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You're listening to the downbeat on ninety
seven to one the Freak. We'll talk

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a little usher in thirty minutes.
Watch this, watch this. What's going

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to happen to the super Bowl?
We'll tell you at eight o'clock with our

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scorching hot predictions. Man, before
we do sports at seven, let's holler

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AT's on the Freak hotline. Let's
go to Uh, Kevin, I want

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to talk more about all the strays
that Mikey and I have harbored over the

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years. We love animals. Everyone
watched the lightest episode of the Floor.

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A little crazier the better, right, Michavid, what are you doing?

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Misunderstood? Oh not much? Fellows, what are you all doing? I

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just got home after working a double
shit where water Burger? No? I

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wish I just ate some water Burger
though, any of those tasty wings.

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Did you use the app to order? It's so convenient? I sure did.

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I heard Kevin talking about the other
day and he's right, damn,

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look at you all right? What
are you doing? Where were you working

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all night? Man? Uh?
Doing maintenance at work? It's the third

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third double this week? So are
you kidding me? Maintenance? You don't

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have to tell us where, but
like, what what? What brand of

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maintenance? Oh, electrical maintenance just
slightly less vague. What do you work

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in? Df W? Everybody,
it's got a maintenance on the systems that

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run the buildings and stuff simulators.
Can you come fix our Direct TV satellite

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and our heater? Did you try
and plugging it first? That's a good

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idea, Kevin's good, it's good
unplugging, Kevin. Here's the scoop,

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dude. We have a pair of
tickets to send you to Australia and Pink

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Floyd if you want them? Do
you think do you think you want them

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for sure? Well? Hold on
again. Oh you've seen them before?

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Yeah, awesome, okay, because
we've never seen them and we were super

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curious. I don't know what they
sound like, if they sound like real

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Pink Floyd or if it's I don't
even know if it's an Australian tilt to

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thing. So, Kevin, we're
gonna put you on hold and we want

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you to listen because I think Danny
has unearthed a song from Australian Pink Floyd,

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and then we want you to hear
it. Then you decide after we'll

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bring you back on and see if
you still want to go. Okay,

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oh okay, exciting? Hang tight, Kevin, So, what's this deal?

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And we talked Australian Pink Floyd all
week, We've said it a hundred

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times. Yeah, and what it
kind of hit you? You're like,

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wait, what the I like that
They didn't even like come up with a

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weird name, like like Stink Troyd. They're just Pink Floyd and they put

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Australian in front of it. They
put all their effort into the into replicating

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the music of Pink Floyd. It's
not the naming of their band. Yeah,

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it's always just curious, like these
guys any good. I want to

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hear what they sound like. I
mean, if they're from Australia, you're

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going to be able to detect a
certain accent. I don't know. They're

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not playing at Costume World, they're
playing the Toyota Music Factory. Yeah,

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they probably legit. Let's hear it, and then if Kevin likes what he

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hears, will give him the tickets. All right, deal sounds that sounds

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perfect. These guys are solid.
Who hasn't loved this song? Right?

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Short list? I can't wait to
see how they Yeah, I can't wait

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to see how they pulled. This
sounds just like sound exactly Australian pink Floyd

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right, Danny that from Australia.
Okay, let's here. So so we

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got Kipson mel Model Neckphierson l Parathum
Brisbane Aussie rules football field. We're an

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old brick jail, were surfing,
We sail, We rode highway to hell.

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We support Jason Day surrounded by coasts, the walls and trees, great

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white and big reef gotta own stock, exchange, aborige and rage in opera

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else in the poets. Then the
Odwin surveyed agreed. No, we don't

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drink falses beer. We're too close
to the south. All the outfects.

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It does fold. The boomer Ring
still here, Josh giddy head, it's

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never found. Jacob and Lordie pounds
boris from here. We don't drink falses

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be. Did youery do so low? What? Okay? Okay, well

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there's the answer there. So Australian
stuff they sing about. Okay, was

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it like that Kevin when you saw
him the first time? Kevin? And

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plain out, did did they do
with your Australian theme songs. Oh wow,

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you know they must have on board
with that one, and not much

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have done one. Too many hits
asked because I don't quite remember that that

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version this. Yeah, but I'll
try to just do half of them out

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this time. Yeah, yeah for
sure, like like Kevinall all right,

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Kevin, we're still going to give
him to you. All right, lovely

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congratulations. People really do win on
ninety seven on the freak Huh they did,

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and that was very hard. I
mean I didn't think I was going

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to remember anything. Okay, Kevin, get some sleep. You've worked to

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talk, but also keep listening.
Well, thank you boys. I love

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y'all. I love you. Have
a nice weekend. Kevin. You're my

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favorite Kevin ever. Hey hey,
thanks show. They changed things out as

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quick on this world, so enjoy
you every minute while you have it.

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We get some enforcement, get some
clone sounds like it smells really intoxicating.

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Okay, put them on a hold, j J. Get whatever you need

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from old Kevin. He's a big
winner, all right. Tweota Music Factory,

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Friday, August twenty third, Australian
Pink Floyd. We'll probably do a

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show bet and the loser's got to
go is that Josh givvy, Josh Giddy

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evidence never never found Jacob and Lordy
pounds thor is from here from we don't

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drink Foster's beer. That's what I
understood those lyrics to be tremendous. I

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like the real one wonder just like
and the Diditi do so loo? Yeah?

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Oh wow, I respect the ground
like. That was great. Okay,

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what's up? Go ahead and do
this right now now, sports bricks.

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How about the memoris? Somebody said
that sounded like Australian dingu kind of.

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I have no idea what they're talking
about. You can't hear it.

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You can hear that a little bit, just to you know, I didn't

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hear that at all. Oh what
are you doing? Math praise? Yes,

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dude, I enjoyed the Benskin Show
every day, but I was glued

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to it yesterday. It was so
perfect that right when we walk out of

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here, these bombs start dropping,
and Skin handle it way better than we

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would because, honestly, you know, Daniel Gafford and PJ. Washington aren't

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the most household names. I know
the dudes just because I look at a

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lot of basketball cards. But to
have skin like real time taking the info

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in digesting it, regurgitating it to
us to make it make more sense was

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just perfecto. Yeah, I mean
about things I don't really care about and

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like pick and like what does it
mean? Yes, No, I'm saying

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that he could like like I don't
care about learning any of it. Yeah,

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you know, to like even regurgitate
some of the stuff that he was

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saying PJ Washington because the Gafford thing
happened first, but PJ. Washington is

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the big name you got out of
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that kind of changes everything. He's
twenty five. He played at Kentucky.

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There are I've seen a few things
that he has lived here before and which

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sounds weird. That's that's cool.
There's some talk about him not playing defense

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very hard in Charlotte, but Charlotte's
terrible, So yeah, you maybe don't

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try as hard as you could,
or maybe you just start in a good

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place. But he played at Prime
Prep for dionh Yeah, for a season,

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and then he played at Frisco lone
Star, or he went to Frisco

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lone Star for a year, but
he didn't play there, But then he

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went off to Vegas and then he
he went to college at Kentucky. But

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his location on his Twitter page even
before he was traded, said Dallas,

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Okay, he might live here,
perfect, so you gonna know where he's

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going. He's never gonna get lost
on the way to the AAC be late.

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Yeah that's a good thing, right, Yeah, knows the roads you

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know, easier might be happier.
Point is, he is a really good

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player. He's averaging thirteen and five
this year, but his three point shooting

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is down compared to what it has
been. But the point is he can

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play power forward for you, small
forward for you. Derek Jones Junior is

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now a bench player, which is, hey, that's a good bench player.

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He's a guy we've enjoyed this year. He's now on the bench,

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okay, and coming off the bench
great. Dwight Powell doesn't have to play

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as much now that you have Gafford. Gafford who went to Arkansas. And

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Gafford's a good player too. I
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think Lively still gets the minutes clearly, but Gafford. This is another like

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that. Luca likes guys who can
run to the rim, jump and dunk

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it home. How about that?
I'll make a great pass to you.

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And Dwight Powell hasn't been able to
do that as much since he tours Achilles.

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That's not his fault. He tours
Achilles. That sucks. But the

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spring is gone and that's why I
haven't seen a lot of Dwight Powle dunks.

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He's been here forever too. Yeah, and I know on mask fins

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are hard on you. He lost
his his spring, he lost his trampoline

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ability. But we don't have anyone
who can hit a center rolling into the

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basket for an easy allau do we
I know of a couple guys there,

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Mike, we do. Yeah,
I love it, Lucas said after He's

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like, we got h heard the
audio. He said, you know,

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well we got another good big center
back up. He's like so, he

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says, I'm like, that's all
I've been asking for for three years.

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I don't think he was being a
smart ass, but I think he was

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like, yes, like that is
this is good? He's happy. Do

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they talk to him before they pull
the trigger? I always kind of wonder

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that. I feel like they have
yes yes on what type of players we

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need, probably not specifics, and
like I don't know, maybe maybe you

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don't think the phone calls mad.
It's like, look, we got a

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line on this, dude, what
do you think? Oh yeah, well

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I wonder Yeah, I doubt Luca
like know the ins and outs of Gafford

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because they don't play the Wizards ever. Yeah, like I would be surprised,

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Well they send him a YouTube link
or of highlights or something, or

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of scouting report. Is like you
think this is I don't know that this

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is where we're leaning Luca. Well, here with the reason to keep Luca

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happy that we all have simmering in
the background at all times. Yeah,

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the type of player that he thinks
will help the team, I think is

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probably talked about a lot. There's
two other things that I'm I'm in love

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with these moves. A because it's
aggressive and it was time to get aggressive.

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And if you want to call it
desperate, that's fine. But nineteen

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year old Derek Lively, as a
rookie who played one year of college,

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should not have the weight that he
has had, which I would say,

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defensively is similar to the way that
Luca has had on offense. Of hey,

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man, coordinate everything on defense and
like, also you can reduce his

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minutes a little bit, and you
kind of simplify his job. Because Gafford

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can do that, you also can
MAXI is a productive player, still has

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been since he came back. That's
for sure. He can go to playing

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fifteen or less minutes a night.
And he's getting healthy too. Four or

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five blocks last night, did he
He's so useful, And now you don't

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like he can be healthy in the
playoffs because we're not having to playing thirty

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minutes any night because he can't handle
it. Probably shouldn't have ever been doing

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probably, Yeah, I mean the
truth is we've had dudes who are probably

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like role player backups in featured roles
here for far too long. Yeah,

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and this sort of fixes that.
I love it. And you know,

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here another thing on skin that goofy
bastard tells you some things if you read

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between the lines, or sometimes they'll
just come out and say it. He

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basically said, you know, when
the when Kyrie was returning to Brooklyn,

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I guess maybe we all should have
thought this, But he's like, he's

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gonna hang forty to night and I
went on my prize picks and made plays

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and won money because he scored thirty
eight or whatever he scored. And then

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he's like, look the maws mic
go five and oh, four and one

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this week, and they're three and
oh right now. And the one he

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said yesterday was in a couple of
years, Derek Liiveley's gonna be a top

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five center in the NBA. And
I really had never I don't know,

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man, I had never really thought
of that's the trajectory, or what he's

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shown so far would indicate that that's
where we're headed. But I don't know

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as much as skin does, And
to hear that, I'm like, yes,

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please. The great thing about this
is, and I don't know if

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they've bolstered their overall defense at all. They're never going to be a great

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defensive team. They're going to typically
try to outscore you. But the thing

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that I do like is when Lively
does have to get rest, there's not

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a massive drop off, because right
now it just seems like there's a drop

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off to a complete vacancy in that
role. It doesn't even exist. And

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that'll be nice to kind of have
some continuity from the five for all forty

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eight. Gafford will dunk on your
face and so Lively. But you're absolutely

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right when Lively goes out that play
is sort of not on the table anymore,

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and that is a play that just
frees up Luca Ankyrie, but Luca

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specifically, which will should increase your
offensive rebounding rim protection, you know,

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just having somebody that's six eleven with
a big gass wingspan or how tall is

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Gafford? He's six I think six
eleven is yeah number just six' ten

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on Wikipedia. But this ain't bad, No, No, they're definitely bad

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great. I mean, the dream
a few days ago was a PJ.

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Washington. You were talking about it. He was in that dream, guys,

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and then you got a gas for
two and you got it all within

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four hours of the trade deadline,
pretty and done, pretty creatively. From

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my understanding, you didn't lose Josh
Green or Jaden Hardy, which I know

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there might be people who are like
torn on that, but Josh Green and

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Jaden Hardy, whether they are long
term maps or not, they are assets

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and they're continuing to evolve and improve. Absolutely, just Green's turning into a

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guy when needed. And he doesn't
have to be that now because PJ.

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Washington is here, you know,
But Josh Green has become a guy who

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could play I mean the Mavericks second
unit. Now when you could throw out

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Tim Hardaway Junior Hardy if you're if
needed, and Josh Green like now Derek

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Jones Junior. Now even start throwing
off those names, Maxie, then you're

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like okay, And then Gafford would
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and you're like, okay, this
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that you don't immediately just watch your
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eight. Yeah, and here's the
thing. I like, Now, tomorrow's

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gonna be a tough one. They
got a two o'clock gameing hear it here

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on the Freak it's Oklahoma City thunder
tough one at home. But after that,

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you're gonna get Washington, you're gonna
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Go ahead and win those games,
and a little bit of an All

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Star break and you get a little
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press conference over the game last night
was, hey, we need time.

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Just make sure I hope everyone exercises
patience. It's hard when you're having a

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lot of moving pieces. And I
went, it's now really on you,

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dude, because it's all there now, So no more excuses about what you

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don't have. And I'm not saying
he's been making excuses. We'll give you

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time, but you're gonna have the
All Star break, You're gonna have a

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couple easy games outside of tomorrow's hard
one, and then after the All Star

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Break, this thing should be healthy
and stacked. Yeah. No, ascending

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to a point of top four team
in the West. I think you can

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get there, I really do.
And then I think anything kind of goes

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And that's what you do when you
have the best player, one of the

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best players in the world, you
just go for it. They balanced out

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the roster, yes, in depth
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I mean you bolstered, that's what
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and is Grant Williams the only thing
they gave up. I mean, Seth

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Curry's in that deal, but Seth
Curry was not playing. I mean it's

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almost like they signed Seth Curry because
Seth Curry lives here and just wants to

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live here, and we trade him
every time he signs here. But the

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situational three point need of a three
point shot, you know, the other

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element that's kind of fun. Just
this on the game last night. Spencer

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dinwood he sitting behind Spincher Denwen who
plays for the Well did play for the

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Nets, and he just gets traded
to the Raptors. You traded the Raptors.

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Raptors say, we're good, We're
not really trying to win right now,

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buy him out. And then he's
sitting behind the MAVs bitch watching MAVs

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and Nicks last night. They're going
to sign Spencer Didnwidy and that's awesome.

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Yeah, I think it's fun too, because now if Kyle he gets hurt,

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what an insurance clause? And Spincher
Dinwiddy has a little more link than

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Jayde and Hardy. You can play
that role. And I look, I'm

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all about Jayde Hardy getting more minutes. I want that. But this is

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this polished playoff team type of move
would be oh yeah, they yeah,

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Spincer team Spitcher Dinwidy yet come and
the Lakers are trying to get Spinscher dinwoodie

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and I think he's gonna choose to
come here. It's not official yet or

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anything like that. He was talking
to Cuban on the court before. Yeah,

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I saw the phone video of that
somebody had had put a caption on

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it like Cuban tampering, and I
love it was that that he was talking

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talking to Okay, but at the
time, if he already been bought out

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and he was a free agent,
he's probably allowed to talk to him,

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right. I don't know if gone
through. In fact, the trade might

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not have even been an official at
that point too, So whatever either way,

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kind of fun, kind of fun, but they this is what they

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had to do because I'm I've never
been on the boat. If Luca's gonna

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leave and all that stuff, but
Luca clearly showing body language issues, having

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body language issues, having issues with
what's going on with the team and now.

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And maybe it's just because they've won
three in a row and Kyrie's back,

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but geez, yeah, he's a
happy boy right now. This feels

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like a good team now. Like
we always say, it's wins and losses.

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He doesn't like losing good you know. Yeah, he gets mad when

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they lose and the frustration builds.
But there you cannot deny that for the

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last three years, the MAVs have
done everything they possibly could do to make

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Luca's life easier, to appease Luca
and to put Luca in a better position

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with what's around him. They try, they consistently try, and honestly,

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as far as trade deadline stuff goes, that's flawless victory what they pulled yesterday.

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Love it now. Whether or not
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if Grant Williams is really the dude, I mean, I find I like

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Grant Williams. He's gonna be forgotten
pretty quickly and for the Maverick tenure.

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But he's averaging eight point one,
which is exactly what he had averaged last

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year when a couple of percentage numbers
are down, but it's not like he's

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It felt like, wow, Grant
Williams is really underperforming and maybe defensively he's

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not as good as he was last
year, but he's kind of been the

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dude that he is. Yeah.
PJ. Washington makes the same amount of

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money as Grant Wiams. Arguably like
a little a little numbers are off there,

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but it's very close to the same
amount of money. PJ. Washington

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is a far better player than Grant
Williams. And PJ. Washington's coming off

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the bench getting you fourteen and six. Yeah, and PJ Washington's about to

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have wide open threes. His three
point percentage is way down this year.

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He's about to have wide open threes
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Remember when Dorian Phinney Smith was a
bad three point shooter and then he

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turned into a great three point shooter
because of Luca and Kyrie. This thing

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is, this thing is ready now. I'm not saying title, but no,

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this thing is because it was already
there with Luca and then whenever you

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had Kyrie ready to go win a
bunch of games. Now balance, I

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love the playoff type of move.
Yes, oh my god, I'm team

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that could be good. Play you
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looking right at him and he's staring
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know, Kevin, don't try to
reenact the Drake selfie video. What are

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you doing? Don't umbros back up, Kevo. It was weird that in

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that video Drake was using his penis
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Let's make it a new policy that
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show me another man's ding dong within
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for Let's not have the buffer Zone. A terrible the Terrible podcast The buffer

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started off the same way every threatening
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