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Nuggets get their six straight win, second longest win streak of the year.

Possibly counted.

Oh yeah.

Possibly counting.

Man, nuggets get a win.

A lot of defense in this game.

What a change of pace.

We got a little defense.

Or maybe bad offense, wouldn't know what to do with that.

And a very good, very, very good, I would say, second half from your, excuse me, my Denver Nuggets.

We're going to break it all down with Harrison Wind.

And you didn't want to play the funky music.

I did not.

I think it's in a row.

I think is a clear funky music night.

I don't care that they looked like trash in the first half.

They played pretty well in the second half and won their six in the row.

Dude, anytime you can hold L.J.

Cryer scoreless, you got to play the funky music.

Yes.

If you can hold him scoreless, I think he held himself scoreless.

I will.

Over here, D-line go.

Like I understand, our pleasure receptors have been burnt out over the last several years.

We've had a lot of success.

We've taken it for granted.

Six in a row.

It's nothing to scoff at.

It's nothing to scoff at.

It is nothing to scoff at.

I'm not scoffing.

Are we back?

The question has been put in the check.

We've been back.

I only declared his back after two game win streak.

We're back.

We're still continuing on the same streak.

We are analyzing.

It is nice to see a little streak, but it is funny not to get ahead of ourselves.

But it is funny to look and just wonder.

Don't even think about saying it.

I didn't say anything.

I know.

I'm saying don't think about it.

I'm saying it's just interesting to look ahead and see what might unfold as all.

Now, let's get the win.

1693.

Surprisingly, there's some stuff to talk about in this game.

This is an interesting game.

Tale of two habs in some ways.

We'll break it all down.

We'll break it all down.

We'll break it all down.

All of those different, the make-ermus league.

Let's go to a fast breakdown.

It's pretty fast.

I didn't have that many notes.

First note does not tell a story.

Yogic's missing shots early.

Remember how off he was to start this game?

He was missing some weird ones.

Also, slowest pace of the year.

The first quarter, slowest quarter, pace quarter.

I think somebody said that.

It was a very slow game.

There just was not a lot of rhythm to this game early on.

I think that was by Golden State's design.

28, 23 warriors after one.

23 points for the Denver Nuggets at home in this economy.

Second quarter.

Zeke Nagy minutes.

Hell yeah.

Mad scientists went to the lab tonight.

Bruce had a buzzer beater out of the shot clock.

It felt like a big moment there.

Do you guys remember that one?

Yeah.

From really deep.

It was awesome.

And then Zeke Nagy making his presence felt with a hard foul

that caused a dust up.

And this is what you love when your guy instigates something.

Two texts on Golden State one on Denver.

He played it perfectly.

He played it perfectly.

He had the fastest headband.

Had the fastest headband.

Had the fastest headband.

And then he kind of stared down as funny.

Because you know, like stared down usually it's like tough.

He gives his soft eyes.

He has like a soft eye stared down.

Almost like he's like.

It's like a zoo leader or something, you know.

He kind of give the zoo leader a blue seat to mouth.

But it worked.

I mean, hey, shout out Zeke.

Yeah.

So, if Spencer Jones we find out his questionable to return.

Hamstring type.

Hamstring type.

Dude, what are we, what are our hamstring routine in warm-ups?

Gotta be better.

We gotta be better with this.

I think it's clear we don't have one.

No, we need to start doing the bands.

You know, we gotta get the straight line.

No, we need to start clearly because we're not preparing anyone's hamstring.

Whatever they're doing.

We need to change it up a little bit.

We need to drink more smoothie.

Second quarter.

Starters back in.

But Strother for Pee-Wat.

We're gonna talk about this.

Pee-Wat on this minute's restriction.

His rotation is so bizarre.

It was immediate gold state run though.

If you remember that stretch, that was where the game got out of hand for Denver.

Down 13 almost immediately.

Then there was a flagrant one on Gary Payton the second.

Pee-Wat came back in.

So he plays the first six minutes and then the last four.

He came in and had like three or four turnovers in a row to end that quarter.

53-46 warriors.

It was not looking good.

But in the third quarter, nuggets caught fire right away.

Back to back to back threes.

That'll get you going again.

Cam Johnson then goes back to the locker room with back spasms.

Dropping like flies out here.

No AG in this game.

He skipped this game with calf tightness.

Then nuggets from the last like five minutes of the third quarter for the rest of the game.

Nuggets turned it on.

They flipped the switch.

The proverbial switch.

And they made a huge run.

Only thing that broke it up was Zeke Najee went to the locker room.

Three players to the locker room in this game.

What the hell happened?

Yo Kitch took over though, man, in that third quarter.

He had a phenomenal end to this game.

But that third quarter takeover was impressive.

In the final play of the quarter,

Strother gets a three in the corner and puts it to 12.

At the time, the biggest lead of the game.

86-74 nuggets.

Fourth quarter.

All the nuggets have dropped like fly.

So big vow.

Get back in there.

Gary the pay.

I have a note in here because you never know what's going to be important.

I had five fouls on Gary Payton.

Didn't really matter.

Could have taken that one out.

Jamal had an aunt one.

I didn't see him important at the moment.

At the time, I was like.

I'm a big deal.

But I love that now, even though you're like, well, I wrote it down.

I mean, I have to say it.

I pulled the, uh, you write it down again.

I pulled the A.

I pulled the A.

I'm just reading my notes.

He's like, he's a turns out.

It didn't matter.

But I mean, I wrote it down.

Bad joke by D.

I don't watch.

All right.

I have that one in here.

He's giggling at his own joke again.

Jamal had an aunt one and a three.

You left a word.

Push the 15th.

He leaves my God.

He leaves my body.

First hotel story.

Jamal called him out.

This was really the end of the game.

Do you guys remember Jamal had that awesome aunt one?

And then immediately followed it up with a three.

Nuggets went to 15.

The game was kind of over there.

But there was still like 10 minutes left.

Big Valcott Murray with an elbow to the head.

No, I think Murray just ran into him.

Dude, like a brick house.

It was like if he had his neck on his chest.

It would be like if you caught a rebound and you turn around.

There's a tree.

Dude, I had a friend that ran into a pole.

One time like that.

We were playing football.

Yes.

Dude, there's a pole in the middle of this field.

It was crazy.

It was one of the scariest things I ever saw.

Dude, there was a pole.

We were in a field we'd never been to before.

You know, you throw a bomb.

He like lays out for it right into a pole.

Scariest thing I ever saw.

In the field of play.

What the hell?

There were a bunch of doctors present.

Stitched him up right there.

It was crazy.

It was crazy.

I don't know why I went for a long time.

I went for a long Frisbee reception.

I ran out.

I ran out and then as I jumped up to grab it,

a dog attacked me.

It bit me.

Really sucked.

That's so hard, man.

Let me see a vibe story around.

He's like, nobody.

Frisbee's for dog.

What are you doing out here?

I did think about that later.

I was like, it was confusing.

It was confusing.

I thought that was my job.

What are you doing?

He caught him with an elbow and then the starters checked back in.

He didn't.

What?

We just established that he did not catch him.

He wrote it down here.

I wrote it down.

You know what's funny about this note though?

You know what's funny about this note?

I didn't see the replay because the two times they showed the replay

I happened to be looking at.

You're too busy taking notes.

I was taking notes.

I was writing notes.

Catches him with the nobo.

So I didn't see.

Didn't happen.

Last note I have is that the starters checked in.

You think you have to check in.

You're up like 13-14.

You know you have to check it.

You can't just count on the backups.

Stars came in and just delivered a knockout punch immediately.

Went up to 20 and the game was over.

All right.

Red Hawk roofing.

Big takeaways.

Red Hawk roofing by the way.

Shout out to you, Red.

In the building today.

Oh, yeah.

Making fun of my height.

Well, he wasn't so much making fun of your hat as much as trying to justify his own.

No.

You know we're doing that.

My Red Hawk roofing big takeaway.

Ah!

So it's going to be like, this is what it's going to be like going down the stretch.

I hope it's a little bit.

I know what you hope.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, I'm aware of what we all hope.

This is what it's going to be.

Yeah.

This is what it's going to be.

Don't doom out.

Don't let it.

Don't get fooled by the nuggets level of engagement in these games.

We're going to play Utah next.

It's going to be.

It's going to be infuriating except for five minutes, which are going to be sick as hell.

That's what you got last.

They got three days to prepare for Kyle Phil Powell.

We got to make a three.

We got five minutes of absolute bliss from the Denver Nuggets where they really start to

get on.

They start swarming.

They play defense.

They play a complete game.

You're like, yes.

There it is.

They're just not willing to do it.

Yeah.

They're not willing to do it for the entire game.

This was a very good second half, though.

Yes.

It was 24 minutes.

That unfortunately, again, it demonstrates to not only me, but to them that they have a switch.

Unfortunately.

So they will toggle that switch.

I promise you.

Just ride with them.

This was the test run of the switch.

But it worked.

It worked.

I am sorry to report that it worked.

They still have it.

So when they play the spurs and when they play the thunder, let's get really ramped up.

Those outcomes matter.

Well, right around the corner.

But tomorrow, don't expect any different from the next game.

Well, it'll be in it.

We're going to talk about the upcoming schedule, because it's very interesting.

Not a bad one.

What do you got, Harrison?

My Red Hawk roofing may take away is that, you know, Ziknaji's stat line is not going to jump off the page.

It's a matter of fact.

It will not.

Eight minutes, zero points.

Yeah.

Not a type of shot.

That's your balance.

Zero six zero steel zero blocks.

Yeah.

He was a plus 12 in his eight minutes, though.

Dude, shout out shout out Ziknaji is not played real minutes in a while.

You know, he has been out of this rotation for a long time.

Left for dead.

It seemed like by David Adelman in this nuggets team, even with big Val not playing.

They go ultra small with Spencer Jones at the five.

But, you know, when injury there opens up an opportunity.

And I was really impressed with Ziknaji on the defensive end tonight.

And I kind of felt like he changed moments of the game a little bit.

I loved how he kind of committed that hard foul on Gary Payton as weird of a play in the moment as it was.

It did feel like an unnecessary.

It really felt unnecessary.

But I didn't mind it.

I didn't mind it at all.

In the playoffs, such a very common type of play.

He's the only one giving real effort.

And so I just loved the energy he played with.

I loved his defense.

You know, he played with an intensity on that end that no other nugget was playing with in that first half.

That's for sure.

He was really the only guy who brought it for his minutes defensively over the first two quarters.

And I don't know.

Maybe we should dust him off a little bit over these last seven games.

Man, I've been saying that people like he's kind of a punch line.

Yeah.

And I don't feel like he should be.

He shouldn't be.

He shouldn't be like he would, you know, he gets asked to do more.

He got paid maybe more than he deserves.

He gets sometimes asked to do.

I kind of like him in the role he had tonight.

You are right.

He understood the assignment.

Go in there.

Provide energy.

If you have to give a hard foul or two, do it.

But I'm with you.

He was very good tonight.

That was intense.

And it is hilarious that he had zero points.

Zero shots.

As I said, not in your presence.

We have to kill each other.

We have to kill each other.

I don't wait for it.

Can we do it?

No one in this room knows what this isn't.

Obviously not.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

But he was a great game.

You got a single player.

Of the game.

Wait, wait, wait.

Where's the right side of the box?

Where do you see his plus 12?

Yeah, we're going to look at this.

It's close to the second zero zero zero zero with two.

God, Zeke that he's lot in life.

Unbelievable.

Even when he's good, we're in the left.

Come on, man.

He's great.

My red hawk roofing big takeaway.

Game.

The team's going to go as Niko Yokich goes.

Which should be comforting to be doing.

It should be.

12 years of experience at this.

think he's going to go well more often than not. I thought in the first half, the nuggets,

I think focused a little bit on defense in the first half of this game. And, you know,

one of the reasons you have to, in my opinion, play hard at right now is because it's easy

to say we can play defense, but you also forget it's exhausting to play defense. And nuggets

offense was pretty rough in that first half. I'll go ahead and say it was one of the worst

offensive halves they've had this year when they've been fully healthy. It just was not a good

offensive half, but the defense was okay. And in the second half, they were able to pull off both.

And Yokechin, particular man, he is weirdly not aggressive right now as a score, like weirdly

not aggressive. But the moment you want to talk about switches, he has a switch. I think the team

maybe has a switch. I'm not convinced the team switch. Well, there you go. But when he,

because he's not like posting up, he's not being, he's not trying to punish guys,

he's throwing out of single coverage, you know, throw out a double team, okay, whatever. But

single coverage doing it. In the third quarter, he just said it like it's time to go. And he went

and he finished with 25 15 and eight, which for him is an average stat line. And, but he was,

he was just so great in those moments. And the team looked great. And the line was 11 and a half

today. They went by 23 points. And it was pretty simple. It just came down to that little stretch.

So the team goes as Yokech goes. And that, you know, I do think, you know, I know Eric, you

really think the team is here. They're ready to go. I think they have some lessons they have to

learn. They have some quests. They have to go on before the playoffs begin. That's my belief.

I still believe that challenges are coming up here in the next week or so. But Yokech,

it really comes down to Yokech and what he's going to try to accomplish in these games.

The good news is I do believe that Yokech has way more, and it's crazy that he just put up a

2020, 2020, a near 2020. And I'm telling you, he needs to flip a switch. But there, we all know

the numbers don't always tell the stories. There's something behind that. And he had that tonight

for good, I don't know, of his actual minutes, probably eight to 10 minutes straight. And then

that gets one by 20 in those eight to 10 minutes. So truly, that quarter was masterful. I mean,

he had some pretty vintage Yokech. Yeah, he looked like Yokech. He looks like Nicole Yokech,

number 15. Um, he took over that third quarter. And I mean, overall, the third quarter,

they outscored the Warriors 40, 21. Like that was a statement quarter, man. 40 to 21 is a big.

That's a big, I mean, they scored 46 points combined in the first half.

It was just a complete flip of the switch, as you guys are saying. And it really was Yoke.

Yokech can be such a monster too, man. You can be say, yeah, Tim Hardaway. I mean,

Bruce Brown, you said you thought the only guy that tried tonight was I think Bruce, I was saying

like, um, gave full effort or whatever. I thought Bruce did though. Yeah. Yeah. There was,

Zeke was the first one. And then like, there was the, we were saying it was the give a,

give an S squad was out there. That was the guys that don't always get the, the minutes,

the guys that still have something to really prove in the eyes of the coaching staff. And maybe

at the, for the fan base at large, like, there was absolutely guys that were giving effort

on the defensive end. And that was the difference between the first and the second half.

And it's, it's in these guys. It's just whether or not they're going to do it. And they're not

until they have to. And I hate that. Well, comic book guys will know this, but Superman has,

like, he wears glasses, you know, and that's his disguise. But that's, that's not Superman's

Clark Kent. He takes him off when he comes Superman, but Zeke, it's a headband. But he,

headband comes off. He turns into Superman. But he was rearing the headband the whole time.

Well, it came off. And that's where it became the, when he was getting pushed around,

it came off, not by his will, whatever. Uh, we got to take our first break already. We're

already to this point. But on the other side, we're going to break it down player by player. And

kind of not really a stock report. We'll talk about how we're feeling about these guys

based on this recent play over the street. Also some injury news on Zeke,

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you found the show. They post game show for your Denver Nuggets. Let's go through the players now.

I want to talk. Actually, can we get to the news? Because it's kind of bad. I just saw it. Yeah.

So Zit Naji, we just talked about a great game, man. So he left the game with left hip

and pinchment also left the arena on crutches on crutches. My guy's impinged his hip is very much

impinged. What happened? Anybody see it? Yeah, he went up for a rebound. He got kind of crunched

underneath the basket. Yeah, it was a weird. I was like falling down. I think it was on

tingus, pingus if if memory serves. Here's what's weird about that. One, he's already left the arena.

Don't you feel like if you were fully healthy and hurt enough to be on crutches? I just feel like

you'd be around the arena a little more. That actually is a good point. Like five minutes,

they're like, hey, sorry, dude, it's impinged. You need crutches. Get out of here. I think

it's like an ice and like stretch. It is very quick news about him leaving the arena. He tried

himself home in the Freakbo field. Freak 22. You've seen it ride around town. I mean, I think that

like basically just got like he got it. Unless it's like not a big deal at all. I think you got

like a Charlie horse basically and it just hurt. Yeah, is it like a Charlie horse? I mean,

I imagine that he got impingement. I'm just using contextual clues here. Sounds like he pinched

the nerve. Yeah. And then it's a medical experts to step up in the chat. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

that's kind of why we got me. We got me. We got me, dude. And honestly is somewhat important here

to me personally. I've long said like, we're going to talk about Val who came in and give him some

minutes tonight did a good job. I think there's utility to Zeknoji and you saw how he just hustled

tonight. Totally is there. You kind of need a guy that can play six minutes total. Maybe it's one

stint four or five minutes and just go out there and give effort. And he's a guy that can guard

and give effort. He kind of did it tonight. And so it kind of sucks that he gets this game isn't

just the story with his entire. Yes. Oh, of course. It has a game and then it's like he's actually

out. And then he basically goes back, starts from zero, plays a game or two, looks horrific.

Yeah. Then he starts to get good again. And then we're all like, I don't know. I don't know

about Z. He can get hurt. And we're like, okay, I went with. Well, shout out. Hopefully,

you know, it's just one of those thick crutches that are not that needed. Right. But we'll

get out of here. Get out of these crutches. Yeah. You don't need treatment. You don't need

treatment, man. Just come on. He's like, can I have some crutches at least? Rub some dirt on it.

Let's go back to yogurt. So 25 15 and they're like, don't worry. We have crutches around

here. That's the one thing we do have is nuggets players 25 15 and eight. He played 36 minutes.

I like that he played 36 minutes tonight, even though the game was kind of hit because come play

off time. You're going to need to play 36. And like I said, come play off time. You're going to have

to play four quarters of offense and defense. Is he in shape for that? I don't know. But I would

like it's kind of time to do that. The nuggets only play on Wednesday and Saturday this week.

So it's not like they they have a lot of downtime. I kind of like yoke pushing himself physically

here just to kind of be like, hey, in playoffs, you're going to have to be going really hard. But

more to the point. Yoke will do like he got pissed in the third quarter for something and went

inside a couple times and score so easy. When he does that, you're like, I think this guy could

score 40. And part of me wonders if yoke like, what does he have in the tank? Eric, doesn't it feel

like he's playing one hand behind his back right now and he's still putting up some monster numbers.

I mean, you know what I think Yoke is capable of. He hasn't he's he pushed it into second gear

tonight. We're like, whoa. It was right after he stared down the ref for not calling us kickball.

But it really wasn't the right that is the play. That's all he needed to get.

Well, that was that where he like went out. Yeah. And then he pulled out that move that he won

game seven of the jazz series with that kind of fade away hook from the paint. I mean, he's clearly

sandbagged it. He just he is like he's just I don't think I don't think he's in out of shape right

now. Like I think he's actually he was in shape the other night. And I don't see I don't see

any signs of him like physically not being up to it. I just don't think he wants to like I think

he just kind of wants to get through these games knowing they can beat them. Get out of it like

no, not get hurt like everybody else on his team does every single night. Yeah. But you saw

yes in that third quarter. Some of the it's like when he turns it to a level, you're like,

oh my god. Those shots he makes when he is curling through the paint and just like throws it up

goes in nothing but net that like vintage yokets stuff that just like blows you away when you see it.

And he truly can do it whenever he wants. He really can. We also shot four of a from three

in this game two or two from three against the jazz. Maybe the three ball is trending up a little

did he make because I think was he one of three. So did he make four in a row or four or five.

I don't know. But he started off through a four hole dish. Yeah. I was going to say I think he made

his last handful which is hot. Yeah. Which is also noteworthy to take eight threes tonight against

a relatively small team. Yeah. For sure. Um, I mean that third quarter was vintage yokets for sure.

Him doing that. I'm more I'm with Dylan. I think on this I think he's got it. And I'm with you

and saying I think he's kind of coasting a little bit. Uh, to at the tail end of the season,

trying to get everybody going, trying to get your mall going, trying to get Tim Hardaway looks,

trying to get Cam Johnson looks when he's out there, trying to get Christian brown looks only

if he'd shoot it. Yeah. He said he said Christian up with all these quarter three. He's just not

shooting him. I mean, every now get made a three tonight except for Christian. They had 19

three and Yokes tried to get him some so that they shot a 50% by the way. Yeah. I'm with you guys.

I I think he's coasting a little right now. And he coasted the four straight triple doubles almost

five. We look ahead at the schedule here. I mean, the Utah game's not going to tell us anything

about you know, it'd be weird if he went all out, you know, well, it's defense in the second.

It would be like a second half was better than the second half was good. No, but a guy like

Wendy would go fall out against the Utah. No, no, that joella beat has that game. He's like,

all right, here. I'm going to show them. But you do have San Antonio. You could argue that Portland

game. You're going to need something that's again. Dude, I've got a city San Antonio at the end.

We'll see. I don't know how many. I mean, I have circled. I really think that's going to be like

we're going to see exactly what the level of that. I hope that's a I hope that game is what

Saturday afternoon. I think it's going to be lit. I hope everybody's playing in that game.

Yeah, I hope so. I think I think they will. I think I think they will in that one. We go to

Jamal Murray. 20 points in this one. Six rebound seven assists. He had four turn orders.

Feel like they were all in a row. Two steals and a block. Seven of 12 shooting. Here's the thing

about Jamal man that I think it's not underrated because we've been talking about it all year.

The guy's shooting is pretty spectacular right now. Some of the three's he makes her like out of his

month. And it feels like it's not even like that's all you go really sneaky. It's like, yeah,

that's what I want to guess. He really is shooting that thing man. Two of four from three to

night wind. Yeah, 20 points for him. And you know, it's not like he took that many shots in this one.

Just 12, you know, in 34 minutes. I liked his game tonight. I didn't really feel like he forced

the issue at all. Didn't really take bad shots per say. Kind of just let the game come to him.

And, you know, had a really well-rounded game. Six rebound seven assists. Two steals and a block,

like you said. I like this game tonight. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you can't argue with the outcome.

He's like another guy though that if this was a big game, I think we would have seen a lot more

from. I think he did what he needed to do, which is still like a spectacular level. Like he wasn't

like loafing or anything. It's just like he wasn't really taking it to the teeth of the defense

and stuff that he does when, you know, they really need Jamal to be Jamal. And it's good. Like,

he played the exact right level that he needed to. This is a perfect game. Like get the dog,

move forward, get the get the shots to fall. But he also knew the moment. It was time. Where time

I was jokes. Third quarter in the takeover. Jamal also had a fourth quarter where it was like,

all right, it's time to put it away. He went. They've been doing this. Jamal did this last game.

Like where he got the record. It was like, all right, fine. Time to find such a dope way to get

the record. I wish it wasn't needed, but whatever it was cool. I'm going to pull a Zacklow here real

quick. Let's do our all NBA teams. Zacklow does his all NBA teams every podcast. I've got Jamal

on second team all NBA right now. Yeah, I know. Here's to put that out there. I don't think that's

happening. I think we were chatting about all NBA teams. I threw mine out there. I think there's

a chance he can get second team. I love first team. Let me bring up my all NBA teams. Yeah,

bring him up here. It's they don't really do it it by positions. Shay, Yokech, Luca,

Wembee are locks. Those are the MVP candidates. There's a one open spot because Cade's not going to

play enough games. Are we sure? Yeah, he's not the rest of the season. Oh, was he was he he was

rolled out? He's going to be rolled out. Okay. I put Jalen Brown on first. Yeah, Jalen Brown definitely

belongs there too. The first team is kind of like pretty solid there. Yeah. Okay. Second team.

I've got Murray. Brunson's going to be on there. Why? Brunson and Donovan Mitchell.

Okay, then who's the next one? The third team. Yeah, I've got a lot of guys have missed a lot of

times this year. Jalen Johnson. Yeah, Booker, Durant, Maxi Durant. So he's over Durant is the

controversial one I think you have in there. He's over Durant, which I again, he is.

Some of this is on legacy and this to that. I don't I mean, Durant's been pretty good to this year.

I don't I don't. I mean, what do you say about what I think it's about what I think is going to

happen? Of course, of course. When you say it like that, he can definitely be on second.

Of course. Yeah, if it's like if that's the real matchup is him versus Kevin Durant, like

absolutely. He is definitely going to be get less votes than probably Kawaii Brunson and Mitchell.

Yeah. So he might be. Yeah. Yeah, has he? Yeah, but I don't know, man. I'm absolutely in the mix.

He's in all front. It'll be interesting, honestly, to see how that goes. Incredible, man.

It would be all the people to have awards in my opinion, like, Jamal, all NBA, look, I'm just

going to say that there's a lot of guys that deserve the running here. We can, you know, nitpick,

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Wisconsin. All righty. Back here segment three Tim Hardaway Junior is now six threes away from

becoming second most for a single season in nuggets history, which is really impressive man.

Michael Porter set this two years ago as number one and Tim Hardaway's about to pass him off the

bench. That's really impressive. By the way, it's a little caveat and there's nothing against

Dale Ellis, man. Got nothing against him. That 97 season, the three point line was shorter.

Yeah. I'm just there's like a lot of records, you know, for like in that time. And I'm always

like me and that kind of sucks that you imagine if they made the free throw line shorter by a foot.

And then it was like, you know, who has the record for best three point for free throw percentage?

You're like, well, what? Am I not wrong about this? I mean, yeah, I guess you're right.

There's like a huge outlier Dale Ellis. All of these are from the last 10 years except for one.

Yeah. That's a tough part about statistics is that this is why the baseball community gets

in an upper rate. Anyway, shut out, Dale Ellis. But Tim Hardaway, Jr. 214 threes, he had four

tonight. I'm not kidding. How many games is he? I'm not saying he won the game, but if he wasn't

there, they would have lost the game, right? Probably 20. Yeah, I mean, you guys all know my take on

this. If Tim Hardaway, Jr. was on the nuggets last year, they beat the thunder hard to argue this day

and that all season. Do you band in this take? I crawled into it. I crawled into it like

a hermit. It's my show that Tim Hardaway, Jr. is a freaking machine. Yeah, he's a psycho.

Like he has the same exact demeanor, same exact mindset, just same exact look every single game.

And he's a straight killer, man. I mean, this guy's unreal. You know, his confidence never wavers.

No room doesn't matter. He just not steps up and knocks it down. I mean, he could miss

10 in a row. He'd fire that same shot and 11 time. And I absolutely love it.

It is like he is one of a kind on this team. Like, there's no, there's no one else that has

that amount of like, this is that brash. I know what they're shooting. Like, there's

there have been guys that have come a little bit and like, you know, we again, we had Nick

Young. We had Isaiah Thomas. We had guys that come in that like have that kind of,

you know, I don't know. I guess reputation in the league. But it never like when you start to play

with yokets, you're like, all right, I get it. I got to fall in line. Tim Hardaway, Jr. is just like

it is so funny to see the ball find him in a place where if it was any other player, you'd be like,

well, all right, slow it down. Your shot's not open. Let's recalibrate here. Goop. It's up.

Shots up. Two guys around him. Shots up. It's so exciting, man. It's so fun. I love him on the

squad. I love his attitude. He did this last game too. Like, he's the only one that does not have

the toggle intensity switch. He doesn't have it. Like, he only has one, one speed he plays at.

Yeah. But he brings it out specifically before I get to that though, he tonight set a career

high and three pointers made. Did he really? Yes. He had two hundred and twelve with this game.

I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no. The season. He had two hundred and twelve in 2023.

He had two hundred and eleven in 2024 playing with Luca. He's coming off the bench.

That's the easiest way. Five five five five issues. He's a send this man.

I don't really doubt it. It's not true, man. But yeah, he has two hundred and ten this year

off of the bench, basically in a hundred and fifty fewer minutes at this very moment than what he

had in those seasons, which is just really impressive. It's crazy. But what I was going to say about

him is he is an A tier. I don't know if he's S tier, but he is an A tier. Who do you think you are?

I am. Yeah. You know, like, where you just get really hyped and start doing weird stuff.

You know, you're a high three. There's a time out. He just starts going into the crowd. I know

I don't even know what he's doing. He does like, he has his own dance, the angry robot.

I am. And it's always two in the home crowd.

But it is cool to your point. It is kind of like, yeah, it's so visceral.

We had to get you going. Bruce E. B had another great one tonight. He had a, we remember that

layup he had man. He glided through the line. He really did have a saucy layup. It was

really like an ABA throwback. Look like Dr. J. They look like Tom Chambers and that

dunk or Tom Chambers just floats in the air for a while. He just kind of floated to the basket.

And Bruce E. B. man, we're saying that's the year Jamal Maureen. It is. Who's saying it's the year of

Tim Hardaway, Jr. It is. Dude, the year is good, but the nuggets haven't been good.

It's we're very confusing. It's been a terrible year, guys. It's been a really hard year.

It's a weird year. Bruce Brown, man. The legend of Bruce Brown is like, only growing. I can't

believe the production we're getting at it. It's guy. He can freeze tonight. He can smell the playoffs.

And his three point shot is cash right now. It is wet. He goes down every time.

I can't believe how confident I am in a Bruce Brown spot up three. And somehow he's left with like,

he doesn't speed up either. When the ball comes in, he stops. It's like the slow, long

wind up shot that somehow he keeps getting off. And it's wet right now. It's unreal.

Well, what I would say about his three point shot is I don't think he thinks he's going to make

it every time. That's a certain kind of confidence, but he's not afraid to take it ever.

You know what I mean, which is different, but that's also important.

I think that was a great point, Eric. Playoff, Brucey B is here. He's been here the last

month or so. Yeah, he's been here a bit, man. Very uncomfortable. Honest question, though.

Uh-oh. Would you prefer him to have the mustache for the playoffs?

Listen, man, we can't. He's got to have it. It's not up to us. It's like at a certain point,

like I, you know, we're not taking him out to a dance. He's been playing it incredible.

It would be a streaking mustache.

It is. Yoke, it's got a haircut and Bruce drew that terrible mustache, and they can't

lose it ever since that. It's been six games. It might be certainly. We're actually enjoying

ourselves. And it all comes from Yoke, it's getting a haircut and Bruce growing that ridiculous

mustache. So a guy who I think had an interesting game tonight, it's really been two in a row now,

is Peyton Watson. He goes for 10 points tonight, six rebounds, five assists. 10, six and five is a

pretty good line. 22 minutes, three of 11 is an ugly line. That's the same game, bro. He's listed

as two turnovers, but it actually felt like he contributed to more, you know, just, you know,

he's playing this role. Here's what I'll say in his defense, though. This minute restriction,

I think is really tough for him specifically in this way. Start the game and then close the half

and nothing in between. It was like 14 minutes at game clock that he did not play, and probably 30

to 40 minutes of actual real time, probably 30 minutes of real time, and start the game as,

basically, the fifth guy, you know, you're like, you're up all, sit for 30 minutes and then come

in and be the lead option. He's just in a weird spot. Like, I think that last game, he actually

did a good job of putting pressure on the paint. He just missed all these shots, and they just

rimmed out. Tonight, I thought he was a little sloppy and reckless at times, but I'm not, I actually

am still encouraged by his ability to get around guys. Six games. Is it enough time for him to get

his footing and get his minutes up? That's the part I'm a little worried about, but I think his

ability to get by guys is valuable. And right now, he's just kind of like, he's driving, he has,

he can drive a fast car. He's just a little reckless in it right now. Oh, cool. But I think the,

you want to be reckless in a fast car. Yeah, but that's Henry Rugg style. A lot of guys are

reckless in a slow car. He's, he can get in a fast car. That's the best combination. That's not

the good style. Oh, is that not good style? Um, yeah, man, I hate him running the offense. I hate

it. I see, I disagree with this full heartedly. I hate it. Like, I want him to be able to go past

guys when it's, when it's thrown to him at the right time, and he catches somebody off. I mean,

I see you said, but he's been atrocious. I think he's pressing a little bit atrocious. Like,

it's been, since he's come back, he's, he's trying to get back into this. He's trying to take

chances. And it just seems like he's pressing a little. He's trying so hard. And I don't blame him.

He's putting this position in it. David Adam, and it seems to me as said, like, all right,

we want this to be your unit. Yeah. We want you to go out there and run it. Yeah, I think it's

the right call though. I think he's the right game in that role. But I don't think he's first

game. I don't think he should be the point guard. Like, I just, like, I think that there needs to be

somebody to get him the ball in the right place. And then we saw how, how unbelievably effective he

can be when he can, when he can pull up, shoot the mid range, go all the way or shoot the three. But

like, him as a ball handler, trying to get things going. That's like, he's not reading the court

right. Well, I think we're talking about two separate things here because I like him having

just sort of a green light to try to get into the paint. But, but the bringing the ball up the

court thing. Here's what I'll say. We had this fear and it's kind of gone awake as so many other

things have happened. There's still a question of what do you do if teams just press you for 48

minutes? Jamal can handle it for a time, but is it going to wear him down? And then who is it that

you like doing that? Well, I mean, Bruce Brown, you split it between them. But Bruce has also been

pretty shaky up and down at this role. I completely agree with you. Sometimes Julian, I don't,

we saw moments where Jamal Murray was sharing the court with him. But Pete Watson was still,

and this happened last game, too, was still initiating the offense. And to me, it's like,

because they want to save Jamal. That's the whole idea is that it's awesome off the court then.

Like, I just, I just think that my overall point is I think Peyton Watson is a very good offensive

player. But I don't think he can be the guy that starts and finishes it. Like, I think he's a

finish or not a starter. I think I want to see these hand next couple games because I still see

some good stuff in him. That second stint was really rough, was really rough tonight. And I still

think getting into the pain. The last game, I honestly don't think he was that bad. He just missed

a bunch of shots that I think he'll make. If he doesn't, I don't know, but he missed like five or

six that are like, yes, that's exactly it. He's like charged in and just like threw the ball up.

He was frustrated tonight for sure. He did get frustrated tonight. The weirdest part of his

night was they had him in for garbage time. Yeah. Maybe on a minute restriction. Maybe to get

him to his minutes. Maybe I don't know like 22 minutes, but I'm saying, but ramp him. Like,

this is the thing about him is how long we're talking about a minute restriction. And then he

just played garbage. But how many part of this, I kind of get those. What I'm saying is the

difference between 22 and whatever. He kind of does have to get in shape by the playoffs.

For sure. No, absolutely. How do you do that on a minute restriction? It's tough. It is tough.

The nuggets only have one game this week Wednesday. So I wonder if like Wednesday is his

minute restriction 25 and Saturday. It's 28 because at some point, you have to start seeing how

many are you going to go into the playoffs? He hasn't played more than 22 minutes with this.

We're having three days off. I feel like they just like this play to play them to grand

rapids for a game. No, just take the minute restriction off like this. We got three days off.

Then we got five days off. It's like just play these guys. I mean, I approved like I definitely

agree with the idea of like sitting Aaron Gordon tonight. Even I am curious if you actually did have

a tight hamstring if they're just like being overly, overly cautious. And they saw this as an

opportunity to just get a tight hamstring. Harrison, I saw it. We think, I don't know.

We think we saw it. I don't know. We'll see. But boy, being is it. I definitely understand

after this season, being as cautious as you can with your players. But think about this though.

Same number of rebounds as Jamal. Two fewer assists than Jamal. Twelve fewer minutes.

It's like 10, six and five is production. Yeah. Efficiency horrible. But 10, six and five is still

production. So I just think there's something to it. That three of 11 can be more of like five of

11. Yeah. And you're putting up 14, six and five is like that's actually a good game. I agree.

I just feel like he can be like an 18 point a night scorer unless he's trying to create his own

shot the whole time. We'll see how it all plays out. I'm curious what what people think about

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Back here. We're waiting for Brennan vote. You should be joining from the arena any moment

here now. We'll get the inside scoop from the locker room. I think there's a lot to talk about.

Did just while we're killing time here. I'm going to go around Twitter. Okay. Oh nice. New segment.

My guy, Ryan, the ex. Good friend of mine. Love him. He had my least favorite tweet I've ever

seen in my life. Did you see this one? He says it's honestly pretty wild how much the national

NBA media comes from or still lives on the East Coast. Goes a long way in explaining how the

Lakers are discussed. It just goes to show you that no matter like who you and I've learned

this. I've learned this from doing all of the show. I'm telling you every fan base truly

sincerely feels like yeah nobody talks about us. And if they do they just say the bad stuff.

The Lakers get no coverage. I know. And if they do know they have actually ESPN the studio for NBA

today across the street from crypto.com. They need to move it inside the arena. Actually,

I need Kendrick Perkins covering the Lakers from inside the arena across the street.

Malika, come on. Yeah. Let's they're not out enough games. Unbelievable. Do you guys know I don't

know if you've seen the view on the on the timeline. There's weird stuff that pops out of the

Thailand. Yoke and I do think there's a fair complaint in here. Yoke had 19 assists. I can't

remember what game it was. Was it last game? It was one of the 2020. Yeah. Yeah. What was that?

There was the game. Yeah. And you know, somebody went and looked at him. I do think there were like

two or three assists in there that were like, and we thought it at the time because we were

counting them. And there was a couple of like, are they going to give them the right they did.

They gave him that like, you're like, it happens to everyone. Yoke happens to assist to

everybody. Game is fun. But whenever it happens and somebody makes a tape, it becomes the story

that Yoke actually doesn't average that many assists. Right. That's because he probably gets

three assists a game that aren't juiced. Yeah. I mean, probably shouldn't have been averaging a

triple double. Yeah. It's like, oh, that's what we're worried. It's crazy that it's crazy how

things can be run with that. I will say that Yoke's not winning MVP this year. And to me, it's

I haven't cared about the MVP for a while, but it's kind of nice to be out of it. It is hilarious how

much people. I know because he's still above the door. I'm telling you, I'm friends with a lot of

Lakers, like media people. They all, I'm not kidding. DMs, text about everything else are like,

I hate Luca. I kind of hope they move on. I hate this era. And now it's, he's been good all year.

No one's gonna see. Like I said, I'm not going to do this because I think it's like, you know,

these are friends of mine. And I would never share DMs. You know, I would never do that. Put people on

blind. But part of me wants to be like, all of you be out of quote with the text of everyone saying

how bad Luca sucks from eight weeks ago. It's just like when you get to LA, you want to be skinny.

You know, like when guys get to the Lakers, they're, they just want to be skinny or somebody

good looking people is crazy, man. We got brinna vote. I only go live to ballerina. Talk to the

handsome one. There he is. And his iron maiden mask, voting time, live from ballerina.

Guys, what's up? Let's start this call with some pop trivia. Do the nuggets have more wins in a

row or players that got hurt tonight? What do you think? That's the right answer. Six wins in a

row for the Denver nuggets. It wasn't pretty tonight until that third quarter, which was gorgeous,

marred only by, oh, I don't know, the entire forward room getting hurt. Crazy house keeping

here from what we've learned. I, I watched Ziknaji leave the arena in crutches tonight from

the locker room. He left that game with left hip impingement. Again, he left with crutches.

Spencer Jones has right hamstring tightness. He was never really likely to return to that game.

To be honest, guys, that's the one I'm keyed in on because hamstrings are such an issue.

Cam Johnson left with back spasms returned with a big wrap. Actually, I'm not sure if that was

ice or heat wrap. I talked to him in the locker room. He said he was actually trying to return to

play tonight. At one point during a time out, he was shuffling up and down the baseline, trying to

stay warm, ultimately Denver pulled away. And so Cam decided, you know, let's just play it safe.

But he was attempting to come back tonight. And Jamal Murray took off.

And I think real quick, vote. I think this happened the first time he had the back spasms. Didn't

he come back to the game after he had had back spasms or was available to? So I'm curious about

this. Is anybody asked him to these back spasms sort of? Is it like when you get him?

Aaron Peterson situation. Yeah, like when you get him. Is it like, oh, man, it's about 15 minutes

before these go away. And then I'm back to normal. Like, what is the situation?

Good question. I just had him one on one for a second on his way out the door. So I didn't want

to take too much of his time. That's a good question though. I can find an answer to that going

forward. But yeah, he did try to come back tonight. And then Jamal Murray, I don't know if you guys

saw took a forearm club to the back of the head from the owner's Valentinus. No, he did not vote.

No, he did not. He did not. He did not. According to Harrison, he ran into big

valve. He did. Yeah, he did. Oh, okay, ran into. So was Jamal's fault. Okay.

Actually, there's nobody's fault. Just kidding. Yeah, just kidding. Okay. Well,

semantically, one way or another Jamal made contact with the owner's Valentinus.

He was a big guy. Jamal was joking with us in the locker room about just how much it hurt

and in perfect timing, Valentinus walked in without missing a beat by bad mall.

Jamal tells me he's good to go though. I don't know why I bother asking. He would probably

fill me that if his leg was falling off. True. The same. Let's get to some of the quotes.

David Adelman, I don't know if you guys remember a couple of weeks ago, he talked about how sometimes

wins and losses can be deceiving. You could be on a winning streak, but not playing very well.

You could have mediocre results and feel like the process is much better. He brought that up again

tonight, which I thought was kind of apt. He did say ultimately he thought tonight was a good win,

but I just thought even the way that he mentioned it, you know, winning streaks are funny.

Sometimes you start paying attention to the number, but you aren't playing very well.

Personally, I feel like that's a nice app description of this particular win streak,

but he felt like tonight was a good win. Certainly was a great third quarter.

Aaron Gordon missed this game with left calf tightness. It was listed as David Adelman referred to

it as soreness pregame. This was Aaron Gordon's call. He called them early in the day. Let the staff

know that Adelman, no, he just wasn't feeling it, wasn't going to push it. So Adelman said, I woke up

this morning thinking Aaron Gordon was going to start. He didn't. And then Spencer goes out and came

and seek and as Adelman said, it seems like it's always like this. It's not just one center and one

point guard. It's like all at the same position seems to get hurt at once. I talked about Yoke,

which is defense admitted that sometimes in the first half you'll see guys scoring because he's

more reluctant to contest. I can't play that hard or pick up fouls with his responsibility.

But in the second half, he can be aggressive. And tonight, he thought he was very aggressive on

ball, took some paces at the rim, trying to go vertical or block shots, gave yoke some credit

for the turn around defensively there. He's not really sure about the severity of the injury.

He says players usually tell you after these things that they're fine. He's got to check in with

the med staff tomorrow morning. He was frustrated for and proud of Zeke who he said has been so good

this year in a role that can be very frustrated. He's just been a pro about it all year long.

And of course, like always, he starts to play well and he gets hurt. He says I've been proud of

Zeke all season. He's fun to coach. He's a good person and he's a really good piano player.

I think David Aliment is on loan. I think David Aliment is online. I really do. I think I really,

really do think really good piano player. Yeah.

David Aliment is a snow wolf or something. He has the least aura out of any coach of all time.

I agree with that, man. I really do. Bruce Brown got the podium tonight. Bruce has been playing

really well. I said, Bruce, you look to me like you're moving way better, improved burst.

You're getting to the rim better. Does that have anything to do with health? And Bruce Brown said,

yes. He said that knee was bothering him earlier in the season. When I say that knee, that's that

right knee in arthroscopic surgery on in 2024 was a bit of a not enough issue from there. He said

it was swelling earlier in the year and the swelling has gone down and that coincides with Bruce

playing better. So if it looks like Bruce is moving better to you guys, Bruce feels better.

And so that probably has a lot to do with it. That's all I got for you guys so far from the locker room.

That's really that's really it on the pertinent notes. We'll have to wait and see just how sincere or

serious I should say these injuries are. In the meantime, technically, the nuggets have won again

and we are streaking fellas. All right. Real quick before you get out of here. Good win. Like how do

you feel about this one is impressive performance from the nuggets? Okay. Good win. I'll stop short of

impressive because you got to beat that team, but they beat them by what was that there? 23 23 points.

So yeah, that's pretty handedly and I just it was the same thing we've seen from the last games.

They pick one quarter or one half to really buckle down. It seems like that's the best we're

going to get for now, but wins are wins and giving themselves a good shot to at least get this

four seed here. All righty. Great stuff, vote. We'll see you tomorrow. I fellas. See you next time.

You got about three minutes. Good piano player.

Please. We're also on the bet too. Game ball. The pick tracker.

Pick tracker. Negly, okay. I mean, come on. This was an easy one. 25 15 eight. No triple double,

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Let's go to our super chats. We're not getting any money from bet three six five for this episode.

Why? Two three four dead D line still in the lead for

let's go. It all it takes. All right, super chats. Ryan B.

Big accidently, Steve Adams, my own teammate vow. Dude, he has a lot of Steven Adams in him.

He's just a giant. Just what that means. Yeah. Crazy Abe. Wish Dev was there for that big

Zeke. No confidence. He could have been great. We can only take it so far ourselves.

Game shy. Nuggets tonight. First half. Brooks was here. Second half. So was red.

Oh, I love that. You don't get that. Shocking credential. That's a great one. I got that one.

Well, after you said it. Yeah, okay. Ryan B. I cannot believe Tingo's Pinguist

impinged my boy. That's exactly what happened. By the way, he literally Tingo's Pinguist impinged.

He was good tonight. All Tingo's being his. He's fine.

AJ corn star. Fun fact, not just six wins in a row, but also six the

munder of the 2025-2026 season. That's it. It's 12.

Six in the whole year. I've only said that's that meme at six times. Yeah, we haven't done that

many times. Terrible. Oh, my God. Kyle. Kyle M. Hey, Adam. What the hell did Kyle?

Twenty twenty three point win. Kill good. And like that. Jesus Christ did me. Kyle.

Jay corn star. The DNV role panel is right. All right. Great. Super chat.

Thank you so far. So good. I just witnessed another MVP like performance of

Doron Holmes. The second. Yes. I think I'm the best player in the and the NBA's history.

And Jerry Garboson. It is funny that he's. He doesn't miss. I know. He really doesn't.

It's not really tough to come off the bench. You just hit a couple of threes, I feel like.

Not for him. It's not styled in, man.

Tylas and truth are Zeke's hairline is trying to run away from him.

Don't go. Tylas and truth are don't bring that in here, man. That wasn't that was a tough look.

You know what? That's why he did it. We were talking about that was why Gary Payton gave me

talk about some more. Guys, why don't you follow us on overtime? If you're watching us some fast,

let's go to the internet. Yeah. Kick up our feet now.

Gary Payton was totally like, you're not wearing that big ass headband here anymore.

He was just like, hey, forgot something. I love the headband man.

Sadrick exquisite. Z equal Superman. Bb equal star lord. P1 equals whole good show.

I don't think you and me didn't come with books, bro.

Hey, let's get the hot AK rip off Jack Harlow gets beat by King.

Yo, that's right. Christ off. I feel for Jamal. I run to polls all the time.

Man, that's a good one. Kind of. That's a good one.

80 kilogram Costco chicken. I feel like we're like zero one Lakers.

Lakers top team with best center and guard.

Center and guard duo. Happy that B a injury trouble.

Whole season got together and streaking at the end.

Oh, we're like the Lakers. Okay, don't expect 16 and 16 and four works too.

16 and four would be dope. I'd love to have it. No sweat.

Telling you, man. Telling you DJ's sexy Jeff.

What do the nuggets and I have in common?

We're both streaking right now.

Right now, damn, at this 50 at night.

It's the running that I'm more impressed with.

Yeah. It's fine for an hour.

Five ish were officially in striking distance. Boys.

Wow. 143 bench three.

Three down only 12.

If you don't do something incredibly nice for Tim.

Hardaway junior till 55 odds are.

I don't think they'll hit it in the next one.

Could hit it in Saturday's game, which will feel like the biggest game in the year.

Oh my god. This will be remembered as the Zeke headband.

Revive something K. I went too fast.

Zeke headband game. We're shrieking, baby.

We're just off. Chris off.

Zur back to third. Did I not cash this earlier?

No, it's a different account.

Yeah. I'm sure it's a different person.

Start number six.

Tim Hardaway junior campaign or start.

Hashtag six Tim six Tim Hardaway.

What? Six man of the year.

Six man six man junior campaign.

But that was rough.

I think we need to alter the hashtag a tiny bit.

The guy is pure vibes.

Pure vibes.

AJ corn star.

Who in the nuggets organization or team offended the basketball gods

for them to have these too much injuries on several players?

You know what, man?

Nuggets are part of me is like,

well, they're ready for the adversity of the playoffs that was you.

Yeah.

MG hype. Nuggets are six and no since Yokech got a haircut.

Yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah.

Obviously, Maddox Auto Zeke Spence camp.

All hurt is a January again.

Hopefully not.

No, because in January,

our really good plans for it.

Game shine.

Does Jamal have more assists per game than MBPSGA?

Yes, he leads the lead in it.

Jamal.

Oh, I see.

I don't I'd have to check the stats on that one.

We're not Google.

We barely know.

We don't know.

Asking your question.

I don't know.

I guess he's paid for it.

Yes, he does.

Yes, he does.

Is the answer.

The answer is yes.

Michael Porter, truth or

camcb.

Yoke plus 8.4 net rating strawberries.

Straw there.

CB.

Joker plus 16.3 in

more than 500 possessions.

Straw there.

Good.

I also had a good game tonight.

Yeah, he's been good, man.

He has been good.

AJ Corn starred.

Nicole Yokech is ceiling potential.

And my opinion is 62 points.

28 rebounds and 23 assists with zero turnovers.

With 100% fuel glow shooting.

I'm not saying that's his,

you know, that he.

I think he's had that.

I'm not saying he could do that.

But I am saying that if he did it,

I would I would be like, yeah, I.

I'm not saying he's shooting.

I'm not saying he can't do that.

But bam out of bio just scored.

That's true.

Four points or whatever.

Yeah, those are rookie numbers.

Gotta get those numbers up.

Everybody takes your tune in.

Another win.

We did pro six in a row.

I just remember this.

Basketball is not here to be fun or entertaining.

We're supposed to get the wins.

He was entertaining that second half.

Hadest in the first half though.

Hadest in the first half.

Thanks for hanging out with us guys.

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but we are back on Tuesday.

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