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Dave, you have a you have a back in my Dave for us here?

I do. I do. Sorry for stepping on the Cody family toes here. But here we go. This is a movie

specific back in my Dave movie tropes used to mean something. You know what I miss?

I miss the scene when the two guys are wrestling for the same gun and then it goes off and you

don't know who got hit because they both make that same stunt stroke face at each other

and hold it for like seven seconds until finally after like uh uh those seven seconds go by

then somebody finally falls down. But really it's a wasted seven seconds because we already

know it's going to be the bad guy who died. What they're going to kill the good guy?

Mama didn't raise no fool. And I miss when zombies were at least nice and slow. At least I could

rest easy with the knowledge. If there ever were a zombie attack they wouldn't be able to catch me

because you can't eat where you can't catch. Now though I feel like I'm living on borrowed time

because of the fast zombies. And I miss when a zombie regular cause of death in movies and only in

movies has never ever happened once in man recorded history. We've talked about this before

but like dying while fighting on top of a moving train. No one's ever actually died that way

on the planet earth but hundreds, thousands of characters lost their fictional lives while throwing

hands with an action hero. The death toll among just Bonville enhancement alone has got to be in

the four figures. And I miss how the bad guys at a high speed chase were just good enough shots.

They could always hit the back windshield but just inaccurate enough to never actually hit anybody

in the car. That's some seriously bad luck. And I miss when anyone would die in a movie and it

always be with their eyes open. And I don't mean it in just like a little bit but their eyes with it

when people would die their eyes would be all the way open. But then someone would come along and

they would take their index finger and their thumb and they would close the eyelids on the dead

person. But then movies being informed by older movies they were like too much with the like

specific digits using it. And then it just became like a whole hand and they just like we'll rub

the hand and then magically the eyes would be dead would be it would be close. And then they're just

like you know what this whole thing is taking too much time. Let's just throw a sheet over them and

move on. And I know a lot of people with me on missing the days when movies weren't preceded by

a half hours were the commercials. But the one that's plum inexplicable and therefore deeply

vexing is the one for the movie theater itself. Come see your movies at blank movie theaters.

Hey movie theater. We're already in you. Let's jump jump and make with the show. Hey.

And when the movie ended it was over. You didn't need to sit through the credits unless you

wanted to see the name of a family member who was a key grip or something up on the big screen.

Now I got to sit there for an extra five ten minutes watching this scroll in in small fun

to see if there's some leftovers to share and I like leftovers but still and I miss when

fraudulent Hollywood marriages were buoyed by public displays of assaulting Ysaker Oscars.

It's like being a beard in exchange for a list status has lost all meanings.

And I and this one even it's not as bad as it is in con but still I miss when the Oscars

didn't require 27 standing ovation over the course of the night. I'm not against honoring and

during achievements but come on who starts the standing ovation is really honoring

himself for being a great guy as much as the person they're ovationing. So somehow clapping

from a seated position now makes you a jerk if the person in front of you stands and no one

wants that. So now you've got to get up and you know what that means for the person behind you.

So now we're all standing here clapping like a bunch of jackasses potentially wasting valuable

seconds that could have been used to get a little further away from the fast zombies that are

going to be here sooner rather than later. That's how it used to be back in my Dave.

Wow. Very good Dave. Great dismount there Davey. That was excellent Greg Cody has a challenger

to his throne. We should play that for him tomorrow to see if we could elevate Greg Cody's

game at all. David I did want to talk to you about the Oscars. It's the funnest day of the year

for you and Mike Ryan you want a bet okay you won the bet when you said Robert Redford would be

the last dead person honored by the academy and you also won the bet that Barbara Streisand would

introduce him and then sing. You were moved by it I would imagine Mike Ryan burst out laughing

called the whole thing weird and burst out laughing when the moment Barbara Streisand

broke into saw it felt like an impersonator doing a Barbara Streisand impression during the whole

thing it was like for like her her to send it to the orchestra was about her like her whole

entire connection point to Robert Redford was the babes nickname I guess that's a famous story

I don't know but it felt very self-involved and I was like that was that was kind of really

self-involved that was more about Barbara Streisand than Robert Redford then the orchestra

starts up so I'm like I guess we're gonna get a montage and then nope babes start singing poorly

for babes she and it's just not tuned correctly it was like it was kind of like sad and funny and

awkward she's not young anymore so let's give her a small break recognize the fact that she's

basically mourning the loss of someone on her level realizing that she's like next like that's

what happens when you're that age I wasn't viewing it through that way I was also upset there was

no James Vanderbeak tribute that's what I said last night but then the counter was that he

hasn't been in enough movies what what was more upset about but court they have publicists get

honored in that I don't want your life uh the idea that Mike Ryan would say that babes is self-involved

when she's like the original diva I know she's like the OG have you ever heard her do wet with Donna

summer their legit fighting throughout the entire song your thoughts in general about last night

beyond the awkwardness of of we honored the dead for a full 30 minutes it wasn't 30 but it was

like this every there were a lot of dead people I thought there were going to be several deaths

during the length of that no the show itself I thought moved well I didn't 10 30 was over right yeah

10 32 10 33 and time to watch the eighth and ninth because it cut off Brody no I think it was I think

it moved fine and I did you watch the end I don't know if Dave did there was a Conan sketch yeah I

loved it and that was for life Sean Penn happened to win and it was a I'm forgetting that his name

is character throw Jack blow Jack um lockjaw lockjaw thank you throw Jack you were close

Jack blow Jack is a totally different care he's actually Bob nutting throw Jack blow Jack lockjaw

okay right there you just I'm sorry Bill nutting so Conn is the host for life which he'd love to be

but now he's dead they killed him at the nothing had me for like 30 seconds I'm like are they just

announcing that he's host and then the bit came in see that's so worth uh did you defeat

Adnan in your annual rivalry of who will get more of the selections correct yes you only had

one difference in your selections your and yours ended up coming in yeah either documentary correct

it was mr. nobody against Putin where everybody was picking the perfect neighbor but mr.

nobody against Putin was a better documentary more important allowed for there to be a political

discourse which is what I told you would happen and out came the star of the show in Russian

talking about what needs to happen what the issues are meanwhile Sean Pence publicist said hey

it's not that I can't vape here it's not that I'm too cool for you but I'm gonna go to Ukraine

which would be in theory more important than going to the Oscars so there was a lot going on

so I was able to be dad and add any text to me after that he wanted an immediate rematch

and I said you got to get off your couch for me well you can't have an immediate rematch until

next year we want to get you basically this is about you it was can you agree to an approve a

show earlier than 10 days out next year we will do it with both you and adnan in the same place if

you want to check out what we did last night we enjoyed ourselves it's on youtube and you can

relive any of that with us if you'd like at your convenience but what were the standout things

from last night because we actually uh before a lot of stuff was decided we finished the evening

yeah there really no surprises everyone had the four major categories you had one battle after

another as best picture winning the most Oscars how was Amy Madigan's speech so it was perfect she

75 years old she had never won and this was her opportunity to get up there but she had people

were curious whether she'd win because they had gone back and forth I guess that she never even

been nominated right I don't know that I don't want to be like Sid Thrift I know no surprises

though Sid Thrift for those of you do not know he's decided to mention a 1980s general manager

for the Pittsburgh pirates for some reason thinking that anybody would know that right you wear a

pirate hat almost every show no idea who that is oh my hot what bothers me is that why do you wear

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best supporting actress for twice in a lifetime you just saw though David's general discomfort with

publicly acknowledging he doesn't know something you saw you just saw it play out in real time he had a

movie question for him and you felt and saw David shame and not knowing the answer to every single

movie question that is asked by anyone anywhere in the world I don't know just said I pretty much

just that I don't know I'm not throwing you a lifeline no I really was hoping this was the moment

this was going to be our moment right there you started the day today by saying she looked like

she was wearing PJs that you're not going to recover from that ever it's an hour that's a first

impression no that was not our first impression that's the first time you guys have been around

each other where you've insulted her I mean Trista saying a girl looks like she's wearing PJs

that like conveys like sloppiness right yeah slavinly behavior have you not seen beautiful

PJs before like sexy beautiful PJs that's what you were saying so I'm wearing negligence

to the damn levator show that's what you were saying that's what you meant no no I'm done here a

nighty teddy is like for old people a teddy yeah a teddy teddy's better than nighty I told them

back here I said I think David's been making a lot of eye contact with me I think he's trying to

form some sort of rapport and I'm not giving it to him I'm not doing it I can't he's going for

rapport and repair I'm also going for trying to be good with Dan because he this is part of me

getting better at what I'm doing is engaging with everyone in the room and looking around now I'm

being Chris well it's where you started I mean that's an amateur mistake by you I don't understand

how you don't understand that that's not something you could do upon seeing the way that a person

is dressed it's I saw her last night that was the first time we met and I introduced myself to

the dog named Ali good good save good save there good save no we saw it we saw we saw you thinking

all of us why did you not because I was hoping that you would drown in it wait a minute who said

anything around here was about love god knows it's not you better have some fix kids this teaches

you all to be executives in sports speaking of which okay I want to play something for you here

because one of the criticisms of basketball announcing and one of the reasons I believe

Jeff Van Gundy now works for the Clippers instead of being a voice for the NBA as he had been

for about 20 years is because Adam Silver felt like Jeff Van Gundy didn't do a good enough job

of accentuating all of the positive that is sales in basketball all of the things

worth celebrating and I've noticed over the last few years in fact since Shaq got there

inside the NBA the single best studio sports show there has ever been inside the NBA has Shaq

telling everyone that they should play the game he played down low and telling everyone that the way

they play now isn't the right way telling big men to be like him and just basically complaining

about things I've noticed this with Wilbaugh and Cornheiser as they've gotten older you age you get

more conservative you start complaining about more things and it's a little startling to see

ends inside the NBA be the old person's show where generations now plural of athletes I've heard

this a number of times man bleep Charles Charles is from another time bleep Charles I'm done I don't

I'm not going to genuflect before Charles those are old guys who are just spending all their time

complaining about the game so let's listen to this sound here Zaz do we have some context here

yeah that you'd want to put on this particular sound yeah so I'm actually on my way home on Saturday

night from the heat game all right heat magic and I'm listening on the radio to the end of

Lakers and nuggets which was a great finish all right incredible finish to regulation they got a

call wrong at the end of that game as well the NBA has announced that they got a call wrong and all

they do was announced that it doesn't change the result at all it doesn't make everyone feel better

when they do I thought it makes me feel better so Austin Reeves misses a free throw on purpose gets

the rebound lays it in they go to overtime that shit never works and it worked okay and then in

overtime look at donch it should have shot right before the buzzer and the Lakers win I mean sounded

like the most fun regular season game they've had this year and so here is inside the NBA because

the game I'm listening on radio but here is the game ESPN on ABC and here is Barkley who has made

his stance clear really for the last several years when it comes the Lakers not a championship team

doesn't want to hear about them being a contender so here this is immediate reaction after the game

from Barkley my worst nightmare is the Lakers went in tonight and I have to listen to all the crap

on Monday on all the talks here with how the Lakers are contenders if they get a home court

of veterans will make them a contender no if they get the three C for you telling me they wouldn't

be a could they're in the four C right now three three that's what makes you a contender then

please please don't have a win I'm gonna be nailed by now night tonight because you got to get

they're gonna be talking about all day Monday thank God I'll be in Dayton so look I love inside the

NBA we all love inside the NBA but I think for the first time I am a little bit concerned that

it's a little too negative toward the game because what I'm talking about is like okay not everything

has to be big picture where are the Lakers are the championship contender but that was a really

fun game we just watched that was over this was a fun regular season game this so fun night like

not everything needs to be about the the destination out this doesn't matter tonight because this is

not a championship team I'll tell you if if that was the heat if the heat won that regular season

game we all know the heat or not a championship contender and then just the entire conversation after

it was about how who cares about this they're not going to win a championship like I don't know I

think it's a little bit too negative let's play some secondary sound from this broadcast as well

because I do want to get into this conversation and if you have to rely on the heavy diet of that

you're not going to win and you're not going to be a contender I'm used to playing for coaches that

wouldn't be happy with the game here we won the game but when you're up 15 early in the game

chuck and kidding those is that's when you got to put teams away especially if you

I said them a nuggets though yeah would you be happy with the nuggets no but if you did that

against the wizards you're up 15 at home you got to beat them by 15 at home don't let them come

back on the other on the other side of that those shak that's not the league anymore like who cares

that you're up by 15 that that feel it feels like and I know this is a a trope about that show

these days that they don't walk they don't actually watch but that really does feel like shak

doesn't watch that's the league now everybody comes from behind in a double different deficit isn't

that always been the league it's actually like let's the league now because there's just crazy

blowouts happening in the league right now that's that's just basketball I don't know what era

that he's speaking on well but shak specifically okay has told you as recently as last year I can't

name any of the pistons who are now the ones see there's all sorts of stuff these guys are missing

and shak and barklier there to just be shak and barkley that's their job and let me explain to

you how hard it is to get these people to do these shows I heard all week and Robert Oory not

making any sense on the broadcast that he was doing because they had him doing like 70 big 10

games because it's hard to get someone of even Robert Oory's stature to do the work for what these

networks are now paying for this stuff like there is a universal philosophy across sports media

these days and sports media some of the cheapest media you will see televised and broadcast anywhere

pay the Eagles starved the turkeys it's it it is I hear it all the time and so a few guys get

paid but Robert Oory's got to do like 20 basketball games over the course of the weekend because of

the few amount of jobs that there are and when you look at this particular broadcast shak and barkley

are either approaching 60 or over 60 years old so entertain me on the conversation of what is

their job David because Jeff and Gandhi doesn't have one right now even though he was excellent

because the commission of the league thought that he was too negative and before recently the only

person I had ever heard talk about a sport dynamic like this is your beloved Scott Boris when he

used to talk about baseball during times that everyone was fighting over money and collective

bargaining and he said baseball is the only sport in our business world that spends all its time

kicking the can down the aisle of grocery food kicking the can kicking the can kicking the can

and then putting it back up on the shelf and telling the customer to please buy it

this is super negative what they have been doing for a while as they've aged has been negative

it's not a celebration of sports they have fun but they don't love what they're watching the way

that they used to they sound a little bit like will bond when they're complaining about the 53s

a game it's specifically two of the experts you have loved playing in the post they were better

playing in the post than most human beings are in the post so they're watching a distorted version

of basketball they don't like what they're watching it's not what made them great it's why their

days are coming to an end because life goes on Pat Riley's watching a game basketball it's not like

the days of Red Hallsman in the old days it's it's done and you're never going back and when you

cannot adjust to the new game the new people the young people that's what being a dinosaur is

that's been going on forever you age out of the role that's what that's what Barkley and Shack have

done I'm a little confused and I'll all have it with a sound on for the postseason but wasn't it

just like six months ago where the entire NBA world couldn't live without this show oh my god

they did I mean the entire all-star game last year was a tribute to inside the NBA that was

the whole show but it was a joke because that was part of the business transaction that happened

with Warner Bros because remember they had signed these guys to these contracts and once the NBA

rights went away they forgot to put in the deals with Shack and Barkley smart move forgot to put

in by the way if we lose the NBA sorry we can get rid of your deal oh craikies what do we do

we don't have any games no one's gonna watch a pre-repost game show without the actual game we

got to get someone to pay their salary who's paying it who's paying it uh ESPN is right yes Disney

that's who's paying their salary so that's how that worked well I think the whole thing has become

a bit reductionist where they just wanted to steal everything down and I think that's basketball

sports media in general which does not happen with the NFL where it's like if this team is a contender

we talk about them and like if you're not a contender it's kind of like an ancillary type of thing

that you see with Mike in the heat where it's like we can't be excited about any games but the heat

because I know this team's not going to do shit when it matters and like I've already

wrapped in a Yankee fans or this way as well like you just go down this spiral of of negativity

because everything is championship ships or nothing it's just ring chasing and it kind of

takes a lot of the fun out of the 82 game season there's a generational difference here though

on how this infection permeates the rest of the league when I talk about the example of

Scott Moore is saying that once upon a time baseball was taking a can of food kicking it

throughout the off season when we're talking about money and then when the season starts

putting it back on the shelf the way these guys are talking about even a great regular season

game is absolutely infected by the fact that nobody seems to care about the regular season anymore

so there's nothing that can happen in a regular season game unless it's controversial

that's going to get anybody talking about the single result because we all we all know now more

than ever that any single result doesn't matter it doesn't if you're playing 82 of them or 81 of

them it's too many well as someone that is trying to correct my relationship with the NBA because I

default on that all the time I was watching this game it was a big game in the standing great

matters it gives the Lakers now the three seed you had all the stars playing you had everybody caring

yet to finish that you never see it does feel odd to me and something that I would say in years

previous when I went back one before I tried to reshape my opinions on this thing it seems

toxic to the sport it doesn't seem like you're helping and look I can understand that maybe at TNT

but you're with a new partner they they saved your show you you're doing it out of the same studio

in Atlanta you're working with all the people that you love maybe just maybe like throw a bone to

the NBA and you say you say this Mike but I'll remind you that we started the show today with

Zaz who's younger than Shaq saying he'd seen it all and he's old and tired Zaz is saying I've seen

it all I'm old and tired Shaq Shaq played in some important games he's sitting here watching a

regular season game saying oh the Lakers are the three seed congratulations Lakers my standard is

we are winning the championship every year that's my standard well but I guess the difference is

one one of us it's their job and the other one is just I can make a choice whether or not I want

to watch this or not as a weird standard to have when you're covering the league as a whole not

everybody has that standard I can understand a a jaded fan like that like a spurs fan of 20 years

being like man this really sucks is a throwaway season it's the NBA like your covering teams are

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yeah they're trying to be genuine when they're trying to react to what's happening around them

which is people not caring so they're they're leaning into that but now what you're saying is

you lean into it so much that now you become the focus of the not care but don't forget that

espn and disney they're really all about as they should be the playoffs they're about when people

are really focused in shack and barkly are focused when it comes playoff time but what's happened

to the infection as all do is they spread so now you see some first round matchups where all

the sudden not is engaged they're the blots you talked about with Miami Cleveland so now you're

seeing regular season bleed a little bit into first round of playoffs and before you know at

that's how you let's let me let me talk about something here though that I see happening

whatever is the new media of all the smoke and draymond green and pat mackafee and younger

former players who have the complaint about what espn specifically has been over the last 20 years is

why do these people who did not play the game get to have the same standing as I do when

they're not as expert as I am on this one of the complaints that I've heard mackafee and others

have is that the poblatories of the world or the means of the world that we don't care about sports

the way that we need to care about sports I'm always more fascinated by the sociology of sports

than I am by sports but when you get to the age of shack and barkly do you know how hard it is for

basketball to move them at this point like anything meaningful to happen at any point in basketball

given the amount that they've seen and they've done never mind in their playing careers just in

their broadcasting careers but that that finish wasn't one of them no not a regular there is no

finish I can give them in a regular season game that they're not going to yawn at given the way

the business of all of this has infected everything how much do you think they actually love the

sport the way it's presently being played that's the question like how much do you actually think

they love this version of the sport they obviously long for the time what their game was but I

remind you that on an airplane when you go through turbulence pilots are fine they've done it

and people in the back of the plan are freaking out these guys have seen it they've seen every

finish they've experienced it it is March you say it's a big thing for seating right now it's not

but turbulence is an enjoyable turbulence is never enjoying pilots that basketball is supposed to

be in joy I don't want to take it to the top line issue that's been facing this league for years

but like the stars are miserable no one seems to be enjoying the regular season that plays a part

that like and we can't be that surprised when the analyst covering the sport follow the lead of

the people guiding the direction I love town you how there are too many games it's in every

little lesson there there is no bigger league that is in more need of a culture shit there's a good

point I think we need to get rid of these former player analysts like I just think we have way

too many of them I think we've gone completely the wrong direction we're spending a lot of money

and and David I'd love to get your thoughts on this but like the ROI outside of chuck and and

shack and this crew like the ROI on a former athlete analysts cannot be that high based on how much

you have to pay them and you're not bringing any enthusiasm or knowledge or preparation to the

god damn sport you're bringing knowledge but not preparation john skipper on the sporting class

with Pablo he will say he will talk to us about die I I don't know who that was that was that

keep it moving yeah you know what matter penalty two minutes to lay a show it's a shame

I was too but you can't me you can't react it's as much as you do in the bit once no

matter penalty two minutes for explaining the show he didn't actually

he thought about explaining the show and that is an intent that he had and so he's out of here on

the intent I need to break him up this habit because he's behaving poorly when it comes to double

minor preparation it's Mike Ryan yeah it's beginning to be a theme I should not open my mouth on

the NBA every time I'm penalized whenever I give an opinion on this sport it wasn't the opinion

on the sport that got you banned it was the desire to explain that zaz has an inside joke bit

that david doesn't understand so we're gonna stop and explain the show to david so he can play along

with the others because he's behaving like an outsider by stopping the show in its tracks to ask

a question about an inside joke that we keep it moving on if Adam silver and the NBA's goal

is to get more people to watch at all facets of the season regular season it

play in tournament in season tournament then you need more people excited about the sport you need

more people to inject enthusiasm and life into like this moment was awesome like this this

intentional miss free throw from Austin Reeves never works that's all worked and then this step

back from Luca like he had it going he felt the stakes he felt something about the standings like

I don't care whether it means that the Lakers are a real contender or not like that moment

was awesome and these executives need to hire people who at least pair with these miserable

to make them happy and excited as well I'm I'm cynical is anyone these days about the NBA I

used to love the NBA I'm very cynical about these days but like I said coming home Saturday night

listens to that game like this game pretty awesome well the thing that I want to discuss as it

relates to what Trista was saying is that given the present position of shack and barkly specifically

never mind the stature of that show they're not going to fake enthusiasm for anybody and at their age

they're not going to be enthusiastic about very much given what their resumes are listen put me in

that dress I was in last night with the nipple covers I knew it was just you angling for a job this is

what I'm getting me excited not me specifically no no you can put Taylor rook there you can put

all you all you pass this all show dot com DLS hoops youtube right after the show you and

juju give positivity and enthusiasm about what you're watching but the old people are still in

charge and these are the games biggest power brokers this is an untouchable show with guaranteed

money with people on it who have been doing it a long time watching for a long time and this is

how all this stuff ages like not everyone's dicky v like dicky v is not faking that in his 80s not

everyone's leak or so but dicky v and leak or so were failures as coaches as they became media

personalities because they were grateful to be able to become media personalities shack and barkly

have taken a demotion on what they used to be and they've been doing what they're presently doing

marching to an office to talk about games that they're not that interested in and they're not

gonna fake the enthusiasm for you all they're gonna bring you is will be shack and barkly that's

what you get for your paycheck it ain't gonna also be and I'm going to sell your sport the way you

want me to hell do you think you can tell Charles Barkley anything about how to do this certainly not

but I think Ernie at least is it's the onus is on him to at least steer the conversation to

wasn't that kind of fun to watch though like as we're watching a bunch of games and maybe he did

I mean those were only did he did he did he did do some of that and he knows like he's up but he's

also older like this is how this stuff ages I think it's a fair criticism of the people who cover

sports to say the gatekeepers have always been the older people who have all the longevity in

lifetime jobs and now you're seeing the democratization of it as people develop their own audiences

on youtube and elsewhere where the enthusiasm is carrying the day for other young people who have

grown tired of it but I'm gonna tell you again I've heard a number of complaints from people man

bleep Charles his time is passed like I don't think that I don't think the the grand majority of

audience thinks that but they are tired for a long time of him being a critic in a way that

feels to them like filled with more old man than the average critic and you mentioned the democratization

of content and media and it's really the people who have these independent voices that are the

grounds well I mean you want to talk about oh maybe my besmirching isn't great for the league but

at least when you have enthusiasm on the lower end you're lifting the the tide the Charles Barclay

and this all the traditional media is bringing down as an anchor but yet the league even though

they want enthusiasm they want to keep these people who have free voices out I don't think it's very

easy the task in front of Adam Silver because you can fire Jeff Van Gundy if you don't like it but

you can't really do anything with the chief voices on this sport are old like just help me with

give me who it is that are the biggest voices in young enthusiasm on basketball the ones with the

largest audiences not the shams who is just an information no opinion voices but just note

enthusiasm voices like I love this game like you remember that was that that's that was the slogan

throughout the 90s the slogan on all the nostalgia around NBA on NBC is I love this game I forgot

that no now the slogan should be I hate this game I I'm not kidding you it should be among the

gatekeeper old voices there's why would they have any enthusiasm for how it's being played why

would Shaq and Barclay like to see 53 pointers a game there show me how many threes Shaq took in his

life tell me statistically career shots Roy look up for me please how it is I guess how many let's

take a guess on how many made threes there were in Shaq's career what are you going to guess oh I

think he's made one one in his career yeah and I actually say three I actually can remember it in my

head it was over I think it's one it has to be more than one is a big career over under three and a half

under how many do you think he took in his career ten ten in his entire his name for them are you guys

for I young skinny Shaq um god he was Shaq lock running down out of it you know running down the

core you're on one for ten one for ten for career yep I'm one for 22 wow it's pretty good right you

remember the one you remember the one yep three that Shaq made I do did it look like his free

throws it's it's like one handed you know shot put it he really has seen everything it was the

1995 96 season in all in yeah yeah yeah you stop it I don't get credit yet I just I just got

everything right I don't get credit yet one year ago yeah named the team know that I don't know

but I remember where it was on the court by the three point line well yes it was on the left wing

I can't with you say this uh I remember watching that Shaq ilo Neil and it's literally unlike

anything I had ever seen to that point watching someone that size he was skinnier but watching him

go coast to coast driveling the basketball was like what the hell that was the first game against

the heat yeah it was crazy it was crazy to watch someone that side go coast to coat that size go

coast to coast uh and now he hates basketball and why wouldn't he where did you say it was as left

wing it's I'm watching like I assume if he only has one I'm seeing a three-pointer it's like he's

it's like a buzzer beater yeah it's not the left wing it wasn't on the like the left angle he's

at the elbow just passes half court and he's like approaching the three-point line on the right

side of the court you got it right and then you got it wrong