We've been studying and analyzing the data for our own body for about three years on what affects alcohol consumption or abstention has on either weight gain or weight loss. If you don't want to stick around for the rest of our analysis here, our current conclusion is that we cannot find, at this point in time, any correlation between alcohol consumption and alcohol abstention and weight gain or weight loss. If you want to see my analysis and thoughts behind what's happening here, please watch the video. Hey there, NJRoot22.com here with another kind of a low-carb keto carnivore chat. And today, this is, I've been working on this for three years. I've been tracking my alcohol consumption as well as my weight. It's not a scientific process. I'm not measuring lipids and all sorts of blood levels. This is just, you know, almost anecdotal, but I've kept track of my weight and when I drink, what days I drink and how much most of the time. Let me give you a little background here first. Back when, over 10 years ago, when I was, I had the standard American diet, we were extremely high carb. My favorite foods were pizza, burgers, french fries, you know, white castles. I was, I was all over the map and over the course of my life, as I went from adolescence to adulthood and beyond, I don't know if you can go beyond adulthood, but you know, I may have had a beer belly and our choice of booze as we were, you know, socializing and living our lives as adults was beer. Beer. I liked my coronas. I liked my guineases. I drank a lot of beer. I guess you could say I have beer belly. And in our case, we, when we drank alcohol and I believe this is the reason why many people gain weight and they attribute it to alcohol is because after I went out with my friends and it was like three in the morning, we'd go stumble home, literally, and I would stop at the pizza place that was open till 4 a.m. and I would get five slices of pizza or garlic knots or empanadas.  I may have been at one point in my life 300 pounds. That's that's land monster status for sure. I never saw it on the scale, but I remember being close to that, very close. So what happened a little over a decade ago, I became low carb. I started learning about the blood sugar and and insulin and ketosis and all this other stuff and you know, I would just raw, very vague general knowledge. I lost about 75 pounds very quickly. I think I got down to about two and a quarter and you know, I was still drinking beer here and there and this and that, but you know five, six, seven years into the low carb, I switched to red wine and I stopped drinking beer because beer to me was gassy and it was kind of impeding my weight loss and I even did a cheap wine vlog here because I even just a couple years ago I was still drinking red wine, but like I said, we got down to about two and a quarter and my goal was around 180. I'm six foot four. You can't tell from this video, but I'm six foot four. So and then about two years ago, I discovered the zero carb slash carnivore plan and I lost about, very gradually, I lost another 25 pounds and I got down to about 200 pounds and maybe at one point even 195 and I was very happy and and I still drank alcohol almost every day, red wine every day and I was losing weight, you know, pretty consistently. But we reached this point in our life, you know, we're not spring chickens and if you have enjoyed alcohol recreationally for decades, a couple decades here and there, it was starting to have an effect on our body and you would feel it in your, you can't feel your liver, but my pancreas, maybe my gallbladder, I wasn't feeling right. And in the last six months or so, we gained about 10 pounds. So we got back up to around 210 and it wasn't changing. So I decided I'm gonna start monitoring like almost hyper-intensively. I was monitoring my alcohol and mainly because I wanted to heal this. Not for weight loss. I didn't really care or I wasn't thinking about it. I wanted to get rid of this pain in my side. But, you know, a byproduct of this experimentation with abstention from alcohol was also to see if it had any effect on our weight. So my first phase, this is kind of hard to explain, but about six months ago, well, maybe seven or eight months ago, I said, okay, you know, I looked at my data and I think at one point I think I drank 90 straight days in a row. Not a lot. Maybe a glass or two of wine with dinner. And sometimes a bottle or two. But I didn't, I never got smashingly drunk. Maybe once, once a month I had a little pain the next day and it'll hang over. But I enjoyed alcohol mainly because it helped me go to sleep and that's what a lot of people use it for. It's like a little crutch to get to sleep. So my first phase was like I'm gonna start take consciously taking days off even though I wanted to drink.  It sounds like a lot, but it's really not. It was like every, you know, two or three two times a week I would stop drinking if that one or two times a week just to have a break to give my liver a rest or my pancreas, what have you. And while that happened, there's kind of a timeline here because I did this at the end of the last summer. And while I did this, you know, pause in drinking or just an occasional day off, I gained about 10 pounds. And I did a video about doing this weight gain and I wasn't sure if it was just less activity from the summer or if I dabbled into this low carb ice cream nonsense. And I don't know, and the alcohol, I was wondering what it was that caused me to gain this weight. But during this phase I had, you know, even taking a few days off, I gained 10 pounds. So I said, let me let me amp this up. So I went to phase two, which was I'm gonna increase my number of days I don't drink. And I went from about 15% of the time not drinking, and I doubled it to 30% of the time, which is I gave myself more days rest. Because I thought, you know, if I gave two or three days rest of my liver between drinking, then that would help. But it didn't make a damn bit of difference. I was exactly at 210 pounds during this phase two as well. I'm like, you know, my diet's the same. It's been consistent meat. And that's it. So then just recently I did phase three, which is where I'm gonna really bump up. I'm gonna double my time off from drinking again. I think I went, my abstention went to about 60% of the time I did not drink. I mean, to drink four out of 10 days still sounds like a lot. Most people drink one day a week or not even once a month.  They take four days off and five days off. It gets easier. It becomes like your sleep doesn't get affected anymore. And you really don't have any stress about drinking.  So I did this phase three and I took more than 60% of the time off from drinking and I still didn't gain weight or lose weight. I was exactly the same. I'm like, what the F. So based on these, and I have three years of data here. So during this three years, my diet for all intents and purposes stayed the same. And when I drank a lot of alcohol, I actually lost weight. And when I cut my alcohol consumption down a lot, including a lot of consecutive days without drinking, I didn't have any significant weight loss whatsoever. So one of my first conclusions was that I guess these weights that I'm at are what my body's comfortable with. And I'm thinking that because in the summertime, there's three or five months during the summer where I'm spending a significant amount of time landscaping my yard. And that includes walking six miles a day and weed whacking and lugging wheelbarrows and debris. And I really do work up a huge sweat and I do it all by hand and manually most of the time. So I think that like during my active months, my weight goes down. And then during the winter and fall, winter and the beginning of spring, not nearly as active. I'm not like a sloth. I'm not sitting on the sofa all day, but I am relatively inactive. And we don't work out. I should mention that we don't go to the gym. We don't have time. If I had time to go to the gym, things would be a lot different. So those are my correlations. Alcohol abstention didn't cause me to lose weight. And the days where I drank 90 straight days, I lost weight and that all had to do with during the summer. So I really think activity is somewhat important here. But what I'm going to do next is I'm going to try. I don't know when I'm going to start this, but since I've already determined that alcohol consumption really doesn't make me gain weight and alcohol abstention doesn't make me lose weight, I'm going to try a different method now. I'm going to try a one on two off. Like one day I'll have a drink or five and then I'm going to try and take two days off in a row before I drink again. And then one day and I'm going to try very hard not to drink two days in a row. I'll do one on, two off, one on. That'll give me up to about 66% of the time I will not be drinking. So that's even more than my previous abstention method. And we'll see if that works.  Because I'm doing this mainly for my liver and pancreas and gallbladder. I don't think drinking every day is good for my body. And then if I go on, I may get to the point where I'm just drinking two days a week, which is only eight days out of 56 days, which is pushing 70% of the time not drinking. And then if possible, I may just switch to just the one day a week, like a Friday or Saturday, like a weekend enjoyment and then take the rest of the time off. And then I don't know, maybe it's possible I could just not drink at all. I know a lot of people have succeeded because there's no real upside to drinking alcohol at all. And I'm going to end this right now. By the way, just please hit the like and subscribe if you like my discussions. This is just honest talk from a real person. I'm not influenced by any medical corporations or sponsors. But what I want to talk about is I've always believed that your body cannot burn stored body fat when there's alcohol in the body. The alcohol processing has to be done first. Then you can go and burn stored body fat, which it doesn't really make sense to me because even with alcohol in my body, I was losing stored body fat. But I guess my point is maybe two weeks of not drinking is not enough. Maybe I need, you know, 90, 30, 60, 90 days or just complete abstention and giving up alcohol altogether before the effects, the negative effects of alcohol may actually come in. So like I said, two weeks had no impact on my body weight with the same exact diet. So activity and zero alcohol could turn me into a 6% body fat person. We're at, I don't know, 14%, 13, 14% right now. So that's it. Please again, hit the like and subscribe. This is just a discussion. I hope other people are going through these same things. And it's not just a polarized black and white drink or don't drink. I think there is people have to go through the motions to understand what works for them and experience what it's like. It's just not following. I'm going on and on. I'll see you next video.


Now that we are moving towards the end of this course, we shall be discussing some of the topics which are relevant to Islamic modes of finance and they have general relevance to Islamic banking and finance and they are also important in a bigger Islamic economic context. Indexation of loans is one issue which has remained under conversation and debate for many, in fact for many decades. What do I mean by indexation of loan? Basically, whenever a loan is extended to someone that is normally for certain amount of time, a loan cannot be just a point.  Loan always involves the one party giving some amount now and receiving it after one year, two years, three years, in some cases the number of years could be 15 or 20. During this time, the conditions change, social conditions change, market conditions change, economic reality changes and so on. So, many a times people find that if I have extended $1 in loan to someone for five years after that time period, after five years that $1 is worth a lot less than when the dollar was extended as a loan. A solution to this could be indexation of loan. Benchmarking the loan with something which is more stable in value and price. Normally people say that a loan can be benchmarked with gold. Some other people they say that a basket of commodities like gold, silver and some other such commodities, they can be put into a basket and index can be created around it and the loans should be indexed with reference to that basket. That is called indexation of loans. So, if today I extend $100 to someone, its value in the form of say gold is 1 gram. After one year when the other person is going to pay the loan back, he or she should not be paying me the amount of $100. Rather, whatever is the price of one gram of gold at that time that would be returned to me. The question arises is this Sharia compliant? First thing is, is indexation of loans accepted in Islam? The simple answer is, if this is only for the purpose of benchmarking, just to know what is the value of this loan in terms of this commodity or in terms of this index, this is okay. However, it is not okay if the party is required to pay in accordance with the value of the commodity or index. That is not permissible. If I am extending $100 as a loan to someone else for one year and this is equivalent to one gram of gold today, after one year one gram of gold is equal to $110, I cannot ask the borrower to pay me $110 because that would be considered as riba. So, because of this possibility of incidence of riba, it is not accepted in Islamic law to do indexation of loans. People might say that this is unfair, no it is not unfair because the concept of riba and its prohibition is very strict in Islam, anything, any practice which would contradict with it would have to be left. Now, if a lender is so worried about the deterioration in the value of money over a certain time period, they can always buy one gram of gold and extend that one gram of gold as a loan to the other party or a gram of gold. Of course, people would say that this is inconvenient. This would involve transaction cost on this end and this would cost transaction cost on the other end. Now, every arrangement has its own cost, so if extending $100 has its cost in terms of deterioration in the value of the money, then of course, look at this arrangement buying gold and then getting the gold back and of course, then selling it back in the market, that has its own cost as well. It may very well be the case that doing this activity would be more costly as compared to receiving $100 back with small decrease in its value. So, there are pros and cons of everything. The scholars, economists and Sharia scholars and others involved in Islamic banking and finance, they are unanimous on their view that if indexation of loans gives rise to riba, then indexation of loans is not acceptable.


The first method of data sourcing where you're making new data that I want to talk about is interviews. And that's not because it's the most common, but because it's the one you would do for the most basic problem. Now, basically, an interview is nothing more than a conversation with another person or a group of people. And the fundamental question is, why do interviews as opposed to doing a survey or something else? Well, there's a few good reasons to do that. Number one, you're working with a new topic, and you don't know what people's responses will be, how they'll react. And so you need something very open ended. Number two, you're working with a new audience, you don't know how they will react in particular to what it is you're trying to do. And number three, something's going on with the current situation, it's not working anymore, and you need to find what's going on, and you need to find ways to improve the open ended information where you get past your existing categories and boundaries can be one of the most useful method for getting that data. If you want to put it another way, you want to do interviews when you don't want to constrain responses. Now, when it comes to interviews, you have one very basic choice. And that's whether you do a structured interview. And with a structured interview, you have a predetermined set of questions, and everyone gets the same questions in the same order. It gives a lot of consistency, even though the responses are open ended. And then you can also have what's called an unstructured interview. And this is a whole lot more like a conversation where you as the interviewer and the person you're talking to, your questions arise in response to their answers. Consequently, an unstructured interview can be different for each person that you talk to. Also, interviews are usually done in person, but not surprisingly, they can be done over the phone or often online. Now, a couple of things to keep in mind about interviews. Number one is time interviews can range from just a few minutes to several hours per person. Second is training interviewing to special skill that usually requires specific training. Now, asking the questions is not necessarily the hard part. The really tricky part is the analysis. The hardest part of interviews by far is analyzing the answers for themes and way of extracting the new categories and the dimensions that you need for your further research. The beautiful thing about interviews is that you allow you to learn things that you never expected. So in some interviews are best for new situations or new audiences. On the other hand, they can be time consuming. And they also require special training both to conduct the interview, but even more to analyze the highly qualitative data that you get from them.


Run it up. Run it back. Run it up. Run it back. Run it up. Run it back. Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Run it Back. This is FanDuelTV. We are coming to you from all of our different homes representing the United States of America. Sean Charania in Chicago, Chandler P out in L.A. Lou, are you in Atlanta? I'm in the part of Atlanta, yes. I'm in the part of Atlanta. I don't even want to ask. And I'm coming to you from New York City. We got some basketball to talk about. A lot of basketball to talk about. Remember the times when we talked about the Clippers and would this work and what's it going to look like? Well, it's working. They defeat the Pacers 151-127. Eight straight for them. James Harden season high 35 points. 21 of those coming in the fourth. It seems like he's doing all right. Benedict Mather with a career high 34. Look, Harden is averaging 20 on 11 shots and almost 10 assists during this eight game winning streak. I know there was so much speculation. We were part of that. But are you surprised at all how quickly he's been able to sort of just fit in and make this thing go? I'm not at all. And this is a team that we said, listen, once they started getting on these win streaks, once they even won two or three in a row, how quickly we forget their struggles in the beginning. And when they got three guys like this and a fourth guy at Russell Westbrook, who by the way, his minutes have gone down and he's still the happiest guy on the bench, which is a huge sign for this team. But when you got James Harden putting up these type of numbers and he's going, you know, 12-15 from the field, eight of 11 from the, from the three and turning the ball over one time. This is a dangerous, dangerous team. They have a little bit of everything. They still have the two or the better defending wings and PG and Kawhi. They got one of the deeper teams. They got a solid big that crashes the glass. I mean, this team literally has it all. So when they're all clicking on all cylinders, it's a nightmare of a matchup, especially for a team like Indiana that just tries to outscore you and outplay you. This was a tough matchup for them, but the Clippers got it going. And this is what makes them so dangerous because when you have this amount of talent and the post season, it's going to be tough to beat this team four times when they're all clicking like this. Yeah. And we got, we got to change course Chandler. This team has armed and dangerous. They figured it out. And I think, I think one of the key opponents is Tarris Mann is back. He's a glue guy. He's one of those guys that give them balance. He's going out there. He doesn't care who scores the basketball. He's going to play defense. He's going to make open shots. He's going to slash. He's going to give them a lot of different opportunities to score the basketball in ways that the big four usually wouldn't. And so that's made them a deep basketball team since he's been back from injury.  He's playing well, but I feel like the best player on that team is still Paul George. Paul is the most comfortable in his skin for that group. And they figured it out. We talk about the snow angels for one quick second. Like I just want to figure out what I'm looking at or how this works. Or what? Oh, yeah. We know this, you know, when I see, when I see things, yeah, when I see things like this, this is more important to me than the statue. This is more important. They're having fun and they look comfortable and they're enjoying themselves again. And I'll give them credit. James, he never snapped at the media when they were poo pooing on him for this fight, losing his first five games. He stuck with them. Hold on. Hold on. They were poo pooing on him. We were poo pooing on everybody. It's not going to work. We also, you can pull the clips. We definitely also were saying, listen, give it a time. The minute they went one, two, three in a row, it's all just going to be a memory of their struggles. And this is what I'm talking about this, the Russell Westbrook celebrating, praising, getting up off the bench. This is huge for them. To me, that is the biggest sign that they are happy. It's working and winning solves everything. And they're currently on an eight game win streak. And it's okay for us. It's okay for us to change our opinions, right? So this team is healthy, all four of their star players are playing the game. I got this team winning the West now. Hold up. I was going to, I was going to ask you, are they contenders, but we're going all the way. Okay. Really? Absolutely. If they remain healthy, you got, this is the deepest team in basketball. And so they figured it out. They've turned the corner. They got four guys that they can literally give the basketball to and say, go win us a basketball game. Russell Westbrook has accepted the fact that he's going to come off the bench. James Harden is looking like James Harden. Kawhi Leonard, he's not tripping. He hadn't said anything. He's playing this position. Paul George hadn't said anything. I feel like Paul George out of the four guys, he's benefited the most from having that depth and he's playing the best out of the four guys consistently. This is a deep basketball team and they're figuring it out. Yeah. I mean, 1000% again, we talked about this yesterday. You look at the Western conference in a series. I can't take Dallas. I can't take okay. See, I can't take Minnesota over this team. No chance. Just the experience, the guys that they have on their team, they are going to be so comfortable come post season that it's hard to overlook these guys. And again, I'll take a step further. I like the Sun still. I think that eventually they're going to get to where the Clippers are now. They're not healthy. That's the problem though. That's the best Molly problem with the Suns.  So when they get to this level, the Clippers got a big four. They got a four. They got a deeper, they got a four. They got a deeper bench. I will say the depth, the depth is unbelievable.  They can't play. So this team, the depth is unbelievable. But like we said yesterday too, the rotation is shortened and the playoffs, but injuries happen, right? They're part of the game.   The Clippers are in the best shape come post season to kind of use that depth to their advantage. And you know, one other thing that we said Chandler at the beginning of the season that we can run back to take. There are six or seven teams in the West. There are six or seven teams in the East that at any moment they can give you a really, really big problem. And so we're toning up for some really good basketball. The Clippers are figured it out. They're must see TV as much credit as we gave to Indiana.  And so I'm excited to see what the future holds for just some good basketball. Yeah, we'll get to the Pacers too in a second because they've got some things they're dealing with as well, Shoms. But as far as adjustments go, Tyloo, I mean, he's had his share of sort of dramatic situations handed to him. What has he done here? He's had to have a lot of tough conversations, tough decisions on the rotation, especially in Chandler, Lou touched on it a lot. But you talk about Russell Westbrook, his minutes, this eight game winning streak, he's having 17 minutes a game, nine points a game. He's had great splits, 52% from the field, 36% from three. He's drawn four charges in this eight game winning streak. He's kind of playing this spark plug role that we haven't seen from him really in the past, like fully embrace and his minutes for the rest of the season, it's going to be in that 15 to 20 minute range. And that's something that he's embraced for now as long as they're winning. But you think about it, Tyloo has replaced PJ Tucker almost entirely from the rotation. He's not even playing last night bull out win in Indiana. And he doesn't even get off the bench. Kobe Brown playing a lot. I'm your coffee now back in the rotation. So to me, it's the fact that Tyloo, this is what he called the toughest coaching job of his career. And he's embraced it. And he's had to have a lot of managing conversations, managing egos, guys like Russell Westbrook, PJ Tucker, veteran players that feel like they can play anywhere and shout out to Russell Westbrook. He's fully embraced that role. And I've been to a couple of Clippers games over the last couple of weeks, he can change a tenor of a game, especially in the fourth quarter. If he comes in, plays the right way and has that spark plug mentality, he's been a force for them off the bench. Hey, tough, tough as coaching job. Why don't you head over to Detroit and take that job? See how tough that is. I'm not roll, I'm not roll with that. He's got the deepest, one of the better teams in the league. I understand he's got to manage egos and substitutions and hurt some feelings, but give me that job any day of the week. I feel like that would be the good one to have. Can we talk Tyrese Halliburton for a second? Because the world is now very aware of who Tyrese Halliburton is. Everybody is very aware. He's got double teams left and right. He's going to have to figure this out, right, Chandler? Like what adjustments can he make moving forward? Well, I think it's collectively on their team. It's on the coaching staff. It's on Rick Carlaw. He even said last night that they have a target on their back from what they did in the end season tournament. And there's something that they're going to have to get used to. And the scouting report is to make anybody besides Tyrese Halliburton beat you. So they're blitzing him and picking roles. They're trying to speed him up. I think he can do a better job of hoisting these long Steph Curry, Trey Young type 3s that are low percentage. Sometimes he rushes and he tries to beat the double team, but this is an adjustment that they're going to have to make, right? They go into these games and they just try and outscore every single team.  But listen, Tyrese, he's now a household name. He is going to get guarded and prepared for like a superstar in this league because he is becoming one. So they just got to alter their offense a little bit. He's got to get off the ball quicker. He's got to try and beat these blitzes and pick and rolls, split pick and rolls and continue to do what he's doing. He's going to have off nights. He's going to feel pressure to do more because he is the main guy on this team and for them to win, he does have to have these huge games, but he's got to just continue to take care of the ball and just be used to these doubles and triple teams because it's going to happen for the rest of the season. And we talked about the end season tournament and the rest of the guys in the league, the fear of missing out. Everybody, the Indiana Pacers, they put the entire league on notice. And so guys are sitting at home and they're watching it and they want to be the guys to rain on the Indiana Pacers parade. And so one thing that we should notice, this is the first time they've played at home since the end season tournament.  You feel like you're doing the right things, but on the flip side of that coin, Tyrese, he said, this is my time. And so with that comes responsibility and he's going to get the best shot from every single team in the league. Guards that want to guard, they're going to try to shut him down. Teams that want to beat them, they're going to try to put them in their place and they're dealing with some of that. So those are growing pains for a young basketball team who's trying to get over the hump and be respected. It's a good problem to have. It's good to be respected. Nick's going to Los Angeles, beat the Lakers. Oh, on this night of all nights, how dare you? Jalen Brunson, 29 points. Julius Randle with 27-14. A.D. and LeBron as well, 32 and 25 respectively. The Nick's right now, Chandler fifth in the East. Brunson Randle doing their thing. Do you think maybe we trade for someone? We make a move here to go all in. What are we thinking for the next? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Trade everybody, trade everybody, not named Jalen Brunson. By the way, I don't know if you guys saw that video of his pops training him outside was one of the biggest videos. I love that. I love that video. Oh my God.  But listen, it's tough when you're the next, right? Because they play hard. They defend. They have this three that's not really elite. And someone said it the other day, they said they never have the best player on the floor on any night, which is true. As good as Jalen Brown is, as good as Julius Randle. I disagree. They don't have that guy. They don't have that go to guy. They don't have that household name. So yeah, I do think if you could package an RJ Barrett, you can go and get a disgruntled Donovan Mitchell or one of these other guys that can kind of push them over the edge. Because right now they're just fighting for a playoff seed. We all know they're going to get to the playoffs and they're going to lose to either Boston, Milwaukee or Philly. I think they're peaked right now, but they do have assets. They do have pieces on that bench that are valuable that they can kind of collectively go and get a star player to then make that jump. But right now, I just think they're kind of stuck in the middle somewhere. Chandler, there's no better player on Orlando Magic than Jalen Brunson. There's no better player on. There's no better player on the Memphis Grizzlies until John Marin comes back than Jalen Brunson. Oh, he's back tonight. He's back. Yeah. He's back tonight. There's no better player on the Detroit Pistons. That's better than Jalen Brunson. So look at the team's name and look at the bottom of the barrel besides bottom of the barrel. Bottom of the barrel at bottom of the barrel. And Kenny Sniff said that on any given night, they never had the best player. That was a little that was a little different. But what I will say is they have a consistency problem. You know that very talented players, very young talented players, but consistently, I don't know if I can trust this basketball team and that's their issue. But they do have talent and they do have guys that can go out and win you a basketball game in our considered All-Star caliber guys. Julius Randall has been named to our All-Star team. Jalen Brunson is on a bubble to be a perennial All-Star. So they have talented players. The problem is they don't do it consistently. And that's the issue with the New York Knicks for me. And these other teams, they have big threes, right? This team, this is not a big three. It's three solid players, right? But I wouldn't look at them and compare them with these other like big threes across the league. So again, I love Jalen Brunson. He's one of my favorite players in the league. They need more. And if I'm the GM or if I'm running that team and I can go make a splash and get one of those perennial All-Star type players, that can go in. You do it. Believe it. Everybody's touchable besides Jalen. I don't trust them. I don't trust the Knicks because they're up and down, up and down, up and down. There's no consistency in how they play. And so I get where you're coming from. But just on the standpoint of they never have the best play on the court, they do. But we don't know which version of them that we're going to get on night in and night out on a basis. All right, Shoms, you heard them. We had a lot of GM input going on right here. What are you focused on with this next team? Well, I think in the regular season, Jalen Brunson, Jules Randall, they are good enough to carry this team, at least, you know, right where they are now, which is a bubble home court advantage team, you know, literally little outside home court advantage. Last year, they didn't have home court advantage in the four or five matchup and they beat Cleveland a couple of years prior to that. They had home court advantage and then they lose. So their team that's right on the cuff of home court advantage to me, which is, which is a good place to be in a lot of ways. It's better than where they've been the last decade plus before Tibbs got there. But I think for them, it's Julius Randall and Jalen Brunson. How do their games translate into playoffs? Last year, Julius Randall deals with an ankle injury. He has surgery in the off season. And then he starts this year off slow. He shoots only 29% that first month of the season. But listen, the last month and a half, he's up to 50% shooting. He's playing better. And they do have young players, Quintin Grimes, Emmanuel Quickly, if they do want to be active in the trademark, they're a Quintin Grimes away in a trade package to the Utah Jazz from getting down to Mitchell and they end up keeping Quintin Grimes, keeping an extra first strong pick. So I could see them being active for sure in the trade marketplace. They're definitely monitoring every star that could be available. Could that be down to Mitchell? Are we really here again? We are here again. Okay. It's just everything old is new. Lakers, by the way, shooting from three, about 32%. Chandler, is that a concern? Is that enough shooting? Where are we on their Western Conference finals chances with that shooting? Yeah, I think last night was a little exaggerated. Tori and Prince had really good looks. It went three of 13 last night from three. Usually he's knocking down a way higher clip than that. But this is a team last year.  They had zero shooting. It didn't make sense. And then they made moves and we saw how well that ended up for them when they added some shooting last year. They have that shooting this year. They have the Gabe Vincent. They have the D'Angelo Russell. They have Austin Rees. They have guys, Tori and Prince, they have guys that can make threes. But this team is comfortable clearly making moves that we always were. They're always going to be in talks. Are they going to go get a Zach Lepin? Are they going to go get a DeMar DeRozum? I'd love to see a Jordan Clarkson come back to LA and kind of give them that spark and that's shooting and scoring. But I think with the success that they had last year making that huge change in the middle of the season, I look for them to do that again just to continue to add more pieces to build around this LeBron and AD. You got to take advantage of how good they're playing right now. You don't know how long this is going to last. We keep saying that every single year. But yeah, I think Polink is going to be on the move to continue to add more shooting, spacing the four for these guys to continue what they do. And there's a lot of guys out there that are available. All right, Lou, we got there. We knew the banner was coming. We didn't know what it would look like. And last night was the night. The big unveiling. Get it out of your system. How are we feeling about this? I like it. It's a mini. It's smaller than usual. It's a mini. It's smaller than usual. They're laughing. They're taking it in jest. Give them credit. Listen, we accomplished something. This is the first of all time. We don't know how much this banner is going to be respected. We don't know how much this end season tournament is going to be respected. So until then, celebrate your wins. At the end of the day, you guys got pay handsomely for it. You accomplished it. You put it together. Celebrate your wins. And so I like the fact that they didn't overdo it. But it's also important to put it on notice that we did do this. So I'm okay with I'm okay with the energy that was surrounded by it. I'm okay with the guys kind of taking it lightly. But at the same time, still honoring yourselves because we did accomplish something for the first time ever. Yeah, I agree. I love that it was small. I love that it was a mini. Like Lou said, I love that it was a different color. And look, this is just, this is just a stepping stone. And is it accomplishment? Sure. They came together and they won something early in the season. Is it the big picture where they want to be? No, but this is something that I think is going to continue to trend upward. I don't think this tournament is going anywhere anytime soon. I think it's going to continue to get bigger and bigger. But yeah, I like how the celebration was quicker. I like how it's smaller banner.  So I don't think you can belittle it and not do anything. But I think what they did last night was appropriate. That's per and by the way, if that thing gets filled up with dates, that's that's kind of cool. It's like, all right, that's that's something. And it was it was nice. All right, I can't believe I'm doing that. I must be sick. Mavs nuggets. That was a game that happened last night. Nuggets blew them out. 130 104 Jamal Murray with 22 Aaron Gordon with 21 Luca, obviously 38 11 and eight Kyrie. No Kyrie fifth straight game with the heel injury. I'm going to make you pick your favorite kid here, Chandler. Who is more important to his team? Jamal Murray or Aaron Gordon? That's a silly question, Michelle. Well, it's Jamal Murray. And I can argue Jamal Murray or Yoke. It's honestly on any given night. Jamal Murray is so long. You see what he does in the postseason when he's healthy. He is another asset that can go and take over a game. Aaron Gordon as good as he is. He's a role player. He can defend. He can score inside out. Aaron Gordon's not taking over games. Aaron Gordon's not going and getting 40 in the postseason controlling and offense playing two man game with Yoke. Jamal Murray is very, very important to this team.  This team goes as far as him. Obviously, Yoke, is there everything? He's their MVP? Probably the best player in the NBA right now. And it goes back to that Bucks team that I always talk about how good the honest is. They don't win that year without Chris Middleton as good as Yoke is. They don't win without Jamal Murray being the best person of himself. So Aaron Gordon's great. KCP's great. You know, Porter's great. They're going as far as this guy goes. Did you say an any given day Yoke-itch or Murray? He's that good. Absolutely. It's not any given day Yoke-itch or Gordon. Fair, but good lord. Okay, I know. What are we trying to cause problems? No, we're not trying to do that. Fine. Okay. I'm a little bit shocked. Yeah, all the time. No, I don't want to. There's a great, there's a great piece of video of Yoke-itch and Luca walking in together, just telling jokes, being great. But Luca is averaging under 37 points, nine rebounds, almost 12 assists in 40 minutes over his last eight games. It's a tale as old as time. Is it too much Luca all the time? Jason Kate even said he's a little bit concerned about his minutes. At some point, Lou, are we going to stop having this conversation? It seems to be if they don't have Luca out there, there's no shock. Heavy is the head that wears the crown. And with that being said, Luca is a MVP candidate. He's somebody we have high expectations for with Kyrie being out. He's going to have to carry 90% of the load for this basketball team in the way that they're built. And so I guarantee you, Luca, he's not practicing. He's not doing anything extra. He's preparing for basketball games and he's going out and he's trying to help them win basketball games. And so they're going to have to do that and to help us on the way. And so at this point, nothing is too much for Luca. He has to do what's necessary. And this is how he plays. He's a rebounding guard. He's a pass. He's a pass first, shoot, second guard, even though he averages upwards of 30 points a game. This is the way that he plays. And so this is just how this team is built. I don't know another way that they can win without him doing the things that he's been doing. Chandler, better MVP argument, Jokic or Luca? You can't go wrong either way. I'd probably say Jokic just because they're going to win more games. I think they're going to finish a higher seed and they're going to be more of a contender. But I got to say watching last night and Luca in that first half, it's unbelievable. He just, he toys with defenses, the shots he takes, let alone makes or it's really just baffling. He can do everything on the floor, step back. He's got the high release where his jump shot takes bad shots. He never gets his shot blocked. He's unbelievable. And they're both, they're both such fascinating players, right? Cause they're not the strongest, they're not the most athletic, but they are brilliant basketball minds. You can't speed either of them up. They both have size and unbelievable IQ, the way they see the floor, the way they understand the game. Just little no lookers they do. It really is impressive. It's beautiful to watch. These two, these two are going to be great for a really long time. I just got to give the advantage to Jokic right now just because his team is better. We don't know when Kairi is coming back and Luca is just trying to tread water right now while he's out because he can't continue to do this night and night out. We will go back to last year. Remember how bad we felt for him half the time where he's putting up numbers and just not much help around him. This is a team that's got to be fully loaded. They have to have all hands on deck to have any sort of chance, but man, Luca, Luca's special. Special. That's a good word. T Wolves. T Wolves were down huge. They were down 17 to Miami, came back to win this one. One 12, a 20 and five right now is where they sit. Best start in franchise history through 25 games. Anthony Edwards, 32 and eight Tyler heroes back. He had 25. He missed 18 games with that sprained right ankle and then he returns with 25 points. How badly was he miss Lou? Much needed. They needed a guy that they can go out and score the basketball and be a wild card for them.  He's one of those guys that's going to go out there. He knows his job. He knows what's important for that basketball team. He's going out there and getting a bucket. And so this is very much needed for a Miami heat team that was right there in the mix of things, but still trying to turn the corner going into the second half of the season and Tyler heroes right on time for that. And also bam miss nine of his last 12 with the hip contusion. Look, this is a heat team that I it's impossible to predict. Chandler, but I'm going to ask you to do it anyways. If everybody's healthy, what can we expect from them in the East? A scary team, especially for one of these top three teams to play in the first round. You y'all know about Jimmy Butler in the post season. Now they got Tyler hero back who literally has missed so many games to throw them in the starting lineup here. Go get 25 real quick. They've had a surprising, uh, you know, rise from the rookie Jaime, Hawkeyes from UCLA, who's been, you know, great on both ends of the floor. So this is a dangerous team. When you look at them in the, this is a team that is deep, is tough, is well coached that you don't want to play in the playoffs. And so I look for them to kind of float somewhere around that four, five, six, um, seed and it's going to be a tough out because we used to, we know how tough they play. We know the defend. They got banned back is one of the best defending bigs. They got Jimmy back is one of the best defending wings. They got shooting. They can space the floor. So this is a dangerous team. And this is a team that I trust. I trust them more than New York. I trust them more than Indiana. I trust them more than Orlando outside that big three. This is a team with experience that are tough, tough team to beat four times. Joms, the go bare trade was and probably continues to be one of the most criticized trades. And then we have Rudy go bear with a very strong start. Is that a coincidence? Well, Rudy go bear told me before the season he was aiming for his fourth defensive player of the year award. So I think he came into this season with with a strong mind. He came into the season motivated. And after the year last year, I think he took that hard and he worked on his body obsessively over the summer. I talked to people around the Timberwolves. They say he's obsessive about his body. The intricacies he takes in his day to day approach and like little things, whether it be diet, whether it be approaches. He's very, he's very maniacal about it. And he spreads that with the rest of his teammates, helps the younger players out. He went on a on a darkness retreat after the season. He spent a few days literally without his phone in a cave. He got his body in the best shape ever. And I think that has clearly shown itself. He's averaging again over 12 rebounds a game over two blocks a game. Those are really what his career norms were. Last year he was under two blocks per game. We're not used to seeing that for Rudy go bear. And now the Timberwolves are one of the best defenses in the league. That's on par for what this team traded for when they, when they got Rudy go bear. And so, you know, for Rudy go bear, it was a lot of motivation after last season. Are we missing something with these darkness retreats? Should we be doing this? For them to beat 20 and five and 25 games, lock me up in a cave. That's, that's going to be the outcome. We're missing something. Quiet with your own thoughts. Sounds like hell. All right, we're taking a quick break. When we come back, Sean scoops and Anthony Edwards on Michael Jordan, not the other stuff. Oh, it's scoops time. Shams. All right. Uh, Mack MacLung, it's almost like it manifested itself. Is he in or not?  So last week, Mack MacLung joined us and yesterday sources told me that the NBA formally invited Mack MacLung to the dunk contest 2024 All-Star weekend in Indy. The expectation is he's going to take it. He has not officially taken it yet, but that's the expectation. He's a reigning G-League player of the month averaging 25 points a game, six assists a game for Orlando's G-League affiliate. And we saw what he did last year. Perfect scores. Didn't miss a dunk throughout his dunk contest experience. So we don't know the rest of the field quite yet. But Mack MacLung, the first name to be invited, the first name that you can, you can safely assume will be a part of the mix there. Yeah, I can't. I mean, good Lord. Why would you say no? Is who else to, I know we did this last year and it didn't happen, but who would we like to see guys? Chandler, you first. Anyone? The guy I was supposed to last year that pulled out Shaden Sharp. I think he's, he's the bounciest. He's the bounciest dude. I think he's the one that would give, you know, Mack the most trouble. I think it would be awesome if part of his suspension of the NBA made jog to the dunk contest.  That would be so cool if guys like Jarr or Zion or Anthony Edwards did it. But I feel like that's not going to happen. That's all pipe dream. So let me, let me get Shaden Sharp. All right. I'd like to see two different scenarios. I will, I would like to see Aaron Gordon and Zach Lavigne back since Mac McClellan, since Vince Carter, since Jason Richardson, they by far had the most entertaining dunk contest that we've seen to date. So I would like to see those two guys give Mack a run for his money. And you know what?  LeBron, one and done. Go ahead and give us one.  We don't expect you to win. Just entertain us like you did for the N season tournament. Sign up for the dunk contest. So we could just have the archive footage for years to come. Like we do with Michael Jordan and everybody else. Just do it. Him winning the dunk contest at 39 years old might be the craziest thing on his resume. That would be insane. That would end the argument. Maybe, maybe not. Shams, appreciate you. We'll see you tomorrow bright and early. Thank you, sir. And it's time now for say what? Stop comparing me to Michael Jordan. He's Michael Jordan. I'm my own basketball player. So whatever I do, I do, but I'm nowhere near Michael Jordan. No more comparisons. Yeah. But if that error was today, do you feel like MJ could guard you? Hell no. No. Right now, Lou. He said the right things, but even he didn't mean that. He's got a lot going on, right? He's got a lot going on. I'm going to stay away from it, but what I will say is we are in a competitive business. This is a competitive sport. He didn't say anything wrong. He should feel like nobody can guard him, but it was a lot of bravado in it. He knows what he said. Yeah, you have to say that, right? If I'm going up against KD or Kobe LeBron, I'm not just going to say they're going to bust my ass, right? I'm going to think I'm going in there and I'm having a great game. So like Lou said, though, you could hear just a little bit of joke, a little bit of doubt when he said it, but you have to say that. What are you going to say? No, he would clamp me. No competitive human being in the NBA is going to ever say that, or else you are a whack. Fair enough. All right, fair enough. How about he had more? Like he's been saying a lot. There's more. There's more going on with that. The man's very busy. Here he is on LeBron. He's been the best player in the world for a long time. So I think that's the main person I want to cook. Him or KD? Oh, no, these guys are both playing. See, that's the difference. MJ's done and been done for a long time, but LeBron and KD are still out there. Is this a wise move? Yeah, I like it. I like it. This is his edge. This is his humor. I feel like he's always saying funny stuff like this. But yeah, to be the best, you got to beat the best. And those two guys have been the top of the league for a really, really long time. And Anthony Edwards is this name that's kind of on the rise, who's becoming one of the, I think he's the best two-way player, honestly, in the NBA right now. So yeah, I love his confidence. And to be this good and to get this far as he has, you have to be confident. So I love him. I love everything, mostly everything about him. Fair enough. Luke, Kevin Garnett, Andre Monk. I actually think the organization is afraid to go talk to him and be real. They're afraid of this man. Do you agree with that? No, I disagree. KD is from the old school where every once in a while private conversations are going to get leaked to the media or it's going to be a big deal on sports center. We are now living in a place where the Golden State Warriors have always kept their business tight and in-house. Even when he punched Jordan Poole, it was a big to do when that footage got leaked because they've always done such a great job of dealing with their issues in the house. And so I think there has been a conversation with Draymond. I think there's been several conversations with Draymond. We just haven't been privy to them. And so I disagree with KD. For sure, Draymond has been addressed. It's been talked about as a team. It's been talked about as a unit. And we should just move forward. It is an interesting read, though, because sometimes it does feel like maybe they're not talking to him, not harshly enough, but seriously enough because he keeps doing it. But I guess this is the time we're going to find out. Chandler Kevin Durant said that Jalen Brunson would be a quote, hall of fame player by the end of his career the way he's playing. Do you agree? I mean, yeah, he's got to do it for about eight to 10 more years at this level, but he's on the right path. And this is a guy who, man, looking back with Cuban and Dallas, I don't know how you don't re-sign this guy for $55 million or whatever you could have got him for is outrageous. He is a perennial all-star. He is a go-to guy. He is number one, number two option on a very, very good team.  Not one of these big names. Villanova, he was great, but he's always just been solid. He is who he is. He's not going to blow you away with athleticism or speed, but he's so solid he can knock down shots. He plays pick and roll. He does everything you want your point guard to do. So I think he's on the right trajectory. I think he's unbelievable. And I think he's the only bright spot moving forward on this next roster that's going to be there for a really, really long time. I love that this is happening. All right, Lou. This one's a good one. Trey Yong said, if he didn't get hurt during the 2021 Eastern Conference Finals, quote, I ain't going to lie. We definitely would have won our first chip. You were on that team. Do you believe that? Cappuccino. Listen, I'm with Trey. Listen, the reason being is because we really felt like we couldn't lose at that point. We were shooting the ball well. And all these things is about time. We felt like we were peeking at the right moment. We were rolling at the right moment. And we had a really good groove and we couldn't miss shots. And so Trey having that sense of feeling like we could have won a championship, I was right there with him. I mean, why not? We were in the final four. We were right there in the mix as well as anybody else. One thing that he left out that's important for context, Giannis also missed two games in that series as well as Trey missing some games. And so I felt like that was a series that anybody could have won and could have went on to the championship. So him having that feeling, it's not as far. It's not as outlandish as it sounded. But I don't know if we went that far, but we had an opportunity just like everybody else dealing with the circumstances. So I'm on offense. Chandler, did any of that convince you those words? I mean, sure. Every team, I guess, when you make it that far, every team, you think you think you have a chance, right? Like if you're in the semifinals or the finals of your conference, yeah, you think you have a chance. But to say with that confidence that you ran in, you didn't. No, I'm not rolling. Okay, fair enough. Shane Sharp, here we go. He was asked about the Blazers once they all get healthy. Quote, I think we have something special here. They're six and 19, but it is a trick question, right? What are you supposed to say? What? I mean, it could be worse. It could be Detroit. It could be. Oh, here we go. That's three. That's three strikes. No, so hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait. So you're rolling with this? No. Can I finish, Louis? I don't think it's this bright, crazy future like San Antonio. I don't think it's okay. Okay. See in a couple of years, but when you look at the pieces, the Scoot Henderson's, Deandre Aitens, the Anthony Simons, they have talent. But as far as that translating to a good team anytime soon, then no, no, not at all. I feel better about their talent than San Antonio's talent.  You're nuts. As an entirety, you didn't even mention Anthony Simons. Like, four guys are going to be better than any four that the San Antonio Spurs got right now. I just, I think Wimbanyama, Vacelle, and Cal Johnson are better than anybody on the Trailblazers. No, we don't have that. This is another time. This is another segment. Oh, no, no, this is a great time. Well, we have 18 minutes left. Let's hear it. This is out of the four people on the Portland Trailblazers that we mentioned, and out of the three guys that we've mentioned on the San Antonio Spurs, Anthony Simons is a proven hooper at this point. Everybody else is trying to figure it out. So with that alone, he gives me the edge. Yeah, but with that, Victor Wimbanyama, Victor Wimbanyama is pouring everything else right now. Taking him over anybody in the NBA for the future, let alone any of these guys on the Trailblazers. Hey, hey, Chandler, I'm going with six and 19 before I go with four and 21 points. We're screwed either way and we want wins, but talking potential. I love the kid, Vacelle, Kelton Johnson, he was on Team USA. He's proven like, yeah. Yeah. But we just talked about Shane Sharp. At some point, School Henderson is going to wake up. Anthony Simons is still the best player on that basketball team. They still got Scoot, they still got Scoot as the rookie of the year. You flip flopped. I'm out of there. Nah, nah, nah, nah, I'm out of there. At some point, he's going to wake up. You can't say that. It's a feeling. It's a vibe. So you don't have a feeling about the Spurs that at some point that's all going to get better and turn around, but you have it about, no. I just, I just think there's more pieces in Portland. We didn't even mention Sohan. We didn't even mention Sohan either. Who's also going to be really well. They don't even know what position he is. So why should we not point guard? We know that. I'll tell you this, no barring a huge trade or anything else. The San Antonio Spurs will make the playoffs before the Portland Trailblazers in the near boom. I take that bet. I take a hundred dollar bet for it. Hey, Mark, this is where I want some too, because there's no way that Chandler, you're the only one winning this bet. Lou is going to obviously, obviously you're with the Spurs. So I take a hundred dollar bet with you as well. Yes. You know, that's the only way she'll ever agree with me is if I ride the Spurs.  Man, that was a lot said on that. I feel like we're going to dissect everything you guys just said on this tomorrow. Well done, guys. Oh, we still have more show. My bad. We're going to take a break. Coming back, our first edition of Who You Got. Oh, yep, yep, yep, yep. New segment called Who You Got. Very, very simple. I'm going to give you two choices, and then you tell us who you got. Could not get easier. All right, Pacers or he, Lou? Pacers. That's it. You want me to elaborate? Yeah, I'm going to be good for TV. Yeah. They're a better team. Well, not according to this thing that you have down here below your head. Yeah, I just like the Pacers. I like the energy surrounding this team. I like that they're turning the page on what they've been historically through over the past 10 years. And, you know, they have a guy that's clear cut the best player on both teams. And so I like the Pacers. Hmm, Chandler. I disagree. I think the heat, I think they have the experience. I think they're one of the better defensive teams, but comparing to literally the worst defensive team in Indiana. I think Tyrese Halbert is special, but I think when you look at the makeup of this team with the scoring, the defense, the versatility that he has, I think they're a harder out in the playoffs. I think they're a deeper team. I think they're better. All right, fair enough. Chandler, you're up next. I just feel like Chandler and I, we're just going to debate every single thing today. Feels like it. What's the only thing that beats good defense, Chandler? Better offense? Better offense. And right now, Indiana's a better offensive team. Defense wins championships, Lou. So they say. I'm yet to see it. So they say. We're going to be seeing the Pacers play zone defense in the finals. I don't see it. Okay. Maybe you might be pressing 94 feet. They're going to be pressing 94 or they go, they go have to put 140 on the board and I like the chances of doing that. Yeah. I think that would be fun. I would enjoy that actually as a consumer. And you might agree on the next one, maybe, I don't know, Chandler, Tyrese, Maxi or Jalen Brown. This one's tough. I think I initially sent in Tyrese Maxi, but then I went with Jalen Brown. I think he's more versatile. I think he can do more on the floor. I think he gives you a better defensive option. His size. It's weird because they're different positions, right? So, but I got to go with Jalen Brown. Tyrese Maxi is, he's just now becoming this, this kind of go-to guy. Jalen Brown's been it for longer.  We agree on this one. We agree on this one. Jalen Brown has been, has been one B for a number of years now.  Tyrese Maxi is having a coming out party at this point in his career. Big things to come in the future, but at this present day, it's still going to be Jalen Brown. All right. This one's tricky because I know what Chandler's going to say, Lou, but Luca Doncic or Kevin Durant. Lou, you're first. It's going to be Luca for me. It's going to be Luca, you know. Yeah. Kevin Durant has a lot of help. And on the offensive end, he's not as much as a rebounder as Luca is. He's not as much as a passer as Luca is. That team, if you could take Kevin Durant off the court, that team is still going to have an opportunity to win with the depth that they have in Devin Booker. And whenever Bradley Bill gets back healthy, you take Luca off the floor, this team probably won't want a basketball game. So it's going to be Luca for me. Yeah. Can you imagine Luca on that, on that son's team and with that depth and with that help and with that, with, you know, that team, I think, listen, I think they're both special. I think Kevin Durant a couple of years ago. Now it might be a different argument right now. Luca is younger. He's, he's in his prime. Kevin Durant is kind of going out of his prime. They're both, you know, first bell Hall of Fame, but I'm going Luca. Okay. Luca twice. All George or Kawhi Leonard Chandler. See, I think we're going to disagree on this one because Lou said Paul George is the best player on the Clippers earlier and I full heartedly disagree. I think Kawhi Leonard is their best player. I think he's the most proven player. I think I saw, did he, as he played every single game this year. So the fact that he's in that shape, he's healthy. We haven't seen this version of him since Toronto championship. Like he is, he is back. He is healthy. He is strong. He's getting to his spots. We all know how good defensively he is. And I said earlier too, this, these are probably the best versatile, you know, offensive and defensive wings in the league. But if I had to pick one, I'm going with Kawhi, especially because he showed me he can stay healthy this year. Kawhi is not a bad pick. The only reason I feel like Paul George is the best player on that team because he's the most comfortable, you know, no matter who's on the floor, he's going to get 15 to 20 shots a night, no matter what's going on. And a lot of that offense is run, is ran through Paul because he's more of the, he's between him and, and damn, I forgot his name, but between him and James Hart, they're, they're the, the two natural scorers on that basketball team. And so I think Paul George is the best player on that team because he looks the most comfortable. Kawhi is still trying to figure out, he's still trying to find his spots.  Paul George is still playing through the offense, still coming off a downstream, still doing this thing. And so I'm still going PG. We're going to take a quick break, wrap things up when we come back. John Morant is back tonight after the 25 games suspension, the over under for him, 24 and a half points. What do we expect Chandler? I mean, normally I'd go over here, but just being the first game back, the jitters, the cardio, the conditioning, I probably will go under assuming there's some sort of restriction of some sort. Do under what out of doubt? Fair enough. We'll see you guys tomorrow.


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Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss about the real numbers. We will be discussing a very important property of positive integers in this session which is Euclid's division lemma. We know that a lemma basically is a proven statement which is used for proving another statement. Now let's state the Euclid's division lemma given positive integers a and b there exist unique integers q and r satisfying a is equal to bq plus r where r is greater than equal to 0 and less than b. Let's consider a pair of numbers a and b. Now we apply Euclid's division lemma to a and b. On doing this we get the question q and the remainder r where the remainder r is greater than equal to 0 and less than the number b. I hope you have understood how to apply Euclid's division lemma to given two positive integers. Next we discuss Euclid's division algorithm. This is based on Euclid's division lemma that we have just discussed. This is basically a technique to compute the highest common factor or you could say hcf of two given positive integers. This chart summarizes the Euclid's division algorithm. So if we need to find out the hcf of two numbers a and b then our first step would be to apply Euclid's division lemma to both the numbers a and b where a is taken to be greater than b to get the whole numbers q and r such that a is equal to bq plus r where r is given to be greater than equal to 0 and less than b. In the next step we check if r is equal to 0 or not if r comes out to be equal to 0 then the hcf of the numbers a and b would be equal to the number b and if r is not equal to 0 then we continue the step one that is we apply Euclid's division lemma to a and b where we take a as the value of b and b as the value of r and we continue this till we get r equal to 0. Let's try and find out hcf of two numbers a and b using Euclid's division algorithm. Here we have taken a to b greater than b now as in the first step we apply Euclid's division lemma to the numbers a and b to get the whole numbers q and r where r is greater than equal to 0 and less than the number b. Here as you can see that r is not equal to 0 then we repeat step one by taking a as the value of b and b as the value of r and now we apply the Euclid's division lemma to these two numbers. So we get the whole numbers q and r with r greater than equal to 0 and less than the number b. Again as we see that r is not equal to 0 so we take a as the value of b and b as the value of r and we apply Euclid's division lemma to this a and b. So we get the whole numbers q and r. Here as you can see that we get r equal to 0 so in this case we will stop and the hcf of the numbers a and b would be equal to the value of b at this step. Hence we have found out the hcf of two given numbers a and b using Euclid's division algorithm. So this completes the session. Hope you have understood the concept of Euclid's division lemma and Euclid's division algorithm.


The paper presents a minimum volume-oriented bounding box, OBB, strategy to improve the computational efficiency of urban cellular automata, CA, models by reducing the number of unavailable cells in the axis-aligned bounding box, AABB, of study areas. The OBB strategy involves geometric transformation and a set of functions to describe spatial coordinate relationships between AABB and OBB layers. Experiments show that the OBB strategy can significantly reduce computational time, resulting in up to 25-fold speed-up when vectorization, parallel computing, and OBB strategy are combined. The paper argues that the OBB strategy makes the integration of vectorization and parallel computing more efficient and scalable, improving the applicability of urban CA models. This article was authored by Changsha, Binjong, Haijun Wang, and others.


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Welcome everybody. Welcome to the Spring Fever Garden Forms where we connect you, the gardeners, with experts at North Dakota State University. My name is Tom Cobb. I'm an extension horticulturist in the Department of Plant Sciences, and I'm here with Scott Swanson, an electronic media specialist in the Department of Aeroculture Communications. This is the first of our four Spring Fever Garden Forms, and tonight our theme is flower gardens. The format we use is the one we always use. We start with about a 20 minute presentation followed by about 10 to 15 minutes of questions and answers, and we really do invite your questions. So if you have a question, just slide your browser down to the bottom of the screen and a question and answer box will appear and then type in your question. Now please keep the questions relevant to the topic. Okay, we're not going to be not going to talk about tomatoes or birch trees tonight, okay. And we will get to as many questions as we can time permitting, and we will stay on schedule. Okay, so let's get started and talk about dividing perennial flowers. Prennials are the showstoppers of flower gardens, and knowing when, how, and how often to divide them is key to keeping these plants vigorous. Here to teach us how to dig and divide perennials is Don Kinsler. Don's a native of Lisbon, North Dakota, and he writes weekly gardening columns and newspapers. He hosts lots of radio programs during the growing season, and he has a weekly podcast called Growing Together. Don is the NDSU Extension Agent for Horticulture in Cass County. Don, welcome to the forums. Well, thank you, Tom. And it's a pleasure to be here this evening and welcome everyone. Well, I love all phases of gardening, including growing perennials. And as Tom mentioned, perennials are absolutely the showstopper of the flower garden, and they work so well in landscapes. And we get so much mileage from our perennials. And of course, perennial flower is a flower that grows back each year and rewards us each year with blossoms. Some are longer lived than others. But again, the basic term perennial, a flower that comes back each year. Now, when you're talking about perennials, maybe reading about perennials, you'll notice the term dividing. Dividing a perennial. What do we mean by dividing a perennial? Well, perennial flowers tend to grow in clumps that each year increase in diameter a little bit. And dividing simply means to split that clump into more than one piece. So that's what we mean when a gardener says, I'm going to divide my perennials. Okay, well, why do we divide perennials? Okay, we mentioned that they come back each year. So why do we have to do anything with them? Why do we need to divide them? Well, there's a couple of good reasons to maintain vigor. If you take a look at the photo there of the clump of iris, it has become old. The old rhizomes in the center are no longer blooming well. It's less vigorous. So we want to maintain vigor by dividing occasionally. And also some perennials become so crowded. And by taking dividing, it gives them a whole new lease on life and no longer crowded. And to manage the size. Now some perennials such as the ground cover type of perennials spread outward and soon become just larger and more unruly than we would want. And so we can manage the size. And of course, one of the fun things about growing perennials is growing more of them. And so by dividing perennials, we can make more. We can increase the size of our perennial flower bed or share with friends and neighbors. And maybe we move. Maybe we want to move the perennial itself. Maybe it's in the wrong location. So we need to move it within the flower bed. Or maybe we ourselves are physically moving to another city. And we want to take great grandmother's peony along with us. So those are the reasons then why we would be digging, dividing, moving, relocating perennials. Okay. Well, how do we know if a perennial needs dividing or not? Well, one way to tell is to look at the center of the clump. If you take a look at this clump of ornamental grasses, notice how the center has died out. All the good parts are on the outer perimeter. So that is a clue to watch. And if ever the center, maybe it's a clump of iris, the ornamental grasses, maybe an old peony where all the good stuff is on the outside, the center is dead, it's time to divide. Or in the case of this daylily, it's just not blooming the way it used to because it's just become crowded. So if it's not blooming the way it used to, maybe time to dig and divide. Or take a look at this perennial sedum. Notice how the center instead of being nice and tight and full, it has splayed apart. And that's also a sign that that sedum has gotten old and would benefit from digging and divided. Okay, so when we're trying to decide if a perennial needs dividing, look for those key points. That'll help. But also, as a rule, certain perennials have a certain kind of a lifespan in which they should be divided. Okay, so I've divided these up into about four groups. You know, some need dividing more often, some hardly need dividing at all. And don't worry about trying to jot all these down because on the perennial handout that I provided to you, these are all listed there. So just sit back and enjoy and these are listed on the handout. Okay, so the first group are perennials that need dividing fairly often to keep them vigorous every one to three years. Maybe not every year, but maybe the third year. Okay, a few of the key ones in the list that you have the white chastidacy. About every three years or so, it's time to reset some nice fresh ones. The allium with the round pinkish lavender that needs rejuvenating every three years or so and iris. The tall German bearded iris, which is photographed there in the yellow. Every three years or so, they, the centers become a week and all the good stuff is on the outside. It's time to dig and divide them. Delphiniums are another one. The true lily that grows from a bulb, a hearty mums, those should almost be divided every year. So anyway, this is that group of one to three years fairly often. Okay, then the next group. And again, these are all on the handout. Every four to five years, such as the white flowered tall garden flocks, daylilies in the upper right hand corner. Daylilies every four to five years, bloom better if they're dug and divide. And we've got the galardias, coneflowers, ornamental grasses, which is pictured in the lower right hand. These are the mal grasses really every four to five years should be dug and a fresh clump from the outer perimeter, set back in. Okay, then next we progress to the group every six to 10 years or not very often, but they do benefit from about every 10 years at least that includes bleeding heart. Hosta, which is the blue, blue leaves up in the upper right hand corner. And perennial salvia has become quite popular that's in the lower left corner there, the orange poppies, Siberian iris, you know, and again, consult the list. Now, here's an interesting group. This is the group that rarely needs dividing, maybe every 10 years or more, maybe, maybe much longer and the reason that they don't need or want to be divided is they really don't like the root system monkey with that much included in that is the gas plant, which is in the upper left hand corner and actually on a calm summer night if you hold a match below those they do send up a little poof of flame, because they exude a gas I've I've done it I've seen it with my own eyes it actually works peonies peonies can stay in place a long, long, long time. Lupins don't like to have the roots monkey with roots are kind of brittle. The Russian sage milkweed the asclepias they have quite brittle roots they don't like to be dug and divided any more than absolutely necessary. So it's kind of nice to have a group of perennials like this that rarely need dividing. So again, we've grouped the perennials like that into time periods, your periods in which they'd like to be divided. Next thing you've probably heard that certain perennials want to be dug divided moved in the spring certain perennials want to be dug divided moved in the fall. Okay, how do you know which is which well there's a good rule of thumb, and that is do the operation during the season opposite when it's flowering. Okay, one of the easiest for me to remember is tulips okay tulips bloom in spring don't they, and the time to plant or if you're going to dig and rejuvenate tulip bed is in the fall. Now the reason for this is when a perennial is in full bloom. That's when it's at its weakest, it's expanded a lot of energy producing those beautiful flowers. And if we go digging and cutting the roots, that's really hard on a perennial and we could even lose it. So that is why we choose the season different from when it's blooming okay let's hone in on this a little little more closely. Okay, so if a perennial blooms in spring like the tulips spring early summer, then we dig and divide in the fall. Okay, say around Labor Day included in that group are the bleeding heart you know they bloom early, early summer spring, so do those in the fall. Peanuts, peanuts are blooming the end of May, early June, so we do those fall about Labor Day. Iris, anytime from about August on because iris typically bloom in June. Okay, so that's the group that we do in the in the fall. Okay, next, if it blooms in the fall or mid summer, then we dig divide move in the springtime. Think of Hosta, think of Hosta. When do they send up their flowers? That's always late summer and so we do those in springtime. Okay, how about ornamental grasses, when do they send up their seed head? Late summer fall, so we dig and divide in the spring, the season opposite of when they're blooming. Mums, the Hardy Garden Mums, classic example, mums bloom in the fall, we divide, dig, divide, move in the spring of the year. Okay, next we're going to take just a few examples of how we actually do dig these. Okay, here's an example of a Hosta. Okay, we mentioned that Hosta you dig, divide, move in the spring of the year. So just as a little bit of growth is starting, there's probably maybe first part of May or so depending on the year. I like to wait until you see a little tiny bit of growth, then you know that you're digging and dividing and getting a live clump. Okay, so here we are digging up that clump. Now, you wouldn't have to dig up the whole clump and divide. You could take away maybe three fourths and leave a fourth in place. But I like to dig up the whole clump because that helps get rid of any perennial weeds that are in the middle such as dandelions or little tree seedlings. You can get those out of there. And then also it gives you a chance maybe work some compost or peat moss in. So I prefer to dig up the entire clump there. Okay, then we break it apart. As a rule, I don't know a nice size clump of perennials. I can always get at least four chunks out of it. You could divide it up into more if you want. But the smaller division, it will take longer to regenerate and come back. Okay, that was one that we would do in spring just as it's starting growth like the Hosta. Okay, now let's take a look at digging and dividing something in the fall. Peonies. We mentioned peonies bloom in spring early summer. So we're digging, dividing, moving in the fall around Labor Day. All right, it's easier to work with them. If you do cut back the tops, just makes it easier to dig. Then we go ahead and dig up the clump. And what we get is a big massive. If you've ever dug up peony roots, it's it's a lot of work because there's there's a lot of them there. And I want you to focus specially on a couple of white spots there called the eyes. They're the buds. They are next year's buds, the stems that are going to come up where you see the arrow. Okay, we're going to focus on that. Now to divide these perennials, whether it was the Hosta or whether it's these peonies, an old gardener once showed me a method and I've used it ever since because it works so well. And that is to take the big clump of perennials and submerge it down in a wash tub, an old tote, a water tank, and you bounce it up and down in there and pretty soon the dirt will come away. And it will start to form some natural kind of divisions that you can pull apart. Now in the case of peonies, you oftentimes have to use a knife saw or a pruning shears also on those, but you're able to separate them out. In the case of a peony, it should each division should have maybe four or five of those good eyes, those whitish pink buds that you see there. Now with most perennials, when you reset a clump back in, just plant them at the same depth that you dug them up. There's usually kind of a little dirt layer or dirt line from which it came up and out. But peonies are very, very particular. The uppermost bud or eye on a peony needs to be situated so that it's no deeper than an inch and a half below soil surface. So that's why we have a kind of a stake across the top to gauge where the final product will be. Upper most bud no deeper than about an inch, inch and a half. Okay, and there we are pointing to those uppermost buds. Then of course, firm the soil in around and with any of these perennials, even the fall planted ones, very important to water them in thoroughly that will get good soil to root contact and will be good. Okay, a couple of quick notes on dividing iris. Okay, again, they bloom in June kind of towards the early part of summer, so we're digging dividing in September. You can also do in August. So we simply dig up the clump, you'll find a bunch of old rhizomes towards the center. Take the good parts from the outer spot.  And you'll also notice that I've separated off with a knife, a good little clump and left behind the old part from the middle. Form a little hill of soil and then fan the true roots over that so that the rhizome is kind of resting on top. We don't want that too deep down into the soil or it'll rot and then backfill with soil. Now iris and most of these perennials do very well planted in a little grouping three, five, seven. You'll get a little more impact than just one. And of course, watermen very thoroughly after planting. Okay, the last one that we're going to take a look at is digging and dividing daylilies. Usually towards the end of summer, take a shovel, dig them up, we've cut the tops back, raise up that clump. And in a bucket of water, I like to submerge them. You could cut them with a knife, but also if you kind of pull and twist, it helps if you're doing it underwater, they will come apart in sections. Then you've got many, many sections you can replant. And again, plant them in a little grouping, you'll get a little more mileage, a grouping of one color. Then you really have impact. Now with our perennials, patience is the key. For example, a newly divided peony can take three to five years to come back into full blooming. That's okay. It's developing into something that'll last for many, many decades. So we need to have patience. The first year after digging and dividing with any perennial, the first growing season for sure, I remove all flower buds so that the strength can go down into the plant. The second year, I oftentimes will remove the flower buds to give the strength into the root system and developing a good hearty crown. And then by the third year, go ahead and enjoy. And with that, I will stop sharing my screen. I should mention first though, if you do have any questions or would like to email me, my email is donald.kinsler at ndsu.edu. Now I will stop sharing and I gladly entertain any questions. Okay, thank you, Don. That was an outstanding presentation. Okay, let's have your questions. Don, you talked a little bit about bleeding hearts. This person has a bleeding heart that's very big clump. Do you have anything more to say about that spring bloomer? Okay, bleeding heart don't require dividing very often. And even though it's a big clump, if the center is still healthy and not dead in the center, then you can let it go as long as you want as long as it's still blooming prolifically. Beautiful shade type perennial or half day sun, morning sun, rest of the day shade. So as long as it remains healthy, there's not an urgent need to divide it. How about perennial geranium? Perennial geranium, wonderful. I wish it had a different name because we all get confused with the geranium that we put in planters. But the perennial geranium is a beautiful kind of lavender. I think there's some whitish, pinkish blossoms too. A nice mound shape. The perennial geranium is in the group that probably would like to be divided every, oh, probably three to five years or so to keep them vigorous. A nice perennial, nice mound shaped perennial. This person's got a clump of grass. It's so thick that they can't even get a shovel into it. I believe that. So what do we do about it? Well, one thing a person can do when you've got, yeah, and some of those just become such a massive roots that it's hard to get a shovel down in. Okay, when it's still in place, you can try to physically force the shovel, the spading type shovel down in between, or sometimes if that doesn't work, I will take an old saw and physically cut down through those crowns and then that makes digging easier as well. Okay, great. This person has a large Russian sage that needs some division. How much of a plant do we need to get a new one started? Like when we divide them up, how much do we need like a certain amount of that sage to remain? Yeah, well, theoretically, you can divide most perennials into just a little kind of a stem with a little bit of a growing point. But if I was going to give you a measurement, I would say a clump of perennials that you're going to reset should probably be, I don't know, maybe six inches diameter. So on a Russian sage, when you dig it up, I'd prefer to be replanting something that is at least about six inches. Then you'll have enough roots and enough stem to come back with vigor. Sounds good. How about lady slippers, Don? Ah, lady slippers. You know, on my bucket list is to grow everything that we can grow in these parts. And I've got a long way to go because I have not grown lady slippers. Lady slippers are, and again, experience is the best teacher. So I'm going to have to speak from book learning instead of experience on this. But lady slippers do tend to be a little difficult to transplant, I am told. And so if you can just leave them alone, they're probably better off once you get them established. Yeah, that's what I've heard too, Don. How about hydrangeas? Any tips on hydrangeas? Ah, hydrangea. It depends on the type of hydrangea. The type of hydrangea that kind of acts a little bit like a perennial flower is the anabelle type with the large white flowers, because they die back to near ground level or maybe six inches above approximately. And so each spring you cut them all the way back. I like to wait until you see where the growth has started, but cut it back, you know, six inches above ground level or so. And then it comes back almost like perennials do from the lower part. And so the anabelle type does want to be cut back. The other type, the penicillata type, which are the pyramidal, those are more like what I call a normal shrub. You don't cut those all the way back. Speaking of cutting back, getting back to that ornamental grass, when you divide it, how low do you cut back that ornamental grass? One inch above ground level. If you leave too much, you get like a hay field, an old stubble field. And so yeah, cut as much of that, because the new growth comes from down in the crown and there's no need to have more than about an inch. And they are better cut back in the spring. Leave the tops intact over winter. Thank you. Donna, I don't know about dividing, but with Clematis, do you have any advice on when to move a Clematis plant? Yeah, Clematis would be best moved in spring, just as you're starting to see a little bit of shoot coming up. So I suppose we're talking maybe 1st of May, maybe late April.  And Clematis takes 3, 4, 5 years from the time you either plant a new one or divide one until you get a really good, robust vine again. But you'll get them in the springtime just as you're starting growth. Donna, as far as perennials, for those of us who aren't as experienced as you are, do you have a good resource about where we can, like if we have perennials in our garden, like how do we identify it? I think that's a good resource. Wow. One excellent resource, not necessarily for identifying, but at the bottom of your handout from our sister university, University of Minnesota, they have a wonderful spreadsheet that tells all of the perennials and when to divide. It's kind of a spreadsheet, tells kind of when they blew them, when to divide, how often to divide. And they also, from University of Minnesota Press, there is a very good book, I may not get the title correct, but if you Google University of Minnesota Press, Perennials for Northern Gardens, I believe it's called. Good.  And that gives you the opportunity for adding some compost, and do you ever add any like a chemical fertilizer, like in particular phosphorus to promote rooting or flowering? A person could, and of course that's a, there's a good point to promote soil testing, to see what the nutrition of the soil is, of course. And, but perennials do respond very well to fertilizer. You know, they will, what you give them in the way of nutrition will reward you with extra blossoms. So, again, if you're low in any of those, those nutrients through soil tests, then definitely steer for toward that nutrient. But also, if the soil tests average, I like to give 10, 10, 10. If it requires that 10, 10, 10 granular in the spring. A water soluble type poured on in the spring works quite well also. Perennials love organic matter. And so anytime you can work a little organic matter in compost that has a light of a nutrient source also. Well-aged, clean manure works well as well. Perennials love to be mulched. It keeps the soil with a natural type mulch, not rock mulch. It keeps the soil nice and cool and fresh also. Okay, done. This person has a yellow quill mammoth mom. It's only one year old. And when's the next time it should be divided? I love the mammoth moms. They were developed by University of Minnesota. One of the hardier garden moms. They really should be, they should be dug and divided each spring is the recommended. Because they tend to die out kind of in the center and you'll get a little cluster of new growth around the edges. So, and they are definitely winter tender. The top should be left on over winter to catch a little snow, a little extra leaves. And in the spring of the year in May, when you start seeing new little tufts growing from the outer perimeter, then dig and reset. And they should bloom for you in the fall. Okay. Okay, Don, you talk about, I'm going to divide my spring bloomers in fall and my fall bloomers in spring. Okay, what do we do about that summertime? Like in July, this person has an allium that says blooms in July. When do we divide that? Yeah, good. Now good question. The things that are kind of in the middle of summer blooming, generally you'd move those to the spring, like allium or spring, spring divided. So just as they're starting up some little shoots in the spring then divide garden flocks blooms kind of in the heart of the summer, they're also spring. So if it's kind of in that middle of summer, then spring works well. So those days are kind of towards the last half of summer. And so those are, those daylilies are so flexible you can do anytime. Right, almost a weekend. More things are divided in spring than in fall. You know, in fall you got the P&E's, bleeding hearts, iris, tulips. I think you made the good point, Don, is about just make sure it's not blooming when it's most vulnerable. Really, right? Yep, the time not to move great grandmother's P&E is in late May when it's blooming. There you go. This person's got a lupine and it's not coming up after the first year. Lupins are tricky. I've had a hard time getting them established. A soil very rich and organic material, you know, so amend the soil probably in an 18 to 24 inch circle. They love the organics like peat moss and well rotted compost and give them time. Lupins are a challenge. Okay, Don, here we go. You mentioned the anabelle hydrangea. Now is an incredible hydrangea the same as an anabelle hydrangea? The incredible is a cultivar of that type. It's the hydrangea arborescence is the species of those, which includes the anabelle, the incredible, and I believe invincible spirit is another of that. So there seems to be... Yeah, basically they're the big rounded blossoms rather than pure middle big rounded blossoms. Okay, let me see. I think I saw a question about come across on ornamental grasses, a really good ornamental grass that doesn't spread. One of my favorites is the Korean feather reed grass. Korean feather reed grass. I've seen it at local garden centers. I've had it for about three years. It's beautiful. How is that different than the Carl Forster feather reed grass? Well, Carl Forster is quite upright and produces a little seed stocks up above. The Korean feather reed grass becomes a little wider, a little wider out, not quite so soldier like. And it's got a looser panicle, seed panicle, and I just find it a little more attractive. Maybe it's because I've gotten tired of all the Carl Forster around the dentist's office and banks in town. But they are beautiful in the right place as well. Right.  Even the blue? Yeah, most perennials benefit from having their tops, their above ground portion left on over winter. Hosta are an exception as are peonies and iras. They plop apart over winter and get so mushy. So, hosta, I think, are best cut back right after a frost while you're still manageable. The flower, you mentioned the flowers. Some flowers on hosta are quite pretty and add to them. The type of hosta I have, the flowers actually detract from them. So, when the flower stocks start, I actually cut them back so that the beautiful foliage of the hosta shows better. How about a rose bush, Dan? Can I divide my rose bushes? Well, that's a woody plant. Most rose bushes, not all, but most are from a single crown that does not divide well. There are a few types of roses that do send up some sucker shoots around and those could be divided. Right. The plants we're talking about tonight are herbaceous. They're not woody plants. That's the key difference, right? Let's see here. Will frost kill tulip bulbs? Tulips are frost-hardy, winter-hardy, and so they actually do need a winter chill in order to come back up. Tulips can be grown beautifully in the North Country. Right. How about dividing little blue stem or big blue stem grasses? They grow beautifully and, of course, a native. And in the spring of the year, just as a little bit of growth is starting, that would be the time to divide. They can stay in place until the center starts becoming empty. As far as ornamental grasses, you cut them every spring. You never burned them? You ever thought about doing that? Well, they could be burned, but I'm afraid our neighborhood would probably frown. Our authorities, I believe, would frown on it. But, of course, that would be nature's way of getting rid of all the old fluff. But in lieu of burning, then cutting way back to an inch above gets rid of the old fluff. Okay. Don, I think you got it all covered here. That was a great presentation. Thanks for starting with us. Yeah, I want to thank everyone. And enjoy your perennials. Thank you very much.