WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.160 Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin 00:00:02.160 --> 00:00:04.860 Time Sports Podcast. I am your owner and host, 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:07.139 Justin Jackson. And this week's episode, we'll 00:00:07.139 --> 00:00:09.939 be discussing the NBA playoffs as we are barreling 00:00:09.939 --> 00:00:12.279 closer to the NBA Finals, which gets started 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:14.900 on June 6th. We will also be talking about the 00:00:14.900 --> 00:00:17.320 WNBA and what's happening there. We will also 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:20.199 have a little bit of video game talk and our 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:23.000 best for last. Now, as always, don't forget to 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:24.600 like, rate, and subscribe to the Justin Time 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:27.480 Sports Podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:30.579 you get your podcasts. 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If you win a couple games, he might even 00:01:20.849 --> 00:01:23.650 show you grace. JCS on every platform, we grow 00:01:23.650 --> 00:01:26.030 to adaptation. Numbers going up the charts, we 00:01:26.030 --> 00:01:28.849 create the separation. Louisiana till I die is 00:01:28.849 --> 00:01:30.810 where I'm from, I can't replace it. Some people 00:01:30.810 --> 00:01:32.810 minds are obtuse, but I like to be adjacent. 00:01:33.170 --> 00:01:35.430 Giving my opinion like I'm Nick Wright or I'm 00:01:35.430 --> 00:01:37.870 Jason. ESPN better watch out cause I'm coming 00:01:37.870 --> 00:01:46.719 for the spaceship. We even tweeted. We'll be 00:01:46.719 --> 00:02:23.090 right back. Welcome into the show. These are 00:02:23.090 --> 00:02:25.590 my favorite shows to do. You get them a lot during 00:02:25.590 --> 00:02:27.830 the summer. As you guys know, because I do teach, 00:02:27.870 --> 00:02:30.280 I do coach high school football currently. So 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:32.879 as you guys know, this summertime is when you 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:35.419 get a lot of what I call my Insta release shows 00:02:35.419 --> 00:02:38.340 where I record them. As soon as I get the editing 00:02:38.340 --> 00:02:41.199 done, they're out to the public. And usually 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:42.560 it's kind of from a sense of urgency. Usually 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:44.280 in the summertime there's games on that night 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:48.060 or so on and so forth. But we actually are in 00:02:48.060 --> 00:02:50.340 a off night because Oklahoma City Thunder have 00:02:50.340 --> 00:02:53.240 already taken care of business. Once again, they 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:56.960 have eliminated somebody very quickly. But that's 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:57.800 what we're going to get started with. So we're 00:02:57.800 --> 00:02:59.219 going to have a little NBA talk, a little WNBA 00:02:59.219 --> 00:03:01.659 talk. We'll have probably some NFL popping there 00:03:01.659 --> 00:03:04.580 at some point. It's not necessarily in the rundown. 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.319 However, I'm an NFL guy. I'm a football guy. 00:03:07.659 --> 00:03:09.719 So I'm sure it'll pop up in there at some point. 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:11.419 So I'm just giving you guys a fair warning in 00:03:11.419 --> 00:03:15.879 case it does. But our schedule is NBA, WNBA, 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:19.960 and CFB 26 will be our best for last. Because 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:21.580 the trailer dropped yesterday along with some 00:03:21.580 --> 00:03:24.830 community notes. I'll actually be... A little 00:03:24.830 --> 00:03:26.389 bit of scheduling news for me. I'd like to be 00:03:26.389 --> 00:03:31.810 on the Nerdology podcast with CL Smooth Gaming. 00:03:32.289 --> 00:03:34.110 So if you guys have watched the YouTube channel. 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:38.620 the YouTube show JTS at the Dark on the IMS production 00:03:38.620 --> 00:03:41.120 channel. When we did our mock draft, CL Smooth 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:44.360 was actually on the stream. He was a big Saints 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:47.800 fan on the stream. I'll be on his podcast tonight 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:50.599 on the Nerdology podcast discussing all things 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:54.919 CFB 26 among some other things as well. So make 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:56.539 sure you guys tune into that and I'll actually 00:03:56.539 --> 00:03:59.099 give my personal notes here and then I'll talk 00:03:59.099 --> 00:04:00.599 with him a little bit more and see what he's 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:06.569 feeling on his show tonight. But the Oklahoma 00:04:06.569 --> 00:04:10.590 City Thunder have already advanced to the NBA 00:04:10.590 --> 00:04:15.509 finals. So and honestly, maybe doing football 00:04:15.509 --> 00:04:20.310 early. Hold on. OK, so actually a little bit 00:04:20.310 --> 00:04:23.290 of breaking news. Brian Huff is heading to the 00:04:23.290 --> 00:04:27.069 San Francisco 49ers in exchange for a mid round 00:04:27.069 --> 00:04:32.899 pick. They're working through restructuring Huff's 00:04:32.899 --> 00:04:35.279 contract in order for the deal to go through. 00:04:35.939 --> 00:04:38.980 But I told you football was bound to come into 00:04:38.980 --> 00:04:41.740 the show somehow. I didn't know how, but it popped 00:04:41.740 --> 00:04:46.259 in. And that is how. So Brian Huff, Bryce Huff, 00:04:46.259 --> 00:04:49.319 sorry, is being moved from the Philadelphia Eagles 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:52.480 to the San Francisco 49ers in exchange for a 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:58.759 mid round pick. So we have our first. The interceding 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:01.060 of breaking news into the show that tends to 00:05:01.060 --> 00:05:04.120 happen from time to time. I'm actually live tweeting 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:07.839 this as we speak. So you guys will know exactly 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:10.819 when I record this show today because the tweet 00:05:10.819 --> 00:05:13.300 will come out at the same time that I'm telling 00:05:13.300 --> 00:05:18.120 you guys this news. So again, Bryce Huff from 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.100 the Philadelphia Eagles to the San Francisco 00:05:20.100 --> 00:05:23.490 49ers. In exchange for a mid -round pick, the 00:05:23.490 --> 00:05:25.910 deal cannot be finalized, however, until June 00:05:25.910 --> 00:05:30.110 1st due to league rules. But he is headed that 00:05:30.110 --> 00:05:33.269 way, and they will be dividing salaries with 00:05:33.269 --> 00:05:36.290 the Eagles taking on about $9 million and the 00:05:36.290 --> 00:05:39.569 Niners taking on about $7 million of the salary. 00:05:39.910 --> 00:05:41.949 Always interesting when those two teams do that. 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:46.660 To me, it shows a very strong motivation to get 00:05:46.660 --> 00:05:48.959 rid of a guy if I'm willing to pay you nine million 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:51.699 dollars to not play for me. But also that probably 00:05:51.699 --> 00:05:54.100 shows that he was potentially going to get cut 00:05:54.100 --> 00:05:57.939 and they kind of doing him a solid by allowing 00:05:57.939 --> 00:06:03.839 him to do that. So he had 17 fully guaranteed. 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:09.160 They restructured his deal. So the Eagles are 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:10.939 paying nine million, just over nine million. 00:06:11.019 --> 00:06:14.600 And the Niners are paying just under eight to 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:18.379 get to his full 17 still. So, yeah, the Eagles 00:06:18.379 --> 00:06:21.300 and the Niners are finalizing that trade. All 00:06:21.300 --> 00:06:23.500 right. So back to what I was going to talk to. 00:06:23.579 --> 00:06:25.540 I told you guys football just appears in this 00:06:25.540 --> 00:06:27.629 show. But yeah, congratulations to the Oklahoma 00:06:27.629 --> 00:06:30.250 City Thunder. And they have clinched the Western 00:06:30.250 --> 00:06:34.389 Conference as they will advance to the NBA Finals. 00:06:34.670 --> 00:06:37.149 Shea Gilchrist Alexander, after another great 00:06:37.149 --> 00:06:40.910 series, actually was not his best series, but 00:06:40.910 --> 00:06:44.110 no one in Oklahoma City besides him played individually 00:06:44.110 --> 00:06:47.470 that much more amazing. He was able to win the 00:06:47.470 --> 00:06:52.550 Western Conference Finals MVP. And Oklahoma City 00:06:52.550 --> 00:06:56.740 Thunder advanced to their first. NBA Finals since 00:06:56.740 --> 00:07:00.620 2012. This team has been absolutely dominant. 00:07:00.819 --> 00:07:03.939 They're on a very short list of teams to win 00:07:03.939 --> 00:07:06.620 80 games in a season. Why is that a hard thing 00:07:06.620 --> 00:07:08.399 to do? Because in order for you to do that, you 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:11.139 have to win probably 65 -ish games in the regular 00:07:11.139 --> 00:07:13.899 season. Or they're on the team with the ability 00:07:13.899 --> 00:07:15.879 to win 80 games, I should say. You got to win 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:19.279 64, at least 64 regular season games and the 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:23.129 title. because if you do 63 or less, you will 00:07:23.129 --> 00:07:26.529 never get to 80 because it's four times. You're 00:07:26.529 --> 00:07:28.050 going to win 16 games in the playoffs, so if 00:07:28.050 --> 00:07:30.089 you do 63 or less wins, you can never get to 00:07:30.089 --> 00:07:32.810 80. So them being a 64 -plus win regular season 00:07:32.810 --> 00:07:35.329 team, they have the ability now to join a very 00:07:35.329 --> 00:07:38.420 short list of 80 win teams ever. You have the 00:07:38.420 --> 00:07:42.939 73 -win Bulls. You have the 72 -10 Bulls. You 00:07:42.939 --> 00:07:46.579 have the 73 -9 Warriors. There's a couple of 00:07:46.579 --> 00:07:49.079 68 -win teams in there. I think it was like five 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:51.720 teams that ever win 80 games in a season. Plus, 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:53.939 you have to take the Warriors out if you do teams 00:07:53.939 --> 00:07:56.040 that won the title because that 73 -9 Warriors 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:58.879 team was the famous 3 -1 comeback for LeBron. 00:07:59.459 --> 00:08:03.860 Now, they ultimately won, I believe, 84 -ish 00:08:03.860 --> 00:08:06.720 games, 85 -ish games, something like that. almost 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:10.500 90 games, but they ultimately lose in the finals. 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:14.860 So they're not even relegated as one of the greatest 00:08:14.860 --> 00:08:19.680 teams of all time because of losing in the NBA 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:22.500 finals. But the Oklahoma City Thunder team was 00:08:22.500 --> 00:08:25.779 one of the greatest teams by wins to ever play 00:08:25.779 --> 00:08:30.639 basketball. However, I must apologize to them. 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:36.210 And I must apologize to them. for being unable 00:08:36.210 --> 00:08:40.330 to see the forest for the trees. I came in a 00:08:40.330 --> 00:08:42.289 few weeks ago and I was banging the table. Man, 00:08:42.409 --> 00:08:46.509 unless the Nuggets and Celtics win, this is going 00:08:46.509 --> 00:08:49.110 to be a historic title. This is going to be a 00:08:49.110 --> 00:08:52.750 title that is unlike any other title in NBA history. 00:08:52.950 --> 00:08:55.769 This is going to be a title that outside of the 00:08:55.769 --> 00:09:03.350 Pistons, outside of the Pistons in 2003, there 00:09:03.350 --> 00:09:06.960 were three Pistons. This is a title that is unknown 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:10.379 in modern NBA history, where you don't either 00:09:10.379 --> 00:09:12.440 have the clear -cut best player or a guy you 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:14.840 can make the argument for, two of the top 10, 00:09:14.899 --> 00:09:20.679 or three of the top 20. Five. Now, Dirk is the 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:23.559 title everybody sticks out. And my response every 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:29.100 time is, if you find a way to beat the Oklahoma 00:09:29.100 --> 00:09:33.539 City Thunder with Kevin Durant and the Big 3, 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:38.519 You have a chance. I mean, Kevin Durant in the 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:42.460 big three. You also turn around and you beat 00:09:42.460 --> 00:09:44.720 Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, who had just won 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.840 back -to -back titles. Right? So that team was 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:53.759 no slouch. And you turn around and you beat the 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:57.860 big three Miami Heat. You got an argument, especially 00:09:57.860 --> 00:09:59.980 when you're easily the best player on the team. 00:10:00.019 --> 00:10:02.980 So they beat the Portland Trailblazers. Okay. 00:10:03.470 --> 00:10:05.429 Then they sweep the Lakers out. That's the famous 00:10:05.429 --> 00:10:08.289 Andrew Bynum series. Then they beat OKC in five, 00:10:08.470 --> 00:10:09.809 and they turn around and beat the Heat in six. 00:10:11.610 --> 00:10:13.090 Yeah, you got an argument for the best player 00:10:13.090 --> 00:10:14.690 in the world in my book if you pull those off 00:10:14.690 --> 00:10:18.929 in consecutive runs, right? And so Dirk's title, 00:10:19.009 --> 00:10:20.629 I think, goes into the best player in the world 00:10:20.629 --> 00:10:22.750 category. At that moment, in the middle of June, 00:10:23.009 --> 00:10:24.649 Dirk Nowitzki was the best player in basketball. 00:10:26.309 --> 00:10:29.509 How can you argue he wasn't? He beat everybody 00:10:29.509 --> 00:10:31.759 that was a challenger. At the time, it was Kobe, 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:34.519 LeBron, KD. It was like the big three in the 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:37.100 NBA. Duncan as well was a baller. But those three 00:10:37.100 --> 00:10:39.940 were the big three in the NBA. Dirk beat two 00:10:39.940 --> 00:10:43.059 of them. Dirk beat all three in one playoff run. 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:47.500 And no one went past his games. I kind of can't 00:10:47.500 --> 00:10:49.299 argue. You know what I'm saying? It's an argument 00:10:49.299 --> 00:10:51.340 to be had that Dirk was the best player in the 00:10:51.340 --> 00:10:55.120 world. I wouldn't make it. But you can have the 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:57.000 argument. So he fits. Again, that Pistons team 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:01.120 in 04 was an outlier team. They had a bunch of 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:03.379 all -stars that year. They remind me of the Atlanta 00:11:03.379 --> 00:11:06.440 Hawks team. They had the five all -stars and 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:07.639 everybody knew they weren't that good at football. 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:09.559 I mean, sorry, they weren't that good at basketball. 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:17.120 But they were, you know, they were really good 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:18.919 at basketball. The Pistons finished the job. 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:21.000 It was a weird year in the NBA. The Lakers ended 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:23.480 up making it back to the finals that year. But 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:26.480 Karl Malone was out. That was when the Lakers 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:27.860 got all the old heads. When they had Karl Malone, 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:30.460 Gary Payton, that crew. Karl Malone had missed 00:11:30.460 --> 00:11:32.299 the whole season pretty much. Gary Payton had 00:11:32.299 --> 00:11:34.820 missed the whole season pretty much. Kobe was 00:11:34.820 --> 00:11:37.259 limping around. Shaq was gaining weight left 00:11:37.259 --> 00:11:40.980 and right. And they went to the finals four years 00:11:40.980 --> 00:11:45.259 in a row. Now, put into perspective, LeBron went 00:11:45.259 --> 00:11:47.840 to the finals like nine years in a row or eight 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:52.100 years in a row. Put into perspective. But, hey, 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:54.279 some people don't get credit that others get. 00:11:54.840 --> 00:12:00.500 Anyway. So I always went back to what my original 00:12:00.500 --> 00:12:03.080 point was. I always kind of pointed to this year 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:04.820 being unconventional because the Nuggets had 00:12:04.820 --> 00:12:09.779 the best player in the world, Jokic. Boston, 00:12:09.779 --> 00:12:13.799 you could do two of the top 10 with Tatum and 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:15.799 Brown, but you can definitely give me three of 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:18.379 the top 25 with either Tatum, Brown, and White, 00:12:18.460 --> 00:12:21.860 Tatum, Brown, and Drew, Tatum, Brown, and White, 00:12:21.899 --> 00:12:23.620 or Tatum, Brown, and Drew because you could send 00:12:23.620 --> 00:12:26.049 me three of the top 25. probably Tatum, Brown, 00:12:26.090 --> 00:12:28.570 and White is your three to top 25. You can argue 00:12:28.570 --> 00:12:30.509 two of the top 10 with Brown and Tatum, but for 00:12:30.509 --> 00:12:33.669 sure, Tatum, Brown, and Drew, sorry, Tatum, Brown, 00:12:33.710 --> 00:12:36.330 and Derek White was your three to top 25. Easy, 00:12:36.470 --> 00:12:41.289 right? I was short -sighted. I always said Oklahoma 00:12:41.289 --> 00:12:43.009 City didn't achieve. I said, Shane's not the 00:12:43.009 --> 00:12:46.149 best player. I dismissed J -Dub. I dismissed 00:12:46.149 --> 00:12:49.279 Luke Dort. I dismissed Chet Holmgren. I said, 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:50.840 okay, this is going to be a weird title. This 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:52.659 reminds me of the 70s. And I actually went and 00:12:52.659 --> 00:12:55.039 looked. This title is going to be more weird 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:58.139 than the 70s because the 70s at least had a couple 00:12:58.139 --> 00:13:01.240 of stars pop up in there. Like Kareem Abdul -Jabbar 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.159 won a title in the 70s. He was the best player 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:08.259 on the planet Earth. And the 70s only had six 00:13:08.259 --> 00:13:10.620 different champions or five different champions. 00:13:11.500 --> 00:13:13.799 This is going to be the seventh champion for 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.809 the seventh year in a row. So the 2020s have 00:13:16.809 --> 00:13:20.809 had five different champions. I mean, even in 00:13:20.809 --> 00:13:22.409 the 70s, that didn't happen because the Lakers, 00:13:22.549 --> 00:13:24.830 the Knicks won two of the first five. They won 00:13:24.830 --> 00:13:28.750 in 71 and 73, which, again, Phil Jackson was 00:13:28.750 --> 00:13:31.690 playing basketball, so that tells you all you 00:13:31.690 --> 00:13:34.690 need to know about that. But you had situations 00:13:34.690 --> 00:13:37.549 where there's never been as much period in the 00:13:37.549 --> 00:13:41.590 NBA. But back to my Oklahoma City point, I dismissed 00:13:41.590 --> 00:13:44.919 them. But I dismissed them from shorthand and 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:47.779 I want to apologize to them. Shea Gilles Alexander 00:13:47.779 --> 00:13:52.539 is a top three player in the NBA. Top five at 00:13:52.539 --> 00:13:54.960 the worst. I'm going to say top three. I think 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:58.740 he's in that Jokic, Giannis, Shea. Kind of that's 00:13:58.740 --> 00:14:01.120 the argument for best player in the world right 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:04.960 now. I can't really make a Luka argument. I can't 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:08.960 really make a Luka argument right now. Tatum's 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:10.740 blew his Achilles out. Can't make a Tatum argument. 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:12.580 I just seen Anthony Edwards in the playoffs. 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:14.720 I can't make an argument. So to me, those three 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:16.799 players are the best players in the NBA. And 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:19.240 if I'm missing somebody, I apologize. But those 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:22.399 three, to me, are the best three right now. It's 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:24.379 Shea, it's Jokic, and Giannis. Those were the 00:14:24.379 --> 00:14:27.399 top three in the MVP race. And I think, honestly, 00:14:27.580 --> 00:14:29.080 as far as best player in the world, I think you 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:31.440 just kind of just move Shea to three. I think 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:32.980 Jokic is the best player. I think Giannis is 00:14:32.980 --> 00:14:34.480 right next to him. I think Shea is right after 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:37.960 him. And no shade to Shea at all being the third 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:39.779 best player in the world. It's just... Yogi, 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:42.279 to me, is clear -cut number one. Your argument 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:46.139 is Giannis. Shea and Giannis kind of do similar. 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:47.860 And Giannis is bigger, faster, and stronger. 00:14:49.740 --> 00:14:51.799 Shea has a better jumper. Giannis is that much 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:54.440 better going to the goal. Defensively, it's Giannis. 00:14:54.779 --> 00:14:57.399 Ball handling is Shea. Rebounding, it's Giannis. 00:14:58.120 --> 00:14:59.659 So, you know what I'm saying? So, it's one of 00:14:59.659 --> 00:15:00.960 those situations where you're splitting hairs 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:02.179 there. I'm going to go with the bigger, stronger 00:15:02.179 --> 00:15:04.220 athlete being the better player. It's like when 00:15:04.220 --> 00:15:06.279 LeBron and Kobe were battling for best player. 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:11.179 They were what and what talent -wise to me. For 00:15:11.179 --> 00:15:14.120 most of their, like their primes overlapped a 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:17.519 little bit. LeBron hit like an 06 to 2012, and 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:18.960 that was kind of the tail end of Kobe's prime. 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:22.779 But to me, LeBron was the better player, but 00:15:22.779 --> 00:15:24.340 he also was the bigger, faster, stronger player. 00:15:24.460 --> 00:15:26.899 So if it came down to it was close, I'm going 00:15:26.899 --> 00:15:28.539 to go with the bigger, faster, stronger player. 00:15:28.700 --> 00:15:31.460 That's why I put Giannis over Shea. But Shea, 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:32.799 let's say he's the third best player in the world. 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:39.529 The All -NBA teams came out. And lo and behold, 00:15:39.870 --> 00:15:45.769 sitting there on third team All -NBA is none 00:15:45.769 --> 00:15:50.750 other than Thunder Wing Jalen Williams, a .k 00:15:50.750 --> 00:16:00.009 .a. J -Dub. Well, that's interesting. Because 00:16:00.009 --> 00:16:05.110 that means he has an argument as a top 10 player 00:16:05.110 --> 00:16:10.309 in the NBA. But Justin, what do you mean? He 00:16:10.309 --> 00:16:13.149 was third team, not second team. I agree. And 00:16:13.149 --> 00:16:19.529 the All -NBA teams themselves are non -positional. 00:16:20.350 --> 00:16:22.750 It's not the old days where you had to have two 00:16:22.750 --> 00:16:25.429 guards, two forwards in the center. Now, granted, 00:16:25.610 --> 00:16:29.970 it kind of worked out that way. Because if you 00:16:29.970 --> 00:16:35.019 look at... The first team, you have Shea, Donovan 00:16:35.019 --> 00:16:36.679 Mitchell, your guards, Tatum, Giannis, your wing, 00:16:36.820 --> 00:16:41.019 your center. Your second team is Brunson and 00:16:41.019 --> 00:16:44.539 Curry as your guards. You can make the argument 00:16:44.539 --> 00:16:47.539 for Ed and LeBron to be your forwards, even though 00:16:47.539 --> 00:16:50.059 Ed's on here as a guard. Mobley's your center. 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.320 Your third team is, okay, your third team's the 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.220 way it gets off because you really can't make 00:16:57.220 --> 00:16:58.720 an argument for a forward on the third team. 00:17:01.659 --> 00:17:07.509 However, J -Dub sits at third -team All -NBA, 00:17:07.710 --> 00:17:12.569 which means he's potentially the 11th best player 00:17:12.569 --> 00:17:15.309 in the NBA. And if I can make an argument for 00:17:15.309 --> 00:17:17.410 you being 11, I can make an argument for you 00:17:17.410 --> 00:17:22.730 being 10. So if I look at J -Dub and I look at, 00:17:22.789 --> 00:17:29.849 let's say, LeBron James. Currently, who is... 00:17:29.849 --> 00:17:31.029 No, I'm not going to make a LeBron James argument. 00:17:31.170 --> 00:17:35.059 Evan Mobley. I get Evan Mobley was the POI. I 00:17:35.059 --> 00:17:37.799 totally understand that. But if I had to pick 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:40.039 a starter, if I was starting a team and my argument 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:44.440 was J -Dub or Evan Mobley, who am I going to 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:48.660 select? Personally, I'm going to pick J -Dub. 00:17:49.339 --> 00:17:51.640 And that's the only thing I got to do. I just 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:54.079 got to get one person off the team. I would make 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:56.559 an argument that J -Dub is a better basketball 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:59.259 player right this second than Evan Mobley. which 00:17:59.259 --> 00:18:02.539 means J -Dub would qualify based on the All -NBA 00:18:02.539 --> 00:18:04.559 teams, which is what people look at, All -NBA 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:07.480 and All -Pro. In the NFL, All -Pro, instead of 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:10.079 the Pro Bowl. NBA, it's All -NBA instead of the 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:13.539 All -Star game. I would look at, right this second, 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:16.779 J -Dub being the better player than Evan Mobley, 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:20.460 which means J -Dub, based on the All -NBA teams, 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:23.319 would have an argument for being a top 10 player 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:26.640 in the NBA, which means my history that I spoke 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:29.779 about before, over the last... Since the NBA 00:18:29.779 --> 00:18:32.079 -ABA merger, you need either the best player, 00:18:32.220 --> 00:18:37.980 two of the top 10, and three of the top 25 to 00:18:37.980 --> 00:18:46.160 win an NBA title. That is what has happened in 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:49.200 the NBA since the NBA -ABA merger. And I always 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:51.960 say the NBA -ABA merger, worst come to worst, 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:56.059 1979. It's been disproven one time since 1979, 00:18:56.259 --> 00:18:59.609 and that was the Pistons. This team, the Oklahoma 00:18:59.609 --> 00:19:02.309 City Thunder, fits in that title. Shea's three 00:19:02.309 --> 00:19:04.829 and J -Dub's ten. You have two of the top ten 00:19:04.829 --> 00:19:08.250 players. And if we can use the logic that Dirk 00:19:08.250 --> 00:19:10.789 became the best player after his title run, I 00:19:10.789 --> 00:19:12.829 can use the argument that J -Dub can become the 00:19:12.829 --> 00:19:16.569 tenth best player after his finals run. That's 00:19:16.569 --> 00:19:18.549 all I need for my history to stay correct. So, 00:19:18.569 --> 00:19:20.609 Oklahoma City Thunder, welcome to the NBA Championship 00:19:20.609 --> 00:19:23.910 House. Welcome, welcome, welcome. You've been 00:19:23.910 --> 00:19:27.430 cordially invited to your seat at the NBA Championship 00:19:27.430 --> 00:19:30.930 House as a team to qualify for the ability to 00:19:30.930 --> 00:19:35.130 win a title for two of the best ten players in 00:19:35.130 --> 00:19:38.609 the league at the time you won your title. Congratulations 00:19:38.609 --> 00:19:44.990 to Thunder. But, of course, they beat the Minnesota 00:19:44.990 --> 00:19:47.809 Timberwolves, a team that many people thought 00:19:47.809 --> 00:19:50.309 were going to be a team that was going to... 00:19:50.879 --> 00:19:52.779 Potentially Anthony Edwards elevates himself 00:19:52.779 --> 00:19:56.000 to the face of the league off this. Elevate himself 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:01.619 to where, you know, he's the guy. I think if 00:20:01.619 --> 00:20:03.299 he won, people were going to say he was the best 00:20:03.299 --> 00:20:07.240 player in the world. Hard to argue it. But he 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:11.799 didn't. Came up short. Had some bad games. Had 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:14.299 games where the relentlessness at Oklahoma City 00:20:14.299 --> 00:20:16.700 defense, the Caruso, the Cason Wallaces, the 00:20:16.700 --> 00:20:19.319 Lou Dortz, the Shakers, the Alexanders, the Nicky 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:23.119 Alexander Walkers. And I'm sure the J -dubs of 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.059 the world. And then you get past them and Chet 00:20:26.059 --> 00:20:28.900 and Hartenstein are sitting at the rim. So that's 00:20:28.900 --> 00:20:32.319 no fun, right? But this relentlessness is Oklahoma 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:34.920 City defense. This relentlessness of that team, 00:20:35.019 --> 00:20:37.720 I don't think it tapped Anthony Airwood out. 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:41.119 I think it wore Anthony Airwood down. Because 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:42.480 you got him to where you're playing every other 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:46.220 day. So they beat you to smithereens for 48 minutes 00:20:46.220 --> 00:20:50.640 on Tuesday. you'd rest recuperate and rehab on 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:52.680 Wednesday and guess what on Thursday they're 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:54.299 beating you to smithereens again like your body 00:20:54.299 --> 00:20:56.640 didn't have a usual turnaround of playing maybe 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:59.799 a softer defense or taking that game off or something 00:20:59.799 --> 00:21:02.440 that nature where you know you kind of get relief 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:05.640 because they weren't they weren't releasing and 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:08.640 um I think Minnesota needs to go make a move 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.799 but speaking of Minnesota what's next for them 00:21:12.349 --> 00:21:14.490 They have no room in the front in their first 00:21:14.490 --> 00:21:16.029 apron for their next season. They have about 00:21:16.029 --> 00:21:22.029 $925 ,000 available for next season under the 00:21:22.029 --> 00:21:24.430 first apron. If they were now, they have their 00:21:24.430 --> 00:21:26.849 full second apron. They have $12 .9 million for 00:21:26.849 --> 00:21:28.769 their second apron. They have their full second 00:21:28.769 --> 00:21:33.950 apron as of now. So as we sit, you know, with 00:21:33.950 --> 00:21:36.650 no moves being made, they still have $12 .8 million 00:21:36.650 --> 00:21:44.359 under the second apron. If they were to make 00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:49.839 a move, if they were to make a move, they have 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:52.960 two player option contracts. They have Julius 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:55.359 Randle and they have Nas Reed. Julius Randle 00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:57.539 is at about 31 million. Nas Reed is at about 00:21:57.539 --> 00:22:01.180 15 million. If you want to take a swing at a 00:22:01.180 --> 00:22:04.819 superstar, that is what you would package. You 00:22:04.819 --> 00:22:08.240 would package probably Randle and salary cap 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:13.839 filler. I'm thinking the Randle. Jesus, your 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:17.119 contracts are top heavy. Because in my opinion, 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:18.779 you wouldn't want to move D 'Vincenzo. He's making 00:22:18.779 --> 00:22:21.619 $12 million a year as a 3 and D player. You're 00:22:21.619 --> 00:22:24.119 not moving Rod Dillingham. No one's going to 00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:28.220 want Terrence Shannon. And my brain, I think 00:22:28.220 --> 00:22:32.180 my brain is like Kevin Durant. I think my brain 00:22:32.180 --> 00:22:34.700 is thinking. Maybe not Kevin Durant, but a person 00:22:34.700 --> 00:22:37.119 similar to Kevin Durant. Maybe a star who's looking 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:39.579 to move on. You take Julius Randle, make $31 00:22:39.579 --> 00:22:43.319 million. You move him. in a signing trade or 00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:45.740 extending trade, whatever, in a deal, you pick 00:22:45.740 --> 00:22:47.420 up a Kevin Durant. I think KD's going to get 00:22:47.420 --> 00:22:49.420 moved this offseason. And I think that'll be 00:22:49.420 --> 00:22:51.460 the person that you will look for if you are 00:22:51.460 --> 00:22:53.880 Minnesota in order to try and make the next step. 00:22:54.019 --> 00:22:56.619 Because to me, you're going to need two things 00:22:56.619 --> 00:23:00.319 to make a run next season. The Lakers are going 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.900 to be better. I'm going to be the bearer of bad 00:23:03.900 --> 00:23:06.460 news. The Lakers are going to be better. They're 00:23:06.460 --> 00:23:08.470 going to get a center. either via draft or via 00:23:08.470 --> 00:23:10.450 trade. There's multiple trade centers out there 00:23:10.450 --> 00:23:12.690 available. They're going to get a center. They're 00:23:12.690 --> 00:23:14.309 probably going to get two. They're probably going 00:23:14.309 --> 00:23:16.170 to get one that's pretty solid, and they're probably 00:23:16.170 --> 00:23:18.269 going to get one that's rotational. And then 00:23:18.269 --> 00:23:19.170 guess what they're going to do? They're going 00:23:19.170 --> 00:23:21.410 to do it by keeping Austin Reeves. Should I be 00:23:21.410 --> 00:23:23.289 the bearer of bad news? That's what's going to 00:23:23.289 --> 00:23:26.109 happen. They're going to be able to keep Austin 00:23:26.109 --> 00:23:28.490 Reeves. Again, I really wish, you know, I really 00:23:28.490 --> 00:23:29.769 wish that wasn't the case. I really wish I could, 00:23:29.829 --> 00:23:31.490 you know, tell people that, oh, the Lakers are 00:23:31.490 --> 00:23:33.609 going to have to trade half their roster to get 00:23:33.609 --> 00:23:35.670 a decent center. They're not. They're going to 00:23:35.670 --> 00:23:37.430 do it by keeping Austin Reeves, LeBron, and Luka. 00:23:39.430 --> 00:23:41.569 And they're going to do it, and they're going 00:23:41.569 --> 00:23:44.569 to get a center. Cool? Cool. All right. So because 00:23:44.569 --> 00:23:51.210 I'm looking at it at 25 -26, LeBron, Luka, Rui, 00:23:51.470 --> 00:23:53.670 Dorian, Finney, Smith. So I'm looking at LeBron 00:23:53.670 --> 00:23:57.450 and Luka are untouchable. Reeves is just the 00:23:57.450 --> 00:24:00.009 money's too easy. He has a player option for 00:24:00.009 --> 00:24:02.410 26 -27, but he's going to decline and go to true 00:24:02.410 --> 00:24:04.329 unrestricted free agency. The money's too easy, 00:24:04.369 --> 00:24:09.789 right? Rui Hachimor is making $18 .3 million. 00:24:09.970 --> 00:24:13.250 The Laker, that's going to get traded to me for 00:24:13.250 --> 00:24:15.990 a good center. Clint Capella, someone like that. 00:24:16.609 --> 00:24:18.329 Maybe not Clint Capella literally, but someone 00:24:18.329 --> 00:24:21.269 like that. And then Dorian Finney -Smith, to 00:24:21.269 --> 00:24:24.029 me, $15 .3 million. If he accepts it, he's going 00:24:24.029 --> 00:24:25.970 to get traded as well. Vanderbilt's making $11 00:24:25.970 --> 00:24:28.650 .5 million. Vince is making $11 .5 million. Cleveland's 00:24:28.650 --> 00:24:30.569 making $11 million. People are going to get moved, 00:24:30.710 --> 00:24:32.029 right? You're already willing to move, don't 00:24:32.029 --> 00:24:34.250 connect. So the Lakers are going to get better. 00:24:35.630 --> 00:24:38.490 The Pelicans are going to get better. Why? The 00:24:38.490 --> 00:24:42.890 Pelicans can't get worse. Right? The Pelicans 00:24:42.890 --> 00:24:44.750 can't get worse. They're going to get better. 00:24:46.549 --> 00:24:48.569 The Houston Rockets are going to get better. 00:24:48.650 --> 00:24:50.589 I think Houston's going to land Kevin Durant. 00:24:53.549 --> 00:24:56.769 Right? I think Houston's going to land KD. That's 00:24:56.769 --> 00:24:59.029 just me. That's my opinion. I have no sourcing 00:24:59.029 --> 00:25:00.970 on that. I just think Houston's going to land 00:25:00.970 --> 00:25:02.880 Kevin Durant. And I'm just looking at... The 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:06.099 way moves were made and Houston owns Phoenix's 00:25:06.099 --> 00:25:08.319 draft and Phoenix is going to get bad and blah, 00:25:08.380 --> 00:25:12.299 blah, blah. I also think Giannis could end up 00:25:12.299 --> 00:25:15.119 in San Antonio, which means San Antonio is going 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:19.880 to be really good. I don't think Cooper Flagg 00:25:19.880 --> 00:25:22.500 is going to be a day one superstar in Dallas, 00:25:22.619 --> 00:25:25.500 but Kyrie is probably going to come back around 00:25:25.500 --> 00:25:30.220 Christmas. If he's fully ready to go by, let's 00:25:30.220 --> 00:25:33.519 say, Valentine's Day. It's him. It's Cooper Flagg. 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:36.859 It's Anthony Davis. It's those bigs there. They 00:25:36.859 --> 00:25:38.599 got a couple shooters. That could be a good team 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:45.220 as well. Nuggets aren't going anywhere at all 00:25:45.220 --> 00:25:49.720 because they have the ability. They have their 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:51.819 coach in place. They can maneuver some contracts 00:25:51.819 --> 00:25:53.940 as well. What I'm saying is Minnesota, in order 00:25:53.940 --> 00:25:55.799 to compete, you're going to have to go make a 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:57.579 move. The Clippers aren't going anywhere either, 00:25:57.619 --> 00:25:59.769 in my opinion. Ballmer's not going to allow it. 00:25:59.809 --> 00:26:01.390 So you're going to have to go make a move. You're 00:26:01.390 --> 00:26:04.309 the Clippers, in my opinion, in order to make 00:26:04.309 --> 00:26:07.109 a big swing. That's it. In order to make a big 00:26:07.109 --> 00:26:09.950 step, got to make a move. I'm staring at Julius 00:26:09.950 --> 00:26:12.470 Randle's contract. Staring at Jaden McDaniel's 00:26:12.470 --> 00:26:18.190 $25 million contract. I'm staring at Nas Reed's 00:26:18.190 --> 00:26:21.589 $15 million. Devin Chinzo's $12 million. I don't 00:26:21.589 --> 00:26:23.470 think Conley's going to get moved. But if I had 00:26:23.470 --> 00:26:25.930 to make a bet, I think your sweet spot is Randle's 00:26:25.930 --> 00:26:28.930 $31 million expiring. J .M. McDaniel, 25. Nas 00:26:28.930 --> 00:26:33.269 Reese, 15, expiring. D. Vincenzo's, 12. It's 00:26:33.269 --> 00:26:35.730 the kind that I would look to package, make moves, 00:26:35.750 --> 00:26:38.650 swing. Okay. And then Anthony Edwards has to 00:26:38.650 --> 00:26:43.450 step up. He was getting his crown fitted for 00:26:43.450 --> 00:26:47.890 the best player in the world, and it broke. And 00:26:47.890 --> 00:26:50.950 I think Anthony Edwards, he's going to get a 00:26:50.950 --> 00:26:53.910 reputation now as a legend killer, but he gets 00:26:53.910 --> 00:26:57.390 beat by his peers. So remember two or last year's 00:26:57.390 --> 00:27:02.430 playoffs, he swept out the Phoenix Suns, Kevin 00:27:02.430 --> 00:27:06.930 Durant. He put the Grim Reaper's shank in his 00:27:06.930 --> 00:27:14.029 mantle. And then Luka got him. Right? And then 00:27:14.029 --> 00:27:15.710 this year, he beats LeBron and Luka. He gets 00:27:15.710 --> 00:27:17.869 payback on Luka. He beats LeBron and Luka. He 00:27:17.869 --> 00:27:20.750 takes the crown, the broken crown, sat in his 00:27:20.750 --> 00:27:24.990 house. You know? Then he goes to the Warriors 00:27:24.990 --> 00:27:28.250 and, hell, Steph got hurt. Who cares? He takes 00:27:28.250 --> 00:27:33.210 the Warriors. He puts it in his house. And then 00:27:33.210 --> 00:27:36.109 Shea Gills Alexander says, thank you, but go 00:27:36.109 --> 00:27:40.789 home now. And he loses to another one of his 00:27:40.789 --> 00:27:46.769 peers. At a certain point, losing to your peers 00:27:46.769 --> 00:27:50.339 is going to become unacceptable. And I think 00:27:50.339 --> 00:27:52.039 that he has a great reputation. I think that 00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:54.880 he's earned his reputation. I think he is a guy 00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:59.160 that has earned the right to do, to have the 00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:00.680 reputation of a legend killer. He's killed three 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:02.940 legends. He's LeBron. He's knocked out LeBron, 00:28:03.059 --> 00:28:05.460 Steph, and KD in two consecutive playoffs. He 00:28:05.460 --> 00:28:07.640 has a right to walk around as a legend killer. 00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:12.460 But he's losing to his peers. He has no Western 00:28:12.460 --> 00:28:17.359 Conference title. Shea does. Luka does. He has 00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:22.099 no finals appearances. He has no MVPs. I don't 00:28:22.099 --> 00:28:24.599 think he's ever been first team on the NBA. I 00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:26.440 think his reputation is out preceding his play 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:28.460 right now. And I think he's going to need to 00:28:28.460 --> 00:28:31.400 fix that before the Timberwolves, they would 00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:37.880 make the next step. But on a series that's still 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:40.559 going, and I won't spend a ton of time on it, 00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:42.759 but the Eastern Conference playoffs is still 00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:45.819 going. Shout out to the New York Knicks for absolutely 00:28:45.819 --> 00:28:51.200 blowing out. The Minnesota, not Minnesota, the 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:55.000 Indiana Pacers last night as they were up Schitt's 00:28:55.000 --> 00:29:00.140 Creek without a paddle. And they survived. They 00:29:00.140 --> 00:29:02.720 smacked the Indiana Pacers last night. And the 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:04.880 Pacers came out with a team that looked like 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:08.140 they wanted to end the game quickly. But they 00:29:08.140 --> 00:29:11.500 also kind of played quarters two through three 00:29:11.500 --> 00:29:16.980 to me as if they were comfortable going home. 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:25.799 Oklahoma City crazy enough played with a desperation 00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:30.220 game four to go home. We're going to play so 00:29:30.220 --> 00:29:32.920 hard, so fast, so physical in game four that 00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:34.799 we're going to basically break up mentally for 00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:36.339 game five. We're going to run away in game five. 00:29:38.619 --> 00:29:42.880 Indiana played like, okay, if we win it here, 00:29:43.180 --> 00:29:47.460 great. But if we don't, we go back to our building. 00:29:48.299 --> 00:29:50.779 It's a dangerous game. It's a dangerous game 00:29:50.779 --> 00:29:54.180 because I always look, and my reference point 00:29:54.180 --> 00:29:59.519 is always 3 -1 comebacks. That team that has 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:03.339 that one game to win, and every 3 -1 comeback 00:30:03.339 --> 00:30:06.400 has a hinge game where either you have to go 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:10.660 on the road or you have to win that pressure 00:30:10.660 --> 00:30:14.079 -packed home game. It's usually the Game 6. Game 00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:15.720 6 is the hardest one of the 3 -1 comebacks to 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:18.660 me. If you can get game six, oh, it's on probably 00:30:18.660 --> 00:30:21.819 game seven. So, for instance, with the Knicks, 00:30:21.900 --> 00:30:25.619 they weren't going to lose at home, right? That 00:30:25.619 --> 00:30:29.220 was not happening. So then the biggest game is 00:30:29.220 --> 00:30:32.980 game six because you go back into that building 00:30:32.980 --> 00:30:39.039 for game seven and you tell the city of New York 00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:43.059 and those Knicks players they have to win one 00:30:43.059 --> 00:30:48.720 home game. For the NBA Finals to be back in New 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:58.279 York for the first time since 2000 or 1999, you're 00:30:58.279 --> 00:31:00.619 not going to win that game for the Pacers. You're 00:31:00.619 --> 00:31:03.259 just not. That's going to be an environment unlike 00:31:03.259 --> 00:31:06.460 any environment in the NBA. Oklahoma City's crazy. 00:31:07.019 --> 00:31:10.240 The Garden is insane. You know what I'm saying? 00:31:10.380 --> 00:31:12.700 That's why I want to see that Finals personally. 00:31:13.369 --> 00:31:15.049 Because it's too crazy. Now, Indiana's going 00:31:15.049 --> 00:31:19.890 to be wild, right? But the Garden is like the 00:31:19.890 --> 00:31:23.250 Mecca on steroids. I mean, it's called the Mecca 00:31:23.250 --> 00:31:26.250 of basketball. And then Oklahoma City is going 00:31:26.250 --> 00:31:28.609 to be like the greatest college team ever, which 00:31:28.609 --> 00:31:30.990 it may not be because their average price right 00:31:30.990 --> 00:31:35.150 now is like $6 .17 to get in for games. So they 00:31:35.150 --> 00:31:38.230 may not have their normal collegiate field because 00:31:38.230 --> 00:31:41.410 a lot of their fans. Those fans that go crazy 00:31:41.410 --> 00:31:43.109 in their college -style fans probably can't afford 00:31:43.109 --> 00:31:45.670 to get into the game. So that's a whole different 00:31:45.670 --> 00:31:49.269 conversation there. But they have the crazy college 00:31:49.269 --> 00:31:52.170 -style environment as the only pro team in Oklahoma. 00:31:53.410 --> 00:32:00.369 And then the garden would be just, I don't even 00:32:00.369 --> 00:32:02.750 know what to describe the garden sometimes. It's 00:32:02.750 --> 00:32:06.289 loud, it's raucous, it's loud drunk men in suits 00:32:06.289 --> 00:32:09.180 going crazy. It's the weirdest thing ever. but 00:32:09.180 --> 00:32:13.220 it works for them, and it's amazing. And so that 00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:15.579 would be two crazy environments. But again, Indiana, 00:32:15.819 --> 00:32:19.039 if you want to win this series, Tyrese Halliburton, 00:32:19.059 --> 00:32:23.119 Miles Turner, Benedict Matherin, Aaron Neesmith, 00:32:23.339 --> 00:32:26.559 T .J. McConnell, Rick Carlisle, the head coach, 00:32:26.619 --> 00:32:30.279 if you want to win the NBA, if you want a chance 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:32.799 at the NBA Finals, you have to win Game 6. You're 00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:35.740 not going to win Game 7 in the Garden. And if 00:32:35.740 --> 00:32:38.710 you're the Knicks, to me, all you got to do is 00:32:38.710 --> 00:32:41.589 win game six. You get it back in that garden, 00:32:41.670 --> 00:32:44.109 that first 10 -2 run in the first quarter to 00:32:44.109 --> 00:32:47.109 go up 10, the game's over. Now, Indiana's the 00:32:47.109 --> 00:32:48.450 comeback kids. They're the kids of the comeback. 00:32:48.569 --> 00:32:51.890 They've been figuring it out all playoffs. But 00:32:51.890 --> 00:32:54.170 I think mentally, that's going to be a pressure. 00:32:54.250 --> 00:32:57.569 The entire state of New York is going to be on 00:32:57.569 --> 00:33:01.490 the back of the Indiana Pacers, riding them with 00:33:01.490 --> 00:33:03.789 the weight of the state of Indiana on their chest. 00:33:03.930 --> 00:33:07.059 And that's just, that's going to be a lot. to 00:33:07.059 --> 00:33:12.099 overcome every every miss every turnover every 00:33:12.099 --> 00:33:16.299 blocked shot every you know three you give up 00:33:16.299 --> 00:33:20.279 it's gonna feel like a bomb's going off um and 00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:23.700 that and that's just a brutal way that's a brutal 00:33:23.700 --> 00:33:27.619 path trying to get to the finals but up next 00:33:27.619 --> 00:33:30.720 oh prediction prediction sorry i forgot prediction 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.750 uh i predict that the knicks come back I think 00:33:34.750 --> 00:33:36.329 the Knicks pull off a 3 -1 comeback, and they 00:33:36.329 --> 00:33:38.869 play the Oklahoma City Thunder. We'll have another 00:33:38.869 --> 00:33:41.849 show after the series is over to discuss the 00:33:41.849 --> 00:33:44.210 NBA Finals, but I do predict right now that the 00:33:44.210 --> 00:33:46.230 Knicks will come back and win the Eastern Conference, 00:33:46.349 --> 00:33:48.950 and we'll have Oklahoma City and the Knicks in 00:33:48.950 --> 00:33:51.630 the Finals. But up next, we're going to talk 00:33:51.630 --> 00:33:53.609 about the WNBA, what's going down with the W. 00:34:26.380 --> 00:34:32.320 Welcome back into the show. And now we're going 00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:35.119 to talk about the WNBA and what's happening there. 00:34:35.579 --> 00:34:38.260 It won't be a lot of chatter here. Just a little 00:34:38.260 --> 00:34:40.679 some quick hits. Just before I would notice him 00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:42.119 going down the league. So, of course, Caitlin 00:34:42.119 --> 00:34:44.679 Clark is injured. She has a left quad strange. 00:34:44.780 --> 00:34:47.900 He's out two weeks at least. The Indiana Fever 00:34:47.900 --> 00:34:49.940 has lost their only game without her. Although 00:34:49.940 --> 00:34:52.269 it was close. Although several season highs were 00:34:52.269 --> 00:34:55.389 made. So I think not having an ecosystem is going 00:34:55.389 --> 00:34:57.869 to allow some of those players to play their 00:34:57.869 --> 00:34:59.630 more natural game. Like, Dawana Bonner's a scorer. 00:35:00.010 --> 00:35:01.530 She's one of those, you know, she hits you for 00:35:01.530 --> 00:35:04.769 15 to 18 points a night. She went 21, and she 00:35:04.769 --> 00:35:06.969 hasn't gotten anywhere near that when she's playing 00:35:06.969 --> 00:35:08.329 with Kaitlyn Clark. And I think playing with 00:35:08.329 --> 00:35:12.190 such an ecosystem -style player makes people 00:35:12.190 --> 00:35:14.670 play off that person. So even when that person's 00:35:14.670 --> 00:35:17.130 not there, as far as, like, subbed out, they 00:35:17.130 --> 00:35:18.969 still are kind of looking for the ecosystem. 00:35:20.619 --> 00:35:24.139 Sort of like what Dallas has going on. I just 00:35:24.139 --> 00:35:25.719 watched them play, so I'll speak on them. I watched 00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:29.880 them play last night versus Chicago Sky. Dallas 00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:34.820 has a bad tendency of watching Enrique Gumbawale 00:35:34.820 --> 00:35:41.179 and just trying to screen for Paige Beckers. 00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:45.500 So the Dallas Wings, and that's the problem with 00:35:45.500 --> 00:35:49.420 the way the WBA season is set up, The Dallas 00:35:49.420 --> 00:35:53.739 Wings didn't have a two, three -month training 00:35:53.739 --> 00:35:56.800 camp. So it wasn't like, you know, because Paige 00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:58.159 was in college two months ago. You know what 00:35:58.159 --> 00:35:59.800 I'm saying? Paige was winning the college championship 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:02.780 two months ago. And, you know, Rike Gumbawale, 00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:06.019 I believe, was overseas. No, she was in Unrivaled. 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:10.039 So was Melissa Smith and et cetera. But, you 00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:12.900 know, so the two main players on the team, one 00:36:12.900 --> 00:36:14.579 was in Unrivaled and one was in college basketball. 00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:17.739 It's not like the NBA where a player gets drafted. 00:36:18.230 --> 00:36:21.710 you know, in July, June, July -ish, July, and 00:36:21.710 --> 00:36:22.949 they don't play their first game until October. 00:36:23.110 --> 00:36:24.909 Well, they've got to have rookie camp. They're 00:36:24.909 --> 00:36:26.449 going to have the summer league, rookie camp, 00:36:26.650 --> 00:36:29.389 mini camp, training camp, basketball. Before 00:36:29.389 --> 00:36:30.909 they play one real game, they're going to have 00:36:30.909 --> 00:36:33.670 two to three to four months in the organization, 00:36:33.849 --> 00:36:35.869 working with the staff, working with the coaches, 00:36:35.989 --> 00:36:37.989 working on the training, working with the players. 00:36:38.070 --> 00:36:39.769 They're going to meet somewhere in the summertime, 00:36:39.909 --> 00:36:41.489 play pickup runs together. They used to play 00:36:41.489 --> 00:36:45.469 with each other and et cetera. And that's not 00:36:45.469 --> 00:36:48.050 going to happen in the W. Now, I think next year 00:36:48.050 --> 00:36:50.130 they're going to look a lot better. But you always 00:36:50.130 --> 00:36:52.030 see teams in the W, especially, like I said, 00:36:52.070 --> 00:36:54.849 Dallas. Enrique Gumbuale started going ballistic. 00:36:54.989 --> 00:36:58.469 She dropped 37, most of it in the second half. 00:36:58.949 --> 00:37:01.750 She's going absolutely ballistic. Every time 00:37:01.750 --> 00:37:03.409 she touched the ball, it was one screen and people 00:37:03.409 --> 00:37:07.170 just stood there. And she shot the ball. Paige 00:37:07.170 --> 00:37:09.650 Beckers gets it, and it's more movement. But 00:37:09.650 --> 00:37:11.690 it's moving. I feel like everybody's setting 00:37:11.690 --> 00:37:14.050 her a screen. It looks like everybody was screening 00:37:14.050 --> 00:37:15.949 for her. Melissa Smith came and set a screen. 00:37:16.289 --> 00:37:18.829 They go wild and did like a bluff screen. Somebody 00:37:18.829 --> 00:37:20.510 else came and did a screen. Like, I don't know 00:37:20.510 --> 00:37:24.170 if that's coaching or what, but it feels like 00:37:24.170 --> 00:37:26.389 when you have that one good ball handler in high 00:37:26.389 --> 00:37:28.449 school basketball and everybody else trying to 00:37:28.449 --> 00:37:30.670 get him free or get her free, that's what it 00:37:30.670 --> 00:37:33.369 felt like. It felt like, okay, well, Arike is 00:37:33.369 --> 00:37:35.849 going off. She's going to do her thing if she 00:37:35.849 --> 00:37:38.070 gets it. But while Paige has it, We're going 00:37:38.070 --> 00:37:40.190 to just try to get her free for a bucket. And 00:37:40.190 --> 00:37:45.809 it was very, very AAU -ish, very high school 00:37:45.809 --> 00:37:48.429 basketball -ish. I think when Chicago and Tyler 00:37:48.429 --> 00:37:50.110 Marston, Chicago's head coach, kind of figured 00:37:50.110 --> 00:37:52.550 out what was going on, he kind of just made her 00:37:52.550 --> 00:37:54.110 a force. He made her get the ball up on the screen. 00:37:54.889 --> 00:37:58.570 Because at that point, you weren't really looking 00:37:58.570 --> 00:38:00.309 to score your own. You were looking to screen 00:38:00.309 --> 00:38:02.610 for pays to get her open. Either the spoon, Fiji 00:38:02.610 --> 00:38:05.800 for a layup. or to shoot a jumper herself. And 00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:08.239 like I said, with the Rike going off, it made 00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:14.039 you watch the Rike shoot the ball. So that was 00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:16.099 pretty interesting there. On the other side, 00:38:16.219 --> 00:38:18.639 oh, and Paige Beckers is doing things that was 00:38:18.639 --> 00:38:20.179 a lot better than Kaitlyn Clark's doing them. 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:22.079 I'm going to be the person to just say that. 00:38:26.340 --> 00:38:32.599 Statistically, sorry, she is definitely the best 00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:34.920 player. Best rookie we've seen start. Now, Caitlin 00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:36.900 Clark had the explosive plays. She had the 35 00:38:36.900 --> 00:38:39.320 -foot bombs, et cetera. But Paige Becker, as 00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:41.260 people forget, in that famous class of 2020, 00:38:41.539 --> 00:38:45.400 that high school class, Paige was the best player 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:54.119 in the class. She's the reason why Caitlin Clark 00:38:54.119 --> 00:39:00.139 didn't go to UConn. So she's always been the 00:39:00.139 --> 00:39:06.130 person that, The person that was kept just a 00:39:06.130 --> 00:39:07.289 little bit better than Kaitlyn Clark, right? 00:39:07.349 --> 00:39:11.150 It was never a massive chasm, but she's always 00:39:11.150 --> 00:39:13.170 been just a little bit better. So at this current 00:39:13.170 --> 00:39:15.389 juncture during her rookie year, she's better 00:39:15.389 --> 00:39:16.929 at this point in her rookie year than Kaitlyn 00:39:16.929 --> 00:39:19.289 Clark was. I'm not shading Kaitlyn Clark. It's 00:39:19.289 --> 00:39:21.949 just the truth. Again, Kaitlyn had the fanfare, 00:39:22.010 --> 00:39:24.510 and Kaitlyn had the 30 -foot bombs, and so on 00:39:24.510 --> 00:39:26.050 and so forth. Paige right now is a little bit 00:39:26.050 --> 00:39:29.449 of a better player at this stage in their careers. 00:39:29.510 --> 00:39:33.079 And, you know, one year ago for Kaitlyn. You 00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:34.579 know, because Kayla really picked up in the second 00:39:34.579 --> 00:39:37.659 half of the season. And then a couple of personnel 00:39:37.659 --> 00:39:46.579 notes. A couple of personnel notes. Nafisa Collier 00:39:46.579 --> 00:39:49.360 might be the best player in the world. Minnesota 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:51.599 links forward. Nafisa Collier might be the best 00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:53.760 player in the world. She's insane. And I pushed 00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:57.280 back on it and I said Asia Wilson. It might be 00:39:57.280 --> 00:39:59.179 Fee. Fee might be the best player in the world. 00:39:59.539 --> 00:40:04.949 She is ridiculous. I mean, her numbers are insane 00:40:04.949 --> 00:40:08.889 this season. She's looking like a player who 00:40:08.889 --> 00:40:12.130 I know I'm the best player in the world, and 00:40:12.130 --> 00:40:13.789 I'm going to play like I'm the best player in 00:40:13.789 --> 00:40:16.989 the world. And when a player begins to do that, 00:40:17.090 --> 00:40:22.409 it makes it hard to beat them. I mean, right 00:40:22.409 --> 00:40:28.909 now she's averaging 20. Right now Fee is averaging 00:40:28.909 --> 00:40:33.150 26 .8 points a game. Eight rebounds a game, three 00:40:33.150 --> 00:40:38.590 assists, two and a half steals. I mean, she's 00:40:38.590 --> 00:40:40.670 doing this. I mean, she's only done five games 00:40:40.670 --> 00:40:43.449 so far, but she's doing this along with one and 00:40:43.449 --> 00:40:46.670 a half blocks on 52 % shooting from the field, 00:40:46.769 --> 00:40:50.449 44 % from three, 94 % from the free throw line. 00:40:51.489 --> 00:40:53.210 I mean, she's playing like she's the best player 00:40:53.210 --> 00:40:56.989 in the world. Kudos to her. And my personal best 00:40:56.989 --> 00:40:59.630 player in the world, Asia Wilson. I think it's 00:40:59.630 --> 00:41:01.550 time for her to move on from Vegas, or she needs 00:41:01.550 --> 00:41:05.429 to do a lot of demanding of Las Vegas. I don't 00:41:05.429 --> 00:41:09.650 think the team is built around her to succeed 00:41:09.650 --> 00:41:12.150 at the maximum level that she needs to succeed 00:41:12.150 --> 00:41:14.650 at right now. I think that they're, but again, 00:41:14.710 --> 00:41:16.610 they're gelling. Again, they don't have the situation 00:41:16.610 --> 00:41:19.349 that the NBA is happening. So I think right now 00:41:19.349 --> 00:41:21.269 she's going to look at potentially other opportunities, 00:41:21.469 --> 00:41:23.449 maybe in this offseason, if this season were 00:41:23.449 --> 00:41:26.130 to continue to go the way it is. I think they're 00:41:26.130 --> 00:41:28.949 very, very herd dependent in the league with 00:41:28.949 --> 00:41:30.969 so much talent. And they have talent. They have 00:41:30.969 --> 00:41:34.489 Chelsea Gray. They have Jackie Young. They have 00:41:34.489 --> 00:41:37.329 Jewel Lloyd. They have talent around her. I just 00:41:37.329 --> 00:41:40.630 think currently the mix isn't mixing as best 00:41:40.630 --> 00:41:45.010 as it could. And therefore, I think it may be 00:41:45.010 --> 00:41:46.909 a situation where not the rumor mill has started. 00:41:47.130 --> 00:41:49.789 This is Asia's last run with Vegas. Will she 00:41:49.789 --> 00:41:52.449 move on after this season? The rumor mill has 00:41:52.449 --> 00:41:56.110 started. Personally, I say no. I don't think 00:41:56.110 --> 00:41:57.909 she moves on. I think there's maybe wholesale 00:41:57.909 --> 00:42:00.449 changes if the season were to continue to go 00:42:00.449 --> 00:42:02.929 the way it goes. But I don't think she moves 00:42:02.929 --> 00:42:06.130 on. Ultimately, I think the A's get it fixed. 00:42:06.210 --> 00:42:08.289 I believe too much in those four players I named, 00:42:08.329 --> 00:42:10.489 along with head coach Becky Hammond, to just 00:42:10.489 --> 00:42:12.070 kind of throw the season down a total, especially 00:42:12.070 --> 00:42:15.429 what, five games in, six games in. I think it's 00:42:15.429 --> 00:42:20.099 too early to make any massive. any massive judgments 00:42:20.099 --> 00:42:22.500 or massive decisions again it's early it's a 00:42:22.500 --> 00:42:24.800 40 game season they're on game like five or six 00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:28.679 um so i think it's very early in order to just 00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:31.800 make a wholesale change oh she's gone um but 00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:34.119 i do think it's something to discuss i do think 00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:37.400 it's something to keep an eye on as this season 00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:42.039 progresses but up next and our best for last 00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:43.960 we're gonna have a quick chat about cosmo ball 00:42:43.960 --> 00:43:21.460 26 Welcome back into the show. And now we're 00:43:21.460 --> 00:43:23.659 going to have our best for last, which is going 00:43:23.659 --> 00:43:29.380 to be a discussion on CFB 26. EA College Football 00:43:29.380 --> 00:43:36.869 26 has been released. and in the trailer for 00:43:36.869 --> 00:43:40.309 it looks amazing there's dynamic lighting so 00:43:40.309 --> 00:43:42.769 one of the big things people complain about was 00:43:42.769 --> 00:43:45.449 that night games and day games kind of felt the 00:43:45.449 --> 00:43:48.869 same right and it's not one of those things you 00:43:48.869 --> 00:43:53.130 really notice until like it rained so i know 00:43:53.130 --> 00:43:54.489 like when the game first came out and that's 00:43:54.489 --> 00:43:56.949 and it was they said it when the 25 came out 00:43:56.949 --> 00:43:59.210 it was a base game it was the smallest game on 00:43:59.210 --> 00:44:01.429 the market pretty much it was half the size of 00:44:01.429 --> 00:44:04.320 a madden a third of the size of a 2k You know, 00:44:04.340 --> 00:44:06.460 like, it really was just a good base game. One 00:44:06.460 --> 00:44:08.300 thing that I noticed almost immediately when 00:44:08.300 --> 00:44:10.260 I played it was that lighting kind of felt the 00:44:10.260 --> 00:44:12.420 same. And lighting is not something you notice 00:44:12.420 --> 00:44:14.980 until it's bad. And I remember playing in the 00:44:14.980 --> 00:44:18.900 Superdome, Sugar Bowl game, playing in the Superdome, 00:44:19.019 --> 00:44:23.559 and it was so bright. I remember going, oh, my 00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:25.099 God. I've been in the Superdome. It's not this 00:44:25.099 --> 00:44:28.179 bright. It was so bright. It was ridiculous. 00:44:28.380 --> 00:44:30.599 And I ended up updating it and toning it down, 00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:37.619 et cetera. um was an issue um and then they listened 00:44:37.619 --> 00:44:39.760 to community notes big time on this and i'm gonna 00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:42.039 get into all this a lot more in nerdology or 00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:45.159 on the on the nerdology show with cl smooth gaming 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:46.820 and that'll be tonight so then make sure you 00:44:46.820 --> 00:44:49.159 tune into that whenever that is released i think 00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:51.880 he live streams it actually so tune in i'll definitely 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:54.599 make sure to uh put it on social media whenever 00:44:54.599 --> 00:45:01.780 it's aired but um There's 2 ,800 new plays. There's 00:45:01.780 --> 00:45:03.820 unique schemes, like Rice's Modern Option or 00:45:03.820 --> 00:45:06.340 Penn State's Gadget Heavy. And the Gadget Heavy 00:45:06.340 --> 00:45:09.039 options went like they were putting, like, offensive 00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:11.780 linemen were at receiver. Tyler Warren was at 00:45:11.780 --> 00:45:14.760 O -line. Tyler Warren was slipping out, but the 00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:17.280 O -linemen were, like, it was, they all kind 00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:19.880 of said weird stuff. Anyway, there's 300 coaches, 00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:23.719 300 real world coaches. So, and when the number 00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:26.019 came out, like, 300, that's not 300 Division 00:45:26.019 --> 00:45:32.429 I teams. There isn't. There's 112, I think, FBS 00:45:32.429 --> 00:45:35.010 teams. Not every coach is in there. Not every 00:45:35.010 --> 00:45:36.369 head coach is in there. For instance, nobody 00:45:36.369 --> 00:45:38.849 on Colorado staff is in. Nobody on North Carolina 00:45:38.849 --> 00:45:41.050 staff is in. Dion and Belichick both said no. 00:45:44.510 --> 00:45:47.590 However, a lot of schools have at least their 00:45:47.590 --> 00:45:50.289 head coach. Most have both coordinators. So it 00:45:50.289 --> 00:45:52.289 was interesting with LSU, for instance, they 00:45:52.289 --> 00:45:55.329 went Joe Sloan because he's really out to see. 00:45:57.239 --> 00:45:59.199 Blake Baker is the D .C. and Brian Kelly is the 00:45:59.199 --> 00:46:01.280 head coach. They're all in. Ohio State staff 00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:03.380 is in. So that's going to make it interesting 00:46:03.380 --> 00:46:07.880 in terms of dynasty mode. So let's say you're 00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:13.119 a dynasty team and you have a school and you're, 00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:16.179 let's say you're OC. Let's say I pick LSU, for 00:46:16.179 --> 00:46:20.420 instance. My HC, let's say Joe Sloan leaves and 00:46:20.420 --> 00:46:24.900 goes to be the head coach at Oregon State. Well, 00:46:25.019 --> 00:46:26.360 Oregon State only has their head coach in, but 00:46:26.360 --> 00:46:27.260 let's say it would be the head coach of Oregon 00:46:27.260 --> 00:46:31.920 State. And then Dan, Ohio State tanks for some 00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:36.619 reason. Dan, I can't think of his name in Ohio 00:46:36.619 --> 00:46:38.539 State right now. But let's say Dan Lanning gets 00:46:38.539 --> 00:46:40.659 fired at Oregon. I can bring in Dan Lanning as 00:46:40.659 --> 00:46:44.920 my DC at LSU. That's pretty cool, right? And 00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:47.679 that's something that I hope they do because 00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:50.639 that's not something that was done in Madden. 00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:53.769 Madden never had the coordinators in. So if your 00:46:53.769 --> 00:46:55.449 head coach got fired, if you wanted that coach 00:46:55.449 --> 00:46:57.070 had to fire your head coach to get that head 00:46:57.070 --> 00:47:02.550 coach. But NBA 2K does that where like Taylor 00:47:02.550 --> 00:47:04.329 Jenkins gets fired from the Grizzlies. I can 00:47:04.329 --> 00:47:06.130 have Taylor Jenkins, my lead assistant coach. 00:47:08.710 --> 00:47:11.130 He's on my bench now. So that, you know, that's 00:47:11.130 --> 00:47:13.769 pretty cool. They updated the wear and tear. 00:47:14.309 --> 00:47:16.369 They've done way more stuff to the tackling. 00:47:17.050 --> 00:47:18.789 Home Fit Advantage is supposed to be insane. 00:47:19.489 --> 00:47:22.550 They've also added a lot more game day stuff. 00:47:23.010 --> 00:47:25.889 In the trailer, they show Clemson getting off 00:47:25.889 --> 00:47:28.829 the bus, which is something that is what they 00:47:28.829 --> 00:47:30.210 really do. They get off the bus, and then they 00:47:30.210 --> 00:47:32.030 run down the hill. They do a lap around the stadium 00:47:32.030 --> 00:47:34.570 in the buses, and then they run down the hill. 00:47:35.829 --> 00:47:37.949 In the game 25, they just ran down the hill. 00:47:38.690 --> 00:47:41.230 Cross -playing Dynasty mode is going to be wild. 00:47:41.889 --> 00:47:44.369 Road to Glory, apparently, you can throw the 00:47:44.369 --> 00:47:47.849 hat. You can commit and decommit. And then team 00:47:47.849 --> 00:47:51.170 builder from 25 is translating over into 26. 00:47:51.469 --> 00:47:53.989 So I know me personally. I'm a Southeastern alum. 00:47:54.469 --> 00:47:56.550 Of course, we're not in the game yet. I'm also 00:47:56.550 --> 00:48:00.150 an LSU alum. We are in the game. But as a Southeastern 00:48:00.150 --> 00:48:03.269 alum, I built Southeastern from scratch. Now, 00:48:03.369 --> 00:48:06.190 I took some liberties with uniforms. I took some 00:48:06.190 --> 00:48:09.289 liberties with stadium. But I built them from 00:48:09.289 --> 00:48:11.090 scratch. So I'm actually going to probably go 00:48:11.090 --> 00:48:12.650 back in now that I know that we're translating 00:48:12.650 --> 00:48:15.190 from 26. And you can do team builder offline 00:48:15.190 --> 00:48:21.949 in 26. I'm probably going to end up redoing them 00:48:21.949 --> 00:48:24.730 and just changing the stadium because right now 00:48:24.730 --> 00:48:26.110 I'm in Georgia State Stadium and stuff like that. 00:48:26.190 --> 00:48:28.849 But without getting into too many details, and 00:48:28.849 --> 00:48:31.690 I'll get into more details on Nerdology, like 00:48:31.690 --> 00:48:33.690 I said, we'll see us move gaming tonight. So 00:48:33.690 --> 00:48:36.329 make sure you guys tune in for that. But that 00:48:36.329 --> 00:48:40.349 is all I have for today. Covered a wide range 00:48:40.349 --> 00:48:42.409 of topics. Wasn't supposed to have any football 00:48:42.409 --> 00:48:45.820 in it, but broke news in football. And then with 00:48:45.820 --> 00:48:50.699 the NBA, WNBA and CFB 26. Again, tune into Nerdology 00:48:50.699 --> 00:48:53.980 tonight with CS Move Gaming. I will be on there 00:48:53.980 --> 00:48:56.699 along with Jai, who you guys see from the JTS 00:48:56.699 --> 00:48:59.219 After Dark show. He will be on there as well 00:48:59.219 --> 00:49:00.880 at some point. Don't know if he's going to be 00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:03.119 there at the beginning, but he will be there 00:49:03.119 --> 00:49:05.039 on. He will be on there at some point. I will 00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:07.940 be on there for at least the CFB 26 segment. 00:49:08.860 --> 00:49:11.639 But that is all I have for today. This is your 00:49:11.639 --> 00:49:13.039 host, Justin Jackson, signing out.