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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 3: Start with oops tonight, couple of NBA playoff games, and
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  Speaker 3: some interesting things to take away from what happened on
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday night. That would be first off, the Knicks beating
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  Speaker 3: the Sixers. So the Knicks take a two zero series lead,
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  Speaker 3: and the Sixers just absolutely fell apart in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: It was disgusting. Can I whine Malard militia right from
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  Speaker 3: the get go? I need to get something off my
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  Speaker 3: chest because normally I wait until a little bit into
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  Speaker 3: the show to whine about bets that should have cashed
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  Speaker 3: but did not cash. Let's just check that box while
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  Speaker 3: we're at it here, you know, let's just get a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of stuff here, go in here off the jump here.
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  Speaker 3: So I had a team total, I had the Sixers
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  Speaker 3: reaching at least one hundred and four points tonight, I
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  Speaker 3: should say Wednesday night. Right, if you're on the East Coast,
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  Speaker 3: you're like, wait a minute, what night? Wednesday Night? Game two?
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  Speaker 3: I had the Sixers getting to at least one oh four,
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  Speaker 3: had to go over one oh three and a half.
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  Speaker 3: They had ninety points heading into the fourth quarter. So
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  Speaker 3: you're doing the math. You're like, they're averaging thirty points
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  Speaker 3: per quarter. They just need fourteen points in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: They should be able to do that, right.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong.
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  Speaker 3: They only scored twelve points in the entire fourth quarter
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  Speaker 3: and the Sixers just fell apart man turnovers, couldn't hit
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  Speaker 3: a three tired legs. So the big news and not
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  Speaker 3: to bury the lead, is no joe El Embiid. They
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  Speaker 3: didn't have Embiid for Game two, so what they did
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  Speaker 3: was really smart. In the early going, they're just playing
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  Speaker 3: up tempo basketball, fast, quick, look for a shot. They
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  Speaker 3: look like the old Phoenix Suns seven seconds or less, right, like,
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  Speaker 3: just let's move it, let's play with some pace, Let's
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  Speaker 3: get some buckets in transition. Let's if you're open, just
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  Speaker 3: shoot it. Man, let's go, let's run up temple move,
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  Speaker 3: move move. That was great for the first three quarters,
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  Speaker 3: and they just hit a wall. They hit a wall.
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  Speaker 3: They were exhausted, They're making tired mistakes. All their shots
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  Speaker 3: are short. You know, they just can't buy a three.
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  Speaker 3: They were doing their Celtics in pressure. Actually I played
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  Speaker 3: the Celtics. Now they think about it. I think the
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  Speaker 3: Celtics stupid ways rubbed off on the Sixers. The Sixers
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  Speaker 3: just beat the Celtics in the first round, and I
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  Speaker 3: think the the idiocy of the Celtics just jacking up
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  Speaker 3: three after three, after three after three, it rubbed off
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  Speaker 3: on the Sixers and they're like, you know what, we're
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  Speaker 3: not hitting our threes in the fourth quarter, Let's just
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  Speaker 3: shoot more of them. Let's just shoot more. And they
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  Speaker 3: couldn't make any of them, and it just they crashed
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  Speaker 3: and burned down the stretch. Only twelve points in the
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  Speaker 3: fourth quarter. So yeah, that bet crashed and burned. Good news.
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  Speaker 3: Not to make this all about me, but it was
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  Speaker 3: a winning night. I hit with VJ. Edgecombe going over
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  Speaker 3: his point total. I hit with Karl Anthony Towns for
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  Speaker 3: can I talk to the degenerate gamblers just for a
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  Speaker 3: second here, my fellow degenerates this Carl Anthony Towns assist
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  Speaker 3: prop is the gift that keeps on giving. This guy
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  Speaker 3: thinks he's Magic Johnson. Now like he's he's doing a
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  Speaker 3: great job running point forward where it's really a smart
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  Speaker 3: tweak that the Nicks have made where they run the
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  Speaker 3: offense through. They'll give the ball to cat along the
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  Speaker 3: perimeter right he's beyond the three point line, and he'll
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  Speaker 3: just like a Harlem globetrotter, palm the ball and like
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  Speaker 3: hold it as far out as he can so the
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  Speaker 3: defender has no chance of getting the ball, and he'll
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  Speaker 3: just hold it there. He'll wait for three to five seconds.
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  Speaker 3: He'll just wait for a cutter. He'll wait for someone
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  Speaker 3: to go back door or wait for someone to get open,
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  Speaker 3: and he's like, oh, there's a guy, and he'll throw
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  Speaker 3: it right to him. It's as Cis City left. He
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  Speaker 3: had seven. His prop was four and a half in
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  Speaker 3: game two. It's been three and a half for all
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  Speaker 3: the other games. You know, in the first round there
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  Speaker 3: they're hardly adjusting this. It was plus money on the
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  Speaker 3: over four and a half. Just ride that train until
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  Speaker 3: something weird happens. He was in foul trouble on Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: night too. He barely played any of the second quarter.
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  Speaker 3: The stupid files that Karl Anthony Towns picks up, it's astounding,
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  Speaker 3: man him. And you know again, I'm on his assist
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  Speaker 3: over and I look up and it's like, that's Carl Anthony,
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  Speaker 3: Karl Anthony Town's third file. I'm like, cat you, what
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  Speaker 3: are you doing? Buddy? So he's gonna have to sit
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  Speaker 3: down for the rest of the second quarter. It just started,
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  Speaker 3: so uh, it's like what And he's still got there
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  Speaker 3: with these, So just just hop all over that.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably gonna be four and a half again, the
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  Speaker 3: juice is gonna be a little bit different. It's not
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  Speaker 3: gonna be higher than four and a half. Just take
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  Speaker 3: the over. It's the gift that keeps on giving. And
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  Speaker 3: it's a smart strategy by the Knicks because it really
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  Speaker 3: cuts down on the wear and tear in the physical
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  Speaker 3: load for Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunton is magnificent. He's a
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  Speaker 3: walking bucket. But the amount of energy that guy expends
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  Speaker 3: on a nightly basis is absurd. The way the offense
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  Speaker 3: used to be a lot of it for the Knicks
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  Speaker 3: was just give brunts in the ball and let him
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  Speaker 3: dribble around for twenty seconds like a maniac trying to
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  Speaker 3: create a shot for himself or find somebody else. And
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  Speaker 3: he's just dribbling it into the floor to death. And
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  Speaker 3: it's like go left, go right, spin move all right, Nope,
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  Speaker 3: that's not an open shot. Let's pivot left, let's go right,
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  Speaker 3: let's euro Steblin. It's just energy being expended left and right.
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  Speaker 3: And so when they give it to Kat and he
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  Speaker 3: just stands there and waits for someone to get open.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's Brunson. It makes life so much easier for
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson, and he's fresher at the end of these games.
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  Speaker 3: So it's really worked out very, very well for the Knicks.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the thing with these Knicks, man, They've been
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  Speaker 3: on a winning streak in the playoffs here, So we're
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  Speaker 3: going back. What this is five in a row for
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  Speaker 3: the Knicks won the last three of the Hawks series.
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  Speaker 3: They were down two one, won three in a row
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  Speaker 3: to win that series. They won the first two of
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  Speaker 3: the series against the Sixers, and they they had a
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  Speaker 3: streak that was broken. So the Knicks heading into Game
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  Speaker 3: two on Wednesday night. Right their previous three games, they
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  Speaker 3: became the first team in NBA playoff history to win
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  Speaker 3: three straight games by at least twenty five points. So
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  Speaker 3: they crushed the Hawks the last two games of that series,
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  Speaker 3: and then they crushed the Sixers in Game one, won
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  Speaker 3: by what thirty nine points? It's insane. So they had
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  Speaker 3: a measly six point win on Wednesday night, but they
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  Speaker 3: take a two zero series lead. They're doing fine. Life
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  Speaker 3: is good for the Knicks right now, and we'll see
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  Speaker 3: what Embiid's status is. But now we don't know if
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  Speaker 3: Embiid's gonna be able to go the next game, the
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  Speaker 3: next four games. At least, the Sixers are hoping they're
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  Speaker 3: at least four more games, right They're hoping that Embiid
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  Speaker 3: is healthy and ready to go. But we have no idea.
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  Speaker 3: He missed Wednesday night with ankle and hip injuries. And
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  Speaker 3: this is an insane stat This stat doesn't even seem real.
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  Speaker 3: Joelle Embiid hasn't played six games in a row since
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three. That is insanity right there. That is
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  Speaker 3: a guy who is a walking medicine cabinet who's been
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  Speaker 3: dealing with a lot of injuries for a long time
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  Speaker 3: and also lude management right, trying to manage the wear
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  Speaker 3: and tear on Embiid, which does make some sense, but
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  Speaker 3: we're not talking about you know, twenty five straight game.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking six games. Embiid hasn't played six games in
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  Speaker 3: a row since twenty twenty three. That is that's insanity
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  Speaker 3: right there, and it does it does make you think
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  Speaker 3: of a guy like Lebron. You know, we'll get to
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  Speaker 3: the Lake Show and how they're Oh man, this is
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  Speaker 3: looking as bleak as bleak gets here in this series
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  Speaker 3: against OKC. But you do have to take your hat
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  Speaker 3: off to Lebron. You look at some of these injury
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  Speaker 3: issues with some of these guys in the playoffs. Embiid,
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  Speaker 3: it's a great, you know example of this where again
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  Speaker 3: hasn't played six games in a row since twenty three.
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  Speaker 3: Lebron hasn't missed one playoff game in his entire NBA career.
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  Speaker 3: That's remarkable, and that guy's played so many playoff games,
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  Speaker 3: it's like the equivalent of three and a half NBA seasons.
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  Speaker 3: He's played a ton of playoff games, hasn't missed one.
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  Speaker 3: I heard that stat today and the first thing I
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  Speaker 3: thought of I am a Bulls fan. I say it
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  Speaker 3: a little bit quieter these days. I'm like, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: Bulls fan. Yeah, still still still hanging with him. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not jumping ship, but I don't say it with the
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  Speaker 3: same pizaz. You know. It's kind of like, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 3: a Dolphins fan. I am. They've got Malie Willis, but
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna be a long rebuild, very long. Your voice
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  Speaker 3: just goes down. I'm almost Verry White now with my
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  Speaker 3: favorite teams. But I have a Bulls fan. I remember
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  Speaker 3: when Lebron was playing a playoff series against the Bulls
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know whose foot he stepped on, but
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  Speaker 3: he stepped on a Bulls player's foot. And I'm not
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  Speaker 3: kidding that's a grocery or anything. He steps on this
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  Speaker 3: guy's foot. And then Lebron's ankle fully rolled. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking my right foot as if I'm stepping on
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  Speaker 3: a foot, and then I'm just rolling it all the way.
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  Speaker 3: His ankle touched the floor. I promise you it did.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm watching this live in a sports bar and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, he's done. There's no way. Next thing.
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  Speaker 3: I know, Lebron's just like let me just tighten my
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  Speaker 3: shoe a little bit tighter here, and he was back
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  Speaker 3: in the game. I can't remember for sure, but it
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  Speaker 3: might have been the same game he had a game winner.
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  Speaker 3: It very well might have been. But he didn't miss
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  Speaker 3: a game. I can't believe he didn't miss a game.
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  Speaker 3: He's got bionic ankles, I'm convinced. But for Lebron to
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  Speaker 3: not miss a game, just look at what we've seen
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  Speaker 3: in these playoffs right where I know Tatum was coming
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  Speaker 3: back from the calf or from the Achilles injury, and
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  Speaker 3: then in Game six against the Sixers, he had calf
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  Speaker 3: tightness that he was dealing with, and so you're like,
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  Speaker 3: oh gosh, what's the status for Game seven? Gonna be
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  Speaker 3: calf tightness, calf soreness. Not good. It's the gateway drug
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  Speaker 3: to another Achilles injury. We don't want that if we're
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  Speaker 3: the Celtics over here. And so he didn't play Game seven,
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  Speaker 3: and the Celtics said it was a knee issue. It's like, wait, what,
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  Speaker 3: So it's what are we doing here. Kevin Durant played
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  Speaker 3: one game in Houston series against the Lakers. It was
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  Speaker 3: a six game series. He played one. I'll tell you this, man.
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  Speaker 3: I try not to call out dudes because I don't
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  Speaker 3: know the severity of a lot of these injuries. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: but I do know this. If Lebron James had the
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  Speaker 3: exact same injuries plural as Kevin Durant KD was dealing
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  Speaker 3: with an ankle and a knee. If Lebron had the
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  Speaker 3: same issues, there is no way that dude is only
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  Speaker 3: playing one game in a six game series. There is
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  Speaker 3: no chance that's the case. And so I listen with
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  Speaker 3: Embiid KD Tatum with the knee. Listen. I just know
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  Speaker 3: that not all things are equal, you know, like Lebron's
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  Speaker 3: body is not the same as Embiid's body. You know,
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  Speaker 3: like the the stress on say a hip or an
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  Speaker 3: ankle for Embiid is different than the stress on a
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  Speaker 3: hip or an ankle for Lebron. Right, it's not apples
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  Speaker 3: to apples. So it's dangerous to play this game all
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  Speaker 3: across the board. But listen, if you don't get caught
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  Speaker 3: up in the you know, the minutia and the very
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  Speaker 3: small differences. A lot of this comes down to will.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of this comes down to how bad do
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  Speaker 3: you want it? Can you play through pain? Are you available.
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  Speaker 3: Lebron's always been available, and there are guys like Embiid
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  Speaker 3: that just haven't been some that is not Embid's fault.
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  Speaker 3: I want to make that perfectly clear. I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to make it sound like he's only had injuries that
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  Speaker 3: he could gut through, but he doesn't gut through. That's
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  Speaker 3: not been the case. He's had legitimate injuries where it's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: anybody would be on the shelf with this injury. But
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  Speaker 3: he's had a couple injuries where you're like, there's no chance,
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  Speaker 3: no how you can play. Anthony Edwards was playing again
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  Speaker 3: on Wednesday night. Anthony Edwards in the first round, he
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  Speaker 3: went up. I think he went up for a layup
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  Speaker 3: and he came down and his knee hyper extended in
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  Speaker 3: a way where you're like, oh gosh, how long is
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  Speaker 3: he gonna be out? That looked funky and weird and
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  Speaker 3: all sorts of bad. He mist like two games. He's
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  Speaker 3: played both games in this second round against the Spurs. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the bad news for the timber Wolves is they got
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  Speaker 3: punched in the mouth royally on Wednesday night. It was ugly.
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  Speaker 3: These Spurs destroyed them one thirty three to ninety five.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, thirty eight point win by the Spurs, so
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  Speaker 3: that series is tied one game apiece. But Anthony Edwards
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  Speaker 3: is out there. He's gotten through it. He was very
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  Speaker 3: effective and in game one coming off the bench. The
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  Speaker 3: game just got completely out of hand on Wednesday night
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  Speaker 3: in game two, but ant is out there, He's right
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  Speaker 3: out there. So I don't know, man, I can't be
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  Speaker 3: the only one who I think the best way to
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  Speaker 3: put it is Lebron wouldn't be missing all of this
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  Speaker 3: time with the exact same injuries that some of these
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  Speaker 3: other guys are missing time for. That's just the truth
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  Speaker 3: of it, and I think that's a better way to
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  Speaker 3: put it than if you're just like, come on, Tatum,
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  Speaker 3: get out there. It's again, I don't know the severity
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  Speaker 3: of that injury. The Celtics said it was a knee.
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  Speaker 3: He had calf tightness and soreness, calf tightness and soreness
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  Speaker 3: in games, and then somehow it turned into a knee
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  Speaker 3: issue in game seven. I don't know what's going on
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  Speaker 3: there exactly, but you know, the KD thinks probably the
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  Speaker 3: best example, there's no way Lebron is like KD played
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  Speaker 3: one game that's the crazy thing here. He played Game two.
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't good, got off to a great start in
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  Speaker 3: the first half, nine turnovers in the game, was not
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  Speaker 3: brilliant by any stretch, but he played the game, and
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  Speaker 3: then he didn't play another one. Can you like really
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  Speaker 3: close your eyes and think of a scenario where Lebron
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  Speaker 3: he's dealing with, let's say it's ankle and knee issues,
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  Speaker 3: just like KD was dealing with, and Lebron is able
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  Speaker 3: to play Game two and be pretty effective. He looks
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  Speaker 3: really good in this set in the first half. He
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  Speaker 3: turns the ball over a little sloppy, but you know
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  Speaker 3: there's some rust he's got to work off. So he
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  Speaker 3: plays Game two and then that's it. He doesn't play
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  Speaker 3: games three, four, five, or six. That would never happen,
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  Speaker 3: says would never happen.
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  Speaker 3: So Jalen Brown, star player for the Celtics, he raised
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  Speaker 3: some eyebrows. So the Celtics, they had a commanding three
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  Speaker 3: to one lead against the Sixers in the first round
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  Speaker 3: of the NBA playoffs, and well they kicked it away.
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  Speaker 3: They lost three straight games, lost the series again a
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  Speaker 3: first round series, and Jalen Brown immediately afterwards, like the
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  Speaker 3: next day, he does this twitch thing. He gets on
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  Speaker 3: there with his buddies talking about a range of things,
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  Speaker 3: says that embeat is a flopper, flopping is ruining. The
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  Speaker 3: NBA had a couple other hot takes, and then this
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  Speaker 3: one really caught a lot of attention. He was talking
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  Speaker 3: about this Celtics scene and he had this to say, I'm.
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  Speaker 6: So proud and it was my favorite year of my
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  Speaker 6: basketball career.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so favorite year of his basketball career is what
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  Speaker 3: happened this past season with the Celtics. So if we
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  Speaker 3: start doing the math on this thing, it's like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: this isn't that hard to figure out. What he's really
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  Speaker 3: saying is it was great being the main guy. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that's a bad thing necessarily. He wants
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  Speaker 3: to be the man. He doesn't want to be the
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  Speaker 3: co pilot. He doesn't want to be Robin. He wants
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: to be Batman. He wants to be the guy. And
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: he showed throughout the time without Jason Tatum during the
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: regular season he's more than capable of carrying that burden.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: He was fantastic. He had a great season. He was
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: a legitimate MVP candidate, and if you look during the season,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: he had a couple of posts that were interesting now
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: looking back, but so obvious with him saying this latest
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: thing that he enjoyed being the main guy. He loved
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: being the number one option. He didn't want to play
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: second fiddle. He didn't want to watch Jason Tatum to
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: dribble around for twenty seconds and jack up a shot, right, Like,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: he liked being the guy. And so that's what he's
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: really saying. You could really get off track with this,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: like whoa dude, what a loser mentality? He got bounced
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: in the first round and this is his favorite season.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: He won a title, he was finals MVP. Are you
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: kidding me? It's not about that. It's just he wants
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: to be the main guy. He doesn't want to play
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: like the one B role or the two A role.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: He wants to be one A. He wants to be
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: the man. That's I don't have a problem with that.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: But that's what he's really saying. But it goes a
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: little bit deeper than that. So this is Tracy McGrady.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Tracy mcgrady's an analyst with NBC. He does this Cousin's
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: podcast with Vince Carter, And this is what Tracy McGrady
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: had to say. About Jalen Brown and his frustration with
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: the Celtics organization.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: Here you go, his frustration lies deeply within the organization
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: and other things that of course, of course we don't
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: really have the tails too. There's just been a lot
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: of stuff, you know that I've been hearing just going
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: on with the Boston organization with JB.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: So, I think part of him is like I showed
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: you guys more of who I am as a basketball player,
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: not only just you know, what I did on the
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: basketball court, but the leadership that I displayed within you know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: this team, and you've seen that not having our you know,
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: best player in JT. You've seen the different side of
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: me and what I I'm able to bring to the
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: game of basketball. So all that stuff, you know, I
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: think just came in to play with him and his frustration.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: M Okay, So Tracy McGrady says he's pretty frustrated with
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: the organization. Now the Celtics preys over here. Brad Stevens,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: he He's like, I don't know what he's dying about.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Here's what Brad Stevens has to say about this perceived
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: frustration from Jalen Brown. Check this out.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: I talked to Jalen Monday a little bit after. He
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: just real quickly and was nothing but positive. He has
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: not expressed those frustrations to me.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, so depends on who you believe. Could it be
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: that there's a little bit of truth with both of
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: those guys, Yeah, could be. Is it possible that Tracy
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: McGrady knows Jalen Brown pretty well and he's been able
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: to gather that he's not feeling the organization for this
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: reason or the next reason or yeah, or he's just
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: ticked off with this or that. Yeah, that's true. That
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: could be possible. Is it possible that Brad Stevens did
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: bump into Jalen Brown and they talked for a little
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: bit and Brad Stevens didn't pick up on any frustration.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Jalen Brown wasn't like, Yo, dude, we gotta talk man.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know what is going on xyz. It's possible
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: that there's truth with both of them. I think this.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I think that it goes back to my original thought.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Jalen Brown wants to be the guy. He doesn't want
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: to be like second fiddle to Jason Tatum, and so
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: that might be where some of the frustration stems from
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: I would be I'd be frustrated with numerous things if
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I'm Jason Tatum. The main thing I'd be frustrated with
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: is the head coach, Joe Mizzoula. Why are we jacking
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: up a million threes a game? It's just a silly
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: way to approach basketball. I like, I don't know. Jalen
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Brown has actually gone on record saying I wish we
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: would have leaned into that even more, that style of play,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: So maybe he isn't from frustrated with that at all.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just saying what I would be
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: frustrated with if I were Jalen Brown. We're gonna shoot
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: a million threes, and if we're ice cold, we just lose.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: If we're shooting under thirty percent, we just lose. It's like,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: why don't we have a plan B. Why don't we
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know, shoot twos. Maybe we could make them.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: It's like, hey, man, we're ice cold. Just imagine the huddle.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: They should have it miked up on NBC or ESPN,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: whoever's doing the telecast. Hopefully it is not Prime. Gosh,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I hate the NBA and Prime. They do a great
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: job I just hate finding it. I hate going to
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: an app on my TV. I hate that. But anyway,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: if they haven't miked up, and it's just Joe Mizzoula
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: and he's all right, guys, guys, we can't buy a three,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: all right. We can't make it three to save our lives,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: all right. But here's what we do. We're gonna keep
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: keep shooting them, just keep letting them fly. I know
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: we're ice cold, we're like twenty eight percent right now,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: but just trust me. Let's come on, guys, focus, keep
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: keep letting them fly. How dumb would that sound? It
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: would sound completely because it is. It is idiotic. It
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: makes no sense to play that style of basketball. That's
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: what sports is all about. Adjustments. I don't care what
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: sport it is. It's football. It's like, hey, our passing
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: game is fantastic, but guess what. It's raining sideways today
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: and it's really not working that well. But you don't
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: just air it out like it's eighty degrees and not
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: a cloud in the sky. You adjust. Maybe you run
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: the ball if you're gonna throw it. Maybe you throw
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: some short passes. You're not trying to throw post patterns
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: and fly patterns or right, like, you change it up,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: you adjust. It's crazy to me that the Celtics have
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: no ability to adjust whatsoever. I would be so frustrated
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: with that if I were Jalen Brown. It doesn't sound
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: like he is. So that's the crazy thing to me,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: the one thing in my mind he could clearly be
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: frustrated with. It doesn't sound like he is. Yes, So
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: that's the next question is, well, then, what is he
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: frustrated with Tracy McGrady? What is it exactly? It's just,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: you know, oh, he's he's very frustrated with what with
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: What My guess is he just doesn't want to be Robin,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: you know, But I could be wrong. I don't know.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: That's my read on it. To me, it's just two
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: plus two equals four. If you get bounced in the
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: first round and you blow a three to one series lead,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: and afterward the next day you're like, that was my
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: favorite year in the NBA, and it's like, you've won
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: a championship, dude, you were finals MVP. How is this
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: the best season of your career? Your favorite season? And
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: that's why I was gonna say earlier, earlier in the year,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: he had posted some things on social media where he's
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: comparing the Celtics record last season to the Celtics record
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: this season. There were a couple of stats and everything
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: was very similar. The Celtics had way more success this
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: season than pretty much anybody saw coming. They just thought, hey,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: it's a lost year. They lost Jason Tatum most likely
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: for the entire season with an achilles injury. There's no Porzingis,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: there's no Drew Holliday, all these changes, right, like, the
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Celtics are clearly taking a major step back. They're not
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: title contenders. And then lo and behold, they're the two
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: seed in the East and they were one of the
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: favorites to come out of the East. And Jalen Brown
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: was posting things like, yo, check it out. Pretty good
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: record right, pretty good with scoring, pretty good with this
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: we match up just like last season. He's like, lost season.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: This is a gap season, right, That's what everybody says.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: He's like, gap season, My ass, this is a good
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: season right now, look at it. You don't think we
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: can function with me? He took it personally. It was
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: the old Jordan thing, and I took that personally. He
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: took the whole gap year thing personally, and he responded,
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: he played great and that has to be the major
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: reason why he he thought that this season is his
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: favorite season. He considers it his favorite season has to be.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know how it could be something other than that.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: You know, like actions speak louder than words. Okay, and
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: and Jalen Brown made it clear he was like, Yo,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: this was not a diss of Jason Tatum. When I'm
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: posting our record this season, our stats this season compared
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: to record and stats last season, this is not a
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: dig at Jason Tatum. He did come back and say that,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: which I believe that's the case. I think that can
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: absolutely be the case. I don't think it was. You know,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Jason Tatum is holding us back. That's not how I
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: took it. I took it as, hey, you got a
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: real player here in me, right like, I can shoulder
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: the load here. I'm a guy that if we lose Jason,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: tainment doesn't mean our season is a catastrophe where we're
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: gonna win like forty games and not even be a
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: playoff team, right Like, it doesn't mean that at all.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: That's how I took it. That's how I truly believe
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: that's what it was, but your actions show that you
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: take pride in that. You take pride in being the
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: main guy leading the team to exactly where they were
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: after losing a superstar player. You should take pride in that.
• 28:31
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• 28:37
  Speaker 3: The NFL quarterback who reminds me of an old MTV show.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Remember the old show Pimped My Ride. Someone would go
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: into this car place with this dilapidated car and it's
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: in horrible condition, and then the crew they're like, Oh,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: we're gonna do all this great stuff and make your
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: car look great again. And the guys like, all right, cool, yes,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: signed me up. Sounds good, and they really did. They
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: did an awesome job time and time again. It was
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: a fun show. But it reminds me of Kyler Murray. Okay,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: so the new Minnesota Vikings quarterback Randy Moss, former great
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: NFL wide receiver, obviously started his career with the Vikings.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: He said, I'm excited because Kyler Murray has quote something
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: to prove, which he absolutely does. Completely agree that Kyler
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Murray has a lot to prove, but there's so much
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: optimism when it comes to Kyler Murray, and I'm like,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: I don't get why. It's almost like universal optimism. And
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to rain on the parade, but I
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: think he gotta just pause for a second and consider.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Maybe Kyler Murray isn't exactly he's set to kill it
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: with the Vikings. Maybe that's the possibility we're looking at here,
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: because I haven't heard much of that. It's just, Oh,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Kyler Murray with Justin Jefferson in a real offense and
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: koc we got Kevin O'Connell over there, and oh getting
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: away from the Arizona Cardinals. And it's like it reminds
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: me of Pimp My Ride, because all this offseason has
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: been is like take your pick. It's either pimp my resume,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: pimp my potential. It's just like that's what it is
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: with Kyler Murray. All of a sudden, Kyler Murray became
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: good in one NFL off season. He hasn't been good
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: in seven years. He's been good like one off season,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: like pimped everything. It's just like that old show. It's
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: like he took his dilapidated car slash NFL resume and
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: he just went to the body shop and they're like, oh,
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: bells and whistles, we'll give you Justin Jefferson. Well, you know,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: we'll give you a Kevin O'Connell boom. All of a sudden,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: it looks much better now. It's like if you look
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: at Kyler Murray. So just a couple of things in mind,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Kyler Murray the most touchdown passes he's thrown in a
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: single season. Take a guess. You got a number in mind? Okay,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: you got it, lock it in m you got a number.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with twenty four. It's pretty good. Guess, Coop,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: you want to guess here? How many touchdown passes peak
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Kyler Murray in seven years? What's the most?
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: He's wrong, actually, like I'm just I'm still stunned at
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: how like Ann Hathaway, No, no, Lorena's guess being like
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: an actual like feasible.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yess that's uh wow, thanks, yeah right. Uh.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: I was gonna say twenty but I think I might
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: think it adds to actually more than that. But but
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: go ahead, go ahead, let us know.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: It's twenty six. Okay, prize to Lorraine. Oh I am
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: so close. Yeah, you're right, there, So like we'll just
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: go in highest to lowest right for Kyler Murray per
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: season touchdown throws twenty six, twenty four, twenty one, twenty fourteen,
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: ten six. Right now, injuries have come into play, which
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: is also the point, you know, you just discount injuries.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: It's been a big part of the formula with Kyler Murray.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, it's like injuries don't are the
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: possibility with the Vikings, It's like he's got Justin Jefferson,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: all is great, He's fine. Now it's like, this dude
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: is passer rating for his career? Should we do? This
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: is a guessing game. This this is way more challenging.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Like we would say one hundred is is really good?
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: You get into triple figures. Now you're talking really really good.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: So if you have that as a barometer, right, where
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: do you think Kyler Murray has been for his career?
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: You want to take a guess, Loraina. Now I'm Alex Trebek,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: I have I'm the answers are right in front of me.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: I don't even know what I would guess if you
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: just threw that question my way, So don't feel bad
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: either way, But what you guess is Kyler Murray's career
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: passer rating. That might be my sports green, but I
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: told you one hundred is like really really good. So
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: if Kyler Murray isn't killing it with you, let's go.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Let's go fifty seven. Okay, Coop, there's no way it's
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: that bad. It's not that bad. I'm gonna go eighty. Okay,
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Coop wins this one. Lorena, I'm sorry. But ninety two
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: point two, Okay, that's been his career passer rating. Now,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: this is what I get, a lot better than I
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: thought I would. That's too bad, that's way higher. Yeah,
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: I guess. But it's all how you look at it.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: So if you look at the NFL, now, this is
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: what I like to do, so what he's given you
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: for seven years. If you just look at quarterback ratings
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: last season passer rating we're not talking QBR, the ESPN
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: stat passer rating. Okay, c J. Stroud last season, right,
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: didn't kill it, wasn't crushing it. Last season.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: C J.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Stroud was at ninety two point nine. That's higher, and
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Kyler Murray's at ninety two point two for his career.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: You know who's just lower just last season only is
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Daisy Fresh Giants rookie Jackson Dart. He was at ninety
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: one point seven. So Kyler Murray is in between last
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: season C J. Stroud and Jackson Dart. That's what he's
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: given you for seven years. That's the type of production
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: he's given you for seven years. That is not good
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: enough for a former number one overall draft pick. And
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I'm supposed to believe just because he's in purple, all
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: is great now he got something to prove, and he's
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: got one of the best receivers in the game. And
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: what he's just gonna unleash. Hell, I don't buy it.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: I don't buy it. I'm not rooting against him. I
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: think that he's got a lot of talent. He's got potent.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: It just hasn't been realized and like everything has just
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: been wiped away. Remember how we were clowning Kyler Murray
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: when he signed his contract in the Arizona Cardinals put
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: a stipulation in this contract because he's on the sticks,
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: he's playing video games. They're like, yeah, we need you
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: to study, and I don't know, like be an adult,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: can you do that? Like they put a stipulation in
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: his contract. I'm paraphrasing, but that's what it boiled down to.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: It's like all of that doesn't even exist anymore. He's
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: with the Vikings. All is great. I just I don't.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: I gotta see it to believe it. Like, we got
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: multiple hurdles to jump over for Kyler Murray to realize
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: his potential. One, he's got to stay healthy. That's a
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: big hurdle for him to jump over. Two, he's got
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: to be very productive. With the supporting cast that he
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: has and the head coach that he has, he should
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: be very productive, like to make good on this deal
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: and the way he's being talked about. Man, Like any
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: pay attention, just going forward, whether you're listening to me,
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: you're listening to whatever show on Fox Sports Radio, you're
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: listening to anything anywhere. It's TV, it's whatever, it's first take,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: it's you know, first things first, and whatever show your listening.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Just pay attention whenever they talk about Kyler Murray, and
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you ninety five to ninety nine percent of
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: the time, it's gonna be something positive. It's like, oh,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: he's got a lot of talent to work with. Now,
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: he got a lot of potential. Man, this guy's one
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: of the most talented quarterbacks. I know, I know. Put
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: the resume on this side, one of the most talented
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: quarterback bad but bad but bad. But this guy has
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: maxed out at twenty six touchdown passes in a single season.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Twenty six. That's nothing to write home about. You can't
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: have a passer rating for seven years that would slot
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: in between the production last season of c. J. Stroud
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: and Jackson Dart. That's just not good enough. It isn't.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: And let's not act like he's had nothing to work with.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: I know he's with the Arizona Cardinals, but Trey McBride
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: is one of the best tight ends in football, right like.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: It's not like he's had nothing and the cupboard is
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: completely and utterly bare, nothing to work with. That's not
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: the case now. Obviously the Vikings offensively much better situation,
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: much more talent. So we'll see, we'll see if he
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: can make good and all of a sudden the production
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: goes north and he makes you know, he makes great
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: strides going forward. But I gotta see it to believe it.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what, man, I haven't seen this before.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: I have not seen one off season completely revamp. How
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: we think of a quarterback, we're just clowning him for
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: not being dedicated enough, and you know, playing video games
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: when he's when he's in Arizona, and that's all been forgotten.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: It's all been wiped away, just totally washed away. Oh
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: this guy, I'm expecting big things. Kyler Murray. You watch Kyler.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: He's got something to prove. Kyler Murray. He's gonna be
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: he gonna be really really good. Where does he rank
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: in the hierarchy of NFC North quarterback So well, he's
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: one of the top ones. It's like, what what are
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: we are we talking about right now? He's dead last,
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: is what he is. He's dead last. I hope you
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: realize that he's not better than Jared Goff. He's not
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: better than Jordan Love, He's not better than Caleb Williams.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: He is dead last in his division. Let's not make
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: stuff up now. Listen, If he all of a sudden
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: is healthy, productive winning games like this is all subject
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: to change, But as of right now, he is dead last.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Make no mistake about it.