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Mac & Bone Show - Sam Farber Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We are excited to get a chance now to talk
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  Speaker 1: Hornets with our next guest. He is back for another
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  Speaker 1: season of bringing the sunshine, baby sunshine, Sam Farber, uh,
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  Speaker 1: talking about those one and Oh, one Hornets, Sam Farber
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  Speaker 1: radio play by play voice of the Hornets is now
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  Speaker 1: going to join us every Thursday at eight 25.
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  Speaker 2: Sammy, what's going on, man? How you feeling today?
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  Speaker 3: I'll let the sun shine in. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a late arrival coming back here to
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  Speaker 3: the Queen City, but it always feels good to be
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  Speaker 3: on the plane on a win and always good to
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  Speaker 3: be waking up with Mac and Bone. Plus, special guests
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  Speaker 3: I've already heard this morning. We had Coach O on
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  Speaker 3: the show. You had Charles Barkley. You got Shaq Prescience.
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  Speaker 3: You got it all.
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  Speaker 2: They've all been here, all the luminaries.
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  Speaker 4: Sam, we know the current state of the Nets and
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  Speaker 4: where they are in the East, and it is the
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  Speaker 4: first game.
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  Speaker 3: Of the year.
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  Speaker 4: But as we talked about on the critically reviewed pregame
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  Speaker 4: show last night that you're a part of, how big
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  Speaker 4: is a win like that to get things started, considering
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  Speaker 4: how jammed up we think this Eastern Conference will be
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  Speaker 4: in this season?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and in large part because everyone's trying now. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Brooklyn lost. I think I counted up. I think they
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  Speaker 3: lost 25 of their last 30 games last year, and
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  Speaker 3: I think they're disappointed they didn't lose more. Teams weren't
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  Speaker 3: trying actively to lose, and that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: this time around. So, you know, I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 3: box score, and Brooklyn, their star players at least, played well.
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  Speaker 3: Julius Randle put 30 on the board. Michael Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 3: got hot, as he tends to do. You can make
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  Speaker 3: a strong argument that just from a counting stats standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: the top two players for Brooklyn outperformed the top two
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  Speaker 3: players for Charlotte, even with Nas Reed and Brandon Miller having,
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  Speaker 3: you know, pretty strong games, 20 and 10 for a debut,
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  Speaker 3: not bad at all for Nas Reed, I'd say. But
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  Speaker 3: it's the collective that shine through here for Charlotte, the
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  Speaker 3: depth of the roster, the depth of talent and players
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  Speaker 3: relying on each other, leaning on each other. You know, Charlotte,
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  Speaker 3: you know, again, counting stats wise, they might've lost the
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  Speaker 3: top two versus the top two to Brooklyn, but top 10,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't close. The only thing that made it close
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  Speaker 3: was turnover. So again, I think every win is important.
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  Speaker 3: We learned that last year. No matter what the situation is,
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  Speaker 3: for 82 games, it always seems to come down to
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  Speaker 3: one or two, deciding whether or not you're going to
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  Speaker 3: make the playoffs or have to fight your way through
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  Speaker 3: the play-in. This is one the Hornets now have in
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  Speaker 3: their back pocket.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 1: They needed to get it, but I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: crazy that it wasn't easy. You're missing two of your
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  Speaker 1: three best offensive players. You're missing a leader and a
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  Speaker 1: role player in Grant Williams.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right.
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  Speaker 1: It was the balance and the depth of the Hornets
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  Speaker 1: that showed over the Randall and Porter show for the Nets.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of those guys that contributed to
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  Speaker 1: the five guys storing 17 points or more. I love
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it was some of the new guys
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  Speaker 1: that Jeff Peterson just acquired. You mentioned Nas Reid's game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Grayson Allen scoring off the bench was so big, too,
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  Speaker 1: with 21 points. What did you think of Nas and
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  Speaker 1: Grayson for a couple of starters here to talk about?
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  Speaker 2: What did you think?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Nas just solid as a rock, kind of
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  Speaker 3: as expected. If you take the numbers that he had
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  Speaker 3: the last couple years in Minnesota and you extrapolate them
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  Speaker 3: over starters' minutes, this is kind of what you were
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  Speaker 3: hoping for. And he shows proof of concept there on
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  Speaker 3: night one. Plus, his playmaking, I think, has been vastly underrated.
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  Speaker 3: He had a career-high seven assists last night. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't like he was doing something totally out of
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  Speaker 3: the ordinary. It didn't feel that way as we watched
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  Speaker 3: him distribute the ball. He just looked very natural in practice.
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  Speaker 3: Charles Lee's offense and clearly a defensive presence just his
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  Speaker 3: size that they upgrade there in terms of physicality it's
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  Speaker 3: noticeable so great great start for him and then Grayson
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  Speaker 3: Allen we talked to him after the game on the
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  Speaker 3: post game show and he was like man this was
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  Speaker 3: fun like Musa is a monster and you've got Brandon
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  Speaker 3: Miller that it requires all this attention I mean he's
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  Speaker 3: just basically allowed to roam and operate and do what
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  Speaker 3: he wants to do and get to his spots and
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  Speaker 3: knock down wide-open threes. What could be better for one
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  Speaker 3: of the all-time great three-point shooters out of Duke?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for saying that last part there. Sam, what
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  Speaker 4: is the— Did you pay him to drop that in? No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like his Lowe's threes or his Dr. Pepper dunks. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: how many Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Pepper dunks?
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  Speaker 2: It's not a bone Duke reference. How about Musa with
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  Speaker 2: six Dr. Pepper dunks, baby? I love it.
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  Speaker 4: Sam, what was your assessment of Brandon Miller's performance last night?
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  Speaker 4: 17 early, only one after that. What changed in the
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  Speaker 4: second half where his scoring slowed down like it did?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he was clearly the focal point of Brooklyn's defense.
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  Speaker 3: Even in the first half, they were throwing two at
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  Speaker 3: him any time he touched the ball. So this is
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  Speaker 3: going to be kind of the scouting report for a
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  Speaker 3: while here, I think, on Charlotte, particularly with Kobe and
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  Speaker 3: Con out. Teams are going to test him. They're going
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  Speaker 3: to say, let's see if we can get the ball
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  Speaker 3: out of his hands. In the first half, he did
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  Speaker 3: an excellent job getting to his spots despite the pressure.
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  Speaker 3: He got really, really hot there at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the first quarter and into the second. 17 points and
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  Speaker 3: a half, that was awesome. And then in the second half,
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  Speaker 3: he was smart enough to recognize, like, hey, if I'm
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  Speaker 3: getting all this attention, I can go ahead and let
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  Speaker 3: other people operate. And so, you know, it wasn't his
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  Speaker 3: strongest three-point shooting night. They're not all going to be
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  Speaker 3: that way. But he has proven over the course of
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  Speaker 3: his career that if you play it out over an
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  Speaker 3: 82-game season, he's going to make 36%, 37%, 38% of
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  Speaker 3: his threes at high volume. He's going to be north
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  Speaker 3: of 20 more nights than he's not. And to win
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  Speaker 3: a game where you didn't shoot as efficiently as you
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  Speaker 3: normally would hope to, where you did turn the ball
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  Speaker 3: over 20 times, and the opposition's two best players had
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  Speaker 3: a really good stat line, that's a big win. That's
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  Speaker 3: something that most teams in the NBA are not able
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  Speaker 3: to do. If they don't play their A game and
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  Speaker 3: the other team's best players have really good games, you
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  Speaker 3: normally count that one as a loss, especially on the road.
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  Speaker 3: So I give Brandon Miller a ton of credit for
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  Speaker 3: working through a tough first shooting day and finding ways–
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  Speaker 3: to be a big time contributor towards the season opening win.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that. Cause that's what I was saying.
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  Speaker 1: Or I, that's what I saw too. Like when Brandon
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  Speaker 1: hit those 17 points in like the first 15 minutes
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  Speaker 1: of the game, it felt like the nets then realize, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we got to make sure this dude doesn't beat us,
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  Speaker 1: make the other guys beat us. Every time Brandon came
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  Speaker 1: off a ball screen, like you're saying they were blitzing it,
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  Speaker 1: they were doubling him. I like, and I know Sam,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm, maybe I'm sunshiny like you.
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  Speaker 2: Like I, I want it.
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  Speaker 1: Like I tend to look at it like, okay, it's
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  Speaker 1: not ideal. Brandon scored one point after that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: point early in the second quarter, but I tend to
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  Speaker 1: look at it like, Hey, without two of our three
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  Speaker 1: best offensive players, We still had a bunch of other
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  Speaker 1: dudes that could step up and say, OK, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to take Brandon away.
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  Speaker 2: We can score like.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Schroeder attacking the rack over and over again as
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  Speaker 1: they blanketed the shooters. Like to me, they yes, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to keep watching Brandon because of the new contract.
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  Speaker 1: But but you have to point out the positives, too,
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  Speaker 1: that this team is deep enough with Kobe and Khan
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  Speaker 1: out to still have four other guys to step up
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  Speaker 1: and get buckets.
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  Speaker 3: Totally agree. And not every team is Brooklyn where they've
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  Speaker 3: got clearly two really, really elite scorers in Porter and Randall,
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  Speaker 3: and then a couple other guys who are experienced, but
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  Speaker 3: they play a lot of young guys. They've got seven
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  Speaker 3: first-round picks. in the last two years. They didn't play
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  Speaker 3: them all, but they're playing significant minutes with these guys.
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  Speaker 3: And so you would assume that a veteran like a
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  Speaker 3: Dennis Schroeder or a Grayson Allen or a Royce O'Neal
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  Speaker 3: or an Oz Reed will know how to operate against
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  Speaker 3: those younger players and take advantage of the matchups. But also,
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  Speaker 3: it's the attention you have to focus on Brandon Miller. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: Dennis Schroeder is spectacular. I am in love with our
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  Speaker 3: new point guard here. For Charlotte, his change of speed,
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  Speaker 3: his understanding of spacing and timing and how to change
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  Speaker 3: speeds out there, he's been brilliant. But I'm under no
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  Speaker 3: illusion that it's just how quick he is. There clearly
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  Speaker 3: were some lanes that he's able to take advantage of
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  Speaker 3: because the opposition doesn't want to leave Brandon Miller alone
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  Speaker 3: or doesn't want to leave Grayson Allen alone or doesn't
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  Speaker 3: want to leave Nas Reed alone. And so that's where
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  Speaker 3: the team aspect of this comes into play. And again,
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  Speaker 3: I'll go back to it. If we're just using counting steps,
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  Speaker 3: just using points, Julius Randle, Michael Porter Jr. played well
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  Speaker 3: enough for Brooklyn to win that game. It's the fact
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  Speaker 3: that the Hornets weren't necessarily better 1-2, which they can
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  Speaker 3: be on a lot of nights and will be on
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  Speaker 3: a lot of nights, but 1-10, it wasn't close. The
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  Speaker 3: only thing that made it close was the turnovers.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, how about this nugget of information?
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  Speaker 4: Now, I know that the Hornets are tied for first
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  Speaker 4: right now with the Wizards and the Hawks, but as
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  Speaker 4: we sit here in Mac, October 22nd, The Panthers and
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  Speaker 4: the Hornets are both in first place.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. What a day to be alive. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: Green City wearing the crown.
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  Speaker 4: Damn straight, baby. We get some walkouts right now. We
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  Speaker 4: get some walkouts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Stop the season. We're both in first.
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  Speaker 1: It feels good. All we do is win, win, win, Boney.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what I say.
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  Speaker 2: Hell yes, sir. Hell yeah. All right, Sammy. Well, so
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  Speaker 2: it's a big, as we wrap this.
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  Speaker 1: Up, we know that Sammy is going to go into
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  Speaker 1: ticket selling mode, Boney. So I'm going to lob this
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  Speaker 1: up to you. It's like Billy Mays. Like you're Musa,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to dunk this thing home. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to check out the new look bugs, and everybody's
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  Speaker 1: still getting to know them, right, without LaMelo and all
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  Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, there's still so many ballers on
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  Speaker 1: this team. You're going to have three chances coming up
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend through Monday. Hit everybody with the info
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  Speaker 1: they need, Sam, for this homestand coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, enormous weekend. It starts off tomorrow night, Friday night,
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  Speaker 3: home opener for Charlotte. taking on the Atlanta Hawks, one
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  Speaker 3: of the teams that they're going to have to chase
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  Speaker 3: down if they want to make it into the playoffs
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  Speaker 3: next year. And in addition to being all the fanfare
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  Speaker 3: that comes with opening night and a home opening night,
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  Speaker 3: Petey Pablo will be the halftime show. And you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to take your shirt off. We're going to give
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  Speaker 3: one to you. Free shirt for everyone in attendance. Petey
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  Speaker 3: Pablo at halftime. It's going to be awesome. Then on
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  Speaker 3: Saturday night, two of a back-to-back. It's the new look
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  Speaker 3: Miami Heat with Giannis Antetokounmpo in town. And then you're right,
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  Speaker 3: three games in four days. It'll be the Washington Wizards,
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  Speaker 3: who themselves, new look, two all-stars on that roster now,
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  Speaker 3: and Trey Young and Anthony Davis. Plus, hopefully he's playing
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  Speaker 3: by then, the newly number one overall pick, A.J. DeVanta.
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  Speaker 3: So it's going to be a great weekend of Hornets basketball.
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  Speaker 3: The headliner, clearly, Brandon Miller and the Bugs. as Buzz
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  Speaker 3: City tries to keep this unbeaten run going to start
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  Speaker 3: the season. And home court advantage has been absolutely enormous.
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  Speaker 3: It was all through the end of last season. Hopefully
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  Speaker 3: that continues starting tomorrow night. And tickets are available at Hornets.com.
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  Speaker 2: We're calling him Willie Pablo for a couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Willie Pablo's got to call FC that night.
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  Speaker 2: They're out in Portland.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think he can get there, take his
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  Speaker 1: shirt off, and spin it around like a dang helicopter
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  Speaker 1: and shed some tears. It's very sad.
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  Speaker 3: He did not bring that up on the post-game show
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  Speaker 3: last night. I did not hear that he had a
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  Speaker 3: prior commitment there.
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  Speaker 2: Very sad. Yeah, there was a lot of emotions.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he's going to try and call the game from
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  Speaker 3: our studio.
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  Speaker 1: He gets very emotional over Petey Pablo. He had to
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  Speaker 1: make a choice, Bone and Sam. He had to choose
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  Speaker 1: the mayor, Brant Bronico, over Petey Pablo. And that was
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  Speaker 1: one of the hardest choices. It's like choosing between your
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  Speaker 1: two children for you and I, Sam.
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  Speaker 2: All right, brother.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, it's good to have you back on the airwaves.
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  Speaker 1: Good start to the season. And appreciate you, Sam.
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  Speaker 2: Be good, man. Thanks for coming on.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you guys as well. We'll see everyone at the
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  Speaker 3: Hive this weekend.