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The Chicago Bulls "Success" Is Complicated... · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: So Chicago Bulls have been at least fun since the
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Speaker 1: trade that line, and I truly have conflicting feelings about
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Speaker 1: it as a Bulls fan, and I really want to
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Speaker 1: talk to y'all about it. Yesterday they basically played their
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Speaker 1: best game of the entire season. They went into Crypto,
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Speaker 1: they went into the Staple Center against the Lakers and
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Speaker 1: just put on a clinic almost one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: points in regulation. We had our rookie Modis Bozello's career night,
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Speaker 1: thirty one points shot out to my guy Josh Giddy
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Speaker 1: is two steals away from the first Quadjupu double. And
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Speaker 1: I don't know how long Kobe White is on his
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Speaker 1: typical March tear where he just goes out there and
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Speaker 1: he's dropping thirties on a nightly basis. It was perfect, great, exciting,
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Speaker 1: fun basketball. But damn it, I'm conflicted about it, bro,
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Speaker 1: I really really am. And the reason for them is,
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Speaker 1: there are multiple ways to be a fan of a
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Speaker 1: sports team, right, but I'm gonna make it very very
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Speaker 1: broad in general. Right, there's two different pots. I'll say
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Speaker 1: Pot number one is the pot that I'm in. We're
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Speaker 1: the NBA fans that know the CBA were the fans
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Speaker 1: that recognized the long.
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Speaker 2: Term and broader view of the organization.
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Speaker 1: You know, we're thinking about trades, We're thinking about free agency,
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Speaker 1: we're thinking about drafting, We're thinking about the young core.
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Speaker 1: We're thinking about all of the things because at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, our goal and Pot Number one
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Speaker 1: is to win an eventual championship or be in contention
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Speaker 1: for multiple years.
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Speaker 2: Here here in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: For thirty years ago, we were the pinnacle of what
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Speaker 1: success looked like and we ain't had none of that.
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Speaker 1: So us in Pot A recognize that even though this
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Speaker 1: team is young and fun, and the young part is
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Speaker 1: what people always forget, the broader view of these organization
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Speaker 1: still isn't good.
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Speaker 2: And Pot B. It's like my dad.
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Speaker 1: My dad on a nightly basis is asking how them
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Speaker 1: bulls looked. They look good yesterday, not thinking about the
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Speaker 1: potential of losing the first overall pick, not thinking about
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Speaker 1: the overall upside of this team two years, three years
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Speaker 1: down the line.
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Speaker 2: They really only care about today.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying one way is better than the other,
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Speaker 1: because I do believe that both pots have to coexist
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Speaker 1: to build a really good fan base, But sometimes when
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Speaker 1: I dip My's ho in Pot number two, it's immaculate.
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Speaker 1: Watching Monis Bozelli's put a Luca Dahntins in that SPI cycle,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my goodness, seeing them go into Crypto
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Speaker 1: Staples Center and get a win is so dope.
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Speaker 2: When you and pot number two. But then reality hits
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Speaker 2: and you look at Pop one you say, damn it,
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Speaker 2: we just lost another three percent chance to go get.
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Speaker 1: A top pick. It's it's it's I don't know. It's
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Speaker 1: so conflicting, right pot A. We know all of ins
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Speaker 1: and outs of the CBA, the second A brand and
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Speaker 1: what that can mean for our team. Eventually we recognize
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Speaker 1: that Bear ma Outa Bio just signed a one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty dollars deal that kicks in in two years,
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Speaker 1: and who that's a lot of money.
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Speaker 2: Like, I think that more modern fans.
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Speaker 1: I think the modern sports fan in general is just
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Speaker 1: smarter now than it was thirty years ago, because we
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Speaker 1: have every resource in the world.
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Speaker 2: Damn it.
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Speaker 1: We got one hundred NBA podcasts, and some of them
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Speaker 1: buy NBA players and they'll tell you straight up about
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Speaker 1: their contract and stuff. So I feel like we're more
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Speaker 1: smart now than we were thirty years ago, and the
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Speaker 1: thirty years ago approach still is pretty damn cool.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes is when I talk about the Bulls being fun
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Speaker 2: and exciting.
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Speaker 1: Since the trade that line, they are ten and twelve,
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Speaker 1: they were below average team, but they have had nights
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Speaker 1: where it's just like when we were over the last
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Speaker 1: five years, three years, four years or so, Remember when
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Speaker 1: the Bulls were the two c going into the All
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Speaker 1: Star Break with Zoe and Zach Lavine and Demarta Rose
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Speaker 1: and like, those were fun times, don't get me wrong,
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Speaker 1: But eventually, once we got to the playoffs and we
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Speaker 1: lost in the first round, a lot of Bulls fans like,
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Speaker 1: we knew that this team didn't have a championship seiling,
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Speaker 1: so let's do something about it, do something about a thing.
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Speaker 1: So since then, I haven't really had a lot of
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Speaker 1: fun watching the Bulls because I'm thinking about what is
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Speaker 1: a long term plan, what is a long term future.
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Speaker 1: So the fact that over the last twenty or so
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Speaker 1: games we've been fun, it's pretty interesting stuff. One thing
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Speaker 1: that gets lost when people think and talk about the
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Speaker 1: Bulls is how young this team really is, especially since
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Speaker 1: the trade that line man Tory Craig out, Zach Lavin out.
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Speaker 2: The only above thirty guy on the team is Nikola Vusavi.
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Speaker 1: It's everybody else, specifically, these rotation players of modest who started,
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Speaker 1: just giddy who started?
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Speaker 2: Patsy Williams is twenty three.
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Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, like all of these
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Speaker 1: dudes are, this is a really young team. So, Kenny,
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Speaker 1: you have a young, fun team. What is there to
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Speaker 1: really complain about? I think there's different levels of young
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Speaker 1: and fun. Let's take a step back to last year
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Speaker 1: when we saw a young fund Orlando Magic team come
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Speaker 1: onto the scene and end up being what the five
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Speaker 1: seed in their series. Right, this is their current roster,
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Speaker 1: but the corps is relatively the same. The difference between
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Speaker 1: what this team is doing at first of all, they
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Speaker 1: won a lot more games, don't get me wrong, but
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Speaker 1: there is higher upside to this team where you feel like, yes,
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Speaker 1: we're a young team that made the postseason, but we
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Speaker 1: have a Palo, we have a Franz, and both of
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Speaker 1: these dudes potentious out of this world. You know, some
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Speaker 1: people look at Palo ben Caro and say one day
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Speaker 1: that guy will be a top ten player in this league.
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Speaker 1: So their young fun with a lot of long term upside.
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Speaker 1: When I look at my Chicago Bulls, we're young, fun
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Speaker 1: and not nearly the same level of upside. Josh Giddy
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Speaker 1: has been playing out of his damn mind right now,
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Speaker 1: but he ain't got the ceiling that Paalo ben Caro does.
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Speaker 1: He may not even have the ceiling that Franz Wagner has.
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Speaker 1: Right the other guy you could look at is a
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Speaker 1: potential all start. We're talking about ceilings here. I think
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Speaker 1: Josh Giddy's ceiling is an all Star. Will he ever
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Speaker 1: get there, I don't know, but I think his ceiling,
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Speaker 1: based on the way he has played, is an all
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Speaker 1: star caliber player. I think Kobe White also has a
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Speaker 1: similar ceiling. We don't know if they're gonna actualize that potential,
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Speaker 1: and that's kind of it. Twenty year old minus Uzelle
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Speaker 1: has been phenomenal, so we don't know what his ceiling
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Speaker 1: is because we're only talking about sixty games to his.
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Speaker 2: NBA career, but we don't have that higher ceiling.
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Speaker 1: A young, fun, exciting, good team this year is the
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Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons, and they have done all the right things,
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Speaker 1: from bringing in the vets like a shrewder or Tobias
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Speaker 1: Harris and Tim Hardaway Junior. But the engine that his
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Speaker 1: team is a twenty three year old point guard who's
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Speaker 1: probably going to be All NBA this season. They have
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Speaker 1: the high upside there and the Bulls don't got that.
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Speaker 1: And in my mind, you think about the high upside.
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Speaker 1: Listen the two teams that we just talked about, the
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Speaker 1: high upside player in Paula, Ben Caron, K Cunningham. Guess
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Speaker 1: what both of them were first overall picks. Not rocket science,
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Speaker 1: but this is a draft that I found. Talking about
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Speaker 1: the NBA draft pick value, everybody recognizes that the higher
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Speaker 1: pick you have, the more likely you are to hit
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Speaker 1: on that pick, simply put. Of course, there's always going
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Speaker 1: to be the Gianissists that are outside the lobby or
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Speaker 1: the Yokicis that could be a second round pick. But
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Speaker 1: the higher draft pick you have, the more likely you
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Speaker 1: are to draft somebody that can change your franchise. And
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Speaker 1: right now, the Bulls don't have a chance of franchise
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Speaker 1: alter and talent, and getting that franchise alter and talent
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Speaker 1: is going to be really difficult. If you're picking number ten,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be really difficult if you're picking number
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Speaker 1: fifteen and right now, that is the crash course that
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Speaker 1: the Bulls are on. Right now, we have the tenth
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Speaker 1: best odds, which, again, anything can happen. If I ran
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Speaker 1: as Tanka Thon five times, I bet the Bulls jump
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Speaker 1: at least once.
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Speaker 2: Nope, nope, nope, dang nope, nope. Okay, so never mind.
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Speaker 1: So that tells you how tough it will be for
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Speaker 1: the Bulls to jump up here. But the scary thing
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Speaker 1: about it all because right now, if we ended the
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Speaker 1: season and the Bulls had the tenth odds and we
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Speaker 1: had a three percent odd that Cooper flag fourteen percent
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Speaker 1: chance at Cooper flag as bayle Ron harp On whoever
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Speaker 1: might end up number four.
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Speaker 2: I'm okay with that.
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Speaker 1: Right Earlier in the season we were towards to seven range,
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Speaker 1: and I really like that idea, but damn it, top ten.
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Speaker 2: I guess I'll settle for that.
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Speaker 1: But the problem is the Bulls are playing team, and
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Speaker 1: right now they're playing the second best basketball of all
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Speaker 1: the playing team. Right right now, the Mimi Heater on
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Speaker 1: a ten game ten game skid, which is the longest
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Speaker 1: losing stript they've had since before Eric Sposter was coaching
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Speaker 1: this team. So if we went into that game, the
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Speaker 1: Bulls are probably favored in that. Will they win, I
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Speaker 1: don't know. You know, it's one game elimination, but the
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Speaker 1: Bulls are going into that probably favored, and then they
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Speaker 1: play against the loser of Magic versus Hawks. Right now,
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Speaker 1: the Bulls are playing better basketball than the Orlando Magic.
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Speaker 1: If the Bulls win two play in games and end
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Speaker 1: up going against the Calves just to losing five or
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Speaker 1: just losing four, I'm gonna be so pissed because that
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Speaker 1: means that they drop out of the lottery and they
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Speaker 1: have a zero percent chance to move up. They're gonna
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Speaker 1: have pick number fifteen, and drafting somebody great at pick number.
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Speaker 2: Fifteen is hard. So that's why I talk about being conflicted.
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Speaker 2: Them being ten and twelve.
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Speaker 1: Sis to trade that line and actively on a two
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Speaker 1: game streak and actively seven and three in their last
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Speaker 1: ten could be so detrimental to the long term of
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Speaker 1: this team. And that's just scary. The teams above them,
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Speaker 1: every single one, when almost every single one of them
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Speaker 1: recognize what they're doing, they know what they're doing. The Wizards,
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Speaker 1: the Jazz, the Hornets, the Pelicans, the Nets, the seventy
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Speaker 1: six Ers, the the Raptors are doing this crazy form
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Speaker 1: of tanking that we never seen before. The top seven
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Speaker 1: teams are set, you're not budgeting. Those teams are bad
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Speaker 1: and losing basketball games. We find ourselves in that middle range.
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Speaker 1: That's like, we don't really know because even the team
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Speaker 1: right above us, the San Antonio Spurs, they may not
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Speaker 1: be actively tanking, but their top two players are out
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Speaker 1: for the rest of the season, and they won the
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Speaker 1: lot of two years ago to get this freaking nature,
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Speaker 1: So even they already have that staple that franchise altering player.
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Speaker 2: Don'n conflicted because I tune in to watch.
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Speaker 1: Them play and it can be fun. It's exciting. Josh
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Speaker 1: Getty's throwing full court dimes. Kobe White is using his
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Speaker 1: size against smaller players, something I've been asking him to
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Speaker 1: do forever. You're six', Five. Kobe he's finally doing, it
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Speaker 1: and it's so exciting to. See but when they, Win.
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Speaker 2: I'm, like damn, it this could be awful for the.
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Speaker 1: Franchise and then the guys that are in charge they
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Speaker 1: come in and they, say we're not settling for. Mediocrity
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Speaker 1: i'm gonna remind you what the word mediocrity. MEANS a
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Speaker 1: synonym of mediocrity is average and them being ten and
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Speaker 1: twelve and the last twenty four is about. Average right,
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Speaker 1: now their advanced stats are that of a team that
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Speaker 1: will win forty, games which is. Average twenty seven games
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Speaker 1: left is What Tune's Carney silvas kept. Saying you, know
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Speaker 1: after the tw that line will see what we have
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Speaker 1: in this, Team and what we have on this team
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Speaker 1: is some, competent, young good, players but nobody that can
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Speaker 1: change the. Franchise so if you're not gonna draft that
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Speaker 1: guy that can change the franchise or were about to
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Speaker 1: start trading for, play are we gonna be in The Kevin,
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Speaker 1: Durant sweet, sakes what since does that?
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Speaker 2: Make are we gonna go Get Julius? Randall what sin
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Speaker 2: does that?
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Speaker 1: Make so the only real way to make it happen
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Speaker 1: for The bulls is to draft well and draft high
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Speaker 1: and hit a, pick and it's hard to.
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Speaker 2: DO i do believe we hit the home run minus.
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Speaker 1: BZEALOUS i don't know if that home run means that
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Speaker 1: he'll ever be An All star or whatever, whatever but
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Speaker 1: the dude has the drive and the capabilities to be
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Speaker 1: a long TERM nba, Player and at pick number, eleven
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Speaker 1: believe it or, not.
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Speaker 2: Can be kind of. Rare So i'm, conflicted true.
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Speaker 1: DILEMMA i got a lot of tweets yes, today Like,
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Speaker 1: yo your bulls look, good And i'm, like, yeah they.
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Speaker 2: DO i swear they. Do but and then you start
10:53
Speaker 2: thinking about the long term.
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Speaker 1: Thing like we, Mentioned Josh gatty is up for restrictive
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Speaker 1: free agency this. Year he's played so well since we
11:00
Speaker 1: Traded Zach lavine that you have to really consider what
11:04
Speaker 1: type of contract he should be. Worth AND i think
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Speaker 1: the worst part about it all is that Like march
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Speaker 1: basketball in THE nba is and a lot of times
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Speaker 1: kind of fake teams In. MARCH i read something that
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Speaker 1: said the first month of the season is more of
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Speaker 1: an indication of how a team will perform in the
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Speaker 1: postseason than the last. Month so you talk about a
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Speaker 1: team ending their season on a seven eight game streak
11:28
Speaker 1: or winning sixteen of their last twenty or whatever it may,
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Speaker 1: be that's not a real indication that a team is
11:36
Speaker 1: good enough to win a, championship, Right AND i feel
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Speaker 1: the same way about. Players march basketball can be, fluky
11:43
Speaker 1: where a player.
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Speaker 2: Is just hooping his butt off All march.
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Speaker 1: Long, remember and this is not a shot BECAUSE i
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Speaker 1: really do Like Jalen green and he's a good basketball.
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Speaker 1: Player but remember last, Year Jalen green averaged twenty eight
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Speaker 1: points in the month Of. March the year before, That
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Speaker 1: Kobe white The March Madden Is, killer he averaged twenty
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Speaker 1: six points per game In. March, like there are players
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Speaker 1: that do. That so now you have to figure, out
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Speaker 1: is What Josh getty doing right now? Sustainable do we
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Speaker 1: think that he can average these type of numbers of
12:11
Speaker 1: the course of AN nba. Season same thing with like
12:13
Speaker 1: a guy Like Denny abdia who's playing In, Portland, like
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Speaker 1: there are good young players doing ridiculous stuff In. March
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Speaker 1: AND i think that because we weren't able to facilitate
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Speaker 1: a Zach lavine deal into Until, february we will just
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Speaker 1: have a really small sample size to figure out is
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Speaker 1: this version Of Josh getty the real version of? Him
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Speaker 1: because the last fifteen is, incredible twenty eight and nine
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Speaker 1: will round up for you three turnovers Per he's shooting
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Speaker 1: an unsustainable fifty percent from three in this. Stretch get
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Speaker 1: into the line hidden free, throws the true shooting is
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Speaker 1: up by ten.
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Speaker 2: Percent he has been.
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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Brian winhorse reports that he'll probably get market value
12:52
Speaker 1: for starting point, guards and market value for starting point
12:55
Speaker 1: guards is anywhere between twenty five to thirty million. Dollars
12:57
Speaker 1: and then you think About Kobe white being, up his
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Speaker 1: contract being up at the end of next. Season you
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Speaker 1: have to, decide Is Kobe white And Josh geddy a
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Speaker 1: the backcourt of your now and in your? Future and
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Speaker 1: if it, is will it be worth paying them collectively
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Speaker 1: sixty five million dollars?
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Speaker 2: Annually is that smart for.
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Speaker 1: FRANCHISE i don't have the answers for, this but this
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Speaker 1: is what we're trusting the top dudes to make the decision,
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Speaker 1: on and they haven't done anything to get that trust
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Speaker 1: from the fan. Base Kobe white's last fifteen is twenty
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Speaker 1: six and a half. Points LIKE i, mentioned his shooting
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Speaker 1: is not looking. Great he'll give you a. Burner don't
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Speaker 1: get me. Wrong he get his six to eight threes
13:32
Speaker 1: in the, game but it really is him getting to
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Speaker 1: the free throw, line using his size and finishing through.
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Speaker 1: Contact against The kings the other, night he had four
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Speaker 1: and ones in one.
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Speaker 2: Half the second half he.
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Speaker 1: Had four and Once like he's playing phenomenal, basketball and
13:45
Speaker 1: SOMETIMES i wonder if my job wasn't to do the
13:48
Speaker 1: sports thing and to follow all of these. Teams IF
13:51
Speaker 1: i would fall more Into POT b Or pot number
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Speaker 1: two is what we said and how much that changes
13:57
Speaker 1: your outlook on, Sports. Bro the most happy sports fans
14:01
Speaker 1: are From pot two because they don't have a care
14:03
Speaker 1: in the world other than wins and.
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Speaker 2: Losses AND i envy.
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Speaker 1: THAT i truly do envy that BECAUSE i won't have
14:09
Speaker 1: to sit here and overthink for eighteen minutes about The
14:12
Speaker 1: bulls winning a game against The. Lakers if you're In POT, B,
14:15
Speaker 1: BRO i respect the hell out of, You. BRO i
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Speaker 1: respect you for being that care free and just enjoying
14:22
Speaker 1: the basketball for what it, is just a game and a.
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Speaker 2: Sport but, MAN i can't get out Of. PATTY i just.
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Speaker 1: CAN'T i just, Can't, BRO i. Can't and let me
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Speaker 1: do My Josh giddy piece. Here when we traded For Josh,
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Speaker 1: GITTY i dropped two. VIDEOS i had the initial, reaction
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Speaker 1: which is what we always do in this channel when
14:38
Speaker 1: it comes to, trades but because that trade had been
14:40
Speaker 1: on my mind for twenty four hours, STRAIGHT i dropped
14:43
Speaker 1: the second video after that To Josh kitty. Trade twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours, later and an initial VIDEO i was explaining
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Speaker 1: HOW i JUST i didn't like the. TRADE i didn't
14:53
Speaker 1: like the fact that The bulls didn't get any draft,
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Speaker 1: capital especially because they were all for draft, capital draft
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Speaker 1: capital and other trades and so on and so. Forth
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Speaker 1: and Then Josh gatty just wasn't good last year full
15:04
Speaker 1: stop gave you. Glimpses he just wasn't good on any
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Speaker 1: any side of the. Ball and THEN i didn't really
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Speaker 1: look at his postseason stuff because he was a twenty
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Speaker 1: one year old postseason. PLAYER i didn't look at that
15:14
Speaker 1: and say that just who he is as a. Player
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Speaker 1: BUT i just didn't really like. IT i think in
15:18
Speaker 1: the video, VERBATIM i, Said Josh katty is a player
15:21
Speaker 1: that can't, shoot can't, finish and doesn't. Defend can't, shoot can't,
15:24
Speaker 1: finish doesn't. Defend and this season he's flipped at least
15:28
Speaker 1: a few of those. Things and, now granted we're talking
15:30
Speaker 1: about basically wide open, looks but it doesn't it doesn't
15:33
Speaker 1: matter if they're wide open or. Not Josh gatty is
15:34
Speaker 1: hitting his three pointers at what. Clip let me let
15:36
Speaker 1: me double check this real. Quick right, now he's hitting
15:39
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent of his threes on four attempts per.
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Speaker 2: Game that is really.
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Speaker 1: Good Take you'll take that when you think about the
15:45
Speaker 1: rest of the What Josh gatty brings to the. Floor
15:48
Speaker 1: if he's gonna be wide open and he shoots thirty
15:50
Speaker 1: eight percent from, three you tip your.
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Speaker 2: Cap you know What i'm.
15:52
Speaker 1: SAYING i said he couldn't, finish and right now the
15:54
Speaker 1: finishing stats are not very. Good but he does do
15:57
Speaker 1: a really good job of getting downhill and creating have
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Speaker 1: it that, way AND i, TRY i swear if he
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Speaker 1: ever is able to just get a little bit stronger
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Speaker 1: and finished through contact a little bit, MORE i think
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Speaker 1: some of that can't finish thing will.
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Speaker 2: Change and the defense.
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Speaker 1: Has been LIKE i wish there was a chart to
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Speaker 1: show you How Josh getty has played throughout this season
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Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the, ball because earlier in
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Speaker 1: it he was he was dreadful. Again i'm a guy
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Speaker 1: that has watched every Single bulls game except for. ONE
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Speaker 1: i missed One bulls game this, season and Because Josh
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Speaker 1: gitty was a guy ready to get an extension or
16:27
Speaker 1: maybe get an, EXTENSION i have been A hawk watching
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Speaker 1: him Because i'm, like DO i want my favorite team
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Speaker 1: to pay this dude this amount of. Money so when
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Speaker 1: he first started off here with The, bulls the defense was.
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Speaker 1: Bad it, WAS i, mean like really really. Bad like
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Speaker 1: DIDN'T i didn't expect him to be able to guard
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Speaker 1: small guards because he is six seven six' eight and
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Speaker 1: with like, slower guy but you expect him to be
16:47
Speaker 1: able to guard people, with different similar, physical, physiques right
16:51
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to.
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Speaker 2: Do that he was terrible, in space he was terrible.
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Speaker 2: In help he just overall was. A con but.
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Speaker 1: Now he still can't guard to all, the guys and
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Speaker 1: he does still struggle with guys that are similar size
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Speaker 1: and with STRONGER but i do believe his health defense has.
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Speaker 2: Been Better and i've always been a guy, that's.
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Speaker 1: Like if you're a cerebral, offensive player there's no reason
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Speaker 1: in my mind that you can't be a smart. Defensive
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Speaker 1: PLAYER and i do believe we're starting To See josh
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Speaker 1: getty turn that corner, where, DEFENSIVELY again i don't trust
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Speaker 1: him in space against a lot, of players but as
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Speaker 1: a help defender or, STATIONARY defender i think he's been
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Speaker 1: doing a damn good. Job there and in that, SECOND
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Speaker 1: video i reminded people that before his last SEASON, IN
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Speaker 1: okc espn did their twenty five under twenty Five And
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Speaker 1: josh giddy was number eighteen on, this, List right so
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Speaker 1: that last YEAR in okc really tarnished a lot of
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Speaker 1: his view across the league because in the playoffs he,
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Speaker 1: couldn't play and it just overall was games where he
17:46
Speaker 1: couldn't play fourth quarters he. Was sitting and some of
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Speaker 1: that translated over To the bulls earlier in the season
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Speaker 1: where he didn't play.
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Speaker 2: Fourth quarters but now you can't keep him off.
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Speaker 1: The floor so just two years ago he was looked
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Speaker 1: at as the eighteenth best player twenty five under, Twenty
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Speaker 1: FIVE and i truly do believe that when this list
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Speaker 1: comes out again next season that he'll be back in
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Speaker 1: the top, twenty five probably towards the bottom end of
18:06
Speaker 1: the top, twenty five but he'll be back in the top,
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Speaker 1: twenty five which is. Pretty impressive so shout Out To
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Speaker 1: josh giddy coming Out to chicago and just hooping like
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Speaker 1: when they re, signed Him which i'm assuming that they're.
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Speaker 1: GONNA do i won't have, ANY complaints i don't think
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Speaker 1: unless the man is making one hundred million dollars, a
18:23
Speaker 1: YEAR which i don't even think.
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Speaker 2: That's possible so back to the.
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Speaker 1: Original Thing the bulls are fun if you have not been,
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Speaker 1: watching them tune Into a bulls game here.
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Speaker 2: OR there i just still don't know how to feel.
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Speaker 2: About it