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Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast.

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I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson.

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In this week's episode, we'll be discussing the NBA, what's going down there.

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We'll be discussing March Madness, we'll have a little bit of news in college sports,

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a little bit of breaking news in college sports before this show is recorded.

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And of course, we will have Jack's Hot Take.

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Now don't forget to like, rate, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon,

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Pandora, wherever you get your podcasts.

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And also don't forget to subscribe to the YouTube show, JTS After Dark.

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And I'll post the subscription to that as we partner with IMS Productions in that.

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Don't forget to follow them as well at IMSProductions2023 on Instagram.

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Topics today, like I said, we'll include the NBA, some little March Madness, we'll

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have some Jack's Hot Take.

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And as always, don't forget to sit back and get ready to learn something.

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On a Wednesday afternoon, one of the few shows all year and I love these shows.

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It's one of the few shows all year that I'm going to record, edit, and immediately push

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out.

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Because I'm not recording late at night, I'm not recording it you know, early in the morning.

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It's one of those situations where it sits a Wednesday afternoon.

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It's about 1.34 local time.

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I'm going to record this show, edit it, and then it'll probably be out within the hour

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of me finishing it.

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I love these shows because it gets really raw right in that moment.

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A lot of times I'm recording, I'm recording, I say Tuesday night before the games even

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start on a Wednesday, and then the next morning, that night something huge happens or some

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big news breaks or something.

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The show feels a little outdated.

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Some of the shows are still incredibly accurate, but especially with the NBA with the standings

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being so tight, a couple teams have the same record within a half game of each other.

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So when people play or game each other, people play, lose, and all of a sudden the standings

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completely flip.

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It's not a huge issue, but it is something that could become a problem if you're listening

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for the standings updates.

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I call these shows Insta-releases, where it's recorded, it's edited, and it's out within

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the hour.

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I love these shows.

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I get to do them a few times a year.

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For those of you who listen often, you guys know I'm a teacher and I coach high school

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football.

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My teacher taught me high school football.

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So a lot of times I don't get the chance to record midday.

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Spring break's on, I get a chance to record midday.

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It's pretty dope.

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It takes you a little bit behind the scenes.

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For those of you who are looking for the next JTS After Dark episode, recorded it last night.

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So it should be out probably no later than tomorrow.

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So you guys will get this show today and then JTS After Dark with Jai from HeyJai, what

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our partnership at IMS Productions.

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You guys will have that show no later than tomorrow.

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And of course I'll link the actual, I'll link the channel in the description of this episode.

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So you guys will have that ready to go as well whenever you get this episode.

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And if you listen to it, you'll all want to see the past two episodes of JTS After Dark.

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You can immediately just go to the YouTube channel and subscribe on there.

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And of course as always, like, rate, and subscribe wherever you're getting this podcast, whatever

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service you use, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Pandora, etc.

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Anyway, let's get into business.

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Of course, before I get into the NBA, a little bit of breaking news on the NCAA front.

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LSU superstar forward, Angel Reese has officially declared for the NBA draft.

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Of course she had 48 hours to do so.

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Following her team's loss to Iowa, we'll discuss that a lot more, in the Elite 8, she had 40

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hours to declare.

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She declares a big massive Vogue spread.

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She announces it in Vogue.

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She announces it on social media.

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Like I said, she does a big Vogue magazine shoot.

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Announces it in there.

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And of course she puts out a couple videos.

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She's thanking people now.

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And we'll talk about that more when we discuss her actually in the March Magnus B block.

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We'll discuss her, but that was the breaking news that happened all of about two hours

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ago before we got to, before I was able to get to record this show.

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So as an LSU fan, as a women's basketball fan, as an LSU fan first, thank you to Angel

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Reese and her career.

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She helped revitalize the program.

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Yes, Ken Mulkey, right?

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Like I said, Ken Mulkey was driving for us.

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Angel Reese is not here without Ken Mulkey.

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So Ken Mulkey is giving me number one credit, but he needed a superstar.

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You know, he needed somebody that LSU fans could glean onto and to glean to and to be

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a kind of a beacon like, okay, that's LSU basketball.

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That's LSU women's basketball.

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Hell, that's LSU's basketball.

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Like I said, we'll get into more of her career accolades and stuff in this segment, but just

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thank you to her for what she was able to do for the program.

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And we'll get into it more.

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This is the NBA segment, right?

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The A-Bots NBA.

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But that was the breaking news.

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So thank you to her.

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And we appreciate that from her.

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Like I said, we'll talk a lot more about her in our next segment.

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But anyway, back to the purpose of this A-Block, back to what this A-Block is actually supposed

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to be about.

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And that is the NBA.

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That is the NBA standings.

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That is the NBA.

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We're roaring towards the playoffs.

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A lot of these teams have 15 games left.

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17 games left.

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Like we're not talking a lot of games left on the NBA schedule.

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We're getting to that point where it's go time for a lot of people.

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Just doing some math.

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Yeah, the Lakers have, sorry, less than that.

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The Lakers have played 76 games.

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They got six games left.

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So yeah, I'm sorry.

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I had my brain all messed up.

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There's six games left in the season between six to eight for a lot of people left in the league.

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It's go time.

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I mean, it's past the point of like, oh, such and such can jump two, three seeds.

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Like now you're trying to get up one or trying to avoid this team.

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Or if you're truly in tank mode, you know, truly in tank mode or you're trying to maneuver a draft pick,

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that's pretty much the only way to really maneuver at this point.

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But let's go through the standing today.

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We'll discuss a little bit more.

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Of course, we got the going on East.

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We got the Boston Celtics.

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EZU the best record in the NBA.

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As I said before, the gap actually the gap right now at 140 on a Wednesday.

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The gap right now from first in the East to second in the East is bigger than the gap from first in the West to tenth in the West.

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I'll tell you how far ahead Boston has run from the rest of the conference.

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But they're 12 games in front of Milwaukee.

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Boston so far out, we're not even going to discuss Boston as far as we're not going to discuss the games back from Boston.

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It's not fair.

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It's not fun.

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Right.

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So Milwaukee, Milwaukee is now number two.

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A game and a half back from Milwaukee is Cleveland.

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Three games back from Milwaukee is Orlando.

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But the same exact games back is the Knicks.

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So the Magic and the Knicks are both 15 back from first, but they're three games back from second.

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Indiana is 16 and a half, six and a half back from one, but they're four and a half back from two.

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And they'd be the last thing right now in the playoffs.

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In the play-in tournament, we're looking at currently the Heat are a half game back from sixth.

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The 76ers are two back from sixth.

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The Chicago Bulls are seven, seven games back from sixth.

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And the Atlanta Hawks are seven and a half games back from sixth.

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And they are west much, much tighter.

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The Nuggets are with one seed currently.

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The T-Wolves are half game back.

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Also a half game back of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

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The Clippers are five and a half back.

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The Mavs and the Pelicans are seven and a half back.

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They'd round out the playoffs in the play-in tournament.

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The Kings are eight and a half back.

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One game back from sixth.

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The Suns are also one game back from sixth.

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The Lakers are two and a half games back from sixth.

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And the Warriors are four games back from sixth.

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So the Warriors are pretty much in the play-in tournament.

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They're trying to figure out now if they can get that nine, ten game at home.

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But they're in the play-in tournament.

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Houston has fallen off.

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They've lost their last two.

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Warriors have won their last five.

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At this point, the Rockets overachieving or the beginning of their overachieving season is over.

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It was fun.

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It was fun, but it's like I predicted in the preseason predictions.

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You were already a young team.

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Emea Adoka was coming in, following the scandal with the Boston Celtics.

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He should still be the head man in Boston.

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But following the scandal with the Boston Celtics, Emea Adoka comes in.

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What do you give Emea Adoka?

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You give him very, very expensive, two very, very inefficient shooters.

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There was only two shooters in the NBA.

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There were only two players in the NBA last season that were high volume or even medium volume shooters that shot under 40% from the field.

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They were Fred Van Vliet and Dylan Brooks.

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The Houston Rockets decided, let's play them both.

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Let's play them both.

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Let's give them a whole lot of money.

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Dylan Brooks was near 100.

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Fred Van Vliet pretty much chose like I think his deal was, it was weird to have a bunch of opt-outs, but he had big dollar money as well.

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I didn't understand the building with the Rockets.

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In hindsight, I still don't.

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Your young players are mostly guards.

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You got Alperon Shandoon, but your young players are mostly guards.

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Look at the Jalen Green's.

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You look at your Atari East, he's going to win.

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But you look at a lot of your young talent.

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A lot of your young talent was guards.

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I didn't understand it.

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Because if you have Jalen Green on the floor, then Fred Van Vliet, you're taking the ball out of Jalen Green's hands because Fred Van Vliet thought the ball was useless.

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So I just don't understand the building and he paid a lot of money for it to be built incorrectly.

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And it showed all season, even as great as Coach Emea Adoko was, it pretty much showed all season.

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They actually played better winning-wise without Alperon Shandoon, who's probably their best player because it allows them to put in the guard room for it.

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They went smaller and they put more guards on the floor, more of their young talent was able to play.

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I just don't understand the move.

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Still don't, to be honest with you.

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And the Warriors are showing that championship grit.

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They're showing that championship medal, that championship battle.

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Those guys have been battle-tested, man.

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Dre Monk's been battle-tested.

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He's had his moments this year.

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He's had plenty of them this season.

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But he's been battle-tested.

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He's the guy that's been in the trenches.

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He's been in those wars.

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He's been to those five finals, six finals in this era.

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That Steph has four rings and they lost to Kawhi and LeBron.

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So yeah, they've been to six finals in this time during Dre Monk's time.

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He's been there.

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That's one of those finals, right?

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So he's battle-tested.

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He's battle-ready.

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Klay Thompson, don't care if he's a shell of his former self.

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He's been in those six finals as well.

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Steph Curry, of course, even at age 35, 36, he's in those six finals as well.

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You have a lot of these guys.

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Some of the guys, not a lot of the guys are new.

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Kaminga, I think was in one of those finals.

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Those guys are new.

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Moody, Davis Price, I think is his name, or Davis Jackson, something along those names.

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Those guys are new.

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Gary Bupke, Gary Payton Jr. was in a couple of those finals.

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Those guys are mostly new, but you're a big three.

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The guys who you lean on around this time of year, they was in all those wars.

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They knew them well.

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So they're battle-tested.

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They're showing that championship great.

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And so shout-out to the Warriors.

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They look dead in the water.

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They're like the Rockets are going to easily catch them.

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Like two weeks ago, I think the last time I did a show, I was saying, like, yo, the Rockets are going to get them.

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They're only a game back.

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The Rockets can't lose.

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The Warriors can't win.

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The Rockets are going to catch them.

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And the Rockets stumbled.

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The Warriors took off.

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So shout-out to them.

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It's a lot for them to have battle throughout this season, throughout this era, really, especially the second half of it, the post-championship dynasty.

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The post-dynasty years always hurts because it's like, I remember what we were not too long ago, and we can't get to that.

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And so we're in the post-dynasty era with this iteration of the Warriors.

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And it hurts to look at at times, but they're going to find a way to squeeze to the playing time.

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Now, I think they get smoked by the Lakers in the first game.

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I think the Lakers blew them out.

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But they're going to get their way into this playing tournament and still have something to play for towards the end of the year.

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Oh, the Lakers.

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Speaking of those Lakers, they're sitting at 43 wins and 33 losses.

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43 wins last year was at the fourth seed, like at the end of the year.

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Like, or this time last year, 43 wins at the fourth seed.

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Right now, they're ninth.

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I saw something recently where this is going to be the most winning team the NBA has ever had.

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Like, the most teams above 500 that the NBA has ever seen.

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I think that has to do with a few factors.

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Number one, there's more open tanking now.

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So there's more easy dubs on the schedule.

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Like, Utah, for instance, Utah doesn't want to win games.

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There's more easy dubs on the schedule.

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But also, what I think is you're getting a lot of talent gap in a way, but not player organization.

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I think everybody was building a certain way in the 80s.

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Everybody built a certain way in the 90s.

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I think now, organizationally, there's such a talent gap in the building that, you know, competitiveness is a thing.

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Because now, my management team is so much better than your management team.

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My training is so much better than your training.

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That's also keeping some of these good teams really, really good.

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And also the playing tournament.

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Like, a few years ago, the Warriors would be trying to finesse their way into the draft position.

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Like, we're four games out with six left.

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Four games out with ten left.

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Like, we're not going to catch up.

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Draymond has pulled a hand.

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And Steph's got an eye sore in this.

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You know, like, we're going to try and either keep our pick, protect our pick, or move our pick up.

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Just to pose that to now, they win two games right after the season ends and they're in the playoffs.

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You know, so they're constantly competing.

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So now, even those teams are now smashing the bad teams, you know.

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And there's more people competing for the ring because of the playing tournament.

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There's 20 teams right now that can actively win.

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The Rockets are still trying.

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They're the 11th team.

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They're still playing really, really, really hard because the Warriors lose two games in these last six.

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The Rockets could get in.

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You know, so now they're playing really hard trying to keep it close with the Warriors.

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And making sure that the Warriors know that they're right behind them at any and all time.

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So, I kind of love the playing tournament because it's making guys compete.

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But also, there's a record number of really good teams this year.

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There could be a record number of teams that finished above 500.

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A few teams are rolling right now.

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Namely, the Dallas Mavericks.

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They're eating two over their last 10.

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Luka has done some absolute, I wouldn't call it Luka magic, Luka ridiculousness.

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Like, when he gets the bears, when he flicks the ball underhand, if a three-point line-up is timing spires and he passes it.

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Like, no backboard, hardly any rim, absolute bucket.

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From, you know, 26 feet away, like, around the defender.

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It was insane, right?

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And Kyrie Irving's been Kyrie Irving.

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But what Dallas decided to do, and it's a strategy I wish a lot of other teams did, Dallas decided to start defense.

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I have Luka and Kyrie.

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I'm going to be able to score the ball, right?

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But they had scorers and shooters around them.

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They kind of went and plumped all that.

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They started length, and they started guys who could play defense.

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Because when you got Luka and Kyrie, you're going to need guys who can play defense.

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Because those two won't.

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I don't necessarily can't, but they won't, right?

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So, you're going to need guys around them who can play defense.

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Dallas, Jason Kidd, Smart Lee, put a lot of young youth length on the floor.

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And that is allowing their defense to improve.

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And vice versa, their talent and their record has improved drastically since more defensive lineups were implemented by Jason Kidd.

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Speaking of ridiculousness, his name is Victor Winbiniyama.

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Over the past month, Victor has shown flashes of that player we said that, you know, people were saying the floor was Hakeem.

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Like, oh, the ceiling is a player we've never seen before.

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And the floor is Hakeem Olajuwon.

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And everybody's like, you do realize Hakeem Olajuwon is one of the 15 greatest players ever.

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You're saying that the worst he's that?

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But, I'm going to be honest.

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Yeah.

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I mean, he's already posted a 40-20 game.

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He beat the next.

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Josh Hart had 60- not Josh Hart.

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Jalen Brunson put up 61.

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And he went home with an L.

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Because Victor Winbiniyama had 40 and 20 with some blocks and some assists.

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And a $25,000 fine for throwing the ball into the beaches.

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You know, Victor said that he thinks he would throw the ball in a crowd of anger.

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Nothing ever happens to them.

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But I think the significance of the ball is what made it being a stink.

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And the Knicks raised the stink about it.

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Because Brunson had 61.

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Donjie DiVincenzo had made the most threes by a franchise player.

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And then Victor himself went for 40 and 20.

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You know, that doesn't happen ever, especially by a rookie.

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Now, ultimately, I believe Nick Stafford went and got the ball back.

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But as Winb did it out of celebration, it wasn't malicious, I don't think.

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I haven't had a reason to think Winbiniyama would do something malicious.

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If it was Draymond, I would assume it was malicious.

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Right?

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Like, certain guys have reputations.

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Winbiniyama hasn't shown anything besides- he's a little bit of an ego.

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That you got to kind of see.

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It's a little ego in there.

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But he hasn't shown anything malicious.

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So I'm like, oh, he chucked the ball in the stands so Brunson couldn't get it.

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Like, he would have just kept it.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Because his response could have been, I had 40 and 20.

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Yeah, 61 for him or 9, 30 for him.

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I had 40 and 20.

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So I was very curious to see how they got the ball back.

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Like, I'm wondering what those negotiations were.

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I always wondered- and this is a piece on the sidetrack, right?

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I always wondered when they have a historical moment and they send the little staffer,

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like the way down the bench coach or an arena person to talk to the person,

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are they authorized with a certain amount of stuff?

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I know it was a big home run ball.

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It wasn't Barry Bonson's ball, obviously.

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But it was a big home run ball.

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I want to say it was an Astros situation.

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The guy ended up getting a whole bunch of signed gear.

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He got tickets for something and he ended up with- he didn't get any cash.

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He didn't get any hard cash.

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But he got a bunch of signed merchandise.

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He ended up with tickets and something else.

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But I'm saying, I wonder if they- almost like a hostage negotiation,

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not to draw any kind of parallel to it, but almost like a hostage negotiation,

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where they are authorized to spend up to whatever on this hostage to get this person back.

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I wonder if that's how it goes.

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They go and they have so much stuff in their head,

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they're like, I can offer this to get it back.

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Or do they let the fan say, what do you want for the ball?

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And then the fan goes, oh, I want blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And then they go to people who can make that decision and go,

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they want blah, blah, blah, blah, and they approve it.

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I wonder if that's how it goes, if they go in with stuff in their head they can offer.

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I've always been curious about that.

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Because I know if I had that basketball, I want playoff things.

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Like, straight up, I want this seat in the playoffs, this seat or a better.

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I want court side seats to a playoff game.

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Like, that's what I want.

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That would be my answer first.

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Like, the ball, okay, it doesn't matter.

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One of those things we have to prove is the ball from the game.

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I guess you could do a serial number or whatever.

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Who cares, right?

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I want playoff seats, floor seats to a playoff game.

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That's what I want.

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You got a ball.

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Yeah, it'd be something like that, right?

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Or, dude, they go in and say, like, so much gear, so much cash, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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They can offer.

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I've always been curious about that.

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Total side note, total like liberty being in this show.

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Like, total side note.

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But I've always been curious about that.

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So if somebody knows that process or been through it, like, at me or tag me or send me the article

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or something like that, going through it.

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But I've always been curious about that.

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And finally on the NBA tip, Joel Embiid has returned.

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He got 24 points last night.

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Definitely look tired at the end of the game.

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He hasn't played a real game since January 30th.

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It is April 3rd.

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He played April 2nd.

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He's been out over two months with his meniscus injury.

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But he scored 24 points in his first game back.

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Like, that's going to be huge, right?

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And he's going to get, that's about six, eight games.

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He's going to probably play five of them.

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So he'll get five more, six more real games.

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And then if they get to the sixth seed, because they're only two away from Indiana.

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If they get to the sixth seed, they have a week off.

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So he may push himself through these games and then get the week off to completely rehab,

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to completely heal, to completely condition, whatever.

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And then he shows up at, let's say Cleveland has a three seed.

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He gets Cleveland and it's Joel Embiid.

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Or Orlando cuts into Cleveland.

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You have this amazing, magical season and it's Joel Embiid.

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Or think about it, if you're Boston or Milwaukee, you had this Boston, this amazing season.

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You've blown away everybody and your reward is Joel Embiid.

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Because the NBA, like, you know what I'm saying?

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Or Milwaukee, you've already struggled to go through this.

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You've fired a coach, you've tried to win, you've got game.

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You get the second seed and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And your reward is Joel Embiid.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Like, that's not fun for anybody.

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I would hate that personally.

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But that's the situation that arises right now in the NBA with Embiid being back.

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Like I say, I assume if they have eight games left, he's going to play six of them.

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If they go five more in the game, he plays a split the one he doesn't.

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Unless you say they go six and two, there's a good chance they can end up in the sixth seed.

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They're only two games out.

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So that is something to keep our eye on there.

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But up next, we're going to shift to March Madness and discuss what is and what isn't.

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Welcome into the show or well back into the show really into our B block,

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which is beyond March Madness segment this week.

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Very excited to be discussing March Madness with you guys.

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We're going to start off with the men, get it out of the way, get it over, because no one cares.

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It's come down to the final four of UConn Purdue in C-State.

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And I literally I promise you, I have no idea who UConn is playing.

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Seriously, I have no clue. I know in C-State.

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I know UConn's in because they have their girls and their boys in.

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Or their men and their women if you prefer that.

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But they have apparently UConn's playing Alabama.

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I should know that. I'm an SEC guy. Apparently UConn's playing Alabama.

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But of course, the big matchup in the men's side is Zach Edeney versus DJ Burns Jr.

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The reigning national player of the year.

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Zach Edeney from Purdue and DJ Burns Jr. from NC State.

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Burns has caught a lot of national attention for being like Zach Randolph, honestly.

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He's an undersized big, but he's got a nice touch.

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His physical body's down low.

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He was talking noise back to Duke fans when he sent them home.

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And NC State, I mean, they were the 11th seed.

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They were a shot away in the conference tournament, not even making it to the NCAA tournament.

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They only got in because they won their conference tournament.

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And they were the 11th seed and they've been on a run ever since.

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Shout out DJ Burns, man.

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He's one of those guys that he's garnering NFL attention because he's listed as 6'9", 275".

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Most people say that when they've got to him, he's 6'7".

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He's about 6'7", probably 275 is accurate.

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But 6'7", you don't see where he steps on the scale at.

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But 275 is probably more accurate.

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And then 6'7", instead of 6'9".

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6'7", 280 is a hell of a left tackle or a right tackle.

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A lot of people are saying that he should enter the NFL draft.

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You have people saying that he should go work out because NC State's pro day,

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football pro day is a week after the Final Four.

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So people are saying like, man, he could go play, he could go do the Final Four

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and then learn how to kickstep basically and work out at the pro day.

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Bench, jump, run the 40, do like the L drills, and then basically be a project.

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And at that size and footwork, you can imagine he'd be a pretty good tackle.

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It's just a man off his tackle probably because it's by the type.

465
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,600
He could probably be a pretty good off his tackle.

466
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,600
He'd have to learn football, of course, and he's never played it.

467
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,600
He admittedly had a deep dive too far into his back story,

468
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,600
but obviously he had to play at the collegiate level.

469
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,600
So he'd have to learn NFL football and he'd have to learn block.

470
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,600
But he's not going to be in the NBA.

471
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,600
He's a 6'7", center, right?

472
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:17,600
And not even a new style center.

473
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,600
He really doesn't juggle and can't shoot past mid-range.

474
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,600
He's not very athletic vertically.

475
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,600
So he's not an NBA player, right?

476
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,600
He's not a Euro, he's not big enough.

477
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,600
So if he's going to play professional sports,

478
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,600
it would behoove him to at least consider the NFL.

479
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:36,600
Not football for everybody.

480
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,600
He may have talked about it, he's not going to hate it.

481
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,600
He's never flat out denied it.

482
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:41,600
I know he's heard it.

483
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,600
Multiple NFL guys are talking about it.

484
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,600
Pierre Schrager is one of them saying that no, the NFL answers to him is real.

485
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:52,600
Multiple GMs and stuff have kind of looked at him and said, what if, with that body?

486
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,600
So I'm sure he's heard it.

487
00:29:54,600 --> 00:30:00,600
If he has a representative, they would to me be committing professional malfeasance

488
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,600
if they don't even mention it to him.

489
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,600
Okay, the NFL's called.

490
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,600
A couple GMs have reached out to me and said,

491
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,600
would your guy be interested in the tryout?

492
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,600
Would your guy be interested in working on his pro day?

493
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,600
Et cetera, et cetera.

494
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,600
To me, he would garner, especially a pro day so late,

495
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:21,600
he would garner a lot of interest even if a team just sends the regional scout,

496
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,600
whoever the regional scout is.

497
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,600
It sends him like, hey, go take a look at that kid or go film it for him

498
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,600
just to see how he looks in shirt.

499
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,600
You see his body.

500
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:33,600
He's in a t-shirt.

501
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,600
He's in a jersey and shorts.

502
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:36,600
You see his body.

503
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,600
Just how would he look at a football situation?

504
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,600
Have him bench press.

505
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,600
Have him squat.

506
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:48,600
Have him do vertical, do the L drill, do the agility stuff.

507
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,600
Of course, kick-stepping is not going to be a thing for him.

508
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:52,600
He's probably never done it.

509
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:53,600
Also, he's done it.

510
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,600
It's been so long he's used to, you know, back people down the post.

511
00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:01,600
But, you know, that's kind of where his career athletically is going to go.

512
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,600
Now, I was talking to a few people and they said, no, he's going to be an academic kid.

513
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,600
Like, he's a good basketball player, but he went to school for like a real degree.

514
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,600
So I thought he was going to use that very real degree to go make money in life.

515
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,600
But to me, I think he should at least give the NFL a crack.

516
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,600
And his competitor, Zach Eadney, he's not in the NBA Center either.

517
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,600
He's going to be one hell of a hero.

518
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,600
People say he's 7'4 and he's dominating.

519
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,600
Yeah, he's dominating college and he's 7'4.

520
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:35,600
The NBA has moved away from big, slow, plotting, back-to-the-basket style centers that don't really shoot.

521
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,600
It's called Jaleel Okafor.

522
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,600
Like, they didn't work then and the NBA is further away from it now.

523
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:46,600
Um, like LeBron spoke about in episode 3 of Mind the Game,

524
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:52,600
like Eric Spouser went to Oregon and learned spread offensive football and then translated it back to basketball.

525
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,600
Like, that's what people are doing now.

526
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,600
Like, the big style center like Zach Eadney doesn't work.

527
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:03,600
And he's not even athletic like Steven Adams or Nick Claxton where they're vertical, off the floor and flying.

528
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:09,600
Like, that big, plotting, slow style doesn't really work in the NBA anymore.

529
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,600
The game has moved away from that.

530
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,600
Now, in Europe, that's most of the centers.

531
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,600
You know, he can go dominate Europe, but they're going to make a hell of a lot of money in Europe.

532
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,600
If I'm him, I try the NBA out.

533
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:21,600
I'm a lottery pick.

534
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,600
I play that rookie contract.

535
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:29,600
But if it's looking like I'm going to be a one-year, $5 million guy or two years, $10 million kind of guy,

536
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,600
I'm taking my talents from Europe, Australia.

537
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,600
I'm going to play overseas because they still play that way.

538
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:40,600
With the big guy in the middle, feed him in the post, bags down, he's physical,

539
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,600
he can hit stuff off the rim and it's not a goal-ten.

540
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:48,600
So I think Zach Eney is going to make one hell of a year old.

541
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,600
And UConn has been dominating everybody, right?

542
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,600
They've been blowing everybody out.

543
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,600
Their last two tournaments, which they won last year,

544
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,600
and they are well on their way to winning again this year.

545
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,600
They haven't had a game under double digits.

546
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,600
They have been destroying people.

547
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,600
I expect that to continue against Alabama.

548
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,600
I expect UConn to roll to their second straight national title.

549
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:16,600
But on to the women's side, the interesting side, the side that anybody cares about.

550
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,600
We already spoke about one of the stars is gone.

551
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,600
Angel Reese has declared for the Devon B. Draft.

552
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,600
And her last game was against Iowa and Kaitlyn Clark.

553
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,600
Now, you're going to see this on the YouTube show JTS After Dark,

554
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,600
kind of the anecdotal breakdown of the game.

555
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:33,600
But Kaitlyn Clark was on fire.

556
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,600
She hit nine threes, I believe, nine out of 18.

557
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,600
She was raining them from everywhere, mostly drifting to her left.

558
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,600
The scouting put it out on her.

559
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:44,600
Press up on her.

560
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:45,600
Don't drop coverage.

561
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:46,600
Make her go right.

562
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:51,600
Because at least she goes right, she's going to drive most of the time.

563
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,600
And you take your chance on the other shooters,

564
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,600
but you don't let her fade to her left, bombing away.

565
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,600
She wants to go that way.

566
00:33:58,600 --> 00:33:59,600
That's a practice shot for her.

567
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:05,600
And Jai on the YouTube show was like, yeah, you want her to fade in three or a layup,

568
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,600
or open three from one of her teammates.

569
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,600
An open three from one of her teammates.

570
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,600
Hannah Stalky can have all the threes she wants.

571
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,600
Kaitlyn Clark fading left.

572
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:14,600
That's her shot.

573
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,600
28 feet fading a little bit to the left is her shot.

574
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,600
I'm not going to let her keep firing that shot away.

575
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,600
I disagree with Kim Walker's decision to put Hailey Van Lith on her.

576
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:31,600
I especially disagree as I found out Hailey Van Lith had an IV in her body earlier that day.

577
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,600
And she was struggling to breathe because she was legitimately sick.

578
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:39,600
And you have her chasing around one of the more mobile, one of the more active guards in the country

579
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,600
who shoots from literally anywhere.

580
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,600
So there's no time to breathe and release and try to get your thoughts right together

581
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,600
because you have to be on one all position.

582
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:53,600
Because Kaitlyn Clark can fire from literally anywhere in the state of Albany.

583
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,600
In the city of Albany, she can fire from.

584
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:01,600
And so having Van Lith chase her around in a situation I thought was a mistake to begin with,

585
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,600
like I said, adding even more if I think I Van Lith was sick,

586
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:09,600
you have a two-way player who sooner or closer personal last year

587
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,600
saw how Alexis Morris defended her last year.

588
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,600
And Flau'jae Johnson who's been our best two-way player.

589
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:21,600
And you decide to not do that until fourth quarter and Flau'jae has three fouls.

590
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:26,600
So even then she couldn't really get two in two because she had three fouls already.

591
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,600
I thought that was a poor decision.

592
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,600
I thought having our bigs and drop coverage on pick was a poor decision.

593
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,600
So now when Kaitlyn Clark comes around that screen,

594
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,600
where at first LSU guards were going under.

595
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,600
So Kaitlyn's just bombing open threes because they're going under.

596
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,600
Then they started going over with the bigs and drop coverage.

597
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,600
So now once they go over the bigs and drop, it's still an open three.

598
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:50,600
So I just thought that Kim Mokhee didn't have the best game plan ready to go.

599
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,600
They have been fighting a lot of external issues.

600
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:58,600
Kim Mokhee of course was threatening the defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post.

601
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:03,600
For their article that came out, very non-defaming article.

602
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,600
There was nothing in the article that would shock you.

603
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:12,600
The only thing that to me she was getting hot issue water for was her stance on the LGBT community.

604
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,600
And I think that she was the front for the university

605
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:20,600
because Baylor is the biggest Baptist university in the country.

606
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,600
And I think she was the mouthpiece for the university.

607
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,600
In regards to her stance on the LGBT community.

608
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,600
But she had players on the team that she would make jokes at.

609
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,600
Dee Dee Richards.

610
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,600
Yeah, Ms. Dee Dee Richards.

611
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:41,600
She had the big giant puffs and she had colorful hair.

612
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:46,600
And so one day Dee Dee recalls Kim walking up to her going,

613
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,600
and I quote, you and those damn hair colors.

614
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,600
And are you going to wear those two pointy tails every game kind of thing.

615
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,600
And Dee Dee took an ingest.

616
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,600
But it was definitely a situation where if you didn't take an ingest

617
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:04,600
or you weren't used to Kim Mokhee being Kim Mokhee, you could be offended.

618
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,600
But that was like I said, the only thing that to me that could get her in hot water really

619
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,600
was her stance with the LGBT community.

620
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:16,600
It also in the post article discussed that Kim had spoken to her father in 37 years

621
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,600
and her sister in five to six.

622
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,600
And then that wasn't that bad.

623
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:27,600
But then the LA Times article comes out referencing LSU as dirty debutantes.

624
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:33,600
Which I Google the term dirty debutante to find out what that is.

625
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,600
But it's appalling to call anyone that.

626
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:39,600
It's definitely appalling to call young women that.

627
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,600
You don't know no affiliation with.

628
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:46,600
You call them this because they're black and loud.

629
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:52,600
And so that was supposed to be a dig at southerners because it was UCLA versus LSU.

630
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,600
So debutante is a popular southern phrase.

631
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,600
So I think it was a dig at southerners and dirty debutantes.

632
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:03,600
But it's also a double entendre with what dirty debutante actually means.

633
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,600
So that was pretty outrageous.

634
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:09,600
And Kim Occa got talked about that and so did Haley Van Lyft and others.

635
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,600
But getting to the game itself, they said Kailin was right in this.

636
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,600
She was the best player on the floor.

637
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,600
The game turned early second quarter.

638
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,600
Iowa jumped out early.

639
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,600
Kailin hit a couple of big ones.

640
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:22,600
They're getting help from the others.

641
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,600
LSU's not really doing anything.

642
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,600
It gets nervous in my house.

643
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,600
And then Angel Reese.

644
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,600
She must have known this was my last league game.

645
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,600
She was going.

646
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,600
She was ready to go.

647
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:44,600
And she's stealing passes.

648
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:45,600
She's blocking shots.

649
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,600
At one point she blocks Kailin Clark.

650
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,600
And she's rolling.

651
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:58,600
I think after the first half, after the first quarter, she has like 10 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, and 2 blocks.

652
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,600
I mean she's rolling.

653
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,600
LSU actually charges.

654
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,600
They were down like 10-2 early.

655
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,600
And then she turns up.

656
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,600
And I was yelling at TV.

657
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,600
I'm like no one in Iowa can guard you.

658
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,600
And so we can just hold it down on defense.

659
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:15,600
We're there with all of you.

660
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,600
That's Kailin and I with standing.

661
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:19,600
No one in Iowa can guard you.

662
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:20,600
Keep going.

663
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:21,600
Keep attacking.

664
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:22,600
Whatever.

665
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:23,600
And she blocks.

666
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,600
I think she blocks Kailin again.

667
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:26,600
And yeah she does.

668
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,600
She blocks Kailin again.

669
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,600
And she's kind of jogging.

670
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:31,600
Kind of a safe area.

671
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,600
You know like when you come down.

672
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,600
I think you guys are running a couple rows into the bleachers.

673
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:37,600
It's a safe area.

674
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:38,600
You come down and kind of get your feet.

675
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:44,600
And as she's going into the safe area, she's still kind of halfway looking back.

676
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,600
Because once you plot your course out, just go straight.

677
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:47,600
You know what I'm saying?

678
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:48,600
Like don't turn.

679
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:54,600
She's still halfway kind of looking back to see which way the ball's going, etc.

680
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:55,600
And she trips on something.

681
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,600
And they never show what she trips on.

682
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,600
I'm sure there's a camera that sees her.

683
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:00,600
But she stumbles on something.

684
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,600
She goes down and she gets up hopper.

685
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,600
She injured the ankle in the SEC Tournament.

686
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,600
Of course there's no real rest for the weary.

687
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:09,600
It probably was a mid ankle sprain.

688
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:10,600
It wasn't high.

689
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:11,600
Of course she was playing.

690
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:12,600
But it's an ankle sprain.

691
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:13,600
What do you do for ankle sprain?

692
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:14,600
You rest.

693
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,600
What do you not have time to do on an SEC Tournament?

694
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,600
Then into the NCAA Tournament?

695
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:21,600
Rest.

696
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,600
So the longest time up here she would have had to rest had been about a week.

697
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,600
From the conference championship game to the start of the round of 64.

698
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,600
Then she'd been playing every weekend.

699
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:30,600
And she re-rode it.

700
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:35,600
And after that her offense changes.

701
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:41,600
She finishes with for the rest of three quarters seven points and 15.

702
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,600
She had all the rebounds she wanted.

703
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,600
But it was the explosion of her second jump.

704
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,600
Now she's not as quick of her movements.

705
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,600
And Ellis's offense took a nosedive.

706
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,600
Kailin Clark kept hitting.

707
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:55,600
She had a couple of teammates that hit some big shots.

708
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:56,600
Hannah Stolke.

709
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:57,600
I think the girl's last name was Morgan.

710
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,600
I can't think of her last name right now.

711
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,600
But she was making shots.

712
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,600
And it was Iowa's night.

713
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,600
In a best of seven I would probably go LSU 4-2.

714
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,600
But it was Iowa's night.

715
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,600
Or 4-3 LSU.

716
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,600
But you know, it's the NCAA Tournament.

717
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:16,600
It's one shot.

718
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,600
Iowa was the one shoe for a reason.

719
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,600
They made shots when they had to.

720
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,600
And Kailin went to a nosedive.

721
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,600
A couple of her teammates made shots.

722
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,600
And so that's what kept Iowa winning.

723
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,600
There was an angle on one leg.

724
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,600
Haley was sick.

725
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:34,600
Leah Delzaro looked like she wanted no part of that game when the angle got hurt.

726
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,600
And kudos to Iowa for moving on.

727
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,600
Game broke a lot of records.

728
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:41,600
It's been widely discussed.

729
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:43,600
I posted it, but I'll discuss it here.

730
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,600
12.3 million average viewers.

731
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,600
The most watched ESPN telecast sports-wise.

732
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,600
ESPN broadcast sports.

733
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,600
Most watched female game ever.

734
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:57,600
Most watched male or female game this season.

735
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,600
It outdid everything on the ESPN platforms.

736
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:04,600
Except for two college games.

737
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:05,600
Michigan, Ohio State.

738
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,600
And I think the National Championship game.

739
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,600
And then it outdid every NBA game.

740
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,600
But game five, the NBA finals.

741
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,600
It outperformed every MLB game.

742
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,600
And the NFL doesn't count.

743
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:21,600
So kudos to those ladies.

744
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,600
They put on an absolute show.

745
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,600
And so it almost like they didn't get come down.

746
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,600
The NLB's are watching for all the off the court stuff.

747
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:32,600
And all the social media stuff.

748
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,600
And everything that happened centered around LSU.

749
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:39,600
Well last year it gets culminated on Monday night.

750
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:41,600
Angel Reese breaks down.

751
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:46,600
She breaks down in tears when they ask her about her teammates.

752
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:48,600
Not because she lost.

753
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,600
That's a narrative that was penned and edited a certain way.

754
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:52,600
She didn't cry because they lost.

755
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,600
She cried because her teammates were defending her.

756
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:56,600
And what she goes through off the court.

757
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,600
Then she broke down.

758
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,600
And spoke about everything she's been going through since she won the championship.

759
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,600
Sexism, racism.

760
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,600
She's been sexualized.

761
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:12,600
She spoke about how she hasn't truly been happy since she won.

762
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,600
She hasn't had a happy day since she won the title.

763
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:16,600
Since they won the title.

764
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,600
Since I won they haven't had a happy day.

765
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,600
Her teammates defended her and spoke about her very highly.

766
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,600
And what she was able.

767
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,600
What she was doing for them along with what she did for LSU.

768
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,600
So we started it.

769
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:41,600
But kudos, absolutely kudos to her and her amazing career.

770
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,600
She's a two time All-American team.

771
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:46,600
Two time Woodland American team I believe.

772
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,600
She's a Woodland award finalist last year.

773
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:50,600
SEC player of the year.

774
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,600
I believe both years she was at LSU.

775
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,600
Double double queen.

776
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,600
NIL legend.

777
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,600
What she did for the NIL game.

778
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,600
I mean she's the reason why all these female athletes have NIL deals.

779
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,600
I'm going to be honest.

780
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:09,600
Angel Reese was so successful at it that her marketability showed they could do it for everybody else.

781
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:13,600
NIL legend.

782
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,600
You know she was a brand.

783
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:16,600
She was the Bayou Barbie.

784
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:21,600
She was everything to women's basketball.

785
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:22,600
What she had to be.

786
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,600
And it was a heavy crown.

787
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,600
She wore a crown a lot.

788
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,600
I mean people thought it was braggy.

789
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:29,600
It was symbolic.

790
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,600
Because her head wore a crown.

791
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,600
She had a heavy crown to bear a lot.

792
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,600
She was the face of lesbianity.

793
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:43,600
She was and to be honest is the face of Black America girl of female basketball.

794
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:48,600
Like because the women's college game has surpassed the WBA popularity.

795
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,600
Has surpassed men's college basketball popularity.

796
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,600
She was the face of Black America basketball.

797
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,600
Collegially.

798
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:58,600
It was Angel Reese.

799
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,600
Who's the best player in college basketball right now?

800
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:05,600
Don't worry.

801
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:06,600
Like I'll wait.

802
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:07,600
Like you know what I'm saying.

803
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:08,600
Like pause it if you got to.

804
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:09,600
Think about it.

805
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,600
Like you don't have the answers to that.

806
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:14,600
She was the face of the movement.

807
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:18,600
A lot of these young girls want to be Angel Reese.

808
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:25,600
Like so that's a level of pressure that 15 months ago she didn't know.

809
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,600
I mean they won the title around the same time last year.

810
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,600
13 months she didn't know.

811
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,600
But LSU was a really good team.

812
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:33,600
Led by her.

813
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,600
Freshman named Flossey Johnson who rapped in hoop.

814
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,600
Like Flossey had a bigger presence.

815
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,600
Because Flossey had the rock nation deal.

816
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,600
Like she was on America's Got Talent like all stars.

817
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:42,600
And then she went to LSU.

818
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:47,600
Like she had a bigger cross over representation.

819
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,600
People were talking about Alexis Morris who's completely off her rocker now.

820
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,600
People were talking about Alexis Morris.

821
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:54,600
And it was a teen thing.

822
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,600
But the Bayou Barbie was a brand but she wasn't what she is now.

823
00:45:58,600 --> 00:45:59,600
And I get it.

824
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:04,600
Her and Kailyn Clark got thrust in the middle of a race war on Twitter.

825
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,600
Like just from playing basketball.

826
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:08,600
Neither one of them had been sighted in it.

827
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,600
Neither one of them really participated in it.

828
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:11,600
They've done their best to quell it.

829
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,600
Like no we don't hate each other.

830
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:14,600
We like each other on the court.

831
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:15,600
Like we kick it.

832
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,600
Like we're both playing on representing Team USA one day.

833
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,600
Like that sort of thing.

834
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,600
And they got thrust into the middle of a race war.

835
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,600
Like that's the stuff Andres had to deal with while she was in college.

836
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:31,600
I wish she would have came back one more year selfishly.

837
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:39,600
Because I would have loved to see that team put together.

838
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,600
And I would have loved to see like her.

839
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:47,600
Hailey Van Lyth as far as I know hasn't declared.

840
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:51,600
So you know she'll be back.

841
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:57,600
But I would have loved to see that whole squad come back one more year.

842
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:58,600
And then go for it.

843
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:03,600
You know Nisamaro, Flage, Angel, Hailey, and Last Tear Poa.

844
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:04,600
I think it's a senior right?

845
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:05,600
No she didn't have a senior.

846
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:10,600
Last Tear Poa, Michaela Williams, the transfer from Arkansas.

847
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:12,600
You get the other big bag.

848
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,600
I would love to see it happen as an LSU fan.

849
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,600
But I understand Angel probably just wanted to get away from the pressure for a little while.

850
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:24,600
Because all those same expectations and standards and that crown that she wore.

851
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,600
Like she would have been placed back on her head.

852
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,600
Because now you're a 50-year senior and you're coming back for one reason.

853
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,600
You have to come back because you're a gold digger.

854
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,600
Or you come back because you expect to win a title.

855
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:37,600
Not a gold digger but you're trying to make as much money as you can.

856
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:41,600
Which financially, and before we move into the next game.

857
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,600
Financially she's making the bad decision.

858
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,600
Like you can't tell me otherwise.

859
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,600
She's going to get drafted around pick seven.

860
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:52,600
Her time is going to be $68,000, $70,000 when she signs her name.

861
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,600
Now she has a hell of an off the court persona.

862
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,600
So logically she'll grind during the summer.

863
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,600
And then as soon as her WBS season ends.

864
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:05,600
She goes and does vogue.

865
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:07,600
She goes and does modeling.

866
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,600
She goes and does extensions and talk shows and appearances.

867
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,600
She popped into pop culture.

868
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,600
Being in the Cardi B song with the bar, it balled so hard.

869
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,600
I felt like I was going to LSU and she had injuries in the video.

870
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,600
You know like, um.

871
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,600
You know that sort of stuff.

872
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:29,600
And she can come back to LSU and she can do all these things.

873
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:35,600
But financially I know she has a Raising Cains deal.

874
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,600
That's because she's at LSU.

875
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,600
I know she has, it's another local.

876
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,600
She has a Mercedes Benz dealer VR.

877
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,600
That's an LSU type deal.

878
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,600
And it's another deal she has that's incredibly specific to her.

879
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,600
Oh Gordon, Gordon McKernan.

880
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,600
That's very specific, very high paid and IL deals.

881
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,600
Her time to be in LSU.

882
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,600
Now she has her Reebok which she has not pushed at all.

883
00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:59,600
I guess she's been to LSU, she was a Nike school.

884
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:03,600
So now that she's leaving I'm sure Shaxx is about to blast her everywhere for a Reebok.

885
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,600
So that's going to be big.

886
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,600
She's picked up a couple national ads as well.

887
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:11,600
But marketability wise, if I have Kaitlyn Clark and I have Angel Reese,

888
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,600
marketability wise, Kaitlyn's got the advantage.

889
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,600
Because they're both going to come out together, they both have the same plan.

890
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,600
So Kaitlyn has the advantage.

891
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:22,600
Now Kaitlyn going to Indiana Fever and Angel, if she would have returned to LSU,

892
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:24,600
Angel would have had the IL advantage.

893
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,600
She would have had the endorsement advantage.

894
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:28,600
But of course she decided to move on.

895
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:30,600
I can't blame her.

896
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:31,600
Kudos to her.

897
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:35,600
I'll be watching whatever team she's on very carefully.

898
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,600
Like I do with all the LSU players that go.

899
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:41,600
But I'll be watching very carefully what team she goes to.

900
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:47,600
But in the next game, the second game was the future versus the current.

901
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,600
Paige Beckers and the UConn Huskies, what's left of them,

902
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:55,600
versus Juju Watkins and the USC Trojans.

903
00:49:55,600 --> 00:50:01,600
It was a battle of the last person in the class of 2020 to still be around.

904
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:06,600
That high school class was Camilla Cadoza, Angel Reese,

905
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:16,600
Paige Beckers, Kaitlyn Clark, and Cameron Brink, the big out of Stanford.

906
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,600
They were all one high school class, class of 2020.

907
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:22,600
So now Paige is the last one left because Angel's gone.

908
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:29,600
Camilla, Cameron, Angel, and Kaitlyn all had the option to come back for the fifth year

909
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:31,600
because of that COVID year, they all passed.

910
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,600
They all declared together.

911
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:39,600
And Paige Beckers, I truly think due to her injury, decided she was going to come back.

912
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:43,600
She decided that early about a month and a half ago.

913
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,600
She decided she was going to go back to UConn.

914
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,600
I'm really sure because of her injury, she made that decision.

915
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:51,600
She missed all of last season.

916
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:56,600
So she's the last of the class of 2020, which is a super class.

917
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:02,600
Juju Watkins is the leader of the class 2024, which is a super class.

918
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,600
It's Juju Watkins.

919
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:06,600
It's Michaela Williams at LSU.

920
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:07,600
It's Fulwale.

921
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,600
Malaysian Fulwale in South Carolina, just to name a few of them.

922
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:13,600
That's going to be a class we're going to look back on in three years and go, my goodness.

923
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:15,600
Fulwale may have two titles.

924
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,600
Michaela might have one and Juju might have the other one.

925
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:24,600
They may end up splitting the four titles in their four years just to level in that group.

926
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:26,600
And they delivered.

927
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:34,600
It went from star V star, it went from mega star to mega star in Angel versus Kalen.

928
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,600
It went to superstar to superstar in Juju versus Paige.

929
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:39,600
They delivered.

930
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:41,600
Both of those ladies put on a show.

931
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,600
Paige Beckers led her team to victory.

932
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,600
I spoke about it with people.

933
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:47,600
I expected UConn to win the game.

934
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:55,600
And that's because UConn, as beat up as they were, Juju didn't have Leah Edwards on her team.

935
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,600
Leah Edwards is going to be a top 10 pick in the WNBA draft.

936
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:02,600
Juju didn't have that.

937
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,600
The better coach is Juna O'Riomah.

938
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:11,600
So you go with the better coach, older, more experienced person, you should be in those moments.

939
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,600
Paige's first year.

940
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:15,600
Did they win her first year?

941
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:16,600
Or they got close her first year.

942
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,600
Then they went to the final four her sophomore year.

943
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,600
She blows her knee her junior year.

944
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,600
Kind of her red shirt junior year basically.

945
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:25,600
They're back at the final four.

946
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,600
But she's been there, right?

947
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:29,600
And she's on a mission.

948
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,600
And she's big in her faith, big in God.

949
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,600
And she's God-led right now.

950
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,600
So she's on a roll, she's on a mission.

951
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:41,600
And Juju didn't have the help.

952
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:43,600
Juju's literally playing with Ivy Leagueers.

953
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:44,600
You know what I mean?

954
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:45,600
No disrespect to the Ivy Leagueers.

955
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,600
You guys are smarter than me by a long shot.

956
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,600
I could never have dreamed of getting into Harvard.

957
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:50,600
Okay, that's like a different story.

958
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,600
But, you know, Harvard wasn't my thing.

959
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:55,600
I wasn't doing that.

960
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,600
You were able to be a high school athlete and get into Harvard.

961
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,600
Kudos to you, right?

962
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:03,600
But there's a different level of athlete.

963
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,600
Not in Harvard, let's be honest here, right?

964
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:11,600
And it's literally Juju Rockins and a team of Ivy Leagueers.

965
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:16,600
And she carried them as an 18-year-old to the Elite Eight.

966
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:18,600
And shout out to her.

967
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,600
I mean, she shot literally, look at the shot chart.

968
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:23,600
They only played like eight people, seven people.

969
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,600
She shot 26-ish times.

970
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:29,600
Number 25, who's name I don't know, shot like the same amount of times.

971
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,600
And nobody else shot more than like eight.

972
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,600
Like those two shot all the shots because they were the only two,

973
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,600
I'm being honest, non-Ivy Leagueers on the floor.

974
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,600
But the number one recruiting class is on the way to USC.

975
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:45,600
So if Juju has her help next season, I expect them to be very good.

976
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,600
Juju was crying in the handshake line all up in the tunnel

977
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,600
at the post-game conference she broke down.

978
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:55,600
That's going to be someone you're going to have to stop.

979
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,600
You're going to have to keep her off the title.

980
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,600
I'm talking she's going to be up there in USC in the world

981
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:02,600
with Cheryl Miller and Lisa Leslie.

982
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:06,600
You're going to have to do a lot to keep Juju Rockins away from multiple titles

983
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:08,600
while she's at USC.

984
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:12,600
She's going to not feel bad for you because she's coming guns blazing.

985
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,600
She's going to go into Ann Arbor.

986
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,600
She's going to go into Columbus.

987
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:17,600
She's not going to care.

988
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:18,600
She's better than you.

989
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:23,600
She's the smoothest freshman that I've seen probably since Paige Becker's.

990
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:25,600
But she's got Paige beating sides.

991
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,600
But Paige has her own experience.

992
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,600
It was a very popular, very smooth action USC run.

993
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:35,600
So they kind of run Juju off these weave screens and get to the left side of the floor.

994
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,600
And then she usually works her way back right to get back to her right hand.

995
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:42,600
And they ran it twice out of a timeout and Paige stole it both times.

996
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:47,600
I mean, it wasn't like she got lucky and Juju put it down like she poked it.

997
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:48,600
Like she stole the pass.

998
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:52,600
She weave through right behind her and she jumped the pass both times.

999
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:54,600
I believe scored on both.

1000
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:55,600
No, she scored on the first one.

1001
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,600
And then she got fouled but they didn't call it in a second.

1002
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,600
But regardless, she was a fast break by Paige the other way.

1003
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:02,600
She stole it both times.

1004
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:04,600
That's just from an experience thing.

1005
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:07,600
That's from having to learn the things she could do where ACL is appearing.

1006
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:08,600
Watched a bunch of films.

1007
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:15,600
You can definitely tell Paige was watching a ton of films in her off time.

1008
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,600
And she watched it on USC.

1009
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,600
But kudos to the ladies for showing out.

1010
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:21,600
They had the world's attention.

1011
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:25,600
And everybody watching, Devon Booker scored 50 something points on my New Orleans Pelicans.

1012
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,600
I didn't watch a single bucket of it.

1013
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,600
I still have not seen what comes of it.

1014
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:33,600
Not because I don't want to see it because it just hasn't been covered.

1015
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:36,600
The women have completely taken over the basketball scene right now.

1016
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:38,600
So kudos to them.

1017
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:39,600
Shout out to them.

1018
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:40,600
They've earned it.

1019
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:42,600
The women's game has always been good.

1020
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,600
I love that on Twitter now that's becoming a thing.

1021
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:47,600
Oh, women.

1022
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:52,600
Somebody quoted it ignorantly and tweeted,

1023
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:57,600
Man, women, we told y'all when y'all get a good product, the men are going to have to support it.

1024
00:55:57,600 --> 00:55:59,600
And everybody's going, no, the women have always been really good.

1025
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:01,600
Y'all are just noticing for the first time.

1026
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,600
Like I'm old enough to remember Candice Parker at Tennessee.

1027
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:06,600
Brianna Stewart winning four straight at UConn.

1028
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,600
Maya Moore at UConn.

1029
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:10,600
Brittany Griner and Addison Sims at Baylor.

1030
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,600
South Carolina when this started.

1031
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,600
Azra Wilson and her crew.

1032
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:19,600
Like I'm old enough to remember this, right?

1033
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,600
And so the women's game just didn't get good.

1034
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:23,600
It's been good.

1035
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:25,600
Simone Augustus, Sylvia Files, Tameka Johnson at LSU.

1036
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:27,600
The women's game has been good.

1037
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:29,600
We're just noticing for the first time.

1038
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,600
Which, welcome.

1039
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:33,600
I'm glad you realized how good the women's game is.

1040
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,600
I'm glad you realized it's actually more captivating than the men.

1041
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:40,600
So kudos to you.

1042
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,600
Yeah, you love women's college basketball?

1043
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:44,600
Go watch the WNBA.

1044
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,600
You know, they're even more competitive.

1045
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:49,600
Because there's 36 draftees in the WNBA every year.

1046
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:51,600
Probably nine of them are going to make the opening day roster.

1047
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:53,600
There's 144 spots.

1048
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:55,600
And I think it's going to drive expansion.

1049
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:56,600
I think it's going to do a lot of stuff.

1050
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:58,600
Golden State's already bringing in their expansion team.

1051
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:00,600
So it's going to go to 13 teams.

1052
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:04,600
I believe they're going to put another team in.

1053
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:05,600
And I heard Portland.

1054
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:07,600
I heard a couple of city options.

1055
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,600
Portland is one of the more popular ones.

1056
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:12,600
And also they may look at it adding to the team in Canada.

1057
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:18,600
Because of how well the Canadians sold out.

1058
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,600
The game, the Sparks had a game over there.

1059
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:21,600
And they sold out.

1060
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:22,600
Scotiabank.

1061
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:24,600
It was a crazy environment.

1062
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:25,600
So they love their basketball in Toronto.

1063
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:29,600
Some would be surprised if Toronto gets a WNBA franchise themselves.

1064
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:31,600
But the attention is going to drive the money.

1065
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:32,600
The money is going to drive expansion.

1066
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:33,600
Expansion is going to drive eyes.

1067
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:39,600
So kudos to Women's Basketball for showing up on your stage.

1068
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,600
You had the war of attention.

1069
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:43,600
You delivered.

1070
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:46,600
But up next, we're going to shift to Jack's Hot Take.

1071
00:57:46,600 --> 00:58:05,600
And today's show is going to be Smoke and Mirrors draft season.

1072
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:10,600
Welcome back into the show.

1073
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:13,600
And now we're going to discuss in Jack's Hot Take,

1074
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:15,600
Smoke and Mirrors NFL draft season.

1075
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:17,600
To talk about the people we've officially reached that part.

1076
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,600
Reached it about a week ago actually.

1077
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:23,600
Where we've been talking about people who haven't played a game since at

1078
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,600
latest early January.

1079
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:28,600
Like if you look at Marvin Harrison Jr.,

1080
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:30,600
I don't think they played their bowl game.

1081
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,600
So D.U. hadn't played since like December.

1082
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:35,600
You look at JJ McCartney, he won the title,

1083
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:36,600
he was the last person to play.

1084
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,600
He was at the first weekend of January.

1085
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:44,600
Drake May hasn't played since like December.

1086
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:48,440
Jane Daniels didn't play in the bowl game. He hadn't played since like late

1087
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:52,440
November or December. Look at all these top prospects. A lot of them weren't JJ

1088
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:56,000
McCarthy. A lot of them didn't make the playoffs, right? So we're talking about

1089
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,840
people who even if they had they hadn't played football at this point in three

1090
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:02,760
months. Two and a half. But by the time of draft comes three and a half

1091
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:07,400
months for a basketball team. Sometimes four and a half. Depending on who opted out of bowl games.

1092
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:15,200
It's smoke and mirror season. Smoke and mirror season basically is people are

1093
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:20,640
going to try and drum up a controversy. The odds are shifting less than right

1094
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:24,400
who's gonna be the number two pick. Now it's shifting in the Drake May. Drake

1095
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:29,360
May going number two to Washington when it's been like Jane Daniels the entire time.

1096
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:35,560
And it was like the Drake May's gonna go number two to Washington. You know what I'm saying?

1097
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:39,120
That's smoke and mirrors out. Malik Nevers been the number one receiver on the board.

1098
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:43,960
That was out before this time. That's gaining popularity. New England

1099
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:50,440
potentially trading with Minnesota for 11 and 23. That's gaining popularity. A lot

1100
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:57,520
of different stuff is out there gaining. I mean one of the football topics

1101
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:02,560
seriously for two days was DJ Burns a basketball player at NC State. We discussed it

1102
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:06,640
earlier. Legitimately getting like he should be should go to the NC State Pro Day.

1103
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:10,920
Like that's where we're at right now is that people are trying to find stories.

1104
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:14,760
I think Burns actually would make a good solid football player. At least he'd make

1105
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:18,560
more money playing football even on a training camp deal that he wouldn't NBA.

1106
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:25,600
I'm just gonna be honest with you. But you know we're just looking for stuff to

1107
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:31,040
talk about. You know the UFL you know is gonna start making hey real headlines

1108
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:34,960
because this is nothing for people to watch. You know your UFL is pretty good

1109
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:40,200
football. There's nothing for people to watch consume and enjoy right now right?

1110
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:46,720
And so this smoke and mirror season look if it sounds too off the wall to believe

1111
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:52,040
don't believe it. And that's kind of how I do with the draft coverage. Like people

1112
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:57,360
are saying that Arizona may go like tackle or something. Like they're not

1113
01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:02,560
drafting Joe Alt bro. Like they have Kyle Amaro on a very large contract with no

1114
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:05,640
one for him to throw the ball to. They're gonna draft Marvin Harrison Jr.

1115
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:11,840
or Malik neighbors. Like they're not about to let Kyler even behind a

1116
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:14,480
rookie tackle who's not gonna be all that great at first you would assume.

1117
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:17,800
But he's still not about to throw the ball to. They're gonna draft Marvin Harrison Jr.

1118
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:22,320
There's reports out now that the Minnesota Vikings may just start

1119
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:25,760
Kirk Cousins and wait till next year's draft to get a quarterback. Not Kirk Cousins.

1120
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:32,360
Sam Donald. Why? I love Sam Donald. I really do. At 11 you'll probably have

1121
01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:38,320
your pick between JJ McCarthy, Michael Pinnix and Bo Nicks. All of who most

1122
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:42,200
teams have between the first and a second round. You have your pick at 11.

1123
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:46,720
And if you don't like them at 11, use 23 instead of coming up and get another one.

1124
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:50,800
Like you have flexibility to get a quarterback. Unless you just outing

1125
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:55,000
anybody after the big three. I don't get the theory of punting.

1126
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:59,000
Especially when you got Justin Jefferson. The year of effectively punting a year and saying

1127
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:02,520
we'll let Sam Donald start. Doesn't matter what the record is. We'll try to get our guy at 25.

1128
01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:08,760
That's an interesting strategy.

1129
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:13,280
And there's big decisions that's happening.

1130
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:17,560
Stephon Diggs of course being traded to the Houston Texans. So the bills are obviously

1131
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:21,560
in the receiver market. If they weren't already. They don't have a receiver on the roster.

1132
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:25,400
They're obviously in the receiver market. So that's not a smoke and mirrors.

1133
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:29,080
People saying they want receivers. Yeah that's pretty obvious.

1134
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:34,440
They just traded Stephon Diggs for no players back. But a second round pick.

1135
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:42,400
I believe there's draft. But there is nothing getting back to them player wise.

1136
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:47,400
So they're in the receiver market. Stuff like that.

1137
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:52,400
If you're a Chiefs fan and you're hearing there's scouting quarterbacks.

1138
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:56,400
Don't believe it. So a lot of fan fans trip out. I get questions.

1139
01:02:56,400 --> 01:03:00,400
I get asked about what's happening. I'm like that doesn't make sense.

1140
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:04,400
Why would they do that? If you're Chicago and they're hearing you're

1141
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:08,400
driving anybody but a quarterback. You're insane. At this point anybody but Caleb Williams.

1142
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:12,400
You're insane. Key and Allen flew to Caleb Williams for that. In LA.

1143
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:18,400
Key and Allen had just traded to the Bears. He was at Caleb Williams pro day.

1144
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,400
If that don't tell you what's going to happen with the Bears number one over our pick.

1145
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:25,400
I don't know what does. So really watch this on the clock.

1146
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:30,400
I think the NFL used to let you sign a player early if you had the number one pick.

1147
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:38,400
The last person to do it from memory was I believe Jake Matthews to Tennessee.

1148
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:45,400
Tennessee I haven't wondered to sign them early but because the NFL has such a big drama of who the number one pick is going to be.

1149
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:49,400
They don't want you to do that. But like Jacksonville knew they were picking Trevor Lawrence month in advance.

1150
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:56,400
Months in advance they had they were already Urban Meyer and then were installing the offense with Trevor Lawrence like months in advance.

1151
01:03:56,400 --> 01:04:01,400
So him being picked. They just couldn't officially announce he signed before the draft.

1152
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:06,400
Because they still have to get drafted. It's weird. The NFL has a bunch of pretty tasty things. It's whatever.

1153
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:11,400
But basically the whole world knows watch this on the clock.

1154
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:15,400
If you're a commander's fan and you hear anything but they're drafting quarterback don't believe it.

1155
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:20,400
My point in this is hey it's smoke and mirror season.

1156
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:28,400
A lot of guys a lot of pundits for them they haven't had a real game of football to talk about in going on two months.

1157
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:31,400
And if you're a college analyst you haven't had a real game going on three months.

1158
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:36,400
They are trying to find any and everything to talk about.

1159
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:42,400
Don't get fooled come to a good source like myself and a few other guys for good reliable sourcing and research.

1160
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:45,400
But don't get fooled by the nonsense.

1161
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:49,400
But that is all I have for today. I hope you guys have a great rest of your Wednesday.

1162
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:53,400
I say I'm finishing this up right now. It should be out to you guys within the hour.

1163
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:56,400
Editing doesn't take that long for me at all.

1164
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:58,400
And I hope you guys have a great rest of your day.

1165
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:02,400
As always don't forget to like, rate, and subscribe to the Justin Time Sports Podcast.

1166
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:06,400
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1167
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:08,400
Remember I will put that in the description.

1168
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:12,400
So make sure you tune in to JTS After Dark.

1169
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:16,400
But that is all I have for today.

1170
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:29,400
This is your host Justin Jackson signing out.

1171
01:05:46,400 --> 01:06:01,400
See you guys next time.