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Gordie Chiesa on the Utah Jazz and the NBA, Jazz injuries insuring they tank in a way the NBA prefers, Memories for Miracle on Ice game +... · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: He's out.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get the latest on the Utah Jazz with former
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  Speaker 2: Jazz assistant coach Gordy Chiasa. He's forgotten more about the
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  Speaker 2: NBA than any of us will ever know. Let's not
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  Speaker 2: get crazy. Come for the hoops talk, stay for his
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  Speaker 2: list of the day and listen today Here's to see
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  Speaker 2: with Basketball Sabbah Gordy Chiasa on the Sean O'Connell show.
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  Speaker 1: Goodhead, I'm on find Welcome back to the SHAWT.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome An Gordia Jasa, our resident NBA guru. Gordy, Welcome
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  Speaker 3: to the show.
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  Speaker 1: How are you, Sean? I'm doing fine, Thank you so, Gordy.
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  Speaker 3: Now that we're now that we are post NBA All
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  Speaker 3: Star Break and we have decided that we're going to
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  Speaker 3: focus on the final run of this NBA season, the
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  Speaker 3: Jazz back in action. What is it going to look
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  Speaker 3: like with these injuries that are pilot up. You got
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  Speaker 3: a bad one last night. We got the announcement that
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  Speaker 3: use of Nurkic is out for the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Is this now a tank that the NBA likes to
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  Speaker 3: see with players unavailable, or is there a way that
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  Speaker 3: they're going to be able to cobble some things together
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  Speaker 3: and win some games unexpectedly.
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  Speaker 1: It's unlikely to win some games unexpected though, so they're
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  Speaker 1: going to try to play all the younger guys that
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  Speaker 1: are available through the mistakes and errors, and they get
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  Speaker 1: them ready for next season. Did you just have a
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  Speaker 1: right now? Twenty four games left and for them to
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  Speaker 1: protect their pick one through eight, they have to win
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  Speaker 1: no more than than sean no more than eight games
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  Speaker 1: so to protect it. So this last time I spoke
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday in studio, I mentioned nine teams that are
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  Speaker 1: trying to probably not win, but I was incorrect. Now
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  Speaker 1: there's ten teams Chicago Bulls. They've lost nine straight games
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  Speaker 1: and so the Bulls are in that group now. So
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  Speaker 1: right now, basically that one third of the NBA teams.
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  Speaker 1: Ten teams really are not trying to win any games. However,
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  Speaker 1: you have to win some games because you play against
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  Speaker 1: the teams they also don't want to win. And so
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  Speaker 1: I would say the Jazz and like many all the
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  Speaker 1: other teams that are roughly tanking without saying it that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to the Jazz are going to play all
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  Speaker 1: the young guys to give more experience. And those young
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  Speaker 1: guys could win some games and hopefully they do.
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  Speaker 3: Gody, how profound of the loss is Yusuf Nurkidsch given
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  Speaker 3: like a regular basketball context, not what the Jazz are
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  Speaker 3: trying to do right now. But if this was a
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  Speaker 3: team that was trying to win, how big a deal
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  Speaker 3: would the loss of use of.
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  Speaker 1: Narkis be big? Because he's played well for the Jazz.
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  Speaker 1: He gets the Jazz an inside presence as far as
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  Speaker 1: on the boards and interior, and that he's really a
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  Speaker 1: gifted passer and souse of Nurkice. This season he's had
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  Speaker 1: one of his better years. He's averaging ten point nine
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  Speaker 1: points per game, ten point four rebounds, four point eight assists,
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  Speaker 1: and fifty point three from the field. And so he's
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  Speaker 1: out for the year. He'll miss roughly thirty one games
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  Speaker 1: this season, and so magnify that also two times Jaron
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  Speaker 1: Jackson who's only played three games for the Jazz, and
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  Speaker 1: Walker Cass has only played five games for the Jazz.
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  Speaker 1: So three of the Jazz big guys are now not available.
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  Speaker 1: As far as the last, we'll say the two to
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  Speaker 1: got the Walker almost the whole season, and for use
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  Speaker 1: of nurkage of half the season and for Jaron Jackson
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  Speaker 1: didn't get started as far as only three games, so huge.
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  Speaker 1: Hoson Rkage is a starting center on most teams and
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  Speaker 1: on an elite team even a backup center that has
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  Speaker 1: value almost like very similar to Stephen Adams of the
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  Speaker 1: Houston Rockets, who's out for the out right now and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't play lest now just shows you that picture
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Adams and also Freddie van Fleet with the Rockets,
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  Speaker 1: how good they'd be. They're good right now without those guys,
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  Speaker 1: with those players, they'd be right there. Also as far
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  Speaker 1: as knocking on the playoffs for a deep run.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the lack of a true center or the I
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  Speaker 3: guess absence of a dominant center color what the Jazz
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  Speaker 3: want to do with Walker Kessler. I know that they've
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  Speaker 3: already planned on losing these games, but I imagine that
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  Speaker 3: the strategy and the lineup changes significantly when you don't
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  Speaker 3: have use of nerkt you available so well, going the
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  Speaker 3: rest of this season without like a big big man, Well,
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  Speaker 3: that changed the way they think about the Walker Kessler
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  Speaker 3: restricted free agency.
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  Speaker 1: No really showing no is that man stick They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: they're going to resign him? Yeah, because he went he's homegrown,
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  Speaker 1: means the Jazz drafted him this this fourth season, and
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  Speaker 1: he's really a good player that he is involving offensively
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  Speaker 1: the last year or so and defensively he's a major force.
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  Speaker 1: And the add to to that is that when they
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  Speaker 1: made the trade for Jaron Jackson, he's a c AA
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  Speaker 1: client and Creative Artists Agency, and that's the exact same
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  Speaker 1: agency representation as Walker Kessler. So you don't trade for
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  Speaker 1: Jaron Jackson knowing that you're not going to resign Walker Kessler.
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  Speaker 1: So they have it's the same agency. And so my
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  Speaker 1: instincts tell me that that's all part of it. John,
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  Speaker 1: I always say to you, I always cities in July.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying about four months earlier, followed the agents, because
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  Speaker 1: the agents tell you a partial story about who teams
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  Speaker 1: are trying to sign and do or re sign. So
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  Speaker 1: I think that they're going to resign him strictly right now.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. So they're gonna resign him. The question
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  Speaker 1: is how much, But they'll wait until officit goes on.
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  Speaker 1: As far as another team bids on him, then he
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  Speaker 1: had forty eight hours to match. But I believe they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna They're going to uh, they're going to match it,
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  Speaker 1: So which means that next season for viewer Jazz fan,
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  Speaker 1: there'll be uh, not twin towers, there'll be trio towers,
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  Speaker 1: meaningwhile three three towers mean Larry Walkning, Jaron Jackson, and
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  Speaker 1: Walker Tesla.
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  Speaker 3: When we take a look at the sort of shaping
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  Speaker 3: of this roster long term, I mean, it feels like
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  Speaker 3: everyone has a good idea of what the Jazz are
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  Speaker 3: most likely to do. But will we get any surprises?
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  Speaker 3: They still have plenty of draft assets. There's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: trades around the draft. Is this a front office that's
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  Speaker 3: gonna try to surprise anybody?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because it's surprises your point is role taken. There is,
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  Speaker 1: but we don't know who it's going to be though,
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  Speaker 1: or what types of players. So the Jets have to
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  Speaker 1: get wing defenders because that's when the Jazz. When you're
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  Speaker 1: allowed the most three point shots in the NBA per game,
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  Speaker 1: that tells you that your on bold defense is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: a ratic and that so they've got to one do
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  Speaker 1: a better job of the guys that I have right
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  Speaker 1: now where there's a severe accountability, and also add players
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  Speaker 1: that usually off the bench contributors that are defensive minded,
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  Speaker 1: and so there will be some some prizes because there's
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  Speaker 1: always three or four players every summer that is out
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  Speaker 1: there that we that we say in February or early
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  Speaker 1: March or they will be out there, but they'll be
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  Speaker 1: out there because it's based on who other teams draft.
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  Speaker 1: And so that you know for the listeners right now
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  Speaker 1: is that the Jazz if they finish one through eight,
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  Speaker 1: they keep their pick. If they finish nine or above,
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  Speaker 1: that pick goes to the OKC thunder the reinforce. With
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  Speaker 1: the Jets trying to do so this is a strategy,
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  Speaker 1: and they have good players under roster right now and
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  Speaker 1: they're going to try to add to it. And then
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  Speaker 1: you've got to get a defensive minded group together collectively.
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  Speaker 3: As we approach NCAA tournament time, Gordy, and big decisions
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  Speaker 3: to be made for teams that are tanking and try
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  Speaker 3: to get themselves into the best spot. How fluid is
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  Speaker 3: that process of scouting right now? We got the NFL
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  Speaker 3: scouting combines starting this week, and obviously that talent evaluation
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  Speaker 3: process is a little bit different than the way the
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  Speaker 3: NBA does it. But with you know, aj Debonsa and
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  Speaker 3: Darren Peterson and Cam Boozer and all these guys playing
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  Speaker 3: in more important games as their seasons come down to
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  Speaker 3: the real brass tacks of it. How much fluidity is
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  Speaker 3: there in that draft order and who they think is
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  Speaker 3: the best, Who's the obvious number one? Is it pretty
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  Speaker 3: well established at this point in NBA front offices and
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  Speaker 3: the scouting departments that are in charge of this, or
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  Speaker 3: are they going to be sitting back during tournament time
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  Speaker 3: and letting that be the ultimate determinant.
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  Speaker 1: It's for a player's whole body of work. And so
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  Speaker 1: this year. Last year was cut and dry. Cooper Flagged
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  Speaker 1: was number one, and ironically his teammate Konkinipple he was
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  Speaker 1: picked number four. But he's very good and so that
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  Speaker 1: was surprised and the Hornets ready correctly perfectly this year
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  Speaker 1: again you know the numbers already with the at deband
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  Speaker 1: Surf from b YU, Darren Peterson from from Kansas University
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  Speaker 1: and Cambus of Duke. Those are the three. And you
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  Speaker 1: could debate that, and they will between now and the
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  Speaker 1: day of the selection on that that Wednesday and Thursday
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  Speaker 1: of the draft in late June. So those three of them,
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  Speaker 1: three main guys, and then it falls back into so
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  Speaker 1: many other guys and so it could be Caleb Wilson,
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  Speaker 1: Kingston Fleming Brown junior of Louisville, n Emmon from a Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: Darius Outcover point guard from Arkansas. All these guys are
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  Speaker 1: all going to be there. The other guys too, and
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be The Jazz are starring right out
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  Speaker 1: those guys. But the Jazz have good players are on
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  Speaker 1: the roster right now with Ace Bailey and Kante George.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys really are good young talents that the Jazz
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  Speaker 1: are going to really look at and they are going
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  Speaker 1: to play and they are They're talented. And so the
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  Speaker 1: Jazz have offensive talent they mentioned earlier, they've got to
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  Speaker 1: get some more defensive mindset. Hey, I like Bryce censer
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  Speaker 1: Ball off the bench, you know, and if you like
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Clarkson, then you like Bryce Bryce censer Ball because
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  Speaker 1: he's having a tremendous year and there's there's less ten
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  Speaker 1: games of a year of this season right now as
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  Speaker 1: far as him playing and in a more impactful role
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  Speaker 1: as his numbers right now with Brent Censerba is that
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  Speaker 1: he's averaging sixteen points a game forty five point two
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  Speaker 1: filcabercentage almost forty percent from threes and eight point two rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: and he's an alpha dog, and so so the Jazz bench.
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  Speaker 1: They've got to keep developing. But also they've got to
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  Speaker 1: understand the combination of if I can score the bull,
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  Speaker 1: I thought the defend also on ball and that getink.
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  Speaker 1: It's very interesting for the Jazz.
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  Speaker 3: Gordy chases our guest here on the Sean O'Connell show,
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  Speaker 3: talk at all Things NBA basketball here as the Utah
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  Speaker 3: Jazz are back in action post All Star break. We
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  Speaker 3: started the show today, Gordy with a kind of a
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  Speaker 3: question about, you know, star power and an organization or
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  Speaker 3: a league or whoever's reliance on star power, I mean
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  Speaker 3: whole sports. Right now, boxing is trying to stir up
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  Speaker 3: the echoes of some of the past generation of stars
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  Speaker 3: and create more interest in fights that we don't need
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  Speaker 3: to see anymore because the young the younger boxers have
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  Speaker 3: failed to, i think, capture the imagination of the general public.
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  Speaker 3: And it got me thinking about this Utah Jazz team
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  Speaker 3: that's got a bunch of really good players, right and
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  Speaker 3: they don't have any superstars. They borderline stars, They borderline
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  Speaker 3: all stars. They don't have any superstars in a superstar
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  Speaker 3: driven league. How crucial is it to find that, to
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  Speaker 3: get that, to draft that, to develop that for this
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  Speaker 3: Utah Jazz team, Because even with the outlook you have
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  Speaker 3: right now, I'm not sure that the vision is, well,
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  Speaker 3: we'll turn a S. Bailey into a megastar, We'll turn
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  Speaker 3: Conte George into a megastar. We'll try to draft whoever
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  Speaker 3: we can at the top. And of course if you
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  Speaker 3: can get that, it's great, But that it seems to
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  Speaker 3: be a front office that's ready to build around like
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  Speaker 3: depth rather than one star with some accessory pieces.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the one star is can of generational talent, and
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  Speaker 1: so Ace Belly has potentially be an All Star. He's
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  Speaker 1: very good for his age group. It's can as always,
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  Speaker 1: don't look at the All star players that are twenty nine,
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  Speaker 1: thirty thirty one years old. Try to visualize Ace Bailly
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  Speaker 1: against players like Kankinipple, guys like that. Can he outplay
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  Speaker 1: him for the next ten years And the answer is
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  Speaker 1: he has enough talent to do it. Well, this is
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  Speaker 1: a talent league, and then you have to go bind
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  Speaker 1: skills and then the mindset defensively and then do this
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  Speaker 1: whole thing called being a team player within what the
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  Speaker 1: individual skill game, and so Ace Bailey would be the
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  Speaker 1: nearest guide to that, and can't they. George is knocking
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  Speaker 1: as far as being an All Star some day, and
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  Speaker 1: so they have parts of it, but not the whole
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  Speaker 1: pitcher and that's many teams. So generational talent basically in
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  Speaker 1: the league right now would be Victor Wenbiamba, So he's
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  Speaker 1: the guy. And also Anthony Edwards is vastly underrated as
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  Speaker 1: far as generational talent. And then add to that Kate Cunningham.
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  Speaker 1: So those are the three guys that have that thing
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  Speaker 1: about them. I call it the it factor that they
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  Speaker 1: have it right now. And besides Shae is Alexander, I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to get more of the younger guys right now.
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  Speaker 1: Shane right now is still young guy. He's in his
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  Speaker 1: prime right now, he's twenty seven years young. Emphasize young,
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  Speaker 1: and so the Jazz are trying to get that. And
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  Speaker 1: so the question is in the draft right now is it?
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  Speaker 1: The answer is a Darren Peterson is a camp boozer
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  Speaker 1: and Cooper Flagg has that also, So these are the
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  Speaker 1: young guys that the Jazz are going to have to
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  Speaker 1: play against and really outperform them when they go against
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  Speaker 1: them one on one.
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  Speaker 3: Gordian, I've been remiss. We we spent a lot of
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  Speaker 3: time yesterday talking about this weekend's gold medal win for
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  Speaker 3: USA Hockey, and we were lamenting the idea that it
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  Speaker 3: had taken forty six years between the last time the
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  Speaker 3: gold medal happened and this time that the gold medal happened,
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  Speaker 3: and the inflection point it could be for hockey. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, in nineteen eighty I wasn't born, and yet
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  Speaker 3: James wasn't born. Yet you were around, You were in
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  Speaker 3: the sports world. You had an awareness of not just
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  Speaker 3: the like massive impact that it had, but kind of
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  Speaker 3: the little the incremental steps, the you know, the merchandise
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  Speaker 3: that you saw on the streets, the way that suddenly
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  Speaker 3: kids wanted to play hockey, the way that they wanted
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  Speaker 3: to play football, basketball, baseball, whatever, and just you know,
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  Speaker 3: when you go back to nineteen eighty and the memories
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  Speaker 3: that you have or didn't have because you were so
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  Speaker 3: talented on basketball to that miracle on ice situation, could
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  Speaker 3: you kind of like delineate for me what the post
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  Speaker 3: gold medal media tour, the interviews the win, the awareness
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  Speaker 3: of the American people in that accomplishment and in hockey.
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  Speaker 2: What was that like?
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  Speaker 1: Well, first thing is that that I was that time
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty at Darwins College. I was a major
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  Speaker 1: hockey school year before Darwin went to the Frozen Final four,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the Frozen four. I than years later at
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  Speaker 1: Province College is a major Big East hockey school. Blue
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  Speaker 1: Emmere the great general manager of the Islanders and the Devils,
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  Speaker 1: and later on the Toronto maple LEAs was our boss
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  Speaker 1: as athletic director. So I've been around like in that year.
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  Speaker 1: I was around, like hockey right in front of me,
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  Speaker 1: even though I'm a quote a basketball guy. So around
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  Speaker 1: that it was so much patriotism back in nineteen seventy nine.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately that Iran took the hostages of America. These are
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  Speaker 1: these people and journalists, and so when the USA won
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  Speaker 1: the one of the hockey part of the backdrop was
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  Speaker 1: our citizens and Iran being held hostage. And every day,
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  Speaker 1: every night I part me on ABC News. And again
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to matagine, but at that time, ABC, NBC
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  Speaker 1: and CBS that was it. So you watched one of
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  Speaker 1: those three channels, and so ABC had a running documentary
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  Speaker 1: of how many days are American citizens were held hostage
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  Speaker 1: and Iran. That's how the world was back then. And
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  Speaker 1: then Russia is involved in this also with the with
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  Speaker 1: the Cold War, and so when the US eight team
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  Speaker 1: won the one beat the Russians first, then had to
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  Speaker 1: beat I believe Sweden and the and the and the
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  Speaker 1: gold medal game. Is that it was such a patriotism
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  Speaker 1: for America because of the hostages. And then along came
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan became president and from day one he said
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  Speaker 1: enough is enough. And then and then suddenly because he
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  Speaker 1: was aga, he'sn't have force against Iran and all the
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  Speaker 1: other countries that allowed this to happen. And that's when
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  Speaker 1: the hostage were released. Right now, So the backdrop was
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  Speaker 1: political plus also patriotism. And the hockey team really united
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  Speaker 1: the whole country towards America being the USA. How proud
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  Speaker 1: they were. And ironically, you know yesterday you know Tundys
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  Speaker 1: should say when when Jack made Jack Hughes made that goal,
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  Speaker 1: he's a Province College graduate, so the second goal went in,
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  Speaker 1: I knew his background before the game, so at the
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  Speaker 1: second when he made that goal he made it made
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. PC fires very happy with that goalty.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty cool to see it, and obviously the the accessory
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  Speaker 3: stories around it. I mean, it doesn't have like you
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  Speaker 3: were just explaining, it doesn't have this gold medal win,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have the same level of like political intrigue, geopolitical ramifications.
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  Speaker 3: It's not quite the same level of underdog story. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm very curious to see what it does too, especially
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  Speaker 3: here in our home state of Utah, what it does
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  Speaker 3: to youth hockey participation and the sort of grassroots effort
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  Speaker 3: to build the sport here. Because we got an NHL
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  Speaker 3: team and we got a Winter Classic coming, and sandwiched
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  Speaker 3: in between those two big events, you get a gold
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  Speaker 3: medal for Team USA with one of our very own
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  Speaker 3: Utah Mammoth on that roster. It's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and it's how we did it. You know.
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  Speaker 1: The key is that's their sport and they have a
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  Speaker 1: great team and a great hockey program. But you say
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  Speaker 1: was also to catch up mode the last twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years and they are able to keep getting these guys
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  Speaker 1: together and also the sacrifice of the players. These guys
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  Speaker 1: are playing in the NHL and the other game what
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday Night tomorrow night they play with the regular teams
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  Speaker 1: and they're willing to come together as a group and
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  Speaker 1: only practice for two weeks. And this shows you the
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  Speaker 1: skill level of the players and the Olympics they bring
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  Speaker 1: out the best of people. There's so many great stories
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  Speaker 1: of the athletes of what they had to overcome, and
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  Speaker 1: their families of how they encourage their sons or daughters
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  Speaker 1: to be able to play and be able to compete
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  Speaker 1: at an elite level. And I saw a story showing
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  Speaker 1: just quickly about the best go part of it that
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant wants to play in the Olympics in the
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  Speaker 1: la in twenty twenty eight, which is relatively soon. Visit
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six right now, And so Kevin Durant
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  Speaker 1: is he has four gold medals already twenty twelve, London
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, ReDigi VI Sheneio twenty twenty which became twenty
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  Speaker 1: one because of the pandemic in Tokyo, and last year
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  Speaker 1: in Paris twenty twenty four. So Durant's got four gold medals.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be almost forty in July twenty twenty eight if
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  Speaker 1: he gets selected again to get his flip goal medal.
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  Speaker 1: Which is unbelievable. And so from a team standpoint, there's
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  Speaker 1: so many great young American players that could be on
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  Speaker 1: this Olympic team. Anthony Edwards, Evan Mobley, Jalen Brunson, Cooper Flagg,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Williams, continnepal Terse Maxi, Terse Halliburton, Amen Thompson, Kate Cunningham,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Duran, chet Hongren, Devin Booker, Jason Tatum, and Scottie Bonds.
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  Speaker 1: So these are some of the guys that could be selected.
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  Speaker 1: So the team's going to be great, and LA makes
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  Speaker 1: it Being in LA makes it so special for the
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  Speaker 1: for the NBA players when.
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  Speaker 3: Those Olympics roll, ady, is Canada or France or some
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  Speaker 3: other nation going to be the biggest threat to the team.
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  Speaker 3: USA's gold medal hopes No, France.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely France with Ricky mbiand on that crew. The answer
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  Speaker 1: is yes, France. Remember it took every brilliance of Stephan
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  Speaker 1: Curry to knock out France. So that's the member Steph
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  Speaker 1: we last summer where he's making those outrageous three points
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  Speaker 1: I always left when I think about it in a
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  Speaker 1: good way. How Lebron James and Kevin Durant were feeding
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  Speaker 1: the ball to Steph Curry because they knew that he
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: had the hot hot hand in a dice game.
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  Speaker 3: What's the list today, Gordy speaking.
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  Speaker 1: Of Honey is a guys name. This is a list
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  Speaker 1: very similar. Utah Jazz franchise leaders and most Korea made
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  Speaker 1: three point shots as a member of the Jazz hit
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  Speaker 1: the list number ten all time jazz three point shooter
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  Speaker 1: as far as Korea makes medment oh Court. His nickname
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  Speaker 1: was Money. He ate five hundred and seventeen Koreer threes
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  Speaker 1: for the Jazz. Number nine Dale Griffith Elias Doctor Dunkenstein. However,
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  Speaker 1: he also had a really great three point game. And
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  Speaker 1: when I coached when I coached Dal Riff and ers
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  Speaker 1: to kid him that he shot a moon ball shot,
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  Speaker 1: meaning it was a high arc shot like a moon
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  Speaker 1: ball up to the moon and land right through the basket.
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  Speaker 1: Briff made five hundred and thirty May threes number eight.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most underrated players in jazz history besides
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  Speaker 1: Paul Millshop, Brian Russell made five hundred and forty May
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  Speaker 1: threes number seven all time. Boy Young von Danovitch tremendous
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  Speaker 1: jazz player. He made five hundred and fifty Korea threes.
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  Speaker 1: Number six. He's playing right now. Unfortunately for the Jazz
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  Speaker 1: last night he shot one for ten, But Larry Markin
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  Speaker 1: is a knockdown shooter. He has right now. He's sixth
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  Speaker 1: all time in jazz history. He has six hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight May triples. Number five, Gordon Hayward six hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty nine, Number four. Jordan Cloxon, Remember Jordan Coxon.
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  Speaker 1: He gets on a heater. He was hard to stop.
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  Speaker 1: He's made eight hundred and twenty one May trees, Number
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  Speaker 1: three all time. We used to beg him to shoot,
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  Speaker 1: especially in playoff games, because when he shot, it always
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  Speaker 1: went in. John Stockton is third all time with eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty five May threes. He shot for his
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  Speaker 1: Korea thirty eight point four from threes, never thinking of
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  Speaker 1: of making a three point shot. Number two all time.
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  Speaker 1: His nickname was Spider. Donovan Mitchell made nine hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight threes, three percentage thirty six point one and
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  Speaker 1: the number one player of all time in Jets history
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  Speaker 1: of the most May threes. We all love him, we
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: call him. Do you all see what the swag Joe
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  Speaker 1: ingles he made one thousand and seventy one coreer triples
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  Speaker 1: for a shooting percentage of forty point eight percent from three.
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  Speaker 1: Thus that's my list of today of the the greatest
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  Speaker 1: average Jazz distant shooters.
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  Speaker 3: Gordi, it's always a great pleasure. I appreciate you giving
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  Speaker 3: us some time again today. Talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks showing peace out, Gorda Chiaza.
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