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Dynasty Sports Life Ep 212 Kostas and 2026 NBA Eastern Conference changes · Dynasty Sports Life

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Speaker 1: Be in this league podcast network. There's this Dynasty Sports Life,
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Speaker 1: a podcast about playing fantasy baseball, basketball, football, and haunting
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Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five days a year. Here's your host,
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Speaker 1: Jesse Sylvia. Oh, welcome to the Dynasty Sports Life. Jesse
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Speaker 1: Severe here, ready to talk to you about the wonderful
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Speaker 1: world of dynasty fantasy sports. When am I not is
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Speaker 1: what I would ask you. It is the season. It
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Speaker 1: is always the season. But you know what season it is.
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Speaker 1: It's NFL preseason. People are all up in the NFL preseason.
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Speaker 1: I bet if you play a lot of fantasy sports,
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of your buddies are out there thinking
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Speaker 1: about nothing but football. But you know what we can
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Speaker 1: do better than that. We have for sports to think about.
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Speaker 1: That means baseball is in the playoffs. Don't forget about those,
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Speaker 1: or soon to the playoffs, or just in the back
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Speaker 1: third in your roto leagues if that's how you roll.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, it's been exciting times over there. The final
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Speaker 1: stretch is coming for baseball and basketball and hockey. It
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Speaker 1: is time for rookie drafts. That's what time I see
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Speaker 1: it as. And it's only six weeks out from the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the NHL season. Can you believe that they're
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Speaker 1: starting in September this year because they and the NBA
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Speaker 1: used to both have eighty two games. Now NHL has
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Speaker 1: gone to eighty four, which is probably a mistake, but
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Speaker 1: a day. If they think it's going to make the money,
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Speaker 1: do what you gotta do. You're still wearing me out.
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Speaker 1: People in any event, Today is going to be all
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Speaker 1: about the NBA because we have to catch up with
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Speaker 1: what the heck happened. I know some of you are
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Speaker 1: just coming out of NBA hibernation and you probably missed
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Speaker 1: what some of the changes were. I know that some
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Speaker 1: of the trades and so forth. Marcus and I broke
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Speaker 1: down a few weeks ago. We made the Western Conference
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Speaker 1: happen in the NBA, all the team changes, and this
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Speaker 1: week we're going to do the Eastern Conference. Will cost
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Speaker 1: us once again from rasball after this. We did West
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Speaker 1: Coast last week, this week East Coast. It's going to
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Speaker 1: take a while to make it all the way to
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Speaker 1: cost us out there in Greece. There's several more coasts
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Speaker 1: between us and him, but that's all right. We're ready
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Speaker 1: to talk to costas. How you doing today, buddy.
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Speaker 2: I'm good.
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Speaker 3: I'm good to this. Thank you, thanks for having me again.
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Speaker 3: And we're fired up from the West. Let's get todays now.
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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, and the East is not quite
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Speaker 1: as they're actually better out there than they have been.
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Speaker 1: They just produced the NBA champions and things are kind
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Speaker 1: of looking up for the East. It feels like for
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Speaker 1: some depth perspectives, there's been a lot of changes going
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Speaker 1: on over there. So we'll go through, just like we
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Speaker 1: did last week. If anybody didn't listen last week, what
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Speaker 1: we're doing here is talking about the major additions and
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Speaker 1: subtractions to the Eastern Conference teams one by one. How
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Speaker 1: does that affect the rotations, who's going to get the production,
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Speaker 1: the fantasy points, whatever, And of course we'll go through
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Speaker 1: all of these teams, starting with the Boston Celtics. Anybody
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Speaker 1: ever heard of them? They very obviously and very famously
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Speaker 1: moved out Jalen Brown and for those of you who remember,
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Speaker 1: Nicola Bussovich was a deadline a deadline addition of the
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Speaker 1: Celtics that didn't really turn out to be much and
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Speaker 1: he left as well, and they added Paul George in
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Speaker 1: that trade. They brought in Mitchell Robinson to fill the
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Speaker 1: gaping hole at center that they'd had. That was their
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Speaker 1: big addition. Of course, Mitchell Robbinson got played off the
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Speaker 1: court in the NBA Finals because he kept bounding he
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Speaker 1: could make a free throw. And then Mike Conley, whatever
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Speaker 1: Mike Conley is still doing, he's going to come in.
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Speaker 1: He's still maybe kind of a fringe rotation guy. What
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Speaker 1: do you think here causes? What are the big changes
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Speaker 1: that happened with the Celtics in your mind? For impact?
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Speaker 3: Obviously, the biggest change is the swap of let's say
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Speaker 3: Jalen Brown and Paul George in the rotation. We cannot
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Speaker 3: expect Peg to take the offensive load that Jalen Brown had,
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Speaker 3: so I guess there are a lot of more opportunities
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Speaker 3: to go aren't in for other players in the Boston rotation.
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Speaker 3: But in terms of all George, I think health is
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Speaker 3: going to be key for him. If we assume that
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Speaker 3: he is healthy, maybe we can see some sneaky value
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Speaker 3: from him because he has always been a good fantasy contributor,
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Speaker 3: and given some more responsibilities in the Boston theme team,
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Speaker 3: I think we can have a productive season from him.
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Speaker 2: And also there's the question at the five spot.
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Speaker 3: As you correctly said, they did bring bar Mitter Robins,
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Speaker 3: but they also resigned the Mayas Ketta for a hefty price,
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Speaker 3: and we're very well deserved for the Mayas Ketta.
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Speaker 2: Who would have thought that a pople player would be
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Speaker 2: a thing, but strangers didn't have happened.
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Speaker 3: But I think that they will continue to start Getta.
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Speaker 3: They're just going to have a backup that fits their
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Speaker 3: style more because Wosceovitch was not obviously not the answer there.
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Speaker 3: They need something the more defensive presence. Now they have
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Speaker 3: two centers that play similarly to interchange with Mitch Robinson
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Speaker 3: and maas Keta. But I still think they're going to
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Speaker 3: start Kitta, and Mike Conley will continue to I think
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Speaker 3: a clap with grace from the bench.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to get meaningful minutes at
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Speaker 2: fifty years of eights, but it's a nice presence to
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Speaker 2: have in the looker for sure.
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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Yeah, Mike Conley will be drawing
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Speaker 1: his AARP card. That's in American terms. But yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: a good guy to have around. Actually the Wolves might
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Speaker 1: miss him a little bit, I don't know, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: he is probably a little bit buried in the rotation
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Speaker 1: here and moving on next, we have the least relevant
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Speaker 1: team in the Eastern Conference, the Brooklyn Nets, because they
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Speaker 1: are doing smart things and they are trying to make
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Speaker 1: the full on rebuild and they're this far, so they
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Speaker 1: are bringing in a couple of guys, a couple guys
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Speaker 1: with some interest. They wound up with Julius Randall in
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Speaker 1: the great Big Minnesota Timberwolves trade that shuffled the whole
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Speaker 1: bunch of guys around and ended up with of course
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Speaker 1: famously LaMelo making it to Minnesota. Julius Randall had to
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Speaker 1: move out. Then they got Mo Wagner just despite the
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Speaker 1: magic by taking one of the Wigners. Maybe they didn't
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Speaker 1: know which one they were ginning. And then they signed
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Speaker 1: Kean Ellis who's he's from Alabama, I believe, and in
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Speaker 1: the last couple of years he's gonna become a guy
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Speaker 1: who's made a little bit of a reputation by playing
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Speaker 1: some defense as a card. And then they have moved
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Speaker 1: out Nick Claxon, that was what they lost in that
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Speaker 1: Julius Randall deal. And Zire Williams, who has been a
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Speaker 1: fringe he's been trying he's gone to the La Lakers.
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Speaker 1: The Nets have a couple of guys who've got NBA
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Speaker 1: rotation experience coming in. They lost Claxton who has been
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Speaker 1: that class. But they're just full up to the brim
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Speaker 1: with rookies and second year guys from their own roster
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Speaker 1: who are trying to get minutes. Are any of these
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Speaker 1: guys because Randall just gonna soak up a whole bunch
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Speaker 1: of usage here just because he is former All Star
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Speaker 1: of that type of thing, or what do you think
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Speaker 1: is gonna happen with this Nets additions and subtractions.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's obviously Runner will get to it as much
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Speaker 3: as he wants with this kind of roster that's lacking
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Speaker 3: offensive talent.
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Speaker 2: Now, the interesting thing with Brooking is I think they do.
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Speaker 3: Not control their first round pick this season, so there
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Speaker 3: is no real reason for them to attract tank. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: they don't have a good enough roster to be super competitive,
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Speaker 3: but there is no realis to tang and this makes
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Speaker 3: some of the veterans in the roster very interesting for
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Speaker 3: the fantasy next season because maybe we don't see so
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Speaker 3: many random rest days, or they have no real incentive
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Speaker 3: to lose and if they started the season on a
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Speaker 3: hot streak. Maybe they try to appeal to their fan
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Speaker 3: base a bit and go for a play in run
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Speaker 3: or as much of the high seed as they can,
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Speaker 3: so both Michael Porter jun And Julis Randal might get
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Speaker 3: a bump in fantasy projections next season because someone has
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Speaker 3: to score in this roster. They also resigned their own
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Speaker 3: shark to play the five spot all Bite with the
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Speaker 3: contract that does not signify so much confidence because it's
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Speaker 3: a two year deal. If you have if you believe
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Speaker 3: that this is the long term solution at the five spot,
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Speaker 3: I guess you resigned the guy for much longer, but
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Speaker 3: he will be interesting to see how he fares with
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Speaker 3: the starting position for a whole season. And finally, there are,
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Speaker 3: as you said, a lot of young guys, especially at
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Speaker 3: the one and the two. I think there are five
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Speaker 3: players for two positions of the rookie Michael Brown Junior
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Speaker 3: and the three rookies from last season, Ben saraf Roland
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Speaker 3: Trauer and Demin, and you add to those Kean Ellis
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Speaker 3: as you said, and this is a position battle to watch.
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Speaker 3: We will see in the precision how it goes, because
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Speaker 3: whoever gets minutes from those guys and the usage can
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Speaker 3: emerge as a fantasy winner here. I think the first
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Speaker 3: two names that will get the opportunities Edgar Demin and
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Speaker 3: Michael Brown Junior. But keep an eye on Nolan Trouter
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Speaker 3: as well, because he sawed less season that he can
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Speaker 3: handle the offense. So we should wait and see how
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Speaker 3: this positional battle plays out.
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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see the psychology of teams who
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Speaker 1: do not have their own draft pick in the first round.
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Speaker 1: I think the Bucks are in the same boat. My
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Speaker 1: impression is they can kind of go one to two ways.
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Speaker 1: One of them is they could say, screw it, let's
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Speaker 1: go for the play in and if they catch lighting
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Speaker 1: in the bottle they do it. In the old days,
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Speaker 1: it's like if you don't, then you're going to tank,
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Speaker 1: and tanking means getting to the bottom and getting the
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Speaker 1: more lottery balls. Now the bottom three teams don't get
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Speaker 1: the same number lottery balls. I almost kind of feel
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Speaker 1: like if the Nets aren't doing well, they do just tank.
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Speaker 1: Just to some extent, they play their younger guys because
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Speaker 1: they don't care if they end up in the bottom three,
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Speaker 1: Unlike some of the team that's got their own pick.
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Speaker 1: They they don't carry the way, and the only problem
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Speaker 1: is then in the second round their pick will be
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Speaker 1: later because of the way that they are doing this
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Speaker 1: reversal for the second round. For the lottery teams, I
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Speaker 1: guess they kind of if they ended up with the
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Speaker 1: lowest and then it flipped in the second round, then
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Speaker 1: they're picking maybe fourteenth or whatever, and that would be lousy.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know, it'll be interesting. But guards mature
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Speaker 1: those first couple of years, things change a lot for them.
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Speaker 1: The ones they get better, but when rookie point guard
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Speaker 1: egor demon, you could see them take a big leap,
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Speaker 1: just because that's what happens. When guards get the game
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Speaker 1: slows down a little bit around them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think those two things are very codependent.
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Speaker 3: How well their guards mature can very much play a
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Speaker 3: huge part if they start the season on a hot
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Speaker 3: streak and can be actually competitive.
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Speaker 2: If not, maybe they do not outright.
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Speaker 3: Ton with the definition but we had last season. But
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Speaker 3: maybe they play their younger guys just to give them
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Speaker 3: minutes and they don't perform so well because that's a
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Speaker 3: very very young gross as you said before, So let's
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Speaker 3: wait them to see for sure.
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Speaker 1: The New York Knicks. We don't have to wait and see.
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Speaker 1: They're the champions. They shocked the world yesterday and shocked
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Speaker 1: everybody who just never believed that New York would win.
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Speaker 1: And smartly they didn't do much. Their owners said we're
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Speaker 1: not going into the second apron Nos Surrey. Subsequently, not
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Speaker 1: much really came out of that except that Mitchell Robinson
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Speaker 1: has gone. Now Ariel Huporti, who had a couple of
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Speaker 1: good minutes in the finals, he showed up and did
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Speaker 1: a couple of good things and then he was never
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Speaker 1: heard from again. But Mitchell Robinson couldn't make a free throw,
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Speaker 1: he couldn't stay on the floor, so you know, he
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Speaker 1: was gone. And Jeremy Sohan left because he had already
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Speaker 1: pulled the deal where I think he would have gotten
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Speaker 1: the He would have gotten a ring on either side,
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Speaker 1: either for the Spurs or the Knicks, if I remember,
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Speaker 1: that's always one of those fun things. And they signed
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Speaker 1: Andrey Drummond, who for some reason, Andrey Drummond is still
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Speaker 1: kicking out there after he seemed to lose relevance like
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Speaker 1: ten years ago, but he still chills up on these teams.
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Speaker 1: He still gets some good rebounds. And this is a
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Speaker 1: team that probably is going to need a little more
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Speaker 1: center rotation because again Robinson hook party gone. What do
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Speaker 1: you think about any changes to the Knicks? Is there
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Speaker 1: much to worry about with all this?
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Speaker 2: Not much to say?
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Speaker 3: I think in terms of regular season basketball, Andrew Drammond
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Speaker 3: is a downgrade compared to Mitch Robinson, but they had
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Speaker 3: to do what they had to do to meet the
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Speaker 3: cup space criteria to avoid the second up Roun. And
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Speaker 3: another small notice that they resigned Mohammed Avara on a
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Speaker 3: multi year contract. That's a name to watch for dynasty
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Speaker 3: because if you checked his management, he was on the
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Speaker 3: floor last season. They weren't very much, but he started
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Speaker 3: games and he does pass the ite test.
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Speaker 2: He's a modern forward.
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Speaker 3: He can knock down the three shot, and I think
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Speaker 3: getting a multi year contract with a lot of years
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Speaker 3: guaranteed is a very good indication. I think he will
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Speaker 3: get more minutes this season with the Knicks also getting
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Speaker 3: older and trying to preserve some of the guys after
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Speaker 3: such a deep chanelran. So that's a name to watch
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Speaker 3: for thee per leagues.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Okay, Philadelphia seventy six ers, they had
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Speaker 1: themselves a bit of an offseason.
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Speaker 2: No, no big deal.
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Speaker 1: Hey, we've already got We've got Tyrese Maxi, We've got
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Speaker 1: Joel Embiid. What do we really need to do around here?
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Speaker 1: We're fine. Nope. They they were the beneficiaries of Jalen Brown,
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Speaker 1: apparently wanting his way out of Boston. And of course,
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Speaker 1: the kicker with Jaylen Brown is he has a contract
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Speaker 1: that is a small fortune. Forget about whether he's overrated
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Speaker 1: or not. Dude has a gigantic contract that's that's already
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Speaker 1: on the books. And then how dare we not say
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Speaker 1: Lebron James first? Maybe because you made us wait Lebron
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Speaker 1: for this whole time. Surprisingly signs of course with the
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Speaker 1: Sixers if you've been living under a rock. But that's
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Speaker 1: not all. There were other guys Imforny Simons, who probably
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Speaker 1: is kind of pissed off now because he's like, I'm great, now,
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Speaker 1: what am I gonna do? But he is good for
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Speaker 1: some scoring. He signed away from the Bulls. We mentioned
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Speaker 1: a party who left the Knicks. Dean Wade left the Cavaliers.
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Speaker 1: That's good. They need kind of that part of their
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Speaker 1: roster filled in and maybe some defense and some wing
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Speaker 1: stuff there and Condavious Caldwell, Pope. You gotta love guys
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Speaker 1: who were signed after they were bought out by another team.
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Speaker 1: He's really fallen off the table in the last couple
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Speaker 1: of years. He missed thirty one games for finger surgery
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Speaker 1: and in the meantime, who did they lose? So that's
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Speaker 1: a long story too, but primarily Andrey Drummond. We just
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Speaker 1: talked about Paul George traded to the Celtics. We just
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Speaker 1: talked about Quentin Grimes signed off with the Lakers. They're
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Speaker 1: excited about him. Kelly Oubray left, he was a long
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Speaker 1: time Sixer there and should we say that Daryl Mory
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Speaker 1: left too. Daryl Mory got his butt kicked out of
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Speaker 1: there and they've got a new general manager. So all
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Speaker 1: this was not processed. Two point zero? What do you
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Speaker 1: think of the Sixers? It's chaos. It's a advance factory here.
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Speaker 1: What's going to happen with this.
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Speaker 2: Team? To predict for fantasy paraposes?
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Speaker 3: Of course, at least the starting five and if the
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Speaker 3: Benz unit, if we think about the Ben's unit with
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Speaker 3: the Rootie guard, the le Baron Filon signons of the
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Speaker 3: two caseyp at the three, then wait, at the four,
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Speaker 3: and I don't know, add the bone or rapport at
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Speaker 3: the five.
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Speaker 2: You pick whoever you want.
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Speaker 3: That's ten guys that are a very strong core to
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Speaker 3: change the championship.
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Speaker 2: I guess that's why Lebron also decide to sign there.
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Speaker 2: But in terms of fantasy, I think something has got
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Speaker 2: to give.
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Speaker 3: Obviously, you have Lebron, who supposedly will not play the
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Speaker 3: huge minutes he was playing for the Lakers, but it's
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Speaker 3: still Lebron, so he will need the ball in his
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Speaker 3: hands a lot more than all Georges obviously, and we
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Speaker 3: have also Jayleen Brown there, so it's it's gonna be
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Speaker 3: tough to see how the users will be split out there,
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Speaker 3: and also it's going to be interesting to see how
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Speaker 3: they will try to manage Joel Embid. He did the
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Speaker 3: turn less season and played a lot of games at
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Speaker 3: the second half of the season. But if the seventy
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Speaker 3: six ers start winning and they have real playoff aspirations
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Speaker 3: or they are easily inside the playoffs, maybe we see
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Speaker 3: some more maintenance stays that we want, both for Lebron
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Speaker 3: obviously and for the Bid. So that's another thing to watch.
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Speaker 3: And finally we have with j Edgecomb was very good,
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Speaker 3: had a very good first season in the league, but
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Speaker 3: now seems a bit more buried in the rotation. He
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Speaker 3: will have to earn his minutes more in the defensive vent,
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Speaker 3: and I don't think this is going to be good
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Speaker 3: for his let's value him with a starting in this
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Speaker 3: starting five with Maxi, Brown, Lebron and Embid, he's clearly
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Speaker 3: the number five offensive option, which is never good for fundus.
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Speaker 3: So that's something to watch out, especially in read draft leagues.
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Speaker 3: Maybe don't expect to see a leap from last season's
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Speaker 3: number Forge Comb.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that is a bummer because Edgecomb looks like
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Speaker 1: he's going to be a real good player. He should
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Speaker 1: start right, but again will be one of the lesser options.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it will be a shock if he
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Speaker 2: doesn't start, But maybe it will be good if they
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Speaker 2: try to stagger him with Maxi so that he gets
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Speaker 2: more minutes with the second unit when he can run
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Speaker 2: them all more. But it's it's.
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Speaker 3: Very tough to find the same means for Edgecumb with
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Speaker 3: neither Brown, nor James nor Marxi on the floor, so
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Speaker 3: it's going to be tough to see how his value
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Speaker 3: will will increase.
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Speaker 2: His second year in the league.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. All right, onto the Toronto Raptors, the
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Speaker 1: last team in this division, and of course the number
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Speaker 1: one item on their list is the same thing we
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Speaker 1: talked about. On the Clippers side, we don't know what
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Speaker 1: the heck is happening with Leonard that is the kicker,
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Speaker 1: and we've got Grady Dick brandon Ingram potentially headed back
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Speaker 1: the other way. Perhaps this is probablyrobably all gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: We seem to be cruising toward resolution here. It's probably
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Speaker 1: all gonna happen. So you're gonna have a team with Kawhi,
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Speaker 1: Scottie Barnes, Emmanuel Quickly, RJ. Barrett, and the newly added
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Speaker 1: Kyle Anderson. Okay, fine, he's kind of a fringe guy.
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Speaker 1: He's kicked around with the Spurs and the Timberwolves for
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Speaker 1: a couple of years. And the Lakers backed up the
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Speaker 1: truck for Sandro Mamu Kushebili, the Delaware legend who is
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Speaker 1: now considered one of the rotation players on the LA Lakers. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll see how that goes for them. And Colin Murray
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Speaker 1: Boyles is of course rounding in the form. He's coming
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Speaker 1: up there, so it's not a lot of depth, but
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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of hope for this team.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what to say here. Well, I guess
18:43
Speaker 1: we can talk about the Ingram of it all, but
18:45
Speaker 1: what do you think is changing on this team?
18:48
Speaker 3: Is obviously an upgrade over Ingram, and they don't have
18:53
Speaker 3: much depth, as you said, which I think we come
18:56
Speaker 3: back to Batam if they tried to do a deep
18:59
Speaker 3: playoff round.
19:00
Speaker 2: It's an impressive starting five.
19:02
Speaker 3: My only concern in terms of from possible perspective, from
19:04
Speaker 3: a founder's perspective, if there is enough shooting on this
19:09
Speaker 3: I don't I don't see the usual knockdown three point
19:12
Speaker 3: shooters apart from the guards. Arzi Barrett has never been
19:16
Speaker 3: a good three point option. He's very unreliable there. So
19:22
Speaker 3: it's a talented roster. I'm not sure if all the
19:26
Speaker 3: pieces click together. Maybe a mid season trade top Bart
19:31
Speaker 3: for some shooting guip will be necessary because he's more
19:36
Speaker 3: explanable now that Colin Murray Boils has on that he
19:40
Speaker 3: can play in this league, and they also have raised
19:43
Speaker 3: Action Davis for the backup five. But I'm seeing a
19:47
Speaker 3: bit of imbalance in the roster, mainly because there is
19:50
Speaker 3: no depth, no real depth behind the starters. But it's
19:55
Speaker 3: gonna be fun starting five to watch for sure, if
19:57
Speaker 3: they all stay healthy, if Kawhi, if the QUI trade
20:00
Speaker 3: goes through, and I hope that they don't avoid it
20:03
Speaker 3: and make whatever we discuss here unnecessary next week or
20:07
Speaker 3: so for what is worth.
20:08
Speaker 2: Kawai said that he expects to play.
20:11
Speaker 3: In Toronto, and if someone knows what's happening, I guess
20:15
Speaker 3: it's quite himself.
20:16
Speaker 2: So that's something also to think about.
20:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, he wants to be back there, and they do.
20:23
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. Up in Canada here they freaking
20:25
Speaker 1: adore Kawhi.
20:27
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you, We ask you the same
20:29
Speaker 3: thing because I had a friend here in Greece who
20:31
Speaker 3: lives in Toronto for the last five years, and he
20:34
Speaker 3: tells me that both him and Laurier are like national
20:36
Speaker 3: heroes there. So it's oh, yeah, they are indeed that
20:41
Speaker 3: much beloved.
20:42
Speaker 2: Right after the championship, yeah for sure.
20:46
Speaker 1: Okay, we're onto the Central and the Chicago Bulls maybe
20:50
Speaker 1: starting to get it, starting to do smarter things. Who
20:53
Speaker 1: knows they were they got them they horned into that
20:57
Speaker 1: four way trade and spitting out of the machine. Was
21:01
Speaker 1: Nick Claxon for them. That's pretty good. I like Nick Claxon,
21:04
Speaker 1: speedy junior he is, He'll get you a little bit
21:07
Speaker 1: of everything, and the Nets are not making grace use
21:11
Speaker 1: of him. And then they signed Norman Powell, who's had
21:14
Speaker 1: an amazing kind of mid light career renaissance. He kind
21:18
Speaker 1: of was, he was kind of okay, he's kind of
21:20
Speaker 1: popping around for a while. Then All Star time over
21:24
Speaker 1: with the Heat after really having a pretty good season
21:27
Speaker 1: with the Clippers before that. Yeah, so Norman Powell big
21:31
Speaker 1: signing again, it's the Bulls. Why are we doing a
21:33
Speaker 1: big signing if we're not going to be all that good?
21:35
Speaker 1: But they also got they got Caleb Wilson obviously in
21:38
Speaker 1: the draft. We're not going over the draftees and the
21:40
Speaker 1: guys they lost. Anthony Simon's probably wishes he was back
21:43
Speaker 1: on the Bulls right now because you'd probably get a
21:45
Speaker 1: bit more usage there. You still got Josh Giddy and
21:47
Speaker 1: Norman Powell and some of those guys. But they lost
21:50
Speaker 1: Colin Sexton to the Lakers and Hama Gay. The Gay
21:54
Speaker 1: boys are they're two of them, and I think mohammadu
21:57
Speaker 1: Is is he the better one? Isn't there one with
22:00
Speaker 1: Atlanta and their both.
22:03
Speaker 2: Yeah?
22:05
Speaker 1: All right, the other ones in Atlanta Anyway, the guys
22:07
Speaker 1: they lost are probably not big impact guys. Simon's is
22:11
Speaker 1: a scorer and not much else who's financial value has
22:14
Speaker 1: gone way down. They added a couple of good guys,
22:16
Speaker 1: They added a great draft pack. What do you think
22:18
Speaker 1: of changes to what's going on with the Balls?
22:21
Speaker 3: I think after a lot of seasons in Deiocracy trying
22:24
Speaker 3: to win and failing, I think the Bulls are finally.
22:30
Speaker 2: Trying to do the right thing.
22:32
Speaker 3: Now that the Projectives starting five has four sure spots
22:36
Speaker 3: with Gid Powell, Buzzellis and Clarkston, I think they're going
22:40
Speaker 3: to start coleb Wilson.
22:42
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
22:42
Speaker 3: Maybe they try to keep Buzelles on the four and
22:46
Speaker 3: start the Isaac Ocoro as they did last season, but
22:49
Speaker 3: eventually I think Wilson will start.
22:51
Speaker 2: Which this starting five is a fun starting five. Will
22:56
Speaker 2: it win a lot of games?
22:58
Speaker 1: No?
22:58
Speaker 2: Will it be fun to watch? Yes?
23:01
Speaker 3: Will it defend I guess no, again I think, but
23:06
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be fun to watch. And in
23:08
Speaker 3: terms of fantasy, Nick Lakson gets to play on a
23:13
Speaker 3: team that is a lot more competitive than the Brooklyn
23:16
Speaker 3: has been in the last years. So it's a real
23:19
Speaker 3: test for him because he's not so young anymore. He
23:24
Speaker 3: has to show gains that he can play for a
23:26
Speaker 3: winning team. There is a fantasy monster and he will
23:30
Speaker 3: continue to be. And I agree with you the normal
23:33
Speaker 3: power signing is an underraty one. And if he can
23:36
Speaker 3: continue to be at the level that he has on
23:39
Speaker 3: the last two seasons, he will have all the opportunities
23:42
Speaker 3: to continue doing what he can and why not continue
23:46
Speaker 3: to be a non star and we will see how
23:48
Speaker 3: much of a leap matters Bosellis can take on a
23:51
Speaker 3: team that is finally more functional around him. I am
23:55
Speaker 3: excited for the Bulls also called Wilson was easily the
23:58
Speaker 3: best player in the Summer League, and if he's as
24:01
Speaker 3: ready as he sowed he can he can spin up
24:04
Speaker 3: the whole process in Chicago. But I'm sure the bullsh
24:08
Speaker 3: fans are excited to watch this decision's iteration of the Bulls.
24:13
Speaker 1: I'm looking at their actual complete depth chart, and I
24:17
Speaker 1: feel like the guys that were added, subtracted, or drafted
24:21
Speaker 1: really comprise most of the good ones.
24:25
Speaker 2: As much exactly exactly.
24:28
Speaker 1: There's Martus Bozillis, who they love and who will get
24:31
Speaker 1: a I think Cale Wilson absolutely is playing a ton
24:34
Speaker 1: this year. He's one of the most exciting things they've
24:36
Speaker 1: got going. And we'll see if Josh getting But yeah,
24:40
Speaker 1: this this roster's got a lot of Patrick Williams and
24:43
Speaker 1: Isaaca Carrol going on. Yeah.
24:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the question is, I'm not really sure
24:49
Speaker 3: how they will view Buzillis and Wilson of the three
24:52
Speaker 3: and the four. Are they interchangeable? Do they keep starting
24:55
Speaker 3: Buzillis at the four and keep Wison of the three?
24:58
Speaker 3: It's they can try a little things. But as you said,
25:01
Speaker 3: all the substructions were the mediocre guys are best, and
25:03
Speaker 3: all the additions are exciting guys.
25:05
Speaker 2: So that that that's good. That's good.
25:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. And now the Bulls
25:10
Speaker 1: are living in the era where their strategy of making
25:13
Speaker 1: the playing game is actually rewarded. Finally, finally we get
25:17
Speaker 1: to the Halcyondes for the Bulls. The Cleveland Cavaliers did
25:22
Speaker 1: not do much. They had a very expensive team and
25:25
Speaker 1: they racked on a few more years of Spider Donovan Mitchell,
25:29
Speaker 1: but they lost a couple of fringe guys. Kean Ellis,
25:32
Speaker 1: We've mentioned, Dean Wade, we mentioned this episode, Larry Nance
25:35
Speaker 1: Junior we mentioned and then they pulled. They pulled contract
25:39
Speaker 1: shenanigans with Europe. They're they're trying to screw with the
25:43
Speaker 1: integrity of the leagues over there because as I understand
25:46
Speaker 1: that Mario Hazonia is signed strictly to get him out
25:51
Speaker 1: of his contract with Real Madrid so he can go
25:54
Speaker 1: to a different team.
25:55
Speaker 2: Atroversies and.
26:00
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, I've learnt that the Cavaliers are
26:03
Speaker 1: just doing something nice for him just to piss with
26:05
Speaker 1: the European basketball.
26:08
Speaker 3: The narrative from when the first rumors about his own
26:11
Speaker 3: and started is.
26:12
Speaker 2: That he wants to go to Dubai SC.
26:15
Speaker 3: So I guess the conspiracy theory here is that he
26:18
Speaker 3: paid the buy out himself. The Cavaliers do him a
26:22
Speaker 3: favor by signing him to an angarent in contract, He
26:26
Speaker 3: plays I don't know, some training games or whatever, and
26:30
Speaker 3: they release him and then he signs with Dubai just
26:33
Speaker 3: to get out of the construction loophole of this is
26:35
Speaker 3: an NBA out close and not a EuroLeague out close,
26:39
Speaker 3: so the only time will tell if if this is
26:41
Speaker 3: int the case, or if he will need to be
26:43
Speaker 3: back against there is a rotation spot to fill in
26:46
Speaker 3: within Wade the Living, But I don't know, I don't know.
26:50
Speaker 2: It's we've shared this tale with a hundred different versions,
26:54
Speaker 2: so only time mill tail.
26:56
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the cavalier's owner must owe a crown prince
27:00
Speaker 1: a favor or something. We'll we'll see what comes out
27:02
Speaker 1: of that. I gotta be careful, man, I'm on a
27:04
Speaker 1: podcast now that could be Libel and they're very rich people.
27:08
Speaker 1: But luckily nobody cares what I say. So everything will
27:12
Speaker 1: be fine. Everything will be fine. The Pistons, gosh, they
27:15
Speaker 1: were so good in the regular season. They just killed
27:18
Speaker 1: in the regular season and in the playoffs it didn't happen.
27:22
Speaker 1: The Pistons kind of magical season really petered out in
27:25
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and they did make some changes because of it.
27:29
Speaker 1: They brought in John Collins. Is that the cure to
27:34
Speaker 1: winning problems rarely, if ever? But John Collins will give
27:39
Speaker 1: you some fantasy stats and he will have to find
27:41
Speaker 1: those somewhere on this team. Gary Harris coming in at fringe,
27:46
Speaker 1: Isaiah Joe who you never know with guys who had
27:49
Speaker 1: smallish roles with the Thunder. He's a sharpshooter. He'll come in.
27:53
Speaker 1: That probably will help the Pistons a little bit with
27:55
Speaker 1: just clearing out some space for kid Torrian Prince, Okay whatever.
27:59
Speaker 1: They also lost Tobias Harris, Karris Lavert went out, Marcus
28:03
Speaker 1: Sasser Isaiah Stewart beefs to man, that's a guy who
28:07
Speaker 1: had a reputation and I don't know if it's just
28:09
Speaker 1: because he got in fights for a little while there,
28:12
Speaker 1: but he was like a big deal there as a
28:13
Speaker 1: center and now suddenly he he just moved out because
28:17
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies are assembling the monstars. They're just assembling a
28:20
Speaker 1: bunch of really tall players and going to see what happens.
28:23
Speaker 1: So what do you think of these changes to the Pistons.
28:26
Speaker 1: Looks like they they got a yeah, I don't know,
28:28
Speaker 1: they got a little bit more John Collins, what do
28:30
Speaker 1: you think?
28:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess the two interesting players here John Collins
28:34
Speaker 3: and is Ion Joe. John Collins, as you said, is
28:38
Speaker 3: not on fed correlated with winning, so that's not a
28:41
Speaker 3: good sign. At least He's a much better points shoner
28:45
Speaker 3: than Bias Scottish, which is weird. To say, but if
28:48
Speaker 3: you look at his three point percentage the last three seasons,
28:51
Speaker 3: he's a better three point sooner than Tobias Scottish and
28:55
Speaker 3: that's something that Troit desperately needs, especially with Alsha Thompson
29:00
Speaker 3: on the floor and Jellien Duran, so they need shooting
29:04
Speaker 3: in all the other positions. That's why they started also
29:07
Speaker 3: Duncan Robinson last season also Kenny Za Joe surpassed Duncan
29:12
Speaker 3: Robinson for the starting position easily, so that's the name
29:16
Speaker 3: to watch there as well. And as you said, the
29:18
Speaker 3: guys that lay twenty minutes for the Thunder can play
29:22
Speaker 3: thirty five in another team and be Fantasy superstars, so
29:25
Speaker 3: that's always a thing to watch. I think Joe is
29:29
Speaker 3: a good piece of business for Detroit. I'm not so
29:32
Speaker 3: sure for Collins. On paper, it's a better fit than
29:37
Speaker 3: Bias Cars in terms of spacing the floor, but he's
29:40
Speaker 3: a much more one dimensional player than Thebias. And there
29:44
Speaker 3: is obviously the thing with Jalen Duran. He has not
29:49
Speaker 3: signed his qualifying offer yet. They have not come to
29:52
Speaker 3: an agreement of the contract, and if they start the
29:55
Speaker 3: season with just the qualifying offer signed, I don't know.
30:00
Speaker 2: What is going to happen.
30:02
Speaker 3: So that's another story to pay attention to. I think
30:06
Speaker 3: the lasting too, is that they eventually agree on a
30:09
Speaker 3: conduct extension because there is no market right now for
30:13
Speaker 3: a max level contract. I think only Memphis has a
30:16
Speaker 3: cup space or something like that, and they do need
30:19
Speaker 3: another big guy there, as you said, in Memphis, but
30:22
Speaker 3: I don't think they sign.
30:25
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why they've really signed. Isaiah's traded Isaiah Stewart there.
30:29
Speaker 1: It was forty chess. If you take thieves too, you're
30:32
Speaker 1: not gonna want Jalen Duran. You're the only people who
30:34
Speaker 1: can afford.
30:35
Speaker 2: Him exactly exactly.
30:38
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Yeah, it is crazy times. Yeah, Jalen
30:41
Speaker 1: Duran is just hanging out there. People could make a
30:43
Speaker 1: big offer on him and it's just not happening. And
30:46
Speaker 1: yet he is probably the second most important player on
30:50
Speaker 1: the one seed from the Eastern Conference last year. So
30:53
Speaker 1: you make of that what you want, becauss. Let's take
30:56
Speaker 1: a brief break. We're going to come back and talk
30:58
Speaker 1: to some more Eastern Conference back costas and now we're
31:14
Speaker 1: going to the Indiana Pacers, who just you know, they
31:16
Speaker 1: took a gap year last year. They just they chilled out.
31:19
Speaker 1: They went to Europe, they found themselves because they had
31:22
Speaker 1: no Tyrese Haliburton. They made a big trade for Vicha Zubach,
31:27
Speaker 1: but really that didn't amount to much because they really
31:30
Speaker 1: didn't play him after that. They just bought him to
31:32
Speaker 1: have him around, And because really they were not looking
31:35
Speaker 1: to be particularly successful last year, they brought in a
31:38
Speaker 1: couple fringe guys. You've already mentioned Larry Nance, Kelly Ubray,
31:41
Speaker 1: a couple of guys around the outside there, and I
31:44
Speaker 1: don't know Cam Jones left. There's not much going on here, yeah,
31:47
Speaker 1: so I don't know. The biggest changes coming for the
31:50
Speaker 1: Pacers this year really are the guys who are going
31:52
Speaker 1: to be back, and maybe the guys who are already
31:54
Speaker 1: there who have to adjust to it. But there's a
31:56
Speaker 1: couple of fringe guys. What do you think is going
31:57
Speaker 1: on here?
31:59
Speaker 3: I'll just say the big question mark here is how
32:03
Speaker 3: ready Taris Aliburton is to come back. He missed the
32:07
Speaker 3: whole season, so in theory, that's plenty of time to recover,
32:11
Speaker 3: but we have to wait and see it. We also
32:13
Speaker 3: have to wait and see how if it's a Zoba
32:16
Speaker 3: fits with this roster, because as you said he didn't
32:19
Speaker 3: really play last season, and obviously the Indiana pass play
32:23
Speaker 3: with the base that Haliburton sets, so they're completely different
32:27
Speaker 3: in without him. Can they replicate the miracle round they
32:30
Speaker 3: had the two years ago.
32:34
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure.
32:35
Speaker 3: I'm not seeing it with this roster, but nobody's saw
32:38
Speaker 3: it coming at that point, so we cannot let them off.
32:42
Speaker 2: Key Librett does provide.
32:44
Speaker 3: Some good depth of the forward positions, but I wouldn't
32:47
Speaker 3: bother for him in fantasy. He wasn't really inelevant when
32:50
Speaker 3: he was playing thirty two minutes. I don't see how
32:53
Speaker 3: he becomes relevant here. So I guess, as you said,
32:57
Speaker 3: it's how will the existing players return and the mess
33:01
Speaker 3: with one another than anything or exciting that is happening
33:05
Speaker 3: with the basis.
33:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see. They could be one of the best
33:09
Speaker 1: teams in the East if Tyrese is back and in form,
33:12
Speaker 1: but probably not something that's going to positively impact players.
33:17
Speaker 1: You've been relying on the Milwaukee Bucks. We already said
33:22
Speaker 1: that the seventy six ers were team change, but Milwaukee
33:26
Speaker 1: and another team soon to come, said hold my beer
33:29
Speaker 1: because the famous trade of the off season, Yiannis on
33:32
Speaker 1: Tintakoupo is gone. We are in mourning for your countryman,
33:37
Speaker 1: Giannis in Milwaukee Land, and basically they just traded for
33:42
Speaker 1: the whole Heat team. They sent everything. They sent South Beach,
33:46
Speaker 1: They sent a bunch of pink flamingos up to Milwaukee.
33:49
Speaker 1: Were set. We put a bunch of new sand on
33:52
Speaker 1: the beach on Bradford Beach there on Lake Michigan. And
33:55
Speaker 1: they sent back Tyler Hero who seems like kind of
33:59
Speaker 1: an irritable little guy, but he is from the Milwaukee suburbs.
34:03
Speaker 1: Caspers yaka Jonas, who is still just coming into his own.
34:08
Speaker 1: He was a rookie last year. There seems to be
34:10
Speaker 1: something here for the guy. So we'll see Haimi Hatkez
34:14
Speaker 1: kind of a floor razer. He'll be out there. He'll
34:16
Speaker 1: be playing some defense. He had a pretty good year
34:19
Speaker 1: last year, really, and then kellel Ware, who I really like,
34:22
Speaker 1: although occasionally Eric's spulster did not seem to We'll see
34:26
Speaker 1: if Taylor Jenkins likes him more and keeps him out there,
34:28
Speaker 1: because he's great for your stats when he's out there
34:31
Speaker 1: on the court, and not Miles Bridges or Miles Turner
34:35
Speaker 1: is still there, but Bobby Portis is not and this
34:37
Speaker 1: is really the big day acquired in that deal. And
34:39
Speaker 1: then Karis Lbert Okay, Karris Lbert out on the fringes,
34:43
Speaker 1: and of course last Giannis lost Bobby Portis. Bobby Portis
34:47
Speaker 1: famously traded as a part of this because the Bucks
34:51
Speaker 1: would not do the trade without moving Bobby Portis because
34:54
Speaker 1: of the salary and the fact that it's upside down now.
34:56
Speaker 1: And that's really pissing off boy Bobby Portis because other
35:00
Speaker 1: I know him about that. He is really pissed that
35:02
Speaker 1: people are saying that about him. Gary Harris story in
35:05
Speaker 1: prints whatever. They went off to the Pistons. Boy, Milwaukee.
35:10
Speaker 1: This is a brand new team. This is probably one
35:12
Speaker 1: of the worst teams in the NBA, But there's always that.
35:15
Speaker 1: What do you think of as.
35:17
Speaker 3: It's a very difficult rotation to try and figure before
35:21
Speaker 3: the season starts. I guess, as you said, kelll Ware
35:25
Speaker 3: is very interesting. Whenever he got minutes with Miami, he
35:28
Speaker 3: was a machine for funders. Even in limited minutes, he
35:33
Speaker 3: was very good. His game is very fund as friendly.
35:37
Speaker 3: So we should keep a very close eye on this.
35:40
Speaker 3: I don't know if how the Bucks we tried to
35:43
Speaker 3: do this. They have hero we will start. Last season
35:47
Speaker 3: they started Tryan Rowlins and Kevin Porter Junior at the
35:50
Speaker 3: guard positions. I guess one of them will not start now.
35:54
Speaker 3: The small forward position is also a question mark. I
35:58
Speaker 3: guess they will start there. It's that's the first name
36:02
Speaker 3: that comes up to mind. But Hagas is also not
36:05
Speaker 3: so interesting in terms of fantasy because he used to
36:09
Speaker 3: get minutes with a hit didn't do really much with them.
36:13
Speaker 3: And there's also the question of the four do they
36:16
Speaker 3: start Kyle Cozma. Do you want to do anything with
36:19
Speaker 3: Kyle Kurdman fantasy? This is an easy answer. The answer
36:22
Speaker 3: is no, obviously, but he might get some means from
36:26
Speaker 3: the other guys. They also have their rookies, bread and
36:29
Speaker 3: Barries and Nate Ammond, who should get opportunity as the
36:32
Speaker 3: season goes on.
36:34
Speaker 2: It's a very tough team to try and predict.
36:38
Speaker 3: It will be very interesting also to see how the
36:40
Speaker 3: former hit guys transitioned to an offensive scheme that includes
36:45
Speaker 3: pick and rolls. Because Miami did not do any pick
36:49
Speaker 3: and rolls last season. That was the single team in
36:52
Speaker 3: the league that decided that we're not going to do
36:54
Speaker 3: pick and rolls. They try to create opportunity by moving
36:57
Speaker 3: guys through space and trying to better man of dribble,
37:00
Speaker 3: which is exactly the opposite of what the whole league
37:04
Speaker 3: is doing. It was interesting to see, but it can
37:09
Speaker 3: have a huge impact on the statistical profile of guys
37:12
Speaker 3: because when you don't have you don't run a pick
37:15
Speaker 3: and roll ball hundreds are much less effective. So maybe
37:21
Speaker 3: we can see some statistical shifts we don't expect in
37:24
Speaker 3: those guys. Maybe Hackeys can start running some pick and
37:27
Speaker 3: roll and they can expand his game. Maybe ad simplayer
37:30
Speaker 3: making there or the same thing can happen for Hero
37:33
Speaker 3: or Kelllware can find some easier baskets as a role
37:37
Speaker 3: man in the pick and roll. That's the thing to see.
37:41
Speaker 3: And as a side note, it will be interesting to
37:42
Speaker 3: see how the Miami he do this with bum and youngs.
37:47
Speaker 3: Will they keep at it? Will they try to change
37:50
Speaker 3: up their offensive scene? I guess yes, but we will
37:54
Speaker 3: see in a bit. So I think those are the
37:56
Speaker 3: main things we expect to ship from the Bucks, and
37:58
Speaker 3: obviously they will move Turner and Kuzma as the season
38:02
Speaker 3: goes on to completely dismantle the team they had the
38:06
Speaker 3: last season, which is I guess the logical thing to do,
38:10
Speaker 3: but it's always easy to do trades on paper rather
38:14
Speaker 3: than real life.
38:14
Speaker 1: So yeah, oh of course, yeah yeah, Hero Kuzma, LeVert,
38:20
Speaker 1: Kevin Porter Junior. These guys are all on expiring contracts,
38:23
Speaker 1: so they have to think about them. But I want
38:26
Speaker 1: to stop you. I want to stop you right there, Coasters,
38:29
Speaker 1: because I'm deeply offended. You named all these players who
38:32
Speaker 1: are going to be relevant in the rotation last year,
38:34
Speaker 1: but you have forgotten one player, And in fact, it
38:37
Speaker 1: is the player who is owed the most money by
38:40
Speaker 1: this team in future years, most guaranteed money on the
38:44
Speaker 1: books coming up for him. You forgot Gary Trent Junior,
38:50
Speaker 1: who the Bucks have already decided is a potential future
38:54
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer by guaranteeing him over sixty million dollars
39:00
Speaker 1: over the next four years too, in an act of
39:03
Speaker 1: amazing collusion.
39:07
Speaker 2: Gossip. You need to give me the gossip.
39:10
Speaker 1: So basically the deal is here that they tried to
39:14
Speaker 1: put the team around Giannis that they thought could do
39:16
Speaker 1: the best. They brought in Gary Trent Junior and they said, okay, Gary,
39:19
Speaker 1: we're going to sign you for a small contract because
39:21
Speaker 1: we got to squeeze everything. We're in second apron Land.
39:25
Speaker 1: We got to get you for what we can. But
39:27
Speaker 1: don't worry. Next year we will pay you like crazy.
39:30
Speaker 1: We promise, wink wink, and they can't promise. That is
39:34
Speaker 1: highly deeply illegal. And then the Bucks signed Gary Trent
39:38
Speaker 1: Junior to an absolutely astounding, ridiculous contract for the next
39:43
Speaker 1: four years. It's basically fifteen million this year, then it's
39:47
Speaker 1: going to get up to sixteen for the next couple. Yeah,
39:51
Speaker 1: it's terrible, and they were actually under investigation by the
39:54
Speaker 1: league because everybody else is like, Okay, seriously, this is
39:58
Speaker 1: a under the table deal that they are following through
40:01
Speaker 1: with some agent because they don't want to piss off
40:03
Speaker 1: the agent.
40:03
Speaker 2: Probably, But now, did we just find their starting small
40:09
Speaker 2: photo for the Bucks?
40:10
Speaker 1: Then? Oh, I think we did. I mean they're going
40:13
Speaker 1: to have to play them. Last year Doc got him
40:17
Speaker 1: and Doctor just benched him. Doc's like, we're not playing
40:20
Speaker 1: this guy. But now it's going to be like they
40:22
Speaker 1: have to play him.
40:26
Speaker 3: And it's so awesome how little goes to the other
40:29
Speaker 3: side of all those dealings that happens behind closed doors,
40:32
Speaker 3: even in the NBA.
40:34
Speaker 2: It's I even I haven't heard about this at all,
40:36
Speaker 2: so I thought it was okay.
40:39
Speaker 1: No, this is obviously Kawhi is much more consequential. But
40:44
Speaker 1: this is being dealt with in some ways as a
40:47
Speaker 1: much clearer case of collusion, and the Bucks really could
40:49
Speaker 1: get in trouble. The joke is among everybody is the
40:53
Speaker 1: best punishment for the Bucks is to make them keep
40:55
Speaker 1: Gary Trent Junior on that contract. That would be an
40:58
Speaker 1: absolute death noelt of the Bucks cap situation. Of course,
41:02
Speaker 1: Kevin Porter Junior because now we're talking about more guards.
41:05
Speaker 1: Kevin Porter Junior, famously famously tempestuous guy. If he lose
41:10
Speaker 1: the minutes, that's not gonna go. Well. But again, you
41:13
Speaker 1: can't not play Brayden Burry's and Ryan Rollins is outstanding.
41:17
Speaker 1: He played great. So there's gonna be plenty of drama
41:20
Speaker 1: to watch with the Bucks if nothing else. And I'm
41:22
Speaker 1: excited because for the first time in many years, NBA
41:26
Speaker 1: TV won't be a lead passed, will not be blocking
41:28
Speaker 1: the Bucks because I'm not living in Milwaukee, so I'll
41:31
Speaker 1: be able to watch them on a more regular basis. Well,
41:36
Speaker 1: who knew we could go that long on what might
41:38
Speaker 1: be the worst team in the NBA. Next year, there's
41:40
Speaker 1: a lot of ten there. Who knows, but there is.
41:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, now that you mentioned the Gary Trent thing that
41:47
Speaker 4: I didn't know, you cannot. On top of this the
41:50
Speaker 4: Lillard money that they owe from the stretching. You can
41:53
Speaker 4: see that the Bucks are screwed from cup space for
41:55
Speaker 4: the next season, So I guess there will be bad
41:58
Speaker 4: for a little while longer.
42:00
Speaker 1: The recent years have been the anomaly for the Bucks. Wait,
42:04
Speaker 1: we were not used to happiness, and that is, but
42:07
Speaker 1: they still and two of their first round picks left
42:10
Speaker 1: this decadeighteen and twenty nineteen. They don't have so there's
42:15
Speaker 1: still out two picks and the Miami Ones won't really
42:17
Speaker 1: start kicking in until the twenty thirties. Yeah, and Lillard
42:21
Speaker 1: that that money is going to haunt them until twenty
42:24
Speaker 1: twenty nine to twenty thirty. So basically the Bucks are
42:27
Speaker 1: going to stink for the rest of this decade. Or
42:29
Speaker 1: that's what would do moved out just in time, I think. Yeah, again,
42:34
Speaker 1: basically like the twenty tens. That's what we're back to here,
42:37
Speaker 1: all right, Let's get to the southeast. The Atlanta Hawks.
42:41
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Hawks, they're building to something and they made
42:43
Speaker 1: a couple of they made a couple of deals. They
42:46
Speaker 1: brought in Devin Carter, fine, but he's a still a
42:50
Speaker 1: young player that could be some promise there. Lou Dort
42:52
Speaker 1: very ornery, defensive minded guy who will fit on that team.
42:57
Speaker 1: Aaron Wiggins also coming from the Thunder, the third they were.
42:59
Speaker 1: They took advantage the fact that the Thunder had to
43:01
Speaker 1: move some salary. They had to move decent players who
43:03
Speaker 1: were part of a championship team. And then Ryan Nemhart
43:06
Speaker 1: from the Mavericks because it's time to get rid of
43:09
Speaker 1: Zachary Richet. That depresses me. Zachary. I didn't think he
43:14
Speaker 1: was going to be that bad, but he really is.
43:16
Speaker 1: Oh not great man.
43:18
Speaker 2: I think they gave up to quotim him. Yeah, they
43:21
Speaker 2: gave up to put him. They we'll see.
43:22
Speaker 3: I think we discussed the resision with Dallas. But in
43:25
Speaker 3: terms of the Atlata Hawks, it's obviously it's obvious that
43:28
Speaker 3: they like their starting group. They just tried to bolter
43:31
Speaker 3: their bends and I think they did a great job
43:33
Speaker 3: on this. The question remains if a championship caliber team
43:38
Speaker 3: can be led by Jalen Johnson. The fantasy team for sure,
43:42
Speaker 3: Jillen Johnson's awesome. In terms of real basketball, I'm not
43:46
Speaker 3: really sure, but I like their moves during this ob season.
43:49
Speaker 3: They extended the Jim McCollum to try to bridge the
43:52
Speaker 3: gap between him and the Kingston Flemings, supposedly taking the
43:57
Speaker 3: reins of the pointer.
43:59
Speaker 2: Position at some point.
44:00
Speaker 3: That's a smart piece of business, and they did both
44:03
Speaker 3: of their bends. So I don't expect to make sure
44:07
Speaker 3: sake ups in terms of fatness in value. Risa was
44:10
Speaker 3: faded out of the rotation last season, so I don't
44:13
Speaker 3: think we're going to see something very different here. It's
44:18
Speaker 3: more a question of can they go all the way?
44:22
Speaker 3: Can they make a playoff run with this roster, or
44:25
Speaker 3: they need another pitch on top of what they already have.
44:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, because as far as I know, Jonathan Kuminga is
44:31
Speaker 1: still not signed and he technically his cap hold is
44:34
Speaker 1: bigger than the contract of any player on the team
44:38
Speaker 1: for next year. That's kind of crazy. They've got a
44:40
Speaker 1: lot of mid players again. Dyson Daniels seems like a
44:43
Speaker 1: star in fantasy because of all the steals, he's not
44:46
Speaker 1: really a star in real life kids. Even on defense,
44:48
Speaker 1: he's not all that. So they got a kind of
44:51
Speaker 1: a lot of middle of the road players. It seems
44:53
Speaker 1: like a play in level of players. But maybe the
44:57
Speaker 1: sun will be greater than the whole, will be better
45:02
Speaker 1: than the sum of the parts. That's what I'm meant
45:04
Speaker 1: to say. Yeah, that thing. Yeah, so yeah, we'll see
45:08
Speaker 1: how the Hawks do. Charlotte Hornets had some seismic shifts
45:12
Speaker 1: this offseason. Boo boo. They obviously they moved LaMelo Ball,
45:17
Speaker 1: they moved Miles Bridge as two of their kind of
45:21
Speaker 1: star players from the past few years. But now they
45:23
Speaker 1: got Conkinentple and Brandon Miller. And they brought in Grayson Allen,
45:28
Speaker 1: who was very expensive because matt Ishbio was given out
45:32
Speaker 1: crazy money and he is going to hopefully be healthy
45:37
Speaker 1: enough to provide some threes. And again, where there is
45:40
Speaker 1: a North Carolina player in Charlotte, there has to be
45:43
Speaker 1: a Duchie as well, and I guess he's going with
45:46
Speaker 1: Conkinentple there, they brought in nas Reed from the Timberwolves.
45:50
Speaker 1: That's a pretty savvy pickup. Nwas Reid really seems to
45:53
Speaker 1: have taken a step, although he's also signed to a
45:56
Speaker 1: fair bit of money. And then Royce O'Neil, Dorian Finney Smith,
46:00
Speaker 1: a couple of dorin Phinney Smith really fell off last
46:02
Speaker 1: year and he's signed a lot of money. The Hornets
46:05
Speaker 1: are a place where you can hold some bad contracts
46:07
Speaker 1: for a while if you can get something back for it,
46:09
Speaker 1: and their management is a lot better than it has
46:12
Speaker 1: been in past years. But and then Josh Green left,
46:14
Speaker 1: I don't know Josh Green was doing all that. Yeah,
46:17
Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets, this is a completely different team really at
46:20
Speaker 1: the top. Mellow and Bridges gone, nas Reid in what
46:24
Speaker 1: do you think?
46:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of usage has left Charlotte, so there
46:31
Speaker 2: is a person there for sure.
46:33
Speaker 3: Obviously, we will wait and see how Cnumple first in
46:37
Speaker 3: his second year of the league. He had a very
46:39
Speaker 3: good rookie season, so I didn't see the reason why
46:42
Speaker 3: he cannot improve. It's now Brandon Miller's team, so it'd
46:47
Speaker 3: be interesting to see how he handles this role moving on.
46:52
Speaker 3: And As will also start, and I think he's a
46:57
Speaker 3: name to watch for sure, because although salah Horns will
47:02
Speaker 3: not be combetitive, he can feeling that starts it if
47:05
Speaker 3: he gets regular minutes. We saw in Minnesota as well
47:08
Speaker 3: that when neither Compared or Rundle was injured, he was
47:14
Speaker 3: a good fantasy contributor and for some seasons even as
47:17
Speaker 3: a bench guy, he was very much useful. Also, they
47:22
Speaker 3: should start Coby White at the punker position, so after
47:26
Speaker 3: the falling off a cliff in terms of fantasy value
47:30
Speaker 3: when she moved out of Chicago, now White has another
47:33
Speaker 3: chance to lead an NBA team and be very fund
47:36
Speaker 3: as irrelevant.
47:38
Speaker 2: That's a name to watch as well. And finally, I'm
47:40
Speaker 2: interested to see how they will go with the center position.
47:45
Speaker 3: They started last season with alc Brenner at the midway point,
47:50
Speaker 3: Mussatbata took over, but now there is also the rookie
47:53
Speaker 3: Steinbach on the mix, and he seems a good project
47:58
Speaker 3: to rely on. So with the Hornets not playing for anything,
48:03
Speaker 3: maybe he will get a chance to showcase his value
48:07
Speaker 3: at the starting point at some point in the season.
48:10
Speaker 2: So that's another name to watch.
48:11
Speaker 3: But it will be completely different in last the next
48:14
Speaker 3: season forms that's for sure. I guess they decided that
48:19
Speaker 3: they cannot be really competitive with Samelo and Bridges. So
48:24
Speaker 3: it's indeed the weird timing because they played their best
48:28
Speaker 3: basketball for the last five seasons last season, but they
48:32
Speaker 3: had to do something because the contracts were going to
48:34
Speaker 3: run out eventually, so it seems like a weird move,
48:39
Speaker 3: but I think in the long run they had they
48:41
Speaker 3: did what they had to do to try and be
48:43
Speaker 3: really competitive.
48:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that, Yeah, LaMelo's out there crashing cars. The
48:49
Speaker 1: one guy who I am really this is one of
48:52
Speaker 1: the guys I'm most excited about, and I've not been
48:54
Speaker 1: able to acquire him in leagues, But Kobe White is
48:56
Speaker 1: the guy who I'm really like trying to get in
49:00
Speaker 1: right now because I think with mellow out of town,
49:03
Speaker 1: Kobe is pretty good. Yeah, he's the North Carolina to
49:06
Speaker 1: balance out those dookies, and yeah, I think he's I
49:09
Speaker 1: think he's going to take a step up with all
49:11
Speaker 1: that usage opening up this year.
49:12
Speaker 2: Like you said, I think I can send it.
49:15
Speaker 3: And he has been a top seventy player when he
49:18
Speaker 3: gets a real minutes to start, so I don't see
49:21
Speaker 3: reason why he cannot continue with friend in any minutes.
49:25
Speaker 1: Yes, onto the Miami Heat. Of course, they're on the
49:28
Speaker 1: other side of absolutely losing their team. Hero yaka Jonas
49:33
Speaker 1: Hakez Powell where and Powell again not part of the
49:36
Speaker 1: Milwaukee trade. He signed with the Bucks because again they
49:39
Speaker 1: couldn't afford. They had to clean house to be able
49:43
Speaker 1: to get Giannis and Portus on the books. They also
49:46
Speaker 1: brought in Tim Hardaway, who is not he For a
49:49
Speaker 1: while he was really over, He was really maligned for
49:53
Speaker 1: being paid too much for a few years. And then
49:55
Speaker 1: since I think he's kind of settled into this role
49:57
Speaker 1: as kind of a bench score in decent and they're
50:00
Speaker 1: probably gonna need him this year because this is a
50:02
Speaker 1: pretty shallow team. Now they're gonna they're gonna have to
50:05
Speaker 1: rely on Gianni's Bam Wiggins, Yovich, count On Jovic, already
50:11
Speaker 1: poured Mitchell Hardaway. Maybe finally the Simon Fontacchio will get
50:16
Speaker 1: some run. What do you think is going on with
50:18
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat.
50:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had to lose a lot of depth to
50:24
Speaker 3: get Yannis. Obviously, when you have the chance to get
50:27
Speaker 3: the real superstar, you pull the trigger. The the back
50:31
Speaker 3: court is looking mighty thing. I guess they will start
50:34
Speaker 3: Davin Mitchell at the one. I don't know who starts
50:37
Speaker 3: of the two. Maybe they try with the pel Larson
50:39
Speaker 3: more shooting. I don't think how the way Jor makes
50:43
Speaker 3: any sense as a starting guy there, and they're gonna
50:46
Speaker 3: need as much shooting as they can, because that's the
50:50
Speaker 3: game you need to play. With Janie there, you have
50:54
Speaker 3: as much shooting as you can around him. And it
50:57
Speaker 3: would be very reasing to say, as I said about
50:59
Speaker 3: the asks, how the Miami offensive schemes will evolve with Yanni's,
51:05
Speaker 3: if they will try again to play with no picking rolls,
51:08
Speaker 3: or if they will try to adapt with Yannis both
51:11
Speaker 3: as a screener and as a bold handler, because that's
51:14
Speaker 3: one of the strong points of his game. I think
51:18
Speaker 3: Bum will lose some of his of the playmaking that
51:21
Speaker 3: he used to have with Yanni's being the top dog
51:25
Speaker 3: there now. But I think we will see some guys
51:29
Speaker 3: that we do not expect emerge here because as you said,
51:33
Speaker 3: there are a lot of minutes go around.
51:35
Speaker 2: This is a very thin rotation.
51:38
Speaker 3: So maybe some guy that we don't expect from Tekyo
51:41
Speaker 3: or Pell Larson plays real starter minutes because they need shooting,
51:45
Speaker 3: they need someone to play, and besides Yani is Bum
51:49
Speaker 3: and the Wikins, nothing.
51:52
Speaker 2: Is locked in their roster in their rotation, so we
51:57
Speaker 2: have to wait and see.
51:58
Speaker 3: Even the rookie Cornwall they get real minutes because they
52:03
Speaker 3: don't have cup space to sign someone with there in
52:06
Speaker 3: they gut positions, so that's something Worts as well.
52:09
Speaker 1: Let's move on. Oh the other thing I'd say about Miami.
52:12
Speaker 1: If any team is capable of just pulling some guy
52:15
Speaker 1: out of thin air you've never heard of and suddenly
52:18
Speaker 1: they can do something, it's the Miami Heat. They just
52:20
Speaker 1: have a way of doing that. Orlando Magic not much change.
52:24
Speaker 1: I guess the big change they're hoping for is that
52:27
Speaker 1: Franz Wagner can play more than thirty four games next
52:29
Speaker 1: year and Jalen Suggs can play more than fifty seven.
52:33
Speaker 1: Because they didn't change much. They Mo Wagner brother Moe
52:36
Speaker 1: is off to Brooklyn and back is franchise hero Nikola Busovich,
52:43
Speaker 1: who has been on a sojourn to Chicago and then
52:46
Speaker 1: briefly over to Boston. I don't I feel like he's
52:50
Speaker 1: signed a minimum contract. They'll get stats like crazy. I'm
52:54
Speaker 1: reading places that he's going to be like the tenth
52:57
Speaker 1: man on the bench or something. I'm like, this guy
52:59
Speaker 1: was in stats last year, and you can't tell me
53:03
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play minutes in front of Goga batads
53:06
Speaker 1: for some of the season because he's freaking Nicola Vuseovich
53:10
Speaker 1: And maybe he doesn't really have the defense, and maybe
53:14
Speaker 1: he completely flopped with Boston. But I feel like he's
53:17
Speaker 1: going to be fantasy relevance, though maybe not like Bulls
53:20
Speaker 1: level fantasy relevant, but he's gonna do some stuff for
53:23
Speaker 1: this team. I had him in a contract league. I'm
53:25
Speaker 1: freaking thrilled. I've got him on a minimum contract this year.
53:29
Speaker 1: Could he still be a ten and eight type guy
53:31
Speaker 1: something like that? I don't know. What do you think
53:33
Speaker 1: of anything that Orlando changed other than their coach.
53:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, schwapping mau Wagner for Nikolabovitch is a huge win.
53:41
Speaker 3: Obviously from the basketball side of things. I think he
53:45
Speaker 3: can be better than what he was in Borson obviously
53:47
Speaker 3: not Chicago levels. As you said, I'm not sure he can.
53:50
Speaker 3: He will start over Grendel Garti Junior. I find this stretch.
53:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
53:57
Speaker 3: If there is a guy that you cannot rule out
54:00
Speaker 3: having a top one hundred fund decision, it's it's nowadays.
54:04
Speaker 3: Nikola Woodshovitz used to be IFA this is young where
54:06
Speaker 3: he played in every team and somehow he was the
54:09
Speaker 3: top one hundred until he was thirty seven years old.
54:12
Speaker 2: Now it's Wotsovitch.
54:13
Speaker 3: So I wond drew him out, and especially if you
54:16
Speaker 3: say in a salary league, that's still of course for
54:18
Speaker 3: a minimum contract. I don't know if he can grab
54:21
Speaker 3: you eight three pounds, as you said, but even with
54:24
Speaker 3: hit in twenty minutes per game, he will be a
54:26
Speaker 3: positive impact without hurting you anywhere. It's just the difference
54:30
Speaker 3: that he cannot I think keep up. We saw this
54:33
Speaker 3: in Boston as well. He cannot stay in the court
54:35
Speaker 3: much longer lateral movement because he's getting up there. I
54:38
Speaker 3: think he's thirty five, forty six or something like that.
54:41
Speaker 3: So it's difficult to envision a regular role. But lip
54:44
Speaker 3: frog in goga bitadja, Yeah sure, why not?
54:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, he's not going to start in front
54:49
Speaker 1: a window carter, but Wendell could miss some games. If
54:52
Speaker 1: you ever see Wendell missing a game, I'm guessing that
54:55
Speaker 1: Bushovic can do something. But again, the other problem with
54:58
Speaker 1: him is Roland really want to win. I'm not sure
55:01
Speaker 1: how much Nicola with his defense can contribute. Two teams
55:05
Speaker 1: that's winning a lot of games. So you got to
55:06
Speaker 1: watch out there. But Washington Wizards is our final team today, Costas,
55:11
Speaker 1: and there's a lot going on in Washington, and this
55:14
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a moribund team in some ways.
55:17
Speaker 1: It was going to take a long time to build up,
55:19
Speaker 1: and sure enough they got themselves some They got themselves
55:23
Speaker 1: a top draft picked this year. Why can't the b
55:26
Speaker 1: YU kid? Why can't I name him? Why can't I
55:29
Speaker 1: name him? Debon shout of a gun? That was just
55:33
Speaker 1: a mental Okay, So aj Debonsa is in Washington now.
55:40
Speaker 1: And unless you forget, just in case you forgot, Anthony
55:44
Speaker 1: Davis and Trey Young appeared from nowhere last year and
55:47
Speaker 1: then didn't play. I think Trey showed up for one
55:50
Speaker 1: game or something like that and otherwise sat on the bench.
55:53
Speaker 1: And then they brought in a couple of other guys
55:56
Speaker 1: who've been relevant at different times. DeAndre Ayton played a
55:59
Speaker 1: lot for the Lakers last year. He's definitely a flawed
56:02
Speaker 1: and limited player, But on a franchise that already has
56:05
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, he could probably interested Busch. I don't know, man,
56:09
Speaker 1: who knows what could happen here? Chris Middleton is back,
56:14
Speaker 1: and Middleton is just getting passed around these days. It's
56:17
Speaker 1: sad he's coming toward the end of his career. Yeah,
56:20
Speaker 1: Alex Saaris continued to mature, Cam whitmore Man, that guy's
56:24
Speaker 1: a mystery too, and then Keishan George. I'm just naming
56:26
Speaker 1: guys now, but there are more players on this Wizard's team.
56:29
Speaker 1: My point is there's more players on this Wizard's team
56:31
Speaker 1: than you would know. Jaydeen, Hardy Gone, d'angela Wressel gone.
56:34
Speaker 1: I didn't even remember d Angela Russell was on this team.
56:36
Speaker 1: Maybe I just wasn't watching. Yeah, except for when Bam
56:41
Speaker 1: put up seventy on them, I don't think anybody paid
56:43
Speaker 1: any attention to the Wizards last year. What do you
56:45
Speaker 1: what do you think here?
56:48
Speaker 3: It's gonna be interesting to see how the older guys
56:51
Speaker 3: mess with the younger guys, because, as you said, Young
56:54
Speaker 3: and Davis practically never played the last season, so it
56:57
Speaker 3: will be interesting to see how they start. I guess
57:01
Speaker 3: the four of the five starting spots are locked with
57:04
Speaker 3: the Bats are Young, Davis, and Sar because we know
57:07
Speaker 3: Davis does not want to play the five, so they will.
57:10
Speaker 2: He will save the court with Alex Sad.
57:13
Speaker 3: And now for the last spot, I think we need
57:17
Speaker 3: to find someone that will be benched from last season,
57:20
Speaker 3: so I guess this will be Bill Kulibali who will
57:24
Speaker 3: be bensed because this starting lineup needs shooting, so I
57:28
Speaker 3: think they will go with Kiss. So that's something to
57:33
Speaker 3: watch out that maybe Kulibali doesn't start the next season,
57:38
Speaker 3: and it will be interesting to see how much Young
57:42
Speaker 3: and Davis have left on the tank, or if the
57:46
Speaker 3: Wizards try to use the start of the season to
57:49
Speaker 3: showcase Davis and then move him for some value as
57:54
Speaker 3: the season goes on up.
57:56
Speaker 2: I have a difficult time seeing how this roster can
58:00
Speaker 2: be competitive.
58:01
Speaker 3: I had my reservations last season with the trade for
58:04
Speaker 3: Davis from the start. Remember we had quite a disagreement
58:08
Speaker 3: with the Craig on the Tradedline podcast we did the
58:11
Speaker 3: three of us. So we will see who was corrected
58:15
Speaker 3: with this season. But it's always helped with Anthony Davis.
58:18
Speaker 3: He can be awesome for ten games and then disappear
58:21
Speaker 3: for the games with a bang up knee and a
58:23
Speaker 3: bang dubholder and the bad back or whatever.
58:27
Speaker 2: So that's that we have to wait and see.
58:29
Speaker 3: That makes also both Ayton and the books of It's
58:33
Speaker 3: interesting because they play behind such an injury prone guy,
58:38
Speaker 3: and if you ignore the fact that Ayton cannot play basketball,
58:41
Speaker 3: we can Yeah, we have some to watch there.
58:45
Speaker 2: And also the depth started the four is very empty
58:48
Speaker 2: behind Davis.
58:50
Speaker 3: Maybe Chris Mittleton can play some four at the stage
58:53
Speaker 3: of his career because I don't think he can.
58:55
Speaker 2: Guard any threes right now. And they have just think
59:00
Speaker 2: some Panier as well there.
59:01
Speaker 3: But if Davis goes down, there is a hole there
59:05
Speaker 3: which can be exploded by some of the bench guys
59:09
Speaker 3: in the roster. And with More, as you said, it's
59:12
Speaker 3: very very deep in this rotation. If you don't even
59:14
Speaker 3: start cooling Bali that started last season, I think with
59:18
Speaker 3: More is headed for some more.
59:19
Speaker 2: Dnp's decision as well.
59:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a bummer. I just really liked him coming
59:24
Speaker 1: out of college. I thought he was a guy who
59:26
Speaker 1: was underdrafted the Rockets. He was just squeezed out with
59:29
Speaker 1: the Rockets. But now it just looks like it's not
59:32
Speaker 1: going to turn out to be a thing. Yeah, and
59:34
Speaker 1: then Trey Johnson just hanging around here. The thing with
59:36
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is Anthony Davis. He is a ten time
59:39
Speaker 1: All Star, he's five time All NBA. He's an absolute superstar.
59:45
Speaker 1: But so you would think this is the type of
59:47
Speaker 1: thing in another sport, who they would it would be
59:50
Speaker 1: like a deadline acquisition. This is the guy that's going
59:52
Speaker 1: to put us over the top. But in basketball, he's
59:55
Speaker 1: also got a fifty eight million dollar contract, and everybody
59:58
Speaker 1: knows he's going to get hurt at some point, so
1:00:01
Speaker 1: you can't just he's just got to sit there. He's
1:00:04
Speaker 1: got one more year on this contract, then he's got
1:00:06
Speaker 1: a player option. I don't know, you just take the
1:00:08
Speaker 1: sixty two million, or do you decide at thirty five
1:00:11
Speaker 1: years old that maybe somehow you're going to get a
1:00:14
Speaker 1: bigger count. He's not going to get a bigger contract.
1:00:16
Speaker 3: Now take the sixty yes, yeah, longer, maybe bigger though,
1:00:22
Speaker 3: I guess. I remember last season after the trade to Dallas,
1:00:26
Speaker 3: I stayed up and watched his first game in Dallas,
1:00:29
Speaker 3: and we got the full Anthony Davis experience. He started
1:00:32
Speaker 3: the first quarter awesome. I think he put twelve or
1:00:37
Speaker 3: fifteen points. He was blocking sof he was getting a
1:00:39
Speaker 3: rebounds it simply because still that they got for down seats.
1:00:42
Speaker 3: And then at the second quarter he hurt his foot
1:00:45
Speaker 3: never returned, and that's the Anthony Davis experience.
1:00:49
Speaker 2: It's everything packed in a single game as the drama, everything.
1:00:56
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yeah, how I've never I'm sure this
1:00:59
Speaker 1: has been the subject of a thousand thing pieces. But
1:01:02
Speaker 1: if you were a d and you were traded to Dallas,
1:01:06
Speaker 1: and all of Dallas was incredibly pissed off at the trade, furious,
1:01:11
Speaker 1: like chanting fire and Nico apparently chanting it at hockey games,
1:01:17
Speaker 1: not just at basketball games. They were chanting fire Nico
1:01:20
Speaker 1: at other sports games. It was that bad until they
1:01:23
Speaker 1: actually did fire Nico, and the owner was like caught
1:01:26
Speaker 1: off guard that I didn't realize that they hated it
1:01:29
Speaker 1: this much. How would you feel if you were a
1:01:31
Speaker 1: d and you were the guy they acquired, and Wow,
1:01:34
Speaker 1: you hate me or you disrespect me so much that
1:01:38
Speaker 1: you decide that even though I'm the ten time All
1:01:41
Speaker 1: Star and five time All NBA guy and I've got
1:01:45
Speaker 1: a ring, that I am so bad to you that
1:01:49
Speaker 1: this whole town is ready to burn over acquiring me.
1:01:52
Speaker 1: He had to hate it there at some point, right,
1:01:55
Speaker 1: and going to DC is a little reclamation, I don't know,
1:01:59
Speaker 1: I think.
1:02:00
Speaker 3: So there you're seeing a meme with an actor holding
1:02:03
Speaker 3: some dollar bills and swiping his tears.
1:02:06
Speaker 2: Something something like that.
1:02:08
Speaker 3: I think he will get over the fifty something million
1:02:11
Speaker 3: two reasons to be.
1:02:13
Speaker 2: Okay, I think he will be fine.
1:02:15
Speaker 1: Psychologic he will be. But this I don't know that
1:02:19
Speaker 1: he's Kevin Durant sensitive. But I don't know I would
1:02:22
Speaker 1: be like I'm supposed to be, like playing for fans
1:02:24
Speaker 1: that like me, and these fans are all so pissed
1:02:27
Speaker 1: off they trade. I don't know, man, I guess it
1:02:30
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You're right, he should be. He's got no problems.
1:02:33
Speaker 1: He's got no problem he and he apparently he waved
1:02:36
Speaker 1: his fifteen percent trade bonus to go to Washington, so
1:02:39
Speaker 1: he must have been a little bit incentivized to move
1:02:42
Speaker 1: on there. Yeah, for sure. Anyway, all right, we've been
1:02:45
Speaker 1: through all thirty teams now between our two sections, What
1:02:50
Speaker 1: do you think cost us any any last thoughts on
1:02:53
Speaker 1: this this off season? Was this a wild one to you?
1:02:56
Speaker 1: Was this a fairly team one to you?
1:02:58
Speaker 2: What do you think I think was the right amount
1:03:01
Speaker 2: of wildness?
1:03:02
Speaker 3: We had to wait Lebron a bit for all the
1:03:04
Speaker 3: pieces to fall down, but it was an exciting one.
1:03:07
Speaker 2: I read it the seven out of ten, so I'm pleased.
1:03:09
Speaker 2: I'm pleased, and I don't excited for the precision.
1:03:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think there's still unresolved bits, but I
1:03:20
Speaker 1: don't think unresolved bits that are going to change the
1:03:22
Speaker 1: seven out of ten couple of things hanging out there,
1:03:25
Speaker 1: But we're basically through it, so Costas you are a
1:03:29
Speaker 1: hero for stepping up and doing this once again this year.
1:03:32
Speaker 1: We're getting through all the teams. You've given us some
1:03:35
Speaker 1: great insights. People need to start thinking, how are these
1:03:37
Speaker 1: players' values changed by this? To make a few little
1:03:41
Speaker 1: preseasons trades. Maybe you're coming up on your drafts and
1:03:44
Speaker 1: you want to be thinking about who could I kind
1:03:46
Speaker 1: of sneak through here, who people don't quite realize is
1:03:49
Speaker 1: more valuable to your team than a second round draft
1:03:52
Speaker 1: pick and the upcoming rookie draft. But I want to ask,
1:03:55
Speaker 1: once again, we talked about it last week, when is
1:03:57
Speaker 1: the coverage coming back at rasball. You're going to hear
1:03:59
Speaker 1: this from me constantly now, Yeah.
1:04:02
Speaker 2: I think in the next couple of days we will
1:04:04
Speaker 2: start putting some content there. For sure.
1:04:07
Speaker 3: We will be on full, full schedule at the start
1:04:09
Speaker 3: of September, and I'm going to prepare my usual review
1:04:12
Speaker 3: of last three years projections to see how we did
1:04:15
Speaker 3: and the world can improve. And then the usual projections
1:04:19
Speaker 3: for all the players at the midpoint of September approximately,
1:04:24
Speaker 3: So visit Basketball dograb dot com and to check my
1:04:28
Speaker 3: pieces and all the other guys business as well.
1:04:31
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Thanks for coming on
1:04:33
Speaker 1: cost us and going through this, and good luck with
1:04:36
Speaker 1: rass ball this year. We need to keep up on that.
1:04:39
Speaker 2: Thank you. Jess. Always a pleasure discussing to us, thinking
1:04:43
Speaker 2: bye bye.
1:04:51
Speaker 1: You've been through it all now, folks, you know what's
1:04:53
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1:04:56
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