23 Burst results for "Tony Jones"
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The Arizona AG's Office Is Playing Games
"The Arizona Tony Jones office is playing games. And I want to ask why. Why are they doing this? Why don't they just follow up with this information? Well, I think I know the answer. And that is that burn of which was given multiple opportunities. Not only to review this evidence, but to see 2000 mules. I know for a fact that he was offered the opportunity to see the movie on more than one occasion and he essentially refused. He didn't want to see the movie. Now let's think about if you're the chief law enforcement official, wouldn't you want to just see the movie make up your own mind decide if it's credible decide if it requires any follow-up? No. Bernabeu made a political calculation that he didn't really want to get into this issue. Maybe he thought he would be accused of election denialism. Maybe he didn't want to be lumped with people that he thought not me, but others who he thought were extreme or thought were kooks. Who knows? Bottom line of it is he decided to pass on this issue. And I believe this cost him the nomination for the Senate. He could have ridden this issue all the way to the Senate. He would be in the U.S. Senate after a November or actually after January when he would take office. Instead, he's a has been. He's on his way out. He's, I guess, gonna go into the private sector or maybe do some law enforcement consulting. Who knows what? So the guy is a loser.
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"We're back. Tony, do you have one regarding the team that you cover in Salt Lake City? Do I have one regarding the team that I cover and saw, like, say, I have one regarding Phoenix, definitely. Do I have probably my bold prediction for the Utah Jazz is that they're going to be a significantly better playoff team this year than they were a regular season team. And the reason why I say that is because Mike Connolly plays 28 minutes per night during a regular season. He's going to play 38 minutes per night in the postseason. And when the jazz had my colleague on the floor, they are just an elite level basketball team. Really go play bare place 33 minutes a night in the regular season. He's going to play 40 minutes per night in the postseason. And I think that there is going and I think that the jazz core knows that this is it if they don't get a if they don't get a deep playoff run done this season, this team is going to look different next season. In some level. So my prediction is not I'm not predicting that they're going to actually make that run, but I think they are going to be a much better postseason team than they have been a regular season team this year. So this is going to be fun because one of my bold predictions is that the jazz losing the first round again. And I don't even know that I disagree with you that they're going to be a better team in the postseason. I just really worry about them running into a Denver team with yo kitchen Murray. In the four, 5 matchup. And I think that that presents them with significant problems in the postseason. Having to deal with nuclear jokic, given how good Nikola Jokić has proven to be in the playoffs at this point. That four, 5 series is going to be just an absolute bear. I think that regardless of who they play, if it's Dallas, maybe they're in a little bit better of a position to deal with Dallas, but I mean, I wouldn't want to play Luca Dončić in a first round series if I was Utah either. Especially the way that Luca is coming on over the course of the last month and a half or so. Where he's been, frankly, we talk about there are probably like 7 or 8 top 5 players in the NBA right now. Is this changing of the guard? At the top of the league occurs. He's one of them. Since he got into shape to start the year and since he's adjusted to this new scheme with Jason Kidd, he's one of them that is undeniably in the mix for being a top 5 player in the league. So I wouldn't want to deal with him. I still just have so many worries about Utah's perimeter defensive game. And it was staggering to me that they decided not to go out at the deadline. And try to address that and try to get Royce O'Neal some help. Because Royce O'Neal needs help on the perimeter, like royces are really great defender..
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"So ma Bo prediction is that yo kitch wins his second consecutive MVP. I think he'd be a worthy winner. I think that this Denver team without Jamal Murray and Michael Porter junior is genuinely one of the three worst teams in the west. And would be right in the mix for the number one overall pick along with Houston. So I completely agree with you that he's worthy. Do you have an MVP vote this year? I had one last year. So yeah, I was going to say, I don't know if you'll have one this year, will you? I don't know. I don't think I'll have one issue because it rotates in my market. So my market will have the vote this year. So in the case of jokic, I just worry that there are going to be too many MVP voters that don't want to win. Don't want to have him win a second MVP when his team is in 6th when there's still unfortunately this narrative out there that he's not one of the 5 best players in the league that is just fucking crazy and stupid and all of that. I have significant worries that there's going to be voter fatigue. He'd be a worthy winner though. He'd undeniably be a worthy winner. I would love for that to be accurate. I would absolutely love for him to win. His second MP, there's very few players more fun to watch in the NBA than Nikola Jokić, if not, if not zero players, more fun to watch in the NBA than Nikola Jokić. Okay. Let's take a quick commercial break and we will be back with two more bold predictions each from Tony Jones and I..
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Like if they offer him a max contract and it's $200 million, something like that. And by the way, this is no statement on whether or not the pelicans should or should not offer him that deal. I mean, based off of talent, they should. I mean, we've seen enough in my opinion to where if you're willing to bet on Zion Williamson, you're betting on the conditioning and thus your betting on his defense improving. I think through conditioning. But like I just, he would be nuts based off of where he's at now to turn down $200 million. Regardless of who it came from, it would be absolutely insane of him to do that. I just, I don't know, I feel bad for pelicans fans. Like this is such a complicated situation for them. It's such complicated situation for the pelicans. This is a team that hasn't, like they didn't make great moves this off season outside of the herb Jones draft pick, which was phenomenal. Kyra Lewis is obviously out for the year. There are a lottery pick last year. Jackson Hayes is starting to come on a little bit, but the previous high level draft pick that they made. He is not turned out as positively as what they could have hoped. The Devante Griffin devonte Graham, I'm sorry, signing has just been not good. Let's go with. Let's go with not positive toward the team's bottom line. It's tough. It's really, really tough for me to look at what David Griffin has done when also taking into account the fact that he's now problems with JJ Redick. He's now problems with Zion Williamson. He's now on coach number three. It's hard for me to look at this and go like, are we sure that David Griffin's the guy worth keeping if there's friction between him and Zion Williamson as was reported earlier today? I don't know, man. It's a complicated deal. I feel bad for pelicans fans. It's ultimately my takeaway. But I think that at some point, Zion Williamson is going to talk, and we're going to hear from him before the end of the year. I don't think the people at CAA are done. And I think that they're probably starting to understand that Zion Williamson is doing a good job of tanking his value right now. Not only in terms of his basketball value, but his off court value, which is considerable if things go right for him as a player. So I would imagine that at some point here he's going to speak because the people at TA aren't stupid when it comes to brand management and image management. Tony, you're up, bold prediction number one from you..
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Players are working well. The guys like guys come in guys go out and I'm watching so many different games that I know who's on the court, but I don't know the order with which they're going off the court if that makes sense. That makes sense. Do you have thoughts on them because like I said, I just don't. I just knew it was a conversation, you know, on Twitter and, you know, I just thought it was interesting. Interesting. Yeah, I haven't seen that. You're a man of the people Tony Jones. Like you, you're out there. You're talking to everyone. I'm just not a man of the people. I'm just, I'm just, you know, I'm just a person who I'm just a person who my daughters are not impressed with. You're out there, you're retweeting just about everyone. It feels like. Everyone's interacting with you. It's great. I love it. Yeah, I mean, you gotta interact with people. You've got to talk to people. You know, I don't know a strainer. I will say I've started I've started not having my notifications bar, up on like my Twitter stuff. In like, I will click specific tweets and see like what people are saying about them. And then interact with people that way as opposed to just like seeing every notification that comes up on my Twitter account and it's been much healthier for me. I think at this point, it's been a little bit better to not see everything that someone says about you. To go away and count to ten has been okay. Yeah, that probably helps. You know, somebody yesterday, so all, you know, why is my Twitter feed all BS Tony Jones tweets and my response to him was I have to entertain your 7 followers. So that was fun. Yeah, and just I'm getting better at not responding to people like that. I'm getting better at it. I'm not a 100% as good at it as I need to be. The Lakers have 12 points in 8 minutes so far. Yeah, it's not great on offense for them. It's really not..
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"It's just frustrating to me. To see someone be utilized in a way that he is not best utilized. I think is the fairest way to put it. Right. Right. I would try to run a bunch of pick and rolls with him. I would be like, let's actually roll to the basketball instead of popping out to three. You know, mix it up. You know what I'm saying? That's the thing. Mix it up. You know, started a basket, pop, you know, because right now, I mean, it's gotten to the point where he's easy to guard because you know what he's going to do. You know, and that's one of the reasons why, for me, you know, analytics has this place, but it can't be the end all be all because you've got to be able to you can't you can't be predictable. You got to be able to make people guard you everywhere. So I'm with that. I will say, though, that their best success against Toronto and I don't have the numbers on this, but their best success against Serrano came with Dwight Powell setting screens. Enrolling. So do you do that? Do you run more Dwight Powell out there? And then like put Chris stops in the corner to shoot threes. It doesn't seem like he's real happy to do that. And certainly, you shouldn't pay him $30 million to do that, right? Right. Right. You can stagger and you can put him in lineups where the ball is forced to him. Like, for instance, I mean, you know, who needs a screen more, you know, Luca or jaylen, jaylen Brunson. Yeah. So you could put them on in lineups where Jalen's on the floor. And, you know, that could be Linus where.
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Every time I watch him, I'm just like, you are unbelievable at basketball. He has no weakness in his game. Like he doesn't have a weakness. David, Mitchell's got like 15 points. Good day, 5 minutes. Remember when we were talking about his stats? Yeah. Well. And like, we weren't even talking about them negatively. We were just like, yeah, he's averaging. Yeah, two and a half points of game one put him on first team all rookies. And as defense is so good that it doesn't matter and David was like, well, I'm just gonna go ahead and play offense tonight. Oh my God, he's 6 of 7 from the field. Yeah, what a stud. Dave young's really good. He's and he's like four four four from three. Oh my God. Shout out davion Mitchell. What a start. All right. Is there anywhere else we want to go before we get out of here? Anything you got to talk about Dallas. We got to talk about Dallas. Oh my God. It took it took 6 quarters. For one of two things to happen. For Jason Kidd to either figure out, oh, I just need to run highball screens with Luca, every play because that's what he's good at, and that's what that's what makes our team best. Or it took 6 quarters for Luca to say, fuck this, I'm just going to do my thing and you guys can follow or not. Right. Right. And I don't know which one it was. Like, I'm not in Dallas to know. But there was a clear change like at the end of the second quarter in their Toronto game and then all through the second half. They just were like, okay, we're going to just get back to running highball screens for Luca and it's going to work. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. And they came back and won that game. And they were really good. How much are you, what are your thoughts on Dallas as a team? I don't really see them as a contender. I see them as like a good team that I probably wouldn't love playing in the playoffs because Luca is so good on any given night that I legit think that he can win like four games by himself in a playoff series. So I would not want to play them, but do I think they can win a title? I don't, to be honest..
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Because there's definitely a betting edge there. I know that. I just need to find it. Yeah. Yeah. So I like the clippers, despite their own two start. I particularly like if they get y'all called Anthony's line was 29 16 and 8 tonight. I just want to say that. I mean, I do know what happened. Like Cole Anthony went home and locked in a cold. Was like, I'm gonna perform tonight. This is homecoming for him. He wanted it. But, you know, if the clippers get Kawhi back at the right time. The nightmare scenario for the jazz is that the clippers get the 8 seat and they get what? Yeah, it really isn't it? That's it. Because they've looked good. I do think they've looked good. I know that they're zero and two, like you said, but they lost a tough one to Memphis and they lost a really tough one to Golden State in their opener. Like Paul George looks like he's ready to try and finish top 5 in the MVP race. And they're using Eric Bledsoe and really creative ways. And zubots I think has started the season really well from the center position from a defensive perspective. On top of it, like, I just love Terrence, man. The more I watch Terrence, man, the more I just love everything about what that guy stands for. And I love.
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Okay, still here with Tony Jones. What other teams in the west do you want to talk about? Because you think it's pretty wide open in the west. We've gotten to the king or we've gotten to we've talked about the kings a reasonable amount weirdly. But we've talked about Phoenix. We've talked about Denver. We talked about Utah. We've talked about the Lakers so far. Do you want to talk about the clippers? Do you want to talk about Dallas? What other should we talk about Golden State 'cause I think they're actually really interesting in this conversation? Oh, yeah, let's talk about I mean, obviously Golden State is, I think Golden State might be in the top four when it's all said and done. In the west, I really like them. Yeah. Yeah. I think so too. Depending on what clay looks like when they're healthy when he's healthy, yeah. They are, they have a bunch of wings, they're very athletic, stuff is still playing a prime level. Jordan, the Jordan pool Ascension is real. They're going to get clay back. They they're really good in their headache to play against. That feels like a good combination. And part of the reason that they're a headache to play against now is not only are they tough on defense, but they're smart on defense too. Nobody, so, you know, nobody talked about be aliza, but he's been like he's been a real impact signing for them. And especially in terms of him being able to play, you know, their ability to go 5 out with him at the 5, it's been a real, real good addition for them. Yeah, kind of talk about that on the opener podcast I did, but I feel like his ability to make decisions on the move is a perfect fit for them. Like for everything they want to do at the 5. He can just run short roles with draymond green and he finds cutters. He finds open kick outs, like he's just a smart player with the ball in his hands. It's a perfect fit. Like auto Porter hasn't really even done much so far. And I hope he can stay healthy and if he can..
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"That team feels like they will just like to Dan Campbell at. They're gonna like scratch your kneecap off before like losing the series. Yeah, like they're the team that I'm like, that if I were a top CW, just go ahead and get one of the top four seats. So we know how to see each the second round. We all want that pressure in the first round. No. But, you know, that's tough. You know, they're a good team. You know, they really are. So, I mean, and like I said, you know, in jokic makes it all work. He's insane. That passed that he made to MPJ in a corner. My God. He threw a with a basketball. He threw a submarine like sidearm screwball through like a 1° open passing angle. I literally watched that 15 times. And I still didn't understand how he did it. He literally almost hit MPJ in the nuts from like the opposite post. And like every day, turns and he's like, oh my God, the ball is here. I guess I better shoot this thing. Yeah. He didn't even get an assist out of it. Oh my God, he got the put back, which is nice, but yeah. It was incredible. It was one of the craziest passes, I think I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, I would not want to play Denver. Then they have Aaron Gordon too, by the way, and like Aaron Gordon has sacrificed a lot since getting to Denver in terms of numbers in terms of role usage with the ball in his hands. And he's just been happy to do it. Like he's the perfect guy to have on that team. He's embraced being like the tough guy, the physical guy on defense. Yeah, and, you know, I like that bench. Always like PJ always like Monte. And facco, I mean, they just have they just got a bunch of guys. You know, they're really well coached. It's just they're just a really, really good team. Yeah, speaking of guys who will like scratch your kneecap offs. Like compote is like the guy who embodies that as well. I mean, just it's a fun team. Let's take a look. We'll go ahead before we go. Good antidote. I told Donovan, I was talking to Donovan Mitchell on Friday night and I said, I said, bro, I said, you got Lou dort in game one, you got Davy on Mitchell and game two and you're gonna get focal one game three. And he was just like, man, that's rough..
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Become a legitimately real positional defender. And then you throw him next to Deandre hunter and then you throw them next to Clint capella, obviously as well. John Collins has gotten so good at the aspects of defense in terms of just reading where the hell where he needs to go help. Being disruptive, sliding his feet. He's gotten so much better at that than what he was coming into the NBA, that man, he's just an awesome third best player, second best player to have around. I feel like now. I think that Atlanta might be two years away from being the dominant team in the NBA. I don't think that's crazy that they would need to do one of two things. They would need like a real substantial leap from either Deandre hunter or Kevin herder or cam reddish. Or they would need to package some of that talent into a superstar. If it comes available. I wouldn't package this thing. I think I think hunter is in all star type of talent. Yeah. If I was them, I would be looking at like, maybe it's this off season, maybe it's like at the deadline. You know, whenever the next star comes available, I'd be looking at cam reddish, Kevin herder, Jalen Johnson and firsts for a star. And I think that that's a big enough package to go get a star at this point. Or you could just keep them and have insane depth around Trae Young. It's really hard to keep up guys, though. Because they're all gonna get paid. Well, you've already paid John. Yeah, well, that's why I said the next two years. So you gotta, you have to do it in the next two years. Yeah. The guy that would have to go for me in order to keep those guys will be capella. Because you have a Congo. And I think a Congo can be compelled capella. Yeah. You have to hope so at least, yeah. Man, and yucca. I'd love to see him get healthy. He's good. I think he's really good. He's not as long as compiler is, but he's got the same. I mean, the same and same exact instincts and stuff. Yeah. This is I will say this. This is a team that if we're talking, we've kind of base this whole podcast around the idea of weaknesses. I don't really know what their weaknesses like on the court are. They just might not have enough talent yet. They might not be there. Their weakness, their weaknesses aspiring. Yeah. Like, they're just not, they're just not old enough. But I mean, you know, you've got dynamic. Well, the weakness might be, you don't have a second dynamic playmaker. Yeah, that might be. Yeah. That's probably it. If you're against the clock and you don't have and if you're against the clock and trade doesn't have the ball, you're secondary curator is bygone bogdanovic. Who's okay? He's okay. Or, you know, Gallo pump fake and I hope you jump or hunter or harder. That's a crazy thing. They haven't even had Gallinari like Lou Williams, hasn't played yet, a Kong who hasn't played yet. The theme is insane..
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"So there's no space there's no pace. I just don't know, I don't know how I don't know how you do it at this point. You almost have to clear out a side. So you have so you actually have a side and you run the pick and roll that way. But you can't run it from any other style on the floor. You can't run from the top, because it's just going to be too many people in your laps. Forcing forcing a kick out. And you know, guys, but, you know, at that point, guys need to figure out how to play with each other, guys need to cut. And the thing that won the Lakers the championship two years ago was that, you know, a obviously LeBron was great and obviously Anthony Davis is great. But they were so physical that they beat the crap out of everybody in the league because the league went small ball while they were big and they were able to be big, but staying in front defensively as well. And, you know, eventually, you know, their physicality just just killed everybody. So, you know, they have to find a way to make that physicality work for them. More than other teams, you know, make spread you out work for them. Or you could just go back in time and not trade for Russell Westbrook and just trade for buddy hill. But that's another story. Yeah. They need they need like a connector in the lineup with those guys, which is why I felt like they actually found some success weirdly with Austin Reeves. At the end of that Phoenix game because he was just like moving the ball and he was confident shooter and like, frankly, like Austin, what? Austin can make catch and shoot threes but like he hit 28% from three last two years in college. I legit think team's guard about that, 'cause he's white, right? Like that happens, right? Am I like this in my mind? If you see if you see the white guy on an all black AU team, he's the shooter. In like Austin might not actually be the shooter, yet, but teams guard him. That's the unwritten rule. Yeah. So unwritten rule. Teams guard them like he is. So that actually really helped their offense a lot. And he knows where to be defensively. I legit think that they should try him in the first half of their next game and see him playing with those guys, right? You know, I would like it, you know, see if he I mean, the thing that I've been impressed with awesome reasons that he's defended. Yeah. No, 'cause he didn't really defend it Oklahoma. But he's defending right now. Didn't defend at all, but he's trying now. The Lakers it feels like it's amazing when you know you have to defend to get into the NBA. Yeah. That's another thing..
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Good he's looked. So far, in that role, he's definitely getting his points because James Harden is feeding him. But like he's he's not looked as aggressive defensively as what I would have liked to have seen. Like there's a reason that jevon Carter is in this rotation. And they just need like guys who kind of set the tone defensively on some level. Like James Johnson like comes in and he's at least tough and physical, but James is also what 34 now. It's tough. Paul Millsap's 36. That's why he's playing 11 minutes a night, like it's hard, I think, for those guys to come in in truly be like the high level defensive players that this team needs. They need they need energy more than anything, I think. Yeah, I think there are bad defensive team because it's like the trifecta for me. They're not a great rim protecting team. They don't stop the ball at the point of attack. And they don't have great wing defense. And your best player is your best defender, which I mean, which is okay. If you have other defenders, but, you know, I mean, they're just too many places that teams can go. Like, okay, you got James in space. Okay, go at James's guy. Whoever's got James. You got Joe Harrison space. Go ahead, Joe Harris. You know, when Paul or Lamarcus is on the floor. Oh, let's run pick and roll at those guys. And I'll give you a good Blake Griffin credit for something real quick. I think he's gotten a lot better. It dealing in space. Yeah. The more they used to be. Yeah. But I mean, there's just too many guys that are in their rotation who have to play 25 minutes a night. You can just go at. Yeah. So, I mean, I've never I've never for one minute thought that, you know, there are going to be a team that stops anybody. But they had the collection of talent as such that that also may not matter because they could be that good offensively. Yeah. You know, you say, okay. Yeah, we can't stop anybody, but we have James Harden. We have Kyrie Irving. We have Kevin Durant. We have two dozen shooters surrounding them. So you spread the floor out, you run, and you just went. You just won a bunch of games, 130 to 120. You know, that's the formula and they can win a championship that way. You can win Brooklyn can win a championship that way, but, you know, just as long as people like, you know, you just got to tell the truth. They're not stopping anybody on a way to championship. They're just going to outscore people. I will say this. Kevin Durant looks every bit as good as what he did at the end of last year. And that just might be all right. Like that, that might just be absolutely. In the playoffs, like when they get there, Kevin Durant looks like the best player in the world right now. It's between him and Giannis to me is where I'm at. I don't know that there's any other correct answer. Yeah, I'm still putting LeBron up in there. I don't think I am. Right. I am now. I still think he's on that level..
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"You know, like this year they might actually be a good team and it's because miles bridges like might be a like on his way to getting a $90 million contract. I understand why they didn't come to an agreement with him. We might look back at that as being every bit of a mistake as Phoenix, not coming to an agreement with Deandre ayton. Because he has come out and looked incredible this year. Like he is so athletic. He's a perfect running mate for lamella ball. He's shooting the ball well. He shot the ball well last year too. Like miles bridge is really might be on the precipice of being like a top 50 player in the NBA. And the other thing is he's figured it out. He's figured out how to play with lamelo. He's figured out how to play off a board and you know, he knows how to play off a terror rose there. He knows the right where to cut when the cut. He knows how to get on. He knows that if he gets on the break, he's gonna get the ball from lamelo. And he's finishing he's not trying to. I thought in the first couple of years he was trying to do too much off the dribble. Yeah, he's not trying to do too much off the dribble right now. He's, you know, he's catching his shooting. He's maximizing on the floor where his strengths are. Yep, instead of playing to his weaknesses. And, you know, when you do that, and guess what? You start looking a lot better, but I mean, you know, Charlotte did a great job in the draft process. They knew that LaMelo Ball was the guy. And they ignored all of the criticism. They ignored a lot of the naysayers, there are very few media members. I went to my own horn, and I know you're going to teach your own horn, but there are very few media members who thought the Melo ball is going to be a superstar. Yeah. And I'll be real. I don't even know that I thought he was going to be a superstar. I thought he'd be an all star. I didn't like he has a chance to be a top ten player in the league, is where we're at at this point. I gave him the highest grade. I gave him the highest grade in the class. I gave him a superstar great. Yeah. I had him at number one, but I didn't like love him as much as you did. And I still had him as like a future all star. So the whole thing is, I mean, he is, he is a star. He is. His ability to break guys down off the dribble. It's real, and we saw it today against Brooklyn like to get back to the point of this podcast. Like he's just like kind of completely bent Brooklyn defensively to his will in terms of where he wanted to get on the court. Yeah. And he can shoot it. Yep. And he's 6 foot 8. And even if he doesn't do anything off of isolation, he's such a good pick and roll player that he's such a good pick and roll player that the isolation doesn't really matter. And yet he's still a great isolation player. Yeah. So he's I mean, he's just got the entire package offensively. You know, he's a special guy. How bad do we think Brooklyn is defensively? Because that's what I'm still trying to figure out. Like, I had more expectation maybe for Nick klaxon, entering this year..
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Saints Release Latavius Murray After He Reportedly Refused to Take Pay Cut
"The other running back in the news forces latavius murray former since running back with the team released yesterday. The team asked him to take a pay. Cut you decline. They released him and obviously so right for his contract. Would it become guarantee. So there's one more free agent running back available to any team in need latavius more productive for the saints last year but they obviously are going a different direction at alvin kamara and a young back. Tony jones that they also
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"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"He's he's gotten way way better defensively to the page. Like he's really really good. Now. I like Jaden Springer another guy where I'm a little bit worried about the fit as much as anything, but I like how tough he is like you very clearly is super tough dog. Has athleticism that I think doesn't quite bear itself out on the court as much as it could at some point like he has do you remember like how much. Have been Mitchell from his first year wage level? Have you watched? I didn't start watching Donovan until Year too. So when Donovan was a was a freshman and he did a similar thing to Jaden where he'd take off off two feet every time he blowed up two feet jump and try to like finish up through guys and now he's like figured out okay, I have to go around guys. Like I'm six three and have a seven foot wingspan and have a great jumper but I still can't go through guys cuz I'm just not big enough Jaden needs to figure that out. If he does I'm very interested if he doesn't we'll see right. So, where are you on Shareef Coupe? Cuz all right. So, I'm sorry. I want to ask you that cuz I don't know like I'll be honest. I'm not sure. Okay, so he he's he's dead. Trae young wear in the sense that men it's going to be really really really hard for him to fend to defend anybody at the NBA level by anyone. Yep and Trae young get away with it because Thursday is 28 and he's gotta learn any his jump shot needs a lot of work. Yep, but he's a point A to point B guy and there's just not a lot of guys around. I think he's an elite ball handler and an elite live gerbil passer. Yes Elite. I don't think that you can quite have enough effectiveness at his size without at least the threat of a jumper like I think that the best you can do without the threat of the jumper it's six foot or whatever he is and not playing he's not dead foot. I mean, it's listed at 6-1. I was even going underneath you might be right that he's under six foot tall. But like there's a lot of like if Smith there to make em, like people are going to think that that's like super negative or But like no that's positive but if realize how to play at his size, we're like issues like okay, I can't shoot. I'm not gonna be able to defend but what I am is one of the fastest news in the league, I'm going to get an elite shape. That's what people don't realize about ish Smith or Smith is in better shape than everybody he can run all day and that's the kind of shape but you have to be in that size. You have to be the Energizer Bunny and issues masks maximize every strength that he has and he's still a change-of-pace point guard in the NBA, right? You can put them on the floor for 20 minutes tonight, right? So I want to like if Sharif Cooper shoots, he's going to be a starting NBA point guard like no questions in my mind if he doesn't shoe it's probably something like if Smith Finish Smith is like worth in early second-round pick. There's just not a lot of ball-handlers on his level in the world know. He's one of probably the 15 best like ball-handler livejournal passer like combinations on planet Earth agreed which is like I like people like meltdown when I say that about non NBA players, but we'll get lamelo ball. Like I said lamelo ball is one of the ten best lives were pastors like on planet Earth..
Game Theory Podcast
"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"MBS, where was like, oh really go Bears being played off the floor yada yada yada and that was bullshit really gaubert was Utah's best player in that series took a country mile by a million miles and he was literally the only reason that the Jazz were even competitive in some of those games last year was awful for me. It was it was actually it was actually funny because in real time I was like, wow, you know Rudy's play really well on offense. I mean Rudy's playing really well offensively, but he's really struggling against yogesh defensively and then I saw how much yolk is your visceral rated the Clippers and how many issues he was given Lakers and I was like, oh my word Rudy gobert actually played him pretty well in hindsight. I you know, I don't know what to Stats bear in in playoff situations juice. But you know all of the stats and you know regular season situations, they they really go bear defense pretty well in space or he has defended pretty well spaced and you know, maybe that's you know, when you're in the regular season and you get defending, you know, Orlando's guards one night and you know, Minnesota's guards and other night, you know, that can skew that can skew the numbers a little bit off but he was but you know, he was legitimately good in the in the Nugget Series last year was just that jokic was playing, you know all World Basketball. Yeah, just might not have realized in real time that Nikola jokic was turning into like a very clear top six player in the NBA like he's been this year. And and so I think that the discourse has a globe are especially on social media has been has has has been pretty dishonest. I think that he's had issues and 2 Series M. I think that was the 2017 Golden State series and I think that first 2018 Series against Houston first series of Houston, you know like the Oklahoma Oklahoma City series. He was amazing. But then again he was playing against Steven Adams, you know Houston spaced him out in the second round that year 2019. He was really good against Houston the Jazz just couldn't score like they couldn't score at all. But their defense was the only reason that they were even that they're even that they were even competitive and off those games. There were still a five-game Series last year. He was good against the Nuggets, you know, so he's been good in the playoffs and you know, you know, I think I think that, you know narratives are hard to to overcome, you know, but I have no reason to think that you know, I have no reason to think that go Bear Song Isn't going to be good in this postseason, but now having said that if you know at some point, you know where he's got to look at yoga. She needs gotta be like, okay. I have to figure out a way to stop this guy. And well, I have to figure out a way to generate some like it doesn't matter if if jokic goes from forty if it's a 1,000 game down the stretch and and Rudy gets to stop that matters and that's what didn't happen. And that's what didn't happen against against Denver a couple of months ago in a bubble bath. And that's what like the difficult part of this conversation. Is that the Jazz were genuinely one basket away from beating Denver in a playoff series and off hook shot from Nikola jokic doesn't fall then this is an entirely different conversation. The problem is that well, it happened on Rudy..
Game Theory Podcast
"tony jones" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"He is struggling to like move a little bit more. So I think if you know, he's thirty-three and he's on the last year of his deal and that deal is Donovan Mitchell sign his third contract. I think the Jazz will call that a win, you know, because if if if you go into free agency may be right now if you look at the free if you look at free agency right now, there is nobody else out of koala and that's on the market and we all know the koala is not really on the market so long you've had an entire NBA basically gear up for the summer of 2021 because the expectation was there was going to be Jana Santa Claus. Bolt on the market Paul George possibly on the market Rudy gobert possibly on the market. There are so many guys that were supposed to be on the market. And now none of them is on the market. So as hell off of the restricted guys from that 2017 draft class to like Jayson Tatum Donovan Mitchell Etc, right. So imagine if Rudy gobert was on the market as an unrestricted free agent home and that's why it to me that the contract doesn't matter the Jazz had to get that done and they had to they you know for for for the Jazz really go Bears weigh two hundred million dollars. He is he is their defensive system. He is the reason he is one of the biggest reasons why the Jazz of 15 and five right now, he's playing at a career level despite back with you know, what Sunday Sunday afternoon may have war against Nikola jokic, you know, so he's you know, he's he's he outplayed his last contract he's dead. Really well heading into to to this contract. So, you know, I don't think the Jazz are losing sleep over over that contract at all. And the other thing is if you lose your job are you definitely not getting Donovan Mitchell back for third contract or your or at the very least your chances are severely damaged and you know if the job as if this 15 is Starters five starters real in the Jazz are actually one of the top three teams in the Western Conference and you know, they can improve on Thursday next year and so on and so on then you increase the chance to keep and Donovan Mitchell for you for your third contract for his third contract in in this is you know, all of them is Big Picture stuff, you know, so, you know to me it's the you know, you're paying Rudy gobert two hundred million dollars and you know, he's dead. He's worth, you know, every penny that to the.
Game Theory Podcast
A Deep Dive Into Rudy Gobert After the Jazz Lose To Denver
"Talk about Rudy. Gobert. What? What do we want to know about mr. Gaubert because I thought before today and obviously today is Sunday. I thought before the day that he was running away with the defensive player of the year award. And then today happened today happened. I would not go as far as running away with the defensive player wage. I thought he was running away. I thought it was a significant gap between him and everybody else. So I totally understand why you would say that their top five and defense coming into town today. They're really really good team Utah. They are arguably playing better before today than anybody in the NBA just point blank. Especially now that the Lakers have hit like off a bit of a bit of a malaise having said that I'm still saying Anthony Davis Ford Prince of player of the year because they've number one defense and he's the one the keys the number one defense in the NBA off. He's by far the most versatile defender in the NBA Rudy I think is a reasonable like honestly probably would be second for me right now Myles Turner has a case sneaky class that I've been advocating as much as I can Larry Nance would probably be in my top five right now. He is the whole reason that the Cavs have a reasonable defense. Yep. Right now a top-10 defense, but I digress nonetheless Rudy gobert has been very very good for the Utah Jazz this year and I thought that Utah's games this week. We're kind of a perfect encapsulation of the Rudy gobert experience against Dallas. He was the reason that they just come holy month and utterly annihilated the Mavericks in both of those games and I watched the first one close cuz I bet on Dallas because Utah was without Donovan Mitchell was without a favors and Dallas was getting back Dorian finney-smith was getting back to like Powell. I thought that they'd take that energy and catch you too on the back end of a back-to-back and be kind of run away with that game and that absolutely one hundred percent was the wrong side to be on and in large part. It was because of the incredible grass. City that Rudy gobert holds as a pick-and-roll offensive threat, he is completely obliterated kristaps porzingis in that in those two games like butterwood obliterated him like wipe them off the face of the Earth on both ends. He averaged 23 points and 16 rebounds. He had like three blocks. He had a couple of steals. He was dead thing that people who are Jazz fans and that yell from the rooftops about Rudy. Gobert. He was everything in those two games that people say about Rudy being like a top-12 impact player in the NBA. You'll hear sometimes in this game today against Denver Nikola jokic made him look like a parking cone on defense and
KOA 850 AM
"tony jones" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"I would be remiss not to mention former Broncos offensive tackle Tony Jones. Who, of course, was on those Super Bowl. 32 33 teams passed away at the age of 54, right, and it's something that you know, I got a group of guys that we stay in close contact with that. Was put out to me the day um, shed some tears because this guy was such a Monumental man in my in my life as athletes and the way that he Um Let his family was just really It really was inspirational. So Tony Jones passes away of 54 years old. He had Hey, had a blood disease. That, um Was just devastating to his body where he couldn't reproduce. Blood cells, and, um, it lasted a little over a year. It's kind of a plastic anemia. Uh, Andre. Tony was such a private guy. He just never never said anything about it. You know, talk to Crockett today, and he said that he knew something that he had a kidney transfer. On and Um Said that he was getting better, but he never, you know, he never really, really, really recovered. If you can't make blood cells, it's pretty dire. And so we found out about that today. I called some of the guys that may not have been on the text read like guys like Anthony Lynn, who Was shocked as well, who was the former head coach of the Um of the Chargers and just talk to some of my teammates, and it's just, you know, Z one of those moments where you just say, man, Just try your best to enjoy your day. And make sure that you are giving yourself every opportunity every day. To live the best data to possibly can. You know, you just never know when your time is called. You know, it's sad is that I always think to myself. You know, the folks that you didn't know were sick. And when they're gone, everybody is so surprised. To know that they were suffering for a long time in that nobody knew because they kept it to themselves, and they were private. And I would have loved to have a cup of coffee with that dude. One more time. I mean, he was It was fantastic man. I mean, T Bone was on those guys that you just kick back in the locker room with and have a laugh, And you know, it just said it's just a good spirit. A good soul. I'm talking about one of my best teammate. I played against Tony Jones since I was a rookie in the NFL and When he came to the Denver Broncos. We won two Super Bowls, and he blocked the minister of defense to almost a status day and Super Bowl 32 maybe one of the greatest performances for a guy who play left tackle his whole career. And because Gary Zimmerman couldn't really play on the right side. He moved over to help the team and he did a great job against Reggie White. And we won that football game. You know, just just the Just just a fantastic guy I and, like I say it was just a better man. Why He was memorable to me. And he is my my favorite player when I was a kid coming up. My favorite player for the Denver Broncos. War number 77. And who do you think it was Mecklenburg before that, Who would have been crazy? Crazy? Lyle Al's a toe. I loved me some while Al's a toe in that orange crush defense. Lalo Zeta war that 77 That was like one of the first football jerseys I ever had. When I was when I was growing up. I wasn't a Bronco fan, then. I became a Bronco fan in 1987. When I got a chance to see them on CBS for every Sunday with that TV, shaken and trying to figure out what's wrong with the TV. You know my thunder, baby, right? I mean that my high thunder Been e wanted a piece of that man. Soon as I saw it. I just knew I just had to have it and We watched, you know it was the game that was on every Sunday. You know, So that's that's what we watched. So all right. Well, when we come back, we will catch up with R K away. Broncos insider That is that Brandon Crystal. We will do that. We will also dive into both e A, F C and NFC championship games. They're coming up on Sunday. Antonio Brown.
Beyond Your Wildest Genes
The Community Cure: Transforming Health Outcomes Together
"Topic for today is called the Community Cure. He is in demand speaker. An IMPRESARIO IMPRESARIO featured on Ted Huff Post live and text as well as lecturing internationally he lives in Sacramento California with his wife and daughter order. James Let's get right to the nitty gritty. Why this book in why now? Well I've been on a fifteen year plan to try and transform healthcare. You know the first fifteen first few years I was really learning about what was going on and ultimately I come from this position of a health economist semester. I was trained in health economics. I saw that both in America where we have this kind of like health insurance kind of system with employers and people and then in the UK. Where I grew up where we have a single payer system in both systems? The same problem is we're completely running out of money not enough money to pay for care and you know the world is having to adjust to that reality and a big part of it. When I came to learn over time is that this is sort of like the overall thesis? This is that a pharmaceutical I approach to life style driven chronic disease is a failure is failing and has failed and it's failing in both America and in the US and the UK and so ultimately you know we need to find a operating system of care where the goal is everyone's just well and independent of the medical system and so that led me to functional medicine and that led me in two thousand fourteen to stop the functional. Oh Forum to really grow the number of practitioners that were capable of getting people off medication and getting to a point where they were independent of the healthcare system Kim and living without medication to into the ninth and tenth decade but ultimately that plan is worked and we've grown the number of doctors. There's a now. There's one functional medicine doctor in every town but ultimately what I realized is a couple of things. One functional medicine is all about the root cause but the biggest root cause in chronic disease and death was not being dealt with effectively. And that's loneliness. So loneliness is a bigger driver of all cause mortality not like social stress with loneliness and social isolation as a key driver is the biggest dry is the biggest driver of all cause mortality and death more than smoking. Smoking more than alcohol Morvan nutrition and just think about how many causes fat on nutrition says the biggest issue. And we're not dealing with it at all right and then the second thing is that functional medicine has not made it to poor people. Let's be real about it like it's made it to some of the middle classes in the last few years. By some new remodels that we've been teaching like direct primary care and and that kind of stuff but ultimately hasn't made it to poor people like the bottom fifty percent of America that can't afford a health deductible adoptable and over the last year like I took a road trip around the country for four months. We put on twenty six events in the summer two thousand eighteen and over over the last few years I've borne witness to a really elegant solution to all of those issues a solution by which everyone could have access to functional medicine. Listen that would solve so many problems. simaltaneously loneliness chronic disease physician shortage physician. Burn out like thank all of the big big things that could be solved can be solved with one super simple solution. Once I tell you it a month. Your listeners here. I don't I think you're going to be able to shake you out of your head because in a certain way it's obvious you know. Think about it before I tell you what it is. Just think about how we treat alcoholism in America Noah right alcoholism alcoholism since the nineteen thirties. We put people in groups and we have people share with each other because what the alcoholics need. They need accountability support support education. They don't need drugs and they don't need doctors and so that's why the AA has a group that's being created around that what. I'm here's what I talk about in my book is that it is clear to me. Not just through my own ideas but through what I've seen on the ground what I born witness to that lifestyle driven in chronic disease must be treated in groups. And it's as simple as that. You know you've talked about this for a long time In our other podcast cast. You've talked about socio economics. Correct me if I'm wrong. James you know in all of the blue zones where they these people live the longest. They have enormous enormous sense of community. And my correct on that. Yeah absolutely you know the community does two things one it. You're not having loneliness and social stress as a driver for of disease but also in the blue zones the community access sort of like the vehicle for doing healthy behaviors. They eat together do they. Exercise together they move together they they you know they deal with stress and community like all of these. Things is a compound effect. Because it's not just the the the the the the loneliness but it's like the healthy behaviors are done in groups and that's that's the key factor and so what I see. Is that like group. Medical visits have been around for a while in America. It's not a new idea to do group. Medical visits the new thing is what are we gonNA do with people when we get them in these groups and and ultimately what we've seen in the last five years and particularly in the last year and I can give you some amazing. Examples is functional medicine delivered in groups. Wha- hat let's get a group of people together and let's teach them self efficacy. Let's teach them how to eat. Let's teach them how to relax and not let let's not just teach them. Let's actually do it. Let's practice it in these groups and the results when you see when you actually execute that at any sort of scale the results Are So transformational that you know even big health systems and hospitals and whatever it will not be able to ignore this data. Jane does this. Is this being done in person or online or is it a little bit of both or what have you seen. Online is super bleeding edge right. I think it's I think one of the things that we have to acknowledge is that online has actually you know the Internet has actually increased loneliness and isolation Gen Z.. And millennials are the loneliest and most chronically ill generation in history. You know I sort of stopped the other day in the UK. One in full millennials has no friends so we've created a situation where the traditional ways that community has come together. The church local groups have have dissipated and and certainly in the UK more than in the US but ultimately online has taken over as being very difficult for people to actually have the quality of relationships by online my medium so while I think there's a lot of potential in online groups. I think that you know the real results that we're seeing the most effective results that we're seeing are in person and I just WanNa give you an example now because this this example I think we'll contextualized everything about what I'm saying. So one of the reasons why my show the functional forum took off and I think he might have even been in the room. That night was when Mark Hyman announced the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. This was like March two two thousand two thousand fourteen and he announced that night that we were going to have a the you know. The Cleveland Clinic was gonNA start a sense of functional medicine so fast forward four years or three three and a half years. And what situation do we have. It's working it's up and running. People are getting better. But they've got a two thousand person backlog right they got two thousand patients who want to be seen by the functional medicine. Doctors they got five doctors going and Tony Jones. WHO's the head administrators? Just like this is would never going to be able to catch up. We can't recruit Dr Fast Enough and it's not efficient enough and you know honestly it's not even profitable enough because we got to spend all his time with patients and we WANNA take insurance so she comes up with a ten week. Two hour a week group visit modeled functioning for life. Well basically people have to go through this ten week process in order to qualify to see one of their doctors so they put people in groups of six ten twelve sixteen and they group them by sort of like the disease type and these groups are being run not by doctors but by physicians. Assistance Health coaches and Dietitians so the preliminary data of these results salts where a thousand people have now gone through this show that half the people in those groups get so much better in that ten weeks that they don't have to see the doctor at all that completely better and that on average that that going up five pro-moscow points which probably doesn't mean anything to to most people but it just means that people are like basically completely reverse chronic disease in ten weeks because by week to some people have found new friends by week. Five people are being super vulnerable with each other and bye week nine. This is a new community eighty percent of people show up to every meeting. That's a really high number anyone who's ever tried to run any sort of group you know that people don't show what they life gets in the way you know those kind of things. So when I saw and heard I went last Last October two thousand eighteen and I saw that I was like this. Is it like this is happening. And so I spent the last year interviewing everyone who's run groups in functional medicine. I did a whole podcast series and when I recorded the very first podcast outcast with Dr Jeffrey Gala. WHO's been running groups in the poorest areas of Boston for twenty years? After I did that interview I was just like this has to be a book because in that what you see is that by treating loneliness specifically the results of treating loneliness by creating new groups is transformational if you then and teach those people how to take care of themselves with functional medicine principles we have now the Bass Rock for the future of medicine.
The Starters
Russell Westbrook: NBA issue lifetime ban to fan after abuse claims
"Last night. Russell Westbrook was caught on tape threatening jazz fans who rushed said directed a racial, Adam. Well, today, the Utah Jazz hit that fan with a lifetime ban. The team statement released just a few hours ago. Reads, quote, the Utah Jazz and Larry H Miller group announced today a permanent band of the fan who engaged in the inappropriate interaction with. Okay. Sees Russell Westbrook. Last night. The organization conducted an investigation through video review, and I witnessed accounts the ban is based on excessive and derogatory. Verbal abuse directed at a player during the game that violated the NBA code of conduct. We also just learned that Westbrook has been fine by the twenty five thousand dollars for profanity and his threatening language lot to unpack here. Distinct the league in the jazz and everybody sort of got this, right? How they're handling the jazz acted swiftly firmly and correctly, in my opinion. You gotta go after him. You can't just let a person say whatever the heck they want because they've got a ticket in their pocket. You have to act decently. I kind of wish something happened last night where he was kicked out immediately. So the fans. Around him. And Russell Westbrook didn't have to hear that. But if I will west doesn't stand up and do that this fan probably gets away with this van probably can enter that arena. And can probably say more racist, probably homophobic, xenophobic. I'm assuming he said more than just what that one line that we heard to get that. Bannon was cool. Actually, I just saw this report as well that Tony Jones of the athletic. So that the jazz players sat down with Utah Jazz presence these Starks and aired out what they thought about the whole incident we saw Donovan Mitchell KOMO with the public saving today. We saw Thomas Alosha come up with the public statement today, and they sided with Russell Westbrook. So it's cool that they're sort of a band of brothers situation here as well that we could go to another Rena, and we wanna be treated fairly. I think send a pretty strong message the jazz that anyone else who thinks they can get away with it is going to get banned for life, which is the way to do it. But they said they found some video evidence. Maybe someone else on the phone camera. Find these fan saying what he said and doing. What he's doing? And if that's the case, then this is absolutely the right move by the Utah Jazz. There's no place for that. And the league you can go to game you can heckle you can have some fun.
Vegas Never Sleeps
New congresswoman on Trump: "Impeach the motherf-----"
"Impeached like this. Speaker Nancy Pelosi with this during a town hall on MSNBC generation that would not be. Nonetheless. Deal with it. I really down. That's probably the way people talk. The president said her comments were disgraceful. This is USA radio news. Hey, Tony Jones here. The New Year's finally