1:59

What a move. I do love it. Part

2:02

of what's been fun for me is the reaction of Miami

2:05

Heat fans and Miami

2:07

area pundits who've just been like, they, they

2:10

spited us. What they didn't want, Tyler

2:12

Hero. They didn't want this guy.

2:15

Sure, we've been trying to trade him actively

2:18

and have been benching him all

2:20

last season, where, you

2:23

know, critiques about his focus

2:26

have been swirling around the team. But like, you don't want

2:28

this

2:28

guy? You don't want him? Are you crazy?

2:31

Are you crazy? What's wrong with you?

2:33

What?

2:35

Dame,

2:36

Dame for the first time has like a big

2:39

weapon, like a nuclear weapon next to him.

2:42

It's CJ is great. I love CJ, but

2:44

this is a, this is a different planet we're talking

2:46

about here. Giannis is a planet that he's

2:48

playing with.

2:49

It's gonna be, I mean, you've got

2:51

like the new age

2:54

Shaq.

2:55

That's exactly right. In the pick and roll.

2:57

And then late in those games where it's

2:59

like, okay,

3:00

you know, you don't necessarily want Giannis to create,

3:03

but he is our best player and you kind

3:04

of have to throw it to him and let him do something.

3:08

Now you've got Dame Willard for those. You've

3:10

got Dame time in the house for

3:12

those situations. It's gonna be fun. I'm

3:14

excited.

3:15

He was playing last season with Shaquille

3:18

Harrison. And now he's

3:20

with the new Shaq, which is like,

3:22

I can't imagine. I wonder how

3:25

I know he wanted to go to Miami, but

3:27

you end up in Milwaukee and you got to be pumped

3:29

about that. He's pumped, right? I mean, behind the

3:31

scenes he's pumped.

3:33

I think that probably, you

3:35

know, there's initial, there was, you

3:37

know, from all the reports I've seen and from his own

3:39

interviews that he's done, there was an initial Shaq value,

3:42

but

3:44

you're playing with an MVP.

3:46

You're playing with

3:48

the best player in the NBA.

3:50

I guess I have to say arguably.

3:53

And

3:53

a team that like, you know, before injuries

3:56

and different things set in was gonna

3:58

be in the finals last season.

4:00

The name is coming off of a, he's 33, right?

4:03

He's coming off of a career year

4:05

though. 32, five and seven last year, his

4:08

averages made a seven dollar start game all NBA 13,

4:11

scored 71 points in a game. He did do that in

4:13

a game. Less than 40

4:15

minutes and he scored 71 points at

4:17

his third ever career triple double. That's

4:20

who Giannis is standing next to now.

4:22

He was so good that towards

4:25

the end run of the season, the

4:27

Blazers had to be like, hey man, can you just

4:29

like not chill out because we're

4:31

trying to lose games here,

4:33

man. We need a draft

4:36

pick. Can you just like not do

4:38

that anymore? I

4:40

wonder what it's going to be like. This will be the first time

4:43

in Dame's career

4:44

where if he doesn't win a title,

4:46

it becomes a disappointment. Like the season would

4:49

be a bust if he doesn't.

4:50

It does.

4:51

Okay. I like, I like you sitting the bar

4:53

high for me. I think like

4:55

when has, when have you ever

4:57

seen

4:58

a newly assembled team immediately

5:01

out of the box

5:03

go to the mountain top to say nothing

5:05

of win it? I think that's really hard to do. The Miami

5:07

Heat in that first

5:08

year they got to the finals. I didn't win. I

5:10

just think, you know, the Suns last year, I just

5:12

did the, the, the, the, the, the,

5:14

the

5:14

KG and the Celtics was the

5:17

one

5:17

right. Sheed Wallace and the, and the Pistons

5:19

was that was, but that was

5:21

also like a team that existed. You

5:23

know what I mean? I think it's really hard to do.

5:26

This is a team that existed. And again, I think they,

5:28

they make

5:28

up for a lot of

5:30

Dame, not a noted defender. This is

5:32

an elite defensive team.

5:34

All those pieces are in place to kind of pick up the

5:36

slack for him. I think they have a shot,

5:38

but I don't put the, I don't put the bar

5:41

that high. I think they could get to the finals though.

5:43

I think it could be, if they, if they get to the finals,

5:46

it's a success to me.

5:47

So they don't get to the finals. It's a bust, but

5:50

they don't have to win it. That's what

5:51

you're saying. They don't have to win it.

5:53

All right. So then all that's standing between them

5:55

is, is Boston really. And

5:58

Boston plays into this trade. Well

6:00

because they end up with Drew Holliday, which

6:02

is crazy. That's such a crazy

6:04

gift for them. They were so happy They're

6:06

just hanging out

6:08

Chilling and then knock knock knock

6:10

Drew Holliday shows up

6:12

I was watching the preseason game between the

6:14

the Boston Celtics and then the

6:16

leaguer Philadelphia 76ers the other night Mm-hmm,

6:20

and it really irks me how well

6:23

Christophs Porzingis is moving

6:25

in that white.

6:26

He looks good He looks

6:28

good. He looks all the little

6:31

shoulder-free I watch a lot of Washington

6:33

Wizards because my partner's a Wizards fan and

6:36

he was good last year. He was good But

6:39

man, he looked like he had electricity

6:40

running through him

6:42

and I don't like that. I don't like it. I

6:44

didn't like it You

6:48

didn't like it because he didn't do that in New York

6:51

and now he's gonna do it in Boston

6:52

It just as a Knicks fan,

6:54

I don't like to see my son grow up and play for

6:56

the Celtics and then in one

6:59

preseason game You

7:01

know just be juking people to the

7:03

floor and dunking it like

7:05

I don't like that I

7:07

don't like it the Celtics the

7:10

reigning the back-to-back-to-back paper

7:12

champions On

7:15

paper on paper They've

7:17

won every championship for the last three years once

7:19

again They are slated number

7:21

one in the East

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