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Navy thrashes Army and the NBA Cup Finals · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: And we're back to the Craig Way Show. Have a
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  Speaker 2: App here on this Monday afternoon of Long Horns Monday,
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  Speaker 2: as we continue here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 2: sent Okay, So in case you missed it, if it
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  Speaker 2: was lost to you during the course of the weekend
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  Speaker 2: with everything that was going on with the NFL and
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  Speaker 2: some of the other stories and the Heisman try. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, no big exprise on the Heisman trouphy. I
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  Speaker 2: was I was actually surprised that the vote was as
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  Speaker 2: close as it was. You know, I understand Travis Cuentner
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  Speaker 2: winning it. The real problem with that, although what Ashton
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  Speaker 2: genty was, what he did and has accomplished, is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: But everything I'd read and heard of it was that
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  Speaker 2: the vote was going to be a little more widespread
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  Speaker 2: than it was, and it was not. It was pretty close. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: what the closest vote since two thousand and nine, I
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  Speaker 2: think they said something like that. So that's some respect
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  Speaker 2: for gent for sure. And Navy thump an army. Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine, you know, if we were following that fantasy
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  Speaker 2: we were doing for a few weeks about if Army
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  Speaker 2: and Navy had remained unbeaten and then got to play
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  Speaker 2: in the American Conference Championship game for the right because
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  Speaker 2: of the playoff, and let's say that Army won it
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  Speaker 2: to get to go to the playoffs, and then Navy
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  Speaker 2: drills them like that in their regularly scheduled Army Navy game,
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  Speaker 2: which would have no impact on the playoff because they
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  Speaker 2: would have played each other the week before in the
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  Speaker 2: American Athletics Championship game that was for the birth. And
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  Speaker 2: say Army had won it, and then they play a
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  Speaker 2: week later in Washington and Navy does the deed and
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  Speaker 2: beats him. It would have split had that happen. But
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of folks were surprised because Army
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  Speaker 2: had only lost the one ball game uh there, and
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  Speaker 2: that they were the conference champions then wind up getting
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  Speaker 2: thumped by Navy, so they didn't They won the conference championship,
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  Speaker 2: but obviously didn't get into the playoffs. The lost and
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  Speaker 2: under day erased that possibility. Okay, basketball, What I started
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  Speaker 2: to say was for those of you who might not
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  Speaker 2: have noticed it because of everything that was going on
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  Speaker 2: during the course of the weekend. You didn't see what
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  Speaker 2: happened with the NBA the Emirates NBA Cup. Cameron Parker's
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder advanced to the final. Whether it take
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  Speaker 2: on the Milwaukee Bucks, Like I said, at least it
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  Speaker 2: kind of. I think it gives the the Cup a
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  Speaker 2: little more credibility like it did last year with Lebron
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  Speaker 2: and the Lakers in it.
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  Speaker 1: M credibility. I mean, Lakers were playing Team Craig and
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  Speaker 1: they won the Cups. So what I think.
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  Speaker 2: The Lakers had the name though you have the name.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean even terms of like you know, the
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  Speaker 1: brand names and brand players. Sure, I mean, you can't
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  Speaker 1: get any bigger than Lebron James. But for this matchup,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it doesn't feel like the league is
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  Speaker 1: excited about it. I mean in the on the NBA
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  Speaker 1: website on the app to the the preview, in the
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  Speaker 1: preview article for Rockets Thunder, it literally said the author, now,
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  Speaker 1: course isn't working you know, for the League's working for
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  Speaker 1: the league website that we use on the app. But
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  Speaker 1: he said, well, the NBA, you know, probably wasn't happy
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  Speaker 1: to have Rockets Thunder in the semifinal. But I was
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  Speaker 1: officially on the app there. That's coming from an NBA
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  Speaker 1: dot com writer saying, well, you know we didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the Golden State and the Lakers, or Phoenix in the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers or what not or the mad Average. Yeah right, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you tell you what, whether you like it
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  Speaker 1: or not, the Rockets and the Thunder are here this
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  Speaker 1: day the next decade, these are going to be two
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  Speaker 1: franchises that have enough talent and great head coaching, good ownership,
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  Speaker 1: or they're going to be around for the significant future
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  Speaker 1: because okay, See is not going anywhere, Houston not go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: They're your young team. They're only going to get better.
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  Speaker 1: So league's got to figure out a way to market
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  Speaker 1: these teams in these stars a little bit better because right,
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  Speaker 1: tell you what, Leron James, you're twenty two, can't play defense.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting old Curry, he's got a couple of years left.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got to figure out a way to
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  Speaker 1: make these matchups marketable. And in the NBA is doing
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  Speaker 1: an awful job. I mean, the ratings are lowest it's
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  Speaker 1: spending and quite some time, even though the contract for
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  Speaker 1: NBA rights is the highest ever been so as a
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  Speaker 1: basketball junkie and thunder fan. I am pumped for this
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  Speaker 1: game at the same time, doesn't feel like the casual
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  Speaker 1: fans are.
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  Speaker 2: We got to figure out a way to bridge that
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  Speaker 2: cap and he won't count in the regular season standings.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas all the other games did, this one doesn't, which
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  Speaker 2: is kind of odd. You know, you're talking about the
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  Speaker 2: NBA marketing players.
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  Speaker 1: Can he you know who?
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  Speaker 2: They need to stop marketing or at least for a
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  Speaker 2: little while. Joel Embiid. Sure take a break on Joel Embiid.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's out in definitely with a sinus fracture. He
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  Speaker 2: got hit in the face, so there was that. He
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  Speaker 2: was battling Benedict Mathern of the Pacers and he called
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  Speaker 2: an errant form and an elbow to the face. They
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  Speaker 2: took him out early in the second half because of
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  Speaker 2: impact the right side of the face in the cheek
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  Speaker 2: and nose area. So he's out in definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Philly is seven and sixteen. Greig, there are two games
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  Speaker 1: back for the plan. They you know, they can make
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  Speaker 1: a run here the second half of the season, but
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  Speaker 1: not the first half that Daryl Morey was hoping to
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  Speaker 1: see after and he made the acquisition for Paul George,
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  Speaker 1: I think a bit, a little bit, some of us
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  Speaker 1: are surprised that they're seven and sixteen, but Embiid cannot
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  Speaker 1: stay on the court, and at some point you're going
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  Speaker 1: to run out of time here. All right, we'll be
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