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Speaker 3: Yeah, in a couple of minutes, we'll tell you about
Speaker 3: a couple of coaches the Cowboys have added to fill
Speaker 3: out the roster, plus another NFL coach who blew their
Speaker 3: opening press conference. But the MAVs by a real good
Speaker 3: time to get the worst team in the league on
Speaker 3: the schedule.
Speaker 1: It's about as bad as team as I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of the early nineties Mavericks.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Oh did you guys my childhood? Have you
Speaker 2: guys seen how hard it can be?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, When how hard Kyle Kuzma's
Speaker 1: fallen off the map?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad we didn't get him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was watching that during the game. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know man, you don't look like you don't
Speaker 1: look like I thought you were.
Speaker 2: He so, I mean, a couple of things have abed one.
Speaker 1: He's a better player than whatever that thing is that
Speaker 1: we saw last night.
Speaker 2: Jordan Poole.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he ever recovers, man, I don't
Speaker 1: know if Jordan Poole ever.
Speaker 2: Becomes a functioning NBA player ever.
Speaker 1: Again from a Warriors guard, I mean, dude, he was
Speaker 1: the one that really filled the void when Clay was hurt,
Speaker 1: you know, and he he had some incredible playoff moments
Speaker 1: for him. That Warriors organization that is so highly regarded.
Speaker 1: They gave him a big contract and then they're like,
Speaker 1: how do we get rid of this?
Speaker 2: So he gets traded there.
Speaker 1: Remember Kyle Kuzma could have been traded to thes They
Speaker 1: were according to all reports, they were targeting Kyle Kuzma. Kuzma,
Speaker 1: the GM went of Washington, went to Kuzman. He said, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go there. I want to stay here.
Speaker 1: So they shifted their attention not only to PJ. Washington,
Speaker 1: but then their conversation with Washington became about Gafford. But
Speaker 1: it keep in mind what he also said. The rumor
Speaker 1: was that he said, Hey, man, I've been on contenders.
Speaker 1: I know contenders. Mavericks are not a contender right now
Speaker 1: in hindsight, looking at it instead a vacuum take contract
Speaker 1: out of it. Would you rather have Kyle Kuzma or
Speaker 1: PJ Washington Junior? PJ straight up, it's not even close
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, I think Pj's a better player than
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzuma right now. I didn't think it the day
Speaker 1: that those trades were happening, and around that time I
Speaker 1: was convinced Kuzma was better. But after what I've seen,
Speaker 1: absolutely PJ alone is better. I was at the time
Speaker 1: with all the Kuzma dog I was like, okay, man,
Speaker 1: he would put up easy points here, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's the defender that they need.
Speaker 2: But I also wasn't sure that PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington was that either, just because playing in Charlotte, who
Speaker 1: knows man sucks there.
Speaker 2: Well, clearly he's the defender that they need.
Speaker 1: He's been awesome and he's a great fit with Kay
Speaker 1: and Luca because he can pick up the offensive slack
Speaker 1: when they're not around, and when they are around, he
Speaker 1: doesn't need shots to be productive. So that worked out
Speaker 1: in every single way. But to get back to what
Speaker 1: we saw last night, Kuzma is averaging like thirteen a game.
Speaker 1: He's dropped off significantly. And man, I don't watch their
Speaker 1: games all right. I mean I've probably watched to combine
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes of them this year before last night. Man,
Speaker 1: Jordan pools, It's like it's like throwing an hand. One
Speaker 1: guy on your team and he's just gonna do like
Speaker 1: the team's doing one thing and he's just got his
Speaker 1: own thing over here. He's like I looked up and
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, one for six from three. That
Speaker 1: seems better than I thought.
Speaker 2: It was so far.
Speaker 1: Like dude, those guys just dribble around and then go, oh,
Speaker 1: nobody's cutting.
Speaker 2: I'll shoot this from thirty. It's about as bad a
Speaker 2: basketball as you can watch.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what the Mavericks needed. They needed, you know,
Speaker 1: an easy opponent, and they needed to take care of business.
Speaker 2: And to have Clay hit seven threes in the first quarter.
Speaker 2: That was so much fun to watch. It was awesome.
Speaker 2: I heard follow Well call it a Clay day. It
Speaker 2: was a Clay day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very shout out to Dran and Snoop. I think
Speaker 1: that here's an interesting conversation or debate point for you.
Speaker 1: If you have a guy that's going like that and
Speaker 1: he's on a minute restriction, he just lead them in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean why not heat checked? I mean, right, he
Speaker 1: stayed in for ten minutes. I think he stayed in
Speaker 1: for ten minutes, and I think he was on a
Speaker 1: twenty four minute game for the full game restriction. I
Speaker 1: think it was twenty four minutes. And so, you know,
Speaker 1: usually when you do those, you want to space them
Speaker 1: out in the six minute increments or four or whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you and the medical staff is determined.
Speaker 1: But the shots that he was hitting are so ridiculous.
Speaker 1: They's there, go, I think we did leave then for
Speaker 1: the entire half. If he stays hot, how do we
Speaker 1: hit and then don't play him in the second half.
Speaker 2: It was really really fun to watch though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a great game, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting to see the way that Clay can get
Speaker 1: hot like that. Very few players in the NBA can
Speaker 1: do that for stretches. And I still feel like he's
Speaker 1: not fully integrated in this thing, because this thing's not
Speaker 1: fully integrated, you know, with all the injuries and stuff
Speaker 1: they've had, if they can get healthy, having a guy
Speaker 1: that can do that and score that quickly in the
Speaker 1: postseason is just going to be beautiful. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: think to your point, but I think the plan all
Speaker 1: along was to just play and then on the other
Speaker 1: side of the All Star I mean, they didn't anticipate
Speaker 1: the injuries, but I think the plan was too on
Speaker 1: the other side of the All Star break, start implementing
Speaker 1: playoff basketball.
Speaker 2: Do you start ramping up to the how right? Right?
Speaker 1: And I don't mean turn it on like with the intensity,
Speaker 1: I mean start integrating things they.
Speaker 2: Want to do once they get to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Stylistically, well, it's like a yeah. I mean it's like
Speaker 1: it's such a marathon. The season so long, like you
Speaker 1: don't want to peak too soon. You might as well
Speaker 1: wait to the right moment. What do you think they're
Speaker 1: going to do in the trade market.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 1: I didn't think they were going to do anything. But
Speaker 1: now that they've had so many injuries, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think they'll be tempted to shake it up so they
Speaker 1: can legit go for it now if they're fully healthy,
Speaker 1: they're going for it anyways, but yeah, will they be
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the thing I would say is
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll do anything for this year.
Speaker 2: Like, right, they're not going to add a piece just
Speaker 2: to go for it this year, right.
Speaker 1: They don't need a big but to be healthy, right,
Speaker 1: And so so I think it just depends on what
Speaker 1: it is. Is there something out there that they think
Speaker 1: is a long term fit, I think they would maybe
Speaker 1: look at that. But whoever's doing it is doing a salary,
Speaker 1: don't because you don't have any players to offer. I
Speaker 1: don't think Rimes is tradable, right, But Grimes is tradable,
Speaker 1: and they made trade crimes. They may think they can't
Speaker 1: sign him. Yeah, I don't know that. But he's also man.
Speaker 1: He's been up and down, yeah, you know, but like
Speaker 1: when he's on, he's a huge part of the thing, right,
Speaker 1: And it's easy to take his defense for granted when
Speaker 1: you're just looking at what he's doing offensively. But I
Speaker 1: saw you guys on the broadcast the other night flashed
Speaker 1: up the leaders in the NBA and field goal percentage,
Speaker 1: you know, defensive field goal percentage, and he was like
Speaker 1: third or fourth or something. Yeah, And you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't do research on the stat but sometimes that's based
Speaker 1: on the guy they're covering too, because like if you're
Speaker 1: coming off the bench, a lot of times you're covering
Speaker 1: guy's coming off then so there's a lot of different
Speaker 1: ways to look at that, but you can you're to
Speaker 1: your point the eyeball test, the guy can play defense,
Speaker 1: like and and we were told that going into this season,
Speaker 1: like there was you know, okay, basically he's a Josh
Speaker 1: Green replacement, right and Klay Thompson is a Tim Hardaway
Speaker 1: junior replacement. That's the way it was look and like
Speaker 1: there were guys in the organizations are like, dude, Quentin
Speaker 1: Grimes is way better than Josh, Like it's not close.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let's just say that they can't sign.
Speaker 1: Grimes and Grimes is going to go to a big
Speaker 1: payday or whatever, would his agent try to or their
Speaker 1: agent will be happy just waiting. But with the Mavericks, say, okay,
Speaker 1: where's a team that likely has a chance to trade
Speaker 1: for him, and can we get something from them? So
Speaker 1: we get nothing, Yeah, we don't get anything. I think ideally,
Speaker 1: especially because of the way things are going right now,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Grimes probably wants like Jalen Brunson, the Knicks,
Speaker 1: We're going to pay him, but his money went through
Speaker 1: the roof with what he did in the playoffs. Now
Speaker 1: this is a different situation, but I think Grimes, his
Speaker 1: agent probably wants him to go through a playoff run.
Speaker 1: And then at that point the Mavericks would be and said, Okay,
Speaker 1: is there a sign and trade possibility we sign and
Speaker 1: get something valuable back unless there's like a team that
Speaker 1: just wants him and can absorb them in the room.
Speaker 1: And when you look at like what those teams might be,
Speaker 1: I don't know that they would be coming after Quentin Grimes.
Speaker 1: And why wouldn't he be worth what he wants, what
Speaker 1: his agent wants to this team because of how hard
Speaker 1: your cap Like Kyrie, you got to prepare Kyrie's gonna
Speaker 1: opt out because he's worth it. So you're gonna pay
Speaker 1: Kyrie more money than you're paying him right now. And
Speaker 1: once you start paying, like you have their rights, you
Speaker 1: can pay them all. But then you go in beyond
Speaker 1: what they call the tax apron, and it it makes
Speaker 1: it very difficult to do any other moves to add
Speaker 1: to your team. So then in order to make a move,
Speaker 1: you gotta start doing salary dumps. It just become super complicated.
Speaker 1: So when you do pay a guy, you got to
Speaker 1: be like, I'm paying this guy because he is a
Speaker 1: crucial part to us winning a championship, because if he's not,
Speaker 1: you've created a lot of extra steps to make moves.
Speaker 2: Apparently.
Speaker 3: Another NBA news, Jimmy Butler cut a fart today at
Speaker 3: shoot around and they suspended him for another game.
Speaker 2: Riley's like, enough of your farts, buddy. Wait, he got
Speaker 2: suspended again.
Speaker 1: So he was back in the mix today because he
Speaker 1: had been suspended for walking out of practice hearted to
Speaker 1: shoot around tough. So wait, so they suspended him, but
Speaker 1: let him come to shoot around the fart.
Speaker 2: Look, man, I'm just reporting the news. I don't know
Speaker 2: the ins and outs. I'm not in Miami. Are you
Speaker 2: adding in the fart part? Yeah? Absolutely, Okay, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Nels has been that guy for anything at this point? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think he did. In thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys have hired the floozy Maddie refused to be
Speaker 3: their defensive coordinator. Here's what you need to know about him.
Speaker 3: He was good as a play caller in Indianapolis in
Speaker 3: their defense. Three out of the four years defense they
Speaker 3: were top ten in the league in turnovers. I actually
Speaker 3: think it's a very good hire. They got a special
Speaker 3: teams coach who was the defensive coordinator for the forty
Speaker 3: nine ers last year. All good things. The problem is, though,
Speaker 3: the Cowboys gonna re sign Oh so DIGGI zooa who
Speaker 3: would be great for you? Probably not? So there's your
Speaker 3: Cowboys news. They're filling out the staff for a mediocre
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. The Rangers are man, they're coming up.
Speaker 3: They're tanking for arch Manning right the Rangers?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Christina might have something, Dad, I don't know. She
Speaker 1: might want to weigh in on that, but we're the experts.
Speaker 2: Clearly,