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I NEED This To Happen… · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: It is early. It is one preseason game, but please,
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  Speaker 1: I beg of you. Please let me have this, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Please let me get optimistic just about something in my
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  Speaker 1: team's future. I feel like every single year I make
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  Speaker 1: a video similar to this talking to you about what
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  Speaker 1: I'm really excited about as a Bulls fan, and usually
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  Speaker 1: it's like one singular thing, and damn it again, this
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  Speaker 1: season it's one singular thing. But I'm really really excited
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  Speaker 1: about midist spousel. I'm actually put together the run of
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  Speaker 1: show for small Ball, my podcast, and in the episode,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be talking about the one thing every NBA
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  Speaker 1: fan should be excited about for all thirty teams. And
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  Speaker 1: I got to the Bulls, I said, I can't just
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  Speaker 1: spend two minutes on this topic. I need a full
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  Speaker 1: video and out of we're what thirteen days away from
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  Speaker 1: tip off.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe that's a real thing. I'm really geared
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  Speaker 2: into it.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, I want to talk about preseason basketball because
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  Speaker 1: yesterday the first NBC basketball game in like twenty years
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  Speaker 1: happened on Peacock and it was between my Chicago Bulls
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  Speaker 1: and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Now, preseason is never a thing
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  Speaker 1: you want to overreact to same thing with some league,
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  Speaker 1: same thing with any game that just doesn't have any.
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  Speaker 2: Way to merit.
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  Speaker 1: So usually when I'm watching preseason, I'm not thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this guy dropped twenty he must be to go, or
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  Speaker 1: this guy shot one to four does not about to
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  Speaker 1: be a season.
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  Speaker 2: That's never the way I'm looking at it.
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  Speaker 1: But as a guy that's watched every single minute of
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  Speaker 1: Minus Bizellous' career to this point, I've left game one
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  Speaker 1: of the preseason even even more high on him than
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  Speaker 1: I already was. And if you watch the podcast I've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about h I'm like, he's the next you know,
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  Speaker 1: so let me let me have this one.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about it. My bulls.
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  Speaker 1: The management and so on and so forth have been
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  Speaker 1: one of the laughing stocks in basketball over the last
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  Speaker 1: four or five seasons. Take it too long to sail
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  Speaker 1: on players that had value to you trade them where
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  Speaker 1: they really don't have any value. Doing a one for
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  Speaker 1: one trade with one of the most valuable assets of
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  Speaker 1: the offseason. That guy goes on to win an NBA
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  Speaker 1: championship where he had what multiple twenty point games in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. Shoutout Alix Caruso to jumping up in
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  Speaker 1: the lottery and taking a guy that in this first
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  Speaker 1: preseason game was the seventh guy off the bench.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out Patrick Williams.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't look bad in that preseason game, but the
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  Speaker 1: fact that Dalen Terry, Julian Phillips, I don't know I
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  Speaker 1: could keep it just a bunch of players got into
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  Speaker 1: the game before him as a former top four pick
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  Speaker 1: is something. The team has always been one of the
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  Speaker 1: laugh as stock teams. But then we got to the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four NBA draft and Madus Bozzelli's just fell
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  Speaker 1: to the ball before his season at G League I
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  Speaker 1: Knite and shout out to the g LaGG Knight for
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  Speaker 1: killing almost everybody stock that goes to it. He was
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  Speaker 1: wildly considered one of the three top prospects in that draft.
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  Speaker 1: I just relooked at it this morning. They had actually
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  Speaker 1: all show you. This is from the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: Through Bleach Report. I don't know if I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: This before, but br said that it was Ron Holland
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  Speaker 1: one who also win G League Knite and then fell
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  Speaker 1: still ended up being a top pick, though then they
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  Speaker 1: had Alex s Artwo and Matus Bozellis. Again, this is
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  Speaker 1: right before they went on to the G League Knight.
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  Speaker 1: He was widely considered one of the top players in
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  Speaker 1: his class and then he fell.
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  Speaker 2: On Draft Knight. And a lot of it had to
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  Speaker 2: do with.
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  Speaker 1: Again g Ligan Knight being such a weird organization and all.
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  Speaker 1: But when he got to the J Lagan Knight, he
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  Speaker 1: just could not shoot the ball, just straight up. A
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  Speaker 1: guy that shot it very well throughout high school got
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  Speaker 1: to this level and he shot like twenty something percent.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 1: It was god awful. And that was one of the
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  Speaker 1: main contributors to him fall into what eleventh in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: Going to that draft, I had my short list of
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  Speaker 1: dudes that I wanted on the team, and Midas wasn't
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  Speaker 1: in my top three because in my mind there was
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  Speaker 1: no way he was gonna end up at eleven.
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  Speaker 2: And then he did, and then he got to.
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  Speaker 1: Chicago, and well, Billy Donovan is goach to Billy Donovan
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  Speaker 1: is not a guy that not Torsley plays his young guys.
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  Speaker 1: You have to earn it. But when he earned it,
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  Speaker 1: it looked great. You know, when he was a starter,
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  Speaker 1: he averaged fourteen points per game. The last or twenty
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  Speaker 1: games of the season, the Bulls were fifteen and five,
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  Speaker 1: and Midus was a big part of that. This off season,
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  Speaker 1: I ran into Minus way too many times. We live
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  Speaker 1: in a similar area, so I would go to like
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  Speaker 1: the grocery store, and he'd be walking out and I'll
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  Speaker 1: be walking in. And it happened so often that I
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  Speaker 1: bet from his perspective, I was like stalking them. But
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  Speaker 1: I promise you, I was going to get food for
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  Speaker 1: my kids. You feel me. But I know from those
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  Speaker 1: conversations of talking to him that the work was going
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  Speaker 1: to show itself. The mindset that he had going into
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  Speaker 1: that off season was mindset that I would want from
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  Speaker 1: my young up and coming player. Where going into his
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  Speaker 1: first season, he just worked out on everything, right.
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  Speaker 2: You don't.
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  Speaker 1: He hadn't played the level of competition that was the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: so he kind of tried to round his game. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna work on this, this, this, and this, and then
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  Speaker 1: he played his first season and recognized, oh, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: strong enough, so let me get into these weights and
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  Speaker 1: put on ten pounds of muscle. Oh, I recognize that
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  Speaker 1: when I do this, teams are reacting like this. So
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  Speaker 1: we had a full year and then the off season
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  Speaker 1: to match and try to fill in all of the
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  Speaker 1: holes in his game. And in this one preseason game,
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  Speaker 1: I looked at it and said, yeah, I can see
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  Speaker 1: some of the differences.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm back in the NBA movie, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm making an entire video about a second year
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  Speaker 1: player based on one preseason game.
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  Speaker 2: But I need it now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not about to go as crazy as he did
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  Speaker 1: in his interviews when the season was starting, talking about
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  Speaker 1: he wants to win most of the proof player, which
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  Speaker 1: is a really good goal to set for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: But unfortunately year two players just don't win it.
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  Speaker 1: We've had it twice, happened twice since two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: that's like Mante Ellis and maybe Gilbert Aarenis if I'm
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  Speaker 1: not mistaken.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just not a thing that happens.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you are a sophomore year player and you
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  Speaker 1: do take a big jump, it's just rare to actually
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  Speaker 1: win the award.
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  Speaker 2: But he can get my vote, even you can give
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  Speaker 2: my vote.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that stood out to me, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy that Ricky O'Donnell has the actual stats here.
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  Speaker 1: He says, great to see Madis Bozells has a thirty
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  Speaker 1: percent usage rate and a seventy four point five true shooting.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna look past that.
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  Speaker 1: In the first preseason game, even post All Star year,
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  Speaker 1: he was at nineteen percent usage.
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  Speaker 2: This is great, This is a great, great sign.
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  Speaker 1: Now, part of this is like, yeah, Kobe White wasn't there.
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  Speaker 1: He's our leading scorer, so yeah, the shots have to
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  Speaker 1: be divvied up differently, who's handling the ball has to
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  Speaker 1: be divvied up because again Kobe White is not there.
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  Speaker 1: But it is a great, great sign that there was
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  Speaker 1: a few times thout this game where you could see
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  Speaker 1: there was an organized piece that was called specifically for
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  Speaker 1: Modis and that wasn't happening a ton last season. Last season,
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  Speaker 1: Modis became a really good player at getting it when
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  Speaker 1: he could right spot up shots in the corner, cutting
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  Speaker 1: on the baseline. Nothing really designed for him to do
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  Speaker 1: the things. And in this again one preseason game, you
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  Speaker 1: actually saw Billy and the team make it an effort
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that Modis is one of the focal
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  Speaker 1: points of the offense and the Bulls are not playing
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  Speaker 1: for anything. Even if this blows back in my face
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  Speaker 1: and Modis has a terrible sophomore season. It is a
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  Speaker 1: good sign for us to prioritize this young player.
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  Speaker 2: Who we believe in.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I know, the Bulls always gonna be mean because
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna be the ninth to ten seed every single season.
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  Speaker 2: We're not really playing for anything.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why, in my mind, if you believe this
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  Speaker 1: guy could be part of the future, you go out
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  Speaker 1: to make sure he gets as many reps as possible
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  Speaker 1: and just standing in the corner it's just not enough reps.
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  Speaker 1: Put the ball in the sends of the ball handler,
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  Speaker 1: let him be a screen man in a roller, let
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  Speaker 1: them play off cuts, let them pay just everywhere. And
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  Speaker 1: we saw a little bit of all of that. Literally,
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  Speaker 1: the first play of the game that the Bulls get
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  Speaker 1: is designed for Modus. Bozellis on the primary action. In
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  Speaker 1: the secondary actions, you're gonna see here, Kevin Hurder comes up, boom,
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  Speaker 1: shout out to Jalen Tyson. He played his ass off
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  Speaker 1: last night. But a little a double stagger there for Moddis.
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  Speaker 1: He gets it off, tries to curl off of there's
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  Speaker 1: defenders here.
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  Speaker 2: He pulls it out.
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  Speaker 1: He says, hold on rescreen, let me be your screener,
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  Speaker 1: and then on the road. It got picked away, but
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  Speaker 1: I love that he was involved in both of these actions. Right,
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  Speaker 1: we need a better pass there. Jared Allen got some
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  Speaker 1: really good hands. It's a turnover, but I love the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they went to him immediately. This is where
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  Speaker 1: Midas has already showed a bunch of value as like
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  Speaker 1: last year as a rookie, but I think it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be even amplified this year. The Bulls have made it
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  Speaker 1: a priority over the last two seasons to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the fastest teams in the league, which makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have a ton of talent, so the way
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  Speaker 1: you can win some of these games is get up
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  Speaker 1: threes and play fast. He's a steal from Josh Getty
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  Speaker 1: and then, like a gazell, Midus Bosellis sees that he
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  Speaker 1: really only has one man in the beat, and this
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  Speaker 1: guy's playing very high on this transition. You get past him,
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  Speaker 1: you got a bucket, and he does. That's where he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna have so much value for this team. Again, here's
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  Speaker 1: a quick two play sequence where he gets back to
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  Speaker 1: I think Donovantchew is gonna miss this regardless, but it's
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  Speaker 1: the effort that you care about. With Modus Boselli's challenging
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  Speaker 1: at the rim right there, and then with the being
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  Speaker 1: down the man again in the full court minus Buzzellis
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  Speaker 1: is already pretty good. Nice pass they're from giddy right
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  Speaker 1: above these two guys. And then lastly they deny ball
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  Speaker 1: on Josh Getty on the inbound, so Modus Bozelli say,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna pick me up. This early slow step through
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  Speaker 1: is such one of my favorite moves the whether it's
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  Speaker 1: Donovan Minshew doing it because don Mintchell do this a lot,
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  Speaker 1: or anybody else, I love it because the defender feels
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  Speaker 1: like he's never really ready for it. Dpo y Evan
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  Speaker 1: mobiley there to prevent the basket, but nope, slow step through,
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  Speaker 1: take your time, lay it up me. I can watch
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  Speaker 1: this type of stuff all day, mostly because these number
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  Speaker 1: these opportunities weren't really materializing last season. Empty side pick
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  Speaker 1: and roll with Vuch get the switch and just attacks
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  Speaker 1: Larry Nance and draws a foul. Obviously it's not perfect.
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  Speaker 1: We will be getting growing pains like on this. Even
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  Speaker 1: with this extra ten pounds of muscle, I still think
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  Speaker 1: that he can benefit from being stronger. Him being six
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  Speaker 1: nine sixteen, his handle's not as tight as somebody that's
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  Speaker 1: six six or sixty seven, So an opportunity like this
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  Speaker 1: way he has a smaller defender, sometimes you small defenders
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  Speaker 1: can get through and rip that ball right. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's not obviously he's not the perfect player, far from it.
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  Speaker 1: But I was really intrigued about all of the times
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  Speaker 1: his number was called and how he rolls to the occasion,
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  Speaker 1: basically on both sides of the floor, because one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that he mentioned going to the season is
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  Speaker 1: that he wants to make All NBA team All defensive
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  Speaker 1: teams in his career. Probably not gonna happen this season.
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  Speaker 2: Let's be real.
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  Speaker 1: You usually have to be on at least a decent
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  Speaker 1: roster defensively to make an all defensive team. But to
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  Speaker 1: have a guy that's twenty twenty one years old with
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  Speaker 1: the mindset if I want to make all defensive teams,
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  Speaker 1: I think that helps change the culture of a Bulls
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  Speaker 1: team that struggles defensively.
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  Speaker 2: He ain't gonna be able to do it by himself.
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  Speaker 1: Trust this team needs a lot of workarounds to be
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  Speaker 1: a good defensive team. But if we got one of
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  Speaker 1: the most important guys getting after it and talking about
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  Speaker 1: how much he wants to be coached again at all. Hell,
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  Speaker 1: the swing skill, because we always got to talk about
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  Speaker 1: that these young players, and usually the swing skill is
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  Speaker 1: like the same for every young player. It's the shooting
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  Speaker 1: as it started. Last year he shot thirty five percent
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  Speaker 1: from three on four and a half attempts. Can you
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  Speaker 1: get back to that good three point shooter he was
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  Speaker 1: just two years ago in high school. It sounds crazy
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  Speaker 1: to say, let me know if you're excited for minus a.
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  Speaker 1: Woll Stink went. He went some of IROL on Twitter yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday's I don't Know