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Gordie Chiesa on the Utah Jazz and NBA, Wemby the MVP (?), Cody Williams scoring surge translate to next season (?) + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Peace out.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get the latest on the Utah Jazz with former
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  Speaker 2: Jazz assistant coach Gordy Chiasa. He's forgotten more about the
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  Speaker 2: NBA than any of us will ever know.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not get crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Come for the hoops Talk, stay for its list of
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  Speaker 2: the day, the list today, here's Oh See with basketball
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  Speaker 2: saban Gordy Chiaysa on the Sean O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 1: I've been told that there's a wonderful view of.
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  Speaker 3: The show Dog Rocky on the YouTube channel right now.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Bud, you're okay back there?
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  Speaker 3: Chew on your bone, don't you on that? Cord Gordion Chiasa,
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  Speaker 3: resident NBA guru joins us.
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  Speaker 1: Now on the Sean O'Connell Show. Hi, Gordy, how are
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  Speaker 1: you showing?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing well? Thank you?
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  Speaker 3: How should we be reacting to another twenty point game
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  Speaker 3: from Cody Williams very much.
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  Speaker 4: He's played well for them the last month or so,
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  Speaker 4: and it's encouraging his second year player right now, and
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  Speaker 4: he's emerging to be a guy that's playing with more confidence.
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  Speaker 4: So the month of marks right now, he's averaging fifteen
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  Speaker 4: point five points per game, forty nine point seventy focal percentage,
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  Speaker 4: four rebounds and three point nine assists, and so the
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  Speaker 4: months of marks he has a chance to play. So
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  Speaker 4: he's playing much more with confidence. He's more bouncy, he's
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  Speaker 4: more aggressive defensively, and you get the feeling that he's
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  Speaker 4: re part of the group as a Jazz Goo forward
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  Speaker 4: next season. So he's done a good job and he's
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  Speaker 4: getting slightly stronger as far as both physically and mentally,
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  Speaker 4: and he showed it right now what he could do
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  Speaker 4: with more growth.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I've asked you some version of this question for
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  Speaker 3: like the last two years, probably on every other show.
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  Speaker 3: But here we are again where you're approaching the end
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  Speaker 3: of the regular season. You've got six losses in a
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  Speaker 3: row piled up over and over for this Utah Jazz team.
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  Speaker 3: And that is by design, obviously, but there's no way
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  Speaker 3: that it doesn't affect the day to day that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: affect you know, your coaching staff, that it doesn't affect
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  Speaker 3: the players that are having to go through.
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  Speaker 1: These motions and lose these games.
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  Speaker 3: So is you know, if six in a row is acceptable,
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  Speaker 3: you can seven and eight, nine and ten in a
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  Speaker 3: row be acceptable? Or do you have to like throw
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  Speaker 3: these guys a bone and give them a little caret
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  Speaker 3: and say, all right, we've got to try to win
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  Speaker 3: this game, so you don't have to suffer through this
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  Speaker 3: for three straight weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, very much so. The guys that are playing though,
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  Speaker 4: they are trying to compete and win. Now, the problem
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  Speaker 4: with the team right now, the let's will say two
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  Speaker 4: weeks in particular, is that they're undermanned on the boards,
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  Speaker 4: that the Jazz are going slightly smaller. So the only
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  Speaker 4: quote the two big guys or Kyle Philopowski and Sheep
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  Speaker 4: way after sheet way, So on the boards, that's the
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  Speaker 4: problem right now. The other guys on perimeter, what they're
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  Speaker 4: lacking experience, they're making up in great and in shop making,
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  Speaker 4: so it's encouraging. But the fact of the matter is
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  Speaker 4: they lost six in a row. They need help in
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  Speaker 4: the lane right now. Is physically So for example, tomorrow
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  Speaker 4: Eds game, Nikolai Jokich will be absolutely and should be
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  Speaker 4: a dominant factor in that game, which is most times
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  Speaker 4: when particularly the Jazz only goes small and they keep
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the guys at the lineup, so which
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  Speaker 4: means suddenly you're ex and Kyle Philipowski the body up
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  Speaker 4: and play Nikolai Jokic and John Contract, which is really
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  Speaker 4: a really tough matchup.
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  Speaker 3: So what does it look like, What does the actual game,
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  Speaker 3: what does the actual competitive nature look like when you're
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  Speaker 3: doing what Utah is doing and you've got one of
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  Speaker 3: the best teams in the league and more specifically one
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  Speaker 3: of the best players in the league that you have
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  Speaker 3: to deal with.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and also they want to win that the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 4: The Nuggets right now are trying to chase the Lakers.
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  Speaker 4: Nuggets right now, for the listeners, at forty eight and
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  Speaker 4: twenty eight, there were fourth seed. As you speak this minute,
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  Speaker 4: the Lakers are one game ahead of them at forty
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  Speaker 4: nine and twenty six, and the t Wolves are one
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  Speaker 4: game behind the Nuggets at forty six and twenty nine,
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  Speaker 4: and the Rockets are two games behind at forty five
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  Speaker 4: and twenty nine. So Lakers, Nuggets, Tea, Wolves, and Rockets
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  Speaker 4: are all bunched up. So in their world every game
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  Speaker 4: does matter. So it looks like for the Lakers, screaming
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  Speaker 4: for the Nuggets coming here is that they're going to
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  Speaker 4: They're going to play as hard as they can to
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  Speaker 4: knock out to get a win. And so Jokis is
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  Speaker 4: a big part of that. So Jamar Murray. They got
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  Speaker 4: back Peyton Watson recently off the injury, and he's averaging
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  Speaker 4: fourteen point eight points per game. Shown unit tublies often
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  Speaker 4: with Ace Belly is that don't judge Ace Belly against
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  Speaker 4: other like All Star players, judge trying to judge Ace
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  Speaker 4: Belly type people and even Cody Williams against and their
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  Speaker 4: age group. So for example tomorrow's game, Peyton Watson's twenty
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  Speaker 4: three years old, so we're looking forward to see if
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  Speaker 4: Ace Bally can outplay him. And I don't mean outscore him,
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  Speaker 4: we out play him. Because Watson's done a great job
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  Speaker 4: at the thirty pick of the draft, it'd be the
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  Speaker 4: perfect fit to the Nuggets. Jamal Murray All Star. Now
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  Speaker 4: they're playing without Aaron Gordon. He's missed this year, shown
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  Speaker 4: thirty eight games and so he's said there with it
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  Speaker 4: without him again. It sounds crazy saying that Nuggets have
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  Speaker 4: actually overachieved, So Avon Gordon's a huge part of their success.
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  Speaker 4: He's been out with the hamstring string. They're going to
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  Speaker 4: try to hold them out as much as they can
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  Speaker 4: until the playoffs start, or one or two games of
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  Speaker 4: four just to get some reps right now. So with
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  Speaker 4: an interesting team, the Nuggets. The Nuggets also are the
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  Speaker 4: best three point shooting team in the NBA at thirty
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  Speaker 4: nine point five percent, and unfortunately the Jazz are the
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  Speaker 4: worst team defensively overall but also guarding a three point line.
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  Speaker 4: So the best is playing the worst tomorrow night at
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  Speaker 4: the Delta Center. And the last point about this, as
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  Speaker 4: far as metrics, the Nuggets are the number one in
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  Speaker 4: the NBA. As far as points score per game, they're
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  Speaker 4: averaging one twenty three point three points per game, number one,
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  Speaker 4: so they have a juggingnut. Offensively, they have a group
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  Speaker 4: once in a lifetime player and Jolkic, and more importantly
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  Speaker 4: in their world, they're playing to win.
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  Speaker 3: We keep seeing Victor weber Yama do special things on
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  Speaker 3: a basketball court. He was one of the fastest ever
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  Speaker 3: to a double double the other night. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've talked about the fact that he's he's sort of
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  Speaker 3: verbally campaigning for for MVP consideration in addition to playing
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  Speaker 3: like this. When you see him putting his his you know,
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  Speaker 3: pedal to the medal, is he trying to force the voters?
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  Speaker 3: Is he like, is he actually just saying all right, fine, like,
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  Speaker 3: let me prove to you am the MVP.
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  Speaker 4: Yes he is. He's trying to do it and he's
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  Speaker 4: doing in both in French and English, which is really interesting.
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  Speaker 4: All Right, we love him, Hey, that guy is great.
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  Speaker 4: He's a franchise player. Hey, we love you dog. However,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to vote for him. If I was voting,
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  Speaker 4: i vote n number three on the list, with number
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  Speaker 4: two Yokriche and number one Shay from the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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  Speaker 4: They're all worthy, absolutely, but I'm leaning towards Victor at
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  Speaker 4: number three. It's a great story because he's turned around
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  Speaker 4: the Spurs franchise. Last year, the Spurs win thirty four
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  Speaker 4: games last season, and this year right as you speak,
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  Speaker 4: right now, they're winning fifty seven games in eighteen, so
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  Speaker 4: they're probably going to win between sixty sixty to fifty
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  Speaker 4: one games or sixty two. And it's a great story,
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  Speaker 4: almost like a Tim Duncan turnaround in David Robinson and
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  Speaker 4: literally thirty years ago now. But I'm still leaning towards
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  Speaker 4: Shae and Nikolai Jokic. With Jokic again, he leaves the
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  Speaker 4: NBA in re bounds as it was amazing because he
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  Speaker 4: really doesn't jump. Well, he leaves the NBA and the CIST,
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  Speaker 4: so he leads in two categories and he's the eighth
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  Speaker 4: leading score in the NBA and he dominates. It's like
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  Speaker 4: we forget how.
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  Speaker 1: Great he is leading the NBA in the cyst and
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  Speaker 1: it says right.
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  Speaker 4: But it helps him though unfortunately Sean schematically is for
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  Speaker 4: some bizarre reason, I'm gonna I'm gonna call out some
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  Speaker 4: of my NBA brotherhood and sisterhood. They play switch defense
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  Speaker 4: against Jokic, so suddenly the world's best passer is a
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  Speaker 4: jumbo deliverer because he's so taught seven foot so guy
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  Speaker 4: sixty five, sixty six, sixty seven are trying to body
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  Speaker 4: up on him, which is commendable as far as guarding
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  Speaker 4: his trouble, but his eyesight is not. They're tort at
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  Speaker 4: all because he's passing over the top, he said, through
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  Speaker 4: this unbelievable skip passes over the corner for open three
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  Speaker 4: point shot by Christian Brown or by Jamal Murray. And
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  Speaker 4: that's it's easy when the guy guarding you isn't going
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  Speaker 4: eyeball eyeball, and that's where he has an advantage on
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  Speaker 4: And I wish that someone like colleagues would keep Big
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  Speaker 4: on Big as far as playing him. He's not really
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  Speaker 4: a speed merchant. He's just so cerebral.
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  Speaker 3: Gordy Chase is my guest here on the Sean O'Connell
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  Speaker 3: show talking all things NBA basketball when we discuss like
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  Speaker 3: that Nuggets team, and right now, as you already mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: the Spurs are the second best record in the West,
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  Speaker 3: but that's still a very young team. If you're handicapping
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  Speaker 3: the actual like title challengers in the West, and it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have to reflect exactly what the standings are right now.
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  Speaker 3: Are the Spurs, you know, right behind Oklahoma City in
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  Speaker 3: your mind?
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  Speaker 1: Are they ahead of OKC?
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  Speaker 3: Or because of the youth even though they've been successful
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  Speaker 3: in this regular season.
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  Speaker 1: In playoff basketball is a little bit different.
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  Speaker 3: Would you put San Antonio maybe behind a team like
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  Speaker 3: the Lakers or the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I would, Yeah, So I would go as you
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  Speaker 4: speak right now, because experiences every thing. When you get
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  Speaker 4: punched in the face in the playoffs, it's really a
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  Speaker 4: badge of courage in a good way because then you
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  Speaker 4: realize that there's nothing regular about the playoffs versus what
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  Speaker 4: the regular season, and so you have to go through it.
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  Speaker 4: Most times at least once or twice and you get
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  Speaker 4: that unbelieve result. So as we speak, even though I
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  Speaker 4: do love the Spurs, I would go Thunder one, Nuggets two,
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  Speaker 4: Lake Is three and I'm pausing, and Spurs four in
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  Speaker 4: that order. So I think the Spurts is gonna get
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  Speaker 4: past the first round. They're gonna have a tough time
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  Speaker 4: in the second round. It be a highly competitive series.
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  Speaker 4: Remember in playoff basketball, it's not really a series until
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  Speaker 4: the series goes six games. Up to that point, if
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  Speaker 4: it's only five games, I mean, the team wins four
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  Speaker 4: games to one, it was highly competitive games, but it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't a series yet. That sixth game, the sixth game,
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  Speaker 4: and the series tells the players that we can do this,
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  Speaker 4: we can win this game to get the game seven,
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  Speaker 4: and that's when it really becomes a series. Remember now,
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  Speaker 4: as far as showing just the metrics always tell us
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  Speaker 4: something not a not a total story. But for the
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  Speaker 4: last seven years, there's been seven different NBA champions. Okay
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  Speaker 4: we know that already, but here's the thing about it.
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  Speaker 4: For the seventh straight season, the defending NBA champion didn't
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  Speaker 4: advance past the second round. So, for example, last year,
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  Speaker 4: in a conference semi finals. The Celtics, who are defending
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  Speaker 4: champions back in twenty twenty four, did not get past
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  Speaker 4: Knicks in the second round. So to the question right
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  Speaker 4: now is can the thunder They think they could be
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  Speaker 4: champions and back to back, but metris tell us last
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  Speaker 4: seven years that the champion lost in the second round.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you love NBA basketball showing don't you love NFL football?
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  Speaker 4: I mean really, it tells you something.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, the NBA is so fascinating to me because
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  Speaker 3: of this.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I know it happens.
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  Speaker 3: All the time, but there is to me, it feels
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  Speaker 3: like a sort of gradual changing of the guard happening
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  Speaker 3: with some of the you know, Lebron era stars aging
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  Speaker 3: out or maybe the well Lebron Era is probably not
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  Speaker 3: fair because he's seven years older than even the next
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  Speaker 3: closest guy to him. But like some of the some
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  Speaker 3: of these, like these guys, these perennial All Stars, the
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  Speaker 3: Steph Curries of the world, the Lebron's of the world,
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  Speaker 3: that and Kevin Durant, these guys that we have so
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  Speaker 3: much admiration for and are so incredibly accomplished, are are
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  Speaker 3: now coming to the point in their career where it's
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  Speaker 3: like maybe your final opportunity, your final couple opportunities to
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  Speaker 3: actually compete for a championship, and then this young class
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  Speaker 3: that is sort of backfilling.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the.
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  Speaker 3: Traditional like all, we're all gonna squat up together and
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  Speaker 3: create these super teams and where you only can be
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  Speaker 3: in New York or LA or Boston. You know, we're
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  Speaker 3: getting Oklahoma City for Eckt's sake. So I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: it's a really interesting time in the league for me
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  Speaker 3: because of.
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  Speaker 4: That, oh very much. And that's also added that Detroit
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  Speaker 4: Pistons that they're first in the East at fifty four
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  Speaker 4: and twenty one and Kate cutting him has that collapse
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  Speaker 4: a lung, God bless him. So they're holding them out absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: And so they tried. No, they lost last night to
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  Speaker 4: a tough game to the Thunder, but they've been highly competitive.
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  Speaker 4: So the question, but again very similar to the Spurs.
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  Speaker 4: You love both their young rosters and the coaching gets superior,
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  Speaker 4: but do they have enough moxie and playoff basketball? So
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  Speaker 4: the Celts are staring right at them at number two,
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  Speaker 4: and the Knickerbockers and the Cabs also are staring at them,
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  Speaker 4: and we saw the Cabs last night where they had
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  Speaker 4: to win that game, and even though they struggled in
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  Speaker 4: three point range, you know, missing so many clankings, so
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  Speaker 4: many threes. With Donovan Mitchell and MOBILEI refused to let
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  Speaker 4: them lose. Who are they able to knock him out?
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  Speaker 4: And you know Donovan Mitchell, we haven't talked about him,
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  Speaker 4: but he had thirty four points last night and he
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  Speaker 4: really helped their team. I just want to refresh the listeners.
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  Speaker 4: How Donovan Mitchell got to the Cleveland Cavaliers. On September one,
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty two, the Jazz traded Donovan Mitchell, who was
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  Speaker 4: an All Star, to Cleveland for Larry Marketing, Coln Sexton,
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  Speaker 4: O Chai Abargie, three unprotected first round picks and two
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  Speaker 4: picks swaps, and there was one of those protected protected
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  Speaker 4: picks in the first round became years later Jared Jackson
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  Speaker 4: right now, So that was the original trade. It's helped
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  Speaker 4: helped the Cavaliers tremendously. They think they could be possibly
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  Speaker 4: in their World champions and we'll find out if it's
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  Speaker 4: true or not and be Jazz World. They got Larry
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  Speaker 4: markin an All Star and able to get eventually get
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  Speaker 4: Jaron Jackson. So it's worked out for both for both organizations.
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  Speaker 4: Now we'll see how it plays out as far as
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  Speaker 4: both teams trying to chase the playoff ladder.
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  Speaker 3: Mark Cuban had some interesting comments on a recent podcast
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  Speaker 3: appearance where he talked about regretting who he sold the
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  Speaker 3: team too.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a little bit of a rift.
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  Speaker 3: He still has twenty seven percent, I think of the franchise,
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  Speaker 3: but he doesn't really get along with the new owners.
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  Speaker 3: And I know that this is you know, when there's
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  Speaker 3: real basketball being played, this business stuff is not quite
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  Speaker 3: as interesting. But Mark Cuban is as vocal as visible
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  Speaker 3: an owner in sports as we're going to have. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, I want to ask you the question about
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  Speaker 3: how much the players are affected by you know, who
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  Speaker 3: the owner is, because there's the hands on team governors
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  Speaker 3: and owners and there's the ones who are hands off.
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  Speaker 3: And it feels like Mark Cuban does not approve of
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  Speaker 3: the way that the Mavericks are being run in his stead.
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  Speaker 4: Correct, absolutely so. And at both words. You remember the owner,
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  Speaker 4: he owns the team, and everyone else is a highly
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  Speaker 4: paid employee of the team unless you're part of the
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  Speaker 4: immediate family. So I always say that. So people that
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  Speaker 4: work saying jazz basketball, they are highly paid employees, but
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  Speaker 4: not ownership level. Let's go to Dallas Mavericks. That's the
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  Speaker 4: narrative right now. So Mark Cuban had so much fun
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  Speaker 4: with the Mets, right He owned different literally for twenty
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  Speaker 4: four years. And it was fun because he took this
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  Speaker 4: franchise from a really mid level into championship aspirations they
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  Speaker 4: won at one time, and he competed in the NBA
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  Speaker 4: Finals twice, and so he did a great job there
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  Speaker 4: and more importantly, in his world, the asset grew unbelievable. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the Dumont family, who owns the largest casinos in the world,
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  Speaker 4: they bought that franchise because they want to try to
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  Speaker 4: attempt to be the first people in when the state
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  Speaker 4: of Texas goes into casino business, and they want to
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  Speaker 4: be able to understand the damas of it and who's
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  Speaker 4: in who's in charge of the state legislation, and they're
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  Speaker 4: going to do whatever it takes to be the first
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  Speaker 4: people in as far as multi billion dollar business for
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  Speaker 4: casinos in the great the long start state. All right,
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  Speaker 4: Rob Cuban now is out of out of the equation,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm sure he misses it, and more importantly, the
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  Speaker 4: players that were still still there missed his what his
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  Speaker 4: experience of running a franchise, and also understanding the dynamics
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  Speaker 4: between ownership level and management, players, and more importantly the fans,
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  Speaker 4: because member Sean, without the fans, there's no NBA franchise
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  Speaker 4: without the fans. There's no Pittsburgh Steelers without the fans,
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  Speaker 4: there's no there's no Seattle Seahawks. And that's why it's
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  Speaker 4: so important to understand how everything involved, as far as
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  Speaker 4: even different identities, but also as one as one group.
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  Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards miss tip off last night because of a
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  Speaker 3: potty emergency. Uh, how does the how does the locker
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: room react to this? Is this something that you make
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: fun of the guy for for the next couple.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Of weeks sean weeks, I mean years? Right here, The
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: answer is absolutely yes. Of course you had to go
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  Speaker 4: to the bathroom. It happens to everybody that's called living
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  Speaker 4: on earth. Really okay, really, I'm giving this great speech,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: but I go to the bathroom way I'm playing in
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: game seven, I'm a quarterback. Wait a second, I'm a
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: sideline reporter. I'm always amazed. These people on sideline football
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: games don't they ever go to the bathroom? These people
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: don't he ever? Really and so God bless him. So
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards that jumping jack to guard from the Minnesota
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Tea Wolves. And maybe also he was injured, so he
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: came out with his first game back off injury. It's
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: he's more insulting for him, and so he foundly as
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: a chance to play. He's an NBA performer, and he
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: doesn't start the game because they don't want to start
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: him just to get he'sn't back into it. And then
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: when he did get the game, you had to go
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: to bathroom first. Don't you love MBA. There's so many
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: subplots amazing.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: If if Duke called you and said, hey, I need
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: you to talk to these guys that just gave up
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: a nineteen point lead and lost an opportunity to go
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  Speaker 3: to the final four. What how do you get through
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: to a team that's just suffered through something like that.
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  Speaker 4: They're devastated. And also add to that, remember they lost
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: back to back years like that too, So you lost
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: also last year to Houston Cougar's and in that situation,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: they were up and the Cougar's out fought them, you
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: kind of really out top them. So the answer is
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: that you try to talk about the positive things that
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: were happening, how you get up up nineteen, and then
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: as the weeks and months ago on really try to
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: self analyze them from a coaching staff and also to
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: the players, what we can do that this never happens again.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: If you're Yukon, you flew back from Washington, d C.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Back to Storr's, Connecticut without a plane. You were so
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: high up and you're so high mentally as far as
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: doing that, toughness does matter. Besides talent, I know a
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: lot of times you could be tough or by the way,
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: you have no talent. Yukon's got talent and also senior experience.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: You know now with the Yukon's like they're gritty, like
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: they've been through this before. Even though the freshman made
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: the thirty eight foot jump shot literally to get them
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: to the final four, the group has forty two and
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: that's what makes it so special. If yu can't does
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: win the championship will be the third time in the
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: last four years, and in this era of nil money,
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: this is unbelievable, hard to do because really basically most
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: of the teams now just generally speaking, will say the
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: top forty programs have the same range of equal money.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Now now it's coaching, and now it's what sharing and
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: caring for your teammates during those games.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: How well do you know the Hurley family?
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I know them since there they were born Bob Hurley
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Senor Denny's farre we go back to nineteen sixty nine
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: in Jersey City, New Jersey. I know his wife, Chris
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Ferb at the same time also, so I know the
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: whole family for literally almost like what I said, almost
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: wanted to stand right fifty nine years and that's correct. Also,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: when I coached a thousand years ago and back in
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: the nineteen seventies at Saint Thomas Aquinas College, my captain
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: of my team, a guy named Bob Kilduff, was the
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: first captain of Bob Hurley's team at Jergia City Saint Anthony's.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: So we have so many things in common besides location,
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: somewhat age group, and also these unbelievable gritty guys from
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Jergia City, New Jersey. So I know him absolutely for
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: a thousand years.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Before we let you go, Gordy what's your list.
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  Speaker 4: But list today is a very short list. It's only
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: eight names, Sean. Because it's so hard to do this,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: we call this the Triple Crown of American basketball. These
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: are the players have won an NCAA Championship, an NBA title,
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  Speaker 4: an Olympic gold medal, Shawn Triple Crown American Basketball, NCAA champions,
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  Speaker 4: NBA title, Olympic Gold medal. Here we go. Number eight
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Quinn Buckner, Indiana University nineteen seventy six, Celtics won NBA
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Championship nineteen seventy six, Montreal, Canada, Olympic Gold. Jerry Lucas,
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  Speaker 4: Higher State University nineteen sixty NCAA Champs. Nick Oboker's Champion
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: nineteen sixty Rome, Italy Olympic Gold Medal, Anthony Davis, Kentucky
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  Speaker 4: Wildcats twenty to twelve, Lakers in the Bubble, NBA Champions
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  Speaker 4: two Thy twelve, London Olympics in twenty twenty four, Olympic
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  Speaker 4: Gold Medal in Paris. Number five clyde Velle Kandas Shoe
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: nineteen fifty two Celtics Champions, Lakers Champampions nineteen fifty two
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  Speaker 4: in Helsinki, Finland, Olympic gold medal. Number four, Magic Johnson
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Michigan State nineteen seventy nine versus Larry Bird Lakers. We
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: know that. Five championships nineteen ninety two, the original dream
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: team in Barcelona, Spain. Number three his name is Michael Jordan,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: North Colina, Tar Hills nineteen eighty two Bulls six championships,
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  Speaker 4: two Olympic titles nineteen eighty four, the La Olympics nineteen
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: ninety two, the original dream team of Barcelona, Spain. Two
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: more names. K cy Jones University of San Francisco, two
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: NCAA Championships, Celtics eight championships nineteen fifty six Melbourne, Australia
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: and the last one we always talk about all the time.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: You can make a discussion. He's the greatest winner of
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: any team sport in history of any sport. Bill Russell,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: University of San Francisco. Two ncaaight Championships, eleven Celtic Championships
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: and in nineteen fifty six Melbourne, Australia Olympic gold medal.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: One more quick note. This guy possibly Sean could do
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: it in the future. Stephan Castle of the Spurs. He's
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: won one NCAA championship of the Yukon. If Victor went
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: beyond is as trusted sidekicking him could collaborate maybe with
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: an NBA championship. And he's good enough to be someday
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Olympic team member and win a gold medal in the Olympics.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: So Stephan Castle could be in the list, hopefully relatively soon.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Thus that's my list of the Triple Crown, not of racing,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: but the American basketball.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I love it, Gordy.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Spoiler alert, I'm going to use that little factory.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Gordy just gave us as our trivia question today.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: So if you're listening now, you might get yourself some
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Weezer tickets later with it.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Oh I love Weezer. Okay, good, I like it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Maybe we'll dig you up some tickets too, Gordy. Oh,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: thank you, thanks for your time as always, appreciate you, sir.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Thanks you on peace out.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Grdechiasa are resident NBA Guru.