> 0:48:43.960
<v Speaker 1>you these two guys and then we'll also give you

0:48:44.000 --> 0:48:46.280
<v Speaker 1>a couple of draft picks, then at least the Blazers

0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:49.280
<v Speaker 1>are like, well, that's something that we're building towards something,

0:48:49.640 --> 0:48:50.840
<v Speaker 1>even if it's not this season.

0:48:51.719 --> 0:48:55.120
<v Speaker 2>All right, let's move to Nurkic. He's averaging thirteen and

0:48:55.239 --> 0:48:57.440
<v Speaker 2>ten this year in about twenty five minutes per game,

0:48:57.520 --> 0:48:59.919
<v Speaker 2>shooting fifty percent from the floor. He's in the final

0:49:00.120 --> 0:49:02.400
<v Speaker 2>year of his deal twelve million dollars he makes. He's

0:49:02.400 --> 0:49:06.000
<v Speaker 2>depending on restricted free agent. He's represented by Clutch Sports.

0:49:06.600 --> 0:49:09.799
<v Speaker 2>Don't forget that, all right, very important now, Rich Paul

0:49:09.800 --> 0:49:13.319
<v Speaker 2>wants to get these guys paid, So probably any deal.

0:49:14.440 --> 0:49:16.680
<v Speaker 2>If Nurkic is going out, the Blazers are gonna need

0:49:16.800 --> 0:49:20.080
<v Speaker 2>some front court reinforcements coming back, and they also are

0:49:20.120 --> 0:49:22.120
<v Speaker 2>going to probably try and make their payroll cheaper. So

0:49:22.360 --> 0:49:25.680
<v Speaker 2>there were a couple suggestions. The first one was from

0:49:26.000 --> 0:49:31.920
<v Speaker 2>man U not Jenobili, another man who Nurkic Covington got

0:49:32.000 --> 0:49:34.200
<v Speaker 2>thrown in this one. And then probably a young player.

0:49:34.280 --> 0:49:36.480
<v Speaker 2>Let's say this here little though I know the Blazers

0:49:36.480 --> 0:49:40.759
<v Speaker 2>are high on him, to the Pacers for Sabonis and

0:49:40.920 --> 0:49:47.560
<v Speaker 2>Jeremy Lamb. So nurk Covington and again probably a young player.

0:49:47.640 --> 0:49:50.160
<v Speaker 2>Let's say this here little for now to the Pacers,

0:49:50.239 --> 0:49:54.280
<v Speaker 2>task for Sabonis and Jeremy Lamb. Sabonis, get another Sabonis

0:49:54.320 --> 0:49:57.000
<v Speaker 2>in Portland. Is this a move they should be looking,

0:49:57.320 --> 0:49:58.320
<v Speaker 2>uh to explore.

0:49:59.239 --> 0:50:02.759
<v Speaker 4>I don't think so, because, yeah, the Blazers would get better,

0:50:02.880 --> 0:50:05.239
<v Speaker 4>the Blazers would do it. I'm sorry the Blazers. Yes,

0:50:05.320 --> 0:50:07.360
<v Speaker 4>of course, they're trading for a start they're trading up,

0:50:07.360 --> 0:50:10.040
<v Speaker 4>but the Pacers would just be another lateral move. That's

0:50:10.200 --> 0:50:15.040
<v Speaker 4>just five good guys becomes I don't know, five and

0:50:15.080 --> 0:50:17.399
<v Speaker 4>a half good guys, and you're kind of trading down.

0:50:17.440 --> 0:50:21.799
<v Speaker 4>You're trading at Sabonis's peak for Nurkic's non peak. They're

0:50:21.840 --> 0:50:24.200
<v Speaker 4>not getting better, So I don't think so. I think

0:50:25.000 --> 0:50:27.879
<v Speaker 4>along with McCollum, along with even Nurkic, I know he's

0:50:27.920 --> 0:50:30.960
<v Speaker 4>not playing his best, I think we're kind of undervaluing

0:50:31.400 --> 0:50:33.440
<v Speaker 4>the Blazers. I know, I am, I know. You know

0:50:33.560 --> 0:50:36.399
<v Speaker 4>McCollum would would go make the Calves a lot better

0:50:36.400 --> 0:50:38.839
<v Speaker 4>at the shooting guard position, especially on a really good

0:50:38.880 --> 0:50:42.600
<v Speaker 4>defensive team when he's struggled on the defensive end. And

0:50:42.640 --> 0:50:44.560
<v Speaker 4>I think we kind of undervalue Nurkic and stuff. But

0:50:45.320 --> 0:50:49.560
<v Speaker 4>uh yeah, I think that's that's It doesn't make the

0:50:49.760 --> 0:50:50.920
<v Speaker 4>Pacers better at all.

0:50:51.200 --> 0:50:53.120
<v Speaker 2>Great, that's a great trade for the Blazers. So I'm

0:50:53.160 --> 0:50:55.120
<v Speaker 2>with you on that. Yeah, And I don't think Indiana,

0:50:55.239 --> 0:50:57.080
<v Speaker 2>you guys are seem to be agreeing leally anything to.

0:50:57.040 --> 0:51:01.120
<v Speaker 1>Add, Oh yeah, I'll taikema have a nakish. But I

0:51:01.280 --> 0:51:03.960
<v Speaker 1>just don't see why the Paces would do that. To

0:51:04.040 --> 0:51:07.279
<v Speaker 1>give up, to give up Sabarnis to get nurkitchen return.

0:51:07.400 --> 0:51:10.440
<v Speaker 1>They would want some sort of draft assets I think,

0:51:10.480 --> 0:51:12.880
<v Speaker 1>and yeah, signaling that they are then moving in that

0:51:12.960 --> 0:51:15.160
<v Speaker 1>direction and probably then that is a bit of a

0:51:15.239 --> 0:51:18.960
<v Speaker 1>domino effect on trading turner and when becomes available Brogdon

0:51:19.000 --> 0:51:19.319
<v Speaker 1>as well.

0:51:20.000 --> 0:51:23.520
<v Speaker 2>Okay, this one Nurkics to the Hornets, that's been a

0:51:23.560 --> 0:51:27.640
<v Speaker 2>popular one. They could use a big guy to try

0:51:27.680 --> 0:51:30.279
<v Speaker 2>and Guardoel and Bead last night to put up a

0:51:30.560 --> 0:51:33.399
<v Speaker 2>better effort, at least put a hand up. So why

0:51:33.400 --> 0:51:35.319
<v Speaker 2>don't we just do a NRK for plumb Dog again,

0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:40.239
<v Speaker 2>that's Sam Vassini Nurkics to the Hornets for Plumbley and

0:51:40.400 --> 0:51:43.520
<v Speaker 2>then one of their young front court guys. Okay, so

0:51:44.120 --> 0:51:46.920
<v Speaker 2>like a Jalen McDaniels, like a Nick Richards, like a

0:51:47.040 --> 0:51:49.759
<v Speaker 2>kai Jon. So that that would be the deal to

0:51:49.840 --> 0:51:52.320
<v Speaker 2>get Nirkish to Charlotte, and then the Blazers in return

0:51:52.440 --> 0:51:55.439
<v Speaker 2>getting like a prospect type guy and then a plumb

0:51:55.480 --> 0:51:59.359
<v Speaker 2>Dog who has played there before. And uh and while

0:51:59.360 --> 0:52:02.000
<v Speaker 2>he's a plum dog, you might have an opinion on him,

0:52:02.080 --> 0:52:04.800
<v Speaker 2>but what do you think trade? No way something like

0:52:04.880 --> 0:52:05.719
<v Speaker 2>this happens.

0:52:05.920 --> 0:52:09.080
<v Speaker 3>Well, I love the idea of finally uniting a plumb

0:52:09.120 --> 0:52:11.600
<v Speaker 3>Lee and a Zeller there for the Trailblazers.

0:52:11.640 --> 0:52:13.440
<v Speaker 2>That would be just incredible.

0:52:13.719 --> 0:52:17.319
<v Speaker 3>But to me, Nurkic going to the Hornets makes sense,

0:52:17.400 --> 0:52:20.200
<v Speaker 3>but then trading several big guys does not make sense.

0:52:20.600 --> 0:52:23.680
<v Speaker 3>Like you said, they need help inside, Nurkic would help.

0:52:24.160 --> 0:52:26.440
<v Speaker 3>I'm not the biggest Nurkic fan, but he's certainly an

0:52:26.480 --> 0:52:29.160
<v Speaker 3>improvement over Nick Richards, who they've been playing. But if

0:52:29.200 --> 0:52:32.520
<v Speaker 3>you're trading two of your three centers to bring back

0:52:32.560 --> 0:52:35.440
<v Speaker 3>one center, you're still one center down, and that's clearly

0:52:35.520 --> 0:52:38.160
<v Speaker 3>been the biggest weakness for the Hornets. So I would

0:52:38.280 --> 0:52:41.440
<v Speaker 3>rather trade one of their random backcourt guys, like maybe Booknight.

0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:43.120
<v Speaker 3>He just hasn't had a chance to really get on

0:52:43.160 --> 0:52:45.239
<v Speaker 3>the court, and it doesn't seem like he's necessarily going

0:52:45.320 --> 0:52:47.719
<v Speaker 3>to with the squad they've got put together right now.

0:52:47.800 --> 0:52:49.840
<v Speaker 2>But I do like the idea of Nurkic on the Hornets.

0:52:51.239 --> 0:52:53.840
<v Speaker 2>Tess can make can you come up with something you know?

0:52:53.880 --> 0:52:57.080
<v Speaker 2>Would the Hornets explore this, like Trey saying one of

0:52:57.120 --> 0:53:00.400
<v Speaker 2>their young guys and then whatever else to make the

0:53:00.640 --> 0:53:02.839
<v Speaker 2>contracts work to get Nurkic in there, and it could

0:53:02.920 --> 0:53:04.920
<v Speaker 2>be a rental. This is the weird thing with Nurkic.

0:53:05.000 --> 0:53:07.239
<v Speaker 2>I mean, it's like, you know, I don't know if

0:53:07.239 --> 0:53:09.480
<v Speaker 2>you'd be agreeing to some sort of deal in the future. Again,

0:53:09.520 --> 0:53:11.880
<v Speaker 2>you're going to be negotiating with Rich Paul and Clutch Sports,

0:53:11.960 --> 0:53:14.800
<v Speaker 2>So maybe that concerns teams and like they're like, I

0:53:14.840 --> 0:53:16.480
<v Speaker 2>don't want to be the one paying Nurkic, you know,

0:53:17.560 --> 0:53:19.120
<v Speaker 2>fifteen million a year, No, thank you.

0:53:19.800 --> 0:53:22.600
<v Speaker 4>But what do you think Nurkic is a Clutch Sports guy?

0:53:23.800 --> 0:53:24.480
<v Speaker 5>I didn't know that.

0:53:24.760 --> 0:53:28.440
<v Speaker 4>It didn't didn't seem like a fit to me. Nurkicen Clutch.

0:53:28.520 --> 0:53:32.080
<v Speaker 4>That's a surprise. But yeah, the Hornets are long for

0:53:32.200 --> 0:53:35.560
<v Speaker 4>a big guy, and yeah, they've been drafting athletic wing

0:53:35.640 --> 0:53:38.120
<v Speaker 4>after athletic wing after athletic wing. It seems like there's

0:53:38.120 --> 0:53:40.680
<v Speaker 4>a match to happen there and the Hornets, you go

0:53:40.800 --> 0:53:42.920
<v Speaker 4>back a couple of years. They thought they had Markasol

0:53:43.040 --> 0:53:45.440
<v Speaker 4>at the deadline before the Raptors got them. They are

0:53:45.560 --> 0:53:49.120
<v Speaker 4>looking for an experience big and I'm not just thinking

0:53:49.200 --> 0:53:52.399
<v Speaker 4>of white centers that would fit, but Nurkic would fit. Yeah,

0:53:52.560 --> 0:53:56.640
<v Speaker 4>they wanted the soul. Now, Yeah, Nurkic would be nice,

0:53:57.480 --> 0:54:00.600
<v Speaker 4>a nice player for them. And again, I know Nurkich

0:54:00.640 --> 0:54:03.920
<v Speaker 4>has not lived up to the hype there in Portland

0:54:04.440 --> 0:54:05.000
<v Speaker 4>at all.

0:54:04.960 --> 0:54:07.920
<v Speaker 5>But ele Rental give it a shot.

0:54:08.040 --> 0:54:10.600
<v Speaker 4>I mean the Hornets have They're just they're overflowing with

0:54:10.800 --> 0:54:14.279
<v Speaker 4>all these these really athletic wings, So I could see

0:54:14.320 --> 0:54:15.160
<v Speaker 4>something working there.

0:54:15.200 --> 0:54:17.960
<v Speaker 2>Sure, yeah, Lee, I just think if the Blazers move

0:54:18.000 --> 0:54:22.399
<v Speaker 2>off Nurkic, Blazers fans, maybe everybody would need to lower

0:54:22.440 --> 0:54:25.000
<v Speaker 2>their expectations of what would be coming back in return,

0:54:25.239 --> 0:54:27.120
<v Speaker 2>because you sort of think of Nurkic as a decent

0:54:27.160 --> 0:54:29.439
<v Speaker 2>player when he when he is playing at his best,

0:54:29.680 --> 0:54:31.400
<v Speaker 2>Blazers look like a really really good team over the

0:54:31.440 --> 0:54:33.359
<v Speaker 2>last couple years, and then he has these weird funks

0:54:33.400 --> 0:54:34.919
<v Speaker 2>where he's just like can't stay on the court because

0:54:34.920 --> 0:54:36.920
<v Speaker 2>of foul trouble or you know, he's always like sort

0:54:36.920 --> 0:54:39.160
<v Speaker 2>of injury prone a little bit too. And then he's

0:54:39.239 --> 0:54:42.239
<v Speaker 2>like a big dip. But he's like, nobody's going to

0:54:42.280 --> 0:54:44.800
<v Speaker 2>be trading for a guy that is depending on restricted

0:54:44.840 --> 0:54:47.360
<v Speaker 2>free agent here, like a ton I don't think so.

0:54:47.400 --> 0:54:50.560
<v Speaker 2>I think they would be hoping. It's almost like, uh,

0:54:51.080 --> 0:54:53.879
<v Speaker 2>you know, the Raptors at the trading Kyle Lowry because

0:54:54.080 --> 0:54:55.919
<v Speaker 2>he's going to be walking, so they're like, well, let's

0:54:55.960 --> 0:54:57.919
<v Speaker 2>get precious for him, you know, Let's get a young

0:54:58.200 --> 0:55:00.839
<v Speaker 2>sort of guy that will take a f and maybe

0:55:00.920 --> 0:55:02.839
<v Speaker 2>has turned into a building block. And I think that's

0:55:02.880 --> 0:55:04.680
<v Speaker 2>what the Blazers would be hoping for in a return,

0:55:04.760 --> 0:55:06.600
<v Speaker 2>and maybe it is one of these young Hornets players.

0:55:06.800 --> 0:55:09.279
<v Speaker 1>Well, I think the Hornets should give up one of

0:55:09.280 --> 0:55:11.640
<v Speaker 1>those young players for the right piece coming back, and

0:55:11.719 --> 0:55:13.640
<v Speaker 1>that again comes down to someone who you know is

0:55:13.680 --> 0:55:16.400
<v Speaker 1>going to be there for way longer than Nurkic. Nukich

0:55:16.520 --> 0:55:18.400
<v Speaker 1>is only twenty seven, by the way, it feels like

0:55:18.440 --> 0:55:20.279
<v Speaker 1>he's older than that. I mean, so if you look

0:55:20.280 --> 0:55:22.200
<v Speaker 1>at his age, you think that guy could have a long,

0:55:22.640 --> 0:55:25.280
<v Speaker 1>still prosperous career. But he has had some big injuries

0:55:25.320 --> 0:55:27.719
<v Speaker 1>too throughout his career, so you wonder about his durability

0:55:27.760 --> 0:55:30.680
<v Speaker 1>in that sense. But the Hornets can't afford to try

0:55:30.719 --> 0:55:33.960
<v Speaker 1>to hoard these young guys right now. They desperately need

0:55:34.040 --> 0:55:36.480
<v Speaker 1>some interior help, so they should be prepared to at

0:55:36.520 --> 0:55:38.920
<v Speaker 1>least give up one of them. Exactly who that is,

0:55:38.960 --> 0:55:40.839
<v Speaker 1>I think Booknight's probably the one who's going to get

0:55:40.840 --> 0:55:44.000
<v Speaker 1>the most interest from other teams. But yeah, I mean,

0:55:44.280 --> 0:55:45.799
<v Speaker 1>if you can get rid of plumbing, you may as well.

0:55:46.000 --> 0:55:46.880
<v Speaker 1>Anyone will take him.

0:55:46.920 --> 0:55:48.880
<v Speaker 5>But they need to.

0:55:49.120 --> 0:55:52.680
<v Speaker 1>Well they've got you know, they've got tradable assets there, Charlotte,

0:55:52.680 --> 0:55:55.640
<v Speaker 1>so they have to give up something. Just not sure Nurkic,

0:55:56.080 --> 0:55:59.759
<v Speaker 1>given his injury history and his contract status, they would

0:55:59.760 --> 0:56:02.480
<v Speaker 1>be prepared to do it for that short term window.

0:56:02.560 --> 0:56:06.480
<v Speaker 2>Here, all right, our final guy here from these Blazers

0:56:06.520 --> 0:56:09.359
<v Speaker 2>were trying to move, Sir Robert Covington, thirty one years old.

0:56:09.800 --> 0:56:13.239
<v Speaker 2>He makes thirteen million dollars also depending on restrict free agent.

0:56:14.600 --> 0:56:17.920
<v Speaker 2>He's a talented help defender. I think we would agree

0:56:19.000 --> 0:56:21.600
<v Speaker 2>career forty percent three point shooter, so he ken knocked

0:56:21.600 --> 0:56:24.200
<v Speaker 2>down the three ball. He was traded a year ago

0:56:24.280 --> 0:56:27.640
<v Speaker 2>to Portland for Trevor Ariza, a twenty twenty first round

0:56:27.680 --> 0:56:31.080
<v Speaker 2>pick and a twenty twenty one protected first round pick. Yeah,

0:56:31.680 --> 0:56:33.880
<v Speaker 2>I can't imagine that would be the return that the

0:56:33.920 --> 0:56:37.319
<v Speaker 2>Blazers beginning in some sort of potential deal. But here's

0:56:37.360 --> 0:56:39.760
<v Speaker 2>a popular one, Trey, you want him on the Bulls

0:56:40.200 --> 0:56:44.000
<v Speaker 2>because Dave w says, Covington to the Bulls for Kobe White,

0:56:45.120 --> 0:56:46.880
<v Speaker 2>and then maybe like a Tony Brown junior and a

0:56:46.960 --> 0:56:48.480
<v Speaker 2>draft pick, like some sort of compensation.

0:56:49.960 --> 0:56:53.600
<v Speaker 3>I don't mind it Robert Covington, an Illinois boy, doing

0:56:53.880 --> 0:56:58.239
<v Speaker 3>a lot less, I imagine for the Bulls than he

0:56:58.280 --> 0:57:02.400
<v Speaker 3>would be for the Blazers. And Covington, like you said, Skeets,

0:57:02.560 --> 0:57:05.760
<v Speaker 3>is a great help defender, not a great on ball defender,

0:57:05.800 --> 0:57:07.440
<v Speaker 3>which is good because the Bulls have some solid on

0:57:07.560 --> 0:57:11.840
<v Speaker 3>ball defenders now with Lonzo and Caruso. I've been eyeing Covington,

0:57:11.920 --> 0:57:15.720
<v Speaker 3>I've been eyeing Nurkic. I've even been eyeing Cody Zeller

0:57:15.840 --> 0:57:18.280
<v Speaker 3>off the bench for the Bulls because they can use

0:57:18.320 --> 0:57:21.000
<v Speaker 3>another backup big and another just a little bit more

0:57:21.080 --> 0:57:23.640
<v Speaker 3>size there. And as we've seen through the beginning of

0:57:23.680 --> 0:57:25.720
<v Speaker 3>the season, the Bulls are at least a good team.

0:57:26.160 --> 0:57:28.680
<v Speaker 3>The league is maybe a little unsettled right now, so

0:57:29.280 --> 0:57:31.280
<v Speaker 3>I don't mind throwing a young player like Kobe White

0:57:31.280 --> 0:57:31.920
<v Speaker 3>into a trade to.

0:57:31.920 --> 0:57:34.120
<v Speaker 2>Really try and go for a bit of an extended

0:57:34.120 --> 0:57:36.640
<v Speaker 2>playoff run. Here, Jas, what do you think? Does that

0:57:36.800 --> 0:57:38.840
<v Speaker 2>make some sense? Is that enough for the Blazers? So

0:57:38.840 --> 0:57:41.000
<v Speaker 2>would they be happy with that, especially him coming up

0:57:41.040 --> 0:57:44.040
<v Speaker 2>to a free agency If you moved Covington for Kobe

0:57:44.040 --> 0:57:45.840
<v Speaker 2>White and Tony Brown junior and again like some sort

0:57:45.840 --> 0:57:46.480
<v Speaker 2>of pick compensation.

0:57:47.320 --> 0:57:49.440
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I don't think they could even get that much

0:57:49.840 --> 0:57:52.040
<v Speaker 4>for Robert Covington and the way he's playing right now.

0:57:52.120 --> 0:57:55.280
<v Speaker 4>He's been benched in Portland, which is kind of bonkers.

0:57:55.360 --> 0:57:57.960
<v Speaker 4>For the thirtieth best defensive team in the league, they're

0:57:58.000 --> 0:58:01.480
<v Speaker 4>dead last. They put Robert Covington on the bench. I

0:58:01.560 --> 0:58:04.680
<v Speaker 4>don't think they get a solid young guy in Kobe

0:58:04.760 --> 0:58:08.680
<v Speaker 4>White and another guy. I don't see that happening. But yeah,

0:58:08.720 --> 0:58:11.520
<v Speaker 4>the Bulls would love him, for sure. The Bulls would

0:58:11.520 --> 0:58:14.080
<v Speaker 4>be very excited for him. But yeah, it's what the

0:58:14.160 --> 0:58:19.520
<v Speaker 4>Blazers are looking to do. Is it time to implode

0:58:19.520 --> 0:58:23.600
<v Speaker 4>and just go real young and try and try and

0:58:23.920 --> 0:58:26.400
<v Speaker 4>get as much value and much return as possible for

0:58:26.520 --> 0:58:30.120
<v Speaker 4>this roster that has peaked at one Western Conference final?

0:58:30.520 --> 0:58:32.520
<v Speaker 4>Is it time? Is it the best move to get

0:58:32.560 --> 0:58:35.640
<v Speaker 4>as much value as possible for even Damian Lillard? I

0:58:35.640 --> 0:58:37.640
<v Speaker 4>think that's you know, it's a question, John Hollinger asked

0:58:37.640 --> 0:58:39.080
<v Speaker 4>on The Athletic It's a reasonable question.

0:58:39.640 --> 0:58:40.040
<v Speaker 5>What do you do?

0:58:40.360 --> 0:58:42.520
<v Speaker 4>What do you do with this this roster? So, yeah,

0:58:42.880 --> 0:58:44.520
<v Speaker 4>take a chance on Kobe White, who the Bulls were

0:58:44.560 --> 0:58:46.920
<v Speaker 4>really high on and now he's become kind of an

0:58:46.960 --> 0:58:48.040
<v Speaker 4>afterthought in that rotation.

0:58:48.840 --> 0:58:50.960
<v Speaker 2>Again, that's like just goes back to the whole thing.

0:58:51.080 --> 0:58:52.760
<v Speaker 2>Like if you're going to trade these three guys that

0:58:52.760 --> 0:58:55.080
<v Speaker 2>we're talking about here, the Covington, Nurk, and McCollum for

0:58:55.240 --> 0:58:57.880
<v Speaker 2>just trade assets, I mean, excuse me, like draft picks

0:58:57.880 --> 0:59:02.479
<v Speaker 2>and young prospects, then you're literally just like for sure

0:59:02.800 --> 0:59:07.640
<v Speaker 2>going to be like you are like otherwise you have

0:59:07.800 --> 0:59:09.640
<v Speaker 2>to like try and get some talent back, and it's

0:59:09.680 --> 0:59:11.840
<v Speaker 2>not easy, as I think we're proving here with some

0:59:11.920 --> 0:59:14.800
<v Speaker 2>of these potential trade deals. How many thoughts on the

0:59:14.840 --> 0:59:17.840
<v Speaker 2>Balls acquiring Comington though, and maybe a Koby wait being

0:59:17.880 --> 0:59:19.160
<v Speaker 2>the keep has come back, Yeah.

0:59:19.080 --> 0:59:21.600
<v Speaker 1>I think the Bulls would do that. A veteran good defender,

0:59:21.600 --> 0:59:23.800
<v Speaker 1>he's got that seven to two wing span. Robert coming

0:59:23.800 --> 0:59:26.760
<v Speaker 1>to remember, he was kind of the small ball guy

0:59:26.800 --> 0:59:28.600
<v Speaker 1>in Houston. I think he was kind of playing center

0:59:28.640 --> 0:59:30.600
<v Speaker 1>for a while because when they went totally small there

0:59:30.600 --> 0:59:33.160
<v Speaker 1>with Darryl Mourray him and him at PJ. I think

0:59:33.200 --> 0:59:35.280
<v Speaker 1>he is a good player who can hit that three

0:59:35.320 --> 0:59:37.920
<v Speaker 1>at his best, and he's a reliable defender, and I

0:59:37.960 --> 0:59:40.640
<v Speaker 1>think Kobe White, you know, you would give up that

0:59:40.720 --> 0:59:42.880
<v Speaker 1>piece to get that veteran on your team because the

0:59:42.920 --> 0:59:45.760
<v Speaker 1>Bulls are certainly closer to win now more than perhaps

0:59:45.840 --> 0:59:47.920
<v Speaker 1>they thought they were going to be coming into the season,

0:59:48.600 --> 0:59:50.720
<v Speaker 1>so it's worth it. But man, the fact that Neil

0:59:50.800 --> 0:59:53.880
<v Speaker 1>Usha gave up two first round picks for Robert Covington,

0:59:54.240 --> 0:59:56.600
<v Speaker 1>he should have been fired for that alone. Really, I mean,

0:59:57.320 --> 1:00:00.919
<v Speaker 1>that's that's a sort of move that the general managers. Mate,

1:00:01.000 --> 1:00:05.000
<v Speaker 1>that's just hampering the franchise. I think so, uh yeah,

1:00:05.200 --> 1:00:06.200
<v Speaker 1>I'd like him on the Bulls.

1:00:06.240 --> 1:00:06.840
<v Speaker 6>I think that's good.

1:00:06.920 --> 1:00:09.320
<v Speaker 1>But if you're the Blazers, yeah, for a guy who's

1:00:09.400 --> 1:00:12.360
<v Speaker 1>not part of their rotation now anyway, sure, why not

1:00:12.480 --> 1:00:13.320
<v Speaker 1>take another young guy?

1:00:14.600 --> 1:00:16.800
<v Speaker 2>I had some funny ones that people suggested as well.

1:00:16.880 --> 1:00:17.919
<v Speaker 2>I want to share with you guys.

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<v Speaker 5>I love this one.

1:00:18.880 --> 1:00:23.840
<v Speaker 2>This was from Disney Alex Max on Twitter. Why don't

1:00:23.920 --> 1:00:27.560
<v Speaker 2>the Pacers and the Blazers just basically swap all their

1:00:27.600 --> 1:00:32.000
<v Speaker 2>guys and it works in the trade machine. Okay, Sibonis,

1:00:32.120 --> 1:00:35.680
<v Speaker 2>Miles Turner, and Kris Lavert going to Portland for McCollum,

1:00:36.080 --> 1:00:41.000
<v Speaker 2>Covington and Nurkic. Here you go Tass's R three for

1:00:41.120 --> 1:00:43.080
<v Speaker 2>your three. There we go, no problem.

1:00:44.760 --> 1:00:49.360
<v Speaker 4>The numbers work. I'm peering into this YouTube screenshot the numbers.

1:00:49.600 --> 1:00:54.800
<v Speaker 4>That's Sabonis, Miles, Turner and Carolslavert very close in salaries. Yeah,

1:00:54.800 --> 1:00:58.160
<v Speaker 4>I think that nineteen eight, eighteen and seventeen to five Carislvert.

1:00:58.640 --> 1:01:01.360
<v Speaker 4>I take our guys who are underperforming a little bit,

1:01:01.480 --> 1:01:04.160
<v Speaker 4>carosel Vert, specifically for your guys who are underperforming with

1:01:04.240 --> 1:01:07.640
<v Speaker 4>the Blazers. And that's the thing, as I mentioned, like McCallum,

1:01:07.680 --> 1:01:10.000
<v Speaker 4>Mcovington and Nurkic, it's the beauty is in the eye

1:01:10.040 --> 1:01:14.520
<v Speaker 4>of the beholder. Because McCollum, yeah, underperforming, but he's a

1:01:14.720 --> 1:01:18.920
<v Speaker 4>virtual all star player. Nurkic it potted over thirty last night.

1:01:19.120 --> 1:01:21.040
<v Speaker 4>You know, you see one of those games against you

1:01:21.120 --> 1:01:23.720
<v Speaker 4>you think this guy, this guy can be a really

1:01:23.760 --> 1:01:26.400
<v Speaker 4>good big but he will do that all the time.

1:01:27.120 --> 1:01:29.280
<v Speaker 4>And who is that other Oh Covington, same thing. Yeah

1:01:29.360 --> 1:01:31.640
<v Speaker 4>he could, he could play the five, just like Lisa

1:01:31.880 --> 1:01:35.280
<v Speaker 4>a modern day wing. He could do it. But yeah,

1:01:35.400 --> 1:01:38.800
<v Speaker 4>it's the Blazers. They're all underperforming. But yeah, trade them,

1:01:38.960 --> 1:01:40.760
<v Speaker 4>they'll probably be better in a different environment.

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<v Speaker 5>Why not?

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<v Speaker 2>And then I love this one lately. This is a

1:01:44.000 --> 1:01:47.439
<v Speaker 2>four team deal and it's just one player moving from

1:01:47.560 --> 1:01:50.960
<v Speaker 2>each team. This one from biased CAZ fan. I'll show

1:01:51.000 --> 1:01:55.400
<v Speaker 2>it to you here as well. Fun breakdown. McCollum to

1:01:55.520 --> 1:01:59.760
<v Speaker 2>the Dallas Mavericks, Porzingis to the Kings, Dearren Fox to

1:01:59.840 --> 1:02:04.120
<v Speaker 2>the Sixers, and Ben Simmons to the Blazers. What do

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<v Speaker 2>you think, Lee, I? I wrote back to him. I said,

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<v Speaker 2>if you could get Kyrie Irving involved somehow, this would

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<v Speaker 2>be the you know, this would be Chef's kiss hanging

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<v Speaker 2>in the left. But yeah, what do you think of

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<v Speaker 2>it's fortune?

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<v Speaker 6>So I like it for the Sixers.

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<v Speaker 4>I like it for the.

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<v Speaker 2>Mavericks. Okay, you must think for the Blazers. Yeah yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>let's do it. Let's put the trig.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah yeah yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just I'm just trying to sort of, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>put it all together quickly in my head here. But

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<v Speaker 1>I'm saying that we would I mean, imagine the NBA

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<v Speaker 1>on Twitter that day.

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<v Speaker 6>That would be.

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<v Speaker 1>Awesome, everyone just with their with their fire takes. So

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<v Speaker 1>I would love to see the chaos of this trade happen.

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<v Speaker 1>And if it can work, the GM should just go.

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<v Speaker 1>Who gives a ship?

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<v Speaker 6>Why not. Let's just try and see what happens.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's how you keep a job. The who gives

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<v Speaker 3>a ship is like the biggest jump in wins here.

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<v Speaker 3>Plus if he goes to the poring.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, it's very weird.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So there it is, Yes Simmons to the Blazers, McCollum

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<v Speaker 2>to the Mavericks, Porzingis to the Kings, and dearon Fox

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<v Speaker 2>to the seventy six ers.

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<v Speaker 4>Biased fans not not far off, you know his his

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<v Speaker 4>Twitter handles biased cash fan. But he threw together a

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<v Speaker 4>pretty even trade.

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<v Speaker 5>That's not bad.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean the team that lead didn't you know, wasn't

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<v Speaker 4>sold on was the Kings there because they're getting Porzingis

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<v Speaker 4>in exchange for Darren Fox. But Darren Fox underperforming Porzingis

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<v Speaker 4>right now.

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<v Speaker 5>He's hot.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah again?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, he had a right run, a great run

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<v Speaker 1>before that, one of maybe the best run of his career.

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<v Speaker 1>But he's injured again. And uh, you know, hey, listen,

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<v Speaker 1>we've got a fan out there who's been emailing this,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, taking his victory lat where's all that talk

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<v Speaker 1>about posingis now? I just want to say, where's the emails?

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<v Speaker 1>Now that he's injured again?

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<v Speaker 2>That's all.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's the posingis can be a great player,

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<v Speaker 1>and we've seen flashes of it, but the two knocks

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<v Speaker 1>on him are consistency and injury. So you know, if

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<v Speaker 1>you're gonna come at us or me when he's playing,

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<v Speaker 1>well fine, fine, fine, but you can't also then just

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<v Speaker 1>not email when he's injured.

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<v Speaker 6>Again, That's all I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 2>That's like a true Knicks fan who has gone through

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<v Speaker 2>and Chris stabs. All right, so let's hear your trades

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<v Speaker 2>for any of these Blazers. You can leave them in

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<v Speaker 2>the stream team, you can leave them below this video,

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<v Speaker 2>you can tweet them in at no dunk sync. It's

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<v Speaker 2>not easy, I think, is the point here with a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of these guys, to again get talent back that

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<v Speaker 2>would in theory, get the Blazers back into the mix

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<v Speaker 2>in the Western Conference, to keep Lillard happy and to

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<v Speaker 2>go from there. It's just it's just not It's becomes

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<v Speaker 2>easier just to be like, okay, everything must go, including

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<v Speaker 2>Damian Lillard, and really really lean into a long term rebuild,

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<v Speaker 2>and that might be what they have to do. I

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I know, Trey, you sort of think that

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<v Speaker 2>is the only really way at this point, because you

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<v Speaker 2>can't convince yourself otherwise that a shake up trade will

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<v Speaker 2>really do all that much.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's the question, And I guess the question for

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<v Speaker 3>the Blazers is do you think that trading for Ben

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<v Speaker 3>Simmons is a shake up trade or is that a

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<v Speaker 3>serious improvement trade? Because you know, Ben Simmons has been

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<v Speaker 3>a good player during the regular season throughout his career.

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<v Speaker 3>He makes his team better, he plays defense, he gets

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<v Speaker 3>easy shots for his teammates. In the playoffs, you got

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<v Speaker 3>to deal with him not taking shots. Yeah, what's gonna happen?

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<v Speaker 2>So I don't know.

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<v Speaker 3>I would rather try that sort of middle path, where

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<v Speaker 3>like Simmons bringing in Simmons from a column, you at

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<v Speaker 3>least try it one more time with Damian Lillard before

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<v Speaker 3>you know, he ends up wanting to go somewhere else,

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<v Speaker 3>like it happened for Kevin Garnett, Right, They tried everything

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<v Speaker 3>around Kevin Garnett and Minnesota.

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<v Speaker 2>Eventually the writing was on the wall and they had

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<v Speaker 2>to start over. Yeah. I think again, I'm still a betman.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that's exactly what they end up doing, a

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<v Speaker 2>McCollum move to like try and salvage their season. To

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<v Speaker 2>try and keep Lillard happy and then go from there.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not convinced that whatever that move is Ben Simmons,

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<v Speaker 2>somebody from the Pelicans, somebody from the Wizards, you know whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe a potential Calves trade. I just don't think it's

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<v Speaker 2>going to like catapult them up here. I really don't.

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<v Speaker 2>They're in such a funk. But maybe they do, and

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<v Speaker 2>maybe it will work. The shake up trade happens or works,

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<v Speaker 2>I should say every once in a while tasks, but

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's few and far between.

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<v Speaker 4>For being honest, Yeah, what is the Blazer front office thinking? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 4>And will the man there Crone and Joe Cronin, who's

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<v Speaker 4>worked up his way through the Blazers hierarchy, and he's

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<v Speaker 4>been there forever. He's a salary cap expert. Now he's

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<v Speaker 4>got the rains. Does he have the rains to blow

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<v Speaker 4>it up? Or does he have the rains to make

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<v Speaker 4>one single trade? Which, yeah, that would make sense logically

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<v Speaker 4>keep Dame happy. But I don't know, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 4>Man, Maybe you have to maybe you just have to

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<v Speaker 4>go for it. And just one one quick note before

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<v Speaker 4>we move on, because he said, you're bet Manski speaking

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<v Speaker 4>of betting a little bit later, we'll get to our

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<v Speaker 4>pick and payoff. I didn't pick the Nets Mavericks game

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<v Speaker 4>because christophs Porzingis was listed as questionable and I thought

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<v Speaker 4>everyone's taken the Nets. But he's been upgraded to probable.

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<v Speaker 4>So we're getting an email Lee, Chris is gonna be

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<v Speaker 4>back on the floor tonight. It sure, it looks like

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<v Speaker 4>so maybe it's not injured at all. It's a knee injury,

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<v Speaker 4>so of course everyone worried seeing him in a very

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<v Speaker 4>sharp suit with no tie on the sideline. But he

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<v Speaker 4>might be back playing basketball tonight.

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<v Speaker 2>We will see. All right, We're gonna take our final

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<v Speaker 2>break when we come back. We got Lee's tweet of

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<v Speaker 2>the night and picking results and our new pick for tonight.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's get to tweet of the night.

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<v Speaker 5>Tweet of the night.

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<v Speaker 1>Woww Yes, I am going off the board for this

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<v Speaker 1>one and going back to the homeland of my birth.

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<v Speaker 6>In fact, because this comes in.

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<v Speaker 2>What are you talking about? I'm going off the board

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<v Speaker 2>and going Yes, I'm going after the board one.

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<v Speaker 4>Ye.

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<v Speaker 1>Usually you set me up, Usually say Lily, what you

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<v Speaker 1>got I was waiting for it? Didn't have it anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to the KFC Big Bash League for this

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<v Speaker 1>outstanding feat of athleticism by Jake Fraser McGuirk.

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<v Speaker 5>Way, oh, I think he might have got enough.

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<v Speaker 4>Unbelievable Frazer mcgod for the one handy screamer of the

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<v Speaker 4>boundary of marble.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, that is from the Big Bash League in Australia,

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<v Speaker 1>the twenty twenty competition.

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<v Speaker 6>Now check it out. I've got some replays here of

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<v Speaker 6>this cash.

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<v Speaker 1>Just look at the athleticism of this because remember no

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<v Speaker 1>gloves by the fieldsman in cricket.

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<v Speaker 2>Look at this.

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<v Speaker 1>Watch what he does here to catch this one. It

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<v Speaker 1>gets up boom nice. That is incredible here it is

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<v Speaker 1>again a.

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<v Speaker 2>That that's a lot of a lot of fans in

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<v Speaker 2>attendance for this.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, but I'm not sure if that's coronavirus fro late

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<v Speaker 6>at all.

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<v Speaker 2>Eight people saw that catch?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, just hey, you know what tweet of the week?

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<v Speaker 1>Twitter the night you can go wherever you want. I thought, great,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll chose some cricket highlights, great stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>What's his name, James mc squirt, Jamie mcquar, what's going

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<v Speaker 2>on there? What's his name? I'm asking?

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<v Speaker 6>His name is Jake Fraser mcgook. Yeah, you seem a

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<v Speaker 6>little bit. I don't know, it's saucy. Today's you know

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<v Speaker 6>something in the air.

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<v Speaker 2>Fantastic NBA podcast audio Watching Cricket highlight.

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<v Speaker 5>I love it.

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<v Speaker 2>What to catch, incredible stuff, incredible stuff.

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<v Speaker 4>It reminds me. I played one year of mushball. It's

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<v Speaker 4>softball with no gloves, That's what That catch reminds me

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<v Speaker 4>of a lot of broken fingers, a lot of broken

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<v Speaker 4>fingers in marshball, a lot of broken fingers and cricket lee.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes, in fact you can't really see it, but

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<v Speaker 1>I got a I've got a couple of broken fingers

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<v Speaker 1>from cricket because, yeah, the ball's hard, especially when it

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<v Speaker 1>gets whacked like that. I mean, you practice those sorts

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<v Speaker 1>of things, so you learn how to sort of catch

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<v Speaker 1>on that. But still, you know, you just catch it

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<v Speaker 1>at the wrong angle or whatever, and it can, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it can do some damage. The catcher is called a

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<v Speaker 1>wicket keeper in cricket. Now his fingers at the end

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<v Speaker 1>of his career are like Alvin Gentry, Sean Marion. I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's like catches in Yeah. I think like in baseball,

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<v Speaker 1>aren't that you know, like Jje Posada, for example. I

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<v Speaker 1>think all his or one one side of his hand.

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<v Speaker 2>For example.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, but they but they're only actually catches with one hand,

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<v Speaker 6>doesn't he really?

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, probably cricket you've got the two hands there, so, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>their fingers are all a bit a bit wonky.

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<v Speaker 6>At the end of their careers.

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<v Speaker 4>They learned to create all that as a kid, right,

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<v Speaker 4>a cricket cricket cradler. Right, well, correct that thing you

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<v Speaker 4>collect it?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you don't want it because the balls going so fast.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't just want to like go forward, You want

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<v Speaker 1>to like catch it like that. Take the take the

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<v Speaker 1>speed off it as you can.

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<v Speaker 2>I got I got a question for really we got

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<v Speaker 2>Noil buffs. That's a survivor podcast. You got Neil Breaks.

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<v Speaker 2>That's an F one podcast. Where's the cricket podcast?

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<v Speaker 6>You want a cricket podcast?

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<v Speaker 2>No, I don't want people.

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<v Speaker 5>What do you mean?

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<v Speaker 2>Hey? I had Mark war on this year.

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<v Speaker 4>It was good.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>You want to talk catchers.

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<v Speaker 1>You can check out Mark Wall's Highlight Real's Mix take

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<v Speaker 1>of catches for the next.

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<v Speaker 2>Tweet of the week. When you're going off the.

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<v Speaker 6>Greatest greatest lips catcher of all time, Mark war So

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<v Speaker 6>there you can there you go. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>Why not. Yeah, we've got a comment saying Cricket podcast,

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<v Speaker 4>Yes if you're listening, and we're just saying, yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I like this leasing but is the sm give one

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<v Speaker 2>more time?

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<v Speaker 6>Hore passala?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, now I can go to sleep.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>But funnily enough, he used to bat without gloves, which

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<v Speaker 1>is kind of ironic, isn't it, because most most batters

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<v Speaker 1>wear gloves, don't they they? So yeah, ok, yeah I

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<v Speaker 1>remember he was. He was great and no gloves, but

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<v Speaker 1>he was the catcher.

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<v Speaker 6>Interesting.

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<v Speaker 2>You definitely talked to him in a piece down at

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<v Speaker 2>the start.

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<v Speaker 6>I did. They're part of that big piece I did

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<v Speaker 6>with on Joe Girardi spoke.

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<v Speaker 2>With also catcher.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't actually notice his fingers, but.

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<v Speaker 6>He's the Phillies bench boss.

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<v Speaker 3>These days, there is there a single notable America cricket player.

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<v Speaker 6>Not that I'm aware of.

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<v Speaker 1>Although Sammy Sosa grew up playing cricket. Apparently cricket was

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<v Speaker 1>his first game because he grew.

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<v Speaker 4>Up in Dear Was he Dominican?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, yeah, so apparently he was a good cricketer

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<v Speaker 1>as a kid. But Danny A, No, he never played

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<v Speaker 1>that right now, he played baseball didn't he Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>but the twenty twenty stuff is what I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>take you guys to one days where I have a

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<v Speaker 1>fun time.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, I like this from rich He says, what

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<v Speaker 2>would the name of the Cricket podcast be?

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<v Speaker 6>You say that, rich You say that, But there's no

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<v Speaker 6>doubt in my mind. Guys like Richard be like, I've

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<v Speaker 6>got a hate listen to this at least once or twice.

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<v Speaker 4>You know.

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<v Speaker 5>They have to.

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<v Speaker 1>They have to, just just in case they get intrigued

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<v Speaker 1>by and they're like, Okay, there is something to this

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<v Speaker 1>after all.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, great to me of the night, love it. Jamie mcdert.

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<v Speaker 2>Jamie Frazer mcdert. Picking results from last day. Okay, see

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<v Speaker 2>it was in Detroit. Distans were fav like four and

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<v Speaker 2>a half. This brought to you by bet mgm man.

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<v Speaker 2>Pistons were looking good, looking, like they would take care

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<v Speaker 2>of business, no problemly got this and then okay see

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<v Speaker 2>in the second half, storm Back got the victory straight

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<v Speaker 2>up money line hit and Trey Kirby he calls it.

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<v Speaker 2>This guy's perfect. In the month of December four and

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<v Speaker 2>oh here in our pick them battle task down to

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<v Speaker 2>two and two and me and Lee bringing up the

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<v Speaker 2>rear one and three lately. Uh, no surprise for me,

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<v Speaker 2>but chocking for you. Anyway, tonight's game task where we

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<v Speaker 2>go and there's only three games on tonight?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the TNT double headler is Nets, Mavericks, Celtics, Lakers.

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<v Speaker 4>Usually I'm definitely looking at the big games, but don't

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<v Speaker 4>see we don't pick the league pass games. I'm going

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<v Speaker 4>to a small market team like the New York Knicks

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<v Speaker 4>playing the San Antonio Spurs. I thought that game would

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<v Speaker 4>be a little bit more difficult to call. I thought

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<v Speaker 4>we'd all generally take the Lakers or the Nets, considering

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<v Speaker 4>Porzingis was out, so I went Knicks Spurs. And I'm

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<v Speaker 4>the only one who thinks that the Knicks can bounce

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<v Speaker 4>back against the Spurs team that was on a bit

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<v Speaker 4>of a winning streak until they lost last night or

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<v Speaker 4>a four gamer. But they lost last night and the Knicks, yes,

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<v Speaker 4>some some questions as to what's going on with that rotation.

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<v Speaker 5>R J.

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<v Speaker 4>Barrett not looking great, but you know, they seem healthier,

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<v Speaker 4>so I think they can bounce back. But why do

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<v Speaker 4>you guys think that the Spurs will take care of

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<v Speaker 4>business the team? Let's be honest. We rarely, rarely, rarely

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<v Speaker 4>talk about on this show. Who's who's got a hot spurs? Take?

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<v Speaker 4>Right now?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I'll tell you my reasoning for taking the spurs.

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<v Speaker 2>I have an app on my phone. It's called Flip

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<v Speaker 2>a Coin. I fired it up this morning. I hit

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<v Speaker 2>this little button on it, and the coin flipped, and

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<v Speaker 2>I well, the home team will if if heads comes up,

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<v Speaker 2>that's the home team. If tails comes up, that's the

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<v Speaker 2>road team. And heads came up, so the Spurs are

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<v Speaker 2>gonna cover.

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<v Speaker 4>I did think that you were using some method of

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<v Speaker 4>either bit. Why do you say that, Well, because I

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<v Speaker 4>put in my pick and you immediately put in your pick,

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<v Speaker 4>and so a lot of people have been saying to you, Hey,

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<v Speaker 4>you've been losing a lot of pickums. Just go with

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<v Speaker 4>the oppositey.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, it drives me insane.

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<v Speaker 5>No, I've done that.

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<v Speaker 2>I've done that one hundred times. I'm like, oh, I

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<v Speaker 2>can't pick one to save my life, so I'll go

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<v Speaker 2>the opposite and then I just get it wrong. It

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't work. So now I'm leaving it completely up to chance.

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<v Speaker 5>It's a great app to have, it really is.

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<v Speaker 4>When we because I linger, I like to linger doing

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<v Speaker 4>a lot of things, and sometimes it's good just to

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<v Speaker 4>have something just to shut my brain off and say,

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<v Speaker 4>I'm going to make a decision using the old coin app.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, flip a coin.

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<v Speaker 4>This is my coin app is called flip a coin.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, there's ads all over it and pop

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<v Speaker 2>up this morning. I guess I gotta buy the premium

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<v Speaker 2>version of flipper coil.

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<v Speaker 3>I got.

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<v Speaker 5>The coin there.

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<v Speaker 6>Why don't you just flip a coin in the old

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<v Speaker 6>fashioned way.

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<v Speaker 2>Nobody has coins anymore. You got coins corner?

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>I got a man's coin right here?

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<v Speaker 4>Wow?

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, what is that?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah? It's Peter Manzanelli. He's a big crypto influencer. He

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<v Speaker 3>should check out some of his stuff. The problem, though,

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<v Speaker 3>is it's the same thing on both sides. Oh that's yeah.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>So I went with essays because I knew we were

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<v Speaker 3>going to be talking about Sammy Sosa today.

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<v Speaker 2>I was just feeling the vibes.

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<v Speaker 4>It's non fungible. I guess if it's the same on both.

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<v Speaker 2>Sides, what do you got?

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<v Speaker 6>I got a US a US one dollar coin rare.

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<v Speaker 1>I got a couple of quarters here, and I've got

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<v Speaker 1>even fifty euro since there you go and I got

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<v Speaker 1>a Canadian five cents. Hey, you go the beaver, the

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<v Speaker 1>Canadian beava. Well, love some Canadian beava five cents.

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<v Speaker 2>A crap, the homeland of your birth.

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<v Speaker 4>Justin you.

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<v Speaker 2>Could you hurry up and get that classic factory and order. Man,

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<v Speaker 2>Just all get back together, guys, call it there. Email

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<v Speaker 7>Love you guys awesome.

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<v Speaker 4>Thanks for joining us, and remember, just like the end

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<v Speaker 4>of the show. Sometimes I kind of you kind of

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<v Speaker 4>hangs on a little bit, kind of lingers a little bit.

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<v Speaker 4>Uh yeah, that's me making decisions a lot of the time.

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<v Speaker 4>That's when my wife will say, do you.

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<v Speaker 5>Have to do?

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<v Speaker 4>You have to do?

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<v Speaker 2>You have to do?

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<v Speaker 4>You have to let it linger?

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<v Speaker 2>You always put it.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I know, yeah, I do.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, you do that.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>It loves the liquor. It lingers lyrics.

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<v Speaker 4>It's one of those mental mashups, you know. I just

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<v Speaker 4>just create new words for you.

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<v Speaker 2>Hold on, hold on, don't go anywhere gd I'll flip

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<v Speaker 2>the coin and if it comes up heads, we gotta

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<v Speaker 2>just ramble for another minute or two, okay. And if

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<v Speaker 2>it comes up tails, oh, then I'll say embraces there.

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<v Speaker 2>Here we go, tap to flip. Oh you hear that, girl.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know how that little uh tails Embrace the day. People,

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<v Speaker 2>you could stay every day.

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<v Speaker 4>And that you happy every minute.

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<v Speaker 3>It's been so long that you're the one I've waiting for.

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<v Speaker 4>It's happened already. It's gonna be grippy.