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00:08I didn't see much of the game, Solana.
00:09I was at the Marlins game.
00:11We were checking the score and looking at highlights every now and then.
00:14I'm imagining it was a deflating watch.
00:17It was a deflating watch, yes.
00:19A deflating watch as well.
00:21It was a deflating watch.
00:24Here's the thing with that loss last night specifically.
00:27We've been hearing leading up to this game,
00:29this is an opportunity.
00:31And I don't think anybody actually thought the heat,
00:34knowing the situation they were in,
00:35very unlikely that they wouldn't be a playing tournament team.
00:38They had like a 1.4% chance according to the basketball index.
00:42So their fate was pretty much set.
00:44But yesterday, one game against the 7th seed in the East
00:48could just keep them alive.
00:50And Spoh's talking about the opportunity with these four games.
00:54Tyler, Bam, everybody's talking about the opportunity
00:56with these four games.
00:58They're down 13 at halftime.
01:00They're down 18 going into the fourth quarter.
01:03And they scored 19 points in the fourth quarter.
01:07Now, I don't know about you guys,
01:08but when you're down 18 going into the fourth,
01:11and you only score 19 unless you hold that team to one point.
01:14What happened to Bam last night?
01:16Obviously, I didn't see much of the game.
01:17Overall, it's a tough matchup with the Raptors.
01:22It is.
01:22That's not an excuse.
01:23It is a tough matchup.
01:25They have a lot of length on the perimeter.
01:27But Bam shot the ball terribly.
01:29Oh, I think I saw.
01:30He was like 1 of 12 or something.
01:322 of 13 he finished.
01:341 of 7 from 3 or something.
01:36Couldn't get to the free throw line.
01:37And they were daring him to take threes.
01:40And Bam and Abayo yesterday, unlike when he scored 83,
01:43couldn't hit a three-pointer.
01:45The Raptors little boyed the Miami Heat yesterday.
01:49And I'm sick of hearing about the opportunity.
01:54Because that's what we've been talking about.
01:56And when you're 0-10 against the Raptors, Magic, and Celtics this season.
02:02And your record against teams who are currently in a playoff position
02:06is brutal this year.
02:1023-31 against teams that are going to be playing,
02:12as Barry Jackson wrote, beyond Sunday, the final day of the regular season.
02:16And your 18-7 against teams that are 11 or 15 in each conference
02:20gives you a pretty good indication.
02:24You are who you are.
02:26And as much as I wanted to believe that this team had enough talent,
02:29and I still kind of do, for whatever reason, for whatever reason.
02:33Well, there have been spates throughout the season where you're like,
02:37hey, this is kind of working.
02:39I just had this conversation at Tires Plus with some guy, forget his name.
02:44X's and O's are Jimmy's and Joe's.
02:46This is a Jimmy's and Joe's problem.
02:48I can't imagine a worse conversation to have at Tires Plus.
02:54Why are you messing with my man?
02:55He wanted to have a basketball conversation I gave him.
02:57I just can't imagine anything.
02:58He had on a Panther sweatshirt.
03:00So we talked Panthers for a little bit.
03:02Then we had that.
03:02And I was telling him the same thing I've been saying.
03:05We're not that talented.
03:06Could you imagine those two topics with Crowder?
03:09I cannot.
03:12Y'all got people thinking I know sports.
03:15I can't argue with Crowder today, though.
03:17I've tried all season.
03:18I've tried to talk about, well, when Norman Tyler and when they find synergy on the floor
03:23and Bam and Kalel raise the ceiling and Andrew Wiggins, who had a good game yesterday,
03:28Pella Larson.
03:29Like, I've tried.
03:30Jaime Hawkins Jr.
03:31I've tried Hawk all season long because I genuinely thought this team would hit another gear.
03:36And at the most important part of the season, over the last 12 games, they've gone 2-10.
03:41They had one win against the 76ers.
03:43And they've beaten the Washington Wizards.
03:45Congratulations.
03:45A team that's actively trying to lose games.
03:48Hawk, I can no longer argue with Crowder's point.
03:52As much as it goes against what I believe, because I do think they're talented.
03:56For whatever reason, this team fell apart.
03:59At the one part of the season, you can't fall apart.
04:01Crowder asked yesterday, like, is that Spoh's fault?
04:04Like, if you think the personnel is kind of there, then it has to lay somewhere.
04:10X's and O's, Jimmy's and Joe's.
04:13We know Spoh is a championship coach if you give him dogs.
04:17He doesn't have dogs.
04:20We argued for two weeks about Andrew Wiggins being the best defensive player in the world.
04:26Best defensive wing.
04:28What are we talking about?
04:30Hey, he went 8-13 yesterday, 24 points.
04:33I wig balled out a little bit.
04:3424, 5, and 4 of 7 from 3.
04:38I'll take that any day.
04:40Yeah, but it's just like, you know, Tyler Hero yesterday had three attempts in the first half.
04:44Like, he finished the game with eight attempts.
04:47Right, like, what are you doing?
04:48How?
04:49And I'm not blaming Tyler, but how?
04:52And Norman Powell coming off the bench.
04:53I mean, this dude, since the All-Star break, has been a different guy.
04:58Bizarre.
04:59A different guy.
05:00And I don't know if, you know, the style of play.
05:02He just got worn down.
05:03It's possible it looks that way.
05:05But Norman Powell's going to finish the game 4 of 12.
05:11These were must-win games yesterday.
05:14You finally have to take a stand.
05:15Be the team that's going to take the stand.
05:17That's going to win it in the mud.
05:18Find a way to win.
05:20They put up 95 points yesterday.
05:25Wildly frustrating.
05:26And yes, deflating, deflating, whatever you want to call it.
05:30But that was bad yesterday because they stood no chance in a game, according to them, they had to win.
05:38And remember, the line was one and a half.
05:40Like, it shouldn't have been blowout city.
05:42Toronto's not that good.
05:43Like, they're good.
05:44Don't get me wrong.
05:45Toronto has some really good players.
05:47Brandon Ingram, he's a bucket.
05:51Scotty Barnes is really good.
05:53R.J. Barrett cooks the heat every single time.
05:55But, like, Jakob Pertl, 8 of 13, 17 points.
06:01Jakob Pertl's been terrible this year.
06:03And he outplayed Bam Adebayo and Kalil Ware.
06:05For whatever reason, this roster has fallen flat and it doesn't work.
06:10And I don't know why.
06:11I don't know if it's coaching.
06:13I lean another way, but I don't know.
06:15I can't say it's coaching because I know Spoh knows what he's doing.
06:19I've seen Spoh win multiple championships.
06:22But this team should be better than a 10th seed in the Eastern Conference.
06:27I know what you're saying.
06:28They don't have dogs.
06:29I'm not disagreeing with you.
06:30They don't have a superstar.
06:31They don't.
06:32So they can't compete with the Celtics and the Pistons right now and even the New York Knicks.
06:37Like, I'm not putting them in that conversation.
06:38You're telling me in a game they had to win, they lost by 26 points to the Toronto Raptors
06:46and Scotty Barnes and R.J. Barrett and Brandon Ingram?
06:48Those guys aren't superstars either.
06:50Where would Ingram, where would Barrett, where would Scotty Barnes, where, what's the other
06:54guy's name, Locky, Flocky, Birdie?
06:56Yaka Purtle.
06:57Purtle?
06:59Yaka, Flocka, Purtle.
07:00Where would they land on our roster?
07:02Starting five.
07:04A hundred?
07:05Huh!
07:06Seriously?
07:06Starting five?
07:07No, yeah, yeah.
07:08So you're talking about that talent where it's not great, and I'm with you.
07:11It's not great.
07:12R.J. Barrett's not moving needles like that, but he'd move needles on this roster.
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