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Bring The Thunder EP.20 - OKC All-Time Draft & More! · Bring The Thunder Podcast

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  What is going on everybody? Welcome back to another episode
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  of the Bring the Thunder podcast.
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  Today we have myself, Gabe, we got Satvir, Joe and Jack.
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  We got 3 little events here for you guys.
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  So starting off, we're going to do a snake draft of all time
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  players plus a 6th man and then we will be drafting a coach as
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  well at the end. So we did a little randomized
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  wheel to determine the order it goes Joe, Jack, myself and then
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  sad Bear. So Joe, you're up with the first
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  pick in the 2025. Bring the Thunder Snake draft.
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  Yeah, very blessed to be here. Very honored to have this first
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  pick. I was going through it in my
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  head like Shay or KD here to be honest.
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  I know you guys hate that, but I think that I will go Shay with
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  the number one pick. I believe he's, if not already
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  going to be the best player in OKC Thunder history and I think
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  that we've had more talent in other positions outside of point
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  guard over the years. So I'm going to start with Shay
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  because I know I'm not getting Rust on the turn back.
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  There you go. So I'm up next.
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  I think I'll take the second option of Kevin Durant, as much
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  as some people might disagree, but.
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  I'm really thinking, I was really thinking that you guys
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  are going to be stubborn and I was going to get him on the way
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  back. I don't know.
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  Before I make my pick here, I am gonna add as well for the
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  Spotify listeners. Go ahead and hop over to YouTube
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  so you guys can check out the visuals here.
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  We got a little spreadsheet going to keep track of
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  everyone's team, but I don't know.
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  I'd like to thank both Joe and Jack for letting Russell
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  Westbrook slip #3 here. That's really something I I
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  didn't expect me and me and the team, we didn't expect this to
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  happen. We're very happy here.
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  It's like when they changed like the NFL room in the back.
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  Everyone's like, that's us right now.
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  Well, this made my life very easy.
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  I'm going to go ahead and take Paul George right here.
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  Yeah, I honestly thought Gabe was going to take Paul George.
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  Ross. I mean this single season was
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  amazing with us top 3V YMVP on the back-to-back.
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  I'm trying to think like I think I'm taking, I'm taking J dub.
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  I figured, Yep, that's a good. Pick.
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  I want the tandem of Paul George and J Dub on my team, you know?
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  I. Got my defense right.
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  There, I gotta I gotta build the dynamic duo here, I think.
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  So I'm going with Steven Adams, the Russell Westbrook, Steven
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  Adams connection. It's it's just too good.
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  I just ruined Jack's draft by the way, so.
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  That's that's horrible. I'm sorry, I just had to build
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  the duo. Steven Adams overall goes up
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  like 10 when Russ is on his team.
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  So. That's true.
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  I'm going to think of who I need because my next Victoria has
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  just been stolen. Right before him too.
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  That's kind of messed up, I'm sorry.
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  Yeah, very messed up, I think. I think our point guard game is
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  pretty weak outside Russ and Shay, so I'm going to go and
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  take Chris Paul. I feel like I'm missing someone.
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  I feel like I'm missing someone. No, no, you're good.
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  You're good. I think I'm.
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  Going to take Chris Paul. I was thinking no.
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  Point because after that I think it it there's quite a big drop
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  off. So having Chris Ford and Katie
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  on the same team is. That's tough.
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  That's. Your reaction scared me Saturday
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  because I thought I missed someone but.
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  There is one person missing but I'm going to get them.
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  Here's the answer. OK.
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  Bold if you do assume that there.
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  So I get I got back-to-back here with the best player on the list
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  already. So I'm pretty happy about that.
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  Give me a little more offense here.
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  Give me James Harden, another ball handler outside of SGA.
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  Solid, solid. And then give me, yeah, we got
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  good offense. We need a little bit of defense
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  here. I'm I'm, I'm stuck in between
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  two guys right now. I'm stuck in between.
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  I'll tell you, I'm stuck in between, Lou.
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  Don't. Don't say it because then
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  someone else is going to. I don't want someone.
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  Else I know my expect I know. I think.
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  I know it. I'm going to take, I want a
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  little bit of shooting that comes along with the defense.
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  So give me Serge Ibaka, Serge Ivanka, a little bit of
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  shooting, a little bit of Stretch 4 ability.
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  I like my start for sure. I'm going to take some.
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  Well, I wanted to go classic Center with Steven Adams, but
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  now it's gone I might might as well go Stretch 5, So give me a
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  chat. There you go.
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  There you go. I'm glad to get Lou here.
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  I I think adding that defense, having Russ and Lou, I mean,
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  come on man, that two dogs just hound in your guard.
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  So I'm good with that. Let's go, man.
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  I I thought my guy would still be here.
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  I'm going with my big boy Danilo Gallinari.
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  Yeah, that's fair. Was that the guy you were
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  talking about before saying? Yeah, bro, 19 points per game
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  like elite, elite. And then here on the next turn
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  around, I'm going to go ahead and take.
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  I think we need a point guard finally.
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  So Dennis Schroeder. Nice, solid, definitely solid.
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  Oh man, this is this is getting a little tough here.
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  I'm trying to decide between multiple players.
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  While you're thinking, Gabe, I'm going to just mention this out
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  there right now. Jalen Williams is in fact, my
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  center. There you go.
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  Where's getting big? Steven Adams is going to eat.
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  On that town, no J Dub got him. I believe in you, J Dub.
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  If you're watching this right now, you can take Steven Adams.
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  I'm going to go. With a broken hand.
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  I'm going to go with I was a big fan when we had him.
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  I'm going with Victor Oladipo. I really liked Oladipo for us.
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  Connect me. It's hard.
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  It's very hard. I feel like I'm missing a bit of
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  size maybe. I feel like with all.
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  But then again, with Chris Poole, I think you got to
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  surround him with some scores. So I'm going to go with Carmelo
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  Anthony. Like darn, I was literally
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  looking at Carmelo right now. That's that's a good pick.
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  Him and Katie with Chris Paul, I can see it working.
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  Absolutely. My team, I am enjoying my teams
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  outlook. I think we're big enough with
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  surge. I mean I got Jane Williams out
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  of center. Steve obviously is big and then
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  Chet, but Serge and Chet not too far off.
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  I'm going to stick with a little bit more of three and D type
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  player going to be Alex Caruso. He could guard one through 5,
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  stretch the floor, knock down some shots from my first pick
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  there and my second pick. This might come as a surprise
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  but I've I have a soft spot for this guy.
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  Only when he was on OK C Didn't really care for him outside of
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  OK C, but we'll round it out with Ennis Kanter at the five.
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  Ennis Kanter at the Five. Y'all both took my guys.
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  OK, I'm looking at this. I kind of have a, a 3A 4A Santa,
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  a guard, so I kind of need a shooting guard.
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  They've all been taken though, that's the only issue.
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  Not all of them. They're definitely some that
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  still exists. There is definitely.
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  Definitely a solid ass player that comes to mind for sure.
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  Yeah, there's one that. I'll tell you.
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  I'll tell you the three on between of the moment, Kayson
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  Willis, Thabos Epilosa and Anthony Morrow.
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  Solid, solid. I feel like I have enough, I
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  have enough scoring. So I know exactly where.
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  Look at the list again please. Jack won't take him.
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  Jack won't take. Him.
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  Who am I missing? You're not missing anyone on
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  your list. That's fine, Jack.
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  Just choose between the three guys.
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  Yeah, I think I'm going to go casing.
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  But I'm. Interested to see to see where I
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  messed up. I'm I'm going for my my other
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  big here and I'm taking Al Horford.
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  I'm a big guy. Get some get some spacing out
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  there too. Broke and knocked down that 30.
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  Yeah, that's right. Good pick, yeah.
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  Alright. Kevin comes.
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  The there this is going to be Kevin Martin for me.
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  I don't know if Joe was thinking the same person Yeah yeah, yeah.
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  And then I'm going Josh giddy right here because he provides a
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  little bit of everything at the 6th man.
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  He's more than a I feel like he's more than a 6th man, so
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  getting him this late in the draft is like ridiculous for me.
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  Oh, man, I could really. I don't know if Jack would take
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  him here, but I would feel really bad if I took.
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  Do you know who you're taking, Jack?
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  No, I got no. OK, well then maybe I won't feel
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  bad. No, I'm not.
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  I'm not going to do. That I love DCI, love Jack team
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  for sure. Let's go with let's go.
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  I am going to do it. Let's go with let's go with
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  Wiggins. Let's go with Aaron Wiggins.
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  Yeah, I realize that. Yeah.
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  I do have this shirt on right now so.
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  Yeah, that's. I was like, damn.
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  I took Steven and Aaron. Yeah.
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  Made me outside Gabe, it's cool. We just do trade.
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  Yeah, wow. I can kick back and relax
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  because I know Jack's not taking my pick.
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  I'm. There's a name that I'm shocked.
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  Hasn't he gone yet? I'm going to go and get some
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  size off the bench. He comes off the bench for us of
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  the finals. Isaiah Heinstein.
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  Good pick. That's a good one.
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  He's got the our two bigs from this past season.
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  I think there's a lot, a lot of better players.
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  Like I'm going to, I'm going to take someone that I probably
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  shouldn't hear, but I love this guy.
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  I need a little bit of veteran presence off the bench.
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  I need someone who's always been clutch be Derek Fisher.
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  Six man I. Thought we were going to go with
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  Jeff Green there. No, no, no one taken off the
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  recently engaged Andre Roberson or married Andre Roberson.
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  I just. Didn't have any room for him.
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  I didn't have room. Either I just didn't need well,
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  the problem I was thinking about it, but if I took him I need
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  shooting so bad so I would not have had any scoring.
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  But it's still an awesome player.
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  I, I wanted to find room for him, but Derek Fisher, veteran
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  presence off the bench, big time shot maker Derek Fisher.
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  All right, Joe, you're up for the coach.
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  Now. Yes, I am back-to-back here,
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  promised the guys before the video.
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  Don't don't think I'm just stupid here that they could get
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  the three one of the three head coaches and I'll take an
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  assistant and my assistant coach who's going to come up and be a
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  head coach of this team is MO Cheeks.
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  I love MO Cheeks as a assistant. Can you MO Cheeks as a story?
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  No, I had coach. Good stuff, good stuff.
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  All right, Jack. I was expecting you to take
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  Mark, but I'll take him. He's being nice.
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  Yeah, that's very nice of you. You're going to, you're not
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  going to catch me taking Billy Donovan, so we're going to go
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  Sky. I don't even know if Sapir can
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  take. I'd be curious to see if he if
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  he just throws in the white flag and takes him.
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  No, no, no. I know exactly who we need.
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  We're. Taking I have such AII got a
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  prediction? Is it?
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  We're taking, I don't. What's your predicting before I
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  say it? I feel like you're the type of
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  guy to take Chip England. Dang it, how'd you know I.
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  Know I just. Feel like Bonnie Williams?
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  No, I'm taking, I'm taking chip. It's a good.
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  Pick. It's a good.
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  Pick I was just going to say we need some shooting coach out
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  here man, so that's awesome. That's what I'm.
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  Thinking that is awesome. All right, well, they're they
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  was talking about the teams, man, look at that there you.
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  Go round them off. Round them off.
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  Gabriel So Joe has Shay, James Harden, Serge Ibaka, Alex
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  Caruso, Ennis Kanter and then Derek Fisher as his six man with
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  MO Cheeks as his coach. Jack's got Kevin Durant, Chris
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  Paul, Chet, Carmelo Cason, Wallace Hartensteiner off the
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  bench and then Mark as the coach.
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  I have Westbrook, Steven Adams, Lou Dort, Victor Oladipo, Al
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  Horford and then Aaron Wiggins off my bench with Scott Brooks
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  as the coach. And then Sadbeer has Paul
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  George, J Dub, Gallinari, Dennis Schroeder, Kevin Martin giddy
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  off the bench and then Chip as his coach.
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  So make sure you guys let us know what team you think is the
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  best of these teams games. But all around, I think
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  everybody did pretty good. Yeah, and we'll be running a
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  story poll on our Instagram, yes, with some graphics to so
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  you guys can determine the the best team out of these 4.
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  There we go. I'm I'm liking everyone's team
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  is interesting that you can tell we all tried to kind of like
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  quickly like adjust when we draft our first player, we're
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  immediately trying to build off of that.
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  So. Yeah.
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  Definitely fun. OK, well, let's go ahead and
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  move on to our next topic, which is if you could add a player, 1
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  current player to this OK C team, this current OK C team,
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  who would it be? Now we all have three players.
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  They wouldn't all be doing at the same time.
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  It's just three options. So does anybody in terms of
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  order, how do we who wants to kick us off here?
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  I don't really mind. I can kick it off if you want.
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  Yeah, sounds good. I got it.
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  Well, I actually have four players, but I have to narrow it
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  down. But my number one option is
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  Dicer Daniels. I just love his defence.
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  I think adding that to the scene would just be insane #2 I know
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  he's in a bit of legal trouble at the moment, but Malik
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  Beasley, that shooting would be so refreshing off the batch.
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  Obviously, put all that, all those shenanigans aside, just
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  him as a basketball player. And then the third spot for me
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  is between Christian Brown from the Nuggets and Jaden Ivy from
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  the Pistons. But I'm ultimately going to go
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  with Christian Brown. I just love the way he plays.
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  He's a dog. And all three of those guys
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  would just fit the Thunder identity real good.
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  Notice how they're all role players as well because we got
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  our stars. So let's start plugging.
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  Those role players in that's why Ivy would be a little iffy
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  because he's he could be more than a role player for sure.
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  But yeah, yeah, I like those Stabber.
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  You want to go. Yeah, I was just thinking the
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  three players that I would go with, Malcolm Brogdon, Ray
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  Lyles, and I'm stuck on player number 3 here.
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  I feel like I'm still stuck on Cam Johnson.
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  For whatever reason, his name keeps come to my mind even after
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  winning the championship. So yeah, we have enough, enough
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  to go get anyone we want, so I'm still going to keep his name in
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  the mix. Yep, sounds good.
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  All right, my three. I also had Malik Beasley
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  regarding disregarding all of the off court drama.
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  And then I also had Cam Johnson saver.
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  I agree. His name just keeps popping off
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  my head. I mean, obviously a very sought
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  out player. We weren't the only team that
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  was at least interested. But then my last one, this is
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  more of just AI really like this player.
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  But Jalen Duran. I'm a big fan of Jalen Duran's
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  game. I really like the size that he
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  brings. I mean, I know we have
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  Hardenstein and Chat, but I just, Jalen Duran's a beast.
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  So yeah, those are my 3. Joe, what do you got?
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  Yeah, with my #1 here. Still like Cam Thomas, they're
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  like Cam Thomas, need that scoring off the bench.
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  Kind of lacked it in the postseason.
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  Hopefully we have a few guys that step up this year, but Cam
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  Thomas #2 I went the easy way out.
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  I'm sorry, Nicola Yokich, why not?
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  That's all I have to say about that.
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  Two best players in the world. Yeah, and I also went with Cam
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  Johnson. I think he's just one of the
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  better three and D forwards in the league right now.
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  Yeah, pretty straightforward. I mean, especially the I like
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  the, I like the Yokich pick. Joe, if we had Yokich, how do
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  you think, what do you think Shay's numbers would would kind
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  of turn into? You think you'd still average
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  30? Yeah, probably much easier.
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  Yeah. How much easier?
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  30 which it's. Ours averaging 45, 40 Yokich is
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  averaging 22 assists a game. OK, well let's go ahead and get
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  on to the next one, which is where we all chose a starting
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  five of Oklahoma City Thunder point guards.
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  Just all time point guards from the Thunder, not from the
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  Sonics, just the Thunder. So this isn't a draft, this is
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  just straight up five man roster of point guard.
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  So we could just go to the order that went with the draft.
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  So Joe, you want to kick us off? Yeah, here's Paul at the one.
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  Fair. Fair.
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  Actually, it's it's kind of funny.
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  I think this is like exactly what Jack had for the Thunder
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  coverage on his actual post Chris Paul at the 1, Westbrook
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  at the 2, giddy at the five, Shay at the four.
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  And to round it off, yeah, I, I just looked at it literally
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  Schroeder at the three would be my like exact point guard
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  lineup. Well, grandma does think a like
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  that's my my exact one as well. I think Chris Poole at the one
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  makes sense. Then you got Russ.
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  I mean, you have to have him in there because it's point guards,
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  but he's more of the slasher than Chris Poole.
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  And then Schroeder's just I mean, looking at the list,
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  there's not that many spacing point guards you can choose
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  from, to be honest. And then you got Shay at the
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  four, just purely his size and then giddy at the five.
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  I mean, take away his three. I mean, he doesn't have 3 point
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  shooting. So his rebounding is pretty
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  good, good for A5 and his size. So I feel like you could run a
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  lot of high, high post catches through him and see where it
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  goes. But interesting concept for
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  sure. But yeah, same, same as Joe.
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  For sure I had Chris Paul at the one same as you guys.
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  Then I had I had Oladipo at the 2.
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  I guess I backed up my draft there talking about liking
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  Oladipo. But then I had Shay at the
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  three, Russ at the four, getting that rebounding in there and
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  then Giddy at the five. So I mean, there's like, like
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  you just said, Jack, you know, the, the list kind of thinned
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  out sooner than later. But we also had Ross's the
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  greatest rebounding point guard ever and then giddy with his
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  size and everything else is easy at the five.
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  So. But yeah, Schroeder's a good
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  pick too, other than Oladipo. I'd probably say my list is
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  exactly the same as Gabe. I like that mix of players.
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  I feel like they balance out and kind of fit each other really
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  well. So I'm going to go with the same
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  list with Gabe there. I feel like this is a nice two
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  and two split. Absolutely, I agree with that.
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  I feel like as, as we go on for, I think we'll rerun this segment
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  next week in the episode, but do shooting guards.
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  And I think as we go on with the positions, it'll get more, much
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  more change than this week. We've only had a handful of
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  point guards. The center one will be really
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  interesting for sure. That'll have some people pull in
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  some names for sure. Yeah, I.
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  Can't wait for that one. Me neither.
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  And then I mean we got a lot of good positions too.
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  Forwards will be good as well. But yeah, I mean if anyone's got
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  anything else they want to add. No, I, I don't think there's
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  much in the way of news. I, I think the one pair of news
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  that I do want to mention is the stays like worldwide Pixar
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  coming up here. I think that's in September, so
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  early September. I think that's been the big
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  news. And then there's been a lot of
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  Shay just in the media, NBA has been posting him a lot like his
• 22:15
  he's kind of becoming the face of the league, to be honest,
• 22:17
  Like with the way they're posting and with the
• 22:19
  collaboration they have with converse, obviously like he's
• 22:23
  won MVP, won a ring. So you would see that.
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  And we didn't really see this with like a guy like Jason
• 22:28
  Tatum, right? Like he got it.
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  And then he wasn't really in the limelight the same way for a guy
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  to be from a small, small town, small city.
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  I feel like that's it's just been a crazy dream of a, I guess
• 22:43
  summer. And then he just had his
• 22:44
  hometown like rally with the championship.
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  I know Jose Joe and Jay Will had theirs in their hometowns.
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  So everyone's kind of make their making their rounds.
• 22:55
  And right now most people are just kind of on vacation.
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  I know hardened. Signs and as well.
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  Yeah, and in Germany doing his fundraiser, so it's like
• 23:03
  everyone's kind of doing their thing.
• 23:06
  But we should be kicking off here next month soon with some
• 23:10
  hoops. So super.
• 23:13
  Shay also with the with the 2K26 cover 2K has been giving him a
• 23:16
  ton of love. Game comes out here pretty soon
• 23:19
  and I know they've been all the pre-order bonuses or jerseys and
• 23:23
  all this fun stuff so. Are we buying it?
• 23:28
  I'm buying it. I'm not buying it man, I'll
• 23:31
  probably get a cover or something but I'm not getting
• 23:34
  any actual games. Because I I posted on my
• 23:37
  Instagram about it and asked my followers if they're buying it
• 23:40
  and someone if I can find the ad, I'll shout them out.
• 23:42
  But he made a very good point and he said wait one maybe 2
• 23:46
  years, find it in Walmart and it'll be $5 and you get the
• 23:49
  cover. And that is exactly what I'm
• 23:51
  doing. That is a great point.
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  I'm. Not going to play it, but I, I
• 23:55
  want, I want the cover, you know?
• 23:56
  The cover, even though it's not a it's not something else people
• 24:00
  have been arguing about, is the absolute lack of any effort
• 24:04
  towards making a cool cover like we used to have.
• 24:06
  But yeah, no, it just, I mean, you kind of have to at least get
• 24:11
  something for it at some point. It's just like, come on.
• 24:14
  Like especially with everything that happened, you know, with US
• 24:16
  winning the Finals and him winning MVP and this historic
• 24:20
  season he had, it's kind of like the cherry on top to give him
• 24:23
  the cover athlete. But I saw someone talking about
• 24:26
  the 2K cover curse and I was like, that is First off, it's
• 24:29
  not a thing that 2K players do not get.
• 24:31
  I mean, Tatum, unfortunately, that doesn't line up well.
• 24:34
  But there was like 4 in a row without a curse.
• 24:36
  That's a Madden thing. But no, I think, I think it's
• 24:40
  just it's just really cool to see all the media actually
• 24:42
  liking him since we went on a good stint there where it was
• 24:46
  everyone in in their mom just calling out with Thunder talking
• 24:49
  about how much they hated us. So there's still a lot of
• 24:52
  haters, but Shay is getting his flowers and it's nice to see the
• 24:56
  team kind of getting some acknowledgments too, so.
• 24:59
  I think the I want to mention the Shay hates kind of gotten so
• 25:04
  ridiculous that like even like the media that did hate on him
• 25:08
  have kind of turned and realized like that's probably bad for
• 25:11
  their brand. We've seen like DoorDash make a
• 25:14
  horrible post Overtime has even kind of shifted their talking
• 25:19
  points. House of Highlights have shifted
• 25:21
  their talking points. Some of the editing, you know,
• 25:23
  editors that do like, I guess edits of players, they've kind
• 25:28
  of shifted towards doing more positive stuff towards Shay.
• 25:32
  The other set of news or update that I wanted to mention was J
• 25:35
  Dub being in the gym, Chet being in the gym, Sorber.
• 25:39
  You know, a lot of these other guys like seeing them post on
• 25:42
  their social medias where they could be taking a vacation right
• 25:46
  now. They've been in the gym.
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  So it's really nice to see that and just wanted to shout them
• 25:51
  out for that. Absolutely, man.
• 25:53
  I, I am so excited to watch Thorber get out on the court,
• 25:56
  man, especially with you'd like to think he's doing a lot of
• 25:59
  training with Chet and we'll be doing stuff with Heart too.
• 26:01
  So really exciting to see how that's all going to unfold once
• 26:05
  the season starts rolling around.
• 26:08
  All right, well, I think I think we can go ahead and wrap up the
• 26:11
  episode there like we mentioned with our draft in the beginning,
• 26:14
  let us know what you guys think for which team was the best.
• 26:18
  Again, like Jack mentioned as well for that starting five
• 26:20
  point guards, make sure you guys tune to the episode next week.
• 26:23
  We will be likely doing our starting five of shooting guards
• 26:26
  and you know, so keep going down the list with the with the
• 26:30
  positions there. But yeah, I mean, thank you guys
• 26:32
  for checking out the episode. Please continue to check out our
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  other forms of social media as we will be posting more content
• 26:38
  like usual. But thank you guys for listening
• 26:40
  and we'll catch you next time.