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The Atlanta Hawks are back in the playoffs, with a matchup set with the New York Knicks. Can this squad mount an improbable run as the 2021 unit did?
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00:00in the first round of the NBA playoffs hoping those toe sprains get better and last time they
00:05made it was 2021. How do you guys compare and contrast the 2026 team to 21? Completely different
00:14other than I mean there's only one player left off that team which was Onyeka although I will
00:21say that if I'm not mistaken and I know I'm not because I remember this pretty well they did have
00:27a similar shake-up mid-season remember the 21 season they fire Lloyd Pierce and who apparently
00:35Chandler Parsons hates did you guys see that podcast where he talked about hating Lloyd Pierce
00:40because interesting Lloyd they signed him I think it was that year and and they were like you know
00:46what we're not playing you like Lloyd Pierce is like I'm never playing you and literally would
00:51never play him and he was talking about on a podcast Dylan saw it I think either that or we
00:56were talking about you sent it in the you sent in the group chat and I looked at it yeah
01:01so I just
01:02thought that was a wild story but too sorry to get sidetracked uh on myself but um they shake it
01:09up so
01:09they say fire Lloyd Nate McMillan comes in and he kind of unifies the team they go on a run
01:14I think
01:15this is very similar in that aspect hear me out just from that part where you had a big shake
01:21-up to
01:22the team I mean what is the big shake-up what's a bigger shake-up than either firing your head
01:27coach
01:28or trading away the uh a starting core in a lot of ways and what was supposed to be Porzingis
01:35and
01:36what was supposed to be your star and Trey Young and and now you come in here and you have
01:41you've
01:42gotten new guys like um Kispert and and Tully was um ruthlessly taken out by that dirty but dotzy
01:51Jock Landell and CJ McCollum and these guys have have have absolutely kind of made their mark from a
02:00leadership standpoint and on the court thing and then you have the guy I you know it's really feeling
02:05like Nall was able to take over a little bit of uh on the on the floor general and in
02:11a lot of ways
02:12along with with Jalen as the guys that made this team move whereas it used to you know back in
02:17the
02:17day it was different and that team was pretty talented in 21 too oh yeah for sure and they were
02:22the a couple of similarities to this team and the 21 team is that the 21 team also like Bo
02:30talked about
02:30struggled out of the gate as well too and that ended up and that led to the firing of Lloyd
02:36Pierce and Nate McMillan taking over and you had the same thing again struggling out the gate and
02:41while your head coach didn't get fired but Bo already talked about you know you start playing
02:44getting traded in the massive roster shakeup that there was but that 21 team was deep and this
02:49this team is also deep now also obviously you're missing a piece uh like Bo mentioned in Jock Landell
02:54and it would be nice to have him for this series because I think he could do a good job
02:58on
02:58Carl Anthony Towns and or Mitchell Robinson in the paint but again I think Onyeka Kongu is
03:04much better served guarding a Carl Anthony Towns than he is a Evan Mobley or or Jared Allen so
03:11there are some similarities uh but there's also a lot of differences to this team and how that and
03:16how this team operates versus how the Trey Young led team in 21 operates because obviously a lot went
03:23through Trey Young and in 21 and you really focused on him and the Hawks offense was
03:28really you just kind of like let Trey Young go to work dribbling the dribbling the ball getting
03:32to the basket either kicking out to the corner or uh or finishing with that floater he was really
03:37good at in 21 too I have a question about Jock Landell though because he was injured on April 1st
03:42and they were gonna re-evaluate in two weeks well yeah that two week mark today's a great question
03:48today's the 14th that's a phenomenal question is there any chance we could see him this Saturday
03:53Saturday is tough I was see you you got me like you catch Mike sometimes I was great to get
03:57one
03:57answer and then you do that last caveat asking all the right questions right and you're flatfooted
04:02right exactly yeah what I will say is it'd be nice because that's that's the one thing for the Hawks
04:06that I feel like you you know you go into the playoffs at a little bit of deficit when it
04:09comes
04:10to size and you mentioned Onyeka being the only guy that's been here since that 21 season it's a good
04:15thing because he is going to have a big matchup this weekend he's one of the x factors
04:18you know for the Hawks and and you know the only guy with size it feels like you're going to
04:22have
04:22available uh to be able to go out there and do some things so he is he is a huge
04:26matchup you do
04:27hope that no matter what with the update on Jock Landell that when he does come back that he can
04:31absolutely help you in a number of ways yeah and remember one thing is like you know we talk about
04:36the depth of the team Red Velvet was the guy in game seven against Philly Red Velvet went off I'm
04:42not
04:42diminishing anything because Trey absolutely was was was dominant in that playoff run you go
04:48back and think and in in the series against Philly he averaged uh 29 and 11 and then against the
04:55Knicks he was 29 and 10 I mean he was really good in the playoffs and then the injury pops
05:01up
05:01against the the Bucs and it did hamper him um but he was really good in those playoffs but his
05:08core
05:08worked well with him too and I remember that game seven like it was yesterday Red Velvet that first half
05:14was unreal the whole game but yeah we don't win that game without Red Velvet to to Bo's point and
05:19then there was another game I think I can't remember if it was oh it was the game that we
05:25we got down
05:26big and we came back I forget what exact game it was but it was in the Philly series Lou
05:30Williams if
05:31you remember Lou Williams we did like two games in that series didn't we something like that there
05:35was there was one game we were down like 20 or something uh and like in like the third quarter
05:40something like that and we came all the way back Lou Williams was big in that game Danilo Gallinari
05:44was uh was big uh throughout the series Clint did a nice job defensively and and gobbling up boards so
05:49to to your point you had a nice core that worked well around um and Bogey Bogey played well yeah
05:55I
05:56remember I think uh in that in in one of those I hadn't thought about him in front of those
06:00series
06:00Bogey played well so and I and I actually heard this uh uh on the radio station where somebody was
06:05like
06:05that that this team is way deeper than that team dude no I think you forget that's deep we forget
06:11how good that team really was um so it just something to think about there's only one link
06:18to that team it's double oh yeah and and to your point about that team being so good so deep
06:25I mean
06:25that that team the the the bench on that team was called the bench mob and they were called the
06:29bench mob for a reason because they came in and they there was no letdown between the starters
06:33in the bench and now again you got a you got a deep team uh for for this team as
06:38well but that
06:38that team like you said you shouldn't forget how how deep that team was either well we'll see what
06:42happens this Saturday when the Hawks take on the Knicks in New York right now we got to talk about
06:47some scam that is bothering me now it's time for Allie's mic drop no it's mac drop oh mac drop
06:55on the
06:55morning shift to me there's no nothing more low than this scam well I'm sure I'll find another one but
07:05okay Allie has gone to the depths of human society to find this guy oh is this a scam off
07:11the
07:11beekeeper movie with Jason Statham no oh okay no so does anybody have the bucket list item of
07:18climbing climbing Mount Everest sure uh I mean I would do it I don't know if it's on my bucket
07:26list
07:27behind becoming a multi-millionaire and getting bored with life because that's what I that's
07:32what would make me do that well it I mean it's a popular one on the budget side of it
07:37it's like
07:37forty five thousand dollars to do it if you want to do like luxury it's like three hundred thousand
07:41dollars to do it yeah that's how much it costs because you need help that's where the scam comes
07:46in okay so if you're going to summit Mount Everest you need to pay attention to who you're hiring
07:51because you need a guide to get you up there you cannot do it by yourself and so apparently
07:57they these guides there are a few bad apples they have been taking people to the top Mount Everest
08:02letting them do their summit great bucket list check but then you have to climb down however this is
08:08where the scam comes in they take you to a nice little restaurant or tea house where you can get
08:15a
08:15little sandwich they've been poisoning allegedly some food no so that you get sick and have to
08:22helicopter out no this has been going on for decades no and it is a 20 million dollar insurance scam
08:30so what explain that I am okay everybody involved gets a cut of this insurance payout basically what
08:41happens you go you take your pictures you're all excited you climbed Mount Everest okay and then you
08:46go get your food and all of a sudden your stomach starts hurting and your guide says well you know
08:50it'll cost you zero dollars to call for help right now because it's insurance so we could we bought
08:56insurance just for this yeah and look you climbed Mount Everest yeah you got it done you did the easy
09:01route out man go ahead get you a helicopter get out of here wow and so what's also happening is
09:09like
09:09let's say it happens to four people four people in the party are feeling sick they all take the
09:14same helicopter out but all of a sudden four and helicopter rides are on paper yes so they're yes
09:20upping the amount yep of helicopter rides yeah and then the hospital bills are huge too it's the
09:28the four in the helicopter is like when you go to the doctor and you go for you know something
09:32like
09:33your knee and then you're just like hey well I'm here let me ask you about this elbow nope don't
09:36do
09:37that boom well then you done made two trips the doctor don't do that so does the person that gets
09:42airlifted out make anything off of it no no so it doesn't technically cost them anything because
09:47it's an insurance claim yeah that's unbelievable no they're $20 copay I guess however it does rip
09:53away the fact like your chance to climb down Mount Everest because you know that's actually the more
09:58difficult part is climbing down than getting up I've got it how long do you have to do this as
10:03a
10:04guide before you can be like I can retire now because I don't know I mean I don't know how
10:09many people I have to cut each insurance claim between but it's a lot and it took them how long
10:13did the insurance companies when I say them well catch on to this I mean I'm sure they caught on
10:18early but it's the investigations are going on at least seven years in Nepal Nepal that's what I
10:24thought I wonder what they're putting in the food are they putting like eye drops in them
10:28I've read something about wedding pressures yeah something about baking soda being put on your
10:33sandwich oh something like that yeah this is some dirty pool man or even even just using psychology
10:39not necessarily not everyone gets poisoned they try it first to be like hey look it's a long way down
10:45you you really want to climb all the way down you want to take a helicopter see I was when
10:49you when
10:50you set this up I thought like I just knew that they took you to the the the sandwich shop
10:55and they're
10:56like by the way if you read the fine print you want to be paid for the way up it's
11:00another 25 grand
11:01we're actually meeting our next our next climbers we're actually meeting them here because we don't
11:05want to go all right I just thought there was something like that it was almost like a timeshare
11:09where you're like they get you on vacation they get you in a room and like now you've got to
11:13you
11:14have to buy or you can't get out I can't help but start thinking about my own past and wondering
11:19if I've ever been scammed and didn't know it I'm wondering if you know of someone who has been like
11:24I climbed Mount Everest and they never tell you like about the yeah descent yeah I don't know
11:29anyone to climb Mount Everest do you I don't I simulated Mount Everest I did 29029 yeah okay so
11:36I climbed the elevation of Everest it's like a ski resort in the summer we'll let people climb the
11:42mountain as many times as it takes are you laughing at this no because I would love for you to
11:46try it
11:47it just it was just funny when you went and said ski resort it is a ski resort you know
11:51what I mean
11:52Ali was like hold up now she didn't like to look on my face not too much on my 2902
11:57no no no 29029 I'm telling you I've run three marathons 29029 was the hardest thing I've ever done
12:03by the way can I ask you a question if you think that I'm backing down from it it's like
12:07the Max
12:08Crosby thing you can get the smoke I might fail but I will try did did you did you like
12:14take the
12:14little uh the little bucket thing down yeah so you don't that's the only reason I giggled because I was
12:20just picturing like just you going up like 7,000 gondola ride down up seven that's exactly what you
12:26do why is that funny I don't know I'm not I'm not Ali Mac I don't want no smoke I'm
12:32just laughing
12:33it was funny because for once I'm not in the center of a beef in this room and I feel
12:39really good about
12:39it simulated I'm gonna come Dylan this might be that one time I had to come in there and sit
12:44with you for a few minutes that's fine you're welcome back here brother I'm not saying it wasn't
12:49hard never left my mouth this is one of my most proud accomplishments ever that you are laughing
12:54in the face of sorry man it was a funny visual the gondola ride coming up next on the morning
13:00shift
13:00uh it'll be me and Dylan hosting ding ding round two y'all two handle this I'm gonna go
13:06Conti I'm out disrespect the disrespect see what you did Mikey that red alley Mac off man what are
13:13you doing bro all right well if you're going to summit Everest just double check who's going to be
13:19helping you up the
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