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What’s Next For The OKC Thunder? · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: All right, y'all, we got to talk about the Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City Thunder, man. I was going to do this video
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  Speaker 1: originally right after we saw the dub injury, but I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to get the time. Because in my mind, I
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  Speaker 1: was just praying that there was some version of this
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  Speaker 1: injury that wasn't as bad as it looked. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: that was just me being naive. And I was just
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the official report to come out. And it
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  Speaker 1: did come out. And unfortunately, he's going to miss the
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  Speaker 1: entire season, according to Sean Serrania. It is so crazy
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  Speaker 1: how things can change in the blink of an eye,
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  Speaker 1: where you go into a game thinking that you are
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  Speaker 1: a championship level team, that you are a team that
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  Speaker 1: can go the distance and win another one. In a
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  Speaker 1: matter of an hour and a half, everything can change.
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  Speaker 1: Sam Presti, who has done a phenomenal job in his
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  Speaker 1: tenure as the Oklahoma City Thunder general manager slash basketball
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  Speaker 1: ops guy, has to now think differently. What do we
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  Speaker 1: had a good off season, all things considered. And hindsight
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  Speaker 1: would say, man, maybe they should have kept Dork. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: they should have kept Joe or Wiggins, whatever. I thought
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  Speaker 1: they had a good off season. And now they're without
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  Speaker 1: not just J-Dub, but Kacen Wallace too. I swear to you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching this game live because that's what I do.
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  Speaker 1: I watch games. And Kacen Wallace went down after fighting
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  Speaker 1: through a screen, if I'm not mistaken. And I promise you,
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  Speaker 1: I can prove the text to you. I hit the
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  Speaker 1: group chat and I said, my goodness, Cason Wallace just
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  Speaker 1: dislocated his shoulder. You can literally, as somebody that if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't know, they call me the shoulder whisperer because
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  Speaker 1: I done been under that knife a few different times
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to this shoulder stuff. So I just
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  Speaker 1: have an eye for it. I'm not a medical professional,
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  Speaker 1: but damn it, I've been through it three different times.
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  Speaker 1: So I know. And when I saw him go down,
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  Speaker 1: I saw that there was a dislocation there. Just like
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  Speaker 1: I visually saw it. But again, I'm not a medical professional,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a difference between the dislocation and the torn labrum.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you can dislocate your shoulder. You can pop it
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  Speaker 1: back in or it can be professionally put back in
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  Speaker 1: and you never have a problem with it in the
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  Speaker 1: history of your life. But then there's other times where
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  Speaker 1: your shoulder gets dislocated and you tear the labrum that
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  Speaker 1: is holding it into place. Again, it happened to me
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  Speaker 1: three times and I was praying that that wasn't what
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  Speaker 1: happened with Kaysen. And then again, We find out that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what happened. He tore the labrum in his left shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: So he's going to be out. But again, the Oklahoma City,
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  Speaker 1: they fight on. While Kaysen is an all-defensive player, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the end of the world that Kaysen is going
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  Speaker 1: to miss time. And then late into the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: you may have seen the clip if you were watching
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  Speaker 1: the game or been on social media. J-Dub goes up,
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  Speaker 1: lands awkwardly, and it's an injury that can only be
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  Speaker 1: explained with... I mean, I don't know how you can
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  Speaker 1: really explain it. It's just like, It is so fascinating,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't mean that in a positive way, just
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  Speaker 1: how the human body works and how somebody can land
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  Speaker 1: exactly the same way that Dub did and nothing happens,
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  Speaker 1: where they can pop right back up. But in this instance,
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  Speaker 1: Dub falls and he lands awkwardly and he dislocated his
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  Speaker 1: ankle and fractured his fibula. And you knew it was bad. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching in real time. You knew it was bad
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  Speaker 1: because somebody that was sitting baseline One of the workers
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  Speaker 1: took a towel and immediately threw it over his leg.
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  Speaker 1: And you can just see the reaction from the people
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  Speaker 1: around him, whether it be the teammates or the other people.
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  Speaker 1: You say, oh, my God, this is worse than you
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  Speaker 1: could have imagined. And then eventually you see a picture
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  Speaker 1: where people are putting it alongside like Gordon Hayward's freak
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  Speaker 1: accident that was very, very similar. So Oklahoma City has
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  Speaker 1: to rethink a lot of different things. But before we
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  Speaker 1: talk about the basketball and the team building aspect, I
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  Speaker 1: do want to send my prayers to these two guys, man.
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  Speaker 1: Just think about the human aspect of it all. Fighting
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  Speaker 1: back from an injury, both of these type of injuries,
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  Speaker 1: is going to be mentally taxing for both of them,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm wishing them nothing but a speedy recovery. J-Dub
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  Speaker 1: has had just a rough couple years, man. They win
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  Speaker 1: the NBA championship, and I don't know if you remember,
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  Speaker 1: J-Dub was dealing with a hand thing on his shooting hand,
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  Speaker 1: and somehow he still went out there and dropped 40
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  Speaker 1: in an NBA finals game, which, crazy. Not many people
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  Speaker 1: can say they dropped 40. Not many people can say
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  Speaker 1: they dropped 40 while having a bad hand. He does that,
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  Speaker 1: they get crowned NBA champions. Cool. The following year, he's
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  Speaker 1: still dealing with the hand thing after having a surgery,
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  Speaker 1: but he also has a lower leg injury that holds
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  Speaker 1: him out for the majority of the season. But going
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  Speaker 1: into it, you say like, hey, J-Dub is not going
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  Speaker 1: to be out for the entirety of it. And as
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  Speaker 1: long as they have a healthy J-Dub come postseason, I'm
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  Speaker 1: only talking for myself, I still believe that the Thunder
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  Speaker 1: were the favorite to win. They were still my pick
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  Speaker 1: to win. And you know the story. J-Dub gives it
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  Speaker 1: a go when it comes to the postseason. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look like himself. And ultimately, once we get to the
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  Speaker 1: series versus the Spurs, he and the team opt to
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  Speaker 1: basically send him out because he's just not playing and
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  Speaker 1: moving well. He's still injured. And the Thunder still go
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  Speaker 1: to the game seven with the Spurs and almost still
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  Speaker 1: that one. So I come back into this season and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: while again, they did have to trade Wiggins and Joe
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  Speaker 1: and Dort, I still looked at them as the deepest
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  Speaker 1: team in basketball. And I think they were looking like
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  Speaker 1: that way through the first three games. And I had
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  Speaker 1: them as my team winning the 2027 NBA championship. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now that feels way more unlikely. Because one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons why the J-Dub injury hurt so much last year
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  Speaker 1: when it went against the Spurs is that they were
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  Speaker 1: missing a lot of on-ball creation. And I know that
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  Speaker 1: they have, you know, A.J. Mitchell, who was also out
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  Speaker 1: in that series. They have A.J. Mitchell, who just had
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  Speaker 1: a phenomenal game today against the Spurs and, oh, against
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  Speaker 1: the Suns as I record this video. But J-Dub also
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  Speaker 1: holds a weird spot on the Thunder where, like, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the Thunder roster, if you don't, this
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  Speaker 1: is stupid, if you don't think about the context of
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  Speaker 1: these players and just think about their size and their weight,
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  Speaker 1: they have a lot of guards and a lot of bigs. Right.
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  Speaker 1: While guys like, again, before his injury, Kaysen can play
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  Speaker 1: up or Caruso can play up. Like Shea can play
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  Speaker 1: up as far as guarding threes and sometimes even fours.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys are smaller guys on the court. One of
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  Speaker 1: the few real wings on the court is J-Dub. And
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  Speaker 1: J-Dub's not even like a six foot eight type of guy.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's listed six, five, but he got like
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  Speaker 1: a seven foot wingspan and he's burly so he can
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  Speaker 1: guard up. Right. So now they're missing one of their two.
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  Speaker 1: The only other guy they really have in this position
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  Speaker 1: is Cambridge Williams, Kenny Hustle. So now they're missing that
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  Speaker 1: guy where they have the ball, the guy that could
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  Speaker 1: create off the bounce and create for himself and others,
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  Speaker 1: but also can guard wings. And also it's like straight
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  Speaker 1: up connector on both sides of the floor. It's a
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  Speaker 1: tough bunch of shoes to really to really try to feel.
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  Speaker 1: And then they also lose another all defensive guy, Casey Wallace,
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  Speaker 1: who's like one of the what? Five best perimeter defenders
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  Speaker 1: in basketball. So a lot of conversation has gone to like,
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  Speaker 1: what happens next for OKC? Should they be a team
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  Speaker 1: picking up the phone and trying to call around? Because
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  Speaker 1: the windows that are created in the NBA, especially in
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  Speaker 1: this era, are getting shorter and shorter and shorter. OKC
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  Speaker 1: has done a good job and they're right up against
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  Speaker 1: the second apron where they extended Dove, they extended Chet,
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  Speaker 1: Shea got his money, iHeart got his money, Caruso got
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  Speaker 1: money last season, Kaysen just got his money this season,
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  Speaker 1: AJ Mitchell is making pennies compared to his production. So
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  Speaker 1: they have guys that are under control for the next
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  Speaker 1: couple seasons, but you don't want to throw this season away, right?
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  Speaker 1: You still want to go out there and be a
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  Speaker 1: team that can win a championship. But the problem is,
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  Speaker 1: if we go and quickly look at their salary table,
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  Speaker 1: they are just really expensive at the top. We're like,
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  Speaker 1: you're not trading Dove, even with his injury. You're not
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  Speaker 1: trading Chad or Shea or Iheart or even Caruso or
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  Speaker 1: even J. Will, who just continues to show that he's
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  Speaker 1: just really fucking good at basketball. You just extend the
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  Speaker 1: case and he's coming off the injury. Like, how do
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  Speaker 1: you get better? And try to feel those shoes that
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  Speaker 1: are J-Dub. If it's going to be Topich and Kenny Hustle,
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  Speaker 1: who should retire at Thunder, by the way. He's Nick
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  Speaker 1: Costas 2.0. It's going to be Topich and Sorber. That's
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  Speaker 1: only $ 9 million. Because you can't trade McCain because he's
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  Speaker 1: on the silver contract for his production. You can't trade A.J. Mitchell.
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  Speaker 1: He's on the silver contract for his production. So it's
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  Speaker 1: like Topich and Sorber. And what can you get for
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  Speaker 1: $ 9 million? that's going to help you be a championship
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  Speaker 1: contender today. I think they got a disabled player exception
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  Speaker 1: of like 15 million, so that does help them at
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  Speaker 1: least a little bit. But this is a team that
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  Speaker 1: went from, we are the favorite, we believe that we
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  Speaker 1: can do it this season, to my goodness, what do
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  Speaker 1: we do next? And that's a rough place to be
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  Speaker 1: in a matter of 24 hours. Now, if there's any
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  Speaker 1: silver lining, and it's hard to have a silver lining
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  Speaker 1: in a situation like this, even without having checked, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: even without having Dubb or even without having Kaysen, this
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  Speaker 1: team will still be good enough to win a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of regular season games. You just saw that tonight against
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  Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns where the Suns end up scoring 113.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of that's garbage time. But, like,
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  Speaker 1: they were without Chet in this game as well. So
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  Speaker 1: they were without three starters, and they still went out
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  Speaker 1: against at least, let's say, a solid Suns team. I'm
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  Speaker 1: still trying to figure out where the Suns sit in 2026-7.
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  Speaker 1: I know in 2025-2026 they were a playoff team. Nowadays
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  Speaker 1: it may not be. It may not look that way.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But like A.J. Mitchell and Jeremy Kane
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  Speaker 1: and Shea started together. That is a really small top
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  Speaker 1: three guys. And, you know, the Suns don't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people that will punish their lack of size there.
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  Speaker 1: But eventually they will go against teams that will eventually
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  Speaker 1: they're going to go against playoff teams that have that size.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, okay, what do we do now? Again, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have Chet tonight either, which is insane that like
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  Speaker 1: Josh Dix was playing. And I'm going to be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, I don't know anything about Josh Dix. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know, or at least until tonight, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know what position he played. And guess what? He's
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  Speaker 1: not a wing. I guess he's probably like 6'6, so
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  Speaker 1: maybe he is a wing. But they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to now heavily rely on Adai Mara. right, to step up,
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  Speaker 1: especially if we're going to have some Chet Homer and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And like Bennett Sturtz, who didn't play a ton in
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  Speaker 1: his first couple games, now he had to come in
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  Speaker 1: and play 24 minutes today. They're probably going to need
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  Speaker 1: to add some type of something on this team. Even
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  Speaker 1: if it's not, again, filling the J-Dub shoes is going
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  Speaker 1: to be impossible. Let's be real. Nobody's going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to add the production that he did on both
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  Speaker 1: sides of the floor. But they're going to need somebody
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  Speaker 1: to fill minutes. Just be competent and fill minutes. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who that guy is. Quickly, before we
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  Speaker 1: get back to OKC and their injuries and all of that,
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  Speaker 1: I've expressed with my good friend Devin Booker how it
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  Speaker 1: can be so frustrating. Devin Booker had 40 in their
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  Speaker 1: last game. And guess what? Was that against the Warriors?
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  Speaker 1: Straight off 40 ball. Dogging them boys. And I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there you go, Book. And then in this game, he
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  Speaker 1: had like two shots going into the fourth quarter. And
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  Speaker 1: I know it's OKC. And they got dogs defensively. But, bro,
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  Speaker 1: you took 25 shots just two nights ago. How the
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  Speaker 1: hell do we get to the point? where you end
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  Speaker 1: a game with seven shots. Here are the people, and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't get to the foul line either. One for one.
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  Speaker 1: Here are the people that attempted more shots than Devin Booker,
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  Speaker 1: Devin Armani Booker, who averaged 26, 28 a game in
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  Speaker 1: his sleep. Jalen Green, Mal Uwatch, Miles Bridges, Dylan Brooks,
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  Speaker 1: Colin Gillespie, Jordan Goodwin, other side, A.J. Mitchell, Isaiah Hartenstein,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry McCain, Shea Gilgis-Alexander, Was that 15 names? I forgot
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  Speaker 1: that fast. There's no way. There's no way, book. There's
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  Speaker 1: no way, book. Three? Three points? I want to get
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  Speaker 1: back to talking about this window thing, this window thing,
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  Speaker 1: because as I said earlier, windows in the NBA close
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  Speaker 1: faster than they ever truly have. And most times, teams
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  Speaker 1: figure it out later that their window hit close. They
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  Speaker 1: figure it out a year too late. Okay, see, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying that the window's closed, because like I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: their top seven guys are under contract for the next
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  Speaker 1: two seasons. So like, In theory, they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to come back and be healthy and maybe win
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  Speaker 1: it next year. But there's just a lot going on
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  Speaker 1: in the association where teams continue to get better and
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  Speaker 1: better and better and better. And while the Spurs have
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  Speaker 1: not looked phenomenal to start the season, they're still trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure their stuff out with their rotations and their
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  Speaker 1: lineups and stuff. That's a team that just beat you
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs last year when you didn't have Dubb.
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  Speaker 1: And now you don't have Dubb and you won't have
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  Speaker 1: Cason too. And that team, at least in theory, if
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  Speaker 1: you just talk about progression, should continue to get better
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  Speaker 1: as well. And they're just not... I'm talking about OKC
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  Speaker 1: and Preston here. Jay, they traditionally just don't do bigger
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  Speaker 1: trades in the regular season. They usually don't even become
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  Speaker 1: big buyers in the regular season other than like the
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Kane thing kind of just happened to fall into
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  Speaker 1: their lap somehow. I still don't know how Jeremy Kane
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  Speaker 1: ended up in Oklahoma City. But for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of their midseason trades end up being them
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  Speaker 1: playing the money moves where they're going to acquire Gordon Hayward, right?
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  Speaker 1: So they can open up the money to go get
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah Hardenstein. Or they're going to trade away, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: Ujman Jain, who at this point doesn't have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of value on their team. It's going to hit restricted
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  Speaker 1: free agency. But this might be one of the few
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  Speaker 1: times where they do need to pick up the phone
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  Speaker 1: and be the ones that are trying to win the trade.
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  Speaker 1: And I read earlier they have 22 second-round picks to
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  Speaker 1: potentially move. So they'll be fine. You know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think you have to go out there–
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  Speaker 1: and go get a superstar level player, but if you
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  Speaker 1: throw in four second round picks, there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: some teams that's going to be interested to sell you
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  Speaker 1: their guys. So this is what I want to do.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously the internet is a place that cannot be trusted.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm telling my kids. But I'm curious to
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  Speaker 1: see what type of trades have been thrown around by
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  Speaker 1: the fans. And there's some interesting ones already. Like Derrick
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  Speaker 1: Jones Jr. is not going to provide the creation, the shooting, hell,
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  Speaker 1: even the The super versatility defensively that J-Dub can add.
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  Speaker 1: But like, that is an interesting enough player. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: would look at this trade, and I'm sure it can't
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  Speaker 1: just be toe-pitching for Derrick Jones Jr., but just thinking
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  Speaker 1: about the player that is Derrick Jones Jr. and the
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: place that the Clippers are in, I think to myself,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: that's not that bad. Herb Jones, there was a video
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: earlier today. There's a video of Joe Dumars and Herb
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Jones having a conversation, and it's just like breaking news
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: that something's about to come. And Herb Jones doesn't play. Like,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: I think he's playing 15 minutes a game on a
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Pelican team. And I know his fit on that team
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: is a bit weird considering the lack of spacing all around.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: And he hasn't been able to hit a shot in
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: what feels like a year or two. But, like, maybe
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: there's a Herb Jones trait. And I don't know. How
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: is this even possible? Is it just because of the
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: disabled player except? Like, how can Brooke Barnhauser work for
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: Herb Jones right now? See, they got, like, Denny and.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: They're trying to trade J-Dub for Julius Ramsey. So, like,
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of these are just 2K type trades. Like,
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Isaiah Harden says not get traded for Trey Murphy. But
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: the Derrick Jones Jr. one, the Derrick Jones Jr. one
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: is pretty interesting. I'm not going to lie. They even
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: got a Rui Hachimura one here that's interesting. Even a
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Julian Champagny one is interesting. Julian Champagny is having a
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: really good start to the season. He obviously could close
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: some possessions with his rebounding and everything. I feel like
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: he's got better throughout the year. Hame Hake is the
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: name that I heard thrown out a little bit. So, like,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: there are some interesting players across the association that they
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: could try to potentially get. They just obviously won't be Dubb.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: And maybe I need to stop that right now. Ooh,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Max Strews and Eric Jones Jr. Max Strews got to
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: get healthy. But maybe I need to stop that right now.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Stop expecting that whatever the trade is going to be
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: is going to be in replace of Dubb. And maybe
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't have to think about it that way. Instead,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about them acquiring, let's say, an extra wing, right?
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: An extra wing in the league where wings are very important.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just got, like, a gut punch
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: upset to my stomach when I watched that. And then
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: you see all of his teammates. I mean, like, Shea
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: literally crying. Like, obviously, they're going to be doing everything
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: they can to win for those two guys. But it
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: is super unfortunate because at the end of the day,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: nobody loves injuries, right? And right now, we got Dubb.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: We got Kaysen. On a very smaller scale, like, Jalen
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Duren is going to be out for a few weeks.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Paolo Beccaro is going to be out for a few weeks.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm forgetting about some really high-profile guys.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard has swelling in his knee. We don't know
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: what that necessarily means just yet. It's just it's just
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: a lot already a real week into the season. And,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I have to win a
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: championship right now. It was it was I was going
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: OKC the whole way. Now I got to rethink about
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: it because without J-Dub and without Kaysen, I don't think
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: they can win a championship. I would be very surprised,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: you know. So I guess we have to wait and see.