1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,760 Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Tom Sports Podcast. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:05,920 I am your host, Justin Jackson. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:10,160 And in Season 5 Episode 8, we'll be discussing the NBA and what's going on with the NBA 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,320 playoffs and some offseason stuff. 5 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:16,000 We'll have the WNBA as they're roaring its opening day today. 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:21,360 We will have the NFL offseason, some news there, and we will have Jax Hot Tape. 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,320 Now, as always, don't forget to like, rate, and subscribe to the Justin Tom Sports Podcast 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:31,960 and rate wherever you get your podcasts, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, wherever you get 9 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:32,960 your podcasts. 10 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:33,960 Make sure you do that. 11 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:34,960 Hit that subscribe button. 12 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,320 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00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:13,800 It's greatly appreciated. 25 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,960 That way you can see my face and get some kind of not as in depth. 26 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:21,920 This show is pretty in depth due to so the little lighter we're usually on with Jai from 27 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,240 Hey Jai. 28 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:27,680 So that is something for you to see just in time for a different light. 29 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:40,720 But as always, don't forget to sit back and get ready. 30 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:48,440 Justin Tom Sports. 31 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:54,760 Look, this is just a town sports. 32 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,760 Come and get your weekly text. 33 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:58,760 His opinion from the heart. 34 00:01:58,760 --> 00:01:59,760 He can never show you fake. 35 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:00,760 If you win it, you lose it. 36 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:01,760 He won't tell it to you straight. 37 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:02,760 How we talking basketball without a Jordan. 38 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:03,760 If you got the hottest date, she better come and make it. 39 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:04,760 If you win a couple of games, he might even show you great. 40 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:11,760 So every platform, we go to adaptation numbers going up the charts. 41 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,760 We create the separation. 42 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,520 Louisiana to Lada is where I'm from. 43 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:18,520 I can't replace it. 44 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,520 So people miles off to spy like to be adjacent. 45 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,360 Given my opinion, like I'm Nick, right? 46 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:24,360 Or I'm Jason. 47 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,080 Yes, we get better watch out because I'm coming for the spaceship. 48 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:28,440 We even tweeted on Twitter. 49 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:29,440 You can meet us in the spaces. 50 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:30,440 I like sports news. 51 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:31,440 Yeah, you got it. 52 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:32,440 Embrace it. 53 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:33,440 We never had it easy. 54 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,600 We just came from the pavement. 55 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,600 I might be controversial, but I like to make my statements. 56 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,400 This is just a time sports. 57 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,400 Come and get your weekly takes. 58 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:42,400 His opinion from the heart. 59 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:43,400 He can never show you fake. 60 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:44,400 If you win it, you lose it. 61 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:45,400 He won't tell it to you straight. 62 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:46,400 This is just a time sports. 63 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:47,400 Come and get your weekly takes. 64 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:48,400 He won't tell it to you straight. 65 00:02:48,400 --> 00:03:07,400 This is just a time sports. 66 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:26,560 Welcome into the show on a Tuesday, almost noon. 67 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,120 It's clock just struck 1125. 68 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,160 We get one of our rare insta release shows. 69 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:37,080 So for those of you who are fairly new into the program, fairly new into the show, first 70 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,600 of all, welcome to the Justin Time Sports family. 71 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,600 I am glad that you are here. 72 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,000 The show is partnered with IMS productions. 73 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,680 It is produced. 74 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:51,160 Well, the audio show by me, but the YouTube show by IMS productions. 75 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,400 We are excited that you are part of the Justin Time Sports family. 76 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:55,400 Again, welcome. 77 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:00,080 But this is a rare, what I call an insta release show. 78 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:08,040 So sort of like how you would see like when people do the TV show, like Undisputed, First 79 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:15,920 Take, First Things First, those shows, they will do the TV show and then within a couple 80 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,400 hours put the audio of the TV show on podcast. 81 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,920 So that way if you can't watch the TV show, you can get the podcast, you can get the audio 82 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,280 version on podcast and networks. 83 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:29,440 It's a very easy way to make more money because you don't have to re-record anything. 84 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,040 You don't have to re-edit anything. 85 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:35,600 You just take the audio track, it's recorded and drop it on the podcast and server divided 86 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,160 by hour in the first safe case. 87 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,800 Take all the commercials out in First Things First case and you drop it on audio and it's 88 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,080 an easy way to get more engaged and more streams. 89 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,320 That's effectively an insta release show. 90 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:53,280 You record it and within a couple hours it hits whatever, it hits the airwaves. 91 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:55,440 Great, right? 92 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:56,440 Cool. 93 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:03,800 Most of the time podcasting however, unless it's a live recorded show like Nightcap is 94 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:09,240 an insta release style show, unless it's a live recorded show that you didn't put out, 95 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:14,320 usually podcasting is a day or two ahead, maybe a week ahead, a couple of weeks ahead 96 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:19,800 depending on scheduling of people in the show and then it will come out a couple weeks later. 97 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:24,080 For instance, JJ Reddick and LeBron's Mind the Game pod, they record I believe episode 98 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:28,800 6 like two weeks before because LeBron goes 0.30 in the playoffs. 99 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:35,440 So they recorded that episode like two weeks before, three weeks before it came out. 100 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,960 LeBron lost early in the playoffs so they were able to get back to more current episodes 101 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:44,400 but he goes 0.30 in the playoffs so they weren't going to record a pod during the playoffs, 102 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,100 he's focused on the playoffs. 103 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:49,080 So therefore they recorded two weeks in advance. 104 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,080 Right. 105 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,240 This show typically has about a 12 hour return. 106 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:58,560 Usually the night before I record or the late afternoon before I record and put it out the 107 00:05:58,560 --> 00:05:59,560 next day. 108 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:05,040 So, away from the behind the scenes stuff, the insta release show is I'm basically recording 109 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:06,040 and then putting it out. 110 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:07,040 There's no real time between. 111 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,040 Like again, I'm recording this, it's 11.27 now. 112 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:14,200 I'm recording this, it'll be out at 2pm local time, central standard time. 113 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:15,200 Right. 114 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,400 So it's a fairly insta release show. 115 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:22,600 No breaking news should break in the maybe hour or so in between. 116 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:27,720 If so, of course, as always, you know it'll be all over the Just In Time Sports social 117 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:28,720 media. 118 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:29,720 You won't have to worry about that at all. 119 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,040 You will know as early as I know. 120 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,480 You just may not hear my breakdown on the pod. 121 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:41,560 So that may be the only difference between that and Just In Time Sports social media. 122 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:50,120 But unlike a regularly scheduled show, I don't have to do a lot of saying, oh but this game's 123 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,960 going on so this could change in two hours or this could change tonight or I'm recording 124 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,320 before the games, this is going into the games. 125 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,280 Because if this show has been recorded, no games are happening. 126 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:01,040 It's 11.28 in the morning. 127 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,400 Like no games are happening. 128 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,640 Anything I say, even when the pod comes out, will apply to future. 129 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:11,320 You won't have to worry about, oh, I can give this amazing point on how I feel like Dallas 130 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,720 goes up 3-1 hypothetically last night before the game. 131 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:22,680 They blow it and then now the 10 minutes after that, it effectively doesn't exist. 132 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:27,600 So I don't have to worry about that with this show. 133 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:28,600 I love these shows. 134 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:33,080 They're pretty rare just because I have a full time job outside of this. 135 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:34,200 Like I coach, I teach. 136 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:40,520 So I don't have the time, all the time to do instant release shows. 137 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,040 Want to get into them more in the summer. 138 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,880 You know, the pods that are coming out at 9am, 10am, they start coming out around 2 139 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:48,880 or 3. 140 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:49,880 So I can't do instant release shows. 141 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,360 Like on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, I can just come in from practice, come right to you guys, 142 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,400 drop a show and then you guys hear it sort of thing. 143 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,080 So that's what I'm looking forward to more in the summer. 144 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,440 And that's kind of the benefit of the summer. 145 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:03,720 My schedule is a little laxer. 146 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,160 I can do a little bit more of the pod stuff. 147 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:07,960 So on and so forth. 148 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:12,880 Anyway, now that I've gotten through all that behind the scenes stuff that I hope didn't 149 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:16,600 bore you guys to sleep or have you turn off the pod. 150 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:17,600 Let's get into the NBA. 151 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:22,120 So we're going to start off in the West because the West took center stage last night. 152 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:23,840 We're going to start off with the West. 153 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,960 The West to me is taking center stage in the playoffs in general. 154 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,200 But the West took center stage last night. 155 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,640 I spoke about it about 45 seconds ago. 156 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:33,640 Dallas blew it. 157 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,760 Of an epic proportion. 158 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:40,640 Dallas had a chance to put OKC on the ropes. 159 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,840 Oklahoma City, as we guys, you all know, is the youngest team in the NBA. 160 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,880 Like by far they're the youngest great team in the NBA in a very long time. 161 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,360 Their average age is younger than the University of North Carolina's average age was last year. 162 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:59,240 Like they're really young and they're going to get younger and younger because A, they're 163 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,320 going to start paying these guys for stripping parts off. 164 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,640 But B, they got all these draft picks. 165 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,080 So Oklahoma City was a really, really young team. 166 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,560 They went into that game and to me laid an egg. 167 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:12,680 Like they played poorly. 168 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:14,560 Dallas should have won that game by 15, 20 points. 169 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:15,560 Especially with a guy like Kyrie. 170 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:20,160 Especially with a guy like Luca who has that experience. 171 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:26,840 That should have been an easy 15 or 20 point Dallas is up 3-1 and the young upstart Oklahoma 172 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,120 City Thunder just aren't ready yet. 173 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,360 You know and all the narratives change from oh they're this great young team and they're 174 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:33,760 going to be around for a long time. 175 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,320 So they're not ready yet and now what do you do contractually? 176 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,800 You know it's all this media stuff will start to change in Oklahoma City. 177 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,040 I know personally if I would have did this podcast today in Oklahoma City's down 3-1 178 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:50,480 I would have had a ton of stuff about the salary cap, about the salary cap table. 179 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:51,480 What do you do? 180 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,320 You're not that far from a J.W. extension. 181 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,520 You're not that far from a J.W. extension. 182 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,920 What do you do about Josh Giddy? 183 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:03,640 What do you do about building around Shea Gilda's Alexander? 184 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:08,200 What do you do about building around with Chet Holmgren? 185 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,480 Like you just start going down he's like how do you get a vet win? 186 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:12,480 How do you do this? 187 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:14,160 What do you do with Lou Dort? 188 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:15,160 Etc. 189 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,440 Like there was so many different storylines that Oklahoma City was going to have to deal 190 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:23,960 with over the next few days if they would have lost game 4. 191 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,200 Dort played like crap. 192 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,840 Josh Giddy played like crap. 193 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,320 Chet Holmgren wasn't good for the vast majority of it. 194 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:35,680 SGA was a baller. 195 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:37,840 J.W. was a baller. 196 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:42,880 But some of those guys offensively played like absolute amateurs and like that would 197 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,800 have been a problem because you would have kept bringing in these high drafts, kept bringing 198 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:51,560 in this talent, kept bringing in all these guys and the guys you had on the team didn't 199 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:52,560 deliver. 200 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:56,600 It would be SGA and guys and that's a hard way to live. 201 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,560 SGA and guys is a hard, hard way to live. 202 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:10,040 I asked Luca when it was pretty much him and Brunson who was not the Brunson we see now. 203 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:11,040 It was Brunson. 204 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:12,920 Brunson was a regular guy. 205 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:20,200 He was a pretty good 6 man but he wasn't the superstar level guy we see now. 206 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,720 It was a lot of work when you ran against a team. 207 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,400 So again man, Oklahoma City laid an egg. 208 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:27,400 They were bad. 209 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,760 It kind of reminds me of the Pelicans games where like two of them, Oklahoma City would 210 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:32,760 break 100. 211 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:36,840 And if the Pelicans had half decent offense, the Pelicans would have won game 5-2-2 and 212 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:38,600 who knows what happens. 213 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:45,080 But instead Dallas blows it, shoots awful from the free throw line. 214 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:46,080 Like at one point they were 10 of 20. 215 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,080 Like late in the 4th quarter they were 10 of 20. 216 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,000 I think they were finishing right above 50%. 217 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,440 They were awful from the free throw line. 218 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:58,760 In the game they lost by single digits, you missed 11-12 free throws. 219 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,120 Luca missed a couple of coming down the stretch. 220 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:02,400 You know like they were bad. 221 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,760 Kyrie Irvin was bad offensively by his standards. 222 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:09,720 And it's not like the Oklahoma City defense was like that. 223 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:15,280 Yes, they have Luke Dort who is allowed to play football on the basketball court. 224 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:17,200 I saw it in the round with Brandon Ingram. 225 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,480 He basically defended Ingram out of the city of New Orleans. 226 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:25,560 I'm seeing it now with Luca, it's not so bad that Sam God is grabbing on Luca pregame. 227 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:27,840 To kind of get him used to it. 228 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,360 You're going to get grabbed, you're going to get pushed, you're going to get hit. 229 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:31,360 You're going to get battled. 230 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:50,000 It reminds me of when the Heat basically went layup or foul or to go the other way. 231 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:55,600 When the Ravens of the 2000s were just knocked out of the game. 232 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,600 I'm going to go old as the new. 233 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,520 So Ravens 2000s basically dared the refs to call the flat. 234 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,280 Let's tell you what the leads in the boom did. 235 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,760 We're going to hit you harder, we're going to hit you high, we're going to hit you late, 236 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,840 we're going to grab you, we're going to pull you, we're going to PI, we're going to do 237 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:09,840 everything you can. 238 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,800 We're going to make the ref call it every single time. 239 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,200 Because the one time you don't, we're going to capitalize on it. 240 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:20,800 And so we're willing to eat three to four personal fouls a game because we're going 241 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:26,160 to play such everybody's going to do it on our defense to where either the ref gets these 242 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:30,440 exercise or he just literally you can't call that many penalties. 243 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:35,200 It's sort of like with Shaq complained to the late great David Stern about how he doesn't 244 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:36,200 get the calls. 245 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:37,200 He said I get beat up. 246 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,600 And David Stern was like, dude, if we gave you every foul of the game before ours, like 247 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,200 you would shoot free throws all game. 248 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:52,440 So because of which you get an advantage if you just say screw it. 249 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:56,240 I'm going to play hella physical and I'm going to make them call the fouls. 250 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,600 Because I know you're not, not all of them. 251 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,040 And then the ones you don't, I'm going to take advantage of. 252 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:06,760 And so he's beating on Luke, he's hanging on Luke and Luke do it is and it's just like 253 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:08,440 he's getting really physical with him. 254 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,480 Luke is a bigger body than Brandon Ingram. 255 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:11,760 So he's accepting a little bit better. 256 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,080 He's also a better ball hand and a better shooter, better player. 257 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:21,080 He's a little bit more accepting of the physical play that Lou Dortz employing. 258 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,080 His body's a little bit better built for it. 259 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:29,640 And it's just they play PJ Washington was playing out of his mind again. 260 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,320 You had Derek Lively flying all around the gym. 261 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:33,960 Sam Hardaway had a couple of big ones. 262 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,720 Kyrie played poorly and Luke missed free throws on the stretch. 263 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:38,560 And Oklahoma City escapes. 264 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:42,000 Like there was no way entering that fourth quarter. 265 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,360 I was thinking, yeah, Oklahoma City's going to win this game. 266 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,360 They were playing awful, right? 267 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,400 And even when they felt like they got momentum, Luke would hit a three. 268 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:51,560 PJ Washington would hit one. 269 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:55,280 Like somebody would do something and be like, okay, no, no, no. 270 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:56,280 Like not yet. 271 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:00,040 Like, you know, I see what you want to do, but not yet. 272 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:01,040 Right. 273 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:05,840 And at no point would my brain have accepted the fact that Oklahoma City's going to win 274 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:07,520 that game, but they did. 275 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:09,240 So huge kudos to them. 276 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:11,360 Now that has a major problem on their hands. 277 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:12,360 They've lost home court. 278 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,520 Now they got to win another one of Oklahoma City, which people tell you all the time is 279 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:17,520 a bad place to play. 280 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:21,920 And if anybody, if you're a fan of a team that's had to go through them for something, 281 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:22,920 you know what to know. 282 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,800 Like you know Oklahoma City's a pain in the butt to win a game. 283 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:26,800 And so now you're Dallas. 284 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,080 You have to go in a game in there again. 285 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:31,800 Do I think Luke and Kyrie can get it done? 286 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:32,800 Yes. 287 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:33,800 Do I think Luke and Kyrie will get it done? 288 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:34,800 Yes. 289 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:35,800 Do I think they end the series in six? 290 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:36,800 Yes. 291 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:41,160 I think I just did a better team, but it would not shock me when Oklahoma City went in seventh 292 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,160 and seventh because now they can sit on their home court. 293 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:45,840 You know, now I can lean on my start. 294 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:46,840 I can lean on my fans. 295 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:48,000 I can lean on my support. 296 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,000 I can lean on whatever. 297 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,400 Because I know for a fact, I got two of the three home games. 298 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,400 I got two or three games at home. 299 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:54,400 I know that. 300 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,560 I don't have to win a game outside of the building, the rest of the playoffs on the 301 00:15:58,560 --> 00:15:59,560 West. 302 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:01,040 I don't have to win a game outside of Oklahoma City. 303 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:02,040 I'm good. 304 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:07,600 And so that is something that has to be eating at Dallas. 305 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:15,600 It's the kind of loss, it's the kind of monumental loss that you don't sleep after. 306 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:21,840 That you just sit up all night thinking, hey, what just happened? 307 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:23,480 What did we do? 308 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,240 And how does this affect us? 309 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:30,520 And your brain just plays it over and over and over again because you were supposed to 310 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:31,520 go to bed. 311 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,960 You're supposed to fly back to Oklahoma City. 312 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:39,160 On the jet, smiling and laughing, we're up 3-1 and we're a game away from the Western 313 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,440 Conference finals. 314 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:46,320 And those young guys over there are panicking because they went from never losing a playoff 315 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,680 game 4-0 to they lost 3 of their next four. 316 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,520 Like they're panicking, all right? 317 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:56,760 And they're enjoying their private playing going, what the just happened? 318 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,400 Like all the momentum is in Oklahoma City now. 319 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,920 All the mental fortitude is in our KC now. 320 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:09,640 If I'm, what is it, Mark Dagonal, I'm basically saying, look, they threw their haymaker at 321 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:10,640 us. 322 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,320 We threw a, I wouldn't even call it a jab. 323 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:16,120 We threw a range check punch. 324 00:17:16,120 --> 00:17:21,480 Just like when you throw the hand out, just check the range. 325 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:26,440 We connected and now we're tied 2-2. 326 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:31,240 It's just insane that game itself and Dallas absolutely blew it. 327 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:39,320 So Dallas lose the series, you can point to this game 4 as the deciding point in the series. 328 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:46,880 Shifting over to the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Temple walls, there's a phrase, right? 329 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,160 This is a popular phrase in basketball, in the NBA. 330 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,560 It's an older phrase, but my basketball heads wouldn't know it. 331 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:54,040 They'll recognize it. 332 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:59,160 The series doesn't start until someone loses at home, right? 333 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:00,160 That's when the series starts. 334 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,120 That's when the NBA, something like that, everybody that holds home court, kind of who 335 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:05,120 got home court last. 336 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:08,800 Like it's a series, but you know, kind of who got home court last. 337 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,480 You steal the game, oh, now it gets interesting. 338 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,800 Because now you got to steal at least one back in order to get it back. 339 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,480 It gets interesting at that point. 340 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:24,560 But the phrase is, the series doesn't start until someone loses at home. 341 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,400 Question. 342 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:30,800 What happens when everybody loses at home? 343 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,880 Because so far, the Denver Nuggets Super Bowl series, everybody's lost at home. 344 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:41,360 Every single game the road team has won, all four contests in their series, the road team 345 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:42,360 has won. 346 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:45,520 Minnesota went into Denver and won games one and two. 347 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,160 Then Denver went into Minnesota and won games three and four. 348 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,520 I don't think I've ever seen a series like that. 349 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,960 Or if I have seen it, like if I was alive for it, I don't remember it. 350 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,880 Really mean I didn't follow it closely. 351 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:58,800 Like this is insanity. 352 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,120 And it's not like they were buzzer eaters. 353 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:03,520 Like you knew with like two minutes left. 354 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:04,520 Road team won. 355 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:08,960 Like Denver smoked Minnesota in game three. 356 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:17,400 Goal and Timberwolves smoked Denver in game two when Gameman Gobert missed for his kid. 357 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,000 Like it was insane. 358 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,000 But I'm thinking and it just hit me. 359 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,000 I don't have this written down. 360 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,000 It just hit me. 361 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:31,840 Remember the mind the game podcast I spoke about earlier? 362 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:38,720 I watched that and I watched it right. 363 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,520 And I watched it to learn basketball terminology. 364 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:48,600 Like if you watch basketball long enough, you kind of can get different things. 365 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,920 You kind of know what you're looking for, what you're calling something different. 366 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,160 So it's like a basketball head. 367 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:55,160 They'll say it differently. 368 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:56,160 They'll say it differently. 369 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:57,160 You're talking about the same thing. 370 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:04,640 For instance, the Warriors run a play with Dre Amon and get the ball in the post area 371 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,440 and they'll set like two kind of screens, stagger looking screens and the player come 372 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:09,440 around and knock it down. 373 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:10,440 I thought the Warriors played. 374 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:11,440 Like I knew what it was. 375 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:16,880 Like Dre would go ball to Dre Amon, a couple screens get set, the player pops up wide open 376 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:19,640 like in the wing area, bottom foot three. 377 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,800 It was the most annoying thing ever or stuff would run and he ended up at the top of the 378 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:24,800 key by himself. 379 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:25,800 Ridiculous, right? 380 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:27,840 Apparently that's called post split. 381 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:28,840 Right? 382 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:33,400 Like, or when LeBron was really good at slashing to the goal from the wing and dunking on the 383 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:34,800 bags, it's called a slot cut. 384 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,440 Like there's things I'm learning from the podcast, right? 385 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:38,680 That I would not have known. 386 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:39,680 Okay, cool. 387 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:45,840 I say all that to say they spoke about it in the pod and LeBron was saying one of the 388 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:51,600 things he is that he's gone through, he referenced the Warriors, $100, he's referencing his own 389 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:52,600 series. 390 00:20:52,600 --> 00:21:02,920 Series where the team loses the game, but they'll gather information and that even in 391 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,480 the loss, they'll win. 392 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,560 Right? 393 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:16,120 Like even in the loss, even in the loss, they'll win. 394 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:27,960 So they may, they may lose that individual game, but they'll win the series based on 395 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:29,720 the info they'll gather in the game. 396 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:39,720 So like LeBron referenced, LeBron referenced how at the end, it was the Warriors series 397 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:45,280 with Stefan in first title, where he's basically soloed over, him and Mazzadillo over, shout 398 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:46,280 out Deli. 399 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:51,720 Um, they end of game three, they put Igor Dalla in the game. 400 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:57,200 Igor Dalla had barely played most of the playoffs and I really, he would text the guy for them. 401 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,160 He comes in the game, I forgot why he was in the game. 402 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,360 He comes in the game later in the game. 403 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:04,440 The game is decided, Cavs are going to win it, whatever. 404 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,080 Igor Dalla slows down LeBron. 405 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:13,040 Like he doesn't stop him, but at that point LeBron was inhumanly unstoppable. 406 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:18,800 Igor Dalla made him slightly unhuman unstoppable, but it was enough to where the Warriors closed 407 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:19,800 the gap like he would. 408 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,800 If it was a 20 point game, the Warriors ended losing by 10. 409 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,680 And it kind of happened when Iggy comes in the game. 410 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,960 Steve Kirk starts Iggy games four, five and six, Warriors win games four, five and six, 411 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,240 there they be a champions, right? 412 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:34,240 Cool. 413 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:39,480 LeBron referenced a series where he's gathered information and lost of a series where he 414 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,840 figured out something at the end of a game, game's over, but when they read, when they 415 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:51,280 installed it in the next game, it completely took over the game and they ended up winning 416 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:55,760 the series, right? 417 00:22:55,760 --> 00:23:05,120 Rudy Gobert missing game two may have caused the Timberwolves the series. 418 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:09,040 And you're thinking, what does that have to do with the stories you just told? 419 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,160 Well, I'm glad you asked. 420 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:21,760 Rudy Gobert, despite the slander I and a lot of others give him, he's actually, right? 421 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:26,680 He's actually a really, really good defensive player. 422 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:28,800 Is he four times the first player of the year? 423 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:29,800 Good? 424 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:30,800 No. 425 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:31,800 Should the defense player be a veteran of Victor and Benyama? 426 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:32,800 Absolutely. 427 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:38,720 Should Rudy Gobert be considered one of the greatest defensive players in NBA history? 428 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:39,720 No. 429 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:40,720 But is he good at his job? 430 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:41,720 Yes. 431 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:46,680 He's a great, he's a great help side defender, good run protector, whatever, but he's actually 432 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,200 pretty randy on the perimeter. 433 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,960 And the way they've designed their schemes, what he does, nobody else on the team can 434 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:54,960 really do. 435 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,520 So here's what I'm saying. 436 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,240 He covers up the gaps. 437 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:05,800 Like you're so worried about him, but you know he's there. 438 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,440 So you do your best to kind of just don't run right at him. 439 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,440 Like he's still standing there, right? 440 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,160 Cool. 441 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,800 What makes the Timberwolves defense work? 442 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,920 They're hard, but they're defensive and Gobert is help side. 443 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,040 So you can't really find the slots and the angles and the gaps because Gobert is back 444 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:25,040 side. 445 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,040 So even if you get through it, he blocks it and it's like, oh, well, okay, that's not 446 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,040 really there. 447 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,040 Cool. 448 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:31,040 Or mentally, is what it's thinking. 449 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:37,880 When he missed game two, that Rumpit now became Nas Reed or Carl Anthony Towns. 450 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:43,680 So now those gaps that you think you saw are now really open. 451 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,080 So now you're just getting to the rim at will, you're getting the defense, you're making 452 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:52,880 a rotate, you're doing everything you need to do in order to be successful. 453 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,360 You figure out ways to beat the defense and the scheme. 454 00:24:56,360 --> 00:25:02,800 So even when Gobert comes back, you take your chances doing it that way because you figured 455 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,520 you can't get to everything, which you can't. 456 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:11,920 And so the Nuggets, in a game they lost, gathered a ton of information on the Wolves and how 457 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:18,760 to beat them in a game they lost, employed it, and has beaten them games three and four. 458 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,040 So they were able to gather information. 459 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:32,240 Really Gobert, I'm not going to belabor or I'm not going to, I'm not going to debate 460 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:37,440 or comment on the decision of whether he should have played game two juxtaposed to the birth 461 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:38,440 of his child. 462 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:43,320 According to the head coach Chris Fitch, he was going to be back for the game. 463 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,920 Travel issues arose and he just said screw it. 464 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:51,760 But you know, you got guys saying that man there's no way I would have left my team 465 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:57,600 doing the playoff run and you know, my grandmothers said like, I mean hard up like sucks too, 466 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,360 like I would not have done it. 467 00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:01,000 I won't comment on that. 468 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,520 It's not my place. 469 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,200 It affected on the court, but that's all I'm going to go, I'm not going to go as far as 470 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,080 doing it, I'm not going to, I'm not going to talk about the morality of Rudy Gobert. 471 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:17,480 It may come up in the JTS after dark, but with Josh from Hey Jai, but it will not come 472 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:18,480 up on this show. 473 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:19,480 Right? 474 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:20,480 Cool. 475 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:27,160 So, but Gobert missing, however, did allow for the Nuggets to find stuff that previously 476 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,440 they were unable to truly track down and they would have taken advantage of. 477 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:36,320 And I just want to apologize for the audio issues with having some technical difficulties. 478 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,680 I had a microphone situation happen mid show, so I'm not sure how much of it sounds like 479 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:45,200 I'm 30 feet away, but because it's picking up off the laptop or microphone and not the 480 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,120 actual mic in my hand, but I believe the issues are solved. 481 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:52,880 I'm getting a thumbs up from my production team. 482 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:59,800 So we should be good there, but regardless, right? 483 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,320 Gobert missed and it allowed the Nuggets to find stuff. 484 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:09,200 Now that they've found stuff, Gobert really can't cover up all the holes they found. 485 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:13,120 Because of which the Nuggets look like the championship team they did against the Lakers 486 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:14,560 in most of the season. 487 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:15,560 They were resilient. 488 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:16,560 They fought. 489 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:17,560 They battled. 490 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:18,560 They went to war. 491 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,720 They did everything they could in order to tie the series back. 492 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,200 Now they send it back to Denver. 493 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,680 They have the momentum. 494 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:26,680 Excuse me. 495 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:27,840 They have the momentum. 496 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:33,800 They have the momentum, the Timberwolves back against the Wall, and they really, I mean, 497 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:34,800 think about it. 498 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,000 The Timberwolves' first two losses in the playoffs were the last two games. 499 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,000 They won their first six. 500 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,360 They had to be feeling fairly invincible. 501 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:45,000 And then now you're lost to one you were pretty handled in. 502 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,040 Like, what do you do mentally if you're the Minnesota Timberwolves? 503 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,520 That's going to be interesting. 504 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,960 They're jumping to the East. 505 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:56,560 I won't spend all the time on the series. 506 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,640 The Boston Seltsks are handling the Cleveland Cavaliers. 507 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,600 Oh, sheesh. 508 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,600 The Boston Seltsks are handling the Cleveland Cavaliers. 509 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,960 They're taking advantage of them in every single way. 510 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,640 Donovan Mitchell's amazing. 511 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,480 He's the only reason they're not a sweep. 512 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,560 And the Seltsks have been on cruise control through most of the series. 513 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:21,000 Brown and Tatum have been the best two Seltsks with no poisons. 514 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,640 They've made it work without Horford and Dirk White, etc. 515 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,080 But they are handling the Cleveland Cavaliers. 516 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:32,320 They're up three, two, one. 517 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:37,320 And lastly, the interesting series in the East, the Boston, not the Boston Seltsks, 518 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,520 the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers. 519 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:41,520 This feels very 1990. 520 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,520 We're going all the way back. 521 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,440 Seltsks and Cavs and Knicks and Pacers. 522 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:50,840 This is giving 1995 in the NBA, right? 523 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:58,080 And so when you look at the Knicks and Pacers series, this is a series that could be 3-1 524 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,040 either way. 525 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:08,120 To me, the Pacers had their shots in game one in order to win the game and to take command 526 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,840 and lead in the series. 527 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:10,840 Vice versa. 528 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:17,080 If Indiana misses that bomb, I think it was Nimhar, but I don't want to quote it, or Naismith, 529 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:23,360 misses that bomb off the path from Halliburton, the Knicks are up 3-1 right now. 530 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,360 So that is just how close the series has been. 531 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:27,840 The Knicks are in an all-time battle. 532 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,440 Not an all-time battle, but they're in an elite battle with the team again after the 533 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:37,520 epic showdown they had with the Philadelphia 76ers in which all six games totaled to a 534 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:38,520 one-point difference. 535 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:44,040 They're not in a series like that this time, but they are in an absolute war with Indiana 536 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,600 just smoking them in game four, the Knicks are a piece of hell. 537 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,600 They're just trying to battle. 538 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:56,960 Indiana is not supposed to be here, it's supposed to be Philly. 539 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:57,960 They continue to battle. 540 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,960 Indiana isn't supposed to be here. 541 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:06,760 It wasn't supposed to be Milwaukee actually, not Indiana. 542 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:13,120 They are battling at literally every station, every section, every moment, just trying to 543 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:14,120 keep up. 544 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,800 They are going to war in a situation they shouldn't be in. 545 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,520 Indiana pays their respects. 546 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,800 Kudos to them, Rick Carlisle, Tyrus Halliburton, Miles Turner, Obie Top, and the rest of the 547 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:29,880 crew as they continue to battle the New York Knicks. 548 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:30,880 Quick hitters. 549 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,280 The NBA segment is gone 27 out of minutes. 550 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:36,280 Quick hitters. 551 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,280 Not a Mitchell appears to be done in Cleveland. 552 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:52,760 There's a whole lot of smoke regarding to this being his last run with the Cleveland 553 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:53,760 Cavaliers. 554 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,320 LeBron was back in Cleveland last night with Savannah, Everest, Paul. 555 00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,360 Could there be an imminent return of Looming? 556 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,560 Could he be returning and keeping out of a measure with him? 557 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:03,560 What's that all about? 558 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:08,800 Last time LeBron did a impromptu pop-up in Cleveland, it was before he left. 559 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,320 The Heat went back to Cleveland. 560 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:15,720 He did it this time again with his wife, Savannah, and agent Rich Paul. 561 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,200 Keep an eye on that situation. 562 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:22,880 But back to Donald Mitchell, he missed last night's game with the sprained ankle in the 563 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:23,880 playoffs. 564 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,120 So unless he could barely walk, I don't know why he missed the playoff game. 565 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,520 Unless you decided, I'm done with this, I don't want to prolong it. 566 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaking of LeBron, Bronny is going to expect to stay in the NBA draft. 567 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,120 He did his official height and weight. 568 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:44,880 Without shoes, he's 6'1", 1.5", with 210 pounds, I think 6'7". 569 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:52,400 However, he did show pretty well in the NBA Combine, including making 19 or 20 for Ivan, 570 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,000 a three-point star drill. 571 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,800 Although his shot is noticeably slow. 572 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,920 He needs to speed that up. 573 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:05,760 Congratulations, I guess, to the Atlanta Hawks for winning, I guess. 574 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,240 The NBA draft lottery, they had basically no chance of doing it. 575 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:15,800 Yet they vault all the way up to the number one spot in the weakest draft, arguably ever. 576 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,040 I mean, I'm talking worse than the Anthony Bennett draft, at least Anthony Bennett's 577 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,040 draft at Outer Porter. 578 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,040 It's a rough draft. 579 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:29,640 It is an awful, awful, awful draft. 580 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:34,880 And so if you're a GM, I'm a Hawks, I'd trade that pick immediately. 581 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,480 And the Hawks have the choice to make. 582 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:43,000 You want to try and put somebody on Trey Young, or do you want to trade Trey Young to let's 583 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,800 say Orleans, pick up additional picks? 584 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,880 Like, there's so many options that the Atlanta Hawks have, I think that's why he was celebrating. 585 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:55,760 He was celebrating the possibility of options, because it definitely wasn't the first pick. 586 00:32:55,760 --> 00:33:01,680 And the Lakers head coach search is being aided by legendary Duke coach Mike Shachewski, and 587 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:06,560 pretty much to come down to three names, James Borrego, who is on the New Orleans Pelican 588 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:15,280 staff, Sam Cassell, and JJ Reddick, the co-host of the Mind the Game pod with LeBron James. 589 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,600 So take that as you wish. 590 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:33,040 But up next, we're going to discuss the Dev NBA as they come to opening down. 591 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:56,840 Welcome back into the show. 592 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,760 And welcome into the WNBA regular season. 593 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:00,760 I'm excited. 594 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,240 I'm a fan of the W, legitimately. 595 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,200 I'm not one of these people that showed up. 596 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,640 If you guys listen to my podcast, I talk about the W in season one. 597 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,800 I'm a legitimately a WNBA fan. 598 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,480 I simply say the W. I don't say the WNBA often. 599 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:23,000 I just say the W. But I'm a legitimate fan of the W. I'm a legitimate supporter of the 600 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:28,400 W. Whatever coinage, terminology, phrasing you want to use, I'm it. 601 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:29,400 Right? 602 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,880 I'm a fan. 603 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:32,680 I invest in the league pass every year. 604 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,280 Like I'm a fan. 605 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,560 I bought my wife custom jerseys. 606 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:37,560 Like I'm in this thing. 607 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:38,560 Right? 608 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:44,960 I'm a little I'm sad because it's the first year since I began watching the WNBA. 609 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,720 I won't have any relation to Candice Parker at all. 610 00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:55,880 I'm sure I'm hoping that the sparks, the sky and possibly the Aces give her a night where 611 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,960 she can kind of bounce around and kind of get her flowers. 612 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:02,360 Knowing Candice, she probably will say no. 613 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,640 But I'm at least at first. 614 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:09,000 But I'm hoping that she gets some love this season. 615 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,080 But out with the old and with the new. 616 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,080 Right? 617 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,640 And so the WNBA is entering their 28th season. 618 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,360 I kind of love the WNBA because I was me plus one. 619 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:19,360 I just turned 27. 620 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:20,360 The WNBA is turning 28. 621 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,600 So whatever the WNBA, whoever I am, it's me plus one. 622 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,560 Regardless of what the season is going to be. 623 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,040 Whatever my age is during the summer, that's what they are plus one. 624 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:30,040 It's pretty dope. 625 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,320 It's kind of the same thing as my parents wedding anniversary. 626 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,320 Whatever I am, plus one. 627 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:38,120 And so the W is entering their 28th season. 628 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,120 It's all kind of great news going on. 629 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:45,600 And they open tonight with four games all in the ESPN family networks, either on ESPN 630 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,560 2 or on the Watch ESPN app. 631 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:53,320 Mercury and Aces with the defending champion Aces. 632 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,720 The two time defending champion Aces. 633 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:59,680 Brittany get kind of an easier intro to their season. 634 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:00,680 Brittany Grinner is out. 635 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:07,720 Of course, she missed all of most of last season with the incident in Russia. 636 00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:10,080 And then of course, she's out now. 637 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,440 I think it's wrist surgery that she had to undergo. 638 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,240 She missed the beginning of the season. 639 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:22,520 Hopefully she's back by the Olympics because we kind of need her in the blocks for multiple 640 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:23,520 reasons. 641 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,200 But so she's out for the beginning of the season. 642 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,400 Aces should probably roll early in the year. 643 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,600 They're the best team in the league. 644 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,360 They're bet even money to win the WNBA title. 645 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,040 They're the best team in the world. 646 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,680 Miranda's best WNBA GM survey. 647 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:42,680 They got most of the awards. 648 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,480 They're the best team in the WNBA. 649 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:46,480 Lynx versus Storm. 650 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:52,280 Now, the Lynx have rebuilt really nicely during this off season with some key acquisitions. 651 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,600 But of course, everybody's there to shoot the Storm. 652 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,440 Now that means the Lynx have some players, right? 653 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,880 For the WNBA, everybody has some players. 654 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:04,040 But the Storm, also referenced in the WNBA survey, got a lot of love. 655 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,040 But they have a new big three. 656 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,800 They have Neca Guman, Kay Scott, and Dickens Smith, and Jewel Lloyd. 657 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,880 That is legitimately a big three. 658 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,800 The NBA is kind of leaving the big three era. 659 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,440 The WNBA is in it. 660 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,120 The W's in it full blown, right? 661 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:26,960 And so the Storm boasts Neca Guman, Kay Scott, Dickens Smith, and Jewel Lloyd. 662 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,720 You have one of the best post players in league history. 663 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:31,520 One of the most efficient scorers in league history. 664 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,040 Neca Guman Kay, a champion of finals MVP. 665 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:38,080 You have Skyler Dickens Smith, one of the better point guards in the league. 666 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,120 One of the more controversial people in the league as well. 667 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,080 But she's always a good point forward general. 668 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:49,160 And you have Jewel Lloyd, one of the best scorers, if not the best scorer in the WNBA. 669 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,160 She's legitimate. 670 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:51,160 She's crucial. 671 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:52,880 You see her on the State Farm ad. 672 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,960 The one in the house, she's dribbling. 673 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,480 That's Jewel Lloyd for those who don't know. 674 00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,360 She is an absolute bucket. 675 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,560 So much fun to watch. 676 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:05,480 She's 20 to 23 a night in a league where the average score is around 85, 90. 677 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,400 So she's a legitimate scorer. 678 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,800 She's a bucket to watch. 679 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:14,680 And her assists, her buckets this year should come a little bit easier with a legitimate 680 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,680 point guard in Skyler Dickens Smith. 681 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,320 And Neca Guman can't hold down the block. 682 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:24,240 She should have all the space in the world to operate for her shot. 683 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:30,160 The New York Liberty last year's runner up goes by Sandy Brandello versus the Washington 684 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:31,160 Mystics. 685 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,600 Kind of a franchise looking to bounce back. 686 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:38,160 They never really truly recovered from, I feel like I better term it the failed Dele 687 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:39,160 Don experiment. 688 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:40,960 So Dele Don was in Chicago. 689 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:46,120 She ends up in Washington and then she kind of just stops playing basketball. 690 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:50,480 And so the Mystics never really have recovered from that. 691 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,440 They now have Aliyah Edwards out of Yukon. 692 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:57,720 So hopefully she could be their catalyst and their call to restart the franchise. 693 00:38:57,720 --> 00:38:59,400 But they're going against the Liberty. 694 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:00,400 Not the best intro. 695 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:07,200 You know, like Diana Tarsis and Phoenix probably on her last ride and her intro without her 696 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,380 center and Brittany Griner is the aces, right? 697 00:39:10,380 --> 00:39:13,760 With the best coach and the best player and the best point guard and all the other stuff 698 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:18,800 they won in the WGM survey. 699 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,600 That's an awful way to begin. 700 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:21,600 Right? 701 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:26,320 And so the Liberty and the Mystics trying to reboot their franchise get the Liberty. 702 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,480 That's an awful way to begin. 703 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:29,480 Right? 704 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:35,000 Like you get Sandy Brandello on the bench with Sabrina Yanescu, Brianna Stewart and 705 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,800 John Quayle Jones. 706 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,680 You know, it's the big three coming in town. 707 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:43,320 That's an awful way to start your season. 708 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,480 And of course, the game everybody's waiting on. 709 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,360 The game is going to it's already sold out. 710 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,400 It's on ESPN2. 711 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,760 People are saying it could be finals like coverage with the amount of media and cameras 712 00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:01,200 and attention and broadcasting and pregame show and on location. 713 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:06,760 And it's the Caitlin Clark show is arriving into the NBA finally full fledged. 714 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,320 Her first regular season game. 715 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,600 She goes against the Connecticut Sun, who's got some players. 716 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,560 The Connecticut Sun has some players. 717 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:15,720 They have the one about her. 718 00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:17,880 They have Alyssa Thomas. 719 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:19,560 You know, they have several other players. 720 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,160 Where John Quayle Jones came from. 721 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:28,320 They had John Quayle Jones, who is the MVP of the league. 722 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:34,240 They trade her to the New York Liberty and they don't really miss a beat. 723 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:44,840 So that kind of tell you what the Connecticut Sun are all about in terms of they are legit. 724 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,520 Like I said, Don't wanna buy a Brianna Jones. 725 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,200 They have Alyssa Thomas. 726 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:52,600 They have Dijonay Carrington. 727 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,040 Like they are they have a squad. 728 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,000 Mariah Jefferson, Tiffany Mitchell. 729 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,000 Like they can play. 730 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:03,200 That's one of the things I like about the W about the W. Everybody on the roster can 731 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,200 play. 732 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,720 But you're not really gonna get people who are just bad. 733 00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:09,200 You're gonna get people who can ball. 734 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:13,800 And so love that for the W. Katelyn's gonna have to ball her first game. 735 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,040 She has not done it so far. 736 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,920 Which is not what the media would like you to believe. 737 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,720 And I'm a huge WNBA fan so I follow these things. 738 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:26,320 I'm not just looking at her box score of 21, 6, and 4. 739 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,120 I'm looking at the fact she shot 5 of 13. 740 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,320 I'm looking at the fact she shot 4 of 12. 741 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,920 She's shooting awful. 742 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:37,520 She's making 3 or 4 3's a night but she's shooting 12 or 13 of them. 743 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:43,480 And so in like her first game she shot she made her first 4 and then she finished 2 of 744 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:44,480 11. 745 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:47,160 I think she ended up going like 6 of 17. 746 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,640 And then in the second game she goes like 4 of 12. 747 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:52,280 Like she's not shooting very well at all. 748 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,400 She's shooting around 35ish percent from the field. 749 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,880 Like that's not gonna work. 750 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:04,920 Now she's shooting so much and the fever has kind of capitulated to her playstyle. 751 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,840 Her shot in the miss is better than somebody else's shot in the miss. 752 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,360 Especially from the perimeter. 753 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,560 But she's gonna have to get way more efficient. 754 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:13,560 And have a counter move. 755 00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,800 Like she wants to go left. 756 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,560 And I say that when she's in college. 757 00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:25,200 Dawn Staley beat her because in the end of the first quarter Raven Johnson was switched 758 00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,800 onto Katelyn Clark and sat on Katelyn Clark's left hand. 759 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,360 I don't care about that screen. 760 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:31,600 I don't care about nothing. 761 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,120 I'm making you go right. 762 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:35,600 You're not gonna go left. 763 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:39,200 And Katelyn Clark was way more efficient. 764 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,920 She wants those fading bombs from 3 to going left. 765 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,320 She prefers to go left. 766 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:50,080 If you make her go right she's either a drive artist or she's even a cis person. 767 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:51,920 At that point you're very normal. 768 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:56,800 And there was even a clip that was showing where she went right and stopped. 769 00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,280 Like completely stopped. 770 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,200 And basically shot a set shot from the midrange. 771 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:02,200 It went in. 772 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,560 But you could tell it was an incredibly uncomfortable moment. 773 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:06,560 She didn't jump into it. 774 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,760 Like she literally stopped and like flat footed shot a shot basically. 775 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,920 And then it goes in. 776 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:12,920 Good shot. 777 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:13,920 But it's not gonna work in a game. 778 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,360 In a full speed game situation. 779 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,040 But you know I am not. 780 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,920 And my friends have called me a hater. 781 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:23,920 It's fine. 782 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:24,920 Call me what you want. 783 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:26,440 I watch this game. 784 00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:27,440 Right? 785 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,160 I watch this game closely. 786 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:30,560 People call Diana Tarassi a hater. 787 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:31,560 And Stu a hater. 788 00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,800 And all the older WNBA players. 789 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:34,800 The legends. 790 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:36,560 The walking statues. 791 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,640 That were saying oh she's gonna have a rough time when she comes. 792 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:40,640 She is. 793 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:46,560 Like people had no problem talking about Angel Reese is gonna struggle in the WNBA. 794 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,560 Because oh she's 6'4". 795 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:49,560 She's only 6'4". 796 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:50,960 And she has no jump shot. 797 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:55,680 And the bigger WNBA players are gonna really bother Angel Reese. 798 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:56,680 And she's gonna struggle. 799 00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,640 That's why she fell in the draft to number 7. 800 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:00,640 Blah blah blah. 801 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:01,640 Even though the WNBA. 802 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:06,640 Even though the WGM say that was the best value pick in the draft. 803 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,560 Angel Reese at 7. 804 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:12,760 You got Angel Reese at 7. 805 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:17,840 People had no issue slandering Angel Reese and saying that she was gonna struggle with 806 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,200 her shot. 807 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:20,200 And her efficiency. 808 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,400 She's not gonna be able to just get all those rebounds. 809 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,840 Because the WNBA is bigger and stronger. 810 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:25,840 And it was a women. 811 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,760 Instead of 18, 19 year old girls she's playing women. 812 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,320 That was never a problem. 813 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,160 That was never an issue. 814 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:37,200 Which in fact her game has translated incredibly well. 815 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:38,840 She's still getting those rebounds. 816 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,200 She's still chopping people. 817 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:41,640 She's still talking trash. 818 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,080 She's still blocking shots. 819 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,800 She's still laying up through contact. 820 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:46,800 Her game hasn't changed much. 821 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:47,800 Right? 822 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:48,800 Like. 823 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,160 Now she's showed in off season workouts she can shoot a little bit. 824 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:52,160 But her game is her game. 825 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:53,160 Right? 826 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:54,160 It hasn't changed much. 827 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,720 Because she finished playing college basketball in the March. 828 00:44:57,720 --> 00:44:59,760 She's playing her first program in the middle of May. 829 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:00,760 Right? 830 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,000 So she hasn't had a lot of time to really change the game. 831 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:04,000 You know? 832 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:12,160 But yet when veterans and people who watch the game and pundits and the occasional fan 833 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:18,920 dare to say, Katelyn won't just be able to abuse a 5 foot 4 guard who's never gonna make 834 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,120 it to the WNBA or even play professional basketball. 835 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:23,920 She's not gonna just be able to take 30 shots. 836 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,800 Like she won't just be able to just say, oh I shot 2 for 10 in the first half so I'm gonna 837 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,960 shoot 20 in the second half and shoot myself out of it. 838 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,320 Like that's not gonna work. 839 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:32,320 Right? 840 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,760 But when anybody said that we were immediately like, oh y'all hating. 841 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:37,400 No one's ever seen anything like her. 842 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:38,680 She's gonna be the female GOAT. 843 00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:39,680 Blah blah blah. 844 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:47,000 Like Brianna Stewart who won 4 national championships and 3 player of the year awards had to adjust. 845 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,000 Maya Moore had to adjust. 846 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,600 Brittany Greiner had to adjust. 847 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,520 Like I'm not saying Katelyn Clark won't ever be good. 848 00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:59,960 I'm not saying she won't come in an average 18'6 and 7. 849 00:45:59,960 --> 00:46:00,960 You know what I'm saying? 850 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:06,360 And just, and fever lose but in any fish in 18'6 and 7. 851 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:12,520 Like you could just, like I'm not saying that won't happen. 852 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:25,400 What I'm saying is she won't walk in the door and be one of the best 30 players in the league. 853 00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:26,400 Like okay. 854 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,280 Alright alright alright. 855 00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:33,800 She won't be one of the best 25 players in the league. 856 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,960 Like she's not the best player on her own team. 857 00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:37,680 That's Aliyah Boston. 858 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:44,680 Like she wouldn't be the best player on any WNBA team right now. 859 00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:45,680 Maybe the Mystics? 860 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:49,480 Like if she wants to be the Mystics she should be the unquestioned best player. 861 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:53,520 But like she would not be the best player in Phoenix. 862 00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:57,280 Let's look at the teams that plays today. 863 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:02,080 Like let's not even worry about you know teams that don't play today. 864 00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:05,480 Look at the teams that play today. 865 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:09,360 Like I'm looking at the Mystics roster. 866 00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:11,120 She'd be the best player on the Mystics. 867 00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:18,680 Because the only other person I think of that would challenge her. 868 00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,280 Aliyah Edwards who I think she's better than. 869 00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:22,280 Maybe Ariel Atkins. 870 00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,560 Okay so she'd be the best player on the Mystics. 871 00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,360 But the Mercury. 872 00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:28,880 Dan Atross is better. 873 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,200 Brittany Griner is better. 874 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,440 Kaliyah Copper right this second. 875 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:38,200 She'd be better. 876 00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,200 Las Vegas Aces. 877 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:41,200 Let's move on. 878 00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:42,200 They have Asia Wilson. 879 00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,840 The Minnesota Lynx have Nafisa Kalia. 880 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:46,800 I'm gonna take Nafisa Kalia. 881 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,560 The Storm have Nneka Sky and Jewel. 882 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,680 I'm gonna take Jewel and Nneka. 883 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,760 The Liberty have Sabrina Stewart and Jon Quill. 884 00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,640 I'm gonna take all three. 885 00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,400 The Mystics okay. 886 00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,400 The Fever Aliyah Boston is better. 887 00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,160 And Connecticut Alyssa Thomas is better. 888 00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:01,680 At least. 889 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:03,000 So when you go through these teams. 890 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:04,320 That's the team that's playing today. 891 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,160 She's already at 13-14. 892 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,240 And the leagues only have 144 players. 893 00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:10,240 You know I'm not thinking about the Sparks. 894 00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:11,600 She's probably the best player on the Sparks. 895 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,560 I think Cameron Brink does more. 896 00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,080 Like I'm not saying she won't be good. 897 00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:27,000 And for all I know she could go out tonight and have 27-7 and tennises hit you know 8 898 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,120 of 12 threes and it's just this bonanza. 899 00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:31,920 She hits a 40 footer. 900 00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:37,680 Like it could be an absolute show tonight on ESPN2 in front of the world. 901 00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:38,680 So would our crowd. 902 00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:39,680 Everybody's watching. 903 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:40,680 It could be a show. 904 00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:50,080 And she could also get 15-4 and 5 on 5 of 18 shooting and then get a lose by 20. 905 00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:53,080 Because again the Sun is a good team. 906 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,120 Like I just want stuff to be rational. 907 00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,440 I just want stuff to make sense. 908 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,360 The Caitlin Clark coverage is not making sense. 909 00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,920 We're not making sense. 910 00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:05,920 Because what you say about one you don't say about the other. 911 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,280 You say that Angel is going to struggle translating. 912 00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,840 People wonder about Camila Cordoza not having those games. 913 00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,040 People wondered about Cameron Brink being scared. 914 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:17,220 Like everybody had a worry except Caitlin Clark. 915 00:49:17,220 --> 00:49:19,760 Who didn't beat any of them. 916 00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:27,520 So it would be remiss of me to just simply say oh she's going to walk in the league and 917 00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:28,640 tear it up. 918 00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:29,640 That's the common phrase. 919 00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,240 Number one, number two it's not necessarily true. 920 00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:35,640 Number three even the highlight package they show you every time they put up the old box 921 00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,280 score everybody go Kyah, at least she shot that. 922 00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:42,080 They made it on TV look like she didn't miss. 923 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:43,080 Exactly. 924 00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:46,200 Charles Bark is told by the double club Shea Shea. 925 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:51,240 How he did it in reference to Rudy Gobert gets slandered. 926 00:49:51,240 --> 00:49:56,520 But it was kind of like in a two hour game the highlight package is one minute. 927 00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,880 So whoever the star is is going to get 40 seconds of the minute. 928 00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:02,560 Whoever the star is. 929 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:07,600 So for the Timberwolves Anthony Edwards and Kat are going to get 45 seconds of the highlight 930 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:08,600 reel. 931 00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:16,080 So the other 15 seconds is sprinkled in with Gobert dunk a big block maybe a pull up three. 932 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,320 Like that's the highlight package. 933 00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,960 For the Nuggets a lot of Yolkits a lot of Murray a lot of Michael Porter Jr. maybe Aaron 934 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:21,960 Gordon dunk. 935 00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:23,240 That's the highlight package. 936 00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:27,560 For the Fever if Katelyn Clark made six shots five of them are going to be in the highlight 937 00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:28,560 reel. 938 00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:31,920 Aliyah Boston is going to be mentioned and that's the highlight. 939 00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:37,840 So when she shot full for four early bang bang bang I'm like okay she came in hitting 940 00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:41,200 and then she finished two of 11. 941 00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:45,540 So and people were talking to me like man I thought she didn't miss. 942 00:50:45,540 --> 00:50:48,800 You would have thought that living in the highlight package. 943 00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:53,080 And I'm not a Katelyn Clark hater I'm a Katelyn Clark realist. 944 00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:57,960 I spoke about her inefficiency in college and people came at me. 945 00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:03,560 And I'm saying I'm not just thinking about I see the number but I watch the game and 946 00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:10,200 I'm noticing when she's not going left she's horrible not horrible but she's not nearly 947 00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:14,520 the player that hey she's hyped to be she's like that either. 948 00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:19,080 But that she is going left going left you get the 35 foot bombs you get the 30 foot 949 00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:23,240 bombs you get the come around the screen over somebody shot because she's comfortable going 950 00:51:23,240 --> 00:51:25,520 left she's really comfortable going left. 951 00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:31,680 Going right yeah so that is something I noticed and looked at and I was called a hater. 952 00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:35,120 So guess what and I said she's going to have to deal with the WNBA. 953 00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,120 I said most teams in college don't have the personnel. 954 00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:43,640 They just don't and that's why I like men college basketball stars sometimes a good 955 00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,320 bit of time don't make it in the NBA because a lot of times they're either just physically 956 00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:51,520 more gifted or they have a way better coach. 957 00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:56,760 That's not the case in college she's a six foot guard in college who can move dribble 958 00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,720 and shoot 30 foot threes. 959 00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:04,000 That's something that especially when giving the ultra green light it's hard to stop in 960 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:05,000 college. 961 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,360 Most people don't have WNBA level players. 962 00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:11,920 Guess what in the WNBA they're all WNBA level players. 963 00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,720 Like she's going against her son Alyssa Thomas going to have some shots at her. 964 00:52:14,720 --> 00:52:19,760 I want to bond her and have some shots at her like she won't just be able to just walk 965 00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:24,680 herself into these shots and the two teams that she played in her first couple of preseason 966 00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:30,840 games and didn't play all that well weren't necessarily locked down teams. 967 00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:34,120 They weren't like they weren't teams that was just oh my god they're going to lead 968 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:35,120 the league in defense. 969 00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,960 Like probably not like Dejane Cain is going to have her shot at her. 970 00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:40,680 Rachel Barnum is going to have her shot at her. 971 00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,480 Tiffany Mitchell is for sure going to have her shot at her. 972 00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:50,440 Tiffany Mitchell is one of the best defensive players in the W. And when you just look at 973 00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:59,840 that light you're going to have to work in the W. You're not going to just calmly jack 974 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:00,840 up 30 shots. 975 00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,960 You're not going to get 30 shots anyway against a professional basketball team. 976 00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:05,880 Like you're going to have to go to work there. 977 00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,920 Kailin Clutton will have to prove herself. 978 00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:09,440 I think she'll be a good player. 979 00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,120 I think she'll make a lot of all-star teams. 980 00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:17,040 I think she'll make a couple of all-NBAs, a couple of all-W teams. 981 00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:21,400 Like I think she'll be a legitimate number one pick. 982 00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:22,400 I do. 983 00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:25,120 I don't see her being a bus. 984 00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:30,880 But I will say that she's going to have to deal with a lot of scrutiny if you look up. 985 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,400 She's inefficient which I believe she will be. 986 00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:38,520 And Indiana's 7-17. 987 00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:39,520 What do you do at that point? 988 00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:41,880 The coach probably gets fired. 989 00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,440 The GM might not be far behind. 990 00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:46,920 If Leah Boston not putting up big numbers, going to be looking at Leah Boston. 991 00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:48,120 Oh, Kima Clark will need more help. 992 00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:49,840 She got that bum on Leah Boston. 993 00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,080 So now how does Leah Boston feel? 994 00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,280 There's a new franchise opening up. 995 00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,240 I am sure the Valkyrie would love to have Leah Boston. 996 00:53:57,240 --> 00:53:59,640 Me and my wife were talking about that earlier. 997 00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:04,820 What if Indiana succumbs to public pressure or whatever and lets Leah Boston be unprotected 998 00:54:04,820 --> 00:54:05,820 in the fantasy draft? 999 00:54:05,820 --> 00:54:08,160 Is Leah Boston a Valkyrie? 1000 00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:12,520 You know, like, is Leah Boston a Valkyrie? 1001 00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:15,680 They're going to have the number one pick I believe is how the WNBA are doing it. 1002 00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:17,200 They're going to drive Paige Becker's. 1003 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:22,560 So if the Valkyrie can show up with Paige Becker's and Leah Boston, they're immediately 1004 00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:23,560 legitimate. 1005 00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:29,200 Like, so, that's, you know, a lot of stuff's got to happen and it's a long WNBA season. 1006 00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:30,200 Longer than normal. 1007 00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:31,200 They have the Olympic break. 1008 00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:32,940 We'll talk about that when it gets closer. 1009 00:54:32,940 --> 00:54:34,360 How that kind of works with them. 1010 00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,480 It's kind of like the bubble break but much shorter. 1011 00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,080 Like a super long all-star break. 1012 00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:40,080 Like for three, for two weeks. 1013 00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:41,880 Or I think it's three weeks I think. 1014 00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:42,880 The season just pauses. 1015 00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:45,480 Like I said, it's like a super long all-star break. 1016 00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,680 Because I think they fly out. 1017 00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:52,040 I think the whole basketball tournament in the NBA is, the Olympics is 10 days, 14 days. 1018 00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:55,520 So for like two and a half, three weeks, the league just pauses and then they come back 1019 00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:57,520 and the season picks up. 1020 00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,520 Odd thing. 1021 00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:00,520 But, whatever. 1022 00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,240 But we're definitely keeping our eye on the Katelyn Carr game tonight. 1023 00:55:03,240 --> 00:55:04,240 I will be watching. 1024 00:55:04,240 --> 00:55:06,280 Everybody's going to be watching. 1025 00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:08,000 I will be watching it closely. 1026 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:09,000 Very, very closely. 1027 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,480 And you will hear my thoughts on it probably right after the game. 1028 00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,960 We'll definitely see what happens on X. 1029 00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:18,600 I'll keep your eye posted on my social medias. 1030 00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:21,520 And I mentioned them already. 1031 00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:23,000 Expansions coming to the WNBA. 1032 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:27,960 The Golden State franchise that was announced a while back have their name and their colors 1033 00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:28,960 and their logo. 1034 00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,600 They will be the Golden State Valkyrie. 1035 00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:35,200 Valkyrie is mentioned in Marvel. 1036 00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:36,800 Tess Thompson's Valkyrie. 1037 00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:42,720 But traditionally in Norse mythology, Viking mythology, they are the choosers of the dead 1038 00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:43,720 basically. 1039 00:55:43,720 --> 00:55:45,040 Or the guiders of the dead. 1040 00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:50,120 Their whole job as the Valkyrie is to carry the good people up to Odin. 1041 00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:53,000 And the land, wherever the Viking word is. 1042 00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:54,520 But Viking heaven basically. 1043 00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:55,520 Up to Odin. 1044 00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:56,520 That was the Valkyrie's job. 1045 00:55:56,520 --> 00:56:00,400 Ushered the soul up. 1046 00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:02,160 And so that's what they're named after. 1047 00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:06,840 But also in more modern times, you see that in Marvel, they're deemed as warriors. 1048 00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:08,520 Like the Valkyrie's fight. 1049 00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:09,520 Female warriors. 1050 00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:14,640 The Golden State men's team called. 1051 00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:15,640 The warriors. 1052 00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:21,800 It's very, it's very, like you see that a lot of times with teams that are linked together. 1053 00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,080 That they'll name kind of off the other team. 1054 00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:28,600 For instance, the Los Angeles Sparks started into these Showtime Lakers. 1055 00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:29,960 Um, there's Seattle. 1056 00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,360 Oh, it's not somebody else. 1057 00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:33,920 Somebody else is linked in. 1058 00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:34,920 Whoa. 1059 00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:40,000 In the early days, it was the Charlotte Sting was the Debbie Mae franchise or the Charlotte 1060 00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:41,000 Hornets. 1061 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:44,640 Um, man, I'm trying to think. 1062 00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:45,640 It's another one too. 1063 00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:46,640 And I'm drawing a blank. 1064 00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:47,640 And it's upsetting. 1065 00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,120 But it's, oh, the Minnesota Lynx. 1066 00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:52,200 Lynx is a kind of a softer term for wolf. 1067 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:53,200 You know what I'm saying? 1068 00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:58,200 Like these teams are kind of linked in together for those of them who are partnered up. 1069 00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:03,880 And so obviously, the Golden State franchise owned by Joe Lake of and crew are partnered 1070 00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,120 up with the men's franchise. 1071 00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:09,840 So the warriors now have their sister team, the Valkyrie. 1072 00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:11,440 Um, dope logo. 1073 00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:13,320 I post all of social media if you want to see it. 1074 00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,920 Um, then the Toronto Debbie Mae franchise don't have their branding, don't have their 1075 00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:20,280 name, but they've been awarded a franchise in 2026. 1076 00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:26,720 Kathy Engelbert wants to go to 16 teams by 2028, which means that is kind of the sweet 1077 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:28,960 spot number she's thinking 16. 1078 00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:33,000 I say the sweet spot number is 18 or 20. 1079 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:39,560 Um, because 16 teams play about twice 30 games and then kind of randomized the last six games 1080 00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:40,560 over 36 games. 1081 00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:42,560 18 teams play about twice. 1082 00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:43,560 That's 34 games. 1083 00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:49,960 And then you have two teams who play twice 36 games or you get like 20 teams. 1084 00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:50,960 You play everybody twice. 1085 00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:51,960 That's 38 games. 1086 00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:53,960 And you un-conference the playoffs like it is now. 1087 00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:55,960 And you don't have to go by none of the nonsense. 1088 00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:56,960 You can go by whatever. 1089 00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:02,240 Um, and then there's reportedly 20 viable cities wanting to host teams anyway. 1090 00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:05,040 So give everybody a team, expand kind of a pop expansion. 1091 00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:09,920 It'd be crazy draft, but give everybody a team, pop expansion and see where it goes. 1092 00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,520 But she's smartly, she's getting good ownership, she's getting good cities. 1093 00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:14,520 She's doing one at a time. 1094 00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:16,520 So we're going to get UC in the goal and save Valkyrie. 1095 00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,560 Then we're going to get UC in the Toronto whatever's and then we're going to have two 1096 00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:20,560 more teams, one in 27. 1097 00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:21,560 I assume one in 28. 1098 00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:22,560 Maybe we got another one. 1099 00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:26,920 I know she want to kind of keep it even. 1100 00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:28,520 So she's doing a great job as commissioner. 1101 00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:32,360 I've had my issues with Kathy Engelbert in the past, but I'm starting to kind of learn. 1102 00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:37,600 It's not really her, it's kind of the old ownership groups, not really allowing her 1103 00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:44,160 to maneuver the way she probably wants to as the commissioner. 1104 00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:54,880 So it does work however for the owners, which is something that NFL fans still haven't quite 1105 00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:57,560 figured out. 1106 00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:02,280 But up next we're shifting to the NFL and touching on what's going down. 1107 00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:03,280 Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. 1108 00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,640 I almost forgot about the WNBA survey. 1109 00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:07,640 I was like talking so much, I almost forgot about the survey. 1110 00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:08,640 Okay. 1111 00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,360 It's weird on my notes. 1112 00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:16,600 So the WNBA had a GM survey that all the sports leagues do it, but some interesting things 1113 00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:17,600 that went down. 1114 00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:22,200 So by position, I don't really, best small four is irrelevant. 1115 00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:26,600 But best center was Asia Wilson followed by John Corleone Jones and Brittany Greiner. 1116 00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:30,920 Best powerful was Rihanna Stewart followed by Asia Wilson and Satu Sabale. 1117 00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:34,040 Best point guard was Joe Chelsea Gray who cares who was second. 1118 00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:37,320 Best shooting guard was Joel Lloyd, again who cares who was in second. 1119 00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:39,840 The best total off season was the end of the Seattle Storm. 1120 00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:46,200 Remember I spoke about that is the team that ends up with Nneka Gumake, Skyler Diggins 1121 00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:47,400 and Joel Lloyd. 1122 00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:52,200 I mean that's ridiculous. 1123 00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:53,200 That's insane, right? 1124 00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:54,200 That's insane. 1125 00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:58,120 For those of you who want to know the best small four was Satu Sabale, but she only won 1126 00:59:58,120 --> 00:59:59,120 25% of her vote. 1127 00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:02,000 That's why I said the other positions were kind of more solidified. 1128 01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:08,400 Satu only won 25% of her vote, but she is deemed as the best small four in the W. 1129 01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:15,560 Best coach was Becky Hammond and then most improved team was the Indiana Fever basically 1130 01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:16,560 because of Kaelyn Clark. 1131 01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:24,040 But the aces, the aces kind of swept, not swept, they dominated the awards. 1132 01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:29,840 There was some other stuff like who won, well I would say the aces dominated the awards. 1133 01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:35,920 For instance the aces won best offensive team, most fun to watch, most efficient team, best 1134 01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:37,400 home court advantage. 1135 01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:43,400 Chester Gray wins best point guard, best passer, best leader, best basketball IQ and the person 1136 01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:45,440 who will make the best head coach someday. 1137 01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:53,480 Asia Wilson wins the preseason pick for WNBA, Kia MVP, best center, best defender, best 1138 01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:55,600 interior defender. 1139 01:00:55,600 --> 01:01:04,600 So they won a lot and then of course they won, Becky Hammond won best coach. 1140 01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:11,240 And then Asia came in second too, if you were starting a franchise today who would you sign? 1141 01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:15,280 And Kaelyn Clark got number one, that's for a lot of reasons, that's for marketing and 1142 01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:16,280 basketball. 1143 01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:19,440 Asia Wilson got number two, Elia Boston got number three. 1144 01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:25,400 So if you are the Indiana Fever, you gotta be thinking, well actually the Indiana Fever 1145 01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:30,120 did win 100% of the vote for the best young court, which was the Fever. 1146 01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:34,920 Because they have two of the three best, they have two of the three players the GM's would 1147 01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:35,920 sign as starting their franchise. 1148 01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:38,000 There's 16 teams, that's 14 teams. 1149 01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:44,200 So Kaelyn Clark got seven votes, Elia Boston got one vote and Asia Wilson got the other 1150 01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:45,200 six. 1151 01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:50,920 So the core you want is the Fever core, you got the back to back number one overall picks 1152 01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:51,920 on Indiana. 1153 01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:55,160 So they're going to be very exciting to watch. 1154 01:01:55,160 --> 01:02:00,320 And now up next to the NFL and talk about what's going down with the shield. 1155 01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:35,880 Welcome back into the show. 1156 01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:41,880 And now we're going to jump into the NFL rather, just rather quickly, about what's going on 1157 01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:43,600 down there. 1158 01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:49,200 Schedule releases slowly, networks are slowly telling us our big opening games. 1159 01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,200 We're kind of getting bits and pieces of the schedule. 1160 01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:56,160 I think the big schedule releases either today or tomorrow. 1161 01:02:56,160 --> 01:03:00,200 We'll get everybody's schedule full schedule, all 17 games for every team. 1162 01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:05,720 And then of course, a few months from now, I'll do my annual sit down, where I spend 1163 01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:07,000 way too much time. 1164 01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:10,720 But I sit down and pick every single record. 1165 01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:12,520 And I know there's a soft whack to put that in. 1166 01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:16,560 But I sit down, I print the whole schedule out and I sit down with a pen and paper, two 1167 01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:23,040 pens and paper, and I do every single game and every single record and who does what. 1168 01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:27,120 And I go to the playoffs and it's a whole thing. 1169 01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:30,280 It's nerdy for a lot, but it's fun for me. 1170 01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:31,280 Right. 1171 01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:33,440 And I enjoy it. 1172 01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:38,920 It's a fun time. 1173 01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:42,120 So schedules are leaking out, quote unquote. 1174 01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:43,120 Right. 1175 01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:47,240 And the Chiefs have back to back big weeks. 1176 01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:52,120 The Chiefs open the season Thursday night opener with of course, the other defending champs. 1177 01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:56,640 They open up the NFL season on Thursday night at home and they draw the Baltimore A-Roll. 1178 01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:58,920 So they get an AFC title game rematch. 1179 01:03:58,920 --> 01:03:59,920 Game one. 1180 01:03:59,920 --> 01:04:00,920 Let's go. 1181 01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:01,920 Let's do it right now. 1182 01:04:01,920 --> 01:04:02,920 Let's go. 1183 01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:03,920 They're going to decide. 1184 01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:04,920 They're going to go. 1185 01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:08,880 I mean, they may lock up home field advantage by week two. 1186 01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:09,880 Why? 1187 01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:11,780 Because week two, they host the Bengals. 1188 01:04:11,780 --> 01:04:17,160 So they're in a position where they can lock, they can put a chokehold on home field advantage 1189 01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:18,160 by week two. 1190 01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:22,400 If they beat the Bengals and the Ravens, that means that's two people in their thing. 1191 01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:25,920 They don't have to worry about, which means they have the Bengals and the Ravens. 1192 01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:29,160 They have the AFC North as their conference, as their division this year. 1193 01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:30,160 That ain't great. 1194 01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:31,640 Well, no, because you draw a cross. 1195 01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:32,640 It ain't been random. 1196 01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:33,640 I don't know. 1197 01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:37,360 But regardless, they got the Ravens and the Bengals to open up their season. 1198 01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:43,640 So they can put a legitimate chokehold and stranglehold on the AFC home field advantage 1199 01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:44,640 by week two. 1200 01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:46,800 And they knock out the Bengals and the Ravens. 1201 01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:53,520 Conversely, they could be staring at football near impossibility if they go down, if they're 1202 01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:55,560 down 0-2 after week two. 1203 01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:57,280 The Ravens get them, then the Bengals get them. 1204 01:04:57,280 --> 01:04:58,280 They could be 0-2. 1205 01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:01,240 And 0-2 teams traditionally don't make the playoffs. 1206 01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:03,920 It happens, but it's rare. 1207 01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:09,000 And so that'll be something to definitely keep our eye on, is the Chiefs opening up 1208 01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:10,000 with those two games. 1209 01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:15,120 Of course, Friday, you have the Eagles hosting in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1210 01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:18,480 Just the coolness of that, like go play football in Brazil. 1211 01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:19,480 You know what I'm saying? 1212 01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:23,520 So I know always going to be in Brazil hanging out, and then they get to go play a football 1213 01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:28,400 game in Brazil, which is something that no football player ever dreams of, because who 1214 01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:32,280 plays football, who plays American football in Brazil? 1215 01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:33,840 Literally no one. 1216 01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:36,680 So that's pretty cool for the Eagles. 1217 01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:38,240 And I forgot who they're playing. 1218 01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:39,800 I think it's the Packers, I want to say. 1219 01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:44,160 But I forgot who they're playing, but they're going to play their opening game in Brazil. 1220 01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:45,160 That's pretty dope. 1221 01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:47,600 And then of course, the NFL full slate. 1222 01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:52,160 Tom Brady's first game will be a Dallas Cowboy Cleveson Brown game. 1223 01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:58,920 That'll be his first game as a broadcaster as part of his 10-year, $325 million contract 1224 01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:01,320 to be the lead guy for Fox. 1225 01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:07,200 So that'll be his first game, of course, almost the lead guy for CBS. 1226 01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:13,840 The Niners open up Prime Time, I think Sunday night football, Prime Time, against the Jets. 1227 01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:15,080 So they will host the Jets. 1228 01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:16,840 Aaron Rodgers comes back on Prime Time. 1229 01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:18,360 Last time was Aaron Rodgers. 1230 01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,920 He was in Prime Time on 9-11. 1231 01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:25,760 He ran out in New York, well, New Jersey, but home in New York, holding the American 1232 01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:26,760 flag. 1233 01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:27,760 It was a big moment. 1234 01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:30,240 It was everybody was cheering and crying. 1235 01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:35,520 And then four plays later, he's being stretched it off for the Twenton Achilles and it's over. 1236 01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:40,480 So hopefully we don't have that. 1237 01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:45,160 And he goes at San Francisco to open it up. 1238 01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:48,880 So that's going to be intriguing. 1239 01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:52,040 And so that's kind of the games we have leaked out so far. 1240 01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:57,840 With Devil Keeper got updated on more leaks, if and when they were to occur. 1241 01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:01,760 Also some news, contract news, big dollar news. 1242 01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:04,480 The Detroit Lions continue to pay people. 1243 01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:11,600 They agreed to a four year, $212 million contract with Jared Goff with a $170 million guaranteed. 1244 01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:16,640 $212 million is the largest contract given in Detroit Lions history. 1245 01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:22,520 It is the second largest per annual value contract in the NFL. 1246 01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:30,120 And the $170 million guaranteed is the largest guaranteed contract by long margin with the 1247 01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:32,800 Detroit Lions franchise. 1248 01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:33,800 So they continue to pay. 1249 01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:39,200 They pay Peney Sewell, they pay Amara, they pay Peney Sewell high in the market. 1250 01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:40,840 They pay Amara high in the market. 1251 01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:42,840 Now they're paying Jared Goff high in the market. 1252 01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:46,800 I don't think there's any top contracts, but they're all right there. 1253 01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:51,160 And so congratulations to the Lions for locking down this core. 1254 01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:54,760 And then the Buccaneers, of course, they continue to spend as well. 1255 01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:59,800 They paid Mike Evans, they paid Baker Mayfield, they paid somebody else. 1256 01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:02,000 I can't think of who it was right now. 1257 01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:03,600 And Carlton Day are think out of bag. 1258 01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:06,440 And now Antoine Winfield gets his bag. 1259 01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:08,440 Four years, $84.1 million. 1260 01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:14,080 It is the biggest ever for a safety in the history of the NFL. 1261 01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:16,360 He also gets the most guaranteed money. 1262 01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:21,480 He gets what is most dollars for a DB in the history of the NFL and he gets the most guaranteed 1263 01:08:21,480 --> 01:08:25,480 dollars for a safety in the NFL history. 1264 01:08:25,480 --> 01:08:29,240 So another big contract in Tampa, because they've been spending a lot of money this 1265 01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:33,360 off season, but they are trying to make sure that they do not fall off a map and they keep 1266 01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:36,400 their good core together as well. 1267 01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:42,840 And then my last one, the NFL is an anonymous coach for the Bears. 1268 01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:47,880 They came out slandering Justin Fields saying that it was bad football to watch and Justin 1269 01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:54,480 was trying to see everything at once and saw nothing and just a bunch of slander and stuff, 1270 01:08:54,480 --> 01:08:55,480 right? 1271 01:08:55,480 --> 01:09:02,040 And it goes back to what I was saying about Caleb Williams, a little bit about Katelyn 1272 01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:05,400 Clark and Justin Fields in previous podcasts. 1273 01:09:05,400 --> 01:09:11,880 It feels like a concerted effort to make Katelyn Williams look good and Justin Fields look 1274 01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:12,880 good. 1275 01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:16,560 It feels like they're going out of their way to say, okay, Caleb is the guy. 1276 01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:17,560 We're going to give Caleb all the weapons. 1277 01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:18,560 We're going to give Caleb the system. 1278 01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:19,560 We're going to give him a coach. 1279 01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:20,560 Oh, why do you get Justin Fields? 1280 01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:21,560 Well, Justin Fields sucks. 1281 01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:22,560 So there's that. 1282 01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:33,120 Like it's kind of the environment that they're giving and they can say this, especially when 1283 01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:36,440 no one ran to trade for Fields. 1284 01:09:36,440 --> 01:09:38,880 He went for like a conditional, like I said, conditional six. 1285 01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:46,000 Like it's not like the lead beat down the door of the, beat down the door of the Bears 1286 01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:47,800 like please trade with Justin Fields. 1287 01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:49,040 It didn't happen. 1288 01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:53,440 So now you're in a kind of a power position where you can say and do almost whatever you 1289 01:09:53,440 --> 01:09:58,880 want regarding his time in Chicago because you're back by the market. 1290 01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:01,480 So that is definitely, I don't think it's okay. 1291 01:10:01,480 --> 01:10:05,520 If you're kind of jacked up, I think if you're going to say it, put your name on it. 1292 01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:08,960 I know I've always felt that way about anonymous bashing votes. 1293 01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:12,280 Like you're bold enough to say it, put your name on it, bro. 1294 01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:13,280 Like period. 1295 01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:18,760 But that is definitely something to keep your eye on there. 1296 01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:22,160 But up next, we're going to go to Jax Hot Take, which is going to be college football. 1297 01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:46,840 It's going to be the best it will be in years. 1298 01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:52,280 Welcome into Jax Hot Take. 1299 01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:57,840 And my take simply is that college football will be the best it has been in years. 1300 01:10:57,840 --> 01:10:59,080 Period. 1301 01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:03,240 Regardless of how you feel about college football, this is going to be the best it's been in 1302 01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:04,840 years. 1303 01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:06,880 Last year was the year the quarterback play. 1304 01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:09,920 This is going to be the year, this is the realignment year, people. 1305 01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:11,600 This is the year of realignment. 1306 01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:16,520 This is the year that we get all the alignment news and all the hoopla that we talked about 1307 01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:19,240 and all the noise that we heard for years. 1308 01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:21,840 Again, I'm old enough to remember the Pac 16. 1309 01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:25,360 Like I remember that when the Big 12 was supposed to die. 1310 01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:27,560 I remember how the Pac 12 died. 1311 01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:28,560 I remember it. 1312 01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:31,760 Like the Big 12 was supposed to die. 1313 01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:35,480 It got to the point where it was like the incident blade basically stepped in. 1314 01:11:35,480 --> 01:11:37,440 Like you can't kill a powerful conference. 1315 01:11:37,440 --> 01:11:39,080 Like figure it out. 1316 01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:40,640 Like you're not doing that. 1317 01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:45,000 And that's when the Pac 12 of the Mountain West started doing stuff and it got tricky. 1318 01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:46,000 Right? 1319 01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:50,360 Like this time, out of school said, that's that and that's you. 1320 01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:51,360 We're gone. 1321 01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:53,600 And so the Pac 12 is dead. 1322 01:11:53,600 --> 01:12:00,240 And so you get stuff like USC, UCLA and Oregon are now in the Big 10. 1323 01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:02,920 Whoa, Colorado's in the Big 12? 1324 01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:06,640 Wait, wait, Texas and Oklahoma's in the SEC? 1325 01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:09,920 Wait, the ACC could be the thought? 1326 01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:10,920 Wait, what's happened? 1327 01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:11,920 Like that's not how it's feeling. 1328 01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:17,920 It was like a whole summer of just pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, where everybody's going everywhere. 1329 01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:19,640 All these Pac 12 schools jetted. 1330 01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,800 Like there's two Pac 12 schools in the ACC. 1331 01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:28,600 So that cross conference trial is going to be, cross cut trial is going to be insane. 1332 01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:33,480 You know, like a local time California team maybe in a conference game on the East Coast 1333 01:12:33,480 --> 01:12:35,320 and playing at 9 a.m. 1334 01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:37,320 Like it's going to be wild. 1335 01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:38,320 Right? 1336 01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:40,240 And it's going to be so great. 1337 01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:43,280 It's going to be amazing like Texas and Oklahoma's in the SEC. 1338 01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:45,760 Like I don't think you understand. 1339 01:12:45,760 --> 01:12:48,240 Like that's insane. 1340 01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:54,320 Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Texas and Oklahoma are in the same conference. 1341 01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:57,560 Like just listen to those brands again. 1342 01:12:57,560 --> 01:13:04,680 Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Texas and Oklahoma are in the same conference. 1343 01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:07,680 That's not even including what Texas got money wise. 1344 01:13:07,680 --> 01:13:12,600 The sleeping giant that is Florida, Auburn's right there. 1345 01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:15,720 Arkansas every four to five years was on a good team. 1346 01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:17,640 Missouri's never awful. 1347 01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:19,000 They're bouncing up. 1348 01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:21,120 Like that's a conference. 1349 01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:30,080 The Big Ten, Michigan, Ohio State, Michigan State, Iowa, USC, UCLA and Oregon are a conference. 1350 01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:32,280 That's ridiculous. 1351 01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:36,960 Like so every week in the Big Ten, every week in the SEC, you're going to have to go to 1352 01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:38,400 war to get out. 1353 01:13:38,400 --> 01:13:40,600 Plus there's a 12-scene playoff. 1354 01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:42,960 The first round of the playoffs are in home sites. 1355 01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:43,960 Are you kidding me? 1356 01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:50,640 Are you telling me that LSU could host Michigan? 1357 01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:55,000 That's you say in the first round of the playoffs in Tiger Stadium at night in November? 1358 01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:56,440 Are you kidding me? 1359 01:13:56,440 --> 01:13:58,000 Or December really? 1360 01:13:58,000 --> 01:13:59,840 Like that's ridiculous. 1361 01:13:59,840 --> 01:14:09,760 Alabama could have to go on the road to USC late December in LA for the playoffs. 1362 01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:14,560 Texas hosts of two loss Oregon. 1363 01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:16,480 Let's say Oregon has an off year. 1364 01:14:16,480 --> 01:14:22,520 Two loss Oregon goes down to DKR Memorial in late December around Christmas time. 1365 01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:25,200 It's snowing sideways because it's Texas. 1366 01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:27,960 Like this is insanity what this could be. 1367 01:14:27,960 --> 01:14:32,760 And so just the endless possibilities, the fun, the drama, the opening weekend is great. 1368 01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:34,760 You got North Dakota State and Colorado. 1369 01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:36,040 You've got USC and LSU. 1370 01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:37,680 You've got Florida, Miami. 1371 01:14:37,680 --> 01:14:40,040 You've got Notre Dame and Texas A&M. 1372 01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:44,720 Like the brands and the beauty and the pageantry and the awesomeness. 1373 01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:50,720 And you've got two more teams chanting SEC and you've got the Big Ten saying no we ain't 1374 01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:52,160 bowing down to nobody. 1375 01:14:52,160 --> 01:15:00,920 And it's just like Chip Kelly left UCLA as the head man to go OC Ohio State. 1376 01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:03,520 And now they're in the same conference. 1377 01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:04,520 What is this? 1378 01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:08,680 A&M goes to the SEC to escape the shadow of Texas. 1379 01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:12,800 Now they share a conference with Texas again so all their managers are gone. 1380 01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:13,800 It's wild. 1381 01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:14,800 It's insane. 1382 01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:16,800 And I cannot wait for it. 1383 01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:21,320 This is going to be the best college football has been in years. 1384 01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:23,920 I'm trying to think of a good time to put it in. 1385 01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:28,960 Late 2000s, early 2010s, at least 10 years. 1386 01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:33,160 It's going to be so much fun. 1387 01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:36,000 Every single week with these matchups and I cannot wait for it. 1388 01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:39,800 But that is all I have for you guys today. 1389 01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:42,280 I hope you guys enjoy this Insta release show. 1390 01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:47,280 This is one of my rarities that I get although they probably come a little more frequently 1391 01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:48,880 just because it's going to be summertime. 1392 01:15:48,880 --> 01:15:53,040 So I have a little more time on my hands with school winding down. 1393 01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:58,040 So I'll be able to talk to you guys a little bit more on the Insta release style Tuesday 1394 01:15:58,040 --> 01:15:59,040 after practice kind of thing. 1395 01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:00,040 Or Wednesday after practice kind of thing. 1396 01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:06,600 You'll get a Baker High football update and you'll get your usual sports updates as well. 1397 01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:08,600 So I hope you guys enjoyed this pod. 1398 01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:10,320 It's one of our long goals we've had in a while. 1399 01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:12,240 A little over an hour and 15 minutes. 1400 01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:14,800 But it was well worth it with all the content we packed in. 1401 01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:17,120 But that is all I have for you guys today. 1402 01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:19,440 This is your host Justin Jackson signing out.