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The Biggest CONCERN With Your NBA Team · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: We're about at the halfway point of the NBA season.
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Speaker 1: I know it's kind of crazy. What is your biggest
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Speaker 1: concern with your favorite team? This is a question I'd
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Speaker 1: like to ask every single year because I tried my
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Speaker 1: very best to watch every NBA team. I try my
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Speaker 1: very best to keep my ear to the ground and
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Speaker 1: here with the fan bases of saying, but it's nothing
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Speaker 1: like just straight up asking what's your biggest concern that
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Speaker 1: before we get into react to your biggest concerns with
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Speaker 1: your favorite teams? Got I start off with mine. This
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Speaker 1: is my channel right my Chicago Bulls. Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: We are the same team every single season. Y'all know
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Speaker 1: the jokes. I mean, the Bulls have been in the
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Speaker 1: play in four years in a row. The Bulls are
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Speaker 1: going to meet the Atlanta Hawks, the Miami Heat, and
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Speaker 1: whatever fourth team want to come on down.
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Speaker 2: That is the joke, that always has been the joke.
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Speaker 1: But I saw this tweet the other day from Chgo
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Speaker 1: Bulls that blew my mind again.
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Speaker 2: I'm watching every single one of these games. I've been
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Speaker 2: here from the very.
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Speaker 1: Beginning, but I didn't realized we have accepted mediocrity like this.
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Speaker 2: This season. The Bulls started off the year eighteen and
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Speaker 2: twenty one bad, but you know, three games under five hundred.
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Speaker 2: Last year, the Bulls started off their season eighteen and
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Speaker 2: twenty one. The year before that, the Bulls started off
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Speaker 2: their season eighteen and twenty one, and the year before that.
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Speaker 2: For the fourth year in.
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Speaker 1: The row, the Bulls this season started off eighteen and
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Speaker 1: twenty one. Do y'all recognize how insane that truly is,
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Speaker 1: especially when the front office comes in and say we
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Speaker 1: are not accept the mediocrity, and then for the fourth
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Speaker 1: year in the row, we are mediocre NBA team.
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Speaker 2: It's trash. Now. I'm okay with losing. I've set that before.
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Speaker 1: I'd rather the Bulls lose as many games as possible
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Speaker 1: this year, then win as many games as possible this year.
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Speaker 2: So I'm not mad when we lose games. Right when
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Speaker 2: I get mad.
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Speaker 1: And so we're losing games and coach Billy Donovan's trying
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Speaker 1: to close out without the one young guy that we
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Speaker 1: care about. When Minus Bozzellis plays nineteen total minutes, including
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Speaker 1: just four minutes and the second half of a game
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Speaker 1: that we already were gonna lose anyway, I get so
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Speaker 1: pissed because let the guy play through his mistakes.
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Speaker 2: It's not the case.
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Speaker 1: And though the Bulls are bad and I'm rooting for
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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks to make a big move so they
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Speaker 1: can go ahead and steal with the playing spot from us,
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Speaker 1: I just don't know if I try. Actually, I know
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Speaker 1: my answer. I don't trust the front office to make
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Speaker 1: the right decisions in a rebuild. We gave them the
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Speaker 1: keys for a rebuild before they traded Franz Vogora stuff
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Speaker 1: for vouch and they continue to double down and triple
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Speaker 1: down on the bad.
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Speaker 2: Team, and I'm so afraid.
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Speaker 1: I'm so afraid of this front office having the keys
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Speaker 1: to go through another rebuild. So that was my biggest concern.
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Speaker 1: Clayton says the number one concern with his favorite team
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Speaker 1: is Doc Rivers somewboy. One thing I had respected a
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Speaker 1: lot about Doc Rivers in the past is how he
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Speaker 1: was able to increase the floor of like good to
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Speaker 1: solid regular season teams, and the Milkey Bucks are in
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Speaker 1: a place now with that's exactly what they need, right
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Speaker 1: They need a guy that could come in and make
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Speaker 1: a mediocre team look decent, a slightly competent team look great.
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Speaker 1: And it hasn't necessarily been the case. And it's got
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Speaker 1: to the point where now where again I'm only going
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Speaker 1: through the postgame interviews that we've got over the last
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Speaker 1: week or two, but it feels like he's losing the
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Speaker 1: locker room, more specifically, losing the number one guy up top.
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Speaker 1: Starting off in a game where they were down by
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Speaker 1: gazillia points. That was the game that Yanas booed the
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Speaker 1: crowd back cool whatever. Sometimes you get blown out, that's
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Speaker 1: just the reality of it. I always wonder how will
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Speaker 1: a team respond, how will the coaching staff respond the
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Speaker 1: game after you get blown out? And what did they do?
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Speaker 1: They were down by thirty three points going into the
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter to the Spurs. I think they end up
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Speaker 1: losing by eighteen. But ultimately Doc hasn't put this team
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Speaker 1: in the position to win ball games.
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Speaker 2: It's not the greatest roster denstruction.
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Speaker 1: We all recognize that but I think on those certain nights,
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Speaker 1: those where you want to see DoD get into his
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Speaker 1: absolute bag when he comes out. It comes up with
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Speaker 1: some excuses in the postgame interview, and Giannis is the
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Speaker 1: one that's saying this kind of its kind of bes
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Speaker 1: we can't really make that excuse right now, and lets
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Speaker 1: me know everything I need to know about Doc rivers
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Speaker 1: in the locker room. So and the whole year for
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Speaker 1: the Bucks obviously is keeping yann As happy.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if Doc is doing that. I just
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Speaker 2: I just don't know if Doc is doing that. And
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Speaker 2: this team has.
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Speaker 1: A formula to be at least competent, and it hasn't
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Speaker 1: been the case recently. There's a dude on our team
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Speaker 1: that had a zero plus minus in a forty three
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Speaker 1: point win and is robbing my franchise. I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: who he's talking about, off the top of mind, if
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Speaker 1: I had to guess who on that roster do. I
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Speaker 1: feel like the fan base probably is not in love
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Speaker 1: with I know that they in love with all the
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Speaker 1: younger dudes, the Stewards, the Durans, the Thompsons, even though
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Speaker 1: I've seen some conversations about us aar Thompson over there.
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Speaker 1: If I had to guess, is it's Kris Lavert finds
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Speaker 1: a way that every team that he's a part of
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Speaker 1: by the midway point the end of it, he's hated
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Speaker 1: by that fan base. So they said in a forty
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Speaker 1: three point win, I think that's the game they played
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Speaker 1: against the Pacers. Let me see, let me see, I
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Speaker 1: would be correct that is that is the game he's
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Speaker 1: refer to. Now, let's look at this box score. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm so excited. Pistons Karslaver played twenty minutes and then
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Speaker 1: a plus minus is zero.
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Speaker 2: So I got it. I got it, ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 2: it's him.
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Speaker 1: That's so funny to see though, because yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: he hasn't been very good. I'm actually surprised that that's
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Speaker 1: what the fan base is saying because the ones that
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Speaker 1: I selected today are the ones with a lot of
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Speaker 1: the likes, because I'm looking at it like this tweet
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Speaker 1: is representing a lot of Pistons fandom. I mean it's
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Speaker 1: got two thousand likes, so a lot of Pistons fans
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Speaker 1: are looking at Karris laverth this way.
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Speaker 2: When I watched the Pistons, and I.
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Speaker 1: Haven't been really silent about talking about this because I
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Speaker 1: really love watching this Pistons team play that My base
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Speaker 1: concern is the outside shooting and the lack of secondary
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Speaker 1: creation outside of k cunning And we all recognize Kate
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Speaker 1: as an All NBA first team talent. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if he's gonna make it this season, but I mean
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Speaker 1: first team at least. But again, looking back on their
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Speaker 1: last year's playoff appearance when they win against the Knicks
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Speaker 1: and it did feel like Kay Cunningham was overtax, I
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Speaker 1: can't help but to watch this team that is objectively
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Speaker 1: better than that last year's team and still question could
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Speaker 1: he use this year's version of Dennis Shrewder?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: I remember Dennis Shrewder was acquired by them and everything
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Speaker 1: kind of changed. Even in the postseason, k got to
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Speaker 1: play a little bit off the ball because Dennis Shrewder
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Speaker 1: was able to create for himself and others, and they
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Speaker 1: just don't really have that. You was hoping it was
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Speaker 1: gonna be j Nivy. I'm still wishy washing about j
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Speaker 1: n Ivy and k cunning them together even now. So
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Speaker 1: that would be my biggest concern with the Pisses because
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Speaker 1: these are confidences, so over.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know if we had any Knicks answers.
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Speaker 2: Let me see.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know we had Knicks answers, but I
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Speaker 1: guess I didn't screenshot any. The Knicks were the favorite
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Speaker 1: to win the conference, right it was between them and
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Speaker 1: the Calves. The Calves are kind of trash and the
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Speaker 1: Knicks right now since the turn of the calendar years
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Speaker 1: have not been good at all, and with those two
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Speaker 1: teams being like your biggest competition at least on pay
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Speaker 1: for this, in my mind, is when the pisses got
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Speaker 1: to go. You know, I don't mean that means that
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Speaker 1: they got to go out there and try to acquire
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Speaker 1: superstar player. But when you look at their shooting and
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Speaker 1: how much of importance that is in the postseason, you
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Speaker 1: look at the secondary creating and how much that's gonna
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Speaker 1: be important in the post I'd be so disappointed in
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Speaker 1: the front office if they decide to sit in their hands.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to give up the entire future. You
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Speaker 1: don't have to go out there and get a superstar,
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Speaker 1: but I just want somebody. Even the small acquisition of
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Speaker 1: Dinis Shrewder last year, how much that mattered to the team.
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Speaker 1: I don't know the twenty twenty sixth version of that
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Speaker 1: acquisition is, but I want to see it again on
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Speaker 1: our phone. Come get trade Jones, man, We love me
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Speaker 1: some trade Jones out. He can contribute to a good team.
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Speaker 1: But I'm saying all list knowing that no team in
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Speaker 1: the NBA want to make a goddamn trade anymore.
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Speaker 2: What is happening to our league? Man?
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Speaker 1: How everybody gonna blame Season mcullum, which I think it's
9:32
Speaker 1: just funny. Season McCollum got traded to the Atlanta Hawks.
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Speaker 1: Decide to take every shot and he's the reason why
9:37
Speaker 1: we don't get traded no more. Come on, man, but
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Speaker 1: not only one trade at this point in the season
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Speaker 1: is kind of nuts to trade. Deadline is a few
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Speaker 1: weeks away and there's rumors, but no rumors that make
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Speaker 1: you feel really good. So I don't know. Maybe the
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Speaker 1: Pistons literally can't. Maybe they're trying to acquire the talent
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Speaker 1: and they just can't get into the dough because no
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Speaker 1: other team is really to make the deal happen.
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Speaker 2: Next one comes from Hornet's lead.
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Speaker 1: That says we started off the season too poorly to
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Speaker 1: make the playerf will eventually miss out Land the eighth
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Speaker 1: pick in the draft that has franchise changing talent in
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Speaker 1: the top five and endure more injuries next season when
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Speaker 1: everyone begins believing it will.
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Speaker 2: Be the year Charlotte takes their leap. Oh man, this
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Speaker 2: is the prototypical glass half empty approach to fan bases.
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Speaker 1: And I'm that too, right. I'm that with my favorite team.
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Speaker 1: When things are going good, I don't believe it. When
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Speaker 1: things are going bad, it's the worst day of all time.
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Speaker 1: Some of the stuff I can understand when you're coming
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Speaker 1: from Hornet's leap. But you saying that endure more injuries
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Speaker 1: next season. No, there is no way.
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Speaker 2: We can even have that conversation because how the hell
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Speaker 2: will we know. We don't know anything about next year's injuries.
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Speaker 2: The first part about starting off two pearly.
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Speaker 1: To make the playoffs, sure, and eventually miss out and
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Speaker 1: landing the eighth overall pick. Sure, But when come talk
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Speaker 1: about next year's injuries, I just can't. I can't get
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Speaker 1: on that boat because I don't know. I just don't
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Speaker 1: want to even think about that being a possibility. Anyway, Bard,
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Speaker 1: it's I saw the stack the other day. Let me
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Speaker 1: see if I can pull it up. Going to our
11:01
Speaker 1: good old favorite place known as.
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Speaker 2: Cleaning the glass.
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Speaker 1: So let me explain the way these things work before it.
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Speaker 1: This is offensive and defensive ratings. So far in the season.
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Speaker 1: The Charlotte Hornets are the tenth ranked offense in the
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Speaker 1: nineteenth ranked defense. In the last two weeks, though they
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Speaker 1: have the second ranked offense in the sixth ranked defense,
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Speaker 1: they have a spread difference of a plus fourteen. They've
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Speaker 1: been playing amazing basketball. They on their road trip. I
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Speaker 1: think this is they just beat on the Lakers. Who
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Speaker 1: else palling into the Jazz? Those are the teams they
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Speaker 1: beat on this strip. But the really interesting conversation when
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Speaker 1: it comes to the Charlotte Hornets right now is that
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Speaker 1: they're win differential. What's the difference between the number of
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Speaker 1: games the team has won and what would expected base
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Speaker 1: on their efficiency differential god lead. They're dead last in
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Speaker 1: the league, which means that even though they're sixteen to
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Speaker 1: twenty seven, their advanced stats tell you that they're like
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Speaker 1: closer to a twenty one win team, which makes them
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Speaker 1: about a five hundred team. Right And it's by little
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Speaker 1: marge here between them and the Rockets. They're advanced that
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Speaker 1: say this is a five hundred team. They gotta close
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Speaker 1: out games. But this is a five hundred team, which
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Speaker 1: is something that none of us really expect when it
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Speaker 1: comes to Charlotte Hornets. That is an absolute win. But
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Speaker 1: like you mentioned, mister Hornet's League, you started off so.
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Speaker 2: Poorly that maybe it's too late.
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Speaker 1: I think the problem is here is not just that
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Speaker 1: you started off pretty poorly. It's the team that you
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Speaker 1: are competing with in order to get into.
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Speaker 2: That playing right now, that's a lot of games to
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Speaker 2: make up, right, Oh, never mind, I'm looking at the
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at roll team.
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Speaker 1: So fifteen games back in order to make it to
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Speaker 1: the play in, you're three and a half games back
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Speaker 1: from the playing. But the two teams that you're going
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Speaker 1: against are teams that have nothing to play for as
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Speaker 1: far as like losing on purpose. So you expect the
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Speaker 1: Bucks to get till you try to win keep beyond
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Speaker 1: is happy. You expect the Hawks, who have a pick swap,
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Speaker 1: to continue to try to win and everything. Currently they
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Speaker 1: are not playing good and you're playing better than that team.
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Speaker 1: I still wouldn't say it's out of the ram of
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Speaker 1: possibility that you can make that play in jump. And
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Speaker 1: even if you don't and you do land the eighth
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Speaker 1: overall pick, I think that would be okay. Like I
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Speaker 1: look at the Corps, those three guys up top between
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Speaker 1: Konkin Nipple, LaMelo Ball, and Brandon Miller, and I say
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Speaker 1: that is a core good enough to not necessarily need
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Speaker 1: to have Darren Peterson inserting the two before you look
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Speaker 1: at next season and say, oh, this is a.
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Speaker 2: Good ball club.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think we all just think about the
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Speaker 1: draft and say to hire the pick the better, which in.
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Speaker 2: A lot of cases they could be it. But who knows.
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Speaker 1: You just got a good representation from this year's draft
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Speaker 1: that your front off is kens draft well, I mean,
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Speaker 1: they have one of the best rookie classes of twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five. And even if you have the seventh pick,
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Speaker 1: the eighth pick, or something along those lines, who's to
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Speaker 1: say that y'all still don't walk out with one of
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Speaker 1: the better players of the entire draft. Who's to say that,
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Speaker 1: even though you're competing right now, that you don't get
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Speaker 1: the injury luck I'm sorry, did the lottery luck to
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Speaker 1: jump up and maybe you still end up with one
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Speaker 1: of those guys. And another one of my favorite stats
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Speaker 1: when it comes to this Charlotte Hornets team. Do you
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Speaker 1: have loads of good advanced stats to back up the core?
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Speaker 1: Almost three hundred minutes play between your core three young
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Speaker 1: guys NET rating of a six point five six That
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Speaker 1: is amazing. They don't defend a goddamn thing, but they
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Speaker 1: have a one thirty point four to eight offensive rating
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Speaker 1: with those three on the court. The Kanka Nipple by
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Speaker 1: himself minutes looking sane too. Oh, my goodness, Con and
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Speaker 1: Brandon Miller look good. Brandon Miller by himself look good.
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Speaker 1: Brandon and Cohn together with no LaMelo not the greatest.
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Speaker 1: LaMelo and Con with no Brandon Miller not amazing, but
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Speaker 1: LaMelo by himself so on even thirty six minutes, Oh,
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Speaker 1: that's because I got it sold.
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Speaker 2: That only the games that they all together.
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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of things to be excited about,
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Speaker 1: even if that means that you aren't good enough to
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Speaker 1: make the play in or that you don't end up
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Speaker 1: with a top three to five pick.
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Speaker 2: Five or three Blazer fans. It says health and shooting.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 1: Get a shooting to the deadline, get healthy and things
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Speaker 1: will start to get scary. One of my favorite teams
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Speaker 1: in the entire association. And it's not just because the
14:45
Speaker 1: Bulls earn their pick Loder protected, So like, I'm rooty
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Speaker 1: for you to make the postseason so we can get
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Speaker 1: another first round pick. That ain't just it. But the
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Speaker 1: team is good. The team is good with it healthy.
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Speaker 1: The problem is getting them healthy. Drew Hoghlay's come back
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Speaker 1: and things are looking I think they're five hundred for
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Speaker 1: the first time since earlier earlier in the season.
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Speaker 2: And these are probably my two things as well.
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Speaker 1: I've already made the case of like, I want to
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Speaker 1: see y'all bye bye bye, but you don't necessarily have
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Speaker 1: to do that, even though the stats with Jaren and
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Speaker 1: Zach Edy are so good that it's like, ooh, if
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Speaker 1: you could get Jaren to put them alongside down of
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Speaker 1: a Klayu in my goodness, But I understand Blazers fans
15:18
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily like it when I made that comp so
15:20
Speaker 1: I won't do it again. No, this is a team
15:22
Speaker 1: that I think should be competed for a postseason spot.
15:25
Speaker 1: They can add some shooting. The problem is what is
15:27
Speaker 1: that shooting and from where we don't know, because I mean,
15:30
Speaker 1: do you want Kevin Heurder Kevin Herder.
15:31
Speaker 2: Can shoot, go get Kevin Hurder. Yeah. Yeah.
15:34
Speaker 1: Everybody wear NBA hoops on lines and the Jazz have
15:37
Speaker 1: won too many games for the people at home that
15:39
Speaker 1: have not been keeping up. The Jazz have a top
15:42
Speaker 1: eight protected pick to none other than the Oklahoma City Thunder.
15:45
Speaker 1: And how did fill Oklahoma City Thunder acquire that pick?
15:48
Speaker 2: You ask?
15:50
Speaker 1: Salary done for dear favors, like one hundred years ago.
15:53
Speaker 1: Right now, the Utah Jazz are in six when it
15:57
Speaker 1: comes to their odds, which is pretty good. Again, it's
15:59
Speaker 1: top they protect and right now, the math says the math.
16:02
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do the math, but the math Roos
16:05
Speaker 1: is in your favor to keep that pick. What we're
16:07
Speaker 1: seeing right now is that the Jazz are starting to
16:09
Speaker 1: rest louder marketing more than ever so far in the season.
16:12
Speaker 1: I don't think they've won a single game with Loarry
16:13
Speaker 1: market and not playing. Indeed, I just got notigation and
16:15
Speaker 1: he's not playing tonight. So they recognize how important it
16:19
Speaker 1: is to keep this pick, and I would expect it
16:20
Speaker 1: to continue to go in that other direction. You gotta
16:24
Speaker 1: look at the teams you're going against, right like, is
16:26
Speaker 1: there a world where in the second half of the season,
16:28
Speaker 1: you lose more than the Brooklyn Nets. I think there
16:29
Speaker 1: is a world that is the case. But I wouldn't
16:31
Speaker 1: be surprised if the Brooklyn Nets also fold their cartoon.
16:34
Speaker 1: Since Joe Side before the season started was talking about
16:36
Speaker 1: how important that pick is and them, I don't think
16:38
Speaker 1: the Kings will ever try to lose ball games, so
16:42
Speaker 1: you're not that far away from that tool and to
16:43
Speaker 1: have games. But if we were to run this lottery, Boom,
16:47
Speaker 1: you jumped up, like we run this lottery five times,
16:49
Speaker 1: how many of these five times do you fall three
16:52
Speaker 1: spots under? Even here where you fail twice, you still
16:55
Speaker 1: end up at top eight? Like, how many times do
16:57
Speaker 1: I have to run this for this pick to end
16:59
Speaker 1: up going to the OKC thunder? Even here you keep
17:02
Speaker 1: dropping back two when it does not matter. So personally,
17:04
Speaker 1: I don't think you've lost or won too many games
17:06
Speaker 1: at this point, but I do think if you continue
17:08
Speaker 1: to try to win, then you might be danger.
17:10
Speaker 2: Boom, you even won a lotter in this one. Look
17:11
Speaker 2: how many times we click it?
17:12
Speaker 1: Man? I think the Jazz are okay, they're gonna retain
17:14
Speaker 1: that pick. They're gonna retain that pick. I still ain't
17:17
Speaker 1: seen them drop three because in the order for them
17:19
Speaker 1: drop three, that means there's three teams that have to
17:21
Speaker 1: jump above them. And though that did happen last season,
17:23
Speaker 1: when you think about it, the fact that that might
17:25
Speaker 1: have to happen again is really low. The odds of
17:28
Speaker 1: that is really low. And we're still clicking and it
17:30
Speaker 1: ain't even come. I still ain't seen Okac take that pick.
17:33
Speaker 1: So you're fine. You're fine. Twitter got to do within
17:37
Speaker 1: where they where they allow me to hide. Oh I can, it's.
17:43
Speaker 2: Too late now.
17:43
Speaker 1: One of the things that I had was from a
17:45
Speaker 1: Celtics fan that was basically talking about his biggest concern
17:48
Speaker 1: is when Tatum comes back and how much that's gonna
17:50
Speaker 1: shift the chemistry, and the reply to that is so
17:54
Speaker 1: crazy that I can't use him on YouTube. But here's
17:57
Speaker 1: what I'll say about that in ten seconds. Hello is
18:02
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum?
18:02
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like this, that's the craziest concern.
18:05
Speaker 1: That lets you know things are going too damn well
18:07
Speaker 1: in Boston, where your biggest concern is your best player
18:09
Speaker 1: coming back, I'm afraid he's gonna come back and mess
18:12
Speaker 1: up what we're building right now spoiler right now The
18:15
Speaker 1: odds of you winn the championship without Jason Tatum is
18:17
Speaker 1: pretty low. The ods of you winn the Championship with
18:18
Speaker 1: Jay Tatum higher, So Breen jays Tatum back when he
18:21
Speaker 1: gets healthy. This is our last one. There's some off
18:23
Speaker 1: Peach Tree. I feel nothing, Kenny. The Atlanta Hawks are
18:28
Speaker 1: just a team of nothing, mediocrity, embarrassment. We lost our
18:31
Speaker 1: franchise icon Jalen Johnson for Guy how to play Basketball.
18:35
Speaker 1: Our defense looks like Toddlers Basketball wasn't made for our city.
18:39
Speaker 2: Dang, that's tough, because I don't think you have your
18:41
Speaker 2: own first round pick in the NFL, not to rub
18:46
Speaker 2: it in Atlanta. I'm just saying, let's break this down.
18:49
Speaker 2: Let's break this down.
18:50
Speaker 1: We lost our franchise icon, which which is traded away
18:53
Speaker 1: Trey Young for to Washington. It felt like the marriage
18:56
Speaker 1: had run its course. I'm not mad at them for
18:58
Speaker 1: doing that. Jalen Johns for Guy how to Play Basketball.
19:01
Speaker 1: I've given Jalen Johnson a little bit of grace only
19:04
Speaker 1: about a year so though, because one of my least
19:06
Speaker 1: favorite things is when the players offensive low goes up
19:09
Speaker 1: or they become a better ball player and they lose
19:11
Speaker 1: a defensive identity that they started off within the league.
19:14
Speaker 1: Now I'm giving him the grace because it's probably gonna
19:16
Speaker 1: take a little bit time to find that balance. But
19:18
Speaker 1: when we have so many elite to really great two
19:21
Speaker 1: way players across basketball, and my mind is no longer
19:24
Speaker 1: an excuse to be like, oh, now he's scoring a bunch,
19:26
Speaker 1: so he don't need to play defense.
19:27
Speaker 2: Hell no, because you're the You're the reason I believe
19:30
Speaker 2: in you, Jayalen Johns.
19:31
Speaker 1: I've seen you defead in the last couple of years,
19:32
Speaker 1: So the fact that you've fallen off on other side
19:34
Speaker 1: of the floor on a team that desperately needs somebody
19:36
Speaker 1: like you defensively, I'm giving it just a little bit
19:38
Speaker 1: more time.
19:39
Speaker 2: But we have the Tatums, the Browns, the.
19:41
Speaker 1: Shads, we can go on and on of these guys
19:43
Speaker 1: are the Giannes of the world, the Anthony Erwitts of
19:46
Speaker 1: the world, These guys that give it all on both
19:48
Speaker 1: ends of the floor and are great to elite level
19:50
Speaker 1: defensive players while being the number one option as well.
19:53
Speaker 1: I don't find any excuse for a guy to not
19:55
Speaker 1: really care about the defensive end anymore, especially when he's
19:58
Speaker 1: done it before the basketball as a team has.
20:00
Speaker 2: Not been good.
20:01
Speaker 1: We mentioned see McCollen coming in and taking all of
20:03
Speaker 1: the shots. That feels like the case. But I said
20:06
Speaker 1: it once, I'll said again. Though things have not looked great,
20:10
Speaker 1: I think you guys are still in a prime position
20:12
Speaker 1: to make some level of noise. I don't think that
20:15
Speaker 1: means acquiring Anthony Davis is the right decision, but I
20:18
Speaker 1: do watch you play and recognize how small you are
20:20
Speaker 1: on a nightly basis, specifically when port Zingis is not playing,
20:22
Speaker 1: and say, hey, man, if they just had a good
20:24
Speaker 1: center on their roster to close the possessions, we could
20:26
Speaker 1: see something a little bit differently. Also, see the cap
20:29
Speaker 1: space that you're opening up. I see the draft capitol
20:31
Speaker 1: that you have, and I say to myself that if
20:33
Speaker 1: the next superstar becomes available, you might be the team
20:36
Speaker 1: that is first.
20:37
Speaker 2: In line to potentially call.
20:38
Speaker 1: And because the way the team is orchestrated, if that
20:42
Speaker 1: next guy that wants out is a guard, it makes sense.
20:45
Speaker 2: If it's a FOURD, it makes sense. If it's a
20:46
Speaker 2: big fella, it makes sense.
20:47
Speaker 1: So though it has not been pretty as of late,
20:50
Speaker 1: they do not defend and Jalen Johnson is struggling in
20:53
Speaker 1: a half court and not defending as well. I still
20:55
Speaker 1: personally see some light at the end of the ton
20:57
Speaker 1: for this Atlanta roster. And it's Atlanta front office, so
21:00
Speaker 1: it ain't great right now, Peachtree, But just give us
21:02
Speaker 1: some time and maybe maybe things will turn around. All right,
21:05
Speaker 1: that's what we're wrapping. Thank y'all so much to everybody
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