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00:08because we got a lot of football to discuss as well. Uh, the heat, we got opening night tickets.
00:12We're going to give away next hour at 1120 AM opening night heat wolves. And, uh, we'll get
00:21that for you. So 1120 AM coming up next hour. We're going, uh, we got a short abbreviated show
00:28today. I don't know if you guys heard in the promo, but we have a Panthers hockey
00:32today. One o'clock sleepy noon, sleepy nooner in Buffalo. Um, that means I gotta do that
00:39game. Hmm. Hmm. No, no sleep for the weary. Were you, uh, were you boots on the ice
00:44flat? Were you boots on the ice for the, uh, for the opener? I was BT. I was BOTI boots
00:49on the ice. I was Jays on the ice. Is the locker room. Okay. Is everybody all right
00:54right now? Cause the Panthers, I mean, you want to talk about somebody who needs, uh,
00:57some blue line chew gold, the, the Panthers power play. Holy crap. I mean, Leroy, they
01:02can't score. I know. And they do a lot of skating around and passing it around, like
01:08figure eight and it to each other with no shot. Not worried, but they're a little
01:14bothered by it. It's annoying. Like, like they're with the talent that they have in
01:18that room and that they like, they're, they're kind of like, yeah, it's kind of
01:22weird. They're not even getting shots though. Yeah. It's very frustrating. I mean, we
01:26got good news, you know, last week with Marshy and, uh, and Barky. I mean,
01:30they're not going to be gone, but you know, it's, I think they're, I think I was
01:34reading in George Richards article. They're, uh, they're one for 28 on the
01:37power play. I didn't get to watch the game cause I was at the heat game, but,
01:39uh, I saw they lost four one. They weren't even close.
01:42A lot of, a lot of skating and passing the ball, but like just no aggressiveness
01:52towards, you know what I mean? It almost seemed like you ever have that
01:56situation where you watch hockey and they're looking for the perfect shot
01:59instead of a shot. How it looks, it looks like they're trying to find the,
02:05they're trying to find an open net to shoot the puck.
02:10You know what it is, Leroy? I think it's just so much talent.
02:14There's so much talent on the ice that it's just that they're not,
02:17everybody's just trying to play. Like you said, they're, everybody's trying to
02:20play team. They're trying to play too much team hockey instead of just being
02:23themselves. And what happens is, but Vlad, you know, what happens with that?
02:27When you have a older guy, a veteran, like a Marshy or, or, um, who just got
02:33hurt? Not Marshy. Um, Marshy did just get hurt. Markoff.
02:38Markoff. They'll take the initiative and everybody will play off them.
02:42Right. I also remember last year, Rhino getting off to a really slow start.
02:47Same deal. Uh, I mean, look, remember the, the prison line because, uh,
02:52Paul Maurice told us he wasn't going to go to Kachuks on one line with Bennett
02:56because he said they'd all end up in jail. Uh, well, apparently Paul Maurice is
03:00ready to make bail because apparently they tried it a little bit and that
03:06practices. So we'll see what happens today, dude. Um, meanwhile, uh, yeah.
03:15So the, he didn't play anybody and the, they played good. I mean, they, they ended
03:21up losing on a runner. It was, it was a fun game. Uh, Jovich played really well.
03:27Jovich, uh, Jovich started Pella, Pella played okay. Pella is apparently a little
03:31worried about Pella. All right. I don't want them to get like the Jaime syndrome
03:35because you know, he's got the, he's starting to grow out the hair. He's got the
03:38headband like Jaime. And one thing that we knew about Jaime bubble guts, all of a
03:43sudden Pella Larson apparently is dealing with this illness and he can't shake it
03:47for like a week mispractice. And then he played, but he was like four for 15. And
03:51I was like, that's weird. He's never that. Like he gets to the rim. Pella Larson
03:54scores. And then in the middle of the game, they're just like, Pella Larson is done
03:58with an illness. I'm like, what?
04:00Just during the middle of the game, they just said he's done with an illness.
04:04Yeah. They're just, he's like, bubble guts. Yeah. That sounds like bubble guts, bro.
04:08Um, so the thing is, and here's what, here's what sucks about sports. Okay. If you get a
04:18little under the weather, right, you get a little fever or, you know, some kind of virus
04:25or something, you can just say, Hey, I'm out for a couple of days. I'm down. You can lay
04:31around, you can get healthy and you know, you have that time. Like there's always a
04:39feeling in sports, right? No matter how bad you feel that you could contribute in some
04:46way and you don't know how it's affecting you. Like sometimes you get sick and your
04:51equilibrium's off. Right. Right. Cause you're so dehydrated. Um, so that's the thing that's
04:57unfortunate with like, even what happened to Jaime and what he's going through now is
05:02that in a perfect world, you would say, go home for a week and get better and stay inside
05:09and get vitamin C and, and whatever you need to kick this virus. Yeah. But in sports, you're
05:16going on the road, you're traveling, you're, you know, and so that's why it becomes a little
05:23bit tougher to kind of just get fully healed.
05:29Well, uh, they, uh, yeah, they ended up losing. There was a, um, they ended up losing, uh, some
05:36dude named Antonio Reeves at a runner, but it was a really fun game. They, the, the young
05:40guys played really hard that Ryan Conwell, dude, let me tell you something that gets impressive.
05:45You know, the, the kid out of Louisville, I know he's known for his shooting, but like really
05:51good as a point guard. Like he was, he was making some sick passes. Now there were some
05:56crazy shots made like Vlad golden made a three. I'm like, I don't know if that's ever happening
05:59again, but he was making the right decision. It was, uh, it was, it was very impressive
06:04from him. So, uh, very excited to see what he brings to the table. And, uh, I'd assume
06:09the way they're going to go this week is Giannis bam. Everybody plays on Wednesday. They got
06:16the nets, get a little sweat in and then Friday in Orlando. That's a Sioux falls
06:22game. That's what that, why are we playing Orlando? Yeah. So I think that, I think
06:27that's the way it's going to go for the next couple of games. Did you see though?
06:32Um, did you see this week Tatum and Brown were, uh, I don't, this is one thing.
06:38The lovers saw each other. What's that? Did the long lost lovers see each other for
06:43the first time? No frost frost dude. So wait, wait, wait. So no interaction
06:51whatsoever? Dude, it was just like when Jimmy came back and bam and Jimmy were
06:55warming up at the same time and they didn't even look at each other. I was a
06:59cold war. It was a cold war. And so apparently, so there, there were videos of
07:03them warming up together, didn't look at each other. And then Jalen Brown didn't
07:09play in the game and didn't even watch the game on the bench. He went and watched
07:11in the locker room. Apparently this was in Philadelphia or in Boston. He was in
07:15Boston probably, but it, but, but yeah, apparently no interaction between them.
07:21Super frosty. And, uh, and I don't think this off. So I would like to point this
07:28out season starting in an, in a week or so, right next Tuesday, next Tuesday. So
07:35we're like eight days away. One of the key narratives in the NBA this season is
07:42going to be Boston's hate to Jason Tatum. The Boston fans will turn on Jason Tatum
07:47this year. Mark my words. Yeah. Because, because if he's not, if he's not doing as
07:53much as Jalen Brown did, because Jalen Brown is loved in that area. And to the
08:01point, even after he got traded, he still had like a day with him and the fans,
08:06like to say goodbye to the fans and the fans came out to show love to him. So
08:11there is a special connection between Jalen Brown and the Celtics fan base. That's
08:15still, you know, that still holds a dear Tatum and the Celtics start mediocre or bad
08:23this season. It might be the first time Jason Tatum will see the turn that the fan
08:27base will do on him. It's going to be very interesting. They're going to say, oh, when
08:31you were hurt, we did better with Jalen Brown. Could be. Well, yeah. And when we
08:36won a title, the guy that was the best player is the guy that we traded. Right. Yeah. You
08:41think so very happy. Let me ask you guys to see Boston's misery. You think if they
08:50would have traded Tatum instead of Jalen Brown, they would have got more? Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
08:56Yeah. So Boston's not the only ones that. Yeah. But I think it's this thing with
09:00people think that the metrics people really don't like Jalen Brown. That's the
09:05thing that he's bucking against is like all of the plus minus people and the
09:09metrics people, they all say, yeah, he's, you know, there was a thing that came
09:12out this year. Like, oh, he was the sixth best player on the Celtics by, by
09:16analytics. It's like, all right, dude, you know, like they're really, they're
09:19trying to, they're trying to stain the guy's career. Really? Yep.
09:26But I got to tell you, it's dirty work by that Boston media, dude. Yeah. I got to
09:30tell you though, if you, if you had a choice after seeing the way these two guys
09:36play, I would say I would rather Jalen Brown. I know you love, I know you love
09:42Jalen Brown, but I'm still taking Tatum. You're still taking Tatum? Yeah. But I'm
09:45not like, I'm not mad, right? I'm not going to fight you on it. It's not one of those
09:50things. I think maybe it's just a preference. I, for some reason,
09:55absolutely preference, Leroy. For some reason, I just feel that Jalen Brown is
10:02more active. It was a, it was, it was frosty. I'll tell you one thing though. We
10:07may be back on, on Steph watch because the Warriors gave Pajemski. Oh, how does,
10:11how does this happen now? They gave Pajemski a hundred million dollars. There's
10:15no way Steph is staying there. He's out. What do you mean? He likes Pajemski. A hundred
10:19million dollars? What's that got to do with Steph though? Yeah. He's got to be
10:24like, what's that got to do with Steph? No, Tobin's mind. How can you pay this guy
10:30a hundred and a million dollars? I don't want to be here. Trade me now if you don't
10:34use time to be a week ago to a big extension. That's just good. That's good. Get
10:38the bag, get the bag, make a stink. Could have made a stink to get it somewhere
10:44else. You should be the spokesman. You should be the spokesman for disgruntled
10:49athlete. I should. Right. Cause you like get your money, make a stink, make a stink
10:54law firm.
