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Mac & Bone Hour 3: What's Next After LaMelo Trade · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Oh, Owen's Mack and Foe on your radios.
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  Speaker 3: Bone, what's the fun.
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  Speaker 1: I can't go to work without listening to the Mack
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna give this a bee for Charlotte. Look, I
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  Speaker 4: know Hornets fans are upset. He is the face of
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  Speaker 4: the franchise, or rather he was the face of the franchise.
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  Speaker 4: LaMelo Ball was a high risk player. The injuries over
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  Speaker 4: the last several years were considerable. I know he played
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  Speaker 4: seventy two games last season, but in the three seasons prior,
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  Speaker 4: he'd played one hundred and five games.
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  Speaker 5: His defense was frankly a mess.
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  Speaker 4: Minnesota has the infrastructure to protect him on that end
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  Speaker 4: of the floor. Charlotte probably didn't, at least without the
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  Speaker 4: front With the front court players that they had in
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  Speaker 4: the building, they are now one of the most asset
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  Speaker 4: rich teams in the NBA. They are loaded with future
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  Speaker 4: first round picks from a handful of other teams. I
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  Speaker 4: like the idea of this trade for them if they
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  Speaker 4: didn't believe in LaMelo as a long term player.
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  Speaker 3: Nos Reed is awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I think nos Reed is going to become a fan
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  Speaker 4: favorite in Charlotte, just like he was in Minnesota. I
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  Speaker 4: like the idea of having the flexibility to say, look,
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  Speaker 4: Kobe White and Christian Anderson might not be the long
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  Speaker 4: term point guards, but they can fill in for LaMelo
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  Speaker 4: here now while we figure this out.
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  Speaker 5: That is my man, the Mighty Quinn.
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  Speaker 6: That is Mighty Quinn, Sam Quinn Bony, Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Some calumn doctor Quinn.
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  Speaker 3: I forgot the whole point, is man?
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  Speaker 6: That is like the greater all right, just why I've
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  Speaker 6: played it even though I've forgotten the man's name. All Right,
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  Speaker 6: we only got two hours left in a week, y'all.
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  Speaker 6: I don't need to be any good, do I do?
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  Speaker 6: We need to be good on the show.
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  Speaker 7: All right?
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  Speaker 8: We get to be honest with you. If you're looking
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  Speaker 8: for us to get people's names right, you're not kick
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  Speaker 8: You don't expect it anyway.
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 6: That Sam Quinn, you heard it there, gave the Hornets
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  Speaker 6: to be in the trade. He gave them a better
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  Speaker 6: trade than he gave Minnesota. And so did the people
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  Speaker 6: that greted the trade at ESPN, at Bleacher Report and
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  Speaker 6: at Yahoo. So again we're gonna do a segment bone
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  Speaker 6: at a twenty five where you let you hear what
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  Speaker 6: some of the talking heads have been saying, and you
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  Speaker 6: will hear overwhelmingly the national media likes the trade.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if that makes fans feel any better.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it might still just take a law for
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  Speaker 6: us all to get over it, but it does have
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  Speaker 6: to be stated, and I do want you to hear
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  Speaker 6: some of those opinions. Some of them are flat out
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  Speaker 6: going after the Timberwolves. I mean, so we'll get into
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  Speaker 6: I will say that we'll save it for us.
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  Speaker 8: I certainly feel better today than I did yesterday taking it.
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  Speaker 8: U agree with taking a step back to Kobe White.
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  Speaker 8: Thing that got done. There wasn't strets there. Clearly there
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  Speaker 8: was a plan that he was a part of this
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  Speaker 8: whole entire thing, and not hey, we're gonna trade Mellow
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  Speaker 8: then hope that Kobe White comes back. No, he came
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  Speaker 8: back right away. So I think they're they're in different hands,
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  Speaker 8: but they're in good hands. I also don't think the
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  Speaker 8: reactions of all the you know, we're the worst, We're this,
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  Speaker 8: We're going back to twenty wains. I'm selling my season team.
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  Speaker 8: That's definitely over. I think they're still going to be
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  Speaker 8: a good basketball team. Give it a little time, let
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  Speaker 8: it play out. It'll just be a different team. Entertainment
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  Speaker 8: value might be a little bit different without Mellow, But
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  Speaker 8: I still think ultimately they're not We're not going back
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  Speaker 8: to the dark days of the Bobcats here, folks. I
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  Speaker 8: think we're all right with Jeff Peterson. Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 8: think so. Although the East is gonna be tough for
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  Speaker 8: next year, will you know, I if we if we
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  Speaker 8: feel this current ruster, We're definitely not they gonna be more.
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  Speaker 8: We're definitely not as good as a team, but you
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  Speaker 8: think more more is going to happen. I don't think
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  Speaker 8: Miles Bridges will be on this team after the nas
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  Speaker 8: reed and on the Steinbach acquisitions. And I think they
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  Speaker 8: got the forty you know, zero point seven million dollar
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  Speaker 8: trade exception for a reason.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, it has to be used within the year now.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe it won't be used till the trade deadline, but
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  Speaker 6: I do think. I mean Michae Lisette reported last night
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  Speaker 6: from for what It's Worth from Queen City News when
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  Speaker 6: Sham's reported bone that the Celtics are talking to multiple
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  Speaker 6: teams right now, about Jaylen Brown. Mike Lisett's just FYI.
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  Speaker 6: My sources are saying the Hornets are one of them,
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  Speaker 6: so I know that would be the big man, that
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  Speaker 6: would be the big prize. So there at least if
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  Speaker 6: that's true, they're at least looking into, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 6: the biggest fish out there. And I'm sure they're looking
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  Speaker 6: into a lot of other stuff. I wonder if they
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  Speaker 6: go back to the bonus thing. So here, here's how
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  Speaker 6: this is gonna go. Bone, I want to talk about
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  Speaker 6: like what's next, because this is a trade that leaves
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  Speaker 6: you asking that question like there has to be more.
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  Speaker 6: This is a trade that takes us a step back
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  Speaker 6: for now, But how soon do they make moves to
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  Speaker 6: make us maybe a couple of steps ahead of where
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  Speaker 6: we're at?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 6: What are they use that trade exception on? So we
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  Speaker 6: got to spitball this one among fans. Who do you
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  Speaker 6: think could be next? What are some of the names
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  Speaker 6: that you think makes sense to be next? Also, Bone,
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  Speaker 6: we like to reward you for making it through a
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  Speaker 6: full segment of the Mac and Bone Show. So your
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  Speaker 6: reward at the end of this segment will be LeVar
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  Speaker 6: Ball's first public comments since LaMelo has been traded he did.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, it's so good in fairness, Mac, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: how long did LeVar wait to speak on this? I
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  Speaker 8: mean he he was quiet for what about six or
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  Speaker 8: seven hours?
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  Speaker 5: I think, man, it must have been killing him.
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  Speaker 8: Also, we need to mention too as part of this
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  Speaker 8: discussion now if we're just tuning in, Sam Amick of
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  Speaker 8: The Athletic this morning has a report that Jyalen Duran
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  Speaker 8: could be out of Detroit. He's not happy with negotiations,
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  Speaker 8: and he has said it's best to play elsewhere in
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  Speaker 8: a sign and trade situation. So that's another little wrinkle
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  Speaker 8: here when we're talking about possibilities of other guys.
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  Speaker 5: We cleared a lot of cap room.
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  Speaker 6: Now they would have to kiss and make up, and
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  Speaker 6: those first days of practice it might be a little offward.
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  Speaker 8: Bridges always, Bridges always does get linked back home to Detroit.
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  Speaker 8: So I don't know if that's any factor here, Like,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I know, Bridges expiring content. That's the big
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  Speaker 8: thing about Bridges, right is I would see Bridges going
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  Speaker 8: to a team that just wants.
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  Speaker 5: To in a year clear cap room.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean Detroit's trying to win, man, I don't
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  Speaker 6: know anyway, but that's an interesting name, especially considering the
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  Speaker 6: past of the fight at the Hive.
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  Speaker 8: I look like they could They could always flip Bridges
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  Speaker 8: somewhere else too. You never know how these things operate,
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  Speaker 8: you know what I mean? He could always be we'll
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  Speaker 8: get bag. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. That's a good point.
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  Speaker 6: We cleared a ton of cap room yesterday in addition
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  Speaker 6: to the trade exception, in addition to getting a new
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  Speaker 6: first round pick, although it's seven years away and three
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  Speaker 6: trade swaps and three seconds and Nozrid. Of course, some
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  Speaker 6: of the names I saw salaries that fit under our
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  Speaker 6: trade exception. Trey Murphy is always interests interested us bone
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  Speaker 6: if you trade Bridges, can do you put Trey Murphy
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  Speaker 6: in either your wing mix? I mean, could you bring
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  Speaker 6: Trey Murphy off the bench con and Brandon start naz
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  Speaker 6: Reid at the four? Or do you just start small
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  Speaker 6: and Trey Murphy starts as the four and you bring
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  Speaker 6: nas Reed in. I always is naz Reid. The thing
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  Speaker 6: with naz Reid is this, we anticipate him being here
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  Speaker 6: to be a starter, but he was never a starter
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  Speaker 6: in Minnesota. So is there a possibility that nas Reid
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  Speaker 6: back Depending on what else, what else you do here?
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  Speaker 6: Could naz Reid slide into his six man role here
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  Speaker 6: as well? That's a possibility, right, Yeah, Well if you
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  Speaker 6: think Starr, we know he does well with that role.
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  Speaker 6: That's that's been his role.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe if you got another four or five combo that
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  Speaker 8: you think could start, well, then he might want to start.
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  Speaker 8: But you know, he got traded here. He didn't sign here,
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  Speaker 8: so he promised him anything. So I Trey Murphy's a
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  Speaker 8: guy I've just I just like his game. I think
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  Speaker 8: it's a very modern game. You know, can shoot the three,
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  Speaker 8: play defense. So he intrigues me.
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  Speaker 6: Big men have to intrigue you, right, you mention to
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  Speaker 6: Durham thing, But how about a guy like Mitchell Robinson
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  Speaker 6: from the Knicks? Right, it just sounds like there's not
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  Speaker 6: enough money there to pay him. Doland doesn't want to
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  Speaker 6: go to the second apron elite offense like all time
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  Speaker 6: offensive rebounder you played. What if you had him and
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  Speaker 6: you know, Moosa together in a lineup, then you got
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  Speaker 6: Steinbach there. I mean, teams may never get a defensive
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  Speaker 6: board again. So he's intriguing to me. A rim protector too.
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  Speaker 6: And then there's also Miles Turner. I understand people are
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  Speaker 6: groaning because Miles Turner has been talked about with the
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  Speaker 6: Hornets Bone for seventy eight straight seasons. But he's available.
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  Speaker 6: He would fit under our trade exception easily, so his
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  Speaker 6: money would not count against the cap. That's a huge luxury.
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  Speaker 6: And he will stretch the floor as a five. So
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  Speaker 6: you could playmosa with him. Hell, if you played him
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  Speaker 6: and nos together, you'd play five out. Imagine the space
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  Speaker 6: you'd have for Kobe to operate, Brandon operate.
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  Speaker 8: Because we're talking about there are passing options to where
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  Speaker 8: this doesn't set the franchise back long term.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe a little bit early, but there are.
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  Speaker 8: Pass and options here that you're talking about where yeah,
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  Speaker 8: that they could still be a real formidable team. Here
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  Speaker 8: Sabon is too, Like I keep going back to that one.
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  Speaker 8: Now again, all these players are different. Turner and Robinson
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  Speaker 8: would protect the rim, so I don't they got to decide.
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  Speaker 8: They'll decide what they're looking for. Obviously, Bone I don't
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  Speaker 8: make decisions, and that's a good thing. But like Sabonis
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  Speaker 8: still intrigues me, you know as well. Now his money
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  Speaker 8: wouldn't fit in that trade exceptions. That would you know,
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  Speaker 8: it would go over that, just like Jaylen Brown's. But
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  Speaker 8: it's like to your point, like, I know, we're venting
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  Speaker 8: about breaking up this corps that just got us so
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  Speaker 8: fired up last year and taking away the biggest star
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  Speaker 8: we have. But there's more work to go here, man.
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  Speaker 8: You know, people keep bringing up the the idea of
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  Speaker 8: Zion mac In bringing him in here. The problem with that, though,
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  Speaker 8: is if if what zach Blow said was true that
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  Speaker 8: the Hornets were worried of about the physicality and durability
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  Speaker 8: and Wamelo holding up here. I don't know if you're
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  Speaker 8: worried about Wamelo's long term health if you trade him
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  Speaker 8: away and you bring Zion in here. In a perfect world,
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  Speaker 8: if you told me Zion was healthy and dude's gonna
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  Speaker 8: go get twenty three and ten and be a force,
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  Speaker 8: that's one thing. But if you don't trust Melo, you're
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  Speaker 8: not trusting Zion's body. No, you can't like And then
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  Speaker 8: we've got we've got barbecue here at Zion and that
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  Speaker 8: that combo there that's not gonn.
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  Speaker 5: Work barbecue Zion.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, last time Boni's in the state of North Carolina,
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  Speaker 6: he ate so much barbecue his footcuts so fatty blue
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  Speaker 6: as shoe out.
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  Speaker 8: We don't talk about man, we don't talk about that bubble.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think that was a factor. It was a
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  Speaker 8: huge factor, is here. Uh that's why another name is
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  Speaker 8: John Moran. Like, but the same thing applies. John Moran
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  Speaker 8: doesn't play in many games lately now. Some of those
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  Speaker 8: were suspensions a couple of years ago, but he also
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  Speaker 8: is injured a lot too, and he is like, if
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  Speaker 8: you thought LaMelo was a knucklehead, John Moran seems like
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  Speaker 8: way more. It seems darker with joh in terms of
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  Speaker 8: his knuckleheadedness. You know, LaMelo seems kind of like silly
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  Speaker 8: nothing if they were you know, there's other thoughts of
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  Speaker 8: where they tired of the immaturity, maybe of Mellow. Then
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  Speaker 8: you're not You're not gonna go get Zion to be
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  Speaker 8: here after Mellow if you're worried about injury, if you're
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  Speaker 8: worried about immaturity, you're not gonna go get job Moran
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  Speaker 8: to replace well Melo ball. But those things what you
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  Speaker 8: just keep mellow here? Yeah, now, so Moran Zion, I
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  Speaker 8: know that they're tantalizing talents, but it doesn't make a
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  Speaker 8: lot of sense right now. For maybe the reasons why
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  Speaker 8: Lea Melo's not here. People, people obviously love the idea.
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  Speaker 6: Jaylen Brown, why wouldn't you you know what I mean
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  Speaker 6: the guy if you know, I have twenty eight points a
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  Speaker 6: game last year, He's a two way player, plays on
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  Speaker 6: the other side of the floor as well. Two way
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  Speaker 6: wings win in this league. He's got a title under
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  Speaker 6: his belt. But the question is is Texas says, what's
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  Speaker 6: it going to take to get him? It probably takes
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  Speaker 6: one of our wings. And then more right like, it's
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  Speaker 6: probably got to be Conn or Brandon. I would think.
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  Speaker 2: Two things about Jaylen Brown here this man goes again.
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  Speaker 2: Just hear me out because you mentioned it want to
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  Speaker 2: take a wing? Does his game compliment Brandon Miller's. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, and I don't know if I'd want to
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  Speaker 2: see LaMelo ball, then Brandon Miller be shipped out in
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  Speaker 2: the same offseason. Also, Mac he just said this past
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  Speaker 2: year on his Twitch show that this past year was
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  Speaker 2: the most funn he's ever had playing basketball. He's won
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  Speaker 2: a championship, has been the Eastern Conference Finals MVP, the
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  Speaker 2: NBA Finals MVP in the year where he was a
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  Speaker 2: part of a team that blew a three to one
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  Speaker 2: lead to the seventh seed. That's the most funn he's
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  Speaker 2: ever had playing the game.
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  Speaker 6: Why was it because Tatum was hurting? He got more shots?
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  Speaker 6: It just said, and him and Miller play together. He
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  Speaker 6: won a title with Tatum. That was one of the
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  Speaker 6: best combos in basketball for a while. So why wouldn't
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  Speaker 6: he work with If him and Miller were on the
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  Speaker 6: same team, why would that not work? They're not really
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  Speaker 6: the same type of guy.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if their games compliment one another.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think too good Win.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know to Tatum and Miller would run together
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  Speaker 8: more Brown and Brown kind of roams in his own
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  Speaker 8: little way. I don't really think he even Miller would
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  Speaker 8: would really butt heads there. I don't see that happening.
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  Speaker 8: What's the problem, Fitty?
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  Speaker 3: He's a ball stopper.
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  Speaker 5: And maybe it's him and Kahn, maybe him and Cohn
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  Speaker 5: play together.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't want to.
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  Speaker 6: He's I wouldn't want to ship out like he's Carmelo
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  Speaker 6: Anthony here for God's sakes. And by the way, he
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  Speaker 6: is a dog on defense, like a dog like I
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  Speaker 6: don't know, man, if the timeline might not work, they
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  Speaker 6: may not want to go all in right now. They
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  Speaker 6: might not be ready bone to try to shoot their
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  Speaker 6: big shot right now or whatever. They may want to
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  Speaker 6: let Miller and con grow. But this thing where Fitty
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  Speaker 6: slanders Jalen Brown, I don't really get.
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  Speaker 3: But I also don't understand. I forbid to have a
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  Speaker 3: differing opinion.
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  Speaker 6: It's fine, but I can then say I did I
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  Speaker 6: differ with your opinion?
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  Speaker 3: But the thing translation, my opinion is better than yours.
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  Speaker 6: This Nope, nope, Let everybody decide out there. Man, nobody's
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  Speaker 6: opinion is better. Hey, even if I act like mine is,
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  Speaker 6: opinions are like backside, we all got them. But I
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  Speaker 6: do question why Boston wants to trade him. Why do
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  Speaker 6: they want to trade him? Like?
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  Speaker 5: Is it the twitch stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Is he a pain in the ass.
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  Speaker 8: I think maybe they've they've reached maybe what they think
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  Speaker 8: is their ceiling at the moment with the tam Brown
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  Speaker 8: was a championship. I know what I'm saying. Maybe going
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  Speaker 8: forward they don't think they can get back there. Those
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  Speaker 8: two guys said his best year. I don't know. I'm
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  Speaker 8: trying to understand it. I'm trying to work through the
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  Speaker 8: reasons why. I don't know. But maybe I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I have no idea. But you know who's in charge
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  Speaker 8: there is pretty good dude of decision, the Brad Stephens.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm not saying he's not. It's just it's weird.
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  Speaker 5: It's does it? It has to be like that?
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  Speaker 3: He's a pain?
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  Speaker 5: I think. I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: But anyway, who cares about them? Unless they unless they
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  Speaker 6: can trade us Jalen Brown, then we care about them.
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  Speaker 6: Steph Curry's name is all over the text line. Let
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  Speaker 6: me ask you this, would you like Steph Curry on
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  Speaker 6: the Hornet's bone? Would you like him back home?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, at this point does the timeline match like
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  Speaker 8: I know is in his career and where we are
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  Speaker 8: trying to build. I would say, well, first of all,
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  Speaker 8: would you have to give up too many things for
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  Speaker 8: where he is in his career? I hate that because
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  Speaker 8: I love the guy. I would say I would say no,
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  Speaker 8: because ultimately, does it set you back more than move
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  Speaker 8: does he? The thought of Steph Curry and putting him
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  Speaker 8: here end up setting you back more than moving you forward.
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: You've got a lot of money, You've got a lot
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: of picks. You got Jeff Peterson here to make the
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: calls Steph Curry at this point back would feel.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Like an old, an old school.
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: Charlotte basketball move to try to sell people on the product.
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: I put people in the seats he could still play.
• 15:59
  Speaker 8: I just don't know if the timing of a matches
• 16:01
  Speaker 8: up right now. I mean, he played forty one games
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: last year. I mean, I just I don't know about
• 16:06
  Speaker 8: or forty three. Is he gonna stay healthy at his age? Yeah,
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: I just don't think. I just don't think the timing works,
• 16:13
  Speaker 8: and I don't I big. We're in Steph slow down
• 16:16
  Speaker 8: a little bit mode right now. Also, he's still there
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: and still productive, but I don't know if we're gonna
• 16:22
  Speaker 8: see the consistency.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: That we once saw. He's getting a little older.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: Now we're future based, and I just don't know if
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: that works for future based. But I understand why people
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: have wanted to see it, because for over a decade,
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: people have been asking for Steph Curry to come on home,
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: and we've been sitting here waiting for it. Multiple people. Uh, oh,
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: we gotta do the we gotta do the LeVar, we
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: gotta do the Levart thing here, Fitny, you got some
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: fan mail on Jalen Brown that you can deal with
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: there on the text line. But we've got to play this.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: We promised it, we got to follow through. We gotta
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: play this for you. LeVar Ball on this podcast last
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: night reacting to La getting traded to Minnesota.
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: Minnesota timber Woods, y'all, did the KOLs move in the game.
• 17:05
  Speaker 9: You wouldn't got that dog. Yes, But here is the thing.
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: Let me give you the recipe. You got to get
• 17:10
  Speaker 9: the other two ball boys. You get the other two
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: ball boys, it will be the most watched team ever
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: in the NBA. And trust me when I tell you, you
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: don't think I'm just talking. No, I'm not. Melo came
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: win anybody itself. But I tell you, with his brothers,
• 17:24
  Speaker 9: I guarantee y'all a championship. The chemistry and the guy
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: nags speeded the game. I never taught my boys to
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: play by themselves, but together you can't beat them. And
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: with ant Hey, Rod, you already a superstar, so you
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: know what to do.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: You will take a chance, So go.
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: Get them boys. You can get Lonzo damn there for nothing.
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: You can get Yellow damn there for nothing. Guess what
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: coming off the bench? Starting team chemistry, morale in the
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: locker room. Whatever you want, whatever the ball boys together
• 17:51
  Speaker 9: can't lose. You want the championship, get the mother too,
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: and I guarantee a championship. Trust me when I.
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: I love that conversation. Mack with the GM and Aunt, Hey,
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: we've also brought in Jello and Alonzo. You talk about
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: demanding and trade immediately, Aunt Anthony Edwards would hit the
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: block right there.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Listen. I'm a parent. I love my kids equally.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: They both asked me, especially Caitlin asked me, Hey, who's
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: your favorite kid? And I say, love you equally, but
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: maybe it changes from day to day sometimes based on
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: how y'all are acting. But like I think he takes
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: this love your kids equally thing too far.
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: Bone.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: I mean, Clitch Mina tell us that the other two
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: guys are worth the crap in twenty twenty six for
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: an NBA team. I mean, it just is rich Man,
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: but it's funny and he ain't stopping anytime soon.
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: Does LaVar forget that we had Leangel ball in Greensboro
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: from twenty one to twenty three and he never got
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: up here?
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Did he get up here? He never did?
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Did he did he get in a regular season game?
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: I don't think so. I don't think he think so. No,
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: I don't think so.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: Much like LeVar never got in a regular season game
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: for the Panthers as a practice squad tight end.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: I mean he got leaved a bunch of times. I mean, well, var,
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: what are we doing.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: He's got a new career, he's a rapper.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: What are we doing LeVar? Seriously?
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: When we come back here on the mack in Bone
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: Joe talking heads talk mellow trade and it's almost all
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: positive nationally for the Hornets. On Sports Radio ninety two
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: seven WFNZ.
• 19:38
  Speaker 10: This is the Charlotte Hornet saying they thought that their
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: success last year with the mellow ball as a driving
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: force was fool's goal.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: This is them saying, we do not believe in La
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: mellow Ball.
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: Yes, they squeeze the Wolves for everything they could, but
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: this is not a superstar return package. This is moving
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: the mellow ball when they had an opportunity to move
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: on with their franchise.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: There you go, Tim McMahon, interesting, you know we keep
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: discussing the trade package that came back to Lamello. I
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: would have fought in a world bone, in a world,
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: in a world where Desmond Baine Garner's four first round
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: picks and Miles Bridges Garner's five more. I would have
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: thought in that would have made great shooter. No neck,
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: he doesn't have a neck. He's like it's like Ryan Newman,
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: who has more of a neck. Him a Ryan Newman.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Why are you looking?
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, you're looking at Fitty. Huh are you looking at Fitty?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: What?
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: No?
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: I thought he said something. No oh, I thought you
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: were looking at him as a neckless man. No, it's
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: in the competition. He was doing something about you.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Just remember Mac, you go away for a week and
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I know you in your house again. I was a
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: good house guest the last time I was there. I
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: could leave you a mess when you come back from
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: that crew.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: What do you go do? Poop in my pantry? That's
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: an idea. By the way, Mac just caught me looking
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: at Yeah.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: They don't get mad at me.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: He was looking back at you. He was trying to
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: put you in his neck brow me get that neck.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Should we do a no neck madness at summer?
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: Right?
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: We just trained Lamelow. Things are gonna ramp down. Maybe
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: a no neck madness tournament.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Fiddy's in no neck badness. I have double meetings.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Oh god, I'd be in I'd be in no ball's madness.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: I'm one of those guys whose wife took him away. Sorry, fiddy,
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: don't you find that jar. Don't you find that jar?
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: Or my wife keeps them? Okay, I need those at
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: some point I'm to get him back.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I looked in the pantry for him and they weren't there.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Neither were snacks.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Well we did, we leave it bare. That's because of
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: the kid's man, I'm serious.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I got two packs of goldfish and I was it
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: was empty.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: It's not me at all. All right, let's get back
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: to some more sounds. But anyway, what I was trying
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: to say was I would have thought we got more
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: than one out right first round pick. And by the way,
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: the pickswaps when you start reading about them. And I
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: think it was Sam Quinn of CBS who he played
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: his clip earlier this hour. He was talking about them
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: like one of them, only one of them is an
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: outright swap, and we don't know in twenty twenty eight
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: will the wool be worse than us? Like will that
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: swap even be an upgrade? The other two are like
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: convoluted swaps where it's like three three teams involved, and
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: it's more complicated. So time will tell if the swaps
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: and the whole the whole lottery process changes as well.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: So this might this might be a kind of how
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: they do things going forward. Right, Yes, that is what
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Jeremy Wu was tweeting out. Whis that because the lottery
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: odds are flattening, you're going to see more calming yourself down,
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: You're gonna see probably more pick swaps hughes because people
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: think there's more value in them.
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: So I'm not I'm not as caught up in the
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: picks right now. Obviously, would you think he'd be worth
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: more than one? Though, yeah, I'm explaining that I thought
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: there'd be more than one. But Jeff Peterson is pick savvy.
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: That's a long time to go. They've got twelve first
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: rounders the next seven years. He's he's gonna move around
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: a lot. He's gonna gain picks, he's gonna trade picks.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: In fact, there's no telling what the pick a lom
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: it's gonna be seven years from now, six years from now.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: Jeff Peterson's all he's moving around these things. So he'll
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: either he'll either move some of these he'll gain more.
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: I don't worry about Jeff Peterson acquiring picks and assets.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: I just I don't.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: I just think you're being disingenuous if you say that
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: you thought that Lamela would only garner one outright first, Like,
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: if you're not disappointed in that, I don't think it's
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: certainly it's certainly notable that they only got one. But
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: I think they're He'll figure out ways to get more
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: picks along the way here, No doubt he'll he he
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: knows that game unbelievable. At some point, though, I'd like
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: to see the picks turn into veteran players that can ball.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: At some point, I want to see that he's got
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: more picks and store than Jim Beahigh. Let's get like,
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: let's get Bone's got a case of a Friday's baby.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Bone is feeling good walking around smiling after that joke.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Good feeling good.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Good we do.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: That's your fault. You led me to that beayhid boody joke.
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: Oh it was clearly me, all right, I lobbed it up.
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: You dunked at home.
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: Let's get into some more of these these talking heads
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: talking about the trade, because amazingly even though we have
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: certain frustrations with it. Y'all, the national media is loving
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: on this trade. This is Brian wind Horse and the
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: Get Up Crew. It sounds like a rap group, Brian
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: wind Horse and the Get Up Crew. Baby, they reacted
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: and they liked it. For the Hornets, I.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Think the Hornets, Oh boy, did great here. I'm not
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: I don't have all they should be.
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: They should be.
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: The trade can't happen until July sixth, but if it
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: could happen today, they would. I would be on the
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: I would be on with the league office. Like right now,
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: when you look at what they were, they have the
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: second most first of all teams. Now they have this
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: trade exception where itich is worth forty one million, they
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: can go out and make deals to acquire players. Their
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: likelihood is they're going to bring back Kobe White.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: On a on Ah.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: So wait a minute, So the trade exception will be
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: in Charlotte. Yes, so I just want to slow you down.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: Forty one million dollar trade exception. That'll be the largest
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: trade exception in the history of the NBA. So not
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: only do they get all these draft assets, they now
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: can go shopping if they want to fit their team
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: around on Knipple, Brandon Miller, Kobe White love it.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: He loves it. They loves the trade excess.
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: It feels to me like the national media loves it
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: more than a lot of people here and fans here,
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: because there was more of an attachment obviously with Wamelo here.
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: It doesn't feel like a lot of the national media
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: Mac really thinks that highly of Mello, and that's what's
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: playing into some of their reactions as well in this.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: And by the way, that leads me perfectly bone into
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: Ryan Rissillo because he absolutely hammers Minnesota for the trade
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: because he has really never liked LaMelo ball.
• 25:42
  Speaker 12: I hate this deal for Minnesota, all right. I don't
• 25:44
  Speaker 12: like LaMelo ball. If you're new here, That's my stance
• 25:48
  Speaker 12: on LaMelo ball. People like this trade today far more
• 25:51
  Speaker 12: than I do. I might be the most negative guy
• 25:53
  Speaker 12: on it. That's fine. My question is is why would
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: Charlotte make him available? Why is this guy available after
• 25:59
  Speaker 12: they just had their best season in ten years? Why
• 26:02
  Speaker 12: is he available now this young team? You know, dudes
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: are under contract. I know you want to bring Kobe
• 26:07
  Speaker 12: White back, but I thought it was a good year.
• 26:10
  Speaker 12: Are they selling high LaMelo or are they just selling
• 26:13
  Speaker 12: stable on somebody who's hurt a lot of the time.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: When I had heard LaMelo.
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: Was available a couple of weeks ago, I was like, oh,
• 26:19
  Speaker 12: that's interesting, I least for me. I was like, well,
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: I think that's probably smart. And I was like, you know, why,
• 26:25
  Speaker 12: why would he be available. It's like, this is a
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: serious group, this is a real ownership, this is an
• 26:28
  Speaker 12: awesome front office, coaches, staff, the whole thing, like they
• 26:31
  Speaker 12: want a serious franchise. But I'm just warning anybody that
• 26:34
  Speaker 12: thinks this is an absolute home run for Minnesota. It's like,
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: why was this guy available with this young group. He's
• 26:41
  Speaker 12: under contract and Charlotte still moved on from him. That
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: should be concerning.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: And and he listened. He is the perfect example of
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: what you talked about. I brought it up later. A
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: lot of the national media has always hated on LaMelo.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: They've always thought not winning player takes bat they have
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: not they have not really seen the value in LaMelo,
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: So clearly they're gonna feel this sort of way. He's
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: to the extreme. But he does bring up a hell
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: of a point. We before this trade, didn't we all
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: think Jeff Peters is pretty sharp, So what's the reason Bone.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: I think injury is the number one thing. I think
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: he feels like this is the highest his value would be,
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: regardless of what they got back. And I think he
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: is betting on LaMelo getting hurt again and wants to
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: get out. And I also wonder if Kobe White being
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: brought in was the LaMelo replacement when they brought him in,
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: Now that you start trying to put stuff together, I
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: don't know. I know they say that we weren't looking
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: to trade him and this stuff just can't you know,
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: people start calling us and we started listening. But it
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: does make you wonder if they were thinking this way
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: with you know, the Kobe White.
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: Well, what's the first thing they said when Kobe White
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: got here to begin with? Just wasn't just for now?
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: Absolutely, so Kobe White, to me, we thought he was
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: going to be a bench guy here, but ultimately he's
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: going to go be a starter somewhere else but the Hornets.
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: So you thought that Kobe was just gonna be here
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: to be a bench guy. Ordered you envision him bench
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: guy now starter in the future like it played out
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: that way. Yeah, because Kobe White's more of a starter
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: than a bench guy. So did you vision it being
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: a bench guy or did you think, no, he's eventually
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: if we can move mellow, he's the guy. It's just
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: it's like, And were they ever or did they all
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: have issues with his shot selection? And I know he
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: improved the shot selection, he improved the defense, he played
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: more mature, But did they still feel like it wasn't enough?
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: You know, I just wonder what this brass has all
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: along thought about LaMelo.
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: Did they look at the way he plays in some
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: of the shots I'm trying to get in their mind.
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: Did they look at some of the shots and think,
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: you know what, some of those shots, those one foot
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: of threes, those those shots that he makes and he's
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: good at those are now going to Miller and con
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: Those are going to be shots that the other shooters
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: now have. So I wonder if that plays a part
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: of their mind as well. Yeah, those one footed threes.
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: Guess what God's coming off a screen? That's a shot.
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: Now with that, I'm trying to get it. I'm trying
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: to think like they would think.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: With that said, we as fans are thinking, holy crap,
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: you haven't been this good in a decade. Your core young,
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: keep the core together, build on the core, whereas maybe
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: they had it in their mind he's not our sort
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: of player, or maybe it's just a simple bone. We
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: think he's gonna get hurt again, you know, like we're
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: afraid he's gonna get hurt again and we won't be
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: able to get hardly anything for him if he gets
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: hurt again.
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: Are you buying into the theory that the Hornets are
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: mad that he punched Hugo during the celebration last year?
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: No?
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: But did you hear the folks that brought up I
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: didn't think about this. Some people are bringing up the interview,
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: you know where after the Orlando game he was talking
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: about we called too many plays in the first half. Yeah,
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: that was kind of interesting. Oh, I can't imagine Charles
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Lee loved that. But it just feels like maybe they
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: had this gut feeling and as the season played out
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: there like his value is is maybe as high as
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: it'll be if he can't stay healthy. Last one here,
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: real quick, this is do we do Nick right? He's
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: such a hater though, No, no, he said congratulations Charlotte.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: He's so smug. Sports sports Vampire will not be here today.
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: Let's do he says we won the trade. But again,
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: the only reason it is it hates on LaMelo.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: Let's do this.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: When Tom haberstrow, he believes in the cell high theory.
• 30:22
  Speaker 13: This is cell high. The way to look at this
• 30:25
  Speaker 13: from the Charlotte Hornet's perspective is that they sold high
• 30:28
  Speaker 13: at a peak value for LaMelo Ball. I'm gonna read
• 30:30
  Speaker 13: to you right now. The game's played by LaMelo Ball
• 30:33
  Speaker 13: since he became an NBA player at nineteen years old,
• 30:37
  Speaker 13: fifty one games, seventy five, thirty six, twenty two, forty seven,
• 30:42
  Speaker 13: and then last season seventy two. And when you look
• 30:46
  Speaker 13: at the way that teams operate in these scenarios, usually
• 30:50
  Speaker 13: they're very conservative when they get some success like this.
• 30:54
  Speaker 13: That what you saw from this Charlotte Hornets team last season.
• 30:59
  Speaker 13: The best off defensive ring, best net rating five man
• 31:02
  Speaker 13: lineup with Musa Diabat, Miles Bridges along with those other
• 31:04
  Speaker 13: three and the three point shooting style led by Charles
• 31:08
  Speaker 13: Lee and the offensive rebounding that you saw. That they
• 31:11
  Speaker 13: did not make it into the playoffs, but what you
• 31:14
  Speaker 13: saw was magic on the floor. The whole entire city,
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: the region was so excited to see LaMelo ball finally healthy,
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: and here is the front office saying this is the
• 31:25
  Speaker 13: time to sell.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, that's and this was brought up by the
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: Texters yesterday we talked about it. Was it just that
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: simple that, hey, we had this great year. Fans look
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: at it as let's build on this great you know,
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: or great second half, whereas they look at it as, hey,
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: let's take advantage of how good we were and how
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: good LaMelo was and how he stayed healthy, and let's
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: get what we can now.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: Also the way teams operating will go to fitty here
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: with with the quick update back. Also the way teams operate.
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: It was a great year, but ultimately the way it
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: finished and how they fizzled out against Orlando, did they
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: look at that as a great year or do they
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: think we should have been better than that because we
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: had a great year and then we just completely bombed
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: out against the Magic and that's not acceptable year.
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  Speaker 6: I actually think they did not expect to be this good.
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  Speaker 6: I think they're I think they want to take this
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: rebuild nice and slow. I don't think they anticipated being
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: that good. Bone I could be wrong.
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: I could be wrong, But your point that you made
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: earlier not just that they lost, but they got embarrassed
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: in that game. Did they think we're we're we're happy
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: with where we how we got here. But that's not
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: the way we're going to be acceptable to this, to
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: the city, to your.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: Point earlier, like they they they have aspirations of greatness,
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: right whereas we and Charlotte, you win forty four games,
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: win a play in like we're giddy, you know what
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  Speaker 2: Today they had the drawing where they got all the
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  Speaker 2: matches for the first round and the bracket is set.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: We got Serena Williams. She got granted an exception into
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  Speaker 6: That whole thing was just so Finn he could tell
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• 34:02
  Speaker 5: I want with a confession here.
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: Somebody on the text line quoted Pirates of the Caribbean
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: Mac the movie.
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  Speaker 3: There, Oh, come on you Pirates.
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  Speaker 8: Even I've seen Pirates of the Caribbean. It's a miss,
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  Speaker 8: all right, it's a miss on my part. It's a
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  Speaker 8: some reason I'm not. Johnny Depp's amazing. I'm amazing. I've
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  Speaker 8: not been the biggest Johnny Depp fan over.
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: He's amazing in that he's he's could be terrible and
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  Speaker 6: a lot of other things.
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: Though, it's amazing in that I've been busy though when
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: did it come out?
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: That's a year. That's the years, man.
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: Aren't you the guy that knows every year a movie
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: comes out?
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: I believe that's probably what is that? Two thousand and
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: one is that?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Is that?
• 34:42
  Speaker 9: Right?
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: See, Pirates of the Caribbean came out, and uh, Pirates
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: of the Caribbean came out, and uh.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: Two thousand and three was the first one.
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: So I've been busy the last twenty three years getting
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: yelled at by his screaming madman. When we come back back,
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  Speaker 8: we talk us soccer. Walstole last night, but all we
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: can't wait to see what happens next week. Caleb Adams,
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: soccer expert, joins us to talk about this team and
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  Speaker 14: It's very positive to finish in the way that we finished.
• 35:30
  Speaker 14: I cannot be possible and sorry, guys, I cannot be
• 35:32
  Speaker 14: possible that Turkey finishes celebrated in the three point and
• 35:36
  Speaker 14: Australia celebrating the qualification, but always celebrated the qualification and
• 35:41
  Speaker 14: come here and and for you not to say congratulations
• 35:45
  Speaker 14: that we want the group that is a little bit sad,
• 35:49
  Speaker 14: but only only that I need to remember you and
• 35:53
  Speaker 14: everyone that we want the group, so you guys we want.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: That is breached, yo, Pochettino.
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: He did that two or three times in the presser
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: because a lot of the tone was, hey, are you
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: worried about losing this match? You're learned about losing momentum,
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: you sat out, you know a ton of guys, you
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: made nine changes, or you're worried about momentum and he
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: was bothered by it, and multiple times he commented that
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: the media did not congratulate them on winning winning the group.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: That's cracking me up anyway. All right, let's get into it.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: Did they lose momentum? Momentum with the loss in the
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: final minute last night? What can we glean from a
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: match with so many changes? I know we saw polistic
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: running around h pretty damn well, so that was a
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: good sign. Let's get into it with a guy I
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: loved his work when he was with Charlotte FC. He
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: is he is commiserating bone with a lot of other
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: Charlotte fans and in uh in the Queen City too.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: He was trying to figure out the LaMelo trade yesterday
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: as well, so you can relate to him. But he
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: is a great soccer man. He is Caleb Adams and
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: he joins us on the Mac and Bone Show. Caleb,
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: what's going on? How you doing?
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I'm doing great, happy to be on here, Thanks for
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: thanks for the call. A little bitter about last night,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: but honestly, as Pochettino said, we want the group.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah he said, sorry, sorry, but we want the group,
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: all right?
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: What did you okay?
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: The as far as all the changes being made, not
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: playing the yellow car guys, no brain or it feels
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: like right. The other changes, yeah, get get a lot
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: of guys.
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: In in case they're needed.
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: The goal of the goalie change was the only one
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: that I was kind of questioned, don't you want freeze
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: in a match where you thought more offensive Turkeys? More offensive,
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: he'll face more shot. I kind of wanted freeze to
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: to stay in rhythm. What did you think of the
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: way Pach approached it last night?
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I think Poch approached it as a as a smart
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: coach who understands he's playing the long game at the
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: short game, like this is still a long tournament, we
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: still have huge matches coming up at a much more
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: point in this Turkey game. And so yeah, my only
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: gripe was the freeze kind of not, you would love
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: to see the keeper get some good reps in, you
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: knowesecially against the Turkey side that did put some shots
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: on target. But ultimately Pach made the right decision rested
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: everyone up because the last World Cup, if I remember
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, the same eleven were running to
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the ground all the way through the knockouts. So when
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the knockouts came about, you could tell the team was gas.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: So what a luxury it was to be able to
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: rotate our entire team. And I think Posh made the
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: right decision.
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: Where where has this team been better than you thought
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: they would be so far?
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I would say the organization in the pressing. I think defensively,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: before coming into this World Cup there were a lot
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: of gaps we were just getting cut through really easily
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: for goals and chances on target. I think the biggest
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: thing has been just seeing how cohesive the press has
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: been with our starting eleven. Can't say that about last night,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: but at least our starting eleven has looked really really
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: solid and really really tight on defense.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and I thought the first tay well, first of all,
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: I thought you saw our center back. It was a
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: reminder our center back depth. I don't know if I
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: trust it. I thought you saw that. But also in
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: the first half the press, it didn't feel it feels
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: like they picked it up in the second half. But yeah,
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: that press with the starting of the top eleven those
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: first two games has been amazing. So let me ask
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: you about the momentum theory. Do you believe maybe you
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: already answered it because you said you thought the rotation
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: was right. Do you worry it all, like, did we
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: lose momentum or did it almost piss the guys off
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: the way they lost in the last minute and maybe
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: create a little edge, Like what does it help or
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: hurt us that we lost that match going into you know,
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: the knockouts.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: You know, ultimately that's going to be the biggest test
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: of the mentality of this team. At this point, we've
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: seen that they've passed the first test, which is the
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: pressure of the World Cup. The games that matter. We
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: won up to this point. I tweeted out actually saying
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: this loss I believe is going to be more helpful
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: to the group than hurtful, because I think, how do
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: we come in walked all over Turkey? Also got to win.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I think you're kind of going into maybe the realm
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: of a little complacency. Hey, like I look at us,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: we're the guys. But ultimately this is a humbling experience
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: for the whole group, and I hope it does ignited
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: fire in them that we saw. You know, you know
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: those first two matches still have that chip on the shoulder.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: That's what made us as a nation unique, That's what
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: gives us a lot of our strength is coming to
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: the tournament thinking, hey, everybody counts us out. We're going
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: to show them wrong. So I hope they take it
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: in that approach.
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: Cale with Bossia next week, where do you think advantage
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: us and what worries you about that matchup?
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I think for me, the biggest worry is the quality
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: they have up top with Eden Jecko. You know, we
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: played against defensive sides bataguys. The defensive side Australia is
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: the defensive side. Bozzia will be the same thing. We're
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: gonna have the ball. It's going to be on us
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: to break them down the differences. They have a world
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: class finisher in Jeko who has played at Man City,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Wolfsburg and ThReD as an incredible resume, and if he's
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: someone that you give just one or two chances, he
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: will put it away. He will hurt you. That's my
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: biggest concern is they do have a quality unlike the
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Podaguay Australia top.
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that is definitely a fair point. I can't
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: wait next Wednesday. By the way, it is set, it's official.
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: It's Bosnia next Wednesday out in Santa Clara and that
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: game is eight o'clock on next Wednesday night. All right,
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: let's talk about expectations now. Are you do you feel
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: like we should get like frisky here? Do you think
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: we should start raising our expectations? I said before the
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: World Cup man since nineteen thirty they only made it
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: to the quarterfinals one time, and if they make it
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: to the quarterfinals, I think that's a hell of a run.
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: Do we change that now because they have done some
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: things better than we thought, or do you still kind
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: of feel like quarterfinals is a great run.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: How do you feel about expectations now?
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: I think I think I think the expectations should be
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: we should be in the quarterfinals. I believe the expectation
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: prior to that was wow, it would be amazing if
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: we did make the quarterfinals. The shifting that is quarterfinals
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: are the bare minimum at your point, and that's because
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: somebod the quality of opponents up to that point. We
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: don't really play a top top footballing nation until that
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: quarterfinal game, which will likely be against Spain as things
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: are right now. As things stand, it would be Spain.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: And if we bounce out against Spain, you know, that sucks,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: but that's still you know, a very respectable run. But
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: you know, I would love to upset Spain as well.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: But yeah, the quotations for me are definitely make the quarterfinals.
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's a good way of putting it,
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: because they very well. I mean, it's if Egypt wins
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: that group that we kind of thought Belgium would win,
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: that might be your opponent in around sixteen.
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: You bet.
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: I think you're better than them, So that might be
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: a good way of phrasing it, all right, man, Well,
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: hey Caleb, Caleb Adams, love your soccer stuff on Twitter.
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: Loved it when you were with FC. Tell everybody that
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: wants to follow somebody that's locked into this US team.
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: We'll still tweet about yallc as well. How did they
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: get How did they get you?
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: On Twitter? What's your handle?
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: It just It's Caleb Adams, real simple, Caleb with the
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  Speaker 1: c all.
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  Speaker 6: Right man, it's Caleb Adams on Twitter slash X. Thank
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: you brother, appreciate the knowledge man, thank you. All right,
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: there you go, There you go. That's Caleb Adams. Uh yeah,
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: very knowledgeable on soccer. He literally asked everybody, what am
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: I missing? Why did the Hornets trade LaMelo? It did
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: not make sense to me, So that's what he was
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: up to yesterday.
• 43:26
  Speaker 8: When we come back speaking of mellow, was the Lamello
• 43:29
  Speaker 8: deal the most shocking in charles Port's history? Are we
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: still cool with Jeff Peterson? And we have a special
• 43:36
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• 43:38
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• 43:42
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