November 19, 2025 • 56 mins
On Wed.'s No Dunks, the guys discuss LeBron James' historic season debut, the Pistons winning their 11th straight, the Orlando Magic's defense rounding into the form, and Harrison Barnes coming through in the clutch. That, plus Jalen Suggs' weird headband fashion, NBA trivia inspired by washed players, and the return of Whoa Boy Fantasy Line of the Night presented by Peloton!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast,
presented by Fan Duel. It's November nineteenth. That's a Wednesday,
twenty twenty five. I'm Jay Skeets here in the Classic
Factory and alongside me, as always task melists.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I was forgetting about the days of weeks, so thank you.
It's Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
It's still Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Next to him, it's my top shot hop boy Trey Kirby.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Heyo, hey, oh it's Wednesday Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And over Yonder making the magic happen, super producer JD. Hello,
there he is here we are. Do you know why
I said that I added it?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I don't know why, but honestly I had been forgetting
about them. But why did you add it?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Because I missed it? I usually say it's the day,
the date in the year. I just slipped it in
there and we're all running.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Just because it was different. I guess it startled.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Me exactly right.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You get used to it, you get into a cadence.
On today's show, we're going to play some NBA trivia.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Haven't done that?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Why test the guy's knowledge had a weird reason for
these questions, but we'll get into that later.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And this is fun.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Our friends at Peloton have demanded that we bring back
a classic segment. Get your guesses in the stream team
right now, an old time segment makes its triumphant return today.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But first, we had some games last night, so let's
talk about spa of old time. Yeah, that's a segment
I should have nailed. Lebron James. Lebron James making his
historic season debut season number twenty three for the King
in the Lakers one forty to one twenty five win
over the Utah Jazz. So forty year old Lebron tk
(01:41):
again season twenty three, he's in the starting lineup. He
played thirty minutes. He had missed all the training camp.
He hadn't played the first fourteen games with Siattica, an
old man, disease man, and Vince Carter was the only
other player in NBA history to participate in twenty two seasons.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Now Lebron's got twenty three.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Got him. He's an old man. But he said he
had the lungs of a newborn baby.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
What a quote.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
So he said, come back in a game where nobody's
gonna play defense. I thought that was very smart. Just
run up and down the court against the Utah Jazz.
My meigas takeaway from Lebron is that this guy's having
a great time. He was smiling the entire time he
was out there, hugging, posing, celebrating, just cheesing. Yeah everywhere.
It said it was the first time he's ever missed
(02:28):
the start of the season from back when he started
playing basketball at nine years old, so you know, you
could tell he was happy to be back. Oh the court,
Luca has been having fun this season as well. Terrible celebrator,
fun to watch though. I feel like the chemistry is
great for the Los Angeles Lakers and Lebron said. He
didn't have his first win, but eventually he got his
second win and his third win. Wasn't a big scoring
(02:49):
night for a Lebron only eleven points, hit a couple
of threes past Reggie Miller. That's crazy. Also year twenty three,
I know, but I mean, how made Reggie play eighteen seasons?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
He played a son? Yeah as well, but remember when
he was the number one guy.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, sixth five guys just passed him in three years.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
That crazy really quickly. But twelve assists for Lebron. He
assisted on five straight Laker baskets. At the start of
the fourth quarter. He really amped up the tempo. I
thought for the Lakers when things were slowed down, he
would get in the post and find a cutter. Apparently
he threw DeAndre Ayton a lob. Second time he's ever
thrown DeAndrea and a lob dating back to eighth grade.
(03:29):
For Eton, there's a photo of Lebron and Eighten when
Eighton is an eighth grade and Eighton is a head
taller than Lebron in eighth grade.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, he's at his camp. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
So yeah, good to have Lebron back. A good game
to get into things for him. Not that taxing for
the Lakers. I didn't think. You know, they hung one
hundred and forty on the Jazz, looked pretty easy doing it.
Eventually they'll have to play defense, but not in this game, right.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah. Lebron always taking the headlines. What about Gabe. Gabe
came back, Gabe Vincent came back, hadn't been there for
a month. There's a reason Gabe scored two buckets in
this game because Lebron was passing them some beauty passes.
Lebron was basically at the sideline and chucked it from
above the break at the sideline to the opposite corner,
(04:17):
and he did the already Game one, he's got a
new like baseball chuck and then a celebration. It's kind
of like a hey, this is my rocket. I guess
was his thing. But he chucked it to Gabe the
third quarter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that was beautiful and
yeah Gabe got back hit two buckets. Because that guy
Lebron had twelve assists, and that's where it stood out
(04:38):
to me. If he's willing to come off the ball
like this and let Luca do his thing and let
Austin Reaese do his thing, he's more than willing to
pass it. He did those. He had a couple to Gabe.
He likes to be sort of in the mid range
free throw line extended back to the basket. And because
sure maybe he had sciatica, but those arms and the
upper body super strong. He can pass it to anywhere.
(05:01):
It's it reminds me a little bit of Jokic, you know,
opposite corner, he was throwing through two to La Ravia
on the opposite corner for threes. Uh. There was four
to DeAndre Ayton, including the alley eight, in the mid
range eight and running Marcus Smart cutting from the three
point line and scoring. So if you got cutters like
this Lakers team does, and you guys, you have guys
(05:23):
who can shoot like Laabia, maybe a potential Smart Aruyatcha
Mura throwing in Austin reeves because I think he's willing
to catch and shoot. This guy's gonna have plenty of
places to pass, and he doesn't have to be the scorer,
I don't think so. Twelve assists, six in the fourth quarter,
only one turnover. You got to keep an eye on
him because literally, if he's in that mid range free
(05:44):
throw line accented, he can just turn around and shoot.
So this team's gonna score a lot and.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Offense is not going to be the problem all.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It's just gonna come down to whether they can get
enough stops in this game. Didn't matter playing the Jazz
once they start playing these better teams. Yeah, yeah, that's
the only question sort of remaining with this squad.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, they come down to the fourth quarter because they
did allow the Jass score on hundred twenty six points count.
George's fun to watch. I mean, he dropped thirty four
and Larry markin in thirty one. Two guys score thirty
points from the Utah Jazz. You didn't expect that, really,
but it did come down to the fourth quarter. But yeah,
they have a lot of scores healthy Luca Reeves and
(06:20):
Lebron obviously, and guys who cut and catch. It's unexpected
for this team, but they can do that.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It was ninety one ninety one with a few minutes
to go around the end of the third quarter, and
that's when the Lakers went on that sort of run
to end that cute. It started with Luca making a
three in the corner after some insane drive and kick
and relocate offense from the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
That looked incredible.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That would have been a very solid play right now,
that's not the segment coming back, by the way.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Then Luca hit a tough and one jumper on the baseline.
That's where he did what you already called a questionable celebration.
He had a funky little dance. I don't even know
what the heck that was. He's a bad celebrator. He
said it himself.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, he didn't know what he was doing.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He just like, I got this something. But Okay, yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
And then Jackson Hayes gobbled up an offensive rebound off
a Luca three point miss. He grabbed it, you went
right back up, got the foul, so that was an
and one. And then finally you already said it. The
quarter ended with Lebron bullet pass to Gabe over in
the corner.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
He hit it just like that. They're up eleven heading
into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And he was confident Gabe was going to hit it
because he pulled out the celebration. It was a chuck
and then he pulled out the rocket. I guess they
call it the freeze. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for the three
point shot itself. H ice in my veins, but they
call it freeze. But so Lebron was celebrating the upcoming
three point shot. Yeah, but it didn't look like it
was down low. It looked like the hand wasn't even
(07:45):
on the veins. It looked like it was on his
upper bicep tricep area potentially. Like that's why I thought
it was more of a this is my cannon kind
of thing.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You know who came up with That'angelo Russell and Damon Jones.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh yeah, the veins Okay, yeah, name man.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, Lebron's close friend Damon Jones.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah yeah, but he knew that Gabe was going to
hit it. Yes, he pulled out wide open, way before
Gabe let it go, way before I let it go.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So yeah, Lakers look awesome. Luca, We'll get to his
stat line later in the show, but I mean an
easy thirty type ten game from him.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
He's averaging our career low attempts at the rem and
he had four drives to the hoop for easy layups
fin this one. No resistance from the Jazz. The big
question for me with Lebron coming back, He's not going
to take away from Luca. That's just not going to happen.
Luca is the number one guy on this team. It's
how does Reeves fit in? And Reeves, to me, was
the clear third option when Lebron and Luca were out there.
But then once Luca goes to the bench and it's
(08:41):
Lebron and Reeves together, he's the main creator. I thought
that's the majority of his points came during that second
unit playing alongside Lebron. He's such a good second ball handler,
and Lebron is such a good finder of teammates that
it's going to work perfectly when those two are running
the second units out there. And then La Rabia, like
(09:02):
you mentioned, has this guy's a perfect fit alongside all
three of these guys because you can hit open threes
and he's a smart cutter and he gets busy on
the glass.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So La Rabia has been a awesome fine for them.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
He has been. And he's a long, big player that
you can play defense with him aside him, So yes,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The funny stack going around to last night was this,
something like nine guys on the combined rosters last night
were born after Lebron made his NBA debut in two
thousand and three.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
It's something like, to.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Believe it, it's like eight or nine guys when you
look at the two rosters, including his own son of course,
who was born, including his own son he started in.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It is wild.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It is wild twenty three seasons now, and he's still good.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Is the other party that's the wild.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But I mean, he was an All NBA player last
year and you're twenty two, and I don't think that's
going to be the case this year with the missing
of time and all that, And maybe he misses time
as we go on here, because you're trying to save
him for any sort of postseason. But still it's not
like he's like washed at the end of the bench. No,
it's a couple of spot minutes. You know, he's important
to this man. He's going to make them better. He's
got to play what like another fifty games, a little
(10:10):
bit less the all time record. Yeah, he was a
fifty coming into the season. I mean, he missed a
huge chunk.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
He's gonna sit eventually, like for back to back so
or if he picks up another injury. I thought it
was a guarantee. Yeah, he was going to pass the
chief this year, but maybe not.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, it'll come close. It is weird not having him
at the beginning of the season. As you said, he's
never missed the beginning of the season before and so
that part was odd. But to see him come back
and look pretty good, even though he didn't have to
score a lot. We're making it a big deal that
he's getting to twenty three. We didn't make a deal
at all. It should be a big, huge deal it is.
(10:44):
We didn't make it a big deal at all that
Vince went it to season twenty two he had passed
everybody else. He was the only one going to season
twenty two. He was a different player. Yeah, I know,
Vincent Lamar Carter, very different player. But we're making this
big deal for Lebron and that's totally fine. And he's
should pass Robert Parish, I imagine, I imagine if he
if he doesn't have to do as much on this team.
(11:05):
He doesn't because Luca is going to take so much
of it. He should be able to get to those
fifty games.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
But I got to bring this forty nine more games
to pass Robert Parrish.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, fifty total. Hold on, I got a show. I'm
showing it to you guys here right beside me. Lebron
just puts his hand up and wave the shoulder and
he throws up.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I don't think he did that. He didn't do anything
with the veins, although he does a little of this
at the bottom of it with an okay sign.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Sort of stick your finger in it. He can't punch
you back.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Right, classic Lakers win.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
An exciting at least fun to watch Jazz team much
we thought maybe heading into the season, especially like you said, County.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
George's he's got fire, right, Yeah, he is.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Let's move to the Pistons winning their eleventh straight game,
longest winning streak for Detroit in eighteen years.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
They took care of.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Business here in Atlanta down at the Fortress one twenty
to one twelve. I think they led from tip to
the final buzzer TK a professional win. Here in Kate
Cunningham made his return twenty five points, ten assists, helping
his team get the W.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Did they call themselves nasty dogs, Well, yeah, nasty toys,
nasty dog, nasty boys, nasty dogs. That's what I was
trying to remember this morning, so my notes are right.
The nasty Dogs were barking sixty six points in the
paint for Detroit, twenty four for Jalen Durham, thirteen for
Isaiah Stewart. Pistons went twenty nine to thirty nine in
(12:36):
the restrict area. They just completely dominated the Hawks from
a physicality standpoint. They looked like the bigger, stronger team,
and anytime they would get the ball underneath the free
throw line, it was basically going to be a basket
for Detroit. On the other side, Atlanta only took nineteen
attempts in the restricted area. You could tell which team
was finesse. You could tell which team was forced and
the force one out. I thought in this one, Duran
(12:59):
was so good. He scored through defenders multiple times, like
Andyka Kanngo, good defender, too small to handle Duran. Same
with Mogay and Stuart. I mean, like even Paul Reid
was ripping the ball down when it came down to it.
Hawks did a good job with their three point shooting
to get back in the game in the fourth quarter,
but Cad hit a couple of big buckets late and
then beat Crazie hit two.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Hilarious even closer.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah, yeah, he did, like a reverse spin from almost
the logo for Veat. But yeah, a great win for
the Pistons. They figured out, we're a big, strong team,
so let's keep being big and strong.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
JB's got them barking, that's for sure. They play hard.
It is impressive. You mentioned points in the paint. For sure,
that's what they do. But to have Duncan Robinson out
there make Malik Beasley basically forgettable. Do you even remember
that he was on this team? He was there an
important part second voting for six Man of the Year.
He hit a ton of threes, but Duncan Robinson is
(13:56):
out there shooting seven threes per game. You only he
takes nine shots per game, seven of them are threes,
very good percentage. And he did drive and get into
the paint for a key bucket in the fourth. He's
got that ability. But they are the bigger team. Jalen
Durren on his twenty second birthday yesterday, that's right. I
thought he'd get twenty two points, make it a mark,
but he's too good for that. He scored twenty four
(14:18):
because he's too good from the free throw line, you know,
shooting at seventy eight percent, and he shoots seven free
throws per game by far, the most of his career.
That's a good number to get to the line for that. Yeah,
they've got guys up and down the rock. Dravonte Green
had his second twenty point per game or twenty point
game in a row.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Javonte Green.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You can even bring us sar Thompson off the bench
as they did coming back from injury. And because Danis
Jenkins is awesome, he's out there starting to this win streak,
very very impressive. The question is did they beat good
enough teams? Memphis was the best team from the West
that they beat, so they didn't really beat much at all.
They beat Philly twice, they beat the Bulls, they beat Orlando,
(14:59):
which was earlier in season when they weren't playing well.
The question is which tier in the Eastern Conference are
the Pistons in. Do you put them in the top
tier with the Knicks and Calves, Are they right there
below them? Are they right there below them by themselves,
or do you include other teams in that second tier?
Where are the Pistons.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Let's ask mister Power Rankings himself. Where do you have
the Pistons right now?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
What tier? I guess in the Eastern Conference?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I have to see him beat somebody really good. But
they don't play the Knicks or the Calves until January weird,
so they're probably going to be the first seed in
the Eastern Conference until then because they're going to be
playing a slightly easier schedule. They're super consistent. Cad plays
a different way through the first three quarters and then
takes over. I'm really impressed by what the Pistons are doing.
(15:46):
They have an identity, and all of the changes they
made during the off season have worked out to their
favorite They're not missing Dennis Shrewder at all because Dannis
Jenkins is apparently a real NBA player and get him
sick behind the back finish last night as well, chas
La Nier was hitting shots. They know how to play together.
They have moves they can make. I think the Calves
(16:08):
been really inconsistent with Terius Garland out. They don't look
like the same team. Knicks are missing guys. I don't
think they look the same right now. So I think
the Pistons have been the best team in the Eastern Conference,
so I would put them on the same tier right now.
I think the East doesn't have a best team, so
it is the Pistons, Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Tier one, tier A, wherever you're calling it, top of
the tiers.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
At the top of the tiers. Well, I would love
to see them in another series with the New York Knicks,
and the Knicks are automatically in that tier one with
the Cleveland Cavaliers, who are questionable at ten and five,
they haven't been an impressive of ten to five. I
don't like the way they close games. They just rely
on Donovan Mitchell again, so I think they are included
in that tier one. I think literally because there isn't
(16:53):
one team that is standing out beside the Detroit Pistons.
I could think you could see the Orlando Magic, who
will get to in their went over the Golden State
Warriors as part of that Tier one. So it's just
a big group of teams crowded. It's those four. I
wouldn't put the Bucks in there at this point. It
doesn't look like that. You can't put the Hawks up there.
But the other four of the Kasniks, Magic and Pistons,
(17:16):
I think they could be those teams and the Magic
have definitely impressed a lot too.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Caid became the first player in Piston's history with twenty
five plus points and ten plus assists in five consecutive
games played.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
That shocked me a little bit that Isaiah.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Thomas hadn't done it. That maybe even Grant Hill for
a stretch there. Chauncey Phillips even like a couple of
great weeks. So he's the first to do that. And
we were early here on No Dunks when we were
telling you about Jalen Duran and his most improved chances.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
We said this a couple of weeks ago. TK.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
We were looking at it on FanDuel. Where is he Oh,
he's he's like fifth, sixth still with like plus one
thousand odds to win the thing. That's completely changed after
the run he's on. He's the favorite right now on
FanDuel plus one seventy five Jalen Duran, then Giddy Avdya,
Ryan Rollins and Jalen Johnson coming up behind him. But
I mean the stats back it up. The eye test
(18:09):
is there, like this guy like can create on his
own a little bit.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
He's improved as a defensive player as well. I think
teams are shooting like something like fifty five percent at
the rim when Duran's around it. Guy is impressed. He's
going to be an All Star lock in my opinion,
and he might win this most Improved. I think he's
the most deserving right now with how he's grown here
and what he's done to help lead that team when
his other best player, Arcade, was out of the lineup.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, he's been awesome. I have no other taste. Jalen Duran.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, he's good.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Now he's added nine.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Points per game to his scoring from last He's probably
gonna win MIP if.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
You Yeah, if you had nine points, then you're you're
that guy. But yeah, just at twenty two years of age,
so you could expect him to grow here in year
four and he has done that a time.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Let's talk about the magic. They dominated inside as well.
They turned back the Warriors one twenty one to one thirteen.
You said it here, Tassa are the Magic sneaking their
way into the Tier one conversation. They've won three of
their last four, including wins over the Knicks, wins over
the Warriors last night, that narrow loss to the talented
Rockets team in overtime, so could have maybe had that one.
(19:17):
They're seven and two though since that dreadful start, and
I think most importantly, Orlando has had the number six
defense over that span and they've like climbed above average
in the totality of the year.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
But what do you think of Orlando's win last night?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Their defense is super solid. They wouldn't let the Warriors
go on their classic run of ten points. They would
see a bucket or two happen, but then they got
very aggressive out there on the perimeter. They wouldn't let
things happen. I think a big key to this team
is their depth and when I say aggressive on the perimeter,
their point guard of Anthony Black is important to this team.
(19:50):
He was big in this game. He was eight of
thirteen from the floor. Zero three's made. He's kind of
a three bomber. It looks like a bomb of a shot.
I don't know if he'll ever develop it, but it's
it's a bomber. It's like, you know, it's like he's.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Like a shooter not good.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, yeah, it's like is it going to go in?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Right?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
So it feels like there's like a little lack of
of rotation on that ball. Whatever is happening. Maybe it'll
never happen, but that's what happened with you r Orlando
Magic in so many games, including this one. They had
four threes in the first quarter looking good. Then they
hit for the rest of the game. That's what they do.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
But they were attack.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, and Black had like two dunks, big dunks where
he was aggressive and going in the room.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
They need a guard and if Anthony Black and Jalen
sugs can be that to two headed point guard system,
then they can be that good. And I think they're
they're so good at getting out there. Anthony Black is
a big guy. Jalen Suggs is a great perimeter defender.
I think they can defend extremely well. They're just so
good at not having one guy be the guy. Their
(20:58):
shot distribution last night is what their team I think
will be going forward. Franz had the most of seventeen,
then Baine sixteen, and then a few other guys in
the double digits. And I think Paulo Boncaro when he
comes back, can be a part of that. I don't
think he has to be the ISO man. I think
he was doing good at distributing when he was out there,
(21:18):
but the depth is key. I think Tristan da Silva
has been freaking good for this year, so I think
they can be part of that first tier because they're
so aggressive defensively, they share. I think Baine and ben Caaro,
along with the other guards can be enough to distribute
the ball.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
That's the question is you're mentioning Da Silva. He has
been great since moving into the starting lineup. The ball
does move better. There's a massive change. Paalo Boncaro is
not playing right now. They're three to one with Polo sitting.
Usage rates are up for Franz, Bain and Suggs. They're
turning the ball over less. They're getting more three pointers up.
These are all things that Polo can take away from.
(21:55):
Franz is a more efficient player than Polo is. He
plays almost exactly like Jimmy Butler. He's so good in
the pick and roll. He's gonna finish when he gets
the ball inside the lane, and he makes the right
play every single time. So it's gonna be on Pola
to figure out how to play against his wishes. Really,
not that he's not a good team player. He likes
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to create for others, but he likes to have the
ball in his hands, and he can't play off the
ball because he can't really shoot as a catch and
shoot guy. They're gonna have to figure out a way
to meld the talents because when you look at Franz
with Polo sitting the magic win, they're minutes. When you
look at Polo with Franz sitting the magic win, they're minutes.
You put them together even, they got to find a
way to be good together and get the most out
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of each other, because that hasn't been the case for
the majority of their career. They're just about an even
team when both those guys are on the court. But
sixty four points in the paint last night, ten offensive rebounds,
Magic forced eighteen turnovers. Like that's the way they need
to play. They need to be battering rams inside and
they need to win the possession battle. They did that
against the Warriors, who just are pretty bad on the
road and they look tiny and tired and slow.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
In your big Monster felt like out there and he's
not even that huge, but I would you see how
many points in the paint.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
It's like before every bucket was the pain in that game?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Thirty two buckets, Yeah, a lot of buckets.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
The Silva needs to play when ben Caro does come back,
because the guys brought great energy. I think here he
had fifteen points last night, six of thirteen shooting, hit
some threes. He was one of those guys that actually
can hit threes on the Magic, three to seven from deep.
And then the bench came through for the Orlando Magic
last night too. It's usually one of the weakest in
the league, but Anthony Black already talked about him season
high twenty one points. Tyas Jones did have a good
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game last night, didn't miss a shot in his fifteen minutes,
and then Goga out there was either he was either
throwing a oop to Da Silva or he was getting
a oop thrown to him from Da Silva. So those
guys contributed, I thought for Orlando as well.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
But it's like I like that.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The Magic are who we thought they were going to
be coming to this season and it started so poorly
and they found their identity here a little bit. That defense,
like thirteenth overall in defense, right, and that's gonna tick
tick up, up, up up, I'd assume. But it's a
good point TK about when Powello comes back and how
he fits in, and that's on Moseley to make it work.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, and I thought he was fitting decently well before
he got injured and they were winning games. So even
though he went down that next game, he had a
great first quarter and they were looking like it. But yeah,
will he buy in? I feel like he will. And
Jamal Mosley has them playing extremely hard defensively like he
used to, and then on the offense end, he just
has them buying into paint shots and three point shots
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and that's it because that's all they had. Last night.
They had forty three baskets, thirty two in the paint,
eight threes, so just one in the mid range price.
That's pretty impressive in that that's who they are. You know,
Franz is a driver. We hopefully we'll see that from Polo,
and I think we will.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
What do you think of this thing Suggs as doing
with his headband where he's wearing it around his neck
to start games. Yep, and then it's then it makes
its way to his forehead like a normal headband.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
He says. Someone gets in the flow of the game,
he puts it on his head. He's called it football drip. Yeah,
Dean Sanders used to do it.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah, you don't see it on a basketball court. Now
it looks bad and dumb.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It looks dumb, and I'm actually amazed they allow it
for some weird reason, like it almost well, it's like
a choking hazard.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Probably this is the sort of thing they would just
laid it away, but for no reason. We got to
get rid of ninja style headband because somebody could get
their head yanked off.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
That's what I'm saying. If they ex ban that, then
they're going to stop him from wearing it around his neck.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Probably because it's only one guy doing it.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, man has been choked by his head I don't
want so.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Silly, but it's just weird because the NBA is like
they're stickers about this crap that they allow him to
do it.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Only for like he doesn't for like a minute. Yeah,
feeling good, props it back.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I got to google if anyone's ever been choked by
a headband.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I guess it could happen. Put your hand up there
by accident, like the defender right.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Tall from behind.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
You know, I just mean anymore, anytime anywhere, can you
be choked by head I.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Will guarantee you Right now, a brother has tried choking
out his other brother with a headman. Let me know
there's people in the stream team right now, but choke
their brother out of the head man. Very confident about that?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Interesting? Interesting?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Anything else on on the magic?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
That was my last thing too. That's what this had been, right, Okay, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Was hoping somebody was. We were going to address it.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Listen, Al Horford should wear one on his head to
take away from his balt spot. Jeez wow, I mean,
is obviously an extremely handsome guy. We've always discussed it,
but the bald spot is getting more prominent. Yeah, it's
very apparent cover it up. I don't know, or shave
your head more, but I will say they were getting
punished inside. I mean, will Richard was trying to help
(26:43):
out as much as he could. It's good to see
will Richard out there, but there there's he's starting. They're
so tiny. They're just are so tiny. It would help,
you know, tjd Trace Jackson Davis, I guess is not
enough for Steve curR to be playing out there, so
they just don't have height and there. I'm sure they're
looking for somebody because they ain't going to be al. Yeah,
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he's too small and too old to be playing a
lot of minutes right now. They maybe it comes from
Tray Jackson Davis. They're just tiny. That's all other games
last night.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Let me chuck them out.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
You here, Fox and Barnes, the Old, the Vets, I
guess leading the Spurs past the Grizzlies one eleven to
one O one, you know, Battle without Stars, no web beat,
no John Morant. Devin Booker scored nineteen, that's all it
took from him as the Suns down the Blazers by
a lot, and then Brown and the Celtics beat the
Nets one thirteen ninety nine, they move above five hundred
for the first time this season.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Any thoughts on on those three games.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Them, Well, the Grizzly Spurs game, it was a little
disappointing and watched Jared Jackson Junior at the end of
this game. He just let Harrison Barnes score and he
was kind of lost a little bit. So obviously that
team is in a very difficult position. They keep losing
over and over and over again. The dumps, so you're
getting from them, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's everything. So
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that was surprising not to see Jaron jacks and Junior
finished the job. Harrison Barnes had a twenty three point game.
That's a man that we don't talk about. We don't
and we probably won't. He does a lot of great
things here in year fourteen for that guy. He's he's
part of this Spurs team that is just so good
in terms of the role players getting things done without Webby.
(28:20):
So it was disappointing to see the Grizzlies can't seem
to find that role that groove post John Morant now cast.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
It was competitive, Yeah, I mean, this was a close
game until funk Cole minutes Coward played really well after
you had him number two on the Rooking rankings list
on yesterday's show. But I guess when you have these
old guys around Cornette and Barnes and Fox.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
You know he's old twenty seven, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, it was prime, but they're down, went b They're down.
Harper Castle is out, you know, so you just, hey,
go get us a win. Harrison Barnes, he got him
for nine straight in.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
The fourth quarter. It was a blowout fourth quarter for
the Spurs twenty five to fourteen. Barnes had a monster dunk,
then he hit a hook shot. They had a big
three pointer. He just had like a sweeping hook that
was crazy to me. And look shout out to Jeremy
so him. He was defending Jaron Jackson Junior really well.
So I thought he played well and look the same
night as tyas Jones.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
They both looks so good. But uh yeah, Jared Jackson Junior,
he ain't into it. He is not a fan of
this team right now at all. Cedric Coward, he's cool.
Maybe he should go back to thirteen though, Jared Jackson Junior.
Eight doesn't work. Yeah, for this team thomaslo now one
in nineteen against teams over five hundreds in his career. Yeah, well.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
That oach y.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Why did Jaron Jackson Junior change numbers?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I think it's his dad's number, right.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Old Jared Jackson NBA Aaron Jackson Senior.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
He wore at least one point the Spurs. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, he was two on the Spur.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Eight with the Clippers for one season.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I don't know. I don't know why he chose it,
but he wears it now. He should go back though,
He should go back because he's having a bad season.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
He also rolled his ankle in this game and that
took him out and then he got back, so he's
lingered a little bit. But yeah, the vibes are absolutely
atrocious with this team except yeah, except for Coward and
you know, Zach Eadies back looking big, big, a big
boy for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah. That's the just worrisome part is that it will
Jared Jackson Junior be so upset and so angry that
he literally demands a trade at some point. I mean,
this guy is just too good. That's that's the worrisome part,
is that the organization and the team, it just kind
of wears on him after a period. So that's why
(30:33):
I felt like John Wrant would be moved at some point,
because you don't want to do that to a guy
you just signed a monstrous contract to with Jaron Jackson Junior.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
And I thought it was an impressive Suns win by
the way, to go take care of business after the lost,
that's a good team. That's the sign of a good
legit team right there, to do that bounce back and
really kick ass. So my only real note from that one,
but I liked. I liked what I saw from them Sons.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yeah, the Sons are playing a lot better than I
thought they would. They've been beaten up on an easy
part of their schedule, and unfortunately that includes the Blazers.
Blazers have lost six of eight. They're down to twenty
second in defense, and they've given up one forty to
the Rockets, one thirty eight to Dallas, and.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Then one twenty seven last night against Phoenix.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
If they can't play defense, they can't win games.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I mean, you see it sounds crazy, you know, you're
twenty twenty five, but when Drew Holiday is not out
there helping them defensively, they're a different team. He has
an impact. He does in terms of I don't know, organizing.
The guys obviously still can bring it on that end.
But yeah, they've lost. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
After that hot start, they've fallen back to earth.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah. And from the Phoenix Suns perspective nine and six, Yeah,
they haven't had many good wins. If you're looking at
the schedule, like the Spurs, where their biggest win. I
would say that being said, they play frankinhard. Jordan not
is going to get some Coach of the Year votes
if they continue to be over five hundred, and he should.
(31:55):
They're playing ridiculously hard. Everybody sharing that rock. It's hard
to believe that they're the sixth best offense in the NBA,
but they are. And considering their opponents have not been
extremely hard, extremely tough, that's a tiny part of it.
But they're good. They're just good.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Let's take a break and when we come back, we'll
play a little trivia.
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results on that poll that you had up before the
show about hot dogs?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
I gotta get scroll And you were asking what was happening?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
There was a lot of hot dog talk again.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
People were talking about Colin Murray boiled hot dogs and saying,
what's the best way to eat it? Now?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Right?
Speaker 4 (34:28):
So I gave him three choices, how to eat your
dowg grilled, boiled or raw? People picked raw. Come on, freaks, jokesters,
absolute freaks. But the winning the winning method of eating
a grilled Yeah, sixty eight percent sounds yeah, twenty percent
(34:48):
for the Boily boys.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
You voted boiled and I saw you.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I tried. Okay, somebody pre voted.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
You'd be talking about boiled hot dogs.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
You don't like carcin.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Engines, No, we don't. I love Yeah, I just like
water and a dog.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Okay, let's get in to some NBA trivia.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Would be good playing Who wants some NBA trivia?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I forgot about this intro? Oh who wants some trivia?
Not necessarily NBA trip but this is so All of
these NBA trivia questions were inspired by last weeks All
Washed teams that Trey and I selected while you were
catching John Legend up in Canada.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Shout out to Basketball Reference.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
For you didn't include John Legend on that All Wash team?
Did you know? We didn't?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Dare you?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
But I still can't determine whether you are or not.
The way you talk about John Legend, what do you mean, well,
you keep one side of your mouth. You're like he
doesn't have it anymore, is like, oh, he's a living legend.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
His name.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Go back and listen to the discussion, and it would
never say he didn't have.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
We're doing some trivia here.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
You guys can work together'll make this a battle or anything.
But again, these were all questions surrounding players that TK
and I were either selecting for our all teams or
were in the running in some cases. So basically it's
like a lot of old guys inspired these questions. Basketball
reference came through in Flying Colors. Okay, first one play
along if you're on YouTube right now or listening with
(36:20):
the podcast. Klay Thompson has five playoff games with eight
plus made threes, the most of any player in NBA history. Okay,
can you name the three players tied for second with
four such games of eight plus made threes? Okay, okay,
you can go back and forth. You were talking out what.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Do you want to do?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I mean, it just jumps lead with lead. I would
assume Steph did it.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
You would assume correct. Steph Curry is one on this list.
Two other guys. I mean, it's a lot of threes.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
It's a lot of threes. Give me Jason Tatum. No, No,
I like where you're going with that.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I like where you're going, But no, four games of
eighth or I think Dame maybe is round the list.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Well done, tass mellis Damian Lillard number two and I.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Don't think of him because the game's played.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
But still third guy, the hint I'll give you is
obviously one of the most iconic three point shooters of
all time.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Ray Allen wait to pull.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
It, Curry Dame Ray Allen four games of eight plus
three pointers made. But Clay still has the record excellent
with five playoff games. All right, next one, Chris Paul
has the second most defensive wind shares all time by
a player six foot one or shorter. Can you name
(37:45):
the leader defensive wind shares? Gosh six one or shorter?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
And obviously Chris Paul's played a long time and this
is an accumulative thing, so you take that into consideration
a little bit. O get Isaiah's No, he's short.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
No, thirteam won a lot and played defense.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
It's good, good points. But no, that's very small.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Now, I'd like to say on this, I feel like
this guy is a bit of a surprise.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Six to one or shorter. I've always thought of him
a little bit bigger, not much, but he's a tiny guy.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
See like an all defense type player. I mean, I assume.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Oh yeah, I mean it played a long time.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
John Stockton, well done. I thought he was taller.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
I did you not think he was still just a
little bit right two and a half, I thought, John,
But he's seventy pounds.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Jeez. He was a five time All defensive player, ten
time All Star.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
For a leader in steels to this day.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yes, right still yeah by a miles. Yeah, all right,
good stuff. You guys are cooking all right. This one's
fun because I think, Wait, were we in the building
for this? I can't remember, but we were in the city.
I know that DeAndre Jordan impeded in the twenty seventeen
NBA Dunk Contest in Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
We were there in Charlotte. Were we at the dunk contest?
I don't know. Probably, it wasn't sure if we were.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
But anyway, DeAndre Jordan twenty seventeen NBA Dunk Contest in Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Who were the other three participants?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
I think we're in that brewery watching it all together.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Great call. Yeah, I wasn't think we were there for this.
Guess what? Thank good?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, okay, so give me the other three participants. Obviously
you're not googling over there.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
No, but I was checking to see where we are
in Charlotte.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Right, we were at a thing.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, we're at that brewery.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
We had a really cool neon looking sign.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
We got some great photos for this one.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Oh wow, it's really cool. Well, the one guy whose
leg hidden airplane, that's the one that sticks out. We
had an airplane on the floor, wasn't the John.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Collins got the wrong not contest nuts?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Okay, now does everything?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
This changes everything? Now you got me fact checking my
own freaking trivia.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
But no, I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
No, Nope, you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
You're wrong.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
You got the wrong year. It's twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
No, No, you were in the oh the thing. They
were there twice.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
They were there twice.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
They were there twice. So twenty seventeen, twenty nineteen, different, different.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Twenty seventeen. They're in New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
What's going on.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
No, maybe I have the euro or the location.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
All right, DeAndre?
Speaker 2 (40:26):
You threw us off. You threw us off.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
I was thinking for sure it was going to be
John Collins.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Hold on because Charlotte, because we were in Charlotte at
a brewery.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
I threw you off. Why did I tell you the city?
Why did I do that?
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Because New Orleans was twenty seventeen. If if that's what
you're referring to, okay, well.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Then don't worry about you.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Because Charlotte was supposed to be in Charlotte, and I
got that brought me, That got me. Yeah, law, the
actual Charlotte that we were in was twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Correct, I'm wrong. It was supposed to be in Charlotte.
It wasn't. It was. This is a New Orleans task,
was right? Twenty seventeen?
Speaker 2 (40:59):
The year A year ruined it? Where are we? Okay?
Speaker 3 (41:02):
So now think of the year twenty second? Yout like
Glenn Robinson the third correct? That's that's your winner of
the dunk contest?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Was it Derek Jones Junior?
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Correct? One more? One of the greatest dunkers we've ever seen?
James flight White? Nope?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Aaron, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
This was the drone year drone Yeah, this was a
horrible dunk contest year. Nobody could put down a dunk
except Glenn Robinson jumping over people and doing reverses.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
That's what he did.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
He basically won because I don't was it Derek Jones
Junior in the final? And I think he kept watching
his dunks. Yeah, it was a bad one. I'd say
my bad on that, Charlotte. I'd say, you guys had
a better dunk contest in New Orleans because you guys,
you guys did your dunk off in the Superdome.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Yeah, that was a good one too.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
There was curtains, Yeah, but there was curtains like sectioned
it off and you guys had JD obviously had to
film it along with was Maddie film?
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Oh yeah. One of the big innovations that year, Phantom came,
They added slow mo to the iPhone came.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Wasn't it Ram Rockers as well?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Year? I thought Rim Rockers was l A.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Yeah, it was la.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
I'll never forget we were doing that.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Bull Bull walked in with Migo, so I was like,
this guy ain't gonna make it.
Speaker 5 (42:23):
I get serious, Bunny, what year did you and me
do some weird activation thing with Bradley Beale and Anthony?
Speaker 2 (42:38):
I think that might have been l A that it
was virtual reality, but he was shooting.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
That was so Yeah, he was shooting a basketball on
a basketball net, but wearing those virtual.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Yeah, the virtual headset, the Oculus or early Oculus. Maybe
maybe it wasn't even oculous.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
We love Brandon integration.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Wait, wait till a little bit later in this show.
All right. John Moran was twenty years and one hundred
and eighty three days old when he posted a twenty
seven point triple double. Okay, can you name the.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Only two guys to have a twenty five point triple
double at the age of nineteen?
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Lebron No.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Lebron's first twenty five point triple double came twenty days
after he turned twenty. So very close slacken.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, at the age of nineteen.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
This guy did it twice. One guy did and then
one guy did it once. They're both current players. Luka, Doncic,
he did it twice.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Nice, I didn't turning twenty The age didn't hit me
with Lucas. Okay, is it possible because I thought Luca,
but I thought he was too old.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
Zion No, No, No, Josh Giddy? Yes, good guys who
remember that? Yeah? That was It was like a big deal.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Yep, twenty five point triple double those guys Luca and
Giddy before they turned twenty. In twenty eighteen, Joel Embiid
became the third player since the NBA ABA merger which
was seventy six to seventy seven, just for everybody to
average at least twenty seven points per game and thirteen
rebounds per game. Can you name the first two guys
(44:16):
to do that and the two that have done it since?
I'm looking for twenty seven and thirteen boards again from
the seventy six seventy seven seasons, So two did it
before and b and then two have done it after
Embiid in that year eighteen nineteen. Okay, oh in that
year like.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
After it? Yeah, to check do it?
Speaker 3 (44:40):
Shack did it?
Speaker 4 (44:40):
Yeah, you got it. You gotta guess.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Jack Shack did it actually twice. He did it once
in Orlando and later with the Lakers. How about Nikola Jokic,
He is the one. He's one of the guys that
have done it since he did it in the twenty
twenty one season.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
And I think he's currently doing it too. But yeah,
he didn't quite get the thirteen boards last year, I
don't think right. Yep, Okay, you got one prior and
one ladder.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
Anthony Davis, No, he's probably a little low on the score.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Well, so you got to go pretty old like older
for the the guy that did it prior and then
you can obviously get Kareem.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
No, it would have been a lot for him later
in his career. Okay, so are we talking to like
an eighties nineties guy?
Speaker 3 (45:20):
You're talking to an eighties guy. He played eighties. He
played in the nineties. But you're talking to Moses. Moses
Malone did it back to back years with the Rockets. Yeah,
and now you got one more current.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Player, current player.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
There you go. Nice one nineteen twenty MVP season.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
He only played sixty three games, so in today's roles
he would not have got that MVP, but he did
every thirteen.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Well done. You guys are cooking man.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
All right, here's a fun one because this guy came
up on the All Washed team. What is Bradley Beal's
career high for points in a game?
Speaker 2 (45:51):
High?
Speaker 4 (45:52):
Do you led the league of scoring one year?
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (45:54):
He did thirty point one.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
I'm looking for one game.
Speaker 4 (45:57):
Oh sorry, a career high in a game?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah, not that high. I don't think he had a
monster No. I think you should stick with your gut
when you said.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Hi, I know, because he did lead the league in
yeah scoring one year. But I just thought he scored
like a Shay.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
No, he had one.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
Monster game here, in particular against Well. I won't tell
you the team, but give me a.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
Solid sixty right on the nose.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
You nail it.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
That's right? Can you?
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Can you tell me the team?
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Beal did it? The Guns?
Speaker 3 (46:25):
No bonus points? Eastern Conference team Boston.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
No close, I would say close in a legendary team Nicks.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
No, the other one I would say Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Yeah, those are your three OG Eastern Conference teams.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Well, i'd be the Bulls obviously too good stuff. Sixty.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
That was Beial's career high final one. You brought up
his bald spot earlier. Al Horford is the third oldest
player to make five plus threes in a playoff game.
He hit seven then at the age of thirty seven
years and three hundred and fifty seven days old. Nearly
thirty eight years old.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
Can you name the only three? Sorry? Can you?
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Can you name the only three older players to drop
five plus threes in a playoff game?
Speaker 3 (47:16):
How old was he?
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Thirty seven?
Speaker 3 (47:18):
He was just under thirty eight?
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Wow, Lebron, Lebron is one five plus threes in a
playoff game?
Speaker 2 (47:27):
You said, Ray? Was he old enough? I don't know?
If ray Allen was old.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
No, ray Allen was just under Al Horford, just under
I'm thinking Reggie would be a little too young as well.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yep, yeap, I'll give you some Curry. Is Curry old
enough yet it's not?
Speaker 2 (47:43):
No, is there a weird Kyle Korver year that he
was old enough?
Speaker 1 (47:46):
No, I'm gonna this guy was. He did it probably
in his championship year, so he was an older guy.
Dirk Novitsky, No, but you're Jason Kidd, Jason Kid.
Speaker 4 (47:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
And then wow, that's a lot of threes for Jason,
I know.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
And then this last one, this final name, I'm gonna
have to give you hints because this guy was not
a three point shooter. He was thirty eight years old
when he did it, and he did it for I'll
give you the team. He did it for, the Houston Rockets.
They took on the Utah Jazz in nineteen ninety seven.
You don't even think of this guy as a Houston Rocket.
You think of him as a Phoenix Son. I'll give
(48:24):
you that.
Speaker 4 (48:25):
Think of him as a Phoenix Son.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Yeah, who would have I mean, honestly, he was not
a three point He had five threes like he scored
thirty one points in this game anyway.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
Barkley, No, not Barkley, that would be weird, lost, sir.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
You think of him as a Utah jazz he no, no,
he played.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
Yeah, in fact, he's still you You who you hear.
Speaker 4 (48:52):
Eddie, Eddie Johnson, Why you don't think of him rocket
at all? No, I'd say next after Sons.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Absolutely and he was not a three point shooter rather,
so good job Lebron, Jason Kidd and then Eddie Johnson.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
There you go. You guys just did NBA trivia and
you guys just knocked out the park.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
I love putting this together for you guys. Thanks the
Basketball Reference for inspiring if not coming up with a
few of those.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
And thanks to Eddie Johnson for these nicknames on Basketball.
Speaker 4 (49:17):
Reference Piggy, the Smooth Shooter and the man who put
the J in jump shot.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
Those are three of the worst nicknames I've ever heard.
He's the best of the bunch, but that's saying something.
The J and jump shot is just rolls off the tug.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Playback is supposed to create an option where you can
play a trivia game. You know, let's go playback we're
supposed to have it going, so we could do it
with anyone else. Bring fans up, I can test their knowledge.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Hell yeah, let's do it all right before we get
to Tonight's pick them.
Speaker 3 (49:59):
We gotta get to that big news I teased off
the top.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Our friends at Peloton wanted to bring back a classic segment.
So I am proud to say, for the first time
in a very long time, libly love.
Speaker 3 (50:12):
By Oh Boy. It's the fantasy line of the night.
It's back.
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Oh my god, Peloton. Great to have woe Boy back
in our lives. And who gets our first woe Boy
in a long time? The dunk Luka doncic in a
win over the Jazz thirty seven points, five boards, tenn assists,
four steals.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
He struggled with his three point shot, he.
Speaker 1 (50:36):
Turned the ball over a little too much, but he
shot fifty percent of the field thirteen to sixteen.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
At the line he was a plus ten. So Luca
gets the litbay of the night.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
Very well produced JD. I love seeing the music was nice.
The streams in the back yeah just grew.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
And shout out to our guy Matt Houston for the
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Come on, man, abuse color are out.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
Of this world.
Speaker 4 (51:02):
Hey, Peloton, good stuff, good stuff, really good stuff.
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Speaker 2 (51:12):
And tell playback. They got to get the trivia game out,
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Speaker 3 (51:16):
But we could do around the room.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
Yeah, I know we could.
Speaker 3 (51:19):
Well, there's only three of us, th JD. You got
to participate.
Speaker 2 (51:21):
We need a fifth.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
Oh we need a host too, Yeah, host, he's coming
in today.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
We're gon we get a crossfire. There's the one on
one thing going on to trivia trivia.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
Well, we love trivia that we're just sick when I
do it. I'm like, I forget we're even doing a show.
Speaker 3 (51:42):
I'm just asking questions.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
This is all we do with our buddies as it is,
so might as well turn it into content.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Here's a question, who's going to win tonight? The Rockets
are the Calves. Because it's a legitimately tough question, you
go to pick them. We had nine games. There's three
games which are out one or one and a half
points spread. Really, yeah, we got a Hornets Jazz No,
excuse me, Hornets Pacers that one's nice and close. Oh,
(52:07):
Raptor Sixers as well.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
Hornets Pacers is a nut dust bowl game. No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
No, No, Horns have removed to win that.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
Yes, that's a that's a big that's a winnable game
for the Pacers right there.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
Hornspacers Raptor Sixer is also a very close line. But
the Rockets cas is on ESPN, and it's the question,
what are these Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (52:28):
Are they they're ten and five.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
But as you threw in your power rankings, you questioned
how good this team is, Trey, and it's a legitimate question.
They just yeah, they get monster performances for Donovan Mitchell,
but it doesn't feel like they doesn't feel like they're
at the top of the conference right now playing a
Houston Rockets team that's obviously playing extremely well. So I
was comfortable taking the Calves even though it was a
(52:51):
real big question mark for me, while you guys are
taking the Rockets. Yeah, one too in a row. For sure,
you guys have the Rockets and you gotta win by two.
But it's basically I'll pick them here.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
I'm excited to see Iman Thompson on Donovan Mitchell I
assume he gets that assignment for a majority of the game.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Yeah, that'd be fun.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
Yep, because Mitchell looked awesome in that last game against
the Bucks.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
So I'm and Thompson they're gonna be like, hey, try
and shut him down. So that'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
All right.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
So you got the Cavs, you got a point to
play with as the home dogs, and we need the
Rockets win by two.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
Yeah, nine games looks like a good sketch, as I
brought up a few of them there. Yeah, Warriors heat,
that's a good game.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
Warriors heats.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
Okay, back to back Florida contest there for the Dubs, Bulls,
Blazers and Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (53:34):
Pelicans Nix Mavericks on the second as a second game
of ESPN. You know, no one's feeling that right now,
but you never know. You never know.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
Later today on playback, where we wait for them to
watch their new trivia game, Trey will be doing bullser
back watching those old seventy Chicago Bulls the games they
played this particular week back in that season.
Speaker 4 (54:00):
I think it's a heavy sked.
Speaker 3 (54:02):
Oh really, four games.
Speaker 4 (54:03):
I think it's a four gamer.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Wow, Okay, Well join Trey at three pm Eastern playback.
Speaker 4 (54:10):
It's the West Coast road trip, the Rodeo trip that
the Balls used to take, Mavericks, Spurs, Jazz Sonics, those
were great teams in the West. Wow.
Speaker 3 (54:20):
Yeah, yeah, we'll see if they get handed.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
But the other ones, Yeah, so will the Bulls use
their second game early on here or third?
Speaker 3 (54:29):
For all we know? Who knows? Who does? I don't know.
I don't know how it went. That's why he's doing this.
So join a.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
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At least you can comment on the actual show itself.
I like that. I like that somebody was mad yesterday.
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Guys get injured.
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It's true.
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Injuries are a part of the game. Too big of
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I didn't think we went that hard. Conspiracy.
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Have a great time turn up. Love you guys awesome.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
Thanks for joining us, and remember the Pistons are eleven
game win streak. Were any of you guys at the
game last night?
Speaker 3 (55:35):
I was playing hoops myself.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
Oh yeah, same?
Speaker 4 (55:38):
Oh wow, yeah, your season already started again. Season is back, baby,
Holy moly're looking pretty good. Got a plus thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Point in frontal after one night. You cooked last night.
The league shame team from previously.
Speaker 4 (55:53):
This is the team we beate in the first round
of the playoffs from last year.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
And they I think it's a rebuilding season. They lost
maybe a couple of guys.
Speaker 4 (56:02):
Yeah, I think they're stocking up for the next next season.
Speaker 2 (56:05):
You guys, play a point differential or yeah.
Speaker 3 (56:09):
It comes down to tiebreakers?
Speaker 4 (56:11):
Yeah for ty breaks.
Speaker 3 (56:12):
Wow, play to the final buzzer. That's right.
Speaker 4 (56:14):
I mean, when you're out that much, there's no final buzzer.
It's just the rest calling at two and a half
minutes left, all right, that's call. Game. Yeah, when it's
like that big of a blowout for sure. Well then
point one about the point differential though, hey man plus
thirty seven, I bet wear it first I can.
Speaker 3 (56:28):
All right, we'll be back tomorrow and Brason Day people,
Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast,
presented by Fan Duel. It's November nineteenth. That's a Wednesday,
twenty twenty five. I'm Jay Skeets here in the Classic
Factory and alongside me, as always task melists.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I was forgetting about the days of weeks, so thank you.
It's Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
It's still Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Next to him, it's my top shot hop boy Trey Kirby.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Heyo, hey, oh it's Wednesday Wednesday.
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And over Yonder making the magic happen, super producer JD. Hello,
there he is here we are. Do you know why
I said that I added it?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I don't know why, but honestly I had been forgetting
about them. But why did you add it?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Because I missed it? I usually say it's the day,
the date in the year. I just slipped it in
there and we're all running.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Just because it was different. I guess it startled.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Me exactly right.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You get used to it, you get into a cadence.
On today's show, we're going to play some NBA trivia.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Haven't done that?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Why test the guy's knowledge had a weird reason for
these questions, but we'll get into that later.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And this is fun.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Our friends at Peloton have demanded that we bring back
a classic segment. Get your guesses in the stream team
right now, an old time segment makes its triumphant return today.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But first, we had some games last night, so let's
talk about spa of old time. Yeah, that's a segment
I should have nailed. Lebron James. Lebron James making his
historic season debut season number twenty three for the King
in the Lakers one forty to one twenty five win
over the Utah Jazz. So forty year old Lebron tk
(01:41):
again season twenty three, he's in the starting lineup. He
played thirty minutes. He had missed all the training camp.
He hadn't played the first fourteen games with Siattica, an
old man, disease man, and Vince Carter was the only
other player in NBA history to participate in twenty two seasons.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Now Lebron's got twenty three.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Got him. He's an old man. But he said he
had the lungs of a newborn baby.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
What a quote.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
So he said, come back in a game where nobody's
gonna play defense. I thought that was very smart. Just
run up and down the court against the Utah Jazz.
My meigas takeaway from Lebron is that this guy's having
a great time. He was smiling the entire time he
was out there, hugging, posing, celebrating, just cheesing. Yeah everywhere.
It said it was the first time he's ever missed
(02:28):
the start of the season from back when he started
playing basketball at nine years old, so you know, you
could tell he was happy to be back. Oh the court,
Luca has been having fun this season as well. Terrible celebrator,
fun to watch though. I feel like the chemistry is
great for the Los Angeles Lakers and Lebron said. He
didn't have his first win, but eventually he got his
second win and his third win. Wasn't a big scoring
(02:49):
night for a Lebron only eleven points, hit a couple
of threes past Reggie Miller. That's crazy. Also year twenty three,
I know, but I mean, how made Reggie play eighteen seasons?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
He played a son? Yeah as well, but remember when
he was the number one guy.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, sixth five guys just passed him in three years.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
That crazy really quickly. But twelve assists for Lebron. He
assisted on five straight Laker baskets. At the start of
the fourth quarter. He really amped up the tempo. I
thought for the Lakers when things were slowed down, he
would get in the post and find a cutter. Apparently
he threw DeAndre Ayton a lob. Second time he's ever
thrown DeAndrea and a lob dating back to eighth grade.
(03:29):
For Eton, there's a photo of Lebron and Eighten when
Eighton is an eighth grade and Eighton is a head
taller than Lebron in eighth grade.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, he's at his camp. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
So yeah, good to have Lebron back. A good game
to get into things for him. Not that taxing for
the Lakers. I didn't think. You know, they hung one
hundred and forty on the Jazz, looked pretty easy doing it.
Eventually they'll have to play defense, but not in this game, right.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah. Lebron always taking the headlines. What about Gabe. Gabe
came back, Gabe Vincent came back, hadn't been there for
a month. There's a reason Gabe scored two buckets in
this game because Lebron was passing them some beauty passes.
Lebron was basically at the sideline and chucked it from
above the break at the sideline to the opposite corner,
(04:17):
and he did the already Game one, he's got a
new like baseball chuck and then a celebration. It's kind
of like a hey, this is my rocket. I guess
was his thing. But he chucked it to Gabe the
third quarter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that was beautiful and
yeah Gabe got back hit two buckets. Because that guy
Lebron had twelve assists, and that's where it stood out
(04:38):
to me. If he's willing to come off the ball
like this and let Luca do his thing and let
Austin Reaese do his thing, he's more than willing to
pass it. He did those. He had a couple to Gabe.
He likes to be sort of in the mid range
free throw line extended back to the basket. And because
sure maybe he had sciatica, but those arms and the
upper body super strong. He can pass it to anywhere.
(05:01):
It's it reminds me a little bit of Jokic, you know,
opposite corner, he was throwing through two to La Ravia
on the opposite corner for threes. Uh. There was four
to DeAndre Ayton, including the alley eight, in the mid
range eight and running Marcus Smart cutting from the three
point line and scoring. So if you got cutters like
this Lakers team does, and you guys, you have guys
(05:23):
who can shoot like Laabia, maybe a potential Smart Aruyatcha
Mura throwing in Austin reeves because I think he's willing
to catch and shoot. This guy's gonna have plenty of
places to pass, and he doesn't have to be the scorer,
I don't think so. Twelve assists, six in the fourth quarter,
only one turnover. You got to keep an eye on
him because literally, if he's in that mid range free
(05:44):
throw line accented, he can just turn around and shoot.
So this team's gonna score a lot and.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Offense is not going to be the problem all.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It's just gonna come down to whether they can get
enough stops in this game. Didn't matter playing the Jazz
once they start playing these better teams. Yeah, yeah, that's
the only question sort of remaining with this squad.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, they come down to the fourth quarter because they
did allow the Jass score on hundred twenty six points count.
George's fun to watch. I mean, he dropped thirty four
and Larry markin in thirty one. Two guys score thirty
points from the Utah Jazz. You didn't expect that, really,
but it did come down to the fourth quarter. But yeah,
they have a lot of scores healthy Luca Reeves and
(06:20):
Lebron obviously, and guys who cut and catch. It's unexpected
for this team, but they can do that.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It was ninety one ninety one with a few minutes
to go around the end of the third quarter, and
that's when the Lakers went on that sort of run
to end that cute. It started with Luca making a
three in the corner after some insane drive and kick
and relocate offense from the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
That looked incredible.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That would have been a very solid play right now,
that's not the segment coming back, by the way.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Then Luca hit a tough and one jumper on the baseline.
That's where he did what you already called a questionable celebration.
He had a funky little dance. I don't even know
what the heck that was. He's a bad celebrator. He
said it himself.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, he didn't know what he was doing.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He just like, I got this something. But Okay, yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
And then Jackson Hayes gobbled up an offensive rebound off
a Luca three point miss. He grabbed it, you went
right back up, got the foul, so that was an
and one. And then finally you already said it. The
quarter ended with Lebron bullet pass to Gabe over in
the corner.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
He hit it just like that. They're up eleven heading
into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And he was confident Gabe was going to hit it
because he pulled out the celebration. It was a chuck
and then he pulled out the rocket. I guess they
call it the freeze. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for the three
point shot itself. H ice in my veins, but they
call it freeze. But so Lebron was celebrating the upcoming
three point shot. Yeah, but it didn't look like it
was down low. It looked like the hand wasn't even
(07:45):
on the veins. It looked like it was on his
upper bicep tricep area potentially. Like that's why I thought
it was more of a this is my cannon kind
of thing.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You know who came up with That'angelo Russell and Damon Jones.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh yeah, the veins Okay, yeah, name man.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, Lebron's close friend Damon Jones.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah yeah, but he knew that Gabe was going to
hit it. Yes, he pulled out wide open, way before
Gabe let it go, way before I let it go.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So yeah, Lakers look awesome. Luca, We'll get to his
stat line later in the show, but I mean an
easy thirty type ten game from him.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
He's averaging our career low attempts at the rem and
he had four drives to the hoop for easy layups
fin this one. No resistance from the Jazz. The big
question for me with Lebron coming back, He's not going
to take away from Luca. That's just not going to happen.
Luca is the number one guy on this team. It's
how does Reeves fit in? And Reeves, to me, was
the clear third option when Lebron and Luca were out there.
But then once Luca goes to the bench and it's
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Lebron and Reeves together, he's the main creator. I thought
that's the majority of his points came during that second
unit playing alongside Lebron. He's such a good second ball handler,
and Lebron is such a good finder of teammates that
it's going to work perfectly when those two are running
the second units out there. And then La Rabia, like
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you mentioned, has this guy's a perfect fit alongside all
three of these guys because you can hit open threes
and he's a smart cutter and he gets busy on
the glass.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So La Rabia has been a awesome fine for them.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
He has been. And he's a long, big player that
you can play defense with him aside him, So yes,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The funny stack going around to last night was this,
something like nine guys on the combined rosters last night
were born after Lebron made his NBA debut in two
thousand and three.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
It's something like, to.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Believe it, it's like eight or nine guys when you
look at the two rosters, including his own son of course,
who was born, including his own son he started in.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It is wild.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It is wild twenty three seasons now, and he's still good.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Is the other party that's the wild.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But I mean, he was an All NBA player last
year and you're twenty two, and I don't think that's
going to be the case this year with the missing
of time and all that, And maybe he misses time
as we go on here, because you're trying to save
him for any sort of postseason. But still it's not
like he's like washed at the end of the bench. No,
it's a couple of spot minutes. You know, he's important
to this man. He's going to make them better. He's
got to play what like another fifty games, a little
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bit less the all time record. Yeah, he was a
fifty coming into the season. I mean, he missed a
huge chunk.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
He's gonna sit eventually, like for back to back so
or if he picks up another injury. I thought it
was a guarantee. Yeah, he was going to pass the
chief this year, but maybe not.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, it'll come close. It is weird not having him
at the beginning of the season. As you said, he's
never missed the beginning of the season before and so
that part was odd. But to see him come back
and look pretty good, even though he didn't have to
score a lot. We're making it a big deal that
he's getting to twenty three. We didn't make a deal
at all. It should be a big, huge deal it is.
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We didn't make it a big deal at all that
Vince went it to season twenty two he had passed
everybody else. He was the only one going to season
twenty two. He was a different player. Yeah, I know,
Vincent Lamar Carter, very different player. But we're making this
big deal for Lebron and that's totally fine. And he's
should pass Robert Parish, I imagine, I imagine if he
if he doesn't have to do as much on this team.
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He doesn't because Luca is going to take so much
of it. He should be able to get to those
fifty games.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
But I got to bring this forty nine more games
to pass Robert Parrish.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, fifty total. Hold on, I got a show. I'm
showing it to you guys here right beside me. Lebron
just puts his hand up and wave the shoulder and
he throws up.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I don't think he did that. He didn't do anything
with the veins, although he does a little of this
at the bottom of it with an okay sign.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Sort of stick your finger in it. He can't punch
you back.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Right, classic Lakers win.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
An exciting at least fun to watch Jazz team much
we thought maybe heading into the season, especially like you said, County.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
George's he's got fire, right, Yeah, he is.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Let's move to the Pistons winning their eleventh straight game,
longest winning streak for Detroit in eighteen years.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
They took care of.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Business here in Atlanta down at the Fortress one twenty
to one twelve. I think they led from tip to
the final buzzer TK a professional win. Here in Kate
Cunningham made his return twenty five points, ten assists, helping
his team get the W.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Did they call themselves nasty dogs, Well, yeah, nasty toys,
nasty dog, nasty boys, nasty dogs. That's what I was
trying to remember this morning, so my notes are right.
The nasty Dogs were barking sixty six points in the
paint for Detroit, twenty four for Jalen Durham, thirteen for
Isaiah Stewart. Pistons went twenty nine to thirty nine in
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the restrict area. They just completely dominated the Hawks from
a physicality standpoint. They looked like the bigger, stronger team,
and anytime they would get the ball underneath the free
throw line, it was basically going to be a basket
for Detroit. On the other side, Atlanta only took nineteen
attempts in the restricted area. You could tell which team
was finesse. You could tell which team was forced and
the force one out. I thought in this one, Duran
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was so good. He scored through defenders multiple times, like
Andyka Kanngo, good defender, too small to handle Duran. Same
with Mogay and Stuart. I mean, like even Paul Reid
was ripping the ball down when it came down to it.
Hawks did a good job with their three point shooting
to get back in the game in the fourth quarter,
but Cad hit a couple of big buckets late and
then beat Crazie hit two.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Hilarious even closer.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah, yeah, he did, like a reverse spin from almost
the logo for Veat. But yeah, a great win for
the Pistons. They figured out, we're a big, strong team,
so let's keep being big and strong.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
JB's got them barking, that's for sure. They play hard.
It is impressive. You mentioned points in the paint. For sure,
that's what they do. But to have Duncan Robinson out
there make Malik Beasley basically forgettable. Do you even remember
that he was on this team? He was there an
important part second voting for six Man of the Year.
He hit a ton of threes, but Duncan Robinson is
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out there shooting seven threes per game. You only he
takes nine shots per game, seven of them are threes,
very good percentage. And he did drive and get into
the paint for a key bucket in the fourth. He's
got that ability. But they are the bigger team. Jalen
Durren on his twenty second birthday yesterday, that's right. I
thought he'd get twenty two points, make it a mark,
but he's too good for that. He scored twenty four
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because he's too good from the free throw line, you know,
shooting at seventy eight percent, and he shoots seven free
throws per game by far, the most of his career.
That's a good number to get to the line for that. Yeah,
they've got guys up and down the rock. Dravonte Green
had his second twenty point per game or twenty point
game in a row.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Javonte Green.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You can even bring us sar Thompson off the bench
as they did coming back from injury. And because Danis
Jenkins is awesome, he's out there starting to this win streak,
very very impressive. The question is did they beat good
enough teams? Memphis was the best team from the West
that they beat, so they didn't really beat much at all.
They beat Philly twice, they beat the Bulls, they beat Orlando,
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which was earlier in season when they weren't playing well.
The question is which tier in the Eastern Conference are
the Pistons in. Do you put them in the top
tier with the Knicks and Calves, Are they right there
below them? Are they right there below them by themselves,
or do you include other teams in that second tier?
Where are the Pistons.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Let's ask mister Power Rankings himself. Where do you have
the Pistons right now?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
What tier? I guess in the Eastern Conference?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I have to see him beat somebody really good. But
they don't play the Knicks or the Calves until January weird,
so they're probably going to be the first seed in
the Eastern Conference until then because they're going to be
playing a slightly easier schedule. They're super consistent. Cad plays
a different way through the first three quarters and then
takes over. I'm really impressed by what the Pistons are doing.
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They have an identity, and all of the changes they
made during the off season have worked out to their
favorite They're not missing Dennis Shrewder at all because Dannis
Jenkins is apparently a real NBA player and get him
sick behind the back finish last night as well, chas
La Nier was hitting shots. They know how to play together.
They have moves they can make. I think the Calves
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been really inconsistent with Terius Garland out. They don't look
like the same team. Knicks are missing guys. I don't
think they look the same right now. So I think
the Pistons have been the best team in the Eastern Conference,
so I would put them on the same tier right now.
I think the East doesn't have a best team, so
it is the Pistons, Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Tier one, tier A, wherever you're calling it, top of
the tiers.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
At the top of the tiers. Well, I would love
to see them in another series with the New York Knicks,
and the Knicks are automatically in that tier one with
the Cleveland Cavaliers, who are questionable at ten and five,
they haven't been an impressive of ten to five. I
don't like the way they close games. They just rely
on Donovan Mitchell again, so I think they are included
in that tier one. I think literally because there isn't
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one team that is standing out beside the Detroit Pistons.
I could think you could see the Orlando Magic, who
will get to in their went over the Golden State
Warriors as part of that Tier one. So it's just
a big group of teams crowded. It's those four. I
wouldn't put the Bucks in there at this point. It
doesn't look like that. You can't put the Hawks up there.
But the other four of the Kasniks, Magic and Pistons,
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I think they could be those teams and the Magic
have definitely impressed a lot too.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Caid became the first player in Piston's history with twenty
five plus points and ten plus assists in five consecutive
games played.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
That shocked me a little bit that Isaiah.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Thomas hadn't done it. That maybe even Grant Hill for
a stretch there. Chauncey Phillips even like a couple of
great weeks. So he's the first to do that. And
we were early here on No Dunks when we were
telling you about Jalen Duran and his most improved chances.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
We said this a couple of weeks ago. TK.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
We were looking at it on FanDuel. Where is he Oh,
he's he's like fifth, sixth still with like plus one
thousand odds to win the thing. That's completely changed after
the run he's on. He's the favorite right now on
FanDuel plus one seventy five Jalen Duran, then Giddy Avdya,
Ryan Rollins and Jalen Johnson coming up behind him. But
I mean the stats back it up. The eye test
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is there, like this guy like can create on his
own a little bit.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
He's improved as a defensive player as well. I think
teams are shooting like something like fifty five percent at
the rim when Duran's around it. Guy is impressed. He's
going to be an All Star lock in my opinion,
and he might win this most Improved. I think he's
the most deserving right now with how he's grown here
and what he's done to help lead that team when
his other best player, Arcade, was out of the lineup.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, he's been awesome. I have no other taste. Jalen Duran.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, he's good.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Now he's added nine.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Points per game to his scoring from last He's probably
gonna win MIP if.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
You Yeah, if you had nine points, then you're you're
that guy. But yeah, just at twenty two years of age,
so you could expect him to grow here in year
four and he has done that a time.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Let's talk about the magic. They dominated inside as well.
They turned back the Warriors one twenty one to one thirteen.
You said it here, Tassa are the Magic sneaking their
way into the Tier one conversation. They've won three of
their last four, including wins over the Knicks, wins over
the Warriors last night, that narrow loss to the talented
Rockets team in overtime, so could have maybe had that one.
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They're seven and two though since that dreadful start, and
I think most importantly, Orlando has had the number six
defense over that span and they've like climbed above average
in the totality of the year.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
But what do you think of Orlando's win last night?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Their defense is super solid. They wouldn't let the Warriors
go on their classic run of ten points. They would
see a bucket or two happen, but then they got
very aggressive out there on the perimeter. They wouldn't let
things happen. I think a big key to this team
is their depth and when I say aggressive on the perimeter,
their point guard of Anthony Black is important to this team.
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He was big in this game. He was eight of
thirteen from the floor. Zero three's made. He's kind of
a three bomber. It looks like a bomb of a shot.
I don't know if he'll ever develop it, but it's
it's a bomber. It's like, you know, it's like he's.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Like a shooter not good.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, yeah, it's like is it going to go in?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Right?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
So it feels like there's like a little lack of
of rotation on that ball. Whatever is happening. Maybe it'll
never happen, but that's what happened with you r Orlando
Magic in so many games, including this one. They had
four threes in the first quarter looking good. Then they
hit for the rest of the game. That's what they do.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
But they were attack.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, and Black had like two dunks, big dunks where
he was aggressive and going in the room.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
They need a guard and if Anthony Black and Jalen
sugs can be that to two headed point guard system,
then they can be that good. And I think they're
they're so good at getting out there. Anthony Black is
a big guy. Jalen Suggs is a great perimeter defender.
I think they can defend extremely well. They're just so
good at not having one guy be the guy. Their
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shot distribution last night is what their team I think
will be going forward. Franz had the most of seventeen,
then Baine sixteen, and then a few other guys in
the double digits. And I think Paulo Boncaro when he
comes back, can be a part of that. I don't
think he has to be the ISO man. I think
he was doing good at distributing when he was out there,
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but the depth is key. I think Tristan da Silva
has been freaking good for this year, so I think
they can be part of that first tier because they're
so aggressive defensively, they share. I think Baine and ben Caaro,
along with the other guards can be enough to distribute
the ball.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
That's the question is you're mentioning Da Silva. He has
been great since moving into the starting lineup. The ball
does move better. There's a massive change. Paalo Boncaro is
not playing right now. They're three to one with Polo sitting.
Usage rates are up for Franz, Bain and Suggs. They're
turning the ball over less. They're getting more three pointers up.
These are all things that Polo can take away from.
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Franz is a more efficient player than Polo is. He
plays almost exactly like Jimmy Butler. He's so good in
the pick and roll. He's gonna finish when he gets
the ball inside the lane, and he makes the right
play every single time. So it's gonna be on Pola
to figure out how to play against his wishes. Really,
not that he's not a good team player. He likes
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to create for others, but he likes to have the
ball in his hands, and he can't play off the
ball because he can't really shoot as a catch and
shoot guy. They're gonna have to figure out a way
to meld the talents because when you look at Franz
with Polo sitting the magic win, they're minutes. When you
look at Polo with Franz sitting the magic win, they're minutes.
You put them together even, they got to find a
way to be good together and get the most out
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of each other, because that hasn't been the case for
the majority of their career. They're just about an even
team when both those guys are on the court. But
sixty four points in the paint last night, ten offensive rebounds,
Magic forced eighteen turnovers. Like that's the way they need
to play. They need to be battering rams inside and
they need to win the possession battle. They did that
against the Warriors, who just are pretty bad on the
road and they look tiny and tired and slow.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
In your big Monster felt like out there and he's
not even that huge, but I would you see how
many points in the paint.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
It's like before every bucket was the pain in that game?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Thirty two buckets, Yeah, a lot of buckets.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
The Silva needs to play when ben Caro does come back,
because the guys brought great energy. I think here he
had fifteen points last night, six of thirteen shooting, hit
some threes. He was one of those guys that actually
can hit threes on the Magic, three to seven from deep.
And then the bench came through for the Orlando Magic
last night too. It's usually one of the weakest in
the league, but Anthony Black already talked about him season
high twenty one points. Tyas Jones did have a good
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game last night, didn't miss a shot in his fifteen minutes,
and then Goga out there was either he was either
throwing a oop to Da Silva or he was getting
a oop thrown to him from Da Silva. So those
guys contributed, I thought for Orlando as well.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
But it's like I like that.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The Magic are who we thought they were going to
be coming to this season and it started so poorly
and they found their identity here a little bit. That defense,
like thirteenth overall in defense, right, and that's gonna tick
tick up, up, up up, I'd assume. But it's a
good point TK about when Powello comes back and how
he fits in, and that's on Moseley to make it work.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, and I thought he was fitting decently well before
he got injured and they were winning games. So even
though he went down that next game, he had a
great first quarter and they were looking like it. But yeah,
will he buy in? I feel like he will. And
Jamal Mosley has them playing extremely hard defensively like he
used to, and then on the offense end, he just
has them buying into paint shots and three point shots
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and that's it because that's all they had. Last night.
They had forty three baskets, thirty two in the paint,
eight threes, so just one in the mid range price.
That's pretty impressive in that that's who they are. You know,
Franz is a driver. We hopefully we'll see that from Polo,
and I think we will.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
What do you think of this thing Suggs as doing
with his headband where he's wearing it around his neck
to start games. Yep, and then it's then it makes
its way to his forehead like a normal headband.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
He says. Someone gets in the flow of the game,
he puts it on his head. He's called it football drip. Yeah,
Dean Sanders used to do it.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah, you don't see it on a basketball court. Now
it looks bad and dumb.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It looks dumb, and I'm actually amazed they allow it
for some weird reason, like it almost well, it's like
a choking hazard.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Probably this is the sort of thing they would just
laid it away, but for no reason. We got to
get rid of ninja style headband because somebody could get
their head yanked off.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
That's what I'm saying. If they ex ban that, then
they're going to stop him from wearing it around his neck.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Probably because it's only one guy doing it.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, man has been choked by his head I don't
want so.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Silly, but it's just weird because the NBA is like
they're stickers about this crap that they allow him to
do it.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Only for like he doesn't for like a minute. Yeah,
feeling good, props it back.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I got to google if anyone's ever been choked by
a headband.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I guess it could happen. Put your hand up there
by accident, like the defender right.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Tall from behind.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
You know, I just mean anymore, anytime anywhere, can you
be choked by head I.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Will guarantee you Right now, a brother has tried choking
out his other brother with a headman. Let me know
there's people in the stream team right now, but choke
their brother out of the head man. Very confident about that?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Interesting? Interesting?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Anything else on on the magic?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
That was my last thing too. That's what this had been, right, Okay, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Was hoping somebody was. We were going to address it.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Listen, Al Horford should wear one on his head to
take away from his balt spot. Jeez wow, I mean,
is obviously an extremely handsome guy. We've always discussed it,
but the bald spot is getting more prominent. Yeah, it's
very apparent cover it up. I don't know, or shave
your head more, but I will say they were getting
punished inside. I mean, will Richard was trying to help
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out as much as he could. It's good to see
will Richard out there, but there there's he's starting. They're
so tiny. They're just are so tiny. It would help,
you know, tjd Trace Jackson Davis, I guess is not
enough for Steve curR to be playing out there, so
they just don't have height and there. I'm sure they're
looking for somebody because they ain't going to be al. Yeah,
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he's too small and too old to be playing a
lot of minutes right now. They maybe it comes from
Tray Jackson Davis. They're just tiny. That's all other games
last night.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Let me chuck them out.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
You here, Fox and Barnes, the Old, the Vets, I
guess leading the Spurs past the Grizzlies one eleven to
one O one, you know, Battle without Stars, no web beat,
no John Morant. Devin Booker scored nineteen, that's all it
took from him as the Suns down the Blazers by
a lot, and then Brown and the Celtics beat the
Nets one thirteen ninety nine, they move above five hundred
for the first time this season.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Any thoughts on on those three games.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Them, Well, the Grizzly Spurs game, it was a little
disappointing and watched Jared Jackson Junior at the end of
this game. He just let Harrison Barnes score and he
was kind of lost a little bit. So obviously that
team is in a very difficult position. They keep losing
over and over and over again. The dumps, so you're
getting from them, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's everything. So
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that was surprising not to see Jaron jacks and Junior
finished the job. Harrison Barnes had a twenty three point game.
That's a man that we don't talk about. We don't
and we probably won't. He does a lot of great
things here in year fourteen for that guy. He's he's
part of this Spurs team that is just so good
in terms of the role players getting things done without Webby.
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So it was disappointing to see the Grizzlies can't seem
to find that role that groove post John Morant now cast.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
It was competitive, Yeah, I mean, this was a close
game until funk Cole minutes Coward played really well after
you had him number two on the Rooking rankings list
on yesterday's show. But I guess when you have these
old guys around Cornette and Barnes and Fox.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
You know he's old twenty seven, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, it was prime, but they're down, went b They're down.
Harper Castle is out, you know, so you just, hey,
go get us a win. Harrison Barnes, he got him
for nine straight in.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
The fourth quarter. It was a blowout fourth quarter for
the Spurs twenty five to fourteen. Barnes had a monster dunk,
then he hit a hook shot. They had a big
three pointer. He just had like a sweeping hook that
was crazy to me. And look shout out to Jeremy
so him. He was defending Jaron Jackson Junior really well.
So I thought he played well and look the same
night as tyas Jones.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
They both looks so good. But uh yeah, Jared Jackson Junior,
he ain't into it. He is not a fan of
this team right now at all. Cedric Coward, he's cool.
Maybe he should go back to thirteen though, Jared Jackson Junior.
Eight doesn't work. Yeah, for this team thomaslo now one
in nineteen against teams over five hundreds in his career. Yeah, well.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
That oach y.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Why did Jaron Jackson Junior change numbers?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I think it's his dad's number, right.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Old Jared Jackson NBA Aaron Jackson Senior.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
He wore at least one point the Spurs. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, he was two on the Spur.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Eight with the Clippers for one season.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I don't know. I don't know why he chose it,
but he wears it now. He should go back though,
He should go back because he's having a bad season.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
He also rolled his ankle in this game and that
took him out and then he got back, so he's
lingered a little bit. But yeah, the vibes are absolutely
atrocious with this team except yeah, except for Coward and
you know, Zach Eadies back looking big, big, a big
boy for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah. That's the just worrisome part is that it will
Jared Jackson Junior be so upset and so angry that
he literally demands a trade at some point. I mean,
this guy is just too good. That's that's the worrisome part,
is that the organization and the team, it just kind
of wears on him after a period. So that's why
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I felt like John Wrant would be moved at some point,
because you don't want to do that to a guy
you just signed a monstrous contract to with Jaron Jackson Junior.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
And I thought it was an impressive Suns win by
the way, to go take care of business after the lost,
that's a good team. That's the sign of a good
legit team right there, to do that bounce back and
really kick ass. So my only real note from that one,
but I liked. I liked what I saw from them Sons.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yeah, the Sons are playing a lot better than I
thought they would. They've been beaten up on an easy
part of their schedule, and unfortunately that includes the Blazers.
Blazers have lost six of eight. They're down to twenty
second in defense, and they've given up one forty to
the Rockets, one thirty eight to Dallas, and.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Then one twenty seven last night against Phoenix.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
If they can't play defense, they can't win games.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I mean, you see it sounds crazy, you know, you're
twenty twenty five, but when Drew Holiday is not out
there helping them defensively, they're a different team. He has
an impact. He does in terms of I don't know, organizing.
The guys obviously still can bring it on that end.
But yeah, they've lost. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
After that hot start, they've fallen back to earth.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah. And from the Phoenix Suns perspective nine and six, Yeah,
they haven't had many good wins. If you're looking at
the schedule, like the Spurs, where their biggest win. I
would say that being said, they play frankinhard. Jordan not
is going to get some Coach of the Year votes
if they continue to be over five hundred, and he should.
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They're playing ridiculously hard. Everybody sharing that rock. It's hard
to believe that they're the sixth best offense in the NBA,
but they are. And considering their opponents have not been
extremely hard, extremely tough, that's a tiny part of it.
But they're good. They're just good.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Let's take a break and when we come back, we'll
play a little trivia.
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results on that poll that you had up before the
show about hot dogs?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
I gotta get scroll And you were asking what was happening?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
There was a lot of hot dog talk again.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
People were talking about Colin Murray boiled hot dogs and saying,
what's the best way to eat it? Now?
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Right?
Speaker 4 (34:28):
So I gave him three choices, how to eat your
dowg grilled, boiled or raw? People picked raw. Come on, freaks, jokesters,
absolute freaks. But the winning the winning method of eating
a grilled Yeah, sixty eight percent sounds yeah, twenty percent
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for the Boily boys.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
You voted boiled and I saw you.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I tried. Okay, somebody pre voted.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
You'd be talking about boiled hot dogs.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
You don't like carcin.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Engines, No, we don't. I love Yeah, I just like
water and a dog.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Okay, let's get in to some NBA trivia.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Would be good playing Who wants some NBA trivia?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I forgot about this intro? Oh who wants some trivia?
Not necessarily NBA trip but this is so All of
these NBA trivia questions were inspired by last weeks All
Washed teams that Trey and I selected while you were
catching John Legend up in Canada.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Shout out to Basketball Reference.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
For you didn't include John Legend on that All Wash team?
Did you know? We didn't?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Dare you?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
But I still can't determine whether you are or not.
The way you talk about John Legend, what do you mean, well,
you keep one side of your mouth. You're like he
doesn't have it anymore, is like, oh, he's a living legend.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
His name.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Go back and listen to the discussion, and it would
never say he didn't have.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
We're doing some trivia here.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
You guys can work together'll make this a battle or anything.
But again, these were all questions surrounding players that TK
and I were either selecting for our all teams or
were in the running in some cases. So basically it's
like a lot of old guys inspired these questions. Basketball
reference came through in Flying Colors. Okay, first one play
along if you're on YouTube right now or listening with
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the podcast. Klay Thompson has five playoff games with eight
plus made threes, the most of any player in NBA history. Okay,
can you name the three players tied for second with
four such games of eight plus made threes? Okay, okay,
you can go back and forth. You were talking out what.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Do you want to do?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I mean, it just jumps lead with lead. I would
assume Steph did it.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
You would assume correct. Steph Curry is one on this list.
Two other guys. I mean, it's a lot of threes.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
It's a lot of threes. Give me Jason Tatum. No, No,
I like where you're going with that.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I like where you're going, But no, four games of
eighth or I think Dame maybe is round the list.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Well done, tass mellis Damian Lillard number two and I.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Don't think of him because the game's played.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
But still third guy, the hint I'll give you is
obviously one of the most iconic three point shooters of
all time.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Ray Allen wait to pull.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
It, Curry Dame Ray Allen four games of eight plus
three pointers made. But Clay still has the record excellent
with five playoff games. All right, next one, Chris Paul
has the second most defensive wind shares all time by
a player six foot one or shorter. Can you name
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the leader defensive wind shares? Gosh six one or shorter?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
And obviously Chris Paul's played a long time and this
is an accumulative thing, so you take that into consideration
a little bit. O get Isaiah's No, he's short.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
No, thirteam won a lot and played defense.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
It's good, good points. But no, that's very small.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Now, I'd like to say on this, I feel like
this guy is a bit of a surprise.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Six to one or shorter. I've always thought of him
a little bit bigger, not much, but he's a tiny guy.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
See like an all defense type player. I mean, I assume.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Oh yeah, I mean it played a long time.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
John Stockton, well done. I thought he was taller.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
I did you not think he was still just a
little bit right two and a half, I thought, John,
But he's seventy pounds.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Jeez. He was a five time All defensive player, ten
time All Star.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
For a leader in steels to this day.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yes, right still yeah by a miles. Yeah, all right,
good stuff. You guys are cooking all right. This one's
fun because I think, Wait, were we in the building
for this? I can't remember, but we were in the city.
I know that DeAndre Jordan impeded in the twenty seventeen
NBA Dunk Contest in Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
We were there in Charlotte. Were we at the dunk contest?
I don't know. Probably, it wasn't sure if we were.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
But anyway, DeAndre Jordan twenty seventeen NBA Dunk Contest in Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Who were the other three participants?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
I think we're in that brewery watching it all together.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Great call. Yeah, I wasn't think we were there for this.
Guess what? Thank good?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, okay, so give me the other three participants. Obviously
you're not googling over there.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
No, but I was checking to see where we are
in Charlotte.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Right, we were at a thing.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, we're at that brewery.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
We had a really cool neon looking sign.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
We got some great photos for this one.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Oh wow, it's really cool. Well, the one guy whose
leg hidden airplane, that's the one that sticks out. We
had an airplane on the floor, wasn't the John.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Collins got the wrong not contest nuts?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Okay, now does everything?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
This changes everything? Now you got me fact checking my
own freaking trivia.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
But no, I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
No, Nope, you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
You're wrong.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
You got the wrong year. It's twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
No, No, you were in the oh the thing. They
were there twice.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
They were there twice.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
They were there twice. So twenty seventeen, twenty nineteen, different, different.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Twenty seventeen. They're in New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
What's going on.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
No, maybe I have the euro or the location.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
All right, DeAndre?
Speaker 2 (40:26):
You threw us off. You threw us off.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
I was thinking for sure it was going to be
John Collins.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Hold on because Charlotte, because we were in Charlotte at
a brewery.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
I threw you off. Why did I tell you the city?
Why did I do that?
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Because New Orleans was twenty seventeen. If if that's what
you're referring to, okay, well.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Then don't worry about you.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Because Charlotte was supposed to be in Charlotte, and I
got that brought me, That got me. Yeah, law, the
actual Charlotte that we were in was twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Correct, I'm wrong. It was supposed to be in Charlotte.
It wasn't. It was. This is a New Orleans task,
was right? Twenty seventeen?
Speaker 2 (40:59):
The year A year ruined it? Where are we? Okay?
Speaker 3 (41:02):
So now think of the year twenty second? Yout like
Glenn Robinson the third correct? That's that's your winner of
the dunk contest?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Was it Derek Jones Junior?
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Correct? One more? One of the greatest dunkers we've ever seen?
James flight White? Nope?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Aaron, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
This was the drone year drone Yeah, this was a
horrible dunk contest year. Nobody could put down a dunk
except Glenn Robinson jumping over people and doing reverses.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
That's what he did.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
He basically won because I don't was it Derek Jones
Junior in the final? And I think he kept watching
his dunks. Yeah, it was a bad one. I'd say
my bad on that, Charlotte. I'd say, you guys had
a better dunk contest in New Orleans because you guys,
you guys did your dunk off in the Superdome.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Yeah, that was a good one too.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
There was curtains, Yeah, but there was curtains like sectioned
it off and you guys had JD obviously had to
film it along with was Maddie film?
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Oh yeah. One of the big innovations that year, Phantom came,
They added slow mo to the iPhone came.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Wasn't it Ram Rockers as well?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Year? I thought Rim Rockers was l A.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Yeah, it was la.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
I'll never forget we were doing that.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Bull Bull walked in with Migo, so I was like,
this guy ain't gonna make it.
Speaker 5 (42:23):
I get serious, Bunny, what year did you and me
do some weird activation thing with Bradley Beale and Anthony?
Speaker 2 (42:38):
I think that might have been l A that it
was virtual reality, but he was shooting.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
That was so Yeah, he was shooting a basketball on
a basketball net, but wearing those virtual.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Yeah, the virtual headset, the Oculus or early Oculus. Maybe
maybe it wasn't even oculous.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
We love Brandon integration.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Wait, wait till a little bit later in this show.
All right. John Moran was twenty years and one hundred
and eighty three days old when he posted a twenty
seven point triple double. Okay, can you name the.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Only two guys to have a twenty five point triple
double at the age of nineteen?
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Lebron No.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Lebron's first twenty five point triple double came twenty days
after he turned twenty. So very close slacken.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, at the age of nineteen.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
This guy did it twice. One guy did and then
one guy did it once. They're both current players. Luka, Doncic,
he did it twice.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Nice, I didn't turning twenty The age didn't hit me
with Lucas. Okay, is it possible because I thought Luca,
but I thought he was too old.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
Zion No, No, No, Josh Giddy? Yes, good guys who
remember that? Yeah? That was It was like a big deal.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Yep, twenty five point triple double those guys Luca and
Giddy before they turned twenty. In twenty eighteen, Joel Embiid
became the third player since the NBA ABA merger which
was seventy six to seventy seven, just for everybody to
average at least twenty seven points per game and thirteen
rebounds per game. Can you name the first two guys
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to do that and the two that have done it since?
I'm looking for twenty seven and thirteen boards again from
the seventy six seventy seven seasons, So two did it
before and b and then two have done it after
Embiid in that year eighteen nineteen. Okay, oh in that
year like.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
After it? Yeah, to check do it?
Speaker 3 (44:40):
Shack did it?
Speaker 4 (44:40):
Yeah, you got it. You gotta guess.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Jack Shack did it actually twice. He did it once
in Orlando and later with the Lakers. How about Nikola Jokic,
He is the one. He's one of the guys that
have done it since he did it in the twenty
twenty one season.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
And I think he's currently doing it too. But yeah,
he didn't quite get the thirteen boards last year, I
don't think right. Yep, Okay, you got one prior and
one ladder.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
Anthony Davis, No, he's probably a little low on the score.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Well, so you got to go pretty old like older
for the the guy that did it prior and then
you can obviously get Kareem.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
No, it would have been a lot for him later
in his career. Okay, so are we talking to like
an eighties nineties guy?
Speaker 3 (45:20):
You're talking to an eighties guy. He played eighties. He
played in the nineties. But you're talking to Moses. Moses
Malone did it back to back years with the Rockets. Yeah,
and now you got one more current.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Player, current player.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
There you go. Nice one nineteen twenty MVP season.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
He only played sixty three games, so in today's roles
he would not have got that MVP, but he did
every thirteen.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Well done. You guys are cooking man.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
All right, here's a fun one because this guy came
up on the All Washed team. What is Bradley Beal's
career high for points in a game?
Speaker 2 (45:51):
High?
Speaker 4 (45:52):
Do you led the league of scoring one year?
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (45:54):
He did thirty point one.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
I'm looking for one game.
Speaker 4 (45:57):
Oh sorry, a career high in a game?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah, not that high. I don't think he had a
monster No. I think you should stick with your gut
when you said.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Hi, I know, because he did lead the league in
yeah scoring one year. But I just thought he scored
like a Shay.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
No, he had one.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
Monster game here, in particular against Well. I won't tell
you the team, but give me a.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
Solid sixty right on the nose.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
You nail it.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
That's right? Can you?
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Can you tell me the team?
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Beal did it? The Guns?
Speaker 3 (46:25):
No bonus points? Eastern Conference team Boston.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
No close, I would say close in a legendary team Nicks.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
No, the other one I would say Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Yeah, those are your three OG Eastern Conference teams.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Well, i'd be the Bulls obviously too good stuff. Sixty.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
That was Beial's career high final one. You brought up
his bald spot earlier. Al Horford is the third oldest
player to make five plus threes in a playoff game.
He hit seven then at the age of thirty seven
years and three hundred and fifty seven days old. Nearly
thirty eight years old.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
Can you name the only three? Sorry? Can you?
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Can you name the only three older players to drop
five plus threes in a playoff game?
Speaker 3 (47:16):
How old was he?
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Thirty seven?
Speaker 3 (47:18):
He was just under thirty eight?
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Wow, Lebron, Lebron is one five plus threes in a
playoff game?
Speaker 2 (47:27):
You said, Ray? Was he old enough? I don't know?
If ray Allen was old.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
No, ray Allen was just under Al Horford, just under
I'm thinking Reggie would be a little too young as well.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yep, yeap, I'll give you some Curry. Is Curry old
enough yet it's not?
Speaker 2 (47:43):
No, is there a weird Kyle Korver year that he
was old enough?
Speaker 1 (47:46):
No, I'm gonna this guy was. He did it probably
in his championship year, so he was an older guy.
Dirk Novitsky, No, but you're Jason Kidd, Jason Kid.
Speaker 4 (47:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
And then wow, that's a lot of threes for Jason,
I know.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
And then this last one, this final name, I'm gonna
have to give you hints because this guy was not
a three point shooter. He was thirty eight years old
when he did it, and he did it for I'll
give you the team. He did it for, the Houston Rockets.
They took on the Utah Jazz in nineteen ninety seven.
You don't even think of this guy as a Houston Rocket.
You think of him as a Phoenix Son. I'll give
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you that.
Speaker 4 (48:25):
Think of him as a Phoenix Son.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Yeah, who would have I mean, honestly, he was not
a three point He had five threes like he scored
thirty one points in this game anyway.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
Barkley, No, not Barkley, that would be weird, lost, sir.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
You think of him as a Utah jazz he no, no,
he played.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
Yeah, in fact, he's still you You who you hear.
Speaker 4 (48:52):
Eddie, Eddie Johnson, Why you don't think of him rocket
at all? No, I'd say next after Sons.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Absolutely and he was not a three point shooter rather,
so good job Lebron, Jason Kidd and then Eddie Johnson.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
There you go. You guys just did NBA trivia and
you guys just knocked out the park.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
I love putting this together for you guys. Thanks the
Basketball Reference for inspiring if not coming up with a
few of those.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
And thanks to Eddie Johnson for these nicknames on Basketball.
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Reference Piggy, the Smooth Shooter and the man who put
the J in jump shot.
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Those are three of the worst nicknames I've ever heard.
He's the best of the bunch, but that's saying something.
The J and jump shot is just rolls off the tug.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
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are the Calves. Because it's a legitimately tough question, you
go to pick them. We had nine games. There's three
games which are out one or one and a half
points spread. Really, yeah, we got a Hornets Jazz No,
excuse me, Hornets Pacers that one's nice and close. Oh,
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Raptor Sixers as well.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
Hornets Pacers is a nut dust bowl game. No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
No, No, Horns have removed to win that.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
Yes, that's a that's a big that's a winnable game
for the Pacers right there.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
Hornspacers Raptor Sixer is also a very close line. But
the Rockets cas is on ESPN, and it's the question,
what are these Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (52:28):
Are they they're ten and five.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
But as you threw in your power rankings, you questioned
how good this team is, Trey, and it's a legitimate question.
They just yeah, they get monster performances for Donovan Mitchell,
but it doesn't feel like they doesn't feel like they're
at the top of the conference right now playing a
Houston Rockets team that's obviously playing extremely well. So I
was comfortable taking the Calves even though it was a
(52:51):
real big question mark for me, while you guys are
taking the Rockets. Yeah, one too in a row. For sure,
you guys have the Rockets and you gotta win by two.
But it's basically I'll pick them here.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
I'm excited to see Iman Thompson on Donovan Mitchell I
assume he gets that assignment for a majority of the game.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Yeah, that'd be fun.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
Yep, because Mitchell looked awesome in that last game against
the Bucks.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
So I'm and Thompson they're gonna be like, hey, try
and shut him down. So that'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
All right.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
So you got the Cavs, you got a point to
play with as the home dogs, and we need the
Rockets win by two.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
Yeah, nine games looks like a good sketch, as I
brought up a few of them there. Yeah, Warriors heat,
that's a good game.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
Warriors heats.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
Okay, back to back Florida contest there for the Dubs, Bulls,
Blazers and Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (53:34):
Pelicans Nix Mavericks on the second as a second game
of ESPN. You know, no one's feeling that right now,
but you never know. You never know.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
Later today on playback, where we wait for them to
watch their new trivia game, Trey will be doing bullser
back watching those old seventy Chicago Bulls the games they
played this particular week back in that season.
Speaker 4 (54:00):
I think it's a heavy sked.
Speaker 3 (54:02):
Oh really, four games.
Speaker 4 (54:03):
I think it's a four gamer.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Wow, Okay, Well join Trey at three pm Eastern playback.
Speaker 4 (54:10):
It's the West Coast road trip, the Rodeo trip that
the Balls used to take, Mavericks, Spurs, Jazz Sonics, those
were great teams in the West. Wow.
Speaker 3 (54:20):
Yeah, yeah, we'll see if they get handed.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
But the other ones, Yeah, so will the Bulls use
their second game early on here or third?
Speaker 3 (54:29):
For all we know? Who knows? Who does? I don't know.
I don't know how it went. That's why he's doing this.
So join a.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
Trey on playback at three pm. All right, that's it
for us. Thanks for joining us on the stream team
here on YouTube. Hit the light button subscribe podcast listeners.
I'm holding up a five. I just realized that doesn't
work for the podcast listeners.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
We still love.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
Those reviews, absolutely love them. We got to talk to
our I like seeing people. I've said this before on Spotify.
At least you can comment on the actual show itself.
I like that. I like that somebody was mad yesterday.
Stop making it excuses for calf injuries. It's a professional sport.
Speaker 3 (55:04):
Guys get injured.
Speaker 2 (55:06):
It's true.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
Injuries are a part of the game. Too big of
a part.
Speaker 3 (55:09):
I didn't think we went that hard. Conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
There is but okay, okay, Hey, we read all the
comments and appreciate you for downloading and subscribing wherever you get.
No dunks the podcast until tomorrow. Clipper bros.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
You heard it here first.
Speaker 4 (55:23):
Have a great time turn up. Love you guys awesome.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
Thanks for joining us, and remember the Pistons are eleven
game win streak. Were any of you guys at the
game last night?
Speaker 3 (55:35):
I was playing hoops myself.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
Oh yeah, same?
Speaker 4 (55:38):
Oh wow, yeah, your season already started again. Season is back, baby,
Holy moly're looking pretty good. Got a plus thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Point in frontal after one night. You cooked last night.
The league shame team from previously.
Speaker 4 (55:53):
This is the team we beate in the first round
of the playoffs from last year.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
And they I think it's a rebuilding season. They lost
maybe a couple of guys.
Speaker 4 (56:02):
Yeah, I think they're stocking up for the next next season.
Speaker 2 (56:05):
You guys, play a point differential or yeah.
Speaker 3 (56:09):
It comes down to tiebreakers?
Speaker 4 (56:11):
Yeah for ty breaks.
Speaker 3 (56:12):
Wow, play to the final buzzer. That's right.
Speaker 4 (56:14):
I mean, when you're out that much, there's no final buzzer.
It's just the rest calling at two and a half
minutes left, all right, that's call. Game. Yeah, when it's
like that big of a blowout for sure. Well then
point one about the point differential though, hey man plus
thirty seven, I bet wear it first I can.
Speaker 3 (56:28):
All right, we'll be back tomorrow and Brason Day people,
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