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4-07-26 Hour 1 - Nugs battle back against Blazers/Avs in a good spot, Spicy NBA ref/Malone hired to coach UNC · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Kane on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 1: every weekday morning from seven to ten on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio NOTT two five and on the Altitude Sports Radio app.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody has texted the show saying that Vic, you should
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  Speaker 2: not have brought up the Portland losing streak at ball Arena,
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  Speaker 2: that it's going to jinx the Nuggets. And I'm here
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  Speaker 2: to tell you if we're still playing this little Jinx game,
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  Speaker 2: a little cartoon game, that all of you witchcraft. You're
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  Speaker 2: Harry Matt Rogers or whatever those shows are. What Harry Potter,
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  Speaker 2: Harry Matt Potter. If you're got to play these little
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  Speaker 2: witchcraft games with me, then you're not serious. Okay, It's
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  Speaker 2: time to get serious about your sport.
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  Speaker 3: Throws it down, motor cam Johnson kickout three.
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  Speaker 4: Gordon, hush up by Aaron Gordon for three Yoka, chance
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  Speaker 4: it to Murray's got a path, kick out three Gordon again.
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  Speaker 2: Got again, fucked it back, freeze bye Aaron Gordon. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven eight run.
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  Speaker 3: Yokich has it inside the art, hands off behind him,
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  Speaker 3: over to Murray. Murray turns the corner. He's got real estate.
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  Speaker 2: No right here Tamahawk.
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  Speaker 3: That one's so good. Rebound down to Yokiche, have to foul.
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  Speaker 4: Denver leads it by five, and that on a doing
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  Speaker 4: Nuggets claw their way back in after being eighteen points down.
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  Speaker 4: Lolland two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine wins
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  Speaker 4: in a row now for the Denver Nuggets.
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  Speaker 5: Nine times nine.
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  Speaker 2: Times nine time. Okay, So like three things right off
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  Speaker 2: the bat. Number one, I actually love this Harry Potter music.
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  Speaker 6: I love.
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  Speaker 2: Number two it is Harry Mett Rogers music.
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  Speaker 6: When I do two. I love I love what Harry
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  Speaker 6: met Potter music.
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  Speaker 2: I love that when you when you said Harry met Potter,
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  Speaker 2: it's still one of the funnier things you said a
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  Speaker 2: long time.
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  Speaker 6: Third.
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  Speaker 2: Thirdly, if you're listening to that call and you're wondering
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  Speaker 2: who's going, that's Jason Richardson, who was on the call
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  Speaker 2: with cons for some reason that I don't know why,
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  Speaker 2: but Jason Richardson, very exciting, so funny, free ball than
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  Speaker 2: you play that again now I want to hear all
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  Speaker 2: those calls again.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, he Jason Richardson echo exactly, just a human
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  Speaker 5: echo on the quality of that fish, A much deeper.
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  Speaker 2: And almost muscular voice. Than cause just echoing him go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Throws it down mode to Cam Johnson. Kickout three Gordon.
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  Speaker 2: Shop by Eric Gordon for three.
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  Speaker 3: Yoka chances to Murray, he's got a pap kick out
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  Speaker 3: three Gordon.
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  Speaker 6: Him bye Aaron corn twice second, ain't run.
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  Speaker 3: Yoka Chazen inside the art, hands off behind him, over
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  Speaker 3: to Murray. Murray turns the corner. He's got real estate.
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  Speaker 6: No great help, Tomahawk.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of no one on your play by play guy,
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  Speaker 2: but I like the enthusiastic It's like an accentuation, like
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  Speaker 2: I need an echo guy that everything I say, Harriet
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  Speaker 2: men Potter.
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  Speaker 6: Mo.
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  Speaker 7: What was that goal during the ABS Cup run where
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  Speaker 7: you were doing radio with Connor and you went into
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  Speaker 7: autopilot and almost called a goal for him.
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  Speaker 3: That what happened?
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  Speaker 8: That was the Helm goal that that won this series
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  Speaker 8: at one game six and won this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta go back and find that now to
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  Speaker 2: play by play guys doing the same game, it's just
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  Speaker 2: mcgay he's saying Helm fires, He's good.
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  Speaker 8: Oh my god, I'm like, what an idiot. I don't
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  Speaker 8: want to step on Connor's call. I was just so excited.
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  Speaker 8: I mean it was that was a talking to E
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  Speaker 8: J about things. Once they won that game six against
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  Speaker 8: the Blues, they knew they're gonna win it all like
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  Speaker 8: that was that was their hump. It's over there hump
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  Speaker 8: and they're done.
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  Speaker 2: Hang on, let's hear it.
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  Speaker 5: Eric Johnson gets around his man ten seconds ago Johnson
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  Speaker 5: over four logan O'Connor Holt sex.
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  Speaker 6: You know what you should have done?
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  Speaker 2: You should have went that's all you had. Yeah, whatever
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  Speaker 2: I told you last night would be tough.
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  Speaker 6: You know you're Victor. I am.
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  Speaker 8: I have come to the Vic Lombardi School of pessimism or.
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  Speaker 2: It's pragmatic caution. How about this pessimism is is pessimism?
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  Speaker 2: What I've say happens. I told you, I told you
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  Speaker 2: that it would be at Ryan last night. That was
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  Speaker 2: Harry met Vic stuff, the.
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  Speaker 8: Vic Lombardi School of Caution. I am now the students
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  Speaker 8: of that school. And by the way, I knew Jason
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  Speaker 8: Richardson was going to be there because I saw Altitude
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  Speaker 8: send out a thing saying, Hey, Jason Richardson's gonna be
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  Speaker 8: on the pregame show. So if you want to stop
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  Speaker 8: by and say hi and blah blah blah, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 8: that's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 6: What's he doing in town?
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  Speaker 2: Me?
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  Speaker 6: What he lives here? Don't so he doe.
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  Speaker 2: He has lived here off and on for the last
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  Speaker 2: twelve years. His wife is from here, from Boulder, and
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  Speaker 2: he's got two sons, one Jace Richardson, who plays for Orlando,
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  Speaker 2: the other one Jackson, who is a headed to Alabama
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  Speaker 2: and Uh, Jackson won the McDonald's All American Dunk Contest.
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  Speaker 2: If you remember Jason Richardson, he's a two champion.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, he jumped, Yeah, totally. Well, the thing is
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  Speaker 8: is that I'm like, he never played for the Nuggets. No, no,
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  Speaker 8: you know, he never It's like, i mean he played,
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  Speaker 8: he played for a number of teams, but he never
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  Speaker 8: played for the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, what okay that?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, it's cool that most great that he's here,
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  Speaker 8: and then all of a sudden he's sitting in with
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  Speaker 8: cause I'm like, this is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: You want the greatest insights.
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  Speaker 9: So he's been here for a few years because his
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  Speaker 9: wife's from here and this is where they wanted to
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  Speaker 9: settle down. Uh, he's a go five handicap. He's just
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  Speaker 9: moving to Parker, so he's gonna be in your neck
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  Speaker 9: of the woods. I said, if you want free money,
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  Speaker 9: if you want to take money from a guy who
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  Speaker 9: thinks he's better than he is, I got a guy.
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  Speaker 6: I see.
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  Speaker 8: So, s you're setting me up so the Richardson can
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  Speaker 8: take me down. That's what a good teammate you are.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that game was tough. Here's the thing, and
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  Speaker 2: I have like, are you more Let me let me
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  Speaker 2: ask the questions here. Are you more in awe of
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  Speaker 2: the resiliency of the Denver Nuggets and their ability to
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  Speaker 2: just turn it on when they have to? Or are
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  Speaker 2: you more ticked off that they had to do that? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Yes to both, Like, that's just what I was gonna say.
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  Speaker 2: It's I talked about so much during the course of
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  Speaker 2: this year being able to close out a game, and gosh,
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  Speaker 2: they just can't close the game out. And guess what,
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  Speaker 2: they're closing games out left and right now. Also, Vic, hey,
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  Speaker 2: the Nuggets gotta be better at home. Well, they're twenty
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  Speaker 2: six and thirteen. Now, you're a good home team now,
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  Speaker 2: But why are we giving up one hundred to three quarters?
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  Speaker 6: Guys?
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  Speaker 2: What are we doing? Why are we down eighteen or
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  Speaker 2: seventeen with eight minutes left?
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  Speaker 6: In the game.
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  Speaker 9: Listen, And I don't know if I'll catch heat for
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  Speaker 9: saying this, and frankly, I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't take the game seriously until the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: But how when you know that you have the chance
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  Speaker 2: to get a three seed, that they know the Lakers
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  Speaker 2: are facing okay see tonight, they know if they win
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  Speaker 2: that game yesterday and okay See beats the Lakers tonight,
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  Speaker 2: they're a three. Their motivation should not have been a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Ye'll start that game.
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  Speaker 9: I didn't say all of them because did you see
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  Speaker 9: Joker doing one particular run going.
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  Speaker 2: Off on his teammates.
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  Speaker 9: The collective did not take the game seriously, and I
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  Speaker 9: don't think it's just them not being serious.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just an eighty two game season and
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  Speaker 2: they're in the throes of this race. There are times
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  Speaker 2: when the human body just doesn't want to go and
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  Speaker 2: you got to really make it go, and I think
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  Speaker 2: they were in one of those last night. They're like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, I gotta get out on this game.
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  Speaker 2: Another three from this. Can you guys stop shooting?
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  Speaker 9: You know when you're playing I don't know, you're playing
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  Speaker 9: a sport against your nephew. And okay, calm down. You
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  Speaker 9: know this is not the end of the word. Stop
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  Speaker 9: shooting from out of here. I'm not going to come
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  Speaker 9: out there. And then finally you take it seriously.
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  Speaker 2: That's what last night felt like. Hey there, I told
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  Speaker 2: you that.
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  Speaker 6: No, you didn't tell me.
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  Speaker 9: You didn't tell them a damn thing. Reset your Nope,
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  Speaker 9: didn't hear a thing. You just shut right up, reset
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  Speaker 9: your machine.
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  Speaker 6: And might be good.
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  Speaker 2: Now go ahead, No, no, no, shut it down. You
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  Speaker 2: shut it down and you think about what you just did.
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  Speaker 2: So you and I will have a conversation though it.
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  Speaker 2: Texas said, why didn't the Avs take the Canucks? Seriously?
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  Speaker 2: If you guys can't separate a team that knows they're
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  Speaker 2: going to get the one seed between a team that
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  Speaker 2: is in a battle for positioning right now, I can't
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  Speaker 2: help you. The the av situation is completely different than
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  Speaker 2: the Nuggets. They've already they've already won. Yeah, yeah, the Avs.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's totally different situation. The Abs don't have to win, right,
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to You're not what are you striving
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  Speaker 2: for perfection? You don't have to win. That's funny. We
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  Speaker 2: can get to that later. Because I had a whole
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  Speaker 2: bunch of weird avs things coming through here. Somebody said
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  Speaker 2: they feel better about the Nuggets than the As right now.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's crazy, but continue most sorry, go ahead,
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  Speaker 2: Well I listen.
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  Speaker 8: If this goes sideways today, I'm gonna fight this entire
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  Speaker 8: computer setup and.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna fight Jesse. That's it. You tell Alfonso to
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  Speaker 6: wait for me in the studio tomorrow morning. I'll be there.
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  Speaker 8: That being said, I was saying that I didn't recognize yesterday.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't recognize some of these blazers. I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: and all of a sudden, man, they've got some guys
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  Speaker 8: who I really like on Portland.
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  Speaker 6: That's not it.
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  Speaker 2: That's not Anybody can make a shot when you're not
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  Speaker 2: defending them. Let's you know, everybody turns into a superstar
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  Speaker 2: because they're making threes like this Timani Kamara who made
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  Speaker 2: eight threes, Oh my god, he wasn't defended a greed vic.
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  Speaker 8: But they but they, but they have a little spice
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  Speaker 8: to them that I liked. I just because I hadn't
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  Speaker 8: been paying attention to the Dan Portland Trail players, is
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  Speaker 8: why would I? But the Nuggets come back and they
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  Speaker 8: get it done. You know, it reminds me of you
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  Speaker 8: guys have all seen a few good men, right yes,
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  Speaker 8: at Colonel Jessup, Jack Nicholson. And I'm thinking to myself,
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  Speaker 8: these nine straight wins were kind of now into the
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  Speaker 8: well how are they winning?
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  Speaker 6: You know, well, actually they're coming back now, but they shouldn't.
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  Speaker 8: They shouldn't have to come back against these teams and
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  Speaker 8: blah blah, And I'm thinking, jokers going. I have neither
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  Speaker 8: the time nor the inclination to explain myself to fans,
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  Speaker 8: you know, with that, you know who live under the
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  Speaker 8: wins that I provide and then question the manner in
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  Speaker 8: which I provide them, you know that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 8: These w's they're winning basketball games, dudes, they're winning basketball games.
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  Speaker 2: They've won nine in a row.
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  Speaker 9: And they have a chance Wednesday night, tomorrow and night
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  Speaker 9: to do something that they've never done in the Joker era,
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  Speaker 9: and that is when ten straight games, they've never been there,
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  Speaker 9: they've never done that. They have a chance to do
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  Speaker 9: that tomorrow night, ironically enough, against the team last to
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  Speaker 9: beat them, Memphis, who, funny enough, in their game last night,
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  Speaker 9: do you know how many threes Memphis hit? So the
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  Speaker 9: Nuggets give up twenty six threes to Portland, twenty five threes.
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  Speaker 9: Twenty five threes to Portland. That's the most they've given up.
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  Speaker 9: Do you know how many threes Memphis hit last night
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  Speaker 9: in their loss to Cool? They tied an NBA record
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  Speaker 9: twenty nine threes in the game.
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  Speaker 2: So do you want to know it's crazy? Because I
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  Speaker 2: had these games side by side last night. I had
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  Speaker 2: the Rockies on my phone, Nuggets game on National Championship
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  Speaker 2: game on the other TV, and I'm watching the Portland
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  Speaker 2: Trail Blazers hook shot threes in yeah, backboard, Michigan won
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  Speaker 2: the national title. Do you know many threes they hit
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  Speaker 2: in that game? Two? Two? Yeah, I know?
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  Speaker 6: Two?
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  Speaker 2: What guys?
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  Speaker 9: Guys, let me ask all basketball fans this question. And
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  Speaker 9: I've asked it before and again, I don't want to
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  Speaker 9: come off like a curmudgeon.
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  Speaker 2: And back in the day.
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  Speaker 9: What are your thoughts, mode, I'll start with you on
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  Speaker 9: all these three point shots and how they've changed the
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  Speaker 9: game and how it's become just a shower of long
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  Speaker 9: distance shots.
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  Speaker 2: What what do you really think about that? Tell me
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  Speaker 2: what you think.
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  Speaker 8: Well, this is gonna sound like I know, because people
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  Speaker 8: love the three ball. It just feels like lazy hoops.
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  Speaker 8: To me, it just feels like you're not you're not
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  Speaker 8: having to work for anything. You just chucking all the time.
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  Speaker 8: You know, there's no movement, there's no this, there's no that.
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  Speaker 2: You're playing a math that's exactly you're playing it.
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  Speaker 6: You're chucking it.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's like a math games. Like some some math
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  Speaker 9: teacher came out and said, well and just start shooting
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  Speaker 9: from three and eventually that's.
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  Speaker 8: Why there's no That's why there's no bunting anymore. That's
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  Speaker 8: why if you got, if you got guys, you don't
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  Speaker 8: manufacture runs because you'd rather, you know, take the chances
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  Speaker 8: of hitting one into the gap to score too, as
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  Speaker 8: opposed to to grind one home.
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  Speaker 9: So you know, it's funny some texts, give me some
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  Speaker 9: text I want to know from you. I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 9: maybe I'm completely on the other side of this. Hate
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  Speaker 9: it or like it, like it or hate it?
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  Speaker 2: Now, threes are you need them to survive in any
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  Speaker 2: basketball game from you know, youth ball on up.
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  Speaker 9: But the onslaught of threes and what it's done to
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  Speaker 9: the NBA, to me, it's a joke.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's not even the.
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  Speaker 6: Same game anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Have you, either on social media or on YouTube or something,
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  Speaker 2: you ever gotten into the wrong algorithm, Like your phone
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  Speaker 2: stopped too long on like a slap fight thing, and
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  Speaker 2: now you're getting all these slap fight videos, Like I
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  Speaker 2: have no interest in these. It feels like the three
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  Speaker 2: point game is just an algorithm I can't get out of.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, I don't really want this, but you keep
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  Speaker 2: feeding this to me over and over again. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I really wish there was some opportunity for somebody to
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  Speaker 2: play some mid range post basketball every once in a while,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just not happening.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, they really do, and I've heard them talk
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  Speaker 9: about it. Somebody has to change the rules.
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  Speaker 2: They have to move the line, they have to alter
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  Speaker 2: the line, they have to do something, because it turns
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  Speaker 2: the game into a chuckathon. You're you're exactly, it's not
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  Speaker 2: even basketball. It's not it's just a it's a shooting clinic. Yep.
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  Speaker 9: And that's not what may be fun for you to watch.
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  Speaker 9: Like that was an exciting game, right it was, But
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  Speaker 9: it got exciting when it got close.
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  Speaker 2: Right he got close because defense was implemented into the
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  Speaker 2: game and the three stopped falling. Did you notice how
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  Speaker 2: many threes for the Maid and crunch time? Right, So
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  Speaker 2: that just goes to tell you what those threes are
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  Speaker 2: all about. Those threes are.
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  Speaker 9: A product of one team just not going out there
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  Speaker 9: and defending, and it's just chucking. Just it's not it's
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  Speaker 9: not fun basketball in my eyes, it's not the kind
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  Speaker 9: of basketball I'm used to seeing or watching or loving.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll get back to this in a bit. Three
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  Speaker 6: Nelly?
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  Speaker 2: Is this the last one?
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  Speaker 7: We're we're still figuring things out for the playoffs, so
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  Speaker 7: maybe maybe not.
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  Speaker 9: So most people say they hate the onslaught of the three,
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  Speaker 9: but maybe we're being highly critical because we've seen so
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  Speaker 2: means that no game is over, no lead is safe,
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: and that's why it's there. That's from the mask Bandit.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: And that's a great point because if you're you know,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: down eighteen at home in a game, you can get
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: back in the game, which is what the Nuggets did
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: by hitting threes later, You can get back into a game. Yeah,
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: so maybe it keeps you honest. There is some That's
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: why I ask you what you think of the three.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: If you go play pick up basketball today, as I
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: do every week, all we do is huck threes. That's
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: all we do. We're lazy. We just set out three
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: point line huk threes. So it's not just the NBA,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: it's basketball all around. The three point line has changed
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: the game entirely. When Moser when he goes to the
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: gym in the morning at the community center and he's
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: doing all he does is houk threes. You don't work
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: on his mid range. I saw his video.
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: It's ten man, hey man, I get I get reverse layups, man,
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: I get baseline Jay's hey man, I take shots from
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: the elbow?
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: MOSI buckets. Isn't just confined to the perimeter. Don't act
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: like he is.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to fix your machine there. You're completely
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: out of sort. I don't have to tell you you're late.
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: Hand in your face. You can't make a three, So
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: just turn it off, shut up, and start over.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Here's something I heard though, and I was battling this
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: in the appetizer. I don't I don't quite know how
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: we get here. And I think we can all agree
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: because we've seen it. AVS fans have a different sort
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: of trigger, and it's a lot faster than most fan
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: bases on whether things are going well or not.
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: I think that's a patience issue because the season is
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: so long, and there was a while there in January
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: where this team was so damn good and so far
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: ahead of the curve, and you know, the wagon and
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: if you don't know, they want that eternally, they want
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: that the last of the entire season. Yeah, that's almost
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: impossible to finish on that kind of street.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: But where I'm at on it is, you know, somebody
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: said they feel better about the Nuggets right now than
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: they do the Avs, which I think is insane. Like
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: the Avs have been the best team in the NHL
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: from the first game of the year to right now.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: They've always been. There was a stretch early in the
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: season where you're like, Okay, what's you know, what's happening here?
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: That was really early, and then since that stretch they
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: have been the best team in hockey undoubt Colorado, Well
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: they just listen like no, no, no, Nelly, Yeah no, no, now, Nelly.
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: No bad judgment on your part, bad bad Nelly.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: But the reason, Nelly.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: The reason they bring this up is, I'm like, the
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Avs have scored more goals than anybody else in the league,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: they have given up less goals than anybody else in
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: the league. They've had a top two penalty kill the
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: entire year. They've had a goaltender that's led in say
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: percentage and goals allowed the entire year. They have a
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: player that's leading in goals scored the entire year. The
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: only thing that was a problem was the power play,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: which seems to be kind of fixed. At least it's
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: okay now. And I'm like, say what you want about
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: the Nuggets because another texture medic comparison to the Broncos,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: saying it might not look pretty, but the Nuggets are winning.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: That's true. The biggest difference though, between the Nuggets and
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: the Broncos is this. The Broncos didn't have Oklahoma City
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: in the AFC, and they didn't have San Antonio. The
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: level of competition is it is in their own division.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: The Nuggets division is the toughest division in basketball. Yeah,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: and so that's it. And I don't know, like when
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I say these things, I don't even know which one
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: of these is more likely that the Nuggets. Let's say
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: that they have a hypothetical matchup first round against Minnesota.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Is it more likely that the Nuggets lose in six
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: or win in five? I have no idea. I think
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: they could do either of them. And that's what's so
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: weird about them in particular. It's like I don't know
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: what the true expectation should be because the team is good.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: They are good. They haven't been healthy all year, so
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: you can't really get a read on that. But they're
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: capable of beating anybody. But they play Memphis tomorrow. Could
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: they lose the Memphis vic They just did it. I mean,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: what do you want me to say? They could beat anybody,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: They could lose anybody. Yeah, where do you want me
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: to go with it? And at this juncture in the
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: avalanche's in mark because it's right up, because human nature
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: tells you it's done. Yeah, I mean it's hard. It's
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: hard to build up that desperation, that fake desperation. It's hard.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Why why bring it? Why not save it? Why not
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: secure it?
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: I'm so afraid to talk right now.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll tell you what. Shut them down
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: and we'll.
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: Shine almost It's like it's twenty seconds behind it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Sometimes the machines don't operate. Shut it down for the day,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Go find another room, go take a walk or take
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: a laugh, and we'll try again some other day. I
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: do try again. I do think the Avs though, when
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: they play tonight, I think this will be like the
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: last game of their quote desperation. They just came off
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: a loss look, they win tonight, it is officially wrapped
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: up instead of hypothetically wrapped up. And they need one
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: more game. And here's the motivation I would give them.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: If I'm betting, I'd say this, So maybe spec if
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: it guys, McKinnon, McCarry, you guys want to chill for
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: a while, win this game. No, seriously, Like, if if
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I'm Bednar, I'm going up to McKinnon and McCart I'm saying, guys,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: win tonight. That's the last road trip you're taking to
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: the playoffs.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but you know what, I don't know the date
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: wants to chill.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just happening here? What just happened?
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Doing good?
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, motion was doing good? And then did you turn
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: them off? Like it's fine? Ye, no, go ahead, motion Okay, no, no, no,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: not good now, not good? All right, We're just we're
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: just gonna we're gonna move stop, We're we're gonna we're
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: gonna give this time. We will take over. Me and
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Mos will speak all right, sorry, me and Vick will
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: speak again. I think this is the last game that
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: they need to really amp up the intensity for and
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: then if they win tonight, you have one more road
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: trip that you need to go on this year, it's
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: a back to back that goes to Canada. Win tonight,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: lock things up. I'm telling everybody of substance on this roster,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: you don't have to go to Canada, you don't have
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: to go through customs. You're gonna be good. That is
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: a good actually motivator. You get to stay home until
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: the postseason starts, and then you get the first couple
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: of games at home, like you'll be here for a
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: week and more than a week.
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: And for people who cry that, well, you gotta stay sharp,
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: you gotta stay sharp really because the year they won
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: a Cup, they did not stay sharp.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: They limped into the postseason. The year that the Nuggets,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: there was a big fear. It's like, oh gosh, they lose.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: They were fine.
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: The year the Nuggets won an NBA championship, they did
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: not stay sharp. They limped into the postseason and they
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: went off sixteen and four, just like the ABS did.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: So I think these guys aren't dumb. They know what
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: it takes.
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: Yeah, last night, for example, it's almost as if the
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: Nuggets were reminded in the fourth quarter, Hey, remember we
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: can take over the three tonight if we win.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, let's go, guys. It was it was almost
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: as if somebody just told them the three seats still
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: on the line. It's like, oh, gosh, my bad, we'll
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: play now. For my defense. For a while there, honestly, God,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: you know what was running through my brain.
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: Maybe they don't want the three seed, maybe they don't
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: want Minnesota, maybe they want Houston.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: That was running through my brain for a while until
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: they picked it up. Yeah. I just remember Yoki's quote
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: from a couple of years ago that she don't mess
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: with the basketball guys. Yeah, you just you play it,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: and he's right. Can I say one thing that I
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: absolutely loved from that game because I haven't seen this
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: in a minute. My favorite ref in the league, Bill Kennedy.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: My wife, The amount of challenges was just per.
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: My wife texted me and she never, you know, bothers
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: about watching the game and what's going on.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: She texts me, She goes, why is the ref talking
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: like that? Because he's a showman, because he understands this
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: is a television product, and I want you to hear
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: the pregnant pauses, the awaiting the crowd's reaction like listen.
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: After reviewing the play, the defensive foul that was called
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: has been overturned due to the fact and there was
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: contact made by the offensive player with a leg kick
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: results in an offensive foul. The coaches challenge is successful.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, come on, Bill.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: I know that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I had people texting in VIC saying that they they
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: couldn't stand that. I'm like, are you guys crazy? This
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: is awesome? This one's This one's even better. This was
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: on the Uh he keeps you thinking, right, He's like,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: what's you go to say next? This one's even better.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: This was when Jamal had the clean strip and they
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: called it a foul initially, so they went to their
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: review and here's Bill Kennedy again.
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: After reviewing the play. The foul that was called has
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: been a overturn by the fact that there is contact.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: To the hand.
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: The results of the play will be a jump ball
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: between any two players. Center court put twenty four on
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: the shotcock. He coaches challenge is successful.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I didn't understand that one because it resulted in a
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: jump ball and the Nuggets got possession immediately. Yeah. I
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: didn't understand why that went to a jump ball because
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: it negates the purpose for I mean, what do you
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: gain from that I don't know. Well, you your guy
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: doesn't have a foul? I suppose I mean at that
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: juncture you need possession?
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Oh why not this one?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: The jump easily? By the way, what were the Nuggets
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: doing on that jump ball? Did anybody see what I saw?
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: They jump? Cam Johnson? I like what you could pick
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: any two players? What was the strategy there? Quick jump?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: What was going on? I forgot to ask that question afterwards?
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Has been overturned? Like I don't. I was trying to
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: figure that out too. I'm like, just put yo kitchen there?
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: What are we doing?
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: I want Bill Kennedy as my personal therapist. Bill, I'm
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: having trouble at work.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Well, what's wrong? I mean that voice again, the pause
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: is at the perfect time. He's a showman.
• 26:20
  Speaker 10: Bill's a vow that was called has been overturned due to.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: The fact, wait for the crowd.
• 26:30
  Speaker 10: Then there was contact made by.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: The Yeah, I love it. Uh. By the way, we
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: can you know what? We can save this for more
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: detail in a second. I want to get to the
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Michael Malone hire at UNC because I think I think
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: it's wild. Can I say one thing though, did you
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: know since the opening series for the Rockies they're four
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: and two. So if not for three one run losses
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: against Miami, if they just turned one of the one
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: of them, that's a five hundred baseball team we're talking about.
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: So I didn't watch the game last night, but they
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: had an eight run inning.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, what happened. Just kept think a lot of these
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: two outs, A lot of them were two out hits too,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: that knocked in some runs. It's clutch hitting, good at bats.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Your boy, what's Johnson's first name again? Would you call
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: him Kyle?
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: It's Troy. Yeah, I called him Kyle. Troy Johnson with
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: another home run last night, TJ Runfield with a triple.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Feldner gave you an alright start, gave up four and
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: five and a third. If there's one concern I have
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: coming out of yesterday, the game felt like it was over.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: They put in Agno, so I think they have a
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: lot riding on him. He's got a good arm. He's
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: only twenty five years old, but he's been He got
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: roughed up towards the end of last year and he's
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: not started well this year. He goes in and that
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: game turns into a nail bider, as in a third
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: of an inning, he gives up four hits. They got
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: a Yanka Mehia came in and thankfully shut the door.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: But yes, scratching across some runs last night, you got
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: some hits from pretty much everybody within the lineup, Doyle,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I think is gonna be one of those notorious slow
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: starter guys. Brendan Rodgers used to be that way too.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I hope it's just a slow start. Well, he did
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: the same thing last year and then he caught fire
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: like three months and it won't mean anything. Three months
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: into the season, it won't mean anything. I mean, that's
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: all fine and dandy, But if you're hitting the cover
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: off the ball in August, when you're forty games back,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: who cares? So, Doyle gosh man, he was hitting one
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: ninety three in going into July last year, and then
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: he raised his average up to two forty four a
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: month later. So we got a text here.
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: I had the question about why did they jump cam
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: instead of Joker on that jump ball?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: And Kyle Speller, who is closer to the action than anybody,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: he texted the show, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: try to do it in a Kyle Speller voice. Here, Hey, yeah, yeah,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: don't even try you want to. No, No, I'm not
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: going to disrespect Kyle Speller like that. Can I give
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: a shot?
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: The reason that cam had to be used in that
• 29:13
  Speaker 11: jump a situation is because only players that were in
• 29:17
  Speaker 11: the game prior to that co were eligible to jump.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Here, how's your throat? Not like scabbed up at this point?
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: It's not pretty right now?
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was really good. So Joker was being subbed in.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: He wasn't in the game at the time. Thank you, Kyle, gotcha.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: So you won the challenge and then you're like, well,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: I guess we'll just give them the ball back.
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: Well that's it even makes less sense than why even
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: go to a jump All the Nuggets had possession after
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: the call.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: I didn't understand. Isn't that one of those like when
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: you when you challenge in the NFL, if there's a
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: fumble and there's immediate recovery, if the call gets overturned
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: two way fumble, the team who has the immediate recovery
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: the it depends when the blows.
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: Do you remember in the AFC title game the chess
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: pass by Jared Stidham that led to a New England touchdown. Yeah,
• 30:08
  Speaker 9: they withheld the touchdown because the whistle blew before he crossed.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: But they gave them the ball. They gave them the ball,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: but no touchdown. Yes, because it was an immediate recovery. Yes, guy, Yeah,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: it just doesn't make much sense now again, So Marcello,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: that Kyle Spiller impression is successful. So here's kind of
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: what's on the line, guys. The Nuggets now winners of
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: nine straight. They play against Memphis. There are believes or not,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: three games left in the season. They play Memphis tomorrow. God,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: it's been a long year. Let me tell you something.
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: It doesn't it feel, dude, I feel like I've aged
• 30:48
  Speaker 9: twenty nine years in the season.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Is it me? Or is it just do you feel
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: the same way? No, it's been is you use the
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: word laborious, it's been laborious as any other Nuggets fan.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: This season has belt especially it's you don't get a
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: night off with the Nuggets. Every game is like I
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: have to watch until the final four seconds of it, you.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: Know what I mean?
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: But they got Memphis tomorrow and then here's my assumption, Vick.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: If OKC they can wrap it up tonight, se beats
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: the Lakers. I know that San Antonio is a tiebreaker,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: but that would mean that they are three games back
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: with three games to go.
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: By the time they get to Friday night's game against OKAC,
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: there may be nothing to play for.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Right for Okay Sac Yeah, and San Antonio. The game
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: after that, you could be riding a twelve game win
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: streak heading into the postseason. You could be. So that's
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: all on the line here. We'll get that. Get back
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: to that in a little bit. Reminder of the keyword
• 31:45
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• 31:47
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• 31:50
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• 31:52
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• 31:55
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• 31:58
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• 32:01
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• 32:03
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• 32:06
  Speaker 2: to five. So I do want to get to MIKEE.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Malone and him being hired by UNC, which I think
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: is interesting for a number of reasons. He strikes me
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: as somebody who could be a very good college coach,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: very good but why take the college job when he
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: almost certainly could have had NBA jobs. We'll get to
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: that next, Okay, So Mike Malone hired, as UNC said, coach.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: I saw that yesterday and I was kind of blown away.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: And it's because Michael Malone could have very easily gotten
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: another NBA job. If you win a championship, you get
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: cycled around forever in the NBA. All these coaches, yes
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: they've been fired. What's that record now, Vic, It's like
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: six of the last seven championship coaches have been fired
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: by the team they won the championship with. But they
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: all find you. Jos Nick Nurse finds a job, Doc Rivers,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: all these different guys always find a gig. He takes you, Unc,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: and I'm curious, like he is so no nonsense, do
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: your job from that sense. From that sense, it feels
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: like college is a weird choice. At the same time,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I think his personality would be great in college basketball.
• 33:26
  Speaker 9: I think Michael Malone has unrivaled work ethic. Number one,
• 33:31
  Speaker 9: he lives the game, works the game, and I'm sure
• 33:34
  Speaker 9: he did his due diligence about the job. And he
• 33:36
  Speaker 9: would not have taken this job without doing the research
• 33:39
  Speaker 9: and the homework. He has spent a lot of time
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: at the University of North Carolina over recent months because
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: his daughter plays volleyball with Carolina. He's been around the
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: basketball team, He's talked to coaches, he's been to practices.
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: I think he's done his homework on this job, so
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: he would never take it if he didn't think he
• 33:54
  Speaker 9: was made for it. At the same time, I'm intrigued
• 33:58
  Speaker 9: like you are.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: I just don't know. There's only one coach.
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: Em Oh, is you ready?
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Who's the only coach and he's still with us to
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: win an NCAA Tournament national championship and an NBA championship.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Who is he? He crossed the lines, He crossed the lines,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: and he did it successfully. Could be mere hint, could
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: be in my estimation. Everybody talks about great coaches. This
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: guy's coached so many different teams. I think he is
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: top yes basketball, top three greatest coach. Larry Brown, Larry Brown,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Larry Brown, Larry Brown. Did it?
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: How am I sounding out by the ways?
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: That's good, You're good, You're good.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: Just keep it by tickling your fancy, Yes, would tickle
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: your fancy?
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: What did you do that you didn't do to start
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: the show.
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: I decided I wanted to tickle your fancy.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Uh. I heard people saying, well, he's
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: going to UNC because his daughter plays volleyball.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: There.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: I'm like, that's not the reason you take a job. Okay,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: you take a job at you would see because they
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: backed up a Brinks truck to you and said fix
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: this please.
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: But it feels easier for me to go from pro
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: to college. Forget what's happening with Belichick. Isn't it easier
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: to go from pro to college rather than the other
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: way around. We'll see, I guess with with Michael Malone,
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: he's a terrific coach, but there's a I mean, there's
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: a lot of tradition there. Man, there's a lot of
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: expectation to win, win, win, win.
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: Well, they went outside the family, they went outside the
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: family for this.
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: Correct, that is correct. But there's a lot of expectation
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: to win. So he's got to know what he's getting into.
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: He's got to know what it's all about. I'm sure
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: he does. How could you not? I mean, look, even
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: I'm just sitting here in Saint Louis, realize what that
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: job entails and it's a lot.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Look, man, we just went through this. When UNC got
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: bounced from the tournament. I asked you, guys, who's the
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: best tar heel in the NBA right now? In the
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: answer was Cam Johnson, which no disrespect to Cam. He's
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: a good player. But when you think North Carolina, you're
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: thinking a superstar is going to be in that league.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: They haven't had that for a while. You know what
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I've noticed since Michael Malone was named head coach at Carolina,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I've heard a lot of different analysts talk about how
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: he'll fit in.
• 36:11
  Speaker 9: I listened to the Appetizer Hour, as a matter of fact,
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: and you did something that was considered verboten during the
• 36:18
  Speaker 9: Malone era.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: And you did it six straight times. You probably didn't
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: even know you did. What do you think you did
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: when I was talking at Malone? Yeah, you called him
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Mike six straight time. Yeah, and it's it's not funny.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Are you sure it wasn't my speed talking or you
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: just couldn't hear the second part? No, that was you,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: And I hear about you know, people's thoughts on Michael Malone,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: and everybody's calling him Mike Malone. I wonder if he'll
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: correct everybody at North Carolina and when he gets there
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: or what, he's gonna be Travis Etn instead of HN
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: for the rest of his life. You know what I mean,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: just switch it because you get tired of correcting people.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: It's of all the things.
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: It's funny because the guy he needs to be trumpeted
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: as well.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: He is the greatest coach in Nugget's history.
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: He's the only one to produce a championship, He's got
• 37:08
  Speaker 9: the most wins. He's the greatest coach in Nuggets history.
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: But that Michael Mike thing is something I will never forget.
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: I know because it happened on live television and it
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: was so like it's like intense.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: So Mike, let's talk about the first half. Michael Michael, Michael,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Michael Michael. He's had like five times and that intensity.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: I think that's what you're worried about. That intensity. Get me,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: But I'm telling you the age of college. Look at
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: all the college hoops coaches who burn with that kind
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: of intensity. What do you think Dan Hurley burns with
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: I think you can get away with it more in
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: college than you can the pros. I think you're right.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I still think It's a delicate balance of if you
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: want to coach that way, you better win because that's
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: going to wear on kids in a hurry. But yeah,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: if you're Dan Hurley, you can do that. And look,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: he's intense. Hurley's almost more in, tends to rest, and
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: he is his own guys though I'm not saying he
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: won't get on his own players, but it's almost always
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: when he's yelling and screaming, it's somebody in stripes most
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: You know what I would do if I were Michael
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Malone right now, first move, I would pick up the phone.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: I would go to my speed dial and I would
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: call up our tourists are tourists kind of shovus. Do
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: you remember our tourists kind of shovs. She just got
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: fired by the Bulls. Yes, I'm just gonna say it.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Just saw news with he just got fired. Yeah. He
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: was the longtime assistant GM for the Denver Nuggets. He
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: was one of the guys you know.
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: Now many people found Joker, but he was on the
• 38:38
  Speaker 9: team when they found Joker. He's he's found a lot
• 38:41
  Speaker 9: of gems from Europe and the college game. If you
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: watch University Illinois this year, the five Balkans on that team. Yeah,
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: I would call our tourists kind of show us and
• 38:50
  Speaker 9: it'd say, give me some talent from all.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Over the game.
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: But is that what Carolina? Carolina has always been an American.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Carolina wants to win. They would change in a hurry.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: They want to win.
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: You're telling me, you say, our tourists, listen, just go
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: get me a bunch of them Euros and let's let's
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: let's win.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Hey, emosh, you think they'd be complaining if they're winning.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Emos Coach k said, I'll never have one and Dons
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: on my roster. And then Zion knocked on the door
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: and he's like, okay.
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: Fine, film's good, fine, whatever, all right. I mean, if
• 39:23
  Speaker 8: it works, it works. I suppose.
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: It's just gonna be interesting to see how that all unfolds,
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: because is Carolina trying to hang on to something that
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: no longer exists. This is where, you know, because the
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: landscape of college basketball has changed so much.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: You're asking trying to hang on U n C. North
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Carolina has been left in the past.
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: US football, well, dude, Husker football.
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: The drop of Husker football and their plight in the
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: last twenty years is shocking to me because it was
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: so good. But you know what, there comes a time
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: when the that's just not special anymore. Husker football used
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: to be incredibly special. It's not special anymore. It's just,
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: you know, it's just a program. Now it's just a
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: regular program. I'm not saying the UNC is going to
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: be that way with basketball, but the tradition, how you're
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: you're wondering, how do you lose that gleam and Husker
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: football lost it.
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: Is UNC losing it. I don't I don't know. I'm
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: not close enough to the program.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Textra has a great question, Vick, do you think we'll
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: hire Calvin Booth as the UNCR. He's already a GM
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: at Penn State. The more I think about this, guys,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: the more I I sat there and watched you guys speak,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: I think Malone will do better at the collegiate level
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: today the way it's constructed, because it's really a year
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: to your league. The collegiate level, it's really if you
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: don't perform, hey hit the transfer portal. If you don't
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: perform that contract we make. They're year to year contracts.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: They're not multi year contracts. In the college game, not
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: yet in the NBA, you're saddled with the player sometimes
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: four to five years. You can do all the motivating,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: all the streaming, all the yelling, all the coaching you want.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: You're not going to get to that person if they've
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: got a four or five year contract, right, But you
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: can if it's year to year, Which is why I
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: think Mike come alone in this situation. He's got some
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: intensity to him, right, he burns hot.
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean you control the fate of those players
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: much more than you would in the NBA and the NBA.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: It's a players league. We all know this. Players run
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: the league. They run the league. It's their league. Coaches
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: are just along for the ride. Find me a coach
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: in the NBA that runs the show, who runs the show, Spolster.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: He's as close as it gets, right. I thought that
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: was the first game that gives the coaches in the
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: NBA do not run anything. They don't. It's I'm trying
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: to be fair and sincere here. It's a players league. Yeah,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: if a player plays, if a player wants you, if
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: a star play or group of star players want you,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: you will survive. If they don't, you won't. Yep, No,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I think you're right. I just man, I never would
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: have thought Malone would want to deal with the nil
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: and transfer stuff. But let's how about this though, how
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: about the fact Carolina's got I was just gonna say, like,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I'm wanna check in, Malone.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Is there.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you went to sleep most, if you
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: went to sleep in two thousand and twenty two, twenty
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: three after the Nuggets won a trophy, if you went
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: to sleep and woke up and said, in twenty twenty six,
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Michael Malone and Bill Belichick will be the coaches in
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: North Carolina work on football.
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: This is why I've thought about this. This is why
• 42:44
  Speaker 8: I am so afraid to fall into a coma, because
• 42:50
  Speaker 8: I'm afraid if I fall into a coma, the world
• 42:53
  Speaker 8: I wake up to and hopefully I'll wake up, I'm
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: gonna freak out, Like I'm gonna go, Oh, there's no
• 43:00
  Speaker 8: way that no way, Well, most, no way, you know
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: what I mean, Like, there's no way, dude, no way.
• 43:07
  Speaker 9: Most You practically live in the eighties as it is,
• 43:10
  Speaker 9: so I would imagine for you would be tougher than most.
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: I was trying to, you know, I'd like to I'm
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: just trying to think Brett, I'd like to put Vic
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: in a coma. While we're talking about comas, I'm afraid
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: of falling into one, but I'd like to put you
• 43:25
  Speaker 8: in one.
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: How's that sound.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: I would adapt much quicker than you would. You don't
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: change your face.
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna change it for you.
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: I mean imagine, like, just imagine a guy from like
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: nineteen twenty eight.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah know, well you don't have to do that far
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: back in twenty eighteen.
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean just to the way the world just
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: moves on. It's crazy.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I was trying to find all these different coaches, Like
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: I was trying to figure out just North Carolina. Do
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: they have like a Rod coaching their baseball team too
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: that I just am unaware of. They don't, But I
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: was just looking up Morth Carolina coaches. So it's obviously
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Malone in Belichick. Now their GM, by the way, if
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: you remember, is Michael Lombardi the football GM.
• 44:07
  Speaker 9: Yes, and they're going to be football GM. They're going
• 44:09
  Speaker 9: to hire a basketball GM. But let me tell you
• 44:11
  Speaker 9: what's going to happen here. Knowing Malone, this basketball GM
• 44:15
  Speaker 9: is going to work from alone, and he's going to
• 44:18
  Speaker 9: answer to Malone and I.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Just came across this, and this is a great name.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: I loved this guy. Do you know the running backs coaches?
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Natron means? Is he really well he's a former Carolina Yeah.
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: That's You've got all this money that you're spending on
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: coaches at Carolina, right, because I'm sure that Malone did
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: that was a pretty penny to hire him, and it's
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: certainly a pretty penny to have Belichick. Now take that
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: money and just compound it. How much money are they
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: going to throw at these programs? I know you got
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: to spend money for football obviously, and to play basketball
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: at Carolina. Where are they getting all this money in
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: North Carolina?
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: I think I just read like a month ago one
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: of these big schools like LSU or something ran their
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: athletics to part at a four hundred million dollar deficit
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: or something like that, like they were hemorrhaging money. I go,
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: how is it even possible? Is that sustainable?
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: Dude? I'm looking here.
• 45:11
  Speaker 8: The women's soccer program has twenty one titles at North Carolina.
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: They've won the National they won the Natty twenty one times.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've had a great soccer program. Both men's and
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: that's unbelievable. So a whole bunch more to get to here,
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Aves and Blues six o'clock tonight, Stick around