Speaker 1: Your friends, KT, Christina and old curmudgeon skin Way gotcha
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Speaker 1: that on tap now right now. If you're paying attention
Speaker 1: to the sports world, you're seeing the Oklahoma City Thunder
Speaker 1: are waiting for the Indiana Pacers, who they will likely
Speaker 1: play in the Western Conference Finals. But man, the Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks got so lucky on getting the number one pick
Speaker 1: when they had a one point eight percent chance of
Speaker 1: getting it that I'm watching these playoffs KT, and I'm serious.
Speaker 1: If they have good health next year, I don't see
Speaker 1: any reason why the Mavericks can't be back in a
Speaker 1: title next year. They're going to add because what you
Speaker 1: need to remember is remember the Houston Rockets game this
Speaker 1: year where Anthony Davis got hurt, But just remember how
Speaker 1: good they looked, and there's a chance that that exact
Speaker 1: team can be ready to rock in May or you know,
Speaker 1: late April of next year. Also adding Cooper Flag the
Speaker 1: number one pick who could start for.
Speaker 2: Most teams playoff time.
Speaker 1: See, that's what you're going to say, we'll be back
Speaker 1: in playoff time now. The other component of this is
Speaker 1: that the Mavericks are likely going to add another player,
Speaker 1: a quote unquote veteran point guard. They're going to make
Speaker 1: some other moves. We don't know what it is yet,
Speaker 1: but you've been following this and seeing it out there
Speaker 1: in the world, and there's some names worth talking about. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Mark Stein's the first one to kind of throw out
Speaker 1: a few names.
Speaker 2: Again, he's just you know, yeah, he's just throwing some
Speaker 2: things out there.
Speaker 1: And let's just say, if you don't know Mark Stein,
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, NBA writer, reporter, and he is not
Speaker 1: an opinion maker.
Speaker 2: No, he is a reporter.
Speaker 1: So if he's saying something, that means there's credible people
Speaker 1: that are suggesting this to him.
Speaker 2: That's why it's different than Steven A. Smith going I
Speaker 2: think he's a joker.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not that it's hey man, I'm talking
Speaker 1: to people and this is what I'm here, And he
Speaker 1: said Chris Paul is a name to monitor for the Mavericks.
Speaker 1: That was the very first name I threw out when
Speaker 1: they got the number one month ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the very first name I thought of
Speaker 2: and did.
Speaker 1: This does work in tandem with the report that you
Speaker 1: know it's probably not going to return to the Spurs.
Speaker 2: He's forty. Yeah, and then.
Speaker 1: You go to look at the Vegas odds and they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the Dallas Mavericks the number one team for Chris Paul.
Speaker 2: You know, the Clippers are on. There's a couple other teams.
Speaker 1: I because once Wimby Victor wimbin Yama, their old Universe player,
Speaker 1: once he was out for the year and they had
Speaker 1: made the darn Fox trade and then Daron Fox got hurt.
Speaker 1: I kind of stopped paying attention to them. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then the Mavericks played them late in the year and
Speaker 1: these back to back games, and I went and did
Speaker 1: one of the games. And when we played them, Chris
Speaker 1: Paul was on a stretch where he was hitting like
Speaker 1: eighty percent of his threes over the previous five games.
Speaker 1: So what you're talking about, Alright, he's forty. You're not
Speaker 1: talking about leaning heavily on someone you're talking about getting
Speaker 1: a guy that really knows how to play basketball and
Speaker 1: seeing if you can get twenty minutes a night out.
Speaker 2: Of him to be smart at most, at.
Speaker 1: Most, just be smart and get you to the point
Speaker 1: where Kyrie comes back and then he's just a part
Speaker 1: of the rotation. Well, it certainly feels like they will
Speaker 1: play lineups where maybe Naji Marshall has to be your
Speaker 1: point guard game or six minutes a game. Did you
Speaker 1: see the d magazine article our buddy Jake Ken from
Speaker 1: the Dumb Zone rope? No, he finally came around and
Speaker 1: decided that he would write about basketball. Okay, not just
Speaker 1: back yeah, and not just you know, feeling ankst over
Speaker 1: the Maverick situation.
Speaker 2: Hold on, Nico's still here? Does he know that?
Speaker 1: Well, you know what he was writing about, which is
Speaker 1: something we've talked about. Hey, man, Cooper Flag is your
Speaker 1: two guard. And it's like, it's really I didn't have
Speaker 1: anybody tell me this, but I feel like I really
Speaker 1: know Jason Kidd's tendencies and I know what Cooper Flag is.
Speaker 1: And we weren't, you know, twenty four hours removed from
Speaker 1: the lottery, and I was like, dude, if you look
Speaker 1: at this team. Barring some seismic trade, which I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a thousand percent entrenched in the camp of I do
Speaker 1: not want to trade PJ.
Speaker 2: Washington Junior.
Speaker 1: I want him to be a Maverick. I think he
Speaker 1: fits perfectly. I think if you want to add something,
Speaker 1: I get it. He's not the guy I'm trying to trade.
Speaker 1: I think him and Cooper Flag can play side by
Speaker 1: side one another in three different, completely different lineups and work.
Speaker 1: So I want to keep him. And the way that
Speaker 1: Nico and j Kidd want to play defense, they very
Speaker 1: much matter, right, Like you can play Lively and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis and Cooper Flag and PJ. Washington Junior together, and
Speaker 1: you just mentioned Nausee Nage can be out there with
Speaker 1: them against certain lineups. If you had Chris Paul that's
Speaker 1: your starting point guard. Everyone's going, wait, what about Klay Thompson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this might be time for Clay to start
Speaker 1: coming off the bench. Yeah, or at the age he's
Speaker 1: at and still be really good, Like he will matter
Speaker 1: and there will be times where he's closing games. But
Speaker 1: you know, at some point, if you want to win
Speaker 1: a title, you kind of have to accept where you
Speaker 1: are based on the construction of the team, and Clay
Speaker 1: may not be there yet, and maybe Clay is out.
Speaker 2: There with the other four guys. We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: But when I look at lineups, man, I'd love to
Speaker 1: bring Klay Thompson off my bench and I have him
Speaker 1: just punish second units, give you fifteen a game coming
Speaker 1: off the bench and be six Man of the Year.
Speaker 2: Be incredible. That'd be great.
Speaker 1: And he part of that might be if he wants
Speaker 1: to do that or not, or do they think they
Speaker 1: could get something for him right? You know, people, I
Speaker 1: think people have just already forgotten that Brandon Williams is
Speaker 1: on the team. Yeah, and they like Brandon Williams. And
Speaker 1: Brandon Williams has shown that he can give you twenty
Speaker 1: minutes a night too. I think so too. I think
Speaker 1: coming off the bench, think about him and Clay coming
Speaker 1: off the bench together, that would they would give back
Speaker 1: up units a lot of problems. And if you don't
Speaker 1: make another trade, which I think they will. But if
Speaker 1: you don't make another trade, those two guys coming off
Speaker 1: the bench with Gafford, yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, they're gonna give prebel problems. Xem's here too.
Speaker 1: Still he can they have to re sign him, but
Speaker 1: I can. They have something called early bird rights. We
Speaker 1: need to get into him. You can get point guard minutes. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and he's a good defender, didn't he He ain't coming back, Eric, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's to me, he's your starter to me. Him and
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis are starting side by side with PJ with
Speaker 1: PJ Flag and then Nausey or Clay or Chris Paul
Speaker 1: did the name Malcolm brog didn't make it out there.
Speaker 1: I didn't see the two names that were floated in
Speaker 1: his arcle row Lonzo ball play players of mine missile,
Speaker 1: which I don't have a lot of interesting only because
Speaker 1: I I just it's' he's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 2: He's now it is. I'm sorry it sucks for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then uh Drew Holliday, which would be a
Speaker 1: lot of maneuvering. And I think it's too much money
Speaker 1: for him at that age. He makes a ton of money.
Speaker 1: But you know, and uh, everybody talking about the Celtics.
Speaker 1: You know, hey, the Celtics are gonna get rid of guys.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I want Derek White. I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: the Celtics are gonna try to get off of Drew Holiday,
Speaker 1: because think about this, by the time Tatum is back,
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday is only be thirty seven making that much money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Derek White's only thirty one so and his contract's about
Speaker 1: to go up.
Speaker 2: But anyways, it's.
Speaker 1: Pretty fun that there's stuff like this to talk about
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Man.
Speaker 2: I did not seem likely, you know, three weeks ago. Now, Hey,
Speaker 2: what's coming up in the weekday update.
Speaker 1: Well, I've got some bad news, uh, in terms of
Speaker 1: business in DFW.
Speaker 2: Man. What a jerk. I'm sorry. We'll do it next