WEBVTT 00:00:05.029 --> 00:00:22.449 JTS. Yeah. Just in time sports. Look, this is 00:00:22.449 --> 00:00:24.449 just a town sports. Come and get your weekly 00:00:24.449 --> 00:00:26.890 takes. His opinion from the heart. He can never 00:00:26.890 --> 00:00:29.089 show you fake. If you winning or you losing. 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:31.679 Tell it to you straight. How we talking basketball 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:34.119 without a Jordan Brown debate? If you got the 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:36.060 hottest dicks, you better come and make it case. 00:00:36.140 --> 00:00:38.460 If you win a couple games, he might even show 00:00:38.460 --> 00:00:41.100 you grace. JCS on every platform. We grow the 00:00:41.100 --> 00:00:43.719 adaptation. Numbers going up the charts. We create 00:00:43.719 --> 00:01:09.560 the separation. This is just a time sports. Come 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:13.879 and get your weekly takes. His opinion from the 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:16.219 heart, he can never show you fake He can never 00:01:16.219 --> 00:01:18.620 show you fake, he can never show you fake If 00:01:18.620 --> 00:01:20.799 you winning or you losing, he gon' tell it to 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:22.719 you straight He gon' tell it to you, he gon' 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:24.560 tell it to you, he gon' tell it to you This is 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:26.680 Just In Time Sports, come and get your whoopie 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:29.439 takes Come and get it, he gon' tell it to you 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:37.599 straight, to you straight Welcome into the show 00:01:38.290 --> 00:01:41.250 Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin 00:01:41.250 --> 00:01:44.329 Time Sports Podcast. I am your owner and host, 00:01:44.450 --> 00:01:47.730 Justin Jackson. This is season seven, episode 00:01:47.730 --> 00:01:51.010 two. Excited to be back. I told you guys we were 00:01:51.010 --> 00:01:52.489 coming back weekly. We're going to figure this 00:01:52.489 --> 00:01:54.969 thing out. We're going to be back on the air 00:01:54.969 --> 00:01:57.629 every single week. You guys are going to podcast 00:01:57.629 --> 00:01:59.969 me weekly. It may not be every Tuesday and Wednesday, 00:02:00.109 --> 00:02:03.489 but once a calendar week, you will hear from 00:02:03.489 --> 00:02:06.040 me, my thoughts on what's happening. Like I said, 00:02:06.099 --> 00:02:09.000 basketball affords us a little flexibility because 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:12.419 games happen every single day. So we can, I mean, 00:02:12.419 --> 00:02:14.860 there's lighter days, of course. There's days 00:02:14.860 --> 00:02:16.699 that are a little bit lighter. Like you'll have 00:02:16.699 --> 00:02:19.860 those TNT, or they used to be TNT, excuse me. 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:25.280 Those Amazon Prime exclusive windows or Peacock 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:27.300 will have a Saturday night game. And in case 00:02:27.300 --> 00:02:31.159 it affords us a little bit more flexibility in 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:35.379 regards to with football. pretty much got to 00:02:35.379 --> 00:02:38.560 make a choice you're either going to be a recap 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.979 early preview show or just a really good preview 00:02:40.979 --> 00:02:43.919 show we tend to be a really good preview show 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:45.860 record usually that Wednesday night or that Thursday 00:02:45.860 --> 00:02:48.560 night going into the weekend as opposed to coming 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:51.759 like that Tuesday night or Monday night right 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:54.280 after Monday night football there's a pure recap 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:59.419 show this year debating doing two shows a week 00:02:59.419 --> 00:03:02.150 maybe during football of having a recap show 00:03:02.150 --> 00:03:03.870 and then a preview show but we'll get off that 00:03:03.870 --> 00:03:06.229 that's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that 00:03:06.229 --> 00:03:09.250 you guys don't particularly care about but that 00:03:09.250 --> 00:03:11.770 kind of leads us into what we're not talking 00:03:11.770 --> 00:03:14.289 about what we are not talking about is the world 00:03:14.289 --> 00:03:17.110 baseball classic you guys typically don't care 00:03:17.110 --> 00:03:20.669 about baseball most of the country doesn't care 00:03:20.669 --> 00:03:22.810 about baseball until we get to the world series 00:03:22.810 --> 00:03:25.490 or at least deep in the playoff run or shohei 00:03:25.490 --> 00:03:29.750 otani's gambling we're also not gonna talk about 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:35.259 The Pat Riley statue. It looks really cool. It 00:03:35.259 --> 00:03:38.020 is probably one of the Lakers are the masters 00:03:38.020 --> 00:03:42.039 of statues. I don't know why the Miami Heat didn't 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:44.800 commission the same guy or figure something out 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.460 as far as company to get a statue. But Pat Riley 00:03:47.460 --> 00:03:51.740 statue looks amazing. And we're also not going 00:03:51.740 --> 00:03:55.860 to talk about that rather hilarious back and 00:03:55.860 --> 00:03:58.599 forth between Mario Cristobal, who's the head 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:01.979 coach of the Miami Hurricanes. and kirby smart 00:04:01.979 --> 00:04:05.020 who's the head coach of georgia two of the best 00:04:05.020 --> 00:04:08.139 10 coaches in the country uh having a little 00:04:08.139 --> 00:04:11.620 back and forth joust about carson beck so that 00:04:11.620 --> 00:04:15.580 was rather entertaining it was rather enjoyable 00:04:15.580 --> 00:04:19.279 seeing again two of the best 10 coaches you can 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:21.839 argue kirby smart may be the best coach especially 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.139 at the collegiate level with all the different 00:04:25.139 --> 00:04:27.379 things that go into coaching these days like 00:04:27.379 --> 00:04:29.860 roster building and whatever and of course mario 00:04:29.860 --> 00:04:33.240 cristobal taking a dying corpse of a program 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.319 in miami and they were in the national championship 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:40.639 game last year at midfield down by a touchdown 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:43.720 or less With Carson Beck having the ball in his 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:48.879 hand to potentially go win that thing. So, you 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:52.600 know, that was hilarious. But that is all we 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:56.920 have for JTS Quick Touch. Because again, we're 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:58.740 not talking about any of those things, but I 00:04:58.740 --> 00:05:01.300 would feel remiss if I didn't at least bring 00:05:01.300 --> 00:05:05.800 them up. But let's get into what we are talking 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.689 about. We are starting off. with the olympic 00:05:09.689 --> 00:05:12.350 games now the olympics themselves are wrapping 00:05:12.350 --> 00:05:16.689 up in milan and the big story from team usa aside 00:05:16.689 --> 00:05:20.750 from some personal triumphs and the amazing attempt 00:05:20.750 --> 00:05:23.889 by lindsey vaughn to come back and win gold again 00:05:23.889 --> 00:05:30.149 is the hockey team specifically our men's national 00:05:30.149 --> 00:05:33.389 hockey team now i want to give a shout out to 00:05:33.389 --> 00:05:38.750 our women hockey team as they won gold five or 00:05:38.750 --> 00:05:41.509 six days before the men did, or at least it felt 00:05:41.509 --> 00:05:43.649 like multiple, I mean, it was multiple days for 00:05:43.649 --> 00:05:46.589 sure. But it felt like, you know, about a week 00:05:46.589 --> 00:05:48.769 between the tournaments. I know that didn't happen. 00:05:48.810 --> 00:05:52.910 That's like basketball. The men, the women finish 00:05:52.910 --> 00:05:56.449 about a day or two in front of the men. It probably 00:05:56.449 --> 00:05:59.930 was that way for the hockey team. The gap just 00:05:59.930 --> 00:06:02.930 felt bigger for whatever reason. But the women 00:06:02.930 --> 00:06:09.660 hockey team defeated Canada. the gold game to 00:06:09.660 --> 00:06:12.920 win gold for Team USA then it was the men's turn 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:16.459 so obviously the miracle on ice is always remembered 00:06:16.459 --> 00:06:20.720 why because it was the last Olympics that the 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:26.079 US men's national team has won gold now recall 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:29.459 and walk with me on this Remember how I spoke 00:06:29.459 --> 00:06:33.660 about last week, Kevin Durant's shot is romanticized 00:06:33.660 --> 00:06:37.079 as the shot to send them to the finals, not the 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:39.839 shot to get them to another chance, to get them 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:42.339 to another round, to then get to the finals. 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:45.420 But it is romanticized as if Kevin Durant's toe 00:06:45.420 --> 00:06:48.980 is behind the line. It's Brooklyn versus Phoenix. 00:06:49.379 --> 00:06:52.600 And, you know, instead of Milwaukee beating Brooklyn 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:55.959 and then going to another game and then going 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:59.939 to the finals. The Miracle on Ice, my entire 00:06:59.939 --> 00:07:04.339 life, felt like was romanticized as the gold 00:07:04.339 --> 00:07:07.740 medal game. I've heard people tell stories from 00:07:07.740 --> 00:07:10.839 Sochi. I've heard people, you know, talk about, 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:14.220 oh, the lowly American kids had no chance against 00:07:14.220 --> 00:07:18.959 the big, bad Soviet hockey team. And how, you 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:21.620 know, like I said, no one had a shot. And it 00:07:21.620 --> 00:07:24.980 was the greatest victory in men's national hockey 00:07:24.980 --> 00:07:30.040 history. so on and so forth right because understanding 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:35.379 a lot of that what made it so great was our political 00:07:35.379 --> 00:07:38.439 climate at the time in the world and the soviets 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:40.620 still had the iron curtain up but for the first 00:07:40.620 --> 00:07:43.279 time it was fracturing and you can kind of see 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:46.639 the holes in the soviets but one of the main 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:51.040 things they had was their athletics because of 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:53.579 i mean look at it now what used to be the soviet 00:07:53.579 --> 00:07:58.550 union is home to a lot of top athletes. The former 00:07:58.550 --> 00:08:01.110 Soviet Union, if the Soviet Union had a basketball 00:08:01.110 --> 00:08:05.670 team, they would have Luka Doncic, they would 00:08:05.670 --> 00:08:10.430 have Nikola Jokic, they would have a lot of the 00:08:10.430 --> 00:08:14.129 great middle European players we're seeing would 00:08:14.129 --> 00:08:16.990 all be on one Soviet team, right? Along with 00:08:16.990 --> 00:08:19.529 whoever Russia puts out into it. Well, that was 00:08:19.529 --> 00:08:22.100 the case in hockey. Pretty much the best players 00:08:22.100 --> 00:08:25.180 from each of these individual cultures made up 00:08:25.180 --> 00:08:27.759 the Soviet Union Olympic team. They actually 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:30.800 dominated a couple of Olympics in their peak 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:34.539 because of this athletic regimen. History lesson 00:08:34.539 --> 00:08:39.639 aside, that was the backdrop to America sending 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:42.639 a bunch of college kids to the Olympics. Think 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:52.759 about it. This is pre -1992. for the USA men's 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:59.419 national team. Well, in 1980, we were still sending, 00:08:59.539 --> 00:09:02.059 as they're popularly called, the college kids 00:09:02.059 --> 00:09:05.860 over to the Olympics. Professionals ended up 00:09:05.860 --> 00:09:07.919 coming in for hockey, I think in either 84 or 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:10.100 88, but it was before the dream team in basketball. 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:13.879 Anyway, so defeating Russia was not the gold 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:16.860 medal game. defeating the soviet union was the 00:09:16.860 --> 00:09:20.080 semi -final game to get them to the gold medal 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.259 game it has always been romanticized it is popularized 00:09:24.259 --> 00:09:29.200 in the movies and the clips and the emotion and 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:33.159 the stories and the name the miracle on ice all 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:36.059 these different things like it was the gold medal 00:09:36.059 --> 00:09:38.940 game it was just the game to get you to the gold 00:09:38.940 --> 00:09:41.659 medal game Ultimately, the U .S. ends up winning, 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:44.299 which is partly why the Miracle in Ice stands 00:09:44.299 --> 00:09:48.620 up, which is similar to the Kevin Durant shot 00:09:48.620 --> 00:09:51.779 because Milwaukee goes on and wins the title. 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.799 You kind of skip the part in the middle. So a 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:59.580 lot of people's brains goes Miracle in Ice, gold 00:09:59.580 --> 00:10:05.059 medal. Kevin Durant's foot, NBA title. Well. 00:10:06.350 --> 00:10:09.870 this game actually this time the us national 00:10:09.870 --> 00:10:13.730 team their big game the big show moment the big 00:10:13.730 --> 00:10:17.470 here it is was actually in the gold medal game 00:10:17.470 --> 00:10:21.529 versus ironically canada again so the women's 00:10:21.529 --> 00:10:24.750 team already defeated canada to secure gold now 00:10:24.750 --> 00:10:27.190 the men's team has the opportunity to do the 00:10:27.190 --> 00:10:30.799 same thing it goes into overtime And the golden 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:33.960 goal is scored by the US men's national team 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:38.299 to secure the first gold medal in men's hockey 00:10:38.299 --> 00:10:44.320 since the Miracle in Ice year of 1980. Absolutely 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:48.000 spectacular moment. Canada, this is Canada's 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.659 sport. This would be like if Canada beat us basketball 00:10:50.659 --> 00:10:55.360 in men's and women's. Like the pure, I guess, 00:10:55.460 --> 00:11:01.629 panic or shock or... whatever you know would 00:11:01.629 --> 00:11:06.669 occur would be mind -blowing because just like 00:11:06.669 --> 00:11:10.149 James Naismith invented basketball in America 00:11:10.149 --> 00:11:14.470 hockey was invented in Canada that is their game 00:11:14.470 --> 00:11:18.730 often you don't get to know the true origin of 00:11:18.730 --> 00:11:21.870 a sport running has been running since running 00:11:21.870 --> 00:11:25.730 has been running right so you can't really quantify 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:29.720 running events in the olympics now the marathon 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:32.539 has its origins like the runner the messenger 00:11:32.539 --> 00:11:37.340 ran 26 .2 miles and died at the foot after delivering 00:11:37.340 --> 00:11:40.059 the message so that's why the marathons are 26 00:11:40.059 --> 00:11:44.779 .2 miles to to exemplify his you know his feet 00:11:44.779 --> 00:11:50.120 okay fine you don't you know horse racing has 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:51.720 been a thing since they were able to be tamed 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:56.399 okay fine but most of the time like you know 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.919 wrestling comes from pancreation like there's 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.279 there's different olympic origins but even then 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:05.179 it's more of story and folk tale and kind of 00:12:05.179 --> 00:12:09.220 you need a little bit of don't look at boy you 00:12:09.220 --> 00:12:14.139 need a little bit of historical leeway for the 00:12:14.139 --> 00:12:18.740 story to work basketball and hockey are two sports 00:12:18.740 --> 00:12:22.059 you don't need that for i know james nate smith 00:12:22.059 --> 00:12:28.190 invented basketball in america i know that hockey 00:12:28.190 --> 00:12:31.889 was invented in canada so for the us to defeat 00:12:31.889 --> 00:12:37.149 canada literally in their sport twice men and 00:12:37.149 --> 00:12:42.070 women for the gold is spectacular i mean the 00:12:42.070 --> 00:12:47.309 u .s basketball team in the olympics um in france 00:12:47.309 --> 00:12:50.009 and paris had the opportunity to do it as well 00:12:50.009 --> 00:12:53.250 they defeated the french men in the gold medal 00:12:53.250 --> 00:12:57.820 game And then had the French women lost to who 00:12:57.820 --> 00:13:00.000 the U .S. women ended up blowing out anyway. 00:13:00.379 --> 00:13:03.299 But the French women lost. Otherwise, they would 00:13:03.299 --> 00:13:06.340 have got doubled up in their home country. But 00:13:06.340 --> 00:13:10.639 absolutely spectacular victory for our Olympic 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:16.980 team. Kudos to them. Look forward to them in 00:13:16.980 --> 00:13:21.110 2030. But absolutely spectacular. And it adds 00:13:21.110 --> 00:13:24.190 another layer to the hockey season, the NHL season, 00:13:24.389 --> 00:13:26.610 because it happens in the middle of their season. 00:13:27.090 --> 00:13:30.429 Like the Olympic break doesn't affect the NBA, 00:13:30.649 --> 00:13:33.110 but it definitely affects hockey. So they're 00:13:33.110 --> 00:13:36.570 going to go into next season and the next part 00:13:36.570 --> 00:13:39.090 of the season. Absolutely roaring because they 00:13:39.090 --> 00:13:42.509 pause their Olympics. They pause their season. 00:13:43.169 --> 00:13:46.169 Canada win. Canada loses. And now they go back. 00:13:46.970 --> 00:13:50.190 So it's going to be very entertaining. Some of 00:13:50.190 --> 00:13:56.110 those road arenas are going to be wild. But enough 00:13:56.110 --> 00:13:58.470 for the Olympics. They are over and so is me 00:13:58.470 --> 00:14:03.309 talking about them. Let's jump into the NBA as 00:14:03.309 --> 00:14:06.389 the National Basketball Association is roaring 00:14:06.389 --> 00:14:09.889 at full force. A lot of big games tonight. I'm 00:14:09.889 --> 00:14:13.149 actually recording this during. the games but 00:14:13.149 --> 00:14:15.570 i don't want to talk about the games the reason 00:14:15.570 --> 00:14:18.269 why is or the individual games the reason why 00:14:18.269 --> 00:14:21.190 is they're currently happening so i don't want 00:14:21.190 --> 00:14:25.830 me to be able to discuss you know philly indiana 00:14:25.830 --> 00:14:28.990 because it's gone final already but milwaukee 00:14:28.990 --> 00:14:31.330 miami is still going new orleans golden state 00:14:31.330 --> 00:14:33.870 is still going cleveland is actually putting 00:14:33.870 --> 00:14:36.429 a hurting on new york that's an interesting one 00:14:37.170 --> 00:14:39.570 specific because I will talk about the Cavs. 00:14:39.570 --> 00:14:42.269 I may bring that one up. But regardless, I won't 00:14:42.269 --> 00:14:44.169 go into standings or anything like that because 00:14:44.169 --> 00:14:50.909 the games are currently happening. Houston. Should 00:14:50.909 --> 00:14:56.350 I say San Antonio? We have a problem. Area 51 00:14:56.350 --> 00:15:01.889 is legit. By that, I mean the San Antonio Spurs 00:15:01.889 --> 00:15:06.529 are a team to be reckoned with. What they just 00:15:06.529 --> 00:15:09.690 did to Detroit was very impressive. Detroit is 00:15:09.690 --> 00:15:13.909 the number one seed in the East. Detroit has 00:15:13.909 --> 00:15:17.990 a legitimate shot of making the NBA Finals. I'll 00:15:17.990 --> 00:15:20.529 talk about why I don't think they will, but they 00:15:20.529 --> 00:15:23.230 have a legitimate shot to make the NBA Finals. 00:15:23.629 --> 00:15:27.370 Some people, and I can see the comparison, some 00:15:27.370 --> 00:15:29.370 people are comparing them to the Derrick Rose 00:15:29.370 --> 00:15:33.830 Bulls years. where they have an MVP -level guard 00:15:33.830 --> 00:15:36.809 who does everything for them offensively, and 00:15:36.809 --> 00:15:39.450 they got a bunch of rough riders and tough dudes 00:15:39.450 --> 00:15:45.450 and bullies and just enough shooting and all 00:15:45.450 --> 00:15:50.049 -world defense to cause havoc every single night 00:15:50.049 --> 00:15:54.549 and to have the ability to make it out of the 00:15:54.549 --> 00:15:57.309 East. Because if you remember, the Derrick Rose 00:15:57.309 --> 00:16:01.100 Bulls, Ran through everybody and just met the 00:16:01.100 --> 00:16:05.779 best player to ever live in LeBron James. So 00:16:05.779 --> 00:16:08.879 going back to the Pistons, they look like there's 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:12.019 no LeBron James in the East. I mean, they had 00:16:12.019 --> 00:16:15.980 as good a chance as any to make it to the finals, 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:20.259 and they still do. But what San Antonio just 00:16:20.259 --> 00:16:23.169 did them was a display. That was a display of 00:16:23.169 --> 00:16:26.769 power. Victor Winbinyama, Stephon Castle, and 00:16:26.769 --> 00:16:30.289 the rest of the crew, that was an impressive 00:16:30.289 --> 00:16:34.509 show, especially defensively. They really locked 00:16:34.509 --> 00:16:38.029 in on Cade Cunningham. They really made him work 00:16:38.029 --> 00:16:42.909 in this game. It's very rare. There's a phrase 00:16:42.909 --> 00:16:46.809 in NBA lexicon called shooting a tour date, you 00:16:46.809 --> 00:16:49.570 know, where it's like 3, 4, 11, like March 11th, 00:16:49.570 --> 00:16:53.179 like, you know. Numbers you'll popularly see 00:16:53.179 --> 00:16:56.740 on a poster for a tour date. That's kind of, 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:58.639 you know, until you have a bad shooting night, 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:03.919 you're shooting a tour date. And Cade Cunningham 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:11.680 shot a legendary tour date. Five of 26 for 16 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:15.180 points. He ended up with 10 assists. Dante Robinson 00:17:15.180 --> 00:17:18.440 goes five of 15, but 11 of those were from three. 00:17:19.210 --> 00:17:23.950 Ron Holland goes 5 of 13. Devin got him Jenkins. 00:17:24.190 --> 00:17:28.289 He goes 3 of 10. But Victor Wynn -Binyama, I 00:17:28.289 --> 00:17:32.869 mean, and the Spurs did not play well offensively. 00:17:32.950 --> 00:17:36.150 You got Victor Wynn -Binyama who goes 6 for 16. 00:17:36.230 --> 00:17:40.829 He did have 17 rebounds. De 'Aaron Fox goes 4 00:17:40.829 --> 00:17:45.690 of 17. You know, Vassell shoots amazing. 10 for 00:17:45.690 --> 00:17:49.230 14, including 7 of 11 from 3. And Stephon Castle, 00:17:49.390 --> 00:17:53.089 7 -16, not bad. But their big contribution is 00:17:53.089 --> 00:17:57.589 completely voiding Cade Cunningham. And when 00:17:57.589 --> 00:17:59.849 you're able to do that to him, when you're able 00:17:59.849 --> 00:18:03.410 to... I mean, no one's done it consistently all 00:18:03.410 --> 00:18:05.349 season, but when you're able to bother him to 00:18:05.349 --> 00:18:09.369 such a level, it changes the possibility of Detroit 00:18:09.369 --> 00:18:12.789 winning a title. But what I want to focus on 00:18:12.789 --> 00:18:16.470 right now is San Antonio. And the problem, my 00:18:16.470 --> 00:18:18.970 warning message at the beginning, was not related 00:18:18.970 --> 00:18:22.450 to the rest of the NBA. No, not at all. My warning 00:18:22.450 --> 00:18:25.349 label at the very beginning was to the San Antonio 00:18:25.349 --> 00:18:29.609 Spurs. I do not think they are able to win a 00:18:29.609 --> 00:18:35.309 title this season. I am a person who studies 00:18:35.309 --> 00:18:37.789 the game of basketball. I'm a person who studies 00:18:37.789 --> 00:18:40.329 historical trends. My favorite subject in history, 00:18:40.529 --> 00:18:44.940 my favorite subject in school is history. i will 00:18:44.940 --> 00:18:47.579 study the trends i will lean on history whenever 00:18:47.579 --> 00:18:50.460 a decision needs to be made i believe in precedent 00:18:50.460 --> 00:18:56.819 okay i say all that to say the san antonio spurs 00:18:56.819 --> 00:18:59.259 are trying to do something that has only been 00:18:59.259 --> 00:19:07.119 done one time in nba history and that is basically 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:09.579 going from never winning a playoff series as 00:19:09.579 --> 00:19:15.460 a group to winning big and making the finals 00:19:15.460 --> 00:19:18.799 it's only happened one time in nba history and 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:27.240 that is and that is the orlando magic of shack 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:30.259 and penny now there are instances your brain 00:19:30.259 --> 00:19:32.359 could be saying well justin what about kareem 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:38.420 and magic in 1979 for the lakers i'm not counting 00:19:38.420 --> 00:19:41.940 bill russell celtics what about that group that 00:19:41.940 --> 00:19:44.559 group had never won as a unit You're right, but 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:47.559 they had one playoff series before. Most of them 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:50.819 had. Kareem had a title. Magic wasn't in the 00:19:50.819 --> 00:19:53.200 league yet, obviously. But a lot of those guys 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:56.339 had had success in the 70s. The Lakers of the 00:19:56.339 --> 00:19:59.799 70s actually weren't horrible. They weren't beating 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:03.180 Boston, but they weren't horrible. They made 00:20:03.180 --> 00:20:05.700 the playoffs every year. They won a playoff round 00:20:05.700 --> 00:20:08.900 or two. They just needed a spark. Insert Magic 00:20:08.900 --> 00:20:14.519 Johnson. But everybody else, every other group 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:18.920 has the story of we lost early and it bounced 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.480 us back. The reason why the Tragic Johnson thing 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:26.079 stuck so hard with Magic was because he walked 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:33.039 off the floor in 1978 or 79 as the national champion 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:36.859 of the college basketball after defeating Larry 00:20:36.859 --> 00:20:41.009 Bird at Indiana State. 15 months later, he's 00:20:41.009 --> 00:20:44.430 the NBA champion with the Los Angeles Lakers 00:20:44.430 --> 00:20:48.670 and he's finals MVP. He does not struggle truly 00:20:48.670 --> 00:20:51.690 in the playoffs for one year. So his comeuppance 00:20:51.690 --> 00:20:55.309 came a little later. But every group has to go 00:20:55.309 --> 00:20:58.890 through the growing pains. It's just how it works. 00:20:59.049 --> 00:21:03.859 You don't go from not winning anything. To all 00:21:03.859 --> 00:21:06.160 of a sudden, you're in the finals. And if they 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.119 get to the finals, they very well could win the 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:15.960 championship. To very well winning the NBA championship. 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:20.099 That's not happening. And I get it. I'm going 00:21:20.099 --> 00:21:22.140 to sound like a hater. And Victor Wimbinyama 00:21:22.140 --> 00:21:25.779 is amazing. De 'Aaron Fox has never done it. 00:21:26.220 --> 00:21:29.579 Stephon Castle has never done it. Victor Wimbinyama 00:21:29.579 --> 00:21:32.920 has never done it. Harrison Barnes, again, I 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:34.099 don't remember if Harrison Barnes is even on 00:21:34.099 --> 00:21:37.319 the team. Feels like he is. He hasn't done it 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:42.019 in ages. When was the last time Harrison Barnes 00:21:42.019 --> 00:21:44.859 mattered to a team? He did, 15 minutes against 00:21:44.859 --> 00:21:47.000 the Pistons. When was the last time Harrison 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:50.200 Barnes mattered to a team? I'm going through 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:53.319 this list. The only people on it with legitimate 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:55.839 experience in big moments is Harrison Barnes 00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:59.930 and Luke Cornett. And Lou Cornette was a very, 00:21:59.970 --> 00:22:03.670 very deep bench player on it. And Harrison Barnes 00:22:03.670 --> 00:22:06.529 was so good at it that the Golden State Warriors 00:22:06.529 --> 00:22:10.210 shipped him off and signed Kevin Durant to just 00:22:10.210 --> 00:22:14.349 fill his spot. I always say all the time, Golden 00:22:14.349 --> 00:22:16.789 State's advantage was they presto change old 00:22:16.789 --> 00:22:22.170 Harrison Barnes into Kevin freaking Durant. Period. 00:22:22.670 --> 00:22:28.119 That's what happened. So, as amazing. And as 00:22:28.119 --> 00:22:33.680 spectacular as Victor Wimby is, as Area 51 is, 00:22:33.859 --> 00:22:37.539 as those guys are just, oh my God, they're over 00:22:37.539 --> 00:22:42.880 the moon special to go from never doing it to 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:46.599 doing it at a championship level has never happened 00:22:46.599 --> 00:22:52.140 in the history, in the history of the NBA, but 00:22:52.140 --> 00:22:55.880 one time. And that is the Kobe, not Kobe, the 00:22:55.880 --> 00:23:02.630 magic. With Shaq and Penny. That's it. That's 00:23:02.630 --> 00:23:06.769 the only time. So, because of which, I'm setting 00:23:06.769 --> 00:23:10.589 the precedent of, they won't do it. Now, the 00:23:10.589 --> 00:23:14.549 Spurs have an advantage. Oddly, it's the same 00:23:14.549 --> 00:23:17.910 advantage the Magic had. None of the groups in 00:23:17.910 --> 00:23:21.289 the conference have done it. Besides Oklahoma 00:23:21.289 --> 00:23:25.490 City. OKC has done it. But... Let's go through 00:23:25.490 --> 00:23:28.710 the Western Conference quickly. We'll go through 00:23:28.710 --> 00:23:31.490 the Western Conference quickly. Number one seed 00:23:31.490 --> 00:23:34.609 is the Oklahoma City Thunder. We know they can 00:23:34.609 --> 00:23:39.329 do it. They just did it. The number two seed, 00:23:39.430 --> 00:23:42.930 those Spurs we're talking about. The three seed 00:23:42.930 --> 00:23:44.710 entering tonight, like I said, I don't want to 00:23:44.710 --> 00:23:47.230 talk about standings, but entering tonight, the 00:23:47.230 --> 00:23:52.569 Houston Rockets. Kevin Durant's done it. We know 00:23:52.569 --> 00:23:55.400 that. He's been to three finals, won two of them. 00:23:55.460 --> 00:23:57.359 He speaks about how hard it is to win all the 00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:02.099 time. Who else on the team has done it? Jabari 00:24:02.099 --> 00:24:09.859 Smith? No. Fred Van Vliet's injured. So is Steven 00:24:09.859 --> 00:24:16.740 Adams. There's a lot of talent and a lot of experience 00:24:16.740 --> 00:24:19.299 from that Houston team that had they had them, 00:24:19.380 --> 00:24:22.700 probably pick Houston. Because soon they don't. 00:24:23.130 --> 00:24:24.990 There's a lot of reps they don't have together, 00:24:25.190 --> 00:24:29.369 especially as a unit. Denver's done it, but Denver's 00:24:29.369 --> 00:24:34.769 beat up. Very beat up. I mean, if they don't 00:24:34.769 --> 00:24:38.849 have Aaron Gordon, they've got no shot. So Denver's 00:24:38.849 --> 00:24:41.710 beat up, but they've done it. So I've got two 00:24:41.710 --> 00:24:44.410 groups, but one's very injured. Heck, Oklahoma 00:24:44.410 --> 00:24:50.589 City's very injured. The Lakers don't have it. 00:24:50.609 --> 00:24:52.009 We'll talk about them in a couple of minutes. 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:55.859 And the Minnesota Timberwolves might be the most 00:24:55.859 --> 00:24:59.039 frustrating team in the NBA. And none of their 00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:03.000 guys have done it. So if San Antonio is going 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:06.259 to do it, a year like this year, where out of 00:25:06.259 --> 00:25:08.900 the top six, only two groups have legitimately 00:25:08.900 --> 00:25:12.279 done it, this may be your best year to do it 00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:14.500 if you're San Antonio. Because I assume Oklahoma 00:25:14.500 --> 00:25:16.819 City is going to be healthier next year. One 00:25:16.819 --> 00:25:18.819 would assume Denver. They're pretty married to 00:25:18.819 --> 00:25:22.259 this core. mostly runs it back next year you 00:25:22.259 --> 00:25:25.940 can't have that bad injury luck again so because 00:25:25.940 --> 00:25:29.460 of which if you're san antonio you've got to 00:25:29.460 --> 00:25:36.140 make your run this season i had a topic in here 00:25:36.140 --> 00:25:38.819 about the calves but i won't mention the calves 00:25:38.819 --> 00:25:41.819 because i was gonna talk about how routinely 00:25:41.819 --> 00:25:44.440 bad they are against really really good teams 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:47.839 and they got boat raced By the Oklahoma City 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:50.559 Thunder. They got out physicaled. They got out 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:54.519 worked. They got out coached. They got punked. 00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:58.240 By the Oklahoma City Thunder. And currently they're 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:01.819 beating up on the Knicks. Those same Cavs. Beating 00:26:01.819 --> 00:26:04.700 up on the Knicks. So I won't mention the Cavs. 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:07.319 I was going to lay into them a little bit. But 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:10.859 they're beating down the Knicks. Which shouldn't 00:26:10.859 --> 00:26:14.000 shock anybody. The Knicks do this. Them and the 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:18.809 Timberwolves. are just fluctuating up and down, 00:26:19.069 --> 00:26:25.109 can't get a hold on, don't understand why they 00:26:25.109 --> 00:26:27.789 do the things they do and play the way they play 00:26:27.789 --> 00:26:31.170 and hustle the way they hustle or don't hustle. 00:26:32.069 --> 00:26:37.849 It's just not enjoyable because you don't know 00:26:37.849 --> 00:26:39.589 what team you're getting. You don't know if you're 00:26:39.589 --> 00:26:41.930 getting the Knicks who can go toe -to -toe with 00:26:41.930 --> 00:26:45.009 anybody but Detroit. Or are you getting the Knicks 00:26:45.009 --> 00:26:47.670 who probably should be on the Rochester Knicks 00:26:47.670 --> 00:26:51.170 or wherever the G League team is? And same thing 00:26:51.170 --> 00:26:53.730 with Minnesota. You don't know if Minnesota is 00:26:53.730 --> 00:26:57.049 going to be this world beater, noise talking, 00:26:57.230 --> 00:27:02.369 can't believe this team is where they are in 00:27:02.369 --> 00:27:04.869 the West with this level of talent. And Edwards 00:27:04.869 --> 00:27:10.150 flying to, yeah, they're down 30 in the fourth 00:27:10.150 --> 00:27:13.369 quarter. That makes sense. Like in this, you 00:27:13.369 --> 00:27:15.930 know, both teams are very similar in that aspect 00:27:15.930 --> 00:27:23.309 between New York and Minnesota. But getting back 00:27:23.309 --> 00:27:28.589 to what I was talking about, that Cavs team is 00:27:28.589 --> 00:27:30.690 trying to figure it out on the fly. You can kind 00:27:30.690 --> 00:27:34.849 of see the rotations are a little off, but they're 00:27:34.849 --> 00:27:37.410 figuring out against the Knicks apparently as 00:27:37.410 --> 00:27:38.849 they are handling the Knicks right now. They're 00:27:38.849 --> 00:27:45.200 up 20 in the fourth quarter. But let's talk about 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:48.079 and one of the main things I want to talk about 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:51.640 when it came down to the NBA was the Los Angeles 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:55.200 Lakers and Luka Doncic. Let's play an exercise. 00:27:55.500 --> 00:27:57.920 I don't typically do these because they feel 00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:01.059 a little drawn out. However, this one's an important 00:28:01.059 --> 00:28:05.119 one. I'm going to before I do the exercise, I'm 00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:08.640 going to ask you something that when I ask it 00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:10.980 to you, you're going to say, Justin, you're crazy. 00:28:12.170 --> 00:28:14.730 Which is fine, but then I'm going to explain 00:28:14.730 --> 00:28:19.950 it. I'm going to ask you this question. The question 00:28:19.950 --> 00:28:25.569 is, is Luka Doncic potentially the greatest number 00:28:25.569 --> 00:28:33.329 two to ever win a title? I repeat, is Luka Doncic 00:28:33.329 --> 00:28:40.009 potentially the greatest number two to ever win 00:28:40.009 --> 00:28:45.299 a title? Your immediate brain is, well, he's 00:28:45.299 --> 00:28:49.539 not a number two. And my response is, isn't he? 00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:55.839 Pay attention. Over the course, again, I'm a 00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:59.059 history person. Over the course of Luka's career, 00:28:59.259 --> 00:29:03.579 his athleticism has dwindled. Now there is rampant 00:29:03.579 --> 00:29:06.980 reports of him drinking and him not taking care 00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:09.619 of his body. He just really got in the way last 00:29:09.619 --> 00:29:22.690 season. so on and so forth, right? And the ability 00:29:22.690 --> 00:29:28.170 has slowly gone with it. Now, he's beating people 00:29:28.170 --> 00:29:35.589 cerebrally, but he's doing that at 27, not 37. 00:29:36.990 --> 00:29:41.769 Usually in the NBA, modern days, We've looked 00:29:41.769 --> 00:29:47.569 at it as, okay, from ages 25 to about 32, 33, 00:29:47.849 --> 00:29:50.549 you are at your peak of your athletic powers. 00:29:50.829 --> 00:29:53.490 In the words of Reggie Miller, you still have 00:29:53.490 --> 00:29:56.029 your superpower. You are at the peak of your 00:29:56.029 --> 00:30:00.529 powers between 27 and 32 to 33, and then you 00:30:00.529 --> 00:30:03.910 wane off athletically, and if you're still at 00:30:03.910 --> 00:30:07.210 the top of your game, you beat people with your 00:30:07.210 --> 00:30:10.009 brain. That is what we were trained to think. 00:30:10.539 --> 00:30:15.359 Why? We have LeBron. We have Steph. We have KD. 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:20.559 Luka is closer to Melo and Rasheed Wallace. But 00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:23.680 over the course of the NBA history, starting 00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:26.079 with, I'm not going to do Bill Russell Celtics, 00:30:26.140 --> 00:30:30.319 starting with Magic and Kareem, there is always 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:35.140 a number two that a lot of brains said probably 00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:39.339 could have won a title on his own, but didn't. 00:30:39.900 --> 00:30:42.660 But probably could have. Let's go through them. 00:30:42.819 --> 00:30:45.240 Let's go through just the big ones. I'm not going 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:47.140 to go to every team. Let's go through some of 00:30:47.140 --> 00:30:53.380 the big ones. Magic and Kareem. At the time Magic 00:30:53.380 --> 00:30:56.539 arrived, could Kareem have been a number one 00:30:56.539 --> 00:31:00.960 in a championship team? I would say yes. I think 00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:03.180 they were put together poorly prior to Magic. 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:05.859 Magic kind of unlocked some of the levels of 00:31:05.859 --> 00:31:11.230 those guys. But I think. that the Los Angeles 00:31:11.230 --> 00:31:14.789 Lakers could have won a title with Kareem. How 00:31:14.789 --> 00:31:19.690 do I know this? Four or five years later or earlier, 00:31:19.789 --> 00:31:23.309 Kareem had won an NBA title with the Bucks and 00:31:23.309 --> 00:31:29.609 Oscar Robinson. Okay. Let's transition. Let's 00:31:29.609 --> 00:31:31.970 transition. Let's go to the 80s now. We started 00:31:31.970 --> 00:31:35.569 in 79. Let's go to the 80s. Two people I want 00:31:35.569 --> 00:31:39.549 to bring up, Kevin McHale and Joe Dumars. In 00:31:39.549 --> 00:31:43.170 the right situation, could Celtic Kevin McHale 00:31:43.170 --> 00:31:46.890 lead a team to a title? Absolutely. In the right 00:31:46.890 --> 00:31:49.789 situation, could Joe Dumars or the Detroit Pistons 00:31:49.789 --> 00:31:54.329 have led them to a title? Absolutely. Let's move 00:31:54.329 --> 00:31:57.470 a little further. Let's go to the 90s. Scottie 00:31:57.470 --> 00:32:00.210 Pippen is the key. I don't think Scottie could 00:32:00.210 --> 00:32:02.470 have handled it mentally, but if you tell me 00:32:02.470 --> 00:32:05.069 on the court, could Scottie Pippen have led the 00:32:05.069 --> 00:32:09.579 Bulls to a title? Absolutely. go a little further 00:32:09.579 --> 00:32:13.700 Shaq and Kobe to me are two number ones I think 00:32:13.700 --> 00:32:16.920 it's Shaq Shaq and then Kobe as far as who was 00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:19.720 the number one but because they flip mid -air 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:23.559 I'm not going to count either of them as the 00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:25.619 number two because they again pretty much flip 00:32:25.619 --> 00:32:32.140 their roles mid -air another People I want to 00:32:32.140 --> 00:32:34.700 use is David Robertson and Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan's 00:32:34.700 --> 00:32:37.359 the number one. Could David Robertson have led 00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:40.279 the Spurs to a title at that age? Maybe not, 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:45.660 but he was still a legit player. Then you move 00:32:45.660 --> 00:32:49.960 a little further, the big three Celtics. Kind 00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:51.680 of feel like the Spurs where you don't really 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:54.720 know who's the one, but you don't know who the 00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:56.319 two and the three is. You feel like it moves 00:32:56.319 --> 00:33:01.069 around. The next big one is the Miami Heat. LeBron's 00:33:01.069 --> 00:33:04.170 your one. Could D -Wade have led them to a title? 00:33:04.470 --> 00:33:07.490 Could he? Yes. We've just seen it a couple of 00:33:07.490 --> 00:33:10.289 years prior. Then, of course, there's Golden 00:33:10.289 --> 00:33:13.490 State with Kevin Durant as your alpha. And Steph, 00:33:13.730 --> 00:33:17.289 again, we see it before and after KD, as your 00:33:17.289 --> 00:33:23.250 number two. I say all that to say, I think Luka 00:33:23.250 --> 00:33:26.990 Doncic fits a lot better in the D -Wade, Kevin 00:33:26.990 --> 00:33:31.529 McHale. Steph Curry on the Warriors with KD box 00:33:31.529 --> 00:33:37.490 than he does LeBron James, KD, Larry Bird, Magic 00:33:37.490 --> 00:33:40.690 Johnson, so on and so forth. Here's why I say 00:33:40.690 --> 00:33:44.750 that. There is a certain level of dedication 00:33:44.750 --> 00:33:50.609 and mental and emotional maturity I don't think 00:33:50.609 --> 00:33:56.660 Luka has. We crack jokes. all the time about 00:33:56.660 --> 00:34:00.400 Jokic can't wait till the season's over to go 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:03.859 be with his horses and he may retire just to 00:34:03.859 --> 00:34:09.960 go horse training and be a great equestrian and 00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:13.280 we make all these jokes about Jokic right but 00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:17.500 Jokic has reaffirmed multiple times that is nowhere 00:34:17.500 --> 00:34:21.219 near his plans to go sit on somebody's farm when 00:34:21.219 --> 00:34:23.460 played with horses all day when he still has 00:34:23.460 --> 00:34:29.190 the ability to play in the NBA. I think Luka 00:34:29.190 --> 00:34:32.150 might actually be that. I think what's distracting 00:34:32.150 --> 00:34:36.929 Luka off the floor may be even more of a bigger 00:34:36.929 --> 00:34:40.650 impact to Luka than what's actually on the floor. 00:34:42.710 --> 00:34:47.650 Luka Doncic is 27 years old. We're not talking 00:34:47.650 --> 00:34:51.090 about a player in his 30s. We're not talking 00:34:51.090 --> 00:34:55.099 about a player, you know, that's had some injuries 00:34:55.099 --> 00:34:57.159 and they're just trying to survive basically 00:34:57.159 --> 00:35:01.940 we're talking about a person i'm sorry he's well 00:35:01.940 --> 00:35:06.639 he turns 27 in a couple of days so a near 27 00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:11.780 year old this guy's born two years after me and 00:35:11.780 --> 00:35:16.719 he is waning considerably in athleticism i have 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:22.969 another question regarding luca Or maybe not 00:35:22.969 --> 00:35:24.869 a question. We'll see how it develops. But I 00:35:24.869 --> 00:35:28.269 have another thing regarding Luka. I think Luka 00:35:28.269 --> 00:35:33.150 is closer to our stars of the 80s and 90s and 00:35:33.150 --> 00:35:37.250 not our stars of the 2010s, so on and so forth. 00:35:37.949 --> 00:35:42.530 Why do you say that? Because we think, man, 27, 00:35:42.670 --> 00:35:45.489 you should be just getting started. And people 00:35:45.489 --> 00:35:48.650 hear about, you know, Michael Jordan at that 00:35:48.650 --> 00:35:53.289 age. what he was doing and the ability he carried 00:35:53.289 --> 00:35:59.409 long after that, so on and so forth. I think, 00:35:59.530 --> 00:36:03.309 well, actually, I know a majority of the players 00:36:03.309 --> 00:36:09.869 then were physically tapped out by 30, 32 at 00:36:09.869 --> 00:36:12.730 the latest, where you would finally see that 00:36:12.730 --> 00:36:16.710 real decline. I look at Carmelo Anthony, Rasheed 00:36:16.710 --> 00:36:22.469 Wallace, guys who were Absolutely exceptional. 00:36:23.849 --> 00:36:26.849 And then they became good. Feels like overnight. 00:36:26.969 --> 00:36:31.230 They went from otherworldly to good. You know, 00:36:31.230 --> 00:36:34.210 still were a starter. Still were high level player 00:36:34.210 --> 00:36:37.230 to they're done. And it felt like it happened 00:36:37.230 --> 00:36:40.650 like a falling star. Like you've seen it at the 00:36:40.650 --> 00:36:44.429 top of its peak. And it was amazing. And then 00:36:44.429 --> 00:36:47.289 it just didn't do the altitude. It didn't do 00:36:47.289 --> 00:36:50.369 the dedication. It didn't do the life. And it 00:36:50.369 --> 00:36:54.610 fell. And it fell faster than it could heal itself. 00:36:54.789 --> 00:36:57.929 And I think Luka, you know, committing all this 00:36:57.929 --> 00:37:00.030 money to a weight room in Slovenia and all this 00:37:00.030 --> 00:37:02.449 other stuff, I think that was him acknowledging 00:37:02.449 --> 00:37:05.369 the damage is done and I need to fix something. 00:37:05.570 --> 00:37:09.510 But I just think it's too late. And so I think 00:37:09.510 --> 00:37:11.949 in order for Luka to win a championship, he's 00:37:11.949 --> 00:37:15.289 going to have to enter the Scottie Pippen, Steph 00:37:15.289 --> 00:37:21.239 with the Warriors with KD. hell bob koozie you 00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:27.559 know realm of i have to be an amazing number 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:31.679 two because i think the damage is done already 00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:34.440 to his body physically but to be a number one 00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:37.239 So I think he has to be the world's best, too. 00:37:37.340 --> 00:37:40.380 No shame in that game by any means. It's just 00:37:40.380 --> 00:37:43.219 obviously not the path people would have thought 00:37:43.219 --> 00:37:46.860 for Luka. And especially me even verbalizing 00:37:46.860 --> 00:37:48.679 it. Some of you may say, Justin, you're insane. 00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:55.739 But it's the truth. He cannot be a number one 00:37:55.739 --> 00:38:00.619 on a title team. He needs to be one of the greatest 00:38:00.619 --> 00:38:05.909 twos of all time. That is how he will be successful. 00:38:06.590 --> 00:38:10.909 That is how he will win titles. It is not by 00:38:10.909 --> 00:38:16.090 him being the dude. And the Lakers, quickly, 00:38:16.289 --> 00:38:19.650 are one of the worst teams in the NBA playing 00:38:19.650 --> 00:38:25.210 anybody who isn't awful. They are amazing against 00:38:25.210 --> 00:38:30.489 bad. And they are bad against good. We're not 00:38:30.489 --> 00:38:32.969 even talking against great. We're talking against 00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:37.039 They are bad. They are negative in the season 00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:40.519 point differential. They have a horrible net 00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:43.079 rating against anybody that is not the bottom 00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:47.300 10. I heard a statistic the other day referencing 00:38:47.300 --> 00:38:52.300 net rating against the top 10 teams in the league. 00:38:52.340 --> 00:38:56.289 It was on Colin Cowherd's podcast. Without going 00:38:56.289 --> 00:38:59.510 too far in the weeds, it was everybody in the 00:38:59.510 --> 00:39:04.690 top 10 of that stat, which is the net rating 00:39:04.690 --> 00:39:07.630 against the top 10 of the NBA. Everybody in the 00:39:07.630 --> 00:39:11.230 top 10 of that stat hit as you would figure were 00:39:11.230 --> 00:39:14.210 the top 10 teams in general. And then there's 00:39:14.210 --> 00:39:17.809 the Lakers, who was 29th. They're the only team 00:39:17.809 --> 00:39:20.909 in the NBA with a negative point difference on 00:39:20.909 --> 00:39:25.639 the season. And yet they are. Fifth or sixth 00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:27.199 in the West right now, between fifth and sixth. 00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:36.039 They are so bad against anybody who can pressure 00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:39.619 the ball and dribble. They don't like defense. 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:42.840 They don't like ball pressure. And heaven forbid, 00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:45.460 if you dunk twice on a fast break, the game is 00:39:45.460 --> 00:39:48.300 over and they will lay down and get blown out. 00:39:50.579 --> 00:39:56.079 It would not shock me one bit. If the Los Angeles 00:39:56.079 --> 00:40:00.739 Lakers losing five in the first round and three 00:40:00.739 --> 00:40:04.119 of those games are blowouts and J .J. Redick 00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:08.699 is trying, but when your number one is Luka and 00:40:08.699 --> 00:40:11.659 you don't have anybody in the realm of possibility 00:40:11.659 --> 00:40:16.219 who can challenge him, it leads to you getting 00:40:16.219 --> 00:40:22.360 boat raced whenever things go poorly. So the 00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:25.429 Lakers have a lot to figure out. The 41 -year 00:40:25.429 --> 00:40:29.690 -old man isn't the answer for you. But my question 00:40:29.690 --> 00:41:00.260 is, is Lucas? Welcome back into the show. And 00:41:00.260 --> 00:41:03.300 now let's trade the round ball for the oblong 00:41:03.300 --> 00:41:06.880 ball. Let's go from the world sport. Okay, I'll 00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:09.539 try it. The world sports soccer. Let's go from 00:41:09.539 --> 00:41:14.099 basketball to America's sport, America's pastime 00:41:14.099 --> 00:41:18.900 with football. Now, it's going to be a two -part 00:41:18.900 --> 00:41:21.760 college and NFL situation. We're going to start 00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:25.050 off with college football. Last week, I broke 00:41:25.050 --> 00:41:28.690 down my calendar, right? Because a lot of the 00:41:28.690 --> 00:41:32.110 issues in college football stem from the calendar, 00:41:32.289 --> 00:41:38.889 in my opinion. Obviously, playing a national 00:41:38.889 --> 00:41:43.250 championship game on like January 26th is an 00:41:43.250 --> 00:41:50.730 awful idea. However, most people seem to simply 00:41:50.730 --> 00:41:54.710 accept the fact. That we're going to play football 00:41:54.710 --> 00:41:58.650 after New Year's Day. I don't get it. I don't 00:41:58.650 --> 00:42:02.929 understand it. Me personally. I have the plan. 00:42:03.329 --> 00:42:06.150 You know. It's take four weeks out of the schedule. 00:42:06.309 --> 00:42:08.750 And you play football on New Year's Day every 00:42:08.750 --> 00:42:12.590 year. And you're out of the NFL's hair. Slide 00:42:12.590 --> 00:42:15.429 week one to week zero. Take away the non -district 00:42:15.429 --> 00:42:18.969 bye week. Take away your. Leave your conference 00:42:18.969 --> 00:42:22.389 bye week. Take Army Navy week. And take the week. 00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:26.800 uh after that you've moved your whole schedule 00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:30.719 up a month there's 31 30 to 31 days in a month 00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:35.760 26 of them is what you need i have just created 00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:41.699 a schedule that ends on january 1st however i 00:42:41.699 --> 00:42:44.440 it was brought to my attention that i forgot 00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:47.860 to address a couple of things number one before 00:42:47.860 --> 00:42:52.420 i go into this The coaches in Army -Navy are 00:42:52.420 --> 00:42:56.440 now agreeing with me. Why? Because they're thinking 00:42:56.440 --> 00:42:59.239 financially. Because they play in a conference. 00:42:59.699 --> 00:43:03.099 Which means they could be in their conference 00:43:03.099 --> 00:43:06.860 championship game all week. That's Army -Navy 00:43:06.860 --> 00:43:13.500 week. So the head coach simply said, we should 00:43:13.500 --> 00:43:16.739 move to either a four -hour exclusive window 00:43:16.739 --> 00:43:20.639 on Thanksgiving. or that Friday, or that Saturday. 00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:24.639 The reason being is that we can make the conference 00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:27.539 championship game, and the way the calendar is 00:43:27.539 --> 00:43:30.400 set up, we either have to choose to play Army 00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:32.900 -Navy or to play in the conference championship 00:43:32.900 --> 00:43:35.880 game if it were to arise to that. And you can 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:39.360 simply just move Army -Navy to Thanksgiving week, 00:43:39.500 --> 00:43:42.760 which is, by the way, the exact week it had in 00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:46.460 my plan. Move Army -Navy week to Thanksgiving 00:43:46.460 --> 00:43:52.190 week. and therefore you create the ability to 00:43:52.190 --> 00:43:56.469 play an exclusive window i believe i had it army 00:43:56.469 --> 00:43:58.969 thanksgiving week or it might have been the week 00:43:58.969 --> 00:44:02.210 right before but regardless the fact that the 00:44:02.210 --> 00:44:05.469 coach of the school was willing to meet was willing 00:44:05.469 --> 00:44:10.210 to move army navy means it's possible which means 00:44:10.210 --> 00:44:13.389 my idea is firmly on the table as opposed to 00:44:13.389 --> 00:44:15.969 kind of a pipe dream because that was the main 00:44:15.969 --> 00:44:19.320 thing i was focused on was Army, Navy doesn't 00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:24.860 get moved. They have their own week. However, 00:44:25.099 --> 00:44:27.599 back to things that were brought to my attention 00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:32.239 regarding my calendar. Number one is the recruiting 00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:35.199 side. So I focused a lot on the on the field. 00:44:35.500 --> 00:44:38.360 How do you fix on the field? How do you fix on 00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:40.679 the field? How do you not have coordinators working 00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:43.420 two jobs? How do you wrap up college football 00:44:43.420 --> 00:44:46.550 by January 1st in the Rose Bowl? That was my 00:44:46.550 --> 00:44:50.130 focus. However, I mentioned recruiting, but I 00:44:50.130 --> 00:44:53.929 didn't exactly fix it. So the transfer portal, 00:44:54.210 --> 00:44:57.269 I actually did mention the transfer portal. The 00:44:57.269 --> 00:44:59.389 transfer portal, remember I said two windows. 00:44:59.670 --> 00:45:02.010 That was the one from January 2nd to January 00:45:02.010 --> 00:45:05.130 16th. And then there was the one after spring 00:45:05.130 --> 00:45:07.710 football. And you had to be enrolled by July 00:45:07.710 --> 00:45:10.510 1st or you were ineligible for the next season, 00:45:10.610 --> 00:45:13.800 okay? i did not mention national signing day 00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:16.420 so this is not the national signing day of my 00:45:16.420 --> 00:45:19.719 youth there are two this is not lurking message 00:45:19.719 --> 00:45:24.179 boards this is not you know i remember i was 00:45:24.179 --> 00:45:26.960 in school during signing day we could have our 00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:30.710 phones And just, like, my life was swinging, 00:45:30.829 --> 00:45:34.030 it feels like, on every single pick. I was updating 00:45:34.030 --> 00:45:37.170 pages every hour or every time I could find a 00:45:37.170 --> 00:45:40.510 computer. I was updating pages trying to make 00:45:40.510 --> 00:45:43.429 sure I didn't miss any big signings. It was insane. 00:45:43.610 --> 00:45:47.409 I remember the big hat reveals on the Under Armour 00:45:47.409 --> 00:45:51.289 All -American Games and Army Games. And it was 00:45:51.289 --> 00:45:54.329 wild, right? Not the signing day of my youth. 00:45:54.510 --> 00:46:00.769 However, there are two now. So the initial signing 00:46:00.769 --> 00:46:04.389 day and the calendar at some point has to run 00:46:04.389 --> 00:46:08.869 into a rough spot. Here it is. The initial signing 00:46:08.869 --> 00:46:15.130 day will be three days after the conclusion of 00:46:15.130 --> 00:46:21.610 the first transfer portal window. OK, so instead 00:46:21.610 --> 00:46:26.170 of it going like it is now where it's freshman 00:46:26.170 --> 00:46:28.610 sign in December, where you're signing in the 00:46:28.610 --> 00:46:30.409 middle of the playoffs. I don't like that idea. 00:46:31.929 --> 00:46:42.329 To National Signing Day itself being after the 00:46:42.329 --> 00:46:46.110 portal window. Now, you're probably saying, and 00:46:46.110 --> 00:46:48.469 I battle with this back and forth, well, Justin, 00:46:48.610 --> 00:46:52.159 if I'm a program like an LSU, I'm just going 00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:54.880 to fill my roster from the portal. I'll never 00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:57.519 recruit a high school kid because in two years 00:46:57.519 --> 00:46:59.760 when he's developed, I'll just go sign him out 00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:03.039 of the portal. And my response to you would be, 00:47:03.079 --> 00:47:06.500 okay, but we see how these portal acquisitions 00:47:06.500 --> 00:47:11.340 move, one. And two, just because you sign there 00:47:11.340 --> 00:47:13.880 or just because signing day is there doesn't 00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:18.219 mean you have to sign right then. If a kid, if 00:47:18.219 --> 00:47:21.300 a prospect, if a player. still wants to sign 00:47:21.300 --> 00:47:24.739 with the university early and go to school early 00:47:24.739 --> 00:47:27.440 and so on and so forth, he still has the ability 00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:31.679 to do so. But National Signing Day itself for 00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:36.079 the high school class does not start until three 00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:39.599 days after the portal, which means the portal 00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:42.920 goes from January 2nd to January 16th, three 00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:47.929 days, and then January 19th or 20th. the freshman 00:47:47.929 --> 00:47:55.409 signing day is okay then you have your traditional 00:47:55.409 --> 00:48:02.090 time period and then you sign again right before 00:48:02.090 --> 00:48:07.329 spring ball so remember the current signing date 00:48:07.329 --> 00:48:14.889 is the middle of february you sign again Right 00:48:14.889 --> 00:48:17.849 before spring. So let's say spring starts March 00:48:17.849 --> 00:48:21.409 24th. You're eligible to start spring practice. 00:48:22.769 --> 00:48:27.130 March 20th would be the day of the second signing 00:48:27.130 --> 00:48:30.250 period. So you sign the first time January 20th 00:48:30.250 --> 00:48:33.750 and then hypothetically you would sign the second 00:48:33.750 --> 00:48:37.309 time March 20th and then you are done with acquisitions 00:48:37.309 --> 00:48:41.880 besides late transfers, so on and so forth. And 00:48:41.880 --> 00:48:44.159 I think that will also give a lot of clarity 00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:47.280 to the portal. So, for instance, if I'm a quarterback 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:50.699 and my recruitment came down to, and I'm going 00:48:50.699 --> 00:48:54.400 to use it, LSU and Texas. When I'm looking at 00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:58.039 the roster, I'm going, okay, LSU has Sam Leavitt, 00:48:58.079 --> 00:49:01.559 who's going to graduate. Arch Manning is going 00:49:01.559 --> 00:49:05.019 to go pro. I'm going to no lose, but I guess 00:49:05.019 --> 00:49:09.699 I'll go Texas. okay and you sign you but you 00:49:09.699 --> 00:49:13.380 tell yourself i'm not gonna sign until the second 00:49:13.380 --> 00:49:18.519 signing day and then texas lands or correction 00:49:18.519 --> 00:49:21.460 back up a little bit you sign you go to school 00:49:21.460 --> 00:49:25.099 you're a great player but you decide to go into 00:49:25.099 --> 00:49:30.500 the portal well if you're a portal guy no i tried 00:49:30.500 --> 00:49:33.150 the first time it doesn't matter As a portal 00:49:33.150 --> 00:49:35.869 guy, you now can see the full landscape because 00:49:35.869 --> 00:49:39.090 the whole freshman class is in and at least most 00:49:39.090 --> 00:49:41.989 of the portal class is in when you make your 00:49:41.989 --> 00:49:46.230 decision, which is why I like that second high 00:49:46.230 --> 00:49:48.130 school window being right before that second 00:49:48.130 --> 00:49:50.849 portal season. So therefore, the freshmen have 00:49:50.849 --> 00:49:53.570 priority there, but they also understand the 00:49:53.570 --> 00:49:59.420 landscape. That is my addressing to signing day. 00:49:59.519 --> 00:50:03.320 There is the transfer portal window from the 00:50:03.320 --> 00:50:06.480 2nd to the 16th. National signing day number 00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:10.219 one is on the 20th. Then there is regular activities, 00:50:10.380 --> 00:50:13.199 so on and so forth. And then right before, the 00:50:13.199 --> 00:50:19.340 Wednesday before or whatever, of the second transfer 00:50:19.340 --> 00:50:22.280 portal window, the spring window. that is when 00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:25.460 the second signing day will occur. So that way 00:50:25.460 --> 00:50:28.440 your freshmen still take priority to your transfers. 00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:35.699 And lastly, on our round the country, the round 00:50:35.699 --> 00:50:38.960 the world of sports in this case, we're going 00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:43.099 to do a quick round trip around the NFL really 00:50:43.099 --> 00:50:47.099 quickly. So let's get into it. Trent Williams 00:50:47.099 --> 00:50:52.280 of the San Francisco 49ers, First ballot, or 00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:55.119 I won't say that anymore because of Bill Belichick, 00:50:55.179 --> 00:50:59.219 a NFL Hall of Famer at the left tackle position. 00:50:59.579 --> 00:51:02.980 His contract at this point, it was always designed 00:51:02.980 --> 00:51:05.639 to either be renegotiated, traded, or released. 00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:10.559 It's just not coming together well. And so Trent 00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:15.900 Williams is a candidate to be released by... 00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:19.320 The San Francisco 49ers, he will have suitors. 00:51:19.340 --> 00:51:22.059 If he is released by San Fran, he probably doesn't 00:51:22.059 --> 00:51:25.860 go back to San Fran. He will have plenty of suitors. 00:51:26.440 --> 00:51:29.480 Patriots, please tell me you're listening. Patriots, 00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:32.500 please tell me you're listening. But Trent Williams 00:51:32.500 --> 00:51:35.880 will have plenty of suitors for his services. 00:51:37.099 --> 00:51:40.380 Kirk Cousins will be released on the first day 00:51:40.380 --> 00:51:43.590 of the league year. It moved 24 months in the 00:51:43.590 --> 00:51:45.750 making. Remember, when they originally signed 00:51:45.750 --> 00:51:49.969 him, they signed him to a four -year, $180 million 00:51:49.969 --> 00:51:54.090 contract, but the guaranteed money was gone after 00:51:54.090 --> 00:51:57.650 year two. Six weeks later, they draft Michael 00:51:57.650 --> 00:52:01.210 Penix, his replacement, and in a world where, 00:52:01.289 --> 00:52:04.349 I know I said it, I said, well, they got their 00:52:04.349 --> 00:52:07.179 current and they have their future. And Michael 00:52:07.179 --> 00:52:09.900 Penix has the ability to not play football in 00:52:09.900 --> 00:52:13.119 Atlanta and make a whole bunch of money, not 00:52:13.119 --> 00:52:16.300 get hit and kind of watch Kirk Cousins do it. 00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:21.440 That didn't happen, of course, but Kirk Cousins 00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:26.079 will be a free agent with the opportunity to 00:52:26.079 --> 00:52:29.380 land elsewhere. Not sure if he does, but the 00:52:29.380 --> 00:52:32.000 opportunity, of course, will be afforded to him. 00:52:33.320 --> 00:52:36.760 kyler murray now this is a little bit of a messy 00:52:36.760 --> 00:52:40.900 situation i'm still gathering facts about it 00:52:40.900 --> 00:52:43.360 but what i do know about it is that the general 00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:48.039 manager made a statement regarding to having 00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:53.280 let's call it communication with kyler murray 00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:57.079 because there's a new front office and a new 00:52:57.079 --> 00:53:03.409 coaching staff in charge of the arizona cardinals 00:53:03.409 --> 00:53:09.190 and of course big giant um i wouldn't call him 00:53:09.190 --> 00:53:13.650 big giant a issue in the room is kyler murray 00:53:13.650 --> 00:53:18.909 so kyler arizona cardinals gm uh said that he 00:53:18.909 --> 00:53:23.469 has talked with kyler to discuss last season 00:53:23.469 --> 00:53:30.570 um however a source said that kyler has not talked 00:53:30.989 --> 00:53:38.789 to the team since last season ended um so a lot 00:53:38.789 --> 00:53:42.489 of stuff there uh kyler got hurt of course had 00:53:42.489 --> 00:53:46.010 a tumultuous season got hurt in week five uh 00:53:46.010 --> 00:53:48.849 placed on ir and never came back he had a foot 00:53:48.849 --> 00:53:51.969 injury and so conflicting reports there on whether 00:53:51.969 --> 00:53:55.170 they did talk whether they didn't talk uh so 00:53:55.170 --> 00:54:00.639 on and so forth kyle pitts of the Atlanta Falcons 00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:04.059 receive the franchise tag from the team in an 00:54:04.059 --> 00:54:07.599 effort to negotiate a long -term contract. Obviously, 00:54:07.679 --> 00:54:10.719 Kevin Stefanski and that new brain trust in Atlanta, 00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:13.440 led by Matt Ryan, who's the president of football 00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:18.500 operations there and running the team, they clearly 00:54:18.500 --> 00:54:21.539 see Kyle Pitts as a vital part of their future. 00:54:21.760 --> 00:54:25.480 Kevin Stefanski probably sees a really, really, 00:54:25.500 --> 00:54:29.440 really souped -up version of David Njoku. So 00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:31.699 if he can get somebody to get him the ball, I 00:54:31.699 --> 00:54:34.099 expect Kyle Pitts to have a pretty solid year. 00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:38.619 It is a little hilarious, however, that one of 00:54:38.619 --> 00:54:41.480 the reasons why the previous administration got 00:54:41.480 --> 00:54:45.059 fired was that they weren't very good at selecting 00:54:45.059 --> 00:54:48.559 players at the top of the draft, only to proceed 00:54:48.559 --> 00:54:52.320 to the new coach attempting to re -sign one of 00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:54.920 those players from the top of one of those drafts 00:54:54.920 --> 00:54:58.869 to a very large lucrative contract. after said 00:54:58.869 --> 00:55:01.909 player has been generally regarded as kind of 00:55:01.909 --> 00:55:09.090 a bust. And that, in and of itself, is a microcosm 00:55:09.090 --> 00:55:12.650 and a fairly accurate description of the NFL. 00:55:14.409 --> 00:55:17.050 And of course, the NFL combine is right around 00:55:17.050 --> 00:55:20.190 the corner. Whenever the combine happens, aka 00:55:20.190 --> 00:55:23.510 the underwear Olympics, there tends to be a lot 00:55:23.510 --> 00:55:28.110 of back and forth regarding should players throw, 00:55:28.349 --> 00:55:31.289 who's going to work out, who's going to run, 00:55:31.469 --> 00:55:34.969 who's going to lift, how do interviews go, so 00:55:34.969 --> 00:55:38.750 on and so forth. Typically, the combine should 00:55:38.750 --> 00:55:42.690 not change your opinion of a player one way or 00:55:42.690 --> 00:55:47.980 the other. What they do in shoulder pads and 00:55:47.980 --> 00:55:53.500 a helmet on Saturday nights was very, very, very 00:55:53.500 --> 00:55:57.599 much more important than what they do in a compression 00:55:57.599 --> 00:56:01.760 shirt and compression shorts running in, like 00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:07.119 I've said before, the underwear Olympics. But 00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:12.510 that is all I have for you today. Thank you guys 00:56:12.510 --> 00:56:16.010 for rocking with me for this hour. Make sure 00:56:16.010 --> 00:56:19.730 you like, rate, subscribe, and review. And don't 00:56:19.730 --> 00:56:23.170 forget to hit that follow button as well. That 00:56:23.170 --> 00:56:25.969 helps us out a lot. But make sure you tap that 00:56:25.969 --> 00:56:28.449 subscribe button. A lot of big things happening 00:56:28.449 --> 00:56:32.750 in the JTS world. 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