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I Created My Dream NBA Playoff Scenario · Small Ball with Kenny Beecham

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to another episode of Small Ball with Kenny Beachum.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: I know the last like three weeks, it feels like I'm opening up every show, talking playoffs, thinking playoffs, but that's where my head is at, y'all.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: I can't lie on a night-to-night basis.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's like I picked two to three games, and that's what I'm focusing on.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm so ready for the postseason.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: And we are what, two weeks away?
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: Just two weeks away.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I mentioned this on numbers a few days ago.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: This is the most unsure I've been heading into a postseason in a very long time, right?
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, even when I'm wrong, right?
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like um last year, I was very sure that the OKC Thunder were going to win the West to win a championship.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: That ended up being the case.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: I was very sure that the Boston Celtics were gonna be the team to match them in the finals.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, that was wrong, but I had some level of confidence going into it.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: This is one of them years where it's like you can tell me any of the top, I don't know, five teams in the West when you can tell me any of the four teams that are that people are talking about our East are the one representing the East.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll be like, yeah, that makes sense to me.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I think that's gearing up for an amazing postseason.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: So in today's episode, I want to put together what in my mind is the dream first round of the postseason the season with limits, right?
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I can't automatically make a team that is a seven seed or three seed in my dream scenario.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: They it has to be something that is within reach over these next couple weeks.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought about this idea a few days ago, and I was just thinking to myself, you know, going back to the standings, how ridiculously jumbled everything really is, man.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: Especially in that Eastern Conference.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: This is one of the first times ever that the Eastern Conference, the top 10 seeds are all above 500, which is nuts.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like the Charlotte Hornets, who've been the darling of the NBA.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: For a second, they had the eight seed, but now they're back to a 10 after a huge win by the 76ers a couple nights ago.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: So the difference between the five seed and the 10th seed is just three and a half games.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm looking at all these models that are trying to predict who's gonna end up where to make what I seem to be a realistic butt dream scenario.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: And there are a couple things that stand out before we even get to those dream matchups.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: Two of these teams are not gonna make the playoffs this year.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: The Raptors, the Hawks, the Sixers, the Magic, the Heat, and the Hornets.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: Two of those teams are not going to make the playoffs.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: And that's insane.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: Because I think each one of these teams has had moments throughout the season where you think to yourself, okay, they go that team, I expect.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, oh, this team is way better than expected.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: Think about, I think it was November for the Toronto Raptors where they won 10 out of 11 games.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: The Atlanta Hawks just came off an 11-game win streak.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: The 76ers always keep you, you keep them in the back of the brain because, like, ooh, when they get healthy, and guess what?
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: They've been healthy for two games and they look pretty damn good in those two games.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: The Magic had just gone on a five-game win streak, and Palo has been playing really good basketball, and Desmond Bain hasn't missed a shot.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: The Miami Heat went on a seven-game win streak in the middle of that band, Marabio dropped 83 points.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: And then the Hornets have been the best net rating team since January 1st.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: One of those, I'm sorry, two of those teams are straight up not going to make it.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of insane.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: So you kind of look at the schedule, right?
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, who has the most favorable schedule?
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: And Atlanta still has a really tough go at it.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: And luckily for them, they took care of business when the 11-game win streak.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: I know people are laughing at the win streak because of the fact that they went against so many bad teams.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: But the reason you go against those bad teams, you win those games, because it puts you in a position right now where you do have one game against Boston, one game against New York, and two games against Cleveland.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: And because you took care of business earlier, these games matter, but they not, they may not matter as much as if you would have lost one of those two games versus the Wizards doing that stretch.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: You feel?
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: And then the Charlotte Hornets, our beloved Charlotte Hornets have an even tougher schedule than an Atlanta team where they still have to play against Detroit once.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: And even without Kay Cunningham, Detroit has been pretty damn good.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: They got to play against Boston two times.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: They got to play against New York, Minnesota, and Phoenix all before the end of the season.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: And we only got like eight games left.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: So six out of the eight games, seven out of their eight games are against like true playoff teams.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's a little bit scary.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: A little bit scary because that is one team that I'm just praying makes it.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: They are a breath of fresh ever team, one of the most fun teams to watch in the NBA.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: So if they don't make it, I will be kind of sad.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: So when I tell you that the Raptors, the Hawks, the Sixers, the Magic, the Heat, and the Hornets, two of those teams will not make it.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: When I'm making my dream playoff bracket, I have to decide which of those two teams do I not want to watch in the postseason.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: And like I mentioned earlier, that's tough.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna spoil it.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: You're just gonna have to put two and two together once we get there.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: So my dream first round matchup for the Detroit Pistons, because they have all but solidified the number one seed.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: I got the Charlotte Hornets.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, you know the bad blood between those teams.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: You saw what happened with their suspension of Isaiah Stewart and Jalen Duran and Musa Diabate.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: The list goes on and on.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: But I think they also have, forgetting about the beef, potential beef between those two teams, they do have a level of balance in where the Detroit Pistons are a defensive first team.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: And the way they're gonna win a lot of games in the postseason, they're gonna beat you up.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: It might be slow games, it might be a low-scoring game, but that is in the favor of the Detroit Pistons, and they lack the shooting, and they're going against a potential Charlotte Hornets team.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's one of the best three-point shooting teams in the league.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: So we get the clash of styles.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: And because the Hornets are such a team that can make, I don't know, 15 threes and a half of basketball, though the Pistons will be favored in the series, assuming Kay Cunningham health is good enough for him to go.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: This is not a typical 1A series where you look at and say, oh, one seed and four, one seed and five.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: I think, I truly think if we got the series, there will be people, uh, NBA pundits with people on TV, the writers, the podcasters that will be like, hmm, maybe Hornets and seven, because that's how good the Charlotte Hornets really have been.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: And again, it gets kind of, I won't use the word under the radar because I think everybody's talking about it, but because of their start was so horrendous, what they've done since that break, what they've done since the turn of the calendar year, again, the best net rating in the NBA in that time.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: And one thing we had, and this is this is I'm not putting this on the same level, but one thing that I'm trying not to replicate from last season, right?
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: Last year, and I'm not even saying I'm not saying these two teams are identical, but this is just a thought process in my mind.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: Last year, from January 1st to the end of the regular season last year, the Indiana Pacers were one of the three best teams in basketball.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: But nobody really cared enough to think about them as a contender or to think about them doing the thing to get to the postseason.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm trying my very best to look at what has happened from January on.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: Because I think that it's easy for you, especially when you watch a ton of basketball at the start of the season, to look at the identity of a player or of a team for the first month and be like, okay, that's who they are, and that's how good they're going to be.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: And it's hard to shift those narratives and those opinions about a team.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: So the Charlotte Hornets starting off four and 14, it's easy to be like, yeah, interesting, young team, but no, they can't win a postseason series.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: But I truly think they could now, again, against against Detroit.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: I would tell you right now, Charlotte fans, I apologize against Detroit.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_00: I will be picking Detroit in that hypothetical series.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: But the people that will potentially pick Hornets, I can't even call them crazy because that's how good the Hornets have been.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: So that is a dream, dream scenario.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Lamello in the post playoffs of the first nigga.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: I think he got some postseason run his second year when they were in up in the play-in.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, Khan and B.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: Mills, and again, the the rivalry between these two teams, electric.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: Two-seeded Boston Celtics.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_00: This is a tough one, y'all.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: But I did end up going with the Philadelphia 76ers as the dream second.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: Again, as an as a neutral NBA fan, because my po my team ain't making a postseason this year.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go, Bulls.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, as a as a dream scenario, because the Celtics, I think the Celtics will go into the postseason from a lot of people's perspective as the team to win the Eastern Conference.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't think that's crazy at all.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: I think that team has been pretty damn good all season long.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_00: And just having the other element of Jason Tatum, though he has not shot the ball well since he's come back, just having the element of what Tatum could potentially be adds to that team.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: Even when Tatum is not scoring the ball as effectively as he was, I don't know, 10 months ago, 12 months ago, the rebounding, the passing, and then the defense has been better than I expected from somebody coming off such a major injury.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: All of those things, Tatum elevates.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: And with Jalen Brown playing the way that he has so far this season, if Tatum has to play not just 1A1B, but play two now because Jalen Brown is doing so well and he's coming back from his injury, I think that still is enough to win.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: So people that will have the Celtics, I'm not mad at you.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm close to being in that pool as well.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but time will tell we'll get there once we get there.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: But I got the Sixers.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: Because I don't know.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's something, again, like in the back of your brain that you think about the 76ers when they get completely healthy with this, with that.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: And as we know, Joel Embiid is a matchup nightmare.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: Am I am I falling for the same movie all over again with the 76ers?
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: But I watched them play against the Bulls.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: I watched their game versus the Hornets, and the Hornets is the one that matters the most.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: The Bulls game don't matter.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: Those boys ain't playing for nothing.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: The Hornets game, because that was a significant game in our standings, right?
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: The 76ers winning that game was huge.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: And it was a game early on where I was like, oh, okay, the Hornets just look like the better team.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_00: And then eventually Paul George coming back from his injury.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man, looking pretty good.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: Joel Embiid still super efficient and Tyrese Maxie coming back.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: But they have so many options offensively between Maxie and Bede and Paul George.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: I love to see a team that has like this three-headed monster go against one of the more versatile defensive teams in the Boston Celtics.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: A couple nights ago, I watched the Celtics game versus the OKC Thunder.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, just watching player number seven, uh Baylor Shireman or Hugo Gonzalez come in and be like, I got the Shea assignment, make me feel good about, you know, them having to guard a Paul George, George Tyrese Maxi, and those are guys I couldn't have expected to get the superstar matchup.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_00: So that is my second dream playoff scenario in the Eastern Conference.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: When we get back, we'll get to the other two Eastern Conference series.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, it has to be in a level of realism.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: So the three-seeded New York Knicks are going against the Toronto Raptors in this dream scenario.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: But if I'm being candid, if I could just if I could just leave it all on the table, you watch the show Small Ball Kenny Beachum because you like basketball and you like the opinions of Kenny Beachum, or maybe you hate the opinions of Kenny Beacham, but it's entertaining enough.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: The Raptors, okay?
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: The Raptors.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: I watched the game a couple nights ago when they played against the Pelicans.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: This is a game where it was no DeJounte Murray, no Manuel Quickley.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: It was a great Scotty Barnes game, a phenomenal Scotty Barnes game.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: But every time I watch the Raptors, among all of the teams that we mentioned, right?
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: Between the Raptors, the Hawks, the 76ers, the Magic, the Heat, and the Hornets, the Raptors are one of those teams that have the lowest floor entertainment-wise.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: Entertainment-wise.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: But I got him here out of the respect because I think of those teams, they are one of the better ones.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: And it would be, it would be a huge fail if they missed the playoffs completely.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: Now they could end up in the play-in, if I'm looking at this correctly.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they're just a half a game away from being in the play-in, so things could go awry any second.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: But out of respect to their season, I have them here as a 6C.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: Even if I feel like the viewing experience, maybe a team that I cut, I'd prefer to watch.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like, you know, I I I cut the Miami Heat.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: Even though I think I'd rather watch the Miami Heat play a postseason series.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe that is the sposter effect.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe that is, I don't know, Bam might drop 84 in the postseason.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: But I think I'd rather watch them.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: But out of respect to what the Raptors have put together, I couldn't cut them because they have been better than the Miami Heat for the entirety of the season, which may sound crazy to say because the Miami Heat are what two a game and a half away from them.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: So how much better have to be?
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I did give Knicks versus Raptors if I'm trying to convince you that this is a dream playoff series.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: I think that the Raptors' defense between Scotty Barnes and uh CMB who left the game that I watched because I think it was Backspasms or so on, um, they have some some level of defensive identity.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: I think could be pretty interesting when we're going against a team like the New York Knicks.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: I made the case for the Knicks on the podcast yesterday, numbers on the board, that I think the Knicks have become somewhat underrated in their grand conversation about contenders, especially in the Eastern Conference, where, you know, again, people with Shan Celtics, which I'm not mad at, but even guys, uh team people have the calves over them, which maybe I just need to see it a little bit more in order to feel that way.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: But the Knicks have been pretty consistent.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: I know they had that little stretch post them winning the NBA Cup, like every team ends up doing, where they didn't look like the normal version of themselves.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: But Brunson has not had his greatest season, which is understandable.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: But Carl Anthony Towns, as of recent, has looked like the normal version of Kat O John and Obi.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: If you watched last week's episode as an all-defensive player, in my personal opinion.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that some of the players on the bench are starting to rise at the right time.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I still do believe that the Knicks are a true championship contender, um, even if many people may have jumped off ship.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: They are in the weird spot because sometimes, not just sometimes, you if you look at where they are, let me see, because I haven't looked at this in a few days, so let me make sure I don't misspeak.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, on the season, the Knicks are third in offense, which makes sense I test wise, even though they do have times, um, especially in their game versus Charlotte.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: I guess I watched a lot of Charlotte Hornets.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: There are times in their games where the offense just looks muddy as hell, and a muddy offense is tough to watch.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: They still walk out as a number three number three offense on the season.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: The difference between them and number two is 0.1 points per possession.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: So that you could basically say they're number two in offense if you really wanted to, and they're number nine in defense.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that that's gonna surprise a lot of people because they're they're squished in between teams like the Phoenix Suns, who we all love how ridiculously um hard they play on a night-to-night basis, and right below a team like the Toronto Raptors, who I just gave credit for, their defensive versatility.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: So sometimes the the numbers or the eye tests don't match the numbers for the New York Knicks.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: I understand the people that are hesitant about having the super small guard and Jalen Brunson defensively, and then the big, the big footed center that hasn't showed a ton defensively in the postseason, other than like two playoff series in his career.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: I understand that.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: But I still have a belief in them.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that OJ Ananobi and even Mikhail Bridges, who offensively has gone through some stuff in the recently, I think they deserve a lot of credit defensively on what they've been doing between, you know, even Josh Hart.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: But uh is I guess this is the one series in this entire video where I can't necessarily call it call it the dream playoff scenario, but it's like maybe the most realistic playoff scenario.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: And then last first round series in the East, the Cleveland Cavaliers versus the Atlanta Hawks.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: Who would have thunk it?
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: The Atlanta Hawks, a team that has perennially been in the play-in, could potentially sneak out and be a five seed?
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: They also could just be in the play-in because again, it's a half a game.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: But as of today, as of right now, the boys are like really in the postseason, which is pretty special stuff.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: Again, they're they're tied with the Toronto Raptors.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: So in my dream scenario, I got them going against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: And in this hypothetical, the Cavs are coming into this postseason, completely healthy.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: So Jared Allen, you're back.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Max Struce just came back like a week or so ago.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to him.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: He's a true enjoyer of basketball.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if y'all call he wore a hat a little while ago.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: So he'll he'll forever have a fan of me.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, former Bull.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: People forget about that too.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but no, I think that the way the Atlanta Hawks have played recently, I think it all but guarantees that Jalen Johnson is gonna make one of those all NBA teams.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm just, I don't know, I guess I'm kind of impressed with how they were able to put things together at the right time, right?
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: You trade away your, in theory, best player, Trey Young, get back stuff, but nothing that you you can really attach yourself to when CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I think right after, if I'm not mistaken, right after the trade, they didn't look too good.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: And it was like, oh, okay, you know, they traded him away, and now they're thinking about that Pelicans pick and so on and so forth.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: But that streak of of that win streak they went on just shows you that there is something under the hood.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: And one thing I remember telling Atlanta Hawks fans months ago when they were feeling some type of way about the postseason or about the team's future, is like, I think the Atlanta Hawks are in a prime position to be big movers in the offseason, but also the roster as currently constructed is decent enough to be interesting, right?
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: Between Jalen Johnson's jump and the Kyle Zona Walker's jump and Yuka Kong will turn into a true corner three-point shooter and then above the break three-point shooter, too, and just put all of these things together.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: And now that CJ's able to put pressure on the rim, it's just working a little bit.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's just working.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: So them versus the Cavs could be interesting.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: The Cavs are probably going into that as the overwhelming favorite considering the size that they'll bring to this.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: But the Cavs do have the history between those two bigs about, you know, sometimes you get not under their scan, but you can just bully them around a little bit.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I would love to see Jared Allen and my boy Emobe come into that series and be like, oh, we the big dogs.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: So those are my dream playoff scenarios for the Easter Conference, man.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I want to truly, truly apologize to the Orlando Magic, who I'm gonna say this again, Orlando Magic fans, this is just not the season.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: Fine.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: And this hypothetical, if you miss it, you're giving the grace it's a lottery pick because you traded this year's pick to get that's a bang.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: Don't think about that.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: I've been there before.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: When my team bought in on the player at the deadline, well, I guess y'all did it before it season at the deadline and gave up this year's first round pick, ended up being Franz Varner.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so let's hope if you give up that pick, then it won't be somebody great.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: But I will say, I don't have them in today.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: Most of that might just be because of injury.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: Most of that might be whatever.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: This offseason, Orlando Magic fans, I'm buying the stock again.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: Fool me once, shame on me.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: Fool me twice, shame on you.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm giving you a second opportunity to fool me.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: Because it truly, I mean, maybe we get to this later in the episode, because I do got something in case we need some extra time.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: It truly has been a season from hell for the Orlando Magic between Franz only playing a 20-something games, and then because of Jalen Suggs' injury history, he's only played 40 games, and then Palo's slow start to the season, Desmond Bain's slow start to the season.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: It and then now, well, I guess a few weeks ago, the calling out of each other between star player and coach, it's just been awful.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that because it is at an all-time low value uh value-wise in the stock market of NBA teams, I'm buying all Orlando Magic for next season.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: Under one thing, you know, I used to watch a bunch of Shark Tank, and one thing they don't tell you sometimes they make these deals, and Kevin O'Leary um will do a deal with some company, but you won't find out until afterwards when you do some Googles that that deal is contingent on something.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: They don't put that in the show because they want you to believe in the American dream, but they be putting these contingency plans contingent on if you can get it to Target.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all don't know that, but do the research.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'm buying all of this stock contingent on the idea that Jamal Mosley is not the coach next year.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: If Jamal Mosley gets fired, I hate to do this to a brother like that, but uh, because he's a great, he's a great man.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: If Jamal Mosley gets fired, all of the stock.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: All of it.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: So that's my contingency plan.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um we got a deal.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then again, I I guess in this hypothetical, I got the Miami Heat out, even though a playoff or play-in without the Miami Heat, without the Atlanta Hawks, or without the Chicago Bulls, the end of times.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's the end of times.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: Four horsemen type stuff.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: So if if one of those teams don't end up in the play-in and win it, I I don't know.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, I truly do like watching that team play.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, even if they're play style kind of guy, I don't use the word old, but maybe start of the season, we were all talking about, oh, they're moving the ball.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, they're not running ball screens.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: And since then the ball screens going up, they're still moving the ball, but like maybe it's just a little more NBA-ish instead of colleges or high schoolish.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, I got a lot of love for them, but unfortunately, I got them out.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's a blessing for y'all he fans.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: Do y'all have your own pick this year?
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not doing the Googles.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: When we come back, we'll get into the Western Conference Dream Playoff bracket.
• 20:12
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• 20:16
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• 20:19
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• 20:22
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• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: It is Monday, so you know we got some games here on Peacock.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know we got a full slate.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: And actually, this is one of the few times recently where we got games that like actually matter in the in the grand scheme of the the playoff standard.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: So, first game on Peacock, we have 76ers versus Heat.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: We talk about our dream Eastern Conference scenarios.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: This is one of the ones that might determine who ends up in the play-in or who doesn't end up in the play in.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: So this is a a huge, huge game.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: I've been loving what I've been seeing from PG 13, man.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm that's the nickname, if I'll be nicknamed to me.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna go more on his points against the Miami now.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: The Heat are a team that will muck it up and play great defense out of the Bay Matabi, all defensive player in my personal book.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: But the way Paul George has played as of late, I feel like he's gonna carry that momentum.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: To kind of think about it.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: I was gonna try to make a case that a 25-game suspension is a blessing for a team like the 76ers, but no, I can't even get there.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: But he is fresh in comparison to maybe everybody else in the NBA.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: 25 games at the crib, you know.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go more on his points.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: Then we got Atlanta versus the Celtics.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: This game may not make mean a ton for the Celtics, but I guess technically they are still in the running to oh well, they're trying to prevent the New York Knicks from taking that two C.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: So it does matter at the end of the day.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: In this one, I'm gonna go Nikhil Alexander Walker more on points.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh again, maybe later in the episode, we'll talk a little bit more about Nikhil, but his season has been one that I've could have never.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Predicted and I'm loving it, and I think he definitely deserves his flower.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna go more on that one.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: Woo wee.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: Also on Peacock.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: Bulls versus Spurs.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't even realize that we had this game, y'all.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you should definitely tune in for Victor Wimbenyama because tuning in for the Bulls ain't the smartest thing, but I'll be there.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: This is so interesting.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: Josh Giddy is very, very close.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: Let me look this up really on the fly.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: Josh Giddy is really, really close to taking the playmaking um assist leader for the season.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm I'm trying to quickly see how, like, with two weeks ago, is it even feasible that he could get most uh he doesn't even qualify because of games play?
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: Well, there we go.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, he's averaging a really high amount of assists, but unfortunately, games played are going to prevent him from winning it.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: He's at 9.2.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: That put that would put him third if he counted, but maybe with the last eight games he'll count.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: So the way he's been passing as of recently between him going to Modest or him going to Leonard Miller, who's running the floor like a gazelle, I've been feeling pretty confident and pretty good about Josh Getty's assists as of recent.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: I think maybe on the last three episodes, we've done a Josh Getty assist more, and he's hit every single time.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna keep that streak alive, hopefully, and go uh more on assists here.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: Even if the San Antonio Spurs are a ridiculously talented defensive team, and maybe those same cuts that Leonard Miller are doing won't be there.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: Also, something to look out for the Bulls have zero centers for the rest of the season, and they're going against a 12 foot-12 alien.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not putting them in the pick set, but I can't wait to see what I don't know, Gershan Yabu Sele, his former friend or his teammate in the in the Olympics.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: What could he do to guard Victor Wimedyama?
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait for that game.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then the last game that we have on Peacock, or the one seed in both conferences, yeah, some of it's taken away because Kate won't be there.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: But like I've mentioned earlier, the Pistons are playing great ball without Kate.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Kate lists Pistons versus the OKC Thunder.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be a pretty interesting game for me because I want to see, assuming health from the OKC front court between Isaiah Hartenstein and Chet Homegren, I want to see Jalen Duran in a matchup like this again.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: I trust him.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: For a second week in a row, I will go more on his points.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: It worked last week.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: We also hit on that.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna go more on his points versus the OKC Thunder.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: That is my my pick set.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: More on Josh Kiddy assists, more on Jalen Duran points, more on the Calzander Walker points, and more on Paul George's points.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: When we get back, we'll talk about the dream playoff scenario for Western conference teams.
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• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: Let's get to the Western Conference as we give my dream playoff matchup.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: Starting off honestly thinking this might be the first year where I'm more excited for the first round of the postseason out east than out west.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: Is that nuts?
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like the West gonna give us some bangers.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: I already know.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: I already know it will.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: But like I think we got a potential all four of those first round matchups out east being a hit.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: And out West, you know what I mean?
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: The league is shifting, and Adam Silver's trying to change it.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh first seed, Thunder, dream matchup, the Phoenix Suns.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the Phoenix Suns.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm in this, I'm hoping and praying that Dylan Brooks would come back for his injury for the postseason.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_00: I think that is where they plan.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: I think last time I checked that his plan is to be back.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: Let me just quickly do this this googling.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: I just called him Dylan Gabe.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Dylan Gabriel.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, my fingers went to Dylan Gabriel for whatever reason.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, assuming he'll come back.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: I I like this because the the Suns are a team that play really hard.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: They play really physical.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I think it could be interesting for OKC to get a first-round matchup like this.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh like if Dylan Bricks is gonna be there, he is going to make it really difficult for potentially the even P of the League, Shea Gil just Alexander.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: And while I'll I would definitely pick OKC and five in this one, I think it'll be a hard-fought series with between two of the best players in the league, between Devin Booker, the way he's been playing over the last couple seasons and Shea Gills Alexander.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: So I really like this one.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and who would have thought that the Suns were going to get a first-round playoff series at all going into the season?
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Jordan Asa, Dylan Brooks' hand, are they making progress?
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's what that's what the headline says.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: But he has yet to play five on five.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_00: This report is from two days ago.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oof.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: Has yet to play five on five with four 15 days into the play-in.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: But in this hypothetical, he's back, and that is enough for me to feel pretty funny, feeling like this series is gonna be fun.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: Next, we got the San Antonio Spurs, two-seeded versus the LA Clippers at the seventh seed.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: The reason why this is such a fun dream scenario and why the Clippers have made some changes to go more youthful with acquiring Darius Garland, give more minutes to like the Kobe Sanders of the world, and so on and so forth.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: This is a good old-fashioned youth versus veteran, a veteran team.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, the Clippers with Kawhi Leonard and uh Nick Batum, who still finds a way to do Nick Batum type of things.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: This is one of those, um, this is one of those series where I think you can really test what the Spurs could look like.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, while again, I do feel pretty confident about picking Spurs and maybe five.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think it will show some people because Kawhi Leonard, again, has been on some Terminator stuff.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, last game they started Darius Garland, John Collins, Kawhi, Derek Jones Jr., Brooke Lopez.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: All of those guys have had like true deep playoff experience.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I guess Darius Garland's second round and then injured, but like Derrick Jones Jr.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: has played in the finals.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: Brooke Lopez is an NBA champion.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: Kawhi Leonard, NBA champion.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: John Collins has been to the conference finals.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: Well, on the other side of things for the San Antonio Spurs, HB is a champ.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: Kelly O'Lenick and Taylor Nick's been to the finals, and Luke Cournette is a champ.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, this team has nothing but experience, especially with Chris Dunn coming off the bench, Nick Patum, how we mentioned, versus a super young team.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I can't wait to see what uh what Tyron Lou would do in that series defensively versus Wimby.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: One thing I can give Tyron Lou credit for is that these are really good in-game adjustments, guys.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_00: So game one in the series may look completely different in game two.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: We saw that last year, even though they lost the series versus the different Nuggets, how their defensive identity and their defensive point of emphasis has shifted depending on what game it was.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I can't wait to see that.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_00: And then Mitch Johnson, who's in running for coach of the year, to see what he can draw up.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_00: Next, we got the three-seeded Lakers versus the six-seeded Rockets.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_00: I know that the last two games, the Lakers took care business, you know, uh just really wiped the floor with this team, and Luca Dante's went nuts, and the the Rockets had possessions where they couldn't even get a shot on the rim late in the game.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: But I still do I take Lakers in here in this hypothetical.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't look at the Rockets as a true contender.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: I think most people don't at this point in time.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: But I do look at them as not an easy out at the same time.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like I think that when when you make a uh uh comment like that, like I've had on numbers on the board, I'll get a few tweets like how can you feel that way?
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: I think we could get to the second round.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that the Rockets could get to the second round, but the conversation is about contention, and sometimes people look at me saying that a team is not a contender and put that in the same lane as like this team is bad or this team can't win a playoff series or two.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: I just don't think they can win a championship.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I would love to see how JJ Redick will play the Rockets in a full seven-game series.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: Because they do, as we've mentioned many times before, have many players on their roster that straight up you don't trust to shoot a three-pointer, you don't trust to space the floor.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then you saw what they were able to do in those last two games versus Kevin Durant down the stretch where they were sending late doubles and making him get behind uh backcourt violations, putting him in the coffin corner, and so on and so forth.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then Luke in the postseason, I don't know who would talk trash on the Rockets to him, considering like Dylan Brooks is gone now.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: But somebody's gonna talk trash to him and he's gonna go out for 50 in the postseason series.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: Last one we got out west, this would be the best first-round series, in my opinion.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_00: The 4-5 matchup between the Denver Nuggets and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like every time we've seen these two teams play against each other, it's been fireworks.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the one series, every game is a blowout except for the last game, but it was a close enough series where like you didn't know who was gonna win that last game.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, the Nuggets have been a team struggling with stops.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: And I think the Wolves this whole season have been a team that's kind of struggling with identity issues.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: So it's just like two flawed teams that you absolutely love to watch.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: And somebody's gonna walk out of there and have to go against OKC in the second series, but we know what Jokic and Murray and a healthy Aaron Gordon could be in the postseason series, and we also know what Anthony Edwards could do in the postseason series alongside Jaden McDaniels and so on.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: So one C Thunder versus Suns, two seed Spurs versus Clippers, three seed Lakers versus Rockets, and four seed Nuggets versus Wolves.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_00: That is my dream Western Conference scenario.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh my apologies to the Western Conference teams that will not make the postseason.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: In this hypothetical, the Blazers and the Warriors both get eliminated, even though my true, true, true, true dream, my true, true, true, true dream is for the Blazers to make that damn postseason so the Bulls can get that pick.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: But again, like I said, it had to be somewhat in realism.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I guess it's not out of the realm of possibility that they do make it, but it's looking less and less likely as you know the Clippers are on a run, and then the Trailblazers lost their last one.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: I guess the Warriors have been on a nice little run here.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_00: But I don't think Steph Curry's gonna play no more this season, so I didn't even think about putting them in the postseason.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_00: So there it is.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_00: I want to go back to two episodes ago where we talked about my all-NBA teams.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: And in that, I mentioned how everything is fluid.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_00: There was still a month left of the NBA season.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: Anything can happen.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: I had my four locks up top for a reminder for people in no particular order Wimby, Luka, Jokic, Shay, all NBA first team.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_00: And then that fifth spot was up for grabs.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I said that it was between Kawhi Leonard at that point, Kay Cunningham, and Jalen Brown.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: In that moment in time, a month ago, I gave the nod to Kawhi Leonard.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: But now we're about to revise.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: As I said, this is all fluid a month to go.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: I think that Jalen Brown completely secured the All-NBA first team, fifth spot.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: And that happened to be in that game versus OKC a few a few days ago, a few weeks ago at this point, where he just I don't know, was the best player on the court in the game that had Shade, that had, you know, Jason Tatum hobbled around, but like the best player on the court by a good margin.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: And that's saying something because I think Shea missed like one shot or two shots of that game.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: But Jalen Brown felt like on a possession-by-possession basis, the best player on the court.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I I really value going into those games.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: And like maybe to them, it may not have meant a lot because it is one game out of 82.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_00: But as a viewer, that was a huge game.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: These two teams that might be in the finals in a few months here.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: And who's gonna come out victorious?
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: The OKC Thunder were completely healthy for the first time of the season.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: Dub is back.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: He had an awful game.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_00: Chet is there, iHeart is there, so on and so forth.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_00: And if for a minute, it felt like OKC was gonna be the better team in that one.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: But no, it was Jalen Brown and Hugo Gonzalez and Baylor Shireman and all of these dudes playing great defense, and JB has secured that spot with eight games left.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_00: I would be hard pressed to even think that anybody would steal that back, um, especially if Kay Cunningham was not even in the conversation anymore because of the 65 game rule.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: And nobody else, I feel like, has elevated their play.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that though Kawhi did hit that game winner versus the Indiana Pacers, for the most part, he's been very even.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that Jalen Brown at this point is doing this.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: So, JB, shout out to my guy, man.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_00: Met him at All-Star Weekend, right?
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if I even told this story.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm I am an awkward guy in person.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: Some of y'all watching this may have met me before.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I'm extremely awkward meeting somebody that has no idea who I am.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's a little bit easier somebody to say, yo, Kenny, because they know me.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have to put on no fake masks, they know who I am.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_00: But when it's like a somebody that have in my mind have never met me before, I'm always on edge, just a little bit.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe, maybe a little sweaty, maybe the heart gets flowing just a little bit more.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: Jalen Brown came in, cool, cool is the other side of the pillow.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_00: He introduced himself to everybody in the room, which I always find funny when a superstar NBA player is introducing himself in a room full of NBA people.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like everybody that was in the shoot.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: You're in the you're in the All-Star game tomorrow, bud.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know what I mean?
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_00: But shook everybody's hands, got names and stuff, and I don't know, stuff like that kind of calms me down a little bit because he felt like a person rather than an NBA superstar.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know, maybe that sounds crazy, but in that scenario, he kind of helped me ease my nerves.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly speaking, whenever that video comes out, some of some of my best work.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_00: When we come back, we'll get fake awards to NBA teams and players.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_00: It is award season.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: Two weeks ago, we gave all NBA.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_00: Last week we gave all defensive, which I'm still tinkering with a little bit, like a SAR.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: He might steal a spot.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: Bam, might I don't know.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's a lot of things going on.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: But instead of giving you an official ballot with eight games left, I was like, what can we put together some fun awards?
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_00: Can I can I go out there and give eight to nine just interesting fun awards for this season?
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_00: So I'll put some things together.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_00: The first award we were giving out.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I wish I had an award somewhere here to actually.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_00: The first award we're giving out, we're giving away this Sacramento Kings golf ball in tease.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_00: The best in-season change award goes to the Charlotte Hornets starting Moose Diabate.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, I'm back to talking about the Hornets.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_00: So be it, because we may not be able to talk about them in two weeks because they may not make the postseason at all.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_00: Man, everything shifted when Moose ended up in that starting lineup, his hard playing, his offensive rebounding, how this translated to extra opportunities and extra three-point shots.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying that it's all because of him.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, it's not, but definitely things shifted at that moment in time.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_00: They were starting Ryan Calk Brenner, who's still a good player and probably gonna make an all-rookie team.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: He just shifted, helped shift the complete identity of this team.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: He you cannot move him off his spot.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_00: He is hard-nosed, the hardest playing player in basketball.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_00: If not number one, he's number two or number three.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_00: So he's been incredible all season long, and I got nothing but love for him.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I just wonder like, would they be on this streak if Moose was just a backup still?
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_00: Probably not, right?
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_00: So when it comes to end season decisions, that is probably number one.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to him.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: Next award.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this uh team USA, Shaquille O'Neal Cup for Sophomore of the Year.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's what we're doing.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_00: Sophomore of the year.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is a fun award.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_00: Last year, sophomore of the year, I think I gave it to Amin Thompson.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_00: I think this class is a little bit different.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_00: The 2024 draft class was not the most uh great draft class.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_00: We'll leave it at that, between, you know, Rizasy, former first overall pick, not starting anymore, or Alex Starr, who had a great sophomore season, actually, in comparison to his first year.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm ultimately gonna give the sophomore of the year award to Stefan Castle.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't have him in my short list of um all NBA potential players.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_00: I've been reading and listening to multiple podcasts where Stefan Castle is getting all NBA buzz.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not mad because I love some Steph Castle.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_00: That's my that's my guy from a for a long time.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_00: So I would not be mad if he got a couple votes here or there, but I didn't, I just didn't have it on my personal radar.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_00: I think he definitely has a case for all defensive, which is great for a sophomore year player.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_00: When he has a one-man assignment, he's one of the top five to seven players in the world that's just like locking in.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, we I get K tonight.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_00: Bet, I'm gonna deny ball, I'm gonna chase him around screens, I'm gonna do all of this.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I think the offensive game continues to evolve.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_00: We're off after his rookie season, one of the main questions about his half-court scoring, and though it's still not perfect, and I don't ever expect it to be perfect, it has gone and shifted to a whole nother level.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_00: So, Steph Castle, you get sophomore the year war, you barely, barely beat out my boy Modest Buzales, but they did want to give it to Modest because people would have said I've been too uh biased.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_00: And it's always a struggle for me because I've been seeing a lot of modest love on the timeline recently.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: And like, you know what I mean?
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, I don't know.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: When it's your player and you're doing this for a job, you don't want to over overdo it.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_00: While I do believe that modest will be the best player in the world next year, I can't act like that's the case.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: Him and him and Noah Singe, I can't act like that's the case.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: So though Modis didn't win it this year, Noah Singe might win sophomore of the year next year.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be hard when you got cocking up one and cool flag and all those other guys.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_00: But sophomore the year goes through our boy Steph Castle.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: Worst free agency signing award.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm actually not gonna get nothing off the set.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: I think that bit is over.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um I narrowed it down to two people.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: This is maybe this is one of them wars where there's two winners.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: You open up the envelope and like, oh my god, it was a tie.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_00: Chris Paul, come on down and receive this award, goddammit.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_00: Chris Paul's as a signing was one of my favorite things that happened this offseason.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_00: We back here, my last hurrah, confirming I'm retiring after the season.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm one of the best players in this franchise history.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm here.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_00: This is a team that actually has a chance to win some games this year.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_00: We just they just won 50 last year, and I don't need to come and start.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: I can maybe play 10 minutes.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my God.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's so ah we don't, this is these are set pieces.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_00: I nobody's ever drunk out of these, but God, there's so much dust in the air from me grabbing this.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um Chris Paul, one of my favorite signings.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then, as you you know how to actually let's not talk about it.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know how that story went.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: He gets he gets waived or sent home, and then the Clippers become the best, one of the three best teams in the league for two months straight, and you're like, what what immediately started that run?
• 40:17
  unknown: It's Chris Paul.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's so unfortunate because I don't in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't taint any Chris Paul career, in my opinion.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_00: The guy is literally one of the best point guards of all time.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_00: A true conversation for being top five.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um but I I truly wish I would have been able to see him once this season.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_00: My plan was to see him when they came to town, it didn't happen.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_00: And it's over.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_00: It's truly over.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_00: The only time I got to see my best, my favorite player.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think I've ever seen Chris Paul play live before.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_00: That can't be the case.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_00: Because I was a season ticket holder.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_00: No way I was a season ticket for the Bulls, and Chris Paul came to town and I didn't go to that game.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, I'm tying that one up with Dorian Finney Smith.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all remember Dorian Finney Smith signed away from the Lakers, and the Lakers got in trouble because they um were telling teams that he was dealing with some some issue, and it ultimately ended up being correct, but he signed a four-year$53 million contract.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_00: Four-year$53 million contract.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_00: His stats on the season, three points per game, two and a half rebounds, and assists on 31% shooting.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_00: He still got a lot of years left on that.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_00: By far, I mean, by far, by far his worst season of his career shooting the ball wise.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_00: So, though, I thought that was going to be a great signing as well.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_00: Get another big rangey wing.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_00: And he's been playing more as of recent.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, oh, I'm sorry, he played five minutes last game.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_00: That I that was a game I didn't watch.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but the game I did watch was against that lake, the Lakers, where he had his best game of the year where he had eight and four.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_00: They still got two more years after this one of that contract.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_00: Next award we'll give out is Duo of the Year.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, two people get to come up naturally this time around.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_00: And how can you give it to anybody other than Jamal Murray and Nikole Jokic?
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_00: Jamal Murray, all NBA player, in my opinion, so far this season, Nicole Jokic, MVP candidate.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_00: And their synergy is still great.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_00: So great they got people on Twitter having conversations, right or wrong, about Jokic's assists.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_00: Should we count them assists at all?
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_00: Because dribble handoff and Jamal Murray's dribbling seven times and he's still getting assists.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_00: I you know, so their duo is so great.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_00: And even the advanced stats, if we go, if I use to like sites like Data Ball or just looking at raw lineup stats between two-man units, um, adjusting for minutes played, obviously, because well, they have the third best, or they are the third best offensive duo in basketball for according to like um points per 100 possessions when those two duos are on the floor.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_00: The number one duo is Peyton Watson and Jokic.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yokic is here for every player.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: He actually is.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_00: Number two is Lamelo Amusa Diabate.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to him.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: And then number three is Jamal Murray and Yoke.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm I'm adjusting that because Jamal Murray and Yoke have played so much more minutes in those other two man units, that it is truly them, is the best offensive duo on ball, the best defensive duo on ball.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_00: Can y'all guess?
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna tell you anyway, even if you can't guess.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_00: With 518 minutes played, which is not a ton.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_00: Derek White and Hugo Gonzalez, I keep saying H.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_00: Hugo Gonzalez.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_00: They have a 105 defensive rating.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_00: Number two is Wimby and Dylan Harper.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_00: Number three is Chet and Kasen Wallace.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_00: And sneakily, number four, with a lot less minutes, with about 500 minutes.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_00: So it's the same as that first unit.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_00: Dyson Daniels and CJ McCollum.
• 43:53
  SPEAKER_00: I would love to peek under the hood to see like where is that coming from?
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_00: Is that truly great defense?
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_00: Is it good shooting lucky?
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: Those 500 minutes?
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, is it is it I kind of want to see worse duo in the NBA.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_00: Can I do that on the fly?
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_00: Ugh.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it doesn't go that far.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_00: Dang.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_00: The true best duo in basketball, if you don't adjust for minutes played, is Christian Caloco and Spencer.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_00: Cam Spencer.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_00: 53 minutes have a net rating of 40 41.5.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's real.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, shout out, shout out to those guys in that award.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_00: The last quick award we'll give before we get to our last break is most interesting lottery winner.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_00: What will cause the most chaos if this team won the lottery this season?
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I think the this is a 3-1 tie.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_00: Is that is that lame to give a three-way tie?
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_00: I don't give a damn.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's my show.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_00: The Indiana Pacers just was in the finals, game seven.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_00: If they won the lottery, oh my goodness, and they just bought in on Zubots.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's a better team next season than maybe the NBA championship team, depending on what Hallibur looks like.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_00: The Atlanta Hawks winning the lottery with their Pelicans pick will make Joe Dumas look even crazier than what he already does.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_00: And then lastly, the Washington Wizards were buyers this offseason or this deadline, and they could bring in AJ or Cam or AJ, depending, or AJ Cam or DP, depending on where they value.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_00: Most chaos.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_00: When we come back, we got more small ball with Kenny Beachum.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_00: It is that time of the year.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_00: We got March Madness going on.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to the Allini.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_00: I told y'all, if y'all didn't have them winning the championship in y'all bracket, then y'all was tripping.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_00: Did I only know two players on the team?
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_00: Do I know more than two players now?
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm joking.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_00: Of course I've been watching.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: Are you kidding me?
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, man.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Fighting the Line.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_00: I always say one of my biggest regrets of life, if I if I had any, it's a small one, is that I was never able to go away for college.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_00: Because I think one of the coolest things in the world is having like, oh, that is a school I went to and I'm rooted for them in attorney.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_00: My grades weren't good enough to even think about going to uh play or to go to Champaign with Illinois.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_00: Because my buddy, one of my good friends, Mason, shout out to Mason, he ended up going.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_00: I saw his test scores.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm in a whole different neighborhood than them.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_00: I was never gonna get into that school.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_00: But even like the smaller schools, right?
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I would have gone to a school that was great at field hockey.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_00: I would have worn a whatever school field hockey shirt because that, you know, you wreck your team.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_00: And because I didn't go off to college, I don't really have that experience.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_00: I can root for the College of DuPage football team, which almost won, by the way.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_00: I could do that, but it ain't the same vibe because there was no on-campus life.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_00: I went there for my credits and I got the hell out of there.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_00: You feel me?
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_00: So that was one of my biggest regressions.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to the fighting alliance.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to our boy uh Keen Waggler, who I don't know where he's gonna go in the draft, but I I have we have a spot here in Chicago for you if you end up at number one, because that's the pick we're gonna get.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_00: But I do wanna, I do wanna talk a little, a little baseball, but specifically through the lens of a tortured Chicago White Sox fan.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_00: We've played two games so far.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_00: We're 0-2.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the Brewers took care of business, both games, and I watched both games, not incomplete, because once you're down 13-1, I think you have an excuse to walk away from the TV.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_00: And at one point we were down 13-1, so I walked away from the TV.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_00: We already have the worst point differential, or I'm sorry, run differential.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's not basketball, run differential and all the sport.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_00: Just two games in, no big deal.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I watched a highlight, I didn't watch this game live, obviously.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_00: I watched a highlight of my good old friend La Pantera, Luis Robert, hit a walk-off home run in his second game as a match.
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_00: The day before that, the game before that, I watched La Pantera work a 10 10-pitch walk.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_00: And as somebody that has watched him throughout his entire career, I pissed.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_00: Two games.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_00: It was all it took for Bro to look like the player that we knew he could be.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_00: A 10-pitch walk?
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_00: I ain't do no Googles.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_00: But I I watched a lot of three-pitch strikeouts from Bro the last couple seasons.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_00: He ain't have his joy in Chicago, which is fine.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_00: But I didn't expect it to happen in New York just like that.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_00: I don't even dude, who do we get in that trade?
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_00: Did a kuna come from?
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_00: I think a kuna may came from him, and I don't know.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_00: But it's just a it's just, you know, being a fan of a team that is owned by Jerry Reinsdorf, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_00: Because every player that we let go of or trade away ends up being a damn star in the next spot on both teams, the Bulls and the White Sox.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_00: And the only thing I can hope for is that the Ishbia family come in and buy more of the White Sox and they just start throwing throwing checks at players.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_00: Because no way we should be in this market.
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_00: We always gonna be little bro to the Cubs.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_00: Understandable, not even gonna complain about that.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_00: No way we should be in this market and not spend the money.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_00: The little bro in LA, talking about basketball again, the Clippers.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_00: One thing to say about the Clippers, them boys be they pay money.
• 49:08
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes they do it legally, sometimes they don't.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_00: They pay money to just be competitive.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_00: No way, even as a little brother, we should not be paying money to make a competent team.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_00: And listen, we got some interesting stuff.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_00: We got the first overall pick in this year's draft.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_00: We got our boy Montgomery.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_00: We got we got our boy Chase who hit a first pitch home run in the opening.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_00: So we got some interesting stuff going on as far as prospects go, but can we surround him with stuff?
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_00: Last me, um, my boy Murakami, two games, two home runs.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_00: If there's any silver liner, is that he looks great.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_00: If there's any bad side of him looking great, I already know he's disappointed in the fact they play for the White Sox in just two games.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_00: In just two games.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_00: And he got what, two years on his contract?
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_00: I just know he's gonna be in the Dodgers jersey in those two years.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_00: I just know it.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_00: There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_00: We're not gonna be able to retain him in two years.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_00: And it might take us three years to be competitive again.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_00: So we just signed this guy who's good and really good and electric.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_00: And every time you put the ball in play, you think it's going down to 300, 400, 500 feet.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: Either way, with that being said, um, really excited for baseball season at large.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, White Sox always to the day I die, but we are repping um the D backs who are 0-3 on the season, but like Dodgers, tax.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_00: And then I guess the Mets a little bit, because though I was just frustrated with Luis Robert, I still do I do still like him.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_00: So I guess I'm rooting for them just a little bit.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully you enjoyed this episode of Small Bowie.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_00: Kenny Beatsman.
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you did, let me know in the comment section.
• 50:29
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• 50:33
  SPEAKER_00: Peace.