Speaker 1: Are you ready, guys? Oh heck, yeah, hell yeah, here
Speaker 1: we go, pal, We're going up there. Here we go. Oh, folks,
Speaker 1: the league just keeps on leagueing in the incredible basketball
Speaker 1: just does not stop. We're here to discuss the latest
Speaker 1: from around the NBA with NBA analysts Saracus Stock. I'm
Speaker 1: Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is my
Speaker 1: life got mad Boothyes, wow, we did it to sail
Speaker 1: this time. Yeah wow, okay, Well, let's welcome our guest,
Speaker 1: Sarah Coustock, NBA analysts with the Brooklyn that's how are you, Sarah?
Speaker 1: Welcome fomastic, Thank you for having me. I appreciate this.
Speaker 1: Se you good to see you. I mean, there's so
Speaker 1: many exciting things we have to get to. But the Lakers,
Speaker 1: like the Lakers, of course, the Sixers, you know, we're
Speaker 1: trying to break even the Lakers get their first win.
Speaker 1: But the Calves, though we thought they were going to
Speaker 1: be something, they look really really good. Like the Calves
Speaker 1: are the team that everyone was like, yeah, I could
Speaker 1: see them like even being like a six of five seed,
Speaker 1: like and now it's early, very early. Everything we should
Speaker 1: we should just like footnote everything with like this is
Speaker 1: very can we but but but to your point, like
Speaker 1: I think early on with they made the trade for
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell, understanding how banged up they were at the
Speaker 1: end of last season, um, and the injury you know,
Speaker 1: Mobile being injured, Jared Allen and it's kind of the
Speaker 1: ebbs and flows of that. Uh. But how they look
Speaker 1: and like the potential of Darius Garland and and Donovan
Speaker 1: Mitchell together and the bigs and just their entire I'm
Speaker 1: really excited about. And I think just the taste of
Speaker 1: the experience they got last year and now heading into
Speaker 1: this season. Um. But but that's like part of it,
Speaker 1: that's part of the East. We could look at players
Speaker 1: or teams that have had a lot of the stars
Speaker 1: for many many years, but there's there's newerations of young
Speaker 1: players or how teams are playing that are um, that
Speaker 1: are really fun to watch but also producing on the floor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell, his interesting stat is he's averaging thirty two
Speaker 1: point two points per game, second highest in league history
Speaker 1: in a player's first six games with the team, second
Speaker 1: to Wilt Chamberlain points. Anytime you're with Wilt that I
Speaker 1: feel like that that that's a lot, yeah off to
Speaker 1: a rip off to a he had some Esjubari called
Speaker 1: them soul snatchers and that win over the Celtics just
Speaker 1: like yoking on people uh in in ways and just
Speaker 1: having fun. Like he just gives them something that I
Speaker 1: think every team needs. They needed like that a list,
Speaker 1: you know, just somebody who like wants the spotlight and
Speaker 1: wants the ball in his hands at all times, especially
Speaker 1: in the clutch. The Calves are super fun. The Celtics
Speaker 1: continue to be really really scary, really good on both
Speaker 1: Their offense looks better than it did all less season.
Speaker 1: I feel like for for some stretch is so they
Speaker 1: figured something out. Like we said, we still love k D.
Speaker 1: One of our favorite things on the show about Katie
Speaker 1: is like he's great at spotting young up and coming
Speaker 1: talent and then like his relationship to like the younger
Speaker 1: generation of players. Like there there was that clip where
Speaker 1: he was somebody was like, yeah that this dude twenty
Speaker 1: one year old says he like wears number thirty five
Speaker 1: in honor of you. You want to hear that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's play let's play that audioce Kevin. Earlier this year,
Speaker 1: Raptors rookie Christian Cloaco said that he wore thirty five
Speaker 1: in honor of you, and you're his favorite player growing up.
Speaker 1: What does it mean to have a player, um, you know,
Speaker 1: wear that number in your honor? He said it. He
Speaker 1: said that earlier this season, right when he was drafting one.
Speaker 1: Maybe it just shows that I'll get every time I
Speaker 1: hear stuff all right up, all right, I mean you
Speaker 1: watched me as you was growing up. I mean I
Speaker 1: just feel but I mean I always appreciate stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you never know who's watching you when you're
Speaker 1: out there doing your thing, and you want to inspire
Speaker 1: and ignite the whoever is watching in some ways, some
Speaker 1: shape or form. So there's always cool hearing stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm seeing to wear my shoes to night
Speaker 1: and thirty five, so that's pretty cool. Oh, he noticed.
Speaker 1: He added, I should have been more on that in
Speaker 1: the Toronto broadcast. I didn't. I didn't realize that about Cooko. Um,
Speaker 1: but maybe his frame and all that stuff. That's great,
Speaker 1: But that that's that's a part of what I think
Speaker 1: with this league and now in this era, and this
Speaker 1: always happens, but just the changeover of a lot of
Speaker 1: these young stars that are coming into their own or
Speaker 1: those that are coming into the league and um, seeing
Speaker 1: some of the things they're doing, and yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's have a broadcasting Indiana Pacers, but Benedict Mathrin and
Speaker 1: like watching him and watching his athleticism and then being
Speaker 1: able to say, oh, man, I wonder what he's gonna
Speaker 1: look like in two years and five years, um, And
Speaker 1: it's it is so hard to predict because there's so
Speaker 1: many different factors. Is that play into that and the
Speaker 1: work ethic and the fit and what team guys are
Speaker 1: on um. And that's why I think watching Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: in the consistency of what he's done in the entirety
Speaker 1: of his career, the resume he's put together, but just
Speaker 1: how he plays, you know, and during some of the injuries,
Speaker 1: like all of that stuff. So watching him now in
Speaker 1: the early part of the season, it's like, man, it's wild.
Speaker 1: It's wild. He's a person in the league. I most
Speaker 1: feel like I'm watching someone who both both when he plays,
Speaker 1: but also just like in interviews, like somebody who genuinely
Speaker 1: like loves basketball, so like just has such an awareness
Speaker 1: of everybody's game, what everybody's doing, Like knew about job
Speaker 1: when he was at Murray State and was telling people
Speaker 1: before it was like on the mainstream media radar, like
Speaker 1: this is the dude, like a true hooper, Like he
Speaker 1: just he sit there and watches everything, like you were
Speaker 1: joking about league Pass, Like he's someone who is sitting
Speaker 1: there on league Pass, Like I want to watch this guy.
Speaker 1: I want to watch this team and part of it
Speaker 1: maybe you know. I mean, I think all guys now
Speaker 1: was scouting in film and you're thinking about stuff in
Speaker 1: preparation for what you play. I think he just truly
Speaker 1: loves the game and appreciates what guys have poured into
Speaker 1: their craft so much that it's a big part of
Speaker 1: that right, And his ego doesn't get in the way
Speaker 1: of any of it either. He feels like an objective
Speaker 1: observer and appreciator of the game of basketball and there's
Speaker 1: no agenda, and he's like, wow, that's that's wow that
Speaker 1: the kid really likes I was like, watching me play,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. He's like, I'm glad I'm able to inspire people.
Speaker 1: I like that. He was also kind of like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the one with thirty five and my shoes something all right,
Speaker 1: And before we throw the break Miles. Shall we do
Speaker 1: our boosts Underrated Performers of the Week. I feel like
Speaker 1: we should call this the Jabari Underrated Performers of the Week.
Speaker 1: This is where super producer Jabari, who has his all
Speaker 1: seeing eye across the league is scanning, scanning, scanning for
Speaker 1: performances that may have flown under the radar of other people,
Speaker 1: certainly not us, no, no, I mean I squarely have
Speaker 1: my eye on every single game Unlessian Basketball Minds who
Speaker 1: hosted this podcast, obviously didn't fall under our radar. But
Speaker 1: if you play like I don't know, fantasy or something,
Speaker 1: and these guys were on your team, like, this is
Speaker 1: probably something that major week. And let's let's kick it
Speaker 1: off with Denver's Bones, Highland Bones the bone Man. The
Speaker 1: bone Man came through and collected seven three pointers on
Speaker 1: his way to twenty six in a game versus the Jazz.
Speaker 1: So probably extremely good value there, either daily fantasy or
Speaker 1: even if you're season season long. And then Charlotte's Dennis
Speaker 1: Smith Jr. Put up thirteen points, nine boards, and eight
Speaker 1: assists in an ot win over the visiting defending champs
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. I bet not a lot of people
Speaker 1: had their eye on Dennis Smith Jr. I mean I
Speaker 1: put up thirteen nine and eight once against the defending
Speaker 1: champs of the Wily. It wasn't elementary school league, but
Speaker 1: there's a fifth grade you're counting assist in elementary school.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was dime like counting and I would
Speaker 1: go back the scores table and I would count the scores.
Speaker 1: Mark that, mark that, mark that. Get back on d
Speaker 1: No like Miles, and I'm like, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, Miles, you just inbounded it to the
Speaker 1: point guard. He came up, passed it to somebody else
Speaker 1: who scored. Yeah, that's a hockey assist. That's called a
Speaker 1: hockey assist. Bro second phase, second phase, second phase of play.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right
Speaker 1: back and we're back, so I guess, you know, let's
Speaker 1: get into the m v P conversation. Luke Cornett. Um.
Speaker 1: You know he's changing the game. It's changing the game.
Speaker 1: Did you guys see that clip of Luke Cornett? I
Speaker 1: forget who there laying, but he's he's a Celtics seven
Speaker 1: to Celtics center. Who is They're playing Cleveland, They're playing Cleveland.
Speaker 1: That's right. Uh, And he's contesting threes just standing on
Speaker 1: the block jumping up when the person shoots from three,
Speaker 1: so he's like, you know, ten ft fifteen ft away.
Speaker 1: But I guess his theory of the cases that it
Speaker 1: actually affects shooting percentage because they can't see the rim
Speaker 1: when they when they release the ball, and it's just
Speaker 1: like disrupts something. It feels like something I would do,
Speaker 1: like from the stands at my high school basketball games
Speaker 1: because I wasn't playing. I'd be like I would try
Speaker 1: and be do something on the sidelines and like, see,
Speaker 1: I told you that works. Did he say though that
Speaker 1: was his reasoning? Yeah, he did. I'll say this, this
Speaker 1: reminds me of something when you're a myself being a
Speaker 1: former college basketball player, Like you're taking a class and
Speaker 1: you got to do some research analysis on something and
Speaker 1: you're like an idea, I'm gonna I'm gonna get my
Speaker 1: team and practice and see how many misses, how many
Speaker 1: makes And yeah, I don't know is a shooter that
Speaker 1: chooses the point shots and being that far, but yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe it works. Hey, anyone that's putting in extra effort
Speaker 1: or energy on any play, unless he's supposed to be
Speaker 1: the one that's actually going out to contest this, actually
Speaker 1: rotating blocking someone out to get a rebound. And I
Speaker 1: think that that's where you start upright, That's where you
Speaker 1: start to picking shoes where you're putting your effort towards.
Speaker 1: It's also interesting that he's like going with the stats explanation.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, you know, the stats back it up,
Speaker 1: because my guy, you're the only person who's ever done
Speaker 1: this as far as I can tell. So like I've
Speaker 1: I've never seen someone do this before. So are you
Speaker 1: just going off of the sample size of those two
Speaker 1: shots or what are what are we working with here?
Speaker 1: Did you see the full quote? He said? That was
Speaker 1: something that I started doing, and I've been told it works.
Speaker 1: I kind of came about it pretty organically. I've been
Speaker 1: told that it makes a difference from the amount of
Speaker 1: times I've used it, it seems to make a difference,
Speaker 1: which if numbers start indicating otherwise than I'll adjust. I
Speaker 1: started doing it a little bit, but like two years
Speaker 1: ago and then last year, especially in the G League.
Speaker 1: It's not perfect every time, but we're visually dependent people,
Speaker 1: So I got a little science woven into that as
Speaker 1: somebody pointed out it might not be the best decision
Speaker 1: because the reason they got to three point shots is
Speaker 1: because while he was jumping to contest the shot, somebody
Speaker 1: was getting the offensive rebound behind him because he was
Speaker 1: he was off the ground and putting his hands up. Hey,
Speaker 1: but he didn't go in. Yeah, other young people change
Speaker 1: in the game. Palo Bancaro, seventh player in NBA history
Speaker 1: to start his career with five consecutive twenty point games,
Speaker 1: is another example. When will is on the list, will
Speaker 1: have fifty six, Elvin Hayes ten, and then he got
Speaker 1: Grant Hill, Dominique Wilkins, Oscar Robertson uh and John Williamson,
Speaker 1: who's not a name, I'm familiar, super John Williamson and
Speaker 1: net Okay, yeah, yeah, I got you, I got you.
Speaker 1: Not the Australian singer songwriter according to a hasty Google search.
Speaker 1: Okay to know, but should we talk the m v ps.
Speaker 1: I mean we just talked about one. Okay, So Luke
Speaker 1: Cornette book, there's another Luke out here doing things. Luke
Speaker 1: don Chech just became the first player since m J
Speaker 1: and eight s eighties seven to score at least thirty
Speaker 1: points in his team's first six games of the season,
Speaker 1: and he's a what is he averaging? He's like, obviously
Speaker 1: it's it's still early. We don't know if these numbers
Speaker 1: are gonna keep up. But he's averaging like a Jordan's
Speaker 1: in late eighties type number. He's close to forty. I
Speaker 1: think he's Yeah, we just had Dallas and he was
Speaker 1: he's just absolute stud I saw that game and he
Speaker 1: looked like an uncle playing in the driveway with his
Speaker 1: hits with his uncle game is It's wild, Like at
Speaker 1: the moment, you're like, this guy's out of controlling, Like
Speaker 1: that was the most accurate past I've ever seen, just
Speaker 1: how we see and he's someone who I think it's
Speaker 1: um so fascinating watching him and then watching him being
Speaker 1: coached by Jason Kidd, because a lot of the same
Speaker 1: comparisons of just seeing a play plays ahead a couple
Speaker 1: of steps ahead and hitting guys in stride where they
Speaker 1: get the ball, how he orchestrates the offense. I think
Speaker 1: the balance with Dallas though still figuring out, like how
Speaker 1: do you not make this eight such you always want
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands, you want him to be
Speaker 1: incredibly high usage, but how do you balance that. How
Speaker 1: do you balance that in the postseason um of teams
Speaker 1: game planning against him in that capacity of just you know,
Speaker 1: making sure you have some other relief points and other
Speaker 1: night tim Hardaway, Junor had a really big game. Obviously
Speaker 1: you got Christian would coming off the bench, other you know,
Speaker 1: Spencer Dinwie, what they can do. But um, Luca is
Speaker 1: just like it's it's wild the things he sees. Um
Speaker 1: I think he also just like watching how he had
Speaker 1: some flare to stuff, but he he is just so
Speaker 1: exceptional on the way he runs offense and how they
Speaker 1: operate and you know for a Dallas team that went
Speaker 1: to the Western Conference finals last year, or just um
Speaker 1: how they were playing, what they were doing, beating that
Speaker 1: Phoenix team, like all of that stuff. I think adding
Speaker 1: that experience to what they potentially could do this season
Speaker 1: is gonna be interesting to watch. Yeah, I mean all
Speaker 1: the highlights are passes, and maybe that's because we're just
Speaker 1: tired of seeing him hit the same step back three
Speaker 1: over and over and over and over again. But yeah,
Speaker 1: points are coming from the pain he's only second to
Speaker 1: and he gets in there because he's so big, Like
Speaker 1: he's so big, he's not and you make a about
Speaker 1: Uncle playing, but I think it's because you think about
Speaker 1: him and he's not you know, he's obviously not the
Speaker 1: quickest guy, but he has such a level of strength
Speaker 1: and he knows how to use that leverage his body.
Speaker 1: He can get anywhere he wants to on the floor
Speaker 1: and he attracts. He's got so much gravity that you
Speaker 1: put some shooters around him. You've got different guys like
Speaker 1: working that pick and roll game. Um. I think for
Speaker 1: all of those reasons, and Dallas plays super slow like
Speaker 1: they're a half court team, um. And a big part
Speaker 1: of that is just him picking up part defenses. But
Speaker 1: I think, you know, overall, it's his ability to to
Speaker 1: be able to you go back. He's been a pro forever.
Speaker 1: So you look at his age and you look at
Speaker 1: how young he is, but he has been in every situation, scene,
Speaker 1: every defensive coverage. He's seen it all and he has
Speaker 1: got the ultimate level of confidence and he should. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, him and Job both seem like they when
Speaker 1: you're watching them, they're getting into the lane and creating
Speaker 1: space in the lane because Jaws the other person who
Speaker 1: it feels like at this point we're going to be
Speaker 1: having a conversation towards the end of the season, barring injury,
Speaker 1: that's like, is it Luca or is it job this
Speaker 1: season for m v P. I was just calling a
Speaker 1: Nets Christlies game in Memphis, and I assume you guys
Speaker 1: saw this highlight. There was like a hundred throughout them.
Speaker 1: It was the first regulation game that two teammates Durrant
Speaker 1: in Kyrie had each had thirty five plus him and
Speaker 1: does Bane thirty five plus Jaws shooting the lights up
Speaker 1: from three, which good luck trying to ever regard him
Speaker 1: if if that remains a consistency. But Highest Joe. It
Speaker 1: was on the break, Highest Jones tossed up a passing
Speaker 1: transition for an alley and it was like a bullet
Speaker 1: So with straight line, I was like, oh, it's about
Speaker 1: to go out of bounds, you know, pass off. Jah
Speaker 1: grabs it with his left hand and was hanging and
Speaker 1: I swear the ball was almost below the rim Cox
Speaker 1: and back throws it down. It was like his ability
Speaker 1: to make the catch, finish it off, do it with
Speaker 1: the left. It was absolutely bananas. But that was just
Speaker 1: like a normal That was just another play in the
Speaker 1: game for him. I mean, it's his shiftiness and I
Speaker 1: think the thing we've seen about him and you're starting
Speaker 1: to continue to see a play out and with the
Speaker 1: rest of the Grizzlies roster. I think also Taylor Jenkins
Speaker 1: is extraordinary coach. But he always had a really sophisticated
Speaker 1: understanding of the offense or the nuance of the game.
Speaker 1: It's not like he's just this crazy athletic guy that
Speaker 1: is able to score in different ways just because of that,
Speaker 1: like his the refinement of his skills, the athleticism he
Speaker 1: brings the table, and then just how he understands defensive
Speaker 1: coverages or guys are getting guys open. He is a special,
Speaker 1: special talent. Like I said, if he keeps shooting three
Speaker 1: point shots like this, watch out, Yeah, he's a as
Speaker 1: of this recording, which is and that's that's good, right,
Speaker 1: You're like, if he keeps doing that, I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a good season over half the time it
Speaker 1: goes in. Okay, Okay, even if he's a thirty eight
Speaker 1: percent three point shooters over the league. Where I mean
Speaker 1: that in and of itself, it's weird. It's like he
Speaker 1: could have a precipitous drop. Do you know what I
Speaker 1: mean about them both scoring in the paint on shots
Speaker 1: that like Jaws, like Human Highlight Film Part two, like
Speaker 1: doing wild things. But like when you watch him, like
Speaker 1: even that game when he took over against the Grizzlies,
Speaker 1: the shots he's getting are just he's using his quickness
Speaker 1: to create like six extra inches and then just like
Speaker 1: put a little like light touch like floater up in
Speaker 1: the in the paint. And Luca similarly, a lot of
Speaker 1: the points that both of them are getting they figured
Speaker 1: out something with like footwork. It is footwork, like I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is what you're talking about, Jack,
Speaker 1: but one is entirely footwork and the mechanics of it.
Speaker 1: But to they, I feel like they get to your point,
Speaker 1: they get in the paint, they get wherever they want
Speaker 1: to go, and it's almost one of those things where
Speaker 1: it's not on their first or second move and a
Speaker 1: defense and almost is so concerned about Okay, I think
Speaker 1: I stopped them in some way, where are they going
Speaker 1: to kick it to? Where the shooters? Who are they
Speaker 1: going to pass it to? And then it's that little
Speaker 1: like stuff at the end of the dribble of like
Speaker 1: oh wait a second, you just left me with a
Speaker 1: window to get off this lay up, we take another
Speaker 1: extra They got such long like Lucas just big and strong.
Speaker 1: Jock can take one step and he's like go go,
Speaker 1: gadget legs and arms of being able to finish um.
Speaker 1: But it's to me at the end of the dribble.
Speaker 1: Their footwork is so good, their pivots are so good.
Speaker 1: Their understanding of that is that you're right, you think
Speaker 1: you got a bottled up and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden they create like two extra feet of space to
Speaker 1: get a shot off. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's frustrating. You
Speaker 1: can you either get get handed, you get served by
Speaker 1: your uncle or Spider Man. Either way. We're comparing them
Speaker 1: aways that We're like, they're they're the most entirely different
Speaker 1: style Spider Man and the things you say about the
Speaker 1: are kind of the same, Yeah, which is wild. It's
Speaker 1: like the Avengers. It's like, yeah, man, you have Hulk
Speaker 1: and Spider Man on the same team. Like they're both talking,
Speaker 1: you know, different ways. Yeah, the league's over at that point.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, speaking of people who could do incredible
Speaker 1: things with their body and with dunks, we got to
Speaker 1: talk about this. So you you host a show NBA
Speaker 1: Flashback and you had a segment on one of the
Speaker 1: dunks from a moment that I think it's seminal to
Speaker 1: any NBA fan who was like alive and following the
Speaker 1: league at the time, which is the Vince Carter dunk contest,
Speaker 1: right yep, I was in my freshman year of college.
Speaker 1: After every dunk, everyone was pouring out into the hallway,
Speaker 1: hugging each other, crying, uh, just laughing, like just speechless.
Speaker 1: Uh it was. It was so much fun. One of
Speaker 1: the iconic dunks from that he puts his whole forearm
Speaker 1: through the through the basket and you talk to him
Speaker 1: about that, right yeah. Yeah, So Vince I've known for
Speaker 1: we actually, um obviously him playing with the nets and
Speaker 1: covering the league and covering him, but we were able
Speaker 1: to call for Fox Sports, um the Junior NBA Global
Speaker 1: Championships together down in Florida. They had him for a
Speaker 1: couple of years down there pre COVID and so, dear
Speaker 1: friend of mine, I'm just so obviously we're all in
Speaker 1: awe of his dunks is in game dunking ability, um,
Speaker 1: I think the greatest ever. But the way he describes things,
Speaker 1: and that's what thanks thanks for let me pump NBA
Speaker 1: flashback because this was by far, for many of the episodes,
Speaker 1: my favorite, because how he thinks about things, describes things,
Speaker 1: described his dunk was there with his his cousin Tracy
Speaker 1: McGrady talking through, but just the whole lead up to
Speaker 1: not knowing what dunks he was gonna do, not pre planning.
Speaker 1: Their car didn't show up, so he didn't even get
Speaker 1: a chance to like go warm up, do anything like
Speaker 1: going to practice, Jim to do all the stuff and
Speaker 1: and just all that led to that dunk that has
Speaker 1: become iconic. Windmill. Yeah, when you're talking the mechanics of
Speaker 1: dunk king and that it's more than just I got
Speaker 1: crazy leaping ability and have an opportunity to make these
Speaker 1: type of dunks because of that, because the god given ability,
Speaker 1: it's the practice that goes into it. And that dunk
Speaker 1: contest is still like I mean it was to me
Speaker 1: think about that, and that was also when the dunk
Speaker 1: contest in the end be it like all Star Gailer,
Speaker 1: you're trying to get the more popular again and things
Speaker 1: like that, and Vince understood, I think obviously the magnitude
Speaker 1: of it and what that meant, what that moment meant.
Speaker 1: So just really really cool to to hear him go
Speaker 1: through the the entirety of the event. Yeah, you want
Speaker 1: to play the let's let's play the clip real quick.
Speaker 1: The last thing my coach, Butch Carter said to T
Speaker 1: McK and I before he was going on vacation, because
Speaker 1: he said, I'm not gonna be I would be on vacation.
Speaker 1: I gonna be on the boat. I don't want to
Speaker 1: have to get a phone call saying that you guys
Speaker 1: broke something because y'all doing something stupid in the dunk contest. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I said, I got your coach, no problem, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: right whatever. So I'm thinking about man, all right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hang up. So I hang on this rim. So
Speaker 1: I walked, I walked it off, and I remember looking
Speaker 1: at the rim. That's the gud. Please don't let me
Speaker 1: break my arm. You were rubbing your arm. You were
Speaker 1: rubbing your arm beforehand. Let's see that swagger. He's looking
Speaker 1: at me like I'm supposed to say something. He's got
Speaker 1: the swagger. He's got it all the same kind of
Speaker 1: swagging at the Dominques in the joint Sam Hard French
Speaker 1: Connor when us first, I'm a final rod ladies, waout,
Speaker 1: Can I take a time out? How can you say?
Speaker 1: That was such a wild year too for dunks? Right,
Speaker 1: because later that year he dunked on Frederick Weiss in
Speaker 1: that Brands Games, right when he jumped over him. That
Speaker 1: was Olympics. I remember, this is like peak like, I
Speaker 1: couldn't imagine things going wilder than that dunk contest. You're like,
Speaker 1: watch him jump over seven foot minutes is wild. But
Speaker 1: even him talking like he was talking about the one
Speaker 1: of the early dunks, but he was going through his
Speaker 1: legs like he was taking the ball through his legs
Speaker 1: before he was And he's like, I was worried that
Speaker 1: my shorts were too big and it was gonna get
Speaker 1: caught like between my shots. So I was rolling like
Speaker 1: rolling out my shorts. And I think he he had
Speaker 1: messed up his hand. There was something with his left
Speaker 1: hand that he But there's this, And I think that's
Speaker 1: the beauty of getting inside stories of things, because you're
Speaker 1: like all you you're like, this is that nasty, nasty dunk,
Speaker 1: and you don't think about all the lead up of
Speaker 1: the small details that go into it. Right, because in
Speaker 1: my mind, he was improvising that whole dunk contest. I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, what's he got his first? Like, no
Speaker 1: I've ever seen before? Ye yeah, just off top. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back
Speaker 1: to wrap it out with the rapid fire round of
Speaker 1: questions with Sarah right after this, and we're back and
Speaker 1: Sarah were honored to have you in the quickest segment
Speaker 1: in sports podcasting, the rapid fire Round of questioning, where
Speaker 1: we're just gonna ask you some simple questions and you
Speaker 1: reflexibly just give your answer. This is a quick segment.
Speaker 1: We don't want to have meandering answers, and if Jack
Speaker 1: or I start meandering, it's gonna be your responsibility to
Speaker 1: catch the second. Okay, are you ready ready? We don't
Speaker 1: have time to do anything more. Are you ready? Here
Speaker 1: we go start the clock. Jack, you do you want
Speaker 1: to go first? Can I go first? Actually? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: go for it. Thank you. Wow, that was normally we
Speaker 1: fight over that thing. Thank you. Okay, okay, sh whoa, whoa, Okay,
Speaker 1: Sarah looking here we go first? No, no, no no, hey, no,
Speaker 1: And I appreciate that. I appreciate you and you're listening.
Speaker 1: You understood the assignment. First question here we go start
Speaker 1: the clock back up. Coach Darvin Ham opted to test
Speaker 1: the waters with Westbrook as a six man and Russ
Speaker 1: we're responded with eighteen eight and eight off the bench
Speaker 1: in a fantastic win over the Denver Nuggets. Are you
Speaker 1: a believer in this path for the Lakers and specifically restaurant?
Speaker 1: I am, and I think the more Russ excels in
Speaker 1: that role, which I believe you will, the more he's
Speaker 1: going to buy in and this is this is what's
Speaker 1: best for the team. So yes, yeah, it's interesting. I
Speaker 1: wonder if the O M five was like Darvenham just
Speaker 1: being like a like, okay, we can we can try
Speaker 1: it your way and and then and now like that's
Speaker 1: that's how you can fully get buy in with players.
Speaker 1: You need to see it, Yeah, you just need to
Speaker 1: see crashed the car. Oh you know how to drive? Okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead? Oh wow, you like one more
Speaker 1: of that? Okay, you want to get to McDonald's. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Russ makes so much sense as like a change of
Speaker 1: pace and think about like the guys you want to
Speaker 1: surround Lebron with, like that's it's yeah, yeah, yeah, um Jack,
Speaker 1: you really gotta keep this going. Alight, so we have
Speaker 1: the official so Luca as of right now averaging thirty
Speaker 1: six point seven points per game. That's how he responded
Speaker 1: to the preseason m v P chatter Where were you
Speaker 1: with m v P conversation heading in? Does Luca have
Speaker 1: the ridiculously early inside track? Um, I would say him
Speaker 1: and jab him and Job I think it's right there.
Speaker 1: I can't. I think they both have the inside track.
Speaker 1: I think it's early. So I'm not a big fan
Speaker 1: of MVP conversations nine ten games in the season. However,
Speaker 1: if you're if you're however, if you're putting me through
Speaker 1: it to me Luca and Jaw right side by side,
Speaker 1: I think we can call it. It's one of those two.
Speaker 1: Let's just all right, they're listening, y'all. Just do what
Speaker 1: you gotta do to make that happen, please, will you? Um?
Speaker 1: And the really important question, I need to pivot to
Speaker 1: other sort of world news topics. I hate to do
Speaker 1: this because the world is a complicated place right now.
Speaker 1: Sarah is a hot dog of sandwich. I've heard this
Speaker 1: question a lot, obviously, just some people asking it. Just shockingly,
Speaker 1: I've never thought what my answer would be because I
Speaker 1: don't know why. I never anticipated someone would ask me it.
Speaker 1: You never know what you're going to do until it
Speaker 1: happens to you, you know, because my argument, for one
Speaker 1: would say, yes, it's a piece of meat between two pieces,
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's folded piece of bread. Even if
Speaker 1: you folded a half of a sandwich, like, it's still
Speaker 1: a sandwich. However, I'm gonna say no because I'm from
Speaker 1: Chicago and hot dogs are a big thing there, and
Speaker 1: when you go to the ballpark, you don't say I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get a sandwich and then go get a hot
Speaker 1: dog and say I'm gonna get it's it's one of
Speaker 1: It's its own entity. So maybe it's in the family
Speaker 1: of sandwiches, right, oh, like a cousin. Right, But in Chicago,
Speaker 1: Like if you ask people in Chicago, would they laugh
Speaker 1: to be like, why would you even insinuate or imply
Speaker 1: a hot dog? I don't know, to be honest, that
Speaker 1: would to me that he like, is it is like
Speaker 1: casadilla part like a pizza, or like, yeah, that's very
Speaker 1: that's very different because it's crust and yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 1: Hot dog is the taco? Is one argument that I've
Speaker 1: heard I'm sorry. I'm sorry, we have I'm sorry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh you know, yeah, we do have to get to
Speaker 1: this next one. This is important. Uh. Finally, the last question,
Speaker 1: we need your answer on Jacker Miles. You can't do that.
Speaker 1: You're a team. That's true, You're a team. I can't.
Speaker 1: I will will say. We can sit here all day.
Speaker 1: I won't. I can't pick a favorite. I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't pick. Your answer is we're team Jack and Miles?
Speaker 1: Your team? Oh who my name was first? Cool? Uh?
Speaker 1: It was so close. We've blocked it in. We've blocked
Speaker 1: it it. I need to win. I'm out. Oh and
Speaker 1: thirteen and one or thirteen and two. Yeah, but we
Speaker 1: don't reveal that. I don't want any saying that. Man. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my wife, like over the weekend she picked my
Speaker 1: own Yeah yeah, because she's like, why see every day hunt? Yeah,
Speaker 1: she knows all, she knows all the bad. That's right, man. Sarah,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us on Miles and
Speaker 1: Jack got mat boost these Um, Where can people find
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Speaker 1: sasion no kiseki? Right? Is that I just at sejonki seki? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think I just crushed that handle for someone. Love
Speaker 1: to the show. You said, boostis is your favorite show?
Speaker 1: Thank you, But Miles your Jack your favorite. Let us
Speaker 1: actually don't don't bother we We can kind of assume
Speaker 1: that you may. Uh, so let's move one. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's eople more taste for me to ask for that,
Speaker 1: knowing the answers much as well. So okay, well, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for listening y'all. We'll check you back next
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