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The Denver Nuggets Fired Michael Malone… · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: So a few hours ago, coach Michael Malone was fired
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Speaker 1: from being the head coach and the Denver Nuggets. Surely
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Speaker 1: after that it was reported that Calvin Booth was also fired.
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Speaker 1: Those two dudes, he just hated each other for years,
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Speaker 1: and it felt like if ownership was going to make
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Speaker 1: a big decision, it would be one or the other.
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Speaker 2: They said, nah, both the y'all gone.
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Speaker 1: So this marks the second coach to be fired in
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Speaker 1: the last month of an NBA season, like when the
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Speaker 1: Memphis Grizzlies did it. It was obviously a huge shock
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Speaker 1: to everybody, but you took a step back, sure, it
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Speaker 1: started to make a little bit more sense, even if
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Speaker 1: you believe that Taylor Jackos wasn't given a few affairs
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Speaker 1: shared with it.
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Speaker 2: You consider the amount of injuries they've had over the
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Speaker 2: last couple of seasons.
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Speaker 1: You could kind of look at it and squinch your
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Speaker 1: eyes and say, hey, that's kind of understandable. The writing
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Speaker 1: was kind of on the wall, but none of us
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Speaker 1: even thought about it. When they fired his whole coaching
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Speaker 1: staff and brought in a new assistant thing, and one
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Speaker 1: of those assistants being is sorry mispronouncing that Many people
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Speaker 1: believe that with Isolo's success overseas and the way he
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Speaker 1: reformulated the off or helped reformulate the office from the
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Speaker 1: Memphis Grizzlies. Whether they like it or not, he was
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Speaker 1: going to be one of the hottest commodity assistant coaches
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Speaker 1: out there, and they believe that it made more sense
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Speaker 1: to get him in as an interim coach and turn
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Speaker 1: into a head a head coach versus letting him hit
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Speaker 1: the open market and him ended up in Sacramento or
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Speaker 1: him ended up in Phoenix or one of the other
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Speaker 1: potential spots. Cool, that made sense. This feels like a anomaly.
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Speaker 1: We're not gonna see coaches get fired. This led into
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Speaker 1: the season and then the Nuggets did it with five
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Speaker 1: games left, five games left into the post. He's now
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Speaker 1: currently there on the four game loser stretch stretch and
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Speaker 1: it hasn't looked great. Some of these jokids and stat
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Speaker 1: lives and l's are ridiculous. A sixty point triple doublee
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Speaker 1: and l another thirty seven point triple dublin l. It
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Speaker 1: was some nasty, nasty work and they made their decision,
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Speaker 1: and again I thought it was gonna be one of
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Speaker 1: the other It was gonna be team Calvin Booth. It
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Speaker 1: was gonna be team Michael Malone, but instead they got
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Speaker 1: rid of them both. And again just a huge, huge
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Speaker 1: surprise because Michael Malone, different than Taylor Jenkins, had the pedigree,
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Speaker 1: he had the winning associated with his name. Reminder, Michael
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Speaker 1: Malone is the winning this coach in franchise history. Michael
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Speaker 1: Malone led his team coach to team to a championship
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Speaker 1: two years ago and Michael Malone was one game away,
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Speaker 1: three possessions of way from being in the conference finals
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Speaker 1: just last season fired and now god, people thinking what
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Speaker 1: the hell could have possibly gone on? So as of
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Speaker 1: right now, this is really the only thing we have
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Speaker 1: on like reasonings behind it all. The move was made
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Speaker 1: with the hopes of winning a title this year in mind,
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Speaker 1: which is different than the Memphis Grizzlies because in my mind,
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Grizzlies were never really truly contenders, and
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Speaker 1: firing coach that late when you think about trying to
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Speaker 1: reincorporate or getting new voices to the locker room, they
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Speaker 1: kind of were set up for a disaster. And since
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Speaker 1: then they've you know, I guess they're on a three
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Speaker 1: game restrict now, but they were like what the two
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Speaker 1: ced three seed when they fired Taylor Jenkins and it
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Speaker 1: took a few games. In the Western Conference, you don't
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Speaker 1: really get a few games to figure some stuff out.
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Speaker 1: But with this one, they're saying it's a little bit different.
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Speaker 1: We're not conceding the season. We're not conceding the season.
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Speaker 1: We're really trying to go for And Sham Sharania said,
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Speaker 1: My understanding is that they felt kind of like the
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Speaker 1: Grizzlies did when departure of Taylor Jenkins games. I don't
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Speaker 1: really believe in the Grizzies, though. It's about igniting this team.
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Speaker 1: They lost four four games in a row. If every
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Speaker 1: time you lost four games in a row you fired
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Speaker 1: your coach, nobody would be ahead coach for more than
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Speaker 1: a year or other than like coach Mark Dayanall and
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Speaker 1: Joe Missoula.
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Speaker 2: That's likely.
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Speaker 1: Really Even the Cleveland Cavaliers have gone in their own
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Speaker 1: personal four game blues street this season.
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Speaker 2: They're now in the bottom half of the league in
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Speaker 2: defensive rating.
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Speaker 1: They felt like the signs were there that this season
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Speaker 1: was not going to end well. They're getting out ahead
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Speaker 1: of what they felt was going to come this offseas,
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Speaker 1: which I think is one of the most interesting things
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Speaker 1: because they said to themselves, based on what Seam Chearan
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Speaker 1: is saying, the ceiling of this season with coach Michael
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Speaker 1: Malone is not good enough. In their mind, the ownership's mind,
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Speaker 1: there was a zero person chance that they would be
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Speaker 1: able to win the championship this season coach Michael Malone
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Speaker 1: as the head coach. Now, obviously we are outsiders. We
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Speaker 1: don't know what the hell is going on in their
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Speaker 1: locker room. The only thing that makes sense if they're
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Speaker 1: saying this that they looking to reignite the team, is
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Speaker 1: that there are people on the roster or the entire
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Speaker 1: roster has completely toned tuned out Michael Malone. About Michael Malone,
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Speaker 1: one of the things I love the most about him,
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Speaker 1: and this is not even an ex and nosed thing.
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Speaker 2: It's how vocal he really was. Right.
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Speaker 1: It's just good content for us, and he is not
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Speaker 1: afraid to call his players out even I think it
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Speaker 1: was just after the last night's game or two nights ago,
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Speaker 1: he basically threw some of his players under the bus,
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Speaker 1: saying that, hey, these boys don't even be watching film
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Speaker 1: for real, right, So I can imagine as somebody in
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Speaker 1: the locker room to potentially tune somebody out. If that's
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Speaker 1: the type of respect level I'm getting in the public.
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Speaker 1: But that was like one of the cool things about
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Speaker 1: coach Michael Malone because not only was he very critical
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Speaker 1: of his own team, he was very critical about Calvin
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Speaker 1: Booth and his team construction. There's other reports that go
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Speaker 1: on to say that Calvin Booth and Michael Malone went days, weeks,
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Speaker 1: months without talking to each other, which is a big
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Speaker 1: conflict of interest. If the guy that's building my roster
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Speaker 1: can't talk to the god that's supposed to curate my
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Speaker 1: roster to win, then how the hell can we believe
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Speaker 1: as an organization that we can meet in the middle
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Speaker 1: and win those games. Right Michael Malone has been very
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Speaker 1: candid about wanting veterans, wanting guys that are willing and
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Speaker 1: able to win right now. Calvin Booth, on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: is like, hey, I like keeping these draft picks. I
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Speaker 1: like drafting a Christian Brown or Julian Straw through a
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Speaker 1: Peyton Watson, a Jalen Pickett, a day Ron Holmes. I
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Speaker 1: really enjoyed that part of the game. And I remember
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Speaker 1: after they won their first championship, a few years back,
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Speaker 1: Calvin Booth did this interview with Kevin O'Connor with Kevin O'Connor,
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Speaker 1: who was at The Ringer at the time, and I
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Speaker 1: think Calvin Booth thought he was off the record, but
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Speaker 1: I guess he wasn't because it was reported slash written
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Speaker 1: in the article where he kind of dogged some of
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Speaker 1: the players that had left, Like if you think about
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Speaker 1: the team that had won a championship, whether it be
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Speaker 1: Bruce Brown, whether it be Jeff Green, whether it be
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Speaker 1: a KCP. He went into that, He's like, man, listen,
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Speaker 1: we love Bruce Brown, but we got players on the team.
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Speaker 1: Peyton Watson does exactly what he does, but he's taller,
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Speaker 1: and he's stronger, and he's Smarre Atlanta. Like that was
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Speaker 1: almost a verbatim quote from Calvin Booth. One thing Calvin
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Speaker 1: Booth also said is we're not in the business of
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Speaker 1: winning back to bat champion ships. We're trying to have
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Speaker 1: this sustained greatness, putting it on the same level as
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Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs. The Spurs won a lot of
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Speaker 1: championships in the Tim duck and era. They never went
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Speaker 1: back to back, but they always had this consistency of
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Speaker 1: being a champions of quality team and they would have
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Speaker 1: a championship year in off year, champions of year and
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Speaker 1: off year just did it like that, and that was
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Speaker 1: what Calvin Boof was trying to create. Now, if we
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Speaker 1: look at the roster, I am pretty critical of it. Right,
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Speaker 1: they have the best player in the world, and when
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Speaker 1: you have the best player in the world, you're going
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Speaker 1: to have a chance. That's how good Nikola Jokicic is like.
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Speaker 1: And one of the biggest conversations about Nikola Jokicic's like
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Speaker 1: overall MVP candidacy is that when he is not on
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Speaker 1: the court, they play like a seventeen win team, and
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Speaker 1: when he does play, they're like a fifty win team.
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Speaker 1: That shows you the amount of impact that he has.
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Speaker 1: But because Jokic is so fucking good, it covers up
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Speaker 1: some of those those hardships, those bad things on the
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Speaker 1: roster because you got this crutch, and this crutch of
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Speaker 1: a player is good enough to win you games and
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Speaker 1: make you feel like you're a contender even if you're not.
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Speaker 1: So we're okay with never having a legitimate backup center
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Speaker 1: for Yokis. It is kind of insane to me that
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Speaker 1: we're in this Jokic era. Like, oh, Yoki's been an
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Speaker 1: MVY caliber player for what five years in a row now,
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Speaker 1: He's been in conversations for MVP, and there's never been
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Speaker 1: a season where I thought to myself, they had a
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Speaker 1: center on that roster that obviously nobody can replicate what
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Speaker 1: Yolks is doing, but let's just say hold it down.
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Speaker 2: Shout out to DeAndre Jordan. He's a great VET.
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Speaker 1: But you know what that looked like when he get
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Speaker 1: into the game, when Yokics goes out of the game.
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Speaker 1: You how many times Yokis is checked out of the
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Speaker 1: game and about eight and then he came back in.
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Speaker 1: They was only up about one or was it tai game?
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Speaker 1: Like everything that I did in those first six minute
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Speaker 1: stretches no longer.
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Speaker 2: No longer managed.
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Speaker 1: It's a new basketball game. And that is the way
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Speaker 1: that Yokising has been. And there's conspiracy theories that would
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Speaker 1: tell you that was by design to make it that
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Speaker 1: Nikola Jokis's numbers look like this.
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Speaker 2: I don't believe that.
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Speaker 1: I think these dudes wanted to preserve their their jobs,
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Speaker 1: and by preserving their jobs or trying to build the
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Speaker 1: best roster, but they just had that that crutch, and like,
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Speaker 1: if you look at the history, and this is crazy
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Speaker 1: because we before this news talked on the podcast. We
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Speaker 1: were talking about what percentage of like team building, and
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Speaker 1: we were using the Nuggets as an example, what percentage
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Speaker 1: of that is luck versus actual doing the right thing
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Speaker 1: and making the right decisions. And I think I said
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Speaker 1: in the episode that it's like seventy thirty in the
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Speaker 1: nets the Nuggets case, because how lucky are you to
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Speaker 1: draft one of the greatest centers of all time in.
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Speaker 2: The second round? You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: How lucky are you to make that happen? You have
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Speaker 1: to do some type of scout to see that he's good,
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Speaker 1: good enough to draft. They obviously didn't think that he
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Speaker 1: was gonna be the best player in the world, but
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Speaker 1: they had to do that. They had to do to
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Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon trade that looks better and better every single day.
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Speaker 1: They had to draft Michael Porter Junior, who was at
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Speaker 1: one point the number one player in his draft class,
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Speaker 1: but because of his back injuries and everything, he fell
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Speaker 1: all the way down to the teams. They had to
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Speaker 1: pull off the KCP trade. KCP was traded for fodder.
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Speaker 1: It was like Will Barton and that it was like
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Speaker 1: Will Barton and one other player, no draft capitol at all.
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Speaker 1: They had to see that talent that was Washington, that
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Speaker 1: was sitting in Washington, that was coming off a championship
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Speaker 1: a few years before that.
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Speaker 2: It said, hey, we want that on our roster. So
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Speaker 2: they've obviously league Calva.
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Speaker 1: Boof has obviously made some right decisions, but he also
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Speaker 1: has that degree of luck as well.
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Speaker 2: Guess Thety'll done with that. I don't know. I guess
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Speaker 2: they're done with that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this could be overall we're talking about the
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Speaker 1: landscape of the Dimmer Nuggets because one of the first
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Speaker 1: thing that came to mind when coach Michael Malone was
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Speaker 1: fired with what were y'all can stick about this? Right?
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Speaker 1: I think we always try to figure out what type
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Speaker 1: of input these players have and nobody, no coach or
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Speaker 1: no player is ever.
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Speaker 2: Gonna be like yup, I was the reason. Right.
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Speaker 1: Remember when Mike Mike Brown was just fired a few
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Speaker 1: months back, and everybody speculated that it was Dearon Fox
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Speaker 1: is doing because we had that one video of them
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Speaker 1: at practice and Mike Brown is talking to Deanon Fox
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Speaker 1: and dear Fox is looking at Malie Monk like this.
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Speaker 1: You know, people who speculated that oh ownership went to
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Speaker 1: their star player and dearon Fox, he said, what do
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Speaker 1: you think about what do you think about coach Mike.
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Speaker 2: Malone or Mike Brown?
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Speaker 1: And then it came out later that after he was
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Speaker 1: fired in all of this, Darn Fox and Mike Brown
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Speaker 1: went out to dinner. Daron Fox and Mike Brown have
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Speaker 1: been both vocal about not having any idea or not
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Speaker 1: having a say in these type of things. So I wonder,
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Speaker 1: when you have the best the world, do you walk
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Speaker 1: up to him and say, hey, yo, boy, Mike Malone?
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Speaker 1: Because by our reports, they were like this, We're gonna
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Speaker 1: fire your boy, Mike Malone.
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Speaker 2: They did.
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Speaker 1: Mike Malone come to Serbia after the championship and just
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Speaker 1: hang out for weeks at the time to be with Jokics,
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Speaker 1: and they fired They fired him with the idea of
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Speaker 1: reigniting the team. Now Audelman Adelman Adlman the new interim coach.
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Speaker 1: Apparently he's also widely loved within the organization. There was
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Speaker 1: also reports that the players on the roster didn't necessarily
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Speaker 1: love the exes and no's of it. And we have
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Speaker 1: been canded on not on this but on my podcast
10:35
Speaker 1: small Ball formerly known as The Kitty Beach and Podcast.
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Speaker 1: When they were eliminated from the postseason. One thing I
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Speaker 1: remember saying was that their bread and butter became too predictable.
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Speaker 1: When Jokic and Jamal Murray were out their winning series
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Speaker 1: and winning championships. They did it without the idea of
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Speaker 1: spamming their pick and roll, right, So when you're running
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Speaker 1: it so often as so often, it gives you the
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Speaker 1: opposing teams just an opportunity to scheme for it a
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Speaker 1: little bit more. It felt like back in the day,
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Speaker 1: back in the day, which was like two years ago,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't something that was the whole offense.
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Speaker 2: And right now when you watch.
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Speaker 1: Them play, it does feel like majority of their offense
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Speaker 1: is coming this way.
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Speaker 2: That is some eches of those thing that maybe.
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Speaker 1: Players or the team they were in charge the ownership
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Speaker 1: is like, hey, we can't let that be the only
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Speaker 1: thing we do right now, and you can say that
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Speaker 1: that is what Mike Malone was doing wrong. It's so
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Speaker 1: funny though, because one of the other things I thought
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Speaker 1: about is like NBA players, once it's passed February fourteen,
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Speaker 1: whenever the February seventh, feb or fourteenth of the trade
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Speaker 1: that line, you're like, phew, I'm on this team. I
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Speaker 1: don't have to worry about nothing. It felt like something
11:42
Speaker 1: very similar with coaching as well, because coaches don't get
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Speaker 1: fired after the All Star break, especially if I'm already
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Speaker 1: on the playoffs team. I'm coaching the playoffs saying that
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Speaker 1: that is gone. Now, Hey, who else? Hold on? Is
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Speaker 1: there any Eastern Conference team that's in the postseason that
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Speaker 1: is actively on the loser streak right now?
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Speaker 2: Oh? I was about to say J B.
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Speaker 1: Bicker Staff, he cool, he cook, But like, can't you
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Speaker 1: can't ever feel secure in this in this profession.
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Speaker 2: Michael Malone championship coach is just gone.
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Speaker 1: And now you have to think about that that adjustment period,
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Speaker 1: because when you fire a coach in the middle of
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Speaker 1: a season, the new coach, the terim coach, can't break
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Speaker 1: down the offense and incorporate his own new things.
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Speaker 2: And yet it takes time. It takes way too much time.
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Speaker 1: They play tomorrow, they're not about to go against the Kings,
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Speaker 1: and now we're about to see the Nuggets become the
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Speaker 1: highest frequency three point shooting team opposed to one of
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Speaker 1: the least the lowest right that it takes so much
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Speaker 1: time to incorporate a new offense, get everybody balled into
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Speaker 1: these things, and sometimes that transition period can be bad.
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Speaker 1: Like I mentioned earlier, the Grizzies ended up losing what
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Speaker 1: three games before they've won their first one with it's
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Speaker 1: a low as the coach. The Nuggets don't have that
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Speaker 1: opportunity to feel things out. They got the Kings, which
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Speaker 1: the Kings are playing better basketball, but it ain't really
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Speaker 1: a good team, so they can maybe take care of
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Speaker 1: business all the time. Jamal Murray might not even be
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Speaker 1: ready for any of these three games, which is insane.
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Speaker 1: They got the Grizzlies, who again a playoff team, and
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Speaker 1: they got the Rockets, one of the best teams in
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Speaker 1: the league. So album Adelman might be playing or coaching
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Speaker 1: his team to potentially a plan to potentially a plan
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Speaker 1: bro depending on how it goes. Now we also get
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Speaker 1: the opposite side of things, and sometimes new coach come
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Speaker 1: in a band.
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Speaker 2: We the best team in the world for a two
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Speaker 2: week stretch. That happens too, So we just.
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Speaker 1: Don't know what side of the coin it's gonna be on.
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Speaker 1: And I know this is very, very minuscule. And this
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Speaker 1: whole thing if they start continue to lose right in
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Speaker 1: this adjustment period and they end up being the seventh seed.
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Speaker 1: Whatever percentage you thought Nikolaiokis had to win the MVP
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Speaker 1: dies like this is that's minuscule. In the grands, give
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Speaker 1: of them nuggers, but the nenver nuggers, like I sid,
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Speaker 1: they're trying to win a championship. But the NBA is
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Speaker 1: not gonna give the MVP to a seventh seed, regardless
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Speaker 1: if he's a seventh seed with a tight record or
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Speaker 1: a seventh seed by half of a game.
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Speaker 2: It's not the way it works.
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Speaker 1: We're pushing the boundaries. When Nkoliokis won it as a sixty, right,
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Speaker 1: then he win it as a sixteed, Yeah, he wanted
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Speaker 1: to sixty. That was a year that they lost to
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Speaker 1: the Warriors in five, and that felt like he was
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Speaker 1: pushing the boundaries and he one hundred percent warranted. But
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Speaker 1: when you have this type of race with these two
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Speaker 1: Juggernauts and Shae and him, where it's like ooh, some
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Speaker 1: days I feel like Shay ooh, sometimes I feel like Yokics.
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Speaker 1: The determinive factor might be, Hey, the Thunder are about
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Speaker 1: to win sixty seven games or whatever the number might
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Speaker 1: end up being. So I know that's very miniscule in
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Speaker 1: this Grands game. I bet they don't give a damn
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Speaker 1: about that when they thinking about what's going to be
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Speaker 1: next for their organization.
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Speaker 2: But it's something that you know, to think about.
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Speaker 1: One of the things we talked about on the pod is,
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Speaker 1: you know, again talk about schematically because this is when
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Speaker 1: we didn't know, we didn't know anything, and even now
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Speaker 1: we still don't know a ton. We were talking about schematically.
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Speaker 1: What about what the Denver Nuggets is doing. Do we
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Speaker 1: believe can't change right, especially if you're considering that you're
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Speaker 1: trying to get to you to win. And if we
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Speaker 1: go to just the raw stats the Denver Nuggets right
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Speaker 1: now or the fourth ranked offense, which is still insane,
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Speaker 1: they're the twenty second ranked defense.
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Speaker 2: That's not ideal.
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Speaker 1: No team has ever won a championship well being that
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Speaker 1: bad on the defensive side of the ball, and that
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Speaker 1: might be the main thing. The defensive schemes is just
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Speaker 1: not good enough. But even there, offense, though it's fourth
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Speaker 1: in the league, it's a peculiar fourth in the league.
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Speaker 1: There's only thirty two percent of their shots come from
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Speaker 1: behind the art. They're losing a three point bat in
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Speaker 1: every single game, and because you have the offensive Jaggerny
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Speaker 1: and Nicole yochis a lot of times it doesn't work,
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Speaker 1: but there are times where it matters. Where we make
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Speaker 1: four to threes, five threes as a team, and the
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Speaker 1: imposing team takes it makes ten of them, then we're
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Speaker 1: so much at a deficit where we don't have much
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Speaker 1: as much wigger room as we really want to, right,
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Speaker 1: And that was what we said in the video that
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Speaker 1: we drive five months ago, is the Denver Nuggets championship
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Speaker 1: window closed? We talked about the lack of three point
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Speaker 1: shooting and how that could matter.
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Speaker 2: In this whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I guess I made a couple of Nuggets video.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love the Nuggets. Oh my god,
15:41
Speaker 1: just a lot of Nuggets videos. They did win the
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Speaker 1: championship for a year ago, so whatever. Again, I do
15:45
Speaker 1: think that one of the more interesting than Mike Malon
15:48
Speaker 1: getting fired is a Calvin Booth thing because now you
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Speaker 1: it begs to question the new guy, whoever that may be,
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Speaker 1: what type of adjustments can they make to this team
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Speaker 1: to open that window?
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Speaker 2: Back.
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Speaker 1: If you believe it is closed because you have the
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Speaker 1: best player in the world, you owe it to that
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Speaker 1: player who's a multiple time MVP and an NBA champion
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Speaker 1: in your city to continue to make the roster better.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I remember just so many of the
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Speaker 1: fake trades that people were drawing up.
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Speaker 2: It was like Michael Porter Junr.
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Speaker 1: Who's like the contract that makes all of his work,
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Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junior for Zach Levine's like, ah, you know,
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Speaker 1: that don't really help them as much as say, you
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Speaker 1: know you think it does. And what type of players
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Speaker 1: are they missing on the offensive side? What type of
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Speaker 1: players are they missing on the defensive side. It is
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Speaker 1: not an easy job, like if you think about just
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Speaker 1: what it is. And from a bigger picture of the
16:35
Speaker 1: thirty NBA GM jobs, the Nuggets one is one of
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Speaker 1: the tougher ones.
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Speaker 2: And that's saying something because they already have the guy.
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Speaker 2: But it's about the edges.
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Speaker 1: How do we this expensive ass team that is Jolkic
16:44
Speaker 1: on the max. Jamal Murray just signed a new extension
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Speaker 1: and damn it, he not even healthy right now. Who
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Speaker 1: knows if he's gonna be healthy for a postseason. Last
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Speaker 1: year he wasn't healthy in the postseason. We can't have
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Speaker 1: that again. Michael Porter Junr is on a MAX, but
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Speaker 1: it's like a MAX from three years ago, so it's
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Speaker 1: not the same as a current day MAX. And we
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Speaker 1: just extended Aaron Gordon. Where's our wiggle room? Where's our
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Speaker 1: wiggle room if those are four guys, Unless we're chopping
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Speaker 1: some heads off to get new talent in the door,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. But it is a very surprising and
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Speaker 1: a very intriguing move by the ownership of the Denver Nuggets,
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Speaker 1: one that I don't think anybody saw coming.
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Speaker 2: And the only thing we can do is wait to
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Speaker 2: see what will happen next.