The Daily Zeitgeist - MJGMB #138: The Results Are In with Josh Gondelman

Episode Date: November 6, 2024

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Meanwhile, the Celtics are just one game off their pace and still seem even hungrier than they were last season. And we'll get into that with one of our favorite comedians Josh Gondelman on today's episode. I'm Myles Gray. And I'm Jack O'Brien. And this is... Myles and Jack are Bad Boostees! Ah 18 has been secured the Celtics are NBA champions over the double team Oh, night night! Yannis with the take, uh oh, look out, no show time, what you got Yannis? Josh Gondelman, oh man, my favorite Boston fan I gotta say, you're there. Huge for me.

We had an overlap obviously with the Yankees Dodgers World Series, our Venn diagram overlapped for that moment. And it was fantastic. One glorious moment. One glorious moment. Where we just revel in Rude against the Yankees. I watched every game of the World Series to Rude against the Yankees. And when they lost and I felt, I would say roughly as much joy as I felt when the Red Sox won the World Series against the Dodgers in 2018, I was like, oh, I should be in therapy. This is just not well for my state of mind.

That spite feels as good to me as joy. Oh yeah. Well, that's also being a Laker fan, baby. That is so true for me with the Celtics myself. When they lost to the Warriors. Oh, God. I understand. That felt good. I like it. But yeah, just looking around the league, three teams currently have both top five offenses and defenses.

Cavs, Warriors, Celtics. Yeah, honestly, really must be nice. I'm looking at them. Wow. Sounds really cool. How'd you do that? The Celtics though, Josh, you're here. We have to talk about the Celtics because they're so good. Again, it's freaking me out and I don't like it. Oh, I do like it though. So I guess we're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now this is interesting miles. I told you that he would bring something different the way because so we don't, we don't like it, but you, you're happy with how they're playing. Interesting. I'm happy. I'm happy with how they're playing. I have a good time watching them. I loved watching them just absolutely eradicate the Knicks from the building in game one. So that was dark. That was, that was, I, I was excited for that game and I was like, whoa, no, let's check back a little bit Let's figure out let them figure out cat and then let's come back. Let's revisit

I like I'm I hope they do because I want it's fun The more teams are good and the games are competitive but they all one night one It's fun to be like, oh you thought this is this is your squad that you brought to. Right. Right. OK. See you. See you in game 83. Right. Right. Right. Oh, man. Also, Josh, I love you. Go. I like it when like other teams are like good enough to like compete. So it's like fun.

Well, everybody just complained that they didn't they didn't beat anyone in their path to the title in the prior last year. And that already was so satisfying that we all decided to not make our teams very good this year. So you would continue not to have anybody good to play against. Look at us. Everyone's a mess. Everybody's just going to play dead.

Oh, you're so impressive. I barely even tried. Yeah. I'm starting to resent Shams because now he's like the source of all breaking news and all breaking news so far this NBA season has been like good for the Celtics and bad for my teams and everything else. A lot of other teams. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, bring back Woj is what I say. Please. It's this Shams guy. Yeah. Hashtag bring back Woj is what I say. Please. It's this Shams guy. Yeah, the Shams. Hashtag bring back Woj. Hashtag bring back Woj Bombs.

All right. Yeah, third best point differential, third in defensive efficiency, blah, blah, blah. Tatum looks hungry. He looks better this year. The whole team looks hungry, which is not what you expect from a team coming out after a championship. I will say there, there was a lot made about Tatum's shot having a hitch in it,

but both in the playoffs when they like didn't play anybody, literally anybody. They're just like, you know, it was like scrimmage games to win the title. I agree that the Mavs didn't really present a challenge in the finals. You'd think the West could have sent a team that would have won more than one day in the endgame finals. It's not a status flag.

It's not a status flag. No, it's fine. People were like, that's a bad finals. And I was like, well, this is my thing. I'm sorry to hijack right away. No, no, no. People were- Hi, Josh. Hi Yeah, I'm sorry to hijack right away. No, no, no. People were. Hi, Josh. Hi. And I'm sorry to high.

Josh. Yeah. But people go. America had the choice. They could have chosen to get behind the Boston Celtics, a generally likable team with a lot of wonderful complimentary players and stars who aren't people aren't overexposed to necessarily yet. I get that Jason Tate, not the most charismatic guy, didn't play the best series, but instead people, uh, America chose to rally behind Luca Doncic, who's I think still playing him in himself into shape from his rookie season.

Wow. Wow. himself into shape from his rookie season. And, Kyrie Irving, who was suspended one season before. So it's like, the choice was there. You all, America all could have enjoyed that NBA finals outside of the greater Dallas area. But they chose not to. And I don't think that's Boston's fault. I think that's America's fault. See, when you say stuff like that,

just like cheerfully disassembling my entire body and spirit as an NBA fan. And in such like a friendly way, you give like real Hans Landa from Inglorious Bastards energy like just real Christoph Waltz. Like America could have. And I just don't know why. Look, Tatum looks good. However, take a little deeper look into the numbers. A 35.5 from three below his average free throws below his usual.

I'm just saying, and this is all that I like. This is my copium. I'm just saying maybe his shot isn't totally fixed. And when a shot has a hitch, like there has some dynamics amiss, it tends to show up at the worst times. Like it's just like this little piece of sand, it's like this little irritant that's in there

that can come back at the worst of times. I'm just saying I have been a fan of a Ben Simmons basketball team before. And I just want you to know, you can always come to me for sympathy if this thing goes awry on you. Because a shot with a little hitch that's like, I don't know, there's like a mental component to it also.

Maybe he caught something from the Kn next new guy, Miles Bridges. I don't know. McHale Bridges, McHale Bridges, McHale Bridges. Yes. Yeah. Very important distinction. If you're if you're looking at Jason Tatum's little hitch in his jump shot, possibly merging and you're seeing Ben Simmons jump shot, you should have your driver's license taken away. I should. You should not be allowed.

And here's a third person who's told me that this afternoon. But that has more to do with how I'm dealing with waiting for the election results. Yeah. All right. I tried, you know, I'm just also trying to think that like Peyton Pritchard is playing really well. Like I saw some set 32 threes made after eight games is the joint highest for a non-starter in like in league history. I'm also tired of seeing like almost every game there's some stat where it's like the Celtics almost broke the record for most three

pointers either made or attempted or whatever and you're like, oh, that was so disrespectful in game one to to tie the record and then spend eight minutes just bricking three. That's truly like, that's what you'd see on the local news from a high school team. Yeah, right, right, right. We're going for it. We're going for it. If we get hot, it's over. Yeah. Like going underhand. Just, yeah, just try it. And he had him, he was playing against a local farm. They beat a team of three goats. Anyways, do you see any hope for the rest of the league?

Is there or for yourself as somebody who has admitted you do want a world where the Celtics can no longer be criticized for playing a bunch of like sleepwalking their way to the finals. Essentially Cleveland's playing great. Obviously it is playing great, which is fun. I like that. I'm glad that they figured it out. Like it's fun when teams kind of have different constructions and play in different ways and they figured out like two lead guards, two big guys. And it turns out like the coaching change, Kenny Atkinson was like, what if two guys didn't just stand in the same place and like, oh, yeah, that's pretty good.

Wait, what? Where did you dig this guy up? And then the future. I mean, I think the Knicks are going to be a fun team when they get it all settled. And I think the 76ers, when Joel Embiid is back, he'll be back and he'll play great. And it's always scary when he's playing great.

And it's like, it truly is. And I don't mean that I know this is going to sound condescending, and I mean it only 49% condescending. Like I am hoping for like the Joel Embiid fully healthy in the playoffs. I would like the Celtics to defeat him, but I think it is like something that NBA fans deserve. And I hope Joel's human body deserves it. To not feel that pain.

That's such a weird, so he would be healthy in the play. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He would be playing well, like not just during the regular season, but also like when that's so interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's cool.

It would be hurt. Yeah when that's so interesting. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. That's not one face fracture or nothing. Nothing. Yeah. Wait, but like what, what's going to happen when, when he randomly gets a broken face, like he had multiple times in the playoff. Or the thing when people, people are like, Oh you like always falls apart and like two of those times have been freak face breakages. Like it's not a thing that I blame him for.

He's playing so well. Yeah, it's not like a two of the five, two of the five most notable face injuries in the century of NBA history happened to one guy. And it's like, yeah, how his face is so far above everyone else's face. It's a big face though. It's a big face. He does have a massive face. A lot's face. It's a big face though. It's a big face. He does have a massive face. A lot of face.

It's a big, big face. All right. When this show first started, one of our early episodes, we spent the whole episode talking about the time that John Morant jumped up and caught Avery Bradley's layup with two hands and then just like kept ascending toward the rafters like for another foot. Like he was on some fizzy lifting drink of some sort.

Right. Because it wasn't his head going to touch like the corner of the back like he almost headbutted. He had to like stop his body with the ball. Right. He pinned the ball against the backboard, right? With two like he'd already caught it and then kind of smushed it against the backboard of two hands. If I'm remembering, remembering right. Here it is.

So he turns it over. He has a little bit of a reflection against. One of the coolest things I've ever seen a human body do in any sport. Incredible. Incredible. So he just did. I think it might be my favorite thing. I've seen a person do on a basketball court since that. And it was John again. And it was just he like kind of invented a new layup that I didn't know you could do where he goes at a defender like he's going to tomahawk on them,

which he has done to spectacular effect multiple times and then decides to switch direction midair somehow. Yeah, I guess using the person's body as to like spin off of and does a complete 360 and to do the lamp. It's he did it twice in a single game. and does a complete 360 to do the layup. He did it twice in a single game. And it's just unbelievable. It really is like, I don't know how he did that.

Morant gets the step. Morant, oh, the spin and finish! That was saucy! Watch this one. Up, spin cycle, hang, finish on the other side with the left. That is pretty. And look at his eyes immediately back to the rim where he's at. The amount of hang time and ground he covers covers or I should say airspace he covers and this isn't easy against Claxton who's trying to be vertical on the plays. Memphis controls right now

it's five on four Claxton last one to get up Morant cut. Oh John Morant! A human highlight reel. John Moran, you run out of words to describe what he can do. Going for the crank and then spins. There, the smooth finish. This is unreal. Look at that. Yeah, it's, I don't know, like it's, I love it because it's such a, it like speaks to everything about his game. The first is being like, he's cocking it back and you're like, get ready to have, just have your whole life blown up and using that to then be like,

now let me shift to my supreme athleticism and like agility and just turn that into a casual layup. I, yeah, I don't know. I, I have dreams about jumping that high. And it's creativity too, right? Or it's like, oh, he's breaking this out in a game. Like you said, no one's ever seen, but no one's ever heard. There's not a name for this move. Yeah, it's incredible. I love it. He and he's just done so many things that you're like, oh, no one else

has ever done this before. And probably no one will because they're like their arms and legs can't manage it. Well, because it's also the thing is like, well, if I go up and I, and I, I bring it all the way back, they're going to use all their time in the air to just to block the dunk. And then at a certain point, I know I can keep elevating and I would just use, as you descend, I will just turn my body now for this somewhat uncontested layup. It's really, uh, yeah, it feels like to that end, like,

I know you said maybe that Avery Bradley, like when he caught that, but it almost reminds me of, like, when I saw that Vince Carter dunk contest, when I was like, what is that? Yeah, it does feel a little Vince Carter dunk contestian. How? What do you call that? A dunk fake? Not a pump fake, but like, it's, I don't even know, yeah, what you even. Well, and I do feel like to Josh's point about creativity, I do feel like he invented that. Like, I don't I don't think he knew about that shot before he did it the first time because we'd never seen it before.

And then he did it again in the same game. Yeah. He was just like, oh, my God, I can do that. That's an interesting idea. I'm going to do that again. It felt like the human equivalent of like when you're mashing buttons, playing like a fighting video game. Yeah. You're like, how do I do this combo again? And then you're like, oh, I did it again. Oh, my God.

I didn't know. I didn't know the game could achieve this. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. It also feels like if we're just like thinking about artists inspiring one another, it kind of reminded me of Saquon Barkley. Hurdling that guy. Reverse hurdle. The reverse hurdle was. Yeah, they're two of the coolest athletic feats I've ever seen in sport

done within a week of each other. I don't know that they were necessarily inspired, but they just reminded me of one another a little bit. Anyways. I keep watching it on loop, because it's just, yeah, it's breaking my brain. Because I mean, A, I would never have the ability to ever experiment with being up in the air like that and then figure something out.

But just, it is odd to begin to see things that you've truly never seen before. And even as somebody who can jump like that, like I can, like I still find it pretty impressive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true, that's true. It's kind of a game-recognized game thing for you. Yeah.

I still admire the creativity. You're like, wait, actually, there might be a tape of me in 04 doing that. Let me check back in with you. I didn't know it was legal to do in a game practice. But yeah, you guys are playing by those rules. Oh, so we can do dunk fakes. Well, I thought you had called no dunk fakes.

OK, I play by the rules, folks. I play by the rules. I told you guys about the time that I was checked the ball up with somebody in a pickup game and he just started running around without dribbling it. And I was like, that's a travel man. And he was like, oh, I didn't know y'all were playing real rules. OK.

And then we're going to check it out. Like he was running the baseline. Yeah, like he was running the baseline at the top of the key. It was one of the wildest things I've ever seen. So, oh, wait, so we're doing basketball rules. Oh, OK. No. All right. Yeah. I'm sorry. What did you think this was?

OK, we played we played differently here in Dino. Fakesies. Somebody should try that when they're about to jump up against the Grizzlies. Just be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Grizzlies, just be like, no, don't fake these. No, don't fake these. And he's like, I'm a rule follower, y'all. Okay, I guess I'll just have to give it to you old school. But this kind of brings it back because he had been, he was injured most of last year and suspended for a portion of it.

And like, I think, not that I forgot that he was good, but I had lost track of like the joy of watching him play. Like just see, like watching a Memphis game, like on League Pass just to go like what's he gonna do tonight? Yeah, exactly That's right. That is what I'm feeling right now I'm so happy that he's back and it in no way is because I'm trying to distract myself from what's happening with the 76ers Should we take a quick break and come back and not talk about the 76ers? Yeah. Yeah.

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Listen to Dudes on Dudes on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. All right, the Cavs. I have not watched a full game, but I've seen highlights. They look really good. Number one, ineffective field goal percentage, fifth overall in defensive efficiency.

It feels like that will be their strength throughout the season, but I don't know. I guess number one, ineffective field goal percentage like that. It's hard to argue with. Yeah. But an amazing coaching job being done. Can Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland do it together. Can it be done? Is it a thing they should do?

And yeah. I love this character by the way. Yeah. I remember that was kind of like the, that was sort of like the notion, you know what I mean? Like before, and now that we're seeing it in full force, you're like, oh yeah. Now look at you. All right.

What if two guys were good? Yeah. At the same time? It's like, it's so ridiculous. Like that like sports radio brained take of like, oh, I don't know, there's just two guys that both have all the essential skills for playing basketball on the offensive side of the game. How would they ever make it work? Like, oh, by both being physically healthy and then both playing and awesome.

Yeah. They're so good. Yep. Yep. Yep. I'm going to use a metaphor that I just made up. It's like oil and water. You know, these guys just can't mix together. Also, why are you mixing oil with water for like you're eating it or? Because gasoline is expensive.

And I got a dry. Yeah. Canola some Poland's. Bring water down gasoline like orange juice to stretch it out. So just because lava lamps are expensive. Yeah, exactly. Very similar. Got to think up here.

You got to think up here. Just a mason jar with some oil and water that does. Yeah, that's yeah. Give it to your kid for Christmas. They're to think up here. Just a mason jar with some oil and water that does. Yeah. That's yeah. You give it to your kid for Christmas. They're going to love it. Put a little, a little bit of a lava lamp. Yeah. Put a little tea light candle in the lava lamp. Yeah. Yeah. You got some, you got some. Yeah, but I don't know. So keep an eye on the calves, but they are currently the best, the number one team of the league.

Yeah. Well, the other thing, I mean, it felt like we were all pretty high on them though, going into this season. You know what I mean? It was just, I think before it was sort of like the question of like, can they carry this momentum into the next season? Like what is, what, what will they continue? And you're like, oh no, no, yep. Yeah, that's there. I was not. I'm going to, I'm going to do a thing that nobody usually does on basketball podcast. I did not see this coming at all. I thought they were just as likely as to be like a seven seed this year. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But based on the performance, it was it's feasible. You can't it's not you're like, I mean, this this is impossible. It was totally are they going to keep it up is the real thing. I think that's right. And I especially because this team has been together a couple of seasons and hadn't made it work. But that does. Oh's right. And I especially because this team has been together a couple of seasons and hadn't made it work. But that's oh, right. A couple of them.

There was like seasons lost or shaken up because of injuries last year, and especially towards the end. And Garland just seemed like he wasn't himself. But I'm with you, Jack. I wasn't like, oh, they're a shoe in. But like you said, but when now that it's happening, I'm like, yeah, I see the vision. And I get why they didn't like trade away good players because everyone was like,

I don't know. Yeah. Right. The front office is like, did you hear what Stephen Smith just said? He wasn't even on Mike and I heard him. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Where is he? He's in Alaska. I think he thought he was whispering. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Where is he? He's in Alaska. I think he thought he was whispering. Okay. See is the other team that is undefeated. Uh, as of this recording, a lot of, as of this recording happening, we also don't know who won the election. We're waiting to hear who won the election or sexiest man. Yeah. And we also don't know who's going to win people's sexiest man.

We do know. And I hate to bring it up on this podcast. We know sexiest podcasters. I know. I know. Don't bring it up. I'm upset. Yeah. I know. I just brought it up to say miscarriage of justice. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Jesse, what's his name? The, I don't even, the Kelsey brothers. Oh, Travis, Travis and Jason, Travis and Jason, who together I call Jesse for no reason. Travis and Jason, who together I call Jesse for no reason. You know, Jesse, who? Travis and Jason. You know, sometimes there's two guys that you're like, you could really be one guy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Together? I feel that way. David Lynch and David Byrne, if that's one guy, that's the most brilliant genius of all time. Oh my God. What a team. Yeah. Okay, see, so I didn't realize they were doing this well and heart and Stein hadn't played

yet. Yeah. So three weeks following a hand fracture, Cruz's plan about 20 minutes a night, which some people are like, I mean, once they turn him all the way up, but that's like always what I expected. I expected him to give them like 20 spectacular minutes on night. And yeah, even if the scoring's not there on the, he's, he's, ah, man, I, I love, I love, I love Caruso. So I love seeing him thrive. So this is, I'm just trying to find other teams. I can just get behind in case the Lakers end up Laker-ing it up. So what is the,

so we, we did, this is a record where 20, 20 something minutes in have not mentioned the Lakers. Okay, we're not gonna talk about how you feel about the Lakers, because great, spectacular start, and then things have kind of hit some manner of rough. I think it's one of those things where I love talking about the Lakers

when we're doing terribly, and I love talking about the Lakers when we're doing mediocre, but comparatively speaking, it feels like we're reached an absolutely new level. And it's the in between part where it's like normal. I'm like, I want to talk about the good teams. I mean, that was, that was the time when I started taking the cap seriously. So I was like, LeBron coming back home. Right. On. Yeah. It wasn't close. It was not. In fact, it was not on. It was so not on that Ron scored his first points of his career.

Also maybe I am overrating the Lakers because it was also, I did not take the Pistons seriously when they beat my 76ers with Embi bead and Paul George both out against all odds But I once once they beat the Lakers. I was like man are these Pistons for real? But maybe there's a shared common denominator here that I'm No, they're good, they're good. They're be good. They're good. They're really good cutting him. They're playing through Anthony Davis. That's the They got a play through a guy who seems like he doesn't want that ever in his career. He's like, he is playing amazing. He's playing.

It's like, I always root for people to like realize their potential, which is like the most gondolments sentence I could say. I love it. But it's like- Trade market. I hate to watch somebody that is is has the potential to be great, like not get in their own way or be hurt. And so it's like cool to be like, oh, Anthony Davis is having the season that everyone's been like, is he having this season for like nine years? Yeah.

Yeah. Except every time he goes down, like acting like he's like sort of blown off. I'm like, yeah, like that's the most unnerving thing to watch as a fan, which is why I'm like, uh, like I'll text like even during that Pistons game, I was texting Jack and I'm like, what just happened? I just had this opportunity to turn on the TV and I'm looking at him writhing around in pain, but let's not talk about that. We have other things to being a fan of Joel Embiid and Anthony Davis really makes you appreciate LeBron James and you know, Jason Tatum and people like that who it's outrageous.

The season season is so long. So long. It's unbelievable that they're able to stay as healthy as they are. Oh, Josh, I forgot to ask. I mean, they're playing the Warriors on what as of Wednesday night. What do you think Tatum's going to? Is he going to show out just for some Olympics? I'm a little nervous because I think he's going to take. I think he's going to take a personal record for three pointers. I thought if I could bet over on any number, you name a digit number. And I'll bet the old.

Yeah. Yeah. Missoula ball is out of control. Yeah. Yeah, but it's like I'm like when he's on it, you're like, oh, there's no gentler shot. It's like someone's hand is underneath the ball, placing it in the rim. Yeah. And when he's not, you're just like, go to the hoop. Right. Because he is. It's like really when you watch him

and he's mixing it up and he's like, OK, I'm going to it'll be like a third threes or to, you know, 40 percent threes, 40 percent just like bullying people to the basket and wiggling around them and then 20 percent mid range. You're like, oh, he's he's unstoppable. And then when it's like 80 percent threes, you're like, come on, man, you're too tall to do this. Yeah, yeah. Oh, we are getting word. Tatum's most attempted three pointers, 18. I think he's going over.

The Pacers this year, by the way. Oh, yeah. And that was tough because he was having a tough game. He had a couple at the end that helped take it to overtime, had that real nice one at the end and then just kept shooting threes in overtime while he was a little cold and Derek White had been on fire the whole night. And it was just like, oh, I you watching a game like that really makes you appreciate or makes me appreciate how far he's come as like a playmaker and a guy that trusts his teammates because I think early in his career he didn't have that level of trust of like getting off the ball

quickly when he's getting double teamed and it's like I don't know it's cool to see that growth and then you watch a game like him take 18 threes against the Pacers and you're like but just over there there's two guys in front of you and none in front of him the other team that I think is surprisingly good this year that we're not gonna have time to like fully dig in but the Warriors are six and one We'll see how they hold up against the Celtics and the Jason Tatum 25 three-point attempts. Let's say 36 It's in play. It is. Yeah their point differential is

17 point three plus Against opponents this season just just 0.1 points behind OKC. OKC, by the way, set the record for the most wins to open a season that were all by double digits on every one of their seven games by double digits. Golden State's right on par with them in terms of overall point differential. Again, it's just like, I was saying that they just at random times appear to be like, all right, this is the one where we're going to like have a championship run that nobody saw coming. Like the championship

run that they had two years ago where they beat the Celtics. I don't recall is on foggy for all of us, but in retrospect, like makes even less sense than it, like it was surprising at the time, but like, as with all news stories, we just like kind of get used to it. And we're just like, oh yeah, you know, it makes sense. They've got staff and stuff, but like in retrospect makes like Jordan pool was the missing ingredient, like the added missing ingredient that everyone was like, yeah, no, this is why. Like, and he has since then not been very good. You know, like who's the Canadian, yeah. Andrew Wiggins since then has like kind of fallen apart.

It's like everything about that run doesn't really make sense in retrospect. And now they're kind of they're starting off like yeah we're gonna just we've decided to do it again this year. Would Steph hurt for like half the game so far? Yeah, yeah. He got buddy now. I'm ready for the is Draymond actually the Warriors MVP takes? I mean I've been ready. I've been ready. So you're Lance Stevenson born ready for the he has replaced Chris Paul is my favorite NBA player actor. His his acting Draymond Draymond.

Yeah. And then in the car commercials where he's his line delivery is off the charts. For some reason, him and Chris Paul always just jump off the screen for me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Anything else we want to talk about before we go into the rapid fire round of question

mark? I mean, I think the bucks probably just as somebody who's seen where Darwin go. Oh, what's going on over there? Oh, what's going on over there? Oh, what's going on over there? One in six. Okay, just think. There's something that feels ominous though. Like the start isn't great.

Like I understand a lot of people went into like, could they be a contender this year? Like could they be? The start indicates no, they are not. And the feel that the vibes are they feel like they're rapidly going down plus like the possibility of a, you know, a deonist departure. It just feels like there's, I don't know, like something needs to give in one direction. Are you talking about the Greek?

Who's got more Greek in him? I don't know. I mean, do you think I mean, I've seen people talk about it's like, well, if they can get if they can win the next 1210 games, they can get to like kind of what the Knicks did in 99 and get to a final. It's like with that record. I'm like, I don't know. It's it's weird. I mean, first of all, shout out to the Blazers for having a better record than the Bucks right now, right? Yeah. That's, that's my scorching hot take.

Dave never should have left Portland. Three and five, the Blazers versus one and six, Milwaukee. I don't know. I mean, again, it's tough to, to go a team with Yana Santitucumbo and Dame Lillard don't stand a chance in a playoff series, but like it's it would I just don't know. It doesn't seem like they they can play defense and they just haven't figured out anything yet. I don't know. It's bad.

All the good like bullish takes on like how good they were going to be this year. It turns out in retrospect, we're talking to Doc Rivers on the golf course, and him just being like, Dames locked in this year, last year he was just kind of bummed to be in Milwaukee, but this year he just seems happier, and people are like, all right, yeah, good enough for me.

Great. Doc Rivers seems like an all time great dude to hang out with. Great hang. Oh yeah. When he's not coaching your basketball team. He was after his last round with the Sixers, you know, he's really good, can be a really good regular season basketball coach, but I was like, he just keeps getting shots. I don't totally get why anytime there's a team that people are like, these guys are going to be good if they just figure

a couple things out, he gets that job. And then I started hearing him on podcasts. I was like, oh, I get it. I just wanna hang out with this guy. He seems so cool. He just seems like the best guy. And he has interesting ideas and draws on his knowledge and history in a way

that's just so like, I don't know. I'm just like, yeah, man, take me wherever he's got a ring. Plus, he's got that right. Yeah. So like I bet in the room he just crushes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And he's had that ring. His assistant staff was Tom Tibbitt. Yeah. Right. So we defensive assistant.

Yeah, that's wild. Yeah. Yeah. There's some other team I forgot that we wanted to bring up who's also like performing a little bit under expectations, but I can't remember them right now. So we'll just move on from my Lakers. No, no, no. It's okay. It's the same. I got it. It's the 76ers. Oh, yeah Yeah, the sixers. I will say a little bit different We haven't had two of our three best players play yet So I think like, you know me I'm not always the most optimistic fan of the 76ers I do think people can we can relax relax until Embiid is back from his suspension and I will not be commenting on the suspension at this time.

How many games? I saw that you suspended how long? Three games. Three games. Three games according to shams. Must be nice. Johnny bad news over here. Just mad at him for having bad news.

Definition of shooting the messenger. Yeah. Yeah. Shut up, James. Am I right? Fire this guy. He's only saying bad stuff. He's only saying the negative stuff. Yeah, I don't like him. I don't like him.

Why don't you say the positive? Paul George played in a game. Yeah, you don't report that. Jams. What if that's what I said instead of jam? There's a trademark. Just an idea. Sam, is that something? It's a two a meter.

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You always do. You stepped in it up to your knees, my friend. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of it. You should've worn boots. I told you. I told you. I always walk behind those horses. I, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I told you Those horses, I know I know We're Clydesdales Clydesdales

So yes, the fourth quarter wrap if I run of questioning Josh Gondelman You already know what the deal is. It's a question answer segment. Just go quick. Don't use that You know what the impressive intellect of yours to find the perfect answer. Just give us What is the instant reaction to find the perfect answer. Just give us what is the instant reaction? Shoot for the hill stuff. Okay. Yep And if you're not we will be rude to you and it's very difficult to be rude to you Josh Galdeman because you are a Very kind person, but we will it will make me feel bad Just glad you I'm glad I'm not saying that to guilt you. I'm just saying your rudeness will be effective on me

Thank you. I know I told you told you we could get in this fool's head. Would you man? We're going to go. We're going to throw him all off balance. Here we go. Why are you talking? OK, shoot from the hip like me shooting a three pointer because I have very weak arms and I asked a friend.

I truly texted a friend. What weight should I lift so I can shoot NBA weight for three kids? So much. All in the arms. Probably, yeah, just a lot of shoulder presses, you know, just to get this all up. You know what I mean?

Raising the roof. Wait, Josh, you're getting us off our game, man. This is the rapid fire round of questioning. Jack, you gonna go first or am I gonna go first? I think you should, Miles. Okay. Josh, you can go first or am I gonna go first? I think you should, Miles. Okay. Josh, first question. And this is kind of a sort of complex one.

So we had a bit of an understanding in our show group text thread. When I heard about Jaws butt pass, he said, you guys, this is wild. This Jaws did a butt pass. I thought it was going to be jaw kind of maybe using his butt as sort of like an air bud nose to sort of like pop the ball into the air.

I didn't realize it was just him making a pass from his posterior. Yes, on the ground. But if we are using that move, similar to how like the Jason Williams elbow pass and we are talking about a butt pass, what NBA player are you using to execute that move? I guess you have a Sally 76ers. Yeah, you have a Sally Something in the tank. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, I mean the 76ers a Lot of Kyle Harry was my number one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

Stacey King, Duckworth, the these are names that popped out of my head, like pear shaped players. Yeah, absolutely. Chris Paul, too. Chris Baca, Chris. But people like played from their bat, like Mark Jackson, his whole career, like he used his butt as a weapon. And like, you know, like he do you remember this might've been before your time, but Mark Jackson's just one season just started backing people all the way down. He was six feet tall, but he was just back people like to under the basket. It was unbelievable. Barclay, I think was the first name that came up.

I think it's everyone's first. Yeah. But you got to get a little nuanced with it. Yeah. You got to get nuanced with it. All right. We're playing pick up hoops with people magazine sexiest man alive And they've all entered the time machine They're all at their physical peaks Well, actually I'm not gonna say they're at their physical peak. They're all at the place

They were physically when they were named people magazines sexiest. They were at their sexual peaks. Yeah sexual sexy sexual sexual peak so we Went first and we took Denzel Washington circa 1996 when he won who and by the way in a recent episode we did learn that in the movie He got game He did all his own stunts and also in the final one-on-one matchup with Ray Allen his son in that movie. Yeah Insisted that like it was supposed to be like an eight nothing blowout

And he was like that doesn't feel right to me. I think I should get some buckets here I think people would expect me to. And so he did. He got buckets. So we're going with Denzel. Who are you taking with your second pick? I'm looking at a list. Yeah, we got it. I'm just going to read backwards from last year, just for the listeners, as you're making up your mind. Last year was Patrick Dempsey at age 57 for some reason. Before that, Chris Evans, Paul Rudd, Michael B. Jordan. Don't be confused, not Michael,

Michael B. Jordan. John Legend, Idris Elba, Blake Shelton, Dwayne Johnson, David Beckham, Chris Hemsworth, Adam Levine from Matchbook. No, that's maroon five match box maroon Channing Tatum Bradley Cooper Ryan Reynolds Johnny Depp huge jacked man Matt Damon George Clooney McConaughey Jude Law Johnny Depp again Wow They were on the depth train. We had a little depth on that chip. Had an incredible publicist. Ben Affleck, Pierce Brosnan, Brad Pitt, Richard Gere, Harrison Ford. Now we're back in the 90s.

Clooney, Denzel. The fact that Denzel has won it only once is kind of wild to me. Yeah. Look, just need one though to let them know. Josh, who you got? He's the Doc Rivers of sexiest men alive. And you want to hang out with him. Do I want to is kind of wild to me. Yeah, look, just need one though to let him know. Josh, who you got? He's the Doc Rivers of Sexiest Man Alive. And you wanna hang out with him. Do I wanna hang out with Denzel? Absolutely. Yes. He was, if people don't know,

he was on Desus and Mero when I was working there. All time great interview. He was just delightful. It's still online. Denzel? Yeah, he was awesome. So great. It was great. You hear nothing but cool things about that guy. Yeah, he seems very cool.

Um, okay, I'm going, you know what? I'm going home hometown pick 02 Affleck. Oh, Affleck. Now, do you have any reason to believe he can ball? So this is a rumor that I heard that I think it's okay to have on this. Oh, this is a rumor that I heard that I think is okay to have on this. I heard that, uh, Bill Maher bought the house that he and Jennifer Lopez owned the first time they were together.

And there is a Celtics branded basketball court in the backyard. Bill Maher never got changed to look like anything else. So Mar had a Boston Celtics basketball court in his backyard. I cannot verify that that's true, but that's enough for me to use Ben Affleck as the number two pick. All right. Oh, do you bet? I like to have like, OK, OK. I think that's I think that's a decent pick.

I was going to go Clooney because there is just rumors that he has played basketball like that. He gets up shots. Yeah. And McConaughey, I will go McConaughey because he just looks like one of those like dudes who just goes so hard at L.A. fitness with a bandana on his head. Yeah, like this dude can't play, but they just they just give it their everything. That's crazy energy. Oh, he doesn't really know the rules.

No. And you're like, for a fundamentalist, you're like, yo, relax. Yeah. But like Rodman ask. Yeah. Just like, oh, yeah. Get every offensive board. Yeah. Yeah. for 12 with 57 offensive rebounds. Exactly like 40 steals. He uses a swim move. Yeah, clubbing.

Doing a clubbing rip? What are you, D-Lyman? OK, Josh, you have the opportunity to shoot a half court shot for the chance at winning $50,000, a free throw for $500. Are you taking the easy money, or are court shot for the chance of winning $50,000 a free throw for $500 Are you taking the easy money? Are you going for it? I'm going for I'm I'm I'm going to have to wear a shot What's the furthest shot you've ever made that you can that you can think back? Have you ever made something from half court? We know you have been working on your arms. You did when you said I asked my friend what to be lifting

You did rip the sleeves off your shirt I guess we should have mentioned that and you look like white was what I look a lot like 20. Yeah those shoulders Unbelievable shoulders are wider than you are tall. I'm kind of an upside-down trapezoid. Yeah Wonders I think I would I think I do have court. I'm sure I've made a half court shot at some point I'm sure I I think I've done it because I used to play all the time and Yeah, I'm not in my my shape, but like I have been shooting. I also look, I don't mean to brag. I have five hundred dollars.

I could use 50 grand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I go for the easy money. Nobody laughs at you if you miss the half court shot. That's true. Oh, yeah. The people who air ball. Did you see the footage of like the Halloween night game?

I forget what NBA arena it was, but it was just somebody had to take it from half court and run up and make a free throw. And somebody in a Michael Myers costume was just like walking slowly that's forward to squat their shot. They air balled the free throw so badly and then got swatted on the next shot. It was my free throw percentage lately has been pretty decent. So I feel like I could do it. Yeah. I've been I've been getting some shots up in the morning now that the teens are back

in school and I'm not worried that anyone will laugh at me or worse. Ask me to play with them because I'm not worried that anyone will laugh at me or worse, ask me to play with them, because I'm not in pickup run shape, so I just like go out and take jump shots and shoot free throws. Or it's like that one dude who's that older dude with the like the bald dude who's got the Tims on. No, but you know that footage of that guy?

Haven't you seen that one guy? Yeah, I'm the older bald dude, you're just as creepy. No, the older Greek dude with the beard who's got the Tims. Haven't you seen him, that like New York dude, that guy in New York who's just, yeah, I forget what his name is, but I love watching that guy. He can ball.

Yeah, the Greek. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. That's who, that's who Trump was referring to. I wish, um, who has Cole Anthony.

I wish he had made a more impressive showing with that dunk contest, dunking Timbs, cause I thought that was like a, but every dunk contest idea is fun until someone misses it three times. Then you're just like, yeah, come on, get on with it. Get out of here. Let's see your plan B. Yeah. We have proposed to the league the idea that like having a wrinkle where a team has to plan Tim's one quarter out of like playoffs. And they just, if you haven't used it by game four and it's like all gonna be a sweep,

you have to use it in the fourth quarter. You gotta use it, yeah. It would be, might be fun. All right, and finally, you are a Celtics fan. Your team has a final possession down to game seven, 15 seconds on the clock, taking it outside out of bounds. Which player from throughout your franchise history, again, peak of their game, do you want with the ball on their hands?

An embarrassment of options here. I know. I think it's got to be Larry Bird. Yeah, I think that's the right answer. I think it's the right answer. Also, it's not just his skill as a shooter, which I think he would hit so many threes in today's NBA, but I like his, he channels his spite effectively. Like he was always a guy that when he really wanted to embarrass someone, he was very successful

at that. And I think that's what you want at the end of the game. Someone who knows how to channel that spite into victory. Yeah, I think it's the right answer. I think, Josh, I think you aced the test. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. You got a 100 percent or like Jason Tatum shooting percentages. Richard, right. If you had to shoot from behind half court and it's a buzzer beater, maybe preach.

P.P. Yeah, that's a logo. He's on such a ridiculous heater. It's wild. Unbelievable. And it a ridiculous heater. Wild, unbelievable. And it's also like there's so OK, I'm I know this is the lightning round, but I think it's so funny that it like the convention is sometimes to shoot like just after the buzzer, right? People are concerned about their percentages, but it's like, right. If you're playing the possession game, I hate the two for one.

I feel like it's usually two bad shots instead of one good shot. I am always in favor of the heave because that's a bonus shot that wasn't always in my for sure and to have somebody who randomly is great at the heave like we're talking about this during the Bubble I think when dame and Steph were just like yes shooting from mid-court Randomly like on random possessions and it was going in like, I feel like there's a possibility of that being a play that people just have to like scheme for defensively. And it's going to lead to people. Right.

It's going to lead to people playing defense on those shots, which is going to lead to like wildly controversial foul calls. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, Josh, again, you aced the test as usual. You are an accomplished student. But where do the people find you and follow you and support you and then just keep up with the general goings on of Josh Gondelman?

I am at Josh Gondelman across social media, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok now. I have a sub stack that I write every Monday called That's Marvelous. It's a newsletter that goes to your email. It's free. It is joshgondelman.substack.com. And then I have a new standup special coming out probably early next year. Yeah, I'm really psyched about it. Just got the final cut, except for the graphics.

It looks really cool. The director, Chris Warner, the DP, Russ, it just was such an incredible team to get to work with and so I'm really proud of it. It's like for it to come out. Amazing. Looking forward to that. Because you're always getting it done, Josh. You can make sure you follow us at the hashtag madboosties, B-double-O-S-T-I-E-S. That's where you get show links. That's where you get the updates. That's how you find out how to get in on this discord server and you can make sure you can follow us uh i'm on twitter at miles of ray i'm at jack underscore o'brien and this has been another flawless edition of miles and jack Exactly. Chopped into it.

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