# It's Just One Game, But …

An episode of [No Dunks](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1468409996), 21 Oct 2026, 1 h 16 min.

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On Wed.'s No Dunks, the guys overreact to the NBA's opening results: The Thunder are the best team in the league, Joel Embiid will play 70 games this season, and Javonte Green has already peaked. That, plus a LeBron wedgie in MSG, the Knicks' championship celebrations, Wemby and Tatum struggling, Halloween decorations, the matinee start, and more. 🎽 Buy a new No Dunks reversible jersey: https://breakingt.com/collections/no-dunks ✍️ Ad-free No Dunks episodes on Substack: https://nodunks.substack.com/ 📈 No Dunks on YouTube: YouTube.com/nodunksinc 📸 No Dunks on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nodunksinc/ 𝕏 No Dunks on Twitter/X: https://x.com/NoDunksInc 🦋 No Dunks on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nodunks.com 18+ only. Restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. Event contract trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for everyone. Please carefully consider if it is appropriate for you in light of your personal financial circumstances. Kalshi products are not available in all jurisdictions. See kalshi.com/regulatory for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:06] Speaker 1: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks
[0:10] Speaker 1: NBA podcast. It's Wednesday, October 21st, 2026. I'm J.D. Skeets
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[0:49] Speaker 1: your boys. We got a fun one here. Man, basketball's back.
[0:52] Speaker 3: We're back, baby.
[0:55] Speaker 1: Gotta get used to those late nights. Not used to
[0:58] Speaker 1: that yet, but that wasn't even really late either. It
[1:00] Speaker 1: was like an earlier late start, all things considered. Yeah,
[1:04] Speaker 1: they're going to get later.
[1:05] Speaker 3: I don't know. I went upstairs as soon as Thunder
[1:08] Speaker 3: Spurs was open. I was like, 1230. My eye muscles
[1:11] Speaker 3: are not strong enough yet to keep them open that
[1:14] Speaker 3: late and then be able to open them again early
[1:17] Speaker 3: the next morning.
[1:17] Speaker 1: That's right.
[1:18] Speaker 3: Get the lactic acid out of them.
[1:20] Speaker 1: That's exactly right.
[1:21] Speaker 3: Take them for a run.
[1:21] Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like nine hours of hoops yesterday, really, or
[1:24] Speaker 1: something around that.
[1:26] Speaker 2: Yeah, I did the halftime sleep of OKC.
[1:28] Speaker 1: You did? OK, you watched the rest this morning.
[1:30] Speaker 2: Yeah, which is a mistake. Because you go to bed thinking,
[1:33] Speaker 2: all right, the Spurs are going to get it going
[1:34] Speaker 2: in the third quarter. So you go to bed thinking,
[1:36] Speaker 2: all right, here we go, third quarter. It's already in
[1:38] Speaker 2: my head. So I wake up thinking, all right, let's go.
[1:41] Speaker 1: Do you check the score then when you wake up
[1:43] Speaker 1: or do you go right into the second half action?
[1:45] Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a score man.
[1:46] Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you see how it unfolded. I've done that,
[1:48] Speaker 1: of course.
[1:49] Speaker 2: Third quarter was good, though.
[1:51] Speaker 1: I made a game of it. We'll break it all down.
[1:53] Speaker 1: We're going to play it's just one game, but and
[1:56] Speaker 1: completely overreact to those three games that started the season yesterday.
[1:59] Speaker 1: But we had our first wedgie, baby. And my God,
[2:03] Speaker 1: LeBron James in Madison Square Garden in clutch time. And
[2:08] Speaker 1: a very unique, hilarious wedgie, too, where it went around
[2:12] Speaker 1: the rim and then he popped it back in. The rise,
[2:15] Speaker 1: or excuse me, I should say the fallen rise of
[2:17] Speaker 1: wedgie Dinkins now streaming on Peacock. I mean, Reggie went.
[2:22] Speaker 3: No!
[2:23] Speaker 1: And then he screwed up the show name. He called
[2:25] Speaker 1: it Wedgie Jenkins. Yeah.
[2:29] Speaker 3: Sorry. You know what I mean.
[2:30] Speaker 1: It's actually Reggie Dinkins.
[2:32] Speaker 3: Reggie Dinkins. He said Reggie Jenkins. He also said Reggie
[2:37] Speaker 3: or Wedgie.
[2:38] Speaker 2: Why didn't he just say Wedgie Miller? I know.
[2:40] Speaker 1: Well, because they had been talking to Tracy Morgan there.
[2:44] Speaker 3: Mike Tirico was eating his popcorn. You know, it was
[2:46] Speaker 3: a long story. Everybody started a little rusty. November 2nd,
[2:48] Speaker 3: I think, is the date. You tune them in for
[2:51] Speaker 3: season two of Reggie Dinks. No. Come on, man. Season one,
[2:55] Speaker 3: that epic cliffhanger they had at the end. I got
[2:59] Speaker 3: to see what happens.
[3:00] Speaker 1: Where the ball was just going around the rim. Will
[3:03] Speaker 1: it be a wedgie or not?
[3:04] Speaker 2: I mean, does he eat popcorn? Does Tracy Morgan eat
[3:06] Speaker 2: popcorn the way he was eating it last night? Because
[3:08] Speaker 2: that was fun to watch.
[3:09] Speaker 3: He threw it up in the air and they cut
[3:11] Speaker 3: to black. Season two coming soon. I couldn't believe it.
[3:15] Speaker 3: Did he get the popcorn in his mouth?
[3:16] Speaker 1: Tune in. WedgieTracker.com.
[3:18] Speaker 2: He was stuffing it, man. He was stuffing it in
[3:20] Speaker 2: his mouth. It was hanging off his lip.
[3:22] Speaker 1: WedgieTracker.com, which we always show you there at the end
[3:25] Speaker 1: to keep track of all the wedgies. It's a real website.
[3:27] Speaker 1: It has leveled up this season, man. There are now
[3:30] Speaker 1: shout outs for the first people that actually flagged the
[3:34] Speaker 1: wedgie online. So that's cool. There's a coach's challenge you
[3:38] Speaker 1: can throw on WedgieTracker.com now. You can throw the flag
[3:41] Speaker 1: if you think they got the wrong player with the wedgie,
[3:45] Speaker 1: the wrong team, maybe the wrong date. Okay. Love that.
[3:48] Speaker 1: Keeping it honest over there. And then get this. Wedgie
[3:52] Speaker 1: Tracker is now an app. You can go and download
[3:54] Speaker 1: this from the app store and have all the wedgies
[3:58] Speaker 1: right there in your own pocket. Wow. Isn't that amazing?
[4:02] Speaker 1: I think it's only available on iPhones, but I don't
[4:05] Speaker 1: know many Android users nowadays.
[4:06] Speaker 2: Not an ad. That was not an ad.
[4:08] Speaker 3: I know.
[4:09] Speaker 2: I will say this about wedgie tracker.com. The pace is
[4:12] Speaker 2: 53 wedgies. Um, no, it's not.
[4:15] Speaker 1: Are you throwing a flag?
[4:18] Speaker 2: I mean, cancel the website. If you're going to give
[4:20] Speaker 2: us that pace, one wedgie after three games, there's 1230
[4:24] Speaker 2: regular season games. It's some pretty easy math. We're on
[4:28] Speaker 2: the pace for over 400 and then you get some
[4:31] Speaker 2: post-season games. So Ricardo, I love the website. That's incredible.
[4:35] Speaker 2: Thank you very much for putting it up. Although I
[4:37] Speaker 2: went and checked, was that our first wedgie on an
[4:40] Speaker 2: opening night ever? Oh, since we started tracking. It is. Absolutely.
[4:45] Speaker 1: On opening night. Maybe not an opening game for a team.
[4:48] Speaker 2: For a team. Last year, literally, OKC Indiana had a wedgie.
[4:53] Speaker 2: That was Indiana's first game, although that was OKC's second game.
[4:57] Speaker 2: I went back two years ago. Bilal Koulibaly had one
[5:00] Speaker 2: for the Washington Wizards. They were playing Boston. That was
[5:03] Speaker 2: Boston's second game, so it wasn't there. Minnesota Memphis in 2016.
[5:06] Speaker 2: You remember that one? No. You remember that one? Vince Carter.
[5:09] Speaker 1: Hold on.
[5:10] Speaker 2: Vince Carter.
[5:10] Speaker 3: I've got the app.
[5:11] Speaker 1: Check it out.
[5:13] Speaker 2: That was both teams' first game on October 26, 2016.
[5:16] Speaker 2: In 2015, we had one in Utah's first game. They
[5:22] Speaker 2: were playing Detroit, who played the night before against Atlanta.
[5:25] Speaker 2: Detroit opened the season against Atlanta in 2015. That's kind
[5:29] Speaker 2: of weird.
[5:29] Speaker 3: I remember that.
[5:30] Speaker 2: Do you remember that?
[5:31] Speaker 3: That one I remember.
[5:32] Speaker 2: That was a Morris. Was it a Marcus or a Markeith?
[5:36] Speaker 2: Either way. Yeah, we've had some on opening night for teams,
[5:39] Speaker 2: but not the opening night of a season. And you
[5:41] Speaker 2: get it from LeBron James. This is a different league. Wow.
[5:44] Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. We've got wedgies on opening night.
[5:45] Speaker 3: It's a good moment.
[5:46] Speaker 2: We've got parity happening in the NBA. We've got expansion
[5:49] Speaker 2: happening to Vegas. We've got expansion happening to Europe someday, maybe.
[5:52] Speaker 1: I thought it was a good thing we got a
[5:54] Speaker 1: wedgie in the game two of the WNBA finals. During Valkyries,
[5:58] Speaker 1: a lot of people were excited. And I was responding
[6:00] Speaker 1: to people like, that's a good sign leading right into
[6:02] Speaker 1: the NBA season. Here we go. One wedgie. Are we
[6:04] Speaker 1: on pace for 53? Or are we on pace.
[6:06] Speaker 2: For 400 plus?
[6:07] Speaker 1: 53?
[6:07] Speaker 2: How does that make sense?
[6:08] Speaker 1: I don't know.
[6:10] Speaker 2: I've always been anal about math. I can't wait.
[6:15] Speaker 1: To see that on a graphic later.
[6:17] Speaker 3: Trey will make.
[6:18] Speaker 1: I've always been anal about math.
[6:21] Speaker 2: Ricardo's been really, really busy updating his app. You're in...
[6:26] Speaker 2: Promoting it. Yeah. And then you're shitting on it. I'm
[6:31] Speaker 2: not shitting on it. That's how you advertise, just like that.
[6:38] Speaker 1: You're in rare form, man. He went to bed at halftime, man.
[6:43] Speaker 1: Wait until he stays up all night to watch these.
[6:45] Speaker 1: All right, so let's get into it, the actual basketball.
[6:48] Speaker 1: It's just one game, but let's do it. Okay, so
[6:55] Speaker 1: three games. Each of us can take a turn overreacting.
[6:59] Speaker 1: That's what we're doing here to just one game. Let's
[7:03] Speaker 1: start with the Thunder Spurs game, the late game. Trey,
[7:06] Speaker 1: what's your overreaction?
[7:07] Speaker 3: It's just one game, but the Thunder are the best
[7:09] Speaker 3: team in the league.
[7:11] Speaker 2: They're good.
[7:12] Speaker 3: Perhaps not hyperbole. Thunder were locked in last night. They
[7:17] Speaker 3: came in, and you could tell the game meant a
[7:19] Speaker 3: lot to them, and it, for me, started with Shea
[7:21] Speaker 3: Gildress Alexander. 32, six boards, four assists, three steals, three blocks.
[7:26] Speaker 3: The dude is a master of the craft of scoring.
[7:29] Speaker 3: He had that reverse spin move, step through with the floater,
[7:34] Speaker 3: incredible stuff, a couple of and-one jumpers where he... You
[7:38] Speaker 3: just know he's going to the pump fake. You know
[7:40] Speaker 3: he's going to get you up, but still you can't
[7:42] Speaker 3: resist it. Gets the foul. But the thing that really
[7:45] Speaker 3: impressed me, it felt like he was playing with a
[7:46] Speaker 3: whole new attitude last night. More disdainful for his opponents,
[7:51] Speaker 3: I thought. A little bit of an edge. Like when
[7:53] Speaker 3: he's celebrating, he's not just like getting the arms going.
[7:56] Speaker 3: He's putting a lot of oomph behind it. I thought
[7:59] Speaker 3: there was so much edge on Shea Gildress Alexander, which
[8:02] Speaker 3: then permeates down on the line for the rest of
[8:04] Speaker 3: the Thunder team. to the point where De'Aaron Fox rodeo
[8:08] Speaker 3: tosses Chet Holmgren and all three of the Williams Bash
[8:11] Speaker 3: brothers step to him and defend him and say, you're
[8:13] Speaker 3: not messing with our tall, skinny guy, okay? Immediately after that,
[8:17] Speaker 3: a 22-5 run for OKC, the first big punch of
[8:21] Speaker 3: the game. The Spurs punched back, but OKC always had
[8:23] Speaker 3: a response. Jalen Williams gave the interview at the end
[8:27] Speaker 3: of the first quarter where he talked about how they
[8:28] Speaker 3: kind of have a new team with the loss of
[8:30] Speaker 3: Lou Dort, who's been a longtime culture guy for the Thunder,
[8:34] Speaker 3: him departing. Aaron Wiggins departing, young guys stepping into new roles.
[8:38] Speaker 3: To me, the theme of the night was the Thunder
[8:40] Speaker 3: coming out and trying to send a message that this
[8:43] Speaker 3: is the standard of winning championships. This is what you
[8:47] Speaker 3: need to do in a big-time game against a big-time opponent,
[8:50] Speaker 3: and that's the message they sent.
[8:52] Speaker 2: Yeah. It would have been nice on the other side
[8:54] Speaker 2: if we got the best player performing like that with
[8:57] Speaker 2: a little bit of rigor that Wemby did not have
[8:59] Speaker 2: on this night. Will it happen in game two?
[9:01] Speaker 1: Perhaps.
[9:02] Speaker 2: Perhaps. A big part of it was, yeah, they were
[9:05] Speaker 2: just chomping at the bit, licking the chops, that they
[9:08] Speaker 2: got to play the Spurs again after five months of
[9:10] Speaker 2: just waiting for them. And Shea was spectacular, there's no doubt.
[9:15] Speaker 2: Against great defenders, by the way.
[9:17] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[9:17] Speaker 2: And they were awesome defenders.
[9:18] Speaker 1: In Castle, be it Harper, Wemby, obviously shading over.
[9:21] Speaker 2: They were just good. They were good. But Shea was,
[9:25] Speaker 2: he was just absolutely elite. It was different to see
[9:28] Speaker 2: Cason Wallace sub in for Lou Dort as a starter.
[9:31] Speaker 2: And I thought Kaysen Wallace is that little different piece
[9:35] Speaker 2: than Lou Dort. It could be A.J. Mitchell. It could
[9:38] Speaker 2: be A.J. Mitchell, I think. I'll stop there. I won't
[9:41] Speaker 2: say that it's Jared McCain. They need a ball handler.
[9:44] Speaker 2: And that's why I think they're better off without Lou
[9:47] Speaker 2: Dort there. Those guys are better offensive weapons. And Shea's
[9:50] Speaker 2: first three came from a Kaysen Wallace penetration. Find him.
[9:54] Speaker 2: It's an open three. That was a penetrate. Give it
[9:56] Speaker 2: to him. And Shea hit his first open three. It
[9:58] Speaker 2: was a beautiful shot. So I think they're better off.
[10:00] Speaker 2: without Lou Dort. I know he's a great defender, but
[10:02] Speaker 2: he's limited offensively. So here comes in Kaysen Wallace. Even
[10:05] Speaker 2: though he didn't have a spectacular stat-wise night, he just
[10:08] Speaker 2: had a really good night, and it trickles down to
[10:11] Speaker 2: absolutely everybody on OKC.
[10:13] Speaker 1: I think I picked the wrong Thunder player to win
[10:15] Speaker 1: six-man of the year because I went with A.J.
[10:17] Speaker 2: Mitchell, and.
[10:19] Speaker 1: After one game, if we're overreacting, it's Jared McCain, who
[10:22] Speaker 1: was incredible in this game in terms of hitting the
[10:25] Speaker 1: three ball.
[10:26] Speaker 2: And ESPN picked Caruso, so there could be like six
[10:30] Speaker 2: of them on this team, unfortunately.
[10:32] Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. Everybody's stepping up, for sure, and
[10:34] Speaker 1: getting more of a role now with all these guys
[10:36] Speaker 1: being moved to help the books. How about Ademara, too,
[10:40] Speaker 1: in his rookie debut? Looking pretty damn solid. He blocked
[10:44] Speaker 1: Wemby on the alley-oop attempt. Seven points in You know,
[10:47] Speaker 1: limited time, didn't play a ton of minutes because they
[10:49] Speaker 1: have two other big guys. And I thought Chet Holmgren
[10:52] Speaker 1: had a little bit of a backbone last night.
[10:54] Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
[10:55] Speaker 1: So that was a good sign for OKC. Obviously, they're
[10:57] Speaker 1: going to think they're going to have to go through
[10:58] Speaker 1: San Antonio again at some point in the playoffs. But Mara, man, like,
[11:01] Speaker 1: this guy's going to play. Like, there's no doubt. We
[11:03] Speaker 1: saw him in preseason, but then you're like, oh, yeah. OK,
[11:05] Speaker 1: we see this all the time. Everybody gets excited about
[11:08] Speaker 1: a rookie or a young guy that gets all these
[11:10] Speaker 1: opportunities in the preseason. You're like, oh, that'll translate. But
[11:13] Speaker 1: I think he's at least going to get these type
[11:15] Speaker 1: of opportunities, especially if it's San Antonio. Where it's like,
[11:18] Speaker 1: hey man, try your best on that giant over there.
[11:20] Speaker 1: And Victor Wemenyama, one for 13. They were calling him
[11:24] Speaker 1: Brickter Wemenyama online last night. Rough game. The one basket
[11:29] Speaker 1: was the alley-oop, I think, the wide open one from
[11:32] Speaker 1: Fox at the end of the third. Strange to see
[11:35] Speaker 1: him really, really struggle like that.
[11:37] Speaker 2: Yeah. We all expect, I expected him to... Go off
[11:42] Speaker 2: into the summer and come back extremely strong. And so
[11:45] Speaker 2: I think this first game is just an absolute write-off.
[11:48] Speaker 2: He said post-game, I just got to have more fun.
[11:50] Speaker 2: I just got to be myself. He doesn't talk like that.
[11:53] Speaker 2: It was more like, I just got to have more fun.
[11:55] Speaker 2: That's what I have to do. And I think... He
[11:58] Speaker 2: can't look like that ever again. I think that's all
[12:01] Speaker 2: it was.
[12:01] Speaker 1: Will that be his worst game of the season?
[12:02] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[12:03] Speaker 3: I mean, one for 13 is pretty bad. Yeah. But
[12:07] Speaker 3: he's still dominated on the defensive end, for sure. But
[12:10] Speaker 3: he was just completely out of sorts and completely out
[12:12] Speaker 3: of rhythm. And it's going to take a long time
[12:16] Speaker 3: for the Spurs to figure out exactly how they want
[12:18] Speaker 3: to play with their three guards out there. But OKC
[12:22] Speaker 3: was being pretty bold in letting Stephon Castle shoot. They
[12:25] Speaker 3: were playing off him on the perimeter. They're not like,
[12:28] Speaker 3: desperate to stay attached to a guy like De'Aaron Fox.
[12:31] Speaker 3: Harper as well is not a guy who threatens the
[12:34] Speaker 3: defense from the outside. So there is going to be
[12:36] Speaker 3: times when it's very cramped inside, I think, surprisingly for
[12:40] Speaker 3: a team that plays three guards since they're all attackers.
[12:42] Speaker 3: So it's not surprising to see Wemby get thrown out
[12:45] Speaker 3: of sorts, especially for a team like the Thunder that
[12:48] Speaker 3: has the size to be able to combat him and
[12:50] Speaker 3: the defensive infrastructure to actually play around him and make
[12:53] Speaker 3: things tough. But he was bad. And if he plays better,
[12:56] Speaker 3: you know, Spurs maybe take this one, but I assume
[13:00] Speaker 3: he'll have better games going forward here.
[13:02] Speaker 2: I think he was just off. And I know it's
[13:05] Speaker 2: easy to say that, but he was just thrown off
[13:07] Speaker 2: by a team that was ready to get after him.
[13:09] Speaker 2: So there's no way he can. I mean, he just
[13:12] Speaker 2: seemed entirely off. Chet outplayed Victor Wamenyama from the get-go.
[13:17] Speaker 2: He made Victor Wamenyama shuffle his feet and get called
[13:19] Speaker 2: for a travel. Chet had his number on this night.
[13:23] Speaker 2: I will say some bonus about the way the Thunder
[13:27] Speaker 2: were able to play that shell and go inside and
[13:30] Speaker 2: guard Wemby, Stephon Castle hit five threes and was willing
[13:33] Speaker 2: to let him fly. So if that happens, their offense
[13:36] Speaker 2: should be unstoppable. If Stephon Castle, who was the guy
[13:39] Speaker 2: that everyone wondered, oh, maybe play off him in the playoffs.
[13:43] Speaker 2: If he's willing to take, he took 12 threes in
[13:45] Speaker 2: this game. If he's going to hit five, they can
[13:47] Speaker 2: play whatever lineups. Is it Tobias Harris to get some
[13:49] Speaker 2: more height at the four or or is it to
[13:51] Speaker 2: go these three guards? But Chet was impressive, and he
[13:54] Speaker 2: outplayed Wemby. He was really, really good. The penetration, the drives,
[13:58] Speaker 2: and the passes. He dropped one off to Hartenstein in
[14:00] Speaker 2: the middle. He threw it out to the corner really nicely,
[14:02] Speaker 2: even if it was a miss on a three. He
[14:04] Speaker 2: was there, man. I mean, everybody was. So it started
[14:07] Speaker 2: with Shea trickled down, and unfortunately for Wemby, if you're
[14:11] Speaker 2: going to play like that, you guys are going to lose.
[14:13] Speaker 1: Statitudes noted today that it was the second-worst shooting performance
[14:16] Speaker 1: in a season opener in franchise history. by a player
[14:19] Speaker 1: who attempted at least 10 field goals. Can you name
[14:21] Speaker 1: the Spurs player who had a worse opener than Wemby's 1-13?
[14:25] Speaker 1: It's a Hall of Famer.
[14:29] Speaker 3: David Robinson. No.
[14:31] Speaker 2: Bless you.
[14:32] Speaker 1: He's allergic to David Robinson.
[14:33] Speaker 2: I would think it's a perimeter shooter.
[14:35] Speaker 1: It is.
[14:37] Speaker 2: But it's not a man. It's not a Tony. It's
[14:39] Speaker 2: a Tony Parker.
[14:39] Speaker 1: Tony Parker went 0-10 from the floor in the 0-2-0-3
[14:41] Speaker 1: season opener.
[14:45] Speaker 2: Doesn't seem right.
[14:46] Speaker 1: Maybe a good sign for the Spurs because they went
[14:48] Speaker 1: on to win 60 games in the title in 0-2-0-3. So,
[14:52] Speaker 1: you know, you get that one bad game out of
[14:54] Speaker 1: the way if you're Wemby and the Spurs and then
[14:55] Speaker 1: you hopefully go on and win a bunch of games
[14:57] Speaker 1: and maybe the title is here. But that was, it
[14:59] Speaker 1: was rough. It was ugly and, you know, I don't
[15:01] Speaker 1: think he settled for threes. How many did he take
[15:03] Speaker 1: in the end? It wasn't like a crazy number. Four, yeah.
[15:06] Speaker 2: I mean.
[15:07] Speaker 1: But he's the classic guy. Every one he misses, everyone's like,
[15:09] Speaker 1: what are you doing?
[15:10] Speaker 3: Get inside.
[15:11] Speaker 1: You're 7'5. I mean, he can make them and should
[15:14] Speaker 1: take some, but he just had no rhythm. And credit
[15:17] Speaker 1: to the Thunder because they have a lot of 7-footers now.
[15:20] Speaker 1: They already had two, and now they've got another big dude.
[15:23] Speaker 2: Yeah, Adai Mara can now put on his video, just
[15:30] Speaker 2: his initial one, but his entire resume here. He blocked
[15:33] Speaker 2: Wemby in his first game.
[15:36] Speaker 1: It's pretty cool.
[15:37] Speaker 3: He should get a t-shirt that says, I Wemby'd Wemby.
[15:39] Speaker 3: There you go. Because he blocks him on one end
[15:42] Speaker 3: and then catches an alley-oop on the other. That's literally
[15:44] Speaker 3: Wemby's moves. Stole his whole flow bar for bar.
[15:48] Speaker 2: Great start. He only played 11 minutes, I think.
[15:50] Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like 11 or 12.
[15:52] Speaker 3: And there were times where for sure he looked lost
[15:54] Speaker 3: out there.
[15:55] Speaker 1: Oh, sure.
[15:55] Speaker 3: And that guy looks like a 7'3 rookie just looking around.
[15:58] Speaker 3: But who cares? He had those 12 seconds where he
[16:02] Speaker 3: looked like the best player on earth. Yeah.
[16:03] Speaker 2: Your start can't get better than that. And an 11-minute
[16:06] Speaker 2: start to be able to block Wemby, to be part
[16:08] Speaker 2: of the first subs coming off the bench. So that
[16:11] Speaker 2: was pretty cool. Yeah, he was great. I assume teams
[16:15] Speaker 2: will regret not picking this guy because he just looks
[16:18] Speaker 2: really good. So, you know, his teammate was picked higher.
[16:21] Speaker 2: But I do want to just mention about Shea. I
[16:24] Speaker 2: thought the best thing that he did was in that
[16:26] Speaker 2: third quarter after I woke up, I watched Shea when
[16:29] Speaker 2: he was going to the bench because, The Spurs were
[16:31] Speaker 2: on a run and Shea was going to the bench
[16:34] Speaker 2: and he had something to say to Mark Dagnott, to
[16:36] Speaker 2: his coach. He let it rip. He just was pretty
[16:39] Speaker 2: angry about something. Dagnott nodded. Shea went to the bench
[16:44] Speaker 2: and then he was back on the floor 38 seconds later.
[16:46] Speaker 2: And I think it was, hey, they're going on a run.
[16:47] Speaker 2: You need me out there. And it worked. If that's
[16:50] Speaker 2: what it was, because they really did need him. because
[16:52] Speaker 2: they went on a great run this first day. That
[16:53] Speaker 2: was a nice comeback.
[16:54] Speaker 1: One more Shea example to piggyback off what you were saying.
[16:57] Speaker 1: You thought his celebrations had a little more oomph, sort
[17:00] Speaker 1: of maybe him being vocal with Coach Dagnall. He also
[17:03] Speaker 1: had a play where he blocked a jumper around the
[17:06] Speaker 1: free throw line. Mara came down with the rebound. or
[17:09] Speaker 1: the ball and Shea was like give me the ball
[17:12] Speaker 1: like he was like you could see him demonstrably like
[17:15] Speaker 1: give me the ball right away I want to go
[17:16] Speaker 1: you know Amara's like catching it trying to get his
[17:18] Speaker 1: bearings and all that um so he really wanted this
[17:21] Speaker 1: this was the game this was game eight for SGA
[17:24] Speaker 1: and that team to try and uh even the series
[17:27] Speaker 1: in air quotes here uh we're tied at four games
[17:29] Speaker 1: apiece I guess if we're using the conference finals.
[17:31] Speaker 2: Three blocks for him oh I know yeah yeah contributing
[17:34] Speaker 2: everywhere uh anything else uh just quickly um Carter Bryant,
[17:39] Speaker 2: a little scary. He only played six minutes. I thought
[17:42] Speaker 2: he would be growing into his role. Only played six minutes,
[17:45] Speaker 2: missed all his shots from three. Unfortunately, we'll see if
[17:49] Speaker 2: there's a trickle-down effect of Wemby playing better next game,
[17:52] Speaker 2: that note. Also, if we're going to random notes, we
[17:58] Speaker 2: ridiculed Reggie Miller at the beginning of the show. I
[18:01] Speaker 2: will say, when De'Aaron Fox threw Chad Holmgren to the
[18:05] Speaker 2: floor there, Grant Hill was quick to say, Chet goes
[18:10] Speaker 2: in there. He thought he had the size advantage, but
[18:14] Speaker 2: not that strong.
[18:15] Speaker 3: So, you know what?
[18:17] Speaker 2: I was very happy to hear Grant Hill say Chet
[18:20] Speaker 2: Holmgren is not very strong.
[18:21] Speaker 1: He added two pounds of muscle.
[18:23] Speaker 3: Yeah, two pounds of muscle.
[18:24] Speaker 2: He was throwing it around last night. Yeah, Grant called
[18:27] Speaker 2: it out, though, immediately. So I appreciate that of a broadcaster,
[18:30] Speaker 2: and I do appreciate the introductions that we see from
[18:32] Speaker 2: NBC where you get the player talking to the camera
[18:35] Speaker 2: saying where he's from.
[18:36] Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
[18:37] Speaker 2: You know, Che Gilgix, Alexander, Kentucky University. Case and Wallace, cramps.
[18:44] Speaker 1: No, clamps.
[18:44] Speaker 2: Clamps, yeah. I've been saying cramps. This is my bad.
[18:48] Speaker 2: I keep on saying cramps.
[18:49] Speaker 1: I didn't know if you were kidding.
[18:50] Speaker 2: I know. I know. I've been saying– I just bought a– That's.
[18:53] Speaker 1: Trey Kirby on Friday mornings in the factory.
[18:57] Speaker 2: I keep on saying– I say cramps every single morning
[19:00] Speaker 2: now because I've ordered a monkey never cramps hat from–
[19:05] Speaker 2: From the legend Kawasaki in Toronto. Anyway, also.
[19:09] Speaker 1: Did you really order this?
[19:10] Speaker 2: Yes, I can't wait for it.
[19:11] Speaker 1: Like 10 years later, though? It's interesting, but I'm excited
[19:14] Speaker 1: to see it.
[19:15] Speaker 2: He's still doing his thing. Straight from Japan. It's going
[19:17] Speaker 2: to take a long time to get here. Anyway, so
[19:20] Speaker 2: Cason Wallace says Clamps University. Dylan Harper then goes The
[19:24] Speaker 2: Crib University. Mm-hmm. The Crib University just drops it out there.
[19:28] Speaker 1: The Crib University.
[19:29] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[19:29] Speaker 3: No one can play at the Crib.
[19:30] Speaker 1: You like those little videos though.
[19:32] Speaker 3: Of course.
[19:33] Speaker 2: They show their personality.
[19:35] Speaker 1: And to end this, to sort of put a button
[19:38] Speaker 1: on the Fox tackling chat there. I think history was
[19:41] Speaker 1: made and Eagle brought it up. We've never had three
[19:44] Speaker 1: Williams all on the court, all being assessed. That was
[19:49] Speaker 1: a technical foul at once that was good i'm like
[19:51] Speaker 1: convinced uh sakakis and the officials did it just to
[19:55] Speaker 1: say they did that because i was like all three
[19:57] Speaker 1: of them yeah jay especially was like okay yeah i
[20:01] Speaker 1: didn't think all three of them warranted a technical there
[20:03] Speaker 1: no But I think they were like, guys, guys, guys, guys,
[20:07] Speaker 1: there's three Williams. We can do something pretty silly right now.
[20:11] Speaker 1: It's early enough in the game. It's not going to
[20:13] Speaker 1: have an impact. Did we just hit them all with
[20:14] Speaker 1: a tag?
[20:15] Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it.
[20:15] Speaker 1: Let's do it. That's what history was made.
[20:17] Speaker 3: That was good.
[20:18] Speaker 1: Any other random notes, TK?
[20:20] Speaker 3: No, they literally felt to me like Mighty Ducks 2,
[20:23] Speaker 3: the Bash Brothers, when it's Fulton Reed and Dean Portman.
[20:27] Speaker 3: They recruit Kenny Wu to be the third Bash Brother. Shirt, gloves, stick.
[20:33] Speaker 3: It's like, let's all go over there and beat him up.
[20:35] Speaker 3: I loved it. It was like we're teammates together, you know?
[20:38] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[20:40] Speaker 1: Let's go to the first game of the night slate,
[20:44] Speaker 1: and that was the Sixers and the Knicks. What's your overreaction, Tess?
[20:49] Speaker 2: It's just one game, but Joel Embiid's going to play
[20:51] Speaker 2: 70 games. It's a stupid comment. We don't know how
[20:55] Speaker 2: many games he's going to play, but the thing about
[20:58] Speaker 2: Joel Embiid, his obligation to this team is literally... Being
[21:02] Speaker 2: on the floor, number one. Number two, running up and
[21:04] Speaker 2: down the floor and playing defense. And number three, not
[21:07] Speaker 2: having to do a lot offensively, even if basically half
[21:11] Speaker 2: your shots are threes. Seven of his 15 shots are threes.
[21:13] Speaker 2: And you only score 13 points. That's okay when you've
[21:16] Speaker 2: got Jalen Brown and Tyrese Maxey to carry this team.
[21:19] Speaker 2: I think that's entirely fine. And I don't know Joel
[21:23] Speaker 2: Embiid's health if this is ever possible that the guy
[21:26] Speaker 2: can play over two playoff series like he's never done before.
[21:30] Speaker 2: and get to a conference finals. But the defense is
[21:34] Speaker 2: all you need from this guy, especially with Ariel Huckporty
[21:38] Speaker 2: being injured for the rest of the season. They have
[21:41] Speaker 2: a lack of size behind him. There's no doubt about that.
[21:44] Speaker 2: But in this game, he had three big blocks. They're
[21:46] Speaker 2: all recovery blocks too. They weren't just, oh, there's a
[21:48] Speaker 2: guy in front of me and I'm seven feet. He
[21:50] Speaker 2: had to recover to block Andre Drummond a few times.
[21:52] Speaker 2: So great sign. That's all he needs to do. He
[21:54] Speaker 2: needs to be the fourth guy on offense. He does
[21:57] Speaker 2: not need to be that guy anymore. That's why it
[22:00] Speaker 2: was fine to see Tyrese Maxey carry it in the
[22:03] Speaker 2: first half, and then Jalen Brown come alive in that
[22:05] Speaker 2: third quarter. I will say, though, if the Knicks played
[22:08] Speaker 2: some defense in that third quarter, Jalen Brown wouldn't have
[22:10] Speaker 2: started to get off at all. I mean, you look
[22:12] Speaker 2: at all of his baskets in that quarter. One started
[22:16] Speaker 2: on a fast break from a Philadelphia 76ers, grabbed a miss,
[22:22] Speaker 2: a Knicks miss, and somehow LeBron goes through his own legs.
[22:25] Speaker 2: They're taking their time up the floor, and Jalen Brown
[22:27] Speaker 2: gets it. and beats everybody down the floor because Cat
[22:29] Speaker 2: had a bad game defensively. Dunk. Then on a baseline inbound,
[22:33] Speaker 2: Jalen Brown gets the ball at the three-point line. Somehow
[22:36] Speaker 2: able to get to the rim again. Then he got
[22:37] Speaker 2: a pass in the corner. It was sort of a
[22:39] Speaker 2: broken play, but he had all the time.
[22:41] Speaker 1: Oh, that one was hilarious.
[22:42] Speaker 2: He could have started his twitch. He could have painted
[22:45] Speaker 2: his hairline.
[22:46] Speaker 1: We're going live on Twitch if I get ready for
[22:48] Speaker 1: this shot.
[22:49] Speaker 2: He could have flown to Turkey, got his hair sprayed,
[22:52] Speaker 2: and then hit that three.
[22:53] Speaker 1: He did bounce it, didn't he?
[22:54] Speaker 2: He did, and he hit it. He thought about it.
[22:56] Speaker 2: Then he hit that monster one at the end of
[22:58] Speaker 2: the quarter because that was... He was feeling good. I mean,
[23:01] Speaker 2: that was a really great shot.
[23:02] Speaker 1: Nice play by Nick Nurse there. He brought LeBron back in.
[23:04] Speaker 1: I think he brought Embiid back in to drop that play.
[23:07] Speaker 1: It was a tough shot, that Brown hit.
[23:08] Speaker 2: So the Knicks had bad defense. And it was a
[23:11] Speaker 2: one-point game with three and a half minutes left when
[23:13] Speaker 2: Joel Embiid splashed a three, and they left him wide open.
[23:17] Speaker 2: There was some miscommunication there. So the Knicks could have
[23:20] Speaker 2: easily won this game with some defense. I think Cat
[23:24] Speaker 2: wasn't himself, whether it was foul trouble. He only played
[23:26] Speaker 2: six minutes in that first half. because of the foul trouble,
[23:29] Speaker 2: and he came alive in the second half. But I
[23:31] Speaker 2: think Drummond's kind of saved him, and Mike Brown wanted
[23:34] Speaker 2: to rip him one, the way he was playing defensively, unfortunately,
[23:37] Speaker 2: in this game. This wasn't a spectacular game from the Sixers,
[23:42] Speaker 2: especially from Embiid, but that's all you need from that guy.
[23:45] Speaker 2: You really don't need him to score all that much.
[23:46] Speaker 1: On this team. I saw Trillbro Dude, who's a diehard
[23:49] Speaker 1: Sixers fan. We love the You Know Ball podcast. He
[23:51] Speaker 1: thought it was Embiid's best defensive game since, like, 2023, and, like,
[23:56] Speaker 1: the way he looks at it, like you're saying Tess,
[23:57] Speaker 1: that's the only thing that's really important. I mean, they
[24:00] Speaker 1: go hand in hand, be out there, play. Uh, and
[24:02] Speaker 1: so you're going with the Jamal Crawford 70 plus games.
[24:05] Speaker 1: Cause I know Reggie and Jamal got into that and
[24:07] Speaker 1: then yeah, be a defensive force. So that was really
[24:10] Speaker 1: good to see from the six. Like the offense going
[24:12] Speaker 1: to be a little clunky still, you know, you've got
[24:14] Speaker 1: all the talent in the world. It'll figure itself out.
[24:17] Speaker 1: It's defensively. Are they going to be able to hold up?
[24:19] Speaker 1: And Embiid's a huge part of that. And some LeBron
[24:21] Speaker 1: at center, um, minutes as well. And he did that. Um,
[24:25] Speaker 1: Because they're just short guys. No Dominic Barlow. Obviously, Huck
[24:28] Speaker 1: Party gone. I mean, Adem Bonas saw some. But yeah,
[24:31] Speaker 1: Embiid was good defensively. What did you think of this game?
[24:34] Speaker 3: Embiid is funny because he goes from looking washed to
[24:38] Speaker 3: being a dominant player from basically minute to minute. Like
[24:42] Speaker 3: Andre Drummond was running wild in the first half. He
[24:46] Speaker 3: was an instant fan favorite for the Knicks. No surprise.
[24:49] Speaker 3: But suddenly, Embiid is able to run defensively. End to end.
[24:53] Speaker 3: He's moving side to side. He's defending at the rim.
[24:56] Speaker 3: I thought he looked the most lost on offense for
[24:59] Speaker 3: the Sixers, like very uncertain of where his offense was
[25:01] Speaker 3: coming from. But the rim protection he was offering, actually
[25:05] Speaker 3: being able to rebound was big. I was impressed with
[25:08] Speaker 3: the way Embiid. he came in saying nobody is sacrificing,
[25:12] Speaker 3: but he looked to me like he was sacrificing on offense.
[25:14] Speaker 3: And by sacrificing on offense, he had more energy to
[25:17] Speaker 3: expend on the defensive end, which is exactly what you
[25:20] Speaker 3: want to see when you build a super team, because
[25:22] Speaker 3: everybody's saying, okay, if we have to do less on offense,
[25:24] Speaker 3: doesn't that mean we can play a little bit harder
[25:26] Speaker 3: on defense? And I thought that was the case for everybody.
[25:28] Speaker 3: Like LeBron was flying around in the fourth quarter, making plays.
[25:31] Speaker 3: This guy looks like the perfect Swiss Army nice fit
[25:35] Speaker 3: with the Sixers. It's like he is in Jason Kidd
[25:38] Speaker 3: second time in Dallas mode. I don't have the athleticism
[25:41] Speaker 3: every single play, but I've got the brain every play,
[25:43] Speaker 3: which makes my athleticism really stand out when I know
[25:46] Speaker 3: when to use it. He threw maybe the best post-entry
[25:49] Speaker 3: pass of the season to Jalen Brown on a layup
[25:51] Speaker 3: in the first half. He's back cutting when he needs to. Okay,
[25:55] Speaker 3: you need me in the post? Sure, I'll do that.
[25:57] Speaker 3: And then Maxie just running up and down the court.
[25:59] Speaker 3: I thought this was a perfect start for the Sixers.
[26:01] Speaker 3: They didn't play A perfect brand of basketball, but there
[26:03] Speaker 3: was so much variety in their offense. There was so
[26:06] Speaker 3: much selflessness in the way that they approached the game.
[26:10] Speaker 3: That's what you want to see when you throw in
[26:11] Speaker 3: a whole bunch of big names, a whole bunch of
[26:13] Speaker 3: big egos and high usage rates. Everybody was doing their thing,
[26:17] Speaker 3: but also letting everybody else do their thing. Yeah.
[26:20] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[26:20] Speaker 1: And they got some contributions from, what, Anthony Simons hit
[26:23] Speaker 1: three threes. KCP hit two as well.
[26:26] Speaker 2: That was a surprise.
[26:27] Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, but that's going to play a part
[26:29] Speaker 1: over 82 games at least, like getting contributions from these guys,
[26:33] Speaker 1: that second unit especially. But, yeah, that was like, look, Maxie,
[26:39] Speaker 1: I will debate all year, I'm sure, at times, like
[26:41] Speaker 1: who is the best player on the Sixers. But I
[26:43] Speaker 1: think we all agree it should be sort of Maxie.
[26:46] Speaker 1: He was in game one. Will there be times where
[26:47] Speaker 1: it's Jalen Brown? Yes, definitely. indeed, I'm sure there'll be games,
[26:51] Speaker 1: maybe even LeBron still once in a while, but for
[26:53] Speaker 1: the most part, it's, it's Maxie. Um, and you know,
[26:56] Speaker 1: he came through in the clutch, obviously hitting some big
[26:58] Speaker 1: shots and free throws. And that was my pick for
[27:01] Speaker 1: clutch player of the year. Feel good after one game
[27:03] Speaker 1: with that. I think they're going to play a lot
[27:05] Speaker 1: of close games too. I said that it was part
[27:06] Speaker 1: of my equation of like picking a Sixers player for
[27:08] Speaker 1: clutch player of the year. I think they'll be in
[27:10] Speaker 1: a lot of these games.
[27:11] Speaker 2: I think Jalen Brown and Tyrese Maxie are going to
[27:13] Speaker 2: take their turn First half, my half. Second half, your half.
[27:18] Speaker 2: And Jalen Brown has done that in the past. And
[27:20] Speaker 2: I think that's what they're going to do. And it
[27:22] Speaker 2: was a perfect balance out of everybody on that roster.
[27:25] Speaker 2: They had more fast break points than the New York Knicks.
[27:28] Speaker 2: You start to think of this team. This team with
[27:30] Speaker 2: LeBron and Embiid are going to out fast break the
[27:32] Speaker 2: other team? Yeah, because of Maxie and Jalen Brown. And
[27:36] Speaker 2: LeBron just has to make those beautiful lead passes like
[27:39] Speaker 2: he does. Embiid just rebounded, man. I mean, he had
[27:42] Speaker 2: a rebound, and he gave it to LeBron. LeBron put
[27:43] Speaker 2: it through his legs to Maxie, and then Maxie throws
[27:46] Speaker 2: it to Jalen Brown. They've got enough athleticism. And, yeah,
[27:49] Speaker 2: the balance, up and down, 28 assists on 37 buckets.
[27:53] Speaker 2: That was their squad. Nobody overwhelmingly had a spectacular night
[27:57] Speaker 2: to me.
[27:58] Speaker 1: No, it wasn't the prettiest game.
[27:59] Speaker 2: No, not at all.
[28:00] Speaker 1: And maybe a part of it was taking forever with
[28:02] Speaker 1: the celebrations, which we'll get into, but, like, it's a
[28:05] Speaker 1: weird night.
[28:06] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[28:06] Speaker 1: Where it starts so early, the crowd's like pretty exhausted
[28:09] Speaker 1: by the time the game even comes. And it wasn't
[28:10] Speaker 1: the greatest shooting from both squads.
[28:12] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[28:12] Speaker 2: And the depth as you start to think, okay, do
[28:14] Speaker 2: they have enough guys? Well, Nick Nurse set up Anthony
[28:16] Speaker 2: Simons really well. Those three threes that he hit, the
[28:19] Speaker 2: first one, the mesh didn't move. And you just went
[28:22] Speaker 2: back to that guy. He even had some heat checks.
[28:23] Speaker 1: Oh, he had some heat checks, yeah.
[28:25] Speaker 2: But he had three. And the guy that they signed
[28:27] Speaker 2: because he's, you know, LeBron's former coach. NBA champion teammate
[28:31] Speaker 2: in KCP hit a couple. Surprising to see that. The
[28:35] Speaker 2: worrisome part, you know, it started this way, saying somehow
[28:38] Speaker 2: Joel Embiid has found the Messiah, found the doctor to
[28:42] Speaker 2: get him to play 70 games. I mean, that's, who knows?
[28:46] Speaker 2: But Reggie was going, no chance.
[28:51] Speaker 1: Also, I mean, yeah, they're talking about it and you're like,
[28:54] Speaker 1: oh God, this isn't good. You're jinxing the hell out
[28:56] Speaker 1: of this. And then Embiid went crashing into like the cameraman,
[29:01] Speaker 1: like onto his back. He came up, he sort of
[29:02] Speaker 1: held his back and you're like, oh God, no, he
[29:05] Speaker 1: was okay. But you're like, just don't talk about it
[29:07] Speaker 1: at all. Don't say this.
[29:08] Speaker 2: This is like last year where There could be one
[29:11] Speaker 2: play and you look at him just like that, or
[29:13] Speaker 2: you see Joel Embiid bent over like he was. He
[29:16] Speaker 2: had his hands on his knees and he thought, okay,
[29:18] Speaker 2: this is it. He's going out. It could very well happen.
[29:22] Speaker 2: And the worrisome part is, yeah, there's no backup help, really.
[29:25] Speaker 2: Not a lot of it with Bono.
[29:26] Speaker 3: He didn't look too good, I don't think.
[29:28] Speaker 1: I guess Taco Fall is on the roster.
[29:30] Speaker 2: They signed a Taco Fall.
[29:31] Speaker 1: It wasn't in uniform, but yeah.
[29:33] Speaker 2: Yeah, and they hoped that the Dallas Mavericks would keep
[29:37] Speaker 2: Dwight Powell because they signed Musa Sisi, to that restricted
[29:42] Speaker 2: free agent offer. But Dallas matched because he's good. So
[29:46] Speaker 2: they're desperate. They'll be looking for guys all around the league.
[29:49] Speaker 2: Orlando Robinson is available, I guess, but they're going to
[29:51] Speaker 2: try taco fall and Hopefully Joel Embiid doesn't taco fall
[29:55] Speaker 2: and get hurt. I mean, he's got to play, man.
[29:57] Speaker 2: He's got to play.
[29:57] Speaker 3: Yeah, he doesn't fall that often. That's true. Embiid's never
[30:00] Speaker 3: on the draft.
[30:01] Speaker 1: And so, like, despite all of this, though, the Knicks
[30:04] Speaker 1: did have it, and you said it, to 96-95 on
[30:07] Speaker 1: a cat bomb. Because cat came alive. There was that
[30:10] Speaker 1: stretch where he finally got going. I mean, I was
[30:13] Speaker 1: laughing going, oh man, it's so great to have basketball
[30:15] Speaker 1: in our lives. I forgot how funny Karl-Anthony Towns is.
[30:18] Speaker 1: He picks up the dumb foul. He's got the one
[30:20] Speaker 1: where he's flailing the leg. It's like, here we go.
[30:23] Speaker 1: But then he got it going. It's like, oh, he's
[30:24] Speaker 1: going to be the hero here on ring night. But
[30:26] Speaker 1: Embiid came back and then hit a, I think that
[30:28] Speaker 1: was a wide open three. He got right on the
[30:30] Speaker 1: other end, gave him a little breathing room. Though then
[30:33] Speaker 1: Embiid took a three with like, was that one like
[30:35] Speaker 1: 40 seconds left in the game?
[30:36] Speaker 3: Where Tariqo called him out.
[30:38] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[30:38] Speaker 3: Mike Tirico.
[30:40] Speaker 1: You're saying like you're giving props for Grant Hill keeping
[30:42] Speaker 1: it real. When has Tirico ever been.
[30:44] Speaker 2: Like, what was that?
[30:45] Speaker 1: He's like, that's rare for that guy.
[30:49] Speaker 2: Yeah, I was surprised.
[30:50] Speaker 1: But it was a bit of a weird shot.
[30:51] Speaker 3: It was a weird shot.
[30:52] Speaker 1: In terms of the score and time. But anyway, they
[30:54] Speaker 1: held on and got it done. The Knicks were in
[30:56] Speaker 1: this was my point. Like as ugly as they played,
[30:59] Speaker 1: you know, Brunson had a couple of looks that usually
[31:01] Speaker 1: go down for him and they could have won this.
[31:02] Speaker 3: Exactly. It was the more things change, the more they
[31:06] Speaker 3: stay the same. The Knicks like got down big, but
[31:08] Speaker 3: guess what? They're in it in the fourth quarter. And
[31:11] Speaker 3: if Brunson is hitting the way he was in June,
[31:14] Speaker 3: the Knicks can take this one. You know, he was
[31:16] Speaker 3: trying to advocate for a foul call on that last
[31:19] Speaker 3: three pointer. Maybe Jalen Brown touched him on the hip
[31:22] Speaker 3: or something like that, but not enough for a foul call,
[31:25] Speaker 3: but yeah, the game was there to win. You know,
[31:28] Speaker 3: cat's feeling good when he starts having funny celebrations. He
[31:30] Speaker 3: did like the Google KCP when they were jogging back
[31:34] Speaker 3: down the court. Uh, I like that, but that's just the,
[31:37] Speaker 3: the town's experience, you know, he had foul trouble. He
[31:41] Speaker 3: wasn't doing anything. And then suddenly he hits two from
[31:43] Speaker 3: 28 feet from straight on and you're like, okay, yeah.
[31:46] Speaker 3: Gets an offensive rebound.
[31:47] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[31:48] Speaker 3: I love what you're doing here. Just not quite enough
[31:50] Speaker 3: to get over the edge.
[31:51] Speaker 1: Random notes from this one. We'll get to the Knicks
[31:54] Speaker 1: stuff and the celebration stuff, but we got to start
[31:56] Speaker 1: with LeBron talking trash with some guy at MSG in
[32:02] Speaker 1: the second or third row there. while there was that
[32:04] Speaker 1: free throw attempt going, I mean, it was like, he was,
[32:07] Speaker 1: he was animated and he was like, you know, spike
[32:10] Speaker 1: seemed to be, uh, uh, mediating a little bit or something.
[32:13] Speaker 1: That was a pretty funny moment. And then everybody's doing
[32:15] Speaker 1: the lip reading of what he's saying. I'm not from
[32:17] Speaker 1: the West coast. I'm Ohio, baby. I'm paraphrasing here. Midwest
[32:23] Speaker 1: gets cold there. Yeah.
[32:24] Speaker 2: That's what he's saying. Yeah.
[32:26] Speaker 1: He was fired up.
[32:27] Speaker 2: Yeah. Those first few rows, they got their money's worth.
[32:30] Speaker 2: They just, I was watching them all listen. They're all smiling.
[32:34] Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. What is this guy saying?
[32:36] Speaker 3: Yeah. It's funny when it cuts and it's like there's
[32:39] Speaker 3: like eight kids sitting in the front rows all like,
[32:41] Speaker 3: I don't think he was yelling at the kids. But,
[32:44] Speaker 3: you know, I'm sure they were needling him.
[32:45] Speaker 1: I did say last night. And I get why they
[32:48] Speaker 1: don't want to do this. You don't want to give
[32:49] Speaker 1: a heckler too much attention. Then there's going to get
[32:51] Speaker 1: a bunch of copycats and all that. But I was like, man,
[32:54] Speaker 1: the late great Craig Sager would have had like a
[32:56] Speaker 1: full-blown halftime report on said fans. And who it was,
[33:02] Speaker 1: where he worked, everything about him. He would have come
[33:04] Speaker 1: back at halftime because it happened right before that. I
[33:06] Speaker 1: was like, man, I miss those days. It would have
[33:09] Speaker 1: just been Craig Sager. And it would have been funny,
[33:11] Speaker 1: but it was semi-serious.
[33:13] Speaker 2: Totally. Yeah, we'll be doing that at the G League
[33:15] Speaker 2: game when we do our games. We'll be interviewing somebody
[33:18] Speaker 2: as a fan, I think. Okay. We did it last time. Yeah,
[33:23] Speaker 2: it's happened. Yeah, we just jump into it.
[33:25] Speaker 1: Not a lot of trash talking going on.
[33:27] Speaker 2: No, it's not yet.
[33:28] Speaker 3: If it happens, we'll be on it. We'll be able
[33:31] Speaker 3: to track them down.
[33:31] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not what I was alluding to. You're right,
[33:33] Speaker 2: because there's not a lot. There's not. Not at our
[33:36] Speaker 2: Skyhawks games, anyway. No. But we'll get some interviews in.
[33:39] Speaker 1: And LeBron, he also got into it with Landry Schammett
[33:42] Speaker 1: there that one time, coming back up the floor. They
[33:45] Speaker 1: were like bodying each other.
[33:47] Speaker 3: Yeah, true, true.
[33:47] Speaker 1: After he is, I think he had, I think LeBron
[33:49] Speaker 1: had scored on him inside, sort of threw his muscle
[33:52] Speaker 1: around a little bit, let Shamit know, and Shamit took offense.
[33:55] Speaker 2: Yeah, he shoved Shamit. Yeah. Could have called foul on that.
[34:00] Speaker 2: Shamit could have fell and got the call, but anyway.
[34:03] Speaker 3: He could have embellished.
[34:04] Speaker 2: He could have embellished.
[34:05] Speaker 3: I thought LeBron was great. I think it's weird. It
[34:07] Speaker 3: does look weird, like bald head LeBron in a blue
[34:10] Speaker 3: Sixers jersey. I was like, huh, this will take a little.
[34:12] Speaker 1: Bit for me to get used to. I'm with you.
[34:13] Speaker 3: But on the court, I was like, He's doing exactly
[34:16] Speaker 3: what you would want him to do. He's got the
[34:18] Speaker 3: biggest brain out there, and it was just filling in
[34:22] Speaker 3: any possible hole the Sixers had at any possible time.
[34:25] Speaker 1: You're not wrong. So the Knicks raised their NBA championship
[34:28] Speaker 1: banner and the NBA Cup banner's up. So they put
[34:33] Speaker 1: it up.
[34:34] Speaker 2: On the same day.
[34:37] Speaker 1: We didn't see this go up, but it was there
[34:39] Speaker 1: hanging beside an Atlantic Division champion banner. From 2012-13.
[34:43] Speaker 3: I thought it was kind of like a comedy bit,
[34:47] Speaker 3: the way Breen introduces it, because it's just in the
[34:49] Speaker 3: middle of the speech, and he's like, went on to
[34:51] Speaker 3: win the NBA Cup. Raises his hand, and then it
[34:54] Speaker 3: instantly jump cuts, and it felt like you could hear
[34:57] Speaker 3: the audience going, laughter trickling through the crowd.
[35:02] Speaker 1: But yeah, they're both up there. I'm always shocked how
[35:06] Speaker 1: small the banners look, too. Like the main one, when
[35:09] Speaker 1: it's on the floor when it was going up, and
[35:11] Speaker 1: everybody's doing their pose. And then I'm like, is there
[35:15] Speaker 1: like a mandatory size or do they differ in all arenas?
[35:20] Speaker 1: Like are some bigger than others? Or does the league
[35:23] Speaker 1: say it has to be this size?
[35:25] Speaker 3: That's a good question. But it's interesting because the Knicks
[35:29] Speaker 3: have to match their banner to their old banner that
[35:31] Speaker 3: they put up 50 years ago. So they're kind of
[35:35] Speaker 3: like straightforward, right? It just says 2025. 26 NBA champions.
[35:41] Speaker 3: That's it. No names, no extra design. Throw a Knicks
[35:44] Speaker 3: logo on there. We got two fonts. It's just very straightforward.
[35:48] Speaker 1: I think they're smaller, too, in Madison Square Garden because
[35:50] Speaker 1: that ceiling is so low if you're ever up there
[35:53] Speaker 1: compared to some vast, really cavernous arenas. We'll get Pablo
[35:59] Speaker 1: on that to the bottom of these banners here.
[36:02] Speaker 3: It did look sweet when the banner was rising up
[36:04] Speaker 3: to the MSG ceiling.
[36:07] Speaker 1: That cool ceiling oh it's incredible yeah it looked awesome
[36:10] Speaker 1: uh what do you think of the t-shirts they handed
[36:12] Speaker 1: out that had everybody a little perplexed at first when
[36:14] Speaker 1: this started making the rounds on social media nick's logo
[36:17] Speaker 1: and then it says 2026 uh 27 champions night on
[36:23] Speaker 1: the t-shirt i was like hold on you guys calling
[36:26] Speaker 1: your shot here i mean you're winning you're going back
[36:28] Speaker 1: to back for the first time in nearly a decade
[36:32] Speaker 1: But then it's the champion's night. That's their save.
[36:34] Speaker 2: You are here to have a fantastic night. You know?
[36:38] Speaker 2: Something bother me. Does it bother anybody? Do you want
[36:42] Speaker 2: it to say champs?
[36:43] Speaker 1: It's just weird because at first it's like, did you
[36:46] Speaker 1: get the... You feel like you got the year wrong.
[36:48] Speaker 3: Of course, this is this year. It's fine.
[36:52] Speaker 1: It does make sense.
[36:53] Speaker 3: It's like technically right, but it feels like something's wrong
[36:55] Speaker 3: with it.
[36:56] Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly.
[36:57] Speaker 3: What's happening?
[36:58] Speaker 1: We got a few looks at the Knicks championship rings
[37:02] Speaker 1: on the broadcast. We only got one photo here, and
[37:04] Speaker 1: not a photo that shows you all the fancy things
[37:06] Speaker 1: it can do, but what was your takeaway if you
[37:09] Speaker 1: watched any of the videos, Tass, on the Knicks championship rings?
[37:12] Speaker 2: Yes, I was watching the in-arena feed, and to see
[37:16] Speaker 2: the tools... that these people used to make this ring
[37:19] Speaker 2: happen was pretty neat. Was it?
[37:22] Speaker 1: The tools.
[37:23] Speaker 2: Yeah, the tools. They go through the manufacturing. Yeah, so
[37:27] Speaker 2: the in arena, you see the melding, the things that happen.
[37:31] Speaker 3: I mean, it is.
[37:32] Speaker 2: Hey, you got to geek out a little bit with
[37:34] Speaker 2: Jason of Beverly Hills.
[37:35] Speaker 1: That's right.
[37:36] Speaker 2: That's right. You can't help but know his name.
[37:39] Speaker 1: Victor does everything else. Jason does the rings.
[37:42] Speaker 2: So it did look cool. The fact that you open
[37:44] Speaker 2: it and the Madison Madison Square Garden rises from the
[37:48] Speaker 2: actual ring.
[37:49] Speaker 1: That's it's pretty cool.
[37:50] Speaker 3: That's pretty cool.
[37:51] Speaker 1: Because like Nora's watching this with me. She's going, look,
[37:53] Speaker 1: these rings. She's like.
[37:55] Speaker 3: They're so ugly.
[37:56] Speaker 1: Like who's going to wear that? They're so big. I'm like, yeah,
[37:58] Speaker 1: I get it. They're almost like a, they're almost like
[38:00] Speaker 1: a trophy for the players, right? They're so large. I
[38:02] Speaker 1: guess you technically can wear them.
[38:04] Speaker 3: Tariko goes, good luck wearing those. Come on, Mike.
[38:08] Speaker 1: But then when it popped up, when they showed that
[38:11] Speaker 1: it turns into Madison Square Garden with the colors, Nora
[38:13] Speaker 1: was like, okay, that's pretty fricking cool.
[38:16] Speaker 3: You could live there.
[38:16] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[38:17] Speaker 2: Yeah. Jason of Beverly Hills said, this is one of
[38:20] Speaker 2: a kind, which I don't know if anyone has ever
[38:24] Speaker 2: sort of And the entire arena pops out. You're seeing
[38:27] Speaker 2: it from the exterior. I don't know if that's ever
[38:30] Speaker 2: been done. I don't think so. But it does look badass.
[38:32] Speaker 2: I got to admit that.
[38:33] Speaker 1: You can buy these, apparently. They're selling 200 of them
[38:36] Speaker 1: to Knicks fans that want to buy them for, I think, $ 20, 000.
[38:40] Speaker 3: Okay, I'll pass. Each.
[38:43] Speaker 1: Yes, each. You can't get a bulk order.
[38:46] Speaker 2: I mean, it looks like it costs a lot.
[38:49] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[38:49] Speaker 2: The amount of manufacturing that happens, yes.
[38:52] Speaker 1: One of the details, too, it doesn't say 10 weeks
[38:55] Speaker 1: on it underneath, like in the band part.
[38:57] Speaker 2: Oh, really?
[38:58] Speaker 1: Remember the 10 weeks?
[38:59] Speaker 2: That's hilarious.
[39:00] Speaker 1: I wish there was like a little photo of two
[39:02] Speaker 1: people having sex and it's like crossed out because that
[39:04] Speaker 1: was what they were saying.
[39:05] Speaker 2: Yeah. No sex allowed.
[39:06] Speaker 1: No sex for 10 weeks.
[39:08] Speaker 2: This is what wet dreams are made of. That's what
[39:11] Speaker 2: it should say.
[39:12] Speaker 1: And then finally, finally, what'd you think, Trey, of those
[39:18] Speaker 1: Knicks gold uniforms that they had? I mean, this is
[39:23] Speaker 1: a first. This is a nice touch. Yeah, so you
[39:25] Speaker 1: like this.
[39:26] Speaker 3: I really liked it. I thought that was pretty slick.
[39:28] Speaker 1: Like, everything was gold. Like, obviously the front, the New
[39:31] Speaker 1: York part, the numbers, the name on the back, the
[39:33] Speaker 1: number on the back, and then you had the patch
[39:36] Speaker 1: as well.
[39:36] Speaker 3: Did the Celtics not do this?
[39:39] Speaker 2: That sounds familiar. They've had gold jerseys, but I don't
[39:42] Speaker 2: know if they did it for a championship.
[39:43] Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if they did it for the championship.
[39:46] Speaker 3: But it's cool. I like it. And, you know... Like
[39:50] Speaker 3: a lot of people, I'm sure, I was thinking, how
[39:53] Speaker 3: come Andre Drummond gets one of these? Everybody else in
[39:57] Speaker 3: the Knicks was there. They should have had Andre Drummond
[39:59] Speaker 3: playing in just like his normal orange version of it.
[40:03] Speaker 3: But then he played so well, and Knicks fans were
[40:06] Speaker 3: going crazy for him. He was doing his Andre Drummond stuff.
[40:09] Speaker 3: He earned the gold to me.
[40:10] Speaker 2: He had a double-double in 11 minutes.
[40:11] Speaker 1: Then he sort of disappeared.
[40:13] Speaker 3: True.
[40:13] Speaker 1: That's the Drummond experience.
[40:14] Speaker 3: Yeah, you got enough from him. I just was feeling like...
[40:18] Speaker 3: He did feel like a champion to me last night,
[40:21] Speaker 3: by the end of the night.
[40:21] Speaker 1: Yeah, he played like a champion.
[40:22] Speaker 3: He did.
[40:23] Speaker 2: I will say, the guy that he saved in this game, Cat,
[40:26] Speaker 2: he cried a lot in the opening intros. Oh, did he?
[40:30] Speaker 3: I didn't really notice.
[40:31] Speaker 2: This was, again, the in-arena feed.
[40:33] Speaker 1: Oh, you're watching something else.
[40:34] Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I use my NBA.com, and somehow I'm watching.
[40:39] Speaker 2: Cat was literally wiping his tears, but double-hand. There was
[40:44] Speaker 2: a lot of tears going on there for Cat. It was...
[40:47] Speaker 2: It was touching. But I do want to confirm, Trey,
[40:50] Speaker 2: that there will be the Ben Stiller documentary happening.
[40:53] Speaker 3: Oh, yes. I think I got got.
[40:55] Speaker 1: You got got yesterday.
[40:56] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[40:57] Speaker 1: By a fake account or like a scam account.
[40:59] Speaker 2: Because Mike Tirico said Ben Stiller's got great footage. He
[41:03] Speaker 2: got some great footage tonight during the broadcast.
[41:06] Speaker 3: Okay.
[41:06] Speaker 1: You got to start putting this thing together, Ben.
[41:08] Speaker 2: Cut it. He said he got, what was it? has
[41:12] Speaker 2: a great shot of Tracy Morgan crying tonight when the
[41:14] Speaker 2: banner went up. Tariqo is giving you the director's cut
[41:18] Speaker 2: of what could be in the documentary.
[41:21] Speaker 1: In this eventual documentary.
[41:22] Speaker 2: Yeah, that was hilarious.
[41:23] Speaker 3: He's a good friend of Mike Tariqo and Tracy Morgan
[41:26] Speaker 3: seem to be like good friends now from sitting at
[41:29] Speaker 3: so many Knicks games together. That's true.
[41:30] Speaker 1: He's right there. He's right next to them. They did
[41:33] Speaker 1: something different too. No Adam Silver handing out the rings. True.
[41:37] Speaker 1: It was Walt Frazier, which is cool. But Silver really wasn't...
[41:41] Speaker 1: Silver was there, but he wasn't really involved in it.
[41:43] Speaker 1: And then even James Dolan, too, wasn't all that involved
[41:47] Speaker 1: as the owner of the Knicks. And it was giving
[41:50] Speaker 1: me a little anxiety of how they did the championship
[41:54] Speaker 1: rings for the coaching staff. Like, awesome touch having former
[41:59] Speaker 1: Knicks legends or their loved ones and relatives hand them.
[42:03] Speaker 1: But they were like... They weren't in order.
[42:06] Speaker 3: No, not at all.
[42:07] Speaker 1: The chairs, the musical chairs was like just strange.
[42:11] Speaker 3: When you hear your name, meet your counterpart in the middle,
[42:15] Speaker 3: hand in the ring. One guy had two rings in
[42:17] Speaker 3: his hand. I don't know why. I was like, no, I.
[42:20] Speaker 1: Didn't like that part. Can we just put them next
[42:22] Speaker 1: to them? That would have been a lot easier. But anyway,
[42:24] Speaker 1: there's a little switch up there. Anything else from Nick
[42:27] Speaker 1: Sixer's opening night?
[42:28] Speaker 3: You could hear the crowd cheering. singing who let the
[42:31] Speaker 3: dogs out when they introduced mike.
[42:33] Speaker 1: Brown yeah they love mike brown they love og of
[42:36] Speaker 1: course they love jalen brunson their captain who said a
[42:39] Speaker 1: few words i mean they love them all don't get
[42:41] Speaker 1: me wrong but those guys get the biggest pops to
[42:43] Speaker 1: me og and mike brown especially yeah anything.
[42:46] Speaker 2: Else yeah hopefully mike brown and the carl anthony towns
[42:50] Speaker 2: relationship is good he was just mad at the defense
[42:53] Speaker 2: being played i think they'll write it in game number
[42:56] Speaker 2: two but I just wondered, as Cat was talking trash,
[42:59] Speaker 2: does he picture James Dolan as he talks trash to
[43:02] Speaker 2: the guy who's guarding him, just because James Dolan hasn't
[43:05] Speaker 2: given him the contract? That was, yeah, it just wasn't
[43:09] Speaker 2: a good Cat game.
[43:09] Speaker 1: Cat took himself out of this game, as he's been
[43:11] Speaker 1: known to do.
[43:12] Speaker 2: Yeah, Andre Drummond literally saved him in that first half. Again,
[43:15] Speaker 2: Cat played only six minutes. I will say just the
[43:18] Speaker 2: Vijay Edgecombe experience as well, bad offensive night for him.
[43:25] Speaker 1: But he's sort of one of these guys, like you
[43:27] Speaker 1: can tell, like he's tasked with trying to slow the
[43:29] Speaker 1: offense player on the other team.
[43:30] Speaker 3: Right.
[43:31] Speaker 2: That's his job.
[43:31] Speaker 1: Got some chances there on Brunson, yeah.
[43:32] Speaker 2: Yeah. So they clicked on that side, but they didn't
[43:37] Speaker 2: truly click. Not just Edgecombe, but everybody on that roster.
[43:39] Speaker 2: But they have so much talent, they're going to be fine.
[43:42] Speaker 2: I wonder if Vijay Edgecombe ever thinks, huh, LeBron just
[43:45] Speaker 2: said a few games, man. I can score. Don't worry,
[43:48] Speaker 2: he will.
[43:48] Speaker 3: He probably does think that.
[43:51] Speaker 1: He will, don't worry. He knows how to pace himself
[43:54] Speaker 1: for a long season. All right, let's get to the
[43:57] Speaker 1: first game, but our final game here on No Dunks.
[44:00] Speaker 1: I'll go first here. It's just one game, but Javante
[44:04] Speaker 1: Green has peaked. For this season. So I had three
[44:08] Speaker 1: options here. They were all Javante Green related. Javante Green
[44:11] Speaker 1: just played the best game of his life was one option.
[44:14] Speaker 1: That was a Javante Green podium game. And then I
[44:16] Speaker 1: went with Javante Green peaked just because we're supposed to
[44:18] Speaker 1: be almost a little more crazy with our overreactions. But man,
[44:21] Speaker 1: what a game for this guy. 19 points in 18
[44:25] Speaker 1: second half minutes. He didn't even play in the first half.
[44:28] Speaker 1: He came in, he completely changed around the game by
[44:30] Speaker 1: knocking down threes. Five of eight from deep. It's his
[44:33] Speaker 1: best three point shooting game of his career. He's had
[44:36] Speaker 1: a couple good games, like, where he scored 24, 25 points.
[44:40] Speaker 1: They were, like, end of April games with the Chicago Bulls.
[44:43] Speaker 1: You know, they were fighting for a playing spot, so
[44:45] Speaker 1: they weren't, like, meaningless games. But, you know, late April
[44:49] Speaker 1: with the Bulls. This was, like, you know, big, big game.
[44:51] Speaker 1: A lot of eyeballs on this matinee game. And he
[44:53] Speaker 1: was awesome. Him and Duncan Robinson just, like, single-handedly. Not single-handedly. Like,
[44:57] Speaker 1: they brought the Pistons back in that second half where
[45:00] Speaker 1: they just started bombing threes. And, what, the 22-point lead
[45:04] Speaker 1: for the Celtics just evaporated. which is like last year
[45:07] Speaker 1: is like when they got up that much, they actually
[45:10] Speaker 1: held on to those 20-plus point leads. I think Keats
[45:15] Speaker 1: there had the stat that they were 38-0 last year,
[45:17] Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics were, when they went up by 20-plus
[45:20] Speaker 1: points in the regular season and the postseason. And here
[45:23] Speaker 1: they are giving away a 22-point lead. But it was
[45:25] Speaker 1: really Javante Green and Duncan Robinson there to get them
[45:28] Speaker 1: back in.
[45:29] Speaker 2: Yeah, literally checked in seven and a half minutes into
[45:31] Speaker 2: the third quarter and then turns it on. splashing threes,
[45:35] Speaker 2: as you said, five threes for that guy. If there's
[45:38] Speaker 2: any actual definition of a journeyman and if the face
[45:41] Speaker 2: goes up, it's this guy. I mean, he's like, he's
[45:43] Speaker 2: old now, you know, he's been around, you know, sometimes
[45:45] Speaker 2: the journeyman gets thrown at, thrown on the guys who've
[45:48] Speaker 2: been like in the league for a few years. This
[45:50] Speaker 2: guy's bounced around and it is just phenomenal at him
[45:55] Speaker 2: and other guys off the bench were able to bring
[45:57] Speaker 2: this team back in this game. It's, reminiscent of what
[46:02] Speaker 2: they did last year and that their second unit was really,
[46:05] Speaker 2: really important because besides Cade, who's going to set everybody
[46:08] Speaker 2: else up? Sir Thompson did that, but then you get
[46:10] Speaker 2: guys jumping in to help find Javante Green. I thought
[46:15] Speaker 2: Kevin Herter, even a couple of assists, Isaiah Joe, a
[46:17] Speaker 2: couple of assists, Paul Reed was spectacular with a couple
[46:19] Speaker 2: of assists. So the Pistons effort beyond Cade did it.
[46:25] Speaker 2: And it's surprising that, But I guess we shouldn't be
[46:28] Speaker 2: surprised in that this is how they won 60 games
[46:30] Speaker 2: last year. You don't know who their number two is
[46:34] Speaker 2: because you get it from two through 10 during the
[46:37] Speaker 2: regular season.
[46:38] Speaker 1: The Pistons made 15 threes yesterday. They managed to do
[46:41] Speaker 1: that 15 times last year, and they went 13-2 in
[46:45] Speaker 1: those games. So a part of the equation here is
[46:47] Speaker 1: we need more shooters, more spacing around Cade and Jalen Duren,
[46:50] Speaker 1: and Asar Thompson for that matter. And so Duncan Robinson, great,
[46:55] Speaker 1: like I said. Obviously, Javante Green, I don't know if
[46:57] Speaker 1: we'll see that again this year from him in terms
[47:00] Speaker 1: of shooting the three ball. He's not like a great
[47:01] Speaker 1: three-point shooter or an elite three-point shooter. But then maybe
[47:04] Speaker 1: it's an Isaiah Joe game. Maybe it is a Herter game.
[47:06] Speaker 1: So I think they're going to approach this like, hey, hey,
[47:09] Speaker 1: if we got like four or five of these guys,
[47:11] Speaker 1: if one or two of them can sort of like
[47:13] Speaker 1: just time it in each game, that'll be enough maybe.
[47:16] Speaker 1: But that was a big part, TK, of the comeback here. Oh,
[47:19] Speaker 1: that was.
[47:20] Speaker 3: Pretty much the entirety of the comeback, I thought, was
[47:22] Speaker 3: catching fire from three. So I'm maybe going to be
[47:25] Speaker 3: advocating Javante Green MIP. He's got to be the leader
[47:29] Speaker 3: in the clubhouse after one day.
[47:30] Speaker 2: Most improved.
[47:31] Speaker 3: Wow.
[47:31] Speaker 1: Jesus.
[47:32] Speaker 2: Yeah, probably.
[47:32] Speaker 1: What do you average?
[47:34] Speaker 2: Under. After one day.
[47:36] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[47:37] Speaker 3: After one day, he's shooting 63% from three. I think
[47:39] Speaker 3: he's got it. But Duncan Robinson gets him up. Yeah,
[47:42] Speaker 3: he's got a quick trigger. Isaiah Joe gets him up.
[47:45] Speaker 3: And I mean, Green will take him at least. He's
[47:47] Speaker 3: not going to be a shooter. It's not going to
[47:48] Speaker 3: be a 63% season, I don't think. But if they
[47:51] Speaker 3: get enough three-point shooting, that's the key. Because I thought
[47:53] Speaker 3: Cade played a good game. Not very outstanding, but it's
[47:58] Speaker 3: like he was scoring four points here, four points there.
[48:01] Speaker 3: It was just enough to keep the Pistons ticking over,
[48:03] Speaker 3: ticking over, ticking over. And finally, the dam broke. They
[48:06] Speaker 3: caught fire from three and knocked them down. So I
[48:08] Speaker 3: thought the way Cade was playing was pretty smart. Still
[48:10] Speaker 3: a few careless turnovers, but at least he was producing
[48:14] Speaker 3: through the entire four quarters, not just the second half.
[48:16] Speaker 3: And Duren was pretty solid as well. I also thought
[48:19] Speaker 3: huge for a Sar Thompson to basically hit the dagger
[48:22] Speaker 3: jumper on the mid range. Didn't necessarily look like he
[48:26] Speaker 3: wanted to shoot from outside in this game. He was
[48:28] Speaker 3: being left open a lot. So to hit that shot
[48:31] Speaker 3: when it really matters, I think has to be big
[48:33] Speaker 3: for him going forward saying, yeah, I can take a
[48:34] Speaker 3: jumper every now and then. Everybody's going to be happy
[48:37] Speaker 3: that I took it. They'll be even more happy if
[48:39] Speaker 3: it goes in.
[48:39] Speaker 1: It goes in, yeah. That was like, yeah, with like
[48:41] Speaker 1: 40 seconds left. We put the Pistons up six to
[48:43] Speaker 1: sort of close the door on any chance of the
[48:46] Speaker 1: Celtics getting back into it.
[48:47] Speaker 2: Yeah. We came into the season wondering, okay, the Jalen
[48:50] Speaker 2: Dern drama. Tobias Harris out. How are these guys going
[48:54] Speaker 2: to come through? And somehow they did. And a big
[48:57] Speaker 2: part of it, I think, again, we're seeing up and
[49:00] Speaker 2: down the roster, guys contributing. Paul Reed, who had the...
[49:05] Speaker 2: The party in the playoffs came through in this game, too.
[49:08] Speaker 2: We thought, as a backup point guard, who do they have?
[49:11] Speaker 2: They drafted Ibuka, Corey. Maybe it could be that guy,
[49:14] Speaker 2: but they let Marcus Sasser go. It was Dennis Jenkins
[49:17] Speaker 2: was solid in this game.
[49:18] Speaker 3: Again....
[49:20] Speaker 2: Should we be surprised if this team wins 55 games?
[49:23] Speaker 2: I know it sounds like a lot.
[49:25] Speaker 1: Probably not.
[49:26] Speaker 2: But we shouldn't be.
[49:27] Speaker 1: Because their defense is still going to be solid. They
[49:30] Speaker 1: cranked it up. They obviously were a little disappointed in
[49:32] Speaker 1: how they played. I mean, Paul George was on fire,
[49:34] Speaker 1: and I'm sure we'll get into him a little bit more.
[49:36] Speaker 1: But there was like that timeout at halftime. They had
[49:39] Speaker 1: to have been like, what are we doing? Come on.
[49:40] Speaker 1: Like at least let's give us a chance on the
[49:42] Speaker 1: defensive end. And they just ramped up the intensity and
[49:45] Speaker 1: like sort of like took away a lot of sort
[49:47] Speaker 1: of ball movement or anything the Celtics were trying to do.
[49:49] Speaker 1: And everything was on the perimeter. Now the Celtics, like
[49:52] Speaker 1: that's part of their game.
[49:52] Speaker 2: I get that.
[49:53] Speaker 1: But yeah, they're going to win a lot of games
[49:55] Speaker 1: because of that alone. And then you've got Cade obviously
[49:58] Speaker 1: in clutch time. Him and Jalen Duren still have a
[50:00] Speaker 1: great one-two game. And then they just got to hope
[50:03] Speaker 1: enough guys can hit shots, which I guess they did.
[50:05] Speaker 2: And play make that, that was the sort of the
[50:07] Speaker 2: worrisome part is I think I have enough guys who
[50:09] Speaker 2: can secondary creator for sure. Yeah. And so you got
[50:13] Speaker 2: to have a Danis game. Sean Collins did that a
[50:15] Speaker 2: little bit last night, not a ton, but yeah, they
[50:18] Speaker 2: all have to sort of contribute. I will say this
[50:21] Speaker 2: isn't because Jalen Durant has evolved by any means. He
[50:23] Speaker 2: was getting, you know, the drop offs, uh, mainly the
[50:26] Speaker 2: offensive rebounds. Uh, you know, he, I thought he had
[50:30] Speaker 2: a spectacular, put it on the floor once, and then
[50:32] Speaker 2: he missed by a mile on one of them. So
[50:34] Speaker 2: that hasn't changed about Jalen Dern. We'll still be skeptical
[50:37] Speaker 2: when it comes to the postseason, but it's, yeah, this
[50:40] Speaker 2: is real Detroit basketball, real blue-collar stuff, guys working, and
[50:43] Speaker 2: that's what they did in the third quarter.
[50:44] Speaker 1: The only thing that maybe has you scratching your head
[50:46] Speaker 1: or maybe you're a little disappointed if you're a Pistons
[50:48] Speaker 1: fan today is like, Ron Holland was not really a
[50:51] Speaker 1: part of the equation there yesterday. Now, maybe it is
[50:53] Speaker 1: because they get down so much, and then you're like, well,
[50:55] Speaker 1: if we're going to get back, we're going to need
[50:57] Speaker 1: some three-point shooting. But he barely played. I think he
[51:00] Speaker 1: only saw the floor like three or four minutes.
[51:02] Speaker 2: It's Gervonta time.
[51:04] Speaker 1: It's one game. Yeah, exactly. And again, I think it
[51:06] Speaker 1: is like, well, we're going to have to bomb away
[51:08] Speaker 1: a little bit to get back into this.
[51:09] Speaker 2: I think Green did hit five threes last year. It
[51:11] Speaker 2: happens sometimes with Gervonta Green.
[51:14] Speaker 1: Will he have a game where he hits five plus threes?
[51:17] Speaker 2: Again.
[51:17] Speaker 1: This season, yeah. or am i or my overreaction be
[51:20] Speaker 1: correct i mean.
[51:21] Speaker 2: It's yeah it looks like one and done probably i
[51:24] Speaker 2: mean that's a lot.
[51:25] Speaker 1: He was feeling it i mean he's left wide open
[51:27] Speaker 1: too yeah and a couple of those like they're like
[51:30] Speaker 1: okay let him shoot.
[51:31] Speaker 2: It yeah but paul reed's setting him up i mean
[51:33] Speaker 2: this was yeah flashbacks of last year in the playoffs
[51:35] Speaker 2: okay he was paul reed was coming through and those
[51:38] Speaker 2: were falling to the floor throwing it to jalen or
[51:41] Speaker 2: excuse me to um giovanni green in the corner those
[51:44] Speaker 2: are That was a nice pass.
[51:46] Speaker 3: The Duncan Robinson one was a nice pass as well.
[51:48] Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
[51:49] Speaker 1: What did you think from the Celtics side of things here?
[51:51] Speaker 1: And Jason Tatum with a brutal first game here. What,
[51:56] Speaker 1: 6 of 23? So 13 points. He had a lot
[51:58] Speaker 1: of assists, but he was missing layups in the first half.
[52:02] Speaker 1: Couldn't hit a three to save his life. Yeah, what
[52:04] Speaker 1: did you think?
[52:04] Speaker 3: I think it's funny that the Celtics were so good
[52:06] Speaker 3: at holding on to leads last year because this felt
[52:09] Speaker 3: like vintage Celtics to me. We build a humongous lead
[52:12] Speaker 3: by making three-pointers and then we blow a humongous lead
[52:15] Speaker 3: by chucking three pointers. One of the issues that it
[52:19] Speaker 3: was easy to foresee for the Celtics is they don't
[52:21] Speaker 3: get a lot of two pointers, right? Like they don't
[52:23] Speaker 3: put a ton of pressure on the rim. Tatum has
[52:26] Speaker 3: become more of a mid range master, uh, at this
[52:29] Speaker 3: point in his career, at least since returning, uh, from
[52:31] Speaker 3: the injury. So we'll see if he's able to start
[52:33] Speaker 3: getting some layups, but a lot of their things were
[52:37] Speaker 3: alley-oops from the perimeter, uh, to Mitchell Robinson or Namiish
[52:40] Speaker 3: Keita or offensive rebounds. The, uh, some of the most
[52:43] Speaker 3: reliable twos they get are Pritchard getting into his bag
[52:46] Speaker 3: and hitting impossible shots. That's not necessarily an effective way
[52:50] Speaker 3: to live offensively. So anytime you see the Celtics blow
[52:55] Speaker 3: a lead, it feels like it's going to happen the
[52:57] Speaker 3: same way. They get it by hot shooting and they
[53:00] Speaker 3: lose it by cold shooting and then just compound it
[53:02] Speaker 3: by taking more and more jump shots. Like when you're
[53:05] Speaker 3: seeing the lead evaporate and Tatum goes into a pull up,
[53:08] Speaker 3: you're like, come on, man. All we want is some
[53:10] Speaker 3: free throws.
[53:10] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[53:11] Speaker 1: One free throw attempt for Tatum.
[53:13] Speaker 2: Yeah, he was trying to get hot. He was trying
[53:17] Speaker 2: to hit one. He was forcing a little bit, even
[53:19] Speaker 2: on the fast break. Peyton Pritchard's right there, but he
[53:20] Speaker 2: forces it to the rim. And so he was just
[53:23] Speaker 2: trying to find anything, and it was not there. Yeah,
[53:26] Speaker 2: even we're talking about broadcasters here on opening night, even
[53:29] Speaker 2: Brian Scalabrini, former Celtic, was saying, hey, there's a lot
[53:33] Speaker 2: of jump shots here. Yeah. You touch that paint a
[53:36] Speaker 2: little bit, and they were not.
[53:38] Speaker 1: Paul George was on fire, though.
[53:39] Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Oh, yeah, he was.
[53:40] Speaker 1: What a debut for this guy.
[53:42] Speaker 2: That was a surprising stat.
[53:44] Speaker 1: The surprising stat that he set the... record for a
[53:47] Speaker 1: debut in celtics uniform.
[53:48] Speaker 2: Yeah like in celtic history that is a lot of
[53:51] Speaker 2: point no but he was it was at 31 even.
[53:53] Speaker 1: Yeah porzingis had 30 yeah he had it previously that
[53:56] Speaker 1: was kind of he could he was he looked great
[53:58] Speaker 1: he was hot yeah he was shooting like darts yeah
[54:01] Speaker 1: i feel like paul george usually i think of him
[54:03] Speaker 1: as a high arcing three-point shooter and these were like
[54:05] Speaker 1: line drives so he was completely locked in he was
[54:08] Speaker 1: taking tough shots too and He's a guy where when
[54:10] Speaker 1: he's feeling it, he's.
[54:11] Speaker 3: Like, I'll take an even more impossible shot. And then
[54:13] Speaker 3: it looks cool when it goes up.
[54:15] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[54:16] Speaker 1: If they had won the game, you know, maybe because
[54:18] Speaker 1: you inspired me with your Brandon Miller nicknames yesterday. But
[54:22] Speaker 1: I was thinking, OK, he goes by Podcast P, Playoff P.
[54:26] Speaker 1: I was like, maybe Pizza P? because he's cooking in
[54:29] Speaker 1: the Little Caesars Arena. Could have done a deep dive.
[54:31] Speaker 1: Maybe he's always good in that arena. I don't know,
[54:34] Speaker 1: but of course it doesn't matter in the end.
[54:36] Speaker 2: Pizza P.
[54:36] Speaker 1: Pizza P, I don't know.
[54:37] Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[54:38] Speaker 1: Something like that. He was awesome. And a big reason
[54:41] Speaker 1: why they had the huge lead.
[54:42] Speaker 2: Yeah, scary win. He was so spectacular. Plus nine when
[54:46] Speaker 2: he's on the floor, and the team was minus 17
[54:48] Speaker 2: when he went to the bench. He got pumped. When
[54:52] Speaker 2: Paul George was on the bench, that was surprising that
[54:55] Speaker 2: they would get beat by that bat. considering they're supposed
[54:59] Speaker 2: to be extremely deep and Joe Mizzou was supposed to
[55:02] Speaker 2: roll out guys and they're supposed to be entirely fine
[55:04] Speaker 2: and the Paul George bench minutes would be taken care of,
[55:07] Speaker 2: but they were not.
[55:08] Speaker 1: No, I couldn't believe, I watched the entire game and
[55:15] Speaker 1: I was like, after the game, I was like, oh, okay,
[55:18] Speaker 1: we saw Shireman. Okay, it was fine. I guess it
[55:20] Speaker 1: wasn't spectacular. You know, Jordan Walsh got the start. He's
[55:23] Speaker 1: out there for defensive purposes. I get that. You know, Pritchard,
[55:26] Speaker 1: he's a great six-man. He comes off the bench. Hauser, okay.
[55:30] Speaker 1: Luka Garza, I think he sort of stinks. But I
[55:33] Speaker 1: was like, oh, no Hugo. No Gonzalez. You know, like
[55:36] Speaker 1: this superstar in the making here. I'm like, wait, hold on.
[55:41] Speaker 1: I saw the box score. He's like, he played? I
[55:44] Speaker 1: did not notice that he had played. Because he was
[55:48] Speaker 1: a nothing burger. So not great. He only played 10 minutes.
[55:50] Speaker 1: So it wasn't a lot of minutes, but he did
[55:51] Speaker 1: next to nothing out there. So that, you know, not great. Now,
[55:56] Speaker 1: whether it's really true or not, I heard Bill Simmons
[55:58] Speaker 1: already getting upset about it. The narrative around they didn't
[56:01] Speaker 1: want to trade for Giannis because they didn't want to
[56:03] Speaker 1: give up those guys. He says that's not really true.
[56:05] Speaker 2: Okay.
[56:06] Speaker 1: But like, look, that's what a lot of people are
[56:09] Speaker 1: now believing. And you'd like to see these guys play
[56:11] Speaker 1: well to sort of like quiet that. And they did not.
[56:15] Speaker 2: No.
[56:15] Speaker 3: Shireman was hooping, man. Shireman was hooping.
[56:18] Speaker 1: Comparatively. Comparatively, yeah. But man, Hugo, I couldn't even believe it.
[56:22] Speaker 1: I was like, I literally didn't notice. And I should
[56:24] Speaker 1: have because he got cooked a couple times. They were
[56:26] Speaker 1: going at him.
[56:27] Speaker 3: His contributions don't show up in the box score, okay?
[56:30] Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess not. Literally.
[56:34] Speaker 2: You say Shireman, I think his peak is kind of
[56:36] Speaker 2: like Shireman in that he'll be able to shoot threes,
[56:40] Speaker 2: I think. He'll be able to finish out the rim,
[56:42] Speaker 2: I think. He'll be able to defend, I think. But
[56:43] Speaker 2: he doesn't have an in-between game, I don't think, after
[56:46] Speaker 2: watching him. I get excited watching him because he puts
[56:48] Speaker 2: in the effort. He'll grab a board here, tip a
[56:51] Speaker 2: ball here, do the right things. A Joe Mazzulla type
[56:54] Speaker 2: of guy. But he's not going to lead your offense.
[56:59] Speaker 2: They're hoping that Jason Tatum doesn't do what he just did.
[57:01] Speaker 2: Pritchard and Derek White have it going. I don't think
[57:04] Speaker 2: we can expect a lot from Hugo. But should they
[57:07] Speaker 2: start Jordan Walsh? Should they start more of a shooter
[57:11] Speaker 2: out there?
[57:12] Speaker 1: I think they're thinking he's only out there for defensive purposes.
[57:15] Speaker 1: He is a good defender. He tries really hard.
[57:17] Speaker 2: But maybe Sam Sam? Maybe it's Hauser?
[57:20] Speaker 3: Sam Sam?
[57:21] Speaker 1: Sam Sam Hauser? We'll see.
[57:23] Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks.
[57:24] Speaker 1: They might try things.
[57:26] Speaker 2: They have to change that. And I think that gives
[57:27] Speaker 2: more space to Tatum if Sam Houser's out there instead
[57:31] Speaker 2: of Jordan Walsh. Because you've got to respect Houser's shot.
[57:35] Speaker 1: Who had a worse opening day slash night? Jason Tatum
[57:38] Speaker 1: or Victor Wemenyama? Who you got?
[57:42] Speaker 3: I mean, it's got to be Wemby.
[57:46] Speaker 1: Okay, but the counter is Tatum. Okay, he plays poorly.
[57:51] Speaker 1: It was pretty bad stats, too. And Jalen Brown did
[57:54] Speaker 1: win for the Sixers.
[57:55] Speaker 3: Fair point. Fair point.
[57:57] Speaker 2: And, you know, the argument for Wemby is, as the
[58:03] Speaker 2: worst game, Chet outplayed him. Similar.
[58:06] Speaker 3: Fair, fair.
[58:08] Speaker 1: Get the poll going for the people in the stream team.
[58:11] Speaker 2: Or the J.
[58:14] Speaker 3: What everybody think of the 3 p.m.
[58:15] Speaker 1: Start?
[58:16] Speaker 3: To our NBA season.
[58:18] Speaker 1: I loved it, but one issue. Lawn care guys.
[58:22] Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Blowing leaves.
[58:26] Speaker 1: I got two things going on in my neighborhood. My
[58:28] Speaker 1: neighbor had the lawn care guys show up. So I'm
[58:31] Speaker 1: like struggling to hear the game as they're blowing around shit.
[58:35] Speaker 1: And then they're like building, you know, like townhomes behind
[58:39] Speaker 1: our property and they're getting closer and closer and they're
[58:41] Speaker 1: banging away. It was loud. You want me to put
[58:44] Speaker 1: on headphones?
[58:45] Speaker 2: Yeah, I do it in the morning. Where I watch,
[58:48] Speaker 2: it's too close to my kids.
[58:49] Speaker 1: You're waking up at 5 in the morning to watch
[58:51] Speaker 1: these games. You've got to keep quiet.
[58:52] Speaker 2: Here in the South, school starts early for the kids,
[58:55] Speaker 2: so I'm hearing the kids. I'm like, yeah, I've got
[58:57] Speaker 2: to put on my headphones. See you later, kids!
[59:00] Speaker 1: Otherwise, I loved it. I liked it.
[59:02] Speaker 3: It didn't feel like an event to me.
[59:06] Speaker 1: No, but it's like I mean still basketball on that's
[59:09] Speaker 1: fun it.
[59:10] Speaker 3: Was like it felt to me like the equivalent of
[59:13] Speaker 3: watching curling qualifiers in the Olympics before they've done the
[59:16] Speaker 3: opening ceremonies like yeah this counts but I gotta see
[59:20] Speaker 3: the banner before I.
[59:21] Speaker 1: Believe it's real they need to take the oath before
[59:25] Speaker 1: I trust this Olympics What'd you think?
[59:30] Speaker 2: I agree with Trey. It didn't feel like, hey, this
[59:33] Speaker 2: is the first game of the season, especially.
[59:35] Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it's like their third team on it, first off.
[59:39] Speaker 1: No offense to Terry Gannon.
[59:42] Speaker 3: Yeah. I laughed a lot. Asar Thompson hit the 360 lamp,
[59:47] Speaker 3: and I go, that looks like something you'd see in
[59:49] Speaker 3: figure skating, Terry.
[59:51] Speaker 1: He went dead quiet, too. I think that one cut, man.
[59:54] Speaker 1: That one hurt.
[59:55] Speaker 3: He's like, God, dude. They're all amazing athletes, okay?
[59:58] Speaker 1: And they are. And they are. I love figure skating.
[1:00:00] Speaker 2: I'm trying to look at, you know, the videos on NBA.com.
[1:00:04] Speaker 2: It's a phone video, so... Give me a second. This
[1:00:07] Speaker 2: might take 30 seconds, but I think it had the
[1:00:09] Speaker 2: same headline. Or maybe I'm mistaken.
[1:00:11] Speaker 1: What do you mean?
[1:00:11] Speaker 2: Asar did the spin. A little 360.
[1:00:14] Speaker 1: I mean, it was almost a 360.
[1:00:16] Speaker 2: Maybe I'm imagining.
[1:00:18] Speaker 1: People are wondering, did he fart when he did it?
[1:00:20] Speaker 1: That's the real question.
[1:00:22] Speaker 2: NBA.com was just a plain headline. Maybe I was just
[1:00:25] Speaker 2: imagining that it did look like figure skating. Like I
[1:00:27] Speaker 2: was hearing Terry Gannon on the call with Robbie on
[1:00:31] Speaker 2: one bench and Brian on the other. Robbie Hummel and
[1:00:34] Speaker 2: Brian Scalabrini and Terry Gannon. Yeah, maybe it's that part
[1:00:37] Speaker 2: of why it didn't feel like it was.
[1:00:39] Speaker 1: Yeah, I think a part of it, yes.
[1:00:41] Speaker 2: The absolute A-team.
[1:00:43] Speaker 1: Still, it was NBA basketball.
[1:00:44] Speaker 2: It was.
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[1:00:58] Speaker 1: Pistons got playing a little more physical defense there, and
[1:01:00] Speaker 1: then they started hitting threes themselves. Did you notice how
[1:01:03] Speaker 1: hilariously smoky it was in the Little Caesars Arena to
[1:01:06] Speaker 1: start that game?
[1:01:07] Speaker 3: Quite hazy.
[1:01:08] Speaker 1: And doing their fireworks and stuff, I'm sure, whatever, their pyrotechnics.
[1:01:11] Speaker 1: You see this in some arenas, but that one, man,
[1:01:14] Speaker 1: I know Cleveland's pretty bad. Detroit, it was so smoky.
[1:01:18] Speaker 2: The pizzas were just on fire, I think.
[1:01:21] Speaker 1: Take them out.
[1:01:21] Speaker 2: But I think it does happen with their pyrotechnics, if
[1:01:24] Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken.
[1:01:25] Speaker 1: Cleveland comes to mind for sure. I know they're always
[1:01:28] Speaker 1: super hazy. Detroit may be on the list. Let's hear
[1:01:31] Speaker 1: the other ones.
[1:01:33] Speaker 3: Kid Rock. What?
[1:01:37] Speaker 1: He's up late, man.
[1:01:38] Speaker 3: I'm telling you. I'm feeling playful this morning.
[1:01:42] Speaker 1: Any other random notes from Piston Celtics? Piston's big win. No,
[1:01:49] Speaker 1: you don't want to talk about Kevin Herter's head, man.
[1:01:51] Speaker 2: You of all guys. No, I'm saving it.
[1:01:53] Speaker 3: I'm saving it. I was actually, I am trying to
[1:01:56] Speaker 3: keep track of.
[1:01:57] Speaker 2: I'm saving it.
[1:01:58] Speaker 3: I got a lot of thoughts. No, but by the
[1:02:01] Speaker 3: end of tonight, I'll have a good read on players
[1:02:03] Speaker 3: who started wearing headbands this season.
[1:02:05] Speaker 1: Okay, okay. I mean, yeah, he's one of them.
[1:02:07] Speaker 3: He brought it back. He had it in the Sacramento days.
[1:02:09] Speaker 1: He's got a lot of hair.
[1:02:10] Speaker 3: A lot of hair.
[1:02:11] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like Reed Shepard out there.
[1:02:13] Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so funny now with Herter because of what
[1:02:15] Speaker 1: I've said on the show. I think he's terribly overrated
[1:02:18] Speaker 1: and stopped talking about him. I now have to actively
[1:02:21] Speaker 1: watch Kevin Hurd play a Pissons game and celebrate every
[1:02:24] Speaker 1: time he misses or turns down a shot, which he
[1:02:27] Speaker 1: did do a couple times.
[1:02:28] Speaker 2: Yes, he did. He did.
[1:02:29] Speaker 3: He did.
[1:02:30] Speaker 1: And that's what I get really upset about. Not whether
[1:02:32] Speaker 1: you're making them or making them. It's whether you're taking them.
[1:02:35] Speaker 1: But anyway. Like he hit a shot and I was like, ah, shit.
[1:02:38] Speaker 2: He's going to hit like eight threes.
[1:02:39] Speaker 1: I'm going to look like a fool.
[1:02:40] Speaker 2: And he did hit one going into halftime too, but
[1:02:42] Speaker 2: it was after the buzzer.
[1:02:43] Speaker 1: Yeah, I was pumped.
[1:02:44] Speaker 2: So that didn't count.
[1:02:45] Speaker 3: I was pumped.
[1:02:45] Speaker 1: I was like, that doesn't count.
[1:02:46] Speaker 3: It doesn't count.
[1:02:48] Speaker 2: But he was hesitant to take some threes. Let it rip.
[1:02:51] Speaker 1: That's his thing, man.
[1:02:52] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:02:52] Speaker 1: This is my issue with him. I saw it firsthand.
[1:02:55] Speaker 2: Confidence.
[1:02:55] Speaker 1: Come on, man. Kevin and his confidence.
[1:02:58] Speaker 2: Literally, he was lucky that Dunkey was there. Duncan Robinson was.
[1:03:02] Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Sam, Sam, and Dunkey. I know.
[1:03:04] Speaker 2: Sam, Sam, and Dunkey, Duncan, Pauly G over here. Yeah,
[1:03:08] Speaker 2: I've got to scale it back.
[1:03:09] Speaker 1: Pauly G.
[1:03:10] Speaker 2: Paul George. Oh. I can't help it. I didn't know
[1:03:14] Speaker 2: we were talking about that. Jersey Shore, my favorite show ever.
[1:03:17] Speaker 1: Good job.
[1:03:17] Speaker 2: I'm kidding.
[1:03:18] Speaker 3: It's not true. Don't be so mad about it, though.
[1:03:21] Speaker 2: Where's Snooki when you need her? She's my favorite. Duncan Robinson.
[1:03:25] Speaker 2: Only won three in the first half. Four threes in
[1:03:29] Speaker 2: the second half.
[1:03:30] Speaker 3: Audacious three-pointer.
[1:03:31] Speaker 2: Yes. Is that what Terry Gannon would say?
[1:03:36] Speaker 1: I've got three Nora observations from this game that I
[1:03:40] Speaker 1: thought you guys would like, I thought the stream team
[1:03:41] Speaker 1: would like, or everybody listening to the podcast. Okay, she
[1:03:43] Speaker 1: had three observations about Pistons Celtics. Because she was watching
[1:03:48] Speaker 1: it because it was on during the day. It's on, yeah.
[1:03:50] Speaker 1: Derek White looks like a man-baby.
[1:03:53] Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, he does.
[1:03:54] Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I see it.
[1:03:55] Speaker 3: Yeah, he does.
[1:03:56] Speaker 2: Good.
[1:03:57] Speaker 1: Second one. Duncan Robinson looks like a squished Tony Hinchcliffe
[1:04:02] Speaker 1: from Kill Tony. I see it. He sort of looks like,
[1:04:07] Speaker 1: I said he looks like, I said if Tony Hinchcliffe
[1:04:10] Speaker 1: looks like evil Tony Hinchcliffe, then Duncan Robinson looks like good.
[1:04:15] Speaker 1: What do you got there?
[1:04:16] Speaker 3: Just a bunch of pictures. A bunch of pictures of
[1:04:19] Speaker 3: this guy.
[1:04:20] Speaker 1: And then, okay, you didn't seem to like that one
[1:04:22] Speaker 1: as much.
[1:04:22] Speaker 3: I did like when they were like, Duncan Robinson had
[1:04:24] Speaker 3: a great summer. I saw a lot of his Instagram
[1:04:26] Speaker 3: on summer. He has interesting workouts. Oh, okay. I like
[1:04:30] Speaker 3: watching the role players because it's like, oh, here's some
[1:04:32] Speaker 3: weird things you learned to be good at catching shoots
[1:04:34] Speaker 3: where your feet are facing the wrong way.
[1:04:36] Speaker 1: That's very cool.
[1:04:36] Speaker 3: Do a spin move.
[1:04:38] Speaker 2: Since this didn't come up during the Sixers-Knicks game, LeBron's
[1:04:41] Speaker 2: workouts recently, have you seen the camera that he just
[1:04:44] Speaker 2: throws down in a gym? So it's, I think it's
[1:04:47] Speaker 2: on the floor, very, very low, and he's in his tights.
[1:04:51] Speaker 2: And so you get a full crotch shot directly into
[1:04:54] Speaker 2: the game. I mean, recently, it was a video going
[1:04:56] Speaker 2: around about him commenting about him not liking the helicopter
[1:05:00] Speaker 2: that he has to take. He likes it. He said
[1:05:02] Speaker 2: he likes it, and he doesn't like it all at
[1:05:04] Speaker 2: the same time.
[1:05:05] Speaker 1: Okay, then live in Philadelphia.
[1:05:07] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. He likes it and he doesn't like it.
[1:05:09] Speaker 2: He hates it and he loves it, I think is
[1:05:11] Speaker 2: what he said. It feels like that's what he said
[1:05:13] Speaker 2: about his helicopters. But anyways, that was coming right off
[1:05:15] Speaker 2: a full-on crotch shot in his tights, and that's all
[1:05:18] Speaker 2: I could see. That's all I got to say.
[1:05:20] Speaker 1: The final Nora observation, they showed the Pistons mascot, Hooper,
[1:05:24] Speaker 1: I believe is his name, on the screen, and she commented,
[1:05:28] Speaker 1: who is that slutty horse?
[1:05:30] Speaker 3: Excuse me?
[1:05:30] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:05:30] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[1:05:32] Speaker 3: Hooper's all slutty?
[1:05:34] Speaker 1: It was from the back. I don't know why. That
[1:05:37] Speaker 1: was her immediate reaction. So Derek White, Duncan Ronson, and
[1:05:40] Speaker 1: the slutty horse that is Hooper, the Pistons mascot.
[1:05:44] Speaker 2: We can get him on.
[1:05:45] Speaker 1: We can get the what? Who on?
[1:05:47] Speaker 2: Hooper. Hooper the mascot. Literally, we get him on the
[1:05:51] Speaker 2: show to talk about his look.
[1:05:52] Speaker 1: He can't talk.
[1:05:53] Speaker 2: Well, you never know. We had a controversy back in
[1:05:56] Speaker 2: the day, Hooper and I. We're at NBA TV.
[1:05:58] Speaker 1: Go on. Remind me. I don't remember this.
[1:06:02] Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't either.
[1:06:05] Speaker 1: You had him on to talk to him and he
[1:06:06] Speaker 1: wouldn't talk?
[1:06:07] Speaker 2: No, he didn't come on. It was a Twitter beef
[1:06:09] Speaker 2: for some odd reason.
[1:06:11] Speaker 1: Well, we might have another one on our hands. My
[1:06:13] Speaker 1: wife calling him a slutty horse.
[1:06:15] Speaker 3: Did she mean it in a mean way or like complimentary?
[1:06:18] Speaker 1: He was in the crowd. He was probably doing some
[1:06:20] Speaker 1: moves and I think she just saw he's got like
[1:06:22] Speaker 1: the red and yellow, I believe, hair. Must have. I
[1:06:26] Speaker 1: don't know. That was it.
[1:06:28] Speaker 3: Kind of a sexy mascot. Right.
[1:06:31] Speaker 2: Right.
[1:06:31] Speaker 1: Oh, we got to rank the sexiest mascots.
[1:06:32] Speaker 2: There you go.
[1:06:33] Speaker 1: Maybe I'll ask her to do it. All right. That's
[1:06:36] Speaker 1: all we got on those games. We're going deep into
[1:06:38] Speaker 1: the random notes already here. Three games.
[1:06:40] Speaker 3: They should only have three games a night. I don't
[1:06:42] Speaker 3: know how for the season, but it's like a perfect
[1:06:44] Speaker 3: amount to talk about.
[1:06:44] Speaker 1: I agree.
[1:06:45] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:06:45] Speaker 1: Really reduce the season. Play three.
[1:06:48] Speaker 3: Perfect. We're doing this one for the podcaster, says Adam Silver.
[1:06:53] Speaker 3: Perfect podcast content.
[1:06:55] Speaker 1: All right. Let's hear your random observations from all three
[1:06:59] Speaker 1: of those games in the stream team or in the comments.
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[1:07:32] Speaker 3: the Blazers.
[1:07:33] Speaker 1: This one's tough, though. This is why we have it.
[1:07:36] Speaker 3: It's a tight one.
[1:07:36] Speaker 1: We like to pick the tight games when it comes
[1:07:39] Speaker 1: to pick them. And Tass and I got a victory
[1:07:42] Speaker 1: last night, taking an okay seat. So we got a
[1:07:43] Speaker 1: little early lead here on Trey. So Blazers by two
[1:07:47] Speaker 1: and a half at home.
[1:07:49] Speaker 2: I'm the only one taking the Blazers.
[1:07:51] Speaker 1: I switched mine. I went back and forth, man.
[1:07:52] Speaker 3: Phew. Wow, you did too?
[1:07:54] Speaker 1: I did.
[1:07:55] Speaker 3: I went in and typed P-O-R and P-H-X came out
[1:07:58] Speaker 3: of my thumbs. I couldn't believe it. I was like, whoa.
[1:08:01] Speaker 3: My heart revealed itself in that moment.
[1:08:03] Speaker 1: I'll admit yesterday's OKC Spurs pick, I literally changed it
[1:08:07] Speaker 1: like four times. And then I ultimately went with OKC,
[1:08:10] Speaker 1: got it right. So I did the same thing here.
[1:08:11] Speaker 1: I'm going the road team. Got a couple points to
[1:08:14] Speaker 1: play with. Maybe that helps.
[1:08:15] Speaker 2: Yeah, I went with the fact that opening night is
[1:08:18] Speaker 2: John Moran night. He's really good on opening nights, historically.
[1:08:23] Speaker 2: He had 35 last season on opening night. He's had
[1:08:27] Speaker 2: 30 or more four times in his career. And he
[1:08:31] Speaker 2: averages over 30 in season openers. He just comes out
[1:08:34] Speaker 2: to play really, really well. Last year was against the Pelicans.
[1:08:37] Speaker 2: He was dancing. He literally was dancing. Step back threes.
[1:08:42] Speaker 1: Going to be a little different against Dylan Brooks and
[1:08:44] Speaker 1: the Suns.
[1:08:45] Speaker 2: That's why you kind of had to... I'm sure you guys...
[1:08:48] Speaker 2: factor that in that their defense is really really really
[1:08:50] Speaker 2: good it's good um so yeah i almost went phoenix
[1:08:53] Speaker 2: but i'm betting on joe.
[1:08:55] Speaker 1: Hey look man right now who knows we haven't seen
[1:08:57] Speaker 1: them we haven't seen these teams.
[1:08:59] Speaker 3: True except a big game for the play in standings yeah.
[1:09:02] Speaker 4: It could be right absolutely could be uh if we're
[1:09:04] Speaker 4: doing the short month no i mean playing at the
[1:09:07] Speaker 4: end oh my bad that's my bad sorry i heard
[1:09:10] Speaker 4: pick and pay off in my head i'm already Well,
[1:09:12] Speaker 4: it's funny you said that because I saw a comment
[1:09:14] Speaker 4: from MJ Skycrawler in the YouTube comments yesterday. He said,
[1:09:17] Speaker 4: oh my God, those pick-em payoff ideas. Grown man diaper change?
[1:09:22] Speaker 1: Seriously? We really disgusted MJ Skycrawler with that proposal of
[1:09:28] Speaker 1: a very weird pick-em payoff where a man would have
[1:09:31] Speaker 1: to wear a diaper.
[1:09:31] Speaker 3: Use it.
[1:09:32] Speaker 1: Yeah, defecate in a diaper and then get changed by
[1:09:37] Speaker 1: another man.
[1:09:37] Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not doing that. Is that mandatory that you
[1:09:39] Speaker 2: defecate in the diaper?
[1:09:41] Speaker 1: What's there to change otherwise? Dry diaper? You're going to
[1:09:44] Speaker 1: waste a diaper in this economy?
[1:09:45] Speaker 2: I'm not holding it in the morning for several hours.
[1:09:53] Speaker 3: Yes, you are.
[1:09:54] Speaker 1: You're right.
[1:09:55] Speaker 3: You're not holding it. You got the diaper on, bro.
[1:09:57] Speaker 3: That's what it's for.
[1:09:59] Speaker 2: No, I'm 1-0. we gotta do a short month though
[1:10:05] Speaker 2: i think that's more all right somebody.
[1:10:07] Speaker 1: Has a suggestion which i didn't mind of eating the
[1:10:10] Speaker 1: worst halloween candy during like you know the day after
[1:10:15] Speaker 1: the month of october ends yeah i think that's fun
[1:10:18] Speaker 1: because like we'd have a fun debate we could get
[1:10:20] Speaker 1: some help from the people like what is the worst
[1:10:22] Speaker 1: halloween candy and then you just have to eat a
[1:10:24] Speaker 1: boatload of it during said show For a short month,
[1:10:28] Speaker 1: I know it's a simple one, but I think there's
[1:10:30] Speaker 1: something to it. I think it was Sean that came
[1:10:31] Speaker 1: up with that.
[1:10:33] Speaker 2: There's some bad candy out there.
[1:10:35] Speaker 1: What's the worst? What would you, if you lose the
[1:10:37] Speaker 1: short month of October in the Pick'Em, hate to have
[1:10:40] Speaker 1: to eat?
[1:10:41] Speaker 3: I don't think I would want to eat black licorice
[1:10:43] Speaker 3: for an entire episode. I don't hate black licorice like
[1:10:46] Speaker 3: some people, but 75 minutes of black licorice sounds bad. Okay.
[1:10:53] Speaker 1: What about you?
[1:10:54] Speaker 2: Red licorice. I like black better. I like the nibs
[1:10:59] Speaker 2: the best. If I'm ranking my licorice, black, nibs, then red.
[1:11:05] Speaker 2: My licorice products. Okay. But, yeah, you can get a
[1:11:10] Speaker 2: weird house that just hands out, like, I don't know,
[1:11:12] Speaker 2: healthy stuff. Oh, geez.
[1:11:13] Speaker 1: Yeah, Lee Ellis handing out vegetable medley. Yeah, vegetable medley.
[1:11:18] Speaker 1: That's it. Candy corn. I do not like candy corn.
[1:11:22] Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I mean, it'd be a chalky mouth.
[1:11:24] Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
[1:11:25] Speaker 3: Circus peanuts.
[1:11:26] Speaker 1: I'm not a big coconut guy, so I'm not a
[1:11:28] Speaker 1: fan of the bounty, and I know some people love
[1:11:30] Speaker 1: the bounty. I do not love the bounty. That's a
[1:11:33] Speaker 1: throw that one away right away.
[1:11:36] Speaker 3: I'm a bounty boy.
[1:11:37] Speaker 2: Yeah, I like the coconut.
[1:11:39] Speaker 1: This is the fun.
[1:11:40] Speaker 3: We'd have to zero in.
[1:11:42] Speaker 1: You got to be truthful, though, of candy you hate.
[1:11:45] Speaker 3: You got to be truthful of candy you hate.
[1:11:47] Speaker 2: We'd each have to bring in our bags and dump it.
[1:11:51] Speaker 2: together onto the table, and then we divide. Divide the
[1:11:55] Speaker 2: worst ones.
[1:11:55] Speaker 1: Hey, look, there's something here. There's something here.
[1:11:57] Speaker 3: You say we have to go out and bring our
[1:11:59] Speaker 3: own baskets? You're going trick-or-treating?
[1:12:00] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[1:12:00] Speaker 1: You guys probably will be, won't you? You may not.
[1:12:03] Speaker 1: Maybe your kids do.
[1:12:04] Speaker 3: It by themselves. They're going to go by themselves this year,
[1:12:06] Speaker 3: but I still got to get my candy.
[1:12:09] Speaker 2: Yeah. We drove by one house yesterday. Great decorations that
[1:12:14] Speaker 2: they put up, but then my daughter Zoe said, oh,
[1:12:16] Speaker 2: I don't like that house. They gave out bad bad treats.
[1:12:20] Speaker 1: And she's already clocked it.
[1:12:22] Speaker 2: She said there was like rice in them. Like, I'm like,
[1:12:25] Speaker 2: what are you talking about? There's rice in the cake.
[1:12:27] Speaker 2: She's like, there are a rice cake.
[1:12:30] Speaker 1: Oh, that's horrible.
[1:12:32] Speaker 2: And Halloween.
[1:12:33] Speaker 1: That's pretty bad.
[1:12:34] Speaker 2: Come on.
[1:12:34] Speaker 3: If you want to vegetables.
[1:12:36] Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. I would rather some green peppers, please.
[1:12:41] Speaker 2: I'm bringing in.
[1:12:41] Speaker 3: Can you exchange this?
[1:12:43] Speaker 1: Hey, we're going long here, but just cause you brought
[1:12:45] Speaker 1: up Halloween. Um, Do you think, I had this thought
[1:12:49] Speaker 1: driving in the other day, do you think there are
[1:12:51] Speaker 1: more like minor fender benders in residential areas during the
[1:12:58] Speaker 1: Halloween season? Because people are like a little distracted by
[1:13:04] Speaker 1: Halloween decorations and houses. And so you're sort of taking
[1:13:07] Speaker 1: your eyes off the road. And again, you're not going
[1:13:10] Speaker 1: fast through these residential areas or you shouldn't be, but
[1:13:12] Speaker 1: you know. there's sometimes speed bumps and people slow down.
[1:13:16] Speaker 1: I gotta assume it is, right?
[1:13:17] Speaker 3: I do. I think so. And also like sometimes the
[1:13:20] Speaker 3: decorations are very human-like and close to the road or
[1:13:25] Speaker 3: close to the curb. You're like, whoa, what is that?
[1:13:27] Speaker 3: You swerve?
[1:13:28] Speaker 1: Oh, sideswipe. I'm telling you.
[1:13:29] Speaker 3: Call Ken.
[1:13:32] Speaker 1: I almost did it. I really was like looking at
[1:13:35] Speaker 1: one like way too long because it was like, I
[1:13:38] Speaker 1: was like, how is that? How do they have that hanging?
[1:13:41] Speaker 1: And it was very realistic. I'm like trying to break
[1:13:43] Speaker 1: it down and then I had to sort of jam
[1:13:45] Speaker 1: on the brakes when someone ahead of me was coming
[1:13:48] Speaker 1: up to a speed bump and they slowed down way
[1:13:50] Speaker 1: more than they needed to. Easy, man.
[1:13:53] Speaker 2: Easy, man.
[1:13:54] Speaker 1: You're not killing your car going 15 over it, okay?
[1:13:58] Speaker 3: I'd have to see the bump. Some of them are
[1:14:00] Speaker 3: pretty nasty out there.
[1:14:00] Speaker 1: Some of them are not that true. The one I
[1:14:02] Speaker 1: take you on, there's that one that's insane. Those ones
[1:14:03] Speaker 1: are big boppers. Those are big boppers.
[1:14:06] Speaker 3: They put them in and it's like instant divots behind it.
[1:14:09] Speaker 3: It's like an excite bike course.
[1:14:11] Speaker 1: Okay. You want to just say our thoughts? No, thanks
[1:14:14] Speaker 1: for agreeing with me. I felt good.
[1:14:15] Speaker 3: I'm glad you did. I thought we were just going
[1:14:17] Speaker 3: to say thoughts. Mine was, do you think Kevin Herter
[1:14:19] Speaker 3: would survive a home alone situation? Just think about it.
[1:14:22] Speaker 3: We can talk about it more at Christmas time.
[1:14:24] Speaker 1: We have 11 games on tonight and a new episode
[1:14:27] Speaker 1: of Survivor. Dear Lord, by the end of the night,
[1:14:29] Speaker 1: only two teams will have not played a regular season game.
[1:14:33] Speaker 1: Do you know those teams?
[1:14:35] Speaker 2: No.
[1:14:35] Speaker 3: Nuggets.
[1:14:36] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:14:37] Speaker 3: I thought Nuggets was one. And Cavaliers. Yeah.
[1:14:39] Speaker 1: Wow.
[1:14:40] Speaker 2: Damn.
[1:14:40] Speaker 1: Sorry.
[1:14:40] Speaker 3: I didn't think you'd get it. I feel like we
[1:14:43] Speaker 3: maybe said it. Okay. When schedule was released a billion
[1:14:47] Speaker 3: years ago.
[1:14:47] Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right. So ESPN doubleheader Timberwolves Heat.
[1:14:50] Speaker 3: Okay.
[1:14:51] Speaker 2: Hello.
[1:14:51] Speaker 1: LaMelo with the Wolves. Yannis with the Heat. And Warriors
[1:14:54] Speaker 1: Lakers is our late game on ESPN. Anyway, we'll be
[1:14:56] Speaker 1: back to talk about as many as we possibly can.
[1:14:58] Speaker 1: Bulls Raptors, baby.
[1:15:00] Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
[1:15:01] Speaker 2: Yes.
[1:15:01] Speaker 1: I mean, the premiere game of the night, of course.
[1:15:03] Speaker 1: Everybody tuning in. We're locked in for sure. We'll have
[1:15:06] Speaker 1: comments on that one. No doubt tomorrow at 10 a.m.
[1:15:09] Speaker 3: Eastern.
[1:15:09] Speaker 1: Hit the like button, subscribe, five-star ratings and reviews. Until tomorrow,
[1:15:12] Speaker 1: Clipper Bros.
[1:15:13] Speaker 3: You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up.
[1:15:15] Speaker 3: Love you guys.
[1:15:16] Speaker 2: Awesome. Thanks for joining us. And remember, if you're driving
[1:15:19] Speaker 2: on Halloween, eyes on the road.
[1:15:22] Speaker 3: That's right.
[1:15:23] Speaker 1: Ten and two, eyes on the road. Brace the day, people.

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