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1 Word To Describe Every NBA Team Right NOW · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: If you could only use one word to describe your
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Speaker 1: favorite team right now, what word would you use? That
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Speaker 1: is a question for today's video. As a good old
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Speaker 1: people at Bleacherport have put together an article that we
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Speaker 1: will be reacting to it. Let me start with Chicago Bulls.
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Speaker 1: If I had one word to describe my Bulls, the
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Speaker 1: word I would use is negligent. From ownership to management,
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Speaker 1: to coaching to medical staff. The only people that's not
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Speaker 1: negligent is that broadcast boue south of States of King
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Speaker 1: Adam me because they be locking it down on a
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Speaker 1: nightly basis. But think about how long it's been since you,
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Speaker 1: not even the Bulls fans, just the average NBA fan
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Speaker 1: have seen a good Bulls team. It's been a decade. Man.
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Speaker 1: We're one of the biggest markets in the States and
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Speaker 1: we struggle to put together competent to good, exciting teams.
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Speaker 1: Think about what the city of Chicago just did, the
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Speaker 1: amount of buzz that we had when the Bears was
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Speaker 1: just good for the first time this season. It's been
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Speaker 1: forever since the Bulls have got that. But because the
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Speaker 1: people in charge the negligence that they're bringing, they don't
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Speaker 1: care because that bottom dollar is still really damn high.
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Speaker 1: So between the people that are owning the team are
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Speaker 1: Tony's Carnie Shovis and Mark Eversley, who are making the
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Speaker 1: decisions when it comes to trades and draft, and the
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Speaker 1: stuff from Billy Donovan because he's just trying to squeeze
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Speaker 1: out every win for a team that's already been eliminated
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Speaker 1: from playoff contention to the medical staff where Kobe White
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Speaker 1: gets traded away and then the team that we traded
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Speaker 1: him to said, hold on, y'all, his calf is way
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Speaker 1: versus y'all told us. And we hear stories about Bulls
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Speaker 1: medical staff year after year not taking serious injury. Serious
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Speaker 1: negligence is the perfect word. And the reality is Bulls fans,
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Speaker 1: you might even to close your ears for this, but
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Speaker 1: the reality that we need to come to terms with.
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Speaker 1: As long as Jerry is making those decisions, we will
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Speaker 1: always be in this spot. Hell, the Cubs are owned
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Speaker 1: by somebody who I don't even know who ow was
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Speaker 1: a Cub, but they go for we're in too big
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Speaker 1: of a market and we're talking baseball here, but baseball
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Speaker 1: don't even have a salary floor, and we're in the
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Speaker 1: big one of the biggest markets and the White Sox
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Speaker 1: don't spend money. Andrew been attendee was the biggest free
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Speaker 1: agent that we ever had. And I know, so this
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Speaker 1: is foreign to some of y'all because you're not baseball people.
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Speaker 1: The biggest free agent we ever had that he not
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Speaker 1: even you know what I'm saying, But Jerry store from
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Speaker 1: runs this team. So the only silver liner, if I'm
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Speaker 1: quickly just doing little bit of baseball, is that he
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Speaker 1: sold part of the team to matt Eshpia and his
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Speaker 1: family and immediately we made at least one free agent
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Speaker 1: signing and my guy Muna, and all we can hope
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Speaker 1: for is that Jerry sees that Seattle and Las Vegas
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Speaker 1: might sail for seven to ten million dollars, and he
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Speaker 1: thinks to himself, Humm, I wonder what the Bulls can
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Speaker 1: go for. And he walk out with nine billion dollars.
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Speaker 1: And now we got a new owner who will be
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Speaker 1: willing to hire the right people and really try to
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Speaker 1: go for negligent on all accounts. Golly, there's a lot
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Speaker 1: let's get to the one word to describe every team
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Speaker 1: right now. When I know you're gonna say, Kenny, what
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Speaker 1: do you feel about the Ivy situation? Should we talked
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Speaker 1: about that on the podcast? Damnit? I don't want to
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Speaker 1: talk about it no more talking about the Atlanta they're
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Speaker 1: one word that they gave them as opportunistic. It says,
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Speaker 1: since y'allso break, the Hawks have a lead's third most
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Speaker 1: wins sixteen and the third best net rating. This has
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Speaker 1: actually been like a switch turn for them. Man, I
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Speaker 1: understand the skeptics, if you will, We'll look at that
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Speaker 1: schedule and say, like, I think they won seventeen of nineteen,
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Speaker 1: but many of those teams they beat, we're not playoff teas.
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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you got to beat
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Speaker 1: the team in front of you. So even if you
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Speaker 1: have a cupcake schedule, you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Speaker 1: And I've set this even when they weren't on a
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Speaker 1: seventeen or eleven game win streak. That there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of things in Atlanta that they should be excited about,
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Speaker 1: from the current roster, from Jalen Johnson and Nikkei Alza Towalker,
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Speaker 1: who one of those two guys might win most and
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Speaker 1: proof player, to the idea of them having that Pelicans
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Speaker 1: pick that seems to be top ten this year, and
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Speaker 1: them having potentially the assets if they wanted to buy.
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Speaker 1: It's really up to them. They're in a pretty decent
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Speaker 1: spot and if they continue to win like this for
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season, they may avoid the playing
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Speaker 1: completely and just straight up be in a five or
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Speaker 1: the three to six matchup with a four to five matchup.
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Speaker 1: So got to take care, minnis. You gotta beat the
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Speaker 1: teams in front of you, and that's exactly what they've
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Speaker 1: been able to do. Also, just went on this little
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Speaker 1: thing about Dyson Daniels where like, if you're not watching
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks, Dyson Daniels can kind of look at
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Speaker 1: the fact. You could look at the fact that he
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Speaker 1: shooting I don't even know the number thirteen percent from
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Speaker 1: three to season and be like, eugh, BASD season and
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Speaker 1: I can understand that, but like I just you know,
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Speaker 1: you watch their games. They's hit their game the other
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Speaker 1: night against the Boston self is a second game against
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Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics, and Dyson Daniels is a critical part
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Speaker 1: of what they can do offensively. I really loved the
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Speaker 1: idea of him continuing to put his shoulder into bigs
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Speaker 1: and just still get into the bask I think he
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Speaker 1: did that to Mary Williams yesterday. I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: like watching the Atlanta Hawks play basketball. Opportunistic makes a
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Speaker 1: lot of sense to me because a lot of the
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Speaker 1: things that they have been able to do as of
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Speaker 1: recent is them making the most out of their situation
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Speaker 1: and seeing an opportunity and taking advantage of that opportunity,
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Speaker 1: right Nikkei Alizen the Walker taking advantage of that opportunity,
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Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. They were the only
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Speaker 1: team to pick up the phone from Joe Dumars and
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Speaker 1: say yes. That is an opportunity that they say yes
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Speaker 1: to and it's gonna net them a top ten pick
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Speaker 1: in this year's draft. That is an amazing word. Zach Buckley,
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Speaker 1: who wrote this article Boston Celtics' Favorites, Hey yeah, Jaylen
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Speaker 1: Brown did just tweet this fifty wins in the gap year.
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Speaker 1: I've said it once, I said again, I one hundred
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Speaker 1: percent thought this is the gap year for the Boston
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Speaker 1: Celts before this season started. That immediately shifted, like Week
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Speaker 1: two of the NBA season. Favorites. I'm not mad at
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Speaker 1: that idea at all if we're talking about favorites within
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Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference, because we do love the Pistons, we
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Speaker 1: do love the Knicks, and we got love for the Cavaliers.
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Speaker 1: But I think start to finish, the Celtics are the
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Speaker 1: most complete of those teams. I feel like they have
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Speaker 1: the least amount of question marks postseason wise. It's like
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Speaker 1: you can look at, you know, the lack of shot
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Speaker 1: creation in Detroit, even though I got so much respect
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Speaker 1: for Detroit outside of k Cunningham. You look at the
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Speaker 1: New York Knicks, and even though on paper they have
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Speaker 1: one of the top seven defenses in the league, you
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Speaker 1: question what Jaylen Bruns, the Karth and the Towns defensively
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Speaker 1: can do together in the postseason. The Cavaliers just don't
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Speaker 1: have reps together. I think the last time I checked
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Speaker 1: their core, four of guys that only played thirty one
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Speaker 1: minutes together. That's just not gonna cut it. And the Celtics,
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Speaker 1: what do you really have? You maybe don't trust their
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Speaker 1: big man rotation in the postseason maybe, I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: just they don't have as many question marks. Is gonna
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Speaker 1: be something the other Eastern Conference team? So contender or favorites?
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Speaker 1: I A'm ad at it. Brooklyn Nets temporary I'm assuming
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Speaker 1: they're saying this because the Brooklyn Nets. Joe Side, the
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Speaker 1: owner of the Brooklyn Nets, basically said before this he
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Speaker 1: started this is the last year that we have full
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Speaker 1: right strong draft picks, and they have a bunch of
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Speaker 1: money to potentially spend, so there's no incentive next season
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Speaker 1: to be bad. Because, if I'm not mistaken, they have
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Speaker 1: a swap with Houston, so Houston would get their pick
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Speaker 1: if they're trash. So they should be a team that
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Speaker 1: is temporarily this bad and a team that is trying
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Speaker 1: to maybe buy a little bit this offseason, so you know,
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Speaker 1: you maybe not giving up a top pick or whatever.
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Speaker 1: The Nets intend to flip the switch and try to
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Speaker 1: compete as soon as next season. All right, there you go.
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Speaker 1: Brian Lewis from the New York Post got it. Next,
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Speaker 1: we got the Charlotte Hornets Transform. Hey listen, Zach, you're
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Speaker 1: killing it. Transform one am I. The worst thing that
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Speaker 1: can happen this play in for me is that the
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Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets don't make the actual playoffs. At all. Of
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Speaker 1: the four potential playing teams for the Eastern Conference, they
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Speaker 1: are by far the most fun watch and maybe have
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Speaker 1: the highest upside of any of them, And because of
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Speaker 1: their in a nine to ten matchup right now, they
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Speaker 1: would win have to win two games to get there
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Speaker 1: in the back end of their schedule. Go look at
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Speaker 1: the last four games that the Hornets have the end
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Speaker 1: of season. It's like playoff team, playoff team, contender, contender.
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Speaker 1: It's tough. So I would hope that they could get
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Speaker 1: to that seven to eight matchup so they only need
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Speaker 1: to win one to get in. But whether they make
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Speaker 1: it or not, I think that you can go into
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Speaker 1: next season and be like, this team is good enough
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Speaker 1: to put to Loki win fifty games if everything goes
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Speaker 1: the right way, So they feel like a Transform organization.
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Speaker 1: Fucking love watching those dudes playing. Chicago Bulls that used Tarty.
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Speaker 1: Not mad at this idea either, because every decision that
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Speaker 1: the Bulls have made as of recent has come late,
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Speaker 1: trading away Kobe White and Hya, the Sue Mu and
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Speaker 1: all the Vucevich and only Netting's second round picks. They
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Speaker 1: were tardy to the party, a party that everybody knew
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Speaker 1: was about the end, A party that everybody said that
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Speaker 1: this course it's not good enough to do anything. You
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Speaker 1: should sell them now. They took two years to sell them,
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Speaker 1: So I would use the word tardy. Even even with this,
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Speaker 1: Like again I said, I didn't really want to talk
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Speaker 1: about it much, but even with the Jada Ivy situation, well,
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Speaker 1: I'll say it again in case people have not seen
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Speaker 1: my video or us talking about on the pod, I'm
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Speaker 1: hoping that Jada and Ivy gets the help that he needs.
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Speaker 1: And if you don't think he needs help, I want
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Speaker 1: to tell you to go watch the seventy five minute
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Speaker 1: Instagram live that he did a few days ago. There's
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Speaker 1: no way you can watch that and think that this
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Speaker 1: man is not going through some type of mental crisis. Right.
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Speaker 1: And from my understanding, because y'all know, I'm just I'm
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Speaker 1: not tapped into many things as far as the NBA goes,
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Speaker 1: other than my Chicago Bulls, and from everything that I've
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Speaker 1: heard from media, from players that are on the team
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Speaker 1: to our team officials. What this whole thing this I
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Speaker 1: don't want use the word crisis, but I'm gonna use
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Speaker 1: a word crisis for lack of a better term. This
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Speaker 1: crisis that Jada and Ivy is going through happened started
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Speaker 1: at the moment he touched or it may have not
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Speaker 1: have started then, but it was apparent the moment he
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Speaker 1: touched down in Chicago, right immediately coming off off the plane,
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Speaker 1: asking the religious affiliations of everybody within the locker room
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Speaker 1: and within the team and even within media, and asking
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Speaker 1: very very deep down personal questions to people that you
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Speaker 1: don't like asking media people have they fordicated before marriage?
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Speaker 1: Like just a bunch of things. And it got to
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Speaker 1: the point a breaking point when obviously the Instagram stuff
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Speaker 1: started and they were tardy to the party when it
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Speaker 1: comes to making that decision. Because I had heard even
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Speaker 1: before the Instagram stuff that the Bulls did not plan
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Speaker 1: on bringing j Knivy back next season. They sent them
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Speaker 1: home and said, hey, you take care of your business,
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Speaker 1: you get back from this injury, but you won't be
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Speaker 1: a part of the Bulls. But because they got the
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Speaker 1: extra stuff with the Instagram thing that they were like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we can't even employ you at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: so we're gonna get rid of you right now. Would
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Speaker 1: I would have preferred that if you are going to
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Speaker 1: waive him that attached to that, it was like, hey,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna try to get you some potential help. And
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Speaker 1: maybe that is still happening behind the scenes. We still
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Speaker 1: don't know. But there's three stories that I was told
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Speaker 1: about Ivy since he got here in Chicago that I
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Speaker 1: part well, I would say two sortss. One of them
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Speaker 1: broke today about, you know, asking reporters very personal questions
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Speaker 1: and stuff. The other two I don't think it's my
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Speaker 1: place to say, but if they ever start to like
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Speaker 1: break a little bit, then maybe I'll bring that to
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Speaker 1: the table. But I don't think it adds a it
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Speaker 1: Actually I won't because I don't think it really adds
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Speaker 1: any value to the conversation. The Cleveland Cavaliers urgent, Yes,
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Speaker 1: they traded a twenty six year old for a thirty
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Speaker 1: six year old, so I would I would say that
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Speaker 1: that's the word to use. Obviously shifts their timeline a
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Speaker 1: little bit to be more in the now. Dom Mitchell
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Speaker 1: is up for an extension or or yeah he's up
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Speaker 1: for an extension, he soon and we don't know if
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Speaker 1: he's going to sign it. So yeah, we put our
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Speaker 1: foot on the gas a little bit. Get a player
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Speaker 1: that is better in the now, even if that may
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Speaker 1: cost us down the line. And the Darius card are
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Speaker 1: looking pretty good, and again, only time to tell whether
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Speaker 1: or not it is the right decision. I do like
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Speaker 1: when I watch all of those guys play together, it
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Speaker 1: just doesn't happen very often. WHOA Yeah, I mean yeah,
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Speaker 1: fuck it, I mean yeah, it's Cooper flat, It's just him.
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Speaker 1: It's just him. Oh Man, Cooper. Flag is the word
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Speaker 1: that they use is flagg dog. The guy is special.
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Speaker 1: On a night to night basis, you see it, and
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Speaker 1: sometimes you see in a different way. I think I
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Speaker 1: did a whole vide. Yeah, I did a whole video
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Speaker 1: about the twenty twenty five draft class. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to go too much to it, but it shows his specialness,
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Speaker 1: if that's the word. Shows differently. It feels like every
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Speaker 1: single game. Sometimes it's offensively, sometimes it's defensively. Sometimes it's scoring,
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Speaker 1: sometimes it's playmaking. Sometimes it's feel for the game. And
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Speaker 1: I just I got no doubt in my mind, this
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Speaker 1: is one of the best players in the league very soon,
12:38
Speaker 1: sooner rather than later, you feel me any who one
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Speaker 1: side for Denver, I'm assuming this is the lack of
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Speaker 1: defense where I did it before. Actually, let me look
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Speaker 1: up really quick. Wait. History holds that it takes a
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Speaker 1: top ten ranking on both sides of the ball to
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Speaker 1: win a title. But it is worth noting that the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three twenty four Nuggets were among the rare exception,
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Speaker 1: finishing fifteenth in defense during that championship, been in raising season,
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Speaker 1: one of the only exceptions that we have as far
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Speaker 1: as like a defense being that bad. Today, they are
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Speaker 1: ranked as of today, oh Man, twenty first ranked defense.
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Speaker 1: That's that's cleaning the glass rating that accounts for getting
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Speaker 1: rid of garbage time and so on and so forth.
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Speaker 1: So twenty first ranked. If the Denver Nuggets were to
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Speaker 1: win a championship, that will be the lowest ranked defensive
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Speaker 1: rating of any team to win a championship. It's not
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Speaker 1: out of the ram of possibility. But you know what
13:28
Speaker 1: I'm saying. The reason we look at stuff like that
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Speaker 1: is because a lot of the times you have to
13:32
Speaker 1: look at historical examples. But even then, I guess the
13:37
Speaker 1: historical example got pushed when they wanted with fifteen a
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. So who's to say that they
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Speaker 1: couldn't get Oh, they got twenty first year two, who's
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Speaker 1: to say they couldn't win it at twenty first? It
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Speaker 1: would be really tough. This league is really good now.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it wasn't a twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 1: but it's really really good. And a lot of these
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Speaker 1: series that you're going to go into from the Western Conference,
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Speaker 1: like the Denver Nuggets, will have to go through four
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Speaker 1: can tending teams. Think about that. You're gonna go through
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Speaker 1: four contending teams to win a championship, whether it be
14:05
Speaker 1: you know, let's say first round you got Minnesota, second
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Speaker 1: round you might have the Spurs, and the conference finals
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Speaker 1: you might have Okay see, and then whoever wins the
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Speaker 1: East you got, Like some teams, you don't have to
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Speaker 1: go through four contendents. You go through two. Hell sometimes
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Speaker 1: you can get you can maybe going through one. I
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Speaker 1: don't think that's this season, but they would have to
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Speaker 1: go through four contending teams. Who it's not our visibility,
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Speaker 1: but I don't know what I'm saying resilient. Oh man,
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Speaker 1: Zach Buckley, Man, you are in your goddamn bag. Yesterday,
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Speaker 1: though they did not win, this game is a perfect
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Speaker 1: example of the resilience that is the Detroit Pistons, right.
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Speaker 1: I think it is very easy to look at every
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Speaker 1: team through the lens of the playoffs and sometimes that
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Speaker 1: I'm using myself in this sample. Sometimes that made me
14:48
Speaker 1: not look at what is in front of me. With
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Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons, I always say, oh, this is a
14:52
Speaker 1: great team, but but sometimes you gotta end that sentence
14:56
Speaker 1: this is a great team. And yesterday, going against the
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Speaker 1: DEFINNANH champions, to not have Cad Toby Durham Stewart and
15:03
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm forgetting somebody else and to push
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Speaker 1: that team to an overtime game with just basically like
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Speaker 1: Danas Jenkins, a really good backup slash third sugar. Paul
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Speaker 1: Reid is a third shrink center and yesterday he was
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Speaker 1: like one of the best players in the court. Javonte
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Speaker 1: Green has jumped around the league. JB Bigger staff, the
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Speaker 1: identity they've created and everybody buying in resilient is a
15:24
Speaker 1: great way to describe it, and one of my least
15:26
Speaker 1: favorite things that could potentially happen in this offseason is
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Speaker 1: Ky cunning him either doesn't come back at all of
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Speaker 1: the postseason, or he comes back and he doesn't like
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Speaker 1: the All NBA First Team player because I would hate
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Speaker 1: for the season be offered, not just because you know
15:39
Speaker 1: Kate is out with his injury. Anyway, Shout out to
15:42
Speaker 1: the dtre Pistons. Next week got the Golden State Warrior
15:45
Speaker 1: is faded? Okay, this is this is one of the
15:47
Speaker 1: first ones I'm seeing and I'm not I'm not attaching
15:50
Speaker 1: to it. The Warriors have so far refuse to shut
15:52
Speaker 1: down Steph Curry after watching him as two months with
15:55
Speaker 1: runners knee. Has it really been two months? Damn Yeah,
15:58
Speaker 1: it actually feels longer. And go line. I feel like
15:59
Speaker 1: we seen him play since like November. The calendar might
16:03
Speaker 1: take care of the tricky decision for them. We're not
16:05
Speaker 1: bringing him to player Okay, fted and then I said faded, fated.
16:09
Speaker 1: They move on to the Rockets. Ooh, Bill Simmons a
16:14
Speaker 1: little aggregation clip. There's something's really wrong with the Rockets.
16:18
Speaker 1: That's Bill's Emmitts the Podfather disconnected. That's great. There's some
16:23
Speaker 1: Knights where you watch it used to Rockets you say, oh,
16:26
Speaker 1: this team is disgusting, and there's some nights you watch
16:28
Speaker 1: it used to Rockets say oh, this team is disgusting,
16:30
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And that the second version
16:33
Speaker 1: of that is happening more and more as the season
16:35
Speaker 1: goes on. Maybe that there was something that really big
16:38
Speaker 1: happened at the All Star break that may have shifted
16:40
Speaker 1: the locker room. I couldn't. I could never try to
16:43
Speaker 1: put together what that could potentially have been. But it
16:45
Speaker 1: does feel like a disconnected team, so disconnected that this
16:47
Speaker 1: team that we lotted as one of the top three
16:50
Speaker 1: young young cores in basketball just last season, they might
16:54
Speaker 1: be using some of that young cords to shift the
16:56
Speaker 1: identity of this team completely and go buy something bigger
16:58
Speaker 1: and better, a big new to to come to Houston.
17:00
Speaker 1: I don't know. Next, we got the Indiana Paid Pacers.
17:05
Speaker 1: They are committed. Them boys lost every game I mean
17:08
Speaker 1: other than I think they beat the Magic recently, But
17:12
Speaker 1: they are very committed to the bit Because this brother
17:15
Speaker 1: right here, he could play like he could I think
17:19
Speaker 1: he would be healthy enough to play if necessary. It's
17:21
Speaker 1: just not necessary, right, you know what they're gonna do?
17:23
Speaker 1: They traded away picked five through to nine, and damn it,
17:27
Speaker 1: they gonna do everything in their power to keep that pick.
17:29
Speaker 1: So if they have Halliburton, nim Hard, the Bonza, Siakam
17:35
Speaker 1: and Zue Goalie, they are committed to the thing. You
17:38
Speaker 1: know what, the Pacers fans deserve some level of lottery
17:41
Speaker 1: luck if you will. I saw that they've never had
17:43
Speaker 1: a first overall pick play for their team, and then
17:46
Speaker 1: even a team that just went to the finals last
17:48
Speaker 1: year only had two top ten picks. It was like
17:51
Speaker 1: Benedict Mathern and jars Walker maybe the only two. Like
17:56
Speaker 1: this team has got it through the mid first rounds
17:58
Speaker 1: in great trades for a long time. I would love
18:00
Speaker 1: to see them just draft the camp Miss prospect and
18:02
Speaker 1: just go from there. Shout out, shout out to reach
18:06
Speaker 1: the many putting together fits. Man, I bet you would
18:08
Speaker 1: love to play basketball. Though Clippers aren't confusing what's what
18:12
Speaker 1: Kawhi and it's like many smile. I feel like I've
18:14
Speaker 1: seen Kawhi do this many smile a thousand times in
18:16
Speaker 1: his career. This is resting faces, just resting, resting our RFB.
18:22
Speaker 1: He's just happy all the time. Confusing, what what are
18:24
Speaker 1: we using? I've been in this league eighteen years. It's
18:26
Speaker 1: the weirdest season I've been a part of. Yeah, I mean,
18:29
Speaker 1: Chris Paul definitely hurt this. Chris. You know, Chris, you know,
18:35
Speaker 1: you know we got love for you. I'm just I'm
18:37
Speaker 1: just choking. I'm just joking. But yeah, this team has
18:39
Speaker 1: no business being around five hundred after the start. I
18:43
Speaker 1: actually like their deadline a ton as y'all known. It's
18:46
Speaker 1: a confusing team, a team that I think is going
18:48
Speaker 1: to make their way into the postseason through the playing
18:51
Speaker 1: and first round it out. I would assume I was
18:54
Speaker 1: just assuming that next week at the Lakers ascending right place,
18:56
Speaker 1: right time for this Laker team winning games when it
18:58
Speaker 1: matters the most. Nine won in their last ten, even
19:01
Speaker 1: last night against the Washington which is no look adowntas
19:03
Speaker 1: Lebron James Tripp a double like an old man can do.
19:06
Speaker 1: Doing it at the right time has to matter. I
19:08
Speaker 1: remember a few years ago this videos turned into what
19:10
Speaker 1: we're not even halfway through. But I like talking. I
19:12
Speaker 1: remember a few years ago we talked about on this
19:15
Speaker 1: channel the research packet. I think if somebody had did
19:20
Speaker 1: the research that said the way you start the season
19:23
Speaker 1: is a better indicator of how you play in the postseason.
19:26
Speaker 1: Just looking at the numbers, like teams that go into
19:28
Speaker 1: the postseason hot, it doesn't mean anything. And then last
19:31
Speaker 1: year it kind of shifted. I don't know if the
19:33
Speaker 1: Patiers were the anomaly. Right where they started their season
19:36
Speaker 1: was trash and then they had three months of greatness
19:38
Speaker 1: before they went to the finals. Maybe, oh, maybe the
19:41
Speaker 1: reporter is outdated at this point, that studies outdated this point.
19:44
Speaker 1: And if you're a Lakers fan, you would hope that
19:46
Speaker 1: report is outdated because the way they've been playing as
19:48
Speaker 1: a recent you would want to ride this momentum into
19:50
Speaker 1: the postseason, even if historically that doesn't really matter. Luca
19:53
Speaker 1: Dontis is one of the best players in the world.
19:55
Speaker 1: Lebron James has figured out what it like to be
19:58
Speaker 1: number three and he's ascending at that. Marcus Smart is
20:00
Speaker 1: still playing ridiculously defensively. I think he deserves some all
20:04
Speaker 1: defensive looks. At least DeAndre Aden has bought in on
20:07
Speaker 1: a nightly basis. J J. Riddick has showed himself a
20:10
Speaker 1: second year in the road that he is a good
20:12
Speaker 1: NBA coach. So yeah, man, the defense has been top
20:14
Speaker 1: ten in the last month. Okay, the Grizzlies behind interesting.
20:19
Speaker 1: I don't know if I agree with this one. The
20:21
Speaker 1: Grizzlies have been brutally bad for a while, it's maybe
20:24
Speaker 1: not for long enough to collect one of the year's
20:27
Speaker 1: drivet live. The reason I don't know if I would
20:29
Speaker 1: agree with this is because I think that the two
20:32
Speaker 1: traits they made between the Desmon Bang and the Jaronce
20:34
Speaker 1: Exi Junior trades, they made him at the time where
20:38
Speaker 1: we were surprised, which makes me feel like that they
20:42
Speaker 1: were proactive rather than reactive. It's not like we like
20:45
Speaker 1: Desmon Bang about to get trade. Like they traded him
20:47
Speaker 1: and got for a first round picks. It makes me
20:48
Speaker 1: feel like they were ahead of the curve. They traded
20:50
Speaker 1: Jarons X Junior out of nowhere and they got three
20:52
Speaker 1: first round picks, and makes me feel like they're ahad
20:54
Speaker 1: of the curve. So I guess I don't agree with
20:56
Speaker 1: this one. But shout out to the black bucket again.
20:59
Speaker 1: You've been killing it defenseless. Oh did hashtag he coached
21:04
Speaker 1: your request early summer vacation, the summer that the eighty
21:06
Speaker 1: three point eruption and subsequent we aren't apologized or anything
21:10
Speaker 1: celebrats to make Miami forget all about the hardest working,
21:12
Speaker 1: best condition, toughest, nastiest identity as Pipe Riley's been pre Okay,
21:18
Speaker 1: all right, Miami just dropped seven of the last eight. Yeah,
21:21
Speaker 1: I guess that has happened. Seven of last eight is
21:24
Speaker 1: really tough. They did just win yesterday against the seventy
21:26
Speaker 1: six or team, which is a huge win for the
21:28
Speaker 1: playing stuff, but they haven't looked good. Full stop. Is
21:34
Speaker 1: this Chicago? Maybe not? Maybe I'm tripping. Maybe I'm tripping. No,
21:39
Speaker 1: this is not Chicago. Okay, I'm tripping. It kind of
21:41
Speaker 1: looked like Chicago for a second. Anyway, Oh my god,
21:45
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I don't know this word. Hold on
21:49
Speaker 1: irreconci irre concilable the idea of representing findings or points
21:56
Speaker 1: of views that are different than each other. I'm sorry,
21:58
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that one. Shout out Milwaukee unpredictable. Yeah, man,
22:02
Speaker 1: they are one of the biggest wild cards. They could
22:04
Speaker 1: make it to the conference finals and particially when it,
22:06
Speaker 1: or they couldn't be a first round exit. Some games,
22:08
Speaker 1: just like we talked about with the wol or with
22:10
Speaker 1: the Rockets, some games you watch them be like, yes,
22:12
Speaker 1: it's a team that was just in the conference finals
22:13
Speaker 1: last year. Sometimes you watch it like, hell, that's the
22:16
Speaker 1: possession we got three times in a row. Sometimes Julis
22:19
Speaker 1: random looks locked in defensively. A lot of times he don't.
22:22
Speaker 1: I think Aos come in and helped a little bit.
22:24
Speaker 1: But they're very unpredictable, a team that again, I could
22:28
Speaker 1: see them being in the conference finals again this year,
22:30
Speaker 1: or I could see them being an easy first round exit.
22:32
Speaker 1: That's how wild their range is. But Minnesota, I talk
22:35
Speaker 1: to your owner. He invited me to a game, so damn,
22:37
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get to a playoff game this year.
22:40
Speaker 1: Next week got irre irrelevant? Why did I struggle with?
22:44
Speaker 1: Did I? Okay? Now y'all exposing because this feels very
22:47
Speaker 1: easily irrelevant, right am I triving? Yeah? What am I
22:49
Speaker 1: talking about? Irrelevant? Bro Zion has played the most games
22:54
Speaker 1: in his career, I think this year, and it doesn't matter.
22:57
Speaker 1: So maybe irrelevant is a good word to describe describe
23:00
Speaker 1: what the hell is going on? Next we got unguardible.
23:03
Speaker 1: They do have a top three offense, even if at
23:05
Speaker 1: times it don't feel like it. Yeah, even games with
23:09
Speaker 1: Kridney Towns are not looking like the All NBA player
23:11
Speaker 1: that he just was. Sometimes you yeah, okay, unguarded was
23:16
Speaker 1: that a word? I'm looking at the way it's spelled ungradable,
23:19
Speaker 1: not unguardable. It's ungradable. They're looking it's a Pokemon car
23:23
Speaker 1: right here. It's got too much, damnas, it's an ungradable
23:26
Speaker 1: PSA one card. I can't read. I dropped out. I
23:30
Speaker 1: dropped out ungradable. Well, I'm just I guess a little
23:33
Speaker 1: bit embarrassed with thinking that was unguardable. Uh. We want
23:39
Speaker 1: to get to the NBA Finals, and we should win
23:42
Speaker 1: the finals. Sas James Dolen and you just never want
23:45
Speaker 1: to you never want to say those things publicly. Goliath, Hey,
23:54
Speaker 1: maybe I'm not as tuned in as I thought I was.
23:56
Speaker 1: Don't go Lion be losing then he lose to David
24:00
Speaker 1: Are you are you insinuating that Okac's losing this year
24:03
Speaker 1: even though they are the top dogs. I'm kind of
24:05
Speaker 1: running out of things here. Next week, got kenku Hey man,
24:09
Speaker 1: you lose to fifty, you lose by fifty two points
24:12
Speaker 1: centers to Runner Raptors. You go, you let them go
24:14
Speaker 1: in to thirty thirty one over run. I do believe
24:16
Speaker 1: that we should avoid the rest of the season, like
24:18
Speaker 1: I feel it, Like, got all the potential playing teams
24:20
Speaker 1: out East. I'd be so pissed if Orlando makes it
24:22
Speaker 1: and not the Hornets or something like that. They are
24:25
Speaker 1: the least the least warranted playoff team based on what
24:29
Speaker 1: they've been doing as reeze fifty two fifty two fifty two. Hey,
24:34
Speaker 1: at one point, if the other team is on the
24:37
Speaker 1: twenty six to o run, guess what I'm gonna do.
24:39
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play fall and five. I'm gonna tell Palalo
24:41
Speaker 1: stand in the basket there, damn it. We need to
24:43
Speaker 1: get a bucket, so let the Raptors score. We just
24:45
Speaker 1: gonna get a layup just so we can end this
24:47
Speaker 1: run so it don't end up being a legendary run.
24:49
Speaker 1: Thirty one own and it was Looney Tunes basketball. If
24:52
Speaker 1: you were watching what the Orlando magic we're doing. Turning
24:54
Speaker 1: the ball over just not that good. Looks to my
24:57
Speaker 1: Moses should not be coaching that team next season. Harry
25:00
Speaker 1: for the seventy six ers, my boy Derek asked, like,
25:02
Speaker 1: could y'all see it, you know, like, is there something
25:05
Speaker 1: in the back of y'all mind that make you feel
25:06
Speaker 1: like there's a chance for the seventy six ers, And
25:08
Speaker 1: I just feel like I've done that so many years
25:11
Speaker 1: in a row that I just can't. I hope they
25:14
Speaker 1: make the playoffs out of another one of them playing
25:16
Speaker 1: teams I really want to see in the postseason because
25:18
Speaker 1: I think the peak of what this team could be
25:21
Speaker 1: is interesting for a playoff series. But I can't. I
25:24
Speaker 1: can't count on it because I've been here before. I
25:27
Speaker 1: just straight up been here before. We all have been
25:29
Speaker 1: here before with this team. But I hope they do
25:30
Speaker 1: make it, and I hope WHOA what did I just do?
25:34
Speaker 1: I hope they make it, and yeah, they got my vote. Hopeful. Yeah. Man,
25:38
Speaker 1: the Son's have been a very cool story in the season,
25:40
Speaker 1: from Gillespie to book to Dylan Brooks before it's injury
25:44
Speaker 1: and all playing so great a team that looked like, man,
25:47
Speaker 1: we just traded Kevin Durant for what ugh? And yeah,
25:50
Speaker 1: there's there's a promise, there's some light at the end
25:52
Speaker 1: of the tunnel for them. Next week got reckless with
25:55
Speaker 1: the Blazers Dennis All Stars Center Position Portland for a
25:59
Speaker 1: playing appearance. Still when the Blazers run into an actual,
26:02
Speaker 1: actual NBA elites. It's almost always a talent disadvantage. There
26:06
Speaker 1: moves any margin for err and basically the Mand's pinpoint execution.
26:09
Speaker 1: Portland has instead produced the opposite, the league worse seventeen
26:13
Speaker 1: turnover seventeen percent turnovers, so often their own worst ending
26:19
Speaker 1: and make themselves vulnerable against virtually everybody. That is the
26:22
Speaker 1: most recent evidence in Disaster Show against the lottery bound
26:25
Speaker 1: Mavericks and Portland stomach the seven point loss when they
26:29
Speaker 1: nearly matches. No, we rooted for the Blazers, though, make
26:34
Speaker 1: the playoffs, maybe make the playoffs. Then we got desperate
26:38
Speaker 1: for Wow, this picture makes him looks like look like
26:42
Speaker 1: Riley from Hiveman. Maybe it's just that angle. I don't know.
26:46
Speaker 1: They are desperate. I hope you know that at all
26:51
Speaker 1: of the fan bases that are praying for a top pick.
26:54
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that the Kings get them one, because the
26:56
Speaker 1: fans deserve even if ownership doesn't. You know, those guys
27:00
Speaker 1: that represent this team, they do. It would honor even
27:02
Speaker 1: if the team that they're rooted for is not a
27:05
Speaker 1: good representation of the same passion. So desperate makes sense.
27:09
Speaker 1: Silver like Adam Silver. Hmm, this is no fun to
27:15
Speaker 1: write because san Antonio is objectively awesome. Oh and wimben
27:18
Speaker 1: Yama is objectively speaking, freaking, freaking, freaking spectacular. He's saying
27:23
Speaker 1: like silver medal in the scheme of the MVP Award.
27:27
Speaker 1: I thought he was saying silver because they had three
27:30
Speaker 1: top top five picks in the row, and maybe Adam
27:33
Speaker 1: Silver had something to do with it, But no, that's
27:35
Speaker 1: not the direction he went with. We got inconsistent for
27:38
Speaker 1: the Raptors. Yeah. Man, some games you watch the Toronto
27:40
Speaker 1: Raptors and you really be like, ooh, you know, defense
27:42
Speaker 1: is good again. The offense can be really good at times.
27:46
Speaker 1: But I think that they are another one of those
27:48
Speaker 1: teams that struggle against the top end talent take care
27:50
Speaker 1: of the bad teams, which is supposed to do, but
27:52
Speaker 1: it's about hitting that next level and they just don't.
27:54
Speaker 1: They haven't been able to really put it together for
27:56
Speaker 1: a full season, and granted it is their first time
27:58
Speaker 1: all playing together and all, but inconsistent makes some sense
28:01
Speaker 1: to me. Determine. The Utah Jazz are determined. They made
28:03
Speaker 1: a trade at the deadline. They're letting Ace Bailey take
28:07
Speaker 1: all of the shots, and that's, in my opinion, that's
28:09
Speaker 1: a good thing. Cody Williams has had a breakout, if
28:12
Speaker 1: you will, in comparison to his last season, his rookie season,
28:15
Speaker 1: and then the countdown for the start of next season,
28:18
Speaker 1: I'm assuming where they have Trey Young, Anthony Davis, potential
28:21
Speaker 1: top five pick, blaw Will Riley who we really really
28:25
Speaker 1: like on this channel, Keyshawn George, Alex Saar. I could
28:27
Speaker 1: see the countdown happening. All right, this all thirty. Let
28:30
Speaker 1: me know your think. What word was you used to
28:31
Speaker 1: describe your favorite team? Le's see you'll next time.