🎧 Spurs Insider️ 播客: 不只是走过场

Spurs Insider Podcast, 2025-03-12 05:34:00

由生成式人工智能翻译,译文内容可能不准确或不完整,以原文为准。

专栏作家迈克·芬格(Mike Finger)以及马刺队的随队记者杰夫·麦克唐纳(Jeff McDonald)和汤姆·奥斯本(Tom Orsborn)将讨论接下来一周充满胜机的比赛,德阿隆·福克斯(De’Aaron Fox)可能进行的手术,以及文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)随队旅行对下赛季的良好预示。

建议阅读:

马刺队旨在以更强的斗志迎战独行侠

基德坦然接受被保罗超越

马刺队的哈里森·巴恩斯以三分球“保持光明”

马刺队的德阿隆·福克斯最早可能在三月中旬面临赛季报销的手术

维克托·文班亚马随马刺队前往萨克拉门托

以下是播客的文字稿:

来自南德克萨斯州高度安全的顶级机密网络,这里是马刺内幕。我是主持人迈克·芬格,一如既往地与《Express-News》的马刺随队记者杰夫·麦克唐纳和汤姆·奥斯本一起。在一年中的这个时候报道像当地笼子(cages,指马刺队)这样的球队时,有一种趋势是使用“走过场”这个词。

我不知道这是否带有过于消极的含义。我不知道这是否描述了杰夫·麦克唐纳和汤姆·奥斯本现在的态度,但是汤姆,你觉得呢?我们是否只是在倒计时,走过场直到四月中旬,这个赛季结束,或者你仍然对未来一个月左右发生的事情感到着迷、感兴趣和被吸引?

是的,我们仍然在努力,迈克。仍然在穿好衣服出现。你真的这样吗?这令人鼓舞。没错。你刚去萨克拉门托和明尼苏达进行了一次不错的旅行?

是的,德阿隆·福克斯(De’Aaron Fox)收获了他所期望的,一部分刻薄的人表达了他们的意见,但他也得到了很多爱。然后带着文班前往明尼阿波利斯。在那里他们被一堆三分球击中。所以是的,这和预期的差不多。然后回到达拉斯。你们昨晚看到了什么?

好吧,让杰夫来说说。杰夫坐在弗罗斯特银行中心(Frost Bank Center)第一层上方的平台上。杰夫,我不想透露太多他的情况,但他有时似乎有点恼火。我不太确定一个好的睡眠是否改变了他的看法,但是现在是时候和杰夫·麦克唐纳聊聊了。你还恼火吗?这是他们在明尼苏达的背靠背比赛的第二场。

呃,你知道,凯尔登·约翰逊(Keldon Johnson)拼尽了全力。伙计们都在拼尽全力。他们只是面对一个强大的对手,达拉斯独行侠队。你不能指望击败一支拥有更多…我的意思是,他们不仅有五个健康的球员,他们有八个。我不知道杰夫期望什么。

哦,我没在听。我只是在走过场。那么问题是什么?啊哈。不,对我来说,是这样的,无论你说什么。用这种方式做播客很难,但总而言之,在我开始之前,这一切都不重要。就像我们真的处在本赛季“走过场”的阶段。文班缺阵。

呃,我们稍后可以讨论它,但德阿隆·福克斯,听起来他越来越接近赛季报销的手术,或者至少这是即将出现的一种可能性。你知道,马刺队虽然在技术上和数学上还在季后赛附加赛的混战中,但他们并不是真的在为此而努力。你知道,所以这些比赛的结果并不重要。如果它们确实重要,那它们的重要性在于帮助最大限度地提高乐透抽签的几率,或者至少不会因为赢得太多而损害你的乐透抽签几率。

但是,那场比赛给我的感觉是,马刺队出现了,看了看另一边是谁,那是八个人,其中两个,八个独行侠队员,其中两个是上场时间受限的。没有一个,而且其中一个是双向球员,首发出场。然后就说,是的,我们搞定了,然后有点胡闹了一下,一路领先五六七八分。你可以在他们的肢体语言中感觉到,是的,我们最终会赢下来的。你知道,直到他们没有赢。玩火自焚,输掉了他们本应该赢下的比赛。就像他们有足够的实力,他们有足够的实力击败一支八人独行侠队,顺便说一句,他们也在弗罗斯特银行中心的背靠背比赛的第二场。

就像他们在场上有足够的能力做到这一点,只是没有做到,因为我不认为他们真的以教练格雷格·波波维奇(Greg Popovich)过去一直宣扬的那种适当的恐惧来对待它。归根结底,正如我开始说的,这根本不重要。随便吧,但你确实喜欢看到他们出来,执行一些东西,打一些防守,然后轻松地以两位数赢得那场比赛。但是他们没有,那又怎样?

我们做这个播客很久了。我们在这个联盟很久了。这是我听过的杰夫·麦克唐纳对一支球队的斗志和能量最严厉的批评。真的吗?我倒不这么认为。你知道吗?因为他们通常不会那样做。通常情况下,当他们输球时,他们只是输球,你知道,他们确实是一支倾向于努力比赛并且倾向于……有多少年我们听到他们说?好吧,你知道,他们很有胆量。他们表现出了很多的自豪感。

他们,你知道,他们连续输掉了第18场比赛,但是……那就是米奇·约翰逊(Mitch Johnson)昨晚说的。是的,好吧,我不同意这种说法。这只是众多比赛中的一场,你……你可能是对的。你经验丰富。好吧,当你在比赛中时,没有很多……我没有注意到那和他们大多数晚上的努力有什么不同。当你是一名职业球员?老兄,上半场,而且双方都是这样。上半场让我想起了夏季联赛的比赛。

我认为这就像是因为你只是在自己的脑海中。我认为头脑是在夏季联赛中,你在……他们怎么称呼它?呃,投射。我认为你在投射,你只是在走过场。这只是直线突破。这是一个家伙……这只是一个有趣的混合。就像没有防守一样。所以这只是直线突破,但偶尔会有一个人慢跑上来,然后在没有传球的情况下进行一次高难度三分球投篮。这描述了现在98%的NBA比赛。

不是真的。不是好的比赛。不是好的球队。这就是你获胜的方式。你可能是对的。我什么也没注意到。好吧,你没在看。我就坐在那里。我认为你……是的,但我不……我认为你走神了或者什么,因为你不必写总结。你看,总结对这件事有很大的影响,我认为。你已经不在总结的频道上了。

我确实认为这是一场他们可以赢也应该赢的比赛,而且这主要是……对我来说,这主要是一个态度问题。但是我再说一遍,随便吧,随便吧。我的意思是,他们与芝加哥队在乐透抽签的几率上打平了,所以我猜你正在做你的工作。我被困在丹佛……在丹佛的机场,遇到了很长时间的延误。

你的夜晚比我们好。所以我什么也没看到,但是哈里森·巴恩斯(Harrison Barnes)这家伙,这个老家伙,他似乎打得不错。是的,哈里森打得很好,投篮很好,凯尔登总是努力比赛。那是三个要点之一。凯尔登,无论情况如何,即使他们正在浪费一场对阵克莱·汤普森(Klay Thompson)称之为高中球队的比赛。克莱·汤普森昨晚称他们自己为高中球队。即使我很确定那支球队可以赢得高中州冠军。

我不知道。你看过州冠军比赛吗?他们至少可以赢得区冠军。我甚至不知道他们……他们会的。我甚至不知道他们是否知道他们来自哪个区,更不用说……所以这还有待考察。我,你知道,那只是克莱·汤普森在自嘲。

但无论如何,凯尔登,凯尔登打得很努力。那是其中之一。斯宾塞·丁威迪(Spencer Dinwiddie)替补出场,德怀特·鲍威尔(Dwight Powell),丹特……这些人……这是一支球队。马刺队应该为坚持和他们比赛而受到赞扬。你知道谁应该为坚持和他们比赛而受到赞扬吗?是那些坚持到最后的球迷。是的。这是美好的一天。我想你会这么说。他们对一切并不像这个播客的某些成员那样消极。这就是其中之一。嗯……这个播客,有时你遇到了困难。

就像……你知道,要么你人手不足,要么你只是……你的话题用完了。就像……这可能是播客的一个问题。你试图让赛季的最后一个月变得有趣,我想总是对兴趣有好处的一件事是维克托·文班亚马,汤姆在上一次旅行中暗示过,他上了飞机,和他的球队一起旅行。他一直在参加比赛。昨晚他在萨克拉门托和明尼苏达的替补席上都提供了精神支持。看到他四处走动,这有点令人鼓舞,对吧,汤姆?

是的,显然飞行没有健康风险。你知道,有人问他坐飞机做什么?同时服用血液稀释剂。但他说根本没有健康风险。你知道,他们有点让他自己决定想去哪场客场比赛,前提是他没有接受阻止他旅行的治疗。但是,你知道,从我观察到的情况来看,我认为他会参加所有比赛。在比赛期间观察他真的很有趣。他真的很投入。我的意思是,他不仅仅是坐在替补席上,我昨晚在某个地方听到或读到,他参加了一些暂停期间的比赛和胡闹。但是沃特伯格……问题是他已经在这个联盟待了一年半了。

是的。我不确定他以前是否注意到这些东西。对。只是……在比赛期间观察他……而且,正在进行暂停,米奇·约翰逊正在鼓舞士气。你知道,球员们正在做出调整。但是维克托·文班亚马,他是NBA球员中最有竞争力的球员,以至于他试图……找到一个角度来玩全明星技巧赛的游戏。

就像他比任何人都想赢。非常非常认真地对待一切。在全明星赛上打得很努力。甚至他也在想,我真的想听米奇在这里试图说些什么吗?关于对达拉斯独行侠在3月份进行的调整,在一个赛季中……正在离我们远去,或者我想看沃特伯格的汉堡制作比赛吗?他似乎对汉堡制作比赛很着迷。他来回看,然后偷偷地看,而且,你知道,看着这四个球迷,两队各两人,穿着汉堡面包,成为沃特伯格汉堡。而且,是的,他……这可能是他晚上最精彩的部分。

没有机会问他,但看着他注意到他从未注意到的东西很有趣。就像他太懒或太专注了。我不确定当他是一名球员,当他飞行时,他是否知道有中场或暂停娱乐活动。好吧,你知道为什么吗?因为两名沃特伯格汉堡制作比赛的选手比当晚球场上的任何人都更投入。没错,那是整晚最具竞争力的部分,这是可以理解的。这是可以理解的。他确实想念和这些人在一起。我的意思是,他很活跃。我的意思是,至少在我观察到的比赛中,他和那些人聊天。

不,公平地说,当他们来到替补席时,他和那些人说话。他很投入。他坐在教练旁边。他问关于……战术的问题,而且很投入。我认为看到沃特伯格汉堡制作比赛很有趣。我不知道你是否想参与这种猜测,但是维克托和球队一起乘飞机旅行的事实,我们是否想对这在他的治疗和计划以及他的进展方面意味着什么做出一些假设?可能不想。

就像,我不确定一个充满猜测的播客会增加多少东西。我们知道……当然。我的意思是,如果不是客观的猜测,播客是什么?好吧,正如汤姆刚才提到的,他在飞机上。呃,马刺队说那里没有健康风险。他可以旅行。他不能服用血液稀释剂飞行。我们知道手术在某个时候是一种选择。他还没有做,因为他在飞机上。这就是你想讨论的吗?我不确定你还想讨论什么?就像我们再说一遍,我们不知道,你知道,我们曾经是……这太疯狂了。这不是开玩笑。

加油。我们不了解他计划的细节,但是……我们知道他需要在服用血液稀释剂几个月后,才能进行其他选择。就像你不能……如果有一个手术部分,就像这不应该成为突发新闻,但是你在服用血液稀释剂时不能这样做。因为当他们切入你时,你的血液不会凝结。所以,你知道,所以他现在旅行的事实,他正在服用血液稀释剂,这解决了凝血问题,但是直到他停止服用血液稀释剂才能永久解决这个问题,这将是几个月的时间。所以听起来像是夏天的某种事情。而且再说一遍,我们甚至不知道他是否真的会做手术。我们只是在假设,但是……我不确定……你知道几个月是多长时间吗?好吧,几个月是超过一个月。通常的典型疗程是三个月。我不能说他正在接受典型的疗程,或者更典型或不太典型,但是像这样的事情的典型疗程是三个月的血液稀释剂。

但我不知道他是否会……如果他是……典型的还是不典型。但我认为可以公平地假设他可能会在余下的时间里服用血液稀释剂。我迫不及待地想看看Hoops Hype或Clutch Points会如何聚合这些信息。是的,他们不会。不。我甚至不知道我们刚才说了什么。但是,当然。酷。好吧,但无论如何。无论如何。让我们看看……我想看看Clutch Points聚合的只是关于维克托·文班亚马的一个梗,根据马刺内幕播客的说法,可能服用也可能没有服用血液稀释剂,可能进行手术也可能没有进行手术。我明白。你知道。尽管如此,他们……可能进也可能进不了。我的意思是,一直以来,我们都能够从他正在经历的事情中得出一些假设。但这并不一定意味着这些假设是正确的,但是……我只是想警告大家,不要做出所有的……就像我们刚开始时说的那样,马刺队给我们留下了一些面包屑,让我们知道他有什么和没有什么,以及可能的行动方案。即使他们不能,不能或不愿意直接说出来。好吧,很高兴他能来,而且我相信他很快就会弄清楚那个绿点赛跑,对吧,迈克?好吧,如果你想了解真正的记者,我昨晚有点惊讶绿队赢了,但问题是。这个播客的长期成员和长期听众都知道,通常很容易预测每晚的点竞赛的获胜者,因为只有三种颜色。有蓝色、绿色和红色,而且与客队相关的颜色永远不会赢。所以很多球队都是蓝色和红色,这意味着绿色总是会赢。就像……如果一支球队有绿色,那么绿色永远不会赢。

独行侠有很多涉及绿色的配色方案。从历史上看,我不确定他们今年是否还有绿色球衣,但我记得有一些绿色。你是对的。你是对的。因此,昨晚,我认为关键部分是看着独行侠的替补席和他们所有的制服、热身服等等。他们没有绿色。他们穿着蓝色和黑色。所以也许这是一个例外。也许这是允许绿色获胜的星号。在周三,我想……我想……这是一个选秀……呃……粉丝胡扯……呃……每周赌博技巧。周三似乎已经准备好在点竞赛中获得红色胜利,因为在达拉斯参加比赛的情况下,蓝色永远不会赢。而且他们有足够的绿色,这让我怀疑绿色会再次获胜。但是我已经……昨晚是我多年来预测错误的第一个点竞赛,因为我说一定是红色,因为独行侠有绿色。

但他们昨晚没有穿绿色。所以这就是Clutch Points将从这个播客中聚合的内容。你在这里听到了。你在这里先听到了。在达拉斯参加比赛的情况下,蓝色永远不会赢。在达拉斯参加比赛的情况下,蓝色永远不会赢。永远永远不会。这应该是这个播客的名称。这应该是今天播客的标题。在达拉斯参加比赛的情况下,蓝色永远不会赢。说出一个能提供更多关于NBA暂停期间娱乐活动的信息的播客。说出一个。我不知道。你不能谈论这件事。如果你真的想要迈克·芬格的劲爆言论。而且这将比我们讨论过的关于马刺篮球的任何事情都更具争议性,尤其是在走过场的时候,那就是郊狼的小品必须停止,伙计们。我的天啊。哦,不。维克托,维克托对此笑得前仰后合。他没有笑。是的。没有人笑。这只是沉默。这只是尴尬和可怕。哦,不……你总是说……杰夫总是说,播放人们会兴奋的音乐。像把T恤扔到看台上。如果房子正在摇滚,就不要敲门。是的。一些竞争激烈的婴儿爬行比赛很有趣。

沃特伯格汉堡制作比赛,就像人们穿着热狗或汉堡面包跳到对方身上。当他们从空中放出气球时,这些都很有趣。HEB……呃……赢得礼品券的比赛也很有趣。但是任何涉及为郊狼写作的人,都停下来吧。我的天啊。但是那些小品已经很糟糕很多年了。哦,他们每年都在变得更糟。人们不想看郊狼的小品,五分钟的糟糕喜剧。这太可怕了。你看看看台周围,观众的热情都被这些蹩脚的郊狼笑话给榨干了。天哪。就像郊狼是一个有趣的吉祥物,跳来跳去,指着人群,做着S P U R S的事情。这些都很好。我们不需要预先写好的材料。这太可怕了。我不赞同。我认为这很好。我认为这很好。你并不这么认为。每个人都知道它有多糟糕。除了这个播客的发布者之外,没有人有勇气站出来说。郊狼的小品。你因为这个观点要被拉进古拉格了。而且其中很多都太荒谬了。我被取消了。哦,我的天啊。我已经受够了。

我已经受够了。无论如何。这是一个地狱般的播客。让我们回到……你是否想在某个时候谈论篮球?最初的郊狼蒂姆·德克(Tim Dirk)非常棒。9月份进入体育名人堂。他一直是一个“危险边缘”的线索……实至名归。他是一个开拓者。是的。你不能永远保持这种伟大的水平。而且,你知道,他没有依赖……呃……而且糟糕的小品。我告诉你。我认为那些小品很好。他们只需要更多地运用蓝色。我的意思是,他已经没穿裤子了,你知道。好吧,说到裤子,蒂姆·德克说过,我工作最棒的事情是,我从不需要刮胡子。我从不需要穿长裤。这是一份很棒的工作。这对杰夫·麦克唐纳来说也是如此。这对我也适用。啊哈。我们可以回到篮球吗?当然。你想谈论什么?这里的过渡是,如果你想阅读更多关于郊狼或任何其他与马刺相关的主题,请登录expressnews.com,注册马刺国家通讯,在那里我们将深入报道这支球队在本赛季的剩余时间里,因为它正朝着另一个彩票前进。

杰夫和汤姆有很多好东西。你还有什么想诽谤的特许经营偶像吗?也许下周。让人们继续关注。对大卫·罗宾逊(David Robinson)有什么想法吗,拜托。拜托。大卫·罗宾逊总是穿裤子,而且他从不参与令人麻木的糟糕小品。我之前提到过,但是德阿隆·福克斯可能会做手术?他告诉我们了吗?是的。可能?有可能是?在洛杉矶?是的,给赛季末带来了一些麻烦。是的,他说他将……这是在萨克拉门托,在一系列关于他在比赛结束后在那里的时间的提问中,包括他的保姆技巧。是的,他说他可以在马刺队在3月17日前往洛杉矶参加比赛时做手术,这场比赛最初由于野火而推迟。他说他正在那里看一位专家,他可能会也可能不会在那次旅行中做手术……赛季报销的手术。这完全是关于他左手小指的事情,这已经有点脱臼了,那是他的主导小指。是的。我们是否知道这在多大程度上影响了他全年的比赛?我们看到他一直在低头看着它吗?是的。他说没有,但显然有影响,我认为。这并不是疼痛。而是……那种韧带已经……已经消失的东西,而且小指只是挂在那里。你可以不包扎就比赛,但它会挂在那里。德克·诺维茨基(Dirk Nowitzki)几年前也遇到过这种情况,每个人都嘲笑。我有一段时间也遇到过这种情况,而且没有……不需要搜索。不,当一个球或其他东西卡住那根手指并撕裂韧带时,我认为这叫做“锤状指”。而那件事……那是你的绰号。

在圣安东尼奥。没错。毛指。啊哈。呃,巴克·哈维(Buck Harvey)一度也遇到过这种情况。向绝对不会收听这个播客的巴克·哈维致敬。他经历了很多痛苦。好吧……当你必须以打字为生时,这就是一个问题。问题是你可以……你可以固定住它,而且就像我的情况一样,它可以自愈,但你必须把它放在吊带里……就像这种塑料支架里几个星期,这很烦人。当你打NBA篮球时,这更难做到。问题是这并不痛苦。它只是挂在那里。所以当……一个球飞过来时,我会……其中一件事是……这就是为什么我们需要一个视频播客,这样我就可以给你们展示了。但如果它挂在那里,它只是有点碍事。

所以他必须把它包起来,这让他很烦。而且这不是……当人们一直在说,哦,他现在需要把它做完,才能结束这件事。这并不是一个需要几个月才能恢复的过程。他可以把它做完,而且相对较快地做好比赛准备。为附加赛做好准备。没错。问题是……如果马刺队参加附加赛或季后赛,我相信他会带着那个东西打完这个赛季,而且根本不用担心他明年是否做好准备。现在只是……如果他在洛杉矶,他们决定在3月17日,圣帕特里克节那天做手术。那场他们对阵湖人的比赛。错过本赛季的最后三个星期对他来说没什么影响。但是,这可能会带来更多的彩票几率,正如杰夫早些时候提到的,马刺队已经赶上了芝加哥公牛队。等等,我只想回顾一下。

这叫做毛指。我并不认为这是肆意的猜测。好吧。德克·诺维茨基、巴克·哈维、迈克·芬格和毛指。我想回顾一下。我不确定德阿隆是否患有毛指,但德克、巴克和迈克患有毛指。我想回顾一下患有这种疾病的著名篮球运动员,德阿隆·福克斯。嗯哼。德克·诺维茨基、迈克·芬格和巴克·哈维。是的。他真的抛出了……是毛指的拉什莫尔山。嗯哼。是的。人们可以自己查找一下,如果他们想的话。我不能100%确定德阿隆患有这种疾病。这就是它的样子。呃,他没有……他没有具体说明那是他患的疾病。但那是德克患有的疾病。因此,德克有一年带着它参加了季后赛,而且它只是被包扎起来,就像德阿隆已经做的那样。

这不是一种威胁职业生涯的事情。就像我仍然在努力。巴克最终不得不退休。但由于其他原因。他没有被一个远不如他的专栏作家取代。这对圣安东尼奥和《Express News》来说很糟糕,但是……巴克也经历了一个糟糕的背部。他确实经历了。是的。呃……就像拉里·伯德(Larry Bird)和大卫·罗宾逊一样。巴克·哈维也在很多名单上。是的。而且与郊狼不同,他的材料总是很好。总是。他是。我不参与这次对郊狼的诽谤。我认为……杰夫,你只是不……好吧,你有胆量质疑马刺队……我只是……我只是实话实说。但是你坐在107号顶上尖叫,播放“房子正在摇滚”,停止郊狼。不,我只是喜欢那首歌。我喜欢史蒂夫·雷·沃恩(Stevie Ray Vaughan)。你并没有在播客中坚持你的话。

我只是喜欢那首歌。我喜欢史蒂夫·雷·沃恩。好吧。呃,接下来的一周,我们必须这样做。或者我们需要做出预测吗?但在与独行侠的比赛中,他们还有第二次机会。还有一次救赎的机会,以达到杰夫·麦克唐纳对竞争精神的高期望。还有一次与独行侠的比赛,他们下次可能会有超过八名球员。他们……我认为你必须至少有八名球员,如果他们少于八名球员,你必须去签下某人。但在弗罗斯特银行中心与独行侠的比赛中,他们还有第二次机会,然后在弗罗斯特银行中心进行背靠背比赛,分别是对阵令人敬畏的夏洛特黄蜂队和气势汹汹的新奥尔良鹈鹕队。好的。周一晚上坐在平台上,《Spur Express News》的随队记者杰夫·麦克唐纳说,我认为马刺队本周可以赢得四场比赛。而且……他们继续输掉了一场比赛,所以他们本周不能赢得四场比赛,但那是三场可以在主场获胜的比赛,随后是上述前往洛杉矶的旅行,以弥补对阵湖人的火灾比赛。所以……那是相当一周的比赛。马刺队现在在NBA彩票中并列第八位,我们将在未来的播客中讨论这件事。

就像……有八个非常有趣的前景。对于在前八名中获得选秀权来说,这是一个不错的选秀大会。我认为……如果你排在该区域,你会得到一个可以帮助你的人,我们将在未来讨论这个问题。但那是值得期待的事情。关于接下来的一周有什么想法吗?汤姆和杰夫。我认为马刺队将受到他们在与达拉斯的第一场比赛中表现不佳的启发。米奇将会让他们对……你知道,我们不能来到这里,以我们在周一所做的方式让圣安东尼奥市感到尴尬。郊狼做了什么?而且他们将像他们的头发着火一样比赛本周的剩余时间,而且我认为他们将赢得所有三场主场比赛。所有三场对阵达拉斯独行侠、夏洛特黄蜂和新奥尔良鹈鹕的主场比赛。而且在洛杉矶的比赛会有点难看,但是,是的,我将给他们全部三场比赛的胜利,只是因为……你知道,这有点像……是的,他们将受到启发。

他们将会对他们在对阵周一的独行侠队时所做的事情感到尴尬。对自己所做的事情感到羞耻。他们将感到非常羞耻,而且就像他们不会再那样比赛一样。他们将在接下来的三场比赛中像季后赛一样比赛,并赢得对阵那些可能试图输球的球队的比赛。我已经迫不及待地想观看这些比赛了。汤姆,你怎么看?两胜两负。两胜两负?是的,这似乎更合理。仍然……仍然会比他们最近的比赛有所进步。但这会很有趣。来自德文·瓦塞尔(Devin Vassell)和斯蒂芬·卡斯尔的更多进展值得期待,他本周没有过多提及。我们每周都会谈论他。但他经历了起起落落。继续努力争取年度最佳新秀。我们将在未来的播客中讨论这些以及更多。当我们走过场时,以及更多关于马刺内幕播客的内容。下次再见,互相照顾,保持真实。

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Not just playing out the string

Columnist Mike Finger and Spurs beat reporters Jeff McDonald and Tom Orsborn discuss a week of winnable games ahead, a possible surgery for De’Aaron Fox and how Wemby traveling with the team bodes well for next season.

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Here is the transcript of the podcast:

From a highly secured network of top-secret locations across South Texas, this is the Spurs Insider. I’m your host, Mike Finger, joined as always by Express-News Spurs beat writers Jeff McDonald and Tom Orsborn. There’s a tendency this time of year covering a team like the local cages to use the phrase “playing out the string”.

I don’t know if that has overly negative connotations. I don’t know if it describes Jeff McDonald and Tom Orsborn’s attitude these days, but Tom, what, what, what do you think? Are, are we just counting down the days, playing out the string until the middle of April and this season comes to an end, or are you still riveted, interested, compelled by what happens over the next month or so?

Yeah, we’re, we’re still going hard, Mike. Still still suiting up and showing up and Are you? That’s encouraging. That’s right. Yeah. Uh You had a nice trip to Sacramento and Minnesota?

Yeah, yeah, Deron Fox uh got what he expected, the bitter people voiced their opinion, but he also got a lot of love. Um, then on to Minneapolis with Wemby in toe. Um, where they got hit by a ton of three-pointers. Uh so yeah, it was uh about what was expected. Um, and then back home to Dallas. What did you guys see last night?

Well, I’ll let Jeff take that. Jeff, Jeff’s sitting uh up on the platform above the uh, the first level of the Frost Bank Center. Jeff, Jeff, I don’t want to put too much of the of his business out there, but he seemed to be a bit exasperated at times. Uh I, I’m not sure if a a good night’s sleep has, has changed his outlook at all, but uh, it’s time to check in with Jeff McDonald. Are, are you still exasperated? It was the second night of a back-to-back after they’d been in Minnesota.

Uh, you know, these Keldon Johnson played his heart out. Guys playing their hearts out. They were just up against they were up against a juggernaut, the Dallas Mavericks. You can’t expect to beat a team with with with more I mean, not only do they have five healthy players, they had eight. I don’t know what Jeff expected.

Oh, I wasn’t paying attention. I’m playing out the string. so what was the question? Aha. No, uh man, to me, yeah, everything you whatever. The whole it’s hard to do a podcast this way, but, but the whole, the whole caveat uh before I start this is none of this matters. Like, like we are really at the playing out the string um portion of the season. Wemby’s out.

Uh, we could talk about it later, but Deron Fox, sounds like he’s getting closer to having season ending surgery or at least that’s a possibility coming up soon. Um, you know, the Spurs aren’t though they are technically mathematically in that play-in mix, they’re not really uh they’re they’re not really going for it. You know, so the outcomes of these games don’t matter. And if if they do matter, they matter in a sense of helping to maximize lottery odds or at least uh, you know, not hurt your lottery odds by winning too much.

Um, but man, that game looked to me like the Spurs showed up, looked at who was on the other, like these Spurs, these 26 win Spurs showed up, looked at who was on the other side, which was eight guys, two of which, eight Mavericks, two of which were on a minutes restriction. Um, not a whole and one one of them is a two-way player that’s starting. And just said, yeah, we got this and kind of, kind of farted around a little bit and was up five, six, seven, eight the whole way. You kind of got the sense in their body language. Yeah, we’re going to pull this out at the end. And you know, until they didn’t. Played with fire and lost a game that they probably should have won. Like you don’t they had enough to they had enough to beat an eight-man Dallas team, who by the way was also on the second night of a back-to-back at the Frost Bank Center.

Like they had, they had enough on the floor to be able to do that and just didn’t because I don’t think they really um approached it with the appropriate fear that um Coach Greg Popovich used to preach about all the time. And at the end of the day, as I started this screed, it doesn’t matter anyway. Like whatever, but you do like to see them come out, execute some stuff, um play some defense and just kind of win that game by double digits. But they didn’t and so what?

So we’ve been doing this podcast a long time. We’ve been in this league a long time. Then that’s the harshest I’ve ever heard Jeff McDonald come out against uh a team’s fire and energy. Serious? It’s Hmm. Eh, I don’t think you’d well, you know what? Because they don’t usually do that. Usually when they lose, they just lose they you know, they really are a team that tends to play hard and tends to um, you know, that how many years did we hear them? Well, you know, they had a lot of guts. They showed a lot of pride.

They, you know, they lost their 18th game in a row, but they That’s what Mitch Johnson said last night. Yeah, well I’m I’m I’m respectable. I’m respectfully disagreeing at this set. It’s just it’s just a of all the games for, for you to I You might be right. You’re a seasoned. Well, there aren’t a lot of there aren’t a lot of when you’re in games. I didn’t notice that was that much different than most of the their efforts most nights. When you’re a professional? Man, that first half and it kind of went both ways. That first half reminded me of like a Summer League game.

I think it’s like cuz you’re just in your own head. I think it’s the head is in Summer League and you’re you’re what what do they call it? Uh projecting. I think you’re projecting you’re playing the stream. just was just straight line drives. It was guy it was a mixture of just like it was interesting. Like there was no defense. So it was just straight like neither team was really playing a lot of defense to start that game. They don’t have any good defensive players. So it was like straight line drives, but then occasionally it’d just be like a guy jogging up and taking a contested three with no shot with no pass. Which describes 98% of NBA games now.

Not really. Not not good ones. Not good teams. That’s how you win. might be right. I didn’t notice anything. Well, you weren’t watching. I was sitting right there. I I think you yeah, but I don’t I think you were zoned out or something because you don’t have to write the takeaways. See, the takeaways, the takeaways has a huge impact on this, I think. You were just out of takeaways. You’re out the takeaway stream.

I I I I thought that was a game they could have won and should have won and, and didn’t and it was mostly uh it was mostly an approach thing to me. I was But again, whatever, whatever. I mean He tied he tied Chicago for the for lottery odds now, so I guess you’re you’re doing your job. I was stuck stuck in a Denver uh stuck at the airport in Denver on a long lengthy delay.

You had a better night than we did. So I didn’t see any of it, but this Harrison Barnes guy, this old guy, he he seemed to have a pretty good game. Yeah, Harrison had a good, good game, good shooting game, and Keldon always plays hard. That was one of the three takeaways. is Keldon, no matter what the situation, even when they’re, you know, frittering away a game against uh uh what did Clay Thompson call it a high school team? The Clay Thompson call themselves called themselves a high school team last night. Even when I’m almost sure that that team could have won uh a high school state championship.

I don’t know. Have you been watching the state championship games? They could have at least won district. I I I don’t even know that they They would have. I don’t even know that they know they’re from a district, much less. so It’s up for trial. I I uh, you know, that’s just just that’s Clay Thompson being self-deprecating.

But anyway, Keldon, Keldon played hard. That That was one of Did Spencer Dinwidy off the bench, Dwight Powell, uh Dante These guys these are that’s a team. The Spurs the Spurs should get credit for hanging in there with them. You know who should get credit for hanging in there with them is the fans that stayed till the end. Yeah. It was a good day. They I guess you’d say that. They aren’t negative about the about everything like uh certain numbers of this podcast. That’s something. Um this this this podcast, sometimes you’re up against it.

So like, like uh, you know, you’re either shorthanded or you’re just uh, you’re running out of topics. Like uh that that could be a problem for a podcast. You’re trying to make things interesting for the for the last month of the season is uh I I guess one thing that’s always good for interest is Victor Wenyama, who Tom alluded to it on the last trip got on a plane, traveled with his team. He’s been showing up to games. He was uh he was on the bench last night in both Sacramento and, and uh, and Minnesota providing moral support. That’s somewhat encouraging to see that uh that he’s hanging around, right, Tom?

Yeah, no, no health risks apparently for, for flying. You know, there was some question about what, what’s he doing flying? Take while taking uh uh blood thinners. but said there’s no health risks at all. You know, they’re kind of leaving it up to him on which road game he wants to go to, provided he isn’t, you know, uh already receiving treatment that keeps him from from traveling. But, you know, from, from what I could observe, I think he’s going to make all of them. Uh He it’s really fun to watch him uh during the games. He’s he’s really into it. I mean, he’s not he’s not just sitting sitting back on the bench and uh I I heard or read somewhere last night, he got into some of the uh uh timeout uh contests and nonsense that goes on during timeouts. Uh The but the Waterburger uh The the thing is like he’s been in the league for uh a year and a half.

Yeah. And I’m not sure he’s ever noticed that stuff before. Right. And uh just, just, just watching him during And and also, there’s there’s a timeout going on and Mitch Johnson is uh rallying the troops. You know, the players are, are making their adjustments. But Victor Wembanyama, who is as competitive of uh an NBA player as there is, so much so that he tried to, to um to find an angle to, to game the the All-Star Skills competition.

Like he wants to win more than anybody. Takes it all very, very seriously. Played very hard at the All-Star game. Uh, you know, even even he’s like, uh, do I really want to listen to him to what Mitch is, is trying to say here about some adjustments to make against the Dallas Mavericks on March the whatever in a season that that is, is, is, is getting away from us or do I want to watch the Waterburger Build a Burger competition here, which he seemed to be kind of fascinated by. He, he, he, he looked back and forth and, and kept sneaking peaks and, uh, you know, watching these these four uh fans, two teams of two, dress up in hamburger buns and uh and become Waterburgers. And uh yeah, he, he uh that might have been the highlight of his night.

Didn’t get a chance to ask him, but that was fun to watch him sort of notice the stuff that he never paid attention to. Like he’s so lazy or focused. I’m not sure if he knew there was half to or uh timeout entertainment when he was a player, when he was flying. Well you, you know why? It’s because the two Waterburger uh Build a Burger uh contestants were more engaged than anybody else on the floor that night. Right, that was the most competitive part of the whole night and it’s understandable. It’s understandable. He he does miss he does miss being around the guys. I mean, he’s he’s he’s pretty active. I mean, uh, um, you know, at least the games I observed, he he was chatting up guys.

No, to be fair, he’s, he’s talking to guys when they come over to the bench. He’s, he’s uh he’s engaged. He sits right next to the coaches. He’s he’s asking questions about Yeah. calls and, and into it and everything. I I I thought that was funny though to watch Water Burger Build a Burger. I don’t know if you want to get into this speculation, but the fact that Victor is traveling uh by air with the team, do we want to sort of make some assumptions about what that means in terms of his treatment and his plan and where he is in that? Probably not.

The, the, the thing, like, I’m not sure another podcast full of speculation uh adds a whole bunch. We know that uh Sure. I mean, what is a podcast if not object ex speculation? Okay, so as Tom just mentioned, he’s on the uh, he’s on the plane. uh, the Spurs say there’s no health risk there. He he can travel. He can’t fly with blood thinners. Um, we know that uh surgical procedure is an option at some point. He has not had it because he’s on planes. Is that what you wanted to cover? I’m not sure what else what else you want to cover there? Like we’re we’re again, we don’t know, you know, we ever been This is crazy. This is not the ribbing stuff.

Go for it. We’re not privy to his um the details of his plan, but um we are aware that he was going to have to be on blood thinners for a number of months before um basically the you know, any other option could be taken. Like you can’t, you can’t. If there is a surgical component, like this shouldn’t be breaking news, but you can’t do that while you’re on blood thinners. because your blood won’t clot when they cut into you. So, um you know, so the fact that he’s traveling now, he’s on he’s on the blood thinners and that that addresses the clot issue, but it can’t be addressed permanently until he’s off the blood thinners, which will be a number of months. So it sounds like a summertime sort of thing. And then it’s and again, we don’t even know that he’s actually going to have the surgery. We’re just assuming, but um I’m not sure Fact that do you know do you know what’s a number of months? Well, a number of months is in more than one. Usually the typical, the typical regimen is three. I can’t say that he’s having something typical more more more typical or less typical, but the typical regimen for something like this would be three months of blood thinners.

But I don’t know if he would would if he’s uh typical or not. But I think it’s fair to assume it’s you know, he’ll probably be on that for the rest. I cannot wait to see Hoops Hype or Clutch Points aggregate that. Yeah, they’re not. No. I don’t even know what the I don’t even know what we just said. But yeah, sure. Cool. Well, none none the none the least. None the least. Let’s see the. I want to see the Clutch Points aggregate the just the the meme of Victor Wema according to the Spurs Insider podcast, may or may not be on blood thunders, may or may not have surgery. I see. You know. Nonetheless, they May or may not make the. I mean, all all along we were able to draw some assumptions from what he’s um going through. And it doesn’t necessarily mean the assumptions are correct, but That would just caution against drawing all any Like like like we said when this started, the Spurs have left us some bread crumbs to follow as far as what he’s got and doesn’t have and what the courses of action probably are. Even if they can’t, can’t or won’t say it directly out loud. Well, it’s good to have him around and I’m sure he’s going to figure out that green dot race uh or that that uh dot race uh soon enough, right, Mike? Well, um, if you want to get to the if you want to get to the real journalism here, uh I I was sort of surprised last night that Green won, but here’s the thing. Uh, longtime members of, longtime listeners of this podcast know that it’s generally pretty easy to um predict the winner of each night’s dot race, because there’s only three colors. There’s a blue, a green and a red and uh and the color asso a color associated with the visiting team never wins. So a lot of teams that are like blue and red, that means green’s always going to win. Like a a blue like if if if a team has green in it that green’s never going to win.

And the Mavs have a lot of uh color schemes that involve green. Like historically, I’m not sure if they still have green jerseys this year, but it seems like I’ve remembered some green at some You are correct. You are correct. And so, and, and so last night, and and and I think the key uh uh part of this is the Spurs play the Mavericks twice this week. Uh on Monday and Wednesday. And uh so I’m thinking, well, red’s going to win both times because the Mavs have blue and green. But the key thing last night was looking over at the Mav’s bench and all their uniforms, their warm ups, everything. They had no green. They were wearing their blue and black. So maybe that was the uh exception. May maybe that was the Asterisk that allowed the green to win last night. On Wednesday, like I would I would I would like, this is the the draft uh uh princess uh uh fan crap, uh gambling tip of the week. Like to Wednesday seems primed for a red victory in the dot race, because blue’s not blue’s never going to win with Dallas in town. And uh they have just enough green that makes me skeptical that Green’s going to win again. But I’ve I that’s the first, last night was the first dot race in, in years that I’ve predicted wrong because I said it’s got to be red because the Mavs have green in them.

But they weren’t, they weren’t wearing green last night. So this is this is what Clutch Points is going to aggregate from this pod. You heard it here. You heard here first. Blue’s never going to win with Dallas in town. Blue’s never going to win with Dallas in town. Never, ever. That should be the name of this pod. That should be the title of the podcast today. Blue’s never going to win with Dallas in town. Name Name me a podcast that has better information about NBA timeout entertainment. Name me one. I don’t know. You can’t you can’t talk about that. If you really if you really want Mike Finger Hot Takes. It’s and this is going to be more controversial than, than maybe it shouldn’t be uh than anything else we’ve discussed about Spurs basketball, especially during playing out the string time, is just the coyote skits have got to stop, people. Oh my God. Oh no. Victor, Victor was laughing his butt off at those. He was not amazing. Yes. No one was. It’s just silence. It’s just awkward and terrible. Oh no you always says. Jeff always says, just play music that people can, can get excited about. Like throw t-shirts into the stands. If the house is a rock and don’t bother knocking. Yes. Some some of the some of the the competitive baby races are fun.

The Waterburger Build a Burger thing, like you have people jumping on each other in hot dog or hamburger buns. Those are fun when they drop the balloons out of the sky. Uh that’s fun. The HEB uh uh uh competition to to win the gift certificates. That’s fun. But anything involving whoever is writing for the Coyote these days, just stop. Oh, hell. But man, the the skits have been terrible for years now. Oh they they they get worse every year. People do not want to watch a little five minute Coyote like terrible comedy routine. It’s it’s awful. And people you look around the stands and it’s just the the the excitement is drained from the building with these lame, lame Coyote jokes. Good lord. Like the Coyote’s a fun mascot jumping around like pointing at the crowd, doing the S P U R S thing. Those verse go. He’s great. We don’t need pre-written material. It’s terrible. Um I disagree. I think it’s fine. I think it’s fine. You do not. Everyone knows how bad it is. No one has the courage to come out and say it other than the post of this podcast. You’re Coyote skits. You are going to be hauled into the gulag for this opinion. And so much of it is just ridiculous. I’m canceled. Oh my gosh. It’s I’ve had enough.

I’ve had enough. Anyway. This is a hell of a podcast. Let’s get back to. You want to talk about basketball at any point at this thing? The original Coyote, Tim Dirk was great. To the Hall of Fame Sports Sports Hall of Fame in September. He’s been a he’s been a clue on Jeopardy uh well, well deserved. He was a he was a trailblazer. Yeah. You just can’t, you can’t keep up that level of greatness forever. And uh also you know, he didn’t, he didn’t rely on uh on, on and hermal terrible skits. I’ll tell you what. I I think the skits are fine. They just they need to work Blue a little bit more. I mean, he’s already not wearing pants, you know. Well, speaking of pants, Tim Dirk said the great thing about my job, I never had to shave. I never had to wear long pants. It was a great job. That’s the same. Say for me, Jeff McDonald. Say for me. Aha. Um, but do we can we get this back to basketball? Sure. What do you want to talk about? The segue here is if you want to read more about the uh, the Coyote or any other Spurs related uh subjects, uh log on to expressnews.com, sign up for the Spurs Nation newsletter, uh where we are going to be covering this team in depth for the rest of the season as it heads towards another lottery.

Lots of good stuff from Jeff and Tom. You have any more any more franchise icons you want to slander? Maybe next week. Keep keep keep people tuned in. Any thoughts on David Robinson, you know, come on. Come on. David Robinson always wears pants and he never, he never participates in mind numbing awful skits. Um I’m I’m I mentioned it earlier, but De Deon Fox is going to have surgery probably? He he told us? Yeah. Possibly? Could be? In LA? Yeah, little throw a little monkey wrench into the end of the season. Yeah, he said that he’ll be um this was in Sacramento during the midst of a flurry of questions about his uh time there after the game including his babysitting uh skills. Um, yeah, he he said that he could have surgery when the Spurs are in Los Angeles for that March 17th game that was originally postponed because of the wildfires. He said he’s seeing a specialist out there and he could or could not have surgery that during that trip uh season ending surgery. It’s all about that left pinky that’s been ligamous which is his dominant pinky. Yeah. Do we have a sense of how much that’s been affecting his game all year? Has he have we you see him looking down at it all the time and it’s Yeah. he’s he says not, but it clearly is, I think. It’s not pain. It’s um, it’s it’s that thing where the the ligament is kind of uh is kind of gone and uh and the the the pinky just kind of hangs there. And you could play without taping it, but then it would hang there and, and uh Dirk Nowitzki had this a few years ago and everyone scoffs. I I had this for a while where and didn’t didn’t did not have search. No, when when when when when a ball or, or something jams that finger and it tears the ligament and it’s I think it’s called mile finger. And the the the thing That’s a nickname for you.

In San Antonio. Exactly. Mo finger. Aha. The uh, the Buck Harvey had it at one point. Shout out to Buck Harvey who absolutely is not is not listening to this uh, this podcast. It’s a way through. He played through pain a lot. wait well well when when you’re when you have to type for a living, it’s an issue. And the thing is you can uh, you can immobilize it and it like with mind, it healed itself, but you had to keep it in a sling for uh like this uh plastic cast for weeks at a time, which was annoying. And that’s harder to do when you’re playing NBA basketball. Um, but the thing is you it’s not painful. It just sort of hangs. And so when uh a ball is coming and one, one thing is is hang. This is when we why we need a video podcast so I could show you this. But if it’s hanging there, it just kind of gets in the way.

So he kind of has to tape it and it’s annoying to him. And this isn’t some like when people have been saying, oh he needs to get it done now to get it over with. It’s not a like months long recovery process. He could get it done and, and, and be ready to play relatively soon. Be ready for the play in. Right. But the thing is and and so if the Spurs were in the play in or in the playoffs, I’m sure he’d play the rest of the season with the thing and not worry at all about him being ready next year. Now it’s just kind of if he’s in LA, they decide to do it uh um on March 17th, St. Patrick’s Day. Um that that game they play the Lakers. It’s not going to hurt for him to miss the last three weeks of the season. But yeah, that could that that could bring uh that that could bring more lottery odds into play, which as Jeff mentioned earlier, the Spurs have caught the Chicago Bulls. Wait, I just want to recap.

This is called Mao finger. I don’t that that’s reckless speculation on, on my part. Okay. Dirk Nowitzki, Buck Harvey, Mike Finger, and Mao finger. I wanted to recap. I’m not sure if Deron has Mao finger, but Dirk, Buck, and Mike had it. I wanted to recap the notable basketball players who had this condition, Deron Fox. Uhhuh. Dirk Nowitzki, Mike Finger and, and Buck Harvey. Yeah. he really threw Are the notable players who who have fought through uh this adversity? I should not have said I I believe It’s the Mount. It’s the Mount Rushmore of Male finger. Uhhuh. Yeah. People can look it up if they want to. I don’t know 100% that that’s what Deron has. That’s what it looks like. Uh, he did not. He did not specify that’s the uh that’s the ailment that he had. But it’s what Dirk had. So and Dirk went through the playoffs with it one year and it was just uh it was just taped like like Deron has.

It’s not a career uh threatening type of thing. Like I’m I’m still going at it hard. Buck had to retire eventually. But for other reasons. He wasn’t replace replaced by a much inferior columnist. But uh and that was bad for San Antonio Pat for the Express News, but uh Buck Buck played through a bad back also for. He did. He did. Yeah. Uh Miss. It’s like Larry Bird and David Robinson. He’s on a bunch of lists, Buck Harvey is. He is. And unlike the Coyote, whose. His material was always good. Always. He was. I I I am not involved in this coyote slander. I I I think he Jeff, you just don’t you don’t okay, you have the guts to to to question the Spurs uh oh uh add I just go I just call it like I see it. But you sit up there top of top of 107 screaming, play the house is a rock and stop this coyote. I I no, I just like that. I just like that song. I like Stevie Rayvon. And you don’t and you don’t stand by your words on the podcast.

I just like that song. I like Stevie Rayvon. Okay. Uh, the week ahead, we have to do it. Or do we need to make predictions? But a second chance at the Mavericks. Uh uh uh a chance at redemption to live up to Jeff McDonald’s high expectations for competitive spirit. Get another chance at the Mavs who may have more than eight players next time. They have I think you have to have at least eight if they have less than eight you’d have to go sign somebody. But uh a second chance at the Mavericks on Wednesday at the Frost Bank Center, then a back-to-back at the Frost Bank Center against the vaunted Charlotte Hornets and the imposing New Orleans Pelicans. All right. Uh sitting up on the platform Monday night, Spur Express News beat writer Jeff McDonald said, I think the Spurs can win four games this week. And uh they they went on to uh to lose one, so they can’t win four games this week, but those are three winnable games at home uh followed by that aforementioned trip to Los Angeles to make up for the uh the the fire game against the Lakers on Monday. So uh that’s that’s quite a week. The Spurs are uh now in a tie for the eighth position in the NBA lottery and we’ll talk about this in future podcasts.

Like there’s there’s eight pretty pretty fun prospects. This is this is a good draft to have a top eight pick in. I think uh if you if you finish in in that area, you’re going to get somebody who can help you and we’ll talk about that in the future. But that’s something to look forward to. Uh any any thoughts on the week ahead? Tom and Jeff. I think the Spurs are going to be inspired by their lackluster play in the first game against Dallas. Mitch is going to whip them into a frenzy about you know, we can’t come out here and, and embarrass the the city of San Antonio the way we did on Monday. Coyote. What Coyote did? And they, they are going to play like their hair’s on fire the rest of the week and I think they’re going to win uh all three home games. All three home games against the Dallas Mavericks, the Charlotte Hornets, and the New Orleans Pelicans. And the one in LA’s going to be a little ugly, but uh, yeah, I’m going to give them all three just because you know, it’s it’s sort of like yeah, they’re going to be inspired.

They they’re going to be um embarrassed at what they’d done against the uh Mavericks on Monday. shamed of what I’ve done. They’re just going to be totally ashamed and uh like they’re not going to play like that again. They’re going to play the next three games like they’re playoff games and win them all against teams that are probably trying to lose. I can’t wait to watch these games now. Tom, what do you think? Two and two. Two and two? Yeah, it seems more seems more reasonable. still still uh would be an improvement over the way they played recently. But that’s that’ll be fun. More more uh progress to watch for from the likes of uh Devin Vassell and, and Stefan Castle who he didn’t mention much this week. We talk about him every week. But uh he’s had his ups and downs. Continuing to uh make a push for rookie of the year. We’ll get into that and more in future podcasts. As we play out the string and more on the Spurs Insider podcast. Until next time, take care of each other and keep it real.