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4-13-26 Hour 1 - Nugs win 12th game in a row/Bednar took a puck to the face/DU wins 11th title · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Caine on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 1: every weekday morning from seven to ten on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 2: Castle walks it across the timeline. Eight seconds left to
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  Speaker 2: go in game number eighty two of the year, and
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  Speaker 2: there's the horn. Now this take care of the San
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  Speaker 2: Antonio Spurs.
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  Speaker 3: Should we do it again? People, Let's do it again?
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  Speaker 2: One two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
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  Speaker 2: twelve wins to finish off the regular season. Now that's
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  Speaker 2: in Minnesota in Round one final tonight from San Antonio
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  Speaker 2: Denver one twenty eight Spurs one eighteen.
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  Speaker 4: I am immensely proud most road winds and team history
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  Speaker 4: to get to fifty four with all the stuff that's
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  Speaker 4: gone on. Just immensely proud of the group. And like
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  Speaker 4: I said, it was a cool way to end the
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  Speaker 4: year without your best guys and the sense of guys
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  Speaker 4: that play the most minutes and still play the right way.
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  Speaker 4: We feel good about ourselves, but so these other teams
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  Speaker 4: do too. We know it is gonna be that the
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  Speaker 4: Western Conference playoffs are gonna be absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 5: Western Conference playoffs will be insane. This weekend was insane,
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  Speaker 5: A ton that we need to discuss. But let's start
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  Speaker 5: with the officially three seeded Nuggets, which I previously thought
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  Speaker 5: was an impossibility. And it took two things. It took
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  Speaker 5: the Lakers to have two major injuries to their roster,
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  Speaker 5: and it took the Nuggets to win all twelve of
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  Speaker 5: their final games to get here. Anything less would have
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  Speaker 5: resulted in the four seed or worse. But I have
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  Speaker 5: one question to start the show this morning, Vic, What
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  Speaker 5: were the Nuggets doing over the weekend.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what was the strategy? I don't I
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  Speaker 6: honestly don't know. And I asked that question to Chris
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  Speaker 6: Dempsey and he really didn't know. And I'm not sure
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  Speaker 6: they know. Maybe they do know, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I know it worked out nicely. It worked I because here,
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  Speaker 6: let me lay it out for you, mos, if you
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  Speaker 6: really wanted to beat teams, like if it was desperations time,
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  Speaker 6: you wanted to beat teams because you wanted to set
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  Speaker 6: the table for your postseason, you would lay out your
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  Speaker 6: best players to beat those teams.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah right, Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Is that is that factor? Am I making that up?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 3: You think you'd want to have your best dudes on
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  Speaker 3: the floor.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, that's logically speaking, being logical and just see, I'm
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  Speaker 6: going to the logic right here. So they didn't throw
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  Speaker 6: their best players on the floor for these last two games.
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  Speaker 6: They didn't outside of Joker getting a sixty fifth and
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  Speaker 6: playing one half yesterday, they went with their B slash
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  Speaker 6: C teams yeah and.
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  Speaker 5: Still one Yeah, so I gets the Spurs team that
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  Speaker 5: looked like they were trying.
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  Speaker 6: So I don't know what the intent was outside of well,
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  Speaker 6: we are going to put all of our resources in
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  Speaker 6: health health. This is about a health plan. This is
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  Speaker 6: universal health care for the Denver Nuggets.
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  Speaker 5: Their version, their motivation to get the three seed was
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  Speaker 5: less than their motivation to keep guys healthy. That's what
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  Speaker 5: it translated to.
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  Speaker 6: The motivation order was this, Number one, keep fresh legs
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  Speaker 6: for the playoffs, no health issues whatsoever. Number two, get
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  Speaker 6: Joker that sixty to fifth game. That yes, number three,
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  Speaker 6: if you get a chance to win, win and they did. Mos.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think there was any consideration to them making
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  Speaker 5: the moves they did, saying we don't want to play
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  Speaker 5: minute out in the first round. Do you think that
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  Speaker 5: factored in the discussion at all?
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  Speaker 7: It feels like it had to at some point just
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  Speaker 7: because of what they put on the floor, right, but
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  Speaker 7: the players themselves. Look, man, when you win twelve in
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  Speaker 7: a row, you got the best of all worlds here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: outside of many maybe you wanted Houston, I dig, but
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  Speaker 7: you got the full SuDS bucket over the weekend, boys,
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  Speaker 7: can't we do both? Can't we rest all our dudes
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  Speaker 7: and get the three? The answer is yeah, and now
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  Speaker 7: they've got a whole another week to rest, dude. So
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  Speaker 7: everything seemingly worked out except the matchup where you're taking
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  Speaker 7: on a Timberwolves team that has been a thorn in
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  Speaker 7: your side.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like playing Minnesota, let me start off by
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  Speaker 6: saying that. But I wouldn't have liked playing anybody really.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's just the way it is. It's the
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  Speaker 6: way the Western Conference is set up. I do think
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  Speaker 6: Plaine Houston would have been in an easier road, But
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  Speaker 6: how much easier either way? You're gonna have to play
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  Speaker 6: the top two teams in the West to get to
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  Speaker 6: where you hope to go. Everybody keeps saying, well, now there,
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  Speaker 6: now they've got to go through San Antonio and Oka. See,
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  Speaker 6: well they would have done it the other way too.
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  Speaker 6: What do you think was gonna happen the other way?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 6: They would have to gone in reverse order.
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  Speaker 5: Now San Antonio is the one that if they won
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  Speaker 5: last night, they now have to go through Denver, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: and Oka, see, which they wouldn't have had to do
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  Speaker 5: had they won last night.
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  Speaker 6: That's the question we should be asking today. The Denver
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  Speaker 6: Nuggets did. What you know, in sports, the point of
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  Speaker 6: sports is to win. That's the point. And when we've
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  Speaker 6: gotten to this blurry space that the NBA has given
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  Speaker 6: us where we don't know what teams want that Some
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  Speaker 6: teams want to lose desperately. Some teams are going to
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  Speaker 6: lose or trying to lose. That's we've lost the We've
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  Speaker 6: lost the topic here. Yeah, we've lost the whole plot
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  Speaker 6: if you do that. The San Antonio Spurs wanted to
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  Speaker 6: win because they wanted to avoid the Denver Nuggets. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: and they couldn't win. They had all their guys except Wemby, yep,
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  Speaker 6: and they couldn't win. In fact, in fact, of the
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  Speaker 6: games they've played this year, Denver's won three against San Antonio,
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  Speaker 6: motion three and one against San Antonio. San Antonio is
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  Speaker 6: thirty and four since February first. Three of those four
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  Speaker 6: losses have been to Denver. Yeah, and this one last
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  Speaker 6: night with Denver's B Slash C team was the worst
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  Speaker 6: of those losses for sure, no doubt.
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  Speaker 7: And we got another one of these breat We got
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  Speaker 7: another one of these games where I'm going, you know,
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  Speaker 7: I think Zeke Nazi's a player.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think he. I think he is
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  Speaker 6: about how about Think BOYD David Roddy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm saying I think these guys can play.
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  Speaker 3: We just never see them play.
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  Speaker 7: And it's just it's it's a it's a fascinating look
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  Speaker 7: at the end of the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: To me, it is anyway, he's.
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  Speaker 5: Gonna be thirty eight years old, and you're gonna say,
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  Speaker 5: I think this guy's got some game to him. This
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  Speaker 5: is gonna last for fifteen years.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. He's been in the league for eighteen years.
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  Speaker 3: I think he can play, but I'm not really sure
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  Speaker 3: because he's not in a lot.
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  Speaker 6: You know, before we get you know, into this, David
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  Speaker 6: Roddy was superb. He provided some juice and energy, a
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  Speaker 6: double double for him. That was the last game he's
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  Speaker 6: going to play this season for the Denver Nuggets. Because
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  Speaker 6: he's a two way contract, he's ineligible for the postseason. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: so he cannot play in the postseason. Not that there's
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  Speaker 6: room for him. In fact, I would argue that outside
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  Speaker 6: of Big Val, outside of Joker, I'm trying to think,
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  Speaker 6: Oh Strather, I would argue that none of those players
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  Speaker 6: you saw yesterday will play in the postseason at all,
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  Speaker 6: barring some blowouts.
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  Speaker 5: Is Strather gonna play?
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  Speaker 3: Dude?
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  Speaker 6: I hope I want him to play because I'm telling
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  Speaker 6: you his ability to go to the rim, off the dribble,
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  Speaker 6: not just make threes. He could do that, but he
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  Speaker 6: puts his head down.
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  Speaker 5: That floats.
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  Speaker 6: How many guys on the Nuggets have that that first
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  Speaker 6: step that I'm gonna put my head down and go Now,
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  Speaker 6: he falls a lot, which might be good, but I
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  Speaker 6: will take Julian Strawther. I will do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I hope he plays Jamal for his first step, drive
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  Speaker 5: to the bucket sort of thing.
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  Speaker 6: I do you think there's anybody on the Nuggets that
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  Speaker 6: goes to the whole as gracefully?
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Gracefully is not the word. Because Julian kept falling with
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  Speaker 6: as much will as as Julian Strather.
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  Speaker 5: I just I was watching both of these games over
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  Speaker 5: the weekend, and I'm watching your B team, C team,
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  Speaker 5: whatever you want to call it, really beat the snot
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  Speaker 5: out of some guys, and all I could think to
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  Speaker 5: myself is what are we doing?
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  Speaker 6: You know, why is it like this? It also shows
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  Speaker 6: your motion in the even in the NBA, and you
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  Speaker 6: see it in the NHL all the time. It's really
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  Speaker 6: remarkable the effort level when young guys who they know
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  Speaker 6: they're playing their final game, this is gonna be their
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  Speaker 6: final appearance for most of these guys, the effort they
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  Speaker 6: put in, especially on the defensive end. Did you know
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  Speaker 6: that san Antonio yesterday? Guys, when's the last time the
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  Speaker 6: Denver Nuggets have done this? In the third quarter of
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  Speaker 6: that game, san Antonio went a full was a third
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  Speaker 6: quarter or second second course? That second course they win
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  Speaker 6: a full eight minutes without a point. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 6: a twenty two tozering run. They went from ten forty
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  Speaker 6: four left to two forty four without a point, not
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  Speaker 6: a free throw, not a bucket, nothing, eight full minutes
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  Speaker 6: of an NBA game.
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  Speaker 3: So funny that you were just right there. He was
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  Speaker 3: just tv Vic.
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  Speaker 7: That was a tv VIC sitting on the chair with
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  Speaker 7: Dempsey to was right. That was a tv VIC moment
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  Speaker 7: right there. That just rings true.
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  Speaker 3: In my head. That was an unbelievable run.
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  Speaker 5: It's so funny that you mentioned that, by the way,
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  Speaker 5: about young guys when they get their their maybe last
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  Speaker 5: opportunity to play the year they like Curtis Jones, How
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  Speaker 5: about him?
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  Speaker 3: Dude?
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  Speaker 6: Again, you watch these games and you're like, that's an
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  Speaker 6: NBA guy. Oh, that's an NBA guy. Hey, that guy's
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  Speaker 6: an NBA guy.
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  Speaker 3: Hey.
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  Speaker 5: I got a bit of trivia. I think you'll know
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  Speaker 5: this one, Vix. I want to ask it to mo
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  Speaker 5: see if Moses got it. Mos. Who is the only
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  Speaker 5: Denver Nugget to play in all eighty two games this year?
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  Speaker 3: Bruce Brown?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, all eighty two for Bruce and Tim Hardaway played
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  Speaker 6: in eighty of eighty two. The availability of those guys
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  Speaker 6: and they're both VET minimum contracts. Think about that VET
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  Speaker 6: minimum contracts that were available players throughout the course of
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  Speaker 6: the season. So listen, the Nuggets have chosen their path,
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  Speaker 6: and their path will take them as the number three,
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  Speaker 6: number three seed through Minnesota, then presumably through San Antonio,
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  Speaker 6: and then after that Oklahoma City in the Western Finals
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  Speaker 6: if they get that far.
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  Speaker 3: Gentlemen, we sit here, we are so close to the
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  Speaker 3: situation that we get emotional. Yeah, freaky deeky. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the guy's gonna be out and how did we gotta
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  Speaker 3: get health and all this?
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  Speaker 7: I'm telling you right now, if I'm any other team
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  Speaker 7: in the West, San Antonio and Okac included, I know
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  Speaker 7: Okac's full of confidence, but I don't want to see
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  Speaker 7: a healthy, deep, Denver Nuggets team coming into my joint. No,
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  Speaker 7: you kidding me. I don't want to see that. I
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  Speaker 7: don't think that they're sitting around going, oh, goodie, goodie,
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  Speaker 7: we get to have the Nuggets. You know at some point. Minnesota,
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  Speaker 7: by the way, ain't sitting there going thank god we
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  Speaker 7: get the Nuggets in the first round.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give a crap about the past.
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  Speaker 7: I care about right now and how healthy this team
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  Speaker 7: is going to be getting into Sunday or Saturday at
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  Speaker 7: one thirty pm.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I care about. And I'm thinking they're gonna.
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  Speaker 7: Be a very very difficult out boys, very difficult buckle
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  Speaker 7: up because this could get super fun.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, it's funny. I was talking about this earlier. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know how you guys feel about this, after all
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  Speaker 5: of this twelve game winning streak to close out the year,
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  Speaker 5: playing great basketball, getting healthy heading into postseason, what do
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  Speaker 5: I think the Nuggets are going to be? Where do
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  Speaker 5: I think they can go? And I feel like we've
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  Speaker 5: had a really good read on the Nuggets for like
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  Speaker 5: the last six years, basically ever since the bubble, you
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  Speaker 5: had this feeling of like where the Nuggets could end
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  Speaker 5: up in the postseason.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of where they slotted the entire time.
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  Speaker 5: When Jamal tores acl the year after the bubble and
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  Speaker 5: you had to the postseason, I think that one was
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  Speaker 5: maybe a surprise that they got past the first round
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  Speaker 5: against Portland, getting swept in the second not a surprise,
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  Speaker 5: right The following year they were without Murray and Porter
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  Speaker 5: They lost in five to Golden State in the first round.
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  Speaker 5: Didn't surprise anybody. They won the championship the next year?
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  Speaker 5: Was that a surprise championship? A championship, It wasn't a
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  Speaker 5: surprise to me. Maybe it was a surprise that you
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  Speaker 5: wanted all. It wasn't a surprise how deep they got
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  Speaker 5: though you knew that team was good. Clear after that
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  Speaker 5: they lost to Minnesota, Okay, maybe a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: surprise there. Last year they got to the second round
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  Speaker 5: lost again. Like, I don't feel like we've been super
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  Speaker 5: surprised by any result. Are you winning a championship? I
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  Speaker 5: think the Nuggets could make the NBA Finals, and I
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  Speaker 5: also think they could lose in the first round. I
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  Speaker 5: have no idea which want to feel more strong.
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  Speaker 6: That's fair, that's fair. I mean they're pretty confident right now,
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  Speaker 6: and they should be. They go into the playoffs on
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  Speaker 6: the longest win streak of the season for themselves and
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  Speaker 6: the hottest team in the NBA third tied for second
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  Speaker 6: longest win streak in franchise history. They've won fifty four games,
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  Speaker 6: which is more, by the way, mind you, than the
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  Speaker 6: year that they won the NBA time crazy. They've won
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  Speaker 6: a franchise record twenty six road games. So for those
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  Speaker 6: of you who wonder, can they win road games? Can
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  Speaker 6: they beat the Spurs and OKC on the road. They
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  Speaker 6: won twenty six road games this year. No other Nuggets
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  Speaker 6: team in their NBA history has ever done that. So
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  Speaker 6: they've done some things to prove to themselves and to us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: they have the resume to get it done. Now. They
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  Speaker 6: have to do it. Hey, we're gonna spend the course
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  Speaker 6: of this show and all week breaking down the matchup
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  Speaker 6: between Minnesota and Denver. And it's one that we're familiar
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  Speaker 6: with because we've seen it before. But let me start
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  Speaker 6: the party right now at seven fourteen am on this
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  Speaker 6: Monday morning. I want to see the Denver Nuggets double
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  Speaker 6: Anthony Edwards every single time he touches the ball. That's
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  Speaker 6: the that's the way you defend Minnesota. I do not
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  Speaker 6: want to see him so low against anybody. I want
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  Speaker 6: him flustered to the point where he has to give
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  Speaker 6: the ball up. And if if if Dante DiVincenzo beat you,
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  Speaker 6: if Jade and McDaniels beat you, if Julius Randall beat you,
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  Speaker 6: so be it. I do not want Anthony Edwards with
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  Speaker 6: the ball in his hand one on one ever.
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  Speaker 3: Do we? It's a game?
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  Speaker 6: One is Saturday, right, Saturday, one thirty ball Arena? Okay?
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  Speaker 5: And the plans what are the Wednesday Thursdays? Something like that?
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  Speaker 6: Start Tuesday night, Tuesday Night?
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  Speaker 5: Gotcha? Gotcha? Three ozh three five four nine two five
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  Speaker 5: right around the corner.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, make no bones about bones. Highland plays for many,
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  Speaker 6: make no bones about it. The t Wolves do not
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  Speaker 6: fear the Nuggets one bit. They don't. That's so what Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: so what if the Nuggets aspire to do what they
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  Speaker 6: One of their goals is to win a championship, you
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  Speaker 6: should not tremble at the thought of play Minnesota. I can,
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  Speaker 6: we can't, but they're not.
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  Speaker 5: Three oh three, five oh four, oh nine two five.
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  Speaker 5: A lot more to break down, Nuggets, Alves, Pios, masters,
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  Speaker 5: we get to all of it. Stick around.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Brett, Hey, what can I make one last NBA point?
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  Speaker 6: Because I know we have a lot to get to today,
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  Speaker 6: ton to talk about du wins yet another Natty Bednar
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  Speaker 6: has a puck in his face. Oh my gosh, I
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  Speaker 6: reached out to coach. That looks scary. There's a lot
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  Speaker 6: of stuff we need to get to. But I want
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  Speaker 6: to say this. When the NBA adopted the play in
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  Speaker 6: I thought it was one of the coolest innovations we've
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  Speaker 6: seen in quite some time. Very exciting. The play in
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  Speaker 6: tournament right, love it? Yeah, I think it's already gone.
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  Speaker 6: Steve Kerr announced yesterday that he is going to limit
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  Speaker 6: the minutes of his players in their playing game, basically
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  Speaker 6: telling the world they don't care to win. And if
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  Speaker 6: you have one of your pre eminent coaches telling everybody
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  Speaker 6: out there that they don't care about it. It's done,
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  Speaker 6: it's done. It should there's no value to it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you shouldn't be allowed to say that, well you did.
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  Speaker 5: It takes away all of the it's done, the reasons
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  Speaker 5: why the play in is supposed to be like this
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  Speaker 5: big competitive thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's not.
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  Speaker 6: They don't want to deal with it. They prefer Golden
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  Speaker 6: State to lose and not have to go an entire
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  Speaker 6: series and play their guys. They don't want to do it.
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  Speaker 5: I think we can all agree that the Golden State Warriors,
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  Speaker 5: who have won how many championships is a four or
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: something like that with Stephanie.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: God, they're spoiled babies.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: But I think we can all kind of understand a
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: team that does that, that is the tenth team in
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: the West that is in the play in, probably doesn't
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: care about it. You just can't admit that. You can't
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: say it out loud.
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: Well, they pretty much have by not playing guys.
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: Stop stop stop messing around with you know, just stop
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: messing around.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: You can you can totally admit it. This is dumb.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: We don't want it it's stupid. We'll try again next year.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: You can totally admit that. Vic.
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: What's crazy about this is I hated it from day one,
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: and I was an idiot.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: I loved it the first couple of years. It was awesome,
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: it was dramatic, it was it was fun to watch.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: It gave it gave the lesser team a chance to
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: sneak in. And now the lesser team is looking and
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: balancing the pros and cons and saying, eh, here that
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: we're not gonna lose, and you know, straight with win
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: the city.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: What's interesting is that when you look at the NHL,
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: the odds are really against it, but if you had
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: to play in in the National Hockey League, it would
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: be much more of the thought that that team could
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: actually maybe make a run because their goalie gets right.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: It wasn't better in the NHL than it would the NBA.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: The NHL's want any part of it yet, But in
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: the NBA it's like, there's no way, I don't care
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: seven through ten right now, there's no way any of
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: those teams are beating okac or or San Antonio. There's
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: not and they know it, and so might as well
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: just pack it up, bag it and call it a day.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: We'll get back to the NBA in a second. I
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: do want to ask you a question, Mose. You are
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: there in Canada right now with the Avs.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in Canada and watching the sun rise over
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Eastern EDMONDONNIS is great.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: I need to ask you something because we get to
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: the bed in our stuff in a second. It's an admission.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: I'm not proud of this, but I'm not ashamed of
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: it either. I watched the Vegas game with almost zero emotion.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: The Avs scored and I went, hey, you know what.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Then they let big goal from to Vegas and I said, no,
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Can I make an admission I did not watch the game.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: It means you didn't at all.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: I just most I get that we're in a place
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: where they're like into a seat, like all. I'm concerned
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: about his injuries. Josh Manson leaves the game, that's the
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: only thing I really care about. Like the loss meant nothing.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: I was almost annoyed that they had to play extra minutes.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: It's the first Aves game I have not watched this season,
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: the very first one. No reason too. And then I
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: saw the video of Jared Bednart's face.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, meeting Jack squad.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and that that puck. All right. So first of all,
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: Coach is not on the trip. We know that. The
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: last we heard from the Aves, he's got inacial fractures.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Now he put up that benchcam of it because it's
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: brutal facial.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Fractures and a corneal abrasion. Now, if I'm wondering what
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: that is, yes, I got you. This is from the
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: Cleveland Clinic.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: A common, often painful, superficial scratch on the clear surface
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: of the eye, typically healing within twenty four to seventy
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: two hours now. Symptoms include severe pain, sensitivity to light, redness,
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: and a gritty foreign body sensation.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: I want you to know you're talking to who has
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: had a cornial abrasion before. It is, you know, the
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: facial fractures, he will heal, He's not gonna look very
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: good for a while, probably gonna be all messed up.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: But the cornial abrasion, depending on the severity, is worse
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: because it feels like you have a scab in your eye,
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: like you don't have. You have a bug in your eye. Motion,
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: there's a bug in your sucks. Yeah, and you can't
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: do anything about it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: I guess I've had at one point or another everything.
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: But I was drilling one time, putting a light in
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: motion light outside above my garage, and a piece of
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: metal flicked off, scratch, scratched my eye and went over
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: the top. I had to go to the hospital and
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: they had to go behind my eye and dig it out.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: But I had that cornial abrasion and do it. It
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: felt like there's something that For me, it felt like
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: there was something in my eye for days. It was
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: just so annoyed. I couldn't handle it. It sucked.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: So if you guys didn't see this camera, so this
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: is where if you're watching an altitude TV twitch or YouTube,
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna point out Betsy for you. There you go, Nelly.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: So he's right there. I want you to see. This
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: is a quote glancing pucker or whatever you want to
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: call it, but it's screaming and it catches him. Go ahead, Nelly,
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: right at the eye, like literally right at the eyeball.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Like right here, like right there. Yep.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: Man, he goes down. He goes immediately to his knees.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they brought the towel over. He went to the
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: locker or never to return and he's gonna be out
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: on this road trip. Very scary.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: It's his way of missing this road trip. I'm sure
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: a lot of people wanted to sit this one out. Yeah,
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: he got in the way of a puck. I texted
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: in motion. I said, God, why can't it be Rightcroft?
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: He never gets hit by a puck?
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: But you I know, I know, I texted him too.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: He's I think he's doing okay. He probably if he
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: had his brothers, you know, he'd be with his team.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: But they look, these games don't mean anything right other
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: than get through them. Josh. I think he's gonna be.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Fine, okay, Like I didn't. I didn't see an update
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: after the game, and I thought maybe it's because Nolan
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Pratt didn't want to say anything that Bennar wouldn't say
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: about it, so he was pretty hush hush. I don't
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: know now, but Manson lofe upper body didn't come back,
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: and so I didn't know.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know anything for certain, but I'm
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: im me personally, I'm optimistic he's going to be available
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: and ready to get not just me personally.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: No, Remember I brought this up last week. I asked
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: the question, I said, would you rather get hit by
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Mason Miller fastball or a slap shot? Think about this.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: That wasn't even a slap shot. Now, that was just
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: a guy just dumping the He's dumping the puck. What
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: was he doing?
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: What was I don't know what Colos arm was trying
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: to do. Fired her off the boards and down into
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: the zone. But he fired it high man. Everybody was
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: ducking in Vict've We've talked about this an awful lot now,
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: I mean as far as coach is concerned, or Coach
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: Haxtoll or Coach Proud or whatever. But like all the
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: guys on the bench, like Matt Sgalowski, the head trainer,
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: Brent Whiteside, you know, assistant trainer, the equipment guy's like
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: Donnie white Donnie's kind of a big target. I'm surprised
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: that these guys don't get plumped more. You know, we
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: see it that we saw Alex Ndelkovich last year when
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: we were in Pittsburgh, remember that was it last year
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: of the year before. He's just sitting there in his
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: backup goalie gear.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Bamn. Yeah, and you're like Rob Ray between the benches there.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: I mean it's it's a dangerous situation, it really is,
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: because you're not expecting it. And those pucks, man, they're
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: thick and heavy and they hurt.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: So this was not even a hard shot, right, This
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: wasn't a slapper. The puck gets loose and it fractures
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: his face. Yeah, just imagine, just imagine for a second
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: if it's like when those dudes start blocking shots these
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: playoff games. You're gonna see it all the time. They
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: go at the puck, they're going at the shot, and
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: they're turning their head away. Yeah, are you kidding me?
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: So is bed'sy gonna have to wear that that batman
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: mask that NBA.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I was hoping, I was.
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: I was thinking about this and I talked to Connor
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: about this on the airplane. You know what would be awesome?
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: I mean, frigging iconic making one of those Phantom of
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: the Opera men.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that'd be cool, you know what I mean?
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: And like just have him sit there like half the
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: fans like, to be honest.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: I would that would be aluch lebre mask. Oh yes,
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: but is that what it's called?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah? But vic half his face is fine.
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: It's this, it's this side one of them phantoms, you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: where just half his face is g normally into that
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: half as normal human being. But do you remember when
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: Lebron broke his nose in the postseason, he had to
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: wear that mask and he painted it black and it
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: kind of looked like Batman.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: By the way, Phantom of the Opera bro.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: I like better if you want to talk about bravery.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Now they bring up a phantom mask, would you please.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: If we're talking about bravery. There's one question that everybody
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: has wanted to ask Nathan McKinnon since the Olympics, and
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: nobody has the coons to do it because you're scared
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Nathan McKinnon might kill you. But oh yeah, Betsie looked
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: like that, Hell yeah.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Dude, how dude? How bad ass? Whole family? Uh?
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: But I want him to sing out all the line
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: changes operatically.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: We've all wanted to ask Nate a question, but because
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: he's Nate, we're too scared. The only guy that can
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: ask him this question would be a friend. Here's EJ
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: with Nathan McKinnon, like, what.
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: Are you thinking when they're handing you a beanie baby
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: after you get the silver? You know, like everyone thought
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: that was the dumbest thing ever.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the guy was giving us like bro shakes with
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: like the stuffed animal, and I was just like, what
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: is happening.
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: Right, I'm sure we're looking at you were thinking like
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: he is gonna yeah.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Anyone who knows me, he was like, Oh, he's not
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: gonna like this bro shake.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: What is a First of all, what is a bro shake?
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: I think it's one of those, like one of those yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: Look at the way you're staring at that thing.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: He's just stuff stuff dog toy.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: Most one split second of life, it's Nathan McKinnon, minutes
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: after losing in the gold medal game, staring at whatever
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: the hell he was handed by that man with the
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: bro shake.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, dude, I said it that day. You were
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: I think you were gone, Vic, I'm pretty sure you
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: were out, But I said it that day.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: I'm like, I don't blame him one tiny bit. You
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: just lost the gold medal game and this dude bro
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: shakes you and hands you a stuffed dog toy.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: You know what I play?
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: What are you supposed to do with it?
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: I disagree with you entirely. I say, embrace it for
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: the playoffs. Moving forward, If you lose a series in
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: the NBA or the NHL, Oh my god, everybody gets
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: in line. Winners toast the victory. Losers receive assorted stuffed animals.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: That's the way it's got.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Or do you do you give him the stuffed animal
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: of your mascot? Like, did you give him a Bernie?
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: You think this is a joke.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: No, do you give him like a Bernie? And then
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Philly would give like a Gritty or something like that.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: This is not a joke. I'm dead serious. You've got
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: to trot out there. You know how Lebron leaves the
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: arena when he loses. Yeah, and he never stays. Oh no,
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: oh no, you have to stay and receive your stuffed
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: animal in line.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: You want to hear something else from me, Jay, because
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: another guy that can be difficult to talk to his torts.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: Here's his in game interview with Torts TOWRTS.
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: You said, no stupid questions, We'll see what I can do.
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: But you're coaching a real veteran team here in Vegas.
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: What's the different approach you're taking to this team as
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: opposed to your old team, a young team in Philly. Yeah,
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: I'm getting out of the way you know, I trust
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: the team since I've been here.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: I've been here a couple of weeks.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: I trust the team, the battle tested. I'm just trying
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: to guide him.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: If I think they're going off track, I'll guide them
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: back and they'll take over from there. So I need
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: to get out of the way most of the time.
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: What's with the suit and tie? You only wore the
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: tracksuit the last year.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Don't even start.
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: Are we done?
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: We're done, sire?
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Thanks tork shot to everybody.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: I've always said this, it pays to be super likable,
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: doesn't it, Because EJ can get away with some stuff
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: that other guys just can't.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Played for him.
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but still, Torts was his coach and he loved
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: you know, people will say, well, towards this, towards that
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: Eric Johnson loved him as a coach, and he loved
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: his approach to coaching. Towards I can understand I can
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: wear some people wrong, but I think that's just because
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: you got some real beanie babies in the league.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: At this point.
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so I think that that, you know, those two
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: have a good relationship, and that's pretty funny.
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: He's already EJ a certifiable star in his broadcasting gigs.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: He's really good, really good, and those interviews I look
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: forward to no matter who he's interviewing because everybody has
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: that reverence for him.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, we don't got time. I'm gonna save it because
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: I want to talk about broadcasting for a second.
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: But you do, yeah, like you're like you're a professor
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: teaching the class.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: No no, no, no, not like that. Just just straight
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: up to carm here's a little decorum.
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: I know you're gonna go to the end of that
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: du game. Yeah, yeah, so my yeah, I gotta say
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: about that.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: We'll just say in a second, how do you want
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: me to approach? Me?
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: And Ryker to approach tonight and tomorrow night at Calgary
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: Edmonton CALVI.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: I here's what I say. You open the game exchanging
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: stuffed animals. Just exchange them like your favorite all right,
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: start the game with that. Uh maybe where Rycroft's up
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: top though he's not down down low for this one, right,
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: that's correct. I wish he was down low because I
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: we want him in a full cage helmet for this game.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: Who's running the show is that Nolan Pratt by.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: The way, Yeah, him and coach Axtall will go Dave's
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: been a head coach in the Sea before. I mean,
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: there'll be there'll be no problem. It'll be the same,
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: It'll be the same as it was.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: So you're asking me what I want you to do?
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: What you call the game?
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Call the game? What do you mean?
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: What do I want you to do?
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Like you said watching Saturday, it's gonna be You're not
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: you know, blanken Brook scores his first goals and now
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: you yeah, you're like what, It's nobody's fault.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: It's just like the games are inconsequential right now, like
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: that that game in a lot for Vegas. Vegas clinched
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: the playoff spot with that game.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: But for I'm sure I'm still good.
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: Edmonton's got everything to play for, right I mean, Edmonton's
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: trying to catch Vegas with a top spot.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: They've already clinched a playoff spot. But this is also
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: for hoole ice because Anaheim's right there tied at ninety
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: and Vegas is on top of ninety one.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: These are our games you live for, you die for
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: as an Avalanche fan. For me to say this, think
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: about it. I don't care if the Avs lose ten, nothing,
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: nobody gets hurt.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: Healthy. I don't care healthy healthy, I.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: Really don't care where. It's the only time this season
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: you could say that, it's the only time I.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Get a question motion how many assistant coaches are on
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: the bench for an NHL team?
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Two?
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: So if an Aaron Puck takes out somebody else today, yeah,
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: you're down to one. Then what happens, like, what's you know?
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: The president goes down that it's vice president and it's this, this, this,
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: how what's after assistant coach?
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: Where there are eighteen assistant coaches, you have a lot.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: To go through.
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: Brett Heim brett Heimik is the video coach, but he's
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: back with all the video stuff.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: There. Yeah, well, I mean you bring him out. I mean,
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: do you do you say, hey, Donny White, Donny you're up. Yeah.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: I'm just wondering what's the line.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: Of most we know how tough Jared bednar is. I mean,
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: he was a fighter for kind out loud, the dude
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: loves I mean he this is nothing to him compared
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: to what he's gone through. For him to sit out
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: a couple of games, even meaningless games, it's held you
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: the injury he received.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: He didn't get cut his face broke you know what
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: I mean.
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: It broke in seven those places.
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: It's not a great photoshop, but look at your text
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: line real quick. The last one with the Phantom of
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: the Opera beds. It's not a great photoshop, but that
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: would be badass. If he went Phantom of the Opera,
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: that would be killer. Yeah, that would be killer.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah all right, Uh see that's a good one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, do that.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: It's the other side, is it the other side of it?
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: That's his right side?
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Three oh three, five four nine two five shot mas
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: de text line, one price, one person, one hour. I
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: do want to get to the Pios game and again
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: every other year, just win in a national title. And
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: what took place immediately after as the team was celebrating.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: We'll get to it next.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: But once again championship.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: So I'm searching for the audio now I can't find
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: it anywhere. Maybe Nelly'll have it in a couple of minutes.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: But I'm watching du and they make another insane comeback
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: like there. They have no goals through two periods. They
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: tie it up one one against Wisconsin late and then
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: they find another goal. They get out shot by double
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: again in this game against Wisconsin, Johnny Hicks. By the way,
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: I heard the Chickletz boys talking about this, like he
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: comes in as a true freshman, he's not expected to play,
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: and then when he takes over, I believe most his
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: record after the national title game was seventeen to zero
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: to one.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: It's insane. The way this thing went down for this
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: kid is unbelievable.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: Here's what bothered me before you go on, Yeah, go ahead.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: This is the beauty of college hockey versus the professional version.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: The one offs.
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the one off makes everything's on the table. In
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: a one off. When you're one off in your way
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: to a national title, you can get out shot two
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: to one. Hell, you can get out shot three to one.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: You're not winning a series. You're just winning that game, right,
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: and you survived that game, and you find a way
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: to win that game no matter what. And they did.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: They won two games back to back in the Frozen
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: four in which they were out shot and out executed
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: to the naked eye. But they won the games and
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: they did it their way each similarly, they won the games.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: There is something to be said about capitalizing on an opportunity.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: Okay, And here's what really bothered me. Mos I don't
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: know how many people caught this, but I sent it
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: out on Twitter immediately. I was literally in disbelief that
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: that was said. Do you scores the game winner? I'm sorry,
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: the horn blows? Do you wins? They're celebrating on the ice,
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: hugs for everybody, all that stuff, throwing all their gear
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: in the air, and the play by play crew for ESPN,
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: let's the time pass, you get the natural sound, and
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: then they come back on and what I hear is
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: something along the lines of this. We're trying to find
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: the exact quote. Got a feel for Wisconsin. They were
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: the better team. And all I think to myself is
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: do you really think that's the time to throw that
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: in there as a team celebrating a national championship, to
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: say the other team was better than the team was
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: celebrating right now? And there are ways, like I'm not
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: even disputing, like maybe that's the case. Maybe Wisconsin was
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: quote better over the course of sixty minutes and du
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: was in the same way that Canada was better than
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: the US in the the gold medal match.
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: So do you think saying that? And I assume it
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: was Bouci who said that it was do you think
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: of the tracks from DU celebration somehow.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Why is that necessary to throw in there? You can
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: say that Wisconsin played a good game, just came up short,
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: whatever you want to do, but most I can't imagine.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: If you're on a national call, it's game seven of
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: the Stanley Cup Final and it's we'll take the AVS
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: bias out of it. We'll say it's Tampa versus I
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: don't know, you picked the other team, most picked one, the.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Caps, Edmonton, whatever, Yeah, and.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: You're on the national call and the one thing that
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: you do game ends, Tampa wins. You're like, yeah, great
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: job Tampa. There's Stanley Cup champions. You gotta feel for
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: the Kings. They were better in this game. Then why
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: would you need to say that right as the team
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: is celebrating, Like I just I hated it for DU.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: I was like, there's no use in saying that out loud, Okay,
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: you just celebrate the team who won.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: There were some allegations that the semi final game it
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: felt as if the broadcast crew was really upset the
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: Michigan Laws.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: I didn't notice that as much as others.
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: I suppose, but it doesn't It doesn't concern me nor
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: do I care at the same time, time and place. Yeah,
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: When when a team is celebrating a championship for the
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: eleventh time and that team is a small school compared
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: to the behemoths, it's faced that should be celebrated more
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: than anything. The fact that they've won eleven times more
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: than any team in Division one, more hockey championships than
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: anyone Lil old du that should be celebrated.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: If you're kid, you know, Brett, Yeah, go ahead much.
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm just gonna say I'm not gonna comment on
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: that specifically. I would say this from my own perspective.
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: We have fun and you know, we goof a little
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: bit and I've made mistakes, you know, that kind of thing.
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: But to me, that's always an instinctive thing. I'm never
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: gonna step on. I've called plenty of losing avalanche game.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: I'm not gonna step on you know that specifically, But
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: do you know.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: What I mean, step on?
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Step on? What celebration?
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Step on somebody's winning?
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you know that's that's more of I guess
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: a broadcasting instinctive thing. For me, it is I think
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: everybody's different on how they handle that situation. And of
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: course I broadcast for the Avalanche, and I also have
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: done neutral type of games.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: I've done that. But you know, to eat their own
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: I suppose.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: Well it texta brings us up. This is actually a
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: pretty good example. It's not totally one to one. But
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: remember when Shaq was interviewing Joker after he on the
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: m v P and he just goes, I didn't vote
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: for you.
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: Very very very don't you don't say that I was
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: at the facility because we were interviewing Joker right afterwards
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: we had Joker, he was seething deep down. But what's
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: the point in saying that to do? Yeah, I totally
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: agree with you, totally, time and place, man, time and
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: place for that crap.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: And I always go back to this whenever somebody makes
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: that argument too, like like Canadians did for the US
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: and Canada game. Oh well, we were the better team.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: No matter.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: You missed an open net so one off, you didn't
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: capitalize on a five on three, you missed a wide
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: open goal where hell Buck made a hell of a save,
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: like all of these things. If you were so much better,
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: then why didn't you do the little things right?
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Exactly right?
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: And anything can happen in these one games, and I
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: would argue to you the way the Pioneers are built,
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: that they had to play that to win the games
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: that they won, just had to. But once they started
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: to get fire, once they started to catch fire in
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: the conference attorney essentially is what they did. I'm like, oh,
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: here we go, David Carl again. You know they they
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: they caught something, and they found something, they found a
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: formula for them that was going to work.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: And they were down.
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean they kept being down and they kept
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: finding a way to claw their way back. That semi
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: final game, that late goal to tie at three, I mean,
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: those kids sucked it up.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: It was, you know, was very impressive.
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: I think the team as a whole has in its blood,
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: has the makeup of its head coach David Carl, who
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: if you guys don't know the story, I did this
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: back when I worked at Channel four. David Carl was
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: a recruit destined to play hockey at DU shows up
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: and finds out he has a heart defect, cannot play anymore,
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: cannot play organized hockey anymore, his career is done, and
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: he stuck around the program and help the program in
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: different capacities. It's just basically an extra coach.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: Did they convince him to stick around as a coach, right,
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: isn't that how it works?
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: I think he wanted Yeah, but I think and again
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: they honored his scholarship and everything else, and they that's it.
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: They were going to They're gonna stick with their guy
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: even though he couldn't play hockey anymore.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: And of course his brother was an outstanding player player.
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean he won the Hoby Baker for du
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: Matt was an outstanding player in the National Hockey League
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: and you know, the outstanding defenseman. And he learned from
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: some really good coaches. Did did David carrl the.
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: Great George gwas Decies the guy gave him that opportunity.
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: Jim Jim Montgomery was there Vic and Monty cultivated him too.
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: Those are those are two really good coaches. And he
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: learned from some some really smart hockey minds. And then
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: he took over at a very young age. But they
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: believed in him and he's got he's been absolutely brilliant
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: four twenty six.
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: You guys see his demeanor on the bench the way, Yeah,
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: it's just just rock solid. Stare straight ahead, doesn't smile,
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: doesn't move I mean, he just stares.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: So if I'm checking the trends and I'm reading this correctly,
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: twenty two to twenty four to twenty six on national titles,
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: so in twenty twenty.
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: Eight, just chalk it up pretty much to use.
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: Uh, by the way, obviously a lot more. This is
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: what today is a lot to get into. I want
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: to talk about the Masters. I'm blown away that Rory
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: was twelve under through two rounds and finished at twelve
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: under and still won.
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: That Suns played even part of the weekend, the two
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: most important days of the tournament, and he didn't go up,
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: he didn't go down, He stayed level and won the tournament.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Can I say I appreciate it Rory, because I wanted
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: Sunday to be interesting, and it was interesting, Like it
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: was amazing to see, Oh, cam Young's gonna take it. Oops,
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: here's a couple of bogies now justin Rose. Oops, oh Scott,
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: he's on the move. I just can't finish a couple
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: of birdie putts.
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: I tell you what, Rory watching Ror, He's a trip
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: his up and down. There were three occasions where I
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: thought he's got it wrapped up, and then I think, oh,
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: he's done. He's not going to recover. Oh he's got
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: it wrapped up. Oh he's done. It was like that
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: all weekend.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: It seems I said this after the Masters last year.
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: Mos Rory was amazing except when he was terrible, Like
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: he really is. Either I'm going to hit the best
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: shot you've ever seen in your life, or I am
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: going to Like on eighteen, all he's got to do
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: is put it in the fairway and he slices it
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: into the woods, lucky enough that he could draw it
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: around those trees. But if he's stuck in the middle,
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: you punch out, like there's a chance he doubles and
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: has to go to a playoff with Scotty.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: But he hit it so far right that he could
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: he could go down the right side and bring it
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: back to the left of the shot.
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: The shot that won it for Rory that people are
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: conveniently overlooking here. All right, let me play my game.
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: What shot won it for Rory? Let me was sale?
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: How much you guys paid attention to that term?
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: What was this shot shot wanted for?
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: What was the it was on the it was the
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: last few holes woodle it down to that. What was
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: the shot that was the most clutch shot for him.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Okay, I will see this.
• 43:09
  Speaker 7: He missed the green. He missed the green. He got
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: up and down, but he missed the green. Short right.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: I want to say it was seventeen. It was the sixteen.
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: It was a shot on sixteen that he had a
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: chip that he had to play that angteen.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: It was an incredible sixteen is what It was.
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: Difficult shot that he made look easy and he puts
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: it to about a foot.
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: Oh wait, wait, are you talking about the one?
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: I think it was the same vicar. But he's back
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: in the collection Yes, back in the collection area.
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: And I said to myself, if that goes in like Tiger,
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna puke. We can't have him have that same
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: highlight as Tiger.
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: So quick poll. Did you guys see the stunt that.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Sir Joe pulled?
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: Mm hmmm yeah, all back in tire did was flip
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: off a flagstick. What happens to him?
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: Well, Sergio is a former champion, and so former champions
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: are given this free free reign. There which one of
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: us would be most apt to pull a Sergia?
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: No doubt it's Mark most not even as.
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: Soon as I saw him do it. There's moser what.
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: I have never damaged anything on the course ever. Now
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: I might give my club a little twirl towards the
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: cart or something like that.
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: Never wait, wait, wait, you agreed worrel towards the cart.
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: I mean like you throw, you throw your your I don't.
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: I don't go throw.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: I'll give it one of these.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: Most would you agree that you would be the most
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: apt to pull that little temper tantrum?
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: Probably? Yeah.
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: Do you remember when we played Meridian and Mosuer couldn't
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: putt and he threw his remember his eyes, and it
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: hit the ridge and almost went down to the steep.
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it wasn't working.
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess what. You ran and picked it up.
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: It still wasn't working.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: Then you missed a three footers short.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: Thanks for the reminder, buddy, I appreciate that.
• 45:20
  Speaker 7: You know what, in my worst moments in life, I
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: could always count on YouTube to tell me to suck it.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: That's right, I really appreciate it. Yeah.
• 45:26
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