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[Assistant] You guys gotta, I don't know what the fuck you waiting for. You have somebody that looks the way she looks.


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[Assistant] Financially, financial stability to even have a fucking kid, cause if you don't even have that.


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[Assistant] Not really any category. I'm not really big into porn like that. That's why when you say, you're not the only one who says it too. It's just, I get that a lot on social media. Like, oh, you need a premium snap.


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[Assistant] I feel, no, I feel like that's normal. So they're, they're seeing it as nothing asking me for it.


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[Assistant] You look good, so you need a snap? No. It's just a normal thing now, so.


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[Assistant] You'd be surprised, guys like that more than girls. I like doing it to him, I don't like it, I don't really care to get it. Wait, that's, you do that?


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[Assistant] I mean, she fuck with it, she eatin' ass and stuff.


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[Assistant] He, he went out the way he was supposed to. Even took some of Rowdy's time. Just so they could get out around the same time.


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[Assistant] I-I could move wherever and be fine. I don't do no shit that I'm not supposed to be doing. Do you smoke weed? Well, me? No. Really? I don't e-


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[Assistant] I sat down and then we're talking, he tried to, he eased me into that. And he was like, if you look down, you know, you have a stack of papers. It was a stack of papers. So I'm like, okay. And I pick it up. He was like, can you go to this page and read me? I didn't know what the fuck it was. And so he was like, that's the actual indictment. And so I don't know. I didn't see it.


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[Assistant] Like the whole thing. And then you're just reading it. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] I had to ask him like, you want me to keep reading? And he was like, yeah, yeah, just go on. I'm like, fuck you. Like, I'm like, but.


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[Assistant] I didn't know how he was gonna edit that or anything like that so I'm just-


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[Assistant] He didn't, like, treat me necessarily any type of way. I think he kind of was fucking with the way I was speaking on things, so I was just like, I... But you set me up. Fuck you.


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[Assistant] The shit that doesn't even make sense. I explained to you last time with the blue face thing, like,


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[Assistant] He was in Cali, I've never spoken to him before that live or after, like, maybe after the live, but it's just like,


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[Assistant] Clearly the live was, he was wherever he was at, and I was in New York, so.


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[Assistant] Initially, right after that live, they was like, oh, they fucked right after that live. How?


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[Assistant] Every other day after you saw me.


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[Assistant] I always said those people would cause trouble, and I was right.


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[Assistant] Every night I can see them, those weirdos in their white cloaks sneaking around the streets. Whenever I see white, I think, ugh, heretic. If there's one thing I know, that wicked shadow hunter, he's the ringleader of the heretics. Those fanatics are growing bold. Nowadays, there's always a gang of them in the plaza in front of the station. It's as if they are needing to go someplace else.


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[Assistant] Speaking of which, it's usually around this time they start to show up.


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[Assistant] If you think your faith will save you, then go ahead. Believe all you want.


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[Assistant] You will get different estimates about precisely how close he is. We do know that he is actively pursuing a nuclear weapon.


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[Assistant] But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.


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[Assistant] You've probably watched the documentaries on Hulu or Netflix that show how this whole thing was the biggest scam from start to finish. And if you haven't watched them, please, go and watch it. Like, I'm begging you, you have to watch these. I'll, like, I'll do anything to get- I'll suck your d-


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[Assistant] Because many supermodels convinced people to pay for the festival by saying they would be there, many are now asking if those models should also be held legally responsible.


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[Assistant] But I don't know if you can go after the models because some con artists hired them to make an ad for a festival that didn't happen. Right? The only thing the models might be guilty of is being super hot. Right? And even then, I don't know. Like, I'm gonna need to see a lot more evidence. I don't know. I'm an impartial guy. That's what I'm saying. The truth, the truth is,


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[Assistant] Making something look better in an ad than it is in real life is just advertising.


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[Assistant] Speaking of viral scams, the anti-vaccine movement. Over the past 20 years, there's been a growing number of people who believe that kids shouldn't get vaccinated because the vaccines are more dangerous than the diseases that they prevent. And clearly the diseases heard that and they were like, oh, it's on.


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[Assistant] Where is everyone? I'm late. Pardon me. It's totally fine. Sorry, I'm late. Pardon me. It's fine. Oof. Pardon me. Okay, I see what you're doing.


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[Assistant] Wow, pardon me, I am never late. How many more of these are there gonna be?


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[Assistant] Oh, pardon me, dear leader. This is getting out of hand.


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[Assistant] Oh wow, look, it's both DCs. No, I'm the only DC. I'm the government, but we've already decided my label, so it's not gonna change. Well, pardon me. Hmm.


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[Assistant] Welcome to the Northeast States meeting. Why are you in charge? Because I was the first state. By like five days. Calm down. Not like you could run it any better, New York. Go play in traffic. You would know all about that, wouldn't ya? Is this like a permanent seating chart or can I move?


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[Assistant] Please make him move. Everyone just calm down. You'd be upset too if you had to sit next to P.A. in New York all the time. You're gonna sit there and act like you ain't just East Philly? Nah.


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[Assistant] He's low in New York. I have my own personality. Buddy, fight between Pork Roll or Taylor Ham ain't a personality. You would know. Wawa sheets. Sure is a lot of fighting happening around here. Live free or die. Is that all you say? I see you've picked or die today. Sorry I'm late, I got you caught. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.


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[Assistant] Are you allowed to be here? Yeah, why wouldn't I be? Well, Trump was banned from the internet. He wasn't banned from the internet. Right, just Twitter. And Facebook. And TikTok banned him before he could ban it. And also Shopify.


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[Assistant] For some reason. Guys, I'm not the president. I haven't been banned. But you still shouldn't be speaking. And why is that? Because I'm the only one here with a Speaker of the House podium.


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[Assistant] Duh. Yeah, I'm gonna need that back. Finders keepers! You stole it. I didn't steal it, I found it. Where? In your house. That's stealing. Okay, but technically.


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[Assistant] So uhm,


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[Assistant] Oh, yes.


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[Assistant] It's probably a little bit of an overpay, but that's okay. Cause wait and see, wait till you see where these salaries are going.


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[Assistant] In the next couple of years. So, this is significant to me because I was, I don't know this exactly.


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[Assistant] But I believe, this is easily one of the biggest contracts they've given out to a street free agent. I think Larry Hughes got 70 million, Lowry Markkinen was 67.


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[Assistant] And, and now this, I think those are the three biggest, I don't count LeBron coming back, that's a whole different category. And I'm not talking about retaining your own guys, I'm talking about convincing someone else to come to Cleveland.


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[Assistant] The Cavs for 50 years have struggled to get free agents to come here. Now listen, Max Druse is not Kevin Durant. He's not a top level guy. But for what their needs were and what his skill set is, it was as good of a fit as they were going to find. And for that reason, you know, I think they nailed it. They had a, they had a great weekend.


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[Assistant] And Struce is one of those guys that Miami sort of picked off the trash heap, cultivated, turned him into a good shooter. He struggled in the finals. I don't know if that's necessarily cause for concern. The whole is he a product of Miami system? I think that's a fair question to ask.


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[Assistant] And I guess we're gonna get the answer to that, but he's certainly an upgrade over what they had. I think he slides right into the starting small forward spot.


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[Assistant] Uh, just based on skill set, shooting, the ability to spit, to spread the floor. And I just think that was the right guy. That was the guy to go after and they got him. And I think overall, you know, we'll get into it more as the show goes on. I think they had a really good week, weekend.


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[Assistant] You don't need him to be those guys. He's the fourth option offensively. He's ahead of Jarrett on offensive options, but it's still Donovan, Darius, and Evan are ahead of Max in terms of


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[Assistant] Priority offensively. So you're 100% right in terms of corner shooting. Guys make a lot of money in this league. If you can just stand in the corner and wait for the ball.


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[Assistant] Max deal from Houston is bonkers. That's the one deal I looked at and went, wow.


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[Assistant] But doesn't it feel like the Browns and Cavs are running on parallel tracks of like, they had all of these free agent needs. The Browns did go into free agency and you're like, man, they have so many needs. How are they going to fill all these spots? And they did. Like we think Andrew Berry nailed it and had a great off season. Okay, Kevin, you've got all the ingredients. Now go make it work.


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[Assistant] And it feels very similar with the calves of like, they have the mid-level exception.


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[Assistant] And they have no trade assets. How are they going to find this? And the Cavs walked away feeling like they got the top two shooters on the market.


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[Assistant] And, and they did, and they, they nailed it. Like, I put it on Twitter, I said earlier in the show, they had a great weekend. And they got what they needed in terms of shooting, shooting, shooting. I said it all season long, especially throughout the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Shooting. Shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting. You gotta have shooting. And they went and got the shooting. And now it's on JB to make it work. And it just feels like these two teams are running on parallel tracks.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I do like it a lot because the two together now, now you can play styles that you couldn't play before. You can pull Jared off the floor, you can put Evan at center, and you can surround him with shooters. Which is something that they just didn't really have the capability. They couldn't do it. They didn't have the capability of doing that.


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[Assistant] And when you, once you do that, now you've opened up the floor, you've created driving lanes.


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[Assistant] Donovan and Darius are only so good if they have nowhere to go.


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[Assistant] And now they can, now they have room to maneuver, operate, collapse the defense, kick to the shooters in the corner, kick to Niang, kick to Struus, uh, you know, if it's Donovan, Darius is out there. So it, it just, it opens things up. And, and for that reason, I think it's, I think they nailed it.


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[Assistant] And something that just, this may not be perfect. I literally just thought of this. He kinda reminds me a little bit of Channing Fry.


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[Assistant] And he was really more, but he wasn't great defensively. There was teams where he just couldn't get on the floor. They couldn't play him.


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[Assistant] But Channing used to tell me all the time, if you let me stand in the corner and get my feet set, you're done. Like, I'll hit it every time.


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[Assistant] And this has sort of that feel to it of that guy who in the right situations in the right matchups, again, you're not asking him to be a starter. He's going to be a guy that comes off the bench and just in the right, you pick the right moments. He's that dead eye shooter that they haven't had. It doesn't move well, but that's okay.


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[Assistant] If you need to stop at the end of the game, you can put Okoro, Allen, and Mobley out there together. That's okay. Like, you can put your best defensive guys out there.


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[Assistant] So there's still spots where they can body guys up, go big and really focus in on the defensive end, but they don't have to play that way anymore. It doesn't have to be, I started to pull this apart last night and I didn't get all the way through it.


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[Assistant] But we've talked about before where, you know, I've talked to people around the league who say you don't have to be number one in the league defensively.


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[Assistant] But you can't, and it's easier to win if you are mediocre defensively with terrific shooting than it is with mediocre shooting and terrific defensively. You've got to have the shooting component. And the last three years, the team that was the number one


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[Assistant] Ranked in defensive rating was bounce in the first round. Now the other one was Boston, which went to the NBA finals. So it's not, obviously defense matters. And defense, actually a top 10 defensive rating matters more than I thought that it would.


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[Assistant] But you have got to have the shooting component or you're not going to make it very far. And we saw that firsthand. So they can still play defensively. They can still play the defensive style, the bully ball style. But now you can, you can also pull Jared off the floor and go with shooters or pull Evan off the floor and go with shooters all around. We've had the Jared conversation multiple times.


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[Assistant] I don't see any reason to trade him now because they were able to fill the needs.


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[Assistant] Aside from that, I think now he brings in a level of flexibility to be able to play different ways.


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[Assistant] Actually, I don't read it that way. I read it as he's the Neto replacement and an upgrade over Neto. I think Rubio is still... Listen, maybe Rubio is cooked, but when they brought him back...


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[Assistant] It was always second year coming back from an ACL. The first year is always rough. It's always year two is what you look at. Like they made that very clear when they brought him back.


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[Assistant] And I still think that that holds. I think they want, Ricky meant so much to this team when he was healthy and when he was right, I think they want him to have the first crack at that.


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[Assistant] And I look at, I look at this is, is that Neto guy, he's certainly an upgrade over what Neto was. Neto was that placeholder until Rubio was back and healthy. But I think Ricky has dibs on that spot. And then if, and then if he is washed, if it is over, well now you've got someone that you can slide into that spot.


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[Assistant] If, if, if Ricky doesn't have it anymore, you have two ball dominant guards on the floor. Like you can, one of them is going to be on the floor all the time anyway. So that's one spot where you can kind of fudge or hide. Uh, you don't have to have a top shelf backup type guy just because Donovan and Darius are always going to have the ball in their hands.


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[Assistant] Nice guy to have, but. Yeah, I, if you're counting on him to win your games, you're in trouble. Some things have gone terribly wrong. So he's the, he's the big, at the end of the bench. Abort, abort, abort.


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[Assistant] I don't, I'm not a hardened fan. I've made clear I would never trust him with my team if I'm a coach or GM or owner. I wouldn't want him anywhere near my team. I'm not a fan of his. I don't care why he wants out. I just think he's not a winning player.


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[Assistant] I don't know that they're better. I don't either. I don't, I don't like that move. I know we talked about it, uh, before and the feeling was Smarts kind of lost a step defensively. I don't know that you can trust Prezingis to stay healthy. I don't know that he really makes them significantly better.


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[Assistant] Uh, at most, I think it's an even swap in terms of improving your team talent wise. Maybe I'm wrong.


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[Assistant] And if you really want to go another degree on that, go back and look at the history of when the Browns and Cavs fired their coaches. It's always at the same time. I mean, Ty and Ty Lou and Hugh Jackson got fired within like 24 hours of each other. Oh yeah, yeah. It's freaky. Every year that the Browns fire their coach, the Cavs fire their coach. It happens all the time.


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[Assistant] To his point, this is a postseason team now. It's all about what you do in the postseason. The regular season, it just doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] You mentioned it early on in the show and I probably should have made a bigger deal about it, but for them to target a free agent and say that's the guy we want.


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[Assistant] And get em is very rare in Cleveland. It's very rare. And it happened, I mean, you know, we talked, I talked at the start about the big contracts and Larry Hughes came to play with LeBron and that was a disaster, but whatever.


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[Assistant] Larry Markkinen, that was a like August move, late August move because his restricted free agency had played out and he wasn't getting the money he wanted from anyone else and so the Cavs got something done, they brought him here. This was a day one, day two free agent signing, uh, was the number one guy on their board and they went out and they got him and he said yes to come to Cleveland. That's significant.


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[Assistant] We've talked before about they want to stay out of the tax, and they're right up against it now.


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[Assistant] They will be a tax, if you're going to go into the tax, you don't go into the tax for a million. Like if you're going to do it, then do it. And so they're probably, they're going to have to take away to add, because they want to say out of that, out of that.


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[Assistant] And that's when you press go on contract clocks and everything else. And that's when repeat offender comes into play and all that stuff. That's for down the road.


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[Assistant] So I would think that they're about done with the moves just because of where the tax line is and where they are.


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[Assistant] You know what, Rob Palenka, I think he had a really good trade deadline, and they've had a really good summer, because I didn't like a lot of the moves that they made necessarily before that, but I don't know if he's sort of figuring out and getting his footing a little bit more, and the role that he's in, and it's funny because


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[Assistant] So many LeBron teams were top-heavy, star-laden rosters, right? Throughout Miami, here in Cleveland. Star, star, I had people tell me with the Cavs, he's a talent whore. LeBron's a talent whore if he just wants the top talent available. And this doesn't feel like, I mean they got AD and LeBron obviously, but beyond that,


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[Assistant] It doesn't feel like a top heavy star driven roster. It feels like there's more depth and a lot of really good pieces on this team.


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[Assistant] The West had a down year last year, and I still think the East is far superior. The East is way stronger and much deeper. But when you look at Denver, Phoenix, and LA now at the top, am I missing anyone? Those would be my top three teams, right? Am I missing?


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[Assistant] I don't think that they're in that category anymore. I think it's those three and then, I mean, maybe Golden State fourth. Uh, obviously the Chris Palmer was interesting for them, but I think those are the top three teams now in the West.


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[Assistant] You have to do what's in the best interest of your organization. So no, it's tough when a guy has given you as much as Dame has. It always sort of ends ugly, you know, in situations like this. We saw it with Kevin here in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] It just ends ugly, but you know, if you're the GM...


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[Assistant] You're fighting for your job and you gotta do what's in the best interest of the organization. And Miami just doesn't have the assets. I think they can get more for Dame elsewhere.


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[Assistant] You have to explain to ownership why you're making this deal and why you're taking less from Miami than you could get elsewhere.


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[Assistant] I just had a conversation this morning about this. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] And Utah signed the deal. Was it a year later he was moved?


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[Assistant] And we're seeing it more and more, and I just had a conversation today about this, about how the new free agency is trades.


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[Assistant] And you better be right on the guys that you go and get. Obviously the Cavs went all in on Donovan.


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[Assistant] But Max Capspace, John Hollinger wrote a terrific piece I thought on the Athletic over the weekend that really kind of pulled the curtain back on Max's space isn't worth what it used to be and you can go back just a few years ago when they had like seven All-Stars change teams through free agency, Kawhi and


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[Assistant] So you're not getting the, the superstar level player that you were just a couple years ago. You're going to have to go the trade route now because the money is so big for these guys.


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[Assistant] To sign the deals, the Halliburton's to sign the deals with their current teams. It's so much financial incentive to do that. And then a year later, ask out and, and, and that's how that's going to be the new free agency. But you get one shot at it, much like with free agent contracts. Like usually you got.


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[Assistant] Every once in a while you can get two max slots, but for the most part you get one shot at it. Well with trades, you got one shot at it, and the Cavs identified Donovan as that guy, and they gave their whole future drafts to Utah.


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[Assistant] And you're going to see that more and more. Somebody's going to do it with Dame now, more than likely. It could be that way with Yanis coming up in a couple of years. I keep hearing like, this is coming. Luca. Yeah. So these guys are going to sign these mega deals, but then a year or two later, they're on the move.


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[Assistant] It's good for small market teams, I think. Number one, it's worth, like, you get an extra year or two with these guys, whatever it is. But then you're also recouping assets for them that you normally wouldn't be able to get, like, when Lebron leaves in 2010,


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[Assistant] But then, like I said, you get one shot at it because it takes so many assets to get these guys. Look at what Phoenix gave up to get Kevin Durant. Uh, you get, you get one crack at it and you better be right on the guy that you pick.


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[Assistant] My first thought really had nothing to do with Naylor. Guys make errors, we know he's not a gold glove defender, whatever.


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[Assistant] The All-Star break can't come soon enough for Emmanuel Classe, and I'm a little concerned about his workload. Leads the league, tied for the league lead in appearances. I hope they don't use him. I hope he doesn't pitch, frankly, in the All-Star game. I hope that they shut him down. Go, enjoy yourself, have a great time, take part in the festivities.


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[Assistant] Don't pitch man, like just take the days off, rest your arm. It's because they're involved in so many one run games.


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[Assistant] It's fair to question that. It's fair to question it. Uh, 41 appearances. Like, what's that put him on pace for? Like, 85? 86? It's crazy how many games he's been in. So I just worry about workload. Uhm, and I hope, like I said, I hope when we get the All-Star break, he needs the rest. I hope he doesn't pitch.


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[Assistant] He went from AAA to 4A. Now he's in the majors. Tonight.


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[Assistant] I love it. I want, I want to see it. I want to see him against the top.


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[Assistant] I don't think he's going to strike out 12. I don't think he's going to get destroyed. You know, 5-6 innings, 3-4 runs.


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[Assistant] Should be, uh, one of the World Series contenders this year.


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[Assistant] Low 50s, high 40s, low 50s, but maybe I'm wrong on that.


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[Assistant] Honestly I just want one. One, one, one, one out of the three.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. I just don't, you don't, you don't want to get swept at home. Like just come out and get one. You've got some of them.


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[Assistant] They've, they've been terrific with attendance. Like the Guardians are, I keep meaning to do a piece on that.


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[Assistant] Well, Tampa Bay's loaded. They're loaded. And they've had some injury concerns and they've taken a half a step back, but they're still loaded.


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[Assistant] But Tampa does not. Like Tampa, you're constantly churning, constantly churning, constantly churning. And that's what Cleveland would be. But they have enough young talent here that yeaah. Give me two bats. I want two corner outfield bats. Pick one of the three dudes you got out there now. That's your center fielder. And give me two bats. And this line-up is going to look a lot different.


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[Assistant] Ozzy Albies, good player. It's Darnode is the catcher.


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[Assistant] They got very creative with their ticketing this year. Yes, sir. And real quick before we get to Greg, go back to the NBA conversation.


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[Assistant] Uh, Anthony Edwards, 5 year, $260 million max deal. Just happened? Just happened. Yeah. Yeah, so another one of those doesn't mean he's gonna be there that whole time. But the money is so big right now, you can't say no to it.


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[Assistant] You know, of course he's disappointed, he still has to work today and that money wasn't there when he played like it is today, but he's thrilled for the younger generation that, uh, that these guys are, are sort of reaping the rewards of the work that you did and that Brad did and sort of paving the way for these guys.


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[Assistant] You know, it's interesting, I'm curious since you brought it up, are you comfortable with kids in the family playing football? Knowing how you feel today, knowing how your body feels now, are you still a proponent and supportive of kids playing?


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[Assistant] How many jerseys did you have off to the side on the sideline?


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[Assistant] Greg, are you surprised at all at how the position has been devalued across football?


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[Assistant] But just the punishment that you guys take, that that position takes, and then to not be rewarded financially to the level of some of the other positions that we see, it just feels like it's just a meatgrinder, it's become a meatgrinder spot where you just wear this guy down to the nub, throw him out, and go find someone else.


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[Assistant] Good shot, Tyler. Good rip. Good rip. Wyatt, be ready for a play at the plate.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we were up 10-7 going to the last inning. Mike's like, I'm out of here. I'm like, yeah, we got this on rep. Gave up four in the last.


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[Assistant] We lost 11 to 10. It's like our second loss of the year.


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[Assistant] He does have a mustache. It's for real, facts. It's crazy. But we got so many kids that like are so emotional and they live on life and death, so I try and be like...


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[Assistant] The calm, calm everyone down. That's why I said, I joke with you guys, that's why I like Kevin Stefanski so much, that's why we get along. I'm just calm on the sidelines, never scream, never yell, just keep everything under control. We had to pull the whole infield in after you left.


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[Assistant] They hit basis clearing triple 10-10 game like guys, it's okay. It's all right. Pull the infield in. We got the out at the plate and then the other team won it.


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[Assistant] I took my phone and watch off and I gave it to my oldest son. I'm like, just take this. I can't do two things at once.


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[Assistant] But the servant wouldn't have been out there in the first place if the king hadn't made him. Good point.


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[Assistant] I could see it on his face. Wasn't sure then. But now?


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[Assistant] Jesus, I, uh, I don't feel good.


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[Assistant] Monday we worked and Tuesday we're off so super...califragilisticexpialidocious?


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[Assistant] So the new CBA comes into effect July 1st and I broke it down and we'll get into all the CAS free agents targets in a sec but I do want to explain to you guys and to the people out there


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[Assistant] How this new CBA is going to affect team construction, not just here in Cleveland, but around the league. So it goes into effect July 1st. The four things you have to know.


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[Assistant] Are the new second tax apron rules are a killer. The second tax apron is essentially a hard tax.


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[Assistant] One dollar to seventeen point four nine million dollars. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] So before, anything under 17.5. For every dollar you spend, you pay $4 to the NBA. In the first tier. It's still the same thing. That's how it is now.


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[Assistant] The Warriors have done this significantly. If you have deep pockets, it's not that big. Before this new CBA, that was just the rule. If you spend a dollar over the cap, you pay $4 to the NBA. So a $20 million contract.


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[Assistant] Really cost the owner a hundred million. Cause it was twenty million to the player, eighty million to the league. Oh, I see what you're saying. So a twenty million dollar contract was a hundred. An extra eighty million was a twenty dollar contract. That's why the Clippers...


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[Assistant] So there are upsides and downsides to it. And before this new CBA, so as of today, that is still the only penalty of the luxury tax. Now if you go over the second tax aprons starting tomorrow on July 1st, which is $17.5 million and over, there are a number of significantly


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[Assistant] Handicapped rules that you have to abide by. And if you take the graphic, Anthony, first off,


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[Assistant] You can't use a mid-level exception to sign a player. Oh, you lose that? You lose the ability to use your mid-level exception, which is how a lot of teams like the Cavs


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[Assistant] Exactly. Now, Miami, who's not over the 17 and a half million second apron, but if they were, would not have been able to bring in a guy like Kevin Love. So if you're over that second tax apron,


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[Assistant] Well, the Warriors just got rid of Jordan Poole, so maybe they're actually under it now.


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[Assistant] No, I don't off-topic. It was a couple last year. Just a few were over... The seventeen and a half last year. I think it was six. How many are over the salary line?


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[Assistant] Wants to give the teams, hey, if your owner's willing to spend all this money, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Well, I think in today's era of social media and TikTok and Twitter and all these highlights.


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[Assistant] Jason has said many times, this will not be a tax team until Evan Mobley gets his extension. Right. They are not going to enter that threshold of paying $4 for each dollar they spend.


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[Assistant] And that's by design here. And that is designed through the front office. That is because they understand Mobly is going to get a max extension. Then you have a max for Mobly, you have a max for Garland. Jared Allen will be coming off the end of this contract.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's smart, especially with the uncertainty of Donovan Mitchell's future here. It doesn't make sense to go all in now when you know you have essentially the core foundation piece of your team still on a rookie deal. So I think that makes sense. But how it plays for them long term is


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[Assistant] A, you have to draft and develop smartly. And this is where Monty Bates comes in. Can you turn a guy who's a project


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[Assistant] Certainly has upsides, certainly has questions. Can you turn a guy like that?


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[Assistant] Into a player. Can you turn, they had four second round picks last year.


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[Assistant] Open slot to use elsewhere, which is gonna be a guy who...


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[Assistant] You can find an old man who just wants to play one more year who may not be a guy in your playoff rotation but can contribute to the regular season. But it's gonna come down to smarter GMs, smarter team building strategies and coaches who can take a guy who may have talent who may not have shown it yet and develop them into players. And patience is the key with this. Because you're not gonna get guys right away who can contribute.


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[Assistant] Livestream. We did two full shows on it, essentially. We thought,


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[Assistant] Wendy knows what he's doing. He's very smart. I think that was a foolish way to poke the bear here. I don't think the Cavs have any realistic outlandish moves to make unless you consider trading Jared Allen outlandish.


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[Assistant] They have a 4.5 biannual, which means they can sign a guy, 2 year contract, 4, so 2 million a year, essentially 4 or 5, and the vet minimum. They're 37 and a half million below the luxury tax. So they have 37 million dollars to spend. That's a nice wiggle loop. That does not include Caris Levert.


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[Assistant] The Karis Leverts contract does not include in that. Why?


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[Assistant] They have, they have exclusive bird rights to them. Okay. So that, Levert's money does not necessarily factor into the 30. Well, they're in a good spot. Well, I should take that back. I take that back. It doesn't count the cap. That is in the luxury tax.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's what I thought. So it does count a lot. I take that back. It's not invisible money. It does count towards the luxury tax number, but they have 12 million to use on a mid-level exception. Okay. 4 million to use on a, uh, biannual veteran contract. Okay. So two guys essentially they can bring in.


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[Assistant] And I went through the list, and we've talked about potential targets for the calves for a while now. I mean, we brought up, weeks ago,


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[Assistant] Some targets, and I want to go through and get your guys thoughts. I broke these down into three categories. Realistic targets I like.


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[Assistant] Realistic targets I don't like, and please stop asking because they're not coming to Cleveland. So which category do you want to start with? Do that one. Please stop asking.


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[Assistant] These are guys who we have seen calves might have interest in. Right. Well, have interest. Gbush, do you want to work for free for the next four months?


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[Assistant] Uh, next up, Draymond Green will not be a Cleveland Cavalier. Why? Well again, money or just- He turned down 28 million dollars. I can't imagine he's gonna take 12 now to come to...


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[Assistant] And, uh, Cam Johnson's the last one. Cam Johnson's gonna get an offer sheet. Five million, eighty to ninety, er, five years to eighty to ninety millions. Him and Austin Reeves, neither.


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[Assistant] Some team might pay him more. So here's the thing with the Caps too. Caps have a mid level exception to use.


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[Assistant] A lot of teams have mid level exceptions to use and a lot of teams need wing. So all these guys I'm gonna list. I know. This is not.


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[Assistant] Oh, one team, two teams need them. Pick Cleveland over team X. Yeaah. It's pick Cleveland over team XYZ ABCDB. Yeaah, yeaah. It's a tough market. I just, I just don't want to fit. Uh, second one, Seth Curry. Great shooter. Yeaah. Would be a phenomenal, would be the best shooter on the team tomorrow. I can't have another small guard who doesn't play defense on this team. I don't, would they have enough?


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[Assistant] Even if they bring that skill set, because that's what we need. He doesn't play defense into the small guard. At some point, you do need some size to defend wings. You can't play three small guards at once and expect to stop anybody on defense. Uh, Christian Wood's an interesting name because he is a stretch four slash five, but


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[Assistant] Dallas traded legit assets to get them. They took them for one year and said, we don't want you back. They did? They kicked them to the curb.


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[Assistant] They traded legit assets to get him, and he's another guy. Really good stats in Houston, did not lead to wins, he did not mesh with Luka, and I don't trust a team with the lack of bigs Dallas has, that's like, eh okay, just, you go, we're okay. I just don't trust that kind of player coming in here. Okay.


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[Assistant] Moving along, I have two more. TJ Warren, another guy, skill set fits. He's played 46 games in three years. I need a guy who I can trust.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, he, when he plays, he's good. Last year, he was actually really solid for the Nets, but he's played 46 games in three years. I don't trust him.


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[Assistant] That I think are in the realm of realistic. Okay. Now once again, Cleveland will be going up against 5, 6, 7 teams for all these guys. Yeaah. Because there is a number of teams that need wings and a lot of teams only have that mid-level exception to use. Right, right.


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[Assistant] Was good down the stretch of the regular season, didn't play in the playoffs. Niang's more of a stretch four, who's a 40% career three-point shooter, which goes underrated.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Stroos is actually next. And Stroos is who Jason Lloyd has said he's moved into as his top target for the Cavs. Oh wow. I don't disagree. Stroos is, I think, one of the hardest guys to value. He's never been paid. Undrafted guy.


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[Assistant] He's gonna go out there looking for the bag. This dude was an undrafted looking for his first contract. His skill set, 3 and D.


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[Assistant] I think he's probably worth a little more, but Jason mentioned a possible mid-level exception, sign and trade. You throw Jetty Osmond's contract in there, you bring back a guy like Max Drews. I think he would be an ideal candidate. I would be excited about that move. That would be a legit one. We mentioned Miles Bridges, restricted free agent.


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[Assistant] Obviously he comes with a little bit of baggage. Yeah, I don't know about him. But if the new ownership in Charlotte's willing to say.


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[Assistant] Miles, we appreciate what you've done for this organization on the court, but we want to start completely fresh. We don't want you here because of the off the court issues.


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[Assistant] You could get them at a relatively cheap price in that mid-level exception range, assuming no one else would take the move, the, the baggage with them. And he'd be a good fit.


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[Assistant] I think those two guys fit the closest to what Cleveland needs to a tee.


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[Assistant] Both within the relative financial realm. Assign and trade if you give up.


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[Assistant] A guy who shoots 40% from three from his career, who's made big shots in the playoffs, who comes from the best organization in basketball, and has finals experience.


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[Assistant] There's an undrafted guy, played two years in the G League, played a year with the Heat.


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[Assistant] But barely played, then came up. That, and that's what I meant about earlier. Patience. Sometime, like these second round picks and undrafted guys especially.


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[Assistant] There's a reason they're second round picks. It usually means they're just not ready to play in the NBA today. It doesn't mean they'll never be able to play. They just need time to develop. Everybody develops differently. Yea, and guys like Struz, who played four years of college, or three years of college, excuse me, at DePaul, just needed some time to get acclimated to the system.


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[Assistant] And he was more of a ball hander, Dr. Paul. They turned him into a three point shooter. Wow. And changing your offensive philosophy of what you do as an offensive basketball player, it's easy to say, oh, just go run off screens. There's a skill to that. And he had to learn that skill.


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[Assistant] Jason's anti-Amani Bates? Jason's anti-Amani Bates immediately.


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[Assistant] Real quick, other top free agent names. Let's make some predictions on where we think they'll go, just for the sake of prosperity. So when I'm 10 out of 10 on these, we go back and be like, you're going to get them all? Well, no, I'm definitely not. I only have six.


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[Assistant] No, they, they got, ey, they got perfect game yesterday, two days ago, and they lost by nine, yes, so I'm two for two in my last two.


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[Assistant] There was a point where I was 3 and 13 in a 16, 16 game stretch. They either, and they've lost, they lost like 9 by 1 run. It was absolute bullshit. But okay, I have 6 of these. These are the 6, 6 players that,


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[Assistant] And I didn't take Kyrie because I don't think anyone's actually going to pick Kyrie to go anywhere else but Dallas. So these are the six other top free agents who I thought had some possible suitors. Uh, Russell Westbrook, where do you think he ends up?


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[Assistant] I think it makes, it seems to make most sense for him. I'm going to Chicago for the Bulls and I'll explain why in a sec. Brooke Lopez. Uhm, jeez. I'm picking San Antonio.


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[Assistant] I mean, I listened to some podcasts and like, it's been thrown out there, but I think it makes great sense for the Spurs. Yeah, I think it makes a lot of sense for both sides. They have a lot of cash spaces.


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[Assistant] Who's not a free agent, but he just opted in with the Sixers. He's working on a trade.


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[Assistant] So, you said Ross to the Clippers? I thought, I thought, yeah. I'm sending James to the Clippers. Oh really? Sending James to the Clippers. Wow, wouldn't that be funny? Yep, sending James to the Clippers.


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[Assistant] They could finagle some things, but it'd be tough to fit in there. I wouldn't even have a guess. I'm going with the Lakers. Uh, I know he has said he's a big Lebron fan in the past.


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[Assistant] Vanderbilt's gone, Mobamba, they didn't, uh, they renounced his rights, so he's gone. So they got a little bit of flexibility. Not enough for that though. I don't think he's gonna get that much money.


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[Assistant] If he does, he's not going to Lakers. I think. Yeah, that's right. Uh, two more. Fred VanVleet. Oh. He's back to Houston in my opinion. He's going to Houston. They need an actual point guard. They got a bunch of twos.


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[Assistant] Grant Williams. Listen, the Spurs, I think, are going to be good. The Spurs have to spend 45 million dollars in free agency. So they're gonna get two of these guys. Wow. They have to spend 45 million. That's why I think they get Grant Williams going there.


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[Assistant] They set this up perfectly. Now, it was a gamble because if they don't get one vinyama, you obviously are doing it with a different


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[Assistant] Right. They got THE guy in the right year to get him. In the right year to get him. And also, all their, they got rid of a couple contracts this year that they traded for to go off the books this season and next season. All in preparation for going all in, all in for this year. It was brilliant. Even if it wasn't 1B, this was a three person draft really. 1B was obviously the top, top, top prize.


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[Assistant] Had they gotten two or three, they still would have gotten a top tier prospect to go with this one. I agree with that.


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[Assistant] So this is, this is from Bobby Marsh. These are the five teams that have that, that.


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[Assistant] Need to spend money to reach that 90% threshold. Are the spurs the one that need to spend the most? No, Houston has to spend 50 million. So Houston's gonna overpay for two of these guys.


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[Assistant] Or they could get someone else. Or James Harden. Yea, right. Or overpay. San Antonio spent 30 million.


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[Assistant] They could spend more, but up to 30 million they have to spend. Sacramento 24 and a half, Indiana 18 and a half, and Detroit 15. That they have to spend to reach that 90%. I gotta tell you, I think the


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it just depends on what you consider, as Wendy said, outlandish, what you consider a big splash. They could get maxed roost. Would you consider that?


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[Assistant] There are a lot of teams who are interested in that. That scares me. A lot of teams that are going to offer them the mid level exception and a lot of teams that have the similar type jettie osmond contracts to trade if it was to be some sort of mid level exception sign and trade. So the one thing that caps can offer


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[Assistant] Is that three position is wide open. It's his basically. It is yours. It's his. So that is the one now other teams have.


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[Assistant] What scares me is the teams out there like San Antonio or Houston who literally have to spend this money and like, for example, if Houston was to go, hey, we gotta spend 50.


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[Assistant] 32 tickets so far. And it'll be 36 in a minute. 36 in a minute. We're giving 40 away this week.


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[Assistant] The game better be packed. Oh, it's not going to be a sellout.


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[Assistant] Packed and sell out I guess. Let's say USFL standard packed. 10,000? They get 10,000. They're popping champagne regardless of the one.


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[Assistant] 13. Wow. Third in quarterback pressures at 23.


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[Assistant] And one of only four players at the interior defensive line position to earn a 70 PFF grade as both a pass rusher and a run stopper.


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[Assistant] We'll talk, we'll talk gardens in one sec, but tonight, speaking of miking guys up. So I went out and miked up bowl for his literally game, I guess last week. Did you not see it yet? No, I haven't seen it. Oh, it came out really good. I'm going out to Mike up Jason tonight for Hayes. We're going to see if coach Jason can live up to coach bowl.


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[Assistant] Hey Steve, could you pull up the ball packages from a few?


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[Assistant] Yeah, if you haven't seen it. I have not seen it. It came out pretty good, I think. Hey Mike, real quick.


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[Assistant] Oh, so it's a long time ago. It aired on June 21st. Last Wednesday? Yeah, cause the game was a Tuesday, so it aired on a Wednesday.


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[Assistant] We are trying. Jay plays Saturday mornings is the one, the one tough thing for me.


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[Assistant] I love Bull. Yes, he's very good. Bull is awesome. Bull here in this chair, when you're arguing with Bull. Super intense. Is the yin and the yang is how Bull is with kids. Bull is phenomenal. Good, good. I want to see this.


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[Assistant] Zack, how do you guys come up with some of the stunts? Is it something, I know you're the director or creator, director for the Bandits. Is it something you work on with the players? Do the players come to you with ideas? Is this all just from your mastermind brain? How do these stunts come from?


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[Assistant] An idea in someone's brain to fruition on the field.


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[Assistant] Well, they're actually in Indianapolis right now, and they postponed the game last night because there was no power downtown. Oh, I thought it was because of the air quality. Well, maybe, but I was going through their Twitter this morning, and I believe they had no... Give me one sec, I don't wanna get this one.


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[Assistant] Zach, I got, I got two questions for you real quick. Kinda quick hitters.


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[Assistant] You guys have, you know, former minor leaguers, former pro guys. If you could take one player currently playing in Major League Baseball to give them a tryout for the Bananas, who do you think in the Majors would make a good Banana?


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[Assistant] I'm the ideas guy here for UCSS. My guys in the back, they tell me somewhere good, they tell me, hey, these are terrible. And we just never bring them to air. So I'm curious as the ideas guy for the bananas.


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[Assistant] What's an idea that never came to fruition that you might be able to share with us that, uh, just got kinda left on the scrap heap? Cause some of the ones y'all pulled off are unbelievable, so I gotta imagine some of the ones that didn't make it to that top level are pretty chaotic and crazy in a good way too.


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[Assistant] Can we, uh, indulge some paint on ourselves real quick? Sure. We used to talk about the guardians lost last night.


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[Assistant] Can I start real quick? It was tough, man. They've had some bad losses this season. They have. I don't want to say this is the worst loss. It was among them. I think it, to me, might be the most painful. And I'm gonna tell you this because of a couple reasons. One, they had just taken over first place.


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[Assistant] They were a game away from being 500. This elusive 500, which a team should never crave to be 500 this late in the season, but they are one game back.


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[Assistant] You got the best closer in baseball. Trevor Stefan's supposed to be an elite.


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[Assistant] Eighth inning set up guy. You're playing the Kansas City freaking Royals.


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[Assistant] I don't really have words because one game doesn't really make a huge difference in the totality of the situation. The season 162, it's one game. I get it. This one felt like a gut punch. It's the Royals. You were going in for the sweep. You were going in off a great Bieber start, six innings, one hit, uh, eight striker, two hits, eight strikeouts, whatever it was.


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[Assistant] And then Stefan and Klase, the two guys who you rely on the most in the bullpen, each individually screwed you over with a chance to go to fight. It's just like a giant


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[Assistant] He had a giant lead to just like, uh, Stefan, Stefan wasn't holding the runner at first. Right. Chapman essentially forgot. I mean, look how far he is before.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying he was able to get a giant jump. That's how he beats a 102 mile an hour fastball to the plate. I mean, look where he is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I'm still with you. We talked about it yesterday. I don't think it's a World Series roster. I don't think this team is a deep playoff run in them. But they're the best team in the AL Central. And I was optimistic. I brought up the numbers yesterday. So they had that big 14 run outing two days ago.


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[Assistant] A great pitching performance by Bieber, even if it goes to extra innings. You have that play from Jose where if this team were to go on some sort of big run, we'd go back. Hey, what was the moment that changed the season? Jose slide. It's something you could pinpoint and it just slipped away. And that's why I was so frustrated yesterday afternoon watching this because it was.


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[Assistant] I know we got skip holds in one sec, but real, real quick, baseball related. Do you know what Shohei Otani's done in the last 30 days?


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[Assistant] Let me ask you, I don't know the answer, I put this on tour this morning. Is this the best month in the history of baseball?


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[Assistant] Let me just, let me give you the numbers. Because yes, I mean, at the plate, in the last 30 days, this is all of, or May 31st to today, so all of June, he's betting 400, 16 home runs,


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[Assistant] 32 RBIs. Hit 16 home runs in a month. This month has a 1.473 OPS. So yea, it clearly is. And then, pitching wise,


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[Assistant] He has a 2-2 record, a 3.26 ERA. He had one bad start against Houston. If you take that out, his numbers were ridiculous. 37 strikeouts and 30 innings.


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[Assistant] Coach, I knew you had Jay Sternberg. I didn't realize you had Davion Davis too. I covered both those guys back in college. Sternberg at A&M and Davion at, uh, Sam Houston State. So I'm not gonna lie. My allegiance was with Boogie Roberts, who's a weekly guest on the show here. But now that you got two of my guys too, I kind of have a split allegiance here, coach.


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[Assistant] We've been doing our part, coach. We've given out 40 tickets over the last week to the championship game. As a show, we actually went down to


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[Assistant] I think that's a good thing too, because that means guys are getting opportunities at the next level, and then I don't think they retain rights to, I'm not, I'm not positive, but I think if they go try out for the NFL, they have to get back into that school. I'm not sure how that works.


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[Assistant] The transition from a military mission to a political military mission was open.


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[Assistant] And in that, into that window, one needed to have all of the civilian staff present to the maximum extent possible and beginning to function.


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[Assistant] We are particularly gifted at things like telephones and air conditioning. We couldn't seem


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[Assistant] And what was an issue in Iraq was not our absolute control, but our ability to get Iraqis to share our vision.


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[Assistant] I just can't get into it this second. We need to hurry to-


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[Assistant] Hello, good morning, or evening.


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[Assistant] Who was she? I thought I knew everyone in Fabletown. She looks familiar. I can't place her though.


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[Assistant] She was just like this, I didn't touch her. I grabbed Grimble's jacket to cover her with. Then I came to get you right away.


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[Assistant] Big B, did one of us do this?


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[Assistant] Have a look around. We don't have much time before people will be coming through here.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm sorry. This is just so surreal.


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[Assistant] Yes, thanks. But you should hurry, we don't have much time left. We should head back inside soon.


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[Assistant] Sure, just hurry up. We don't have much time.


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[Assistant] We should move her before anyone shows up.


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[Assistant] We'll find out more at the business office. She'll be in the books. I'm sure of it. Pikpi, do you have any idea what's going on?


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[Assistant] A message? I don't know, Bigby. I get complaints at the office all the time, but just what about this makes you think that?


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[Assistant] Andy's going to find out anyway, so we may as well get out in front of it. It'll just be worse if he finds out we held it from him.


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[Assistant] That's how I feel too. I'm sure he won't be happy, but...


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[Assistant] Crane's not what's important right now. We need to figure out who this girl was so we can find whoever did this. Take this back to Dr. Swineheart. He can take a look at it. I'll meet you at the business office.


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[Assistant] Well that could have gone better. Well, maybe we should have dragged it out.


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[Assistant] Oh, Crane doesn't like people smoking and... Nevermind. Smoke away.


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[Assistant] It doesn't really matter the time of day. A mere scent of stress and he's out the door.


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[Assistant] Drinking? This early? Where did you get that?


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[Assistant] He knows the ones I'm talking about. There's bound to be information on her here. Somewhere.


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[Assistant] We'll at least be able to get her real name from the books whenever Buff can find them. In the meantime, poke around. Maybe the mirror can help.


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[Assistant] I really have to get this appointment squared away, but let me know if you need anything.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm sure we'll get it all cleared up. Okay. Thank you.


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[Assistant] All in lyre. That means every kind of fur in German.


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[Assistant] Any information on fables in our community will be somewhere in these books. We already know her name, but feel free to have a look if you like.


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[Assistant] If he's a prince, probably relocated in the South Bronx. Yellow building, red window shutters.


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[Assistant] Hello, Woodlands Business Offi- Yes? I- He is? Hold on. Bigby. It's for you.


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[Assistant] Oh shit! Hi! What was that about?


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm not looking forward to breaking the news to him anyway.


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[Assistant] Phew. Grown-ups. Am I right?


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[Assistant] Hey, you know what? Flycatcher said you had a pretty awesome insect collection. I'd really love to see it. Is it in your room?


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[Assistant] No, nothing really. He was really upset though, earlier. He won't say why.


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[Assistant] Well, we'll be taking the coat now. If she has next of kin, family, anyone.


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[Assistant] It's addressed to Prince Lawrence. Do you wanna try and give it to him, or?


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[Assistant] I don't wanna stay here any longer than we have to, so let's just pick an approach and stick to it, okay?


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[Assistant] If we try and do everything at once all the time, some things are going to slip through the cracks.


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[Assistant] Well, the one guy hit you then the other one started kicking you.


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[Assistant] Then they jumped into a car and drove off. Come on, get up.


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[Assistant] Every time I think I'm getting a handle on what's going on, things just get more complicated. It feels like we're always a step behind.


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[Assistant] I hope you're right. Bigby, be honest with me. Who do you think did this?


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[Assistant] I know it's still early, but I just feel a step behind.


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[Assistant] Makes sense. That's probably the best approach.


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[Assistant] Seeing all this today, there are fables that are struggling worse than I'd imagined. We pay so much attention to the residents of the woodlands. You forget there's a whole community out there to serve.


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[Assistant] To have to turn to prostitution. I wish there was more we could do. This isn't how I thought it would be. But Crane runs things his own way.


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[Assistant] Obviously you don't know what I do all day. Right now...


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[Assistant] I'm the gatekeeper, making sure none of these disenfranchised folks are, as he puts it, wasting his time.


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[Assistant] The fables who walk in through the back door like Bluebeard, we have all the time in the world for them.


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[Assistant] You try and come in through the front door, through the proper channels, asking for anything, needing help. Well, I turn you away.


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[Assistant] Right, we've had it worse, but not by much. Maybe this is it for me. I thought public service was pure. A way to help.


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[Assistant] So before Mike got there, I got there a little early, was interacting with some of the players, some of the other people that was in the media. I had my Ultimate Cleveland Sports shirt on, introduced myself to Juan, looked at my shirt. He said, what's up, man? Tell your boy I'ma still talk my you know what? I said, yeah, you do that, man. You do that. That was it, Earl? You didn't leave anything out?


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[Assistant] Craig, Craig, this is detention, okay? Stop looking at your watch because you're here for three hours, buddy, okay? Whatever.


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[Assistant] No, your name is fucking Craig Tucker and you're in detention. Now start doing your homework. Okay, I've got all the doors sealed, and I've got hallway monitors working overtime. Nobody's gonna save your ass today, Craig, okay?


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[Assistant] Hey, did you guys hear that? Sounded like a chipmunk.


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[Assistant] Paid bribes, certainly didn't pay any bribes to Larry.


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[Assistant] Is it bribery? Is it uh, undue influence? Is it good or is it not good? It depends on the situation. But certainly, it's at least got the potential for corruption.


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[Assistant] Yeah, tell you what, new kid. Get the right clothes and some cigarettes and coffee and then talk to us again.


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[Assistant] Oh joy, it's Butthole the Barbarian from the Dungeons of Dumbass. You gotta admit, he looks better.


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[Assistant] No, you see, no matter which way you go, I block you. What, you think we just let anybody into Canada? Ah, I see you have a passport. Alright, hand it over.


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[Assistant] I hereby grant thee access to the great nation of Canada. Open the gate!


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[Assistant] Oh hell, the prince and princess of Canada! Well, well, what have we here? A hero from the south? Not just anyone can pass the guard at the great border. You must have beaten the odds and obtained a passport. I am the prince of Canada, and this is my lovely wife. How can I help you? What's this?


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[Assistant] I suggest you travel west of here and seek out the Earl of Winnipeg. He can tell you where in Canada they speak this freakish tongue. But I warn you, the wilderness of Canada is filled with dire wolves. You know what dire wolves are, right? They're like wolves, but they're dire.


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[Assistant] My job, you've done it! Look at all these Dire Bear Pals! Now I can finally make a Dire Robe! Alright, give me that document!


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[Assistant] Yes, this is actually written in the language of Eastern Canadian.


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[Assistant] There you are. I understand you wish me to release the Minister of Montreal. I'd like to help you, but I think this might be another ploy by the Bishop of Banff to have Montreal allowed back into the Kingdom. Some Canadians think our nation should be united again, my lord.


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[Assistant] Go to Banff and kill the bishop. Kill the bishop of Banff? Shh, you, shh. Kill the bishop of Banff for me and bring me his balls as proof.


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[Assistant] Praise Christ. Praise God. Praise God and Christ. What's this? Who the fuck hits a bishop?


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[Assistant] Please, take these dire pig testicles and tell the prince they're mine.


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[Assistant] Sorry, no can do! With both the bishop and the minister taken care of, my throne is secure! But my liege, we made a promise!


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[Assistant] Young man, if you wish to brave the catacombs of Quebec, you would have to speak with the monks who live to the southeast of town. Only they could train you in such sorcery.


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[Assistant] The sneaky squeaker! Very impressive. He is worthy of our training after all.


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[Assistant] And don't ever, ever fart on a man's balls.


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[Assistant] Like you, I was once used for pleasure as an anal plaything, and thus perished in this place. Now you must defeat my angry spirit in order to move forward. I know I don't really sound that angry, but trust me, I am.


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[Assistant] You have proven yourself in combat, young anal plaything. You may journey forth, find the snook's trigger, and save the outside world. Fare thee met, and fare thee well.


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[Assistant] Whoever seeks to blow up the city clearly doesn't want anyone stopping them.


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[Assistant] Alright new kid, get inside the abortion clinic and find the records room. Take a picture of all the records from the past week and text them to us. That will help us find out who the toothpaste bitch is. I'm sure you can appreciate why none of us can do this.


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[Assistant] But Heidi's really sorry, so we're deciding to forgive her. I love you guys so much.


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[Assistant] So Greece could borrow on German interest rates and they were very low indeed.


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[Assistant] I would put it cynically as follows. For several years, uh, Greek governments pretended


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[Assistant] That's to keep their public finances in order.


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[Assistant] And their European partners pretended to believe them.


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[Assistant] If you're coming with us, like it or not.


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[Assistant] We gotta go out and find a way to go 1 and 0. This is one more week. We're 9 and 2 right now. I think this football team has really put together a


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[Assistant] A good season right now, but this will certainly be the cherry that caps it off as everybody remembers who the champion is, but nobody, regardless of records, remembers who the runner up is. Uh, what we gotta do is find a way to go win one football game and not to be a great environment. Pittsburgh is playing really well right now.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm going to start with, I'm going to start with our quarterback Alex Magoo and what he's done. He was, uh, he was drafted. He was in the NFL for a couple of years and, uh, then ended up back here in the USFL. He's had a phenomenal year, uh, statistically with numbers. He scored


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[Assistant] 25 touchdowns, five interceptions. He's putting up gaudy numbers. He's got both. He's got a really good.


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[Assistant] arm. He's seeing the fiel throwing the ball really ac things happen with his fee


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[Assistant] that can find himself in jay Sternberger who was wi a while and then in this that's having a really p scored. I think he's got s touchdowns as a tight end


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[Assistant] Davion Davis, I mean there's last year we had 12 guys off our roster, uh, make it into an NFL camp.


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[Assistant] A really talented roster, but I think those three on offense for sure. I like Dante Tillman on the defensive side of the ball is having a really productive year. Uh, I think some guys are playing really well for us. And so it's going to be interesting to see, but I certainly think a handful of them are going to have the opportunity to continue playing Garrett.


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[Assistant] Well, I think it's, it's like everybody wants to look at the numbers. We're nine and two right now and they're five and six, but it's easy to pull out what just happened in the XFL when you have the four and six team, you know, and everybody said they can't win it. They don't deserve to be in the playoffs. Three teams from the other division should have been in it and then they run the table and win the championship.


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[Assistant] Let's just make sure we stay focused and put our best foot forward. But we've got plenty to sell with how good this football team is and the kind of the two headed monster. They have a quarterback. He can run, he can throw and they've won three in a row.


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[Assistant] There's an awful lot riding on this game and anything can happen. We just got to make sure we show up and put our best foot forward.


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[Assistant] We've got to execute. I mean, one of the things this year, we've been a really balanced football team with the run in the past. And I think we have to have balance and we're going to have to be able to execute and we're going to have to be throwing and catching at a really high level with what we do. Like I said, this was a very tight football game the last time we played it. Uh, they do not, they're really fundamentally sound.


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[Assistant] What they do is, I'm going to say it not in a negative way, but, uh, it's not sexy, but it is full of substance. I mean, they do what they do. Uh, they're very, I don't want to call them simple. You know where they're going to be, but just even though the lines all draw up in your favor when the smoke clears, it's second and eighth.


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[Assistant] Well, we're trying to kind of reverse this with Pittsburgh being kind of the home team here. We're trying to reverse this a little bit. Last week, we had the opportunity to play in Birmingham and the crowd was awesome. I mean, they were a difference maker. They were loud. They were into it. It's championship football. This is for all the marbles. I look at it when I say just opposite.


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[Assistant] If there's not a need for it and it's just a gimmick, it's going to be a one and done, two and done type deal. But right now, when you look at the number of players, there's 400 players on these rosters in this league that are all vying to get in the NFL. And you look at many of them have already been in the NFL and then are back in this league, gaining a little bit of experience. And as I said last year, we had 12 guys.


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[Assistant] Obvious through two years of the USFL that people are going to support it when you look at the ratings and what's going on right now. It's been off the charts, but I think it all starts because of Fox's commitment.


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[Assistant] They said let's make a product here and I think they've had a phenomenal plan and putting it together, making one place the hub for year one, branching out to four next year. Maybe there's going to be six. They've already sold started selling season tickets.


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[Assistant] Uh, for year three, I thi the point right now of ask is there going to be a year just rolling over and we' think that I think right involved in this couldn't


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[Assistant] Yeah, I really think they are, Garrett. Uhm, when you look at some of the growth that they're looking every year, I think it's a kind of a feasibility model. What makes sense in all our hubs with what we're doing? And you know, they're even talking about trying to start to build permanent structures for each each team in their own home, own hub.


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[Assistant] Uh, cities where the hub where the hub teams are that have, uh, meeting rooms that have a practice facility that have a weight room, a training room, uh, places that players could go to the office every single day rather than going to the hotel and something that's just been made possible, but having kind of year round permanent structure.


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[Assistant] be awesome. I think that's all part of the next step. And that's why I said Fox is doing such a great job because they're just looking at adding little pieces as it continues to grow to make it better and better each year as we went from everybody in one hub


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[Assistant] I think it will go to six and then probably everybody in their own hub with permanent facilities. So it's been exciting to be a part of it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sometimes in these games, you know, like Jason said, like,


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[Assistant] You know, when you're playing baseball, like, you know, you can have a double-header. The first double-header, you get shut out and get, get, somebody throw a one-hitter or no-hitter on you. The next game, you come back.


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[Assistant] And all of a sudden you have one of the best games you've had, two for three, three for four, maybe a couple RBIs, a few home runs. You know, you put double digits on the board. Uhm, there's no, the hardest part about


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[Assistant] You know, talking about baseball is kinda like projecting whether this is an anomaly or this is something that you're gonna be able to consistently do.


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[Assistant] On a, on a consistent, regular basis, like, you know, and, and I think at this point where you're, you're almost 80 games into the season, and you're 500, uhm,


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[Assistant] They're average, right? They're, they're average team, uh, when it comes to, um, you know, their overall construction. They're below average power team. They do pretty good in, in the, in the field defensively.


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[Assistant] But, I don't think this is going to be any sort of sign that they're going to start waking up hitting all these home runs now. Uhm, I will say, you know, one of the guys that, that is, has been really, uhm,


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[Assistant] That I would like to watch and has really done some stuff is Naylor. Not Bo Naylor. The OG Naylor is actually holding it down. And by the way, Bo Naylor, I like what he did. I loved what he did and people may not even really notice this.


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[Assistant] I love that he bought back the red cleats. He bought back the red cleats. I haven't seen him so long. I'm like, yo, I forgot how fire that is when you throw them with the Guardians uniforms. I liked them. And they was Loki high tops too. And he got the Nike wristband. He looked the part.


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[Assistant] The Guardians remind me of, uh, remember them old school, uh, Memphis Grizzlies teams with Zack Randolph?


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[Assistant] You just knew they just, they just didn't have enough. Like, you look at the stats, you'd be like, wow, Gasol is a defensive player of the year. You'd be like, Randolph had 20 and 10, like you always do. Mike Conley got 10 assists, 17 points. But then you look at the stats, you'd be like, well, mmm, that's just not enough for some reason. It's not gonna get it done.


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[Assistant] And I look at the Guardias kind of the same way, like, every year you can look at them and they can be 500, a little, a little above, a little below, going into the All-Star break. They'll get hot, they'll get to the playoffs.


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[Assistant] But like, do they really, really, really got enough? Like when, like, when you get, are they putting fear in people? Like, I don't want to play the, I don't want to play the Guardians. I think it's the opposite. I think when the Guardians get into playoffs, you're like, hey, they play defense, but guess what?


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[Assistant] It's defense. You ain't supposed to be making errors anyway. They got some pictures, but let's get to the second or third picture. And we know we could always count on the fact that we're going to have more power than them. So for me, I think the Guardians have a nice,


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[Assistant] A nice team. I think they got a team that can do something and make the playoffs and win the division. But like Jason said, I can't, I can't really go out and be like, oh, these guys are going to really make a deep run because there's deficiencies in the way they put the roster together.


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[Assistant] No, uhm, this season is a little more, this is a little more intriguing because even if they make the postseason, the thing I'm excited about is, guess what? You're gonna have three, potentially three rookies pitching in the postseason, right?


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[Assistant] So we, we talked about how, uh, how great experience was, um, that we wanted to get the experience for Garland and those guys and Mobley when they lost the playing game to the Hawks. And people talk about how that kind of stunted the growth a little bit, set everything back a year. But this year, the one of the silver linings is you're going to see how many young guys


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[Assistant] Uhm, uh, Alan Bybee and Gavin Williams are going to get an opportunity to pitch in the postseason as well. And that'll be exciting to a certain extent to see how those guys do because I don't, I don't think McKenzie's coming back. So you'll get the chance to see what they look like under those lights.


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[Assistant] Oh, trust me, me nuggets. Oh, trust me. So this is, this is setting it up to be like,


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[Assistant] Cover of Baseball America. That's cover of Sports Illustrated where they talk about these three young arms. Get ready for the, everybody that got three young pictures, they compare them to the Braves. Get ready, it's coming.


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[Assistant] Everybody wants Lab & Maddix & Smolts. It's gonna be here. And they'll talk about they're 12 years old, they're 13, they barely got library cards, and they're the hottest things moving. Now.


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[Assistant] I don't know if they're going to translate that into, into some wins. I don't know if that's going to be a pennant, but, uh, they'll be exciting. They'll be the new darling. People will talk about them a lot in the rotation because it's very rare to have three guys up and I'm surprised, I'm going to give them credit. I'm surprised the Guardians even did it.


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[Assistant] I thought maybe one of them, when I seen Allen, I thought, man, you know what, I was salty because I'm like, well, we ain't seeing Bobby then.


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[Assistant] Then Bobby came up and I was like, ooh, like, Gavin Williams, he might be there holding the other? No, they brought all three of them up. And I'm, I was like, wow. And it looks like that was part of the plan.


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[Assistant] You know, I remember back in the day, uhm, my dad talking about, you know, uhm, just a simple fact that, you know, pictures back then didn't, you know, he, he came up at a time where it started to be where pictures didn't hit anymore.


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[Assistant] Because he talked about how he used to pitch and how much of a mental game it was. When you're thinking about throwing pitches and getting guys out, it was just rough to be concentrating on batting.


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[Assistant] Like how, does that happen a lot? Like what level of input do they have? Like is it just like, he's up there calling what he wants to call or is it more of a collaboration type thing between the manager, the pitcher?


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[Assistant] That isn't talked about a lot, which is a lot, just the fact that, like, you're thinking about it, like, kind of like a point guard in basketball, like, you know, does Chris Paul call every play? Like, is he calling, or, or is it just a situation where he makes a flow, like, coach might want somebody out of a timeout, or they'll just go with just basically some different-


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[Assistant] That bro, that, that boy David Blatt, man, he just did. Listen, he felt like he had a, he had a whole nother program he had signed up for and he get LeBron back and then like the, for the simple fact that LeBron went to the finals and had Deli and David Blatt


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[Assistant] I would say for Grinky, like you said, he still can pitch, like.


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[Assistant] As much as I would like to come on here and give you something different and give you another perspective, a different angle, I would love to do that. I would love to say, you know what, McNuggets is the coaching or it's just the overall youthful exuberance of the roster? No, I can't. Uhm, you hit on a lot of things, uhm, one thing when you talk about the roster,


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[Assistant] I look at some of the guys that they got, not only do they not have small forward depth, they don't even have a small forward, not one.


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[Assistant] If you look at that Cavs, the Cavs wing players right there, Karis Levert is not a wing. Karis Levert is a two guard. Isaac Okoro is a non-shooting two guard. Jenny can technically classify as that. Lamar Stevenson is not a wing. Like these guys have skill sets of power forwards.


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[Assistant] These guys got skill sets of 1992 power forwards. Like, they play like Xavier McDaniel and Terry Cummings and Buck Williams. These dudes can't shoot outside the paint. Lamar Stevenson is not scaring nobody on the playground.


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[Assistant] On double rims. He's not, if he's at the Y, we like self-checked, let Lamar pull up. Listen, the fact that Isaac Okoro


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[Assistant] He's not even P.J. Tucker. At least P.J. Tucker gonna be a 6'3 power forward. Who's gonna be gritty? He's gonna get offensive rebounds. And I love Isaac O'Coro. He's like the nicest guy in the world. I like him. He's cool. Uh, he's a great locker room guy. But the reality of the situation is,


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[Assistant] We've been, we've been closing our eyes trying to make him be a three for the longest time since he got here.


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[Assistant] And it just doesn't work. You know, you take a look at what he's bringing to the table, you take a look at the size, and not only the size, look at the length.


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[Assistant] You got Garland, Smallish. Darius Gar, uh, uh, uh, excuse me, uh, Donovan Mitchell, Smallish. Then you're putting Nakora in, and Nakora was 6-5. So look at the, like, and you're going against these other teams, and I'm looking at the lineups, I'm like,


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[Assistant] That just puts so much stress on you defensively, and then not to mention offensively when you're playing with two bigs.


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[Assistant] The roster is constructed with odds and ends parts, and I just don't see...


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[Assistant] Where the thought process was in trying to get these guys to fit and mold into a cohesive unit. Jason?


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[Assistant] Do you believe, do you believe, I'm asking both of y'all, do you believe what would the Cavs record be?


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[Assistant] If they would have just kept Collin Sexing, Abadi, and Lauren Marking.


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[Assistant] I give him credit. That's why when people say, why are you so, why are you so high on the Imani Bates pick? And I'm like, because.


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[Assistant] He's six foot nine. He can shoot. He can create. He hits tough shots. When I watch playoff games, I see people hitting tough shot after tough shot after tough. Like defense don't really, like you said something that I totally agree with, like in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Defense really don't really matter, like it does. You can't be atrocious. You can't be bottom two.


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[Assistant] But like in playoffs, it's about shot making. These dudes just pull it up and not miss it. Like they got shot hands and close out.


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[Assistant] Hey, listen, here's what I'm going to say. Here's what I'm going to tell everybody. Nah. No, no, no. Like, see, here's the thing. I'm looking at it. Not even from an emotional standpoint. I'm looking at it from like this. If the Cleveland Cavaliers can develop Dean way.


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[Assistant] And Dean Wade don't have the natural physical talent that he has. Why can I not believe that if Lamar Stevens can make it, he can't make it?


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[Assistant] But at the end of the day we gonna take a look at these stats in the middle of the year. Now listen, JB don't be hating either. He gonna take seven to ten bad shots in summer league. It's cool. Let the man pull up.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm saying. But this is the thing, you gotta expect, like this is the thought process. At some point, we talked about development.


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[Assistant] If the Cavs want to get to a point where they respected around the league, and they don't have money, they don't have cap space, they have to take a look at these dudes seriously.


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[Assistant] Not like, oh, we're taking flyers. No, no. You have to look at it seriously. Like, you're not going to get the best, the cream of the crop. You're not getting to be, be prospects. You're not getting none of them free agents. So you can say here, you can sit here and be like, oh, he's not going to do anything, but you got to realize you got to work what you got Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Ain't nobody coming through them doors and be like, yo, I'm here to save you. At least you got a dude that you wouldn't, if it was three years ago, if you would have said, the Cavs are going to draft this guy and he was the number one prospect in the country. You say, get out of here. He'll no longer be here. So yeah, he fell off in three years, but guess what? There's opportunity where somebody else falls.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's kind of crazy because, you know, I hate to say somebody that can get 50 points in a game is like inconsequential, but


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[Assistant] You know, this is the, this is the Catch-22 dilemma that you have. You know, I was listening to Chris Broussard the other day and he just was saying like,


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[Assistant] The calves are stuck in that middle place, like...


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[Assistant] They're a good team, uhm, they're gonna win a lot of games in the regular season, but...


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[Assistant] It ain't gonna, like, it's just not gonna work. And I'm starting to believe, like, the-


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[Assistant] The, the, the, the move has to come from within.


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[Assistant] Like the move, like, the Cavs ain't gon- The Cavs ain't- You know what the move is. The Cavs ain't, like, you know, just pull themselves up by their, like, bootstraps. They're not gonna pay people this money to come in here and save them. That's not gonna happen. Like, they gotta get to a new level, and I- And one of the things, and it's kind of off of the side, the Darius Garland thing is like, okay,


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[Assistant] You know, we laughed about the rumors, whatever, but you know what those rumors and all that talk told me was that.


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[Assistant] There's another level that there's, there's to be attained from Darius Garland. What people are saying is that ain't enough. Like that, like if you think Darius Garland is a finished product and that Darius right here as today is a guy that is going to be


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[Assistant] Taking a cab somewhere different? Nah, we talk about mobility a lot.


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[Assistant] But there is Garland, he gotta get better too, like it ain't no like just one or the other. And I think, and we keep talking about, and it's not just the Imani Bates, it's an organizational philosophy. It's, I need to be very, like I need to be scrupulous on the people that we pick.


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[Assistant] I need to be looking at upside. We need to develop. We got to develop. We got to develop mobile. We got to develop Garland. They got to get better. We it's a lot. We got to get tougher. It's a lot of self coaching and self development stuff that the cast have to do because I don't think that that from that outside help ain't coming. That ain't it ain't nobody coming to save you.


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[Assistant] I think he was speaking from a place where as right now, they're stuck right now in the middle, like where as if the players don't get no better, like they're in the 3-4 based on their talent. Yeah, but Mobley's 21. He's going to get better. Even if he does, right.


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[Assistant] To be honest, we still waiting on that consistent. Like, like, Scotty Barnes, they gonna start talking to you in a couple seconds.


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[Assistant] You gonna spread the floor, Scotty? I know you wanna get to the rack, but pretty soon.


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[Assistant] You saying, you saying this year or next year? Like this upcoming season?


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[Assistant] That, and, and, and this is the thing. You're trotting out.


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[Assistant] Three non-shooters. And when I say non-shooters, I'm talking about the nonest. Cause the choral is right in that mix too.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, cause I know he was doing some stuff before, like a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, John, I'll let you know. I agree with you. Like, for me...


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[Assistant] The way I like to talk about things, I'm aggressive. Like, I don't got no time.


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[Assistant] I'm 41. I don't got time to be waiting three, four years for nobody. Uhm, and to be honest, you're, you are correct. Every single year, these guys in off season are getting better or you're either getting worse or you're getting better.


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[Assistant] Do you think that they have some, I wouldn't say buyers remorse, but do you think that they would think about that trade a little bit differently because of the way the season ended up last year and kind of the restraints they put on the organization?


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[Assistant] Hey man, listen, I tell you like this, man, stay and do what you stand on for me.