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You're listening to the downbeat on ninety
seven to one the freak get it.

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We say no disco. It ain't
no country club either. That Sheryl Crow.

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I think, Mike, Oh,
I thought you were been morphed back

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into your parrot. I listened to
that audio. That was funny. That

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was I mean me, failing is
funny. When you turned into a bird

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live on the air. Yeah,
yeah, that was funny. Oh we

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were talking about MacCall on the tree. Yeah, and he got so worked

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up but he started screaming like he
was the bird, flapping his arm.

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Yeah, and he stood up and
he kind of did his eyes and he

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kind of did look like a bird
like I was buying it, but he's

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not. And that's all you need
to be. Yeah, you don't have

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to be anybody other than the authentic, real you. You don't have to

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be a bird to impress me.
You don't have to be a funny bird.

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I mean it's cool when you you
know, if you want to,

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but don't feel like it's essential to
be loved. I'm just Kevin, Yep.

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We love you and you're enough.
You're enough, thank you. Yes,

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and never tas a bird. No, it's a terrible plan, could

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get thrown in jail for that for
many years. It may seem like a

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good idea at the time, but
do not do it. What do you

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guys think is the funniest comedy,
especially if it's attached to a pirate?

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Oh yeah, it's killed. It's
glued onto a pirate and get killed in

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one second? What were you saying? Say? What do you guys think

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is the funniest comedy movie of all
time? Don't answer? Eight o'clock will

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discuss watch Stepbrothers last night for the
ALBUMO Draft House. Does it hold up?

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Yeah? Some discussion and discussion there
it does it? It does two.

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You can talk back on the iHeartRadio
app. Always checking your text calls,

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always get good tech messages every once
in a while. Fella just sent

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one in that was really moving,
like that type of stuff. Call in

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whenever. But right now, let's
do sports. We a lot of stuff.

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My Jack Talk order was now sports
at seven, Cowboys at a minute,

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MAVs in a minute, Stars have
won five in a row. Good

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job. Do we have the hottest
team in every league? But uh,

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the hottest but I mean technically we
have the defending champions who kick it off

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tomorrow night. It's sort of want
to start real quick because tomorrow at seven

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we'll have Ultimate Ranger preview segment with
Fun that's at seven tomorrow. We'll also

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have Tom Glavin the pitcher. Yeah, we have Tom Glavin on at nine

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o'clock tomorrow about that. Yeah,
but time opening day starter for the Braves

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of Atlanta is we were painting the
outside corner with a circle change, driving

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you nuts, and you're up there
like, dude, it's only like ninety

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four, change the change, and
then that's when the fastball pops inside.

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But after that circle change outside all
day, I know where it's going.

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There's nothing I can do. Dribbler
second base, you're out Pine grab it.

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How could you have glab him?
And then Maddox the next night.

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I must have drove batters for ten
plus years, insane, throw it hard,

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and then Smoltz comes in throwing ninety
nine, and you think that's a

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witch throwing ninety nine, talking crap
about the hitter's favorite team, just being

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a jerk. Facing Glavin and Maddox
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kind of craz hated f and Glavin. So as we're leaving the movie,

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last night and almal draft house and
listeners are filing out. We're standing by

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the door just giving him bub by
bubbah. Yeah. We were like a

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new married couple saying godbye to everyone
leaving the reception, you know, the

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receiving one. Yeah, there you
go, thank you bye. And I

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started with fist bumps. Then I
switched a handshakes and shoulder touches, had

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a couple of cigarette hugs. Hugs. Yeah. But this one guy goes,

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did you see what happened with Jordan
Montgomery? No one knows, and

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he goes, he's signed with the
Diamondbacks one year, twenty five million dollars.

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Jordan Montgomery to the Diamondbacks, turning
down his lifelong free hertato barbecue.

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Bold move, Montgomery, bold move, you're paying full freight, Montgomery.

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Yeah, for all your hurtatoes.
I would have taken the free over live

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fool to startle going on. Huh. So I kind of love it because

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the Yankees and the Astros were rumored
to be in on him, and you

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know Yankees clearly the reason you don't
like them too much. With the Astros,

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like, oh, it sucked if
he went to the Astros and we

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can't buy him because bally so to
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By the way, he did not
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he had a pretty good audition against
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kind of see firsthand what he's all
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of liked a lot now, right, I got after everything I happened last

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year, like a pull for the
Diamondbacks next year. Cool. I don't

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have a team that I care about
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But it was like, yeah,
great, don't go to Houston.

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That's where it would suck. Uh. So there's that one. More Ranger

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stuff tomorrow, including the white Langford
hype video and more just opening day at

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the ballpark. But you get me
boned up for WYA at Langford tomorrow.

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Mack could do it right now,
or I could save it for tomorrow.

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I think tomorrow. I don't know. I know tomorrow's opening Day Tomorrow.

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Kevin wants to do a big opening
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ball good early this morning. Yeah, I'll come up with something later for

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it. Bennetts Skin and the Speakeasy
will be out opening Day tomorrow. We

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had Sunday Side Chick in touch,
Credit Union and Addison Coffee Roasters getting them

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all out to opening day, So
thank you and make sure you get some

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Java John's over at Addison Coffee Roasters. You can do that and Chicken from

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Sunday Side Chick. But MAVs last
night start at nine, so movie ended

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around nine. It all worked out
eight forty five or home. I mean

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when I was home, it was
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I think I made it home and
turned it on and it was like

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nine minutes remaining in the first Man
that that's Cedars location for Alamo is so

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great. It's twelve minutes from my
house. Yeah, right, straight shot

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up thirty. But yeah, I
think Mikey and I stuck with the whole

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thing. Yeah, I know you
couldn't see it all. I think I

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turned it off when the MAVs got
up by thirty. Ha. Yeah,

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I got out of hand, I
guess. But you guys know more than

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me, because when the Mavericks got
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I said, I'm good. Well, the story of the game was

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the third quarter, and boy,
they unleashed hell on Sacramento. Sacramento in

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that third quarter as good as they
looked in the first half. And that's

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a really fun, interesting team and
if you live in that area, you

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have a lot to be excited about. But they looked like in that third

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quarter what the Jazz looked like in
the fourth. A few nights back,

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everything was working for Kyrie. It
was the Kyrie Show. It was also

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the Derek Lively show because he neutralized, not only neutralized, but he made

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Sibonis look incredibly ordinary. Yeah,
he did, and that's hard to do.

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Man. That dude is a human
box score and he was held at

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twelve. But I wonder how low
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he's he's the only dude right ahead
of Luca on triple doubles. I was

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looking at his numbers the other day. Does he have more than Luca?

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He has twenty five and Luca has
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few games of like under twenty points. Okay, he scored eleven in their

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last game, and yeah, but
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he averaged nineteen point seven a game. But yes, first in the

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league in rebounds, and if you
play like prize picks, and stuff,

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and you want to bet the over
on Sabonis rebounds, it's usually like fifteen

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and a half. Yeah, that's
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It's he's gonna get around there.
He had eleven last night, and

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he was challenged by Lively. The
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of his hands a number of times, every shot was contested. He was

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out rebounded by Lively. It was
incredible. It was the Lively Kyrie show

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in the third quarter. I couldn't
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continues to show how balanced and spread
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nice to go into a game,
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and know that if Luca's not perfect, you still have a really good chance.

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I saw Followell and De Maris.
I guess they do a podcast or

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a streaming thing talking MAVs looked really
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And typically in these situations where you've
got like two superstars, even though you

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do have two really great scorers and
guys that create their own shots, blah

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blah blah with Luca and Kyrie,
they're talking about, you know, well,

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where's this team gonna get there.
Who's their third scorer. It's made

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so much sense. Their third scorer
is their center position combined. Okay,

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it's true, because you can't.
You can't night in night out depend on

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Timmy on PJ or Timmy right,
but you can night in night out depend

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on your sinners to deliver the goods. Yeah, offensively and defensively. And

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the centers are depending on those guards
getting the ball, and no guards get

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centers the ball better than our boys. They're the best passers in the league.

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Yep, you know what they're doing. They didn't want the last game.

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I didn't see it too much last
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about it on the radio as well. Right here. In ninety seven won

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the Freak, the home of the
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small pick and roll, and there
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or PJ or maybe it's more Gafford
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and then they have Kyrie rolling yep
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Gafford was that good of a passer, but he kept he keeps finding,

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you know, a nice easy bounce
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Kyrie and Luca, who, as
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might be the best two in the
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best to at everything, but good
god, they're both incredible at it.

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And if you have that twist with
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on the pick and roll back to
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man, their options are limitless.
It seems like they and it seems like

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every time we every time they take
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It's something that you know that they've
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is what I'm saying, and we
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one every night. Man. Yeah, it's kind of like they're sharpening different

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weapons. Yep, for you know, a run a few weeks from now,

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Dude, I am. I think
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to the NBA look out. I
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have the exact same record as them
going in a game they really needed,

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wanted for seating and all that,
you go to Sacramento and win by thirty

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six, spread alert. Nbaan that
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be in the four seed. Well, PJ. Washington fourteen and thirteen.

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I always feel like he has a
quiet, good game. Yeah. Yeah,

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it's he'll be hyper criticized if he
doesn't make threes, you know,

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when he gets his open three pointers
and things like that. I'm less concerned

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about him making threes than I am
what he does mid range and around the

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and around the rim. But he's
a good defender. He's a better than

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average defender. Day is one thing
about dude. I don't know if you

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guys focus a lot on team defense
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I am not ready to say that
Luca is a I'm not even going to

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say that he's a good NBA defender. But compared to last year and the

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way he's evolved to where we are
from the beginning of this season, he

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is no longer a liability. He
cares, he moves his feet, he

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can, he cares, and you
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defense. What now, I think
he's enjoying it, dude, I really

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do, because I think he's seeing
some fruits of his efforts manifest I mean,

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you saw him go to the ground
last night, Yeah, on a

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loose ball. Footwork is outstanding,
and he's big and wide, move his

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body. The thing is now that
Kyrie's here, and so that's your extent

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because this is it's outrage when he
sucks and everyone's yelling Tim Hardaway Junior is

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gonna get twenty points for this team. Look out. Yeah, that's really

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good games for him. It's insane
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I mean, okay, I don't
know what to really say. This

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team goes where Tim Hardaway takes him. But he's a perfect example of a

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dude who some nights you get nothing
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when he's shooting well like he did
last night, he's two nights in a

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row basically, and if he gets
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like, how if you add that
little element to everything else that is consistent

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about this team, I think you
are looking at a frightening bunch. They

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had a player like that in twenty
eleven when they made their run and he

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wasn't night in, night out,
but you had that relevant performance by this

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player, and I that's who I
think. Tim Hardaway is the person that

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just kind of unexpectedly has it on
that night and he carries you. He's

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Paysia. He could be Paysia.
Who just who the the other team is?

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Like Jesus, we weren't. We
didn't think about you. And the

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thing is Tim took it to the
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though, And that's what yeah,
trying to yeah, side by side,

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make the guy that you, yeah, one of the last guys you think

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about when you think about the Yeah, the Maps Championship run was a sleeper

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just out on the on the elbow
or out on the wing in the wing,

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knocking down because we know how he
goes man and and and if he

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dude, you've seen the Tim Hardaway
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for a decent little amount of time, right, and it'll disappear for a

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month. And we kind of said
that a few weeks ago. We're like,

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you know what, fine, be
cold now because we kind of know

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how this goes. You can be
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that dude's hot, I mean he
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He is absolutely And if you just
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this high low pick and roll and
all this stuff, defense was like Jesus,

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somebody guard, Tim freaking heart away
out there, get out there,

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please. And this goes back to
Danny's he's got nineteen points. It goes

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back to Danny's point about Luca playing
defense when Kyrie's out and he's got to

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do everything on offense. He's managing
the game in his minutes and he's going,

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I can't go as hard as I
want to on defense. A couple

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times you'll see this in the game
where Luca is kind of catch his breath

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a little bit on offense and Kyrie's
just kind of handling it, you know,

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on one side of the ball,
and they can get through a couple

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of minutes like that because Luca's working
his ass off on defense and he's still

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the best scorer in the league.
And I know that changes, but it'siding.

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There is more emphasis and focus that's
been put on it. And boy,

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the uh you saw, dude,
if you're an opposing team, you

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got to pick your poison. What
do you do You saw Luca. They

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tried the double team Luca on a
few possessions and that didn't work out.

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Dude. I'm looking at the teams
ahead of the MAVs, am I drunk

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right now. I don't know a
little bit. So Pelicans are getting back

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of the Pelicans a game and a
half back of the Clippers, te Wolves,

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Thunder, Nuggets. I don't want
the Nuggets, clearly. I think

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the Mavericks would handle the Thunder.
I think the Mavericks would handle Minnesota.

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I really don't want anything to do
with the Clippers, who were the four.

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And I think the Mavericks would handle
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them now. The way it goes
right now, they would probably be taking

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on Minnesota. But you know,
there's a lot of shuffling that can be

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done. They're gonna get they if
they they could be careful they get up

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to the five and La is the
four. I don't know that I would

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love that, but they could end
up passing the Clippers too. But I

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don't want anything to do with Paul
George and Kawhi Leonard and James Harden and

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that thing is I mean that that's
a good team, and I've just had

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enough with the Clippers over the years. Yeah, but that doesn't I don't

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think any team in the in the
West should scare the at all. You

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can hang with anybody right, Yeah, I think I don't know about scare

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you know, but you can't just
discount the Thunder and the Tea Wolves because

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they are who they like. They're
really damn good. They're very good.

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I shouldn't say we can handle them. I mean, they're dancing around the

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top for the best team in the
Western Conference. But I don't I don't

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know. The answer is I don't
know, but I'm not. I'm not

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terrified of any team because of our
team. And one thing you keep in

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mind, Look, nobody's putting them
in the finals right now. But today

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is a good day because you can
only, you know, go off of

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what they've done recently. And what
they've done recently is they went to Utah

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second on a back to back on
the road and beat them where they never

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win. They went to Sacramento,
which is another tough place to play against

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a really good team, and absolutely
smoked them. They've got two days off,

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they got to face them again in
their own barn. You've got to

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love their chances. And they're not
going to go party in Sacramento. There's

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nothing to do. There's nothing to
do in Sacramento. And I think this

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Ramadan thing is kind of badass.
It's only for the team because Kyrie is

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the un I don't know, okay, debatable leader of this team in a

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way. I think maybe in that
locker room he might even have more of

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an influence on what sets the tone
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when your guy is doing what he's
doing right now and not eating, he

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doesn't go out, you know,
he's not out there partying. I think

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he kind of sets the tone for
everybody because they're looking at him, going,

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this guy hadn't had any food.
He's not having food, So we're

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bringing it back to food. That's
a good thing. Food's good. Kyrie's

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not eating any food, he's not
drinking any water, and he's going out

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there and doing what he's doing.
I mean, how much discipline must that

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take. You can't tell me.
The other guys aren't looking at him going,

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we can't be effing around going out
to the club and and staying out

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and not taking this seriously. Because
this is the old one of the oldest

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guys on the team and he's he's
he's kind of leading the pack right now

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because look at what they've done this
month, it's incredible. He should get

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everyone else on the team not to
eat food. Imagine how good they'd all

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be. Maybe food is not the
fuel that we've been told our whole lives.

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Yes, you don't even need it. Conspiracy, make a TikTok of

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that one too, because a penut
many ideas at Sacramento at Houston, who's

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won nine in a row at Golden
State? Always scary but fun as times

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and yeah, red alert yeah has
been issued when they turn Association of National

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Basketball. When the MAVs flipped that
game last night and took it from a

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close game to a twelve point lead, it reminded me of old school Golden

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State. The way the barrage happened. You remember, we always talked about

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that. It's like when you're playing
Golden State, it's gonna happen. The

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hurricane's coming. The thing you have
to do is just withstand it and not

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get buried. Yea. And Sacramento
couldn't do it last night because the storm

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came, and it came, and
Kyrie and Luca made the He started making

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some threes and before you knew it, the MAVs are up by twelve and

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then they just ran away with it. But they they have that ability.

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Man, they have that freaking Steph
and Clay ability to just go off and

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make three threes in a row each
and the next thing you know, you're

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down by fifteen, and you're like, how did this happen? It was

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like three minutes ago we were up
by four. It's incredible what this team

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can do and how fast they can
do it. I'm not gonna look through

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their whole schedule, but I don't
imagine Sacramento got their ass busted by thirty

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six at home at any other point
this year. No, I would be

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highly surprised in a game that they
should have been ready to. I mean

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they they said on the TNT broadcast
last night, they talked about how Sacramento

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was treating this as a mini playoff
series against the MAVs. Not a good

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debut, Homies. Yeah, well, Friday night rematch was there's some cowboy

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stuff a little later, maybe eight
o'clock, first part, eight o'clock,

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this dack thing that kind of took
over eachday. But coming up next,

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I've kind of got a bone to
pick with the Rangers and their opening night

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festivities. That's next. One ninety
seven won the freak