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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety two to seven WFNZ macken Bone with you.
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  Speaker 2: So we did.
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  Speaker 1: We won a lot of different takes and opinions because
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  Speaker 1: there is such a wide variety of opinions on this
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  Speaker 1: LaMelo ball tray we're mentioning a national media seems to
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  Speaker 1: like ninety percent of them love it.
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  Speaker 2: For the Hornets fans.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's definitely even a day later, Bone, it's still
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  Speaker 1: the majority is like, may, why did we do this?
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  Speaker 2: So we want to keep getting different opinions on it.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of different opinions, let's just go to a
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  Speaker 1: different continent man, a guy that covers the Hornets all
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  Speaker 1: the way from England, and we love him for it.
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  Speaker 1: We love his Hornets passion even when things are really bad.
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  Speaker 1: Bone nineteen Game Bad. This man is like up in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night over there in England watching
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  Speaker 1: Hornet's game. Hornet's Games. You can catch him on the
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  Speaker 1: Buzzbeat podcast. He is James plow Ride British Buzz on
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  Speaker 1: Twitter and he joins us here on the Mac and
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  Speaker 1: Bone Show. James, what's going on man? How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I am okay.
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  Speaker 3: I'm recovering from a hectic and unexpected day yesterday. I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was went so quiet after the draft, but Jess,
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  Speaker 3: isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: You thought the big news was going to be the
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  Speaker 4: Hornets side Wyatt Fricks of Marshall and that turns out
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  Speaker 4: and it was bigger news to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. So it's interesting you Bone was messaging
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  Speaker 1: with you like just after the shams like report, like
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  Speaker 1: before it even became official, and you were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have to be honest, I understand it. Like so
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  Speaker 1: when they made the deal and you saw what we
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  Speaker 1: got back, like, do you you think Charlotte made a
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  Speaker 1: good move.
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  Speaker 3: I think Charlotte No Lamellable better than anybody. As they're
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  Speaker 3: willing to make this difficult of a trade, which which
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  Speaker 3: is so bold and cut throat, then I think that
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  Speaker 3: they know the player. I support their decision. Look, La
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  Speaker 3: Mali Ball, no doubt this is going to I think
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  Speaker 3: make the team worse in the short term. But this team,
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  Speaker 3: the leadership group have talked time and time again that
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  Speaker 3: they're not interested in chasing the eight seed.
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  Speaker 2: And they looked at.
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  Speaker 3: This set of playoffs, they looked at the playing games
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  Speaker 3: and they went, we don't know if Lamali Ball is
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  Speaker 3: our best player is going to get us to this level,
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  Speaker 3: and if he's not, they need to prevent you from
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  Speaker 3: adding the next best player because of the way the
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  Speaker 3: contracts work and the way that the draft works, and
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  Speaker 3: they don't believe La Mali Ball is the right player
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  Speaker 3: to take them to the point. So look, the package
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  Speaker 3: was not what I think a lot of fans would
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  Speaker 3: have hoped to get back. But that's down to all
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  Speaker 3: the reasons the Hornets traded him in the first place. Injuries, leadership, maturity,
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  Speaker 3: contract value, defense efficiency, late game execution, his lack of
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  Speaker 3: improvement in certain areas. So that's why they didn't get
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  Speaker 3: this big hallback. It's also why they traded it.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think that the Kobe White trade in hindsight
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  Speaker 4: now makes sense that they got Kobe White here for
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  Speaker 4: this to happen, that they could move Mellow and have
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  Speaker 4: a guy in place already here in Kobe White.
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  Speaker 3: I think it will have been a possibility. I still
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  Speaker 3: think there was a world where LaMelo's Day this year
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  Speaker 3: and they brought Kobe White back. I think Kobe White
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  Speaker 3: is even pushed back on some of the reporting. This
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  Speaker 3: morning on his social media there was a report saying
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  Speaker 3: that he wanted to go start elsewhere, and he's kind
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  Speaker 3: of tweeted out, don't believe everything you read, So I
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  Speaker 3: think that was one of the options. It's one of
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  Speaker 3: the good additions about adding Kobe White is if something
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  Speaker 3: did come up with the mether ball, you've got already
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  Speaker 3: made replacement. But I don't think this was a galaxy
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  Speaker 3: brain that It's kind of been planned back in February
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  Speaker 3: and this is always the plan. I think. You know,
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  Speaker 3: as an NBA team, you have different options available to you,
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  Speaker 3: and in the end they have gone on through.
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  Speaker 1: James plow Right with US Buzzbeat podcast. Those guys do
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  Speaker 1: an awesome job talking and its ball. So James, let's
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  Speaker 1: the big question though, is right, what's next? Because it
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  Speaker 1: just feels like you didn't pick up the league's highest
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  Speaker 1: trade exception almost forty one million for nothing, right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: so what's next? You also have a ton of assets
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  Speaker 1: to use too if you make a deal, Like, what
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  Speaker 1: are your theories on what's next? We had a local
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  Speaker 1: TV reporter, Micha Lasette here report that the Hornets are
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  Speaker 1: one of the teams that Sham's was alluding to when
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  Speaker 1: Shams said Boston is talking Jalen Brown trade with multiple teams,
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  Speaker 1: like is that a move you could see happening? Is
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  Speaker 1: it something else? Like what's next?
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  Speaker 2: It's possible.
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  Speaker 3: I mean Jalen Brown wouldn't fit into that trade exception,
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  Speaker 3: so that have to be other ways to get there.
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  Speaker 3: But it all comes down to what Charlotte want to do.
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  Speaker 3: Like I say, forty point seven million trade exception, they
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  Speaker 3: can get any player earning that money that's near max
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  Speaker 3: money for some players straight in without sending any salary outgoing.
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  Speaker 3: So this is why it's hard to judge this trade
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  Speaker 3: in the moment, because it's like, well, what's go happen
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  Speaker 3: with the assets that you pick up from it? You
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  Speaker 3: kind of we need to wait a little bit to
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  Speaker 3: the whole picture. I would be surprised if they went
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  Speaker 3: out and added like another win Now piece, because then
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  Speaker 3: it just feels a little bit confusing, like you take
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  Speaker 3: the melo ball away, you then go and try and
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  Speaker 3: you know, take a step forward again. It's like two
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  Speaker 3: stepsible ones at back. I think maybe more likely and
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if this would be popular, but you
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  Speaker 3: could take in more bad money right and get more
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  Speaker 3: first round picks which they are just collecting this treasure
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  Speaker 3: show They've got the second most future first round picks
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  Speaker 3: of any team in the NBA, so they could maybe
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  Speaker 3: not even be sure how they're going to use it.
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  Speaker 3: It could be well, what are the offers if we
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  Speaker 3: can get two first round picks for taking a bad salary,
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  Speaker 3: will do it? Or if we can get access to
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, Jarrett Allen, Hey, we'll use it in
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  Speaker 3: a more positive way to make us get better. So
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  Speaker 3: there's options. The trade exception lasts a full year, so
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  Speaker 3: they don't have to use it the summer. They could
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  Speaker 3: use it at the trade deadline or before the draft
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  Speaker 3: next year, so I might I would kind of worn
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  Speaker 3: against it necessarily being used in an the immediately corresponding moved,
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  Speaker 3: although it is a possibility.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think of the Nas Reid acquisition as
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  Speaker 4: part of this? And I'm wondering, and I saw some
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  Speaker 4: people yesterday bring up the name. I'm wondering, could he
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  Speaker 4: be this generation's Anthony Mason? A great bench player where
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  Speaker 4: he was comes to Charlotte, becomes a starter and his
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  Speaker 4: game expands even more. What do you think of nas
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  Speaker 4: and how he fits in here to the equation.
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  Speaker 3: He's a really interesting and unique player and He definitely
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  Speaker 3: brings a level of spacing from the fullest spot size
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  Speaker 3: of shooting which the Shart Hornets just don't have anywhere
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  Speaker 3: on the roster. I mean, Grant Williams Miles Bridge is
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  Speaker 3: the sixty sixth, maws Reed is like a legit six ten.
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  Speaker 3: He almost plays more like a guard or a wing
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  Speaker 3: in terms of his style. I think it's a really
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  Speaker 3: interesting bit of an upside swing, Like say he's coming
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  Speaker 3: off the bench in Minnesotia's and six number year once
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  Speaker 3: if not maybe twice, and I think the Horne's being
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  Speaker 3: able to use him in a lot of different ways.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's an interesting addition. I'm not one hundred
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  Speaker 3: percent sure that he'll like definitely stay hor I think
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  Speaker 3: of the EBC that reported that the Hornets do like him,
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  Speaker 3: but if someone comes and blows their socks off or
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  Speaker 3: another trade offer. He doesn't tick all the boxes in
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  Speaker 3: terms of like he's not a great defender. He doesn't
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  Speaker 3: like to thrive getting to the rim or getting to
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  Speaker 3: the foul line, and those are things that you probably
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  Speaker 3: want to surround Brandon Miller and Konk Nipple with someone
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  Speaker 3: of that player type. So I wouldn't say it's a
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  Speaker 3: perfect fit, but there are definitely ways that he can
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  Speaker 3: help this team.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing I want to ask you about the Hornets
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  Speaker 1: is we did have a draft. It feels it now
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  Speaker 1: feels like that was like a month ago because this
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  Speaker 1: LaMelo trade worldwin. What did you think about getting Honness
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  Speaker 1: Steinbach in Christian Anderson in the first round?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I love the steinback pick. He was talent on
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  Speaker 3: my board. I thought he not only was he really
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  Speaker 3: good talent available, but he also fits a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: what the Hornets are looking for. He immediately is their
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  Speaker 3: most skilled big and versatile big offensively in terms of
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  Speaker 3: like playmaking and potentially shooting and being able to do
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more with the ball rather than kind
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  Speaker 3: of just like know, dive to the rim and dunk
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  Speaker 3: it like Misa and colbrend A do.
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  Speaker 2: And he's just one of the best.
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  Speaker 3: Rebounders and best pair of hands that we've seen in
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  Speaker 3: the draft in recent years. So really excited about Hanna
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  Speaker 3: Steinbach Christian Anderson. Eighteen was a pick that was probably
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  Speaker 3: a little bit lower on either towards my late first round.
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  Speaker 3: I just you know, we watched this playoffs. Small guards
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  Speaker 3: under six to two just so rarely factor into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Now you might be screaming at the phone saying, what
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  Speaker 3: about Jamon Brunston. Well, yeah, but he's built like a
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  Speaker 3: fridge guy.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Christian Anderson is skinny. He's like one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 3: pounds sixty one and three quarters. But you know, absolutely
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  Speaker 3: if he can put on some weight, he can survive defensively.
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  Speaker 3: He is one of the best shooters to come out
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  Speaker 3: of the draft from in terms of shooting from beyond
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  Speaker 3: the arc since twenty twenty. I saw from stats of
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  Speaker 3: the day like his combination of volume, self created attempts
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  Speaker 3: and efficiency from well beyond the college line, and his
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  Speaker 3: deep threes is pretty special, so you can play make too.
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  Speaker 3: He's not just a shooter, so there's some real gifts there.
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  Speaker 3: It's for me, it's mainly about the defense. Can you
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  Speaker 3: survive defensively? And Charlotte Skien look, it managed to hide
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  Speaker 3: LaMelo ball pretty effectively defensively last year, so it could
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  Speaker 3: be a good fit for Anderson too.
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  Speaker 2: All right, now, it's going to be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: We love your passion for the Hornets and your knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the game from over there in England is damn
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  Speaker 1: good too.
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  Speaker 2: I need to ask you.
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  Speaker 1: Though we are loving the World Cup here in the US.
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  Speaker 1: We're loving a lot of the euro fans being here
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  Speaker 1: and like partying. The Scots have been insane, the Norwegian row.
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  Speaker 1: We can't get enough of that. The games are on.
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  Speaker 1: It a great time for us in the States. But
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  Speaker 1: I need to ask over there in England, like does
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup? Does it lose a little bit because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the games are played like when y'all
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  Speaker 1: are sleeping, have you been to joining it?
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  Speaker 3: You're right, it does lose it a little bit, especially
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  Speaker 3: for like young people because they're on so late, right,
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  Speaker 3: kids used to like I remember watching my first World
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  Speaker 3: Cup match when I was seven years old, So it
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  Speaker 3: has lost a little bit of its edge just with
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  Speaker 3: them being on so late. And you know, there's some
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  Speaker 3: cynicism about these hydration breaks.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's good annoying of that nature.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, as we get to these knockout stages
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  Speaker 3: and you get some bigger matchups, and I think the
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  Speaker 3: excitement the level is going to grow. But obviously the
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  Speaker 3: so many teams qualifying for the next round, it's been strange.
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  Speaker 3: But how about USA. I mean, I know they lost
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  Speaker 3: off night but they've been playing really well and I'm
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  Speaker 3: excited to see them do well in a home tournament.
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  Speaker 2: I love that and one of the best even in
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  Speaker 2: the world.
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  Speaker 1: Some are saying right now are saying people are saying,
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  Speaker 1: you lost James Cremony.
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  Speaker 2: He got a little greeting, James.
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  Speaker 1: We just like the acknowledgment from somebody in a soccer
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  Speaker 1: nation like yourself. We like that recognition. All right, brother, Hey, Pep,
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  Speaker 1: Harry Kane. Away from the witch doctors and the low
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  Speaker 1: blocks too. Hopefully you don't see that again any time soon,
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  Speaker 1: all right, brother, be good man. We always appreciate you.