All right, welcome to a very special edition of Dunne. Happy, Larry Markinin is now eligible for a renegotiation and extension on the one day that would still make him trade eligible day to those

who celebrate the advantage of being in Asia is that I get to celebrate that way earlier than Danny I'm 14 hours ahead of Danny so no wait I'm 16 hours ahead of you yeah 14

14 yeah I'm 14 I'm not I'm not presently observing the holiday because it is not yet that day in the United States.

But yeah, that is something that will happen over the course of the next period of time.

So we will get clarity either way, whatever form that clarity takes over the next little bit with

Markinin and that'll be something you and I are focused on over this stretch of time.

And another thing we're going to focus on over this stretch of time is now we are into the knockout slash

metal rounds for the Olympics we have we've gone from pool play down to eight teams and we have a

bracket so let's start by talking this way Danny, which team has impressed you the most and which has

disappointed you the most relative to pre-t-tournament expectations.

It looks like all the heavy hitters are going to be there.

The South Sudan suffered heartbreak in the end.

There were moments in time where the US concerned me.

I will admit I didn't watch a ton ton of pool play because I expected to watch more in the in the knockout stages.

And but I will say that the US like they had a few moments like they trailing after the first quarter

against Puerto Rico, they had that slow start

against Serbia and then Durant came in and righted the ship.

So from their perspective, you know, it's a little bit of a mixed bag.

But for me, I mean, a pretty dominant performance so far from Germany,

that's been very impressive.

And then for France, not only is it that they got, you know, with getting a loss, but it was also the, like the game against Japan, they were down four with, I think it was like 16 seconds to go and got, got, ended up getting lucky to get to overtime and then did win in overtime.

Yeah, France, quite frankly, probably lucky to be here and they were absolutely handled by Germany.

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