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Overreacting To Every NBA Team's First Game · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: Last night, we had a twelve game slate in the NBA,
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Speaker 1: and y'all know it is traditional on this channel that
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Speaker 1: when your favorite team play their first game, guess what
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna overreact to the first game
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Speaker 1: of the season. I recognize a lot of the stuff
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Speaker 1: that I may say today is not gonna matter when
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Speaker 1: it comes to April. But we've been missing NBA ball,
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Speaker 1: so I will be overreacting to every single game. Only
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Speaker 1: thing I asked that you give me some grapes. It
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Speaker 1: was a twelve I'm gonna sayin twelve games slate, I
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Speaker 1: only got two eyeballs. There's no way for me to
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Speaker 1: watch every single possion of every single game. Is basically
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying and be able to break it down
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Speaker 1: to maybe the extent that you probably broke it down.
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Speaker 2: Is it being your favorite team?
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Speaker 1: A reminder, eighty two game season, I am basically doing
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Speaker 1: five podcasts a week plus doing videos on this channel.
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Speaker 1: So if you want to hear me give love to
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Speaker 1: your team and talk about how trashy, y'all best believe
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Speaker 1: that throughout the course of the season, I'm gonna have
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Speaker 1: so many opportunities to do those things.
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Speaker 2: It's basically just they do you fear me? So let's
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Speaker 2: lock in.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start off with the game that I didn't
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Speaker 1: watch live, but I didn't watch it live on purpose,
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Speaker 1: right with it being seven games on at the same time,
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Speaker 1: it was one game and I was like, I need
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Speaker 1: to like get it needs my full attention, and I
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Speaker 1: didn't want to cut out the other seven games for
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Speaker 1: this game, so I was like, I'm I'm gonna wait
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Speaker 1: until the next day, which is today, to watch this game.
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Speaker 1: And that game was the Raptors versus the Hawks, a
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Speaker 1: game where the Toronto Raptors looked amazing, but the Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Hawks were the offseason winner. Right between porzingis Jalen Johnson
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Speaker 1: being back, Lukenard with the kailasaid of Walker. There's a
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Speaker 1: team that many people, me included, believe to be built
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Speaker 1: to make a postseason run, not a championship team, but
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Speaker 1: like a real postseason run, and they didn't look too
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Speaker 1: good in that first game. Let's overreact now the Raptors.
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Speaker 1: I've done a like a one eighty on the Raptors.
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Speaker 1: There's a video earlier in the offseason where we were
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Speaker 1: looking at the Raptors steps start after they gave ya
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Speaker 1: could Pard that money, and I was like, damn, man,
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Speaker 1: it's a really expensive scene for a team that probably
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Speaker 1: won't be too good. But if you watch the other
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Speaker 1: piece of the content, whether it be the podcast and stuff,
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Speaker 1: I had turned around on the Toronto Raptors after I
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Speaker 1: watched like a lot more of their games and kind
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Speaker 1: of took took a look at what darker Rayakovic philosophies were,
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Speaker 1: and I still didn't think that they were gonna be
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Speaker 1: or look, this goddamn good Atlanta, let it be what
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Speaker 1: it meant. I would rather focus on whether Toronto Raptors
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Speaker 1: just gave us because this was, in my mind like
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Speaker 1: the perfect Scottie Barnes game. Like a lot of Raptors
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Speaker 1: fans in my mention is like, Yo, Scotty Barnes Aliba season.
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Speaker 1: I can't say say it's out of the re impossibility
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Speaker 1: because he is a premier level connector on both sides
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Speaker 1: of the floor, and I really really liked that style
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Speaker 1: of play. One thing that I didn't like about what
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Speaker 1: Scotty Barnses was doing yesterday's amount he settled for the
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Speaker 1: mid range jumpers.
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Speaker 2: I ain't see a lot of that.
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Speaker 1: In last night's game, they got out in transition and
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Speaker 1: they ran. If there was one thing that's scary as
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Speaker 1: hell about the Atlanta Hawks, what I just saw is
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Speaker 1: they let the Toronto Raptors just run, run, run. There
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Speaker 1: was one possession where Yaka Pearl may have got a
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Speaker 1: steal or block. He got it himself.
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Speaker 2: Yaka Purdle ran the break and then threw a lob y'all.
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Speaker 1: Not a single person on that Atlanta Hawks team thought him,
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Speaker 1: let me stop the ball, the thing that they teach
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Speaker 1: you in first grade basketball. Nobody in Atlanta Hawks even
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Speaker 1: thought about that. And it was just over and over
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Speaker 1: and over and the thing. I don't want to spend
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Speaker 1: too much time on a single game, because again, we
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Speaker 1: got twelve games to get to the thing that was
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Speaker 1: the most exciting to me about the Toronto Raptors that
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Speaker 1: we saw in Summer League. We saw in preseason that
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Speaker 1: their identity on the defensive side of the ball is
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Speaker 1: to just put an immense amount of pressure.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna pick you up ninety four feet, so on
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Speaker 2: and so forth. But sometimes teams.
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Speaker 1: Have that be their identity and their main goal is
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Speaker 1: to force turnovers, and it's not necessarily the case for
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Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors, like, yes, turnovers would be great if
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Speaker 1: we can get them. But the one thing that I
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Speaker 1: noticed when I watched them today or earlier today was
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Speaker 1: their pressure was literally to tire you out.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna pick you up ninety four feet.
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Speaker 1: I'm also gonna get the ball at the tray, young
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Speaker 1: Han as much as possible, making the kire outs of
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Speaker 1: the walker be the initiative offense. And that ain't really
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Speaker 1: the road we want to see the care outs to
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Speaker 1: walk in. But we're just gonna bring the pressure. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna foul a ton, which in my mind I always
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Speaker 1: look at it like fouling a ton is not necessarily
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Speaker 1: a terrible thing if it means that you're setting the
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Speaker 1: tone of the game. And I felt like the Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Hawks or the Toronto Raptors did that. The Atlanta Hawks
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Speaker 1: then scored at first real basket for some time, but
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Speaker 1: they had like nine points and the reason was the
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Speaker 1: Toronto Raps are fouling the hell out of them, setting.
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Speaker 2: The real ten. So I really liked that they get that.
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Speaker 1: I love how deep they weren't as far as their
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Speaker 1: bench goes, because if you are going to play this
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Speaker 1: level of intensity for eighty two game season, you better
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Speaker 1: hope that the tenth man and the eleventh man on
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Speaker 1: the roster already. And they even had some injuries, like
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Speaker 1: the rookie Kyler Murray Boyles was in a nice ass
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Speaker 1: fit on the sideline. So I'm really intrigued about what
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Speaker 1: the Raptors did. Brandon Ingram looked really good in this
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Speaker 1: first game as a half coord initiator and everything. Yeah, Raptors,
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Speaker 1: I took there over. Though I took there over. I
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Speaker 1: came around Raptors fans, let's believe it. But I was
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Speaker 1: really really pleased with a lot of things I saw
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Speaker 1: for the Toronto Raptors.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 1: Also, last thing, last thing, last thing. I love how
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Speaker 1: many different things Grady Dick was involved there. Just not
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Speaker 1: just like sometimes you get a good movement shooter and
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Speaker 1: you just do the same motions and do the same things,
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Speaker 1: or sometimes people just put those movement shooters in the
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Speaker 1: corner and hope that they get open. We saw Grady
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Speaker 1: they do a lot, and I really like that because
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Speaker 1: the team they're gonna shoot the ball well, we don't
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Speaker 1: know if they're gonna be able to shoot the ball well.
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Speaker 1: That's like the biggest question mark about the entire team.
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Speaker 1: So when you do have a guy that we at
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Speaker 1: least look at to be like, oh, that's our three
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Speaker 1: point shooter, we want him to be involved. We want
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Speaker 1: him to be involved to take pressure off of Ascati,
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Speaker 1: to take pressure off of RJ, who I didn't even mention,
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Speaker 1: who had a phenomenal game. So yeah, shout out to
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Speaker 1: the Raptors. Let me get their name off the list
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Speaker 1: so I don't talk about them again next game. Let's
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Speaker 1: get the Bulls game out of the way. Y'all know
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Speaker 1: I had to talk about them Bulls. I really have
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Speaker 1: a lot about the Bulls. They came out guns, blaze
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Speaker 1: of Usowitz looked amazing, They had some foul trouble from
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Speaker 1: Jayalen Durham and stuff, and it made it easier for
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Speaker 1: the Bulls to go in a huge run. The Pistons
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Speaker 1: going a nice sto't comeback on one time. They were
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Speaker 1: down by twenty three and by the last Men game,
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Speaker 1: damn it, it was a tight game. The thing that scares
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Speaker 1: me about the Pistons, at least based on that first game,
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Speaker 1: is that when no Marcus Sasser and no Jaydenn Ivy.
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Speaker 1: They ran a few different lineup constructions that scared the
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Speaker 1: hell out of me because they didn't have anybody that
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Speaker 1: can build dribble penetration. And you know, I really loved
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Speaker 1: the Ron Holland and the sar Thompson minutes, but I
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Speaker 1: really really loved his sar Thompson Ron Holloman. It's when
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Speaker 1: Kate Cunningham was on the floor with him. Then a
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Speaker 1: couple of lineups it was like Javonte Green and say
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Speaker 1: like Duckie Robinson was out there as the loan shooter
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Speaker 1: who did not shoot well at all. So there's some
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Speaker 1: some scary things. Luckily they put it together towards the
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Speaker 1: end of the game. And like now me being super
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Speaker 1: pessimistic about the team, like, okay, they can make it happen.
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Speaker 1: But Kate Cunningham is already a super over tax player
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Speaker 1: as an offensive engine, and he's really good at that.
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Speaker 1: But like, one of the things I went to see
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Speaker 1: from Kate this season is him to alleviate some of
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Speaker 1: that pressure by allowing other people to be initiators.
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Speaker 2: They don't even have anybody to do that.
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Speaker 1: Even if Kate wanted to do it, he gonna give
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Speaker 1: it to who you know what I'm saying, So hopefully
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Speaker 1: Marcus Sashon's not out for some time. I actually don't
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Speaker 1: know what his injury is off the top of my mind,
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Speaker 1: and we already know what ja naives.
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Speaker 2: Then we'll win.
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Speaker 1: But you know, the loss of like a Dennis shooter,
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Speaker 1: you can really see right now because they had nobody
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Speaker 1: else that could create some other offense. B Stue was phenomenal,
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Speaker 1: which is a good plus line because they could use
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Speaker 1: him coming off the bench and doing some cool stuff.
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Speaker 2: Minzel was great. Just get he get some big free throws. Whatever,
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Speaker 2: it's the Bulls.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the first nasty televised game, the Cavs
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Speaker 1: versus the Knicks. Yo, this was one of the most
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Speaker 1: fun games to watch because.
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Speaker 2: Change his map.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, And I'm not saying that
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Speaker 1: Tom Thibodeau should have got fired. Don't don't misinterpret this,
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Speaker 1: but it is cool to see almost the exact same
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Speaker 1: roster under one coach and see him again under a
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Speaker 1: different coach. What can they do to this team that
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Speaker 1: this guy didn't? And Mike Brown the first basket of
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Speaker 1: the game. If I'm not mistaken, it might have been
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Speaker 1: the first second basket was Jaylen Bronson getting a catcher
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Speaker 1: shoe corner three pointer. The entire first quarter, it was
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Speaker 1: Michel Bridges as the primary initiator while Jaylen Brunst was
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Speaker 1: running off screens and doing some other stuff, instead of
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Speaker 1: Jaylen Brunson getting down into his thing early and again,
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Speaker 1: it was so refreshing, maybe that's the word. It was
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Speaker 1: so refreshing to watch because we know what Jaylen Brunce
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Speaker 1: could do if he is the guy that's pounding the
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Speaker 1: hell out of the ball. But in order to have
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Speaker 1: like multiple identities is just gonna benefit the team in
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Speaker 1: the loan run. We know if this game got to
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Speaker 1: the last possession, we weren't gonna have mckail Bridges bicking
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Speaker 1: the ball. The course, damn give it to Jaylen Brunson.
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Speaker 1: But to be able to see this, it was just
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Speaker 1: so cool. The Knicks were the worst bench team in
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Speaker 1: all of basketball last season.
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Speaker 2: Their bench looked great.
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Speaker 1: I think they even ran ten and eleven man and
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Speaker 1: that's even without Mitchell Robinson and without Josh Hart. That's
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Speaker 1: gonna matter in my personal opinion, So I really love
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Speaker 1: what I saw from them. Tyler Kolek was running some
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Speaker 1: real point guard minutes, which is cool because last time
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Speaker 1: I remember him playing, he didn't look that damn good.
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Speaker 1: So the fact that he came into this game it
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Speaker 1: looks solid was pretty cool. Hug Porty and even Trey
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Speaker 1: Jamison both coming into these games, hug Porty even starting.
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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you get these I don't wanna call
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Speaker 1: it up. I guess Trey James is kind of like
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Speaker 1: a two I think he might literally be a two
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Speaker 1: way guy. But hug Porty, being the last pick of
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Speaker 1: the draft, you go against the team with the front
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Speaker 1: court that is that Calves, You're like, oh, those guys
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Speaker 1: are not gonna look good.
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Speaker 2: They look fine.
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Speaker 1: They were able to hold their own and that's a
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Speaker 1: plus sign considering who your real center is. Mitchell Robinson
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Speaker 1: is always dealing with some type of ailments that you
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Speaker 1: can have a guy, your third stringer or your fourth
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Speaker 1: stringer could just be fine. They not gonna blow the
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Speaker 1: barn doors off, but they're just gonna be fine. And
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Speaker 1: I really valued that. I actually want to rewatch a
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Speaker 1: lot of those next possessions because it just was again,
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Speaker 1: just refreshing is the word that I would use. On
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Speaker 1: the flip side of that, the Calves offense looked the
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Speaker 1: exact opposite of what we saw last season. What was there,
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Speaker 1: free flowing back door, cutting ball movement and so on
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Speaker 1: and so forth. Of Kennyaguson kind of talked about it
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Speaker 1: being like, yeah, we're incorporating our boy, Evan Mobley even
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Speaker 1: more like, Evan Mobley took a ton of shots in
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Speaker 1: the first quart I think he had like eight or
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Speaker 1: nine different shots in.
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Speaker 2: The first quarter alone.
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Speaker 1: And I like that because I think Evan Mobley has
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Speaker 1: a ceiling to be one of the best players in
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Speaker 1: all of basketball. The problem is, at least based on
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Speaker 1: his one game, like kind of where these shots ended
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Speaker 1: up coming from where I think he only took four
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Speaker 1: shots in the paint this entire game, and that's just
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Speaker 1: not enough for a guy like him. I feel like
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Speaker 1: I have to mention that. Of course, Darius Garland, DeAndre
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Speaker 1: Hunter Max drew some guys that will be an initiator
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Speaker 1: in Garland's case, or like guys flying off for screens
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Speaker 1: and hitting three point shots and connect The pieces were
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Speaker 1: gone in this one, but it wasn't It wasn't a
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Speaker 1: pretty game. It wasn't a pretty game for them moresoever,
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Speaker 1: and they did make it pretty interesting. I thought, Look,
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Speaker 1: my Alonzo looked great with his whatever point was it
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Speaker 1: one point two point?
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Speaker 2: Said he gave, but he passed really well.
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Speaker 1: His knees look cool. But I walked out of this
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Speaker 1: more excited about the Knicks than not excited about the Caves.
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Speaker 2: If that makes sense. Wimby is a superhero, an alien.
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Speaker 2: He's everything. I mean. I made the tweet that.
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Speaker 1: I'm watching this game and I'm in this office, his
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Speaker 1: exact office, only watching the TV in the room by
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Speaker 1: myself laughing at how ridiculous this man plays. When I
10:27
Speaker 1: was a kid, we didn't do my career because it
10:31
Speaker 1: was so many of us between like me and my cousins,
10:33
Speaker 1: everybody in that my career. So we would do is
10:35
Speaker 1: that we would create players to just throw them on
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Speaker 1: random teams. And I had one cousin that was like, Hey,
10:40
Speaker 1: I'm gonna name this guy to myself, but I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: make him seven foot one with ninety nine everything. Wimby
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Speaker 1: is that, but instead of being seven foot one, he's
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Speaker 1: seven foot four or seven foot five. I can't even
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Speaker 1: explain how excited I am about this Winby's season, because
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Speaker 1: the small things that you could really be negative about
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Speaker 1: for wimben Yama, whether they be the amount of three
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Speaker 1: point shooting, the lack of aggression going to the basket,
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Speaker 1: the turnovers. At least in game number one, all of
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Speaker 1: those were gone. He looked like a He looked like
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Speaker 1: a flawless basketball player. That's crazy. Even in the preseason.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I can show you the text in the
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Speaker 1: group chat. I'm like, man, yeah, Weinby's gonna have a
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Speaker 1: phenomenal season, but damn, as soon as he's seeing double teams,
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Speaker 1: he's spinning to turn the ball over this game. That
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Speaker 1: didn't happen at all last last season he attended to
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Speaker 1: what eight threes a game and four free throws? He
11:27
Speaker 1: had like double digit free throws. And in order to
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Speaker 1: go from great to superstardom, I truly do believe get
11:34
Speaker 1: into that foul line is a necessity to everybody except
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Speaker 1: for like Steph Curry.
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Speaker 2: So crazy.
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Speaker 1: The only supicide is just don't get to the foul line.
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Speaker 1: But that might change this year, I guess with the
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Speaker 1: new real changes. But him being able to go out
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Speaker 1: there and get ten free throws. Well, also, he only
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Speaker 1: had three blocks, but he may have contested and changed
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Speaker 1: one thousand shots like that's that. That's what it felt
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Speaker 1: like he was. He wasn't even going against like no disrespect.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't gonna get like the nets. He was going
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Speaker 1: against Anthony Davis and Derek Lively, no notes. Stefan Castle
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Speaker 1: looked really good at least.
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Speaker 2: Getting winby the ball.
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Speaker 1: And the only reason I really like Chris Paul and
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Speaker 1: San Antonio because he was one of the few people
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Speaker 1: on the team that would give winby the ball and
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Speaker 1: let him cook and Stefan Castle a couple possessions and
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Speaker 1: him and Dylan Harper found this out very early in
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Speaker 1: his career to give the ball to the big dude
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Speaker 1: and let him do the thing, because if he looks good,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna look good. They gonna send two to three.
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Speaker 1: Guess what I got an open shot. I had an
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Speaker 1: open lane to the basket. Just give it to the
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Speaker 1: big dude to let him cook. Couter flag was an
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Speaker 1: awful you know, first game. I'm not tripping about it whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: His aggression was right, his defense was right. His loose
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Speaker 1: is going after loose balls on the floor, diving on
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Speaker 1: the floor. All of that can't take away from so
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Speaker 1: a win for the Spurs. That was a team that
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Speaker 1: went over on that was like, damn, did I not
12:44
Speaker 1: go high enough? That's that overreaction. Der Fox isn't even
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Speaker 1: there right now, you feel me. Next game seventy six
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Speaker 1: is versus Celtics.
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Speaker 2: The VJ game. VJ having one of the greatest rookie
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Speaker 2: debuts ever ever, and I just love that.
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Speaker 1: There was one moment in the game where if you
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Speaker 1: watch this one, the Celtics Peyton Purtchrick hits a three boom.
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Speaker 1: Now they're down by one. They do the foul game.
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Speaker 1: The foul J is car VJ goes to the free
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Speaker 1: throw line, he misses two. The Celtic get the ball,
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Speaker 1: they call him out. They do a quick shot of VJs.
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Speaker 1: He's walking to the huddle. He say, don't worry, we
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Speaker 1: still got this, or something along those lines. I did
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Speaker 1: write in my nose with It's something along those linst
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Speaker 1: that like, I'm watching this game and I'm like, that's
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Speaker 1: what I want to see. You know how easy it
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Speaker 1: is to be down yourself after missing two free throws
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Speaker 1: that might cause the team the game, he was like, Okay,
13:32
Speaker 1: obviously he would have preferred to make them, but he
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Speaker 1: was like, don't worry, We're good, were good.
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Speaker 2: What they call him the generator.
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Speaker 1: I think I heard on the broadcast he looked as
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Speaker 1: good as any rookie I've seen. And it still blows
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Speaker 1: my mind that he's on this team because can you
13:46
Speaker 1: imagine last season how high we were.
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Speaker 2: On those seventy six ers.
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Speaker 1: Paul George on the team, Jool and Be healthy, boom,
13:51
Speaker 1: that's a fifty win team for them to be like, no,
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Speaker 1: we actually gonna be close to winning the lottery and
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Speaker 1: we're gonna draft a guy that might be of real
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Speaker 1: life Stablestone for his team. It's crazy. Julia Be didn't
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Speaker 1: look good. He only played twenty minutes. He wasn't moving right.
14:04
Speaker 1: I actually I don't know if he was on a
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Speaker 1: like legit strict minutes restriction, but it made sense for
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Speaker 1: him not to be in the game right there because
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Speaker 1: they just it was just a little slow. It was
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Speaker 1: a little slow when he was there. I loved that
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Speaker 1: VJ got all the opportunities that he did. And for
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Speaker 1: the Celtics, I think the one thing that stood out
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Speaker 1: to me from their perspective is how many times they
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Speaker 1: were able to get to the foul line, which is
14:23
Speaker 1: a good thing for them because they were towards the
14:24
Speaker 1: back end of the league or maybe dead last in
14:26
Speaker 1: the league when it comes to free throw attempts. Not
14:28
Speaker 1: a bad game for the Celtics, all things considered. One
14:32
Speaker 1: of my biggest questions for them was like, how are
14:34
Speaker 1: they going to end possessions defensively?
14:36
Speaker 2: Because they don't.
14:36
Speaker 1: Really have people on the roster that you're like, oh, yeah,
14:38
Speaker 1: that guy's gonna go out and kill the glass. I
14:40
Speaker 1: think I'm pretty sure they won a defensive rebound of battle.
14:42
Speaker 1: At least it wasn't a glaring a glaring thing when
14:45
Speaker 1: I was watching. They were giving up a bunch of
14:46
Speaker 1: offensive boards, so it team might be better than maybe
14:49
Speaker 1: some people gave him credit for it. But again, this
14:50
Speaker 1: game was mostly about VJ and sorry, Tyres, I don't
14:54
Speaker 1: know how you could drive.
14:55
Speaker 2: Fordy and not get your name mentioned to this late
14:56
Speaker 2: in nvidio. I'm sorry, Tyres.
14:57
Speaker 1: It was about them, and obviously it's gonna be a
15:01
Speaker 1: lot of conversation about what happens with this team next.
15:04
Speaker 1: As far as like what the future, what directions should
15:06
Speaker 1: they go? I don't think I think it's too early
15:08
Speaker 1: to make those kind of proclamations or decisions. I'm just
15:12
Speaker 1: happy with Tyrese, Maxi and VJ being just dogs, straight,
15:16
Speaker 1: straight up dogs.
15:18
Speaker 2: Guess who back twelve? That boy twelve is back.
15:23
Speaker 1: What was the final stat line for John rat thirty
15:25
Speaker 1: five three and three, sixty five percent from the field,
15:28
Speaker 1: seven of eight from the free throw line. I love
15:31
Speaker 1: what I saw. I'm so happy to see John Morant
15:34
Speaker 1: back in a high screen and row offense. Obviously last
15:37
Speaker 1: year they got away from that and it was one
15:39
Speaker 1: of the reasons when Taylor Jenkins got fired. But either way,
15:42
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to see him back in that because
15:45
Speaker 1: him getting downhill. There's just not a lot of people
15:47
Speaker 1: in the world that are better. The real questions obviously,
15:49
Speaker 1: can he keep his health high enough where he can
15:51
Speaker 1: play that many games?
15:52
Speaker 2: But it just feels like.
15:54
Speaker 1: The mephis Grizzies always find a way, you know what
15:56
Speaker 1: I mean, They just always find a way. And I
15:58
Speaker 1: remember reading the stat about like when Jared Jack Junior
16:00
Speaker 1: and John Morant play together, they have so and so
16:02
Speaker 1: many wins over losses and it's a really wide margin.
16:06
Speaker 2: And you felt that Jared end up founding nine in
16:08
Speaker 2: this game. I'm okay. I can't say I'm okay with it.
16:11
Speaker 1: But a few of those calls, they're just like I
16:14
Speaker 1: think it was Milly Morrison, and I wish I could
16:16
Speaker 1: show you this, but my computer literally froze up on me,
16:19
Speaker 1: so I hope I'm still recording.
16:21
Speaker 2: She had the tweet she.
16:22
Speaker 1: Said, I know Jared Jackson Junior gets made fun of
16:24
Speaker 1: for fouling out a lot, but the way the refs
16:26
Speaker 1: allow Loudorf to play defense, but how they let Jaron
16:29
Speaker 1: is literally flirting versus rasp.
16:30
Speaker 2: I mean, and I see what you're saying.
16:32
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if it's a strictly Jaron thing,
16:34
Speaker 1: but I think you have to be even less aggressive
16:37
Speaker 1: as a big when it comes to defending versus a
16:40
Speaker 1: wing or guard because the parimeter centric versus people being
16:43
Speaker 1: in the air. And I feel like that's the bad
16:44
Speaker 1: side about Jared Jackson Jr. But I thought he was
16:47
Speaker 1: phenomenal again today Cedric Howard was one of my favorite
16:50
Speaker 1: guys coming into Oh my god, my computer just froz.
16:52
Speaker 2: Oh my god, hold on, hold on home please.
16:54
Speaker 1: I was saying that Cedric is one of my was
16:57
Speaker 1: one of my favorite rookies in this class. Perfect from
17:00
Speaker 1: the field plus twenty four a game high.
17:04
Speaker 2: The grizzy is just.
17:04
Speaker 1: Find a way because even in this game, they were
17:06
Speaker 1: down pretty heavily and I was like, oh snap, that's
17:08
Speaker 1: not too good, and they end up coming all the
17:10
Speaker 1: way back and winning that swim.
17:11
Speaker 2: Because twelve is really that nasty man.
17:14
Speaker 1: I think it would just help the NBA if he
17:16
Speaker 1: got back into those conversations that he was in. What
17:18
Speaker 1: was that three seasons ago when we were ranking top
17:20
Speaker 1: point guards in the league, he was no lower than five.
17:23
Speaker 1: Obviously you do that now it's impossible to put him
17:25
Speaker 1: in the top five because he just hasn't played enough
17:28
Speaker 1: high pick a row offense either. Like Jack Lindale didn't
17:30
Speaker 1: have an amazing game, but like the fact that he
17:32
Speaker 1: was setting good screens made him one of the most
17:35
Speaker 1: valuable players on the entire court if you ask me so,
17:38
Speaker 1: shout out to him. Next, we got to Charlotte Hornets
17:40
Speaker 1: beating up on the Brooklyn Nets.
17:43
Speaker 2: It's the Brooklyn Nets, all right, so no disrespect to them.
17:46
Speaker 1: I don't want a super overreact, but it felt it
17:49
Speaker 1: feels actually no, this video is about overreacting, right. It
17:53
Speaker 1: feels like a shifting energy for the Charlotte Hornets. They
17:57
Speaker 1: got after it. They got after it a little bit, yeah,
18:00
Speaker 1: last night, and I really enjoyed that. There was a
18:02
Speaker 1: lot of one more passes, a lot of celebrations, a
18:05
Speaker 1: lot of Brandon Miller looking good and not even just
18:08
Speaker 1: looking good as a score. Some of those passes that
18:10
Speaker 1: he some of them didn't even end up in assists.
18:12
Speaker 1: Some of the passes he was making. Was like, my
18:14
Speaker 1: only thing about Brandon Miller, not my only thing, but
18:16
Speaker 1: my main thing about him. I just needed him to
18:18
Speaker 1: become a better playmaker. Simply put. He don't need to
18:20
Speaker 1: be La Mela Ball, he doesn't need to be Luka Doncicch,
18:23
Speaker 1: But like it just opens a game up so much more,
18:25
Speaker 1: and nobody in twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, or
18:28
Speaker 1: a very little amount of people can become all star
18:31
Speaker 1: Kala players without being at least an average two above
18:33
Speaker 1: average playmaker. And yesterday I saw a little bit of that.
18:36
Speaker 1: All of their rookies I was really impressed with, from
18:38
Speaker 1: a cock runner to Canipple to my boy James, who
18:42
Speaker 1: was my second round sleeper, who I don't even think
18:43
Speaker 1: he did he score.
18:44
Speaker 2: I don't think he scored. He did score.
18:46
Speaker 1: Let's go swallow his hell out there. On the court
18:49
Speaker 1: bro So it was just a lot of cool things
18:51
Speaker 1: from that. And I liked that Michael Porter Junior started
18:53
Speaker 1: this game off. He had like eight points in the
18:54
Speaker 1: first couple of minutes. He was like, oh, snap, that
18:56
Speaker 1: one general manager that said Michael Ford Junior can average
18:58
Speaker 1: twenty five might be right, ended up at twelve points.
19:01
Speaker 1: Ended up with twelve points, So maybe maybe he wasn't right.
19:06
Speaker 1: I need I think I need to rewatch Yeager Dimmon
19:08
Speaker 1: in this one because I'm looking at a stat line
19:09
Speaker 1: fourteen points, five rebounds, two assists, shot exclusively threes, which
19:13
Speaker 1: is something I wouldn't have expected. I think I got
19:15
Speaker 1: to go back and rewatch his minutes. But Hornets, man,
19:18
Speaker 1: is it a shift?
19:19
Speaker 2: Oh?
19:19
Speaker 1: They just played the nets, like I feel like. I
19:21
Speaker 1: feel like that's gonna be the question for a lot
19:22
Speaker 1: of different teams. Did we have a really good game or.
19:24
Speaker 2: Was he just playing against the nets.
19:26
Speaker 1: One of the more fun games of the day was
19:28
Speaker 1: the Orlando Magic winning one twenty five one twenty one
19:31
Speaker 1: against the Miami Heat.
19:32
Speaker 2: Even though that he lost his game, I was really
19:34
Speaker 2: impressed with a lot of things that I saw from them.
19:36
Speaker 1: David I Mitchell again, they got him for kind of nothing,
19:39
Speaker 1: and we saw a little bit in there playing game
19:40
Speaker 1: that he's a real player. He ended up this game
19:41
Speaker 1: with twenty six and twenty uh sorry, sixteen and twelve assists,
19:45
Speaker 1: hit some big shots and everything. I really love watching
19:47
Speaker 1: him play. Everybody around him know that I'm someone from
19:50
Speaker 1: tek Yo guy. I'm happy that he was able to
19:51
Speaker 1: get real burned in here. So it's not I didn't
19:54
Speaker 1: walk out of this thinking obviously they lost the game.
19:56
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, I'm super down in the Miami heat.
19:58
Speaker 1: I would have loved to see Ben I'm gonna Buyo
20:00
Speaker 1: step up a little bit more on the offensive side
20:02
Speaker 1: on like the second half of the game and like
20:04
Speaker 1: late in that fourth quarter. But it's like, I don't know,
20:06
Speaker 1: I don't want to shut the door on baill by
20:07
Speaker 1: the Bayo being like really good offensively.
20:09
Speaker 2: We've had years when he averaged twenty so it's not
20:11
Speaker 2: that crazy. But I don't know.
20:14
Speaker 1: I think this seems definitely gonna benefit when Tyler Hero
20:16
Speaker 1: comes back. That's what I said about Mammy He It
20:18
Speaker 1: wasn't the worst case scenario. I thought this could have
20:20
Speaker 1: gone really like a lot worse. Even they held the
20:23
Speaker 1: lead for a lot of this game. On the other
20:25
Speaker 1: side of that, there Alendo Magic looked pretty good too.
20:27
Speaker 1: I didn't think this was a good Palo Bean Caro game,
20:29
Speaker 1: but guess what he ended up doing. Ended up with
20:30
Speaker 1: twenty four points and eleven rebounds. And the reason why
20:33
Speaker 1: I hit the group chat early in this game, there
20:35
Speaker 1: was one possession where pala Ben Carroll was being guarded
20:38
Speaker 1: by Davion Mitchell on the right block and he did
20:41
Speaker 1: a turnaround post fame and I hit the group chat, like, bro,
20:45
Speaker 1: I understand who you are, I understand your game, but
20:48
Speaker 1: I just like, what would make him different? He's already great,
20:52
Speaker 1: don't get wrong, but we will make him different. It's
20:54
Speaker 1: in maximizing the the size that he was gifted at birth,
20:57
Speaker 1: him being sixteen and built like a tank. Just felt
21:00
Speaker 1: like he wasn't doing that enough. But he did get
21:02
Speaker 1: to the foul line and shot twelve free throws. That's great,
21:04
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Desmond Bane immediately makes an impact hit a
21:09
Speaker 1: couple long threes in the corner three late in this game.
21:11
Speaker 1: Jalen Suggs being back, I'm so so very happy. He
21:15
Speaker 1: had a big play late in the game as well.
21:16
Speaker 1: So the Elanto magic man. Yeah, man, we don't look out,
21:20
Speaker 1: We don't look out. The Atlanta Legic really excited about
21:23
Speaker 1: their game. But this was a fun one. This was
21:24
Speaker 1: definitely a fun oh. I also got to mention my
21:26
Speaker 1: boy Wendell Carter, who didn't play very well for the
21:28
Speaker 1: first three and a half quarters, and then the last
21:30
Speaker 1: four or five minutes or so, he really turned it up,
21:32
Speaker 1: hit some big time free throws and everything.
21:34
Speaker 2: So shout out to window Carter.
21:35
Speaker 1: I said it before, I said again, I'm buying stock
21:37
Speaker 1: because ain't know when hell you can play as bad
21:39
Speaker 1: as you did last season. The Bucks beat the Wizards
21:42
Speaker 1: in a game where Yanni's played twenty seven minutes and
21:45
Speaker 1: he finished with thirty seven fourteen and five.
21:50
Speaker 2: Without getting to the foul line. He shot seven free throws,
21:52
Speaker 2: which for a lot of people, seven free throws is
21:53
Speaker 2: a good amount. For Gianni's is not.
21:54
Speaker 1: So he did all of that without getting to the
21:56
Speaker 1: foul line, which is just nuts. Best in the world
21:59
Speaker 1: type of performance from him. For the first half of
22:02
Speaker 1: this game, I was really excited about what the Milwaukee
22:04
Speaker 1: Bucks were doing. I thought their pressure was really good.
22:06
Speaker 1: I thought they were doing well defensively, and the second half,
22:07
Speaker 1: they kind of fell off the wheels kind of fell
22:09
Speaker 1: off a little bit. Obviously, they still had a talent
22:12
Speaker 1: advantage versus the Washington Wizards, and.
22:13
Speaker 2: They walk out of here with a win.
22:15
Speaker 1: They also ran a lot more than I really anticipated
22:17
Speaker 1: for them, which is a good thing. And then you
22:19
Speaker 1: gotta find different niches in different ways to turn his
22:22
Speaker 1: roster into a positive one.
22:23
Speaker 2: And if that means.
22:24
Speaker 1: Getting out in transition, that's gonna be the case. It
22:27
Speaker 1: was a bittersweet to see Chris Middleton have a good
22:29
Speaker 1: game in Milwaukee because he's Chris Middleton, he is Milwaukee.
22:32
Speaker 1: But his twenty three six and three got litterriat, if
22:35
Speaker 1: you will. When him and Giannis had the like Yiannis
22:38
Speaker 1: like bulldozed over him in a fast break opportunity and
22:42
Speaker 1: Chrismns got caught with a block and foul, and in
22:44
Speaker 1: my mind, Yann's was about to go over there and
22:46
Speaker 1: help them out, and he looked them up things in
22:48
Speaker 1: heat in the game.
22:48
Speaker 2: Obviously at the end of it they wapped up. They
22:50
Speaker 2: were so happy, they had conversations.
22:51
Speaker 1: Whatever, whatever, But in heat the game, Jannis was like,
22:53
Speaker 1: you got the different color jersey.
22:54
Speaker 2: On you were not brothers. Right now.
22:57
Speaker 1: Other tip of that, because it's the Wizards and they
22:58
Speaker 1: got a lot of di for questions about their young
23:00
Speaker 1: core Keishawn George like phenomenal performance. It really showed that,
23:05
Speaker 1: at least from the coaching staff, they prioritized him as
23:07
Speaker 1: one of the top end dudes in this organization.
23:09
Speaker 2: He had the ball a ton, he did not over
23:11
Speaker 2: force it.
23:11
Speaker 1: A few capasses yet, but he didn't overforce it, which
23:13
Speaker 1: I thought was really good. Alex Sar, I mean, he
23:16
Speaker 1: had the guardianas today, so I'm giving him the benefit
23:18
Speaker 1: of the doubt. I mean, it's not easy to guardianisund
23:20
Speaker 1: the end of any circumstances. But they also just don't
23:23
Speaker 1: have enough size to help him out if he is
23:25
Speaker 1: guarding Giannis on an island. Trey Johnson looked pretty good
23:29
Speaker 1: in his roocky campaign. Also had a couple of scary passes,
23:32
Speaker 1: but like first game of his NBA career, it's intriguing
23:35
Speaker 1: stuff here in trigu stuff here.
23:36
Speaker 2: As we've already.
23:37
Speaker 1: Always mentioned the one basket Will Riley had because I
23:40
Speaker 1: was watching that deep into the game, because I like
23:41
Speaker 1: Will Riley as he played at Illinois was like a
23:44
Speaker 1: up and under and I was like, oh, Will Riley
23:46
Speaker 1: would a litt bit of jelly.
23:47
Speaker 2: That was kind of cool.
23:48
Speaker 1: The Jazz dominated the Clippers. Matter of fact, let me
23:51
Speaker 1: quickly look up what was the biggest lead in this game.
23:54
Speaker 1: The biggest lead in this game was thirty seven the
23:58
Speaker 1: Jazz up. This is the most wild game of the
24:01
Speaker 1: season so far. From this, like from who should have
24:04
Speaker 1: been a favorite versus who ended up winning. The Clippers
24:06
Speaker 1: were favored by nine and a half points. That probably
24:08
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to majority of y'all. They lost by twenty one,
24:12
Speaker 1: but was down at one point by thirty seven. They
24:14
Speaker 1: went it to halftime. They were shooting seventy one percent
24:16
Speaker 1: from the field and fifty two percent from three. They
24:18
Speaker 1: were not missing anything that triple big line up between
24:22
Speaker 1: They were calling them flip on the broadcast. I guess
24:25
Speaker 1: I'm inclined to do that. Kyle Flip a pop flip.
24:29
Speaker 1: Larry Market and Walker Kesler gave them hell. Walker Kesler
24:31
Speaker 1: looked as good as Danny Ainge has ever advertised. You know,
24:34
Speaker 1: Danny Ainge's the type of dude there is, like, I'm
24:35
Speaker 1: on seven first round picks for him, and guess.
24:37
Speaker 2: What, he may not be wrong. He may not be wrong.
24:41
Speaker 1: So I was really impressed with that. Y'all know, I'm
24:43
Speaker 1: a bright sense of ball guy. He came in and
24:44
Speaker 1: dropped a little twenty ball. But because by the time
24:47
Speaker 1: I cared to tune into this game, they were up
24:50
Speaker 1: by so much. This is one of the games I
24:52
Speaker 1: watched the least amount of seconds of So that's it.
24:55
Speaker 1: Shout out to the shout out to the Jazz. I
24:57
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell happened to the Clippers. I
24:59
Speaker 1: know at the end of the game, Tyron lewis like, hey,
25:00
Speaker 1: this is my funt. I got to prepare them a
25:02
Speaker 1: little bit more for this, but I don't know if
25:04
Speaker 1: they could have prepared for the type of beat down
25:05
Speaker 1: that the Jazz were trying to put on them. Let
25:07
Speaker 1: me just make sure that I get through every early game. Yes,
25:10
Speaker 1: so we're down to our last two games. The games
25:12
Speaker 1: while I was in this cell kind of like watching.
25:15
Speaker 2: But hey, obviously the Suns it felt like a breath
25:19
Speaker 2: of fresh air.
25:21
Speaker 1: I think that Dylan Brooks is one of those guys
25:25
Speaker 1: that obviously you hate them when you're going against them,
25:28
Speaker 1: but you immediately feel the type of energy he brings
25:31
Speaker 1: to a locker room or a team because I thought
25:33
Speaker 1: that there was parts in this game. I think it
25:35
Speaker 1: was a third quarter where the Sons were really going
25:37
Speaker 1: after on.
25:38
Speaker 2: The defensive side of the ball.
25:39
Speaker 1: And one thing I haven't been able to say about
25:40
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns over the last couple of seasons is
25:43
Speaker 1: I guess what they did.
25:44
Speaker 2: They rebounded the goddamn ball.
25:45
Speaker 1: Last night, Mark Williams came into the game, he gave
25:49
Speaker 1: them eleven rebounds in just twenty three minutes of play.
25:51
Speaker 2: Ryan Dunn was killing the glass.
25:53
Speaker 1: You could tell it was an emphasis from Jordan Oden
25:55
Speaker 1: his first game as a regularly game, that crashing offensive
25:59
Speaker 1: glass was important to that defensive intensity was important to them,
26:01
Speaker 1: and let the rest fall where it may.
26:03
Speaker 2: I was really happy.
26:04
Speaker 1: About this game, even if a Booker in the spost
26:06
Speaker 1: game interview said something along the lines of like, I
26:08
Speaker 1: feel it feels.
26:09
Speaker 2: Like new life. Yeah, I kind of see that.
26:12
Speaker 1: They also were going against the Kings without some bonus
26:14
Speaker 1: as well, though, so you know, you know you gotta
26:16
Speaker 1: take it with men. I would have grained a saw,
26:17
Speaker 1: but I look too much into it. But are's the
26:21
Speaker 1: time this game where they look bad and then again
26:22
Speaker 1: they flipped the switch and they started playing.
26:24
Speaker 2: Well, they rebound will right and done. I'm so happy.
26:26
Speaker 2: You know. He had a couple of possession where he
26:27
Speaker 2: got a big block and he.
26:28
Speaker 1: Was flexing to the crowd and then the block didn't
26:31
Speaker 1: go out of bounds and stayed and play and then
26:33
Speaker 1: the kid score.
26:35
Speaker 2: Hey whatever, whatever do you think? He had a couple.
26:38
Speaker 1: Running into the transition that turned into easy buckets and stuff.
26:44
Speaker 1: My boys were in the group chat like, ain't no way.
26:46
Speaker 1: Dylan brooks out that taking more shots of devil bugger, Like, yeah,
26:48
Speaker 1: I guess that's kind of his role right now. He's
26:50
Speaker 1: kind of the second best player on the basketball team
26:52
Speaker 1: until Jalen Green comes back. That's that's something I made
26:56
Speaker 1: this tweet. I said, again, I'm watching this game. And
26:59
Speaker 1: then number thirty or checked into the game thirty four
27:02
Speaker 1: to thirty thirty two. Which number is he? It doesn't
27:06
Speaker 1: even say. Regardless, Dylan Cardwell take to the game. And
27:09
Speaker 1: I had no idea he existed. I learned a lot yesterday.
27:11
Speaker 1: He had five thousan fourteen minutes. A defensive oriented guy.
27:15
Speaker 1: He definitely was getting his hands in or his hands
27:17
Speaker 1: up and getting around and everything. But I had no
27:18
Speaker 1: idea he existed until them.
27:21
Speaker 3: So yeah, last game Wolves versus the Blazers in a
27:27
Speaker 3: game where Anthony Edwards came up so big in that
27:30
Speaker 3: fourth late and that fourth quarter fourth to fourth from
27:32
Speaker 3: the field ten points and then the step.
27:34
Speaker 2: Back three pointed to ice the game.
27:37
Speaker 1: I love what I saw from Jada McDaniels kind of
27:39
Speaker 1: carrying over some of that offensive creation from the end
27:43
Speaker 1: of last.
27:43
Speaker 2: Season, which was really cool.
27:45
Speaker 1: Terry Shannon Junior, I'm looking at you and said, hey, man,
27:48
Speaker 1: you might be a starter by next week because he
27:50
Speaker 1: played so well and played with a lot of energy.
27:52
Speaker 1: Even Jaylen Jalen Clark coming in and just providing some
27:56
Speaker 1: of the defensive intensity was really cool. There's a physical
27:58
Speaker 1: ass game though, because the trail just don't run away
28:00
Speaker 1: from a lot of the smoke. But late in this game,
28:03
Speaker 1: what really like stood above is them having the timbles
28:06
Speaker 1: IM speaking of them having a top ten player in basketball,
28:09
Speaker 1: and Anthony Edwards decided that hey, it's my time to
28:12
Speaker 1: take over and that mattered a ton. All right, that's
28:14
Speaker 1: me talking about and reacted to every single game that
28:17
Speaker 1: we saw last night. I hope I didn't forget nobody.
28:19
Speaker 1: Boom bom boom, quickly going through it. Quickly going through it,
28:21
Speaker 1: I talked about every single one of these games. I'm
28:22
Speaker 1: pretty sure.
28:23
Speaker 2: Yup. All right. Thank you all so much for watching it.
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Speaker 1: Be sure to tune in to the Enjoy Basketball Hour
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Speaker 1: on NBC and Beacock and so on and so forth.
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Speaker 2: It matters a lot. I appreciate all support from the
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Speaker 2: first week. It's not over. Just said we'll be back
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Speaker 2: tomorrow twelve o'clock Eastern time. Show some love if you
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Speaker 2: able and cable