Welcome everyone, welcome everybody from wherever you joining us from.
Welcome to a very special episode of all things basketball.
And I know you're wondering.
Who's this?
Yes, I'm not GD, your regular host, but today is a very special episode.
And we are at episode number 200.
Oh, I should have brought my drums or the horn.
I'm not used to being at 200 yet.
So walk with me.
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So it's called acting champagne.
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So they'll be here too.
But yeah, you know who you are.
And so I am the intro host, Raphael Harry, and I'm the host of White Label American
podcast for those who do not know.
And I'm honored to be the person introducing our esteemed host of all
things basketball.
And I just want to say congratulations to my brother and say how proud I am of
you getting this far. And when you get to 400 episodes, I'll be here again to
announce and do the intro and hand over the mic to you.
And then you introduce our other guests on the podcast on them.
When our extra guests who are on all teams time.
We will, yeah, I guess I might jump in again and introduce them.
You know, but they'll be here.
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We will accept gold coins, gold bars, you know, we will take silver too.
But yeah, congratulations again.
And let's jump into it.
Congratulations, my brother.
So I hand over the mic to our official and esteemed host.
Thank you, my brother.
And welcome, my peeps.
This is episode 200 for the All Things Basketball with GD Podcast.
I'm here in studio.
Shout out to Rafael Harry for allowing me to be here.
Definitely appreciate that, brother.
So, and also I got my buddy of, I don't even want to count the years,
but it's been over 40 years I've been running with this cat right here.
And that's my, and you hear me talk about him on the show all the time.
My boy D is here.
So thank you for having me.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Anytime you hear me talk about me and my boy D was talking about this.
That's the person.
So yeah.
Yeah.
So let's get right into it.
Let's not delay.
Let's start with.
Oh, we'll do college basketball first.
Here's a rundown.
We'll we'll recap the men's and the women's finals.
We'll recap that.
And then from there, I got a few more comments in terms of Caitlyn Clark.
I'll touch that.
I'll do the NBA draft right quick and then we'll talk about the NBA playoff
scenarios.
So that's the way it'll go down for today.
So let's get right into it.
You con on Monday.
They beat Purdue 75 to 60 and in doing that coach Dan Hurley in the Huskies.
Back to back championships.
The first time that has happened since 2006, 2007.
And that was done by the Florida Gators coach by Billy Donovan.
Remember that team with Jo Kim Noah and those guys.
So it's it's, you know, it's we come up on that and they're the eighth school
to have back to back championships.
And oh, by the way, you con is six and no when it comes to final games.
So pretty impressive stuff.
So you don't want to face your coming in the final.
You don't want to.
That's automatic L.
Definitely.
So in, in far as far as you con Tristan Newton, he had 20 points, seven assists,
five rebounds, Stefan Castle, 15 points, five rebounds, three assists.
And they're center and he has an interesting story guys when he wears his number 32,
it's an honor of his mom who played at his mom, Stacey, who played at Maine.
And they made the the NCAA tournament three times back in the day.
So definitely shout out to him for giving honor to his mom.
In that game, he had 11 points and five rebounds and their star player,
Cam Spencer with 11 points and eight rebounds for Purdue.
Of course, you have to talk about Zach Eadie 37 points for him.
10 rebounds in two blocks.
And when you talk about Zach Eadie, you know, a lot of people are talking about the draft
coming up and where he'll be picked and so forth.
And if this was the 80 in the 90s, I would say he would definitely be amongst the top three picks.
But this is a different NBA now.
They want the big men to be able to go out and shoot the three and he just doesn't have that.
And I don't know his game reminds me of when I was watching.
Remember Brian Reeves for the Vancouver.
Oh, you're talking about the legendary big country.
Big country.
Yes.
That's who his game reminds me of, you know, not nimble a foot, but effective.
And that's who he reminds me of.
Oh, big country.
I used to give Shaq a problem.
Shaq the business.
And anytime you hear Shaq talk about the tough sentence he faced, he'll mention Brian.
Brian Reeves.
So he's kind of a throwback.
Yeah.
Then we see big country play at the garden.
Yeah, we did see big country play at the garden.
Sure, we did.
Yeah, sure.
We did.
Yeah.
He was actually big country.
He was.
He definitely was.
So that's who he reminds me of.
And in this draft, I don't even know who's amongst the lottery picks as far as that
goes, but Zach Edie, I guess it'll be a lottery pick.
I don't even know.
So we'll see what happens with him.
And then another question I have, what's up with him not being able to get this NIL
money because he's Canadian.
I think it's a gotta fix that.
It's only for American born players.
But really?
Yeah.
Yep.
I wasn't aware of that.
Yeah.
I think he could get some money off the Jersey's sales.
Yeah, that's when he made he make Jersey sales.
But beyond that, he doesn't get anything else like no sponsorships or anything like that.
I learned something new.
Yes.
And yeah, they got to fix that.
But yeah.
So Zach Edie, their star player there, balled out.
Although some people say it was a quiet 37 points.
I don't know how you score 37 points quietly, but that's another story.
And then Brayton Smith, 12 points, eight assists, three rebounds, two steals.
So it was a good game.
But with Yukon with them, you know, they'll let them hang.
You'll they'll let a team hang with them.
And then once they go on those runs, forget about his game over.
And that's the way it shook out.
So shout out to Yukon Huskies for getting it done.
Dan Hurley once again, doing his thing over there.
I think he's got this whole thing figured out as far as how to manage the transfer
portal and all the NIL stuff.
I think he's really at the top of his game and when it comes to that.
So and then they were trying to get him to commit to saying.
Should he consider Kentucky?
He said, Hey, I asked my wife.
So smart man, smart man from Jersey City.
He knows happy wife.
Happy wife.
That's right.
He's not going over there.
He's the king.
He's the king of Connecticut.
So he's good to go.
So so basically that ties a bull on that.
And then Purdue being in the finals.
It was their first time since 1969.
I was actually alive.
Not to tell my age or anything.
I was alive for it.
Just put it that way.
And that's when they faced the mighty UCLA with John Wooden and of course
Louis Alcindor and that crew.
So shout out to Purdue for making it that far.
So all right, so we'll just tie a bow on that.
So that's the men's.
Let's talk about the women.
The women was played Sunday afternoon.
And it was kind of what the NTA was hoping for.
South Carolina versus Iowa.
Iowa Hawkeyes, of course, with Caitlin Clark.
I'll talk about her in a minute.
So we have the game there.
I watched that as well as I watched the men.
And it was a good game.
It was competitive up until about the first quarter or so.
And the thing was Caitlin Clark after one quarter, 18 points.
So it was, it was like, you know what, I got to do something different here.
And Raven Johnson raised the hand and said, let me take the assignment.
And after that, it was kind of lights out for Caitlin after that.
Yeah. Didn't she just finish with 12 points?
Yeah. 12 points on five or 20 shooting.
That's defense when championships.
And that's a saying that the late Pat Summons always said,
offense gets you the people, but defense wins you the championships.
So, so South Carolina prevails 87 to 75.
They are the 10th team to go undefeated.
And the last one was Yukon Huskies, the Lady Huskies back in 2015 and 16.
That was a team led by, of course, Stewie Brianna Stewart.
She was actually that was actually her second time going undefeated along with Mariah.
Jefferson was on that team.
Morgan Tuck, a freshman named Nafisha Collier, who's balling out in the WMA.
So you had that crew there.
But Dawn Staley, three time champion.
She reaches the likes of the late Pat Summons.
Of course, she has eight.
Gino Ariama with 11 and then Kim Mulkey.
Last year she got her fourth leading LSU to that championship.
And in that game, and Dawn Staley knows how to spread the wealth there.
Nine players played 14 minutes or more for her.
And that's kind of how you have to do it, you know, you have to have a deep bench because remember, you play the like the one game one day and then two days later, you got to come back.
So that's puts a lot of pressure on your starting five.
So you have to have a bench, guys.
But Dawn Staley had a bench like that all year.
And she that's the word.
That's one thing she recruits.
Yes, tells people you're not going to get 35 minutes here.
You're not going to be the you you probably not going to be the superstar.
But we have a system here.
You're going to play.
Yes, you're going to play and you're going to play defense.
Yes.
And players want to come into that situation.
A player like Tiana Pao Pao, she came from Oregon and over to South Carolina and she was willing to sacrifice her game and plus they needed the outside shooting anyway.
And she was glad to do it.
So when you have players that buy in and also to she plays her freshman and I think that's what hurt Kim Mulkey.
She didn't play her freshman.
In fact, you got one of them going into the transfer portal now.
Janaye Kent.
But yeah, you have to play these freshmen and then sometimes on the big stage, you never know.
And look at what Tesla Johnson did.
19 points on seven of one say was seven of 11 shooting and she was pretty good from three, very good from three and four rebounds.
And of course, their anchor Camilla Cardoza 15 points for her 17 rebounds three blocks.
She's going to be something else on the next level.
I'll talk about her when I talk about WNBA draft.
And then Raven Johnson, she only had the three points. Everybody will say, oh, she shot one of 11.
She did the most important thing that Dawn Staley could have wanted.
She put the clamps on Caitlyn Clark and that's all you can ask of her.
She added a redemption tour after last year.
After last year, she was basically embarrassed because Caitlyn turned the back on and said, tell her to shoot.
She didn't wave.
Yes, she waved at us.
And Raven stepped up and was one of the true leaders of South Carolina.
Yes, she did the three points, five rebounds, four steals, one in which she ripped Caitlyn Clark twice and then two blocks as well.
So she definitely did her thing in that regard.
And then on the Iowa side, we talked about Caitlyn Clark 30 points, 10 of 28 shooting.
And then, of course, I mentioned the five or 20 that she had from the second quarter on because of the tough defense that Raven Johnson played.
And then also Kate Martin, 16 points, five rebounds and Hannah Stokey, who had a monster game in the final four, only 11 points, three rebounds and two block shots.
And as I begin to talk about Caitlyn Clark, we have a guest up in here.
All right, we have the person who was on all time time.
He had to jump through a parachute.
The ladies of time.
You know, parachute landed right on top of the studio.
Yeah, it's all good.
New York trains are, you know, they messed up right now.
Yeah, I was on the phone with Eric Adams, like, let my boy in.
Yo, no two trains going to Manhattan at all.
Like, it's I had to take the Metro North over here and then take the portrait.
Wow.
Okay, we hear.
Yes, yes.
For you.
Let me introduce you in tied a pod guy.
He's part of my network black podcast association.
He has a podcast where he covers sports and wrestling.
I did.
We pause it for a minute.
Just get the rebranding on on foot.
But I'm not gonna lie.
I do, mister.
I do miss covering the sports topics on a regular basis.
I think just pausing it for a minute and still being in the.
I think more now being, you know, more into the news and to the narratives and everything.
I'm like, oh, I really I'm itching to bring it back.
So I'm looking at how I can do it in a very simple way, not putting too much on myself,
but I do.
I do, mister, the sports show.
Okay.
Glad to have you aboard.
And we was just talking about South Carolina beating Iowa on Sunday in the ladies finals.
And actually, I want to get to a topic now.
What is the fine line between critique and straight hating?
And I don't know if you guys heard Diana Terase.
She made comments to Scott fan Pelt and she was talking about, and this is the thing that
a lot of people they like to run run away with.
She was talking about all of the rookies, not just Caitlyn Clark.
She was talking about all of the rookies, how they're going to have this reality check that
coming into the league with grown ladies, you know, got mortgages.
Some of them have kids, so, you know, you're going to be facing these ladies here who's
not going to just give up their spot.
So with that said, what is the fine line between critique and straight hating?
I'm at a loss because and I was listening to a night cat with Shannon Sharp and Ocho
Cinco Chad Johnson.
And they were talking about like somebody of Terase's caliber, you know, her resume,
she should be able to give honest critique.
Absolutely.
You know, that's the way I see it.
But a lot of people call it hate.
Oh, you know, they're not making enough money.
Caitlyn's drawing all this crowd.
Why not just welcome her in?
And I don't know if you guys remember, remember when LeBron came into the league?
That was going to be my example.
His own team face was hating on him.
So what are we doing here?
What's the coach hating on him to?
Yes.
Poor Dallas.
God rest his soul.
But he was hating on him.
He was hating on him.
He was giving them a hard time.
And even today, Victor Wimba Yama, when he was coming to the league, they were hating
on him.
So what are we even talking about here?
I was hating on him.
That was like a tall Frenchman.
Like I'm supposed to be intimidated by him.
Like, who did you play?
Yeah, but the boy got skilled.
He got skills.
He proved he had skills.
I mean, it even goes beyond basketball.
I think in every sport, you see when there's a young prodigy that pops up on the scene
and they're coming into the professional league, veterans aren't just like, you know,
veterans aren't just supposed to, you know, there's a difference between veterans welcoming
them in and veterans are telling you, hey, we're going to still treat you like a pro.
You're coming to face the pros.
We're going to welcome you as a pro now.
And it's going to be different from you dominating kids.
And some will use welcoming language.
Some will use it's going to get real now.
Yeah, right.
No, yeah.
Some, the way they say it's going to get real is a language of I got bills to pay.
So I ain't looking at you like you're 16 or you're 17 or 18.
I got bills to pay.
So I'm going to take you down.
If I have to take you down.
Yeah.
So I'm going to say, I don't give a damn about you.
So I'm going to be, I don't care if you're on my team.
We're going to fight for a spot.
I guess it's this age of social media.
Yes, that's some just feel like everything is eating.
What's wrong with that me?
So you hate me.
Not everything is hate.
Yes.
Some people just talk in for a better way of lack of a better way of saying it is just
real.
Yeah.
That's it.
No filter to the way of talking.
I rather take that.
Then somebody coming in and give you a hug and then you hate you stabbing me in the back.
Which you prefer.
So we, you know, I'm a big soccer fan.
We had Freddie.
I do how many years ago he was supposed to be America's biggest star at 16 got the largest
contract.
American player ever had at one at that point in time.
That guy never matured to anything.
And many people, I think it was that on history praise.
He was lifted above everybody.
And I bet you if you go back and look a lot of his teammates hated him.
Main put didn't want him to excel, but everybody was just trying to bruise that he's going to
be the next big thing.
And as soon as he stepped to Europe, I was like, what the hell is this?
You don't respect Americans in Europe.
You have the Africans who have to walk 10 times harder.
They're going to look at you like, uh, you know what I have to do to get here.
And then you just came from America.
You're a big green page, more than me.
I will kick you once I see you.
And he never made it.
Yeah.
Never made it.
And he was so sad to see.
But now I think many people learn from that and you see more Americans doing better.
But he's now a story nobody talks about.
It's like a failure.
So you see it in different spots and.
In sports.
Caitlyn, I'm a fan of Caitlyn because she's good for the women's basketball.
To be honest, but I've seen the girl she takes on the challenges.
She's doing it, but as she wins or loses, she's dropping buckets and I'm like, you know what?
This is good actually because now I'm paying attention.
Right.
So we need more like this.
And I think now I'm going to be flowing the BNBA.
Yes.
Yeah.
We'll be at the draft come Monday.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
So, but yeah.
So I just think there's an indoctrination that has to happen with the rookies.
And it's just a natural process.
So for everybody's just talking about, hey, calm down, calm down.
All right.
So with that, we'll just leave that right there and talk briefly about the WNBA draft coming up, which is on Monday.
And we'll talk about the first five picks.
Of course, Indiana will be first and they'll take Caitlyn Clark, obviously so.
So it'll be a nice dynamic there with her and Aliyah Boston there, a nice inside-outside game.
So that'll be nice.
Number two, the LA Sparks.
I think they're going to throw a curveball here.
And this is who I think they should take.
Rikkiah Jackson from Tennessee.
She's a player with a complete offense.
She can play both ways.
I think that would be the pick.
This way you kind of lay back and see, I know everybody says Cameron Brink,
but I think even Chicago will bypass Cameron Brink.
Overrated.
Yeah.
They'll take.
She's overrated.
I saw about five games to Stanford this year and she's like, okay, what makes her so great?
What makes her top five?
Yeah, because I went out, I saw the game at NCAA.
I'm just like, okay, she's not the best player on this team, but she's the All-American.
And I saw in other games in the early in the season, she played better,
but this is the biggest stage.
You got to step up.
Right.
And she did not step up because I was telling him, I was like, yo, she's overrated.
Yeah.
So that's why I say take Rikkiah Jackson this way you have, because remember,
you're now don't have Necker-Womacky.
So that was a player that who could ball.
Right.
You know, she could put up the points from the post position.
So you need somebody to come in and step in like that.
So I say take Rikkiah Jackson this way, Chicago.
Again, I don't think Chicago's taking Cameron Brink.
I think their eyes are on Carmilla Cardoza and rightfully so.
And this way the Sparks come back.
Okay, we'll take, we'll take Cameron Brink.
She's the, you know, California girl.
We'll take her.
I hear some people saying that they'll take Cameron Brink and Angel Reese.
I don't know about that.
But I think that's pie in the sky.
You said Chicago was?
No, the LA Sparks.
That has been talked about when it comes to Angel Reese and the Sparks now.
Yeah.
It has been talked about because, you know, she, she should be in a big market.
But I tell you where I think she's going to go.
I think she's going to go back home.
Washington Mystics at six.
I wouldn't be mad at that.
Washington Mystics at six.
That would be a great, I wouldn't, that.
I would not be mad at that.
Yeah.
I think that's the spot.
I think, I think Washington is kind of playing it down to see what happens.
But I think their eyes are on Angel Reese because you got to bring people into that stadium.
Yeah.
Remember Alina's Galladon, she's going to sit out this year.
So you're going to need some star power.
So she would be perfect.
Her and Shakira Austin, I think that'd be a nice front court over there.
So that's my theory there.
There'll be people in the seats.
You got to get people in the seats.
You do.
And then I'll skip down to New York Liberty because that's a team I root for and care about.
I think they'll throw a curveball here.
I think they should go with Elizabeth Keatley for the Vytec, Virginia Tech.
She's going to be out for the year, but she's a 22 and eight girl.
She puts up 22 points, eight rebounds.
You don't need her because you already got Breanna Stewart.
You already got John Quo Jones.
So you let her sit out the year, rehab, and then you bring her back the following year.
That's the way I would do it.
But hey, who am I to say?
So you were just saying that you just rehab the player for the year and make sure she's ready for next year.
Yes.
And that young lady can ball.
She definitely can ball.
Yeah, 22 and eight is a walking bucket.
Yeah, she definitely can ball.
Right, right, right.
And because everybody's saying she probably won't go first round, but I think the Liberty are, they're loaded.
So they can afford to have a player sit out for the year.
So why not be one of the best players in the country?
You know, yes.
Championship ready, Lord.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And then my like kind of sleeper pick for them is Nika Mall for Yukon.
Yukon, yeah.
The one who initially shut down K-Ridgall.
Yeah.
That's like my sleeper pick for them.
But maybe, hey, she might be there in the second round.
We'll see because their guards, the guards got killed by the aces in that finals.
Oh, you talking about the old lady game?
Yes.
Well, Sabrina's not old, but she just for defense isn't there.
No.
Sabrina is she couldn't play with those two ladies.
She could not play.
She could not guard them.
And when you talk about plum, when you talk about plum, you talk about Chelsea Gray.
The old lady game.
Is Candice Parker coming back this year?
Yes.
She says she's home in Mac.
Oh no.
I'm sorry, not Oh No.
I love KP.
I love CP man.
I hope it's her last.
I hope it's her last too.
I really do.
I don't want to see no more serious injuries.
Yeah.
like that. She is a phenomenal talent has been. Oh yeah. I've been following her since
her days with Tennessee. Yeah. She she she's a walking bucket. Yes. Still a walking. I
just don't want her to get injured too. You know, I know, I know. That's that's just my
fear. I know. So that's that's it. Love you CP. Yep. So we'll see what happens with the
draft. So let's leave that right there. Let's talk NBA playoff scenario right quick while
we have some time left. And right now, here's what we know. Boston's the number one overall.
We know that. Yes. But they can play one of 17s. Eva Cleveland, Orlando, Indiana, Philly,
Miami, Chicago, Atlanta. So we don't even know who they're gonna put it like that.
Well, yeah, right. Right. Well, you put it like that. But nobody wants to face Boston.
Yeah, that's the thing. They just set a record of being the first team. I agree without free
throws. Yeah. That game of the night. The first one. Yeah. They didn't have a free throw.
Wow. Wow. Because they're shooting on those threes. But that's a story for a number. And
then we know that Chicago will face Atlanta in that nine, 10 game in the play in. So we
know that Chicago's in the play. Chicago's in the play. Yeah. Which actually, I'll talk
about that in a minute because that affects my nicks. And then we know for certain in
the West that Dallas will play the Clippers in that four or five. The only thing is home
court. That's still up for grabs and that can be decided on Sunday tomorrow. If the Clippers
get home court, I'm going with the Clippers and seven. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. But it's going
to be a close. It's not going to be a it's not going to be a skate type seven. It's going
to be a close down to the wire seven because I can still ball. Yeah. Yeah. That is they
figured it out. Yes. And he's like 20 games. These last 20 games, they figure something
out and it's in its mission and that's scary. Yeah, that is a scary. That's where I'm coming
from. Two of them playing together. Did y'all see him hit the three with the layup? The
layup three? Who is this man? What are we talking about? Oh my God. They're scary. That's
scary. That's the key to the whole series is card. Hawaii. Hawaii coming back in place.
Yes, sir. Yeah. And that's why I said Clippers and seven because that part is Kawaii comes
back. You need Kawaii. You need him. He's in need of glass. I don't do that. Basically,
this was the most games you played. Yeah. Right. Since he was with San Antonio. In a
while. Yes. That's true. That's my point. He's not reliable. You can't really bank
on him. Well, in the play. Yes. It's still in fact. The person you can't bank on is James
Harding. I agree with you. Now, see, after you said that, now my pick is coming like,
okay, maybe I should go with the fabric. Because James Harding has not showed. This year, there
are too many out of court factors in this playoff. Yes. Between these two teams. But
right now, Dallas looks more reliable because Kyrie has stayed focusing on basketball. I'm
saying James Harding. Yeah. I'm sticking out. Was the one that said, okay, wait, because
I got to pause that pick. Yeah. Hold on. But then you think about James Harding to step
his game up since he had issues with Kyrie. See, you got that. Now, I'll see that. Are
you working for Vegas? No, but he's making sense though. You didn't get it done in Phil.
You couldn't get it done here in Brooklyn. Right. You couldn't get you. You barely got
it done in Houston. Yeah. Barely. Even with CP, you all went to the Western Conference
finals. Y'all had a moment where y'all could have took it, literally won it and took it
to the finals. You did not do that. You were James Harding in Houston. He was all right
here in Brooklyn. Now you're over in Philly. You didn't do. Yeah. Yeah. Show up. You had
your mom. Now you're here again in the playoffs. As y'all all said eloquent, he's going to
have to show up or there is no more big contracts, my dog. Yeah. There's no more big contracts.
Don't ask for no more Super Maxes. Don't ask for no more. I need, you know, 220 mp. Nope.
Those are done. If you do not show up, if the Clippers do not go to at least the Western
Conference at somewhat your expense, you coming out with 20, 25, something, something to that
nature. Don't ask for no more money. Yeah. Yeah. Don't ask for no more money. Well, it's
dry. Let me leave room for my nits who are one game from 50 wins. Who would have thunk
that? Hey, man. Nick and Easter Conference finals, bro. Hey, hey, hey.
Nick said Easter Conference finals. Hey, hey, hey. I'm ready to jump off that bridge, man.
I'm ready to. Jalen Brunson, I have been a believer, but I'm a true believer, brother.
I know that. Okay. Yes. But with a win against Chicago, then remember what I just said about
Chicago, they locked up everything so they're good. They can lay back in that last game.
So this helps the nicks. So Nick's get that win one o'clock tomorrow and then Milwaukee,
who has they have to go to Orlando, Orlando, a very improved team this year. Shout out
to Jamal, mostly over there. Where's Orlando seating right now? Right now they are, I
want to say fifth. Wow. Shout out to Orlando. Yeah. So right now a lot. See a lot can be
had tomorrow, but if Orlando beats Milwaukee right now, remember, no, you're honest because
of the past screen. And then, Dane, he just sat out. So who knows if they keep him out
of that last game. That is for grass for the next number two spot. So you know, what you're
saying is simply terms. Milwaukee is like, Milwaukee will be playing Indiana for the
three and six spot. Yeah. Yeah. I said, okay, and said potentially Nixon, Philly, which
is a possibility. Right. Right. Right. Right. But again, all that.
Let's say the next even lose. Okay. The lowest they can fall is five right now, which you
don't want to do anyway. So, but I like their chances because of that Chicago game. Chicago,
nothing to lose. So they can play it. Lucy, goosey. Take a term from my guy, Clyde Frazier.
Play it. Lucy, goosey. And next get that win. 50 wins, which I love to see them get
50 wins, but get that two spot. That's huge because remember, you avoid Boston until that
conference finals. So there's that. But you know, shout out to my next man. They're getting
it done this year. And you know, coach of the year, there's a lot of candidates. Why not
Tom Tibberdorf for what he's going through. Randall. I don't disagree, but we got to pump
the brakes on it. I know. I got three guys that I got ahead of him. Right. The coach
with the Thunder. Yep. They know. Oh, yeah. Chris Finch with Minnesota. And it's the one
I just mentioned. Jamal Mosley with Orlando. You have a oh yeah. Oh yeah. You have a better
chance to coach the O.K.C. coach. Yeah, I think the O.K.C. coach will probably because
I think the whole lineup is everybody's under 27. Yes. He's doing it with strictly young.
Well, look at Mosley to his lineup is pretty young. Yeah, but O.K.C. is in a better car.
They're in a better conference and then a better spot. I agree. And then on the low
Willie Green, what he's doing with the pelicans is flying under the radar. Because Zion's
been so far. How long have we been asking him? Come on now, y'all. How long we been
asking my man to do that? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. So just take a few. I know. No, I know.
He's been healthy. He seemed like he's watching. I know they're feeding you well. Let's not
pull a Steven A. Fat Chain. Yeah. Yeah. I love me some Zion as a as a as a. Name is
called his parents named him Zion. And then you put him in New Orleans. Yeah, y'all set
him up. Come on. Y'all set him up as a former big boy and still big boy of heart. I understand
you don't set me up a failure like that. You set me up to win. That's right. You got to
set me up to win. That's right. It took a minute. Now you're gonna set me up to win.
You guys need representation. Oh man. That's all for D.I. Eatin' town. Yeah. Got every
town. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The only solution is to take that team out of New Orleans and
put it somewhere else. But honestly, the pelicans to me could be a sleeper. They could be a
sneaker. You know, like you said, nobody's really, you know, talking about them. They
fly under the radar right now. Yes. And they make the playoffs. They will be a team that
you got to just kind of raise your rock eyebrow to like you. For sure. And then of course,
Willie Green, man, he's getting it done. He's getting it done with what he has. So you got
to give them credit over there. But the man can coach the man can coach and that's that's
the bottom line there. Quickly before we wrap up. And think about this. Phoenix, Golden
State and the Lakers. One of those three teams might not even make the playoffs. God damn.
Oh my God. I'll do that to my King James. He might not. He might not. And let's just
keep this a being. If there was no play in tournament even discuss. Yes. Like come on
now. Yeah, we have the. Come on. Talk about it. They would be a factor. No, none of these
nine or 10 teams will be a factor until the playing happened. Yeah. So if we think about
it from, I guess you can say a quote unquote old school basketball perspective, and it's
not even old school. We just we just came into the playing not even two years ago.
The top eight teams. Yeah. Period point blank. Top eight teams. Yes. Nine and 10. Go home,
sit down with your kids, have fun, go to Disneyland. You know, that's it. Right. Yeah, I got
with your boys and that's cool. Come back for the season next season. We'll see you
next season. Top eight teams. Now we're here. Yeah. So it's just like we have to understand
like what this plan is doing. Like it's added a lot of juice. Yeah. Yes. Yes. So maybe last
day of the season exciting. It's exciting right now. You got so many scenarios out there
that can take place. It's also the West is you've seen the changing of the guard. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It's starting to change now. Because remember, you know, LeBron is no spring chicken.
Curry's getting up there as well. Yep. And Durant, you know, he's got the two knee surgeries.
So he's on a wing in a prayer. So Achilles. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm gonna punch somebody.
Oh, God. That's funny. I talked about this. He when he got ejected four minutes into the
game, I'm like, come on, Dream on, come on. You you got to have more self awareness of
your team. I mean, you've seen it on Curry's face. You've seen it written on the man was
in tears like catch when after the game, it was going into the tunnel. First guy there
with like, like, yeah, like, you still want like, bro, I can only imagine what was what
was going through Christmine like, bro, I'm getting you this. I don't love because there's
so many cameras around me. Yeah. In the locker room. I'm gonna fry you up. Like it's not
even a game. Yes. What is your what is your you know, we need you. We need you at this
crucial time. But that's the problem. That guy should have been dealt with. Yes. You're
right. You're right. You know, you know, he's responsible for Jordan pool. Yes. Well, I've
said allegedly, but I got him recovered from that sucker punch. That guy never been the
same since I suck upon you right. No, he's right. You're right. I agree with that. But
it's also called don't run your mouth if you can't fight. That's a thing. That wasn't
a fight. That wasn't because that punch came from nowhere. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait. Before you do that, let me say all things basketball with GD does
not advocate violence. Yeah. Views of GD. These are the views of mine. But it's worse
when you knock out somebody and they catch the person for the person falls. So that's
not a fight. And that brought up woke up a different person after that. Never been able
to play basketball the same again. And I was like, what's going on in Washington? They should
have let them go and just keep encouraging him. You know, don't change. You can't teach
your grandmother how to eat boiled eggs. That's like that's what they've been trying to do.
That's an African proverb. Definitely. We'll take that one. You can't teach your grandmother
how to eat boiled eggs. Let me write that down. Yeah, too late. I agree with you. And
okay. No, Jordan Pools should not have probably been running his mouth because more than likely
that is what you're doing. You're young. You just won a championship. You just got paid.
You just got paid. Yes. Because Dreymond didn't get his contract. Yeah. Right at the time.
So you just got paid this what two year 100 mil. So you spend and you owe. And I help
my team. I'm killing it. Yeah. All right. New season, new everything. You're feeling
yourself a little too much. That's what it was. Right? That's what I'm not taking away
from what Jordan Pools did or didn't do. He probably aggravated the situation. However,
Dreymond in every situation, in every situation escalates the situation to a degree where it
does not need to be. Bro, he pushed you and he didn't even push your heart. He did a light
show. You Mollie Woptis man and then you caught him. Like, oh, I didn't mean to do it, bro.
I'm sorry. It's too late. It's okay, bro. But that's where the team, that was the time
you should have disciplined him, the organization. The organization rewarded him. But gee, the
organization is not going to do that. The organization is not going to do it. Because
you're making the organization a lot of money. You have been for the last what, eight years,
almost decade now. Yeah, I get you're cemented in in in Golden State Warriors history. Now,
that doesn't I don't agree with you on it. They wouldn't have changed anything if they
let if they give him the proper punishment then because he's already part of the legacy.
Okay. Yeah. Take example for your young players, right? That you're gonna behavior is not condone.
Yeah. You also said example. Don't piss off somebody. You can't beat up.
Well, team teammate, that will not change. Now, team is gonna fight. Oh, yeah. But he's
the veteran because he got his own show. He talking about respect and all that stuff.
Like this you the you the vet, you are supposed to show that respect then and you knocked the
kid out. It's and now it's too late. Yes. But not the guy will never I don't know if that
we got to call the ghost bus to find his ghost and put it back. Now, because they can find
the guys goes wherever I went. Can I ask this question when it comes to the plan and it
comes to those three teams you said Phoenix LA and Golden State. Yes. Out of those three
teams, who do you think has the best chances to possibly make it to the Western Conference
right? Possibly. I don't give them the chance to go to the finals because it going over
Denver. It just it's not that's gonna be hard. That's gonna be a very tall task right
now. Period. I'm a sadist and I'm a sadist just because I have no choice. It's the Lakers.
Yeah. I was gonna buy us. But yeah, as much as I don't like the Lakers. It's the Lakers.
Yeah. Brown guys. Yeah. I gotta go. Yes. And it's not I don't like LeBron. I just don't
like the Lakers. Right. I know I used to like Lakers onto LeBron. My only fear is with
a D in that I. That's that's my fear is has that ended him so that he can play his game.
Did he get hit now? Yeah, he got hit. Oh, he got in. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's
another thing you should wear goggles because of fun. Wear goggles. That's the third or
fourth time he got hit now. Oh, Jesus Christ. You're right there. Yeah. We don't have the
technology. Yeah. We they definitely and they came a long way from Korean goggles in the
90s. We have. Yeah. So I mean, we in 2024 is not like right. Oh, they need to hire me
man. So this week. I am expensive. Do you think Miami is going to make a run like they
did last year? I think they're a different team than they were last year. I mean, sure
they got Tyler hero back, which is a help. They have rose here now, which is a help.
Everything rests with Jimmy Butler. You're gonna get playoff Jimmy. Right. That's where
and that's that and that's what you don't want to see if you top seed. You don't want
to see Jimmy Butler decide like, okay, I really didn't play well all year. Yeah. That's exactly
what he do. Yeah. I know I know Jimmy Butler's secret. What's the secret? Shakira man.
Yeah. Jesus Christ. I have a playoff comes. She whisper something. You know, them Columbia
Lebanese secret. Yeah, that guy just I don't know. Just as long as he don't come out in
the emu. That's it. Like them. I don't know. They always get me during this time. They
are they're scary. And then remember if Nick's get that two spot in Miami has to play whoever's
in the eight spot provided they don't jump up six, then you know, they would love to
get that seven spot and play the next. I took a heat for that. I'm on the location.
And I'm on the cruise ship and watching the basketball game and Miami fans was giving
me the business. It's me and the other Nick. Another Nick fan walked away from me and it's
like Nick fans and about 50 Miami fans. They give me the business. My wife walked past
me and so I feel for you and walked away. Yeah. Yeah. They give me the business out.
And I was hoping the internet connection on the ship was like, come on, just mess up.
At least your team made it to the playoffs. Detroit is Detroit. Wow. Okay. You got some
time right? Your GM Troy Weaver. Yes. Do you think he's gone after this season? Yes.
Yes. Monty William stays. Has to. I think he stays by I think the GM is gone has to
stay. You don't pay him that much money with that with that contract not to after one season.
Even though it was in a business season as a Detroit. That was terrible. Yeah. That was
tragic. Yeah. To have a wonderful football season to have a wonderful turnaround football
season of the Lions. Yeah. And on one hand to have one sports team going on an incline.
And then the other one is just I mean it went it was past decline. It was just I expected
to be that bad. I did. I knew there'd be not a playoff team when we had Andre drumming
and I love Andre when we had him. We weren't terrible. Yeah. We made it to the playoffs
every year. Now we were exactly we were decent. We had the seventh a spot every year top eight
we in the playoffs. OK. OK. We ain't getting out the first round. Cool. No problem. But
at least we making it to the playoffs. At least we went in 40 plus games. We couldn't
even win 20 games. I think they didn't win 20. We did we win 20. 20. I think they're
close to it. I don't know. Last time I said we couldn't even crack 20 20. We couldn't
even crack that. We got K. Cunningham. We have all of these young stars. We got a bunch
of and that's that's the problem. Yeah. I have to figure out that back. That's the
right. That's the problem. We have all these young stars. It's like a bunch of no veterans.
Yeah. A bunch of people are not. Monty wins is a good coach. He is. Monty wins is a good
coach. You have a bunch of young players but you can't have six of your seven years six
or your seven of roster people are young players. Yeah. You need a veteran. Somebody to say
like oh we somebody a veteran got to know how to do something with these kids. Yeah.
That right. Balance. And I think going out on a limb here but I think the Ivy kid J.
Nivey I think he gets dealt. I think he gets dealt in the offseason. Yeah. I see some reason
Monty and him didn't. I didn't match. Yeah. And that's the problem. Once you don't mess
with somebody in the NBA seems like these players be you being your six year on you be the six
year if you're still in the NBA and you're on your seventh team already. Yeah. And then
remember to that was supposed to be Ivy coming in that deal and not Alec Berks. Yep. That
was supposed to be Ivy coming. So that's how you know they don't even want them there.
He almost ended up being a Nick. They say. Yeah. I love you persons but it's sick. Yes.
Yes. Yes. Help my man. It is man. And then they are they going to have a top draft this
year coming up and this is and you might you might go over the hundred.
Oh. It's like every year thing. Like I said ever since Andre drama got you know left
and got traded. I think our kind of just we're in the bottom tier of the pack but we make
the playoffs type of energy is just it's it's it's done. It's been done for a long time.
What I believed was I thought Monty Williams was at least going to come in and try to help
mold these young players because I know we had a lot of young ones on the team. Right.
And then we had a lot coming in. Right. So you have to have kind of a young minded coach
like him to kind of understand these players. I get that but to not even win 30 games. Y'all
come on bro. Like that that is a bit more. That's it is a bit more but some of these
young players if you can't it's some of these young players is like you play the year in
Kyle's ball. You play the year and a bunch of these players is like for a couple of years
a couple of years and it's like you sit there and it's like OK can these people really play
and they play and that's the and you got to and as a coach you have to bring that out
there and a bunch of them don't like being coach hard and that's the problem. Yeah. Because
if you can coach what's the center name for them. Oh wise man. Oh wise man. It's like
it's like Golden State gave up on his kid and it's like saying what and then it's like
was he that bad. No. And it's like was he that bad. Is he that bad. It's like I don't
want to give up on it. The kid is what 23. Yes. You don't want to give up on somebody
but it was like is he that bad. Yeah. That's a great point. Right. Right. And the problem
with these like these one and done so you don't you don't go to college at all. Some
of these people you can play but some of these coaches be sitting there's like OK can this
kid really play. Right. Can he play defense. You got to find your niche with some of these
coaches for you can be around for the next one over 10 years. Right. Yeah. Well you know
the guy could give you two examples right out of the nicks of course Cam Reddish he's
bouncing around now and then Kevin Knox he's bouncing around now. Both of them should have
stayed in school. Oh yeah. Kevin Knox I'm the fishy person to select why are you leaving.
Well I think that was more of a Kalapari thing. But that's that's a whole different story
talking about you don't go to it. You don't go it's just like it's great if you can go
someplace and develop but he his motto is like oh you play well you get NBA contract.
Right. The problem is that it's like do you want the second NBA contract. The first contract
is basically is decent. Right. More money than we're making was decent but the next
contract is real money. Yeah. But a bunch of these people not getting the second contract
because that's what they should do with Calabari. How many of his players is one and done's got
second contracts. Yeah. That's a good that's a good that's a good study look into. Yes
for sure because some of these people are leaving it's like you at you be sitting this
like oh this guy was great in college or he was a great high school player. Now what happened
in 10 years is like you don't see him. It's like he's playing in the Philippines. Yeah.
Damn. You're right. And then that's the thing you're kicking the can down the road saying
all the next coach he'll develop them. And then once that coach get him like where's
the skills at. Right. You know where's his fundamentals. So that's story for another
day. And there's also the same thing with that is what is your desire. Do you realize
OK. I got two million dollars three million dollars. What is my desire. What do I want
to do. Do I want to get better. Yeah. And then in the another part of one you have a
agent a bunch of these agents you be sitting there's like OK you want to you want to keep
making money off this kid. Right. Are you going to get him the people he need for he
can develop to right because if you're not an agent that's going to help this kid develop
it's like OK I got him this contract. But what about the next contract. Perfect example
Yonis is agent. He got him to bulk up. He got him. If you look at Yonis when he was
drafted man and you and because I think people don't they don't remember that they don't
they don't take they don't take the time to think about Yonis when he first came in.
Yeah. He was skinny and you look at him. Yeah. And you look at him. He's sitting this
like can you look at us like how did he get. How did he because he worked hard work hard
work and this agent helped him. And that's what the real agent is. Yeah. So many people
talked to him and said like oh he what he's not going to know it's not going to turn out
to be he can't defend this he can't defend it all of a sudden we've seen this man just
transform. Yeah. Yes. Before our very eyes like we was like yo wait that's oh that's
Yonis. Oh yeah. Oh OK. Especially the people that picked on him when he was a rookie. Yes
man. He just dunked me into the third row and it doesn't look good. Yeah. For sure.
Yeah. Well do I have time or I thought you were keeping your time.
Oh man. So we can wrap. Yeah. OK. We can start wrapping.
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