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The Pacers Report with Mike Rich (2.223.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to the Pacers Report with Microch, every Monday on the Central Indian Sports Report.
0:32
[SPEAKER_00]: He's in the lane, he nearly lost and he backs up, and I'm loads of free.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that did not happen, and hit the back of the rim.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It popped high into the air, and it dropped gently through the net.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 49 states, it's just basketball, but this is in the end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Love and patient stands with a central Indian as 4-3-4 for this week's patient's report with micro-itch and Mike, I got to be honest.
1:13
[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, you know, this patient's report is a little bit of a chore.
1:18
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not as much fun as I'd really hope this was going to be this year.
1:22
[SPEAKER_01]: To say the least, it can sometimes be a chore.
1:25
[SPEAKER_01]: You need to be a choreo, we're almost there.
1:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Make May 10th is right around the corner and the pacers did exactly what we wanted him to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Every game, the second half of the season, so let's just keep it going.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Alright, Mike, well, the Pacers didn't do what they were supposed to do, and one two out of four games that last week put ourselves in a little bit of a precarious situation.
1:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Since then, though, they lost two games that we predicted they were going to lose a bit.
1:55
[SPEAKER_00]: The Kings have won two games in a row, so this thing is just about wrapped up.
2:00
[SPEAKER_01]: It's close.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They got a couple of games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They play the timber walls through who are going to win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to play Brooklyn who wants the same thing as the Pacers, then they play the 76ers and then the pistons are probably already going to be set with the first or second seed and the east so they're not going to, they're probably going to rest their players that last game, but we got competitive players playing right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, to play the way we did against Cleveland tonight was with the lineup.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're going to do everything they can when they're on the floor and they get the opportunity and they're taking advantage of it and I mean, Mike a Potter is is I mean when he came in what right for the middle of season or whatever with the Pacers, we had no idea who he was, but I mean, he's really stepped up to be a good piece and he played well and he's going to, you know, he's going to have an opportunity to play in his league, I think.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just probably not with the Pacers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope not.
3:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Not to talk about Sunday's game here in just a minute.
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[SPEAKER_00]: First one to look at the rest of the schedule because according to my math, Mike just need one more loss and they wrap up a bottom three finish, which is all they need to do.
3:16
[SPEAKER_00]: And Tuesday night and Minnesota, and then they could maybe win some games and we can actually tear form to win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to stay consistent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Before they traded the pick, having the worst record would have been of some benefit because they would be ahead of everybody else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If they didn't get a top four pick, they'd be next Timmer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, all right, number five is the worst they could do and now number seven is the worst they can do, but five seven doesn't matter anymore.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So as long as they're at the bottom three, which one doesn't really matter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't even want to be close.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want there to be any question.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want and I think we're good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think with with Sacramento where they're like you said, I mean, one game is all we need to say in that bottom three, I think, and Or Utah Sacramento and Utah are both both tied mouth with the worst record in the West.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'd be, I don't know what I think if they start wanting it's weird isn't it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's one two of the last four years that it's been like this too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, hoping for losses to have a chance on a really good traffic and I won't work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we're there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, now like I don't know if I've mentioned this before or not on the podcast, but the league owes us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think you have.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you need to say that again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Look, the league owes us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the AOs, the Indiana Pacers, for their dedication to excellence for the last 30 years and never once tanking before this year, the NBA owes the Indiana Pacers this number one pick, Mike.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, anywhere in the top three.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Anywhere in the top three, they do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If they're not in the top three, I don't know if I'll watch the NBA ever again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be so timid to support it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know you don't mean that because you love the patient.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's what I do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's what I keep saying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if it's the patient's versus the NBA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love that kind of thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's how I've always looked at the NBA anyway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I never had a second favorite team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's always just when the Pacers and everybody else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I hope we had when the Pacers were horrible when we were growing up in the 80s.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We all had a second team because that was the only way we're going to enjoy the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Since then, I've never even had a second team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's Pacers and nobody else.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like the balls and I like watching them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if they ever played the, as always, I wanted the Pacers to win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But watching greatness when we were kids was,
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[SPEAKER_01]: hard not to enjoy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was and it's never been better than it was back then.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No doubt about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No doubt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about greatness.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've never seen an era anything like Bird Magic and Jordan and never will it been properly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not in our lifetime.
6:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Mike, I want to talk about Sunday night, because you and I share a love of the Knowsville Boom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's basically what we had in the starting lineup on Sunday night, Jayland's loss in Mike a Potter, Ethan Thompson, Kobe Brown, Quentin Jackson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If I told you that in game number 78 this year, that was going to be the starting lineup.
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[SPEAKER_00]: going in the game seven last year he would have thought that there's a plane crash from the entire gym with him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would have thought it was tough than what I had to happen for that starting line up to be there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, and, man,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think three gold 10 he calls, but damn he got up and the prices are going to be so deep next year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think all the way to 15 and they're they're actually way contracts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The guys you go between noblesville and the patients are going to be capable of playing NBA minutes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and, and that was what we were looking at this season when the Andrew started filing up on us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, all right, let's see what our G league looks like and let's bring them up and let's get a minute and our rookie's got some minutes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Peter got a lot of minutes this year and Kobe Brown's playing well and having good opportunities in Quentin Jackson is definitely got a spot probably next year on this team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if they get in that's
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this draft, I don't know what that team's going to look like next year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's so many options.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So probably bad news for Ben Shepherd.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's probably going to be somewhere else for my capater and guys like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Good thing they signed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jackson, I really like him as the in case of emergency player who's very capable of playing wedding basketball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this roster is really nice next year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot wait.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just way too long from now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to say this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Aaron Nice Smith was on the verge of a breakout season before first Halle Burton got hurt and then he got hurt early in the year and can be looking forward to seeing what he does next year.
8:40
[SPEAKER_00]: And we talked about it on the last patient's report.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nim hard and the things he's done lately, so many assists and just feels like such a wasted season.
8:52
[SPEAKER_01]: For the guys that we're going to be in the starting line up this year, you see how them Nim hard and he's meant I think it was a waste of a season for them.
9:02
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just another year on their body and that's the unfortunate piece of this season but to see a lot of the growth of the younger guys and the opportunities that they got with those guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know that that's invaluable next year and that's gonna pay off and in later in a season when we have those Nixon bruises and these guys are coming up and they're playing on a team that's competing for the eastern conference This year is going to pay dividends there, but I agree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really feel bad for like niece met Nemar and Siocca
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[SPEAKER_01]: to put another year on their body with how being in the playoffs, but that's the other advantage too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not going to be in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's extra rest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're going to get plenty of rest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've been able to have a load management this year and miss several games and be able to get no good balance of rest and play.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I think they look at the future too and they know what the opportunity is and they know the opportunity is going to be competing for a championship next year.
10:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you see Albert and Norman up this this today?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't.
10:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's big.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's put on some pounds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He just looks more solid.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was good to see him out there shooting threes and things like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's still got an ugly and hell shot, but it's still going in.
10:19
[SPEAKER_01]: I was really excited to see him back with the team.
10:21
[SPEAKER_01]: He's at a rough year just not just with the recovery from the Achilles, but he got shingles after this.
10:27
[SPEAKER_01]: He's in that putting away from the team for a while.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking forward to seeing his development.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm hoping that the rehab and everything that he's doing right now is more strength training.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's putting on more muscle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He looked a lot more solid.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's so I'm not pretty excited to see him start playing this summer and, you know, looking really forward to seeing him next year and that starting lineup.
10:52
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to say this about something that's game like,
10:55
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the Indiana Pacer stole the Cleveland Cavalier soul last year at Cavalier's team is just not good, they're not good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They rolled into last year's playoffs as the favorite to win the whole thing and the Pacers just spanked them and they haven't been the same since they made that trade
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[SPEAKER_00]: for James Harden that they hope maybe produces something, but it's not going to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do I go like that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How many teams have had hope with James Harden?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Houston, OKC, Cleveland, 76ers, the Clippers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, how many teams have taken a chance on James Harden, they get the same thing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It always seems like, well, we're not going to win anything now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We might as well try James Harden.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's a fantastic player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One-on-one, one-on-place, and when he plays his game, he's fantastic, but he doesn't do much for a team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He does not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and that team is toast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the Eastern Conference is pretty good now.
12:00
[SPEAKER_00]: You'd go eight teams deep and I don't think there's going to be a surprise.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think there's any possible surprise in the Eastern Conference playoffs this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think every team is capable of beating every other team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now that the Hawks and Hornets are two of the best teams in the East.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because last year that wasn't happening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, those two teams are I can't say in last year the Hawks could be the best team in the East if they just trade Tray young and they traded Tray young and guess what happened?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They took off I think the Hawks right now are there right there in the mix?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't be surprised to see them come out of the East You know, I mean I thought it's a good enough to I really do yeah
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those two teams are really good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All of a sudden, it was like when the Pacers were not winning, then all of a sudden they grew up a little bit and they started winning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what those two teams are doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think we're going to see a lot of maturation with the Pacers next year, even, and they might be really good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to be different than they were last year, but I think they're going to be a really good regular season.
13:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the next or toast in the playoffs, Carl Anthony Towns is just, he's not gonna help that team get very far.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think, and I don't think they get better next year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought we gained season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought the next fight had the best team on paper and the Eastern Conference.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, if Detroit, if they're going to win it, okay, kind of the game is going to have to be the best player in the NBA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure he's capable of doing that, so I don't think the distance can, but if he does, they can.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My last thing before we go, let's visit tankathon, the,
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[SPEAKER_00]: mock draft to tinketh on the Pacers have the second pick and they haven't taken Darren Peterson much.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't even imagine that would be possible with Cameron Booser and Caleb Wilson both available in the fit there, but Darren Peterson's really darn good, so maybe that would be the case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But of course, that's not where the Pacers are going to be picking unless that's
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[SPEAKER_00]: where they end up after the NBA draft lottery on May 10th that we're very much looking forward to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And right now, I'm going to simulate that lottery and see what comes up and we'll talk about whatever it says the patients are going to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And for his resuzzi, I'm going to simulate the lottery who is it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Taylor Wilson with the fourth pick is what it says and Mike, that would excite me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not quite as much as Debonta or Booser, but he might have the most upside of everybody and I think he is the most athletic of all four of them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If he's there for that's a fantastic opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that and I think he's a good fit for what we need next year.
15:01
[SPEAKER_00]: That's probably the issue is I'm not sure he would be good enough to get into this lineup next year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that that would be a future piece.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, booser or to bonsai, I think they would probably get right into the Pacers line up, at least come off the bench with signals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure Wilson would be able to do that next year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you're talking about down the road, the guy just floats on air, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's so skilled.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's nothing he doesn't do well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Caleb Wilson to the Pacers would be fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, he had the injury.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think
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[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, average is per 36 minutes last year at North Carolina, 22.8 points, 10.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists, very good passer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I think that gets overlooked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And very good defensively, 1.70 deals, 1.6 blocks per 36 minutes, and as a freshman at North Carolina.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds like he'd been fit really well with the Indiana Pacers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's also a rebounder.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the thing to bounce a booser Wilson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If they can get any of them, they need to add to rebounding because that's probably the place that they're going to be weakest next year is rebounding.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not necessary the strength of any of their big men.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's where I think the Pacers have always struggled.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm hoping Zubot's changes that I think he will.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But Miles Turner was not a rebounder.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jay Huff has not been a rebounder.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Zubot's really isn't that great of a rebounder either for a size.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a good rebounder.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's known more for his offensive skills, which are immense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And a good crafty defender, by the way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: not known for his rebounding.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Caleb Wilson will be an outstanding rebounder as well Cameron Booser by the way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you heard get sustained a broken face against you gone and will eat eight.
17:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Booser did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You did broke a bone in his face during the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's not good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It took him off the court and he end up coming back and the after the
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[SPEAKER_00]: He got examined, he had a broken bone in his face, but hopefully that will not cost him any time either.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's John, recover fast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, the lottery simulation has the hawks with the number one pick, Darren Peterson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That would be scary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The wizard's number two, AJ debons the jazz number three Cameron Booser.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think, didn't his dad play for the jazz?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I don't car race.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number four with Caleb Wilson and then that's number five with Kingston Fleming's.
18:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Mike, let's do it again next week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sounds good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Go, Pager.
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