do you have a favorite basketball team
Lakers
the Lakers LA
yes i'm from LA
okay
uh how they doing this year i'm not i haven't even been following them very much
they're okay they're not um out of anything yet they're still hanging in there
i know they lost recently to the Bucks in Milwaukee
yeah
that's that's where i'm from so
yeah
yeah that's about the i like the Lakers and uh Mavericks are okay but they they got a lot of problems
Mavericks do have problems without Roy Tarpley they're not going anywhere
and see i don't think they should build up on one person like Chicago with you know with Michael Air Jordan and that's not good Lakers got so many different players
yeah
they do they always seem to get the talent there
um-hum i guess that's why i like them
well they i think yeah i think Milwaukee got lucky because Magic Johnson sat out that game
yeah
yep i'm not too much of a basketball fan but you know i watch a lot i watch different games like
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play-off games and stuff like that
do you think the Lakers can win the championship this year
no
not since they're coach is gone
you don't like Mike Dunleavy
no
yeah he didn't they didn't let him have quite the the flair that uh Mike Riley had
huh-uh Mike Riley was it and that's
well Dunleavy's a good coach though he was
he's good it's just he's not he's not Riley and i think that's the biggest problem is eventually they're going to have to figure out what they need to do and catch on to each other
yeah
well
he doesn't have that Hollywood attitude
huh-uh would uh
no i'm pretty familiar with with Dunleavy because he was an assistant at Milwaukee
oh was he
uh yeah and he uh when when they had uh injury problems with some of their major players uh he actually put on a uniform and went out and played
oh my goodness
they they signed him to a ten day contract and uh he became a player even though he's assistant coach
huh-uh
that's all right then
the guy knows basketball i think he'll do all right for the Lakers
huh
boy you you like basketball though don't you
oh yeah oh yeah it's fun i'm watching the i'm i'm busy watching the NC double A tournament uh the past couple weeks
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and the NIT semifinals are on tonight
yeah see now i watch the the Final Four
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once it gets down to like the Final Four
yeah right
so are any of those teams of interest to you
UNLV i like them
oh yeah well they're they're just
i guess because well that guy is from Dallas that's probably about the only thing yeah that's it that's the only reason why i don't know anybody else
Larry Johnson
right well they're just head and shoulders above everybody else this year
are they really
oh yeah they're they're so much better than anybody else it's uh that they're prohibitive favorites in winning all their games
but then you know just like that man said in this final in these in the NCAA whatever it is the little play-off games they play so many sometimes i do think it's going to be more it's luck and ambition you know
right
well it's it's just unbelievable how many games they play in in college now Arkansas played thirty four games this year that's almost half of a pro season
yeah
see that's
that's too many games
it's too many for students
you know and and then they supposed to be studying
right
you know
they're talking tonight about this NIT game with Stanford and Massachusetts that the Stanford players actually took their final exams while they were on the road playing basketball
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are you serious
they have an honor system there where they would they had uh three hours to take their exams they sent them in by uh by fax and uh i guess by they used laptop computers to uh to get their exams finished
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send them out by Federal Express and fax machine
i don't think that's good
yeah it's incredible that uh that they have to do that i mean some of the the schools give you a break they give the students a break where they can take their exams when they get back from from a tournament
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but uh these guys were actually on the road uh two thousand miles from from home when they had to file their uh their final exams and send them in
yeah i don't think that's i don't think that's good
yeah
that and then you know the laptop that's how i guess they really stuck it on a disk
the teacher you know with no answers and they could take it like that and then just print it out in fax and it would be okay because you can put it on a you know on diskette
yeah
and just have them take it but then who's helping them
yep
i don't know so do you think uh you think Vegas is going to win the finals then
see now that's
yep
i think so too they plaid Duke and uh Duke has a lot to uh to atone for here last year that lost to Vegas in the finals by thirty points
in that the other one that upset that was an upset was Kansas last night
Kansas is a real surprise i didn't expect them to get that far
when they
yeah i didn't think they was going to beat that team i don't remember the team but they shouldn't have beat them
uh they beat Arkansas yeah
i didn't uh yeah that that i like i like Arkansas
Arkansas just uh they had a rough second half
yeah
they came out uh real hot in the first half Todd Davis hitting his three pointers
and it was like they just died or something you know
yeah uh somebody took the fire out from under them they they weren't getting their shots anymore
huh-uh and
and Kansas just crept up on them and uh uh it was unbelievable because they they did that a few years ago too when they were seated a lot lower and they won the the championship
that's it
um-hum see now that's the that's the thing now
but i don't think they
everybody's waiting for UNLV
yeah well they they are just that much better they've got so many stars
and see if Kansas if Kansas
yeah but then you know it could be what if they're not hitting that night or they're low or anything and see i i feel like the college you know it's kids it's still kids
well sure i think anybody can can win on a given night but they have so much talents and the average age on that team is twenty two years old they've got a lot of fifth year seniors that are playing
so
yeah
they just take them out
think that
that'd be all right
guys that are playing for long time uh they're playing Duke uh this weekend uh the average age on Duke's team is nineteen years old
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Vegas the average age is over twenty two so they've got just so much more experience than anybody else in the tournament right now
but they're going to lose all those guys at the end of the season they're going to all turn pro i think Stacy Augmon's a senior and Larry Johnson i don't think i think he's uh is he a senior or junior
yeah
who
i'm not Larry Johnson i think he's coming out this year
he's
yeah he's coming out in the pros this year
uh-huh and Anderson Hunt all their uh their best players i think are graduating
um-hum
well maybe not graduating but at least they'll be entering the the pro draft
i don't i think i think he's going to move i think he'll probably go he now Larry Johnson is definitely going to the pros
oh yeah for sure yeah
and uh
there's some more that i don't i can't think of their names God my girlfriend she she gets me because i can describe them go you know that guy you know and she'll name them for me
George Akals and Stacy Augmon
yeah now they'll come out in the pros
Anderson Hunt
they'll come out
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they're half they're team is going to be gone now and see that's another thing for next year with UNLV they're not going to have no team
uh well i wouldn't say that i i think
well i mean as far as the the top players you know like the ones they have this year you know
yeah
their coach may not be there i think Jerry Tarkenyon may be headed for the pros
yeah he's nice
there's some talk that he may be uh coaching for the LA Clippers next year
uh the Clippers that's another team and i don't think they've ever done anything
they have a great amount of talent but they just have poor coaching i think
but um no coaching
yeah that's all right
they've got some great players on that team
that be all right between them and
i just think that yeah
then there's that uh let's see i like the Lakers Milwaukee Atlanta Hawks i like them too
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i like probably uh the Houston Rockets shocked me the the i think it was last year when they uh
last last year they beat LA last year
uh-huh well Houston's playing really well lately
yeah
last couple of weeks anyway since Akeem
because i know my sister's in LA see and she calls me up and tells me well LA's going to come down there and beat up on Texas you know and i said yeah and so when they came down so what happened it took them a long time they beat them
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but it was like four out of the three seven games they had to play the seven games
for the for the thing you know just to beat them so it was like one game over
sure
i think Houston's playing really good ball lately
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ever since Akeem changed his uh first name to Hakeem he added the H to the front
his attitude i don't know i don't know them people
well uh i can understand that it's uh i don't know why he dropped it in the first place but uh
i don't either
if it was his name he should have just kept it i you know that's your name that's your name
sure
so who do you think's going to win the NBA this year
hopefully i don't think the Lakers are going to win but i think um oh what's his
Portland Portland's looking awfully good
no not Portland what's that team with the little guy with uh the no Isiah
Isiah Thomas Detroit
yeah
Detroit Pistons they're not as good as they were last year
i don't know i think they'll go i think they'll they're good but they're not great but i think they'll
they'll have to pick it up in the in the tournament then
but i think that's what usually happens to them
Chicago's playing really good ball with Michael Jordan
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and i think they finally put things together
yeah they did good last night last night they had like a hundred and something to eighty
so they they was playing real good last night
yeah well Chicago they they've been struggling last couple of years and they've had a good team for the past few years ever since they had Michael Jordan but they never did seem to make an impact on the play-offs
yeah
i think this year they're going to really uh show some talent
i think also because they done took some of the pressure off of him
oh yeah
you know they because they always think it's all him and see there's not you know
it's not true they have a good supporting cast
that's not good but i mean everybody's always looking at him that's just like Larry Bird and um uh God Larry Bird what team does he play for Celtics
Boston Celtics right
yeah see because they put a lot on Larry Bird
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yeah i don't think the Celtics quite have the overall talent that it takes to win the NBA this year
hum-um
they've got good individual players but some are getting old Robert Parish is thirty seven years old
yep
he's still playing center
and uh Larry Bird's talking about retirement here i guess in another year
well he's out i mean he's hurt this year
yeah
so you know you never know
but they're bringing in some good young players too
yeah
which is good
um-hum
i'm i've always favored Milwaukee being from that area and they've made some good moves in personnel but i don't see them as having the the type of talent that will win the NBA this year
yeah
they have to get by Detroit and Chicago i think either one of them is a real tough challenge for them
yep if they get by Detroit i think they can get by by uh Atlanta
but yeah i don't think Atlanta would be much as much a problem as Chicago
well that's what i meant yeah they get by Chicago hey can get by Atlanta
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it would it if you can beat Chicago Atlanta shouldn't be that much different
right
you just slow down Isiah Thomas and Atlanta is um
they got what
