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The Purdue Report with Jake Dunn: Boilermakers in the Pros (2.295.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to the Purdue Report with Jake Dunn every week on the Central Indian Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome, Boiler-Maker fans to the Central Indian Sports Report for this week's Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Greg Mingal here with Jake to talk about Boiler-Maker's playing professional basketball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Jake, there are a few to go through.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to spend most of our time talking about Braiden Smith and Tray Coughman Randy
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[SPEAKER_02]: the NBA.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're also going to talk about Fletcher lawyer and Oscar Cluffer going to be playing in the summer league as well and go over some of the other players who are already in the NBA and playing professional basketball around the world.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Jake, welcome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Great to you back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Have any big fourth July plans?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do not my girlfriend Sofia's in Wisconsin where she's from for the weekend so I'm going to fly in solo so don't draw anything plant.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll make sure that you celebrate hard to the America rules.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Jake, your Indiana Pacers traded last year's second round draft pick, Cam Jones, and a future second round pick to draft Purdue legend, Braden Smith could not be happier about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: pretty elated about Brainsmith St. Helvin and being a pacer, I'm sure it means a ton to him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like throughout the draft process, you know, he was kind of the the guy that the pacers wanted.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they kind of making calls.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're trying to move into the second round.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And when the opportunity presented itself there with the bulls, they jumped on and got their guy who they weren't all long.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the the pacers
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[SPEAKER_01]: For an office has connection with the Smith family.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're their son, Traybe can played on the same team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe it's Braden for a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so definitely some familiarity there, especially with Braden from the stat running the Grand Park team for AU on the circuit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Pacers pretty much knew everything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is Sonila Belbreed and I glad that he gets a stay home.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And at the very least, be a nice boost and take a stay also
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[SPEAKER_02]: and of course for the noblesville boom, which is where we assume that he'll start maybe not uh, you're a high second round pick, maybe you make the team because there is a third point guard position open for the Pacers and he will be challenging for it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe he's signed
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, you know, at least hopefully we're guaranteed is a little bit of time up with the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So unless he blows their minds, he will be starting in nobles.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, most likely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: More and likely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great place for him to really, you know, show his, it's worth to the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Teaching a client will awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope they, they get some some time to, to really develop a relationship.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, and hopefully he can really kind of coach brain Smith up throughout the draft process.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Brainsmith is the next TJ McConnell, so it's cool that the hopefully get to have a little bit overlap there and learn from each other.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It should be a nice start with the Novels old boom and then hopefully you'll make that way up to the Pacers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't say that McConnell and Smith's games are necessarily similar, but I will say that what anyone can learn from TJ McConnell is that you'd need to continually get better all the time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what TJ McConnell has done since he got the NBA's added something to his game every year, always working, and that's how you have to be in the NBA, and he's a great role model at the very least.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One thing that I think they haven't come in quite a bit is is they're hard in there, they're their demeanor, that they play the game of basketball with.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So those are very similar.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, if Brandon Smith, he's proven to be a winner throughout his time in high school and with Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So undersized guards are obviously have a little bit of a disadvantage to make it into the league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if TJ McConnell can make it, I think Brandon Smith can make it as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And as our IU guy, my cuttle pointed out from high school to college to the NBA and never really needed to leave mom's house.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was thinking about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I see you're going to live at home for a little bit or is he's going to go to his own place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So.
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[SPEAKER_01]: from the financial standpoint, obviously be great from the will of the home.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure it is an IL money can take care of that, and you can just hopefully invest the rest of this of his MBA earnings, but excited for him to be a pacer and look forward to watching him out here in the summer league.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I said this all through last year for anybody who was listening a lot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He reminds me so much of Scott Skiles, who I grew up watching from Plymouth, Indiana, who played at Michigan State, and then was drafted.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know walky bucks in the first round in the early 80s.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Reminds me so much of him, and if he can have a Scott Skiles type career, not a great, great player, but still holds the NBA record for a system of game, was that kind of player, high IQ,
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[SPEAKER_02]: thinks ahead of everybody else and very similar to Braden Smith.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Braden is a little more athletic than Scott Skiles, Skiles, a little bigger than Braden, so I certainly think it's a possibility.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If he lives up to that comparison that I've made, he'll have a really nice NBA career and Jake, I'm going to get your assessment of his career with a question I have for you a little later in the
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[SPEAKER_02]: With the 56th pick in the NBA draft, the Minnesota Timber Wolf took Tray Coughman-Ren.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Jake, I just avoided watching the NBA draft because I'm a Pacers fan and it's easier to pretend the whole thing just was happening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then I saw that Tray Coughman-Ren was on the Timber Wolf's the next day, I just assumed that it was as a free agent because I didn't think he was gonna get drafted at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He did an up going late in the second round, making him the second highest player ever drafted from sellersburg, the hometown of producer Susie.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Steve Green was the 30th pick in the 1975 NBA draft.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He went to the bulls and then it was the sixth pick in the ABA draft to the Utah stars.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's where you ended up going.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's where he was before he spent three years with the Pacers, the wolves say they love Trake Offman's rent, basketball IQ, and his advanced offensive skill set, producer Susie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was actually the 59 draft pick the second to last.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you didn't just find out the next day, I told you the next day was the one time I told you wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it was the one time in history that I scooped you on a sports story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It'll never happen again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Here you go, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Your thoughts on Traybean drafted by the wolves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for having me get drafted.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's used the second.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Purdue forward to where number four to get drafted to the Minnesota Timberwolves, the first one, Robbie humble.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nice job.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I remember as a kid, I remember, I was in my parents room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I didn't have a TV in my room yet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was those little kid, I remember staying up super late back when they had the drafts all, you know, on one night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's just like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: maybe a little bit later, sand up super late, you know, hoping that Robbie Humble can get drafted.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was pretty close to the end.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It opened a couple of picks left, he was drafted by the Timberwolves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully, Trake Off and Ranking have a little bit of a longer career and NBA than Robbie Humble did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Timberwolves traded away Julius Randall, as well as Nas Reed, who were really, their main front court options.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a big hole for a guy like Trake Off and Ranking that can come in and at the very least,
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[SPEAKER_01]: side to for that opportunity for him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm also glad that what metal ball is off the streets to show what now he's not very good driver.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'd like to see he is not on the show streets anymore.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'd say you want if he makes the NBA team, that's going to be a crazy locker room.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a crazy locker room and it's basically two polar opposites there,
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh, lamellable and anti-edward to the, uh, pretty, pretty diverse locker room.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Go bear and just, woof, man nuts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So being drafted in the second round Jake, it means that one way or the other trick often will be on a professional NBA roster, whether it's with the wolves or their glee too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Tim rules have a couple of guys at the forum spot like Kyle Anderson, but you, he's 32 years old,
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not as young as he once was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've got Joe Engels, who's 38.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they've got Jade McDaniels who he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a big hole, a big opportunity there for a guy like Trick Off and Render come in and you're going to get a shot to play, so yeah, at the very least I would think that you would just write the bench and I'm sure hope I spent a little bit of time in the G league, but if they're really praising his basketball IQ then, you know, I don't see it for a reason why I couldn't have a shot there to really make an impact.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Jake Futscher lawyer didn't get drafted, but the clippers found him valuable enough to sign him to an exhibit 10 contract, which will have him in the best place on Earth this come in season San Diego, California, where I'll play for the San Diego Clippers of the G-League.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Unless he really wows everybody in camp and makes the clippers team out of camp, he will at least be in the G-League because of that contract for at least one year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: contract is a a pretty good deal for him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a guy that I feel like you kind of know what you're going to give with him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not going to not going to wow you with athleticism, but that's not really his job as job is to go out there and space the floor and make his three pointers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You've got a pretty good one in doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the clippers should have a pretty pretty nice assembly roster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They'll have Keaton Wagler assuming that he plays Bob Amiller from
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[SPEAKER_01]: North Chad Omeer from Miami, if you remember him, and Kim Christy as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's got a pretty solid roster there for the summer league and the connection with the Clippers Footwear's dad, I believe is either a scout or you know, does something for the Clippers franchise, you know, obviously you self to be good to Sign in exhibiting contract, but I'm in that familiarity.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure help them
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also Oscar colorful be playing for a glee deal he'll be on the summer league team after being signed by the Houston Rockets after one year with the boilermakers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, excited to see him get to play as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Rockets selected Bruce Thorden with I believe it's the 31st pick of the draft.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you might have a path of playing right away at least, you know, come off a bench.
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[SPEAKER_01]: for the actual team, they should have pretty solid, several league squad as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited to see us for Cloth Go up against the guys who have played professional basketball at this level before.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if he doesn't stick in the NBA, then I imagine that they'll be some Australian teams kind of knocking down his door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So make you want to go back home and play there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, but yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: be interesting to see how that turns out form.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Jake in on Thursday next week, the night, you get your first chance to see Trey Kaufman ran as a timber wolf Thursday, two, 30 on Amazon Prime.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then later that night, Fletcher Lawyers Clippers team will play 8 o'clock on ESPN.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And on Friday, back to back, Braden Smith and his Indiana Pacers will play at 430 on ESPN, Oscar Cluff and the Rockets will play 630 on ESPN right after that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then on Wednesday, the following week,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Braden and Trego head to head, the 15th in Vegas.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's on Amazon Prime as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you're a Purdue fan, you'll be a lot of fun in the summer, like this summer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Whenever there are players in the summer, like I think the Purdue basketball kind of social media that you could put out like a graphic that kind of lays all that out, so you can see when all these guys are playing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, really excited for that July 15th date.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm hoping to get to watch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let me get to watch, I trick on Red and Braids Smith go up against each other, if you're pretty cool to see.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And also, if you're listening on SoundCloud, Spotify, Amazon or Apple, if you look on our YouTube video, it'll be in the background of the YouTube video, all this information.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, as I've learned how to do some video stuff, so, Jake, I'm going to take a quick break.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And when we come back, we're going to talk about the players currently in the NBA and overseas.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then I have a big question for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sounds good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Jake, we want to talk about Zach Edy and the players playing professionally right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The first not Purdue related, but Big Ten and also Tipton, Indiana, your hometown, Ben Hummerhouse.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You have some news on him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really excited for Ben to have signed an exhibit 10 deal with the Brooklyn Nets.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ben is making a way to Brooklyn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What should be pretty cool?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dave, they've got a pretty good squad here for the summer week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've got Tyler Bilado, who we produce fans are familiar with from UCLA.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Michele Brown, Jr. from Louisville.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was kind of one of their star players this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dane Danger from, if Purdue fans remember him from a couple years ago from Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously Ben, they've got Grant Nelson from Alabama.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I use really good, and then Danny Wolf also in the forward spot for Michigan year to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we've got a pre-sacch line up here in Brooklyn, and Gillney Purdue related matchup, I think they have, is on Thursday, July 16th, they play the Houston Rockets.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, make it to see Oscar Cluff, and Ben Humberkowski to play against Cheddar again, but excited for Ben and hopefully you can find a spot there in Brooklyn on the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and the summer leaks turned into a really cool thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really enjoy watching the news.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's talk about the boiler makers currently in the pros and that, of course, starts with Zach Edy in the middle of a Memphis Grizzlies rebuild that has a new teammate in Cam Booser in a couple of old teammates gone.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it'll be interesting to see what happens with Zach and Memphis.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it will.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's the kind of one of the leaders on the team now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's just pretty crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's in a league for a couple of years now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But John Moransk on, believe John Jackson Jr. is also gone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I feel like there's not a lot of people left over from the previous teams to really be a leader.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So get up to me for him to step up and kind of be that leader.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They traded for Isaiah Stewart.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was a guy from Washington, a few years back, who I kind of made his mark on a link for being a pretty rough player, not afraid to get him to fight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Fun fact, I was at the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was a pistons versus the right hornets and Charlotte.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And there was a huge brawl.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he was a part of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, so yeah, that's pretty tough guy really.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll say that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, for sure as that gives pretty tough guy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I say it's a pretty tough guy So they've got some some guys who aren't afraid to rough it up there, but Yeah, camera boosters on the team believe they also You've assigned or drafted a Walter Clayton junior from Florida a year ago I'm said if go and look at the center hours a nice player.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So interesting real there in Memphis
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they clearly are going to be building around Cameron Poozer, hopefully Jack Evie can be a part of that, not hopefully he goes to a contender, he can get some playing time with the, he's got to stay healthy first, he's had some ankle problems here, so I want his healthy, he's proved the he can compete at this level, so hopefully he can not, he can stay healthy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I really want to avoid being political on this podcast, so I will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just think that Jayden and I we've got in a bit of a rod deal, clearly talented enough to be in the NBA and it seems like no one is interested in signing it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I sell something on social media that he was playing and like a pro amp thing in the end of the area.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, hopefully you can get us to get going to get back on his feet, so to speak, in the league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It seemed like he had some some stuff going on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I guess I'll leave it at that, but obviously I'll piece of cake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll feed you figures that out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's Uber talented and hopefully you can somebody can take a chance on them and and get it back in the week After averaging 22 points again last year at the Noble'sville boom International teams came calling for Dakota Matthias and the Tasmania jack jumpers have signed him to a deal jig
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, first on, I've heard of that team, but pretty cool that, you know, Dakota Mathias is approaching 10 years playing professionally.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And still getting better.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, he is, yes, he is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of goes back to what you're saying earlier about continuously working and improving, talking about, you know, TJ McCollon, Braden Smith, I mean, Dakota Mathias is a guy who, I was pretty pumped when he signed a Sunrling deal and I didn't really think he'd, he'd always spend much time in the NBA,
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had some really good opportunities with the 76ers, the Grizzlies, it's like he and obviously spent some time in their G league associations as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Really, really good year with the boom last year, and he is, yeah, playing overseas in Australia, maybe if things don't work out for us or class, maybe he can get a chance to go and play with him, be pretty cool.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Carson Edwards averaged 15.3 points of game last year in Belonia, Italy, and he's also played for some Turkish and German teams, clearly a valuable professional basketball player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I saw he signed a deal with it with the, again, the European League.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's won the best scores from, I don't, I don't, I want to European basketball, but for my say he's won the best scores
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so real excited for him to keep continuing their really wish he would have got more of a shot with the Celtics, but, um, you know, it's being undersized and not being the greatest defender.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, didn't help them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're trying to to use them more as, as like a point guard when he is a shooting guard scoring guard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, um, yeah, but he's, he's killing it overseas.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It seems like and, uh, another guy who's killing overseas.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think we've kind of forgotten about a little bit great, uh, training on Williams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, he's playing really well overseas.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure exactly which league he's in, but he's in touch with me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's also been in Germany and Israel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's Turkish team last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to try to say this right Bosch.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he average 11 points and 9 rebounds a game so still go and strong over there in Europe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Joanne John tonight think is also still playing professionally overseas somehow I believe he's still active overseas and he's been a really good career over there too need to look into that one also Lance Jones played a Mexico last year professionally and is now transitioning in the coaching here with the immense team so pretty pretty cool experience for for that and I think he'll bring a lot of juice to the
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Jake, I got a question for you when we come back here in just a second.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Jake, uh, after Braden and Tray were drafted last week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I started to do some research into the best NBA careers by former Boyle and Maker Basketball players.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And my question is, to you, can anybody we've mentioned today, Braden Smith, Tray Coffman, Ren,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Enter the top five professional careers for a former Purdue basketball player and here are your top five.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Two-time All-Star Glenn Robinson, I believe, is number one, three-time All-Star Terry Dishinger, who was also rookie of the year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have number two, two-time All-Star Brad Miller, number three, 1980, first pick in the draft, Joe Berry Carroll, number four, 10-solid seasons, and number five, also 10-solid seasons, E-t1 more.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Anybody playing now get in the top five in your opinion, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Zack E&E has a shot to be number five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But as we talk about, he's has to stay healthy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If he can stay healthy and if he's in the right system, he can have a really solid role from self and early brain smith.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you can be on a contender and win some championships, I think he might be able to crack the top five as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But in terms of success in today's NBA, anyway, there's a very small percentage of players who actually
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[SPEAKER_01]: and the NBA, some of these professional sports weeks, they have a really strong retirement plans.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I believe if you spend three years in the NBA, you are then vested in their retirement plan and every additional year you spent, you spend an NBA, that's more money that you would then see the attention, for example.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think a successful career for these guys
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, five, 10 years in the NBA and you don't have it a nice retirement set up forum whenever that time comes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I prayed Smith and Jackie, you probably have the best two shots at a Prec and that top five, but I would love if Jackie, he could be an all-star with this new format.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know he kind of made it to the rising stars, team or whatever they made it to go up against the, one of the NBA actual teams in the,
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[SPEAKER_01]: in this new ulcer game format so in my eyes he's kind of an already an ulcer but he's not technically an ulcer I guess but yeah in him I would say he's probably the most likely to to crack that top five and like Brainsmith as a you know he's a dark horse in that race I think too
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think so.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think both of them could end up at the top five, top four, maybe even top three by the time this is done, especially because Jake Braden is going to start winning championships here the next couple of years, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, definitely winning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I hope so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I, uh, Craig, we'd love to繼續 your thoughts here on, uh, on, you know, whether or not you would welcome Brian James on the Pacers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, in the right situation, but probably not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would hate it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It would taint a championship for me a little bit, but still, the Pacers of my lifetime have been really good, most of the time, but have just not done that one thing, and I would probably give up a little bit of my love for the team for a championship.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I don't know, that's a tough question.
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[SPEAKER_02]: he would fit in really nicely you know yeah yeah I think he really would be the perfect beast of that too but I really don't want that to be part of their championship legacy that they had to go out and get LeBron James to do it one super star I just can't stand
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[SPEAKER_02]: just can't stand it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Can't stand the way he ran his career.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not, it's not personal, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, he ran his career, running around chasing after rings.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One not to, and then, of course, beating the Pacers in a couple of different places.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, not a fan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We weren't really long on this one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was worth it, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'd say so.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, Jake, we'll have an incredible 4th of July weekend, and we'll talk again very soon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, thank you, you as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Boiler up, get Boiler up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks to Jake, and thank you so much for listening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I sure do love you, Susie.