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I'm falling for the hype AGAIN... · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. The NBA seasons right around the corner.
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Speaker 1: It is right around the corner. I am so very
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Speaker 1: high pleasing I listen. I'm always I'm always hyped for
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Speaker 1: the NBA season, but with the season being right around
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Speaker 1: the corner, I think it was twenty six, twenty seven
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Speaker 1: days away from the regular season tip off, we're getting
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Speaker 1: media days, right, So we got like the Pelicans and
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Speaker 1: then the Knicks head media day because they have games
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Speaker 1: overseas and preseasons, so they get an early media day.
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Speaker 1: Then the other teams across basketball, and again, my entire branding,
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Speaker 1: for worse. People know me as the NBA optimist guy.
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Speaker 1: So I'm always excited. But sometimes that excitement level hits
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Speaker 1: new heights. And yesterday when the Pelicans did their media day,
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Speaker 1: Before we talk about that, I'm gonna show you four
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Speaker 1: years ago, four years ago, Jake Fisher had this on
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Speaker 1: when he was a part of a Bleacher report. This
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Speaker 1: is four years ago when Zion had reached north of
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Speaker 1: three hundred pounds this off season. People were not happy. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: this man is always really excited and really happy, but
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Speaker 1: this was unacceptable, and obviously Atlanta some other things, and
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Speaker 1: then yesterday happened again. Four years ago. This is him.
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Speaker 1: Who is this man? Are we serious right now? Are
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Speaker 1: we serious right now. This doesn't even look like the
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Speaker 1: same person. This does like the same person. And we
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Speaker 1: have seen pictures of Zion doing the off seas, but
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Speaker 1: all the pigs that I've seen, he was wearing baggy clothes.
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Speaker 1: He was hanging out with the guys he wanted to. Really,
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Speaker 1: he wasn't really showing that he was out there cutting.
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Speaker 1: He was out there doing this. He was out there
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Speaker 1: doing that. I have always been excited for Zion Hill,
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Speaker 1: even when he was in this picture over three hundred pounds.
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Speaker 1: I was still defending Zion because, well, I love Zion
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Speaker 1: from the moment I found out who he was and
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Speaker 1: the Bulls were bad that season. I said, damn it,
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Speaker 1: Zion is gonna be a bull one day. And since then,
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Speaker 1: I've just been a fan and I've been a guy
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Speaker 1: that's been defending Zion forever. And it's like Kenny Man,
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Speaker 1: it's the it's just the angle, it's just the editing
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Speaker 1: in the picture. Well what about what about? What about
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Speaker 1: a video? Listen Zion. I got a pleasure of talking
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Speaker 1: to Zion at All Star Weekend back in Utah. He's
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Speaker 1: always been a super excited, smiling type of dude. But
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Speaker 1: this right here right. The other picture was amazing, but
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Speaker 1: seeing the video makes me more optimistic because it's sometimes
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Speaker 1: you see players lose a lot to wait and you're like, ooh,
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Speaker 1: his game was catered to him being more physically dominant
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Speaker 1: than the other people. In this video, you can still
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Speaker 1: see he's got his shoulders are still tight, He's still
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Speaker 1: got a lot of strength. So I'm excited about what
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Speaker 1: Zion's gonna do this season. Man, A healthy year of
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Speaker 1: Zion is just overall good for basketball. I am falling
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Speaker 1: for the Zion Williamson hype for another season in the row.
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Speaker 1: And this comes at the perfect time. I already did
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Speaker 1: this spill a little bit on numbers on the board,
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Speaker 1: our podcast and everything, But right now ESPN is putting
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Speaker 1: together their top one hundred lists they always do right,
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Speaker 1: and I'm usually over the last couple of years, I've
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Speaker 1: told y'all don't even care about these lists unless you
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Speaker 1: really just react for content at the end of the day.
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Speaker 1: But nobody should be really upset if their favorite player
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Speaker 1: is low on this list, because realistically a lot of
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Speaker 1: people are putting together these lists with the idea of
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Speaker 1: getting people to care about the list, getting people to
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Speaker 1: talk about the list. Yes, I am here doing that
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Speaker 1: exact thing, but the perfect time is is here because
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Speaker 1: as I strolled through this list, the sixty fourth best
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Speaker 1: player in the NBA is Ludori to according ESPN, sixty
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Speaker 1: three is lamel Lebaum, sixty two is Christian Brown, and
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Speaker 1: then sixty one they have Zion Williamson, who previously was
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Speaker 1: ranked twenty seven. Zion only played what thirty games last seyear.
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Speaker 1: He averaged about twenty four points six points per game
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Speaker 1: in thirty games last season before he was shut down
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Speaker 1: en after suffering a lower back bruise. There's no better
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Speaker 1: time like the present because look at this screenshot. I
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Speaker 1: got so much love for Austin Reeves, so much, so
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Speaker 1: much love that I have somehow found myself on our
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Speaker 1: podcast as like a Lakers believer in some instances was
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Speaker 1: in the world right. But hopefully this in the conversations
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Speaker 1: about z over the last year so is the fuel
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Speaker 1: that he needed to get back to who we know
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Speaker 1: he can be. It is unacceptable for him to be
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Speaker 1: this late into his NBA career and to have zero
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Speaker 1: NBA playoff minutes. Unacceptable that over the last three seasons
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Speaker 1: he's got two years where he didn't even crack thirty
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Speaker 1: five games played. Right, those are some things that I've
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Speaker 1: obviously been ailing him over the last couple of seasons.
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Speaker 1: So you know, bulletin board material sixty first best player
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Speaker 1: in the NBA according to the worldwide leading reports. That's asinine.
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Speaker 1: I gotta go out here and show these people who
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Speaker 1: I am, because Zee, we know, trust me, we know.
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Speaker 1: There was times last season where I watched Zion and
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Speaker 1: I was not really impressed it with his explosiveness. Right, Zion, obviously,
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Speaker 1: with him not being a jump shooter whatsoever, his explosiveness,
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Speaker 1: his level of being able to cut off off of
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Speaker 1: different things was really important to his game. There's many
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Speaker 1: times last season, even though the numbers say twenty six
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Speaker 1: seven and five whatever, twenty six seven to five, especially
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Speaker 1: earlier in the year, that explosiveness was just not there.
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Speaker 1: We compared to who he was in twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, when he made his All Star Game,
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Speaker 1: it felt like night and day. But as a season progressed,
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Speaker 1: he became more efficient there that even if exposure rate
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Speaker 1: wasn't to the point where his head was at the
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Speaker 1: box of the backboard, I felt like he was just
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Speaker 1: playing better. Once we got to the point where it
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Speaker 1: really was points Zion, I fell back in love with
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Speaker 1: the game that he was playing. So now only he
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Speaker 1: has slimmed down and hopefully, you know, people lose this
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Speaker 1: weight with the idea of managing potential injury and stuff.
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Speaker 1: So we slimmed down and he is now healthier than
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Speaker 1: we should get back to being in the point where
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Speaker 1: Zion is looked at as one of the great players
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Speaker 1: in basketball. We did an episode of Numbers on the Ball.
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Speaker 1: I'm gona keep pugging our shows because dann it go
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Speaker 1: watch them and Small Ball getting eat some numbers on
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Speaker 1: the board and teed up with Pierre Drees and all
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Speaker 1: three shows in the network, and we were doing an
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Speaker 1: episode of like super bold predictions. Right, these predictions were
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Speaker 1: something that we didn't necessarily believe in completely, but there's
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Speaker 1: a part of our brain it's like, ooh, I could
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Speaker 1: see that happening. And the reason I thought of that
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Speaker 1: idea is because before last year's playoffs, now about to
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Speaker 1: feel like Lebron James before last year's playoffs. I really
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Speaker 1: like the basers, but I wasn't bold enough to say not.
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Speaker 1: I damn sure didn't think they was gonna go to
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Speaker 1: Game seven in the NBA Finals, but I wasn't bold
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Speaker 1: enough to say they can make it back to the
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Speaker 1: conference finals. I even got the tweet that just says Pacers, right.
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Speaker 1: I thought about them as a team that could be
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Speaker 1: really good, because yeah, they had to go these the
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Speaker 1: Calves in the second round. The Calves just won sixty games.
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Speaker 1: And I can't I can't go out there and say
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Speaker 1: what the five percent of my brain is really thinking.
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Speaker 1: So in this episode, we're doing that and like take
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Speaker 1: these with predictionous for with a grain of salt. And
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Speaker 1: one of the things that I said is that five
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Speaker 1: percent of me believes that there's a war with Zion
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Speaker 1: Womson is an All NBA player. You're thinking that in
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Speaker 1: your mind, considering the amount of hype and the two
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Speaker 1: All Star appearances that Zion has done that before. The
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Speaker 1: answer is no, he's just got two All Star appearances.
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Speaker 1: He's never made All NBA. He's got some votes, right,
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Speaker 1: but he's never actually actually made him. And the reason
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Speaker 1: why it's a five percent belief and why I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's probably gonna happen, is because in order to
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Speaker 1: make All NBA in a lot of cases you have
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Speaker 1: to be good, and I just don't think the Pelicans
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Speaker 1: are gonna be that good unless Zion is cooked. I
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Speaker 1: think he could. Maybe it's maybe he's cooking some some
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Speaker 1: vegan protest. I don't know what he's cooking, but whatever
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Speaker 1: he's cooking, I'm I won't end.
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Speaker 2: We came up with a plan and from boxing to
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Speaker 2: working out on the football field to lie this is
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Speaker 2: just different random workouts, and during that time frame last year,
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Speaker 2: I really felt a shift in my body to where
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Speaker 2: I would look at him and.
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Speaker 1: Go, dude, it feels good to feel good.
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Speaker 2: I haven't felt like this since college, high school, or
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Speaker 2: I can walk in the gym and I'm like it,
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Speaker 2: just I feel good.
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Speaker 1: We came up with a plan. I'm curious that what
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Speaker 1: that game looks like, you know what I mean? Like
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Speaker 1: I said, just really really excited and well, at least
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Speaker 1: at least I was excited. At least I was excited
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Speaker 1: until I saw another post from that exact same This
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Speaker 1: is Joe Dumars, who is executive vice president of basketball
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Speaker 1: Operations over at the Pelicans. He has not had this
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Speaker 1: job for very long. Joe Dumars gets a lot of
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Speaker 1: the responsibility of building a really good team in the
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Speaker 1: early two thousands, the Detroit Pistons that went on to
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Speaker 1: win a championship and made the conference finals what felt
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Speaker 1: like a hundred different times. But after that, he hasn't
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Speaker 1: really done a ton. And I'm not say and that
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Speaker 1: to like take away that NBA championship, because lord knows,
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of executives a vice president of
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Speaker 1: basketball operations that would love to have a championship. But
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Speaker 1: when he was fired from the Pistons or let go,
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Speaker 1: or have you want to say it, there was the
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Speaker 1: reason was he was stuck in old ways as the
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Speaker 1: game was ever evolving. Here's Joe Dumars about this upcoms here.
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Speaker 1: When you make a ture like you guys did on
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Speaker 1: draft night and you think that kind of sense the message,
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Speaker 1: we expect to be a playoffs team, and can you
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Speaker 1: give away your first round pick to follow us?
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Speaker 3: No, I'm just trying to build a deep team. Like
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Speaker 3: I just said, I've not put that expectation on anyone.
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Speaker 3: I expect us to be competitive every night before you
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Speaker 3: can get to playoffs, before you can get to an
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Speaker 3: amount of wins. The first thing you have to establish
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Speaker 3: is man, we compete hard every single night.
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Speaker 1: And that part I completely agree with that is that
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Speaker 1: is the one of the toughest things. You're going from
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Speaker 1: a team that has not won anything, right, and it's
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Speaker 1: the newest roster, young roster, competing every single night and
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Speaker 1: putting it all on the floor. One hundred percent agree
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Speaker 1: with that, mister Joe Dumars.
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Speaker 3: Before you can start talking about numbers and playing and playoffs,
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Speaker 3: if you don't establish that in your building first, you're
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Speaker 3: just talking. You're just talking, You're just giving quotes out
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Speaker 3: at that point. So for me, it's a process of
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Speaker 3: establishing a hard competitive plan team every night and then
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Speaker 3: we'll get to the.
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Speaker 1: Wins and losses.
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Speaker 3: That would be if we made a trade or didn't
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Speaker 3: make a trade, I'd be saying the same thing here.
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Speaker 3: So the trade is inconsequential to the belief of what
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Speaker 3: I'm talking about. You hit what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Ah No, So I'm not.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't like, Okay, we made this trade, I expect
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Speaker 3: to make the playoffs. That's shortsighted to me.
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Speaker 1: That's shortsighted to me. And if you don't know the
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Speaker 1: contents of this completely on draft night, the Pelicans traded
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Speaker 1: away a future pick that is the best swat between
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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks and the New Wells Pastors too Atlanta
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Speaker 1: for the pick that turned into Derek Queen, meaning that
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Speaker 1: the Pelicans do not have their own first round pick
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Speaker 1: this season. So he's saying that his expectation is not playoffs.
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Speaker 1: His expectation is put together the deep roster that competes
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Speaker 1: every single night. But also that deep roster that competes
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Speaker 1: every single every single night, does that have the pick
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Speaker 1: the fall back on in case they aren't good enough
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Speaker 1: to win every single night. It's tough, It's real tough.
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Speaker 1: And the way I said it is that this is
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Speaker 1: the part of the season where every single fan base
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Speaker 1: should be excited about something. Luckily enough, the pictures of
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Speaker 1: Zion came out, so even though they don't have their
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Speaker 1: own first round pick, and even though they may not
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Speaker 1: be good enough to make the playoffs in the Western Conference,
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Speaker 1: Pelicans fans are excited because their French sized player Zion
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Speaker 1: looks the best he's ever looked. But before that picture
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Speaker 1: came out, I was saying, what should Pelicans fans be
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Speaker 1: excited about? Every team is either excited about one or
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Speaker 1: two things, the prospect of a postseason puts slash a
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Speaker 1: championship run, or the idea of winning the lottery, having
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Speaker 1: future young assets, the idea of having the next Lebron James. Right,
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Speaker 1: that's where every team should lie. And the Pelicans not
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Speaker 1: potentially being good enough to make the postseason and not
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Speaker 1: potentially being having their own first round pick. Not potentially
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Speaker 1: they don't have their first round pick. That leaves the
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Speaker 1: fan in the middle. What should I be excited about?
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Speaker 1: And again ended up being Zion. But this is a
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Speaker 1: really tough quote, and him saying that would be short
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Speaker 1: sighted blows my mind because again he gave away the
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Speaker 1: most interesting asset of the offseason. Now there's a world
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Speaker 1: where this pick means nothing, Right, Zion looks that good.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they are a pliant team if they're a playing team,
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Speaker 1: even if they don't make the postseason. The playing team.
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Speaker 1: They gave up the twelfth overall pick and this year's
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Speaker 1: draft to get the thirteenth overall pick of last year's draft.
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Speaker 1: Not that big of a deal if you really love
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Speaker 1: Dear Queen. But we don't know this just yet. We're
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Speaker 1: just going on based on what the Western Conference is
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Speaker 1: and what this roster looks like right now, it's just
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Speaker 1: don't look like they'd be good enough to make that
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Speaker 1: big push unless Zion is that man. So that's it.
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Speaker 1: Zion looks great. Pelicans. I don't know, but I cannot
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Speaker 1: wait for the rest of these media days. I know
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Speaker 1: that the Knicks already hit theirs wasn't Nothing too crazy
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Speaker 1: came out and the next one, the Brooklyn Nets produced
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Speaker 1: at least a little bit of something, but nothing too
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Speaker 1: worthy to talk about. So yeah, season underway. Oh small ball,
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