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1-15-26 Hour 2 - No more Nuggets excuses/Stop James Cook, win the game/Jamal Murray's turnaround · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 2: go from there. So it is cool, man, Like being
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  Speaker 2: at a playoff game. It's different, Vic when you say
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  Speaker 2: it's just different than the regular season stuff, it feels different.
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  Speaker 3: There's a finality to it. There's no next game. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you don't win, you're done. I mean it's you
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  Speaker 3: cherish it more. It's uh, Denver's gonna be live.
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  Speaker 4: On Saturday, man, It's gonna Ben was.
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  Speaker 3: In the afternoon. Then the Nuggets play that evening. Do
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  Speaker 3: the Abs play on Saturday by chance?
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  Speaker 5: No? They played Friday Nightriday and Friday and Monday, So uh,
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  Speaker 5: Sunday's gonna be, I guess a recovery type of day.
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  Speaker 5: But but Friday and Monday is worse.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's yeah, I mean it's preds as right, Friday night.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's a banger. We'll go there Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because the Predators are are very close to a
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  Speaker 5: playoff spot. They've been playing much better hockey as of late.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so nice rest too. Blackwood good to go, by
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  Speaker 2: the way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's gonna practice today. He's gonna practice today. And
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  Speaker 5: and Trent Minor has been backed back to the Colorado Eagles.
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  Speaker 5: So that that tells me that that some good stuff
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  Speaker 5: is in store here.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what was going on with Wedgwood that Minor had
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  Speaker 2: to start two games in a row.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know, Well, coach, do soft tissue stuff? You mentioned
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  Speaker 3: soft tissue injuries.
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  Speaker 5: The Columbus game they were given Minor the start anyway,
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  Speaker 5: and then the Toronto game. Yeah, just just Minor, I
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  Speaker 5: mean again, good enough to back up and come in
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  Speaker 5: if you had to, but didn't want to start him.
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  Speaker 5: So it's it's it's kind of like where I am
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  Speaker 5: on this Thursday with me.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, then Saturday, we got the game at two thirty.
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  Speaker 5: That's why that's a Trent Minder. That's why you're sitting
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  Speaker 5: in that seat right now.
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  Speaker 2: And we will have that is that is definitely who
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  Speaker 2: I am. And a reminders Saturday, starting at noon, we're
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  Speaker 2: and then Vic bile high postgame showing Altitude TV yep.
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  Speaker 2: And then we roll right from that into the Nuggets,
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  Speaker 2: who are back at home for a back to back
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  Speaker 2: because they play Saturday and Sunday. And then the ass
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  Speaker 2: play like it what two o'clock they dropped the puck
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  Speaker 2: I believe.
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  Speaker 5: O'clock on Monday against Washington. Yeah, two o'clock. It's gonna
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  Speaker 5: be awesome too. It's great sports weekend.
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  Speaker 3: You cannot ask for a better sports town, you really can't.
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  Speaker 3: This is just wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a weekend, So you think that's a bonkers
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  Speaker 4: weekend right there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great. I can't Altitude TV. We're doing our
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  Speaker 3: post game show. By the way, we all have plenty
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  Speaker 3: to talk about in addition to the pregame on radio here.
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  Speaker 3: But they got me on Broncos Watch Saturday instead of
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  Speaker 3: the Washington Wizard's Watch.
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  Speaker 2: H Well, it's you know, it's the first world problems, right,
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back from Dallas, though, Vick, you come back with
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  Speaker 2: the w You guys landed. You did not stay over, No,
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  Speaker 2: I know, sometimes the team has done.
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  Speaker 4: That is the thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Just like, if we're done with the road trip, forget it,
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  Speaker 2: let's just get back. Let's not worry about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well two days off too until the next game.
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  Speaker 3: So get back in your own bed. You could sleep in.
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  Speaker 3: They can sleep in. I can't, but they can sleep
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  Speaker 3: in and much needed again, they just went on the road, guys,
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  Speaker 3: with four guys staying at home. Jonas Joker, Cam Johnson
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  Speaker 3: and Christian Brown stayed at home. They didn't even make
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  Speaker 3: the road trip. And they don't even have a real set.
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  Speaker 3: They don't even have a real center in the game now.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't had a center for two They don't.
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  Speaker 5: Have a real Yeah, they don't have a real center,
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  Speaker 5: and so they're and they're playing basketball and they're winning
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  Speaker 5: the back to backs. You know what I always say
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  Speaker 5: this now, Vic, I don't want any excuses from this
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  Speaker 5: point on. Do you hear me?
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  Speaker 4: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: I don't I don't want to hear any Well, you
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  Speaker 5: know we didn't play defense tonight, or well we were
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  Speaker 5: tired or what you know?
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  Speaker 3: You've got You've got.
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  Speaker 5: Jalen Picketts and Peyton Watsons and Spencer Jones and Zeke
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  Speaker 5: Nagis and Tim Hardaway Junior. By the way, you played
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  Speaker 5: thirty six minutes last night. These guys are playing.
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  Speaker 3: Back to back. Yeah, man and the town sold coach
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  Speaker 3: Adelman is going to be this It's going to be
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  Speaker 3: how do you implement these guys who you know can
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  Speaker 3: play when everyone is healthy. How do you utilize that
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  Speaker 3: that talent, that depth, Because in years past, I think
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  Speaker 3: we can all agree the Nuggets were a bit top
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  Speaker 3: heavy and they never they never went to their bench.
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  Speaker 3: Now they just didn't do it. No, so now you
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  Speaker 3: know the bench can play. Jalen Pickett last night was
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  Speaker 3: two for four on threes, but when he shoots a three,
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  Speaker 3: now I expect it to go in. Yeah, where in
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  Speaker 3: years past you're like, why is he shooting a three?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. When you're watching Peyton Watson
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  Speaker 3: lumbering to the key and a fadeaway mid range, I
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  Speaker 3: expected to go in where in years past you're like,
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  Speaker 3: what's he doing? It's amazing how much things change. How
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  Speaker 3: will they navigate that when guys become healthy? What will
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  Speaker 3: they do? I think David Adelman has done tremendous because
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  Speaker 3: it's a different lineup every night. It's a different closing lineup.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the same group. Whoever's playing good basketball, he's
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  Speaker 3: out true to that. He said that last year. I remember,
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  Speaker 3: whoever's playing the best is gonna play end a story.
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  Speaker 5: And it wasn't like last night either of the He
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  Speaker 5: mac that they got the benefit of a whistle and
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  Speaker 5: a parade of the free throw line. Nobody shot more
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  Speaker 5: than five free throws the entire game. In fact, that
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  Speaker 5: Nuggets is a whole shot twenty two. The Mavericks shot thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Three a break last night. Cooper Flagg got hurt than
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  Speaker 3: Daniel Cafford got hurt. So okay, Well, have you looked
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  Speaker 3: at at the two are not there.
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  Speaker 5: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Being just saying that. To say they didn't catch a
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  Speaker 3: break is is wrong. They did catch a break. Let
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  Speaker 3: me say this now, and breaks a part of it.
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  Speaker 5: Assuming things go well in terms of health the rest
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  Speaker 5: of the way and guys come back and so on.
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  Speaker 5: I'm looking at the two seed period. Got to have
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  Speaker 5: the two no excuses, got to have the two These
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  Speaker 5: guys are proving something to me. And if you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: prove something to me like you have the past nine
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  Speaker 5: games without Nikola Jokic, if you're gonna prove that to me,
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  Speaker 5: then I'm going to hold you to that standard. I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna hold all these guys and the guys who are injured,
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna hold you to a higher standard. And you've
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  Speaker 5: made You've made me believe. Okay, So that's where I'm
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  Speaker 5: coming from now. I believe no excuses, no back to back, no,
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  Speaker 5: you know, no not playing defense. And that's been the
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  Speaker 5: kind of the key here too, is they played DMAC.
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  Speaker 5: They played really good D. It's not giving up this
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty six per game type of thing, right,
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  Speaker 5: you're talking about low one hundreds or you know, a
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  Speaker 5: load to mid one hundred. So it's it's it's good.
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  Speaker 4: I think what a turning point has been. It feels like.
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  Speaker 2: So they have the remarkable win against the Sixers, right
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  Speaker 2: like that will go down maybe is one of the
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  Speaker 2: most amazing wins and Nuggets history period. Well, a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days later they do get some guys back, right,
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  Speaker 2: remember that they got the you know, here we go,
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  Speaker 2: the guys are back, and then they laid an egg.
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  Speaker 4: They were terrible. Who is that against vig? Who did
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  Speaker 4: they Cleveland? That's right, they weren't terrible.
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  Speaker 3: They came close.
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  Speaker 4: Well the whole What was what was the game that
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  Speaker 4: Adaman ripped them after?
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  Speaker 3: What was that one saying it wasn't professional?
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  Speaker 5: Right? Right? Right?
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  Speaker 6: What was that game?
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  Speaker 3: She said they didn't bring anything?
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  Speaker 4: Correct?
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  Speaker 5: It was?
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  Speaker 3: Was it Atlanta here?
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  Speaker 4: No, it wasn't Cleveland. It was on that road trip though,
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  Speaker 4: so Brooklyn it was.
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  Speaker 5: It was the Brooklyn Nets game when they gave up
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty seven, That's what it was.
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  Speaker 2: And it was with MPJ and the Brooklyn's not very
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  Speaker 2: goodah blah blah blah boab. There's two ways you can
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  Speaker 2: go after that, right, right. You can bond together and
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  Speaker 2: do what they've done, or you could probably fall apart
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  Speaker 2: as soon as he did that. Which, boy, what about
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  Speaker 2: the respect for David Adelman. What effort have you seen
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  Speaker 2: vic since that time? No matter who's out on the court,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what the game is.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the players said it themselves. Tim Hardway said it.
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  Speaker 3: I asked him about it that game in Philly when
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  Speaker 3: you guys sat on the bench the top seven rotational
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  Speaker 3: players and you watch those guys play their hearts out.
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  Speaker 5: What did that do?
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  Speaker 3: And he said, you know what, it motivated us. It
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  Speaker 3: inspired us. It really did. And you've seen it since
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  Speaker 3: then in Pockets how inspired they play with whatever playing time,
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  Speaker 3: whoever gets the playing time. So those kind of games
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  Speaker 3: have a way of changing just the feeling on the team.
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  Speaker 3: The culture has always been a great culture, It really has.
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  Speaker 3: David Adelman said, Hey, you don't want to compare it
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  Speaker 3: to a Disney movie, but these guys genuinely like each other.
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  Speaker 3: And he's right, he's right.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we talked about going to that well of unprofessionalism.
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  Speaker 5: You can only go there so often and you got
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  Speaker 5: to really pick and choose your times. It reminds me
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  Speaker 5: it's not the same, It's not one to one, Apples
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  Speaker 5: to apples. But the scene in bull Durham where the
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  Speaker 5: manager's talking to Crash and he says, scare them. What
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  Speaker 5: he said, scare them? They're kids, scar.
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  Speaker 3: Scare and anyway, so hold on, hold on and hold
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  Speaker 3: on till I don't. I don't have time. Yes, I
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  Speaker 3: got three hours sleep. I don't have time for these references.
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  Speaker 3: And so he throws the bats and the lolly gagon
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  Speaker 3: and all this kind of thing.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think that the Adamman discussion post game after
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  Speaker 5: that game had the same kind of effect, because you're
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  Speaker 5: talking about pickets, you're talking about Watson's, you're talking about Jones,
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  Speaker 5: you're talking about these young guys that you're now counting on.
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  Speaker 5: You put I wouldn't say you put scare him, but
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  Speaker 5: you kind of did. I mean, it's a startling thing
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  Speaker 5: coming out of David Adams's mouth.
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  Speaker 4: Hey are we sure? Are we positive the thunder just
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  Speaker 4: gonna run run away with this?
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  Speaker 3: Or let them?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 2: But no, but hold on, I'm just asking halfway through
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  Speaker 2: the season. Here we are forty one games in, so
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  Speaker 2: are they They're six pack there by themselves, they're in
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  Speaker 2: second place to day by themselves, which is incredible to
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  Speaker 2: think that that's.
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  Speaker 4: Where they would be nine games without Jokics. It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: But okay, here's where it is.
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  Speaker 5: You're not cut. You're not gonna catch them.
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 5: Why because there? Because they're not gonna lose If you
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  Speaker 5: have unlimited a runway, dmac. Let's say you've got eighty
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  Speaker 5: more games. Maybe, but you're halfway through the season. There's
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  Speaker 5: not enough runway. They're not they're not going to making Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: they're just not going. Can I share on enough nights?
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  Speaker 3: Can I share a secret?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Please?
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  Speaker 3: Everyone is so in every sport we play. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: get get the home ice, get the home court, get
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  Speaker 3: the home field, get the home of the playoffs. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if you guys have been paying attention, but
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  Speaker 3: the Denver Nuggets are better on the road. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if you guys have noticed this.
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  Speaker 4: Don't say it too loud, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't want to offend the hometown here,
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  Speaker 3: because my town. I don't want to offend the loyal
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  Speaker 3: fans who have sold out that place three years running.
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  Speaker 3: But the Denver Nuggets are a better road team this year.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think that is?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: They come together on the road. They don't care about
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  Speaker 3: how loud it is on the road. If you're worried
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  Speaker 3: about playing road games in the playoffs, I'm telling you
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  Speaker 3: don't bet. It's fine. Yeah, a healthy I agree with
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  Speaker 3: a healthy Denver Nuggets team.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care where you get the flip.
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  Speaker 2: But wouldn't you rather face I don't care, fine, but
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  Speaker 2: what you'd rather be? You'd rather face Oklahoma City in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA Conference Finals?
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  Speaker 3: Of course?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's why you want the two or three seeds.
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  Speaker 4: You want to be two or three.
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  Speaker 3: Two or three seeds is the target area, and and
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  Speaker 3: that's where I think the Nuggets can do themselves a
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  Speaker 3: lot of favors. That two seed is ideal, obviously, because
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  Speaker 3: then you get close enough. But you don't have to
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  Speaker 3: catch I am not so oh my god, if you
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  Speaker 3: don't catch okse it's a disaster. Probably won't catch them,
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  Speaker 3: and it's fine. It's fine. Pressures on them. The other
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  Speaker 3: thing I want to mention is a.
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  Speaker 5: Stick it anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: The All Star Game is less than a month away,
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  Speaker 3: and you know what's going to happen here if things
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  Speaker 3: continue at this space. So joker in my estimation he
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  Speaker 3: will be back. He will attend the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 3: Barring something crazy, Jamal Murray will become the first Joker
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  Speaker 3: teammate to go to the All Star Game. I would
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  Speaker 3: not be surprised, given how well they're playing and how
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  Speaker 3: well they're shooting the ball, that if a Tim Hardaway
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  Speaker 3: Junior gets an invite to play in the three point
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  Speaker 3: shootout and he says he would love it, By the way,
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  Speaker 3: would not be surprised if he joined. And here's the catch,
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  Speaker 3: here's the last one. If the Nuggets are number two
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  Speaker 3: in the West in three weeks I think it three weeks,
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  Speaker 3: is then the coaching staff would coach in the All
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  Speaker 3: Star Game. Because Oklahoma City's coaching staff did it last year.
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  Speaker 3: And even though they're number one, they get the year off,
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  Speaker 3: so they go to the number two seed, which would
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  Speaker 3: be Denver. They'd have the entire damn team at the
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  Speaker 3: All Star Game.
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  Speaker 4: Who's broadcasting the All Star Game this year?
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  Speaker 5: Do you know?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's NBC? Okay, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just curious if Michael Malone will be on the
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  Speaker 2: broadcast team during the you know, the All Star team.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I didn't watch the broadcast last night because we
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  Speaker 3: were doing own Altitude one. But what did I'm curious
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  Speaker 3: what was Malone's reaction. Did anybody ask him, like about
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  Speaker 3: Peyton Watson's development or any of that business.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, not really because he's got very little time to discuss.
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  Speaker 5: They have the you know, the roundtable, so they bounce
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  Speaker 5: things around and then they played the Bear goes. Why
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  Speaker 5: are there so many damn commercials? I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 5: like dude. They did very very little talking at halftime.
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  Speaker 4: How do you think Malone's dealing with all this?
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  Speaker 3: It's got to be difficult, I mean, do you think, Yeah, Well,
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  Speaker 3: for two reasons, two reasons if you're Michael MALONEA and
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: you could play both sides of this. If you're Michael Malone,
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  Speaker 3: you're like, hmmm, so now you give me depth. Now
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: you go the depth right now you get a backup center.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you know, this is what I've wanted since I've
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  Speaker 3: been here, since the championship season. So now you're doing it.
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  Speaker 3: So I would be a bit upset that things are
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  Speaker 3: being handed to the current coaching staff that he wanted.
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  Speaker 3: At the same time, the development of these young players
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  Speaker 3: under this staff, it's just different. You see, it seems
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  Speaker 3: like there's a longer leash. I see, What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: What do you think? You're not thinking?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's complicated because like, would he ever give
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Pick at this time, ever, in any circumstance.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, But I don't know. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if Adelman would have either unless it was all with
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  Speaker 4: with all.
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  Speaker 5: These injuries, you know, I mean he's been for he's
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  Speaker 5: been forced to number one, but number two. Hey, Peyton
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  Speaker 5: Watson's played plenty this year. Man, he really has, so
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  Speaker 5: I don't know he'd be forced to to play these
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  Speaker 5: younger guys. He would have absolutely no choice because how
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: would he handle them?
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: Though?
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: Would he be would his bedside manner be as effective
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: as David Adelmans is.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: It's a different approach. It's a totally different approach.
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: It's a totally different approach. And he sort of eased
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: off though his I mean you could feel it last year.
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: You could feel the angst when he ever he had
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: to talk about the Nuggets. I mean, and then my
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: MVP say, up, hers all right.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Comedy, we we all well, well we all knew about that.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: We all you really know, but we all knew that
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: that's a bad that's a that's a bad you have
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: a bad trait and that's that.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: Okay, hanging on that, boys, I really listen, I really
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: appreciate it. Like Michael Malone and he I will forever
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: be grateful. But that anks came out. We can admit that. Okay,
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: the inks he seems much more at ease personally and
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: so on. And he's gonna he's gonna coach again.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: I'm fine. This is the the only coach in Nuggets
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: his tree to bring a title to town and you're
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: telling it up years. What is that?
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: Apolog apology? Apologize, I apologize just a figure of speech.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Well, what you realize what Mosa was saying about Yona's
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Valancuna's right? This This wasn't he was a rat sewer
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: rat or.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Something like that guy. Because I'm gonna along, we'll just
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: laugh forget.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: About that, all right, guys, I'm I'm tapping out. We're
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: bringing in uh Raj.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: You've had enough, all right.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Hang out with you guys for the rest of the time.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: You got your fill.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: You can't do anymore of this.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: This is enough.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I'll be back at noon. Uh And we have another
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: keyword coming up. It's uh, Mosa, Lombardi and Kane here
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: on ninety two five. Mosa Lombardi and Kane. Kane are
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  Speaker 2: out sick d Mac in for the last hour or so.
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  Speaker 7: He's now out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in.
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: It's Raj vic Moje. What's up, fellas.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Good to see you just going on right now. We're
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: doing it every hosted altitude to join us on.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: The show pretty much. Yeah, it seems so.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we're doing the Soviets man, but they did Chernobyl.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: You're just going in and shifts until someone dies. So
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: I'm just the next I'm the next piece of fodder
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: coming in today.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: You guys, by the way you've been you sleep yeah, listen,
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: we got a keyword coming up here, right, Raj. Sure
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: to remarkably grumpy today too. And I understand why you
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: got it at two am at the house at three am.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: I know you got the house at three am, but
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: you landed it to you're gonna sleep like a dog today.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: I get I landed it two fifteen, Raj.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: What's the keyword?
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: That's it?
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: Motion, That's that's it. I got nothing else.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: I know, I know how we I know how he feels.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: And but if this is any indication that you guys
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: could tell you guys could tell me, is this how
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: I am when I when I landed two fifteen in
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: the morning, to am I the same way?
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: It's not even close.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: I only trust one person's judgment, Steve.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I guess the difference, the difference between you and Vic
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: on these low sleep nights is at least you're funny.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: You say things I could put in the mojies.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Vic is just mad this morning.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's just man.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I'm just myself, I know.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: But you know what, but you look mad, you talk mad,
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: your face is mad. Everything about you is mad.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: How soft are you, Steve Nelson? If you think this
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: is man?
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: So now he's now he's lashing out at the only
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: person who's got good judgment.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: Like Vic's hares at least done this morning. It is
• 18:44
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• 19:14
  Speaker 5: What was the keyword? What was the keyword in the
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: six o'clock hour, Nowi's six o'clock keyword was fever fever, Yeah,
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: so fever, chills, cough. It's everybody's dealing with the ick,
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: right now, That's what it is. Everybody's got the ick
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: going on in one capacity or another.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: We got the uh the play going throughout Theitude Sports Radio,
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: and again we'll get back into the Nuggets win over
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: the Mavericks last night. They continue to be amazing, six
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: and three in those nine games without NICOLEA.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Jokic.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: We are, in my humble opinion, witnessing the very best
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: season of Jamal Murray's career.
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: And I didn't think that was.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Possible at twenty eight going on twenty nine. He turns
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: twenty nine at the end of February. But Vick, you
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: were talking about how you're you know, whether or not
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Denver is going to win this game on Saturday based
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: off the first three James Cook.
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: Runs of the game.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Yes, and I've heard a lot of Buffalo fans going, well,
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: if you stop the run, it doesn't mean you can
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: stop us. Just look at what happened against Jacksonville last week,
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: and they're the anomaly was the Jacksonville game. I was
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: looking through Buffalo's game log this year. Did you know
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: that there were only four separate instances prior to that
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: Jacksonville winning Wild Card weekend where James Cook was held
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: underneath one hundred total combined receiving and rushing yards.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Do you know what?
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: The results in all four of those games were losses,
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: every single one of them.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Here's what I need Buffalo fans to understand. There's a
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: big difference between the Jacksonville defense and the Denver defense.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Jacksonville's defense is very good against the run. That's what
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: they do. They're the best in the NFL, so that
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: was no surprise. But if Denver were to be able
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: to keep James Cook from Cooking and keep him in check,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: wait till you see the Broncos pass rush, Wait till
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: you see the guys coming at Josh Allen. That's the
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: key here. I'm telling you three runs. If the Broncos
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: can maintain their footing in the trenches, be sound, not
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: give up any gaps. Don't matter where it is, I'll
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: know right away. I'll know where this game is headed well,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: because then they can go in back and do some things.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I completely agree, But the Broncos run defense is
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: actually pretty damn good anyway. I mean, it really is.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: To me, this is going to be good as Jacksonville's.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: No it's not, but it's but they hold opponents to
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: under a hunderd yards per game. That's been their average
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: all season long. So that being said, I kind of
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: like that. What's amazing to me is digging into the
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: number is that the Bills pass defense is actually better
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: than the Broncos pass defense in terms of yards given
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: up per game by more than thirty And I found
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: that to be pretty surprising, to be honest with you,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: I thought that was it didn't feel that way when
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: you watch the games. It doesn't feel that way, but
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: the numbers bear it out. It that Bill's pass defense
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: is pretty good. So I guess pick your poison. If
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: you're gonna get to Josh Allen, if you're going to
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: blitz him or you're going to really get to him.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Then you better get to him because if you don't,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: he's gonna carve you a part.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: Rush defense rankings by team the Jaguars number one in
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: the league, Denver number two in the league at one thousand,
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: five hundred and forty eight yards, against Seattle at number three,
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Houston at number four, Tampa Bay at five, and then
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: the Patriots come in at number six. So the rush
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: defense for Denver certainly no slouch as the second best
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: in the league. Now, the one anomaly for holding James
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: Cook in check was this game against Jacksonville and it
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: all came down. I was watching the game last night.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: All came down to the second half and that at
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: that fourth quarter where you go four of six on
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: third and fourth down as Josh Allen and the Bills.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Can you get off the field on third down against
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: Josh Allen? If the answer is yes, you win the
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: football game. Like I'm confident in Denver going in this weekend. Now,
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: I think there's gonna be two results. Either they get
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: blown out, Denver gets blown out by multiple scorers, or
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: they're gonna win on a thirty seven yard Will Nuts
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  Speaker 6: field goal.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: I think there's the only two results that you're gonna
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: get this week.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I don't think you're far off. I think if the
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Broncos win, it's gonna be a close game. I just do.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: This is who they are, what they do, so you know,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: buckle up. This is the ride we've seen all season.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Why should it change. How shocked would you be if
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: the Broncos had this game in their back pocket come
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: the end of the third quarter, it's not gonna happen.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: I'd be no. I mean, if they had like a
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: twenty nine to seven leaders something like that, vic I
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: would to me, that is the least likely outcome of
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: the first three quarters of this game. Now, you can
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: rank and stack any other outcome the way you want to.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: To me, that is the bottom of the ranking system
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: right there. Just because I think the Bills defense has improved,
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: it's gotten better as time has gone on. They're gonna
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: get guys, you know, relatively healthy.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: Back and so relatively healthy. There's fifteen dudes on entry report,
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: But they're gonna they're gonna shoot him up and play him.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: At least the guys that can you can have yer.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: True true, and Oliver is still very hobbled right now. Man,
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: I don't believe in the health of that team whatsoever.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: You know, Kaner seemed to think that Oliver is gonna
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: come back, but I think that's I think that's a
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: that's a long shot. Well, I guess we'll find out
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: coming up on Saturday, whether or not he suits up
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: or not.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I guess I still think it's gonna take at least
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: twenty five points to win this game, twenty eight maybe.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Can the Denver Broncos get to twenty five or twenty
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: eight points? That's where you just ask yourself, see if
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: you want to if you want to get your answers,
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: ask yourself simple questions. Can they get to twenty five
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: to twenty eight? Their season average is over twenty three.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: I think offensively they can score three touchdowns, yes, I
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: think defensively they need to get one too, and said
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: you need to score on defense. Yeah, that's what you know.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: The year that the Broncos won last Super Bowl, you
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: remember their postseason run defense, forced turnovers defense, took the
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: ball away defense, put the offense in very very good positions.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: This defense has not been good at that. If the
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: one issue they've had is taking the ball. They got
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: to take it, take it. I hope they're working on that.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know how you work on something like that.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: What do you do?
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: What do you say, hey, ball, get it. I think
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: you probably say that every single week. I mean, I
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: don't think that's unique to this one particular football game.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: It's just they've not been very adept at doing that.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: Vic whether it's listen, whether it's a defensive you know,
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: pick six, or whether it's a special team's touchdown. I'll
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: take either one. I think you're probably right. I think
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: the Broncos will have to get a score some way
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: other than the offense.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: I'm not sure about that, man. I think it's just
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: a little bit more simple than that.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: I think if you win the turnovers, I at least
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: plus one, your defense is good enough to keep Josh
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: Allen in check, to keep James Cook in check. With
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: all of the injuries that that offense has, with all
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: the failures that that Buffalo Bills team has gone through.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: I'm not going back to the four Falls of Buffalo,
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: but all the failures that they have had with a
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: generational level quarterback in Josh Allen in recent seasons, all
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: of the failings I know they're owing three at Arromad
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: and Patrick Mahomes is not bonis. I understand that I
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: just need to win the turnover battle by one. I
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: don't even need a score from the defense.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but don't underestimate the fact that their one hiccup,
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: the one team that's kept them out of a Super
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Bowl appearance, is nowhere to be found. I mean, if
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: you're talking about intangibles and them, yeah, exactly right. I
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: mean the Chiefs, they had very tight games against the
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: Buffalo Bills. That being said, though, when you look back
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: at that Jaguars game, let's talk about the opponent here.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: On that final drive, what did you see, raj you
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: what did you see out of the Buffalo Bills on
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: that last drive that went down.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: The field continually able to move the ball on the ground,
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: tush pushes from Josh out Again, I've never seen a
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: ten yard toush push in my life.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: I saw.
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: I saw an MVP quarterback going I'm not going to
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: be denied.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: And that's where that's something right there that you cannot
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: put a number on, you cannot put a definitive statement on.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: You've got a guy who is an MVP and a
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: guy who at any particular moment, can he throw picks. Yeah,
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: he'll throw some picks. But a guy who wills his
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: team down the field, even if they are dealing with
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: injuries to this guy and to that guy, in to
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: this and so on. I mean, you've got a guy
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: who's a special player. And how much of the special
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: comes out at the right time, I don't know, because
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it does. I'll go back to
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: that first loss to the Chiefs in that AFC title game,
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: the forty two to thirty six. Man, if Josh Allen
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: got that ball in overtime, he's going to drive down
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: and win that game, it's going to be opposite, gonna
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: be forty two to thirty six in favor of the
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: Bills because he's got that in him. I'm convinced of it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: So now you're going so now you're gonna have to
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: You cannot play from behind with this guy, That's all
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: I'm saying.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Like behind, how far behind? Because they've they've doubled down
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: ten the Denver Broncos. All they've done the season is
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: played from behind and.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: One but but Vickott's gonna bite you right in the tailpipe.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: If you do it this time. If you get down
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: by ten, it's gonna be very difficult to come back.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you're If you're down, let's say
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: fourteen to three in the second quarter.
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: They should be very fourteen to three and the second
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: is an eternity for this team. Fourteen to three in
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: the third quarter is an eternity.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Playoffs were a different animal, Rajs. That's my opinion, dude.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: The thing we've learned about these playoffs. At no point
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: will you be secure or out of it. I mean,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: even if you're up fourteen to three. Man, the way
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: these playoffs have unfolded, crazy things have happened. The Broncos
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: are first stop. This weekend. Wild Card weekend was craziness.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: The divisional weekend is you usually a little more predictable.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: It usually is, so we'll see if the home team
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: can defend the home field. We talked about this, RAJ,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: five times in the history of the Broncos playoffs if
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: they lost home playoff games five times.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: Colts Steelers and Colts Ravens Steelers and then were the
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: two prior to like Jacksonville.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: Jacksonville for the back to back four Okay.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Now the most devastating. Of those two were divisional playoff games.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: This is a divisional game this weekend, all right, divisional.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: The Baltimore loss at home was devastating divisional. The Jacksonville
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: loss at home was it was devastating divisional.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was that was That was in January of
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: ninety seven, Raj. You were still I think probably running
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: the wrong.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Hand.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: To god, I don't remember that game. I had to
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: go back and watch that game on NFL films. Don't
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: remember what it is.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: It was. It was incredibly paid full around these parts, dude,
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: I mean really, Mark Brune and the Jaguars are coming in.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: That was more of a shock because you were so good,
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: and you know, I was incredibly dismissive of those Jaguars.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: Shouldn't have been obvious.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: But see, that's what's different about this one that we
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: know a lot of games I just mentioned, like the
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Baltimore loss, right, the one with Flacco the Broncos are
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: not those we're shocking favorites.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, those were shocking.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Those are nine point favorites in that game, and everybody
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: expected the Broncos to advance, and you know they just did.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: It's not the feeling this week the feeling is this
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: is gonna be hard. That's just what it is. And
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: if you don't think that, I don't know what you're watching.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Of Course it's going to be hard.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Of course it is.
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: There's not a game remaining for them that won't be
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: incredibly difficult. There we talked about at the beginning of
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: the segment. There's no chance that I see them winning
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: a two score game in the playoffs. Every single one
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: of these is gonna come down to, in my opinion,
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: who has the football last. And if bo Nicks has
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: the football last, Dude, they're eleven and two this year,
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: eleven and two in one score games. That is seventy
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: five percent of your season playing tight games, and he
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: finds a way to get it done.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Rush, Do you know how rare it is? He just
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: said something that I want. I want to remind everybody
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: how rare it is to waltz through the playoffs. Let's
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: go back to the Broncos first championship season, all right.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Think about what they did on that playoff run. Think
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: about who they had to beat and how they'd be
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: They went on the road, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and they
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: eked those games out. Eke eke okay either super Bowl.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: They eked it out when they won their second Super
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Bowl at home. Remember the Jets, remember that that score
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: at halftime. People were nervous, very nervous.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: It was a close game. Man.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: This is not easy. You're not gonna win by a
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: large margin no matter who you are. It's just this
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: is why these teams are That's how they got here.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard. And you know what, That's why
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: I'm confident because the Broncos no hard. They've done it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: They've done it all season.
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  Speaker 6: RAJ filling in for a sick Brett Kine for the
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• 32:33
  Speaker 6: you guys up until well up until noon. From tend
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: to noon Vick and Moje hanging out. Vic off two
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: hours of sleep after the Nuggets come away with yet
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: another victory, six and three in the nine games in
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: which they don't have the best player on planet Earth.
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: But Jamal Murray has turned into All Star version of
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: Jamal Murray. I was looking through a stats man, like
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: it is through every metric, the best season of his career.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: I thought we were here with Nathan McKinnon and Nikole Jokic,
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: where it was these seasons where well, they simply can't
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: get better, can they? And then the next season they
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: have another MVP level year, and the next season they
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: have another MVP level record breaking year. I thought we
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: were here with Jamal Murray a couple of seasons ago,
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: we've seen the best of Jamal.
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: No, we haven't. We just had to wait until this
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: year when Nikole Jokic went down with injury.
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: Like over the last ten games of any point guard
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: in the league, he's top five in everything.
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: He's shooting better from three than every point guard in
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: the league.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: He's top five in points, he's top five in assists,
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: Like he just continues to level up.
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: But I didn't think it was possible.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: I had a great seat last night. It was right
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: on the floor next to Hayse Teens and Marlow, and
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: I noticed something that I think it's the most underrated
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: aspect of Jamal Murray's game. We know he can shoot again.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: His three point prowess is amazing this season. We know
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: what he can do with the assists. He had a
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: couple of nice down again last night. His ability to
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: dribble through traffic and hold his dribble when guys are
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: coming at him, it's really uncanny, and he's the only
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: player on the team who can do it. No one
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: else has the handle that Jamal Murray does, and it's
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: really you don't notice it until crunch time. In crunch
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: time when they really pressure the guards. Dude, he's been
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: working on it. It wasn't always that way. He's gotten
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: so good with his dribble that a lot of people
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: can learn from Jamal Murray. They really can. And I
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: think that's one of the main reasons why he's able
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: to go to the rim anytime he wants. He really
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: can watch him dribble, just just watching how he handles
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: the right He's so smooth.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: You're totally right, there's nothing he's doing this year. That
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: isn't better than anything he's ever done in his career.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: Points per game, field goal percentage, three points percentage, rebounds
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: per game, assists per I mean, all the major categories.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: This guy is better than he ever has been period,
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: end of story.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Most I didn't think he was going to play. They
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: didn't think he was going to play. He's been ill,
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: he's been sick. I'm gonna yeah, I'm gonna give you
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: the scene because David Adelman mentioned it. Usually we don't
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: want to mention what happens behind the scenes, but since
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: he said it, I can. It's an hour before tip off.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: I'm walking right by the Nuggets' locker room. He's on
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: the massage table, Jamal Murray sleeping. He's like, actively he's sick.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: He's trying to sleep it off. He's sleeping, trying to
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Usually he's out on the court a getting his warm up,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: and he's sleeping, trying to sleep off whatever has been
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: ailing him. They didn't expect him to play at all.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: And then that's on boom. An hour later, he's available.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: You know, I haven't felt this way in a long time,
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: but the last like three days, I'm like, I just
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: want to sleep. I just want to I just I
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: just like you talk to your body, Hey, whatever's in there,
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: get it out, you know, work your magic while I'm
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: crashed out. Whatever. I can't even remotely imagine, you know,
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: playing thirty five minutes in a game and play if
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: he hasn't feel like crap, like you feel like crap,
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: You just feel like crap. And God, I got a
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: little bit of a fever in my throat and I
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: can't even imagine that stuff. I'm you know, I'm just
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: so I'm just so impressed with him. Vic And at
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: the age of twenty eight, let's let's talk about this. Though,
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: he's got a lot of runway left in his career,
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: but he's playing his best at the age of twenty
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: eight years old. He's right in the middle of his prime.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: And something about it about Jamal Murray. Yeah, his best
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: basketball is played when he's either a little under the
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: weather or he's coming off an injury. Take a look
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: at this season and look at some of his best games.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Do you remember that game in Indiana? What do you
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: go off for fifty three or something like that. He
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: had a ridiculous performance in Indiana. He wasn't supposed to
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: play that night because he tweaked his anal the game before,
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: and people are like, well, he ain't playing, Oh, he
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: played all right. He's had a couple games like that
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: where you don't expect him to perform and he outperforms
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: every expectation.
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, fifty two in that game coming off of the
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Dallas lost ten points in the game previous. Yeah, you're
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: fifty two against Indy back at the beginning of December.
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: And it's not right.
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: He's been consistent and it's not like we're missing these
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: forty and fifty point games for him. He hasn't dropped
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: off of like who Jamal Murray is? You haven't You
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: haven't missed that big time shot, that streaky three point shooter.
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: It's just been all of the Jamal that we know
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: and love, adding inconsistency without having his greatest asset next
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: to him, which is the two man game.
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: Nicole Jokic, you know.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: These guys are all beat up at this time of year.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: I'm sure in the hockey locker room, it's the same
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: way you're approaching the midway. Well, it is the midway
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: point for the Nuggets. They played forty one games. Is
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: the midway point of the season. Bruce Brown afterwards showed
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: me his right knee which was like balloon. It was swollen,
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: and he's wearing a you know he wore he just
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: played through it. He just played through it. A lot
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: of times we wonder like, why is this guy not
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: performing up the standard? What's going on? Why did he
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: miss that lab? Why do you do that? There's always
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: something under the surface that is causing that. And I
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: saw that last night with Bruce. He's dealing with something too.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: They all are how long is the star How long
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: is the All Star break?
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: What do you mean? How long is it's February twelfth?
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: That that weekend?
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: Okay? I mean he's on like five days off? How
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: many days off?
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Do you get the Nuggets? I believe will get six
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: days off this year?
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: Okay? Good?
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: And they returned to form Denver Denver Place Wednesday, February eleventh,
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: at home against Memphis. Their next game is Thursday, February nineteen.
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: Oh wow, they get at LF.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: Okay, good. I mean that you talk about the ability
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: just to let guys chill, I mean, get on it
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: each for a couple of days and then rehab or
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: whatever it is they do. I'm sure guys who are
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: injured just gonna sit around and probably try to get
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: you know, try to get healthy that time. That's that's
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: really good news. Also, Vic, last night, you were talking
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: about where you were sitting at the game, and there
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: was a I don't know if you remember this, but
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: there was a moment in the second half where they
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: caught you. They had a camera on you sitting in
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: your little sitthol. Do you recall that, Yeah, I do.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: I was right next to it and it was something.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: It was something about your seat and about your suit.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: But it looked like you were trying to watch yourself
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: on TV. What was that all about? I wanted to
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: ask you this morning.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Stand somebody told me just stand up, so I still.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: You were sitting there and you're like, you didn't know
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: the camera was on you, but you're like watching yourself
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: on TV. And then you stood up and then they
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: immediately cut away from you. It was just it seemed
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: like you were in an awkward position. You made yourself awkward.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Thank you. I I don't remember how awkward it was
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: because it was very quick.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: So than it seemed awkward, it seemed awkward to me
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: knowing you. You did not look you seemed awkward.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: I was ill prepared for that.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that pretty much? Yeah pretty much.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Could it be more awkward than that thing you got
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: on your chin? Yeah?
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: The soul patch thing's gotta go, buddy, I'm sorry, it's
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: gotta go.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: Straw pole.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: You're not gonna win this one, brother again, No straw, yeah, straw.
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: Three guinea pig on his face.
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: Three I prefer a hamster. Three O chinchilla. Whatever you
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  Speaker 5: want to go? Three oh three, five oh four O
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  Speaker 5: nine two five. I mean here, let's get a good
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: look at it. I got my camera, so with the
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: victors get mad at me?
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Oh no that VI?
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: How's that right there? Yeah, give me some of that.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: You gotta get yes or no? Three oh three five
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• 40:48
  Speaker 6: Not a facial hair guy, But you gotta get rid
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: of that thing. Brother, can't do it, can't live with it.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: Are people texting yes, I want you to keep it?
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: Or yes you should shave it?
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: No?
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes keep it or no get rid of it?
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: Okay, yes means keep it, No means get rid of it.
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, you're gonna get smoked on this, absolutely smoked on
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: it before we get to Jeff Legwald, who's coming up
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: at nine o'clock talking about Bronco's injury report.
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: We'll get into that the coordinators speaking with the media yesterday.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: Vic I was talking with this on our show with
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: Chris Dempsey about a week ago about the the resurgence
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: of Peyton Watson coming on to the league's spotlight as
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: like a star right now because he's getting so many minutes.
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: I asked this to our listeners.
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: Would you be okay with at the end of the
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: season the Michael Porter Junior trade essentially being MPJ a first,
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: assuming another pick has to be thrown in to get
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: rid of the Cam Johnson contract for the retention of
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: the Peyton Watson services.
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: Are you comfortable with that?
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: So you sort of convoluted that are you saying You're saying, basically,
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: trade can Am Johnson in the offseason.
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: The only way that I see in that Dempse sees
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: that you can keep Peyton Watson on this team moving
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: forward is if you have to move is moving Cam Johnson.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: The only danger there is this and listen, well, that's
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: all going to be room for discussion in the offseason.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: I hope that the Nuggets make a very deep playoff
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: running with talking parade here and then at that point
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: they'll have a little more opportunity to experiment. And if
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: you don't think that the front office is already thinking
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: this through your naive, clearly they're thinking about all options.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Here's here's my concern with that. They definitely would like
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: to keep Peyton Watson in the rotation.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: Why wouldn't you?
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: He's look at what he's done, right, look at what
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: he can do. But the way this team is assembled
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: right now, the goal of this season was to get
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: as many three point shooters around Jokic that you can, right,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: and that's what they've accomplished. That Tim Hardaway Junior has
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: been a gift, a freaking gift. Okay, the fact that
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: he can go out there and pump into a three
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: threes and change the momentum of a game. Wow, You're
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: gonna probably lose him in the offseason because he's a
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: veteran minimum contract. So that's one three point shooter. Can
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: you afford to lose two three point shooters? That's where
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: you start to wonder, do you change the complexion the
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: makeup of your team? You still need those guys. Can
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: you go find another.
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: But Vic, here's my question to you, assuming that Joker Murray,
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna throw ag in there. These are guys, and
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: I would love it to be p Watt two. But
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: let's assume these guys are there for the long haul.
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: CB's under contract too.
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and Christopher k NFL's Nuggets for life. Let's just
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: assume that, right, and you're gonna run back as many
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: times with these core guys as you can to try
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: to win a championship. Don't you expect that you're going
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: to have a rotation of players around them for the
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: next seven years as well? I mean, aren't you going
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: to have just a steady rotation of different you know,
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: no offense to the Hardaways and the Bruce e Bes
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: and so on, But you're gonna have guys coming in
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: and out all the time. Sure, you know, one or
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: two per year that try to fit in. I mean, yeah,
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: it's gonna be hit some some hit something. No agreed
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: agree regulation Tim Hardaway.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Listen, when when the Nuggets acquired that contract, when he
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: signed as a free agent, how many of you out
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: there said, Oh, yeah, they got Cam, they got jonus O,
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Tim Hardaway, they got Bruce Oh yeah, on Tim Hardaway.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: I can make the argument that Tim Hardaway has been
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: the most essential part of that whole off season acquisition train, and.
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't disagree with you. But what I guess what
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: I'm saying is is that you have to expect that
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: that that different guys are gonna be coming in and
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: out all the time, and then you have to decide
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: who do you keep, who do you not keeping and
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: so on. I mean, but it's just gonna be you get.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Two veteran minimum contracts that guys. I mean, think about this, guys,
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: how many players in the NBA? How many teams I'm
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: gonna assume that the Nuggets are the only team with this.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: I just thought this just hit me, just struck me.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: How many teams in the NBA with championship aspirations have
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: not won but two veteran minimum contracts in their rotation?
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Two?
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: I'd have to I'd have to go do some research
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: on that. I'd have to go look at um.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma City doesn't.
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: Nope, San Antonio doesn't, doesn't. No, Detroit doesn't nope.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: The Knicks does.
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: They don't. I guess they don't know.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: And do you understand how rare that is what kind
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: of commodity that is to have two guys who are
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: essentially listen when the year's up. I don't see him
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: doing it again.
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: That's hard to know, especially especially if you accomplish what
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: you want to accomplish. It makes it much more palatable
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: to fly the coop, that's for sure. And you can't
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: afford to pay everybody what they would get on the
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: open market anyway.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: You can't do it. You don't have that kind of money.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: You can't.
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: There's not even enough aprons to try to pay what
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: they can get on the open market.
• 46:02
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