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The NBA Season Is Back! · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: The NBA season is back. Oh, my goodness. I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe we finally here, y'all. I've been counting down the days.
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  Speaker 1: We had a 22-point comeback for the Detroit Pistons. We
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  Speaker 1: had the Philadelphia 76ers looking pretty good in that first game.
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  Speaker 1: We got the OKC Thunder getting a little bit of revenge.
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  Speaker 1: All three bangers, if you ask me. The offseason was amazing, right?
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  Speaker 1: I got to interview some great NBA players over the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: Had a lot of interviews, a lot of opportunities. Hell,
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  Speaker 1: I turned 30 years old over the offseason. But every
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  Speaker 1: single day I woke up thinking to myself, damn, I
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  Speaker 1: miss NBA basketball. And it's finally here. So we got
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  Speaker 1: nine months, right? Is my math right? Nine months of
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  Speaker 1: basically daily NBA. I can't wait to create the content.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch as much basketball as I can.
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  Speaker 1: I am on cloud nine. You can't break my soul.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Russell Westbrook? After he took his player option, he
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  Speaker 1: was in his car singing, You Can't Break My Soul.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I feel. No matter what people saying, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what texts I get, the NBA is back and
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  Speaker 1: I'm hyped. So we're going to run through all three games.
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  Speaker 1: I got a brand new journal for the season. I
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  Speaker 1: should have got that Vivette journal. I ain't going to lie.
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  Speaker 1: I got a brand new journal for this season. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to run through some of the thoughts for all
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  Speaker 1: three games. We're going to hella overreact because what else
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  Speaker 1: are we supposed to do? But before we do all
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  Speaker 1: Let's start off with the first game of the day.
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  Speaker 1: 2 p.m. tip-off Central Time, y'all. perfectly time for the
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  Speaker 1: unemployed and the people with untraditional jobs like me to
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  Speaker 1: like sometimes you get those type of tip-offs during what
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  Speaker 1: like the office on the weekends and stuff but on
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  Speaker 1: the tuesday it's nuts i i didn't even understand why
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  Speaker 1: i'm sure there's a reason why the game tipped off
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  Speaker 1: at three o'clock eastern time but i ain't asking no
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  Speaker 1: questions i was just happy to sit in his damn
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  Speaker 1: chair and watch basketball for what felt like eight hours
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  Speaker 1: straight the detroit pistons were down what 22 points at
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  Speaker 1: one point they had a 23-0 run versus the boston
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  Speaker 1: celtas the game was like The Celtics look kind of,
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  Speaker 1: kind of bouncy. Paul George almost hit a 40 ball
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  Speaker 1: in his very first game. The highest point of a
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  Speaker 1: Celtic debut ever. Seven made threes in this one. You
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  Speaker 1: got like, Derek White having a good shooting performance after
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  Speaker 1: last season. He struggled from behind the arc. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of things were looking pretty good for the Boston Celtics.
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  Speaker 1: And then things kind of flip. And this is why
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  Speaker 1: we love the game of basketball because it is about runs.
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  Speaker 1: It is a game of runs. But like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: like to look at it that simply. It's about what's
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  Speaker 1: happening within those runs. If you are a team giving
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  Speaker 1: up the run, what are you doing on the offensive
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball to try to stop the run?
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  Speaker 1: What type of shots are you generating? What type of looks?
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing defensively? Is that other team just hot?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a lot of different factors that play
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  Speaker 1: into this. But then the Detroit Pistons do some things,
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  Speaker 1: which is like Duncan Robinson looking like Duncan Robinson or
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  Speaker 1: Javante Green. Woo. I got a tweet from 2022 that
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  Speaker 1: says Javante Green is your favorite player's favorite player because
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  Speaker 1: that man has an impact on basketball. And for a journeyman,
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  Speaker 1: I was just so happy that he found a home.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know he was going to play today. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think he was going to play today. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: really play until the game felt like, well, JB was
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  Speaker 1: just trying to find something. And he came in, and
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  Speaker 1: in his 17 minutes, he had five threes. One of
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  Speaker 1: them threes he hit in that right corner. He got
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  Speaker 1: the ball after Duncan Robson threw a crazy pass over
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  Speaker 1: a defender. And he looked at Duncan like, damn, I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe you got this ball to me. Smack. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. Woo is doing it again. So I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: for Woo to end up with 19 points, a plus
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  Speaker 1: 21 in just 18 minutes time. But I mention this
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  Speaker 1: if you watch some of my podcasts, Small Ball with
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Beach and Numbers on the Board. I watch more
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  Speaker 1: preseason basketball than any time in my life. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I was waking up on a daily basis like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: I missed the NBA. The preseason was the only real
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  Speaker 1: fix I had. And there's a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 1: I have like a list of things for all, not
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  Speaker 1: all 30 teams, but a lot of the teams. Like
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  Speaker 1: something I saw in preseason, I wonder if it will
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  Speaker 1: translate or if they would do it more once the
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  Speaker 1: regular season comes. And with the Detroit Pistons, that thing
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  Speaker 1: was Cade Cunningham playing off the ball more, right? Kay Cunningham,
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  Speaker 1: a phenomenal on-ball creator, one of the best we have
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  Speaker 1: in the entire league. But we all recognized after they
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  Speaker 1: lost in the playoffs that Kay Cunningham could use some
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  Speaker 1: ball handling help, right? We were hoping that they were
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  Speaker 1: a choir guy. I think the Kyrie Irving door is
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  Speaker 1: not completely shut, but like Kyrie Irving, Tyler Hero was
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  Speaker 1: potentially just a guy that could create for himself and
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  Speaker 1: create for others outside of Kay Cunningham. When the preseason,
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  Speaker 1: we saw Sir Thompson do a lot of the creation or, or,
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  Speaker 1: initiate enough actions. And then when Jalen Duren came back
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  Speaker 1: from his contract stuff, he was doing that in the preseason.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, will that translate and will we
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  Speaker 1: see this in the first game of the season? And
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  Speaker 1: the answer is absolutely. I feel like we saw Sarr
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  Speaker 1: Thompson on the ball quite a bit and Sarr was
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal today. We're going to get to him in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just cool to see like Kate Cunningham not
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  Speaker 1: have to have the burden of creating every single shot
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  Speaker 1: in the half court. There was one possession where Sarr
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  Speaker 1: Thompson was running like an empty side pick and roll
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  Speaker 1: on like the right wing and Kay Cunningham is in
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  Speaker 1: the left corner, and that action led to an open
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  Speaker 1: Kay Cunningham three-pointer. Now, I didn't look at the numbers,
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  Speaker 1: but if I had to guess, I would guess that
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  Speaker 1: Kay Cunningham didn't get a lot of open corner three-pointers
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  Speaker 1: last season because he didn't have an opportunity. Now, he
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  Speaker 1: missed a shot. I ain't going to lie to you.
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  Speaker 1: But it was just cool to see Kay Cunningham be
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  Speaker 1: able to sit in the corner for possession and still
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  Speaker 1: get a shot created where, again, a good look, though
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  Speaker 1: it did not go in. I'm sorry, Thompson. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to say the shot looks better. Just visually, he missed
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  Speaker 1: his three-took. The game actually was iced, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: on an Asar Thompson mid-range jump shot out of some chaos.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I've probably said this before because this
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  Speaker 1: is not new for Asar Thompson, but he is my
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  Speaker 1: favorite perimeter defender that I've ever watched outside of prime
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard. I love watching him get after defensively. From
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  Speaker 1: the very first possession of the game, he's peel switching,
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  Speaker 1: he's tagging rollers and still getting back to the guy
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  Speaker 1: that is creating. He's just all over the place. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he technically only ends with one steal, but I promise
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  Speaker 1: you he had way more. I don't know how to
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  Speaker 1: tell you. The man was just all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: and he ended up with 11-11-5, some offensive boards. Just overall,
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  Speaker 1: really good game for him. Jalen Duren, nice little statement game,
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  Speaker 1: if you ask me. Again, it's his first game of
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  Speaker 1: the season. You can over-rack all you want. He looked
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  Speaker 1: really good, and I think he looked really good in
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  Speaker 1: the game in the preseason that he played as well,
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  Speaker 1: but you would think that a guy that was going
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  Speaker 1: through all of this, he may not come into it
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  Speaker 1: with looking like his best self, but one thing about
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Duren is what we saw last season, the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: that his bread and butter, baby. He going to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and do his thing. The thing that looked
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  Speaker 1: like a point of emphasis... For the Detroit Pistons, that
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the Celtics fans are going to feel
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  Speaker 1: some type of way. It's the first game of the season. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: this offseason, they make a huge-ass trade. And Jalen Brown
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  Speaker 1: now plays for the 76ers. And the 76ers look good
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  Speaker 1: with Jalen Brown. And Tatum looks awful as far as
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  Speaker 1: shooting the ball goes in this one. So, like, everybody's
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  Speaker 1: emotion is going to be really high. But I kind
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  Speaker 1: of look at it this way. The Detroit Pistons made
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  Speaker 1: it a point of emphasis to start the season to
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  Speaker 1: take so many three-pointers. I got the numbers right here.
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  Speaker 1: They took 43 pointers. They only took 43 pointers in
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  Speaker 1: the game seven times last season, seven times. And they
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  Speaker 1: did it in the very first game of the season.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to take 40 a
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  Speaker 1: game for 82 game season, but you could just tell
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  Speaker 1: based on some of the shots Duncan Robinson was taking.
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  Speaker 1: I know Duncan is always going to take his shots.
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  Speaker 1: Duncan Robinson, Isaiah Joe was obviously a guy that they
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  Speaker 1: acquired specifically to come off the bench and ask for
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  Speaker 1: three-point shooting. They extended Kevin Herter specifically to come off
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  Speaker 1: the bench and ask for three-point shooting. They took 40
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  Speaker 1: of them, right? So going back to the Boston Celtics,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you brought a 22-point lead, but trying to play
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  Speaker 1: devil's advocate and try to stay positive in this world
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  Speaker 1: where there's so much negativity, you can say, hey, the
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  Speaker 1: Pistons took 43 pointers, and they're notoriously not a good
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  Speaker 1: three-point shooter team, and they shot nearly 40% on those.
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  Speaker 1: You know? That's me trying to play devil's advocate. A
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  Speaker 1: great win for the Detroit Pistons. Being down that much
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  Speaker 1: to go on a 23-0 run is phenomenal. A couple
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  Speaker 1: more things on the Pistons before I flip it over
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the Celtics, how they didn't play their
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  Speaker 1: normal traditional game. It's so early. But this is about overreactions, right?
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  Speaker 1: Ron Holland played three minutes, and it was bad. He
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  Speaker 1: hacked on somebody that was Peyton Pritchard, who had zero
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  Speaker 1: seconds on the shot clock to get a shot up.
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  Speaker 1: He gets his hand in the cookie jar. Defending him
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  Speaker 1: from behind, by the way. It wasn't even his primary defender.
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  Speaker 1: It has not looked amazing. Now, there's times last season,
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  Speaker 1: even in the postseason, where Ron Holland's impact and his
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  Speaker 1: energy goes a very long way But, man, you just,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, whenever you're a team like the Detroit
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  Speaker 1: Pistons and you now are at the point where you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to contain a contention-level team, you look back on
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  Speaker 1: a draft pick, which I think Ron Howard was like fifth,
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  Speaker 1: sixth pick, and you say, damn, if only we would
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  Speaker 1: have hit that one because if our fifth or sixth
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  Speaker 1: overall pick can only play three minutes in the season opening,
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  Speaker 1: not the greatest of things. Now, I'm giving some leeways.
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  Speaker 1: The first game of the year, so much basketball left, but, whoo, whoo,
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  Speaker 1: Javante Green took the minutes. Yeah, that's what it was.
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  Speaker 1: Javante Green took the minutes. So, yeah. Shout-out Duncan. Shout-out Vontae.
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  Speaker 1: Shout-out Asar. Shout-out Jalen Duren. You know, just overall great
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  Speaker 1: comeback performance from the Detroit Pistons. On the flip side,
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  Speaker 1: I missed NBA Twitter. I'm 30, right? I'm 30, and
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  Speaker 1: I still found myself laughing at stupidity on NBA Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the guys that gets slandered a ton,
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  Speaker 1: and listen, I'm a Tatum fan. Let me say that
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  Speaker 1: right now. I'm a Tatum fan. He's always been super cool,
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  Speaker 1: a fun player to root for, watch, whatever. Some of
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  Speaker 1: the tweets I saw about Tatum in the last, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, eight hours are like legendary things already. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, I got an app on my phone
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  Speaker 1: where I can only be on Twitter for a certain
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  Speaker 1: amount of minutes. I might raise my minutes for the
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  Speaker 1: NBA season. I won't lie. Some of the memes are
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  Speaker 1: just funny. I thought Tatum's individual process in this game
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  Speaker 1: was really good. He shot it very poorly. If you
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  Speaker 1: look at shot expectancy or shot quality, his shot quality, ew. Bro,
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  Speaker 1: the OKC game just ended and they auto-played some movie
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  Speaker 1: and it's blood. Tatum's shot quality was really high according
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  Speaker 1: to the analytics, right? Again, we think about analytics. 0
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  Speaker 1: for 7 from 3, 6 for 23 from the field.
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  Speaker 1: And some of the misses were just really bad. And
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  Speaker 1: it's hard for me, again, talking about overreacting, it's hard
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  Speaker 1: for me not to look at a game like this
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  Speaker 1: and think, oof, that burst, that he doesn't move exactly
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  Speaker 1: the way we're used to. And he got to one
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  Speaker 1: free throw. Actually, he missed like four layups in this game, deadass.
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  Speaker 1: He got one free throw attempt in this one. It
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  Speaker 1: was on an A1 layup, if I remember correctly. But
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  Speaker 1: he just doesn't get downhill and get to the basket
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  Speaker 1: as often as you want him to. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: times he does, he's using that opportunity to kick out
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  Speaker 1: for three-pointers. That's how you get to 11 assists. I
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  Speaker 1: credit him for that. But as far as getting to
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  Speaker 1: the basket and finishing, not a lot going on there.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't help but to think about Brad Stevens
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  Speaker 1: after the season when they talk about, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: postseason interview. He said, hey, we have to diversify our
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  Speaker 1: portfolio offensively a little bit. You know? Because one of
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  Speaker 1: the big points of Missoula ball is getting up a
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  Speaker 1: lot of three-pointers. They got up 42 tonight and shot
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  Speaker 1: 40% on those. And then, you know, prioritizing rim touches.
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  Speaker 1: Rim touches to three-pointers. Rim touches to three-pointers. Well, their
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  Speaker 1: biggest player when it comes to rim touches or rim pressure,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brown, they traded away for a guy, Paul George, who, again,
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  Speaker 1: has a phenomenal game. But rim touches and getting to
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  Speaker 1: the– it's just not his thing. If you look at
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  Speaker 1: Tatum's career, it's like, you know– 35% of his shots
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  Speaker 1: coming at the rim. 33, 33, 33. And then it's like, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: last year coming off the injury, it's like 20%. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the stats of how many of his
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  Speaker 1: shots from tonight was at the rim, but it's something
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  Speaker 1: you have to monitor when you have a guy who's
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  Speaker 1: going to be your primary creator in this case. And
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  Speaker 1: when you already don't have a lot of people to
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  Speaker 1: give rim pressure, you need that guy to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the guys to do that, and you just don't
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  Speaker 1: got it. And you think about also Missoula Ball maximizing possessions,
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  Speaker 1: the possession game, they didn't do that tonight. They turned
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  Speaker 1: the ball over 14 times. I think six or seven
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  Speaker 1: of those were in the first quarter, eight of them
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  Speaker 1: being in the first half. They didn't add many extra possessions.
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  Speaker 1: I guess technically 12, but some of them were just
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  Speaker 1: straight-off turnovers at 12. And then one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: acquisitions of Mitchell Robinson wasn't able to play his best game.
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  Speaker 1: He tweaked his ankle very early on, and he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: able to add these extra possessions they've been looking for.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously not overreacting, saying that there's doom and gloom
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  Speaker 1: for the Boston Celtics, but some of the things they've
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  Speaker 1: historically been really good at, they weren't good at today.
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  Speaker 1: And again, if you're playing devil's advocate, you say the
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  Speaker 1: Pistons shot a hell of a game and we give
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  Speaker 1: them that credit and next game they won't do that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But I got to monitor Tatum's athleticism
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  Speaker 1: all season long because it's not hitting the way it was,
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  Speaker 1: let's just say a year ago before the injury. And
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  Speaker 1: it makes sense. I mean, it's a major injury, major
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  Speaker 1: lower leg injury. Like, I don't know how many people
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  Speaker 1: could come back and be like, I'm bouncier than ever
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  Speaker 1: or I'm faster than ever. But they kind of need it. Like,
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  Speaker 1: this is supposed to be like a By many accounts,
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  Speaker 1: I don't use the word gap year because they're sure
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  Speaker 1: trying to compete, but they redid their books with the
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  Speaker 1: idea of in a few years, we can put it
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  Speaker 1: all together and win another championship. If Tatum can't look
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  Speaker 1: like top seven player in the league, Tatum, which he
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  Speaker 1: has been for the last however many years, then you
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  Speaker 1: look at it and say, hmm, what's, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Next game we have, that was a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: on the game that started at two o'clock. Next game
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  Speaker 1: we have. It's the 76ers getting a win in Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden. It's so cool to see the banner go up.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: The crowd was electric. I'm looking at like, is that
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: who I think it is? All the celebrities, everybody in
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: that building was rich as shit. I can't lie. We
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: looked at the tickets to get in the building. It
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: was two grand to get in the lower boat. It
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: was $ 8, 000. Like you just had to have bread. And
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at like, it's like I saw a dad.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: This is basically a podcast. I don't care. I saw
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: a dad holding his kid. And I'm like, that kid
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: is like four years old. He don't even recognize how
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: legendary it is to be in that arena right now.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Because guess what? I mean, I don't know. I picked
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: the Knicks to go back to the finals. I didn't
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: pick them to win the 2027 championship. But there's a
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: world where he will never see his favorite team raise
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: another banner. And he's four years old. He don't even
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: recognize it. He's seeing it. I'm 30. I'm 30. Ooh.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Last time the Bulls won a championship, I was like
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: his age. Now, I wasn't in the arena when they
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: raised it. But like, I don't have no memories of that.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: That kid ain't got no memories of watching... Jalen Russell,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: y'all 45 in the closer. Anyway, the Philadelphia 76ers get
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: a win. Really fun game. Again, so much preseason was watched.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: We did get to see a little bit of their
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: big four, fantastic four, whatever you want to call it,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: of the 76ers. And, you know, one of the biggest
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: things that people have when it comes to, well, the
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: first thing is injuries, right? If you don't believe in
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: the 76ers, you're going to say because you don't believe
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Joel Embiid is going to be able to stay healthy
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: or you don't believe that LeBron James with arthritis and
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: sciatica is going to stay healthy. Cool. The second thing
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: is like, it's one ball. It's this conversation you always
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: hear with super teams or teams that have this many
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: star players. It didn't feel like that today. The way,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: whether it be Nick Nurse or just all four of
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: these guys being really smart on the court, the way
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: it felt so fluid with this much talent should be
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: scary to a lot of the other teams. Because I
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: think their very first possession in the game was something
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: where all four of the guys touched the ball at
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: one point and it ended in a Tyrese Maxey three.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: There's times in this game where All four of their
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: star players are being used exactly the way they are
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: supposed to. Where Tyrese Maxey is sitting in the corner.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Where the guy can't tag Joel Embiid who just set
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: a screen and he's rolling because Tyrese Maxey is one
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: of the greatest shooters in the league. So his man
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: has to stay attached to him. Right? Jalen Brown as
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: a driver and a cutter. And LeBron James passing. All
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: of these things are on display at the same goddamn
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: time at a possession by possession basis. And that should
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: be scary. Again, it's one game against a really good
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Knicks team. But... It looked better than I could have anticipated.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: And I think that's a really good sign. It was
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: kind of a contrast to styles where the Knicks whole
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: thing is like, get to the glass. That's a big
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: drum for that first half. He was, I mean, Reggie
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Miller said it like three times in a broadcast. He's
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: been the best player on the game. And he literally was.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Contrast to styles where the Knicks were on the glass
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: and the 76ers maximize their pace. And I love that
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: they kind of have this balance. And again, this is
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: what they have to do with Joel Embiid on the team.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: We're like, We can create a stop, a steal, a block.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: If you're Tyrese Maxey, you could get three of those,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: both of those, three blocks, three steals. And in the
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: full court, we're going to go. We got Brown. We
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: got Maxey. We're going to go, go, go, go, go.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: But also, we can play the slow plays game because
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: the big fella still is really good at what he does.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: All of these guys look like guys that know the
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: situation and are ready to contribute however way they can.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Six assists for Jalen Brown. Seven for Braun. Six for Joel.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Five for Maxie. That's pretty damn impressive. And Maxie's just
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: going to be the biggest benefiter of all of this. Like,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: he is an absolute stud. Final is 28-5, 3-3, and 4,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: which is amazing. But, like, I don't even think those
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: raw numbers tell the impact of what Tyrese Maxie really was.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Let me look at some of these other notes. Oh,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: something I'm watching for, especially the first month of the season,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: are some of these substitution patterns. Like, at first... First shift,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you saw Maxie and Brown go to the bench, and
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: then we got to see Brown and Embiid. There were
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: some lineups where it was Brown, I'm sorry, Braun, Maxie,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: and Embiid. I like those lineups and what they look like.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Anthony Simons came off the bench and gave a little
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: bit of pop from three, and then KCP kind of
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: turned back the clock a little bit. He ain't really
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: looked this good in a year or two, so a
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: little boost when playing with some of your old friends.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: And the defense from the 76ers was way more impressive
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: than I anticipated. Again, one game, but held the defending
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: champions to 100 points. It's not easy to do. That
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: team just won 13 straight games to get to this
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: point where they're raising the Larry O'Brien trophy. And the
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: 76ers defense was really good. And I have to give
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Joel Embiid a lot of credit there. There's many possessions
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: in this game where he looked like the prime version
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: of himself moving defensively. I don't expect him to be
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: able to do that for an entirety of the game. But, like,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: if he can do it enough to make other teams
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: think that he's going to do it all the time,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like, you just think twice
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: because you want to be down there. Even if he's
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: not going to contest every shot at the rim. There's
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: a couple ones where he just got it. And I
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: think he had a couple fouls where, like, it was
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: a bang-bang play where you could say, like, ooh, I
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: think he got that block. So I was just overall
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: really impressed. This team desperately does need, like, Dominique Barlow
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: or Dean Wade. Because running a baseless seven-man rotation in
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the first game of the season is not the greatest
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: of things. Don't want to do that with a team,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: you know, that we might question the injury history. But, yeah,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: they desperately need some of those guys to come back.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: But for what it was worth, really, really impressive, especially
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: in that third quarter. Because I thought in the first half,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Jalen Brown was kind of getting lost in the shuffle
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: a little bit. I think that's going to happen throughout
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the course of the first month or two where, like,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: one of those four players is going to struggle to
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: really find his identity in the flow of the offense.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: And in the third quarter came around, they started to
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: run a little bit more. Then Jalen Brown had like
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: two easy dunks at the rim because the Knicks didn't
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: know who to pick up on fast breaks and stuff
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: like that. So he ended up coming up alive. And
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: then he hit the big three to go into the
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. And that was pretty much all she wrote
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: from that point on. Really, really good game from the 76ers.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: On the other side of things, you know, cool to
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: see the Larry Obeagle or the banner go up. I
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: think it's the first time since the Warriors championship in
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: 17 where the team that was raising the banner lost
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: in the season opening. In my mind, that feels like
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a long time ago. I would have expected... like a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: 2023 champion to lose, but nope. They did an amazing
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: job on Jalen Brunson. That's like Vijay kind of doing
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of the small things. I got so much
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: love for Vijay. OJ and OB didn't have his best game.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: If anything, this might have been his worst game in
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: quite some time. But I'm, again, not overreacting on the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Knicks not looking amazing in the start. I think I
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: just wanted to praise more of what the 76ers were
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: able to do quickly, quickly through the rest of the notes. Yeah,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: picked up the pace. For Jay LeBron, I think I
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: mentioned that. Last game of the day, we got the Spurs.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Flip the page. We got Spurs versus Thunder in a
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: game with a Thunder win, 116-104. Y'all, I mean, listen.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I understand. The people that dislike Shaggy Osana. It's your prerogative.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: If that's not your style of play, you worry about this,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: you worry about that, so be it. but you are
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: missing a fucking master at work. You are missing one
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: of the greatest scores to ever pick up a basketball
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: because he tries to get to the foul line. Think
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: about it like that. Some of the shot making that you,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: not just from Shea in this game, but like from him,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: from Dub, on the other side, Dylan Harper at the back,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: like just the shot making we saw in this game
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: was legendary shit. And Shea does get a lot of that.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Some of the shots that man just creates out of
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: nothing is, And you're kidding. You, Shea Glazer, so what?
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: The man is like the best player in the world, basically. So, yeah,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I glaze a little bit. Man, the guy is ridiculous.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I'm just, again, I'm on cloud nine that I get
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: to watch these guys play, and I never take it
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: for granted. But Shea was disgustingly phenomenal tonight. Oh, get
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: into my notes, though. Get into my notes. Yeah, you
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: got to see a little early in the game. Case
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: of Wilds put a little bit of in-between game. A
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: couple floaters I was looking forward to, but then he
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: didn't play a lot after that because, Jerry McCain basically
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: didn't miss a shot. And some of these other guys
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: just have more on-ball bounce. And I think that's the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: next thing for Kaysen. He just got paid $ 100 and
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: whatever million dollars this offseason. And his next step in
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: his game is to be more consistent from three. I
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: think he shot 36%, 37% last season, which is not terrible.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: But he also needs to learn some of that in-between
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: game and being able to score off the bounce and yada, yada, yada.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: But they got to. One of my first things in
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: my notes is the amount of ball handling for both
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: teams stands out in this one. Because you do have Shea,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: you do have Dubb, you do have A.J. Mitchell, you
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: do have Jerry McCain, you do have Alex Caruso, who's
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: obviously not on the same level of offensive player as
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: those guys, but can generate offense. And on the other side,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the Spurs started their three-guard lineup of Harper, Fox, and Castle.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And it's just so much. Both teams, all season long,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: we know this. These are the two top teams out West.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Both of these teams are going to be super impossible
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: to guard because they have so much optionality as far
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: as initiators aside. and people that can score off the bounce.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: And that's really what stood out to me in this one.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Similarly to what we talked about with Kay Cunningham earlier
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: in this video, where him playing off the ball was
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: something I was monitoring from the preseason, monitoring the same
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: thing from Shea. Shea played off the ball a ton today,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: which has to be a sigh of relief because in
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the last time these teams saw each other in the
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: conference finals, Shea was basically down any other ball handler.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: And now with Dubb being back and AJ Mitchell being
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: back and so on, It's like, oh, now I don't
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: have to literally bring the ball up every single time
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and be hounded by some of the best perimeter defenders
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: and like Stephon Castle and company, you know? So I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: can play off the ball a little bit and I
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: can let these other guys initiate something. I won't touch
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the ball at all and that's completely okay because we
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: got other talented players. I really love this game we
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: got from Chet Holmgren. Obviously, last time we saw him
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: hoop was awful by all accounts offensively. In this one,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: he was aggressive. He met Wimby at the rim a
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: few different times. He got to the foul line. He
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: looked like the Chet Holmgren That was an all-NBA player,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: even though he only finished with 14-7. He looked like
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: that type of guy on both sides of the floor,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: which is great. So happy to see J-Dub back. Wasn't
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the most efficient game, but some of the finishes we
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: saw at the ref from J-Dub, amazing. The three-point shooting
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: was elite, too. Like, the OKC Thunder are not a
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: team that's going to get up a ton of three-pointers.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: But if they get them up and they're going in,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: it's just going to be a team that is impossible
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: to beat. Jeremy Kane comes off the bench and lights
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: it up for the most three-pointers he's had in a
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: single game with six. In that first half, Caruso hit two.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Shea hit three. It's just like they were rolling. And
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: then that second half comes around. And you do see
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the Spurs pick up the pace. De'Aaron Fox downhill. Dylan
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Harper finishing at the rim. They started with a 6-0 run.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: And now this 20-point lead is now like nine. And
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, here we go. This is basketball, baby.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: This is what we're here for. And then the Thunder
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: just put their foot on the stop pad and say, hey, man,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: we got this defense. I know you're all a great
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: defensive team, but we are too. And we're going to
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: slow this thing down a little bit. We're going to
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: get stops. Adai Mara was, for this to be Adai
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Mara's first NBA game and to see the freak of
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: nature on the other side, the alien, and be like, no,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I ain't worried about him. I'm going to meet him
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: at the ramp and catch a lob. It's pretty impressive stuff.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I thought he looked great. I mentioned this before, that
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: because there's no Isaiah Joe and Aaron Wiggins and Luke Doerr,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and there's going to have to be like, because they
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: extended Isaiah Harden's case of Wallace, all of their top
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: guys have been extended, or extended, We're going to have
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: to ask for some of these younger players to step
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: up to the plate and make some plays and play
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: real minutes. And you do see a Daimara come out
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: there and say, hey, I'm a real NBA player already.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: You know, he had one leak out or throw pass
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: or outlet pass that got robbed. But other than that,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: pretty great game for a guy that's never played an
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: NBA minute before and he's going against one of the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: three to four best players in the world in Victor Wiminyama. So,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: so much love for OKC. I'm so happy that I
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: get to watch Shea Gibbs Alexander play because the guy
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: is just disgusting. On the other hand, I love when
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: an opposing team dares a player to shoot and he
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: shoots it and he makes them. And that's what we
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: saw from Stephon Castle tonight. When he finishes one of
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: 13 from the field, I have to go back and rewatch,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: you know, what was what was happening or the looks
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: that he was generating or that was generated for him.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: But obviously one of his worst offensive games ever. I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: think they said his his 0 of 11 start or
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: whatever it was. was the worst he's ever started to
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: an NBA game, and that makes sense to me. He
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: did get to the foul line. He still was an
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: elite level defensive player as he always is, but this
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: is one of the games you say, hey, man, we
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: just need a normal Wimbyama offensive performance, and we walk
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: out of here with the win. I do think it
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: was some encouraging stuff. I didn't look at the numbers,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and now that the game is over, maybe the site
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: that I normally use for this stuff has it. Because
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: last year when they ran that three-guard lineup, it wasn't
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the most pretty thing, right? They had a negative net
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: rating and stuff, but now that this is over, let's see.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: So their starting unit played nine minutes. They had a
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: net rating of a plus 57. So that's pretty good.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's one game, several sides, nine minutes. But, like,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: it's just something also to monitor for the entire season.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Because one thing I thought was interesting is the first
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: sub out five minutes into the game was to get D.R.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Fox to the bench. And then they brought in just Champinney,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Julian Champinney. And Julian hit a corner three off an
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: action immediately. So it's like, okay. And then. It flipped
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: where Kasu and Harper goes to the bench. And now
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: it's De'Arn Fox time to cook with, like, Carter Bryant
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: and Kelton Johnson. So, like, kind of allowing him to
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: take the reins of that second unit. I wonder if
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: that's going to flip a good amount throughout the season. Again,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: we've got 81 more games and then the postseason for
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs. So, I'm sure they're going to
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: experiment a ton in this one. We also got a scuffle,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: which was fun. But, yeah, man. I don't know. I'm
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: just– I'm on cloud nine that the NBA is back.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I made this tweet, and I'll read it to you
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: verbatim because– It seemed like people saw it and thought
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: it was a very important tweet. Not trying to pat
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: myself on the back at all. But the tweet says,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: to my NBA creators, it's time. Let's eat. This could
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: be your breakout season. Have fun, work hard, but most importantly,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: press publish. And I know there's some people that are
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: watching this video right now that are aspiring creators or
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: have started the journey of creation. Today is day one
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: of the NBA season. You can do this, bro. You
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: can do this. You can do this. It's not easy.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: It's not always gonna be successful for everybody, but if
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: you put the time in, you put the work in,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: you gain a new skill with editing and finding your voice,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: it can only be beneficial. In the world where my
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: YouTube shit never popped off, me doing these videos made
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: me a more confident person and a more confident speaker.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: We're like, I could do a live show in front
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  Speaker 1: of 500 people and not give a lot of ums
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: and pauses and feel my heart go 200 miles an
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: hour because I've done, you know what I'm saying? So
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: if you are an aspiring creator, this is day one, baby.
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  Speaker 1: We got nine months of the NBA season. Lock the
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: fuck in. This could be your breakout year. It could
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: be your breakout year. I was doing this to nobody
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: for forever. And now we got 4 million subs. Not
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: on this channel, but across platforms, you know. You see
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: that plaque? That could be you, bro. Lock the fuck in.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I want everybody to eat. It's too much opportunity out here.
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  Speaker 1: We've opened so many doors for creators to bridge the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: gap to traditional media or just staying independent and making
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  Speaker 1: a bag, doing what you love. So lock in. And
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: if you're not an aspiring creator, you can still lock
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: in too, baby. Lock in to them books. Lock in
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to your profession. Just lock in, man. God, I'm sweating
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: in my office because I'm so hype. Recipe's my dick, man. Yeah,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: so if you're asking me what this season will look
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  Speaker 1: like for me as far as creation goes while we're
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: here on this creation topic, I'm going to do my
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: very best to give you recaps as much as I can. Obviously,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: breaking news is a good thing. We have a podcast
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and numbers on the board. It's small ball with Kenny Beecham.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be going up four times a week, whatever the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: number ends up being. And yeah, man, this is my
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: favorite time of the year. I don't know. I'm going
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: to have so many opinions. I'm going to watch so
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: much film. I'm going to read so many articles. I'm
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: going to get smarter and dissecting the game. Obviously, instant
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: reactions is literally me reading a notebook of stuff I saw.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: But what I will do tomorrow morning is wake up
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: and re-watch a lot of this game. Read people that
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: whole job is to watch the Spurs, right? And say like, hey,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: this is different than last season. Something that I may
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: not notice because I'm trying to keep up with all 32.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to stay as locked in as possible.
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  Speaker 1: I love you. I don't know. That's it. 30-minute recap
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to start the season, baby. We are fully- We'll be back.