00:00I mean, there's a little bit of house money, I suppose.
00:03But there's also the thing where it's wide open, right?
00:08And you're almost like, why not?
00:09Here's another opportunity.
00:11And if Jason Tatum does come back, we both think he does come back.
00:14And if he looks anywhere close to Jason Tatum, suddenly it's not house money.
00:20Suddenly you're now the favorite to win the Eastern Conference.
00:22It's not house.
00:22If Tatum's back, it's not house money.
00:24The current roster, maybe.
00:25If it was Jalen Brown and Peyton Pritchard and Vucevic and Kata and Hauser and everybody else,
00:33that's your squad?
00:34Yeah, that's your squad?
00:36That is house money.
00:37House money.
00:37We didn't think they'd be the number two seed in the East.
00:39The East is wide open.
00:40I understand the point.
00:42Don't bet against the House.
00:44Okay, if you lose to the Knicks, who are full strength, or you lose to Detroit or the Cavs
00:49or something like that, who made improvements at the deadline, maybe we'd be frustrated,
00:53but I think we'd look at it and say they got a ton out of this team.
00:55Tatum's return to me takes away any discussion about house money and the pressure's off.
01:01With Tatum.
01:02They're the two seed without him, so they're the favorite with him.
01:05With Tatum, I think I would pick them against Detroit.
01:07I'd definitely pick them against New York and or Cleveland.
01:11Whoever you want.
01:12Philly, Charlotte, whoever you want.
01:14I'd pick them against any of those teams.
01:16Assuming Tatum is 75-80% of himself.
01:19So how can that possibly be house money?
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