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7-01-26 Hour 1 - LeBron to the Nuggets?/World Cup update with Rapids Coach Matt Wells/Bo Byram got PAID · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, Vic, because they just came across
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  Speaker 2: two separate videos in the last forty five seconds on Twitter,
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  Speaker 2: and it made me laugh out loud about the difference between.
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  Speaker 2: I said yesterday, I think this offseason might kill Nuggets fans.
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  Speaker 2: It might because you have these Jokic nut sunny, the
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  Speaker 2: contract rumors, the Peyton Watson stuffs up in the air.
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  Speaker 2: You look at free agency yesterday, you thought the one
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  Speaker 2: lay up the Nuggets might have is sign Jokic's friend
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  Speaker 2: bog Don Bogdanovitch. Well he goes to Houston.
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  Speaker 3: Bogdan bogd on Big Don Bagdon.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, Nuggets fans are spiraling. And you know
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  Speaker 2: what I just saw in two separate video. I saw
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  Speaker 2: Jokic drinking and singing his face off at a karaoke
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  Speaker 2: bar in Serbia last night. And I saw MPJ and
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  Speaker 2: Peyton Watson and Aaron Gordon and partying in France. They
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  Speaker 2: aren't taking this the same way that many Nuggets fans
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  Speaker 2: are right now, just the difference between a hammered Yokic
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  Speaker 2: singing whatever serbian song that was.
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  Speaker 3: Let's start small, Let's start okay, go ahead, let's start small.
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  Speaker 3: And this news should not come to anyone's surprise, no one,
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  Speaker 3: No one should be surprised this morning that Tim Hardaway
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  Speaker 3: Junior is no longer a Nugget. And all right, take
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  Speaker 3: in all this Nuggets news however you please, if you
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  Speaker 3: want to panic, fine, But we told you what was
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  Speaker 3: going to happen this offseason. I think I I alerted
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  Speaker 3: you what was going to happen, and I think I
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  Speaker 3: told you about a month or two ago. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 3: was not going to be a fun time for Nuggets
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  Speaker 3: fans who think, well, got to take the next level,
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  Speaker 3: bring in more players. You're gonna lose players. It is
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  Speaker 3: a gap year barring a crazy trade in the next
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  Speaker 3: two days. And how I categorized trade. How crazy is
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  Speaker 3: what they did? What that's crazy? Losing guys was going
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  Speaker 3: to happen, bound to happen, And that's just it. Tim
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  Speaker 3: Hardaway Junior could not get paid what Miami just paid them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just so you know, not here in Denver. He couldn't
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  Speaker 3: get paid that much. In Denver, and it wasn't that much.
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  Speaker 3: What's he making over there? Six mil? Something like that?
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  Speaker 3: It was five point something. Yeah, okay, he wasn't gonna
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  Speaker 3: get that here. So he's gone. That's one piece and
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  Speaker 3: the pieces keep coming and I don't know where they
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  Speaker 3: go from here. I don't know how you replace him. Well,
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  Speaker 3: bog Don Bogdanovich was supposed to be the replacement, the
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  Speaker 3: shooter off the pinch. He's gone. Yeah, what's his salary
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  Speaker 3: in Houston?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see the official number from him yet. I
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  Speaker 2: was kind of looking, couldn't find it.
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  Speaker 3: How much you'll make a bet it's more than the
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  Speaker 3: veteran minimum?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would assume so just because hemm, the veteran
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  Speaker 2: sharpshooter joined the Rockets on a minimum salary contracts. So
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  Speaker 2: now it wasn't wow yeah wow, that's according to AI.
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  Speaker 2: So I gotta see that.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I got it. This is on spot track.
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  Speaker 2: It's a two point five million dollar deal against the
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  Speaker 2: cap anyway, three point eight in cash.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, minimum. Yeah. So why would he choose Houston
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  Speaker 3: over Denver? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But oh okay, there was a report that the Nuggets
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  Speaker 2: might be interested. Maybe they weren't, and I would have
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  Speaker 2: to imagine Vic. Here's just what's going on in my head.
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  Speaker 2: If Jokics was like, I really want you to sign
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  Speaker 2: my friend, that would have been done. You would have
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  Speaker 2: found a way to get that done.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe down together right now he and his friend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, dude, I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have answers to this. Jokics didn't seem all that upset,
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  Speaker 2: So I'm saying, so, here's the other thing that happened yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to have the fun discussion first or
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  Speaker 2: the real discussion first? Which one regarding Lebron James leaving
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  Speaker 2: LA by the way a second after we got off
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  Speaker 2: the air, literally one second afterwards.
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  Speaker 3: Would you do with the fun one or the realistic one.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go realistic first.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Realistically, he's not coming here, we all know it. Realistically,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be stunned. This opens up a lot of cap space,
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  Speaker 2: combined with the Kawhi trade, for both teams in LA
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  Speaker 2: to make a run at Peyton Watson.
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  Speaker 3: That's the realistic part. I think.
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  Speaker 2: If we're staying in the realism part, just because they
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  Speaker 2: have more money now on the books, that shouldn't change
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  Speaker 2: how much money they're willing to offer a player. You
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  Speaker 2: don't give a guy more money if you think he's
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  Speaker 2: a certain dollar value just because you have more money.
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  Speaker 2: You do it because you believe he's really good. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that part of this, this sort of spiral
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  Speaker 2: from Nuggets fans, and I Heardmac.
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  Speaker 3: Talking about this Yesterday's say, I'm very concerned.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you think a product is worth twenty bucks,
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  Speaker 2: but you have one hundred dollars to spend, you don't
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  Speaker 2: spend eighty on it just because you have the money.
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  Speaker 2: You stay to your number. And I still think that
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  Speaker 2: Peyton Watson is going to be somewhere in the ballpark
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  Speaker 2: of like twenty two to twenty five million. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think just because they don't have Lebron and Kawhi anymore,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna spend thirty five on Peyton Watson. So that's
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  Speaker 2: not my concern. So that's just staying in the realism
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  Speaker 2: department to start this first.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the more time that goes by without somebody throwing
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  Speaker 3: an off for sheet at Peyton Watson is good news. Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 3: because when they throw an off for sheet at him,
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  Speaker 3: it ties up that money and they can't do anything
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  Speaker 3: else in free agency. Correct, that's one of the reasons
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  Speaker 3: why they're not doing it. But the longer it goes,
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  Speaker 3: the better. But let's say that the Nuggets go as
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  Speaker 3: is and Peyton Watson returns and they don't move anybody else.
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  Speaker 3: They will be in the repeater tax, they will be
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  Speaker 3: in the luxury tax. They will be in that zone.
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  Speaker 3: So they will be spending more money than they did
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  Speaker 3: last year. Is that good enough? No?
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I really think this is gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a game of patience, because I don't think that that's
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  Speaker 2: what's gonna happen. There's gonna be some sort of move.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's today, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: it's tomorrow. I don't know if it's a week, a month,
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  Speaker 2: But I think they're going to do something regarding that number,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's trading a player or whatever, because it's the
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  Speaker 2: only thing that really makes sense right now is they
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  Speaker 2: got to move off that.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's happening right now? Last year they went
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  Speaker 3: out of the way to fortify the bench, right, and
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  Speaker 3: we said, gosh, this is the deepest team they've had
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  Speaker 3: in years, right, Do we not say that? Yeah? Right
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  Speaker 3: now the Nuggets are on pace. Who is coming off
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  Speaker 3: the bench?
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm, well you have Cam Slash, Peyton Watson. If
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  Speaker 2: everything's coming back, it's them, and then who Strather.
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  Speaker 3: What's up with Bruce? I don't know. I think Bruce
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  Speaker 3: will be available. I think Bruce, barring something outside of
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  Speaker 3: the vet minimum, will be available. The bogdan Bogdanovich surprised me.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he was in their back pocket. I thought
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  Speaker 3: he was going to be the replacement for THHJ. A
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  Speaker 3: shooter off the bench, and that's the element that Hardaway provided,
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  Speaker 3: the space or the shooter off the bench. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: still have to replace Valanchotnis. They haven't acted yet on
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  Speaker 3: valentiis by the way, have you noticed that they being
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  Speaker 3: what like? I mean, they haven't acted on him yet.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't announced his team option. That's a team option.
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  Speaker 2: For contrast, well, what's with the news that he's already
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  Speaker 2: signed with some team back home.
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  Speaker 3: The Nuggets own his rights. It's a team option.
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  Speaker 2: Answer you a question, why would the Nuggets want to
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  Speaker 2: bring him back?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying they will. I don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if they choose to, it would tie up nine million
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  Speaker 3: dollars in cap space for a guy they didn't really use. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: are they working on a sign in trade?
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  Speaker 2: What sign trade salary dump for some bad team sort
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  Speaker 2: of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe another team that I don't know. The machinations of
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  Speaker 3: that one, I don't know. But he has not been
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  Speaker 3: moved yet. He's still on the roster, he's still occupying
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  Speaker 3: cap space.
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  Speaker 2: Well that yeah, that part. I I'm just assuming that
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  Speaker 2: that'll get worked out on its own. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: not coming back, So whether he goes and plays in
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  Speaker 2: Europe and they declined the team on option, or they
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  Speaker 2: do what they.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of did with Dario last year, I suppose that's
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  Speaker 3: a hell of an assumption to make. We've all made it.
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  Speaker 3: But I also thought bog Donald was going to replace
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  Speaker 3: Tim Hardaway Junior. I also thought Jalen Pickett would would
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  Speaker 3: come back, just because he's a low, low paid bench
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  Speaker 3: player who they need to fill out the bench.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what I'm saying. There's too much of this
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  Speaker 2: stuff going on where you you assumed you had players
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  Speaker 2: on the roster that you didn't and now you need
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  Speaker 2: to fill out a roster. They have something going on
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  Speaker 2: right now. We just don't know it.
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  Speaker 3: You understand, Tim Hardaway's move is totally understandable. Last year, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: last year he was making two point two million dollars
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  Speaker 3: with the Nuggets. He made a vet minimum two point
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  Speaker 3: at working out the three two point three million dollars,
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  Speaker 3: he more than doubled his income to go to Miami.
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  Speaker 3: He's from Miami, played high school ball in Miami, his
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  Speaker 3: dad played in Miami. He gets a chance to play
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  Speaker 3: with Giannis in Miami. I get that move.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's part of the realistic discussion surrounding the Lebron
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  Speaker 2: exit and Kawhi exit is same thing for him, right,
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  Speaker 2: both of those teams that would hypothetically be interested in
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  Speaker 2: signing him to a contract to both reside in the
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  Speaker 2: place that he's from.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's from that area, and so is that
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  Speaker 3: a factor? I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of the difference with the Watson stuff is being
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  Speaker 2: restricted is a very very very different thing. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter how Let's say he really badly wants to go
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  Speaker 2: to La Well, much like you said with Valentiunis, the
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  Speaker 2: Nuggets own the right to match anything that happens with him,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not his choice.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you have to worry as much about
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  Speaker 3: the Lakers, because I think what the Lakers are doing
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  Speaker 3: now with the Lebron out and that cap space opening up,
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  Speaker 3: they have a considerable amount of cap space to work
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  Speaker 3: with not having Lebron on the roster, they're looking at
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  Speaker 3: a center. I think they're trying to steal Walker Kessler
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  Speaker 3: from Utah on a restricted free agent deal. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: think they're targeting him. And again, when you occupy your
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  Speaker 3: money in that negotiation, you can't use your money for
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  Speaker 3: something else. That is the risk you take when you're
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  Speaker 3: dealing with restricted free agents. So the longer this goes
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  Speaker 3: on for the Nuggets, the better. The longer no one
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  Speaker 3: makes an offer at Peyton Watson, it's great news.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the you're right because the second you make an
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  Speaker 2: offer to a restrict and free agent, if they say yes,
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  Speaker 2: that money's gone.
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  Speaker 3: Boom. Even if they say no, that money's gone. Until
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  Speaker 3: the other team responds yep, that money's no longer there,
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  Speaker 3: you can't eat.
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  Speaker 2: There is there like a deadline on how soon a
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  Speaker 2: team needs to respond to an offer sheet like that.
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  Speaker 3: I think right now, even offer sheets made I just
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  Speaker 3: saw this, they have until July seventh.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So if you really want to screw a team over.
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  Speaker 2: You could just hang on to that until the very
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  Speaker 2: last minute.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose.
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  Speaker 2: But again, I think that's more of the realistic discussion.
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  Speaker 2: There's a more fun one that we could have.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I get the fun one, and I know where
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna go. The fun one is Lebron James signs
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  Speaker 3: with the Denver Nuggets.
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  Speaker 2: Well, not even not even that he signs here, I cause,
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  Speaker 2: again I don't think it's remotely possible.
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  Speaker 3: I think, why do you not think it's possible. Well,
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  Speaker 3: here's the report, this from Chris Haynes.
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  Speaker 2: Lebron James will be patient and open minded and selecting
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  Speaker 2: his next destination, but the priority is having a realistic
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  Speaker 2: chance at competing for a championship. He remains committed to
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  Speaker 2: playing at the highest level. He also mentioned that on
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  Speaker 2: this deal, I don't know exactly what this means, but
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  Speaker 2: he's not looking for cash like he's He's not looking
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  Speaker 2: for a fifty million dollars deal for a year.
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  Speaker 3: He's willing to play at a discount.
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  Speaker 2: Does that mean a minimum or does that mean thirty
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  Speaker 2: million as opposed to fifty I don't know. But the
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  Speaker 2: fun discussion to me is, well, you asked White wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: he come here? I know that he had. He gave
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  Speaker 2: a meeting to Kronkey was at twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and he.
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  Speaker 2: Was at least receptive to that. It just doesn't feel
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  Speaker 2: like Denver's a place he would go for this reason.
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  Speaker 2: When Lebron does move like this, he makes a move
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  Speaker 2: and the typically what he wants is he wants to
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  Speaker 2: compete for a championship. Yes, but he also wants to
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  Speaker 2: do it with his buddies. Everywhere he's gone, he's had that.
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  Speaker 2: He's done it with Kyrie, He's done it with d Wade,
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  Speaker 2: He's done it with a d in Los Angeles. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't see him and Jokic on a banana boat
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  Speaker 2: anytime soon, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Like, I just don't that fit.
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  Speaker 2: Seems just too off to me.
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  Speaker 3: I got you, it doesn't. It doesn't fit the jigsaw
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  Speaker 3: puzzle that is. Yeah, everywhere he's gone, he's had a
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  Speaker 3: couple of players that he jives with. I get it now,
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  Speaker 3: I know where you're coming from. Listen, I would be
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  Speaker 3: my jaw would drop to the bottom of this desk
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  Speaker 3: if Lebron James signed with the Nuggets. Yeah, now, could
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  Speaker 3: it happen? Yes, does he have that person that you
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  Speaker 3: speak of, could be Josh Cronky, he and.
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  Speaker 2: Lebron are friends, could be And here's I want to
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  Speaker 2: get to something. On the other side, we also have
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  Speaker 2: Matt Wells, Rapids head coach, is going to join us
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  Speaker 2: in fifteen minutes. He's going to be our sort of
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  Speaker 2: World Cup liaison, giving us the breakdown on US and
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  Speaker 2: Bosnia tonight, along with everything else happening in the World Cup,
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  Speaker 2: including Rapids player Lucas Harrington was the youngest MLS player
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  Speaker 2: ever to compete in the World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk to him in fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Stick around, Rapids head coach Matt Wells is going to
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  Speaker 2: join us in ten minutes give us a breakdown of
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  Speaker 2: the US and Bosnia Artzegovina game that starts at six
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  Speaker 2: o'clock tonight. Just to continue the fun part of this discussion.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what I think is fun. The fun part to
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  Speaker 2: me is just asking this question out loud and seeing
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  Speaker 2: people respond. Would you want Lebron here? If he said
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  Speaker 2: I want to play for the Nuggets. I think there's
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  Speaker 2: a huge group of Nuggets fans that would say no.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that would I think that'd be silly,
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  Speaker 2: cause if I ask you this basic question, let's just
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  Speaker 2: say stars a ligne, he's telling the truth that he'll
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  Speaker 2: come here on a vet minimum. You get a player
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  Speaker 2: who averages twenty points, six boards and seven assists per night.
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  Speaker 2: You have a much better shot at winning a title
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  Speaker 2: if he's on your roster, much better. I think you'd
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  Speaker 2: be I think you'd be crazy to let your personal
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  Speaker 2: sort of feelings towards that guy affect that decision.
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  Speaker 3: The only concern with Lebron is when does the sand
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  Speaker 3: stop running? You know, out of that little sand clock.
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  Speaker 3: When when does it end? Is there that one injury
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  Speaker 3: that ends it?
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  Speaker 4: Is? You know?
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  Speaker 3: That's the only concern for me is you're not getting
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  Speaker 3: a young guy who's gonna give you your two or
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  Speaker 3: three years here. You're wondering if the expiration date hits
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  Speaker 3: during the season. That's the only concern I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna ask you something that's hard to answer because you
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  Speaker 3: have to look at it in one year rather than
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  Speaker 3: five years. Is Lebron James next year would he be
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  Speaker 3: better for your team than Peyton Watson? Uh? For next year? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: One year? Yeah? He would? I agree?
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  Speaker 2: Now, I you asked just for the short one.
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  Speaker 3: For the long term, you would lose. You would lose
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  Speaker 3: the ability to keep Peyton Watson. So if you came
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  Speaker 3: down to that decision, that's what it would be. But
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  Speaker 3: if you had to decide, I would know Peton Watson
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  Speaker 3: and Lebron James. I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: Again, if you're telling me like I'm gonna die within
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  Speaker 2: a year, then yeah, I do it. But I think
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  Speaker 2: it's too important to the long term stability. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know if that's like a guarantee you win
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  Speaker 2: a championship, and so you'd be risking the future years
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  Speaker 2: of not having Peyton Watson.
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  Speaker 3: I know. I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it. I would.
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  Speaker 2: You would say, like, let's say, uh, the Lakers do
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  Speaker 2: a sign in trade, they signed Lebron to a one
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  Speaker 2: year deal.
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  Speaker 3: You would trade Peyton Watson for that? Yeah, I would.
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  Speaker 3: It's a year to your league, it's become a year
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  Speaker 3: to your league. You don't know what's gonna happen the
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  Speaker 3: year after that. Hell, we don't even know right now.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Nikole Jokich hasn't signed anything. We don't know any I mean,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: there are so many question marks regarding the Nuggets right now,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: we don't have answers. Here's why. The more this stuff
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: happens right by the way, by Cola not signing Bogdan
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Bogdanovitch going to Houston and Nicola not signing them, not
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: add anybody, Nicolon not signing, Tim Hardaway Junior leaving Nicolon
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: not signing. It just makes that more pronounced.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you this much, dude, And this is what's weird.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I would I would caution Nuggets fans to use some
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: patients in handling this offseason, because they do think they're
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: trying to get their ducks in a row for the
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Peyton Watson thing first. But it's hard to do that
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: when think about it this way, Vick, did the Broncos
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: have a fun off season?
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Not really.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: You made the big Wattle trade, but that was kind
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: of it the Avs. I know that free agency opens
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: up at ten o'clock this morning, and maybe we get
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: some fun stuff, but for the moment, you've just been
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: offloading guys that you like, like Jack Jurin Vonachushkin. The
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Rockies haven't signed anybody for years, and now the Nuggets
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: are just kind of sitting there twddling the thumbs. It's
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: been an off season for all of these teams in
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: which you're kind of like, when's it my turn?
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: We need a full season of KB, when's.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: It my turn for the fun? And it's like no
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: fun for you yet?
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: No fun?
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: But again, remember wow, yeah, it's.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Were you just doing jump ropes? Were jump roping in
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: the attic?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Did you just run sprints? Would you come off of Yeah?
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: I already played eighteen this morning. Yeah, I just ran
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: off eighteen and I made my way here.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is how announce yourself to the show. This
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: is we're in the middle. Here's all I heard. It
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: was it was it was loud breathing.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Wow. Yeah, maybe it was the wind.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Maybe it was the wind unless the wind has long
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: now I don't think so.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: No, that was you for the last minute, So apologize
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: for it and then introduce yourself.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: I gotta stop breathing. You know, that's probably a good
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: that's probably a good thing overall. Just hey, mos, don't
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: breathe anymore as a human being, and you'll be okay.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Well, most in five minutes are gonna be joined by
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Rapids head coach Matt Wells to get a breakdown in
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: the US and Bosnia game tonight.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: But yeah, and I'm gonna try to get a better connection.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: So you guys do your thing. I'll see it a second.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, thanks for joining us in breathing and now
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: get a better connection.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: All right. Next, I heard what you.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Were saying about, you know, when are we gonna get ours? Like,
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: when are we gonna have some fun? When are we
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: gonna have any excitement? And so on? I think patience
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: is going to be a virtue here, guys. You don't
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: need to necessarily jump in with both feet and both
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: of hands and and you know, do something, just to
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: do something, make it right, because these teams are still
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: in really good shape. I mean, the Abs are still
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: the Abs are still in really good shape. And as
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: I've been saying, the team that's gonna take the ice
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: for a game one of the postseason ain't the team
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: you're looking at right now. It's gonna be different and
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: they're going to you know, look, I put my faith
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: in Joe Sachek, I really do. He knows what he's doing.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: And as far as the Nuggets are concerned, there's not
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: a whole lot you can do right now. But but
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: you know, try to prepare and give yourself the best
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: opportunity for the future.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you this much.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I know the Avs have an ability to do something
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: at ten o'clock, but in regards the Nuggets and yesterday,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I think things would have been a lot more stomachable
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: if they just got bogged on, because that's kind of
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: what we were promised. We were promised boged on, and
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: then Bogdon went to Houston and now it feels like, well,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: where do you go now? For just trying to fill
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: out the roster?
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Where do you go? Though?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: That's the part that I think is the most difficult
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: aspect of this. But yeah, we'll get there in just
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: a little bit.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Nellie.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Let me know when coach is ready to go, and
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: we'll get a preview of this US in Bosnia game tonight,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: along with everything else that's happening in the World Cup.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: You know, Lucas Harrington, the youngest MLS player to ever
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: compete in the World Cup, one of the one of
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: his dudes, and we'll talk to him now on the
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Ramas Law Hotline. Car accident you need Ramos Law Medical
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  Speaker 2: Doctrine Attorney ramas Law dot Com head coach of the Rapids,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Matt Wells joins us.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Matt, how you.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: Doing, how's a guing guys, Good to see you.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Good to see you, and we got a bunch to
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: ask you. I do want to ask you about your
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: team and what happens after this little international break period
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: in the season. But as far as the World Cup
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: overall thoughts on just the entertainment value a scale of
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: one to ten, where would you put it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: I think it's been outstanding tornament so far. I think
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: so far everything's sort of gone in the direction we
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: wanted it to. The US have had a really strong start.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: The stadiums have been great. I was fortunate enough to
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: take my coaching staff to Holland b Sweden, so we
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: popped over to that game in Houston on a day off,
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: which was a really good spectacle. And then I know
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: a lot of the guys in different international camps and
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: speaking to them, they're also complimentary of the training facilities,
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: the logistical side of the tournaments. I think so far
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: it's been a really strong one and it's something going
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: to get better now in the knockout stages.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Speaking of coach, I think this tournament is showing us
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that if your team has a finisher or finishers, you're
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: more apt to win, and that's what this tournament's become.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I'm watching I'm watching that game last night France and Sweden.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: That first goal by Embabe where he stopped, he circled
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: the ball. I mean, that's just elite level work. How
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: many players on Earth can pull off a move like
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: that besides Embabe.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: No, I think there's an argument maybe doesn't get the
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: credit he deserves. I think he's now he's now standing player.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: I think he's I think the tournament has been so
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: good from that respect, all the like you said, all that,
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: all the big guys have really come to the party.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: You can see that Ronaldo is itching to join it
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: as well. So yeah, I think it's been some some
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: great front half play from someone in my position. It's
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: brilliant because you get to show there's only two days ago,
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: showing Rap and Navarro individual clips of actually Brian Robbie
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: at Holland because al right, he hasn't stole the headlines,
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: but you look at his hold up play, his strength,
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: his movement, his attack in the box. I think there's
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: so many great examples for any young footballer are out
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: there to be watching some of the talents on show
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: in this tournament.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Head coach of the Rapids, Matt Wells with us from the
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: US perspective before we get to the game tonight, just
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: kind of overall, it feels like the US this team
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: is different from ones in the past, that they have
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: a much more legitimate shot than the year's past. What
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: do you think make this team different than one's previous?
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: Pochettino, You know, for me, it's funny coming over here,
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: obviously coming from England.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: And that I do correct me if I'm wrong. I
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: feel like there was a little.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Oh no, we lost him, Pochettino himself. So as soon
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: as I watched that first game, there was no surprise
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: to me because I was obviously the under twenty one
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: coach at Tottenham when Potch was the first team manager.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: I know what makes a Potch team how organized they are,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: how strong, how physical they are, and how dynamic they
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: can be in the attack and the final third. So
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: when I watched the US I was like, that's it's
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: a Pochettino team.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Coach. What is he doing then? Strategically? For those of
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: us who are uninformed with his strategies and schemes. What's
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: he doing that's different than other coaches?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: And apologies if you said it, you cut out for
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: a second, so maybe we missed it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no problem, Yeah, no, it's very I think first
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: of all is the pressing and the counterpressing. I think
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: that's a staple that we saw at Outhhampton and Tottenham
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: in the Premier League. But the counterpressing comes from the
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: position in first it's all well and good just having
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: good reactions when you lose the ball, but it's about
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: how your positioned before you lose the ball. And you've
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: seen that he's actually tweaked it game to game, but
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: certainly the first game against Paraguay really impressive how he
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: had sort of the line of three in the build up.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: You just have one player on each wing and then
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: you've got the four players or the three guys in
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: behind Balagan, so it just means you can attack. Essentially,
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: you can attack wide because you've got good speed on
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: the flanks for the second you lose the ball, you've
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: got so many bodies close to the ball on the inside.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: The counterpressing, I think it's been at the staple so far,
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: and probably the element that's got them this far into
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: the tournament.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: How much do you think the heat in humidity is
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: a factor in this or do you think the players
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: have adjusted pretty quick to it?
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: I think players have adjusted, and I don't know the
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: exact percentage, but say the game I was at Holland, Sweden.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Obviously the stadium's.
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: So good that the roofs up and the air conditions flowing,
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: so there's definitely no need for a hydration break in
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: a venue like that. But obviously has become a staple
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: of this tournament, which is not something I'm a big
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: fan of at all, So I don't think it plays
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: too much for a factor. I think for me, all
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: the teams are pretty much adjusted now, so I don't
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: think there can be any excuses on that on that part.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Are you surprised by any team that's still alive? I mean,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: the fact that Paraguay can beat Germany to me was stunning.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: But are you stunned or is this one of those
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: anything can happen moments.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: I was surprised with that one because I thought they
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: were so maybe the US were just excellent.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: I thought they were.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: They were so poor in that in that first game,
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: so I was surprised by that one. I've also been surprised.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: I was surprised that Holland went out by watching Morocco
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: the other night. Morocco are a very very good team
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: that I do think could will will cause any any
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: big team problems. So I think that's been the beauty
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: of the talk about it. Was a bit worried about
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: the additional teams that were in it this year. I
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: thought there's there going to be a lot of games
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: whether the disparity is too big. But I don't really
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: think of the top of my head that we've seen
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: that Outside of the Germany Kurachau game. I think pretty
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: much every other game has been competitive and tightight, and
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: there's been different styles on the pitch, so Holland Holland
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: going out was disappointing for me. Excitly tipped them when
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: we've watched them against Sweden, I thought, you know what
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: this is.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: This is a team that can go all the way.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: They have the perfect.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: Tactical profile, they have the right physicality in their team,
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: and I was surprised the manager changed the shape for
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: that Morocco game, and obviously now they're out, so it's interesting.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: I think you can't look beyond Argentina and France.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Now for me, I have a follow up question, and
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I want to know if coaches go through this. So
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: the word comes down in that Germany game and when
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: they're taking the pe Kid the shootout that they were
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: having trouble getting guys to volunteer. How does it work.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Does a coach just lay out a group and say
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: you guys are going in this order or are the
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: players in charge of picking what order? How does it
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: work for those that are uninitiated?
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: To be honest, I still don't believe that even happened,
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: because that would be such a that would be a
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: massive surprise to me. Obviously, we've had a penalty shootout
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: this year to get to the semi final with the
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: Open Cup, and we have our practice through the week.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: Then me and the staff you make a ranking going
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: into the game, literally from here's who we trust as
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: number one, Here's who we trust as number twenty, and
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: then as guys are substituted in the game, we cross
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: people off. So if guy number four I've took him
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: off in the game for a tactical reason or for
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: a physical reason, we know he's now gone. And every
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: player bumps up one. And then how I operate in
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: those moments is I don't there's no time to ask
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: for volunteers. They know before the game, this is the
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: order it comes to pencies, no debates, this is what
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: we're going with.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: Boom boom, boom boom boom.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: Guys that are off obviously won't take one, and this
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: is what the order will be. And we do the
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: order all the way down to sixteen in case the
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: penalties just keep going. So if that is true the
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: other night, personally, I see that as poor preparation and
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: there's certainly not a system that I like or I
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: think anyone else will try and emulate, because it looked
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: I saw the video footage of Kimmick trying to get
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: people to take penalties. Yeah, not a great look in
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: my opinion.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Rapids coach Matt Wells with US last couple ones for you.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: First of all, the game tonight, US and Bosnia or
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: to go Vina.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: What do you think happens?
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: Tough game? I think USA edgit. I think it will
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: go at the very least to extra time. I think
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: it could also be penalties. I think if you look
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: at Bosnias, they don't lose games. I think they've lost
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: one in one in the last twelve and they've played
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: some good teams. Are always well organized and well prepared
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: for the opponent, so I'd be surprised. I think if
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: the US go and win convincingly tonight, then they're a
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: real deal.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: And I don't think we.
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: Should put any limits on what they can achieve in
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: this tournament because it's a very difficult team they're facing.
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: So I'm fully expecting a late one this evening and
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: extra time and maybe even penalties.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: That scares me. What's so difficult about Bosnia?
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Hurt?
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: I saw them play against Italy because it cost Italy
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: a spot in the World Club World Cup game, but
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: I thought Italy, to be honest, was the better team
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: and Bosnia won the game. What's so good about them?
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: You got these teams that have offensive identities, and I
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: know that sounds silly, but that is a really powerful
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: thing because then every single that there's no passengers, every
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: single player is brought into the fact that each game
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: we are purely going to react to the opponent. We
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: don't care about our own philosophy, We don't necessarily care
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: what we do with the ball. We'll have a plan,
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: but all the time and all the energy we dedicate
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: is to how to stop the US. So I think
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: it makes you've seen for out the tournament. You've seen
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: Cape Verdy do it to Spain, You've seen I don't
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: know if you guys have watched. Obviously I'm watching the
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: England games, and against Croatia, who played quite proactive in England,
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: we suddenly think we're going to win every game and
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: win the World Cup. When you play then the other
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: teams where they're a lot more reactive to what we
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: do and all they care about is stopping us, it
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: becomes very very difficult to find the spaces and then
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: you need the momentum of a foot match. You need
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: to score that first goal. I think you look at
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: the US against Australia, it sort of became a formality.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: But I think if the US don't score that first goal,
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: the own goal, I think, if that game gets to
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: half time, Neil Neil, I think you've maybe find a
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: very very different game. So I think if the US
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: can score early tonight, then fantastic. If they don't, I
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: think it is going to be a long difficult evening
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: against a team that loves defending two things.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Really quick, coach and appreciate your time. Speaking of Australia,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: how is it watching your guy Lucas Harrington compete in
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: this thing?
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: Ah?
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: Yes, it's truly is special because you know the boy
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: and what an incredible young man is and his parents
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: have I can't take any credit for that. That's Mum
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: and Dad have done an incredible job with him. He's
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: so humble, he's so composed. I know he wanted and
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: I know the assistant manager of Australia really well because I.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Work with him at Tottenham, and I.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: Know how much Lucas wanted to be in the World
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: Cup squad. And it's been a real roller coaster emotions
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: for him because coming here he never expected to. He
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: would never even have thought about the World Cup. Then
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: he started doing really well here. Then he gets his
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: call up in the preparation camps and that was a
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: huge moment for him. Then he comes back here and
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: his performance levels actually dipped. And that's not a surprise
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: because you've got to think you're an eighteen year old.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: You're playing now, not just football, you're playing with the
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: weight of World Cup selections. Yeah, so now he's so
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: he's not just free on the pitch. Every little mistake
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: he makes, he's thinking, oh no, what if Australia don't
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: call me up if they're watching, And so that was difficult.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: We had to try and manage him through that. And
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: he was so nervous before the before the squad got announced.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: Then he gets to call up, then he's there. Then
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: you're desperate to start. Then you don't start the first
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: two games and you're going through that emotional roller coaster,
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: and then to start the final group game to get
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: a clean sheet and to have such a strong performance
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: like he did and now just going back and forth
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: from overtext. Now he's just desperate that he starts on
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: Friday against against Egypt. But what one incredible experience for
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: an eighteen year old, and it's one that he's fully
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: merited and fully deserved.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: And then finally for you asking about your team right now,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: how do you feel about how the season's gone so far?
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: What needs to happen when all the boys return?
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we're back in. We've been back in
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: for two weeks. I've got the guys back in early.
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: Because I've described to him after the final game against
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: Dallas that we're so close, yet we're so far, and
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: that that has been the story of the season. It's
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: the broad framework of how we're playing, the style we
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: want to play, the exciting football where we're getting a
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: lot of plaudits for that, but that is very little
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: interesting to me, to be honest, someone of my mindsetimental.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: I want to win, and I believe we can't win
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: with this squad and playing this style of football.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: Of course, you need change.
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: So you know, you've seen a lot of guys moving
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: out the door and some new signings coming in. We'll
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: get two more players in in this window once we
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: can identify.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: Them and bring them in. But we have to improve the.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: Talent and the depth level here, which the club, credit
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: to them, is committed to doing. I think everyone feels
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: a special something special can happen because of the style
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: of football we're playing. But been too many tight margin
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: games that we've been on the wrong end of. And
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: if you look at if we score first, we average
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: two point one four points per game, we would be
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: top of the MLS of games that we score first.
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: If we con seed first, we have zero points, which
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: which is a staggering statistic that we have to change,
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: and it points to our perseverance, our resilience, our ability
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: to take a punch and come back in games. That's
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: an area we have to address. That's the number one
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: area and that's what we've been working hard on the
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: last couple of weeks and we will do for the
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: next two weeks before we play San Diego.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Is Rapids coach Matt Wells joining us. Really appreciate the
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: time the inside, not just World Cup, but all the
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: work you do with the Rapids in good luck when
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: the season returns.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, great to speak to you, guys, see your coach.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Coach of the Rapids, Matt Wells joining us, giving us
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: a nice little breakdown of the US in Bosnia game tonight.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: A whole buch more to get to stackgram.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: While we were talking to head coach of the Rapids
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Matt Wells getting a breakdown of the US in Bosnia
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: game tonight. Free agent Norman Palell has agreed to a
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: two year, forty five million dollar deal with the Chicago Bulls.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: So he has found a new home.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: So Tim Hardley Junior signing Miami with the mid level
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: exception last night pretty much indicated that Norman Powell was gone.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Chicago's now used up all with cap space, so Chicago's
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: no longer a threat for Peyton Watson A lot of
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: activity losing Tim hardaway Junior I thought would be quelled
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: by the addition of Moser's favorite player, bogged On, But
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: he signs him minimum.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: Deal with That's the one thing that what do you
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: why do you think that? What do you think that is?
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: I'm why would he go Why would he go to Houston?
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: I don't know for the same deal he could have
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: gotten here to play with his buddy.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Unless the only reason he would go
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: there instead of here is if two reasons. Maybe he
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: and Joker are in as kind as we think, or
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: maybe the Nuggets have something else planned at that position.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: I think that's gotta be it. It's gotta be because
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't. I just don't see, especially if
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Jokic wanted bogged On here, which I don't know if
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: he did or not.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Ye, but if he did, but I don't want to
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: be here. Ruthless quality on Twitch brings up a good point.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Or if you go to Houston for the veteran minimum,
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: you get to keep more of that money because they
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: have no state income text, it's true.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: One thing I do want to ask before he dive
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: super deep into the the NBA free agency news from
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: yesterday is mos At ten o'clock this morning, the NHL
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: window opens up. Do you expect the Avs to be
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: a player at all early in this thing?
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Uh? You know, that's a great question. I was talking
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: to some of my guys about it. You know, Matt
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Zucarello's out there, but he's thirty eight. I just think
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: that your your team is at a place right now
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: where it has to be the right guy for the
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: right money, you know what I mean, And that guy
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: has got to be able to fit in with what
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: you do. In Zucarello, even though he's he's still productive
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: at thirty eight, but he's a smaller guy. He's still
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: a fast guy. But you know, what, are you What
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: does Joe Zachet truly look at for? Because if you're
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: looking for a val replacement, you're not gonna find it
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: in any one dude. So I guess you could. You
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: could dabble a little bit kaner, but I think more
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: likely a bigger deal will come down the road sometime
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: in the season. If you know, if you're gonna have
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: the team that's going to be the team that that
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: makes another run, that'll be some time down the road.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: This is not a free agent class where you go, oh,
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, these are these are pieces that you can
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: help help your team. But it's not any one guy
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: say yeah, man, that's a total replacement. Let's pay that guy.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Did you see what Byron got by the way from
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: the from the black Hawks?
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Did he get twelve and a half? Is that what
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: I saw he got?
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: He got twelve point was it twelve point four? Per
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: per Bowen Byram did so? Look I mean we say, oh,
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: well yeah, badass. It's not badass at management. There's no
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: way you would have been able to keep him anyway.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: He would have been he would have had to be
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: traded anyway. So what is what is kill get? Golly,
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: you tell me if Bowhen Byron's making twelve point four,
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: m Carr's worth twenty five. I mean, I don't even
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: know what else to tell you. Man, it's insane, but
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously he can't make that, but it's that's
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: a crazy number for that guy. And I like that guy.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: That's a crazy number.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I still like twelve point four for Byram, who's
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: a good player, Like he's a good play.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: He's a good player.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Yep, twelve point four.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Because that's all I thought about when I saw that.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: My first reaction was WHOA. My second one was, is
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: kil gonna make fifty?
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Because what does that even mean?
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: I don't know. It's just a lot of money for
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: that guy. It's that Blackhawks view him and he wanted
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: to be the number one guy in the power play
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: that I guess they view him as their number one.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: I don't know if he's a true number one in
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: the National Hockey League at this point. Maybe he'll become
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: that guy. Maybe on the on the first power play unit,
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: he'll get into you know, the fifty plus point range,
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: you know, fifty five points. I mean, who knows. But
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: he's he's never going to be a you know, an
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: eighty point defenseman in my opinion. Maybe he'll prove me wrong.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: Maybe he will. But here's what I do know. These
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: guys that keep going back east, they keep coming back
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: west inside the division, and I'm tired of it.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: So just quickly, you know, with the Nuggets, we talk about,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: you know, who's gonna come off the bench. Who's gonna
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: be their depth and do you rely on somebody who's
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: maybe been there but hasn't had a real shot at
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: it yet, like maybe a Julian Strather. In the case
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: of the AVS, do you think their plan Moje is
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: maybe you give a guy like Brinley now the opportunity
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: to do it, or do you think that he's still
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: the AVS are looking actively for other guys to fill
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: that role and he's still a depth piece.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: What do you think?
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, Brett, I think I mean, I guess what
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: are you looking for? You're looking for a top nine guy?
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: Because you're top six still is pretty set. Yeah, you
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: know what I mean in Nas and brock And and Landy,
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: Nate Nhius, uh, lucky your top your top six is
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: pretty set. So where would he fit in? You know,
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: where where would he where would he slot in?
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: A potential top nine guy you're talking about?
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean l oc you know, unless you
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: want to move LC back to the fourth or you
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: want to put p K back to the fourth, which
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: I think is you know, it's it's obviously a possibility.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: You know, you got one in the middle of that
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: third line. I I just look, I caner again. I
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: don't know what exactly Joe is looking for, but I
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: don't know that there's a lot in this market that's
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: going to scratch your itch for the team that's going
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: to be going to the postseason.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, fair enough, I think fair And there's.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: Plenty of time play because this this team right now,
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: as it's constructed, as we look at it, people are like, well,
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: it's a worse team. It's still a very very good team.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: There are still moves to be made. I'm not sure
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: that any of these guys out there right now commanding
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: money that is blowing my doors off.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: I cannot believe the money bowing Byron just got that's
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: just yeah, that's crazy too.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: Vic. Yeah, and so I can't believe, Like if Marchman
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: is a five and a half million dollar guy, it's
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: an overpay in my opinion for that team. But here's
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: the thing. You gotta look at it this way. Do
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: the Abs need twenty goals? Do they really need twenty goals?
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: It's nice to have, well, okay, but they don't. They're
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: they're the highest scoring team in the league. They don't
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: really need We gotta go find twenty more. You know
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: what I mean, we don't. They don't need that.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: But out there for bigger guy, if you want to
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: get bigger on your roster. I mean, but there are teams,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: there are teams out there that that have the need. Look,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: we need to have another twenty goals and we'll pay
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: this guy. We'll overpay him in order to get it
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: because they're in that kind of desperate situation. The Avalanche
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: are not in that situation.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: I'm still a little shook that Rapids coach Matt Wells
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: told us that US is gonna have its hands full
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: against bosniy Hertzegovina. Yeah. I did not expect that response,
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: but he he made it known. You know what Bosnia
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: plays like the soccer equivalent the way he described it,
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: they play in neutral zone tracks.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: I just thought the same thing. Yeah, It's just is
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: this gonna be a game that annoys the hell out
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: of us?
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: Probably?
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, But you can watch that at Jackson's Loto tonight
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: with Altitude Sports Radios. We invite you to watch the
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: FIFA World Cup twenty six with Mikeloboultra for USA and
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Bosnia in the round of thirty two. Krekman and Spring
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: are gonna be hosting at three and Loto and kickoff
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: for the US men's national team is at six. Krekman
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: will be giving away tons of prizes with Michelobultra, a
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Superior light beer and the official beer sponsor of the
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: fief for World Cup twenty six. Superior is worth playing
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: for and now worth cheering for two. So we'll see
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: you at Jackson's Loto tonight.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: Crecker, that's right, you guys enjoyed scene in Mexico last
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: night with that game and as that was at Texas
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Stadium correct where they played that game. Yeah, that was unreal.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: The intensity of that crowd, the drama, the goals. I
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: mean they looked like they were rabid rabbid fans ready
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: to bite. It was unreal. You need the same thing
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: out of the US. Where's that game today? Is that
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: up in San Jose? I think it's in San Jose.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: Santa Clara, Yeah, Santa Clara, same thing, Santa Clara. It's
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: all the same. Yeah.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: And that game was in Mexico City. Wasn't as Tech
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: It's estadio, but Norte is what it was called. Oh okay,
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: but yes, So that game is gonna be at six
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: o'clock tonight and you can go to Jackson's Loto for
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: the watch party with Correctman back after this