Chapter 1: What recent sports events are discussed in the episode?
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Chapter 2: How does Mike Ryan's gum chewing become a topic of conversation?
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That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion. Everything else? Everything else. Wearing clean underwear every day? Well, that's just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth? Obviously smart, but not a rule. Never pee-pee on an electric fence.
Okay, maybe there are two rules, but the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Jagermeister must be drank ice cold. Or don't drink it at all. Damn, that's cold.
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Chapter 3: What are the current challenges faced by the Miami Heat?
And they were five and a half point favorites in the game with all of the Cavs back home because the Cavs were, that's as close to tanking as a team will do overtly. Is it not just sending its starters home like that? Zaz, you know about that Naquan Tomlin?
That's a made-up name.
We want to do a spelling bee on Naquan. How do we spell it?
I mean, I know. The way y'all looking at me.
I'll take a try.
I'll take a stab at it. Here we go.
N-A-Q?
Nope.
You sure?
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Chapter 4: What does Norman Powell say about the Heat's recent loss?
Whoa. Mike, you're all part of the team. I'm going to slap Mike, right? It doesn't make sense.
Yeah, Percy Harvin choking out players in the locker room. He won a Super Bowl. It happens.
Ethan's dog? When we're talking about energy as it relates, I mean, honestly, it's not bad enough he's trying to distract me. You go in with Ethan's dog as the joke, knowing you're going to annoy me. Knowing you're going to annoy me because you're going so inside on a joke for six people. It's not enough that Mike's doing this.
When I talk about energy stuff, Zazz, I'm not talking about spiritual stuff, okay? I'm talking about everyone listening to this believes what I'm about to say. Home field advantage is a thing because the energy of the crowd matters because the crowd gets into the game and supports its home team. That support is worth something.
You're going to tell me the opposite of that does not affect players trying to be professionals at the center of that crater? Like, you can argue it if you want, but if they're playing in a place that's a misery, energetically, where their own fans are not there for support, holy ****, that's not an atmosphere I'm used to seeing basketball teams play at home in.
Right, Dan. I think the important distinction is home energy positive is what we believe. Road energy positive. Negative. We also expect that. Reggie Miller, LeBron James, all these players are like, oh, I love it when they start booing. It fuels me. The thing that I don't think any professional athlete in any sport is prepared for is home crowd negative energy.
I think what we could all agree on, though, because what you're saying is fine and it obviously makes sense, but I think what we could all agree on is this is as unique ā A situation we have ever seen. And in this unique situation, there's one person who is the victim here. And it's the fans.
And I don't want the players or the coaches who are the ones getting paid when the fans who are showing up and apparently being disrespectful to you are still the ones paying to see you. I don't want the fan being told what to do.
Okay, but the next step on that, you're correct. Right. I think most people listening to this would say, yeah, the fans paying customer. Don't tell me how. Don't tell me how to care. I care. I pay for everything.
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Chapter 5: How do the hosts analyze the performance of the Warriors?
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Well, and it's probably why you need to blow it up. Run game not working. Like, we need to start over.
Okay, so what does that look like? What does that look like? GM Jazz comes in. He's like, all right, the full gambit of everything is at my disposal. What do I do?
I would trade Anthony Davis today. Today.
That's not getting very much hurt. You're basically trading Luka for nothing.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of the Clippers' struggles this season?
James Harden's okay. He's good. You can get something for him. Zubats has been bad to start the year. Norman Powell's not there. John Collins is an okay piece off the bench. What do you have in the Clippers organization?
It's a really old team. Leonard, Harden, Bradley Beal, Brooke Lopez. They got Chris Paul's corpse. You know they got Chris Paul's corpse coming off the bench?
Dan, I did a bit a long time ago about Doc Rivers' decision tree process. It's like, hey, did you play for me 100 years ago? Come back, welcome to the Clippers, right? And it's funny, he's not there anymore, but it's still the same kind of thing. When you're playing scrapbook GM, like, ooh, I remember him. Remember when he was good somewhere else?
Look at the names he just said, other than John Collins. Who's young? Who's somewhere close to their prime. They're playing off of memories. And yes, those guys are all still very good basketball players.
But the other part of this, Dan, is when you go and get old guy after old guy after old guy, you're saying, oh, by the way, Father Timing will come around here with a sprained ankle or a broken hip. But do you guys realize what you're saying?
If you guys are right, if you guys are accurate in saying demolish everything with the Clippers, when I pair it, to what OKC is doing at the start of this season and after last season.
We're over here talking about this Luka trade again and again and again, and this other one's gonna go down as one of the worst we've ever seen in the history of sports because you've just given so much fuel to OKC that when you're bad this year and it blows up on Steve Ballmer's face, you've got the legitimate possibility.
I think there are worse teams in the league, but if it's really bad with the Clippers this year, then you're going to be giving the number one overall pick to a team that already has two key pieces out and has lost one time this season.
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Chapter 7: What strategies do the hosts suggest for rebuilding NBA teams?
Put that in.
The thing that I am just saying, I mean, is we will not stop talking about Jalen Brunson limped off the court. We will not stop talking about the daily soap operas of what's happening in Dallas. We will not stop talking about Steph and LeBron. But the best teams are not the best stories. And so Denver and OKC and all of that excellence will turn to ashes around all the other. Correct.
Like that during the regular season, there is nothing OKC can do. maybe threaten the record of 73 wins in a season, but there's next to nothing OKC can do that will matter. Their regular season is not interesting to the public.
No, you just named it. Like, threatening the 73 wins, that's the thing, and they're certainly on pace for it.
And I think the manner in which they're winning, I mean, again, they beat the Lakers, who have been good this year, and everyone's been really excited and inspired by them. They smacked them. And again, Shea Goodes Alexander scores 30. And again, he doesn't play the fourth quarter.
And so at some point, this is going to sound kind of crazy, it becomes bad TV because if every game is a blowout, then it's really hard to keep people tuned in.
Yeah.
All right, we got two minutes here. Two-minute warm-up.
The part that I find most interesting is storylines. Got to go quick. Bang against excellence. Quick. Boston snuck in there for a year and took theā You need me to talk fast? We got to go, Dan.
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