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2-12-26 Hour 1 - Nugs squeak past Grizzlies/No problem with Landy's return/Will NBA ASG be competitive? · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardi and Caine on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 2: When Gallo first came to the Nuggets, his nickname was
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  Speaker 2: the Rooster, right, But as an announcer, you want to
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  Speaker 2: make sure. So I'm like Gallo, can I call you
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  Speaker 2: Rooster on the radio? And he goes, no, I.
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  Speaker 3: Go, why not?
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  Speaker 2: It's your nickname? He goes, You don't understand. In Italy
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  Speaker 2: it is a glorious bird. In America, it's just a cussword.
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  Speaker 3: Chicken.
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  Speaker 2: Nilo Gallinari doing a ref for me go.
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  Speaker 4: Timeouts are brought to you by Colorado State Patrols.
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  Speaker 5: Low down and move over.
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  Speaker 4: When you see flashing lights on the road, which herself
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  Speaker 4: in their shoes.
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  Speaker 6: This could he you someday.
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  Speaker 5: Good job, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: The inbound goes over to Scottie Pippen at the horn
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  Speaker 2: for three banked it no good? Put back won't go
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  Speaker 2: and there's a horn. Well it wasn't pretty, but the
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  Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets will take it. They'll go into the break
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  Speaker 2: behind in Nikola Jokic's triple double and they take care
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  Speaker 2: of Memphis tonight by a final of one twenty two
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  Speaker 2: to one sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: Just a glorious bird, that rooster.
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  Speaker 5: Hire him on the spot. I don't care how much
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  Speaker 5: money it takes. I don't care what you need to do.
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  Speaker 5: Steve Smith, Matt Kroll, everyone involved, Kevin Shock. You call
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  Speaker 5: him right now, Hire him on the spot. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's funny about that, because it just took
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  Speaker 3: me back. We have these little little kid books and
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  Speaker 3: one of them is just a book that has a
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  Speaker 3: whole bunch of things that you would find in life,
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  Speaker 3: and just the names of them. It'd be like ball pants.
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  Speaker 3: One of them is a picture of a rooster. But
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  Speaker 3: the book was made in Britain and they used the
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  Speaker 3: C word, and I'm like, I'm not saying that to
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  Speaker 3: my kid. What are we doing here? It's a rooster.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if England calls it as Danello Gallinario,
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  Speaker 3: we call it the curse words, but nobody refers to
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  Speaker 3: it as that it's a rooster.
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  Speaker 5: That's a great example, though, how in one country it
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  Speaker 5: can be a glorious bird and in the other one
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  Speaker 5: it's just a chicken. What's another example of that?
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  Speaker 3: A cow and how is dinner here?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, good point. Yeah yeah, you know what else
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  Speaker 5: I do? Like me some cow for dinner? What else
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  Speaker 5: is glorious? Is considered very glorious in Italy? A donkey
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  Speaker 5: and here they're put down all the time. Hey you donkey.
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  Speaker 5: I remember my dad's donkey was very I mean they
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  Speaker 5: were tight, my dad and his donkey. He gave us
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  Speaker 5: super gale, distant stories about his donkey.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I thought you were saying the donkey regaled you
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  Speaker 3: in stories, just like like what that would be? That
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  Speaker 3: would be an amazing donkey if you could tell stories.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah no, I mean you can't. You can't live without
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  Speaker 5: a donkey. He wants traveled from village to village in
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  Speaker 5: his donkey.
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  Speaker 7: And by the way, cops out there if you listen,
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  Speaker 7: or anybody from the Colorado State Patrol. Right, that was
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  Speaker 7: that read that Gallo did. Sirens are old and dated.
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  Speaker 7: This is what you need to play out of your car.
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  Speaker 5: Slow down and move over.
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  Speaker 7: That work on me, man Gallo doing that ad read,
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  Speaker 7: he sounded like a true pro.
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  Speaker 3: I did the Nuggets do win the final game before
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  Speaker 3: the All Star break?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Vic I said I wanted a close game and have
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  Speaker 3: them finish, you know, close at the end, you got
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  Speaker 3: your wish. That was miserable, Like they didn't play great,
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  Speaker 3: but Memphis is bad, man. They got nobody Like I'm
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at that roster and I'm like, okay, I
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  Speaker 3: recognize slow Mo. Who's everybody else?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, bunch your dudes. I'm I'm asking dempse.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, is that person a real person in the NBA?
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  Speaker 6: Like somebody would score goes? That a real person?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: That's Gg Jackson. That's a I've heard of. No, sorry
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  Speaker 3: not him? Uh Jami Mashakude.
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  Speaker 6: There's some guys.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, is this a real human?
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  Speaker 3: KCP? I recognize? But the Nuggets do win, and I think, look,
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  Speaker 3: I'm less, I guess concerned with the game. If you've
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  Speaker 3: got thoughts in the game, VIC go ahead because they
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  Speaker 3: get a broader picture, I suppose with the Nuggets. But
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  Speaker 3: what did you think about the game overall last night?
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  Speaker 6: Just get the hell out of there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much, get the way out go just get
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  Speaker 3: just get the hell out of there, go as fast
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  Speaker 3: as you can get out of there.
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  Speaker 5: Real. They said it afterwards, I think all of them.
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  Speaker 5: Coach Adelman said it let's get down, let's reconvene, use
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  Speaker 5: the All Star break to clear your head and reconvene. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: to those who watched the last week, that team was
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  Speaker 5: not the team we're used to seeing.
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  Speaker 3: No, you know, I think that when Adaman mentioned this
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  Speaker 3: the other day, that this is going to provide a
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  Speaker 3: huge mental break for them. It's like, I think the
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  Speaker 3: Avs and Nuggets both needed that, just in very different ways.
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  Speaker 3: The Avs are they were playing such a high level
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  Speaker 3: brand of hockey that I think they almost got bored
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  Speaker 3: with the regular season for a minute, and now this
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  Speaker 3: could provide some sort of spark. The Nuggets were just
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  Speaker 3: I think every game being you don't know who's gonna play,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have chemistry at the people in the lineup,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's a big mental game each time you go
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  Speaker 3: out there. I think getting that just a mental is
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  Speaker 3: gonna help more than anything else.
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  Speaker 5: You know, just despite the craziness, despite the game, the
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  Speaker 5: fact the game was close when it never needed to be. Whatever,
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  Speaker 5: They're thirty five and twenty, they're back in third place.
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  Speaker 5: They're only one game, believe it or not behind last
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  Speaker 5: year's pace. Despite all the injuries, Yeah, all the adversity,
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  Speaker 5: all the inconsistency of the lineup. There are only one
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  Speaker 5: game behind last year's pace through fifty five of them,
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  Speaker 5: and only three games behind the championship pace twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 6: So they're right there.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's not like, oh my god, into the world.
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  Speaker 5: It's not one of those right, No, right there?
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  Speaker 3: Well good.
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  Speaker 5: At the same time, you can see what they need
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  Speaker 5: to fix.
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  Speaker 6: You can see it, you can feel it.
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  Speaker 5: And it starts with up by eleven, up by fourteen,
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  Speaker 5: up by fifteen, let's end this thing. And they haven't
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  Speaker 5: been able to end this thing.
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  Speaker 3: I was just asking Nelly, when's the last time they
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  Speaker 3: blew somebody out? I know that scores have looked like blows.
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  Speaker 3: Like they just beat Chicago one thirty six to one twenty.
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  Speaker 3: That was not a blowout though, that was a good
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  Speaker 3: fourth quarter. But I'm sorry, like start to finish a
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  Speaker 3: laugher game. Yeah, that you just walked away with it.
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  Speaker 3: They used to do it all the time.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's take a look here.
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  Speaker 3: You're you're so right, Like when the last time, like
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  Speaker 3: the fourth quarter, it's like, all right, put the backups in,
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  Speaker 3: we're good, don't need them.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, you could understand through the month of
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  Speaker 5: January because they were so shorthanded. Winning games was I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you won, it was awesome. It doesn't matter how you
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  Speaker 5: wineh right, So January, I don't think you'll find any there.
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  Speaker 5: You probably have to go back to December. Let's see here.
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  Speaker 5: Look at this schedule, look at some of the games.
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  Speaker 3: At the December twenty second against Utah was one thirty
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  Speaker 3: five to one twelve.
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  Speaker 5: Oh I remember that game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Nuggets were up forty to fifteen after
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  Speaker 3: the first quarter. Yeah, oh yeah, that's the one. Been
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  Speaker 3: a long time, but you mentioned if the The more
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  Speaker 3: broad discussion I want to have with them is this
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  Speaker 3: everything that they went through before this All Star break,
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  Speaker 3: all the missing games from all of the starters. I
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  Speaker 3: mean virtually what Jamal was the only guy in your
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  Speaker 3: top six, seven eight players to stay healthy. You're in
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  Speaker 3: third place, You're fifteen games above five hundred, and I
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  Speaker 3: was dead wrong on something where when all of these guys,
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  Speaker 3: especially when Joker left the lineup, you're out four or
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  Speaker 3: five starters. I straight up thought they'd be one of
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  Speaker 3: the worst teams in the league. I'm not even kidding
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  Speaker 3: because everything in the past evidence Wise has shown me
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  Speaker 3: they can't survive six minute stretches without Jokic on the floor.
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  Speaker 3: How are you going to do that for a full month?
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  Speaker 3: And to their credit, they kept enough pace to be
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  Speaker 3: third place in the West. Still fifteen games above five hundred.
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  Speaker 3: I know it hasn't always looked pretty, and they have flaws,
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  Speaker 3: and their home record isn't good enough, but just in
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  Speaker 3: a broad scope, you missed Yoka for a month, you
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  Speaker 3: miss four or five starters at random points throughout the
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  Speaker 3: course of this year. To be fifteen games over five
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  Speaker 3: hundred is pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, it's it's a little weird because they survived the
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  Speaker 5: stretch without the starters, and they not only survived it,
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  Speaker 5: they were four games above five hundred during that stretch. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and then when they started getting the starters back, including Nicola,
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  Speaker 5: is when they struggled.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I look, I still think that Jokic. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna say this, even though Jokic still doesn't look right,
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  Speaker 3: he's missing a lot of things. Short, he's not hitting
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  Speaker 3: the bunnies with the efficiency that he used to like
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  Speaker 3: he's had, I mean, how many games in a row now,
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  Speaker 3: let's see, so in his last five games. He shot
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  Speaker 3: under fifty percent in three of them, including last night.
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  Speaker 3: I know, eight of seventeen isn't a terrible shooting night,
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  Speaker 3: but Vic Jokic is like eleven of seventeen from the floor,
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  Speaker 3: So he's missing little shots like that. He's turning the
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  Speaker 3: ball over and I get that. He's got four straight
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  Speaker 3: triple doubles and you're probably like, what the hell are
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  Speaker 3: you complaining about, Like we all kind of see though,
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  Speaker 3: it's like he's not quite at peak Jokic yet from
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  Speaker 3: coming back from the injury.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he hasn't gone into that playoff mode that it's
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  Speaker 5: he'd even admit to you. I don't know if the turnovers, which,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, he nearly pulled off a quadruple double
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  Speaker 5: last night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of those is like a blind side rush.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if communication was a problem, nobody's telling
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  Speaker 3: him a guy was coming from the backside. Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of that, Like guy's coming on the back
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  Speaker 3: and knocking it out.
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  Speaker 5: And I wonder how much of it it's just him,
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  Speaker 5: Like we're in experimental stage here, Yeah, playing a Memphis
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  Speaker 5: team that you know, we know we're gonna be We're
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  Speaker 5: gonna turn it on. Maybe I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know what else to stay. There are some things you
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  Speaker 5: watched last night. They won the game. That's all that matters.
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  Speaker 5: They won, all right, they needed to win. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 5: haven't seen a blowout win. Now, are we getting to
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  Speaker 5: nitpicky when we're calling for blowout wins?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, maybe it's a little too early for it now.
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  Speaker 3: After this All Star break, I think that we should
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  Speaker 3: be expecting them to play a really good brand of basketball.
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  Speaker 5: Most nights they have five games. When they come back,
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  Speaker 5: they have a five game stretch. Just take a look
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  Speaker 5: at it. And in that five game stretch they won't
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  Speaker 5: have Aaron Gordon or Peyton Watson. Yeah, but I think
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  Speaker 5: it's probably the most important five game stretch of the season.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, actually make it a six game stretch.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, six games at LA at Portland, at Golden State,
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  Speaker 3: Boston at home, at OKC, Minnesota at home.
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  Speaker 5: Are you kidding me? Are you kid?
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  Speaker 6: That's the toughest stretch of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Well, dude, and then you could, I mean you could
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  Speaker 3: keep going and then it's at Utah, which is easier,
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  Speaker 3: but then it's Lakers Knicks. Okay again, Houston, San Antonio
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  Speaker 3: Lakers Philly. Yeah, it's a brutal stretch. But but again, vic,
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  Speaker 3: I understand that they might not have Peyton Watson and
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Gordon back. Are you championship caliber or not? Because
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  Speaker 3: if you are, you should be able to play well.
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  Speaker 5: They're in that And that's where I'm gonna say it now,
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  Speaker 5: before we get to that point, what are we saying now?
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  Speaker 5: They need They just need a mental break, right, so
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  Speaker 5: they're gonna get it. Yep, everyone's gonna get that mental break.
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  Speaker 5: When you come back. You're gonna have to snap out
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  Speaker 5: of it because you got a schedule from hell.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, totally right. Number thirty eight in Rhino is the
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  Speaker 3: place to be this weekend. Watch all the best hockey games.
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  Speaker 3: Watch Team USA in Denmark Saturday at one o'clock with
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  Speaker 3: Mike Sanford, and then the USA and Germany game on
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  Speaker 3: Sunday at one with Raj Enjoy new Amsterdam vodka specials
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  Speaker 3: like Pucket drop Shots, Espresso martiniz pucka Yeah, sorry drop
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  Speaker 3: my letters very very much. Espresso Martinez an Avalanche mule
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  Speaker 3: plus chances to win great prizes. So we'll see you
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  Speaker 3: at number thirty eight. By the way, US plays at
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  Speaker 3: one ten today. The Canada game is going to start
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  Speaker 3: at eight poin forty when we're on the air Vics,
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  Speaker 3: we'll see McKennon and Daves and mccarr and all the
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  Speaker 3: boys playing their first game in the Olympics for about
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  Speaker 3: the last hour of the show. And speaking of there
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  Speaker 3: is something I want to get to with that. And
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  Speaker 3: I heard Columbus and Dmac yesterday talking about this, and
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  Speaker 3: it just it doesn't make sense to me at all
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  Speaker 3: about Gabe Landi sky playing yesterday scored a goal for Sweden,
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  Speaker 3: Sweden won. They were like upset that Gabe was playing
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  Speaker 3: in that game and was not playing for the Avalanche.
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  Speaker 5: Who was upset? Dmac? And why?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they said that he missed five weeks with the
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  Speaker 3: Aves and then the Avs go on this break and
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  Speaker 3: the first game that he's available to play is going
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  Speaker 3: to be the one for his home country. Why wasn't
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  Speaker 3: he playing for the Avalanche. I want to get I
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  Speaker 3: want to get to this in a second. Yes, I
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  Speaker 3: want to get to this in a second, because I
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  Speaker 3: you have to think about what the allegation is and
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  Speaker 3: then think about who Gabe Landskag is and make that
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  Speaker 3: make sense to me. We'll get into it next.
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  Speaker 5: Listen.
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  Speaker 9: I understand the international love of international competition. It's the
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  Speaker 9: biggest thing for the country Sweden. Sweden were to win
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  Speaker 9: a gold for example, it's bigger than any of their
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  Speaker 9: Swedes winning a Stanley Cup, much bigger for the country.
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  Speaker 5: I get that.
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  Speaker 9: If you're making twelve million dollars to play for the
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  Speaker 9: Avs and you ain't played in five weeks.
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  Speaker 5: He is.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what to say about.
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  Speaker 10: I agree it is so weird. Hey, good for Gabe, Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: but it just feels weird that he missed all that
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  Speaker 10: time with the Avs and he's back on the ice
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  Speaker 10: scoring goals for Sweden.
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  Speaker 9: Look, Dan, how do you feel about you or a
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  Speaker 9: hockey guy?
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  Speaker 6: I don't like it either.
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  Speaker 5: I'm with you, Scott feels odd, right, It does feel
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  Speaker 5: a little strange like had Gabe.
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  Speaker 10: Just been healthy, like McKinnon and mccarr or whatever, it
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  Speaker 10: wouldn't feel like that big of a deal, right, But he.
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  Speaker 3: Had missed five weeks of AVS games.
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  Speaker 9: And what kind of pressure does it put on him.
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  Speaker 9: Now when the Olympic's over, let's go.
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  Speaker 3: So here's my problem with this, Like, I don't have
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  Speaker 3: an issue at all with Gabe playing. I'm glad he
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  Speaker 3: was playing. I'm glad he scored a goal. I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: to stay one the reason behind this, Like, if you're
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  Speaker 3: upset about it, there's gotta be a a backing to it.
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  Speaker 3: And what's the allegation that he missed five games or
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  Speaker 3: five weeks of games for the Avs. He comes in
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  Speaker 3: the first game that Sweden plays. He's healthy enough to play.
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  Speaker 3: So what's the allegation that he didn't care about playing
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  Speaker 3: for the Avs and he cared about playing for Sweden?
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  Speaker 3: Do you guys know who gave landiskag Is and what
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  Speaker 3: he means to this? The captain of your hockey team
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  Speaker 3: who bleeds in diyes for the Avalanche. Are you saying
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't care?
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  Speaker 5: What are we doing here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: What are we doing? We're talking about a man who
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  Speaker 5: invested three years of recovery and rehab. We're talking about
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  Speaker 5: a man who didn't play for three years and did
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  Speaker 5: everything he could just to be able to play again.
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  Speaker 6: And you're going to listen. All due respect to those boys.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to challenge him on his motivations.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't of all people.
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  Speaker 6: What if it's as simple as he wasn't ready yet.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's what I think could have happened, vic, I
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  Speaker 3: really do. Somebody said earlier in the appetizer of the Oh,
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  Speaker 3: the timeline is just very very convenient. Well, sometimes timelines
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  Speaker 3: are convenient and there's nothing more to it. But how
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  Speaker 3: about this. Maybe Landskag was healthy enough to play against
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  Speaker 3: San Jose that last game before the break, And if
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  Speaker 3: you're in charge of you're Bednar or your Sackic or
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  Speaker 3: you're whoever McFarlane, maybe do this. Hey, Gabe, you're probably
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  Speaker 3: good enough to play. Don't worry about it. It's one
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  Speaker 3: game before the break, come back afterwards. Do you think
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: that's a possibility too, that the Avs just said, wait
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: it out, dude, take the three weeks, play first weed,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: and come back and play for us.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: I will never ever criticize the judgment of Gabriel Landeskog
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: after what he went through. Yeah, because he took it
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: to another level. He's one of only two athletes to
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: ever and listen to the word ever ever come back
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: from that type of injury. Lonzo Ball is the other.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Who ironically might be a nugget.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Only two men in the history of sports have come
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: back from that type of injury.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: He could have easily called it a day.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: He could have easily cashed in and just said, forget it,
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: I got a contract over to me.
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: He could have pulled to Chris Bryant.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm not trying to shoot strays at Chris
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Bryant here.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I'm not going to allege that
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Chris Bryant is faking an injury.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: Not at all that that's not my allegation.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: But I guess what I'm saying is he went and
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: worked overdrive to get back on the ice.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: Overdrive.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: I would have quit. Most of us would have quit
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: if we were gave Landis Scott. They said no, no, no,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: you need another surgery. You're like, you know what, I
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: had a good life, good run, hang it up, made
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: some millions of bucks. I'm done.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just don't. I respectfully disagree with our cohorts.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: I have no issue with him.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: But whatsoever, I'm not wrong here, am I. That's the
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: only sort of That's the only argument you can make
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: if you're upset about this. You're you're alleging that he
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: didn't care about playing for the Avs and he cared
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: about playing for Sweden, that he was healthy enough to
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: play for the Aves, and he was like, yeah, I'm
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: not doing that, which is insane because it's Gabe Landiskog.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: By the way, did you hear how he said his name?
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Nelly was just showing me this, Yeah.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: We for that's I was gonna correct you as soon
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: as you went to his name. It is Lando land School.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: So if if you're not gonna say it right, don't
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: say it at all.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: Gabrielamd the School.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: If we're listen, we pride ourselves on accuracy, and Moser
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: better get this memo.
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: We absolutely do not Gabriel lam the School.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: This show is always about being right, even when it
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: comes to name pronunciations. So if we're gonna go forward
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: with this, especially Moser calling the games, we better call
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: him by his right name.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest. Vic the greatest athlete I've watched
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: with my very own eyes in person. I still don't
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: know if it's Nicola or No or Nicola. I don't
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: know what it is.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: I don't know what it is. Either because at every
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: press conference it's pronounced three different ways. Yeah, he responds
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: to all three. By the way, sorry, I made a mistake.
• 20:12
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• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Repeat after me, Gabriel Landishcoog.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: You didn't say Gabriel.
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: Gabriel Gobel school?
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Is that just inflect that way too, Gbriel.
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: School, Garbriel on the school.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Okay, wait, that's even different. Gabriel land school.
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: Point is garb Alamdeskog.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: See I feel like, no, no, you call him then
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Landeskog again.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: I'm doing it. I'm doing it and I'm gonna I
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: feel like a hicic Now. Oh do you see that
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: gold there from Gabriel Landskog? Like that's how it sounds
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: now that he said it, that way. By the way,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Alan Roach did PA stuff for that game. Do you
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: hear it? Do you hear him call the goal? He
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: did Lender Scorg like you did it in the that accent,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: but he's never done it at ball Arena.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Bring it back, dude.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: It is Alan Roach everywhere all the time. That dude
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: the voice of sports. I mean he's the voice of everything.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: He really is. Man super He went from the Super
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Bowl to the Olympics.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: And correct me if I'm wrong. Is he the PA?
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: He's the PA voice in Madden, isn't he.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: I don't do cartoons. I don't know.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Well, VIC, Madden's a pretty big deal.
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: You know that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: It's a huge video game. I mean everybody he plays it.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know the answer though, I don't have the answer,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: but I think he is, like that's hell's going on here.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: But anyway, Yeah, I have zero, zero, zero none Nata
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: issues with Gabriel Lenskog playing for his home country and
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: missing five weeks for the Avs, because sometimes that's how
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: long injuries take, and that's what happens. And I really
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: do believe Gabe was probably healthy enough to go for
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: the last game or two before the break and the
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Avs just said, there's no point wait until afterwards, go
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: play for Sweden. Take another three weeks and we'll be
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: fine for the stretch run.
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: By the way, Brett, So you know how we were
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: talking earlier. All these players have to pronounce their names
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: for the Olympic. Yeah, pronunciation guide, Nino Niter writer is
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: over there representing sws Switzerland, I believe. Okay, here's how
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: he put his name into the pronunciation.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Guy, you know need a writer, Nino need a writer,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: and you don't need a writer. You don't need a writer.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: You don't need a writer, and you don't need a writer,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: and you don't need a writer, and do you don't
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: need a writer?
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: And you know, wait, that was him just doing that
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: over and over again.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: You didn't loop it right, No, that is exactly ripped
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: from the Olympic official Olympics pronunciation.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Guy, you don't need a writer, and you don't need
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: a writer, and you don't need a writer, and you
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: don't need a writer, and you know, and you need
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: a writer and you know need a writer and you
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: don't need a writer.
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: Do you don't need a writer? And you know.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: And he's where what country did you say?
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: I think I think it was a flag bearer for Switzerland, right,
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: I think he's yes, he held a flag for the Swiss.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Okay, let's go ahead and pronounce our Olympic names, right,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: your Olympic name, now it's different from your stage name,
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: your American name, Nellie.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: What's your Olympic name?
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: How do you pronounce Steven Dudson?
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, I want to hear yours first, Vic the body
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: all right, my turn. Yeah, Dick Hammer.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Wait, that's an Olympic guy, isn't it. No, No, Dick
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Camer was the Marboro Man, wasn't he. Dick Camer is
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: the great grandfather or grandfather of Sam Donald. Sam Donald?
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I was. I was saying, Dick Pound, doesn't
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: he do on IOC baby, Yeah he does. He's on
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: the committee, right, Yeah, Dick Camer God, that is funny.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Nino Nina Ryder, I couldn't do. That's a tongue twister.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: The fact that he did that. I know it's his name,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: but still to say that that many times, that question.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: I think he's used to it by now.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: I think he's got it down.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: That's a lot of ends in there, dude, It's a
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: lot of ends.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Dude by speaking of that hockey game, My poor Italian team,
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: that goldie just got bro I mean, I don't know
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: how many pucks he faced, I mean just ten pounds
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: of meat.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: You guys were being You're Italian boys were being outshot.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: It felt like nine hundred to two and it was
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: three to two in that game. And what is going
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: on here?
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: I know, now that's a game where you can get goldied.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: We always give Moser flak for that. But that Sweden
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: was getting goalied for a while.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: But the Italian goalie, I think I heard.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: This was him.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Every time a puck was shot at him, he turned
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: into an Arkansas deal. No, he turned into an Arkansas native.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: He went ah aw aw. I mean they were peppering him.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: So eight point forty today is Canada. So McKinnon and
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: mccarr and Taves will watch them with the hell they plan.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Canada is playing against oh check ya uh, and then
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: the US in Latvia at one ten, also Denmark in
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Germany at one ten as well. So the Landiskok thing
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: whatever doesn't bother me at all. I've heard people talk
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: about this. I don't think this is remotely close. People
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: asking if you're going to be conflicted in rooting for
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: either the team Canada or the US in these Olympics
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: for hockey, because some people very much were conflicted when
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: basketball came around. Now much different story, Like why is that?
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I think a lot of the US basketball players are unlikable?
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Number one, you're gonna hear You're gonna hear one of
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: them here shortly. Yeah, Like I don't. It's as simple
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: as that, isn't it. Like you might not like some
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: guys on the US team, but overall you're gonna root
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: for your country. It's different because you have basketball is
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: so hyper individualistic that it's if you hate Lebron and
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: have always hated Lebron, or you hate k D or
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: you hate Joel Embiid, or you hate and all those
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: guys are on the same team, it's hard to get
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: yourself to root for them, especially when there's a guy
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: that you love in Yoki who plays for Serbia, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: a lot of.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Those guys stood between you and your team's goals, you know,
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: and it's hard to separate those two.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I just I don't think it's like that with hockey,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: and I think it's mostly because vic how many individuals
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: in hockey do you hate. There's a few, but it's
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: not like the NBA.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: Okay, But what about the other way around? How about
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: the individuals you appreciate and like and respect. I love
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: Gabriel and School.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: I love them. I love him as a human being.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: He's done some things I can tell you that we'll
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: never talk about on the radio that I know personally
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: that are amazing. I think he's a great human and
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: I root for great humans. He's an outstanding human being,
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: and I want him to win. I didn't have any
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: problem him beating my parents' home country.
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: Put it that way.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: I had no problem with that.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: I like Nate McKinnon.
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: I do.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: But for some reason, if Nate McKinnon is bearing down
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: on a US goalie in a gold medal match, I
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: want the US goalie to win that why Yeah, you
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: know what I feel You know what I feel like.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: I feel like I'm cheating on him.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Two people have texted in that they hate the Kachucks.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I actually, in the Four Nations, grew to like the
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Kachucks because of that.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: The Kachucks gave the US team life. Would they be
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: without them?
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I tot and and forget hockey. This is certainly the
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: most hated guy in hockey for me, but one of
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: my most hated guys in all of sports is the
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: goaltender for Canada.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I'm not doing that.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: There is no rooting for Jordan Bennington. That's gonna happen,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: not in my household, not while I'm still alive. Baby,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Jamal Kale might like the color red, not in that game, No, sir, conflict.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: So what do you do now?
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: If the conflict is this? What if it's like Sweden
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: and Canada for all the marbles and you got lend
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: Skrug and car.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Now, now where do you go?
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: I don't even know if I'd really have a rooting
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: interest in the game. Well, I I might pull for
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Sweden just because they're more of the little engine that Yeah.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: But what about all our Canadian friends? I mean, everybody listen.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: Jared Bednar is on this show weekly. He's our Canadian friend.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: What about all friends from up north? Are you abandoned
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: in that relationship their friendship? It sounds like you are.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, I mean it was rooting hard for Sweden against
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: your home country.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but we know you hate Italians. We've established that
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: on the show many many years ago. It's not a surprise.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: I'm one of those Americans. I kind of hate anybody
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: who's not me.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: So you're racist against Italians Canadians.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: I just like putting on this show that I'm just
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: like the guy with truck nuts on the back of
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: his car whenever, whenever the US is involved in his sport.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: That's a that's a legit question. I mean, you're playing Finland, right,
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: you got Lucky Kivaranta. What side of the defense so
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: you want? If they're taking on Sweden and Lendriskug.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what, Vic, we might not have to
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: worry about Finland too much. Is there miserable? Yesterday? Maslovakia
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: wore them out. I was Look, I don't pretend to
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: know like the full rosters of Slovakia in Finland, but
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: I do understand that Sebastian Najo is a pretty good player,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: and so is Miko, and so is Lucky, and so
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: is tv Ronta and Capolcaco and Hayskinen and a whole
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: bunch of different guys like that. I don't know how
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Slovakia won that game. Okay, so we're we are all
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: under we all have the same thought on Lenderschoog. We
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: have no problem with him coming back his first game
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: to play for his home country in the Olympics.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: But I at no point did I even take issue
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: with that.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: I didn't even just to tell you how far a
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: part we are in the opinion, I never even thought
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: of it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Me neither.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: It wasn't even a concept.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: When when I learned that Gay was playing. You know what,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: my reaction was great, Cool, that's mine too. I was like,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: good to see that he's back. Never once did I
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: dare think, oh, he's cheating on us. Yeah, me and
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: either again, like to say he's up to something nefarious,
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: like I didn't want to play for the ass the
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: last few games but got Sweden.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: It's just questioning his loyalty, Yeah, questioning his loyalties what
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: that is.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: But like the most loyal guy that this team's had.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: I never questioned the Again, just it's an easy argument,
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: and argument's over. I will never question the loyalty of
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: a man who never gave up on coming back. Yeah,
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: who spent three years of his life trying to come
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: back from a devastating injury. You don't come back from.
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Reminder, A keyword for this hour is tundra. It's a
• 31:50
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• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Minnesota on March first. So texts Tundra in your first
• 31:56
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• 31:59
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• 32:00
  Speaker 5: Of people on the text line who are anti Team Canada,
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: and it's it's so interesting again how this breaks down
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: because so many of those Canadians are Avalanche players, and
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: these people are like, oh my god, the second coming
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: to the Detroit Red Wings here. I have to admit,
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: if the US plays Canada, I don't want to see
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: sid the kid's face.
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: I don't.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: It's weird things. Things get weird things.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: I think it's easier to root even though you have
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: a lot of representation on Team Canada from the Avs,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: it's easier to root against them because they're like, they're
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: the favorites. I mean, they're the ones that are expected
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: to win. We all like an underdog story, especially when
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: the US is an underdog.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: Okay, when we come back and I have no idea
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: what you have planned for the next segment to apologize
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: if I step all over your toes. I want to
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: talk about loyally. We talk loyalty in the Olympic. Who
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: you're rooting for in the Olympics. We have a new
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: form of that coming up this weekend in the NBA
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: All Star Game, when we have the World team against
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: the US team yep, or teams, I should say, and
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: I have no idea what it's going to look like
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: or feel like yet, but I have an idea what
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: some of the players think of this new format.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: I also to add on top of that, did you
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: see Nick Wright's idea for the All Star Game?
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: It's funny. I didn't tweet about it because I said,
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: am I ready to go there with this? But when
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: I read this when I saw his tweet, and you
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: know our history with Nick, right, yeah, you know our
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: history with Nick. We've had him on the show before
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: and I disagree with almost everything he says, and it's fine,
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: but he's really good at what he does.
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: I was nodding my head, saying.
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: You do it.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: It would be the most intense All Star game that's
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: ever been played.
• 33:56
  Speaker 11: Do it.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: So we'll get to that in just a second three
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: five O four O nine to two five back after this.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: So let's start with what you were talking about first, Vic,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: and I can play you a piece of audio. This
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: is Kevin Durant talking about his team is full of
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: old heads, and are the old heads going to try
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: when they do this US versus the World format in
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: the All Star Game? You're on the old Heads team.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Do you think the old heads will compete and try
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: to win the whole tournament?
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: Here?
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: You should ask the Europeans if the world team, if
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: they're gonna compete.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, because we.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Look at Luka, Doncis and nicolea Jokis. Now let's go
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: back and look at what they do at the All
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Star Game? Is that competition? So we haven't questioned what
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: they've been doing, but we're gonna question old heads in
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: the Americans. But these two dudes out there, Luca and Yokis,
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: they don't care about the game.
• 34:49
  Speaker 9: Man.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, these dudes be laying on the floor. They shoot
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: from half court. But you got worried about the old
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: heads playing hard. I can read between the lines, Bro,
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: And it's not just about you. It's just a overall
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: topic that everybody's just been talking about. You just happen
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: to ask me that question.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: He's always so sensitive.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Well, he's honest, though, I mean, what do you want
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: since I give him full credit for being honest? You
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: don't want to hear it, but deep down you don't
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: think they're thinking this other players, Hey, why are you
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: picking on us? I see these European guys, they're not
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: playing hard either.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Well, I think it was just given that nobody tried
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: in the game, and he's saying, are you guys going
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: to try in this one?
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: Here's here's my retort, because he's been you'll Kitchen Luka
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: probably looking at him as like that old fifty cent me.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: He's like, what did you say bleep me for? He's
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: not wrong, No, everybody didn't try, But I the context
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: of the question wasn't like only you guys aren't trying?
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Are you gonna try this year? It was just like,
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: are you guys as a whole going to be competing anyway?
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: But my point is this, I do believe the entire
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: climate of an All Star game has gotten out of hand,
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: and it's been that way for years. Nobody tries.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you gotta go back to the root source of this.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: So I've been with Joker at every All Star game
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: he's been to. I've walked around. I've seen how he's
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: only he's reacting to what the environment already is. Yeah,
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: like if he were thrust into a competitive game, hotly competitive,
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: with hustle and intensity, he would react that way. But
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: he was put into a game in which nobody passed
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: him the ball.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: It's also the worst guy is the one that can't
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: read the room on what the vibe is, and it's like, what,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: no matter what you're doing. Like Vic played darts last
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: week with some guys. We're just chucking darts, having a
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: couple of drinks. If somebody just rips a triple twenty,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: he turns me and goes, yeah, mother, playper It's that's
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: a wrong intensity for what we're doing over here.
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: Man.
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: You know, you know you don't play pickup basketball, but
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: for those to.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: Do you ever play?
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: I get it.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: I totally never played pickup with that guy you're out
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: there and he's suddenly guarding you full court, like, uh,
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: what are we doing here? Or that guy who every
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: time he shoots bucket splash he comments.
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: Before every shot, yeah, play by play. Okay, calm down.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: You know that guy, right, the guy who's bringing one
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: hundred percent when you're going sixty is so he sensity.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: Level then changes, it changes, the entire mood changes. But
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: that's not what the intent for that run is and
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: and the All Star Game, Luca Joker, a lot of
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: these guys walked into this. This is what you gave them,
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: kt Katie, your era. It's Kd's era, the lebron KD era.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: Your era made the All Star Game. What it is
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: trash your era did that.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: So they want to do this to try and spike intensity.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: It might a little bit like I know that this
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: is a reaction and this is why they did it.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: It's a reaction to how successful the four Nations thing
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: was in the NHL. But Vick, it's different, and I
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: still think it's different. Playing for Team Serbia and playing
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: for the world is not the same thing. It's playing
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: for your country and playing for everybody outside the US
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: does not bring the same level of respect.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: I said. I totally agree. Listen. I think there might
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: be a little more intensity. I think there might be
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: a little more competitive fire this Sunday a little, but
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: not to the extent where they think these players are
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: going to treat this like gotta win this one.
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: It's not going to get to that level.
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: It just is.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: And I think the prime reason is what's at stake. Nothing,
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: It's an exhibition.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you something. This will answer the entire
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: question of how intense this game is going to be.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Do you think we will see somebody heave up a
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: half court shot with twenty seconds left on the shot clock.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: I'm asking you, do you think somebody will heave up
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: a half court shot with twenty seconds left on the
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: shot clock. Of course, then it's not a game. Then
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: it's not a competitive game.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: So the guys that the guys that Durant should be
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: directing his anger toward are Steph Curry and Damian Lillard.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: They've turned it into a half court heav athon.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, step across the half court shoot because you know
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: when that didn't happen the Olympics, nobody was taking half
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: court shots with eighteen seconds left on the shot clock.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: They were running an offense. They were trying to get
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: a good shot. And I just I it might be
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: a little bit more intense, but not a lot. So
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: here's Nick Wright's idea. By the way, if you guys
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: missed it, nick Wright said you should have team whites
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: in team blacks. That's what he said. That was his
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: idea for the game was Jokic and Luca and you
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: take all the best white players in the league and
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: you put them against all the best black players in
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: the league. And I gotta say, vic, I don't think
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: that would ever happen. I think it could set race
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: relations back fifty years by the end of that game.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: But it would be intense. I think it would be intense.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: I think they try. I heard I was driving in
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: LeVar Arrington's on the show before the six o'clock hour
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: starts with me. He said, it might be fun in
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: games for a bit, but we ain't losing that game.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: That's what he said. Like, I think that would if
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: you wanted competitive, that would do it. I don't think
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: there's any way you could feasibly do that. Okay, we're
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: gonna have to have a judge of jury come in
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: to figure this game out. I remember the days when
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: you couldn't even bring something like this out because people
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: would be so sensitive to it. Right, Yeah, I'm glad
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: we're beyond those days. Are we beyond those days.
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: Too?
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, you can't say that it wouldn't be interesting
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: to watch.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: I And I'll ask you this, and I'll ask our listeners,
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: I'll ask everybody. I don't care what color creed religion, sex.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: I don't care what you're from.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Would you watch that? I, dude, I would make it
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: appointment viewing. I would cancel plans to make sure I
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: watched that.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: VIC.
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: I would be there and I'd be eating the blandest
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: food possible. I'd be eating boiled chicken with salt and
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: white rice along with it. No pepper, though that's too spicy.
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: It's Is the world ready for that?
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: I don't know. No, I don't think so.
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: VIC.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Here's the reason why. I don't think there'd be anything
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: wrong with the game, But now that people have rooting interests,
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: the trash talk is where you're gonna skirt a very
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: fine line, fine line between you and whoever your opponent is,
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: whatever side of this year odd and No, I don't
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: think we're ready for that at all.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you do to make the All
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Star Game intense. I don't know what we're going to
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: see on Sunday. I can't wait to watch. I did
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: hear a joker last night react to this? Somebody asked him,
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: are you and Jamal going to play hard? Here's what
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: he had to say.
• 42:18
  Speaker 11: I mean, it's definitely experienced, but I'm not sure that
• 42:21
  Speaker 11: he's going to enjoy it. I always say say, it's
• 42:23
  Speaker 11: a pleasure to share the court with all those players
• 42:25
  Speaker 11: you know, and the best players in the league right now,
• 42:29
  Speaker 11: So it's definitely a pleasure to be there. Is there
• 42:32
  Speaker 11: any chance to see the two man game at the
• 42:34
  Speaker 11: All Star end?
• 42:36
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: Who knows.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: Probably, So that was a question on if he's going
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: to enjoy the All Star Game. He is, I don't
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: know if he's going to enjoy it. He followed up
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: with this, Nicole, Why well, Jamal like the All Star Game?
• 42:48
  Speaker 10: What do you think is going to surprise him? He
• 42:51
  Speaker 10: said he's gonna He said he was going to play
• 42:52
  Speaker 10: hard and.
• 42:54
  Speaker 11: Then he should, Yes, he should. Then that he's going
• 42:58
  Speaker 11: to have a lot of fun. Actually, so I'm not
• 43:01
  Speaker 11: sure about me. Do you claim to play hard always?
• 43:06
  Speaker 11: I always play hard?
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: Do you think it was just joking there?
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: Again, I'm gonna preface this by saying he was introduced
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: to this game with a certain pace, certain demeanor. Hey,
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: this is just to joke around. We all joke around here,
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: so don't worry about it. This is how we do it.
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: When did that start, Where did that start?
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: And who is in charge of changing that. The only
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: people that can change that. And here's a memo to
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: the league, because I know Adam Silvers tried everything. The
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: only people that can change the competitive fervor of a
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: game like this are the players who play in it. Yeah,
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: that's it.
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: When we talked forever like how do you change the
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: All Star or the Dunk Contest? I don't think you
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: need to change the Dunk contest. You just need people
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: who are stars participating in it. And if you have
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: an All Star game on which guys actually play like
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: VIC the Four Nations was a blast because yes there
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: was a country aspect tied to it, but if they
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: went out and lollygagged it, it would have been nothing.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: It was good because it was intense.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: I'm just thinking about all the possibilities. Dick right brings
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: up white versus Black. What if you just took a
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: step further over thirty under thirty, I mean, you just
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: kept going, you just kept finding ways to make this
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: a competitive.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: That would be interesting too. Actually, I'm trying to figure
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: out what the white's uniform would look like.
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: What do you mean, well, I.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: Mean they're gonna have a jersey, tight shorts. You know
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: what I want. You remember when people took the Cleveland
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Indians old logo and they made it a white guy.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: What if they put that on there?
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: What if they did that? What would your team be
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: teams if you went that rap?
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: I actually saw swipe a put together a list you
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: see if I can pull that up real quick, because
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: I thought it was a pretty good one. So let's see.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Hang on, hold, please, here's what he'd have you.
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: First of all, for everybody that we're talking, Reret Kane
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: is an expert on this topic.
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: He played a pickup.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Game once where I was the only white guy on
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: the floor.
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: He was the only white guy in.
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: The court, and he was afraid to shoot the ball.
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: So what'd they say to you.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: It's towards the end of the game. And it's not
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: just that I'm the only white on the floor. I
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: think seven other guys they played college basketball at some point,
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: So you had no listen in all honest, no reason
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: to be on that floor. I was minding my business.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: They said, dude, we need one more for five on
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: five and I I don't want to play, and they
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: said please, and I go, okay, fine, And at the
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: end of the game, I have taken no shots. The
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: guy guarding me is bored, and that was my entire purpose.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: I'll just be bored. And he said to my team,
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: can you let the white boy get a taste? And
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: I said, I don't want to taste. No taste, audibly
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: make that known. I don't want to say no tastes,
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: no tastes. They laughed at me. I was like, I'm serious,
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: don't pass me the ball. If you do it, I'm
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: gonna Jackie Moon it. It's going right back to you.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: So here was here was Swiper's lineup. This is so funny.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: Here's what it says. The whites starters Luca Caruso, flag, Chet, Jokic, Bench, Reeves, Franz, Markening,
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Khan Zubats, Hero, Giddy, Boozelles, Hartenstein, Shannguon.
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: Okay, you have a lot of Europeans there, obviously, so
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: you got the European contingent.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: Taken care of. Again, I'm just reading from Swipe, all right.
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: The all blacks starters s g a ant Lebron, Giannis, Wemby, Bench, Curry, Hold, no, no, no, no,
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: stop on, there's gonna be a battle here. There's gonna
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: be a battle here.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: Put that one aside. Will we'll debate this one.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: That's where the draft comes in.
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: Yes, we'll debate that one.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Mitchell, Kawhi, Durant, Embiid, Tatum, Brunson, Brown, Barnes. I know
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: that's where there's gotta be some coin flipping going on
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: with a couple of these names. I agree with you
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: AnyWho that that was his list of teams, and I
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: gotta be honest, I think we get smoked.
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: Well, it depends on you got some players there that
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: I don't think you leave it up to them to
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: decide which side to go on. You can't have it.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: Turns into embid talking about you can play for Cameroon,
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: France or the US. Hmm, let me scratch my noodle
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: for a second. I think the US is where I
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: want to play anyway. Uh, there's an old Chappelle skit
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: that talked about this exact thing. By the way, three
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: zero three five oh four O nine two five shot
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: maz de text line.
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: The name of the Italian goalie was what.
• 48:20
  Speaker 6: Some guy like sterling.
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, hang on, hang on, I'm looking at his name,
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: going all right, come on, what are we doing here?
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: Hang on? We're just making up people to play for
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: Team Italy and Hockey.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: The Italian goalie.
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: Didn't.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: No.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, the starter was Damien Clara.
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: Now there was another one in there. I saw his name.
• 48:41
  Speaker 8: I was like, come on, Gorbi Alamda school.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: David Vadani. I mean, that's pretty Italian. Are you sure
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: it was the goalie.
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: Maybe it wasn't the goalie.
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: No, no, no.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: The guy who scored a goal for them was Matthew Bradley.
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: Okay, yeah that's what it was.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: I was like, come on, Matthew. Yeah, anyway, three oh
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: three five o four oh nine two five Jeff labeled
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: at nine o'clock this morning in Stagram