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Mac & Bone Hour 2: Sounds of the Hornets Opener · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: A couple of the things that I love, number one,
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  Speaker 1: our defense. I thought that we set a tone that
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be our identity no matter what's going
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  Speaker 1: on offensively.
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  Speaker 2: We want to really commit to that end of the floor.
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  Speaker 1: And so to have three 25 or less quarters is.
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  Speaker 2: Really impressive by the group.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other couple things that I love, number one,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't always pretty with 21, 26 turnovers or something,
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  Speaker 1: but it was always competitive. And I thought the group
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  Speaker 1: was always together, which I love to see. And then
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch, a ton of winning plays in terms
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  Speaker 1: of deflections, guys diving on the floor, doing anything they
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  Speaker 1: can to help impact winning.
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  Speaker 3: That is Charles Lee, head coach of your undefeated Charlotte Hornets.
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  Speaker 3: Six straight opener they won last night against Brooklyn. Not
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  Speaker 3: the prettiest in the world, but there's something to be
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  Speaker 3: said for that. They really got after it. As Coach
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  Speaker 3: Lee said, Bone, on the defensive end, 22 points allowed
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  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter. And they needed it because they
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: weren't exactly lighting it up in the fourth quarter. with
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  Speaker 3: 23 points. Moussa, Moussa with two huge pokeaways.
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  Speaker 2: That led to turnovers.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was Grayson Allen that went and got
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  Speaker 3: the ball after Moussa tipped it away, including the one
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  Speaker 3: from behind Bone with about a minute and a change left.
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  Speaker 3: Grayson Allen hit one of his many threes to kind
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  Speaker 3: of dagger it late in that game last night, and
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  Speaker 3: the Hornets end up getting a victory without Two of
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  Speaker 3: their three best players, I feel like it's safe to say,
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  Speaker 3: in Khan and Kobe and a key bench piece in
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  Speaker 3: Grant Williams. 110-103. And we got to talk about what
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  Speaker 3: stuck out to you when y'all watched this game last night.
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  Speaker 3: What stuck out good? What stuck out bad? We've already
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  Speaker 3: got people complaining about Brandon Miller, second half bone. That
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  Speaker 3: is already happening. What stuck out to you, Bone, last
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  Speaker 3: night watching the Hornets get this dub?
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  Speaker 2: How high level the guard depth is going to be
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  Speaker 2: when Kobe White and Khan get back. And when those
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  Speaker 2: guys get back, I do think things are going to
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  Speaker 2: open up more for Brandon Miller to not necessarily have
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  Speaker 2: to create all on his own. Definitely. And to be
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  Speaker 2: able to get some more open looks. But when you've
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  Speaker 2: got Schroeder... and Grayson Allen and their experience, their skill level,
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  Speaker 2: their savvy as your backup guards, that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: one of the better backup guard units in the league.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to see the depth of this team.
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  Speaker 2: Much like Steinbach, I don't think Christian Anderson, Mac, will
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  Speaker 2: be too involved in the rotation early on when those
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  Speaker 2: guys get there. But I think that that... That guard
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  Speaker 2: depth is going to be really something there. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: was a little shaky. You got guys that could start
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  Speaker 2: if you need be. You got guys that, if someone's
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  Speaker 2: having an off night, Schroeder or Grayson Allen could finish
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  Speaker 2: the games. There's just a lot of versatility there, I think,
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  Speaker 2: with the guards that they have. It was a little
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  Speaker 2: shaky from Christian Anderson last night. Zero points, had a
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  Speaker 2: couple turnovers, got pulled from the game after. His second turnover,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't alone. The Hornets had 20 turnovers last night,
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  Speaker 2: but the Nets had more. We forced 22 of them
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  Speaker 2: last night. As far as the depth goes, to your point, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just imagine Dennis Schroeder, who was amazing driving to the
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  Speaker 2: Cup last night. They had 40 points and 10 assists,
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  Speaker 2: Schroeder and Allen, last night. Imagine, Bone, when it's Schroeder, Allen...
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  Speaker 2: Royce O'Neal, Grant Williams off that bench. Imagine when you
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  Speaker 2: have those four veterans coming off your bench. That's pretty
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  Speaker 2: damn good. All experienced guys, veteran guys as well.
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  Speaker 4: 100%.
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  Speaker 3: I think the first thing that sticks out to me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the balance, right? You have five guys score
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  Speaker 3: 17 points. Brandon didn't make a shot in the second half,
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  Speaker 3: but other guys stepped up. And that was without, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're like, if Brandon's off and we're healthy, we're Okay,
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  Speaker 3: Khan's got it or Kobe's got it. We didn't have
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  Speaker 3: those guys either last night, so I thought it was
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  Speaker 3: huge to see five different guys score 17 points or more.
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  Speaker 3: The first thing, though, that sticks out to me is
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  Speaker 3: three of those dudes, Bone, are Jeff Peterson veteran pickups
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  Speaker 3: this offseason. Nas Reed in the lamella trade, he had
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  Speaker 3: 20 points, 11 rebounds, 7 assists. The facilitating part of
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  Speaker 3: his game, I have underestimated. Dennis Schroeder, drive after drive,
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  Speaker 3: 19.6 assists. And Grayson Allen, 21 points on five threes, Boney.
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  Speaker 3: Those are all Jeff Peterson offseason acquisitions. He just continues
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  Speaker 3: to find guys to fit. One other thing, too, when
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  Speaker 3: we talk about Moussa and what he does, he's become
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  Speaker 3: such a given, Mac, for the rebounding and the effort.
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  Speaker 3: And I think his offensive game is he had a
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  Speaker 3: nice little step through he attempted last night. He's trying
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  Speaker 3: different things. I don't always hear a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 3: to the front office and jeff peterson also for the
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  Speaker 3: fine that musa is he's kind of been here for
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  Speaker 3: a while now he's sort of in the fabric of
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  Speaker 3: things we also have to make sure that we point
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  Speaker 3: out yeah that he was found money also that's another
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  Speaker 3: guy that this front office found big time and if
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  Speaker 3: to charles lee and company for coaching him up and
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  Speaker 3: getting the most out of him too he had a
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  Speaker 3: series i mentioned the two turnovers he forced bone in
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  Speaker 3: the fourth quarter right big plays and the way the
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  Speaker 3: team defended in the fourth quarter. You could tell they
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  Speaker 3: picked it up in the fourth. Musa had a stretch,
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  Speaker 3: I forget what quarter it was, maybe third, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure, where he either got an offensive rebound or
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  Speaker 3: forced the guy trying to keep him off the offensive
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  Speaker 3: glass to foul him. It went on for, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: damn near two minutes to where they could not get
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  Speaker 3: out of their end.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like I'm talking about soccer.
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  Speaker 3: But they couldn't get out of their end bone with
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  Speaker 3: the ball because Moussa was wreaking havoc. He's just, he
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  Speaker 3: is all energy. He is the damn Energizer bunny. He
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  Speaker 3: is the human version of that dang Energizer bunny. He's
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  Speaker 3: Energizer Moussa. And it's Energizer Musa. And he's so damn
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  Speaker 3: fun to watch, man. He's just so much grit.
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  Speaker 2: 17 points, eight rebounds, five offensive rebounds, three assists and
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  Speaker 2: five steals last night. Oh, by the way. He's doing
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  Speaker 2: five steals. He did.
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  Speaker 3: He did bone a little bit of everything. And he
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  Speaker 3: had six dunks. seven field goals six dunks he was
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  Speaker 3: yamming them through and finishing man um no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: Eric collins was very excited when he broke the uh
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  Speaker 2: was it the hornets opening night dunk record i think
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  Speaker 2: he broke last night.
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  Speaker 3: He did he did he's close eric ec who knows
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  Speaker 3: every dunk record in the history of basketball ec said
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  Speaker 3: he was one away from the all-time opening night dunk record.
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  Speaker 2: How about that ec a bouncing bill mcgrath have a
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  Speaker 2: night I don't know if you were watching to the
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  Speaker 2: very end when he signed off from the game. He
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  Speaker 2: dropped in a hum-diddly-dee as the sign-off last night on WSOC. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it, man.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. 704-570-9610 if you want to jump in.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's also something that we should talk about, Bone.
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  Speaker 3: You brought this up the other day in our long
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  Speaker 3: sponsor meeting when we were supposed to be listening, but
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  Speaker 3: we were back in the back of the room like
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  Speaker 3: two dunces in a classroom. We were talking about— you brought
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  Speaker 3: it up— The fact that they are on, like the
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  Speaker 3: opener was on WSOC. A ton of games will be
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  Speaker 3: on SOC. And if they aren't on SOC, they'll be
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  Speaker 3: on 64, which is over-the-air television. You can set up
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  Speaker 3: the old dang antenna, you know, bunny ears, rabbit ears,
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  Speaker 3: whatever I'm trying to say.
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  Speaker 2: Moose antlers.
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  Speaker 3: And watch the game that way. So you brought it up.
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  Speaker 3: The amount of people, like as excited as y'all were
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  Speaker 3: out there in listener land about the Hornets like we
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  Speaker 3: were when they were balling in the second half last year,
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  Speaker 3: there were still so many of you that could not
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  Speaker 3: watch it. And this year, that is not going to
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  Speaker 3: be a problem at all. So I kind of embrace,
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  Speaker 3: you brought this up, Bone, I embrace maybe fans are
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  Speaker 3: more engaged this year, and maybe they won't have 44 wins,
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  Speaker 3: but more engaged this year, Bone, because they can actually
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  Speaker 3: watch the team.
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  Speaker 2: That broadcast deal's huge. Yeah, because so many times, I
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  Speaker 2: can't even... Hundreds and hundreds of times over the years
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  Speaker 2: when we were talking about a game, somebody would text
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  Speaker 2: in or whatever that they can't watch the game. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that is now going to be a far
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  Speaker 2: and few between situation now. Absolutely. No doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: If not, get your TV booths out. Hornets should sell those.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There's no doubt.
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  Speaker 3: For people who don't like cable or streaming or something,
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  Speaker 3: get your moose antler antennas.
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  Speaker 2: Honey, the game's getting a little fuzzy. Turn that antler
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  Speaker 2: to the right. You missed your calling.
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  Speaker 3: You know the amount of marketing ideas you serve up
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  Speaker 3: on a platter for the local sports team.
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  Speaker 2: And for some reason, they just don't go with them.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know how much they've made off these ideas?
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  Speaker 4: Zero? No.
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  Speaker 2: But guess what? I get paid in laughs. I'm paying you.
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  Speaker 3: No, I get paid in Mac laughs. That's better than money.
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  Speaker 3: There's the DVR Dave sound effect. Is that DVR Dave
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  Speaker 3: or is that a different laugh?
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  Speaker 2: That's DVR Dave. Can you play that one more time?
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  Speaker 2: I have an observation. That is the voice of the
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  Speaker 2: guy that tied up his wife to the chair to
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  Speaker 2: watch football.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. That is a demented laugh, Dave. That
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  Speaker 3: is a real human that we know. That's the problem. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Fake Moon says DAZN was horrible last night. Audio issues
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  Speaker 3: and crashes. Some things never change. So why would you
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  Speaker 3: need DAZN to watch the Hornets? You're not in the market,
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  Speaker 3: I guess? Because in the market, it's on, like we're saying,
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  Speaker 3: on over-the-air broadcast TV. Yeah, I guess that's out of market.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. So I don't know. Fake Moon, are
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  Speaker 2: you out of market?
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  Speaker 3: You could watch it on over-the-air TV in the Charlotte
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  Speaker 3: TV market. All right, let's see what a few texters
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  Speaker 3: are saying. What are your takeaways from the Hornets getting
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  Speaker 3: a win last night? John says, my takeaway are the
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  Speaker 3: Nets are bad again. The thing is, though, if we
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  Speaker 3: were full strength bone and we couldn't pull away from
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  Speaker 3: the nets and it was ugly like that, it would
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  Speaker 3: be one thing. We're missing three very key players, two
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  Speaker 3: of our three best offensive players. so if the offense
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  Speaker 3: looks ugly it seems you know it's not shocking and
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  Speaker 3: to me we just had to find a way to
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  Speaker 3: get that win just like the panthers had to find
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  Speaker 3: a way to get a win against the eagles You know,
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  Speaker 3: that's the kind of the way I view that. Like,
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  Speaker 3: and I almost look at our first four games. I'm
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  Speaker 3: almost feeling like just be two and two after the
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  Speaker 3: first four games. Like, just hang in there until you
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  Speaker 3: get Khan and Kobe back. And Khan looked really good
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  Speaker 3: on that video that Hornets read it. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: where it originated from, but Hornets read it, posted it.
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  Speaker 3: And it was Khan doing a workout, dribbling the ball,
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  Speaker 3: having a tennis ball thrown to him. And he looked
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  Speaker 3: pretty good moving around. I understand that's not running up
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  Speaker 3: and down the floor, Bone. But, like, he looked pretty
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  Speaker 3: damn good. He really did.
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  Speaker 2: It does. The way you worded that, it really does
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  Speaker 2: sound like me and Murphy. He looked really good having
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  Speaker 2: a tennis ball thrown his way. Khan did not catch
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  Speaker 2: it in his mouth, though.
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: Unlike Murphy, Khan did not catch it in his mouth
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  Speaker 3: and then.
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: Slobber all over it. I finally figured it out, Mac.
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: Remember when we found out that Jameis was colorblind? Was
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: Jameis colorblind or did he have an eye? What was Jameis'
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: issue that he had damp? He couldn't. He couldn't see. Colorblind,
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: I think. Colorblind, right? And we realized, oh, he couldn't
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: see what jerseys he's throwing to. When I found out
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: last week Murphy's blind in one eye, now I know
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: why when we go to the park, the tennis ball
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: hits him in the head all the time.
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. My dog Bacon is the worst catcher ever.
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, seriously, you would, I mean, Xavier Lee get
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: catches better than my dog bacon.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, XL. You have one big catch this year
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  Speaker 2: and you're one big opportunity. And now you're hurt. I
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have done that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people are saying they're not in market.
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  Speaker 3: They watch it on Amazon prime or the zone. So, um, that's,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I hope, I hope everything works out on
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: that front for you. Cause that does stink paint. Like
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: you paying for the zone and it didn't work out
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  Speaker 3: last night.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully that's just game one kinks. Um, now let's get
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: to the brand. Jim Boeheim watches Mac. What's that? The two,
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: three zone. The two, three.
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: I am not paying you with laughs on that one.
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: You will not get paid. Thank you, Finney, for the
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  Speaker 2: hand shake. Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so let's talk about Brandon Miller. And we
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: can do it later in the show, too. But Smitty
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  Speaker 3: from the city says, great news. We paid Brandon Miller
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  Speaker 3: $ 209 million to hit one shot, to score one point
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  Speaker 3: in the second half. Jonathan said, two studs out on offense.
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  Speaker 3: It's time for the $ 200 million man to take over. Eh,
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  Speaker 3: maybe for a few minutes. Another texter says, Mac, I
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: know it's coming. The avalanche of people taking shots at
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  Speaker 3: Brandon Miller. I saw it all over social media. He
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  Speaker 3: absolutely carried that offense for a stretch in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: Especially when they got off to a really sluggish start
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  Speaker 2: in the game also. They were real sluggish, and it
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  Speaker 2: was his burst.
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  Speaker 3: When they went on like a 14-1 run or whatever
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  Speaker 3: it was, he scored damn near all the points in
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  Speaker 3: that run. So to that last extra point he's writing that,
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  Speaker 3: is it ideal, Bo, that he has one point essentially
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  Speaker 3: after 15 minutes into the game? Because he was on fire.
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: You and I both had the same thought. This dude's
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  Speaker 3: going to go for like 35 or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's not ideal, and I think we're watching. I think
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  Speaker 3: we're watching plays where, like the one where Randall locked
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  Speaker 3: him up was getting physical with him and Brandon had nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't get past him. Had to throw up a heave
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the shot clock.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're watching things like the second half when
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  Speaker 3: they tried to go to Brandon and they doubled him
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  Speaker 3: off ball screens. And, you know, it's, how do you
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  Speaker 3: attack that sort of stuff? I think they definitely, Bo,
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  Speaker 3: made it a point to try to take him away
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  Speaker 3: and make others beat him. And lucky for us, we
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  Speaker 3: still had enough depth, even with three guys out, that
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  Speaker 3: other guys stepped up, Allen and Nas and Schroeder and
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  Speaker 3: these guys and beat him. Um, but yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think this just in, I feel like reacting that strongly
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  Speaker 3: after one game into the con, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we might need to let a larger
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  Speaker 3: sample size play out.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we're also so far removed now from the Kemba years, Mac,
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  Speaker 2: if Kemba had a game where he had 17 points
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  Speaker 2: early and one in the second half, what were the
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: chances they were winning that basketball game? Because they didn't
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  Speaker 2: have the, the artillery around him to help him out
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  Speaker 2: last night, Brandon Miller, uh, One point second half, well,
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  Speaker 2: guess what? Moussa 17, Nas 20, Schroeder 19, Allen 21.
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  Speaker 2: They're deep enough where if a guy is having an
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  Speaker 2: off game or an off half, there's enough there, and
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  Speaker 2: there will be enough there, especially when the guys come back,
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  Speaker 2: that one guy doesn't have to go completely off for
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  Speaker 2: the team to win the ballgame. It's true. It's true.
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  Speaker 3: Matt in the hat, and there's another one on here. Patrick,
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  Speaker 3: both hyping up the 8-82-0 possibility still alive. They're channeling
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: Mark from Gastonia, Bowen. That is a very Mark comment
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  Speaker 3: right there.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see.
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  Speaker 3: Redhead1 says, mostly mellow stands are the ones upset about
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  Speaker 3: Miller's second half.
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  Speaker 2: It's game one of 82. Relax. Our mellow stands are
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  Speaker 2: probably reveling in it, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like... Oh, they didn't want to keep Melo, but they
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  Speaker 3: paid Brandon all this money. Oh, look, Brandon can't do
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  Speaker 3: it without LaMelo. So I'm sure there's some of that
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  Speaker 3: going on.
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  Speaker 2: Probably. I would hope.
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  Speaker 3: Panther Cliff is calling out Brandon for his awkward moment
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: in Nas' post-game interview, Bone, with Shannon Spake. He says
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: he was standing in the background hoping that Shannon would
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: ask him a question, but he never did. She never did.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: What did you think of that? I saw a couple
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: people on social media. Spencer Percy was like, this brandon
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: miller with a contract and no lamello is giving me
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: cam newton vibes and i don't know how i feel
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: about it i'm like you don't know how you feel
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: about someone giving you vibes of one of the greatest
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: athletes and most entertaining figures in the history of charlotte.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: What bad vibes what did you like what did you
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: see that whole thing i missed that actually i missed
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: that part i missed that last.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Night So, first of all, he wasn't the only one.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: A lot of the guys went up when Nas was
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: starting to talk to Shannon and were goofing off and
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: saying things to him. I actually took all of this
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: as pretty good camaraderie. And a lot of the guys
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: that were involved, like Nas, Schroeder, a lot of these
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: guys are new players. And they already seem to have
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: a chemistry and camaraderie. So again, I'm more of a
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: glass half full person than some of y'all. Some of
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: y'all just want to see the negative. I'd like to
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: see the positive. And if they show me negative over
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: and over again, well, then I got to get pissed
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: off about the negative. But like, I looked at that, like,
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: I think this is a group that's already kind of
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: tight knit despite a bunch of additions. The Brandon thing,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: it was kind of silly and, He was just kind
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: of standing there, staring in the background.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: He's a goofball, though. Oh, absolutely.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: When he does interviews with Shannon, thank you! He's silly,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: so I don't. Again, it's one game. Are people trying
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: to make the point bone that... Now that he has
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: the contract and Mello's gone, he wants attention, and that's
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: what he was doing? Or was he not just being goofy?
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Bebop's complaining about him. Hey, Mac, a good point here
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: by Charlotte-born G.J. Let's not forget, Brandon Miller had the
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: surgery over the course of the offseason. Maybe his legs
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: aren't quite there yet for the regular season. Give him
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: a little more time. Maybe he got a little worn
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: down in the second half last night. It is game
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: one of the season. It's interesting. I know this.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: He had a great block that they tried to call
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: a goaltend and a great challenge by the coaching staff.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Great challenges overall by this team. Yeah, they were good, man.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: He had a yam-a-lam-a-ding-dong bone right on that bum, Mo Wagner.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, took it to the rack and ram-a-lam'd. And
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: that's the thing. He scored about four times.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: We had a meeting. We were going to call it
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: a yam sandwich. There you go. We can do that, too.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: How did you add yam-a-lam-a-ding-dong?
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: You got a better one than me, but I got one, too,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: all right? Speaking of goofballs, but anyway, he had about four.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: It wasn't just a shooting. We're looking for him to
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: create his own. In that stretch in the first half
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: when he had 17 points in the first 15 minutes,
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: he had about four he created on his own, a
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: couple in the mid-range where he got to his spot,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: rose up, used his height, used his length, had the dunk,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: had a floater. So he showed us it's just, yeah,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know, was it the Nets reacting to him?
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Is it just kind of rust? He didn't shoot it
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: well in the preseason early, but I feel like one
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: game in, these sweeping generalizations about new contract Brandon, I
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: feel like we might want to get a bigger sample
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: size here.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: When we come back, Matt Schick of ESPN Talks College Football.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: How realistic are the playoff chances for Wake Forest? Sports
• 18:17
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• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I love the, I will say this, I love the Hornets'
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: fire and passion, Bo. One game into the season, we
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: got people fired up on all sides, either being overly
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: critical or bringing up the 82-0 possibilities. We got a
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: text from somebody, Bo, and I don't know who it is,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: so I can't give full credit, but somebody texted in
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: and said, I can't believe what I'm hearing. My how
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: things have changed for the Hornets. People are upset after
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: a win. When has that ever happened in the past
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: with the Hornets? And it does go to show the
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: like new expectations and the growth they're making. There's also
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: people bone that are salty still. And I understand about
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: the Lomelo trade and they are looking for anything.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: See?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: At offense.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: You said an ugly night on offense. Mack Lamella wasn't there.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: And it's just like, at some point, we have to
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: all move on.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: These are now the Hornets.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Remember, we only had seven of these in 2012. Treasure
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: these wins, y'all. Treasure these wins. There was a time
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: where we couldn't even get the double digits. Couldn't even
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: get close to it.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Let's bring it. Let's change it up right now.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: We'll get back into the Hornets coming up at 7
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: 45 we're going to do some sounds of the hornets
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: charles barkley loves us again we are his favorite team
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: again like last season even without lamello you're going to
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: hear what he was saying during our highlights last night
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: on inside the nba so that's coming up at 7
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: 45 but let's change it up let's talk some college
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: football with matt chick espn Um, uh, and, uh, I
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: love listening to him and, uh, you know, uh, uh,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Roddy Jones, they do a good job to bony, um, uh, on, uh,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: the college sports radio as well. And, uh, he joins
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: us here on the Mac and bone show, Matt Schick,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: proud Charlotte resident as well. Matt, do you, uh, do your, uh,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: young ones like the Hornets at all? Have y'all got
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: into Hornets basketball in Charlotte?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, we're all in.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: And it might've been because, you know, their daddy put
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: their Christmas budget on them making the playoffs on a
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: bet last year.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: You know, we were, yeah, we were, we were, we
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: didn't hedge. So they, you know, it wasn't a Merry Christmas,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: but yeah, I was talking to my oldest last night.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, it was a good win. He's like,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: They're just not as exciting. I said, you know what?
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Without LaMelo, you're not going to be as exciting, but
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: you'd be a little more dependable, a little more disciplined,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: maybe a little more balanced and predictable. There you go.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: That's a good thing. Maybe you lose some entertainment play,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: but gain some stability.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Fun to watch why do i think and you gotta
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: you gotta also point out kobe and khan not there
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: yet you know that's gonna obviously change that offense but
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: that's good dad that's good parenting right there how many
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: dads in charlotte do y'all think are telling their kids
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: that are so upset that the fun lamello's not there
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: i'm telling you right now though they're gonna protect the
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: basketball they're gonna take better shots on.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Like boring exactly exactly Matt, the way it's playing out
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: right now in the college football world with the SEC
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: beating the heck out of each other, the Big Ten
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: is now we're trying to figure out how many national
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: title contenders they have with the Julian Sane injury. How
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: much right now does Miami have a chance to to
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: win the national title out of the ACC?
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Well, they're going to be the lone representative unless there's
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: an upset in the ACC championship game. So that's what
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: that feels like right now. But I think they've got
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: enough offensively. I think the Florida State game, you kind
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: of throw some of that out the window because of
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: the rivalry. You know, this is a team that will
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: finish at least 11-1 and have a great shot at
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: being the number one overall seed when they win the
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: ACC championship. So, you know, we start the season going,
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: how many teams can win it? Eh, maybe six, seven, eight,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: nine teams. You could probably go like 13 or 14
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: deep right now with how much parity there is in
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: college football, which might be one of the benefits once
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: we get to that 2014 playoff.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Matt, let me follow up with what you said there first, though.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: You said pretty confidently, hey, Miami's going to be the
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: only ACC team in the playoff. And listen, speaking of betting, wagering,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't bet against you, but I am curious. We
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: got a lot of Deacons fans that are loving this
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: football team, and they seem to get better every week.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Like that Cal spot, we thought that was a scary
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: spot for them. Late night at Cal, they went up
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: there and jumped up 34-0.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Like, could you see them getting in the mix? I
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: guess the problem is if they lose to Miami, even
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: if it's a field goal game and they have beat everybody,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: but Miami, I guess there's not enough meat on the
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: bone in terms of who they beat though.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Is that the problem?
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: There's not enough. There's not enough meat on the bone,
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: but it's also about the equity that they have not
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: built up over the last few years. They're not a brand.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: You look at the wake forest helmet. There's nothing sexy
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: about the, about the program. And there, yeah, they won
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: nine games last year, but, you think about what it
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: takes to move up in this world. Like Vanderbilt went
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: 10-2 last year. They weren't getting in at 10-2 because
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: they don't have a Longhorn sticker on the helmet. So
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: when you look at Wake Forest, I called their opener
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: against Akron. I thought they had a ton of talent.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: I didn't think they'd be where they are right now.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: But there's a ton to like about this. They'll go
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: to SMU next month, and that game will likely be
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: a playoff elimination game. The question is, in order to
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: get into the playoff, you're going to have to get
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: the AQ, which means you're going to have to likely
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: beat Miami. And they hung with Miami. The good news
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: is they're not going to be scared of them if
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: they play them. I think Jake Dickard is probably the best,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: probably outside the top big names, the best coach in
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: the country in terms of what he does and getting
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: less with more. And I hate to say it for
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Wake fans, but I can't wait to see if he
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: gets an opportunity to do more with more.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Matt, the never-ending rollercoaster ride for the Gamecocks enters an
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: upswing week against Tennessee at home this week. Tennessee off
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: the big win at home against Bama. When you look
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: at this Gamecocks team, and this might be the hardest
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: question ever, what are you expecting here the rest of
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the way? Is it more of what we saw early,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: or are they starting to turn the corner where they
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: can have a pretty good season here?
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Well, the good news is outside of their game with Georgia,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: their toughest part of their schedule is behind them, and
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: thankfully they get Tennessee at home. But if you look
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: at what's happened in the SEC, for some reason they
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: can't handle tough games and then winning another game after that.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Kentucky's the only one that's done that. They won three
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: consecutive challenging games, including last week at Oklahoma, if you
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: want to call that challenging. But I look at this
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: one with South Carolina– off of the bye, taking on
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Tennessee with an emotional win. Now they have to go
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: to Columbia. The SEC wheel of death tells me that
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: South Carolina is going to win this game. They certainly
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: have enough talent. We saw that at Gainesville. And then
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: you'll go to Oklahoma, which is dead man walking. You'll
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: host Texas A & M, which doesn't know how to
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: play football anymore. You'll go to Arkansas, which will punt
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: on fourth down at midfield. And then you host Georgia.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: So by the time you get to the last couple
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: of games, you're going to have an opportunity to make
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: some noise. No, they're not going to make the playoff,
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: but they have a good opportunity to get to eight wins,
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: which after their start would be admirable.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Wheel of Death sounds like a A Fox show that
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: only lasts like one episode because they realize that it's
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: not a good thing.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: The pilot didn't get picked up.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Matt Schick. Ken Jeong is one of the guest judges. Oh, definitely.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Clearly.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Matt Schick with us, ESPN, College Sports Radio, hanging out
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: with us, talking college football. You mentioned the wheel of death, right?
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: And we said the same thing yesterday. We have people
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: texting in about it right now. It just kind of
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: feels like, okay, Tennessee had the big win. South Carolina's
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: winning this game and they were made favorites in Vegas
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: as well. One game where I think one team I
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: think could buck the trend is Ole Miss against Texas.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: This is a wheel of death would say, oh, Texas
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: is going to bounce back. And Ole Miss has had
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: too much prosperity with the two blowout wins. But I
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: think Ole Miss is legit and they can fight the
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: wheel of death.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: What do you think about that?
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: I think they're the second best team in the SEC.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I think they're kind of waving their hands going, remember
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: us guys? Remember we're the team that took down LSU?
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: And then, yeah, I got blasted the next week against Florida.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: But that's what's happening to everybody after they get big wins. Yeah,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, they outscored Vanderbilt and Missouri 83-20 in their
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: next two games. They've beaten LSU. That win over Missouri
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: is going to carry a lot of weight. They're averaging
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: 38 points a game. Defensively, stopping the run, those are
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: going to be potential questions. But I think you're getting
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Texas at the perfect time. I mean, they're splitting the
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: first-team reps between Arch Manning and K.J. Lacy. They don't
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: know what they're doing offensively. They can't run the football.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: They haven't been able to run the football since they
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: joined the SEC. And so if you're an Ole Miss fan,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: I think you're liking the way this shapes up. You've
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: got Auburn after that. Um, you've got Georgia, which would
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: have title game implications. You could probably afford to lose
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: that one, but then you're at Oklahoma home against Mississippi state.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, this is shaping up to be a 10
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: and two playoff team, which I did not anticipate going in.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on the 2014 playoff in the
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: future and the, the impact that'll have on the regular season,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: which has been the, the big debate in the sport
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: this week?
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no question that when you expand to 24,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: you're going to have some games that maybe don't have
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: the do-or-die mentality. Oh, if we lose this second game,
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: we're going to be out. But I think what we
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: saw with five of the top seven teams losing is
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: that you're going to just cast a wider net for
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: significant games for more programs. I think we... we get
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: into this thing about there's haves and have-nots, and then
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: we have an opportunity here for more teams to gain
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: access to the championship, and we complain that too many
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: teams have a chance. I just think we're going to
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: have to expand our horizons a little bit about what's
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: acceptable as a successful season. And when we get to
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: this point of going 8-4, that's not acceptable, and making
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: the playoffs not acceptable, that's a problem that a lot
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: of programs, probably 85% of college football programs, would love
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: to have in terms of playing for the national title.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: And I think the thing that I say to all
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: of those that are skeptics, and I, again, would I
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: rather stay at 12? Yes, but I'm starting to buy
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: into 24. One of the reasons guys is we only
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: play 12 games. You know, we could talk about all
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: the stakes that might get lost, but we only play
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: a three month long regular season. This isn't five months
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: of 30 plus games in college basketball. We're only playing 12.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: People still show up to the games. And frankly, a
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: team like South Carolina would still have hope. You know,
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: a bunch of teams would at this point. And I
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: think the illusion of hope in a sport where it
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: takes a ton of investment to be relevant is I
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: think is important, especially with bowl games going away.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: All right, real quick.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: We got like a minute and I'm sure you're about
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: done talking with us, Matt, at this point too.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Hanging the fight, Matt. The heels.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Like I got, we're bouncing all around. I got to
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: talk about the heels. Bill Belichick's got them at four
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: and two. There's seven point favorites or so against Syracuse
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Saturday night. They could get to five and two. Like
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: we were all over him for a lot of good reasons.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: There's some coaching up going on. There's some progress, right?
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's nothing flashy about them, but they're becoming increasingly respectable,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: which is, I think, more than you could say from
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: last season. It's not just they're winning, it's how they're winning.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: They're finding ways to close out tight games, something that
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: was missing a year ago. I mean, you surrender a
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: big lead against Duke, but you hold on to win that.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: So you do wonder if it's just... modest improvement from
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: a low starting point from last year. But if you're
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: a North Carolina fan, I think you're kind of in
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: a glass case of emotion here because I thought you
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: were going to be done with this whole thing after
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: this year. But maybe Bill Belichick is going to be
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: an answer enough to keep you relevant for the next
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: couple of years. I don't know the answer to that,
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: but you can't argue with the fact they've gotten better.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: And perhaps he's one you know, a half dozen Super
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Bowls for a reason.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: All right, Matt, you are the man.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Somebody texted in, I think it was our guy, Bagel Guy,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: and said, Matt strikes me as a guy that has
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: a pair of moose antlers that he wears to Hornets games.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: No, but I was thinking of this idea, guys. Maybe
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: I'll bounce this off you. I think that Charlotte Orange
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: should sell moose antler antennas for Channel 64. I don't
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: know if you guys have thought about that, but I think.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: That would be a really good idea. That is insane
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: that you and I had the same idea.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: For a second, I was going to be so excited
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: about it that you and him had the same idea,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: and then I realized what just happened there.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Am I being mocked? I don't know. I'll figure it
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: out later. All right, Matt, be good, brother. Take it easy, man.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: All right, there you go, Matt Schick. I will say this, though.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: The idea sounded better than when it got repeated back
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: to me. Yeah, when you got it repeated back, it
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: sounds better. We got excited. You move the right antler
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: and you pick up a signal.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Matt Schick becomes Bone, one of the many guests to
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: upset Tex Nation.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: He does.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: He's a good dude.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: He's a great dude, Charlotte guy. You can see he
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: likes the Hornets. Great family guy. The comment that got
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: people was that Wake Forest brand, they're not an established brand,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: is going to affect them and people are mad because
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: they're saying that shouldn't play a role.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I think we all agree it shouldn't. The question is,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: does it? It does.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? It does in the 12 team.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Guess what? 24 team. Wake is dancing, baby. Dancing deekies.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: It goes out the window with the 24 team.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: That might be one of the benefits of a school
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: like Wake Forest. That's a fair point. That's a fair point.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: You don't have to worry about the brand bias. That
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: doesn't have the big appeal nationally. They do what they're
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: doing this year on a year-in-year-out basis. They'll be comfortably
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: in the playoff. He'll be in the damn playoff race
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: right now if we had 24. Yeah, but we got
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: that appeal, baby, because we're sexy.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Can I say something? Excuse me? Can I say something?
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: That's funny on so many levels. Can I say something respectfully?
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Dancing deekies might be the nerdiest thing we've ever said
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: on this radio. Who's a dancing deekie? Oh, I was
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: a dancing deekie in high school, yeah. Is that what
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: they call the dance team at Wake? They should be
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: the dancing deekies. We're going to try to move on
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: from all of this. When we come back, sounds of
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: the Hornets. Charles Barkley loves the Bugs again. Kevin Garnett
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: with some amusing advice for Khan. Hilarious. And Jeff Peterson.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: on why having assets is so important. Sports Radio, 92.7 WFNZ,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Mack and the Dancing Deacys. The Nets and the Hornets.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Dream Team! Dream Team back, y'all! Julius Randle and Brooklyn Downs.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: You know I call them the Dream Team. Brandon Miller.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Not with all the mellow.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Brandon Miller getting right by Randall. Let me tell you something.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Don't you jump. Watch your head.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Watch your head.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: And let me tell you something. We're not into playing
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: BS anymore either. We're going to be into play all.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: When he comes back, that's going to be different too. No,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, this team, you got my man Nas
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Reid now. You got your man Grayson Allen. Hey, I
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: love Grayson Allen pick up.
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: The Suns miss him.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Charles Barkley still loves us. I wasn't sure, Bone, without
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: LaMelo Ball, how the national media, would they still have
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: a love affair with us? And Charles Barkley himself, is
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: he going to hype us up like he did last year,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: calling us the dream team? Or LaMelo gone, is he
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: going to take that love to Minnesota or somewhere else?
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: And I'm happy to report that there it is during
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: the Hornets highlights. on Inside the NBA on ESPN. He
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: is still feeling some Charlotte Hornets. We are a playoff team,
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: not a playing team. A playoff team, Boney.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Our super team remained. Zach Lowe, Bill Simmons, and Charles Barkley.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: All back. All re-signed. Jeff Peterson, great work getting back.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: All re-signed.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: We thought Nas, Grayson, and Schroeder were good moves. We
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: reacquired all the super fans in the national media.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Shaq was not a fan in that clip. No, Shaq
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: was like trying to point out. If you could hear him,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: he said, no, not LaMelo. He was.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: And I bet a lot of viewers were thinking that. Like, Barkley,
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: you hyping this team up without LaMelo.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Does that sound like Shaq at all? That's not a
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: bad Shaq. Not a bad Shaq.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: You should do Shaq and Eddie O, two LSU guys,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: hanging out at an LSU tailgate.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Maybe at some point I will.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: But I was like, let me work on that one.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: I'm not an on-demand guy here. I'm not an on-demand guy.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: That's Eddie O right there. Thank you, fellas. Thank you.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: One thing I will say, I think a lot of the, like,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Zach Lowe's and Bill Simmons in the media, those sort
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: of guys, Bone, they seem to really still like the
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Hornets over the long term. You know what I mean? Like,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: they seem to all think, okay, they're probably taking a
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: little bit of a step back this year. Um, but man,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Jeff Peterson is making the right moves and it's going
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: to pay off in a couple few years.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Uh, Charles Barkley in right now, the, he is not
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: leaving us.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: And, uh, I do want to see the offense is
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: a little sluggish, but they deed up, uh, last night,
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: especially in the fourth. I want to see that full offense.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Cause I think that starting lineup bone, uh, You brought
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: up the bench. When we get Schroeder and Allen together
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: off the bench and Grant Williams, that's going to be
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: real good, Royce O'Neal. But how about that starting lineup?
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Even without LaMelo, I still feel like you get Kobe
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: and Khan in there, I still think that's going to
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: be an uber-efficient offensive attack.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Mac, we've talked all about the Hornets' win last night.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: We've talked about Melo. His debut in Minnesota was a win.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: One guy we have not mentioned, and thanks to a
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: texter here, because I don't really... I didn't really think
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: of him that much, to be honest with you. But
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: the Phoenix Suns last night lost 125-83. Miles Bridges played
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: 29 minutes, 8 points, 3 for 11, 0 for 5
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: from 3. He was minus 35 in the ballgame last night.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: So we aren't going to get any texts from the
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Miles fans saying, what have we done? We have not
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: got one of those yet. I'm telling y'all, can everybody
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: not agree Nas is a serious upgrade? 2011-7. This dude's
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: putting it on the floor and dropping dimes.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: As Dylan Jackson pointed out on Twitter, not only is
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: he an upgrade over Miles Bridges... He got traded for
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Grayson Allen. Grayson Allen might end up being a big
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: upgrade over Miles Bridges. Oh, shoot, shoot, yeah. Grayson Allen
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: and Royce? When his role is going to be off
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: the bench.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Grayson Allen and Royce together, you know, for Bridges? Yeah,
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: not to mention the first-round pick we got. All right,
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: let's get a couple more clips in here of people
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: talking Hornets. Let's get to Kevin Garnett. Kevin Garnett and
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: his crew, I know exactly what they're saying. They are
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: using phrases and words that I have never used to
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: describe one-on-one basketball.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: I cannot do a Kevin Garnett impression.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: These boys, it starts with Garnett. These boys are saying
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: that Khan has to improve. LaMelo's gone. His one-on-one game
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: has to get better, go to the next level. The
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: way they say it is just amazingly amusing.
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: Bro, you're going to have to go to the bathroom
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: stall and work on your wands. What's going to be
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: next to his game?
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: With the handle?
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: You're going to have to get in the phone booth.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: You're going to have to work off the wands. You're
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: going to have to go to the stall, bro. You're
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: going to have to go to the bathroom stall and
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: work on your wands. Bro, if you can't play in
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: the phone booth, bro, you can't.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: That's wands.
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: I'm seeing Klay Thompson in them.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking like. Bro, you're going to have to respect
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: the shot.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: He's upside.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: He's upside.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: Bro, you're going to have to work on some wands.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: You know, if I'm going to respect your three and
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: I hold you. The next thing is to bounce it
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: back out.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: Get your Jason wheel on.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: He got a lot of brothers, so I know he
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: been working.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: They got ones.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: They deep, too. They Hoopers, too. That's his.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: That's Charlotte's team. That's his.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Over the Miller kid?
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: That's his.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: I saw his whole family there taking a picture with
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: the Hornet.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: All over the night.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: Man, Conniple got like 15 brothers or something. It's a
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: whole Conniple.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Straight up.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: It's a Conniple team. No, it ain't not even that.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: And he went to Duke, bro. His little brother. They Hoopers, too.
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: So to your guys' point, Millie really averages. Two dribbles
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: per touch on average this past season.
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: So, he's right.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: He's got to work on that.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: He's got to work on his bink binks.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Go get in the phone booth, my guy. That was
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: live on the Mac and Bone show last night during
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: the Hornets game.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: That was us talking. Con's got to work on his
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: ones and also his bink, bink, bink, bink, bink. I
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: don't know what that was at the end there. who
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: do we know who the guys are with kevin garnett
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: who was who was the guy who's the bink bink
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: guy who was the guy that brought the stat in
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: he's like oh these uh that sounded like a producer
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: that sounded like their version of finney dropping in a stat.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: That was Willie in high school. Actually, guys. They always
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: said that, first of all, Kevin Garnett's one of the
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: great characters of all time based off stories you hear
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: about things he'd say on the court. They said during
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: his career that he would literally have his own language
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: where he would just make up cuss words where people
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: didn't know if they were you know, being cussed at
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: or what he was saying. He would just say stuff
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: where it was his own words. And we just heard
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: it right there. Go to the bathroom stall and work
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: on your wands. And your big, big, ding, ding, wink, wink.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, they're saying, hey, it's got to– with LaMelo gone.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: And the same applies for Miller. And I know they
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: kind of dissed Miller in favor of Kahn there. Both
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: those guys, can you create for yourself and others just
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: a bit more? That's going to be a storyline. Miller
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: did it a little in the first half. Didn't do
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: it really in the second half. I need a Kevin
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: Garnett alt-cast for a lot of these games.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: That'd be fun. I know he's had stuff on there.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: That was a fun clip.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: All right, last clip here is Hornets GM Jeff Peterson
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: on the Hivecast with the great Sam Farber, who will
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: join us next hour.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Tony Allen and Zach Randolph are on there. Okay, there
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: we go.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: I think it was Tony Allen with the binks, I think.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: So we get this all the time, Bone, when people
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: are raging about the LaMelo trade.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: I don't care about assets. Assets ain't ever scored a basket.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Why do I care about assets? Here's your answer.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: Jeff Peterson talking to Sam Farber on why the way
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: they're doing this with asset acquisition is so important.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: You just said it right there.
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: I think the best spot that you can be in
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: the NBA is being able to stay flexible. I commend
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: our group for being able to do that in terms
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: of some of the moves that we've been able to make.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: We have the flexibility.
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: We have financial flexibility. We're a surplus of picks, you know, again,
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: to be able to make moves, I think, whenever we're ready,
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: whenever we see fit. So I'm excited because some of
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: these drafts coming up are still pretty good. And, of course,
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: we've got to continue to draft players and hit in
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: the draft. At the same time, we do have, again,
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: a treasure chest of picks that we can go out
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: and acquire someone who we've been, you know, targeting for
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: quite some time now.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: And Colin said it yesterday, Bone. He said Jeff Peterson's
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: done a good job of acquiring assets, but that's the
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: easier part. The hard part is when do you make
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: your move and what move or two do you make
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: to turn those assets into big time, you know, immediate
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: help when we go for it?
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: I think the interesting one in the season, depending how
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: it plays out, will be at least monitoring from afar
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: the will be how it plays out with Cat. Yeah.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: That's interesting. The Knicks have their championship. Is he long-term
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: for them? Do they get off to a sluggish start?
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: How does it play out? Is he going to be
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: the next big– because you have to look at what
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: big names will come open, will want to move on
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: or teams move on from. He's a guy that's sort
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: of in that area where we're just watching how it
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: plays out. That's a real interesting one, no doubt about it. Plus,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: style of play fits in the Charles Lee system as well, right?
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: 864 number on text says, Kevin Garnett is from South Carolina.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: The way he talks makes sense down here. So I
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: guess that's a texter from the Palmetto State.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Malden, South Carolina's own Kevin Garnett.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: When we come back, it's that time of the week,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: the victory formula to beat Tampa Bay on Sunday. Sports
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Radio 92.7 WFNZ.