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Who Will Be Next Season’s “New” Playoff Team? · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Who are the teams that missed the postseason last year
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  Speaker 1: that have the highest chance of making it next season,
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  Speaker 1: Because even if you feel really comfortable and confident about
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  Speaker 1: the sixteen teams that made it last season, we never
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  Speaker 1: see a repeat. Just last season, we saw four new
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  Speaker 1: playoff teams and new playoff teams, just teams that missed
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  Speaker 1: the previous season in the back on track. So for example,
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  Speaker 1: the Grizzlies missed it the year before and made it
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  Speaker 1: this season. Same thing with the Warriors, and then we
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  Speaker 1: had the new Houston Rockets Corps and then the Detroit
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  Speaker 1: Pistons Corps. It's four new playoff teams. Yeah, before that,
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  Speaker 1: we had five new teams. Year before that, we had
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  Speaker 1: five new teams. Yeah before that, we had five new teams.
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  Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying, ain't done yet. Before that
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  Speaker 1: we had six new teams. There's only sixteen spots because
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about playing, I'm talking about being
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  Speaker 1: in a seven game series.
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  Speaker 2: And yet before that move we got to the bubble,
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  Speaker 2: there's only three.
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  Speaker 1: But we see this time and time again, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be new teams to jump onto the scene. And personally,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be trying to predict those teams.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, I fumbled it completely.
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  Speaker 1: I did not see the Detroit Pistons having the season
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  Speaker 1: that they did, but they did it.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So in order to talk about the potential what four
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  Speaker 1: to five teams are gonna surprise us, we got to
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  Speaker 1: look at who didn't make it in the Eastern Conference.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like the safest place to be when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to new playoff teams, right, we already made a
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  Speaker 1: video about like the Indiana Pacers in the Boston Celtics
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  Speaker 1: who knock on wood are like one more injury away
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  Speaker 1: from completely missing the postseason. But both of those teams,
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  Speaker 1: even with the Notatum and no halliburt and have the talent,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the Eastern Conference, to still be a playoff team.
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  Speaker 2: They just not contenders anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But we can't predict injuries, we can't control injuries, and objectively,
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  Speaker 1: injuries are going to matter when it comes to new
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  Speaker 1: teams jumping on to the scene. So those are maybe
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  Speaker 1: the candidates you could potentially see falling out of things.
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  Speaker 1: One team I feel like most people are really comfortable
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  Speaker 1: and confident will be like, oh, one hundred percent, that
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  Speaker 1: team is the playoff team next season is the Atlanta Hawks.
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  Speaker 1: The Atlanta Hawks, of course, had a really great offseason
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  Speaker 1: all things considered, bringing in Christasporzingiz, bringing.
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  Speaker 2: In Lukunar and the Keyalys and the Walker.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully having a healthy Jalen Johnson season, it is
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  Speaker 1: very easy to predict that that team is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a postseason team next season. So that would be
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  Speaker 1: the one. I'm like, right now it's August. We don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen once the season starts, but that team,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like super super comfortable and confident with saying they
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  Speaker 1: will be a playoff team next year.
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  Speaker 2: Then after that we got the Bulls. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: the Bulls.
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  Speaker 1: Could be a playing team next season, which is usually
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  Speaker 1: their goal, but I don't see them winning to playing
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  Speaker 1: games to get there. It would have to take like
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  Speaker 1: a really big jump for one of the young guys,
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  Speaker 1: and I just I really don't see that for them
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  Speaker 1: to be a playoff team. We got the Toronto Raptors,
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  Speaker 1: who are one of the I've said it before, most
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  Speaker 1: confusing teams. Because obviously on paper, they have a extreme
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  Speaker 1: amount of talent, right, they have Scottie Barnes, who's a
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  Speaker 1: former All Star. Brandon Ingram is a former All Star
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  Speaker 1: man you quickly wasn't healthy last season. RJ Barrett at
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  Speaker 1: least in the first half of the season was showing
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  Speaker 1: us and play making things. And then Yaka Pertle is
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  Speaker 1: a super solid center. And then their bench mob has
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of young guys. Yeah, but like I like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those year guys. OJ Biz is a
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  Speaker 1: real NBA player, you know. Even with saying that, I
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  Speaker 1: just struggle to figure out if their pieces will fit right.
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  Speaker 1: The three point shot, as you know, is extremely important
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  Speaker 1: in the game of basketball in twenty twenty five, and
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  Speaker 1: they just don't have a ton of that now. If
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  Speaker 1: you're going to play Devil's advocate, you can say, hey man,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Ingram just last season, even though of course he
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  Speaker 1: didn't play a ton of games, he averaged the most
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  Speaker 1: catch and shoot three pointers of his career and he
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  Speaker 1: shot forty percent of those. That's great, but that's not
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  Speaker 1: really his game, you know what I mean? Like he
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  Speaker 1: is a guy that you want handling the ball and
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  Speaker 1: creative for himself because he's a dog at that. But
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  Speaker 1: also Scotty Bares is a twenty nine percent three point shooter.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just I think that they need to be really,
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  Speaker 1: really creative offensively. Like I feel like defensively they should
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  Speaker 1: be decent to good, but they have to be really
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  Speaker 1: creative offensively given the talent that they have on their team.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't I can't say confidently that they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be a playoff team, but I could see it happening.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the Brooklyn Nets are out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see that happening at all.
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  Speaker 1: The seventy six ers obviously in the amazing candidate here,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a semi healthy season from Joel Embiid wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be enough to just make the post season, right, semi
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  Speaker 1: healthy ain't even talking about sixty five games.
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  Speaker 2: Paul George will be back.
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  Speaker 1: In theory, and we don't know if he's a sixteen
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  Speaker 1: game a point per game score or twenty was last
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  Speaker 1: year fluke, who knows. But even if it was not
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  Speaker 1: a fluke, he's still okay to decent NBA player, right,
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  Speaker 1: And then you got Maxi and so on, so I
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  Speaker 1: could see them being of course that team to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and they have no incentive to tear it all down
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  Speaker 1: like they did last season right where they phoned it
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  Speaker 1: in order to retain their own first round pick. From
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  Speaker 1: my understanding, they don't hold the rights to anything in
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  Speaker 1: their twenty twenty six draft, so it's not like last
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  Speaker 1: year it was like bench everybody. Let I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know who's super for them last season, less so and
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  Speaker 1: so hoop, so we can get our pick. They got
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  Speaker 1: their pick, that's VJ. But next year, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they have any ties to their our first round pick,
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  Speaker 1: so going out there, wins should be their priority. The
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets, I don't think it's their just shet even
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  Speaker 1: if I like the small moves they had and it
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  Speaker 1: looks like a cohesive NBA team outside of them having
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  Speaker 1: like I really like Musa Diabate, but I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if he's a starting center just yet. So the center
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  Speaker 1: corps is pretty like les In. The Wizards are just
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  Speaker 1: too far away as well. So in the Eastern Conference,
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  Speaker 1: the real candidates will be Atlanta, the seventy six ers,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe the Toronto Raptors. Now you're asking the Kenny, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: those will be the teams potentially jump in, but who's
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  Speaker 1: falling out. I'm not playing that game, damn it, because
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  Speaker 1: part of that is wishing an injury, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: doing it. I'm not doing it. Let's look at the
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  Speaker 1: Western Conference. Things are really tough here, man, And I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at last season. We had three new Western Conference
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  Speaker 1: postseason teams. Of course, that was the Rockets, that was
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  Speaker 1: the Warriors, and the Grizzies. Both of those teams were
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  Speaker 1: back in the playoffs for the first time in the year.
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  Speaker 1: So but it's really hard to make the postseason the
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  Speaker 1: Western Conference. Man, if there's anybody from this playing team,
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  Speaker 1: you could maybe convince yourself that the Dallas Mavericks will
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  Speaker 1: be a really good team next season. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I'm there to say really good, but a playoff
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  Speaker 1: birth wouldn't surprise me whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: I do believe the next.
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  Speaker 1: Season they're going to be at the bare mental and
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  Speaker 1: be a really good defensive team. The offense, I'm really
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  Speaker 1: struggling willing to figure out exactly what the identity is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be. They don't really have a a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys that put pressure on the rim. They don't really
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of facilitators or just guys that are
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  Speaker 1: opened the game up for Anthony Davis or so on.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of this also boils down to how good
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Flagg will be in this rookie season. I just don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know just yet. I'm a believer, but again,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA is a different monster. If he came out
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  Speaker 1: and struggled, I'm not gonna be panic or anything, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of what being a rookie is,
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  Speaker 1: especially if we're considering that Carrie Irvin may not be
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  Speaker 1: able to play at all next season, so could be
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  Speaker 1: a playoff team for sure, But there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different variables right the.
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  Speaker 2: Suns, I just don't see it.
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  Speaker 1: I just it's not really a well constructed roster for
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  Speaker 1: the season. The Trailblazers were hot at the end of
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  Speaker 1: last season, like the last month or so.
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  Speaker 2: Defense was real good.
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  Speaker 1: Denny had turned into, you know, a guy that was
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  Speaker 1: putting up all star level numbers for the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of months of the season.
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  Speaker 2: They made a few trades.
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  Speaker 1: They brought Intrew Holiday to be a veteran and to
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  Speaker 1: be a defensive monster, even if his offense is wavered.
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  Speaker 2: Over the last season.
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  Speaker 1: So if the Trailblazer were in a postseason series a
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  Speaker 1: seven seed or an eight seed next season, I would
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  Speaker 1: it be that surprised, you know, like they got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things on that roster that I really do like.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of variables, just like all of these teams.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you miss it last season, there's obviously
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  Speaker 1: gonna be variables for your next season. But like, what
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  Speaker 1: was school Henderson Toning two? Will shake and sharp be healthy?
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  Speaker 1: And how much is his game evolved? Is Donovan klan
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  Speaker 1: and gonna be ready to play twenty five to thirty
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  Speaker 1: minutes a game?
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  Speaker 2: Like, there's just a ton of.
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  Speaker 1: Variables, But I do like what they got. The San
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs were probably the pick that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people have for the Western Conference victor of Byamader and Fox.
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  Speaker 1: When you played a handful of games together the last season,
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  Speaker 1: think it was like five or six games, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't even look at the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see if I can look at the numbers,
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  Speaker 1: even though again such a small sample size, I'm curious
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  Speaker 1: if it was really if it was really good, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna use it as like, oh, yeah, they were great together,
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  Speaker 1: But if it was really bad. I'm gonna say small
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  Speaker 1: sample size, so let's figure it out, and a negative
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  Speaker 1: net rating. It was a negative one point five one
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  Speaker 1: point nine to five, so small sample sazz only one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty minutes. I mean, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: But objectively, they're a better team this season.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that happened a ton with the San Antonio
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  Speaker 1: Spurs is that soon as Victor Biaba went to the bench,
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  Speaker 1: all hell broke loose and they didn't know how to
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  Speaker 1: maintain the defense or maintain any flow offensively. Now they
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  Speaker 1: added a few bench pieces for a backup for Victor
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  Speaker 1: Byam He's like, okay, obviously he ain't win Bey, but
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  Speaker 1: Luke Cordnett is a real ballplayer. Maybe the idea of
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  Speaker 1: Kellyolinic is better than the real Kllyolinic, but that's a
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  Speaker 1: real ballplayer.
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  Speaker 2: Like those are.
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  Speaker 1: Guys that you can rely on to give you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ten to fifteen minutes per game. That's a win, because
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  Speaker 1: last year they didn't really have a lot of that.
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  Speaker 1: But it still is a young team, right, They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be relying heavily on Rookie of the Year Stefan Castle.
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  Speaker 1: What does his game look like at year number two.
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  Speaker 1: What does Ron Harper look like in his first season
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  Speaker 1: as an NBA player. We don't know, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot on their plate. But when you have a guy
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  Speaker 1: that could be like we can look into next season,
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  Speaker 1: like that guy is a top ten player on opening
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  Speaker 1: night and he's done not to but get better throughout
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  Speaker 1: the year and a half two years of his career.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe by the end of next season he's wildly considered
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  Speaker 1: top five. Like that's enough for me to be on
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  Speaker 1: the bandwagon and say that they could be a postseason
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  Speaker 1: team next season. Even if you know there are some
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  Speaker 1: players on the team, I question how they fit alongside them.
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  Speaker 1: The Pelicans would really surprise me. I really love watching
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  Speaker 1: Zion play. He's one of my favorite view views in
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  Speaker 1: all the basketball. Herb Jones one of my guys as well.
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  Speaker 1: But it's I just don't look at that roster and
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  Speaker 1: think playoffs. Man, not in the Western Conference. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it will be amazing if they did, but it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to get there, and the Jazz are jazz
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  Speaker 1: in the round. They not ready at all. I think
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  Speaker 1: the three teams out West with the highest odds, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry Kings. I looked over you at this point
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  Speaker 1: in time. Man, I don't know what I've said it before,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know what the hell is going on
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  Speaker 1: in Sacramento. So it's hard to even talk about them
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  Speaker 1: as a roster as we don't even know the hell
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  Speaker 1: they gonna look like. If they will be making another trade,
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  Speaker 1: Will Russell Westbrook end up on the team, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really know. But the three teams we look at is
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  Speaker 1: maybe new playoff teams will be the Dallas Mavericks, the
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  Speaker 1: Portland Trailblaze, and the San Antonio Spur. This offseason definitely
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  Speaker 1: was different than like any other offseason in recent history,
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  Speaker 1: where there wasn't a ton of movement going on. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe that lack of movement prevents us from having five
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  Speaker 1: to six new players off teams. Maybe this year is
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  Speaker 1: the outlier when we only get one or two. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not completely sure, but I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: This is why we love sports. You never really know
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  Speaker 1: what's gonna go on.