Latest / Moser, Lombardi and Kane / 4-29-26 Hour 1 - Hate-watching Stars vs Wild/Game 6 preview, NBA anti-tanking rules/Bo Nix ankle clean-up

Transcript

4-29-26 Hour 1 - Hate-watching Stars vs Wild/Game 6 preview, NBA anti-tanking rules/Bo Nix ankle clean-up · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: This is Moser, Lombardy and Kane on demand.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: Listen live every weekday morning from seven to ten on
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: Altitude Sports Radio NOTT two five and on the Altitude
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio app.
• 0:18
  Speaker 3: No game last night, no game tonight, but I was
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: interested in. I was doing my own scouting most last
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: night as I watched Dallas in Minnesota. By the way
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: I'm scouting, I didn't expect this.
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: I know, I know, vic. I didn't expect this, sitting
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: around with my teeth in my mouth right cleaning the
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: fish tank. Although I didn't do that last night. I
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: should have cleaned the fish tank. I'll clean the fish
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: tank today. But you're waiting, waiting for the Nuggets to
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: play again, have to find out their opponent.
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: It was night, Yeah, I.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: Like, I want to get it on every night with something.
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: And now it's two days off in a row. Now
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: I'm watching Dallas minute soda. And here's what's really surprising.
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: I did not expect, first of all, two of the
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: first three games in Dallas's barn, for Minnesota to go
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: in there and work them and make the mistake. I
• 1:13
  Speaker 3: know the game was close last night score wise, Minnesota
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: was dominating like they were up. What nineteen to eight
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: on shots on goal at one point, like, yeah, five
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: on five was all Minnesota, but when you give Dallas
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: the extra guy, Dallas can make that close in a hurry.
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: It's really I don't even know how to describe it.
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: It's it's a combination of two things, Vic Brett. It's
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: a combination of Minnesota's playing good hockey, but Dallas has
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: an even strength malfunction. Yeah. Now, if you want to
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: call them power play merchants, call the Stars power play merchants.
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: But that's what they are totally.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: Are you ready to call it a series?
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: Not yet, because Minnesota's got to stay out of the
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: But all but three of Dallas's goals in this entire
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: series have been on the power play. And is it
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: wrong for me?
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: Like this is this is what's so bizarre to say
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: out loud. So here's the translation. Minnesota has been the
• 2:17
  Speaker 3: much better team in this series, but Dallas has survived
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: on their power play. And that sounds a lot like
• 2:25
  Speaker 3: what was said a year ago.
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: With the Aves.
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: The Avs have been the much better team in the series,
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: but when the Avs went to the box, Dallas made
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: them pay and then you lost in seven games. And
• 2:37
  Speaker 3: so with that information, despite the fact that Minnesota is
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: playing better hockey, I'd rather face Minnesota than Dallas just
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: because I don't want to do that again. I don't
• 2:47
  Speaker 3: want to play that game. Is that wrong?
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: The Dallas Stars this season scored seventy one power play
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: goals this season. Contrast that with the Avalanche, who scored
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: But abup bup bu bup buh. This is me looking
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: it up forty five cheez, you see what you see
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: what I'm getting out of me? Yeah? That and listen
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: to give them credit because they're really good at it,
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: but they've got to malfunction five on five and they
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: have all season long. They had a great year in
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: terms of their record, where they finished number two inside
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: the Dang Division, the hardest division in hockey right now.
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: But if they'd score on the power play, they ain't scored.
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't want that. I just don't because
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: I've seen that happen already. And there's just something that
• 3:39
  Speaker 3: is going to kill me. If you play better for
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: forty three minutes, but then there's gonna be a couple
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: of power plays mixed in that. Just that's how you
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: get burned.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: I can't do any does any part of you mos
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: fear the momentum the youth of Minnesota.
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know that I fear it. They've got some
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: really good players, I mean old Yeah, Matt Boldie. I
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: think we saw him in the Olympic. I think you
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: guys finally yeah, once he had those Olympics the way
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: you have those Olympics. Yeah, I think a lot of
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people probably did you know,
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: you know he was a good player. You know, he's
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: a former twelfth overall pick. You know, this guy's you know,
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: scoring big time goals and he's a big time player
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: and blah blah blah blah. But then when you saw
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: him in the Olympic games, you're like, oh, this guy, this
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: kid's reaching a whole other level.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: They've always had Caprice off. Now they they did the
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: deal in December for Quinn Hughes. We'll see if he
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: stays there. I don't know that they have enough up
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: the middle. I just don't think that they do.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: Over saying that, but they have enough up the middle
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: to beat the stars.
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well you were saying the stars of a five
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: on five problem, What do you mean?
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: Well, they just they're they're The problem is they've got
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: an injured rope Hints. Yeah, and he's their best center theoretically.
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: What's going on with him? Again? He got injured late
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: in the season against the Avalanche. Actually, yeah, and he
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: hasn't played at all.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: Is that the one where they they claim that there
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: was a cheap shot by McKinnon.
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, which there wasn't. But rope Hints helps, he's
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: up kind of the straw that stirs that middle of
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: the ice drink for them. So he's been out and
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: so they've been sort of, you know, patching things in
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: all year long, and certainly after that game against the Abs,
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: and then all the way into the postseason, and it's
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: just not working. It just isn't.
• 5:33
  Speaker 3: So how about this, what would you prefer? I could
• 5:37
  Speaker 3: guarantee you that Minnesota wins Game six and they advance,
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: or that Dallas wins game six and you don't know
• 5:46
  Speaker 3: who wins game seven.
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: I'll take Dallas wins game six and you don't know
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: who wins games.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: You want you want that.
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: Push it real good, d dude, dude, dude, du dude, dude, dude, dude,
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: push it to push a night, ah, push it, but
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: push it real good. Come on, no, I love that.
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: I'm a big Salton pepagan lay.
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow night in the Twin Cities, it's going to be insane.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: There are two game sixes. Two game six is in
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: which the home team, with games being played at the
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: same time one in Minneapolis, won in Saint Paul, the
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: home team has a chance to eliminate the visiting team.
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: It is going to be insanity in the Twin Cities
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night.
• 6:28
  Speaker 3: Let me just say, by the way, I've had this
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: thought for a long time. I've never said it out loud,
• 6:31
  Speaker 3: but now that we're in a battle with Minnesota, I
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: want to say this. Stop calling at Minneapolis St.
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: Paul.
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: One place is Minneapolis, the other is Saint Paul. Don't
• 6:38
  Speaker 3: put them together. It's like a hyphenated last name. I
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: don't do those. Dallas for one, don't like it. No,
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: it's Dallas, it's down Tampa Saint Pete. Like you guys,
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: don't do that for your team names. It's not the
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: Dallas Fort Worth Cowboys, it's the Dallas Cowboys.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: Denver Commerce City. Yeah, that's how it's known nationwide.
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: How about the law, how about the Los Angeles Angels
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: of Anaheim, Orange Countyville also stupid or whatever it is. Now,
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what I's just the La Angels now,
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: I don't even think there's any They're not in La.
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: They're in the O c They're in Anaheim. That's not
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles. You don't get to combine the names of things. Okay,
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: it's one place where it's the other place.
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why didn't one of those cities just take over
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: the other and say we got you. Let's just go
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: ahead and make it a truce and annex you border
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: each other? What's going on here?
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, we got you. So wait a minute.
• 7:31
  Speaker 3: They have a Saint Paul fire department in a Minneapolis
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: fire department.
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: Well, the cities are not they're not exactly. They don't
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: sit right next to each I mean, I guess they
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: do border with Why do they combine the actual cities
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: themselves are far away. I don't know. They couldn't decide
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: for their way.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about it?
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: What's like thirty minutes, twenty five minutes.
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: The whole metropolitan area is connected.
• 7:54
  Speaker 2: I understand that.
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: I'm saying thirty minutes.
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: What I'm saying it's not from downtown Minneapolis is not Aurora.
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: Who care, It's not Driver nine iron to Saint Paul,
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: it's further than that. Well, all I know is if
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: you've never only made the drive eight hundred thousand times
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: in my life.
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: If you're a fan of both teams Thursday night, and
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: let's say you want to attend both games, could you
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: pull that off?
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: No, you could not. Impossible to pull it off unless
• 8:22
  Speaker 2: you have I don't know, one of those star Trek
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: things where they beam you from joint to joint.
• 8:29
  Speaker 3: It's a good point from from Flax on the twitch feed.
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: Flax never has a good point.
• 8:33
  Speaker 3: Don't say that, Hey, Kansas City, pick one. You know what,
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: fight each other. Missouri fights Kansas and whoever wins they
• 8:38
  Speaker 3: get Kansas City.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: Well, they're thinking about putting their stage.
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: They know they are. They're moving to Kansas.
• 8:44
  Speaker 3: Well, then Kansas wins.
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: Now that's now, that's the situation.
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: The balls on Missouri, by the way, to call one
• 8:51
  Speaker 3: of their cities Kansas City in Missouri.
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: I know, Jesus, the cones on whoever back in the
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: day goes you know what, they will be having some
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: of that even though we're Missouri. Yes, screw you.
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: You guys ever visit Colorado City, Nebraska?
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: Is ever visit that very much? It's crazy.
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: Hey man, I've obviously spent a lot of time there.
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: Literally they're I mean they're literally next to it. They're
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: like that. You could take driver nine ie hundred percent.
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: One thousand percent, Yes, one thousand percent.
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: We had our conference tournament in college was in Kansas City, Kansas,
• 9:26
  Speaker 3: and I literally I'm looking at it, going, what are
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: we doing here?
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: Just move the border. Let somebody tell me I'm not
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: I'm not kidding you. Where you could walk across the street.
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: You're in Missouri, walk across the street. If you're in
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: Prairie Village. You're essentially in two states at one time.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: As long as you guys are getting into geographical craziness,
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: have you ever been to the Four Corners where you
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: can be in four states at the same time?
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: You know, I never have, but i'd like to be.
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: I've seen it. I liked I'd like to be.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: Let's test, uh, test powder's geography. Name the states involved
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: in the Four Corners?
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: Oh my, Colorado to lose New Mexico, yes, yes, come on,
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: two more, come on, Arizona, Yeah, give Utah yeah, buddy.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so proud of you right now, zoo See,
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: we're learning. We're learning every day.
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: That globe, that globe that I gave him for Christmas,
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: it's really paying off. Yeah.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Kids driving to school right now with your parents, hate parents,
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: you owe me.
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: I'm playing this game. You guys would love it. Download.
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: It's called map Tap so it just it has a
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: globe on your phone and it gives you like a
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: city and a state or a a a city in
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: a country and you have to tap on on the
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: globe where you think it is. Oh, and it's like
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: how close or how far do you get? But the
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: last one is always like show me Tahiti and you're
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: like zooming in the Pacific Ocean, like I don't know.
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: Where this is. Tony Island is See, I don't need
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: the map tap appy wap. I don't need that.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: I would love you. This is the stuff you don't know.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. If you're gonna say, okay, point out I don't
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: know someplace in Siberia, Yeah, I'm screwed.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: Me and my future son in law have this online
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: game where it picks a random place in the world
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: and you have to identify what it is, and I
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: gotta be fourth, right nownest, he is kicking my ass.
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: Working in the geography, he is, So you got a
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: you got a Lakers fan taking you other than I am.
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: Well, here's a geography question for you. The base camp
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: fifty to eighty. The fan zone outside Ballerina.
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: Which direction is that on a compass relative to Ballerina?
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: That's south?
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: Matt tells me. The Minnesota Twins also play at home
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: on Thursday. Could you do you think anybody could pull
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: off the triple? The triple chief?
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, you'd have to vic, you'd have tough, you'd
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: have to leave, you'd have to spend just a little
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: bit of time at day.
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: Someone's going to do it in Minneapolis.
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: But you wouldn't watch any game if you tried to
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: do that, I know.
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: But you can watch it on your phone. For those
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: of you listening from Minnesota, I know you still are.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: By the way, For those of you listening, do you
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: know anyone that might attempt to triple?
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: Should I call for let me get a hold of fullness.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: Let's find out.
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: It would be fun, but it would also like you
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: weren't watching any game while you're trying to watch all three. Now,
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: speaking of I want to talk a little bit about
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: the game tomorrow and how important I think this is,
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: and I think this could be one of the toughest
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: games that the Nuggets have played in a long time,
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: just based upon there is going to be in insane
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: atmosphere that's inside that building.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a blood thirsty atmosphere in Minneapolis.
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: And we know that the actual players on the tea
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: Wolves are going to give this everything they have. Because
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: here's what it feels like to me. It feels like
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: this is a heavy fight that maybe Minnesota took five
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: of the first seven rounds, but then the Nuggets got
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: a couple of knockdowns and I was aided by Anthony
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: Edwards and Devincenzo being hurt.
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: But that's the feeling right now.
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: It's like Minnesota knows they got to go for the
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: haymaker because if this thing goes the distance and they
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: go to the judges, they are not winning this fight. Translation,
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: this goes seven games, you aren't gonna win in Denver
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: with that roster. Sorry, it's just not happening. This is
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: their last shot to do this.
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: This is it. They know it, and so you are.
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: Going to get I think one of the biggest pushes
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: that you've seen, one of the most desperate teams that
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: you've faced in a long time in Minnesota tomorrow.
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's good and bad, though sometimes you can be
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: overly desperate.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: Sure, Vick, you have your NBA head on today. I
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: think it's his NBA Finals, but I can't tell because
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: the script is in black. Yeah, it's hard to see
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: unless you're in person, hard to see in the screen.
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Your boy powder here during the appetizer hour was actually
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: very smart. You're in a role today.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: You were smart in the appetizer hour. Then you've got
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: the four corners and you got the four corners like
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: you're on a winning streak right now. I would I
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: would ride this as long as I can. You know what,
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: but I but since you represent the league, I'm coming
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: at your ass next segment good.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: And I want to say one last thing about the
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: game tomorrow night in Minneapolis, the Nuggets and the Tea Wolves,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: And I've come to this conclusion and I'm.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: At peace with this.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: As difficult as it might be to win there, even
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: with them missing their entire backcourt, I get it. As
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: this scene will be the atmosphere, the climate. Haven't won there,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: all of this stuff. If the Nuggets cannot win that game,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: I'm at peace. Then I know they're just not good enough.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: All excuses nothing right. We're not making excuses right, No,
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: I was. We're not making excuses right.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: No excuses. No, there can be no excuses made. Look, man,
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: I know that you're missing ag and I don't know
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: what Peyton Watson's story. I just have no idea. Maybe
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: his leg's gonna fall off. I don't know, but he
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: reinjured the Hams. I hate that. I mean I hated
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: for him. I hated for the team.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Well, let's let's get more into this in a second.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Good news for you guys. Not only do we have
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Jared Bednar at nine o'clock this morning to a recap.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: I thought, is it eight o'clock, Nelly, I got nine
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: on this sheet here. Well he told me eight o'clock. Okay,
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: I mean he told.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Me on the airplane in the way home was too
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: eight okay?
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Well I got the sheet eight o'clock this morning. We'll
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: talk to Jared Bednar at nine to twenty though, because
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: we've had nothing going on last night or tonight, the
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: feud's back. Oh god, we're doing the feud at nine
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: twenty this morning.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Are you serious?
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm just gonna surprise you guys. I still
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: have the feud questions. The night that I hosted the Nuggets,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I was going to be a bus round. I was
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: going to ask you guys the Nuggets feud question.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, maybe we could do that. We'll do that instead.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Then can I host it this time? Because I'm so
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: bad at it?
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's what makes it.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: No, Vic, you can't host it. You can't. You're not
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: hosting Jack.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: No, Bennard is going to join us at eight o'clock
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: and forty five minutes stiground. All right, So Jared Bennard
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: eight o'clock this morning. I just want to start a
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: couple of minutes here. I believe that this is and
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: I heard Brian Winhorse say this on Sports Center the
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: other day. Vic, this is the Minnesota Timberwolves Super Bowl. Yeah,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: this is it, like tomorrow will be that in the
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: reason for it is it gets them to advance.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: I know that Chris Finch said that they got good
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: news regarding Anthony Edward's injury. Now here's my question. That
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: looked every bit the diagnosis and the time frame for return,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: just like Nicolla, Jokic hyper extension of the knee. Diagnose
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: it a bone bruise out four to six weeks. We'll
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: see from there. So it seems to have all of
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: the indicators of Jokich and Jokic missed a month. Now
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: that was the regular season. Maybe he could have returned faster.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Point is, you still aren't going to
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: have him back for a while. Chris Finch saying that
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: we got better news and we thought regarding the injury.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Is that a little bit of coaching going out there saying, hey, guys,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: if you win this series, we can get ant back.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Keeping them motivated sort of thing. Is that what's going
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: on there?
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Always having that sort of hanging over their heads. Yeah,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: it's strategy, I mean giving them hope. Yeah, to have
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: him come back earlier than they want, that's a danger
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: to his career. He's too young for that. Yeah, right,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: he's too young for that. Now he's gonna want to play,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: you know that. I can close my eyes and envision.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Let's say it goes Game seven and that's a week
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: after his injury and he tries to trot out there
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: like Willis Reid google it. I just don't think they
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: would allow that to happen. So that's a serious injury.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: And this is why I think that they are going
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: to throw everything at tomorrow's game. And the reason why is,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: look the Nuggets records in Game seven's isn't like something
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: that is some unbeatable force. But they've played in a
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: ton of them, a ton, and there's one thing you
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: need in game seven. You need that guy. You need
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: that dude. And without Anthony Edwards going on the road
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: for a Game seven, Julius Randall's just not gonna be enough.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: And they can feed off their crowd tomorrow. All the
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Nuggets need to do is it feels like, win this
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: basketball game and they will have an chance to win
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: after that.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: It was from the television perspective. Anthony Edwards is not
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: here for Game five, correct? I imagine he wasn't. He's
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: probably doing rehab. Did you guys see him on the bench.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I don't think I did. I think I did either.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling he'll be there tomorrow night.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he will in person. I mean he'll be
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: on the bench and supporting the team.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is gonna be a game again. I still
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: even though you describe it this way, and you're exactly right,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the emotion is an advantage to Minnesota. They're gonna have
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: emotional advantages, the crowd, noise, the moment, all of it
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: is advantage Minnesota. Doesn't matter, doesn't matter to me. You
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: have to have enough to win this game. You put
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: yourself in this situation the Nuggets did. They put themselves
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: in a situation where they have to win a very
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: difficult game. And I could see it come down to
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the last two possessions. I can, and you're gonna have
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to find a way to win a game there. Somebody's
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: gonna have to make a play. The little things matter.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: And when I say little things, I went back and
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: rewatched parts of Game five and I'm looking at the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: little things. And here's what I mean by little things.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Do you know that Christian Brown dunk that gave him
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the technical that everybody's talking about. If you go back
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: and watch, look at what happened. Just seconds before the dunk,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Nikola jokicch is bringing the ball up full court. Rudy
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: decides to guard him full court. CB notices that he
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: hurries to set a pick on Rudy Gobert at the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: half court line. Joker rides Rudy into that pick, and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Rudy should have been called for a foul there. He
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: turns around CCB and pushes him with two hands. But
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: cebe at least went out there to set the pick.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: He's like, okay, I can't score, I'm gonna start setting that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: That was right in front of the scorer's table.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, so what happens Rudy pushes him with two hands.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Should have been a foul, but that's fine. Playoff basketball.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Rudy's now out of the play. He's disengaged. He's too
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: worried about Christian Brown. He pushes CB basically into a
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: fast break. Joker speeds up. McDaniels has to move up
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: because Rudy is compromised, and it leads to that two
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: on one in the dunk. But those little things matter,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Cam Cam Johnson, offensive rebounds running toward the rim, those matter.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Jamal hustling. There's that one play where I think he
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: had three rebounds by himself. He got some help from Joker.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: He couldn't score until he got the end one the
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: val Bean Val the little things matter.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what they're gonna need tomorrow because it
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: is going to be a battle. It will be, and
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: plenty of more time to talk about that as we
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: lead up to it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: One thing I do want to get to is the
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: NBA announced yesterday this, according to Shams, this new proposal
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: to fix the lottery that is supposedly going to curb tanking.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: And they're calling it the three two one lottery.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: So here's what's gonna happen.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: They're gonna expand the lottery from fourteen to sixteen teams.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Teams that do not qualify for the play play in
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: tournament but stay out of the relegation zone, which is
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: spots four through ten, would receive three lottery balls each.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Teams with a bottom three record the relegation zone would
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: have just two lottery balls, but have a floor of
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: the twelfth pick while the rest have a floor of
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: the sixteenth. There's a whole bunch of technical mumbo jumba
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: that's in here, but I will repeat what I've said before.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: The NBA had one question to answer, a singular question
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: when it comes to tanking, what.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Is the incentive to win?
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: And this proposal does not answer that question us well.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: In fact, it gives two more teams, incentivizes them to lose.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: But it incentivizes the bottom three win three teams. You
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: don't want to be a bottom three team. A bottom
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: three team has the same chance as winning the lottery
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: as teams seven, eight, nine. See.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: But here's the problem.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Vic The bottom three teams aren't competitive anyway. That's why
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: they're the bottom three. You want teams twelve through sixteen
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: to be competitive because when we looked at the standings
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: at the end of the year, here's the problem is
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: that when you looked at teams that were either in
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: the top six seeds or in the play in, the
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: drop off between the ten seed in the eleven, the
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: cutoff for the play in was eleven games in the
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Western Conference. In the Eastern Conference it was eleven games
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: between the ten and the eleven. Those are the teams
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: that need to be incentivized, not Washington who wins seventeen games.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: They aren't good anyway. This fixes zero, Vick. I'm trying
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: to tell you the teams nowadays mostly just real quick.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what it does is it has the teams that
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: are nine to ten now saying, well, why don't we
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: lose to try and get a lottery ball?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: One hundred percent, Vic. The way the league is constructed
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: and the way it gets so top heavy, you know what,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I know what, it's been top heavy for years and
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: years and years and years. The teams that are nine
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: and ten, they don't even want to be in. They
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: don't want to be there. The hell I would bet
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: the teams that are eight and seven, unless it's a young,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: scrappy team that's up and coming, they know they can't win.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: They know they aren't going to go all the way, Vic,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: They know it. Do you understand what I'm saying to you, Vittorio?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I do. There's so much money now in the NBA
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: for these owners. Everybody's getting such a fat piece of
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the pie that having even two extra home games doesn't
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: really do anything for them anymore. Yeah, do you understand
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. The incentive, by far is to actually
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: get in the damn lottery with more balls now than
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: it would be to be a nine or a ten
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: in the play in, or even a seven or eight.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, Vic, these teams that are in that
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: middle of the pack almost making it to the to
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: the gonna dance. I'm telling you, Vic, the incentive for
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: them would be to lose and try to get a
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: lottery ball and try to be try to become one
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: of the top heavies.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Dial it up, though at certain times you're gonna have to,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, the manipulation is gonna be have to be
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: so precise. I think this is a good move. I
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: don't think it's ever going to cure tanking. Nothing will
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: ever cure tanking. But I think this is a move
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: in the right space. I really do. You can't let
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the bottom three teams see what the NBA is saying.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you in a roundabout way, what they're
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: saying is we're not gonna make the lottery, and the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: draft your safety net. Your front office has to be
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: able to do that. There are enough draft picks in
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: a draft at five and six help Nikolioki in the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: second round. There are enough ways to get better. You
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: don't always have to be one of the worst teams
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and win the lottery every year. Figure it out, that's
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: what the league is saying. Figure it out.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: This doesn't fix it, though, and this is just a
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: waste of everybody's time. And it was a waste of meetings.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Now again, you have to be able to incentivize a
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: team to win. Now the NFL, this is what's interesting,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: and this is something I just kind of stumbled across,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I think, and just talking about this in the appetizer.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: The biggest separation between the NFL and the NBA is this.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: It's really hard to go full in on tanking in
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: the NFL because you need guys to play. And here's
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: the main difference. The non fully guaranteed contract. That's an
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: incentivizer for everybody that's on the field. If you don't
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: want to perform because our team sucks, well guess what
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: I'll cut you. Then yeah, you're gone, and you don't
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: you don't have money anymore.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: The lack of guaranteed contract is a big, big incentive.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: But let's say this.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Let's say that the Nuggets, instead of winning fifty four games,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: won eighteen this year. Christian Brown's got a five year,
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty five million dollar fully guaranteed contract
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: that hasn't even started yet. If they're an eighteen win
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: team on April second, what's the stop CB from being
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: like al my back hurts. You have nothing, you can
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: do nothing, to punish him. At least in the NFL,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: they have to earn their contract every single year essentially,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: and you just don't have that in the NBA. So
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: it makes it a lot easier.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: So you think it's just a lever and all the levers. Listen,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: you still gotta win. I mean, you gotta win the lottery.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: What hurts, when this stuff hurts is when teams that
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be winning lotteries. The year that San Antonio won
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: when they shouldn't have, the year that Doubt Dallas won,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Dallas won. It's those teams. Hell, guys. You know what
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: you know what makes you sick to your stomach? The
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: LA Clippers, I know they gave okay, see their lottery
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: thing essentially. You know what makes you even mos your
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: looking up? I want you to look it up. I
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: want you to do it. Google. Who owns the Denver
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Nuggets two thousand, twenty seven and twenty eight first round
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: draft picks?
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: All Right?
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Nuggets twenty twenty seven and twenty twenty eight first round
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: draft picks?
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Words permittent?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Need help? Hey man?
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Do you have the answer that's okay?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: See whatever?
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: How I don't how how see? But is there some rule.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Does everybody every team, Oh, what's happened? When did this happen?
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Can I ask you a question? Did do you guys
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: have a problem? Because the draft this year had a
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: team that is a dynastic team that has essentially made
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: the AFC Championship Game every year since Patrick Mahomes has started.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes goes down with the knee injury.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: What did the Chiefs do? They started rusting guys. Yeah,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: and they picked sixth overall in the draft. Well, they
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: moved up to six. They were like.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Seventh though they were there.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: There's seventh or eighth to start.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Nobody cares.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: In fact, people looked at the Chiefs.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: He goes, eh, pretty smart, pretty smart. And I get
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: that the NFL and the NBA are different. But but
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: the the entire idea of this lottery, I think only
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: incentivizes teams to lose more, especially now.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Because you've added two more teams. Yeah, date Loto balls again, Vick.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go back and say, I think the prospect,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: however low it may be, but the odds of getting
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: into the lottery and actually getting a top three pick
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: outweigh getting your ass kicked in a play in I'm
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: telling you, I'm telling you Vic, that's the way these
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: owners are going to view it.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: And I believe the NBA is telling teams right now,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: you're trying so hard to prop up your lottery chances,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you're trying so hard to win the Golden ticket. What
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: they're saying in return is be better as a front office.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: If Sam Presty and the Oklahoma City Thunder can figure
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: it out in that market, you figure it out.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: They kind of did that through tanking though. They got
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: rid of Russell Westbrook after Kevin Durant left, They got
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: rid of all their players were like herding with Russell.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: They got rid of KD. They got rid of Russell,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: the KD left, Katie left. Sorry, they got rid of
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: hard and early. That was the early going.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: That was just a dumb decision by correct. But once
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: they found out it's just Russell Westbrook on this team,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: we aren't gonna win.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: They shipped them off.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: They're like, okay, fine, then we're done and then we're
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: gonna start over by tanking. And that's how they built
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: their team back up. And then they use those ticks
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: sure to go in in a dish off.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Paul George for the MVP.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: A lot of teams tank. The Washington Wizards of tanked
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: like eight of nine years, and they're not okay.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: See, well, just because your tank doesn't guarantee you success,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. But if, but if you tank,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: you get better, it's a success.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Can I ask you this be a better front office?
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Can I ask you this? A couple of years ago,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: before the year before the Luca trade, or maybe it's
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: two years before that, and of the regular season Dallas
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Mavericks are hovering around that play in spot because at
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: that time I think it was only eight or what yeah, whatever,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: and Mark Cuban shut down Luka Doncic the last couple
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: of games of the year intentionally to lose up to
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: miss the play in and get in the lottery.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Yep? Does this change that? Yes?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: How well, look at look at they incentivize the teams
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: that are in the play in. They give them a
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: better chance of winning lottery tickets, they give them a
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: lottery ball, they give them a better chance if you
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: get into the playing I look at work.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: It's not better than if you if you finish out
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: y Yeah, yes, yes it is.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Look the ninth and tenth playing seeds in each conference
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: receive two lottery balls each, while the losers of the
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: seven to eight playing games receive one lottery ball. It
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: still doesn't incentivize you to win those, but you can.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Get a better chance then you will had before, but
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: not a better chance than the teams that are suck holes.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I just think this is a big to do about
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: nothing because they just want to say, hey, we did something,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: and it's like, does it fix it?
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Not? Vic? What I'm what I'm arguing to you is
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: that I think the NBA is in a very unenviable position,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: uniquely to the NBA because it's so top heavy and
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: the fewest amount of players affect the biggest outcome. And
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: so if you just have I mean, if you win
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: the damn lottery and you get a generation you can
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's worth it's worth a pile of gold
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: to these owners.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I guess you know what else the league is saying,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: you don't have to win the lottery to get a
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: generational You don't have to. I give you the Denver Nuggets.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Well, okay, now you're talking about a once in a
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: lifetime It's.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Like got draft Tom Brady?
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Then yeah, that's a once in a lifetime hit, you
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: know what, And I know it for the Patriots and
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: for the Nuggets supporting.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Cast I guess to get there. Do you know how
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: many times the.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Demo Jamal Murray was a lottery bro?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Do you know how many times the Denver Nuggets have
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: held the number one pick in the lottery? None? Your
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: GPA zero?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I understand how many times the Sacramento k Think about
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: the Sacramento Kings. How big a suck hole they are? Yeah?
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: How many times they won the lottery in their existence?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Zero?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Forty years? Forty one years. Once you know the draft,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: you know the best player the bet. This is what's
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: so sick about it, the very best player in the
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: lottery they drive in the draft. Let me think what
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: year was this, nineteen eighty six?
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I want to say, nineteen eighty six. Who is the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: best player? Lobby?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: You know it's gonna blow your He played for the Laker.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: It's gonna blow your mind. I'll tell you who the
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: second I'll tell you who the second best player in
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: the draft was.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Well read, who was in nineteen eighty six? Who was
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: the second best player?
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: The second best player was Billy owens All.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Right, who was it?
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Quick? Never nervous? Pervis Ellison? Oh my god, is that
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: was the crap dude to win the lottery in a
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: crap hole? That's uh? The best player Steve Nelson at
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: five to two and.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Flute blowing Jade Jared.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Nellie, no offense.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Jared Bednar is gonna join us in twenty minutes. Stick around,
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Jared Bednar is gonna join us in fifteen minutes.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, Moje, just one second please. It ain't the way
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: you move, It's all I had to say.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Hey, the knives are coming out in Dallas right now.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Has Miko scored in the series?
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Oh baby, that's exactly what I was talking about. From
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: the Athletic and.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: The quote New York Times.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: They're all over him. They're asking where the guy was
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: from last year? Where's that guy gone? Because he's nowhere
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: to be found.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: He scored three goals since March twenty eighth.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I'm way over here, Brett. I'm sorry, I'm out. I'm
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: out of the Could you repeat that please?
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: He scored three goals since March twenty eighth.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: How many of those were even strength? Of course? He
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: also missed time.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: One power play goal here, that would be one even
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: strength goal since then.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: One even strength goal in a month. All right, hey man,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: We've got our own things to worry about here. I'm
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: just saying that if if you've got a team, and
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: it's the way it should be, and it's really, to
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: me again, a bummer for the league to have two
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: of your best teams in the entire league have to
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: meet in the first round of the playoffs. I could
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: argue to you, Vic, the way it's set up. Look
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: at me, look at this face of mine. Were the
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Avs the Stars in the Minnesota Wild You can throw
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Carolina in there too, But were they two of the
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: excuse me, three of the top four, maybe three of
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: the top three, certainly three of the top five teams
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: in the league going into the postseason? Would you agree, yes,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: of course. Then you're mandated to knock one of them
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: out in the first round, and you're mandated to knock
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: another one out in the second round. Yeah, mandated by
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: the structure of the postseason. Sure, that makes no sense
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: to me at all.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Talked about this, I.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Know, but it just doesn't make any sense. Why do
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: you want a mandate that two of and I know
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: you want a mandate. You guts Bruski's pizza, pizza shrapnel.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: The the the league will say, look, men, you get
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: more eyeballs in the first round. Everybody watched that game
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: last night. My wife wanted to watch that game last night.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: She's like, I'm in and we went to a place
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: and we watched not only that, but we watched the
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: end of the Buffalo and Boston game. M H. So,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, I get it. I get that you want
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: eyeballs on the first round and things are cyclical. It
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: won't always be that way. The Pacific's gonna come back sometime,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: the Metro is gonna do this, and blah blah blah
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah. But right now, I just don't
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I don't like any any scenario or two of the
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: top five teams in the league. One has to be
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: bounced in the first round, no matter what, and one
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: has to be bounced in the second round. I don't
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: care if it's cyclical. I don't want it in any here.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Well, I want to jump back into this in a bit.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: We'll talk to bed Nard eight o'clock. There is something
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: else want to mention to you, and I just want
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: to see are you not concerned, mildly concerned, or very concerned?
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Those are your options when you see that Bo Nicks
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: had another follow up cleanup procedure on that ankle.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Mildly. I think I'm a little bit more than mildly.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: I'm what's better than medium? When you get barbecue wings medium,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I'm at medium.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: So my mild medium hot? Your medium?
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: I'm at medium. Well, and I'll explain myself.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Here's why I asked the question, because this is how
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: it is said by Ian Rappaport and Mike Garafalo. While
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: the team is expected to be conservative with his participation
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: during the off season program, Nix continues to make strong
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: progress for his recovery remains firmly firmly on track to
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: be ready for the start of training camp, but he
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: called this a successful and anticipated follow up clean up procedure.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: I've seen a couple of those.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: You know, uh, internet football doctor guys, you know that
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: doctor what's his name Chow and other people. They said,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: anticipated is probably a little too nice of a word
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: for what this was. It's not a guarantee that you're
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: having a clean up procedure afterwards. But it's not uncommon,
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: I guess, but I I how about this, I would
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: put myself in the mild territory. It would be a
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: lot different if bo Nix has missed games. But I
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: think I've counted five, maybe six starts that he's missed
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: since his freshman year of college. Yeah, despite all of
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: these ankle issues that he's had before. That's why I'm like,
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: you know, he plays them, so.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: No concern for you whatsoever.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Mild.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm a mild as well. But here's why I'm
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: a mild. Not even about whether he's gonna be able
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: to come back and you know, participate in the off
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: season or be ready for training camp or anything like that.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be totally fine in that regard.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: But what I don't like, and now the truth highest
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: level Number one. I don't like the fact that it
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: was a non contact pop Number two. I as you
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: get older and as you continue to wear and tear
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: with the other best players on the planet, I always
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: have a fear of vic of re injuring that that
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: now it becomes chronic. Now and I'm not saying every
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: year or whatever, but I can see two and a
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: half three years down the road and other proceed you know,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: these kinds of things. That's what that's what concerns me.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: That's where my mildness comes in your medium.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Why it's already chronic, It's already chronic. He's had multiple
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: issues with the ankles. That's the definition of chronic. He's
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: had surgeries with the ankles. It's not one time in
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: his life. It's not two times in his life, it's
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: multiple times. The word chronic.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Look it up.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: It's chronic. He's got ankle problems. And some bodies are
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: inclined to have issues with certain parts of the body.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Some people have bad knees. You know all my basketball buddies,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I play with bad knees. I've had MCLs, some acls,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: knock on wood. I've never had any problem, but I've
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: broken both of my ankles multiple times, and I have
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: the arthritis and scar tissue to prove it. Some people
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: have bad parts in their that just go bad. And
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: what it does, in my humble opinion, you could fix it.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: And he's fixing it right now. And he went back
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: in and he cleaned it up. They probably had to
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: remove the hardware. That's what the cleanup procedure is whatever
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: they used to fix it. They had to remove the hardware. Fine,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: that's not the issue here. The issue is will it
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: happen again? Why is it happening the way his body's built.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: So you're saying when they went into the first time
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: when he got injured last year before the AFC title game,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: they put stuff in there, They put like, yeah, it
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: was surgically prepaired.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they they the hardware and they went in and
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: removed the hardware. Now the question isn't whether or not
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: that worked.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Of course it worked.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: The question is will it hold up again. He's had
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: multiple and you knock on wood and you hope and
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: you cross your fingers. It's the same thing. Everyone has,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: that achilles heel. Excuse that, you know, it's funny that
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: it's a body part, but everybody has it. For Aaron Gordon,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: it's his muscles, Hey man, it's his hamstrings, you know.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: For again, a lot of people knee injury after knee
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: injury after knee injury. For me, it was my ankles.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: For bo it's his ankles.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: There was a very famous story about a superstar that
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: had ankle problems to the point where the team just
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: didn't trust it anymore, and they tried to ship him
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: to Milwaukee for in Boget. Yeah, and that team doctor said,
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: I don't trust those ankles either. You can keep them.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: And then Steph Curry won a million.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Titles exactly right?
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Am I the only one? Though? Am I the only one?
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Am I the only g here? Yeah? When I think chronic,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: I think ninety two, I think Dray, Yeah, Belly.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Cranken, I hope you make a point here.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you bring up chronic. I think of dre
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: is nineteen ninety two debut as you did ask you
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: said chronic? What do you know about chronic?
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Is this gonna be one of those mornings when if
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I say a word, you're gonna have a song that
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: it's attached to that word. Are you just gonna have Nelly.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Played DJ all the morning on the planet, who's a
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: self proclaimed hip hop expert. You don't get into the
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: chronic by Dre from ninety two? Of course they do, so,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: I mean this is his debut album.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: That just want the conversation without just playing DJ? What
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: you have to offer to that conversation besides asking him
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: to play a song?
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, Nellie crank it up. Let me add to the conversation. Yeah,
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: uh mo, shit. I hope bone Nick doesn't blow up.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: I hope the ankle likes to hold up. He's gonna
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: throw the ball this year, even though Vic calls it chronic.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: That's okay. Huh yeah, I'm hoping that a whole song again.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty good knowing your teammates.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: When you when you said all further the conversation than
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: you decided to do a rap saying I hope his
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: ankles open.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: That one's on Nelly again. We've talked about this, Nelly
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: hang on a on.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: All I did was look at Vic's face. He did
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: crack a smile, though he cracked a baby smile out
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: of the corner. I did see that, a tiny baby
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: smile because I had.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: So much more to say about this, but I couldn't go.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Well, we got to go to the coach anyway. It
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: doesn't really matter what you have to say. You can,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: you can hold it for later and I will shut up.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: I will not wrap over your your your thought.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Plus he saw it back.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, I just can he just talked sports head
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: coach of the abs coming off that he did in
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: a very entertaining way a sweep in the first round.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Jared Bednall are joined just next