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And finally, let's get to this episode. So, yes, it's Thanksgiving.

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You'll have some time before we release our Friday or

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excuse me, our Saturday mega episode to consume it. But

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just in case you want to break from the family

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or maybe you're doing some errands before people show up,

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we have a bonus mini episode in which I ask

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grant and I also forget because we compiled this a

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little while ago, which NBA player will have the has

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the better ball handler rating in two K twenty five.

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It leads to some fascinating discourse and what we think

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is some egregious picks. So we had fun with it.

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We hope you enjoy it. Let me know if you

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enjoy it in the comment session. Let us know what's

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the biggest discrepancy in the ratings in the comments as well.

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If you could pick a single duo that we're about

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to go through here and say, no, it shouldn't be

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like that, which one would it be? Well, Let's appreciate

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say he was embarrassed. I think he did a solid

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job if I'm remembering properly. But he's always up this,

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so we appreciate him as well. Shout out, Grant Hughes.

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That's all for me, though. Let's get to this this

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bonus episode. We're gonna ask Grant, which of the two

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NBA players has the better ball handler rating in NBA

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two K based off past experiences. When we've done overall ratings,

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how are you feeling about this exercise?

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Speaker 2: Heading in, I feel like, you know, whatever complaints I

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have really more about the test administrator than the test itself,

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because you always pick guys that are so close to

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each other. It's that it's it's hard to you know

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which is you know, you're it's good content, you're making

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it difficult. I just struggle when it's like this guy's

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in eighty four and this guy's in eighty three, and

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I flip a coin basically, so you know, I'm ready,

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but I'm prepared to be wrong a fair amount.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited. Let's get into it, Grant, who has the

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better NBA two K twenty five ball handling ratings Steph

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Curry or John Morant.

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Speaker 2: Starting with a tough one. I'm gonna go jaw just

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because he still does stuff as a ball handler. I've

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never seen anyone else do. I hope, I hope two

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Speaker 1: That here's the thing they do not you did it

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Speaker 2: Just the ones.

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Speaker 1: Great, there's the buzzers, a double cash that that wone

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happened again. That's rough stuff for you, Grant, tough start.

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I mean it's close enough. Do you have any issues

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with it? Though?

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Speaker 2: No, not really, I think, I mean, I think it's wrong,

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but I'm not gonna sit here and speak ill of

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Speaker 1: So our next combination, Grant and should see you feel

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about this one. We have Luka Doncic versus Trey Young.

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Speaker 2: All right, so on handle alone. I think it's probably Trey,

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and if I'm wrong, then I'm gonna have to start

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reevaluating what ball handling encompasses.

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Speaker 1: The answer is ninety five. That was a close one, though.

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Are you surprised that Luca was? I know he has

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like manipulation over the game, but when you think like

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super duper ball handling is that necessarily some one that's

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how much cool stuff can he do dribbling, Whereas for Luca,

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it's just like, well, he gets his body to this body,

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wants it to be in and like it's not. It's

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not like he's doing a bunch of crazy tricks or

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has it on a string like some guys. So I

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feel good about that, but that was still too close

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Speaker 1: Next up, who's a better ball Handlered NBA two K

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twenty five Grant, Jalen Brunton or Shay Gilges Alexander all Right,

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Speaker 2: Isn't about how good you are pivoting in the mid post.

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I acknowledge Jalen Brunson has a great handle. I think

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Shay just like the off time stuff, the the just

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total unpredictability of his of his dribble package, like it's

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got to be him.

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Speaker 1: The answer is John, that's me.

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Speaker 2: That's a that's a credit to Jalen Brunson. Now I'm

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back to not knowing what ball handling includes.

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Speaker 1: I do feel like it probably should have been Shay,

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but neither here nor there, Devin Booker or Damian Lillard.

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Speaker 2: That's fascinating. I don't think of either of these guys

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as like either short list of elite ball handlers very good. Obviously,

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I'm gonna go Dame just because we have seen so

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far the two kse seems to be favoring the smaller guys.

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The point guards are getting a little bit of an advantage.

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Speaker 1: Are you onto something here? Grant you are? You got

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it right, Dame ninety five to ninety three. Nicely done,

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mister Hughes. That was a tough one, but I think

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Dame is the right answer there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Next up is Tyree's Halliburton versus James Harden, So I'm.

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Speaker 2: Gonna go Harden even like because when I think of Haliburton,

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I think of his well back when Terry's Haliburton used

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to be good. I thought of his offensive, Like his

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ball handling has more just like his vision and like

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he could just vary the cadence of how he's moving

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around the floor. Harden is just like, you know, we're

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not that far removed and he can still do a

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little bit of it to where he's just able to

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get to whatever spot he wants. With the dribble that

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feels a little different than Haliburton, So I'll go.

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Speaker 1: Hard before we reveal. I just want to point out

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that you said back when Tyree's Haliburton used to be good.

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Speaker 2: You've watched him this year, right, not the same.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen a single second of NBA action this.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, I forgot the figure word for it.

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Speaker 1: The answer actually is James hard. It was it, not

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that it wasn't closed. But oh, we got to give

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you your correcting. Sorry, I'm only getting you on the

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wrong not the right tough. This is rough stuff for

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Tyre's Halibert, like James Harn' is eighty years old, so

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it's kind of rough. Next up Grant, Kevin Durant or

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Speaker 2: All Right, this is I'll be wrong now, Beauince. I'm

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about to say this, but this is the most confident

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I've been. Katie's handle is actually not great. Like it's

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a high dribble. He turns it over a fair amount.

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think is just I think he's got a little more,

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a little more zip in the ball handling bag. So

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Speaker 1: Was it Grant correct? He was wrong? N ninety I've

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shocked me when I was putting this together, and I

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put it together a while ago, so even I'm kind

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of a little surprised by these beekus. I've already forgotten

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the answers, but this is the most egregious one we've

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had by far.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty suspect, right, I mean, like I guess, I

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guess Durant being able to get to that pull up

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that is a ball handling move. But it's also he's

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seven feet tall, so I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I know this is relative to size, like ye for

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someone who is seven foot one claiming to be six

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foot six or whatever like is that This.

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Speaker 2: Also kind of goes against the trend I thought i'd

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hit on with the smaller guy is gonna have the

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better ball handling. So now we're back. We're back just

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a drift. I don't know where to go.

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Speaker 1: Let's seef you can get on track here. We have

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Rob Dillingham, a rookie or Jason Tatum.

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Speaker 2: Now this I don't know, Yeah right, yeah, I was

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gonna say it. I always say it a lot. This

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feels like bait that's great. I'm gonna stay Jason Tatum

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and then we can just rip this apart.

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Speaker 1: If it's Rob Dillingham, is it Rob Dillingham? The answer

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is Rob dilling.

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Speaker 2: Based on what close? What's what are they judging this

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on it? You can't use Kentucky. I guess you got

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to give the rookie something. But man, all right, cool

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smaller players. Back to the smaller player. The trend re emerges.

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Speaker 1: Next grouping John's Atta Kumbo or Anthony Edwards. I can

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see it in your eyes, troubling you.

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Speaker 2: You're right, really well, it feels too easy. Oh you

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just yes, that's what I'm choosing you, honest, fair in fairness,

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you just put the numbers up. I would have picked Ant.

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I just can't understand how giannice is if you just

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having a good handle or a better handle than.

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Speaker 1: Ant eighty seven to eighty Yeah, that's man.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm starting to think there's like a ball security

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aspect to it, where it's like it's not just about

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can you get where you need to get? Like how

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cool does your handle look? Because Edward's just I don't know,

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has more, but I guess maybe Edward's is a little

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looser with it. Maybe that's part of it.

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Speaker 1: I just Giannest is just for the most part, he

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has some counters now, so I don't mean to disrespect Giannest,

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but this just feels like the wrong answer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that's wild.

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Speaker 1: Next two up, Grant Lebron James or D'Angelo Russell.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, this feels like a mistake again. I'm

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gonna go with the smaller player, the guy who is

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an actual point guard as opposed to like a very

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large player who plays point guard. I don't think of

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Lebron as having a spectacular handle, Dilo. I don't really either,

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but I would. I would just give it to the

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to the to the true guard. So I'm gonna go Delo.

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Speaker 1: You're one of those Bill Russell's better than them. Ron,

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there is D'Angelo Russell. Nice job, mister Hughes.

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Speaker 2: Thanks back on the board.

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Speaker 1: Our next two up, I'm curious to see if you're

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gonna get this combination. We have DeMar Derozen versus Jalen Brown.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, uh as Jalen Brown split into left and

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right hand is my first question. That's a little bit outdated,

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right because he can do a little more going left

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if he wants. This has been two years ago, necessarily,

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but it's still it's still not quite the same. I

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think I have to go to Rosen by default, just because,

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like for most of his career, the knock on Jalen

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Brown was his handle was real shaky, especially going left.

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Speaker 1: Survey says ye went Brown eighty six to eighty three.

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I don't buy. I do not buy this one. This

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is another egregious one to me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, new theory, you know how like if you're trying

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to create a player and like get their overall rating higher,

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so you just like bump up this category and this

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one a little bit, and this one here, I feel

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like two K realized it had to have Jaylen Brown

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with a much higher overall rating than DeRozan, and just

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like I will toss him three points in Paul Handling,

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who's gonna notice we are? Apparently?

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Speaker 1: I yeah, I just feel like you're giving maybe the

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put it that. I just how how is that the answer?

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I don't know where are gonna land on this one though.

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Steph Curry versus Kyrie Irving.

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Speaker 2: So I am kind of on board with people that

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say Kyrie's got the best handle of all time. So

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I have to choose Kyrie, and I'm gonna be real

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annoyed if even if it's Steph. If Steph has a

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higher number, Wow.

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Speaker 1: I hope he's listening to this because we know he's

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a subscriber. Grant you were correct, nice job. Kyrie actually

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has the highest rated handle in NBA two K twenty

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five ninety seven.

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Speaker 2: That is fair. I have no issue with him getting

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a ninety nine there.

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Speaker 1: I think that's probably right too, although I just I

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feel like Steph's handles almost underrated in the sense that

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everyone defaults to Kyrie. I think it's probably at least

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a conversation. Sure, yeah, Nicole, Oh, get your Bam out

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of bio. This is your shit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah oh man, I mean this is really and challenging,

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like what is ball handling? Because Yokic isn't like yo

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yo and the ball and crossing over and doing sham

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gods and all this other stuff. But like, man, he

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gets where he wants to be every time. Obviously Bam

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is a super skilled big aa. I'm just gonna go

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Jokic and hope that again giving the developers credit their

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their their definition of what constitutes ball handling is a

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little broader.

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Speaker 1: This is fun because even I don't remember the answer.

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But I feel like, if it's not Nicole Jokic, it's blasphemoth.

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Seventy six to sixty nine. Nice job, Bam, but not

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even close to Yokic. That's low, yeah for both.

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Speaker 2: Really, the sixty nine is low for BAM. I feel

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like this should be like a well, I don't know

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what I would give Jokic, Like give him one hundred

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and four? Can we do that?

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Speaker 1: Just well, it's relative to position, it's different, but overall,

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seventy six even still feels low.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Joel Embiid or Domas Sabonis or Domontes Sabonus, excuse me,

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some people get mad when we call him doma.

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Speaker 2: That's what the broadcast calls him all the time. Uh,

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I mean noted ball handlers here for sure. Uh let's see, dude,

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if dribble handoffs count, this is gonna be a wash

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because they're both really good or have been really good

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at those. I'm just gonna go Embiid because Sibonis I

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think like it's not a comfortable experience when he's pushing

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it in transition, I don't I don't see a lot

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of shake. Although he is good with the ball, I

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just don't think of him as a as a dribbler.

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Speaker 1: Embiand seems like he has more of a face up fluidity.

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For sure, he's gonna play with his handle. And the

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answer is no, mass Simonis. This is a lot of

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fun because I put this together like a week ago,

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and I already just forgot the answers. I would have

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guessed EmpId two. I thought that was the right answer.

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Speaker 2: I mean those are both real low all right, now

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we're talking.

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Speaker 1: I will say embiad's handle. If you think that he's

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like a really good ball handler, then we need to

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have a different kind.

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Speaker 2: Of like Jalen Brown. It's like embiid was it wasn't

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is like very turnover prone. That had a lot to

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do with like passing out of double teams. But he'll

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kick it away, you know, once or twice a game.

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Speaker 1: Now, a little backstory here for anyone who's not a

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regular listener to the episode, and if you're not, hey

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what's up? Subscribe to a nice to be This is

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basically Grant Sophie's choice Jalen Williams or Brandon Pajemski, who

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is the better ball handling rating in two K?

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Speaker 2: I mean, so Pajemski is the like the truer guard.

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I guess both played point guard in college. That's although

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that's a much bigger selling point for someone who's william

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size than it is for POD's. I don't know. I

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think Pajemski gets where he wants to go, the problem

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with him is he can't score when he gets there.

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I think I'm gonna go Jada, just because I think

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Padjemski is just not viewed as like, oh, he's got

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all this shake, whereas Williams, I feel like, is just

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a more established scorer, shot creator gets to the basket,

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that kind of thing. So I'm gonna I'm gonna assume

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ball handling is gonna help him there.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get my inpe because I do remember

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the answer to this. One survey says. The answer is

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Liam is not even close. Eighty six to eighty.

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Speaker 2: That's tough one for Pajemski.

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Speaker 1: There our next to mister Hughes, Paolo Bancaro, or Franz Wagner.

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Speaker 2: All Right, So I love Franz's leap this year. We

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were both I won't wump you in, but I did

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not think he had a jump like this. I was

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concerned about the shooting. Franz is just like the slowdown,

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the like wrong footed floaters, like that kind of stuff.

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Some of that created by ball handling. Paolo though, is

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just like it really is like guard like the way

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he gets to spots and can just shake guys for

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pull up. So I'm gonna go Polo, but I think

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they both should be pretty high.

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Speaker 1: The answer is Franz Bogner and it's not even close.

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I probably would have picked Paolo too. I know Franz

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has more of the wing handle, but there's like a

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bletic yeah force to the way that Pallo bank Carroll

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handers the ball.

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Speaker 2: I feel too, like Paolo has the ball on a

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string kind of feel a little more. And maybe that's

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just him like getting into his bag for face up stuff. Yeah,

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that's I think that's too big of a gap. I

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would have liked to see both of them up in

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the mid eighties, I do, right.

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Speaker 1: And I think that like in a vacuum, it feels

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like Pallo's rating is too low. Grant Anthony Davis or

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Karl Anthony Towns who is the better ball handler rating

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in NBA two K.

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Speaker 2: I just think of Kat as like a total straight

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line drive guy. If he's putting it on the floor,

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maybe behind the back end there. I'm gonna go a

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D just because he's more fluid like he was a

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good you know, remember when a huge part of his

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prospect profile a million years ago is that he was

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a guar that grew like that's that's what he's one

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of those guys. So I'll go a D. He's just

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a little smoother, can a little better Laterally. Cat's just

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like a head down go guy.

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Speaker 1: Is Grant, He's correct survey he is seventy five to

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sixty five. So everything you said, they're pretty spot on.

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Nice nice deduction there, Sure.

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Speaker 2: We got there.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, Chet Holmgren or Victor Wemenyama, who has the

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better ball handler rating in NBA two K.

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Speaker 2: I think they're gonna give this to Wemby because at

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least last year Chet started out where like he would

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just spin into trouble and felt like he was kind

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of loose with it. Wemby's got the KD issue of

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the hydriuble, and it's just like you can only be

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so good. But as we're learning, Victor Wembenyama is a

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shooting guard that happens to be seven foot five. So

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I think that's gonna be reflected here. I'll go, Wemby

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has the higher ball handling.

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Speaker 1: You are correct seventy to sixty five. Do you think

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that this is correct?

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Speaker 2: It's so hard to judge these guys. I will say

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chet has improved a lot. He's obviously hurt now, but

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I think early this year and towards the end of

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last year he got a lot better. I guess you

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really can't give guys this tall, like crazy ball handling

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ratings because the distance between their hand and the floor

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is really is huge, and it's hard to be good

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dribbling when there's that much space.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if Wenby gets bowed his points for working

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within worse spacing than Chetwood grant better ball handler in

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an NBA two K Pascal Siakam or Zion Williamson.

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Speaker 2: All right, so the spin move, it's not really a

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dribble move, but that's Sacam's bread and butter. I they're

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both dangerous in transition. Zion still is just kind of

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quick burst go. I don't know if there's a bunch

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of I'm gonna go siakam and I don't feel great

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about it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know the answer here. This is another one.

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I forgot it better be Pascal Siaka always said, Hey,

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that's a I forget about the actual ratings. That's close.

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That's closer than I would have guessed. I would have

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thought that he had him by a few notches. Our

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next combo mister Hughes, Jalen Green or Jordan Poole.

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Speaker 2: That's fun. I mean Jordan Poole, he's creative. We'll give

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him that. He does some chat, he tries some weird stuff.

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Jordan Poole is in the Marin category of although you

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remember like the carry the crackdown on carrying like a couple,

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was it last year or two years ago? For Jordan

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Poole was just public enemy number one of officials because

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he was he would just egregiously carry the ball, and

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when they started calling that, it really hurt him. Jalen

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Green is kind of similar, but he's more of just

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he's kind of straight lining too all. He's improved. I'm

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gonna go pool just because I've seen Pool do some

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truly wild ball handling stuff.

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Speaker 1: The answer has to be, like this is you got

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a factor in the circus rate of everything, and it

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has the answer has to be Jordan Poole here, and

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it is Jordan Poole. Those were I don't want to

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say they were generous ratings, but Jordan Poole is a ninety.

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Does that feel about right?

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Speaker 2: That's pretty high for Jalen Green is what was jumping out.

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Speaker 1: I would agree, But Kale Bridges or Draymond Green, I

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mean Draymond probably.

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Speaker 2: I mean Draymond is like a more functional passing hub

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than Bridges.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't. I don't want to put the pressure

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on you, but this is your last one, okay, get

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it wrong. That's what everybody is gonna run, right, man.

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Speaker 2: I do not think of Bridges as a ball handler.

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He is like a truer wing though, and he had

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that Brooklyn stretch where he is facilitating. Green's always been

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a good facilitator. I don't know, but neither of these

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guys are true. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Draymond

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just because maybe Bridges will not be viewed through the

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Brooklyn prism.

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Speaker 1: I like a lot of your logic, but you're just

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it's bad. It's seventy six, Like that's a really big

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jump here. So Michale with it. I think that's probably

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a little too high for him. But maybe it's because

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a lot of Draymond stuff is straight line or making

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the quick passes after that birth like can transition as well.

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So I didn't know how to feel about this, which

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is why I included it.

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Speaker 2: That's a good one.

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Speaker 1: You want to take us out of here? That was fun.

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Speaker 2: Everybody put your scores on the YouTube comments and see

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how you did. See if sEH who stumped us the worst?

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Was it?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: Kevin Durant having such a good handle, was surprised.

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Speaker 1: Domin Mitchell I think was, yeah, that's one I'll be

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I'll lose sleepover.

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Speaker 2: Now that use the comments to for to set up

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a petition to send a two K to get this

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sorted out. As always, bring review subscriber wherever you listen,

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