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It's Wednesday.

I'm Dave DeFour sitting here with Seth Partnow and Mo DeKille.

So this must be Nerder.

She wrote, guys, we had Chet versus Wemby last night, obviously a game with, I don't know, a lot of buildup, a lot of anticipation, two top rookies.

These guys really, to start the year, have been incredible.

And we got a dud dud as so often happens when you uh when you're

anticipating a sporting event you can't pre-plan what's going to happen neither guy really had a

good game um what was it like guys for you to see these two i, they're not twin towers because they're not on the same team,

but the photo of them on the jump ball, it looks like a model of the double helix to me.

I mean, it's just, it's very visually jarring.

It just like looks like it doesn't belong.

I mean, it's one of those things.

Look, the matchup, the idea of what we hope would be, you know, epic, we didn't, we didn't get it this time, which is fine. I think they're going to have a lot of battles over the course. There was animosity between the two of them. You could feel like they both felt the moment and wanted to go at one another.

You know, like headbutt gate from preseason.

There was a fun play when the game was pretty much already decided because let's just be honest.

Also, the spurs are way behind the Oklahoma City Thunder in terms of just talent and whatnot.

Like I think I texted you guys or another friend group where I just said like this could be a a fun Chet versus Wemby thing, but this game's going to be a blowout. And that's exactly what it was. But there was a moment where, you know, Homegren's going up against Zach Collins and just, Wembe just comes from behind and rejects his shot, you know? And it's like, it's, there are those types of things that we're going to get with that stuff.

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