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[Assistant] This is at least one of the prevailing theories. They think that it was like a pre-World War I bunch of German immigrants coming to the eastern seaboard in the US, and they would start hot dog carts, and then people would joke like, hey, you wanna go get like a hot dog, like some of that gross street meat out there? Whaaat? Yeah. We are having a good time. Literally, yeah, we've literally been here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I took beef bile, which is, it's in.


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[Assistant] And probably what was gonna be the greatest statement ever made in Atlantic City. And so it was a big deal. It was a big deal to Donald.


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[Assistant] If you're an expert and you agree with Donald Trump, you're a genius, but if you're an expert and you disagree with him, you're a loser.


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[Assistant] Flour, salt, the chicken or... Beef.


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[Assistant] I made a joke which he didn't think was funny at all. I said, you just want Anita Hill on the other side of the table. He did not laugh. He didn't think it was funny. And he still probably doesn't.


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[Assistant] Something's wrong for her to be responding like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, don't stress about it. Just, just work a little bit at a time.


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[Assistant] And get them up a little bit each time. Okay. Just work on one thing at a time, okay?


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[Assistant] That is the cleansing of Joe Biden and everything that may have happened. And there's such a great irony that


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[Assistant] Someone who was the architect of the 94 crime bill.


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[Assistant] A white man of this age. I mean, you think about Anita Hill. His crutch.


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[Assistant] His, the reason for his success is a black man with a funny name who's kind of skinny from Hawaii by way of Kansas.


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[Assistant] Frontlines Growing Up Poor in America is available on Amazon Prime Video.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, you know, I watch football all the time. I don't know who Rodney McLeod is. I'm not going to pretend I do.


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[Assistant] Is, is the, uh, so, uh, is the 20, I think he was 27 year old. Look, he was his name. I can't even think of any more safeties that they have. What is his name? Uh, Bell. Uh, Bell is still on the team. Yeah, Bell. Uh, he was 27. He came from... They didn't draft him.


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[Assistant] So this is, I'm kind of dumb for this. I should have thought about this earlier. So when you go get guys like this, usually when


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[Assistant] You know, there's new coaches that came in and in college, we had like three or four different coaches that came in. Usually, generally speaking, you got a person that may have worked with him somewhere or a kid may have been at another school under him and bring him along. And basically what they do is they're there to set an example of, okay,


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[Assistant] This is the way I want it done. He might not be the greatest at, at, at, you know, playing or he might not be a starter, but he can show them different concepts on, on like, you know, he could pull them up in the room and say, Hey, watch this. This is what I want for the safety. Uh, you know, Rodney show them how to do it, especially during camp, especially during camp and learning to play.


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[Assistant] All that walk and plus he's gonna show him tempo too. Cause usually when coaches come in and you know your coach, everybody has their position. There's no positions up for grab. Once again, I think he's trying to spark some competition and say, look, you know, there were some times we saw last year guys trotting.


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[Assistant] Not giving a whole lot of, uh, uh, uh, hustle, not being fly. Cause you know, people call loaves back in the day. Loaves are anything that you change your speed.


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[Assistant] So if I'm running after a ball carrier and I slow it down to 75%, I'm still chasing. That's still classified as a low.


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[Assistant] So he's going to show a tempo and how he wants the practices to run and he'll be more of an example of that. That's why I thought I think he brings up his toughness and hard-nosed character. So, you know, this is just a move to get everybody stirring the pot. Say, look, hey, we got somebody that know how I want it done. Um, you guys follow suit.


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[Assistant] This is kinda, it's a little bit dangerous, a little bit in my mind. Because uhm, when you look at it, sometimes, you know, we, we had, you know, Brad was on the other day, and, and sometimes, to me, when we analyze basketball, I think basketball is, uh, just like baseball, it's a zone call.


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[Assistant] So in baseball, you can brush a lot of different things away.


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[Assistant] Based on the time of the year you're talking about the team, and the optimism that you play a bunch of games and you have time left in the season, and, and advanced analytics can say, well, his velocity is down, if he can do this, this is, we'll be fine. I think in basketball, there's a thing about that too, and we're kind of living in that.


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[Assistant] Nebraska is this 51 game, this 50 win season is a benchmark in this league.


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[Assistant] Well, that's not, that's not supposed to be a standard. That's not a standard there. And if you get a guy that wins 50 games, I think JB was, did JB come in, uhm,


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[Assistant] Did he come in the coach of the year rankings? Was he anywhere in the top five? I don't think so.


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[Assistant] Because my point is, if you get Colby Altman that's in the top five right here at number two, it justifies a lot of things in your mind. You'll say, well, how far were we off? I came in second.


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[Assistant] In, in executive of the year, so I have to be right. I was doing something right.


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[Assistant] But you don't, you may not necessarily, because of that, go into the offseason and have a sense of urgency into improving this roster and doing what you need to do, uhm, very quickly now. Vickers net finished fourth in coaching the year. So if you guys, so if you say we got a top


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's this gentleman's like, you know, nod of okay, well we're gonna just do this because it's protocol. For me, I've come to the conclusion and it really hit me in my face. I was watching the Warriors and I was watching the Lakers, right? And I was watching those two teams play and it hit me in the face.


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[Assistant] That those teams with those players are on a different level. Like those veterans.


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[Assistant] You know, LeBron and who the guys, Steph Curry, those guys are on a completely different level. To be truthful, when you watch them, the Cavs would have had no shot at beating them. Even if they're an 8 seed. They have no shot at beating the Warriors. Even if they're like a 6 seed. And that is because


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[Assistant] They, look, the offense is clockwork, the clutch shooting is there, the rebound, the coaches don't have to look over and motivate, do none of that stuff. And when I look at the Kings, I say, okay, that was a nice story, but you couldn't beat the, you couldn't beat those.


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[Assistant] So, I've been doing some thinking and I actually, like, was like, let me get, let me get serious on this take, cause you have Harley. Okay, you with Dillon Brooks, yes or no? Right? But for me, I started to look at it like this. Here's what, what I can't do.


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[Assistant] This happens a lot in sports. You'll see what your sample size is, right?


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[Assistant] And you'll see what you do in the playoffs. So, so the Cavs played in the playoffs. We all know what happened. It was disgusting. Uh, it was a red hot topic. Then a couple of weeks later, the sting goes off and then all of a sudden now you could just, you know, evaluate what's going on or whatever case might be.


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[Assistant] So now this is usually the era where patience just comes in. And sometimes when you got the people saying, okay, let's just be patient as is, let's do it. My thing is I, I didn't know what I saw. Right. And I know that I saw that you need some more.


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[Assistant] Toughness, I need, I know you saw you need some more umph, some more nasty, some more fight, some more dog, whatever that case may be. And if I can get that.


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[Assistant] I could look at my team and say, I could do both things at once. Now people will say, you don't need him because he's not a shooter. Well, okay, well here's the thing.


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[Assistant] You got five or six non-shooters. Just replace those non-shooters. You got Jetty can't shoot. You got a Coral can't shoot. You got Stevenson can't shoot. You got Dean Way supposed to be able to shoot, but I ain't seen it. So you got all the Carousel Vert, uh. So now I'm saying, well, look, if you want to take Lamar Stevens out and swap him in,


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[Assistant] That's a move you can make. It does not have to be all or nothing.


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[Assistant] It doesn't have to be, we can't get him because we, we can't, we don't have enough money or we don't have the assets to get it. No, you can get him and you can replace some of these non-shooters. Who the hell is Sam Merrill by the way? No clue. Did you just make that name up? No clue. Merrill Lynch.


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[Assistant] I don't, I'm confused. I didn't know Dan Gilbert did not make four or five more billion dollars in the recession. He did! And he should!


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[Assistant] Space case. Let me tell you this. We had this con- we had this conversation and we had a topic a couple of months ago, uhm, whose roster would you like better? And then like the next five years or something.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and you, and I think that most people would, it was between the Cavs and the Browns because they had, you know, you know, Donovan Mitchell and they had the young guy sign. But I, I'm, I'll go back to this. I take the guardians over both of them. Now, now when I look at it, Jason, you tell me.


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[Assistant] LeBron wanted them to, to get it, to trade that number eight pick that they had from the Nats, which became Colin Sexton.


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[Assistant] Um, and they wouldn't do it because they thought that was the backup plan for LeBron leaving. Obviously there is no backup plan for LeBron leaving. You just, you go back to the drawing board and you restart. But if you look at this, this, uh, team and just rationally looking, they don't have cap space. They don't have any draft picks.


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[Assistant] They have 14 million to spend on someone who we've yet to identify because of the fact that it is so restricted.


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[Assistant] And on top of that, you have a roster where you don't know whether or not two bigs can play. You don't know whether the two guards is going to be able to coincide. And you're in the Eastern Conference where people have multiple superstars.


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[Assistant] So how do, you know, my thing is, we talk about every day, alright, the Cavs just need to get better, Cavs need, to me, the only way this team gets better is if Evan Mobley becomes, I don't know, Chris Bosh tomorrow. And then it makes a little more sense. But if he still is on this progression, I don't see how they become


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[Assistant] Good enough within the next year that there are title contenders as is. Do you?


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[Assistant] Boss year three, boss year three, just for reference, boss year three. In Toronto. In Toronto, 22.5 points, 9.2 rebounds. So 22. He's already there.


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[Assistant] We'll see. To me, oh, by the way, KG 18.5 points, 9.6 rebounds. So basically 19 and 10 his third year doing some reasonable comps. You know, so I look at it like this, you know, Jared Allen.


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[Assistant] Uhm, to me that's the only trade piece and I don't know how willing they will be.


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[Assistant] Given the fact that they feel like he's really good in the locker room, he's a really good teammate, he's a really nice guy, really good guy, I don't think that they're gonna be amped to really get rid of this guy. However, I just wanna, the backdrop is this. It's that huge clock. The clock is saying, listen,


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[Assistant] Donovan Mitchell ain't here forever. Like when you, and this is just what it is. They gotta understand this is Deshaun Watson rules. When you went and got Deshaun Watson,


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[Assistant] Now you want, now you, you told us what type of time you won. You talk about, I'm winning the championship. Now, if you're gonna give three first round picks to, to Donovan Mitchell to get him here, you gotta do everything, even if it's uncomfortable.


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[Assistant] To make sure that you could be in a certain place at the end of this year. And I, I'm gonna be anxious to see if they're willing to do that. Alright, let's leave that there. Mike, what do you got?


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[Assistant] Right now they're looking for any reason to say or figure out why the Memphis Grizzlies lost to LeBron and the Lakers. We knew what was going to happen. It was what it was.


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[Assistant] Ja Morant had the same trajectory as Ja Rule. Everybody loved Ja Rule. He had nice sing-along, singy songs. What would I be without you? Guess what?


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[Assistant] 50 Cent came out and was like, Ja Rule Who? Like Ja Morant, you was, you had all the money in the world and then you, uh, joined the Rollin' 60s or some sort of gang. I don't know. Why would you join the Crips of the Bloods? You rich now, right?


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[Assistant] When I look at it, cause he gets, sometimes I watch and I get angry a little bit when he just stops and gives up on plays. I'll give him a C. I think the problem for me is he's regressed a little bit in certain areas.


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[Assistant] When you're a right tackle, I expect you to be a little more nasty. I thought he was more of a road grader. Played with more of an attitude at Alabama. Now you get to hear your left tackle.


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[Assistant] Now, we've talked to Joe Thomas, we've talked to a lot of other people, and sometimes he just looks like he just gives up on plays.


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[Assistant] I can deal with, you know, things of technique. I can deal with pad level. I can deal with whether you're getting a good pad set or you're getting beat on outside or inside moves. You can work on those things. But one thing you can't work on is somebody's mentality.


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[Assistant] And to have a good mentality to be a left tackle, you have to understand, like that is still the position up front with the most cachet. That's the most important position. You going against top notch rushers all the time, and that's the big money position. Sometimes I don't see that level of flyer or that fire from Jedrick Willis.


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[Assistant] And can he get there? I think his ceiling is a little bit above average. I think.


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[Assistant] That's just what his ceiling, he doesn't have some of the tools that a Joe Thomas or some of these other guys have. He can still be a productive pro, I just don't think he's ever gonna


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[Assistant] And he made a comment, and I try not to do this. I hate this. I hate this because I don't want to sound like that guy. There was a time where he was like, he was upset because people were booing. And I was like, as an offensive lineman,


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[Assistant] I swear, offensive linemen don't wear their sleeves and you can't, and offensive linemen's comments, we, we, we, we say, look, we blue collar, defensive linemen, I boo us too. Yeah, right. I boo us too, but, but I will say this.


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[Assistant] They picked it up, I like it because he's been injured, Conklin's been injured. Right.


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[Assistant] He might not even make it through the whole season. So they hedging their bet on body. So I like that.


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[Assistant] He got better at the end of the year. He actually led the team in tackles, which I think that should be.


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[Assistant] And I can't pinpoint who it was because it was looking so bad. The coverages like between cover two and cover four and cover three and cover one. I don't know what they was in and everybody was looking around each other like this, but I will say.


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[Assistant] He has the traits to be a good safety. He has the skill set to be a good safety.


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[Assistant] Now I want to see if he has the mental makeup and how he's going to take it moving forward in this new defense. But I would say if you get a starter, and he's been a starter multiple years, I can't give it a horrible grade. I'd give it a B minor.


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[Assistant] He has the requisite size. He's bigger inside. You can even put him at nose or three technique. He looks like he should be better, but when you look at his tape, uh, his PFF scores are horrible. He graded out as one of the worst defensive tackles in the league. He graded out as one of the worst defensive tackles in terms of, uh, uh, you know, run blocking.


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[Assistant] He's another guy who never really shows that much emotion. He had all the opportunity in the world last year to take that position with nobody around him.


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[Assistant] Now he's going to be a person that has to go against, in the numbers game. Hill, Hurst.


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[Assistant] They just drafted, uh, uh, uh, uh, Siaki Ika. They got Tomlinson in there as well. And they still got Toggiai and Perrion Winfrey. Now, you went from having an opportunity to show what you can do, given the position by Andrew Bear as a third round pick. Now you a guy. We don't know if you gonna make the roster.


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[Assistant] He gets the D plus. The D plus is because, uh, first of all, he does have some skill sets that you like. He's fast, uhm, he's agile.


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[Assistant] But besides that, his read and react, getting off blocks, diagnosing plays, uhm, coming downhill, uh, his coverage skills, all of those are lacking. Uhm, he, he gets blocked and takes terrible angles. He gets washed down, kicked out of the plays.


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[Assistant] And he's injury prone. He's been injured every single year he's played here. Let me mention that.


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[Assistant] He's another one that looks like he's running in quicksand a little bit. Uh, I mean, he catches the Baldwin throne to him. He's a decent blocker. He's just, he's just medium sauce. He's medium sauce at BW3's. He's nothing crazy or terrible. It's just what it is.


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[Assistant] They think he's done. He got bullied. He got that leg folded up. That's the lawn chair type thing. Like, and plus during that off season, if you watch building the Browns, he stayed all off season and put on a bunch of weight.


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[Assistant] Because he is technically a guy that is not that big. Like he has to really work to put on that weight.


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[Assistant] I think they may say like, look, hey, he's always had to get stronger. We don't know how that leg is going to come back. I would say I will, if I had to stick to it and say give it a grade, I will give it a B minus because they did execute what they wanted to.


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[Assistant] Uh, J.C. Treader, they moved him out. They groomed this guy. They got him all the way to the first preseason game and he gets injured. So the plan worked. They did have a succession plan.


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[Assistant] I would give it an A+. Wow. And the reason I'll give it an A+, is because. He's a six round pick, you don't expect that from a six round pick. And I'll give it an extra A+, because he's shown some.


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[Assistant] Oh, no, no, no, no. I wouldn't pay him. As great as that is, if you asked me today, is he trending on getting paid? I would say no. No.


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[Assistant] We still haven't found out who Deshaun Watson even likes. Right. Usually when you got an elite quarterback, they usually take hold to a couple people and they say, oh, I like this dude on this route. Yeah. I like Omari Cooper. Yeah. And they trust him. Like, so there may be, we don't know. Cedric Tillman may come in and they say, man,


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[Assistant] Deshaun Watson is finding Tillman all over the place, or he might be Deshaun Watson, or excuse me, DPJ, we don't know, but he has an opportunity, I gotta give it an A+, cause that's very rare.


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[Assistant] Come on now. I'd give it a... Man, it's kinda tough. I would probably...


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[Assistant] I don't, you don't see very many bees, solid bees on there.


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[Assistant] C to C minus. C? I'm giving it a C. I think we're all around, I think overall it's an okay draft. I'll do C because I gave him an A plus and Donovan Peoples Jones is a starter. I say how many starters did you get? Phillips possibly could start this year. And Delphid is a starter too.


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[Assistant] I think, for me, I just don't know. I get why it happens, like, you know.


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[Assistant] Because we don't have the level, well, supposedly we don't have the money.


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[Assistant] To go out and get bats and we don't have, we can't just keep getting guys, like even going after Bell, was, was, you can't whiff on him because that, the amount of money you, you spent on him, you need him to produce. But I think we've, we've kind of lulled ourselves into sleep, into thinking that,


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[Assistant] You know, maybe hitting is not as important. Maybe, you know, yeaah, our power numbers are down, but you know, we have to do it a different way.


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[Assistant] I just don't know, I just don't know if you can win that way. It's, you know, the offense is so anemic that you're counting on your rotation to be completely healthy, bullpen has to be lights out, and you gotta hold guys under three runs. I don't know if you could do that anymore.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, I'm gonna ask y'all every week.


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[Assistant] Hey man, you scared about Jose, man? I'm looking at these advanced statistics.


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[Assistant] You know, it's uh, barrel percentages uh, 30 right now.


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[Assistant] But, by the way, uh, it just shows overall like the whole effect of, uhm, you not hitting the ball well. You know, Jose Ramirez traditionally does not have people around him so he sees pitches. Right now, 45% of his pitches is fastball. He's getting a lot of breaking pitches.


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[Assistant] The word you guys keep saying is razor thin. Like the margins for the guardians is, uh, is like...


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[Assistant] You know, they have, you don't, you never want to watch a team and you never want to sit there and say,


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[Assistant] One mistake in the first inning and you feel like you're panicking. Because now you're like, we know we can't make mistakes. You don't, it's uneasy. Like I watch him and I'm like, man.


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[Assistant] I'm looking for, guys get to give up two runs in an inning, guys get guys on second base and all of a sudden you're thinking like, oh, here we go again. This is going to be uphill battle tonight.


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[Assistant] What's up, what's up guys, how's it going? What's going on?


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[Assistant] You know, eh Phil, I gotta start off by saying, like, you probably the first dude, like, when I was growing up in McKinley, right, uhm, my dad went to McKinley.


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[Assistant] Uhm, my uncles, you know, they, they run a barber shop, and I remember going to the barber shop, uhm, and talking to my uncle, Oliver, Michael, and all they talked about was, they like, look.


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[Assistant] Phil Hubbard is the baddest to ever come out of camp. He's one of the coldest to ever do it, man. Y'all young boys don't understand. Like, it's crazy. I'll say this.


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[Assistant] A lot of people don't realize that Kent McKinley is a basketball power, by the way. We got the most... Still? Still. Division one wins of all time. Most wins of all time. They try to wipe that away because we good at football. But y'all gotta give us our flowers. And this is one of the dudes who, uh, who was really pivotal in starting that off.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. You know, what is the difference? We talked to a lot of guys that


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[Assistant] You know, Brad Sellers is one of the cast and we've talked to a lot of guys, Charles Oakley, some of those individuals who come from that era where it was 80s basketball. You had the Pistons really starting to make their move with Isaiah Thomas. Obviously you had the Lakers and obviously you had the Celtics.


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[Assistant] What was that era? How did that era differ, uhm, from the era today? And do you believe it was, it was tougher to play back then than it is now?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, Jason, uh, you know, sometimes I look at it and I told Jason, I said, man,


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[Assistant] When we gonna give Steph Curry's flowers? Like, because I just think he's the poster child of this era. Like a lot of people-


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[Assistant] So he's Drake and I grew up listening to Jay-Z and Nas and Snoop and Dre and Wu-Tang, Tribe Called Quest. I grew up listening to those. So when Drake came around, I'm like, come on, man, you got this dude singing. He emotional. He making songs for ladies and, and you know, he looking all like he rap and sing.


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[Assistant] But after a certain point in time, you gotta be like, well, this dude got more hits than...


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[Assistant] Everybody. The dude just keeps coming out. He's been out for years and he keeps bringing it. And I think just the same way with Steph Curry.


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[Assistant] At what point do older, the older generations embrace him and say, look, he revolutionized the way you play basketball.


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[Assistant] We was just sitting here while we were trying to reconnect you talking about


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[Assistant] Uhm, Steph Curry, right? So, you know, to me, Steph Curry, more than anybody, has changed the game, you know, in a way that we didn't foresee coming.


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[Assistant] I believe you played in an era where you didn't have the three point line and then they brought the three point line in somewhere during your career.


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[Assistant] Can you talk about how the three point shot has kind of changed the way coaches, because you coach as well, how coaches think about that shot particular. Now it's a bunch of threes and layups in terms of what they used to be when there was no three point line.


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[Assistant] Derek Rose will not make it. So here's my thing, if you let Terrell Davis in the Hall of Fame, and he's a running back,


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[Assistant] But there's multiple people that are in the Hall of Fame and they're there because their career got cut short by injury. Gale Sayers, now he's not on levels Gale Sayers, but Gale Sayers was hurt.


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[Assistant] They don't care about your stolen bases because they don't really do it anymore. Even if you've got multiple golden gloves, like, they're like, mm, okay, you're a good defensive player.


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[Assistant] By the way, I don't want to revert. McNuggies, you might be right. Uhm, Christian Laitner is in the basketball Hall of Fame.


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[Assistant] I mean, I would have done anything to keep it this cold. All winter. It could have been like this. December, January, February.


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[Assistant] Good morning. I welcome everyone to this confirmation hearing on the nomination of Judge


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[Assistant] But it's with great pleasure and deep respect for his extraordinary abilities that I today announce my intention to nominate United States Court of Appeals Judge Robert H. Bork.


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[Assistant] Why do you want to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court?


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[Assistant] This vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.


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[Assistant] We see Judge Thomas now with the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.


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[Assistant] Thank you, Mr. President. This is the greatest honor of my life.


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[Assistant] Kennedy really was the middle of the court, so it's, it's a really serious moment, the most serious moment in the balance of the court, really, since even before Bork.


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[Assistant] Is that your answer? Yeah, and I'm curious if you have. I have no drinking problem, Judge. Yeah, nor do I. Okay. Thank you. Senator.


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[Assistant] Bull is 16 and 8 on his baseball bets, 30 and 24 overall here. So we are going to continue to ride with our guy Bull and his daily bet.


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[Assistant] Check him out at betrivers.com, download the bet rivers app today for the latest lines, odds, and boosts. And boy, your last double bet day for the next six because Anthony will be gone.


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[Assistant] You would not actually win that series. When he scored 50 points twice, they lost in the first round.


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[Assistant] Bunch of super chats, actually, that we gotta get to real quick before we move on here. And as always, when we read super chats, it's brought to us by our-


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[Assistant] And a signing bonus you can apply online at precast.com slash careers to learn more. The chat is going crazy right now. We appreciate everyone chiming in on who deserves the most blame. We're going to touch on the calves in a bunch of different topics in a sec.


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[Assistant] I put my Jared Allen jersey on eBay first thing this morning. I'll always ride or die with the Cavs, but man, I'm disappointed to be a fan of this team right now. 2016 NBA champs 2-1-6 says, Jared Allen got flat out punk this entire series. Brody's bottom line says, so Mitchell only got eight rebounds in two games? I think he means Allen.


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[Assistant] Alan only had eight rebounds in two games. Uh, Bob Byler says Stefanski and Bickerstaff are both soft and it shows in both their teams. Isaiah C said this during Bull's rant. Bull should have coached with that kind of energy. I can't wait to see him at Little League practice tonight when me and Anthony go out there to throw some strikes. And last one from Justin DW.


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[Assistant] The frontcourt guys need to toughen up. Mitch single-handedly controlled them both. I think next year, y'all will be top three, but next to the Eastern Conference Finals. I know one way to get the frontcourt to toughen up.


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[Assistant] Let's force feed them built bars non-stop this summer. Let's go from a combined weight of about 215 for Allen and Mobley to 275 there in 12 built bars a day. And you could use promo code LOCKDOWN15 for 15% off at built.com on all built bars. So let's go to that next real quick. Yeah. Yeah, we'll get to that.


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[Assistant] About Evan Mobley, and this stats brought to us by the USFL. I know we're talking basketball, but football season is still going on here in Ohio. Check him out down in Canton, USFL.com.


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[Assistant] Family fun for everybody, $10 a ticket, affordable, family friendly fun. Check him out in Canton and around the country at USFL.com. Of all the things we could talk about with Evan Mobley, and he certainly was outplayed, out physicaled, and looked like a young player learning how to play in a postseason against a physical team.


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[Assistant] He still led the Cavs in overall plus minus, so when you look at it to Jason's point.


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[Assistant] Of all the players, when they were on the court, versus when they were off, he was their most efficient and most effective guy as far as keeping the Cavs within games. And I do agree with Jason that he deserves some blame. A small fraction in totality.


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[Assistant] He did not play well. And G's point of, we thought he was a unicorn. He played like a My Little Pony doll in this series. That's totally fair. Yes. But.


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[Assistant] In totality, he was not the reason they lost this season.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we got two super chats and one's a question directly for Jason. We'll start with this though, from always balling seven. I said it on the post game show last night, the guys read it, but the Cavs need a veteran vocal leader like PJ Tucker, Pat Beverly, Draymond Green, et cetera. Who won't take a crap. Not Pat Beverly, not Pat Beverly. A player like that would be huge for the Cavs. And then Evan419.


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[Assistant] Has a question directly for Jason. Jason, without saying the players like him.


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[Assistant] What is JB good at? He's been a coach since 2015. I think we know who he is.


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[Assistant] And as always, the Lunch Hour is sponsored by Call of Gracing, the official NASCAR team of Northeast Ohio. We want to thank everybody.


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[Assistant] Who tune into the post game shows for the Cavs games. We had over a thousand people in there last time. We got over a thousand people watching now. You guys are the true MVPs and I want to give


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[Assistant] Two special shoutouts to evan419 and philboman. They both gifted five memberships each. Nice. People in the chat today. So 10 gifted memberships. You guys are awesome. We appreciate you guys. And if you weren't gifted a membership and want to get your own, well.


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[Assistant] Depending on how the rest of the show goes, we'll be talking about Yannis and participation trophies potentially with his comments after the bucks lost to the heat last night. A lot to get to. We appreciate you guys for gifting memberships.


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[Assistant] And with that, we may not have the calves, but we do have.


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[Assistant] He wears rec specs too, which makes him ten times cooler. Yes. Like ten times cooler.


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[Assistant] Before you get back to the point, Steve, take Tagboard Fold, play the video. Tell me this is not, I saw this on Twitter, but this is identical. This is Verlander and, uh, Bybee's video. Yeah, wow.


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[Assistant] It is 12 15, which means it is time to remind everybody that the Lunch Hour of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show is sponsored by Colleague Racing, the official NASCAR team of Northeast Ohio. And we gotta spend a few minutes on the big sporting event happening tonight before we welcome Terrell Brandon.


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[Assistant] To the show, the NFL draft, which is a little different than normal because the Browns have a first round pick, but we will still talk about it because it is important because our good friends at Lincoln Electric are sponsoring a Browns talk segment every day. Lincoln Electric hiring for all great jobs in the welding and manufacturing field. Check them out. Great people, great jobs. Lincoln Electric. My question for you guys, the Browns don't have a first round pick tonight.


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[Assistant] How much and where would you put on a scale of 1 to 10 is your interest in what happens in the first round of the draft?


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[Assistant] I think that's a possibility. We're gonna talk about it tomorrow, don't worry. What's that? We're gonna talk about the Browns' plans for day two tomorrow. We think it, no way they're making it into round one. By the way, Gavin Williams today in AAA, four innings pitch, no runs, five strikeouts. Electric stuff in Jason, you're right.


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[Assistant] His windup and Garrett Cole, eerily similar, so.


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[Assistant] With that being said, we're going to do a real quick round of happy face, sad face, yes or no on some NFL Draft prop bets. Okay. We're going to run through these real quick. We got 10 of them. So we're going to run through them, hopefully throw a brand and joins us at 1230. If not, we got plenty of other stuff to get to. Are you guys ready for a round of happy face, sad face? Okay. AKA yes or no, would you take it or not on some NFL Draft prop bets? You ready?


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[Assistant] Question number one, over under four and a half quarterbacks taking in the first round tonight.


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[Assistant] This is all a guess, and these are all per fan duel by the way. Over under one and a half running backs taken tonight in the first round. Bijan's a certainty. Will Jamir Gibbs be the second? Both says yes.


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[Assistant] Alright, next one, over under three and a half wide receivers. Taking in the first round tonight.


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[Assistant] Bijon Robinson's draft position as he go and picks 1-12 or in 13 or after.


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[Assistant] of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Members or not, this content is all free for you on our YouTube page, on our YouTube channel, on the Haymarket text chain. You're going to get it all. Make sure you tune in throughout the weekend. We got three more real quick. Boy, I know you know this guy because you mentioned him. Joey Porter Jr. Top 20 pick or not.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's a great question. I think 19 or 18. They didn't make the playoffs, so they have to be. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Two more. Will Tyree Wilson be the first defensive player taken? He is the prohibited favorite as of this morning.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Top 10. He said the Eagles have assured him he will not fall past 10, so. There's no chance they've assured him that. This dude. He didn't do any interviews outside the top 10.


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[Assistant] You know what's crazy about, you know what's crazy about Tyree Wilson? He was at A&M for two years when I was there. He couldn't get off the third string at A&M on the defensive line. And he goes to Texas Tech, blows up, and now he's a projected top five.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, great trivia question. Earl did not know this earlier. Last big 10 or big 12, excuse me, big 12 defensive player to be drafted in the top 10. Who is it? And I wouldn't ask if it didn't have some sort of tie to Cleveland on this show. Brian Bosworth. Miles Garrett. No, A&M was the SEC at that point. Oh, um, hold on.


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[Assistant] A guy I'm sure Bull has never heard of, Cedric Tillman. Will he be a first round pick? Didn't he play basketball for Texas A&M in the 80s? This Cedric Tillman, no, maybe there's another one.


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[Assistant] He's setting up, give us one more second, but while we set up, I'll remind everybody that the lunch hour of the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show is sponsored by...


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[Assistant] Colleague racing, the official NASCAR team of Northeast Ohio. And with that, let's welcome on Tyrell Brandon, former Cavs guard legend.


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[Assistant] Shooting extraordinaire to the show. We figured out the tech issues and now, here's our guy from California. What's up, Taro?


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[Assistant] This is a good question here, I promise.


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[Assistant] As a, you know, former point guard, you got a chance to run with a lot of elite players and elite shooters and a point guard's main goal is to be able to pick out who's open and who's got the best shot when and where.


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[Assistant] Of us four, looking on the panel, who do you think is the best shooter out of us four? Oh my god. Are we really gonna ask that question? Yes.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, Terrell, I got one more serious question. Did you play with Bill Curley in Minnesota? In 98, 99?


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[Assistant] That's my college coach. Good dude. You got any good curly stories? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Hey, so while we've been on for the last hour, we have seen some of the exit interview quotes from the Cavs and a couple have been, uh, I saw the Jared Allen.


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[Assistant] We'll get to the Allen one in a sec. I want to start with the Ricky Rubio one. You can take tag board full here, Steven. Shout out to our guy, Evan Damerill from Lockdown Cavs for transcribing and tweeting these out. But this is what Ricky Rubio said. If you ask anyone in our locker room, we were the better team than the Knicks. We were more talented. Were they more talented than us? No. They just wanted it more than we did.


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[Assistant] Y'all just got mollywop41. I'm not sure you could say that out loud in good conscience.


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[Assistant] You ready for the Jared Allen quote? We got, I got five of these. So we go back and we'll dissect them after. Uh, two from Jared Allen, who's in his third playoff series for the record. Even for me, the lights were brighter than expected.


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[Assistant] I told the guys, if you go through your first playoff series in Madison Square Garden, you'll be alright. That place is different. And go to the next one, Anthony, give me the rec of the next one.


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[Assistant] Taddish, yeaah. They finally gave me a chance. Baby, they understand. Tell your message, I'm breaking bags. On the Superstar Taddish, yeaah. Drip out, there ain't no ends.


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[Assistant] Nah, it's the third, I think it ain't the third or fourth, it's one of them.


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[Assistant] Then my first tape, like real tape I opened and put out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Faygo, me sweet. Kai Kenny, me sweet. Prank 6.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I drink lean sometimes, but I like when I pop so many percs, so I say, y'all stop popping, y'all putting me in the drink, you popping too many, you putting the drink on sick, mellow, you know what I'm saying, you gonna float.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm summin' them all from the side. AJ. They'll help me think I can't-


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[Assistant] Concentrate like, if I ain't on a perc- I don't know, girl.


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[Assistant] There's a thing, I just be scared to take perks. My brother, well, not my brother, but my cousin Deebo from Cunley.


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[Assistant] He put me on the motherfucker, one day, we going to, uhm, my brother Anquan's cemetery, his grave site, go see him and shit.


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[Assistant] I buy a lot, so I won't just have to come back, you know what I'm sayin'? I buy a lot. I be poppin' the motherfuck, cause I'm in the studio, I be tryna be up.


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[Assistant] I be on, I be on the motherfucker, my mind a whole nother level. This rap shit be a whole nother level, I'm on the motherfucker.


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[Assistant] He wanna make it, he make it seem like I'm, yeah, a drug addict. Are you gonna be okay? Fuck, nigga, I'm on Tilly, motherfucker. I ain't passed out yet. Ten? Yes.


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[Assistant] Wow, that sounds kinda scary, I'm not gonna lie. That ain't scary when you know how your body immune to it.


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[Assistant] He just, he trippin' like, bruh, what are you doing? He talking about, are you okay? Fuck, nigga, I'm okay. You okay? I'm okay. I'm not on a perc. I ain't talking about you.


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[Assistant] Nah, Sly was just laughing at the interview. He like, you here Sly? Sly was just laughing. I asked him if he didn't want to perp.


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[Assistant] You got DC Young Fly. You had to start joning me. Well, he hit me to see me start joning now. What, what, DC Young Fly was talking shit?


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[Assistant] Cause if you're a new professor, I ain't a professor, I get four good people. You gon' take your ass out, man.


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[Assistant] Take his hand, right up. You would pull up on DC Youngfly?


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, make a funny joke with Joni. For real, I come from Joni. My whole family's Joni. My mama's Joni. Everybody's Joni.


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[Assistant] We were talking about the wave before we just really start doing what we do. We like slime. We gotta take shit serious. And we gotta got down, yea. We gotta do shit folks ain't doing. We the wave, bruh. Folks wanna be, even these big ass rappers wanna be around us, bruh.


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[Assistant] And we really come from this shit. And we really came from that.


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[Assistant] Somebody rep get a bag, they come for some silver spoil. I made a song called Silver Spoil, I wish I could play it for you.


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[Assistant] Plastic spoon, got that plastic fork. Sometimes you make a, take a little shit, you cut a little paper plate, make a little fork. Yeah, all that.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's what, that won't keep nobody with me, but just my little cuz is fat. And...


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[Assistant] I don't hang with, I don't hang with three folks. I don't hang with nobody.


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[Assistant] I don't have no, but I'm gonna pull up on my brother and he's just like, but when I get on the everyday base, I have just three folks.


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[Assistant] I don't tell nobody, bro. Hope they be shady, bro.


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[Assistant] Nah, I don't mean a people person, like, when it start right, I got, you just see the change when folks start acting towards you. We get money and we start doing better with yourself.


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[Assistant] I'm dead ass serious, bro. They don't get me. I'm telling you, you hanging around me for two days.


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[Assistant] I used to smoke like a motherfucker, but I had fun when I went over to my partner's house.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they used to trap and shit, so he sold some dope to Crackhead. He got a residue still on his hand, but he gave me the weed, I rolled it up.


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[Assistant] It's the moon, he give me the weed, we roll down, we listen to that shit. That's a lot.


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[Assistant] I guess on the weed when he gave it to me, I don't know. Holy shit. While I rolled the shit up, I was smoking it, I hear my heart binging. Like, I hear my shit binging. I hear it, I feel it, but I hear it. So what the fuck?


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[Assistant] I said, oh shit! I said, what the fuck y'all gave me? I'm from the crash line. Like, I'm dead-ass from the crash. I thought I was finna die, bro. I'm finna talk to my jiggas later on, bro.


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[Assistant] Nah, bruh, I can't lay down, bruh. My heart beating fast here. So I'm not trying to lay down. All this shit.


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[Assistant] The motherfucker come through my head, through my side, right here. I was like, what the fuck? I get up, I go sit outside in the rain. I take all my clothes off, go sit outside in the rain. Just for that shit to go, just to blow my head.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, it's cold in here, I'm gonna stay outside, it's raining bro. How long did that last? Shit.


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[Assistant] Nah, see yeaah, I ain't nothing, I just do perks. I just pop my lil' tin, know what I'm sayin'? I don't do all that extra.


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[Assistant] I ain't trying to do all that, man. I'm just gonna pop me a little perk. Smoke my jewel. Matter of fact, where the fuck my jewel at?


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[Assistant] We just got serious, like, with my brother, little brother, Snake, that. But, we were rem-like, bro. We hard, so we real jam. I went in the studio every day, like, how my brother, Key, was.


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[Assistant] I was right before him, but I went in the studio and he had found a producer named Muto. They like, clean it like this.


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[Assistant] So boom, I'll make some music with them, but that, they start putting me in the studio and I start getting better and better. So I really had the whole hood baby, tell you what, been made, but.


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[Assistant] After I got signed to Elmore, I remade the whole tape. I left no songs and remade the whole tape.


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[Assistant] I had got better than when Alamo had signed me. They put me in the studio every day since I got signed. I say, bro, this shit. Goat status over here. Shit, goat status.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I got some shit. I just made a couple songs with Dirk. Mudda man, you know Mudda man.


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[Assistant] Right thing, wrong thing. He just tryna make sure I just, I make it. He just make sure I'm straight. Nobody ain't playing me out. He real like a daddy to me.


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[Assistant] Big shoes. Yeaah. I think you got it though. Real, real brothers, we have the same mind, don't fuck no real life.


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[Assistant] I can know when my brother say, like, we can talk to each other in our mind, when we're around each other.


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[Assistant] We know we finna say out it, we really talk to each other in our mind like, cause we, we only one year apart.


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[Assistant] That was your first show three days ago? Yea, that was my first show. Where was it at? Cause you know, I wouldn't go without no show. That's crazy. I ain't did no show.


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[Assistant] And then that folk be wanting who I'm male. They know me, but they be just wanting like...


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[Assistant] Have y'all ever seen them in their face? I don't see you though, bro.


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[Assistant] He was like, you gotta go pipe up out there and look at the crowd, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Do what you gotta do. Yo, now he came and stayed with me. Probably re-piped up. I brought a man. He perform. We let him off of us. How soon we do one? Left. Went to the studio.


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[Assistant] You in the studio every night? Every night. You obsessed? Obsessed with the studio. I love the studio, bro. I just love it here in my home. I don't listen to nobody's music but mine. Oh my God. I play used to see me like, bro, you supposed to be a being there right now.


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[Assistant] From your perspective? It's old music. All this shit on there is old. Right. It's old music.


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[Assistant] Uh, my new shit finna be trippin'. Um, the tape I'm droppin' down, crazy but true. Like, Sultana, M.I.A. All this new music. Like, new. All that music now. That one ain't home trippin'. That's how y'all gonna be home trippin'.


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[Assistant] I wanna go to the club. Like, for me to go to the club, they gotta pay me. I be wanna get paid. I like money. Money you can buy shit.


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[Assistant] Only club I reject go to without pay. It's La Cour, that's the home club. I go to that club anytime I want to.


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[Assistant] Sounded like Pee Wee, motherfuckin' uncle. Pee Wee's your uncle? Uh, he like uncle me, but...


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[Assistant] See, he custom like, everything he do custom. Right. See me, I can do custom sometimes, but I'm a really Gucci. I like Gucci. Know what I'm sayin'? I like Gucci. Know what I'm sayin'? I like Gucci.


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[Assistant] Like, I like designer period. I just like designer. Cause, I can afford it.


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[Assistant] You ask my manager, how many, like, all these shoes I ain't never used. They ain't look like they been wear, like, wore. I got Nike shoes, all type of shit. I don't wear shit. But designer, bro.


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[Assistant] Were you buying boxers? Boxers, drawers, socks. I go to Gap, Smith 1500, uh, type of shit. I go to every store. I was, you know what I'm saying, some drip.


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[Assistant] I feel like I'm going to buy them money. Glasses, belt, draw, shirt, jacket, socks. Down in them teeth and shoes, nose.


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[Assistant] I don't care about wearing German clothes. I wear a cutting sheet. I can afford it, you know. That's why I wear it.


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[Assistant] But, I just like, some shit, if I dress up, bro, nigga ain't flicking with me.


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[Assistant] Yes, it was, like, the way Ben made, like, Ben made turnips, but old folk were wearing them, when old young folks were wearing them.


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[Assistant] I got every color. Every color, literally.


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[Assistant] Fuck, like, I wanna build a big ass, imagine a movie that has secret ladies and shit. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I'd spread my whole chick on this shit like that cause I'm be safe. Right. Hit the wall, toot toot toot, mouth go open.


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[Assistant] They were like, we all got jurors like, we were all like, he got a whole bunch of jurors for like,


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[Assistant] Me key I got, what about you make a key chain? I just finally paid for my hood if chain ain't made by him now.


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[Assistant] So boom. But we got, like, storm chains, all types of shit, but.


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[Assistant] So everybody wouldn't do it, cause we like, brother like, you feel me? So we all just be, switching our chain. Like, shit.


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[Assistant] I'm YSL. I've been YSL. I don't have to be labeled just to be YSL.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I ain't know nothing about Elmo. I swear, I ain't know nothing about Elmo. I knew about Elmo when my manager tell me.


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[Assistant] He found me. That's who found me. He was at, he was at, and I'm on Alamo too, but he my manager too. Is that your only white friend? Oh. Nah. Everybody loves the baby.


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[Assistant] That's just the other half of me. You look at him, you see me. Yeaah. I talk to him well. That's why. He doesn't talk to me well in the game, but I talk to him well with his street shit.


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[Assistant] I thought about it, I used to think about this shit all the time, like, bro, I used to get kicked out of school every day, literally. I didn't do shit, he just look at me.


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[Assistant] Renner boys, y'all come here. We'll go over there. Y'all high. I'ma tell Mr. Manny.


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[Assistant] We heard him get up out of there, we were in the class. He heard you hear our name on the intercom.


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[Assistant] We're going out now, we're cussing each other, what the hell y'all do?


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[Assistant] Alright, so we get up there like, both of y'all high. Y'all suspended. But they let Key go back in, cause you know Key play best. But Key all just squee them up and all that shit.


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[Assistant] Ah, we too close and I'm like, we just too close bro. There's none of that shit. Oh man, we still jolly trying to do all of that shit.


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[Assistant] We used to rap together and shit, but we just started doing our own shit.


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[Assistant] We be a group, you know what I'm saying? We be a group. Go on. Way out here, be the best group, more of these niggas out here.


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[Assistant] Somebody told me to look at my deal, cause I check my deal request like every three days.


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[Assistant] Before, hell before, I got, I got, I got atlas testing me.


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[Assistant] I got Shaquille O'Neal's son just telling me the other day. Wow. And it was another actor telling me, it's more folk. I be having different folk tell me. So I look at my DM requests. I see Lil Uzi Vert. But you know how folk be having fake payers and shit. But here she had a blue check. But I'm like, let me mention that to him. It's Uzi. He sent a real heart. He sent nothing. He just sent a real heart. I'm like, shlap.


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[Assistant] He said he know my car, he said something similar. Before even he said, what going on? So he asked to say something similar. He said something similar, sly.


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[Assistant] Hug up, sit in the sun. That was the track that was on my project. Right. Then we got more shit. I got some...


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[Assistant] Man, Uzi guy ain't meet Uzi Hill Repablo. He ain't even out yet. Wow. I'm the only one who ain't got that shit.


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[Assistant] Right now I got the bundle out the way. I got the condo. Trying to get the whip.


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[Assistant] Like, go planning with the hood, baby, all that shit.


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[Assistant] I like hit billboards. I do shit like, some crazy shit.


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[Assistant] My main goal is to be a mean ass this year. That's my main goal, to be a mean ass.


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[Assistant] That I had a personal, my first interview with Gary Vee. I had two interviews with him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, his office. I had one of his offices. They had a shit with U2. They had a shit with Fader.


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[Assistant] Which one I had gotten tattooed at? Audio man, I had interviewed audio man while I'm getting tattooed. And I got this.


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[Assistant] No, he love us. He irritates me every day. He hits everyone a little, a little junkie on dates. Like just a wake up miss type shit.


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[Assistant] How many times I had rich friends, period. I know I had a rich ass big brother.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I'm happy I'm doing it, cause I can finally get the shit like, if I used to be out at CFO right there, I wish I had that shit.


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[Assistant] Like, so she was going on like, they was drawing like, y'all wi-fi, y'all were used to that, me not using wi-fi. Skinny J ain't talking to me. I didn't do it with Skinny J, instead I used wi-fi. For sure. Get with that wi-fi, guys. Some more money.


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[Assistant] That waifu right there made us something y'all wouldn't listen to. Same folk that was saying that, same folk be tryna hang around us now.


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[Assistant] Listen to her sheets in her video. Her type of sheet, bro. They'll make the sheet. I love revenge.


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[Assistant] I was like, man, hell nah, but I gotta do something. I knew I had talent with rapping. I used to write poems and shit by myself on my own, but I used to write some little fire, little raps, all type of shit.


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[Assistant] So I can write raps and then I'm like, man, I'm just finna rap. Cause I had, when it got, I had my friend tattoo, I had it when it got did.


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[Assistant] I did shit so that we could reject push but made me force myself to do it.


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[Assistant] Cause if I knew how to do it, I wasn't going to take shit seriously, bro.


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[Assistant] You feel like people started looking at you like really paying attention to you once you had that? Yes. I got folks doing the Triller with their music, I did that. Right. I was the first one doing it, like, put my song on Triller, make it, like, you know what I'm saying? I was the first one doing it. You're dancing skill crazy?


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[Assistant] Females love me, man. I have too many females but I just be...


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[Assistant] Selfie maybe, female love maybe, female challenges. Fuck up my career.


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[Assistant] I don't type shit, every time I do, I don't type shit. Hey no, got it man.


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[Assistant] But I ain't even gonna say that though, cuz I got one girl I really like right now.


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[Assistant] Like, I seen her, I'm like, man, ain't she all natural? She got dreads, she's make it, know what I'm saying? Hair long, all natural, ass natural, no stomach, all natural. Finally foot, short, dark skin.


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[Assistant] I don't like no fake, fake ass hoe man. You like a trainee. Cause that gonna tell you how all your makeup on you need to be at Willy Wacky's funeral home man.


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[Assistant] She's like, bruh. It's like when I met her, we connected just like that. She's doing my hand shit. I'm laying on her. We talk, like her vibe is so fire, bruh. She can cool as fuck, bruh. She's like cool as hell, bruh.


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[Assistant] I would not fuck with these hoes. Like, like, me and her just get real real just fuck these hoes, man.


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[Assistant] We just like, we just like, when I met you, nah, you just meet somebody like a girl, like, you would meet a girl and be like, I'ma fuck that hoe, she's fat. No, these one girl, they like,


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[Assistant] I want her, boy. They gon' be my baby, right? That's how it was. I told her at it.


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[Assistant] Hold on, yeaah, I'm finna re-lie. That shit was just goin' up. Did she say slat?


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[Assistant] Bruh, she don't, she is, she come, she come, he say bruh, she like, she straight out be in it, bruh.


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[Assistant] Nah, she ain't going, she all about doing her, putting her head down, start putting down. Ain't gonna make it full. Baby.


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[Assistant] Cuban Savage too messy for you? Nah, I just did that shit. I was just high when I said that shit.


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[Assistant] Just know that I'm coming for everything, man. I'm real. I don't have a fear.


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[Assistant] Teeth out at real. And then fake. Wait.


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[Assistant] I'ma get some money and still be the same, nigga. Drop yo ass out, pull up in the hood. All type of shit, man. Stop playing.


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[Assistant] People have packed City Hall to speak up about the need for more police accountability. It's a conversation happening in cities all across the country.


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[Assistant] I was in Ferguson, Missouri after a white policeman killed Michael Brown, a young black man.


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[Assistant] I cover these stories because I see the tension between African Americans and the police as a gauge of race relations in this country.


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[Assistant] One of the more recent cities to be accused of abusive and discriminatory policing.


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[Assistant] The DOJ demanded reform, but I wanted to know how reform could happen in Newark, a poor city where last year there were more than 300 shootings and 105 murders.


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[Assistant] Like the rest of the police department, the gang unit is predominantly black and Latino. And so are most of the victims and perpetrators.


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[Assistant] On one night, I rode with Ricardo Riello, a former truck driver, and Wilberto Ruiz, an Air Force vet. Both are from Newark.


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[Assistant] As they roll up on one of the worst streets in Newark, a guy starts running.


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[Assistant] How does the decision get made to say, okay, we need to stop that person, or we need to do a field inquiry with that person?


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[Assistant] For these officers, it seems like almost everything and everyone looks suspicious.


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[Assistant] Almost every night we're out with a gang unit, they get a gun off the streets. There's a moment of pride.


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[Assistant] That's what happens when everyone assumes the worst of everyone else.


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[Assistant] They find a small bag of cocaine on one guy, but nothing on the other one.


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[Assistant] At the end of the night, I talked to officers Ruiz and Riello about what I'd been seeing.


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[Assistant] To make the communities that we're talking about safe while respecting people's constitutional rights.


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[Assistant] But the DOJ doesn't feel like that's what's happened here.


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[Assistant] I have to tell you something though, right? So, I grew up in Queens, alright, and...


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[Assistant] On, my first experience with the police was that I was thrown up against a mailbox just like this one. Uhm, I was coming home from a baseball game, had my uniform on, was carrying a bat and a glove. And the guy said it was a crime that was committed and so on and I was kinda like, I'm coming from a game.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure, but that's why I asked the question about can you do this, can this be done in a way that still respects people's rights?


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[Assistant] I thought these might help me get more insight into how they justify them, so I filed a public records request


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[Assistant] Newark cops, state police, and the National Guard were accused of using unjustified force to put down the riots.


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[Assistant] By the time it was over, a white cop, a white fireman, and 24 black civilians were dead.


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[Assistant] The Justice Department issued a 49-page report.


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[Assistant] I sat in on a local radio show where the new mayor, Raz Baraka, talked about the DOJ findings with the man he picked to help change the department, Eugene Venable.


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[Assistant] I've actually been friends with Raz since we were student activists at Howard University in the late 1980s. And I'd been a supporter of his.


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[Assistant] His father was the radical poet Amiri Baraka, whose words propelled the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 70s.


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[Assistant] During the 67 riots, he was beaten severely by Newark cops.


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[Assistant] But as mayor, he's trying to bridge the gap between the cops and the community.


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[Assistant] He's been pushing to set up community oversight of the police. And he's also been making himself a regular presence with the cops.


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[Assistant] I met up with Raz one day while he was touring some precincts.


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[Assistant] How does that happen without being the same sorts of policing that people are protesting about?


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[Assistant] But these are black and brown cops. Yea, so what? The first police officer. Police force.


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[Assistant] Is there a point where you look around and go like, this is gonna be even harder than I thought it would be?


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[Assistant] I filed him into the communication center where they'd been having a lot of trouble fielding 911 calls.


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[Assistant] Everywhere we went with the mayor, I could see his frustration. Even with his hand-picked police director.


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[Assistant] A week earlier, a young man died in a gang-related shootout across the street from the police headquarters.


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[Assistant] Two weeks later, Raz demoted Venable and put him in charge of the communication center.


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[Assistant] And Nate Lowe, a New Jersey State parole officer assigned to the unit.


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[Assistant] Intelligence pays off, but later that evening, I see what happens without it.


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[Assistant] While the officer seemed certain about that stop, I remained troubled by it.


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[Assistant] I've requested the report on the incident and also wanted to know what the unit supervisor, Sergeant Constantino, thought of how it went down.


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[Assistant] I wanted to kind of go through something that we shot the other day. And it's of a encounter. With the gang or with the gang?


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[Assistant] Most about that video was that I think if I had been in that position I would have pulled away too.


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[Assistant] Almost by human instinct, if you're surrounded by people who are coming at you in a rush, you're going to back up.


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[Assistant] But see, this is something like the key difference, which is that, you know, kind of being surrounded by police is not a position in which you feel like you're safe for someone like me. I understand. I would say, you know, I don't know what's happening here, I don't know what the agenda of these people is, I know I'm surrounded. The idea of complying is like, sure, that's maybe your second thought.


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[Assistant] Your immediate thought is, you know, I'm in jeopardy, like what's happening here? I think that fundamentally the difference is, do you, if you were surrounded by police officers, do you feel more safe or less safe than you were two minutes earlier?


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[Assistant] I've heard about the stress of the job over and over again.


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[Assistant] Many cops today feel like they're under siege from all sides.


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[Assistant] Especially James Stewart, the president of Newark's largest police union.


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[Assistant] I can't imagine too many folks in Newark would just want the police to stand down.


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[Assistant] But I did want to talk to people here about how they feel about the department.


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[Assistant] So I went to visit an old friend of mine, Ryan Haygood. What's up Doc? Sir!


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[Assistant] He's an attorney and a long time resident who hosts a regular block watch meeting of his neighbors. He invited some of them over to meet with me.


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[Assistant] Were you all surprised to find that the police department was under investigation by the Department of Justice?


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[Assistant] We've been out on patrol with some officers who are making a major initiative to get guns off the street. And, you know, they're kind of stopping people, they're pulling over, frisking people in some instances. And I have to say that


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[Assistant] What I saw was very, uh, disturbing. This is what people have said is necessary in order to get guns off the street.


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[Assistant] In Newark, you're reminded of that bind all too often on the local news.


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[Assistant] A couple of months after I was out with them, the Newark gang unit was a top story.


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[Assistant] It turns out one of the officers is Wilberto Ruiz.


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[Assistant] The department is investigating the allegations, but he has already been disciplined for not filing a report about the incident.


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[Assistant] We also found out that another officer we've met in the gang unit, Kenneth Gillette, was suspended and charged for allegedly coercing a woman to perform oral sex in exchange for leniency. He's pled not guilty.


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[Assistant] After demoting his first police director, he hired back a man who had led the department a decade earlier, Anthony Ambrose.


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[Assistant] I was surprised that Raz turned to the old guard of the Newark police.


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[Assistant] In the midst of reform, you brought in a public safety director.


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[Assistant] We talk with a lot of people on the police force who don't really seem to see a problem here.


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[Assistant] Ras says that change is already starting to happen.


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[Assistant] So I went for one last ride along with a cop I was told represents a different kind of policing.


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[Assistant] That's not just about making arrests, but building trust and relationships.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think that's notable to me because that's so distinct from what the Department of Justice report has said about the Newark Police Department. What's in that report in the Department of Justice investigation is not policing that looks like that. Okay.


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[Assistant] So what do you think the biggest challenge is to...


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[Assistant] Creating the type of police force that you are describing in Newark.


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[Assistant] We drove on to a different neighborhood where Peppers was looking for intel on yet another murder.


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[Assistant] But while he tries to work with the community, the community doesn't always want to work with him.


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[Assistant] After spending a year in and out of Newark, there are no easy answers.


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[Assistant] Recently, the gang unit we'd spent so much time with was disbanded. Most of the guys were put on desk jobs. And more changes are coming.


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[Assistant] The city and the Department of Justice finally reached an agreement that mandates new policies and training, requirements for body cameras, and standards for punishing officers for misconduct.


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[Assistant] In March, the city council voted on his plan to create a panel of civilians with the power to investigate cops.


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[Assistant] The hope is to overcome a historic lack of transparency. Something I've gotten a taste of myself.


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[Assistant] When the department responded to my request for records from the nights we'd been with the gang unit, they shed little light on what we'd seen.


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[Assistant] They gave me some arrest reports, but nothing related to the stops.


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[Assistant] First they said they couldn't find the reports. Then they said they couldn't give them to us because of privacy concerns and ongoing investigations.


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[Assistant] Reforming the police in Newark is clearly going to be a long haul. And the problems go beyond the police alone.


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[Assistant] But Raz has no choice but to believe that change is possible.


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[Assistant] A belief he wants to instill in this graduating class of 43 Newark rookies.


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[Assistant] We are communities looking into the sky for a moment on the clear way to liberation.


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[Assistant] And we, Aditi has said that Borough is gonna make a smart play and go for a shorter deal because these quarterback deals age out so quickly. They do, yes. Look at what Mahomes signed, and when he signed it, he's a bargain, now he's the best quarterback in the league.


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[Assistant] So I think that's right. I think Aditi's absolutely right on the money. I think Burrow is probably going to go for a much shorter deal. So he can bank on himself long term and get big.


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[Assistant] I think you're right. I think everybody else is looking at the brown saying, that can be the path you take, we're not taking that path.


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[Assistant] Well, they made close to that offer. They offered three. Reportedly, yeaah. Yeaah, I mean they were very close to that number.


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[Assistant] He, he, that's not what he's looking for. He's looking for the 5-2-15.


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[Assistant] because that would be the exact middle point of where the Ravens were and where Lamar was. But the Ravens haven't moved, and really the Ravens now are in an interesting situation. They could just sit back and say, let the market tell us what you're worth.


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[Assistant] We don't know. I had thought that perhaps that deal could be done before the draft, but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen.


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[Assistant] We talked about it when the Browns did the Watson deal. Well, they did it because they were desperate and it was their only option. So when we get past the draft and there are teams looking and they're out of options, that's maybe when that price will get ratcheted up. I don't think he's going to get Deshaun money. I just don't. He may get somewhere


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[Assistant] Where Jalen just signed, you know, three to four in your area, 150 to 180 million. But right now, I just can't see him, and he has said he wants the money that Deshaun got. He wants that money.


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[Assistant] Uh, we'll come back to this probably throughout the show. Uh, welcome. We didn't really get a chance to do anything because the news broke right off the top. Uh, it's great to have the three of us back together again. It's been two weeks. Uh, we're going to dive into the Cavs disappointing game one loss. That's first up on our agenda. The guardians went to DC, took two of three, should have been a sweep.


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[Assistant] But you can't look at two and three and anything other than what it was. You won the series. You sort of got your only game out of first place. We'll talk more about the guardians. They're on a stretch of playing bad teams. They got to take it. They are. They better clean up at Detroit. Then they get Miami at home this weekend. Uh, they've got to win two or three from both of those teams and keep beating the bad teams and go 500 against the good teams and you're going to win your division.


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[Assistant] Our pitching is, and you know what? Henkis is really, we've missed him.


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[Assistant] I mean, we have missed him. The bullpen has not been its typical lights out self. Uhm, bulls bet.


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[Assistant] You're gonna win both. You're right. Uh, quick check on McNuggets because you're betting the A's to lose every game this year.


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[Assistant] Well, I'll set up what you want to do. I think it's a good idea. Mikey wants to do it like a shot clock gimmick. Four topics in 24 minutes on the Cavs loss. 101-97. I thought they fell behind too big too many times. Uh, we always talk about this. It takes so much energy to dig out of a 12 point hole.


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[Assistant] In the end, Donovan Mitchell is not enough for this team. He's not LeBron James. Nope. If LeBron James is in for Donovan Mitchell, they win that game by 10. There's only one LeBron James. There's only one. He's a freak in nature. Uh, everybody else, and I mean everybody else, disappointed me. The bench


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[Assistant] We all agreed with the move at the time, okay? So none of us are here to now become, you know, revisionist historians.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's beyond a rookie mistake. You can't make that mistake in high school or college. You've got a close game and you burn your last time out before the end of the game.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you, for as much praise as we gave the front office for making the Mitchell thing happen, after that...


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[Assistant] You know, right now, if you took the seeds away from the team's names, right now, just going off the way they played in game one, heart intensity, the depth of the bench, the lack of a bench for the Catholic, I would say that the Knicks are the overwhelming favorite now to win this series, and I don't think the Castle push it to seven games.


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[Assistant] When you go 7 and down, you're looking at these guys going, wait a minute, why did anybody ever think that this bench could outplay the Knicks bench?


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[Assistant] I'm trying to find a silver lining here. Yeah, I'm trying to see, you know, and to your point, I'm not just going to say, well, they can't play worse. Yeah, they can. But on the silver lining front, and one of the questions here is, are the mistakes fixable? That was one of the topics we wanted to dive into.


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[Assistant] Well hell, make your baskets. Make your easy baskets. So many. Make your layups. Yes. Make your stuff in close. Uh, Mobly?


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[Assistant] Anyhow, anyway. It was on Twitter. I saw a lot of people were tweeting it. At the time, I'm like, how did they not call that a foul? I'm not kidding you.


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[Assistant] The league needs the Knicks to advance. They've been persona non grata for 30 years.


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[Assistant] The television contracts are set off playoff ratings. End of story. They need them to get to a second round. It's the number one market in the United States. It's going to inflate the TV number no matter what.


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[Assistant] He said that, and I go, and you know what? They're gonna let Randall be Randall. They're gonna let him be the bull in the china shop. And we've got guys in Allen and Mobley that when they get hit in the mouth, they hold it. And instead of firing back.


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[Assistant] The free throws, by the way, Cavs suck shooting free throws. I know they did. Okay, I think it's not a loop here. I mean, he just gets chucked out of the way.


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[Assistant] He's better than Lopez. You know, there's a, there's a Tibbs brand of player. Yes. Okay. That player is a guy who gets more out of his body that his skill set says you should get.


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[Assistant] Whether it's the opening tap or the last possession of the game, he's going to ball out. He's going to give everything he has. There's that Tibb philosophy that guys, you know, and they're very well aware of what they need, what they have to do to please their coach. And they're out there doing it for them. What's the JV player?


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[Assistant] I know, but like we should, there should be some sort of thing developed. We know what a Tito player looks like. No, I know he's been there forever, but we've seen JB in this role for long enough to say, Oh, his players all.


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[Assistant] It's funny that you said that because uhm, there are certain coaches that will work the rest no matter what the game is. That's just their style. That's how they do it. Tibbs is that guy. I remember, I think I told this story earlier, when I worked with Tibbito when he was at ESPN during his hiatus,


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[Assistant] Uh, he was gone for a stretch of months and when he came back I said, where you been? We haven't seen you in a while. He said, I went back in the lab. I said, what does that mean? He said, I called some friends and I went on some scouting trips. Spent a couple of months in San Antonio with Pop. And I said, what did that look like? How does that go? He said,


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[Assistant] I asked him if I could come hang out. He said sure, come on. And he opened up his notebook and he just started writing.


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[Assistant] Writing. And he said, Sometimes we think we know everything. Sometimes we think that because we've had success as a coach, that we're a successful coach. And that's not true. And clearly I was doing something wrong.


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[Assistant] Or I wouldn't be working at ESPN right now. So, I loved that about him. And first of all, I liked him. I thought he was a terrific guy to work with, very knowledgeable. But what that little nugget told me about him? Oh, this is a dude that's gonna have a comeback story and it's gonna have a good ending. He's not done.


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[Assistant] And first of all, the fact that guys like Pop and others, he went to other NBA teams as well. The guys, that they would do that, I think that's pretty big.


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[Assistant] Can I ask you one question? I don't want to give away what you're going to do tomorrow, but to me, it was effort based. It is effort based. Okay.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna ask you this, both you guys, 30 shots, 38 points, I think.


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[Assistant] I don't know what the answer is, but to me, it felt like the early Bulls teams with Jordan and the early Cavs teams with LeBron, where they were just like, well, he's our dude, we're going to sit back and watch him play. Somebody else has to feel the urgency.


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[Assistant] I mean, you're just about useless. You're just about useless.


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[Assistant] I know we want to talk about the other NBA series quickly, but uh, there was one thing that you wanted us to ask that I didn't. I'm not changing my pick. I picked the Knicks, so I'm not changing my pick. I'll stand by the Cavs. I'm gonna stand by Cavs in seven.


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[Assistant] You don't know. Yeah. You just don't know. Well, any headlines that you guys want to talk about from the other series? I was impressed with Kevin Love. We touched on that. Uhm, obviously the Heat win big, but they do it without Giannis. I didn't watch the Nuggets.


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[Assistant] I got bucks in five. Bucks in five. When you, when you win the first two, you gotta win four out of five.


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[Assistant] I know, but the Bucks are- I mean, that's why this game too is so important for the cast. You lose it, bye bye. But the Bucks have a track record.


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[Assistant] Right, which is great. I mean, if it didn't, if it didn't, it'd really be a problem. But like I said, with the back, it can hinder his play. And if he's not Yanis, then I say Miami has a puncher's chance. But if he comes back and he's even close to the MVP Yanis, then


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[Assistant] Let's move to the guardians. Yeah. Guardians, uh, boy, you were really fired up on the morning call this morning that they didn't sweep. Yeah. Considering they had Bieber going in game three of the series and they had won the first two games.


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[Assistant] You would think, but you know, sometimes in the heat of the battle, you know this, in the heat of the battle, you go back to your natural instinct. And his natural instinct was to do exactly what he did, but now you can't do that.


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[Assistant] G Bush asked an interesting question before opening day. Let's break the season up into halves. And I said, well, I usually break it up into thirds. And he said, okay, what are you looking for in the first third of the season? And what I said was just hover around 500. You know, if it's 50,


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[Assistant] Three games, 54 games. Knowing Mackenzie was hurt. What I said was, so if you split it into 54 game sections.


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[Assistant] What I wanted to see was, you know, be


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[Assistant] Because you've got to get through this stretch, which looks like it's going to go into May now. You've got to get through this stretch without their number two arm and just get by. And right now, they're online to do that. There are a couple of games over 500. They're a game out of first place. I think their record's fine. Yeah, they're no reason to pass.


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[Assistant] And that includes Bieber, by the way, who's for the most part been really, really good. But I didn't expect the egg that he threw yesterday. I didn't expect that.


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[Assistant] When does the clock start for their MLB service? June 1st?


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[Assistant] We need them, like it's tough. I'm kind of torn on it because we need them now because of an injury and guys not performing. But if you do call them up and that clock starts ticking, that's a year.


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[Assistant] That's why your bullpen can be so dominant throughout the season. This is a marathon and we're about the three mile mark. You know, it's a long, long race and we've got to keep these arms in shape and you don't do that when you're throwing them every single day.


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[Assistant] Look what he did the previous at bat. Yeaah. He punched one down the line after the straw double. Exactly, exactly. Like, you gotta get that guy to second base. Right. And you know what? If the game ends with you trying to get him to second base. So be it! Better to love the


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[Assistant] I mean, I just didn't understand, and I don't know if Sandy's making the call on that. Sandy's normally really good with the stopwatch, but just like Manning said, on the first pitch to home plate, I saw him pump that knee up to his chest and I'm like, oh, he's going next pitch. He's got to.


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[Assistant] But you know what he said? I don't know if you saw the post-game interview after game one when he hit the home run, but he said, it's just nice to be in familiar surroundings. Sometimes that can trigger a guy.


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[Assistant] You know it's interesting that you bring that up because our generation has not seen a world war.


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[Assistant] And although we haven't seen a world war, think of the other stuff that we've seen. A worldwide pandemic, 9-11, the other like super tragedies just for Americans that we've


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[Assistant] Anne. Anne. Matt Anne. He is the locked on...


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[Assistant] You set your line up every day or once a week? We do every day. Okay, yeaah, those are the good ones. Yeaah, I love that.


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[Assistant] Now they only rank 22, right? Because some of these guys have been on the job too long or too short of time.


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[Assistant] Okay, so Andrew Berry, 18 out of 22. That's probably about, maybe I'd put him a little higher, but not much.


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[Assistant] Zach Wilson the year before. You can't get a pass. That's the biggest pick. You can't miss on that one.


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[Assistant] He's had more misses than hits. I, I don't know, like the drafting, who, who, who have they drafted? First of all, who made this list?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I think the best thing Greg said was Deshaun Watson is the centerpiece for Andrew Barry and it will either make or break his time here. Right. Because if we see next year for 17 games what we saw out of Watson last year from 6 and


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[Assistant] I don't think anybody expects that we will, but if we do, this thing's a bust.


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[Assistant] Okay, I want 30 touchdowns and single-digit picks. That's what I'm looking for from the guy who's making


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[Assistant] Okay. So we're all in the same ballpark. You've got a little more, a few more. I just said more than 30. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.