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Hour 1 - Wemby Stops Wemby · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Here we go.
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Speaker 2: It's our number one, our one, and the fun has
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Speaker 2: begun on the Ben Malers Show. Happy Wednesday. It is
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Speaker 2: the twenty seventh day of May, and we are united
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Speaker 2: as one, side by side, and here in hour number one,
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Speaker 2: it's all about the NBA Western Conference Finals game number five.
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Speaker 2: Can you put your finger on what went wrong for Wemby?
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Speaker 2: The Parisian prodigy was horrific in a loss to the
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Speaker 2: thunder and now okase is one went away from taking
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Speaker 2: on the Knickerbockers and the NBA Finals. Also, what did
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Speaker 2: Stefan Castle accomplish by calling out the NBA officials. We'll
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Speaker 2: talk about that. And where are you at on Reggie
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Speaker 2: Miller blaming the NBA referees and giving SGA a pass
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Speaker 2: for flopping half of his points last night? That's a
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Speaker 2: jogis Alexander kem from the foul line. We'll talk about
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Speaker 2: all that and more right now, settle in. It's our
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Speaker 2: number one. Well I told us Wemby unstoppable. You cannot
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Speaker 2: defend Wemby. You know who can stop Wemby. Wemby can
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Speaker 2: stop Wemby.
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Speaker 2: and leads story from pro Bouncy Ball. We go to
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Speaker 2: the Sooner State. Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, the all pivotal
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Speaker 2: Game five, the winner of an NBA playoff series. That
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Speaker 2: is time to two after Game five is you know
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Speaker 2: it goes on to win.
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Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, bruh, bruh, bruh,
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Speaker 3: bruh blah blah.
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Speaker 2: So it was. It was Game five of the Western Finals.
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Speaker 2: The New York Knickerbockers are partying out in the Hamptons
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Speaker 2: as they wait for the finals, which will not start
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Speaker 2: until next week. On Wednesday of next week. This is
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Speaker 2: our Wednesday show. It's still late Tuesday in the West.
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Speaker 2: It's our Wednesday show. In the NBA Finals will begin
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Speaker 2: next Wednesday, so there'll be a bit of a downtime,
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Speaker 2: which would lead me to believe that we will get
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Speaker 2: a Game seven in this series, but we're not there yet. Instead,
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Speaker 2: we have to get through Game five. And that took
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Speaker 2: place on the aforementioned Tuesday night, So SGA and the
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Speaker 2: Thunder we're looking to bounce back, if you will, against
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Speaker 2: Wemby and the Spurs. And I don't know if you
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Speaker 2: were watching this game or not on ab CE, but
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Speaker 2: Mike Turrico really laying it on thick Tarrico really trying
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Speaker 2: to sell you that this is just such a great
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Speaker 2: matchup and it's so compelling and you must watch and
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Speaker 2: all that say. This is his job to do that
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Speaker 2: as the Thunder looking to get back on track after
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Speaker 2: the Spurs took the previous game. So SGA, better known
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Speaker 2: as Shay jogis Alexander former Clipper, thirty two points. Alex Caruso,
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Speaker 2: the former Laker the Bald Mamba, had twenty two in
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Speaker 2: Oklahoma City. They're so close they can they can smell
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Speaker 2: it and they can taste it. They're one win away
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Speaker 2: from a return to the NBA Finals. Time to go
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Speaker 2: back to back and belly to belly as they take
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Speaker 2: care of San Antonio in a game that wasn't all
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Speaker 2: that close, one seven to one, fourteen. The Thunder now
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Speaker 2: up three games to two. We are told that you
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Speaker 2: have to win a fourth game to advance, so that
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Speaker 2: means they have not accomplished anything except finding their offensive mojo.
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Speaker 2: OKC was held to eighty two points in game four,
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Speaker 2: and then just a couple days later they went out
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Speaker 2: and had eighty two points with time left. I think
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Speaker 2: it was about four minutes to go on the clock
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Speaker 2: and they were sitting pretty So the better story, though,
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Speaker 2: is in the losing locker room where everyone was yapping
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Speaker 2: about the play of Victor webban Yama, and not in
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Speaker 2: a good way, as he sucked at a time you
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Speaker 2: cannot suck, which is in the Western Conference Finals game five,
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Speaker 2: And so that is a good jumping off point. Let
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Speaker 2: us discuss the question can you put your finger on
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Speaker 2: what went wrong for Wemby and his spurs in this
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Speaker 2: loss to the thunder. So I've got Scarecrow, meet the Press,
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Speaker 2: and marine biology and we will combine all of these
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Speaker 2: things together and we were going to make Chimmy chongos
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Speaker 2: is what we're going to make. So a if you
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Speaker 2: really want to know, and I know you're talking, you
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Speaker 2: want it out, what went wrong for Victor Wembanyama in
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Speaker 2: game number five? So he decided, for whatever reason to
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Speaker 2: be a pacifist. He was a pacifist in this game,
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Speaker 2: and uh, yeah, he was just decided, I don't want
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Speaker 2: to attack. I'm not going to attack. No, no, no no.
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Speaker 2: He was driving the mister Softy truck with the music
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Speaker 2: blaring and no no, no, no no no no no no
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Speaker 2: no no no. Uh that's what he's doing. And he
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Speaker 2: looked totally distracted, totally distracted like he was. He was
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Speaker 2: in the back and it was he had a side
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Speaker 2: job and he was working at Paris Baguette and he
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Speaker 2: was folding creampuffs instead of folding the defense for okay see,
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Speaker 2: and he actually turned out to be the creampuff. He
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Speaker 2: was the cream puff, if you will. And so that's
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Speaker 2: that's how that went for much of the game here.
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Speaker 2: It was pretty crazy, how bad and just uninterested. He was.
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Speaker 2: The word is I guess lethargic would be the word
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Speaker 2: what we'll use. Lethargic is a good word. It's a
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Speaker 2: solid word. Passive. We've used that word, all right.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: Never got going. The parade started and passed him by.
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Speaker 2: He never got He never got going, and kind of
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Speaker 2: you look at it and you're like, whoa, wait a minute.
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Speaker 2: He wasn't in the flow at all. He was floating
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Speaker 2: on the lazy river having a cocktail. Wemby, he's not
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Speaker 2: even not only he's old him to drink or barely.
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Speaker 2: I guess in France the rules are different all but
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Speaker 2: he was having a lemonade doing this thing. And if
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Speaker 2: he slowed down anymore, Wemby, if he slowed down anymore here,
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Speaker 2: the arena would have gone into sleep mode. Literally. Now
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Speaker 2: he finished with a performance so flat? How flat was it?
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Speaker 2: Somebody needed to call a tow truck get some jumper cables,
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Speaker 2: and they tried at halftime. It didn't work. It did
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Speaker 2: not work. And we talked about this in a previous
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Speaker 2: episode of the show. Dwayne Wade tossing out there. He's unstoppable,
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Speaker 2: he can't nobody can stop him. Webby, he stopped himself.
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Speaker 2: He stopped himself. And man, he played tiny. That was small, small, small, small, small.
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Speaker 2: He played tiny basketball there and that was like a
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Speaker 2: decoy seven foot four, seven foot four and a scarecrow
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Speaker 2: out in a cornfield. Although he did have the sneakers on,
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Speaker 2: so he had that going for him. Yeah, he did
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Speaker 2: have the sneakers on. He took just six shots in
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Speaker 2: the first half. You almost took as many shots as
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Speaker 2: he did. Six shots in the first half there and
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Speaker 2: finished four of fifteen. I didn't play in the NBA,
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Speaker 2: and I just do the overnight show. I'm told that
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Speaker 2: is not very good when you take fifteen shots and
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Speaker 2: you're the franchise player and you only make four of them.
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Speaker 2: And he missed all five of his three balls, and
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Speaker 2: the saving grace was the fact that he got to
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Speaker 2: the foul line a lot, and that seems to be
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Speaker 2: a common theme in these bouncy ball games. So twelve
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Speaker 2: of twelve from the charity stripe, and so that helped
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Speaker 2: him end up with twenty points, the lowest point total
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Speaker 2: for him Wemby in this particular series. Meanwhile, the thunder
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Speaker 2: they actually used, I didn't know they had this. They
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Speaker 2: had a two for one discount code, and how great
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Speaker 2: is that when you get that two for one discount code?
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Speaker 2: And they completely owned the middle of the aisle, the
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Speaker 2: painted area as Chet and Hartenstein, the two centers, two
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Speaker 2: big men for Oklahoma City, combined for twenty eight points
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Speaker 2: and twenty six rebounds. They were essentially renting out the
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Speaker 2: painted area like it was an Airbnb. And Wemby was
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Speaker 2: content just standing out and he was like, oh, look
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Speaker 2: at that. I mean I'm gonna pick my my finger
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Speaker 2: a little bit, bite my fingernails. I'm gonna look off
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Speaker 2: to the heavens and see what's out there. But wait,
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Speaker 2: there's more page two here. So Spurs guard Stefan Castle
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Speaker 2: was asked about the officials and what appeared to be
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Speaker 2: a bit of a lopsided game. Statistically, coming into this game,
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Speaker 2: the Spurs had shot many more foul shots than the
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Speaker 2: Thunder in this theories on this particular night, the way
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Speaker 2: the game was officiated, the Thunder ended up only with
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Speaker 2: six more foul shots. It felt more lopsided than that,
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Speaker 2: and the foul shooting was pretty even actually for the
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Speaker 2: first time. It just gave the illusion that it was lopsided.
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Speaker 2: And when asked about that, I think we have the
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Speaker 2: audio on this, I believe, yes, okay, I've got Oh wait, good,
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Speaker 2: we haven't told we do all right, but wonderful? How
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Speaker 2: great is that we have actually all audio? Here is
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Speaker 2: Stefan Castle His response when asked about the officiating and
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Speaker 2: a bit of a bias TOI aust.
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Speaker 1: You know, trying to play through it. You know, it's tough.
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Speaker 1: I just think with the way they guard, how physical
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Speaker 1: they are, we don't get that same luxury to be
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Speaker 1: able to play as physical on the other end at times.
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Speaker 1: But offensively, I think we do a good job of
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Speaker 1: screening and playing through it, so I think we create
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Speaker 1: a lot of advantages. But I think we just missed
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Speaker 1: a lot of open shots to it right.
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Speaker 2: What he did there was a compliment sandwich you ever
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Speaker 2: had that. I've gotten that. Every weasel boss knows the
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Speaker 2: compliment sandwich you ever get called a new meeting. We
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Speaker 2: don't really have meetings around here much anymore, but every
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Speaker 2: once in a while we do. In the old days,
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Speaker 2: we used to have meetings all the time, the early
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Speaker 2: days of Fox Sports Radio, and management was on our
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Speaker 2: ass all the time, the meetings all it was a
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Speaker 2: pain in the ass. And you get called of the
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Speaker 2: meeting and they always start out with a compliment, well
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Speaker 2: you sound great, man, you good, and you know what's
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Speaker 2: coming right when they say that, And I'm doing a
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Speaker 2: meeting with programmer there and they say, oh, yeah, sound great, okay,
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Speaker 2: oh yeah, And I didn't want to mention you're the
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Speaker 2: biggest a hole I've ever met and you suck, by
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Speaker 2: the way, keep up the good works. That's how those
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Speaker 2: meetings go, right, And that's essentially what Stefan Castle did.
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Speaker 2: He's like, you know, he started out kind of nice
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Speaker 2: and then he said, well, by the way, the money
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Speaker 2: part of the quote was we don't get the same
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Speaker 2: luxury the thunder do to be able to play physical
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Speaker 2: as they do at all at times. So he's like
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Speaker 2: and then he put a little thing at the end there.
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Speaker 2: So that's that's how that went. That is how that went.
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Speaker 2: So the question what did the Spurs guard Steffon Castle
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Speaker 2: accomplished by calling out the NBA officials on the way
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Speaker 2: they are giving out justice court justice in this particular series.
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Speaker 2: So Stefan Castle didn't just call out the referees after
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Speaker 2: this latest game, game number five. This was not your
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Speaker 2: standard postgame Wine. It was not that Castle walked into
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Speaker 2: the news conference room there in the bowels of the
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Speaker 2: arena in Oklahoma. He wore essentially a suit, not an
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Speaker 2: actual suit in my head, he wore a suit there,
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Speaker 2: and he was carrying a briefcase, not a purse like
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Speaker 2: Lebron James. Remember back in the day, Lebron brought his
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Speaker 2: purse to the post game. Very bold of him to
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Speaker 2: do that. So Castle had like a briefcase and he
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Speaker 2: basically registered to be a full time NBA lobbyist, and
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Speaker 2: he is criticize the officials. He did the sandwich thing.
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Speaker 2: The criticism was in the middle there. He accused them
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Speaker 2: of favoritism, that there's favoritism with me. He did with
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Speaker 2: a smile. It was a nice smile, is what he is.
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Speaker 2: And he dropped that loaded phrase which we love doing
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Speaker 2: talk radio, basically saying Oklahoma City gets the physicality privilege.
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Speaker 2: So what he said, this is a beautiful fine preemptive
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Speaker 2: strike is what it is. It's a preemptive strike and
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Speaker 2: players know exactly what they're doing. We talked about this
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Speaker 2: and pretty much every game of the playoffs, there's one
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Speaker 2: of these hand grenades that has tossed out, these verbal
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Speaker 2: hand grenades, and this is the one here. And think
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Speaker 2: of it like politics. This is the NBA's version of
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Speaker 2: Stefan Casta going on meet the press. You don't just complain,
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Speaker 2: you have a message. You have a message. And Castle's
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Speaker 2: message to Adam Silver was call the game like adults,
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Speaker 2: and there's a bad job by you, and help us out.
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Speaker 2: We need a little help here. And he's playing the
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Speaker 2: long game, although it's not really much of a long game.
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Speaker 2: It's already we're heading into games six.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: He's planting those to Foncastle, the psychological seed like a
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Speaker 2: good farmer, the seed of doubt, to get some different
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Speaker 2: whistles in game six. And I think that will go
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Speaker 2: the way. Because the NBA is gonna have a lot
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Speaker 2: of downtime if they wrap things up on Thursday, the
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Speaker 2: finals don't start till next Wednesday. They really need a
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Speaker 2: game seven. And so something tells me they'll bring in
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Speaker 2: Scott Foster, whatever they have to do to make sure
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Speaker 2: we get a game seven. If the NBA continues to
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Speaker 2: do what they've done for the last forty years, we
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Speaker 2: are going to get a game seven. There'll be some
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Speaker 2: very interesting officiating in game number six. I meanwhile, Adam Silver,
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Speaker 2: he doesn't have the George Michael sports machine from back
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Speaker 2: in the old days. He has the fine machine there
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Speaker 2: in New York and he's warming it up like a
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Speaker 2: nineteen to ninety eight Dell desktop. And so we'll see
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Speaker 2: if this playoff maneuvering does pay off and they'll be
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Speaker 2: a fine So he'll get fined. I who in the
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Speaker 2: lead up to Game five between Oklahoma City and San Antonio,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of conversation about Shaye Jogis Alexander and
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Speaker 2: how foul shot dependent he is that without that, he's
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Speaker 2: not that great. So and BCEs. Reggie Miller was asked
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Speaker 2: about this, he sounded off on it. In the lead
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Speaker 2: up to the game. There the flopping criticism that SGA
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Speaker 2: has gotten, and Miller attempted to put up a firewall.
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Speaker 2: It's part of the jockocracy, of course, athlete defending athlete,
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Speaker 2: and so he put a firewall up around SGA, saying
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Speaker 2: it's SGA's job to play the game of basketball. Miller said,
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Speaker 2: he's not playing the game and officiating the game. Be
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Speaker 2: more upset at the officials, Reggie Miller said, and how
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Speaker 2: they have called it. He's not blowing the whistle for himself,
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Speaker 2: Miller said, quote continues. People need to stop this. I'm
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Speaker 2: serious us Reggie Miller. Mister Indiana Pacers said, for as
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Speaker 2: much hate as a two time MVP gets, this guy
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Speaker 2: has a polished game. Close quote from Reggie Miller. So
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Speaker 2: SGA went out after that endorsement by mister Miller, Miller time,
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Speaker 2: and Shaye Jogis Alexander went out there and had half
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Speaker 2: of his points. He scored thirty two, half of them
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Speaker 2: from the foul line, sixteen of seventeen from the charity stripe.
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Speaker 2: In this game, literally half the points in the game
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Speaker 2: for SGA came from the foul line. So the question
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Speaker 2: where are you at on Reggie Miller blaming the NBA
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Speaker 2: referees and giving Shade Jogis Alexander a pass a free
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Speaker 2: pass year for the flopping that has taken place. So
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Speaker 2: of course Reggie Miller went down this road. Why because
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Speaker 2: if you're old enough to have watched Reggie Miller play
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Speaker 2: for the old Indiana Pacers back in the day, Reggie
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Speaker 2: Miller when he was playing here, he was known for
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Speaker 2: some sloppy, floppy basketball. He was Holy Rick Smith's batman.
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Speaker 2: He practically trademarked it with the Indiana Pacers back in
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Speaker 2: the old days there, and he was like those matchups
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Speaker 2: with the Knicks. He was like auditioning to do a
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Speaker 2: Broadway show in the nineties. So this becomes a holy
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Speaker 2: mackerel situation because SGA often flopping and gyrating around like
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Speaker 2: a fish out of water, and Reggie Miller acting like
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Speaker 2: it's some kind of marine biology. No, no, not Reggie,
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Speaker 2: it's not. Listen, it's been going on for a long time. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: it's been going on for thirty forty years in the NBA,
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Speaker 2: and who knows, likely before that, Bob Coosey and Wilt
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Speaker 2: Chamberlain were probably flopping around and we didn't know it
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Speaker 2: because the games weren't on TV and we weren't a lot. However, Shay,
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Speaker 2: he's after this where he hits the floor on Neglok
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Speaker 2: just little contact, little light contact and he hits the floor,
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Speaker 2: and we've seen more physicality. Sga falls down all the time,
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Speaker 2: so it's like he's like he's always like surrounded by pillows.
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Speaker 2: They said after the first couple of games about thirty
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Speaker 2: percent of the time he fell down when he didn't
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Speaker 2: need to fall down. And so it's minimal contact and
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Speaker 2: maximum collapsibility and it's working, and Sga is not reacting
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Speaker 2: to contact per se. He's reacting to the idea of contact.
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Speaker 2: And the fallout is that, yeah, the referees are the
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Speaker 2: ones calling it, and so why would they help out
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Speaker 2: Oklahoma City though? Right, that's a small market. It's not
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Speaker 2: one of the glamour teams. They're not a particularly attractive
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Speaker 2: team to watch, the thunder. They're not compelling they win
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Speaker 2: a lot, and nothing really sexy about the Oklahoma City Thunder,
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Speaker 2: and yet this guy's getting you have the cachet. When
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Speaker 2: you have that cachet of being an MVP and winning
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Speaker 2: all these awards multiple time MVP, it's a self feeding
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Speaker 2: situation where they just now you always get the calls
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Speaker 2: because you get the accolades on your Wikipedia page, and
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Speaker 2: so you get that. But the fallout, though, is not
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Speaker 2: just in the micro it's in the macro as well,
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Speaker 2: and it's an invasive species that continues to spread, and
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Speaker 2: it's been around for a long time. This is going
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Speaker 2: to create a whole new crop of this activity. One
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Speaker 2: superstar rising to the very top of the pyramid and
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Speaker 2: by flailing away, right, they flail away, and then all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, suddenly every blue chip AAU player is
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Speaker 2: practicing their gyrations and their mannerisms and not their jump
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Speaker 2: shots and not their crossover dribble or anything like that.
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Speaker 2: And so we'll have another wave. Kids are like eight, ten, eleven,
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Speaker 2: twelve right now, and those kids, in a few years,
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Speaker 2: believe it or not, I'll be back in the NBA
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Speaker 2: and they'll be like, hey, I patterned my game after
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Speaker 2: Floppy mcflop SGA just like him. So this is not
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Speaker 2: Basketball's pratt Fall. Theater is what it is, and this
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Speaker 2: and before we get too deep into the weeds with
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Speaker 2: pro Bouncy, BALL i did want to say congratulations to
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Speaker 2: day AND i love this guy because he's a, total
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Speaker 2: hockey The Colorado, avalanche to punch their ticket to The
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Speaker 2: i think is a dumb name considering it's In, vegas
27:40
Speaker 2: and they should have had some kind of slot machine
27:42
Speaker 2: or gambling. Reference, anyway the team In vegas, Advancing John
27:46
Speaker 2: tortorella can say The Golden knights did not suck at
27:49
Speaker 2: a time you cannot. Suck they were. Good they got her,
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Speaker 2: done and so congratulations To. Vegas and now they will
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Speaker 2: await the opponent it and they'll sit back and they'll
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Speaker 2: hang out and they'll be like hey L. L, yeah
28:06
Speaker 2: so we'll see how that that. Goes but The Golden
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Speaker 2: knights sweep not as single defeat here domination situation In. Colorado,
28:17
Speaker 2: uh you. GOTTA i haven't covered hockey a, while but
28:20
Speaker 2: one of the things is you have to put the
28:21
Speaker 2: puck on the. Net you have to get shots on
28:23
Speaker 2: goal to have a chance to, score and they weren't
28:27
Speaker 2: particularly good at that in many games in this. Series
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Speaker 2: so congratulations to The Golden, knights the original professional sports
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Speaker 2: franchise at the major, level big league, level as they
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Speaker 2: win and now they'll try to win Another Stanley cup
28:44
Speaker 2: there In. Vegas let's go to the, phones and eenie
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28:57
Speaker 2: HEY i have to. Go IF i was in any,
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Speaker 2: better i'd be A, Wemby but Not Victor winbanyama because
29:03
Speaker 2: he didn't play very.
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29:08
Speaker 6: you just real quickly off. Subject just want to know
29:11
Speaker 6: if you Think Colorado avalanche Or Detroit pistons let their
29:15
Speaker 6: fan base down the more the most out of those.
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Speaker 6: Two but the question for calling in is you. Played
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Speaker 6: it's not unusual coming back from commercial, break and that
29:26
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29:28
Speaker 6: these superstars or so called superstars hide behind the role
29:32
Speaker 6: players in these so called pivotal. Games And i'm about
29:36
Speaker 6: tired of Watching sca pass it nine out of ten
29:39
Speaker 6: times when he gets double. Teamed it seems Like Michael
29:42
Speaker 6: jordan never lended to his teammates to make this happen
29:46
Speaker 6: when he gets to a pivotal. Game So i'm just
29:49
Speaker 6: curious to see what you think is the reason behind
29:52
Speaker 6: these superstars hiding behind their their role players when it
29:55
Speaker 6: comes down to these piblical.
29:56
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30:15
Speaker 2: bulls there were Games jordan didn't shoot, well and we
30:19
Speaker 2: only remember the, good not the. Bad that being, said
30:22
Speaker 2: When wemby by all, accounts is, unstoppable and he's just
30:26
Speaker 2: standing there like he should have paid to get in the.
30:29
Speaker 2: Arena he's like a, spectator like, you what are you?
30:31
Speaker 2: Doing you gotta be more. Aggressive i'd rather Have wemby
30:34
Speaker 2: take thirty shots and miss twenty five of, them then
30:39
Speaker 2: take fifteen shots the way he, did and really only
30:42
Speaker 2: you know nothing in the first half at six shots
30:44
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