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00:00The banner raising, you know, the Nuggets beat the Lakers last year,
00:04two years prior the Warriors smoked the Lakers, apparently everybody beats the Lakers on opening night.
00:08Nice, not the T-Wolves.
00:10I was gonna say besides the Wolves last night.
00:11You know, two years ago the Lakers got smoked on opening night by the Warriors,
00:16so like, it is banner night, it's an electric building, you expect the team to play well,
00:20you expect them to look good in that scenario.
00:22That's... I expected them to defend their championship,
00:24that's way better than I expected them to look.
00:26Like, they looked borderline unbeatable.
00:28So, is anybody beating them?
00:30I don't know how you make a case for that.
00:33The case would be the Celtics are complacent, or Tatum, or Jalen Brown.
00:38You mean in the playoffs, right?
00:39Yeah.
00:39Obviously they're gonna lose regular season games, and what's funny is,
00:42these great teams, you can look back in the history of it,
00:44even last year's Celtics team, but they weren't like a historic regular season team.
00:48But like, even like the 86 Celtics, like there would be...
00:52Like, they would lose to the Pistons.
00:53Not the 86 Celtics, that was a good team, but like, this version of like, you know what I mean?
00:58Like, two, three months from now, back-to-back, things aren't going well,
01:01it's like, oh, you're playing the Blazers and you lose.
01:02You're like, wait, what?
01:03Yeah.
01:03So like, there's one-off weird games like that, but in a seven-game series, I can't see it.
01:08And even, I'll give you like, people are like, well, you know, if everybody stays healthy,
01:12not even, not even.
01:14Like, if one or two of their guys are out, that might be how deep they are.
01:17Now, if it's Tatum and Brown, different story.
01:18Correct.
01:19But if it's like Porzingis and another bench guy...
01:21Porzingis doesn't play a minute this year, they win.
01:23They win the title.
01:24They win the whole thing.
01:25And it's like overkill with him.
01:26Yeah.
01:27Like, with him, it's like, he's ready to sweep.
01:29He helps.
01:29I'd rather have him than not, but if he never plays a minute again for this team,
01:35they win again, or at least they should, is how I feel about it.
01:37Yeah, I don't really see it.
01:39I mean, I guess, especially because now that this group has been together for a full year
01:44and some of the stars even longer, and then if you even include when those guys did play
01:48with Horford and then he was gone, then he was back, there's a lot of continuity there
01:52where a lot of other teams are kind of chasing it.
01:55And you saw Lillard and Giannis last year.
01:57Didn't work.
01:58Paul George and Embiid this year.
02:00Might not work.
02:01They're both hurt already.
02:02You know, Bridges and Towns and Brunson.
02:05Might not work.
02:06Didn't look good last night.
02:07Anytime you throw in, like, that's what the Celtics also did.
02:10Now, it worked for them last year.
02:11They threw some pieces together.
02:12But prior to that, maybe Kyrie, maybe Kemba, maybe Brogdon.
02:16Like, all those different combinations didn't work.