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6-15-26 Hour 1 - 2026 Knicks are 2023 Nuggets/Canes win the Cup/USA ROUTS Paraguay · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Keane on demand.
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Speaker 2: Listen live every weekday morning from seven to ten on
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Speaker 1: Well Freeman, Geo, RNA.
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Speaker 3: Rada the most goals the United States have ever scored.
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Speaker 1: In a World Cup game.
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Speaker 3: It is as close to a perfect beginning as any
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Speaker 3: of us could have possibly imagined.
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Speaker 1: The United States four Perak, Why won? There comes Fox?
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Speaker 1: Five seconds remaining, Fox to Wemby. Wemby tries to three, puts.
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Speaker 4: It up off the mark and Anoby the rebound. That's over.
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Speaker 4: That's over. Nick fans, this is not a dream. Your
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Speaker 4: long long wait is ended. Go ahead and cry. After
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Speaker 4: fifty three years, the Knicks are finally NBA champions once again.
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Speaker 4: They're going to clinch it appropriately with a total team
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Speaker 4: effort and a shutout. The coin of Hurricanes Haven where.
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Speaker 1: The Stanley Cup for the second time.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that there's a coach in the league
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Speaker 3: that more embodies the way their team plays than Rod
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Speaker 3: brindle Born.
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Speaker 5: He's the face of the franchise, and he really has
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Speaker 5: been since he captained the two thousand and six team
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Speaker 5: at age thirty five for just the fourth man ever
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Speaker 5: to win the Stanley Cup as a team cap and
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Speaker 5: then a head coach of the same franchise.
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Speaker 1: Out here in Sanctuary for the National Jewish Health Golf
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Speaker 1: tournament around here every single year. Always a pleasure to
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Speaker 1: be out here, and we're doing it with about a
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Speaker 1: million things to discuss because there's two new champions. Over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. The US played like the best hockey or
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Speaker 1: hockey good lord soccer game I've seen maybe in my
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Speaker 1: life from them. Maybe I think it was. I think
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Speaker 1: I don't think you're lying. I mean, and we'll go
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Speaker 1: into detail on that. I thought that was the best
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Speaker 1: performance by a US soccer team on a world stage
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Speaker 1: I have ever seen. The Rocky scored more runs last
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Speaker 1: night than they will score for the rest of the month.
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Speaker 1: So it's insane. A lot to get to. But justin
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Speaker 1: Gaegee is the lightweight champion of the world. Tell you what, man,
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Speaker 1: that guy, he's the best UFC fighter to watch. He
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Speaker 1: is the most electrifying, most fun field, most entertaining, most
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Speaker 1: I think he's the toughest. I left him at Texas
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Speaker 1: pointing and I said, I said, you are just You're
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Speaker 1: an inspiration. At this point, the way you fight, You're
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Speaker 1: an inspiration. Here's what takes and eats punches, and it
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Speaker 1: doesn't bother him one iota. You're gonna look at me
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna punch each other in the face for
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Speaker 1: fifteen straight minutes, Yes, until one of us says I
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Speaker 1: can't do it anymore. That's that's what happened. Let's go.
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Speaker 1: So let's start here. Let's start with, first of all,
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Speaker 1: the Knicks winning that that title and something that I
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I think that they have a quality
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Speaker 1: that maybe the Nuggets did in twenty twenty three, that
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Speaker 1: they've been missing for the last few years. And you
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Speaker 1: tell me if you disagree. That team had a bunch
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Speaker 1: of guys with defined roles that don't really care what
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Speaker 1: their numbers are. I saw, I saw the difference. I
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Speaker 1: saw what it is. I saw what it takes to
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Speaker 1: win the title. I saw it. Did you guys see it? Okay?
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Speaker 2: This is where we answer with something that we saw
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Speaker 2: that we think is important. Yeah, and then he calls
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Speaker 2: us stupid and I don't we don't know the game.
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Speaker 1: And then he has his own thing. Yeah, you guys
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Speaker 1: don't know the answer. I mean the sophisticated sports fan,
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Speaker 1: the person who knows who will know the answer to
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Speaker 1: this question.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I know what it is. You gotta have a
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Speaker 2: guy go off for forty five.
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Speaker 1: And that it does help. I know, I'm just does
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Speaker 1: help you know a thing. Thick.
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Speaker 2: I think he is very much correct. I think you
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Speaker 2: have a team. You have an all around team. You
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Speaker 2: like each other, play with each other, They're cohesive, and
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Speaker 2: guys aren't egotistical driven about everything.
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Speaker 1: Sure, here's what I've noticed and what was lacking I
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Speaker 1: believe with the Nuggets this season, and you know they
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Speaker 1: were injured clearly. That just the unsatisfying hunger, just the
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Speaker 1: hunger to do anything you possibly can to win a game. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I mean anything. You will go anywhere, you will
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Speaker 1: do anything, you will say anything. And it's hard. It's
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Speaker 1: hard to get that when you want to. You know,
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Speaker 1: let's see what they do next year. Look what Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: City did. There's a reason there have been eight new champions. Now,
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Speaker 1: that's great, eight successive champions in the NBA, because it's hard.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to take that and do it again. Hunger.
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Speaker 1: I certainly think there's a part to that. I think
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Speaker 1: that you know, getting stops when you need them is
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Speaker 1: another thing, because if you look at the each one
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Speaker 1: of these games, the San Antonio Spurs blew gigantic leads
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Speaker 1: and virtually every single they led for seventy the finals,
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Speaker 1: think about that for a second. They led for three
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Speaker 1: quarters of the games and lost in five and five.
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Speaker 1: The other thing is, when I talk about cohesiveness, this
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Speaker 1: this is not a knock on this guy, because it's
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Speaker 1: a huge credit to his improvement in getting better as
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Speaker 1: a player. But if I said this to you, when
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Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon was the version of himself that that was
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Speaker 1: on the title team like ogn Andobi is for New York,
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Speaker 1: He's that that same type of player he couldn't shoot.
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Speaker 1: Then remember he was a guy I'm gonna be in
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Speaker 1: the dunker spot, I'm gonna run to the rim, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna play bullyball, and I'm gonna play good defense. And
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Speaker 1: I think that just part of him becoming a really
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Speaker 1: good shooter. It's gonna sound so stupid, but him becoming
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Speaker 1: a really good shooter has thrown a wrench in sort
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Speaker 1: of who's got what role? Huh? I think him becoming
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Speaker 1: you don't listen, you're talking about can something Can we
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Speaker 1: have logic? Please? Anybody with logic in here? Can I
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Speaker 1: get it? Win? I have no idea where so you
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Speaker 1: mean to tell me a guy improves his game and
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Speaker 1: it throws things a summer. Let me let me tell
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Speaker 1: you some hell are you talking? When they when they
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Speaker 1: won the title, they had Joker who did everything. They
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Speaker 1: had Jamal who is the microwave. They had MPJ he
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Speaker 1: was your sharp shooter. CACP was your three and D guy.
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Speaker 1: And what was Aaron Gordon? He was like, I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna play some bully ball. I'm gonna be at the rim.
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Speaker 1: And now Aaron Gordon's kind of a jump shooter. No,
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Speaker 1: the reason why it's been different is true or false? Though?
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Speaker 1: Is he is he more of a jump shooter now
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Speaker 1: than he is the guy who plays inside. He's a
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Speaker 1: better player all around, is what he is. That's true.
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Speaker 1: I don't disagree. The reason why it hasn't worked out
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Speaker 1: to then, Brett, it's because he's missed seventy seven games
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Speaker 1: in the last two seasons. I know, has nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with being a better shooter. You wanted to be
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Speaker 1: a better shooter. When's the last time you've said to
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Speaker 1: somebody Hey, don't improve. I don't want No, you're misunderstanding.
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Speaker 1: I don't want him not to be a better shooter.
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Speaker 1: But I think the roles that were carved out for
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Speaker 1: the championship team got a little bit expand away. I suppose. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying. Okay, Like Karl Anthony Towns had
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Speaker 1: two points last night, nobody cared, nobody cared, nobody cared.
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Speaker 2: He had a bad A lot of guys did not
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Speaker 2: have a good shooting night last night. But I think
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Speaker 2: a lot of it also had to do with some
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Speaker 2: pretty good defense. Tenacity is being played by both teams.
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Speaker 2: Darren Fox had a terrible ending to that series for him.
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Speaker 2: His last couple of the game was terrible. And so
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Speaker 2: I mean, you look at these look at the score
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Speaker 2: ninety four to ninety We're so used to one twenty
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Speaker 2: six to one, twenty ones and all this kind of thing.
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Speaker 2: But when you get to Game six of the NBA Final,
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Speaker 2: when it locks down. The Nuggets Championship was the same way,
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Speaker 2: low score, boring, grind it out. Hey you can shoot
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Speaker 2: thirty six percent from the floor and still win. Was
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Speaker 2: that final.
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Speaker 1: Score of the Nuggets closeout game? Was it ninety four
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Speaker 1: to eighty nine was something like that thing. Yep. But
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Speaker 1: here's the other thing. Here's what the Knicks have that
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Speaker 1: a lot of teams don't. In fact, I would venture
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Speaker 1: to guess no team right now they had their best
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Speaker 1: player just give up one hundred million dollars. That also helps.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know how many different guys and how
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Speaker 1: many different sports would even consider doing something like that.
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Speaker 1: But Jalen Brunson, think about this for a second. He
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Speaker 1: left one hundred million on the table and that resulted
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Speaker 1: in a title, and now he gets to be the
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Speaker 1: king of New York City for the rest of his career.
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Speaker 1: He is what a gamble They talk about this certainly
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Speaker 1: in this generation you'd have to go back to the
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Speaker 1: late sixties and seventies to qualify what I'm about to say.
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Speaker 1: But in today's generation, he is the greatest New York
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Speaker 1: Knickerbucker ever. Jalen Brunson is that guy right now, the
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Speaker 1: greatest Nick ever because he was able to do something
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Speaker 1: that you know, for the past fifty three years they
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Speaker 1: were unable to do. How often does some something happen
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Speaker 1: in your lifetime? Not you know, Moser and I the
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Speaker 1: old guys, not that I remember in nineteen seventy three
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Speaker 1: or mojaer, no member, But it took fifty three years
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Speaker 1: to do that. And you know, I want to I
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Speaker 1: want to bring this up too. It just goes to
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Speaker 1: show you how hard it is to win a championship
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Speaker 1: in sports, in any sport. That city waited fifty three
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Speaker 1: years between titles. Yeah, fifty three years. And I think
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Speaker 1: sometimes we said, why don't we win one every five years,
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Speaker 1: every three years, every two years. They waited fifty three
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Speaker 1: of them. And that's New York. That's not Sacramento, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, that's a place that you
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Speaker 1: would think and they have got the benefit of Like
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Speaker 1: people want to go there. It's a destination that people
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Speaker 1: want to play at. But for them to do it
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Speaker 1: in sort of a number of ways, they don't have.
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Speaker 1: I compared to almost this motion in football, do you
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Speaker 1: need an elite quarterback to win a Super Bowl? You
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Speaker 1: don't need it, But God doesn't help, you know. The
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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold win last year is pretty rare considering that
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Speaker 1: Mahomes and Peyton Mannings and Tom Brady's and those guys
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Speaker 1: have been dominating that league for two straight decades.
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Speaker 2: It certainly does. I mean it makes it I don't
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Speaker 2: want to say easier. But when you've got a component
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Speaker 2: Tom Notch quarterback, yeah, you got a lot.
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Speaker 1: Going for you.
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Speaker 2: Now you can win without it. We've seen teams win
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Speaker 2: without a superstar quarterback. You know, we can go back
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Speaker 2: to Trent Dilfers of the world and guys of this nature.
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Speaker 2: Joe Flack go out me. But one thing they have
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Speaker 2: in common when they do win, they they're playing pretty
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Speaker 2: good at that point. Yeah, I mean Nick Foles, for
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Speaker 2: for Philly, steps in for an injured Carson Wentz. Nick
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Speaker 2: Foles ain't going into any Hall of Fame maybe high school, right,
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Speaker 2: but boy, when they needed him.
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Speaker 1: To play his best and play well, he did. But
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Speaker 1: I think Jalen is closer to Look, he's a really
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Speaker 1: really good player. He's closer to Darnald than he is
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Speaker 1: probably Mahomes though as far as like where he's seen
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Speaker 1: in the league, probably like he's not an MVP candidate
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Speaker 1: and he's not that he made a liar out of
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Speaker 1: Becky Hammond. Remember Becky Hammond, who, Yeah, she had on
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Speaker 1: national television a couple of years ago. It was on
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Speaker 1: ESPN and basically said the Knicks will never win a
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Speaker 1: championship with Jalen Brunton is their best player because he's
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Speaker 1: too small. Well for all us small guys, you welcome.
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Speaker 2: He uh well, just watching him through this entire process.
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Speaker 2: I said it in the early going, did I not that?
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Speaker 1: Man?
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Speaker 2: I'm really liking this cat. I'm really liking him because
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Speaker 2: he's just a total pro. But the way he's handled
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Speaker 2: everything though, vic I mean everything that's come his way,
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Speaker 2: the leadership he's he's shown in that room. I mean,
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Speaker 2: he is the lichpin for them, and he's not only
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Speaker 2: a very good player, but he's a total stud, total pro.
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Speaker 1: Most home bullet here said something in the appetizer hour
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Speaker 1: that drew my attention, and you're exactly right. You think
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Speaker 1: about Jalen Brunson's game, it's a game of a slide
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Speaker 1: sleight of hand, right, a little bit trying to trick you.
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Speaker 1: He has the ability to make shots in different places.
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Speaker 1: His shot making skills are unreal. He plays a lot
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Speaker 1: like Shay Gil just Alexander. Why is one regarded in
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Speaker 1: one light and the other one. You just described him
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Speaker 1: as a hero. Why Why is that?
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Speaker 2: Because to me this sounds so cliche. He plays the
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Speaker 2: game the right way. Well, he plays it like Shay though,
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Speaker 2: what No.
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Speaker 1: He really he's not. No, he does not. What do
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Speaker 1: you mean he does not? It's the same. He plays
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Speaker 1: a lot like Shay, and I think the reason he's
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Speaker 1: he's able to get away with it more is because
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Speaker 1: I think he has seen as a sort of little
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Speaker 1: engine that could guy tinier, guy at number one, smaller
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Speaker 1: number two. It's not the entire Nicks roster doing it,
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Speaker 1: so it's not every single possession you're seeing somebody. He
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Speaker 1: is a mid range demon like shake Gilgen ain't as far.
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Speaker 2: As where he can make shots. Yeah, his cutting, slicing creativity. Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: He flops a lot, yes, true, false. He walks into fouls.
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Speaker 2: I'm watching into it.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: I'm also going to say, for me personally, maybe this
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Speaker 2: is my bias showing up. It's not as egregious as
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Speaker 2: when I watch Shaye do it. Why is that preconceived notion,
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Speaker 2: perhaps that this guy's a total pro and a stud
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Speaker 2: and well Shae is too.
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Speaker 1: He'll get me.
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Speaker 2: Wrong, It's just that I don't. I don't view them
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Speaker 2: the same way at all.
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Speaker 1: It was it was just funny to me that he
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Speaker 1: plays a very similar style to Shy and he was
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Speaker 1: being praised for it. Someone says he's not a foulbatter.
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Speaker 1: Yes he is, absolutely, Are you watching the same game
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Speaker 1: I'm watching. He's a foulbator. Now, maybe he's not as
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Speaker 1: theatrical with his flailing stuff. Maybe that's it, Maybe that
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Speaker 1: you know he fall is often as Shaye does, but
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Speaker 1: he baits that free throw line. He one does. So
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Speaker 1: we'll get back into this in a little bit. We
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Speaker 1: got hockey to talk about as well, as they have
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Speaker 1: crowned a new champion, and thank god it is not Vegas. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I do have two clips on a play side by
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Speaker 1: side between two people on the losing end of these
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Speaker 1: championships over the weekend. And if you're gonna say the
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Speaker 1: things that they said, you can't have it in the
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Speaker 1: way that it ended. We'll get to it next out
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Speaker 1: here at Sanctuary for the NJH tournament that we're out
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Speaker 1: here every year for. Now to kind of switch to
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Speaker 1: the other side of things, another champion was crowned and
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Speaker 1: that was in hockey. Uh, Carolina comes back and it
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Speaker 1: beats Vegas. And the best part about this is, yes,
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Speaker 1: Vegas didn't win, and so we're all happy. But it
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Speaker 1: was more that it it felt like whatever fate or
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Speaker 1: destinything that was surrounding that stupid hockey team came crashing
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Speaker 1: back to Rehan there for a little bit. Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: makes me feel about you. You seem like a team
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Speaker 1: that was twenty first in the league and wins. Does
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Speaker 1: it honestly make you feel better? I mean, can your
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Speaker 1: day go on a little more merrily that Vegas is ousted? Yes?
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Speaker 2: Closure, do you feel better about it? Thousand and the
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Speaker 2: sugar on top of that is they won in Vegas? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: And I can't even imagine how much beer was consumed
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Speaker 2: last night. So that Jesse, I want, can we get
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Speaker 2: Alfonso on here? Alfonso, good to talk to you. How
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Speaker 2: are you, buddy? It's good Jesse here. You might not
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Speaker 2: be on camera, but Jesse and I it's so funny.
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Speaker 2: I get finally get to the room in twenty two
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Speaker 2: VIC when you guys are in Tampa, correct the pure
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Speaker 2: and it's cooler because you're there's not all the extemporaneous stuff, right,
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Speaker 2: It's just it's just the team, right. And and Jesse
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Speaker 2: and I finally get back to the to the room.
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Speaker 2: I finally take my crep back to the hotel change,
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Speaker 2: come running back, and Alfonso's in there with full goggles,
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Speaker 2: full full goggles. Prepare when when Game gives his speech
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Speaker 2: to his team front row like, yeah, it is Jesse
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Speaker 2: right right, and it's just you know, everybody's because you know,
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Speaker 2: it's like a tight knit group on the road, right,
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Speaker 2: It's it's it's that, it's that I don't know that feeling.
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Speaker 2: So when you win in Vegas or you win on
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Speaker 2: the road that first crazy night and families are there,
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Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, that sort of thing, But inside
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Speaker 2: that room, it's just very tight and very cool, and
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Speaker 2: so I'm sure it was that way for the Golden
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Speaker 2: Knights last night in Vegas.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. I'm sorry for the Hurricanes. I
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Speaker 1: saw this video on Twitter of Ben Stiller was wearing
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Speaker 1: the goggles, he was holding the trophies, he had the
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Speaker 1: cigar in his hand, and he's taking all these pictures
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Speaker 1: and somebody commented, why the hell would this team let
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Speaker 1: somebody who's not part of the team do that? And
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you couldn't agree more. Oh what are
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Speaker 1: you talking about? You did the same damn thing. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: what are you talking about you ended up in the
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Speaker 1: Nuggets' locker room for the first time all year when
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Speaker 1: they want a championship, and I'm like, what are you
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Speaker 1: doing here? Didn't You're such a hypocrite. Didn't. First of all,
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Speaker 1: it's part of the joke. Second of all, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean I don't disagree. I don't know what I was
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Speaker 1: doing in there either. I didn't understand your joke. Next
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Speaker 1: thing you know, we're in the Nuggets locker room celebrating.
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Speaker 1: I turned like, what the hell. He's got a stogy
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Speaker 1: in his mouth and he's draining freaking Michelobs. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: what do you do? People? You just have to handle
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Speaker 1: me stuff. I was like, oh, take them, sure, you know,
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Speaker 1: little things that turn the tide. Freddy.
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Speaker 2: They they get Freddy Anderson out of the net and
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Speaker 2: they put Bussy in, the kid that they had ridden
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Speaker 2: a lot who played really well in his rookie year.
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Speaker 2: He's a career minor league guy man, and he just
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Speaker 2: shows up and plays well, and so they put him
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Speaker 2: back in. And then the injury to William Carlson, you
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Speaker 2: take that when he came.
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Speaker 1: Back, was he that vital to Vegas's success? Absolutely?
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Speaker 2: Because he solidified the middle behind Jack Eichel big time,
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Speaker 2: and you take him.
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Speaker 1: Out of the equation. It's that. It's that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's say you've got two guys injured. They can't
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Speaker 2: be one hundred percent and well, what is a percentage?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. They're playing, but they're not themselves. It
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Speaker 2: changes the equation on any given shift, any given period,
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Speaker 2: any given game. Now he left the game, and he
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Speaker 2: obviously did not play in game six, but them trying
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Speaker 2: to scramble and find the piece to fill that spot,
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Speaker 2: and they couldn't do it and it didn't work. And
18:52
Speaker 2: then you could just feel once this bussy kid came in,
18:55
Speaker 2: you could kind of feel the tide really.
18:57
Speaker 1: Turned for Carolina. Carterhart given up about four.
19:02
Speaker 2: And by the way, so their back end when I
19:04
Speaker 2: look at this too, their defense did not play nearly
19:09
Speaker 2: as well as they did against the Abs. They just
19:11
Speaker 2: didn't overall. Hannah fin I don't think was himself. I
19:14
Speaker 2: thought even Theodore was up and down a little bit.
19:17
Speaker 2: Some mistakes that were made that they did not make
19:19
Speaker 2: it all against the Avalanche. And that's the guys at
19:22
Speaker 2: this point of the year, in the final four. That's
19:24
Speaker 2: the difference I get I hear this from the ninety
19:27
Speaker 2: eighty four to nine, I actually feel worse. You got
19:29
Speaker 2: swept by a team that ultimately wasn't close to winning.
19:31
Speaker 2: Means you're further away.
19:32
Speaker 1: Than you thought.
19:32
Speaker 2: And the answer to that is no, you are not
19:35
Speaker 2: further away than you thought. I don't know how to
19:38
Speaker 2: explain that anymore. Clearly, you're right there. It's the margins.
19:44
Speaker 2: At this time of the year, everything is so much thinner.
19:47
Speaker 1: It's crazy. Congratulations to Jacob Slaven hometown kid. I believe
19:52
Speaker 1: he's from Erie. He's up north Highway seven. Played youth
19:56
Speaker 1: hockey here in the metro area, played college hockey at
19:59
Speaker 1: Colorado College. Won himself a gold medal this season with
20:02
Speaker 1: the US team. Followed that up with the Stanley Cup.
20:05
Speaker 1: What a year. It's an ali Jacob, my good. He
20:08
Speaker 1: had a superb poke check last night on Jack Eigel.
20:13
Speaker 1: He's an excellent player, he really is. But I mean
20:16
Speaker 1: it was it was superb and let me so, let
20:17
Speaker 1: me let me get to Rod Brendamore. He won Carolina
20:21
Speaker 1: as a player, right and okay, great, it's awesome. I
20:26
Speaker 1: was back in oh what seven oh seven? Yeah, right
20:29
Speaker 1: around there comes back and as their coach, and they
20:34
Speaker 1: get bounced every single year. Different.
20:36
Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, they didn't qualify for the playoffs.
20:38
Speaker 2: Then they lost in the conference finals and lost in
20:41
Speaker 2: the first round, lost in the second round, lost in
20:44
Speaker 2: the second round, lost in conference finals, lost in second round,
20:48
Speaker 2: lost in conference finals. Then they won the whole damn thing.
20:51
Speaker 2: I mean they that rod stayed there for the previous
20:54
Speaker 2: not previous seven seasons, knocking on the door, and they've
20:58
Speaker 2: always been regarded as a Cup favorite, I mean, one
21:00
Speaker 2: of the Cup favorites.
21:01
Speaker 1: Is that an argument instability as to why the ABS
21:04
Speaker 1: brought back Jared Bednar, because listen, you don't make rash
21:07
Speaker 1: decisions based on one series. I mean, look at Carolina situation.
21:11
Speaker 1: Is that your argument? That's my argument is that, yeah,
21:14
Speaker 1: is that you're you are that close.
21:16
Speaker 2: You really are, And I don't I know what it
21:18
Speaker 2: still hurts you got swept by Vegas, but it's you're
21:24
Speaker 2: you're very, very very close. If the Avs had played Carolina, sure,
21:28
Speaker 2: you know, the matchup looks different.
21:31
Speaker 1: It's completely you'll never know. From nine eight to four
21:35
Speaker 1: nine U we asked, does it feel better to see
21:37
Speaker 1: Vegas lose? I just I just said that uh. Nine
21:40
Speaker 1: four nine says I actually feel worse. You got swept
21:43
Speaker 1: by a team. I know you said that. Uh, then
21:45
Speaker 1: I'm glad. Carolina one says five six seven eight, But
21:49
Speaker 1: sad because it just amplifies the Avs choke job and
21:52
Speaker 1: how far away this team is. I don't think it
21:54
Speaker 1: does that at all.
21:56
Speaker 2: It doesn't. You can call it a choke job if
21:59
Speaker 2: you want to. I mean, in Game four they were
22:02
Speaker 2: not the better team, that's for dag sure, but every
22:06
Speaker 2: other ones right there.
22:07
Speaker 1: I mean, you're just right fifteen to fifty four rights in.
22:09
Speaker 1: I think the Abs would have been totally run out
22:11
Speaker 1: of the rink by the Cans. They're not on the
22:13
Speaker 1: same level. I mean, are you Are you serious? Though?
22:15
Speaker 1: Did you watch the entire seies? You know, people just
22:18
Speaker 1: forget that an entire season happened. Yeah, what are you
22:23
Speaker 1: talking about? They'd be run out by the Listen, they
22:26
Speaker 1: had a bad series. Are you allowed to have a
22:29
Speaker 1: bad series? Well, no, you're you're not well because in
22:33
Speaker 1: your bounced. But it's it's a matter of perspective. It's
22:36
Speaker 1: one of the things when you're listening to Joe and
22:39
Speaker 1: Josh Kronky talk about, you know, the abs and that
22:42
Speaker 1: end of season press conference, the translation of the whole
22:44
Speaker 1: thing was this, we believe more in the previous ninety
22:49
Speaker 1: games in the final four. That's that's what they're saying.
22:52
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. I don't know what sports
22:54
Speaker 1: is anymore. I've lost faith in what sports is because
22:57
Speaker 1: I will go to my grave thinking this. The Nuggets
23:01
Speaker 1: got eliminated by the Minnesota Timberwolves relatively easily too, with
23:05
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves having ANAMS.
23:07
Speaker 6: Yeah.
23:07
Speaker 1: Kay, And I still contend that if you gave me
23:10
Speaker 1: that same Nuggets team and playing them against San Antonio,
23:12
Speaker 1: they could beat sing I completely agree. And I don't
23:15
Speaker 1: understand how let me that comes to. Its just I
23:17
Speaker 1: feel that way.
23:18
Speaker 2: Let me give you a different example. I would have
23:21
Speaker 2: felt that Denver Broncos eliminated the Buffalo Bills in this,
23:26
Speaker 2: you know, in the Divisional, crushing the division, right. I
23:31
Speaker 2: would argue that if you took that same Buffalo team
23:33
Speaker 2: and put them in the Super Bowl against Seattle, they
23:35
Speaker 2: could win that frigging game.
23:37
Speaker 1: Yeah they could.
23:37
Speaker 2: I mean, you know what I mean, I don't it's
23:41
Speaker 2: it's it's matchups. It's all different kinds of little things.
23:44
Speaker 2: But look, man, the bottom line is you didn't win.
23:47
Speaker 2: They won, You didn't win, and they just got bounced
23:49
Speaker 2: by Nobody likes to hear the choke.
23:51
Speaker 1: Where did the Avs not play their best in that
23:53
Speaker 1: series against Vegas? Yeah, if you want to call it choke,
23:56
Speaker 1: call it whatever you want. Yeah, But to surmise then
23:59
Speaker 1: that they would have been run off the ice by
24:00
Speaker 1: a superior Carolina team, I think is false. I think
24:04
Speaker 1: I think that's false. I think if you play a
24:06
Speaker 1: series against Carolina anytime anywhere between those two teams, are
24:09
Speaker 1: you telling me that they're a better team top to
24:11
Speaker 1: bottom than the Avs. They're not.
24:13
Speaker 2: Are you crazy? They're not? And again, a lot of
24:17
Speaker 2: circumstances go into it. I don't I don't know who
24:19
Speaker 2: on Carolina is hurt and playing through stuff. Jordan Stall
24:22
Speaker 2: found the fountain of youth and that's awesome for him
24:25
Speaker 2: because he scored every game, didn't he He did. He
24:27
Speaker 2: looks absolutely great at the age of thirty seventy, is
24:29
Speaker 2: the oldest consmyth winner in the history of the of
24:33
Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup Final. But you know, it's just it's
24:36
Speaker 2: it's it's the margins. He just keeps something funny.
24:41
Speaker 1: I want to play a couple of clips for you
24:43
Speaker 1: because it led into these final games from over the weekend,
24:47
Speaker 1: and I'm going to blame the Last Dance documentary for this.
24:50
Speaker 1: I want a documentary about what harm the Last Dance
24:53
Speaker 1: Documentary has done to a generation of coaches and players
24:58
Speaker 1: because everybody wants to be that Michael Jordan and I
25:03
Speaker 1: took it personally, and then you go out and you
25:04
Speaker 1: kick the butt of the person you take it personally against.
25:07
Speaker 1: I want you to hear Victor woman Yama after Game four,
25:12
Speaker 1: backs are against the wall, they blow another lead, Nicks
25:15
Speaker 1: have a chance to close things out, and women Yama
25:17
Speaker 1: said this.
25:18
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, everybody thinks. Everybody knows we're gonna do it.
25:23
Speaker 6: But uh, I don't know if I agree with you.
25:25
Speaker 6: I feel like we need to we need to isolate
25:28
Speaker 6: that one game and take it one game at a time.
25:30
Speaker 6: I think it'd be a mistake to waste our energy
25:33
Speaker 6: on multiple games. It's one game at a time.
25:36
Speaker 1: Everybody knows we're going to do it. You can't say
25:39
Speaker 1: that and then blow another lead and then lose in five.
25:42
Speaker 1: Can't happen. Towarts said this after Game five.
25:46
Speaker 5: We gotta find a way I'm gonna leave my clothes here,
25:50
Speaker 5: that's for sure.
25:51
Speaker 1: They'll be in the hotel. Wait a minute, are you
25:54
Speaker 1: contending that they said this just for Aura. I'll tell you.
25:59
Speaker 1: I just think guys, I'll tell you this much, Vic
26:02
Speaker 1: Victor wembin Yama absolutely says things for Aura. Absolutely does.
26:07
Speaker 1: I think guys are just mentally putting things out there
26:10
Speaker 1: to send a message to teammates, to players. Hey, guys,
26:13
Speaker 1: we're not out of this yet. I think you're reading
26:14
Speaker 1: too much into that.
26:16
Speaker 2: My question is house Towart's gonna get his closed back
26:19
Speaker 2: for Carolina, because.
26:20
Speaker 1: He really does he really? Did you see the tweets
26:23
Speaker 1: Carolina Hurricanes put out. We'll get it back to you,
26:26
Speaker 1: but we're a little busy. No, he did not.
26:30
Speaker 2: I was gonna say today he's gonna hop on a
26:31
Speaker 2: Southwest flight. No, they tweeted Ober over to the hotel
26:34
Speaker 2: and grab his stuff.
26:35
Speaker 1: And then uh and then come home. Hold on a second, though, Vic,
26:38
Speaker 1: are you telling me? And and I'm still in the
26:41
Speaker 1: I like Wemby Camp. It is kind of crazy how
26:45
Speaker 1: much I was. The more that series went on, the
26:48
Speaker 1: less I was liking Wemby, and the more more that
26:50
Speaker 1: series went on the more I was liking Bronson. You
26:53
Speaker 1: think he's Aura Farming. I one million percent think he's
26:57
Speaker 1: Aura Farmer. I just think he's trying to jack the
27:00
Speaker 1: little spark in his team. I don't read too much now.
27:03
Speaker 1: It's interesting, though, Wemby, who at the start of that
27:06
Speaker 1: series we looked at Victor wibbin Yamen said, Okay, the
27:09
Speaker 1: league is his now. At the end of the series,
27:11
Speaker 1: I said, he's not there yet. He's not there. Nikola
27:14
Speaker 1: Jokic would not have done what Wemby did in that series,
27:18
Speaker 1: and that is this completely melt away in crunch time,
27:23
Speaker 1: completely melt away like in crunch time in every game.
27:27
Speaker 1: Do you guys realize that the Spurs held the lead
27:29
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of every game of that series?
27:31
Speaker 1: I know, do you realize that they held leads that
27:34
Speaker 1: were just considered insurmountable, But in crunch time he just didn't.
27:39
Speaker 1: It just wasn't there. Game two. Remember what happened in
27:43
Speaker 1: Game two? He had two shots to win and miss
27:45
Speaker 1: both of them. Yeah. Well, I don't like there's part
27:51
Speaker 1: of me that says that's a super young team. He's
27:53
Speaker 1: only twenty two. He's twenty two years old, and it's
27:57
Speaker 1: he'll probably get another multiple opportunities to do this again,
28:01
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he can learn from this, And the
28:03
Speaker 1: other part of me thinks, you know, uh, Russell Westbrook
28:06
Speaker 1: made it to a finals really early in his career,
28:08
Speaker 1: never made it again. He's a Hall of Famer. James
28:10
Speaker 1: Harden did the same thing. Chris Paul did the same thing.
28:13
Speaker 1: There's no guarantee you get back. There really isn't. But
28:16
Speaker 1: as a twenty two year old, am I gonna make
28:18
Speaker 1: some sort of referendum about him in his career this
28:22
Speaker 1: early that that seems like it'd be silly, very silly.
28:24
Speaker 1: I understand it. And he's gonna get a lot of
28:26
Speaker 1: the blame if things go south because he's their best player.
28:29
Speaker 1: He's the big fella. What did you guys see in
28:33
Speaker 1: the Knicks and the Spurs that the Nuggets don't have
28:37
Speaker 1: right now? In need?
28:38
Speaker 2: What?
28:39
Speaker 1: What is it? What stuck out to you? They're like, Okay,
28:42
Speaker 1: that's where they need. They're way faster athletically, and I
28:46
Speaker 1: think it's it's their ability to defend. And the Spurs
28:49
Speaker 1: are weird because when somebody's seven foot five standing in
28:52
Speaker 1: the middle, like yeah, yeah, it's gonna be better but
28:55
Speaker 1: especially the Knicks. They had a whole bunch of guys,
28:56
Speaker 1: whether it's Annonob Josh Hart, like, they could go out
28:59
Speaker 1: in if they needed to stop when they're down twenty points.
29:03
Speaker 1: The only way you get back in the game is
29:05
Speaker 1: getting stops consistently. That the toughness that the Knicks exhibited
29:08
Speaker 1: in that series is it shocked me at times. Yeah,
29:11
Speaker 1: they're not just it's not just stylistic for the Knicks.
29:14
Speaker 1: They were tough. They didn't back down, dude, they were
29:17
Speaker 1: just like, come on, It started with Jalen Brunson was tough,
29:22
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns was tough. Hell, Josh Hart does Josh
29:25
Speaker 1: hard things. You know when I see Josh harten play
29:27
Speaker 1: Josh Hart, that's what Christian Brown needs to do. Yeah,
29:30
Speaker 1: what Josh Hart's doing, yep, you know, do those little
29:33
Speaker 1: things absolute plays. Everybody has their roles on the team.
29:37
Speaker 1: You know, Dylan Harper, that kid is a rookie. You know,
29:42
Speaker 1: that's a kid. That's what Peyton Watson needs to do.
29:45
Speaker 1: Peyton Watson needs to be Dylan Harper agreed.
29:47
Speaker 2: I think they all can vic I mean, assuming health,
29:51
Speaker 2: those pieces are in place, but the mentality has to
29:54
Speaker 2: come back for the Denver Nuts. I'm gonna show you
29:55
Speaker 2: a little graphic too that Johnny Lyles just sent to
29:58
Speaker 2: our hockey group and VIC. Since VIC is so good
30:01
Speaker 2: with numbers and you're not. You're not quite as good
30:03
Speaker 2: with numbers, Brett.
30:04
Speaker 1: Do you ever take math at Norasca or in Nebraska heists?
30:07
Speaker 1: I was so proficient at math on my act they
30:10
Speaker 1: said I didn't need to take a college class. Your
30:12
Speaker 1: care information really really did. Would you like to do
30:14
Speaker 1: this instead of VIC? I'd love to because this is
30:17
Speaker 1: carter Hart's playoff goals saved above expected this postseason, and
30:22
Speaker 1: it starts out with Game one against the Utah Man
30:25
Speaker 1: So he's right on the money for game one, right
30:28
Speaker 1: on the money for Game two, basically in net zero.
30:31
Speaker 1: Then it drops down to about negative two and a half,
30:34
Speaker 1: then to negative five, then a little beyond negative five.
30:38
Speaker 1: Then it creeps back up to that negative two and
30:40
Speaker 1: a half range virtually the entire Anaheim series to where
30:43
Speaker 1: the av series starts, it's a net zero again. But
30:45
Speaker 1: then he's all the way at almost what emotions. So
30:49
Speaker 1: carter Hart didn't play He played his very best.
30:54
Speaker 2: Actually, it started out when he sort of bottomed out
30:57
Speaker 2: be bottomed out against the Man, rose back up against
31:01
Speaker 2: the Ducks, kind of bottomed out again, and then what
31:03
Speaker 2: he do?
31:03
Speaker 1: Brett?
31:05
Speaker 2: He went on a skyrocket of eight seven to eight,
31:10
Speaker 2: including the Carolina nine games where he's above he's rising
31:14
Speaker 2: and then above expected, above expected, above expected. I mean
31:20
Speaker 2: the sky had. Look at the dates. If you go
31:22
Speaker 2: from May tenth all the way to let's say, let's
31:26
Speaker 2: go here to June. After June third, he's climbing and
31:32
Speaker 2: then above.
31:34
Speaker 1: Expected and then crashed back to reality and then crashed
31:37
Speaker 1: back to reality.
31:38
Speaker 2: It just shows that he played his very best in
31:40
Speaker 2: that stretch against the Avalanche. All four games, how much
31:44
Speaker 2: they are above expected and game and there are game
31:47
Speaker 2: four way above expected.
31:49
Speaker 1: The question that remains unanswerable how much of that was
31:52
Speaker 1: Carter Hart? How much of that was the abs?
31:55
Speaker 2: Well, I mean when you talk about quality scoring chances,
31:57
Speaker 2: but the outshot the night they out shot, Yes, shots
32:02
Speaker 2: were there correct, couldn't find it?
32:05
Speaker 1: Uh so three oh three five four nine two five
32:09
Speaker 1: shot maz. The text line one price, one person, one hour.
32:11
Speaker 1: Do you want to talk about the US? Probably the
32:13
Speaker 1: best game I've seen them play soccer wise in my
32:15
Speaker 1: life was against Paraguay Wow. Now the question is how
32:18
Speaker 1: many soccer games have you seen in your life? They
32:21
Speaker 1: had that decent team back in I always forget the
32:23
Speaker 1: airs at fourteen look at the soccer offician out over here,
32:26
Speaker 1: and I have a problem.
32:27
Speaker 2: I had a real problem on Friday, A real problem.
32:33
Speaker 2: Well I've had more than more than one. But this
32:36
Speaker 2: is relating to sports.
32:38
Speaker 1: Uh. Anyway, we'll get to it in just a second Instagram.
32:40
Speaker 1: I got to start off this segment with an observation,
32:43
Speaker 1: actually something that came true as a prediction, and it
32:46
Speaker 1: came true on Thursday when we caught when that Brett
32:50
Speaker 1: would miss Friday's show for whatever reasons Brett had. I
32:54
Speaker 1: contended that on this program, I said Friday show would
32:58
Speaker 1: be the worst show we've ever had, and a go
33:01
Speaker 1: it was what It was not the worst show. It
33:03
Speaker 1: was by far the worst show in the history of
33:07
Speaker 1: Altitude Radio ninety two point final. It was so bad.
33:11
Speaker 1: The first two segments we talked over each other. He
33:15
Speaker 1: walked off the show. He had some sort of attack.
33:19
Speaker 1: I've never done a radio show in an attack. I
33:21
Speaker 1: got a little blood shirts I've never done with the
33:24
Speaker 1: co host who just walked off, just walked off and
33:30
Speaker 1: then we had like a mass substitution pattern. I'm doing
33:33
Speaker 1: the show with Mosure, then I'm doing the show with Connor,
33:36
Speaker 1: then I'm doing the show with John Michael Lyle.
33:37
Speaker 2: Well, he said, but because I said, oh Johnny, I
33:39
Speaker 2: just show Johnny Lytles the camera and Big goes, oh
33:42
Speaker 2: Johnny Lyles is there? Yeah, you get off and put
33:44
Speaker 2: him on for the I'm like, oh, I didn't trust him.
33:46
Speaker 1: If you're off, you're going through line changes. Kind of. Yes,
33:51
Speaker 1: we had a power play. I did not understand what
33:55
Speaker 1: was happening. So you were doing the show from home mos,
33:58
Speaker 1: you were doing golfing out the dude? Correct. And there
34:01
Speaker 1: were two segments. We come back from break and we
34:04
Speaker 1: both start talking at the exact same time. Brett, I
34:07
Speaker 1: actually have it here. This is the second segment of
34:09
Speaker 1: the show.
34:09
Speaker 5: They couldn't decide who was driving the bus, and so
34:12
Speaker 5: here's how we came back from commercial.
34:15
Speaker 7: Beautiful Friday, Here yep, one more time, now, one more time.
34:28
Speaker 1: Beautiful Friday.
34:29
Speaker 2: Here yep looks like Jesus, And I'm like, gee, whiz,
34:33
Speaker 2: what are we doing?
34:34
Speaker 1: Boys? Are you're just yep? I love it? Why didn't
34:40
Speaker 1: you guys just decide which one of you was going
34:43
Speaker 1: to open and close because it was just bad. He
34:46
Speaker 1: just sat there staring at staring into space. And I'm like,
34:50
Speaker 1: somebody's gotta do the freaking show. Let me hear this again.
34:53
Speaker 1: I want to hear it again. Do it again, beautiful Friday. Here, yeps,
35:00
Speaker 1: you know what that is. That's the traffic light just
35:02
Speaker 1: flashing red. And everybody's like confused, Oh my god, you
35:08
Speaker 1: have never been more in demand or important than on Friday. Seriously, Friday.
35:14
Speaker 1: Anybody who listened to the show said, oh, that's what
35:17
Speaker 1: that guy. But you you called it. I said it,
35:19
Speaker 1: you said it. Maybe you're manifesting it. I don't know.
35:23
Speaker 2: Well, I know we want to talk about what happened
35:25
Speaker 2: on Friday night, and it was an awesome game. But
35:27
Speaker 2: before that, real quick, I got a problem with Raj.
35:31
Speaker 2: I've got a problem with a lot of people because
35:33
Speaker 2: leading up to the game, how do you pronounce the
35:35
Speaker 2: country that they played? Paraguay, Paraguay whatever, Paraguay Paraguay gw
35:43
Speaker 2: I mean phonetically g w a y. I heard Raj
35:47
Speaker 2: and a lot of people it's the infrastas Paraguay, g
35:51
Speaker 2: w Y.
35:52
Speaker 1: I can't no, no, no, no, no, no Iran in Iran
35:55
Speaker 1: or well like you no, it's Paraguay, period, end of story.
35:58
Speaker 1: I can't do it. And then they ripped Paraguay hard
36:03
Speaker 1: that I'm telling you man. The fact that that wasn't
36:08
Speaker 1: hey we got a couple of lucky breaks or hey,
36:11
Speaker 1: one good sequence here. That was thorough domination. Let me
36:14
Speaker 1: let me explain. I know there's people that watch soccer
36:18
Speaker 1: all the time, and I know there's people that are
36:20
Speaker 1: new to the party, and I don't want to be
36:21
Speaker 1: a gatekeeper, as they like to say, so welcome to
36:24
Speaker 1: the party. I love soccer. I love World Cup. It's
36:27
Speaker 1: one of my favorite events of all time. The way
36:29
Speaker 1: the US played that game. For those who have watched
36:32
Speaker 1: soccer for a while, US soccer for years was always
36:35
Speaker 1: about just hitting the ball over the top, trying to
36:38
Speaker 1: out hustle and outrun the opponent and try to find
36:41
Speaker 1: a goal that way. US never played this toaccato fashion soccer,
36:45
Speaker 1: this almost Spanish version with a pass the ball to
36:48
Speaker 1: set up plays on that one goal by Giorina was
36:52
Speaker 1: twenty six passes before the shot was made. That fourth goal.
36:55
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the version of US soccer that we
36:58
Speaker 1: saw on Friday Night. We have never seen that before Correer,
37:01
Speaker 1: We've never seen that. It is new to our eyeballs.
37:05
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's the coach, who, by
37:07
Speaker 1: the way, looked just like Russell Crowe and dressed like
37:09
Speaker 1: Russell Crowe. I don't know if it's his style. I
37:12
Speaker 1: don't know if the players just because they're all molded
37:14
Speaker 1: and cultivated overseas, all these kids, all these guys, I mean,
37:18
Speaker 1: the guy who scored the two goals, born in New York,
37:21
Speaker 1: raised in London. I don't know what it is, but
37:23
Speaker 1: it's a different style of soccer than we're used to
37:26
Speaker 1: seeing out of a US team. And I don't care
37:28
Speaker 1: who you're playing. I get it. Paraguay may not be
37:30
Speaker 1: Brazil or Argentina. They be Brazil in the qualifiers. It's
37:34
Speaker 1: still a team that's in the World Cup. I don't
37:36
Speaker 1: care who you are. The US looked like a stylistically
37:40
Speaker 1: different team. To your point. One of the guys, Chris
37:43
Speaker 1: Richards on the team was eighty three for eighty three
37:45
Speaker 1: on his passes. It's the most passes with one accuracy
37:49
Speaker 1: by a player in the FIFA World Cup match since
37:51
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty. There was a pass in that game and
37:53
Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was. Texters viewers listeners helped
37:56
Speaker 1: me out. They crossed the ball. I think it came
37:59
Speaker 1: down the left and in mid air the dude flicked
38:03
Speaker 1: it back backwards to an oncoming midfielder. It was one
38:07
Speaker 1: of the coolest players I've seen a US player make ever.
38:10
Speaker 1: He was hired.
38:11
Speaker 2: The guy that they hired has been the head guy
38:15
Speaker 2: at Chelsea, he's been the head guy at PSG. He's
38:19
Speaker 2: an Argentinian. He obviously is is well respected, well known,
38:23
Speaker 2: but they also got him almost two years ago. So
38:27
Speaker 2: leading up to the World Cup, they're like, okay, let's
38:29
Speaker 2: give ourselves plenty of ramp here, plenty of ramp to
38:33
Speaker 2: get the team ready for the World Cup because it
38:36
Speaker 2: takes a while to assemble. And you're right, Vick, I
38:38
Speaker 2: think the talent level overall. How many guys do you
38:41
Speaker 2: have playing in Europe right now?
38:42
Speaker 1: Like fifteen? Almost all of them?
38:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of them play. I mean a lot
38:45
Speaker 2: of them playing in Europe. Not to take away anything
38:47
Speaker 2: from the MLS or any think of that nature, but
38:49
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, it's a different look at
38:52
Speaker 2: a different field. They play the game much more attacking
38:54
Speaker 2: and crisp, and it was a joy to see. I mean,
38:59
Speaker 2: you put four goals on anybody in a World Cup game,
39:01
Speaker 2: it's a big deal.
39:02
Speaker 1: What I don't want to hear people say, and have
39:04
Speaker 1: heard this already over the last three days. Oh, it's
39:06
Speaker 1: sparent big deal. No, it is a big deal. It's
39:09
Speaker 1: not necessarily who you beat, it's how you played to
39:12
Speaker 1: beat them. Again, it's not who you beat, how did
39:15
Speaker 1: you beat them? What did you do to beat them?
39:17
Speaker 1: They could have scored ten goals in that game. How
39:20
Speaker 1: closely did you watch? It was that kind of style
39:23
Speaker 1: that I am so happy to see. Let me tell
39:26
Speaker 1: you Australia's next, and then they finished it off with Turkey.
39:29
Speaker 1: The expectations in my world for the US team obviously,
39:33
Speaker 1: you want to get to the knockout round. I think
39:34
Speaker 1: they got to win a game or two in the
39:36
Speaker 1: knockout round to satisfy me. I think they're that I
39:38
Speaker 1: think they're that quality.
39:40
Speaker 2: They're currently ranked twenty two out of forty eight, I
39:43
Speaker 2: mean coming into the tournament, so.
39:45
Speaker 1: That's what I say. They're right in the middle of
39:46
Speaker 1: the pack. So I saw that then I just jumped
39:49
Speaker 1: on ESPN Paraguay. They have them ranked at forty first.
39:53
Speaker 1: So I don't know where these rankings are coming from,
39:56
Speaker 1: or what did it's according to or whatever WORLDEF rankings.
40:00
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just quality of play, quality of your team.
40:03
Speaker 1: I mean, rankings don't mean anything. Hey, the eleventh ranked
40:07
Speaker 1: team in the world I believe is out of the
40:08
Speaker 1: World Cup and not even there. That's Italy by the way. Yeah, no,
40:13
Speaker 1: I understand, I'm I'm defending this. I'm what I'm saying
40:16
Speaker 1: is I think that no matter who you're playing, and
40:22
Speaker 1: Paraguay's like they aren't nothing. If I give you a map,
40:26
Speaker 1: could you identify Paraguay. Yeah, it's a South America, but
40:29
Speaker 1: could you like point to it? I get in the area. Okay,
40:33
Speaker 1: no you I mean, just how about Caracas? No shot,
40:40
Speaker 1: no shot. I don't know if you guys watched any
40:42
Speaker 1: of that Germany game. The country is Currosau, not Caracas
40:48
Speaker 1: on that one, so I definitely couldn't you said, yeah,
40:53
Speaker 1: you got me on that one. Did you watch any
40:55
Speaker 1: of that game against Germany? I didn't know, but I
40:57
Speaker 1: listened to it on the radio. That first goal they
40:59
Speaker 1: scored the entire state. It was unbelievable. Yeah.
41:02
Speaker 2: I listened to it on the radio and the funny
41:05
Speaker 2: part was and by the way, Cursau was off the
41:08
Speaker 2: northern coast of Venezuela, the Caracas. That's a capital someplace Pakistan.
41:16
Speaker 1: I don't have the capital of Venezuela.
41:19
Speaker 2: Oha, Venezuela, My bad. Okay, I just said it, Doe
41:25
Speaker 2: Caracas is Venezuela.
41:26
Speaker 1: Yes, no.
41:28
Speaker 2: But but Landon Donovan was like, oh, you know, finally
41:32
Speaker 2: a curse house playing on its front foot here. You know,
41:34
Speaker 2: German fans are kind of stunned, and everybody's gone quiet.
41:37
Speaker 2: And then they went bang bang, made it three to one,
41:40
Speaker 2: and then in the second half would they do brettt
41:42
Speaker 2: just put it on?
41:43
Speaker 1: Bang bang bang bang. I was very distracted about how
41:46
Speaker 1: much hair Lennon Donovan had. What do you mean? I
41:50
Speaker 1: mean he just grows it in the back. No, have
41:54
Speaker 1: you not seen the full lid? Oh no, no, does
41:57
Speaker 1: he have an you got turkey done? Oh? He wait turkey?
42:00
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't know if he did or not,
42:02
Speaker 1: but that's that looks like turkey t U R K
42:05
Speaker 1: I E I y E. Do you see the way
42:07
Speaker 1: they're spelling? Yeah? You got to fix what were doing?
42:10
Speaker 1: What are we doing. Yeah, hang on you you literally
42:12
Speaker 1: didn't see No, I didn't see him, dude. You gotta
42:14
Speaker 1: see this. No, times have changed, Vick. Well, I mean
42:20
Speaker 1: Last World. Yeah, that's the one that I remember. Yeah,
42:23
Speaker 1: that's Land Now. I don't even recognize him. I have
42:25
Speaker 1: no idea who that person? That doesn't work. I don't know.
42:27
Speaker 1: I can't just do that. See, maybe I swear to
42:29
Speaker 1: God on maybe I saw him and I didn't even
42:31
Speaker 1: know what. I swear to God. I'm watching the coverage.
42:34
Speaker 1: I didn't know who it was. Look at him, dude. Yeah, hey,
42:37
Speaker 1: you know what, more power to him, big deal. So
42:39
Speaker 1: you can get hair now. But that's when he was
42:44
Speaker 1: didn't like twenty years Yeah, hey dude. Yeah, someone said
42:48
Speaker 1: that they've got a cure for baldness. Now there's actually
42:51
Speaker 1: a cure out there.
42:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, you pay five grand, go to Turkey and they
42:56
Speaker 2: get a bunch of style.
42:57
Speaker 1: I have no problem with that. Man. They staple ant
42:59
Speaker 1: legs on your head. Do you have a problem with that?
43:01
Speaker 1: You you really have a problem with it. I don't
43:03
Speaker 1: have a problem with it. I would say this though,
43:05
Speaker 1: like Brian Erlacker made his entire life about being the
43:07
Speaker 1: bald middle linebacker that hits you really hard, and then
43:09
Speaker 1: he got the Bosley stuff, and I am, no, you
43:11
Speaker 1: can't just do that. Okay, well what about this, because
43:14
Speaker 1: I think did Prime to the do the Turkey thing?
43:17
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I mean, I'm sure Prime was
43:19
Speaker 1: bald for years and then he just had hair all
43:21
Speaker 1: the time. I mean, more power to you, dude, if
43:24
Speaker 1: you can get it done. If they if there's something
43:26
Speaker 1: industry standard that allows you to grow something, go get it. Well.
43:31
Speaker 1: I wish I could be six four. I'd be in
43:32
Speaker 1: Turkey to ball. I mean people they told me if
43:37
Speaker 1: you had to put the cranks on your legs and
43:38
Speaker 1: have them do that, stay said. You said, you got
43:41
Speaker 1: a procedure in Turkey and we'll turn you into a
43:43
Speaker 1: six' four small. Forward i'm, there.
43:46
Speaker 2: Dude you they have those procedures Where i'd have to
43:52
Speaker 2: retain my. Athleticism, okay well not only, that but your
43:55
Speaker 2: legs would be abnormally.
43:57
Speaker 1: Long. BRO i can only a man If vic got
44:00
Speaker 1: all the way to six four and he's just walking
44:03
Speaker 1: like this.
44:05
Speaker 2: Just so, weird like a dog with little be. Uh, Anyway,
44:12
Speaker 2: YEAH i good for. Him go get your hair, done
44:16
Speaker 2: if that's what you want to. Do no big, deal
44:18
Speaker 2: just SAY i.
44:18
Speaker 1: Was distracted by it because they said That's Landing. Donovant,
44:20
Speaker 1: no that's not a lot.
44:22
Speaker 2: Of people get things done that you're distracted. By nobody
44:24
Speaker 2: says anything about.
44:25
Speaker 1: That, look, bro IF i just walked in today with
44:27
Speaker 1: a spray, tan it would be a topic of conversation
44:31
Speaker 1: for a. Second, okay that's What i'm. Saying first split.
44:33
Speaker 1: Second you wouldn't just be, like, oh, anyway So, brett
44:37
Speaker 1: what'd you do this? Weekend? Like, no IF i was
44:40
Speaker 1: orange WHEN i came in with my hair colored after
44:43
Speaker 1: the Super, bowl it was a.
44:44
Speaker 2: Topic some people get lips, done some people get front courts.
44:49
Speaker 1: Done back course do. Not so you had to see
44:53
Speaker 1: him and just didn't know. What of, COURSE i had no.
44:55
Speaker 1: Idea The World cup to, me guys is. PRECIOUS i
44:59
Speaker 1: will watch no matter who's. PLAYING i will watch whatever
45:01
Speaker 1: game's out. There i'm one of those. GUYS i don't
45:03
Speaker 1: know if you guys are that, way if it's just
45:04
Speaker 1: got to be THE us team or, not but every
45:06
Speaker 1: game to me is fun. Watch The World cup is.
45:08
Speaker 1: Special it's, different one. Cultural everything about it is. ESSENTIAL
45:13
Speaker 1: i Love windham by the way over the weekend at
45:15
Speaker 1: THE rbc rocking The Jackieues jersey in front of the
45:19
Speaker 1: party hall and dude just taking on that role of come,
45:23
Speaker 1: on come get, Me I'm. AMERICAN i was dipping in and.
45:26
Speaker 1: Out so they showed the video of him doing that
45:29
Speaker 1: at the tea box where he got booed by. EVERYBODY
45:31
Speaker 1: i was, Like, oh that's really. Funny and THEN i
45:33
Speaker 1: saw him putting in it AND i was, like he's
45:35
Speaker 1: not actually playing with that thing on? Him he? Birdied
45:38
Speaker 1: did he? Did? HE i don't know how long he
45:40
Speaker 1: played with. It, yeah he played with. It that's be wildly. Uncomfortable,
45:46
Speaker 1: well it's embracing your your. Country my favorite part of
45:49
Speaker 1: The World CUP i was going to save this for
45:51
Speaker 1: oh by the, way But i'll do it anyway is
45:53
Speaker 1: The japanese team and fans cleaning up after themselves after every.
45:58
Speaker 1: Game they only paid one. Game they Played netherlands to it,
46:01
Speaker 1: too two. Tie did you see the fans up in
46:03
Speaker 1: the fan? Section not a single thing was left. Behind
46:07
Speaker 1: they cleaned up along With Jameis. Winston by the, WAY
46:09
Speaker 1: i don't know if the Hell Jameis winston was doing.
46:10
Speaker 1: That and then in the locker room they dont know
46:13
Speaker 1: if it was a Really. Jamis he had a wist
46:14
Speaker 1: To Jersey, on didn't he was It? Jamis and then
46:19
Speaker 1: and then in the locker. Room go go back and
46:20
Speaker 1: look at the video of The japanese locker. Room you
46:23
Speaker 1: know how you find like athletic tape everywhere and stuff.
46:26
Speaker 1: Nothing it was, clean, spotless spotless. Civility we need some of,
46:31
Speaker 1: IT i, agree Unlike moser when he leaves the studio
46:34
Speaker 1: and he leaves like half burritos. Around, YEAH i heard that.
46:37
Speaker 1: Story demak talked about. It you left half a burrito
46:40
Speaker 1: on the. Couch here's the. Thing but, but but d
46:45
Speaker 1: mac was so over the top about it because they
46:49
Speaker 1: know that the pigs at our, station and so they
46:51
Speaker 1: took one opportunity where somebody made an.
46:54
Speaker 2: Accident it's the first Time i've ever done, IT i.
46:58
Speaker 2: CORRECT i REMEMBER i got, distracted.
46:59
Speaker 1: Not at all to. GO i will defend you. Though
47:01
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47:05
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47:11
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