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Draftkings Network. This is what I was just greeted by Stugat's with as he eased into his chair. I got this rat-a-tat-tat of the Calisthenics that he does before we start. I actually wrote it all down.

You did, huh?

In a sing-song voice, he said, Chief schedule is easy peasy. It is. The rest of the way. Then he asks me, Did you know that JJ Watt and Brian Cushing are brothers-in-law? Do you think they do the national anthem before Thanksgiving dinner?

They have to, right? I mean, they.

Have to. Yeah, they just break each other's noses and then start singing either the national anthem or the pledge of allegiance, one or the other. But this was my favorite part. I'm quoting directly here.

All right. I'm fat.

Not me, him. Right. Though me as well. I'm quoting him saying I'm fat.

You said it, not me.

You.

Did say it. I said I was fat.

That's.

What I said. But you're saying you're fat, and I wasn't even thinking that you're fat.

I know, but you didn't say I'm fat. You said of yourself, I'm fat. But this is what you.

Followed it with. You said, not me, but you are. I don't know where we are with this, but...

You said the words that you were fat, but then what you followed with was even better.

Yeah, I'm not certain that's the way it went down.

He would have said the words I'm fat.

That's what he said.

That's correct. But you said the words I'm fat.

I washolding him. Now I'm saying the words I'm fat. That's right. We're all saying I'm fat, but not meaning that I'm fat, even though I am indeed fat.

I think we all mean I'm fat, though.

While saying- I mean it.

Yeah.

But what came afterwards was this, yet another insincere apology from Stugatz. Put it on the poll, please, JuJu at Levitard show. Does Stugatz lead the world in insincere apologies? He says, Apologies if it smells in here during the show. I had a Dairy Queen blizzard.

Oh, no.

I did. To which my response was, This morning?

Last night, man. I'm telling you, my stomach, it is... I'm not feeling well, Dan. My daughters are home from school. We're watching the game last night. They wanted blizzards. I said, I announced a couple of weeks ago, my days of dancing with ice cream are done. Carvel, done. But a blizzard, I cannot resist. I cannot resist. What did you got? Oreo? I want Oreo and Reece's peanut butter cup. Good choice. Yeah, it was good.

Did you hold it upside down?

I did not, no. But apologies in advance, everyone here.

I don't hold it upside down. Did you get it delivered? Because that could be a.

Dangerous game. Delivered, yes. Yeah.

It could have melted and then you tip it and.

It pours out. It did melt. I justI ate it. I went right through it.

Put it on the pole, please. Dairy Queen, Lizard. Can you resist it? And also, which of these flavors do you go with on Dairy Queen, Lizard? You have to choose from these three: Reese's PCs, Oreo, or Heathbar, because Heathbar was my weakness a million years ago. The Dairy Queen, Blizzard, is the most magical of the ice creams, is it not? Yes. A cold stone is pretty close. I'd put Cold Stone in the category, but...

I go Cold Stone over Dairy Queen.

Is Cold Stone still doing the show when you walk in? Yeah. They do that whole thing?

Follow me.

To the stone. Yeah, don't like it. Just give me the ice cream.

You don't like your icecream, massed.

With something. Spare me the entertainment.

-mash my ice cream with.

A brownie. I mean, just put ice cream in a cup and give it to me, please.

It really delays the process, too. The line's always long, and it's like, Can we just.

Get to it? They're doing seven folds with this thing. It's like three is fine.

They also use the things almost like squeegee that you scrape your windshield with. Just use a spoon, man.

It's almost like they're cocking a hole.

Put it on C-A-L-K.

Oh, no, C-A-U-L-K.

That's a fine.

You never cocked a hole?

Put it on the pole, please, JuJu, at Levitard show. Do you need the whole Cirque du Soleil act with your Cold Stone ice cream? Now, Lucy is here today, and when I initially saw her, I thought was Jessica. What is the costume that you're wearing today? I am paying off a punishment. I am the Exer Swift, so the Exer Cist plus Taylor Swift. This is pretty miserable. I won't say I'm having a good time. The wig is itchy. The fake vomit keeps falling off. I don't like it. I'm not having fun, but that's why they call it a punishment. You are adhering. You have been a model employee. You've done more punishments, I think, than anybody else here this year, even though you're not losing more than everyone else here.

I did Rocky last week.

Well, you all won this week.

You all- You look.

Like ET. After saying you were fat, you did say you were going to juju ruled in Billy's absence that you have to do an.

Hour of.

Shirtless content this week. So we've got two days remaining for you to do the shirtless content this week based on Deion Dawkins. This week, I mean- That's what you said you were doing. The Bill's Lyman who came into the game last week, shirtless, or came into the stadium last week through the metal detector.

After shirtless. But you said I'm fat.

You said you were going to do this this week, and JuJu ruled that you were going to do it this week, and it's one hour that you have to do of shirtless content.

I say a lot of things, Dan. How about we do it after Thanksgiving?

How about that? You think you're going to be in better shape.

After Thanksgiving? Yeah, I might. There's a good chance. I'm certainly not in good shape this week. I had a blizzard last night.

Yeah, but you said last week you needed six days to do ab exercises. You said you were going to do that all week, and you took a before picture. I did. You did a before picture in the Rocky gear with the idea that you would this week then do the shirtless picture. I need you-.

I need more time, Dan.

I mean, Stugach, you still owe a poem from four years ago. The Clevelander stage you were supposed to do it on no longer exists.

How about I do the poem this week and I do the shirtless hour in a couple of weeks?

This isn't a negotiation. You said you were going to do this.

All right, I guess I'll do it. I mean, shirtless hour coming up tomorrow.

I don't think I want to wait till tomorrow because you're.

Going to- What do you mean? You said till the end of the week. Tomorrow is the end.

Of the week. But you're going to hope we forget Stugart. It's one of your chief styles of how it is that you do things.

Man, Billy- Not today, Dave. I had a Dairy Queen.

I don't know what your greatest frustration is with Stugart, but very high on the list has to be the perpetual kicking of things down the road. Very few people I've ever met in my existence love to say, And I'll do this in a day, until things start clogging up at the end of the week. Where does that rank in terms of your weekly frustrations with Stugat.

We do have busier last days of the week typically because things have gotten pushed back later in the week. Look, I feel somewhat responsible for this because I'm trying to rule here with an iron fist, so we're going to have to start adhering to some rules here. Last week, there was accusations of shenanigans. There's been some games being played with the Golden Helmet of Life. I was actually going to do this and make this announcement because I have an announcement to make here on behalf officially as a Commissioner of The Grid of Death. I was going to do this because I have to do a punishment dressed as John Skipper, and I was going to do it in my costume as John Skipper because I feel like then you guys would have taken it more seriously. However, the problem is Skipp sometimes just appears here, so I'm very skittish to pay off this punishment because I don't want to be dressed as him the day that he comes here. The last time I was going to dress like him, he actually did show up that day. I'm like, Thank goodness I didn't do it that day.

We're going to have to get a schedule of when he's going to be here so I can do this when he's not here because it's going to be such a good costume, there's going to be confusion. However, last week there were some shenans and accusations about Tony pulling out the Golden Helmet of Life and then a swap that was pulled directly after. Now, it's come to my attention that Tony has done this trick multiple times where every week he's been pulling out the Golden Helmet of Life, and we have multiple Golden Helmets of Life that are being pulled at the same time. So this is what I'm thinking is the only fair and just thing to do. There will be no more Golden Helmet of Life in play the rest of the season. I swapped with him, so I'm going to have it this time for the next three weeks. And after that, we're going to make sure that that is not in play to avoid any shenanragons moving forward. Now, to address the issue at hand, Stugass, if you said you're going to do it and you were let off the hook, you're going to have to do an hour this week.

It is even a compromise. It's not even a full show. If you said you'll do an hour, do an hour.

All right, tomorrow.

Why don't you just do.

It today? I don't want to do it today. I had DQ last night. I mean, come on.

What are you going to have tonight?

I have no idea.

This is what I'm thinking. Then you're going to have to do in a live hour tomorrow if you're doing it tomorrow. Why? Because if we're doing it, this is the compromise. You do it tomorrow, it's a live hour tomorrow. If not, you could do it one of the hours today that's not live on YouTube or the live hour tomorrow.

You're giving me a choice of a non-live hour today as opposed to a live hour tomorrow?

It all goes on YouTube.

It.

All will end up on YouTube.

I'll get back to you on this.

All right. Well, you have until the end of the local hour today to decide.

I'll let you know tomorrow, all right?

That's not the end of the local hour today. You have until the end of the.

Local hour. Tomorrow, yeah.

We'll circle back then. Let me explain to you guys what it is that happened to me last night during that Chief's Eagles game, because I got called away, as has been happening various times recently with family stuff. And so the last I had checked in on Chief's Eagles and the three bets I made on Chief's Eagles, the Chiefs were up 17-7 at the half. Here are the three bets that I have in play with the Chiefs and Eagles game. I've got the Chiefs minus two and a half because if they're ever getting points or under three points, I'm betting them even though they have scored fewer second half points than any team in the League, they're averaging 5.2 points per second half. They're the second highest scoring team in the first half. They are dead last in the second half. They have not scored a touchdown since before Halloween in the second half. October 22nd is when they last scored a touchdown. I've got over 45 and a half. Keep in mind, it's 17-7 at the half when I check out of this game. But this was the killer. When I checked back in on when I opened my iPad to where I had left it, which was 17-7, Itried to open it, and this is how I find out that I didn't cash my 18 and a half over yards on yardage for Marques Valdez-Scantling.

Mbs. On one play, sabotages all of the bets, sabotages all of them by making the one mistake that he can't make because his entire career is just getting open for Rogers and Mahomes there on that play. It's the only thing he does. There's nothing else in his game. The game is run 50 yards down the field and make sure one of the best quarterbacks ever hits me in stride. That's all there is. There's nothing else. Do you realize that they put it at 18 and a half because he's not going to have two catches for 12 yards? The average is either going to be.

Zero or it's going to be 50. He's got one shot.

It's a very frustrating feeling to open your iPad and all you've got is the ball going through the hands of Valdez Scantley.

Did you take the over knowing the weather conditions at Kansas City?

I just always take the over with Kansas City. It hasn't worked out this year. They don't cover very often either as an added bonus over the last couple of years. But their defense is obviously very good, Stugat, and their offense isn't. Their wide receivers aren't any good.

No, they're not. But they won a Super Bowl last year with basically the same wide receivers.

Different offensive coordinator. Yeah.

I get that argument. The different OC is a good one, although Matt Nage came from there before, so they're keeping things pretty uniform. But they're worse than last year. They lost JuJu, Smithshooser, who I personally don't rate, but looking at this crop of receivers does present an upgrade. They brought new receivers into the fold. They're not good. Everybody that was there last year is worse. Valdes Scantling has, I think, six of those types of drops this year. Don't let me try it. I don't think in 2021 I can get away with Michael Irvine radio show in Prash.

No, probably not. Stugats.

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This is the Dan.

Levator Show with.

The Stook Gats. I got a number for you.

How about this? I hadn't seen this until this morning. You want to guess what percentage of passes Chiefs' receivers drop? It's a nine %.

Really? That's too high. It's far.

Too.

High. It's easy. Yeah. Kelsey had a couple last night, too.

He did. He had a fumble. I mean, I got a message for Travis, Kelsey, Dan, because he's a friend of mine. And I am telling you right now, he doesn't know this is going to happen, but it's about to happen. They lose more games, okay? He has a drop. He has a big fumble in that game last night. Big turnover, okay?

Yeah, two turnovers in the Red Zone for one of the best Red Zone teams we've ever seen as long as Andy Reed's been there.

Yes, and Chiefs fans are going to start doubting Travis, Kelsey, Dan. If they lose a couple of more games, they're going to start to say that Travis, Kelsey is not as focused as he's been in years past. He is more focused on his relationship with Taylor Swift. He is more focused on doing his podcast with Jason, Kelsey. I'll get to him in just a second because that's a complete disaster. And he is more.

Focused-.

What's a complete- They're covering the centers on the Telecast. They've never covered a center like this, ever. They're showing highlights of Jason, Kelsey, pulling and making blocks. And if I'm another center, I'm sitting at home saying, Hey, I do that every single Sunday, and no one highlights it from me. What are you guys doing? So back to Travis for a second, okay? Dan, I'm telling you, it's coming. Chief's fans are going to come down on him on sports radio, I am telling you right now because he's not as focused as he's been in years past. Because he's not focused and he's one of the leaders of the team, the captains of the team, everyone's going to criticize him and say, Where's your focus? You've lost your focus, and they're going to start getting mad at Travis, Kelsey. He doesn't see it coming. He's new to the game. I'm telling him right now.

It's going to come. Wait, are you doing it, though?

I'm not doing it. He's new to.

The game. Did you think Travis, Kelsey was Cullibat last season? Like he wasn't going out anywhere or.

Doing anything? This is different, Billy. You got families meeting in Suites, even though the Swift did show up last night. You have Taylor there, then she's not there. There are four and Owen, Taylor's there. They're below 500, which.

Is not there. You think her friends have passed haven't been to his games?

I don't understand. No, no, no. His focus is... He's not focused on football. He is shooting a million commercials, okay? This is not me. This is his fans.

This is great from Stugato.

He's also a dear friend, I think you said.

He's a good friend. He's not saying it. He's not saying it. No, he's just saying it's coming. He's saying it.

It's just a warning to Travis, my friend, it's coming. Unless you get your act together and you start focusing on football again, that's it. That's all I'm saying.

I don't care. You're not even saying it. You're a Hall of Famer.

In my book. It doesn't matter. You're one of the great tight ends to ever play football in my books. It doesn't matter.

I thought I had seen all your tricks.

But if you don't think the Chief fans are going to turn on you, you have another thing coming. That's all I'm saying.

Why don't you just tell him if you're his friend?

I mean, listen, maybe I'll shoot him a text later on and warn him and tell him what's about to happen. We'll see if he changes his ways. But start focusing on football.

We're.

Not.

Worthy.

Seriously. Is it if you think X, you have another thing coming or another think coming? What is the saying? Is it thing?

Another thing coming? Yeah.

Why would it be think? Because if you think X, you have another think coming. Wow, I've always thought thing. I'm asking. I don't know which it is. I've always said thing as well. I'm asking.

I subscribe to Judas priest.

Yeah.

Can you look it up for me?

Well, no, it's a top Google thing. This is a real thing that it's a debate. Is it another think or another thing? But also second result is you've got another thing coming by Judas priest.

Oh, yes. Hey, Dan, listen, this is not just limited to Chiefs fans. It's also like I could imagine Patrick McCombs whispering right now to somebody. Okay, Kelsey, not focus. Not nearly as focus as he's been in years past. That's a bad thing to do. It's a bad example to set as a leader and captain of that football team. It's coming. I'm telling.

You right now. This may actually seem like a legitimate tomato tomato thing in which the ocean that separates us from the United Kingdom is the difference. Another think coming seems to be more popular in the UK, whereas we don't use think as a noun often here in the United States. So it's pretty universally here in the US, another thing coming, which is weird because I believe Rob Halford is not American.

When you think of proper English, don't you believe that in the UK they'll get it right more often than we will? No. You don't don't put it on the Paul, JuJu, at Levitard show. When it comes to proper English, who does it better? The English or Americans?

Now make sense of this. Rob Halford's from the UK.

Dan, imagine your creed, Humphrey. Do you know who that is? No. The chief center. Imagine you're him and you're pulling the same way Jason, Kelsey is pulling. You're making the same blocks Kelsie is making, and Troy Akeman is not singing your praises on the telecast.

I think he's got another year.

Yeah. He looks great. They're trying to drag him back for another year. They won't play anymore. His wife said enough.

Well, Creed Humphrey almost allowed someone to intercept the pass between his legs.

That was wild. Classic Creed.

Let's talk about that one for a second, because I had never seen that before last night, and this is a thing that happened, I couldn't believe that it happened, and it almost happened successfully, Stugart. Are you done with Jason, Kelsey, and Travis, Kelsey? Or did you have any more on that bone? Are you done? Have you said everything? Because you said you had a message for everybody involved with the Kelsies. I thought you were going to go after Donna, who doesn't actually need a police escort. Come on, knock it off, Donna. Donna Kelsies wandering around the stadium with a police escort.

You have a message for.

A Kelsie? You got me in the mood there with all your messages for.

The Kelsies. I'm concerned about him. I mean, I.

Love Travis. But do you have anything else for Jason? Or are you just generally done?

No, listen, it's not Jason's fault. He created a great podcast, the number one podcast in America right now. Everyone is infatuated with his family. My wife's going, Oh, I want Jason to win. He's never beaten Travis before. I'm like, What? You care about a center? You care about a football player? What about Creed Humphrey? Enough is enough.

Creed Humphrey was number one ranked center last year.

By the way.

No.

Attention, I thought. I'm sorry I didn't know the name of Creed Humphrey. That's the point. That was a good point that you made. Thank you.

I saw that Donna was doing the thing for a chicken fast-food joint where she was working at a drive-through, and she had a shirt half green and half red. Drive-through workers have to hate that, right? This publicity stunt, it's so demeaning. It's so like, Oh, wow, look, here I am. I'm the common man working at Walmart. What can I get you? Working at a drive-through. Oh, my gosh, this is so much fun. I wish I was a cashier at Walmart every day.

Famous people, like cosplaying is just the lower class is the most annoying thing in the world. I've seen so many influencers at Walmart, like scanning items, being like, This is so much fun. Shut up. You got paid millions of dollars to be here. I hate it.

I'm Tyrake Hill in disguise in Germany. Oh, hello, everyone.

A terrible disguise, I might add.

It works, though. It always works.

For him somehow. I mean, it did work, but it's because he looks so comically cartoonishly ridiculous.

And has terrible fake voices, too. Why would Tyrake.

Hill be dressed that way? In Germany, it doesn't even make any sense. But getting back to what you were saying about what would have been the most amazing play in football history if it had been executed properly.

We got to paint the picture for the audience.

Patrick Mohomes is trying to spike the football. He's in a hurry. He wants a time-out, and he's going to spike the football. Jaylen Carter of the Philadelphia Eagles times this perfectly so that he goes straight through the legs of the center whose name I still can't remember, even though Stugats just mentioned it. Wait, Humphrey. And got the ball. The ball was thrown and hit him in the hand because he timed it perfectly, which cannot be easy. Again, between the legs of the beloved Creed, Humphrey, and the ball bounced up and was almost an interception.

Would have been the ESP play of the year if he catches it.

It was so smart.

It would have been a turning point in the history of football, correct?

Spikes would forever take a step back, then spike it forever.

Greg Cianu got run out of football because he kept in these situations sending people at the knees. Still coaching Rutgers. Well, professional.

Football is his...

He'll always be there, Mike. Professional football and good college football. He got run off to the fringes of Rutgers. You can make the argument, Rutgers is the worst program in the last 100 years. Ball-eligible Rutgers.

Yeah. He's got another run in him. And we.

Have him to thank for the whole Connor Stallion thing.

He's got another run.

It would have changed. Put it on the pole, please, JuJu. If J. L. And Carter had made that interception, would football in America have been changed forever?

I've watched it about two dozen times.

It's great.

I'm honestly mad that he didn't make the play. I'm like, I can't- And you had the Chiefs. I can't criticize MBS for not catching a ball that hit him right in the hands.

A little overthrown if we're going to be critical. What, the spike?

Is it going... You saying if we're going to be critical, you should have heard Chris Cody saying if you're the center, if you're Humphries, you got to close your knees. I mean, you do.

I mean, you have one job there. Because you got to expect that? You got to expect the play.

That would have changed a marriage. Just a little, close.

It up.

Expect the unexpected, Dan.

Well, we've also been talking about Jaden Carter and his form and like, poor form. You got to go in there with the arms closed. So when he spikes it between your arms, it hits your fore arms, and then it just lands on them and then you scoop it up. That's what's happening today around America, around the country, really, is everybody's figuring out, This is doable and this is how it should have.

Been done. It was the real drop last night.

We just had a picture on the screen of his arms, like he's cut under the ball.

That's after.

The ball and.

Bounced in the air. You got to start in that position.

If he starts there, bounces right into his face mass, and he's good to go.

God, what a hilarious review that would have been.

John Perry, talk to us about this. I bet you they would have been talking about the center then.

I had no goddamn clue, guys.

I bet you they wouldn't have been in any complete- I bet you they would have been in any.

Complete- That's what I'm talking about. Don Levitard. I don't want to be too extreme on this, but he failed America.

Stugats. Okay, very good.

This is the Don Lebertard show with the Stugats.

Jimmy Butler tried to bring back the Skyhook last night, Stugatz. He yelled, Skyhook, as he was taking the Skyhook. Correct? He was yelling the words, Skyhook. Pat Riley, Eric Spolster said after the game that Pat Riley is very happy about this because he's been trying to bring back the Skyhook as a, it's the most unstoppable. I'll make the argument, could we not that in basketball, the Skyhook was the most unstoppable play in the history of the sport?

Yes. In fact, I think it was.

Was and is, right? Yes. Remains that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Skyhook was not something that other people could block. So, Jimmy Butler does that last night. Duncan Robinson is shooting out of his mind, out of his mind, Stugart, and I don't know if this is sample size theater or market improvement, because when you look at the numbers on what Duncan Robinson is doing, they have been offensively, percentage-wise, overwhelming. Like, he is shooting better than anyone in the league shoot.

Bam, too, as well, seems to have taken a step. I mean, like you said, small sample. But if these two both keep doing what they're doing, I mean, that's definitely an improvement.

I would ask Mike as it relates to Bam. Is Bam having the season you finally wanted him to have?

Let me see. Let me look at the stats from last night. Four of 12, over four from three. I'm sorry, that's Victor won, but I'll find it.

If I could, though, I should point out to people, and this doesn't make Darryl Moray correct, but Darryl Maury has said, and I can't dispute it very much, that you know what a player is after three years, that there aren't other steps to be taken in basketball after three years, that what you've seen from Bam and what you've seen from Duncan is the way they do the evaluations in that sport, what they are. That there's not a whole lot of... You don't have Bam all of a sudden becoming someone who improves his range and stuff, but it does look that way against very bad teams so far this season, those two players look better than they have looked.

It just seems like he's looking to score now, where in the past it was just like some games, you'd see it in them. But now it's just like, I'm going to get my 20 this game.

I've also thought a lot about what Darryl Moray said because Darryl Moray, I think we all respect him as a basketball fan and his numbers tell him things pretty definitively. But also, how does the data change when you have an organization like the Miami Heat that, I mean, over the last few years, it's proven that they can make marked improvements on players.

But in the first three years, what hasn't been proven, although, Jimmy Butler would be... He's a better player now.

Than- He's taking more threes now. What do you feel.

About that? Well, I don't love him taking threes in general. I mean.

It's going to be... He's going to need to be more effective from the.

Outside as he ages. But that's a great point, Dan. What do you do with that? Because Butler got better midway through his career. I mean, a lot better.

Yeah, he was always.

Very.

Good. But not a guy who could lead a team to the NBA Finals two times in.

Four years. That year with Minnesota, in which they had injuries, he was a pretty special player there. I hear you. The end result is he's carrying teams and bending over scores tables, going toe to toe with LeBron in one of the greatest Finals performances we've ever seen. Yeah, clearly at that age, that's the best basketball he's ever played. But also it would thumb your nose at the fact that maybe that was always in him.

I'm just looking, Stugat, at the sample size of everyone who's ever played the sport. And if a guy who is invested in measuring what athletes are going to be tells me that the way they generally do it with very few outliers is, we know within three years what a player is, what his ceiling is. I'm going to say that with very few exceptions, I'm going to believe that person. But Duncan Robinson, Bam Out of Bio, and Jimmy Butler can disprove that theory if I give them 82 games to do it. I'm not going to do it the first month of the season.

So I'm trying to figure out why Duncan and Bam are making these leaps. I guess the best thing I can come up with, when we're watching Duncan, Robinson, and Bam, Out of Bio over the last few years, the frustrations that we have with them is mental. It's an approach. This isn't exactly Jaylen Brown not being able to dribble with his left. Like, I can't. Look, I'm trying to correct that. There are mental aspects to the game that jump off the screen. Bam, be more aggressive. We've been screaming at it on our.

Television for years. Because you're watching someone whose strength you know to be in athleticism, you know to be, even though he's undersized for what it is that he's doing, you know... It's rare in that sports, Dugald, when you're watching someone like Bam, and he's more of an athlete than most of the people he's playing against. You can just see it. It is rare in that sport. I think people have this with Anthony Davis, some too, but you don't get a lot of what Bam is getting where people are watching and they're like, Yeah, you're an all-star. But how about this part about you're stronger than everybody and just back somebody in or just take it and do what he did earlier this week, where he's just dunking on somebody, where he's just putting a shoulder into somebody and then dunking on them because you can't do anything about it because he's too strong?

I don't want to be a party pooper, but man, this heat schedule over the.

Last- Yeah, they're easy games.

But there's something to be said for beating these teams, right? But they are getting fat off of some flat tracks here.

They are. With Bam, though, for Mike, it's just the consistency. It seems like every night he's bringing it. Like last year or the first few seasons with Bam, he would have big night, big night, big night and a clunker. It seems like every night's a.

Big night now. We should give them their flowers while they're doing this at a high level right now, because there were times during the regular season where Bam certainly wasn't doing it. In Duncan Robinson, it's been a couple of seasons. I mean, quite frankly, we've never seen this out of Duncan Robinson. But I do think I want to see it in the playoffs as an accurate take here.

I'm also curious whether Duncan Robinson might feel some freedom from the thing that was testing and challenging his mental toughness. Which is, well, Struess and Vincent aren't here anymore to take all of the minutes because they're shooting from everywhere on the court without fear. It is more his than it has been. He's not being chased down by other people who are on small contracts trying to make money.

I mean, he would go in in years past and would have to hit one or two of his first three shots. If not, they would take him out. Now he has a longer leash. You're right. I mean, it frees his mind up.

A bit. But he's also like Caleb last year was way ahead of him on the DevChart, played 21 minutes to Duncan's 30 last night. He's also just playing well.

Correct. Let me show you some I love.

High mayocas.

He's been great. I love him. Sort of the heat.

I mean, what.

A fit. They're playing him.

All throughout the fourth quarter. He's big. He's got the old man game already because in part, he is an old man. He came in the league fully formed. He looks like a.

10-year vet.

Dude, he is such a great fit. A big point-of-attack defender that can switch off. Did you see what he did to LeBron? That's one of the few, I guess, you can categorize that as a good win during this stretch. What he did to LeBron was really impressive. I know he's older, but he just strolled into the league. To have that weapon there, it's just such a culture fit.

I hate to say it, culture. Well, they trust him early, and they usually don't. They're trusting him late in games for fourth quarters the way that they started to trust Caleb Martin, but it took him three years to trust. How long did it take them to trust Caleb Martin that way in fourth quarters, and that competition ends up making all of them a little bit better. But their coach, just so that you know, okay, so we're clear on this. Eric Spolster is crazy. Just so that you know, he keeps it hidden and you don't see his fangs that often. But what gurgles beneath him is very much, I'm not here for these players to like me. My job is to make them better. And that can't be so if they're always liking me. I want to play for you, Stugart, so I want you to look at the body language on Spohir before Nets game the other day. When a reporter is asking him about the difficulties that the reporter is presuming the Nets obviously show the difficulties against the Miami Heat, that he is not willing to accept the the reporter's premise that the Nets bother the Heat.

You mentioned their.

Injuries, and obviously, your injuries are well documented.

I'm curious, regardless.

Of what.

Lineups are out there, what have they done.

That have caused you guys difficulties in the last several games? I'm not going to concede that.

This is just competition. We got to figure it out. Whether they think they've handled this easily or whatever, I don't know where that's coming from, but.

We'll.

Just….

They're a good team. You have to respect that.

They play fast, they shoot a lot of threes. They're a very good driving team. Now we do some things that we think we do very well also.

Now we'll.

Just figure out who can be the better team tonight.

All right.

Thank you.

Nobody gets up faster after a press conference.

He was so confused by.

The question. For those just listening on audio, he literally had to shake that.

Question off. Yes, I want to play it again, and I want the video team to freeze him at the moment of maximum discomfort inside of his own skin when the skeleton wants to come out and eat the reporter. The inside of his body is trying to get out and suppose, skin is trying to keep it down because he's so irritated with the idea of somebody gives you trouble.

Their.

Injuries and obviously, your injuries are.

Well.

Documented.

I'm curious.

Regardless of.

What lineups are out there, what have they done that have.

Caused you guys difficulties in the last several games? I'm not going to concede that.

I mean, this is the- Stephen A. Stephen A. Stephen A. Stephen A. Stephen A. Stephen A. Stephen A. Stephen A. Stephen A. Stephen A. I mean, this is the beginning of the shoulders of a breakdown. It's what it is.

In slow motion, it looks like that thing when you want to do a line with someone and they do the arms. Do a what? Like the line. Huh?

The shoulders of a breakdance. Yeah, you got it.

There's also a moment where Spoh realizes he's disrespected the Nets and he needs to.

Compliment them. All of the words at the end, all of the words about they're a good team, and we have to respect that, all of those words were just because he realizes that his skeleton under his skin gave an obvious tell that he was just bothered by the suggestion that anyone would bother the heat.

He's my favorite person in that organization, and he honestly has more of a reason to be more frustrated than anybody, considering what they talk to him about in off seasons, all these pursuit of superstars, and he just keeps making finals, and he keeps developing players into $15 million a year players. That guy is awesome.

I mean, do you realize how lucky this franchise is to just have Riley, Stan Van Gundy, and Spoh?

They're the basketball stealers. They've had three coaches. No disrespect to Kevin Lockerbie.

He still looks great. He still just looks fantastic. The hair is looking good. It's just.

He's perfect. That's a great haircut for him.

Put it on the pole, please, JuJu. Can you say they've only had three coaches? No disrespect to Kevin Lockery. Lock. Who's the fourth of those coaches?

He's a teeny, tiny gentry.