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Gordie Chiesa Hour on the Utah Jazz and the NBA, Jazz hosting the Spurs tonight, Trade market as trade deadline nears + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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Speaker 1: He's 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.
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Speaker 1: Stay for his list of the day A list today.
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Speaker 1: Here's o C with.
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Speaker 2: Basketball savon Gordy Chiasa on the Sean O'Connell show.
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Speaker 3: We're welcome in Gordona, JASA President, NBA Guru, courtesy of
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Speaker 3: our good friends at America First Credit Union and A
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Speaker 3: Laddin Industries, your Utah Blocks dealer, Gordy welcome.
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Speaker 1: How are you, sir going? I'm doing well, Thank you.
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Speaker 1: It should be interesting next few days for the Jazz
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Speaker 1: and for the NBA. But all started the other night
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Speaker 1: showing when the Jazz and the Tea Wolves. That was
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Speaker 1: some game where the Jazz showed their heart and their courage.
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Speaker 1: One two. Let's go to te Wolves by seventeen in
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. But it's how the Jazz played and
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Speaker 1: Kante George, that guy is improving every single game. Forty
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Speaker 1: three points fifteen for eight, twenty eight from the field,
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Speaker 1: six to thirteen from threes, plus three rebounds and that
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Speaker 1: was a masterpiece of a game. And as I shared
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Speaker 1: to a colleague of mind showing earlier yesterday morning, that
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Speaker 1: uh Kenttey is developing I called a headache driver. That
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Speaker 1: he gives headaches to the guy guarding him, and that's
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Speaker 1: what's good about it. And he's improved tremendously as a
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Speaker 1: screen reader. So Kyante reads screens very well and now
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Speaker 1: so he's a drivestick ball to the basket. He reads
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Speaker 1: screens and that equals what I called a turbot scorer.
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Speaker 1: He goes go both over the top and get to
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Speaker 1: the line. And that's why he's developing it to really
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Speaker 1: a standout NBA player.
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Speaker 3: Not only does Utah beat the Minnesota timber Wolves without
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Speaker 3: lowry marketing in the lineup and a huge night for Keante,
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Speaker 3: George Nirk gets with a triple double.
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Speaker 1: Oh very much. Yeah, And it's how he got them.
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Speaker 1: So eight change alluding to eighteen excuse me, sixteen points,
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Speaker 1: eighteen rebounds, tennissist and he played, He out played Rudy
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Speaker 1: Gobert tremendously during that game. I called bang, chase and
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Speaker 1: secure getting rebounds. He bangs the guy, he chases the rebound,
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Speaker 1: whether it's on the floor up at the rim, and
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Speaker 1: then he's he secures the ball before with Morgan Scalley
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Speaker 1: talking about being physical, well guess what the Jazz were
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Speaker 1: physical led by Yusuf Nurkice. I call it sean rogue physicality.
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Speaker 1: The way he plays like he's a rogue rebounder, and
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Speaker 1: he has so many passing skills. So when he has
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Speaker 1: the ball a lot of times showing it's like this,
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Speaker 1: he has to boil like a grapefruit, and he has
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Speaker 1: to boil the high post mill of the floor like
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Speaker 1: a grapefruit. And then Kiant de George and those guys
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Speaker 1: are the direct benefactor him. I called he's a great
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Speaker 1: fruit passer. Wait he throws that ball. Last game Tennis
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Speaker 1: says I mentioned two turnovers, tremendous win. It was great
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Speaker 1: how they played the outfought the te wolves who are struggling.
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Speaker 1: Now he lost three in a row and now let's
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Speaker 1: do it over again tonight Delta Center.
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Speaker 3: When you have a guy like keionte George who's having
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Speaker 3: this like crazy breakout type of year, right, and it's
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Speaker 3: not he's not a rookie having a breakout year. He's
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Speaker 3: been around he's been in the league a little bit
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Speaker 3: and now he's he's starting to become a star, a
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Speaker 3: borderline star. Obviously, there's been belief in him in this
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Speaker 3: Jazz organization. They probably saw it sooner than everyone else did.
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Speaker 3: It's probably why he's on this roster, Gordy, What is
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Speaker 3: the process like when you have one of these starting
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Speaker 3: to emerge and the rest of the NBA starts to
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Speaker 3: take notice?
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Speaker 4: Like you as a.
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Speaker 3: Coach, I imagine you know, shoot arounds that you're doing
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Speaker 3: warm ups, the other coach staff walks over.
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Speaker 4: Just like, hey, how come here and tell us about
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Speaker 4: this Kiante.
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Speaker 3: I mean, what's it like is the rest of the
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Speaker 3: league wakes up to Kyante's talent abilities and the danger
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Speaker 3: he presents to them.
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Speaker 1: Well, the coaching staff and his teammates see it every
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Speaker 1: single day in practice and in preparation. So usually speaking,
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Speaker 1: when players keep working and developing, the game slows down
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Speaker 1: for them. So usually speaking, again, most young players play
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Speaker 1: offense too fast and defense too slow. Now Kyante now
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Speaker 1: has done both now where he's playing offense at a
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Speaker 1: certain pace and a defense much faster, and that's why
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Speaker 1: he's having a breakout season and It's been so much
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Speaker 1: fun if you're jazz officiado to see him develop his
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Speaker 1: skill set and that and Henna, He's gonna be very
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Speaker 1: very important for the Jazz as they go forward of
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Speaker 1: what he brings to the group every single day. I
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Speaker 1: have him shown right now of being the third in
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Speaker 1: the voting for most improved player. The most improved player
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Speaker 1: that I have right now as we speak past the
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Speaker 1: halfway mark would be Jellen Johnson of the Hawks, Danny
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Speaker 1: Adia of the Portland Trailblazers, and Cante George at number
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Speaker 1: three for the Jazz, and the number four should be
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Speaker 1: former jazzman ironically the Kel Alexander Walker from the Hawks also,
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Speaker 1: and the five should be Jellen Durham of the Pistons. So, Sewan,
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Speaker 1: he's right there as far as being the most improved player,
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Speaker 1: and what a great honor for that.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about what's coming tonight for the
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Speaker 3: Utah Jazz Delta Center, and it's the San Antonio Spurs.
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Speaker 3: You and I we talk every time about Victor wen Minyama.
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Speaker 3: If you have yet to see Victor web Minyama in person,
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Speaker 3: or yet to see this version of the San Antonio Spurs,
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Speaker 3: you have opportunities to get out there tonight. Tickets are available.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: But you know, for this Utah Jazz team, they've already
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Speaker 3: checked the box of being better than we thought they
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Speaker 3: were gonna be. Uh, they're maybe not ahead of schedule
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Speaker 3: the way that this San Antonio Spurs team is ahead
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Speaker 3: of schedule, But they are ahead of schedule. What are
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Speaker 3: your expectations for tonight against the Spurs roster?
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Speaker 1: Well, the first thing you're head of schedule, meaning this
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Speaker 1: is that Hey, by the way, if the Jazz win tonight,
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Speaker 1: it will be the eleventh Hope victory, which is one
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Speaker 1: more than all of last year.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 1: So that's good, it's positive. And the last time the
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Speaker 1: Spurs made the playoffs was two thy and nineteen, so
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Speaker 1: it's going to be seven years. So nineteen now it's
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Speaker 1: twenty six. So show he has to question you back
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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, what were you doing.
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Speaker 4: Nineteen twenty nineteen. I was doing a serious XM radio.
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Speaker 4: I had just retired from fighting.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So this guy, this guy I'm looking at right now,
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Speaker 1: this muscle lag guy is showing O count right as
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Speaker 1: we speak right now, And that that was the last
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Speaker 1: time the Spurs made the playoffs, So it's going to
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Speaker 1: be seven years right now, I'm pretty sure they're gonna
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Speaker 1: make it. As we speak, they are thirty and fourteen,
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Speaker 1: the second best record in the East. They're trying to
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Speaker 1: fight off the Denver Nuggets and the Rockets that are
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Speaker 1: trying to climb ahead of the Thunder, and it's led
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Speaker 1: by Victor Wenbyamba. They're once in a generational talent. Is
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Speaker 1: that he is? He's always been a tremendous standout. Isn't
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Speaker 1: quick numbers? Twenty four point four points per game, ten
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Speaker 1: point three rebounds, two point five blocks, fifty point six
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Speaker 1: field cup percentage, thirty eight from threes, in eighty four
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Speaker 1: from the foul line, which is really good. Victors missed
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Speaker 1: fourteen games, But with the Spurs have done is that
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Speaker 1: they have a good supporting cast Without Victor wen Byamba.
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Speaker 1: The Spurs are ten and four, So he's missed fourteen
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Speaker 1: games because they're different injuries. They're ten and four. The
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Speaker 1: Spurs are third overall in the NBA in defensive rating.
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Speaker 1: The only two teams ahead of them are the first
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Speaker 1: place Thunder and the first place Detroit Pistons. So it
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Speaker 1: seems to me that if you play defense as a
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Speaker 1: collective group and a very highly defensive rating, the chances
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Speaker 1: of getting the postseason are very very strong, whether it's
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Speaker 1: the NFL or whether it's the NBA. And that's that
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Speaker 1: is the Spurs right now.
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Speaker 3: How did the Jazz match up with this team? We
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Speaker 3: saw not so long ago this Utah team was able
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Speaker 3: to beat the San Antonio Spurs. Now you're trying to
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Speaker 3: do it on your home floor. So with what you
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Speaker 3: just said about, you know, the not only individual efforts
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Speaker 3: of Victor women yav but the way that this Spurs
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Speaker 3: squad plays as a team and what the Utah Jazz
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Speaker 3: are trying to do, which is thread this needle between
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Speaker 3: improvement and keeping your draft pick and all that kind
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Speaker 3: of stuff. I mean, this San Antonio team is an
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Speaker 3: easy place where you can kind of lay down second
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Speaker 3: team in the West. All right, But this is a
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Speaker 3: home game and you've got a lot of people who
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Speaker 3: are going to show up because they want to see
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Speaker 3: not only your guys but the visiting team.
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Speaker 4: So how do you match up tonight? If you're the Utah.
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Speaker 1: Jazz one being physical? That's the first thing. So the
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Speaker 1: question right now is can usive Nurkage who's going off
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Speaker 1: a great game. As far as we mentioned a few
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Speaker 1: seconds ago about his triple double, Kenny has enough moxie
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Speaker 1: and also technique to guard Victor Wen beyond out on perimeter.
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Speaker 1: So now use of Nurkage has to be has to
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Speaker 1: change his mindset and not be a force in the lane.
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Speaker 1: It might be be out more in perimeter. And can
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Speaker 1: can the Utah Jazz as a group right now give
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Speaker 1: organized help as far as playing it? And then the
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Speaker 1: flip side is can the Aaron Fox and Stefan Cassel
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Speaker 1: have enough defensive presidence to guard Chante George And the
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Speaker 1: answer is we're gonna find out tonight Becausete has got
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Speaker 1: it rolling and Ace Bailey and all the other guys
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Speaker 1: the Jazz and Isaiah Kalia And let's not forget one
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Speaker 1: of the reasons why that kant de George is playing
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Speaker 1: really exceptional is because of his own ability, but also
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Speaker 1: how he plays off the ball when they have Isaiah
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Speaker 1: Collier in the game. So Isaiah Klea is vastly underrated
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Speaker 1: that that guy is past happy. And you know, last
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Speaker 1: game against the Tea Wolves, he gets a double double
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Speaker 1: as far as points and assists, and the benefactor is
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Speaker 1: Yant de George. So can the can the Jazz backcourt
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Speaker 1: outplay Darren Fox and Isaiah Isaiah Scream Darren Fox and
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Speaker 1: also Stephane Castle and Dylan Harper those three guys basically
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Speaker 1: can the Jazz outplay them? And also can the on
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Speaker 1: the boards? So usually speaking, when you win the game
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Speaker 1: in the n b A, you win the win the
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Speaker 1: boards and also you and that's fourth quarter, you make
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Speaker 1: so many timely shots. And it all starts with organized
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Speaker 1: defense and it ends with what as far as securing
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Speaker 1: the rebound and during throughout the game is what getting
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Speaker 1: your scores to play in space, just like in Sean,
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Speaker 1: just like in the NFL, get the ball to your
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Speaker 1: star players when their space to what to make plays.
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Speaker 1: And in basketball it's involves what to dribble, dribble and
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Speaker 1: door pass and the Jazz moment. Let's not forget on
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Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Day on Monday afternoon, the Jazz lost.
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Speaker 1: So now it's the rematch right now, literally three days
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Speaker 1: later here in Salt Lake City. I expect to be
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Speaker 1: a great game for the Jazz and I have no problem.
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Speaker 1: I have no problem to Jazz playing against these guys.
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Speaker 1: I thinks are gonna win.
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Speaker 3: Is Dylan Harper having the kind of year that san
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Speaker 3: Antonio expected or that you expected.
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Speaker 1: Well, here's the first thing about it. The answer is
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Speaker 1: is that he's playing behind Dearn Fox and Stephan Castle,
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Speaker 1: so you know he's coming off the bench. So usually
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Speaker 1: when you second pick of the draft, you're gonna start.
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Speaker 1: So Ace Bailey is the fifth pick. He's starting, and
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Speaker 1: he gets the ball a lot of times in Rhythm,
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Speaker 1: and the Jazz have been committed to play through some
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Speaker 1: of his errors because he is part of the future
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Speaker 1: now the Spurs. Dylan Harper the second pick of the draft,
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Speaker 1: he's not beating out right now, Darren Fox, who's one
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Speaker 1: of the fastest guys in the NBA, who's playing exceptionally well,
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Speaker 1: and Stefan Castle, ironically the rookie of the year last
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Speaker 1: year's Stephan Castle h twenty one, averaging sixteen point nine
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Speaker 1: points per game, seven point zero assists and five rebounds.
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Speaker 1: So it's not a question of Dylan Harper that people
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Speaker 1: be disappointed to him. He is a difficult time of
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Speaker 1: playing a lot of minutes on the floor. So with
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Speaker 1: that said, he's averaging ten point six points per game.
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Speaker 1: Three point six assist in twenty one point five minutes
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Speaker 1: and most of all sewn just like you are. He's
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Speaker 1: a southpaw player and that's when he's able to play
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Speaker 1: with rhythm when they move, when he cuts in the game.
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Speaker 1: Then they play the Aaron Fox off the ball and
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Speaker 1: Dylan Harper has the ball to make plays. So they
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Speaker 1: have a lot of great options to Spurs and that's
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Speaker 1: why they're trending that be second in the East right now.
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Speaker 1: So not disappointed at all. He's playing relatively well. He's
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Speaker 1: really a good team right now and he's going to
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Speaker 1: try to carve out space and force the Spurs to
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Speaker 1: move Vosses around. Remembering else of the Spurs they're playing
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Speaker 1: with Devin Vassel, who's a very good player. He's hurt, right,
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Speaker 1: he's hurt, and that he uh, he has a strain
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Speaker 1: the left thigh. So a lot of times is that.
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Speaker 1: Now let they go ultra small and they they'll play
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Speaker 1: all three guys. They use Stephen Castle almost as a
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Speaker 1: sometimes a point point guard to guard and small phone
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Speaker 1: and that allows that allows Dylan Harper and you know
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Speaker 1: for the fans right now, yes, Dylan Harper is related
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Speaker 1: to his his dad who is what Ron Harper Jr.
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Speaker 1: And he did a Ron Helper's former Chicago Bulls player
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Speaker 1: that tormented the Jazz about twenty five years ago by
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Speaker 1: playing defense and screwing the ball.
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Speaker 3: We started the show today talking about the Utah Mammoth
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Speaker 3: closing out their long home stand with another victory, hard fought.
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Speaker 3: And look, all of us in sports sports fans, you
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Speaker 3: appreciate a good comeback, right.
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Speaker 4: What's better for team chemistry?
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Speaker 3: What's better for the learning process when you have that
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Speaker 3: complete performance all the way through? Or I mean, they
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Speaker 3: started the game last night pretty bad and found a way.
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Speaker 4: They won it.
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Speaker 3: Really with a period and a half of excellent hockey
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Speaker 3: after digging themselves a little bit of a hole. And
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Speaker 3: I know that's applest oranges in some ways because basketball
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Speaker 3: and hockey are not the same thing. But we see
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Speaker 3: this in the NBA as well, where you have a
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Speaker 3: terrible first quarter, terrible first and second quarters, whatever, and
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Speaker 3: then somehow, someway, you claw back into it and you
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Speaker 3: find a way to win.
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Speaker 4: From a coaching standpoint, which is more valuable.
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Speaker 1: Claw back to win? Yeah, momentum. Momentum is this interesting
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Speaker 1: word that every coach seeks for momentum for the players
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Speaker 1: where remember now, oh, by the way, the other guys
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Speaker 1: are good also, so you play against yeah see against
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Speaker 1: good defense and really stella offense that they're not gonna
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Speaker 1: let you play totally your game. So that so during
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Speaker 1: the course of a game you find your footing. And
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Speaker 1: that's both on both sides of the ball. You mentioned
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Speaker 1: Moore about hockey and before I beget hey, Sean, I
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Speaker 1: love how you talked about your food choices at the
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Speaker 1: Delta Center and the hockey game last night. Forget about
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Speaker 1: winning or losing. I'm impressed by your food choices.
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Speaker 3: You got to make a good food choice when you're
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Speaker 3: especially if you get to attend these things with some regularity,
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Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Yes, when you're on little
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Speaker 3: inside baseball here, when you're on a press pass or
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Speaker 3: a media pass at the Jazz games, you get that
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Speaker 3: Toyota Club little wristband, Gordy, it's real easy to go
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Speaker 3: ham sandwich down there. You can get a little bit crazy.
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Speaker 3: You could destroy your diet with one Jazz game.
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Speaker 1: And or if you have really discipline as a person,
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Speaker 1: which I know you have, but also as the players have.
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Speaker 1: Also both on both sides of the ball. I've been
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Speaker 1: doing this showing for fifty three years, and so I'm
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Speaker 1: still curious how how you and James Peterson, how you
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Speaker 1: guys roll fifty three years doing this? And also more importantly,
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Speaker 1: just as important to say, the Jazz, the Jazz in particular,
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Speaker 1: they are that interesting, uh segue where they they have
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Speaker 1: some good players. They have good players, and so now
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Speaker 1: the question is can you keep adding to it? Ace Billy,
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Speaker 1: Let's not forget. Let's let's remember he's so young, and
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Speaker 1: he's coming off a good game the other night where
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Speaker 1: he got twenty points. But he's how he's got them,
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Speaker 1: and can he can he keep emerging? Right now? I
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Speaker 1: think he can.
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Speaker 3: It's really crazy how wrong the perception of Ace Bailey
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Speaker 3: was in that draft and post draft scenario. I mean,
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Speaker 3: the stink surrounding the agent and he doesn't want to
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Speaker 3: go here, he only wants to be drafted there. It
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Speaker 3: left the perception out there, which thankfully was wrong, that
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Speaker 3: this is a kid with diva tendencies and he's going
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Speaker 3: to try to be bigger than an organization and it's
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Speaker 3: not going to be a team first. And unless they're
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Speaker 3: doing just an incredible job in the Jazz organization of
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Speaker 3: squashing down any stories of bad behavior. He seems like
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Speaker 3: he's a model citizen, model teammate, model rookie whatever. I
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Speaker 3: just cannot get over how wrong that initial impression, that
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Speaker 3: first impression was of Ase Bailey.
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Speaker 1: And that's why all I know is what I see,
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Speaker 1: not what I hear. And so that's he'd be a
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Speaker 1: classic example of doing that. He plays with joy, and
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Speaker 1: he also has a whole bunch of talent and that
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Speaker 1: he's fitting a very nice here in Salt Lake City.
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Speaker 1: And from a team standpoint, he's going to be part,
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Speaker 1: absolutely part of the future. Him and Kiante George, those
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Speaker 1: guys will be will be here for a long long time.
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Speaker 1: And then now the Jazz as far as and so
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Speaker 1: so really we should be Larry marketing. What happens is
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Speaker 1: a lot of times out of sight is out of mind.
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Speaker 1: Larry Markin has some illness and that hopefully you'll play tonight,
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Speaker 1: and that if not, they're going to keep going forward.
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Speaker 1: As far as for the next game, this is Jazz
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Speaker 1: second game of a six game homestand and there's no
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Speaker 1: reason why that those guys the Jazz can't win a
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Speaker 1: whole bunch of these games, including tonight. This is good
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Speaker 1: for the Jazz. They're going to go against a good
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Speaker 1: team and the Spurs, who were once rebuilding now they're
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Speaker 1: trying to keep going forward with the second best record
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Speaker 1: in the West and the Jazz right now. The Jazz
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Speaker 1: right now, their record overall is fifteen and twenty nine,
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Speaker 1: ten and twelve at home and five and seventeen road,
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Speaker 1: and the Jazz are the thirteen in the West. They're
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Speaker 1: playing the second best team in the West. But I
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Speaker 1: think that Jaz can knock them out.
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Speaker 3: All right, We got Gordia Chiaza for another segment or
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Speaker 3: two here on The Sean O'Connell Show, so we're gonna
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Speaker 3: take advantage of that quick break here. We'll be back
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Speaker 3: with more on the NBA, including an approaching trade deadline.
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Speaker 3: Big name's still gonna be on the move or is
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Speaker 3: Sean O'Connell Show with Gordy Chiasa here on ESPN seven
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Speaker 3: hundred ninety two NFM, and also Prince.
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Speaker 1: This is different. In nineteen eighty two, I was at
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Speaker 1: a consint in Pasaic, New Jersey, and that was the
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Speaker 1: first time I ever saw people like in a Basha
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Speaker 1: pot pitt as far as you know them passing people around. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two.
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Speaker 4: Nineteen eighty two.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's when Prince was young, and he was it
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Speaker 1: was happening, to say the least, nineteen eighty two. I
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Speaker 1: know shown you born in nineteen eighty three, so I
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Speaker 1: know I'm dating myself in Jane James peasn't even younger
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Speaker 1: than you. However, Prince is really timeless.
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Speaker 4: To see Prince, to see a young Prince, yeah, be
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Speaker 4: pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, nineteen eighty two, pa Sake, New Jersey. I mean
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Speaker 1: he wrote the song nineteen ninety nine. He actually, you know,
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Speaker 1: wrote it way before then.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: It's crazy tonight, we're going to party like a nineteen
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Speaker 3: ninety nine looking at it like it was some distant
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Speaker 3: future event.
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Speaker 4: Now it's almost thirty years in our rear view. Yikes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, yikes. And that's both that's as you
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Speaker 1: keep moving on in the age group. It's the most
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Speaker 1: amazing how you look at different things of different prism.
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Speaker 1: And that's both personal life but also in sports. So
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Speaker 1: you know, who would have thought that that so and
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Speaker 1: so would be traded or that the New England Patriots
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Speaker 1: after Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, Sean, might they think, hey,
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Speaker 1: we can do this, we can win the whole thing.
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Speaker 3: They might be headed back to the super Bowl, right,
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Speaker 3: we'll find out this weekend.
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Speaker 1: So who would have thought that? I mean, but the
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Speaker 1: guys in the buildings did in New England and Foxborough?
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Speaker 1: Yes they did? And also the personal people. I know
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Speaker 1: I'm not objective because besides being a coach, I was
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Speaker 1: once with director pro personnel from the Memphis Grizzlies, so
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Speaker 1: I saw first hand that it's so important the personal
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Speaker 1: people if they get it right Sean, the majority of
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Speaker 1: the term, not every time. This is impossible. It's really
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Speaker 1: truly it. You're doing your behavior, but do you get
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Speaker 1: it right most of the time, your achievement go from
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Speaker 1: me from losing to winning relatively quickly.
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Speaker 3: So a bunch of these player personnel folks right now
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Speaker 3: are trying to figure out do I trade this guy away?
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Speaker 4: Can I go get that? Dude?
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Speaker 3: Do I need a role player? Do I need a star?
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Speaker 3: If I need a star, do I have the assets
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Speaker 3: to make it worth it? And one of the biggest
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Speaker 3: names that apparently is available with the approaching deadline would
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Speaker 3: be y Honest, the Greek Free And there are not
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Speaker 3: a lot of teams in the NBA who could even
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Speaker 3: put together in a package that would make the Milwaukee
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Speaker 3: Bucks consider it right now. But there's some teams that
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Speaker 3: are really good already that could potentially want to package
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Speaker 3: some things to go out and get Yannest. I've heard
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Speaker 3: the Spurs mentioned. I don't know if you believe that
22:49
Speaker 3: makes sense. We'll start there. Do you pair somebody like
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Speaker 3: that with Victor woman Yama? If you do so, you
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Speaker 3: probably have to get rid of a bunch of picks.
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Speaker 3: Do you have to give up Dylan Harper? Do you
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Speaker 3: have to give up a Stefan Castle type individual? Are
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Speaker 3: you willing to do that? Are the Spurs calling feeling
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Speaker 3: this out with the Milwaukee Bucks right now?
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Speaker 4: Do you think?
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Speaker 1: Yes, they're trying to, like Gold teams would be, they're
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Speaker 1: trying to explore it because Jannis really has not said publicly,
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Speaker 1: but he's hinted via his agent, is that what is
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Speaker 1: going on here in Milwaukee. Let's not forget that back
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, the Bucks were world champions. So
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Speaker 1: now let's fast forward it five years later. They're reckon.
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Speaker 1: Now is eighteen and twenty five, and they seem like
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Speaker 1: what they're heading not even remotely being competitive in the East.
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Speaker 1: And we know in NBA basketball that the Western Conference
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Speaker 1: is much more competitive from top to bottom than the
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Speaker 1: Eastern conferences. So Jannis is he's frustrated, and he is
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Speaker 1: He's basically saying that we need help dramatically and if
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Speaker 1: not least try to make it work as far as
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Speaker 1: trading me, and if not, right now this trading deadline,
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Speaker 1: which is Thursday, February fifth, definitely during the week of
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Speaker 1: the NBA draft. Gianni's contract just quickly for the listeners
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Speaker 1: right now, Jianna's contract this year is fifty one point
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Speaker 1: four million, twenty six, twenty seven fifty eight point four
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Speaker 1: and twenty seven to twenty eight sixty two point seven
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Speaker 1: million with a player option. I know these numbers seem
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Speaker 1: so are you kidding me about these numbers that are
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Speaker 1: unfathomable to think? And you're right you know all of
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Speaker 1: us like Sean I'll come, Gordon Siazer and James Peterson,
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Speaker 1: all these common folks that are on the air right now.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna we're common folks. These numbers are so incredible.
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Speaker 1: And do you realize that someday, someday Victor wen Biyama
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Speaker 1: and Luca danteg will be probably the first two players
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Speaker 1: ever to make one hundred million dollars in a season.
24:55
Speaker 1: Season I didn't say, I didn't say a lifetime. I'm
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Speaker 1: saying eight season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've we've done this before, right, We've gone over
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Speaker 3: the top earners in the sport. And how there's guys
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Speaker 3: now like Danilo Gallinari made more money in his career
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Speaker 3: than Michael Jordan did, like in terms of NBA salary,
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Speaker 3: and those numbers are just getting further and further inflated.
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Speaker 3: And this, by the way, still in a hard cap league.
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Speaker 3: That's not even bringing in the baseball conversation and how
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Speaker 3: insane some of those things get.
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Speaker 1: But and then the NFL is so cruel where it's
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Speaker 1: absolutely a hard cap, like it's hard. There's no like
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Speaker 1: gray area.
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Speaker 4: No aprons, there's no luxury tax.
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Speaker 1: Right exactly, And that's what makes it so interesting. In
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Speaker 1: the NFL where if you're champions, absolutely those those the
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Speaker 1: depth was these guys came came to your team and
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Speaker 1: they overperformed their their modest contract. And that's even including
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Speaker 1: in the NBA where the players when you're you go
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Speaker 1: deep in the playoffs, your contributors out did their contract
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Speaker 1: and that's why your team is really good to With
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Speaker 1: that said, here's some guys that could be in the
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Speaker 1: trading mix. Jonathan Kaminga from the Warriors. Now, Jimmy Butler
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Speaker 1: got hurt, so he's out till with a twenty ACL
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Speaker 1: he'll be out until minimum December first next year, twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty me this year, mean twenty twenty six and he's out.
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Speaker 1: So Kamia is gonna be gonna be try to possibly
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Speaker 1: be traded. So Michael Porter of the Nets will be
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Speaker 1: in play, Sack Lavine of the Kings, Kyle Kuzma, former
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Speaker 1: Utah standout from the Bucks will he will be if
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Speaker 1: they do make a trade for any to improve their roster,
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Speaker 1: he'll be part of that that group right now. Cam
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Speaker 1: Thomas are the next. Also Damari de Rosen of the Kings,
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Speaker 1: Nick Vussevich of the Bulls that everybody likes. His contracts
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Speaker 1: up this year, so he has a lot of value
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Speaker 1: that it makes him much more tradable for the in
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Speaker 1: Jazz basketball, it could be someone like Kyle Anderson as
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Speaker 1: far as getting more assets for the jadge George Nyang,
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Speaker 1: who's who's been hurt but now possibly could be playing
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Speaker 1: his far off injury. He'll be in play, as it
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Speaker 1: could be Jeremy Jeremy Grant Partney of the Portland Trailblazers
27:17
Speaker 1: will be out there. Daniel Gafford of the MAVs everybody
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Speaker 1: likes because of them not winning, but also because he's
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Speaker 1: He's a contract is truly friendly. So and then if
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Speaker 1: you don't get a guy right now, there'll be some
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Speaker 1: buy out options at between the between February fifth and
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Speaker 1: March first, if you play in the NBA, if you
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Speaker 1: want to, you can't be bought out, and some with
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Speaker 1: another team after March first. So he goes from the
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Speaker 1: trading deadline, then the buying option, and then after March first.
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Speaker 1: Then your roster's basically said.
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Speaker 3: If you're if you're in the trade market for let's
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Speaker 3: let's talk about Let's talk about these top top guys
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Speaker 3: kaminga I think is interesting for some teams. But let's
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Speaker 3: let's stick with the most familiar name here. You're the
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Speaker 3: Milwaukee Bucks. What do you need to get back in
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Speaker 3: order to send one of the top three top four
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Speaker 3: players in the history of your organization who still has
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Speaker 3: what do you think Gordy three or four maybe five
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Speaker 3: good years of basketball.
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Speaker 1: Left right now? He's age thirty one right now.
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Speaker 4: Right so, I mean he could play in his mid thirties,
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Speaker 4: very successful.
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Speaker 1: Very much.
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Speaker 3: Yes, So what do you need if you're in Milwaukee
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Speaker 3: to say, all right, fine, well, let he kind of
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Speaker 3: wants to go, but you're not gonna sell him.
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Speaker 1: Cheap, No, you're not. So that's when it gets so interesting.
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Speaker 1: It would be a minimum to front light starts and
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Speaker 1: minimum two or three future first round picks and alternate
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Speaker 1: years usually speaking, and it could be a freeway trade
28:51
Speaker 1: with another team involved to make everything work as far
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Speaker 1: as the money and the players. So it's a whole
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Speaker 1: bunch of things that they're going to try to do.
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Speaker 1: So it's got to be high draft picks, meaning first
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Speaker 1: round draft picks, which usually should be most times for Giannis,
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Speaker 1: would be protected through one through four with that team
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Speaker 1: and then also with standout players that are somewhat younger.
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Speaker 1: So if it was if it was just hypothetically with
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Speaker 1: someone like say the the San Antonio Spurs, it would
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Speaker 1: be it would be so like the Aren't Fox type
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Speaker 1: guy or Dylan Harper or Keldon Johnson, Jeremy Sohan as
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Speaker 1: far as making money work, Harrison Bonds to make the
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Speaker 1: money work, et cetera, Devin Voss Sol They have a
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Speaker 1: lot of different assets that they possibly could. So we
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Speaker 1: shall see if a Giannis can do that, and it
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Speaker 1: will affect the NBA as far as I call it
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Speaker 1: court tilt. If if a star player gets traded before
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Speaker 1: the deadline, is that and he's really he's really a
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Speaker 1: top player, that it would it would create so much
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Speaker 1: as far as court till for the team and possibly
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Speaker 1: for the whole conference. Where now things changed dramatically, and
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Speaker 1: that was Luca Donchers last year. Remember when they trade
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Speaker 1: Luca Danci. They just think about this Lakers right now
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Speaker 1: without Luca Dantis they would be hurting unbelievable. So what
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Speaker 1: they made that miracle trade, what I call miracle? Did
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Speaker 1: you do you ever celebrate Christmas? Not in that In
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Speaker 1: December twenty fifth, well, the Lakers celebrated Christmas in early
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Speaker 1: February last year, yea early February, and so look at
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Speaker 1: the Lakers that they're right now. They're the fifth seed
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Speaker 1: at twenty six and sixteen, with Luca Donc's being absolutely
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Speaker 1: once in a lifetime generational talent. Lebron James is still
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Speaker 1: l averaging twenty two points a game at age forty one.
30:47
Speaker 1: And let's not forget Austin Reaves is hurt and Austin
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Speaker 1: Reaves having an amazing year of averaging to our twenty
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Speaker 1: seven point eight points per game, hasn't played in the
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Speaker 1: last month or so, and they're still highly competitive. Without Luca,
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Speaker 1: they'll be app would be there'd be a mess. And
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Speaker 1: that's what shows you how it happens, and that Luca
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Speaker 1: doctor Trede Anthony Davis. What happened goes from again a
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Speaker 1: star player. When the Lakers goes to the Dallas Mavericks.
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Speaker 1: They had a miracle with drafting Cooper Flagg as far
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Speaker 1: as being the first pick of a draft. He's a
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Speaker 1: generational talent. But the Mavericks are eighteen and twenty six
31:23
Speaker 1: and probably a non playoff team.
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Speaker 3: Gordia, this is apropos of almost nothing. But Steven Adams
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Speaker 3: is going semi viral right now because he is, uh,
31:36
Speaker 3: he's living the simple life right now. He put out
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Speaker 3: some videos of his his apartment set up, his living
31:43
Speaker 3: setup in Houston. And this is a guy who's made
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Speaker 3: almost two hundred million dollars so far in NBA contracts,
31:49
Speaker 3: and he's he's doing like an MTV Cribs kind of thing,
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Speaker 3: laughing at himself. He's got like a folding table with
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Speaker 3: a video game system and a gaming chair. He's got
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Speaker 3: a mattress on the floor. He sleeps in a sleeping
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Speaker 3: bag because he says it's better to sleep on us
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Speaker 3: on the floor for his back. And of course everyone's
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Speaker 3: just like, are you kidding me?
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Speaker 1: This guy?
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's got no furniture in this place. He's
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Speaker 3: very clearly living a simple life. So who's the Who's
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Speaker 3: the guy that lived most simply or the player that
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Speaker 3: you like, Wow, Like, this is a guy who's saving
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Speaker 3: it all for when he's retired.
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Speaker 1: When he's retired, let me see a simple.
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Speaker 4: But I don't know what. I don't know what Steven
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Speaker 4: Adams' plan is.
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Speaker 1: But seven amos though, but also rights not let's not
32:37
Speaker 1: forget in a present tense, he has a severe sprained ankle. Yes,
32:40
Speaker 1: so part of me's not playing until roughly March twentieth.
32:43
Speaker 1: So he's home right now rehabbing and he's not playing.
32:47
Speaker 1: So this is part of why he's, uh, why he's
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Speaker 1: on social media to the extream showing off his crib.
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Speaker 1: And so what guy would be like that? I have
32:58
Speaker 1: to think about that because I know in jazz basketball
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Speaker 1: over the years most people were absolutely, relatively strongly serious
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Speaker 1: about about doing that. But let me think of next
33:09
Speaker 1: time we speak, I will think about wanted to well again,
33:13
Speaker 1: word that the late great Bill Walton was like that?
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Speaker 1: Well yeah, like a free spirit? Oh sure, yeah, like
33:19
Speaker 1: Bill Walton, you know, as far as a free spirit
33:21
Speaker 1: and you know, just minimum things as far as what
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Speaker 1: he would do.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he had his TP We know that.
33:27
Speaker 3: There's it's fascinating because we have all these stories right
33:30
Speaker 3: of professional athletes, NFL players, NBA players, whatever. They just
33:35
Speaker 3: squander all their money, they spend lavishly, and then it's gone.
33:39
Speaker 3: And then you've got these that you hear about a
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Speaker 3: lot less often of guys that don't spend any of
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Speaker 3: their money. The Gronx story went viral a couple of
33:47
Speaker 3: years ago where he was like, yeah, I've never spent
33:50
Speaker 3: any of my my NFL salary. I just used my
33:53
Speaker 3: endorsement money to live on. And people are like, what,
33:55
Speaker 3: how do you pull that off? But obviously you can.
33:59
Speaker 3: And this is just fascinating. I mean, Steven Adams is
34:01
Speaker 3: a different cat. His you know, New Zealand roots and
34:05
Speaker 3: it comes from that massive, massive family and all that
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Speaker 3: seventeen kids.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's that's how he grew up a different
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Speaker 1: culture right now, and good for him and for the Rockets.
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Speaker 1: You know, he he's hurt and so he's sitting out
34:20
Speaker 1: and they need him badly because he's a contributor. He's
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Speaker 1: one of the best screens in the NBA and Sean
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Speaker 1: he's a free spirit with the swag.
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Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna take one more break.
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Speaker 3: Gordy's gonna join us one more segment and we'll do
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Speaker 3: his list and then we'll cut him loose. Eric Weddle's
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Speaker 3: gonna join us in our number three. Sounds like that'll
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Speaker 3: have to be about one fifteen, So a programming note there,
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Speaker 3: Eric Weddle at one fifteen instead of at one o'clock
34:48
Speaker 3: when he normally joins us plenty left to get to
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Speaker 3: on the Sean O'Connell Show at ESPN seven hundred and
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Speaker 3: ninety one.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Sean O'Connell Show from the Murdoch
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Speaker 2: Hunting Studio of ESPN seven hundred and ninety two to
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Speaker 2: one half m.
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Speaker 3: Gordia Chiaysa has been kind enough to hang us out
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Speaker 3: with us for an hour, and even more kind in
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Speaker 3: that our our schedule with Morgan Scalley got shifted around
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Speaker 3: a little bit, so we had to push Gordy back
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Speaker 3: to the full noon hour instead of eleven thirty twelve thirty.
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Speaker 4: Always appreciate you being accommodating, Gordy.
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Speaker 3: If you missed the Morgan Scalley interview, you can find
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Speaker 3: at ESPN seven hundred sports dot com or on the
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Speaker 3: ESPN seven hundred app. And I bet that they'll play
35:36
Speaker 3: at least some of it on the Drive with Spence
35:38
Speaker 3: Checkets later today. But we're still talking a little hoop
35:41
Speaker 3: with Gordychiasa Jazz versus the Spurs tonight at the Delta Center.
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Speaker 4: And then it'll be a what a six game? They
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Speaker 4: got a six game homestand.
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Speaker 1: This the fifth one of a six game homest. That's right,
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Speaker 1: the second one tonight, so there'll be a it's sixth
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Speaker 1: total and the games of so quickly, here's the homestand
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Speaker 1: would be they It was recently it was the Wolves,
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Speaker 1: then the Spurs, the Heat on Saturday. Then next Tuesday
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Speaker 1: the Clippers, which is eight o'clock start. That game's on Peacock.
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Speaker 1: Next Wednesday, the Warriors, and the following Friday, January thirtieth,
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Speaker 1: the Nets. So it's it's so this is the second
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Speaker 1: game of a six game homestand then the Jazz go
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Speaker 1: away for five straight games. And welcome to the NBA
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Speaker 1: where a lot of it's these long home stands and
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Speaker 1: then these really really competitive road trips and that's when
36:37
Speaker 1: you earn your earn your dollars when you win on
36:39
Speaker 1: the road.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the road, the road trip after this long home
36:43
Speaker 3: stand Toronto, Indiana, Atlanta, Orlando, Miami. So long travel for
36:50
Speaker 3: those ones.
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Speaker 1: And shown just for a note is that the Jazz
36:53
Speaker 1: will be in Atlanta on trading deadline day, so Thursday,
36:58
Speaker 1: February fifth, those players will be in Atlanta, which means
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Speaker 1: also on Wednesday, the day before the trading deadline, they're
37:08
Speaker 1: being Atlanta because the Jazz played Tuesday on February third, Indiana.
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Speaker 1: So usually speaking you fla after the game to the
37:15
Speaker 1: next site or the next day, probably in the morning
37:19
Speaker 1: either or based on what's going on. And so that's
37:22
Speaker 1: an interesting time shown where everyone's circling around your team
37:27
Speaker 1: about who might be traded, whether it's true or not.
37:30
Speaker 1: But the players know about it because their loved ones
37:33
Speaker 1: keep telling them and their agents they're on the phone
37:36
Speaker 1: all the time talking to them that it's possible you
37:39
Speaker 1: might not be traded, or don't believe that it's not.
37:42
Speaker 1: And so it's really interesting where your world would change
37:47
Speaker 1: for you or for a player. We used to always
37:48
Speaker 1: counsel the guys showing that if we traded you, that
37:52
Speaker 1: we we appreciate what you did, and then we braced
37:55
Speaker 1: the new guy we traded before he would come into
37:58
Speaker 1: the locker room, and that it's all part of the
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Speaker 1: professional sports where you might have to re locate to
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Speaker 1: stay employed. So if someone moves you on, that means
38:08
Speaker 1: someone also wants you as far as being on their team,
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Speaker 1: So it's both.
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Speaker 4: All right, Gordy, what is the list today?
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Speaker 1: The list today is the New Orleans, Utah Jazz Korea
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Speaker 1: triple double game leaders. It's a very short list thew
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Speaker 1: Orleans Jazz Utah Jazz Korea triple double game leaders. What
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Speaker 1: the triple double? A triple double is recorded when a
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Speaker 1: player registers ten or more and three of the following
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Speaker 1: five game categories. They are one points, two assist, three rebounds,
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Speaker 1: four steals, and five block shots. The New Orleans Jazz
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Speaker 1: first season as an NBA franchise was the nineteen seventy
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Speaker 1: four seventy five campaign, which means that fifty one seasons
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Speaker 1: of New Orleans and Utah Jazz basketball. Here's the list
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Speaker 1: of only eleven players that had a triple double in
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Speaker 1: their career. Gail Gerridge had won, Joe Merriweather had won,
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Speaker 1: and both those guys played for the New Orleans Jazz.
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Speaker 1: Adrian Dantley had won, Danny Chase had won, Carlos Boozer
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Speaker 1: had won, Jordan Clarkson had won, Yusuf Nurkice had won
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Speaker 1: the other day a triple double versus the Minnesota Timberwolves
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Speaker 1: with three triple doubles, they are Cal Malone and Andre Carolinko.
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Speaker 1: The second most triple doubles in Jazz history is Mark
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Speaker 1: Eaton with six wow, and the number one player in
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Speaker 1: New Orleans, Utah Jazz history for the most cooreer triple
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Speaker 1: doubles is Pete Maravich with seven. So only eleven players
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Speaker 1: and Jazz history of all the guys played of fifty
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Speaker 1: one seasons, had a regular season triple double. What about
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Speaker 1: John Stockton? John Stockton played for the Jazz for nineteen years.
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Speaker 1: He played spectacularly in one thousand, five hundred and four
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Speaker 1: Korea games. He never had a regular season triple double. Game.
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Speaker 1: He had one triple double was in a playoff battle
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Speaker 1: versus the Dallas Mavericks on April twenty eight, two thousand.
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Speaker 1: I remember the game vividly. He scored twelve points, eleven
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Speaker 1: rebounds and tennis sists. So that's how hard it is.
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Speaker 1: So use the nurcage other day with that unbelievable showing
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Speaker 1: great fruit passing with that ball had registered at tennis
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Speaker 1: cists besides the rebounds and points. And he joined the
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Speaker 1: very very exclusive club of on eleven players and jess
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Speaker 1: history triple double.
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Speaker 3: Who will finish their NBA careers with more triple doubles.
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Speaker 3: Russell Westbrook, the current record holder, or Nicola Jokic, who
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Speaker 3: is twenty seven behind him.
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Speaker 1: Jokiclutely Jokic could get a triple double literally in eight
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Speaker 1: tenths of his games in his career the way he
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Speaker 1: plays again, think about the criteria rebounds, assist points, steals
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Speaker 1: and block shots. He could do that literally almost every
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Speaker 1: game and he has. He's hurt right now, so he's
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Speaker 1: out of sight, out of mind, but he is absolutely
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Speaker 1: a triple double. He is so and also showing he's
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Speaker 1: another guy, young guy alpha On Chagoon from the Houston Rockets.
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Speaker 1: He's a younger version of of Nikolai Jokic and he's
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Speaker 1: also guy. So it's so amazing that both these big guys,
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Speaker 1: including Yusuf Nurkice, all these European guys from the Baltic
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Speaker 1: states meaning what as far as Bosnia and uh and
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Speaker 1: the Lithuanian all these different players included the bonus Domatos
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Speaker 1: the bone. It's also triple doubles. He's hurt right now,
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Speaker 1: he's back now off injury, but he's hurt there and
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Speaker 1: the start the season. All these big guys have so
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Speaker 1: many great passing skills, so it should be Nikolai Joki.
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Speaker 1: So enjoy enjoying right now all of basketball fans. I
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Speaker 1: know he's a Jazz nemesis, you play against them in
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Speaker 1: the same division, but he's really a spectacular player.
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Speaker 3: That's Gordy Chiaza, our resident NBA Guru, Gordia It's always
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Speaker 3: great to see you.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, sir.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Sean, peace out.