WEBVTT - Mac & Bone Hour 3: UNC Interview From ACC Tip-Off & Hornets Updates 0:00:03.590 --> 0:00:07.130 Oh, oh, oh, it's Mac and Bo on your radio, baby. 0:00:07.190 --> 0:00:10.840 This is my friend Matt. Posh, come on, Posh. This 0:00:10.910 --> 0:00:14.880 is my friend T-Bone. Let's have some fun. 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.340 I can't go to work without listening to Mac and Bone. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:34.599 Do it live. Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. No P entrance music? 0:00:35.630 --> 0:00:37.630 I was told, I asked Fitty, I said, hey, are 0:00:37.650 --> 0:00:40.879 we rolling hour three open or are we rolling Willie's World? 0:00:40.900 --> 0:00:42.320 And he said, do hour three. 0:00:43.340 --> 0:00:46.660 The disrespect for the P man to not play his 0:00:46.830 --> 0:00:47.650 entrance music? 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.180 It's okay. The greatest entrance music in the game. P-Man, 0:00:51.220 --> 0:00:52.919 I want to apologize. 0:00:52.540 --> 0:00:55.330 On behalf of Bone and this show. It seems like 0:00:55.420 --> 0:00:57.450 Fitty did not want you to have your cool entrance music. 0:00:57.470 --> 0:00:59.770 We will refund the audience their hard-earned money. 0:00:59.790 --> 0:01:01.630 They love it, too. The audience loves it, too. I 0:01:01.630 --> 0:01:03.510 was just doing what I was told. Yeah, it's not 0:01:03.570 --> 0:01:06.100 Shrub's fault. Just add it to the Fitty list, man. 0:01:06.300 --> 0:01:09.340 Just add it. Just add it. Stacking on crap, stacking 0:01:09.380 --> 0:01:09.740 on crap. 0:01:10.100 --> 0:01:12.240 I hate to, I never want to start this segment 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.200 on a negative or a controversial tone. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.009 That's not the way I want to know. We got 0:01:16.030 --> 0:01:17.150 a big Panther win to talk about. 0:01:17.170 --> 0:01:19.770 We got FC coming back this week, but allow me 0:01:19.790 --> 0:01:21.250 to do so for this rare time. 0:01:22.069 --> 0:01:25.270 What is, what can you say about the issue with Fitty? 0:01:25.450 --> 0:01:28.760 It's not, it's not an issue with Fitty necessarily is 0:01:28.819 --> 0:01:29.720 something that he did. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.020 And it was a, um, a gremlin in our. 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.200 Board over the weekend where I was unable at the 0:01:35.220 --> 0:01:38.819 doghouse to hear phone calls during the postgame show, and 0:01:38.940 --> 0:01:41.380 Smoke couldn't even talk on the radio. So I thought, 0:01:41.620 --> 0:01:44.360 there's something messed up. There's something messed up. I come 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.720 to find out that there's a setting on the board 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.140 where you can turn the television audio on to be 0:01:50.180 --> 0:01:53.910 heard inside the radio station. They do this during the football, 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:55.620 they do this during basketball, et cetera, and so on, 0:01:55.620 --> 0:01:57.450 to hear what's going on on the TV. So you're 0:01:57.470 --> 0:01:59.390 not necessarily having to listen to what's on the radio 0:01:59.780 --> 0:02:01.260 while you want to hear what's going on. 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:01.660 At the game. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.530 Well, genius over there pressed the wrong button and reset 0:02:05.630 --> 0:02:09.350 the board and put everything haywire. So as far as 0:02:09.410 --> 0:02:12.370 I'm concerned, we need, we don't need to put like 0:02:12.410 --> 0:02:15.820 a big thing on the board that says, Hey, doofus, 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:17.639 press this button to turn the TV on. 0:02:17.660 --> 0:02:21.500 Did we hear Phineas? Finney talking from ACC tip-off in 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.300 the background there? No, that was my sound. Oh, that 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.980 was your sound? I thought you potted Finney up and 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.919 he's over there. I thought you caught him bitching about 0:02:29.940 --> 0:02:30.640 Willie right back. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.579 Did his board reset also make the remote go missing? 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:34.810 Because I need to know where that is also. 0:02:34.930 --> 0:02:39.750 I would say, spoke yesterday during like full talk segments 0:02:40.190 --> 0:02:41.850 on Monday when I was hosting for Kyle. It's like 0:02:41.889 --> 0:02:44.070 walking around saying, did I leave it here? 0:02:44.110 --> 0:02:46.910 Did I leave it there? He's very concerned, it sounds like. 0:02:46.950 --> 0:02:48.290 I will give him that. I will give him that. 0:02:48.330 --> 0:02:50.190 He has the exact time he thinks he left the 0:02:50.210 --> 0:02:53.649 remote where it was, at 104 a.m. Eastern Time. Does 0:02:53.669 --> 0:02:54.310 he have the. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:56.679 I guess it would be easy to know that he 0:02:56.700 --> 0:02:58.650 would have the Panther game down pat, but I'm sure 0:02:58.950 --> 0:03:01.329 he probably knows the Panther game the last time the 0:03:01.350 --> 0:03:04.770 remote was lost, the weather and the score and what 0:03:04.790 --> 0:03:06.050 the quarterbacks did in each game. 0:03:06.090 --> 0:03:06.610 That is true. 0:03:06.870 --> 0:03:11.540 I heard we're unbeaten with a lost remote here at WFNZ. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:16.300 Steve Berline. So what'd you think? What did you think 0:03:16.620 --> 0:03:18.760 of that game, Willie? What did you think about the scene? 0:03:18.820 --> 0:03:21.560 You were there, unlike me, who chickened out and didn't 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:22.710 want a totally late night. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.660 Yeah, I was a little upset about that. 0:03:24.710 --> 0:03:28.049 What was the scene like? It sounded amazing over TV. 0:03:28.630 --> 0:03:29.989 And what did you think of that win, man? 0:03:30.210 --> 0:03:30.790 I will say this. 0:03:31.070 --> 0:03:33.850 The Detroit fans, as numerous as they were, probably the 0:03:33.870 --> 0:03:36.350 most silent road fans I've ever seen at a game. 0:03:36.390 --> 0:03:38.910 And again, credit to the Panthers for making it that way. 0:03:39.330 --> 0:03:41.390 I thought the Panther fans who were there made it 0:03:41.430 --> 0:03:45.290 a real raucous atmosphere. the spontaneous keep-pounding chance. That's kind 0:03:45.310 --> 0:03:47.970 of where I always will judge a Panther atmosphere. If 0:03:48.150 --> 0:03:52.940 we get spontaneous keep-pounding chance unprompted, that's a good thing, 0:03:53.060 --> 0:03:54.840 and that tells you, number one, the Panthers are playing well, 0:03:54.860 --> 0:03:57.100 and number two, we've got a raucous and live building, 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.460 and that was real cool. Obviously, Bryce Young and Tedderall 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.050 McMillan had otherworldly-type games. I like that the run game 0:04:04.090 --> 0:04:06.550 found itself eventually after kind of in the first half 0:04:06.570 --> 0:04:11.520 somewhat stalling. And the defense, I used the line last 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.420 Sunday night, kind of like Del Curry would say, like 0:04:14.460 --> 0:04:16.360 a cat on a screen door hung on for dear life. 0:04:17.220 --> 0:04:18.620 I'm not going to sit here and say that that's 0:04:18.660 --> 0:04:20.560 why I want this team to play the entire season, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.460 but it might be how they have to win given 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.590 all the deficiencies they have and the guys that they 0:04:26.670 --> 0:04:28.650 do not have with them in terms of the secondary defense. 0:04:28.980 --> 0:04:31.280 and also the interior defensive line. I will say this. 0:04:31.339 --> 0:04:33.760 There's no team that has given up less than 31 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.560 points to the Lions in this season other than the Panthers. 0:04:36.580 --> 0:04:36.940 That's good. 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.410 Who gave up 26. Every one of us without our 0:04:39.450 --> 0:04:42.010 two corners would have signed up for that, man. Every 0:04:42.130 --> 0:04:42.529 one of us. 0:04:42.630 --> 0:04:46.050 Willie, what's been the most impressive element to how Bryce 0:04:46.089 --> 0:04:47.240 has started the year in your opinion? 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.109 I would say it's the way he's layering the football. 0:04:51.510 --> 0:04:56.740 He's making throws and decisions that he hadn't made even 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:00.720 when his play had been the best over the course 0:05:00.740 --> 0:05:03.350 of the first couple of seasons. He now feels like 0:05:03.390 --> 0:05:06.270 he knows what he's doing out there. And this offense 0:05:06.550 --> 0:05:09.410 now feels crafted and shifted toward him. And I give 0:05:09.450 --> 0:05:12.410 a lot of credit to Dave Canales for taking the 0:05:12.450 --> 0:05:15.010 play calling responsibilities and giving them to Brad Idzik. It 0:05:15.050 --> 0:05:18.270 feels like between the three of them, Idzik, Canales, and Bryce, 0:05:18.770 --> 0:05:22.350 they have crafted an offense that Bryce knows how to execute. 0:05:22.950 --> 0:05:27.270 And he also is feeling more like the quarterback out 0:05:27.310 --> 0:05:29.280 there as opposed to somebody who is just kind of like, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.170 you know, digging and dunking and doing those things. He 0:05:32.230 --> 0:05:36.070 now has what I would feel a real competence when 0:05:36.110 --> 0:05:38.330 it comes to this offense. Even a couple of those 0:05:38.390 --> 0:05:40.860 third down throws where it didn't look like the Panthers 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.940 were able to make it happen, he's able to do that. 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.440 The throw on the. 0:05:45.420 --> 0:05:47.460 Run that Ted Roe and McMillan, that's not a throw 0:05:47.500 --> 0:05:49.020 I thought that Bryce Young could have made in the 0:05:49.060 --> 0:05:50.920 first couple seasons here as Panthers quarterback. 0:05:50.980 --> 0:05:52.700 But he's doing those things. 0:05:53.380 --> 0:05:54.680 I think a lot of it, again, comes down to 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.880 the fact that he now has personnel around him, although 0:05:56.900 --> 0:06:00.430 you could say this week That personnel was not exactly a. 0:06:02.220 --> 0:06:03.099 Group of household names. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.000 You've got Bryson Tremaine out there, you've got John Meche 0:06:05.060 --> 0:06:07.240 out there, and you've got the three tight ends. So 0:06:07.790 --> 0:06:09.469 it's not like he's doing it with the Marx Brothers 0:06:09.490 --> 0:06:11.529 or The Greatest Show on Turf. I think that's the 0:06:11.570 --> 0:06:13.849 most impressive thing, is that he's doing it with... without 0:06:13.890 --> 0:06:16.320 league yet without coker in the lineup as well not. 0:06:16.250 --> 0:06:17.920 Only matt does he make that throw but the catch 0:06:17.980 --> 0:06:19.840 is made i don't think guys are making those plays 0:06:19.860 --> 0:06:20.600 for him the first couple. 0:06:20.500 --> 0:06:22.779 Guys are guys are stepping up to make plays for 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.000 him man no doubt about it you're right about that 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.620 i i we're talking to the p-man in studio it's 0:06:27.660 --> 0:06:31.090 willie's world our weekly segment an hour uh earlier he's 0:06:31.110 --> 0:06:33.710 got a big tv appearance down the hall wb tv 0:06:34.270 --> 0:06:36.470 at nine he's hosting for colin he's in for colin 0:06:36.490 --> 0:06:39.010 today at 10 so You'll get plenty of Willie. 0:06:38.790 --> 0:06:40.570 P on this station. You're going to get a lot 0:06:40.589 --> 0:06:43.030 of P today. There you go. And I think the 0:06:43.070 --> 0:06:45.010 people should like that. I think they should like that. 0:06:45.410 --> 0:06:47.010 All right. We're going to leave that alone, but we're 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.880 going to leave that alone. No, it's an overflow of P. 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.210 What do we– what do you think, P? 0:06:53.700 --> 0:06:57.710 Have you seen enough from Bryce where you're like– He 0:06:57.850 --> 0:06:59.510 should be the franchise quarterback. 0:06:59.810 --> 0:07:03.480 I don't think it matters because I think if they're 0:07:03.500 --> 0:07:05.320 picking up the phone right now and calling Bryce, he's 0:07:05.339 --> 0:07:09.240 leaving him on red. He's sending him to a voicemail 0:07:09.260 --> 0:07:12.060 like you would send all the loan calls you get. 0:07:12.260 --> 0:07:15.640 Oh my, so many. The spam calls. 0:07:15.700 --> 0:07:18.560 That's basically, he sees Dan Moore, he's like, oh, that 0:07:18.580 --> 0:07:21.050 must be spam. Because I don't think he's going to 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:22.190 sign a deal before the end of the season. 0:07:22.230 --> 0:07:22.710 I just don't. 0:07:23.490 --> 0:07:26.190 Unless there's a significant change of the tenor of the 0:07:26.210 --> 0:07:28.180 way this is going to go. I feel like it 0:07:28.210 --> 0:07:30.540 will go into the offseason and there will be– I 0:07:31.860 --> 0:07:34.520 wouldn't call it contentious, but I think that there will 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.100 definitely be a desire for Bryce to want to reset 0:07:38.140 --> 0:07:40.300 the market. And I know people will sit there and say, 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.360 you can't pay him that much money with only one 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.680 year really to go off of. This is the way 0:07:44.700 --> 0:07:48.160 it works in the National Football League. When it's your turn, 0:07:48.700 --> 0:07:51.220 when you are due, when the bill comes due for 0:07:51.260 --> 0:07:57.190 you and– the question is, do you reset the franchise completely? 0:07:57.210 --> 0:07:59.940 Or do you go with this guy? When you go 0:07:59.960 --> 0:08:01.960 with this guy, you have to pay him the going rate. 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:03.820 And so if people are going to get angry about 0:08:03.860 --> 0:08:06.220 giving Bryce, you know, 60 million or whatever, you know, I'm, 0:08:06.300 --> 0:08:09.680 I'm sorry. It's a lot better price to pay than 0:08:09.740 --> 0:08:13.320 having to reset the franchise. I think he's done enough. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.490 And again, this is not, this is projecting that it 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.990 will go somewhat similar over the course of the season. 0:08:19.010 --> 0:08:20.750 He's not going to have, you know, the kinds of 0:08:20.770 --> 0:08:23.080 games like he had against Atlanta and, or even this week. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.480 I don't know if that's necessarily the baseline. There probably 0:08:25.500 --> 0:08:27.060 will be a game or two where it looks like, 0:08:27.180 --> 0:08:29.930 oh my goodness, he hasn't done his most efficient work. 0:08:29.990 --> 0:08:32.490 But I think over the first four weeks of the season, 0:08:32.510 --> 0:08:33.810 the fact that we've seen it now at the beginning 0:08:33.830 --> 0:08:36.479 of the season, As long as it continues to go 0:08:36.540 --> 0:08:38.480 the way that it has, I see no reason why 0:08:38.500 --> 0:08:40.420 he shouldn't be the quarterback for years to come. 0:08:40.580 --> 0:08:42.880 Really, I don't mind the spam calls anymore from the 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.320 lone places because I get like 20 a day. And 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.530 they come from so many random places. I now learn 0:08:48.570 --> 0:08:51.490 stuff because I'll see cities and places pop up and I'll. 0:08:51.390 --> 0:08:54.750 Say, oh, I didn't know. This is the other day. 0:08:54.770 --> 0:08:57.670 I got a spam call, Mac, from Battle Mountain, Nevada. 0:08:58.630 --> 0:08:59.290 Battle Mountain. 0:09:00.110 --> 0:09:01.830 I said, is that a Tubi movie? Like, what the 0:09:01.870 --> 0:09:04.810 hell is Battle Mountain? I'm warning things about these places 0:09:04.830 --> 0:09:05.709 that I didn't know existed. 0:09:05.730 --> 0:09:08.650 I'm still getting texts about political races in Houston. And 0:09:08.700 --> 0:09:12.220 I'm like, I haven't lived in Houston in nine years. 0:09:12.260 --> 0:09:14.200 Why do we have to see those Ken Paxton ads? 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.120 I know we're off on a tangent now, but why 0:09:16.140 --> 0:09:18.060 do we have to see Texas race ads? 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.280 Like, and apparently they ran across the country. 0:09:20.300 --> 0:09:20.370 Why? 0:09:20.460 --> 0:09:22.420 You want to know why? Why is that? 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.219 Because the inventory, the commercial inventory, they're high pricing the 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.370 commercial inventory for these local ads. It's cheaper for them 0:09:30.410 --> 0:09:31.910 to run a national ad than it is to run 0:09:31.929 --> 0:09:33.790 a local ad because of the way the inventory works. 0:09:33.830 --> 0:09:36.010 Look at Pete coming with the damn intel, baby. 0:09:36.090 --> 0:09:39.189 Apparently the Vikings game got flooded the other day by 0:09:39.270 --> 0:09:41.030 Texas political ads. 0:09:41.050 --> 0:09:45.070 That's what I'm saying. Thanks for listening, Bo. 0:09:45.150 --> 0:09:47.690 You see what I deal with? You see what I 0:09:47.710 --> 0:09:49.890 deal with? I didn't realize Ken Paxton was the same 0:09:49.929 --> 0:09:51.680 guy you're talking about. I didn't know it was the 0:09:51.700 --> 0:09:52.319 same storyline. 0:09:52.380 --> 0:09:53.079 I'm listening right here. 0:09:53.300 --> 0:09:53.760 I'm listening. 0:09:53.860 --> 0:09:56.070 I'm vibing. We're three guys that are more talking, man. 0:09:56.170 --> 0:10:00.350 It's not James Paxton. Golly, man. Bone thought it was 0:10:00.410 --> 0:10:01.590 Brad Faxon. How about this? 0:10:01.910 --> 0:10:03.790 Bone thought Brad Faxon was running for the Senate. I 0:10:03.790 --> 0:10:07.330 challenge you to a duel at Battle Mountain. Bone thought 0:10:07.380 --> 0:10:11.030 Jim Paxton and John Paxton were a joint ticket. What 0:10:11.100 --> 0:10:12.100 are you boying me for? 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:13.140 I'm just goofing off. 0:10:13.179 --> 0:10:15.000 I thought it was with the boy Finney the same time. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.660 Here's Paxton for three. I was a John Paxton guy 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.960 more than Jim Paxton. I was a Bill Paxton guy also. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:27.099 All right, let's talk about Charlotte FC coming back. I 0:10:27.140 --> 0:10:30.170 know you were over there with Dean yesterday, had a 0:10:30.210 --> 0:10:35.790 media availability. They're back in action this week. And what's 0:10:35.809 --> 0:10:38.450 your feeling about the stretch run now coming off the 0:10:38.470 --> 0:10:42.960 international break? I know the Archie Goodwin loss stinks. And 0:10:42.980 --> 0:10:44.740 I'm not sure Dean kind of, it's, it's kind of 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.940 hard to go get somebody out there right now. 0:10:47.020 --> 0:10:47.260 Right. 0:10:47.300 --> 0:10:49.740 I mean, are we kind of, do we have what 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:50.600 we have at this point? 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.320 Well, first off, there was another kind of little bit 0:10:53.340 --> 0:10:56.240 of an injury scare with Edan Toklamati. He had shown 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.860 up as having a knee injury on a sofa score 0:10:59.900 --> 0:11:01.840 and fought mob. And we were kind of wondering why 0:11:01.860 --> 0:11:04.200 he wasn't available on the last couple of games for 0:11:04.780 --> 0:11:08.099 the Israeli national team. Thankfully he came back to town, 0:11:08.860 --> 0:11:11.080 looked at the knee, looks like it's fine. It looks 0:11:11.100 --> 0:11:13.099 like he's going to play this weekend. So, That's a 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.420 bullet dodge for sure, honestly, because if you didn't have him, 0:11:15.460 --> 0:11:17.589 you would have basically no strikers going into the weekend 0:11:17.630 --> 0:11:22.150 against FC Dallas. But I've looked at what the I 0:11:22.170 --> 0:11:23.770 don't want to call it the scrap heap, but looked 0:11:23.790 --> 0:11:25.770 at what the free agent market looks like, particularly with 0:11:25.790 --> 0:11:26.690 the domestic players. 0:11:27.070 --> 0:11:27.959 There's not a lot. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:29.860 I mean, you know, there's Corey Baird is out there 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:31.860 who's played a couple of years at San Diego and Houston. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.040 That's maybe the best option that's out there. I don't 0:11:34.059 --> 0:11:36.120 know if that's a route they want to go. They 0:11:36.130 --> 0:11:39.160 did have a trialist in earlier this week. I have 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.819 not gotten confirmed 100% who that is, but a lot 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:43.660 of people who are out there in the Internet sleuthing 0:11:43.700 --> 0:11:47.400 world will say that it is the old Everton attacking midfielder, 0:11:47.780 --> 0:11:51.459 who is currently a free agent right now. That kind 0:11:51.500 --> 0:11:53.160 of makes it sound like that's something they've been working 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.199 on since before this Archie Goodwin injury. So I don't 0:11:56.380 --> 0:11:59.439 know if that's necessarily a replacement. I think they kind 0:11:59.460 --> 0:12:01.400 of feel like they're OK with what they have right now. 0:12:02.260 --> 0:12:04.320 as much as it doesn't necessarily make me all warm 0:12:04.340 --> 0:12:07.209 and fuzzy inside, seeing Tiger Smalls and Rodolfo Aloko as 0:12:07.230 --> 0:12:11.969 the only backup striker capability guys on the roster, they 0:12:12.010 --> 0:12:14.550 feel very confident where they are. They've got Maxie. They've 0:12:14.590 --> 0:12:17.110 got Pep BL. It's going to have to be something 0:12:17.170 --> 0:12:20.220 of a bi-committee thing in terms of the backup striker position. 0:12:20.250 --> 0:12:22.000 But when you look at it right now, Mac, there's 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:23.920 seven games left over the next five weeks. It's not 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:25.720 like they have a lot of time that they have 0:12:25.740 --> 0:12:28.120 to necessarily account for as long as Edon can play. 0:12:28.540 --> 0:12:31.210 They feel like they're okay. It's a matter of, hey, 0:12:31.230 --> 0:12:32.969 can you get your work done early in games as 0:12:33.030 --> 0:12:34.950 opposed to trying to wait till the end? I think 0:12:34.970 --> 0:12:37.490 that's something that would be very, very imperative. But if 0:12:37.510 --> 0:12:40.470 you look at the last seven games, they're playing six 0:12:40.510 --> 0:12:44.280 of those seven teams that are basically fighting for playoff spots. 0:12:44.340 --> 0:12:46.880 They're fighting for playoff supremacy. The only team that really 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.880 isn't is Montreal, but everybody else is like within three 0:12:49.900 --> 0:12:51.679 or four points of the playoff line or above the 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.540 playoff line in each of their conferences. So it's not 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:55.760 going to be one of those things where you look 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.140 at it and say, there are going to be any 0:12:57.179 --> 0:12:59.890 gimmies left. So it starts this weekend against a team that... 0:12:59.809 --> 0:13:02.830 They're pretty good, right, Dallas? They're third place in the West. 0:13:03.230 --> 0:13:05.790 And they've got an all-star striker in Peter Moussa who 0:13:05.870 --> 0:13:07.219 is scoring goals for fun. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:12.730 Moussa! Not that Moussa. Does all the dirty work. He's 0:13:12.750 --> 0:13:15.660 a Croatian Moussa, not the other Moussa. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.559 Not a French Moussa? Not a French Moussa, no. Can 0:13:18.580 --> 0:13:21.140 you say on the broadcast, not our Moussa? I will 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.840 say he's not our Moussa. And that is at the bank. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.640 If y'all want to head to the bank, that is 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.990 at the bank, Saturday, 730. There was an amazing crowd 0:13:29.010 --> 0:13:30.570 at the bank for the last game. 0:13:30.630 --> 0:13:31.370 Yes, 31,000 last time. 0:13:31.670 --> 0:13:37.530 So let's bring that again this time as well. All right. 0:13:37.570 --> 0:13:40.330 Schrapp's wrapping your segment up. How do you feel about that, Pete? 0:13:40.510 --> 0:13:42.690 Schrapp stepped up in a big chair and said, this 0:13:42.730 --> 0:13:43.290 segment's over. 0:13:43.309 --> 0:13:45.050 This guy gets moved off from Michael Malone here. 0:13:45.170 --> 0:13:47.830 It's a little much. A little much. But I appreciate it. 0:13:48.010 --> 0:13:50.470 I'm just continuing to do what I'm told. That's all. 0:13:50.610 --> 0:13:51.630 You're doing your job. 0:13:51.650 --> 0:13:55.520 Yeah. Bone, how do I react when the producers do 0:13:55.540 --> 0:13:57.540 their job and try to give me the wrap-up sign? 0:13:57.580 --> 0:14:00.040 How does that work? I can see how you're reacting 0:14:00.100 --> 0:14:02.360 right now. Like when a manager tries to take Max 0:14:02.380 --> 0:14:03.220 Scherzer out of a ballgame. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.300 It's very true. That is so true. It's the same energy. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.179 They say, all right, that's enough. And you say, I'm 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:13.280 finishing this game. Like Dylan Stewart when they tried to 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.610 take him out the other week. Just tell the assistant coach, no. 0:14:16.710 --> 0:14:18.710 Thank you. Does P-Man get a swine or no swine 0:14:18.730 --> 0:14:20.550 because of this? I don't know. No time for swine. 0:14:20.570 --> 0:14:22.290 He has two hours on air later. He'll be fine. 0:14:22.350 --> 0:14:24.690 He'll be fine. We'll be fine. I gave Shrump the 0:14:24.730 --> 0:14:26.990 swine because he wouldn't let Willie do the swine. 0:14:27.050 --> 0:14:28.800 When we come back, we're going to get some guests 0:14:28.900 --> 0:14:32.320 on from ACC Media Days. First up from the Tar Heels, 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:37.830 Veteran forward Jaron Stevenson, followed by new head coach Michael Malone. 0:14:38.190 --> 0:14:40.970 Back to back. Don't miss it, Heels fans. Sports Radio, 0:14:40.970 --> 0:15:07.650 92.7 WFNZ. We are rocking, baby. 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They are your 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:23.330 hometown improvement experts. 704-570-9610 if you want to jump in. 0:16:23.420 --> 0:16:26.989 Are you getting the hoops bug at all right now? 0:16:27.070 --> 0:16:30.970 Hornets played last night, Bone. um second half was pretty. 0:16:30.970 --> 0:16:33.170 Second half was pretty good some did i think they 0:16:33.190 --> 0:16:35.730 played for a half some of those gentlemen in the 0:16:35.770 --> 0:16:38.910 second half bony it was a little ugly but um 0:16:39.270 --> 0:16:41.410 are you getting the hoops bug at all right. 0:16:41.270 --> 0:16:43.650 Now bony yeah i'm getting there i'm excited for the 0:16:43.690 --> 0:16:46.710 hornets i think the brand of basketball is going to 0:16:46.750 --> 0:16:49.230 be fun to watch i do have my uh My 0:16:49.290 --> 0:16:54.920 Lindy's College Basketball Preview Magazine Mac might not be the 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.580 smartest purchase because a lot of the rosters aren't even 0:16:57.620 --> 0:17:00.000 finalized yet. So this gives you kind of a glimpse 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.120 of what's coming up here. It is a sport that 0:17:03.180 --> 0:17:05.770 you sort of have to figure things. 0:17:05.810 --> 0:17:06.270 You know this. 0:17:06.990 --> 0:17:09.550 All the rosters now. I quizzed you last week on 0:17:09.570 --> 0:17:11.550 who a team was, and Fitty was in the room. 0:17:12.050 --> 0:17:14.530 I named off 10 players, and nobody knew that was 0:17:14.570 --> 0:17:17.630 Wake Forest's basketball team. It takes a little bit of... 0:17:18.410 --> 0:17:21.450 time to figure out who's on even the local teams 0:17:21.790 --> 0:17:24.629 who's on what team where they came from we'll get 0:17:24.670 --> 0:17:27.840 there eventually but college basketball college football we're ready to 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:29.300 go when it starts we got a lot of time 0:17:29.580 --> 0:17:32.220 to get ready for it although there is some roster 0:17:32.260 --> 0:17:35.960 turnover obviously but basketball it is i have this magazine 0:17:35.980 --> 0:17:38.560 mac and i couldn't tell you who 75 of these 0:17:38.580 --> 0:17:39.180 players what does. 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:43.240 The magazine say for lsu To be determined. It just 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.770 says pending. We'll get back to you on that. 0:17:45.790 --> 0:17:47.770 But it is, you know, you'll watch games and you'll 0:17:47.790 --> 0:17:49.650 figure out, oh, I think I remember that guy's name, 0:17:49.670 --> 0:17:50.510 but where was he before? 0:17:50.530 --> 0:17:53.570 Oh, the first night, I'm Googling my computer. Where did 0:17:53.590 --> 0:17:55.690 this guy transfer from? Let me get the background on 0:17:55.710 --> 0:17:58.330 this guy. My first question to Jaron Stevenson when he 0:17:58.390 --> 0:18:00.990 joins us from ACC tip-off in a minute is, so 0:18:01.020 --> 0:18:02.399 who are these guys on your team now, Jaron? 0:18:02.420 --> 0:18:04.180 You have a name tag. Why the heck did you 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:05.000 stay put, Jaron? 0:18:05.020 --> 0:18:07.580 You really must like your hometown of Chapel Hill because 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.419 you're not supposed to stay put. um it's crazy i 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:14.460 will say this bone um last night um your fellow 0:18:14.510 --> 0:18:17.730 duke fan my son mac jr and i know plenty 0:18:17.750 --> 0:18:20.130 of you hate me for this uh but i believe 0:18:20.190 --> 0:18:23.510 in freedom of college basketball and college football fandom choice 0:18:23.530 --> 0:18:24.869 it's the right thing to do now you don't have 0:18:24.890 --> 0:18:26.119 a choice if you do if you don't root for 0:18:26.130 --> 0:18:28.000 the panthers you get kicked out of my house but 0:18:28.060 --> 0:18:29.179 you have also the right thing to do you have 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.500 freedom of college uh uh you know hoops choice and 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.380 my son picked duke years ago and he said can 0:18:35.420 --> 0:18:39.830 you tell bone that he should bet $ 100 on Duke 0:18:40.220 --> 0:18:42.680 to win the national title this season. He said this 0:18:42.770 --> 0:18:46.550 is the year Shire breaks through. So do you feel 0:18:46.590 --> 0:18:47.909 good about that, or do you think. 0:18:47.790 --> 0:18:50.050 The little Mac curse, the Mac Jr. curse may hit? 0:18:50.109 --> 0:18:52.110 Mac Jr., let me tell you something. You're about four 0:18:52.130 --> 0:18:55.369 days too late on that request. You all over it? 0:18:55.470 --> 0:18:59.290 You're about four days and $ 20 off. Mac Jr. 0:18:59.330 --> 0:19:00.989 we're going to go. How about this, Mac Jr.? When 0:19:01.010 --> 0:19:03.410 we win that bet, we'll win it together. We're going 0:19:03.430 --> 0:19:06.210 to Red Lobster together. let him know that. 0:19:06.190 --> 0:19:08.730 And his mother can't say anything about it no like 0:19:08.770 --> 0:19:10.609 she had that issue with me taking him for 130 0:19:10.609 --> 0:19:13.149 now we're not sure if her dad's going depends on 0:19:13.170 --> 0:19:15.409 the season goes yeah i think i'm probably not allowed 0:19:15.470 --> 0:19:18.709 not invited all right let's do this man coach malone's 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.100 in the on deck circle from ACC Tip-Off for us, 0:19:22.140 --> 0:19:24.720 so stay tuned for that. But right now, let's talk 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.480 to a guy that, you know, is back from last year, 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.520 and he is playing in his hometown of Chapel Hill 0:19:29.540 --> 0:19:31.520 for the Tar Heels, and he is one of the 0:19:31.540 --> 0:19:34.560 veteran leaders of this team. He is Jaron Stevenson, who 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.330 joins us over there a couple miles away at ACC Tip-Off. 0:19:38.619 --> 0:19:41.280 Jaron, welcome to the show. How you doing, man? Thank you. 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:42.070 How are you? 0:19:42.070 --> 0:19:44.590 I'm doing good. So how does it feel, man? 0:19:44.590 --> 0:19:46.730 You get you're one of the guys that gets uh 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:50.020 the assignment to represent the school you are clearly you're 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.420 in your fourth year you're a holdover from last year's 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.880 team like have you as coach talked to you about 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:57.879 being a leader because it feels like that's got to 0:19:57.920 --> 0:19:59.100 be a part of your role this. 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.940 Year yes that's a huge part of my role i'm 0:20:02.380 --> 0:20:04.740 more of a reserve laid-back guy so learning how to 0:20:04.780 --> 0:20:07.970 push myself and to different spots whether it's not always 0:20:08.010 --> 0:20:11.200 talking but like showcasing different things to the younger guys 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:15.380 or just the Carolina way, um, being tough. And, um, yeah, again, 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.919 just teaching the younger guys how the Carolina way is. 0:20:18.619 --> 0:20:21.429 Jared with leadership comes a day like today as a, 0:20:21.780 --> 0:20:25.369 as a Chapel Hill guy to be at ACC media days, 0:20:25.869 --> 0:20:28.690 representing the Tar Heels. What, what does that mean to 0:20:28.710 --> 0:20:30.550 you to have the honor of doing something like that? 0:20:31.109 --> 0:20:33.750 Yeah, to be honest, this is huge for me, um, 0:20:33.790 --> 0:20:36.609 being able to represent Carolina. Uh, again, I grew up, 0:20:37.190 --> 0:20:40.550 you know, watching Carolina being around them. So, I know 0:20:40.609 --> 0:20:43.690 how historic this place is and the great guys that 0:20:44.050 --> 0:20:49.140 have come from this college and this university. They've been 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:51.480 back too, so just being able to meet them and 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.300 I know this is huge, so just being out here 0:20:54.380 --> 0:20:55.480 representing Carolina is huge. 0:20:55.820 --> 0:20:58.860 So, Jaren, I hate that you stand out in this 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.200 day and age of college athletics when you stay at 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:01.560 a school. 0:21:02.020 --> 0:21:03.700 You know what I mean? With so many people leaving. Yeah, 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:04.800 what's wrong with you, Jaren? 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:08.419 But that's the way this question is going to kind 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:10.460 of be framed. You are in your hometown. It sounds 0:21:10.500 --> 0:21:13.140 like that means a lot to you. But the coach 0:21:13.180 --> 0:21:15.120 you went to play with in Hubert Davis, a guy 0:21:15.140 --> 0:21:17.679 that I know you guys in that locker room had 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:21.440 a personal bond with, Coach Malone comes in. What was 0:21:21.500 --> 0:21:24.080 that decision like and you deciding to stay? Why was 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:25.280 it important to stay there? 0:21:26.300 --> 0:21:29.879 I knew Coach Malone would do a good job. Also, 0:21:29.900 --> 0:21:32.600 a huge thing with me is the Carolina family and 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.290 my family. I have a great support system here in 0:21:35.330 --> 0:21:41.910 North Carolina. Going back to Coach Malone, his NBA experience 0:21:42.090 --> 0:21:44.350 and different things like that, I feel like he could 0:21:44.369 --> 0:21:47.989 help me a lot, improve my game and help me 0:21:48.030 --> 0:21:50.100 get to where I want to, which is the NBA. 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.840 Jaron, obviously all your goals for the team, they take 0:21:54.900 --> 0:21:57.119 place in the winter and then hopefully for you guys 0:21:57.160 --> 0:22:00.379 and your sake early spring. But how important in this 0:22:00.420 --> 0:22:03.149 day and age of college basketball is the summer months, 0:22:03.430 --> 0:22:07.210 the early fall, to get that chemistry right when there's 0:22:07.270 --> 0:22:09.630 so much new that goes into these programs? 0:22:10.430 --> 0:22:14.230 Yeah, summer is huge. That's where you get better. You 0:22:14.270 --> 0:22:17.640 have extra time to really perfect your craft. And then, again, 0:22:17.660 --> 0:22:20.040 we have a lot of new guys, so helping build 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:23.770 chemistry there, hang out with them, learn each other's play 0:22:23.790 --> 0:22:25.710 styles and different things like that. The summer is a 0:22:25.750 --> 0:22:28.590 huge month to get better. 0:22:29.310 --> 0:22:33.950 What's Coach Malone like? What is his approach to coaching? 0:22:33.970 --> 0:22:35.709 Because I know it's a change for him. He's used 0:22:35.730 --> 0:22:38.150 to dealing with the grown men. Some of them make 0:22:38.190 --> 0:22:42.100 more money than he does. And now he's got young guys. 0:22:42.180 --> 0:22:44.500 What's he been like as a coach so far? 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:46.060 Yeah, he's been intense. 0:22:47.300 --> 0:22:50.139 But, yeah, I feel like he has, like, held it 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:53.800 down for the younger guys. But, yeah, he's done a 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:56.739 great job. And I feel like he has, like, NBA-style 0:22:56.780 --> 0:23:00.210 practices where we're getting up and down the court, pushing 0:23:00.250 --> 0:23:03.830 ourselves and getting different type of shots up. And I 0:23:03.850 --> 0:23:04.790 think he's done a great job. 0:23:05.740 --> 0:23:07.859 Uh jaron as the uh don't hold this against me 0:23:07.900 --> 0:23:10.400 here we're friends now as a uh as a duke 0:23:10.460 --> 0:23:11.860 fan of the show i need to. 0:23:12.780 --> 0:23:16.470 Ask oh no i didn't even i didn't even ask 0:23:16.530 --> 0:23:21.970 a question jaron i can't believe you what's going on 0:23:22.330 --> 0:23:23.690 here man i was just i. 0:23:23.630 --> 0:23:25.169 Can't even ask a question he didn't know i was 0:23:25.190 --> 0:23:27.200 gonna say you grew up in chapel hill but so 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:29.840 i mean did you i'm guessing you grew up with 0:23:29.900 --> 0:23:32.669 some uh A little bit of Duke hate in your heart, probably? 0:23:33.340 --> 0:23:33.859 Yeah. 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:37.860 Yeah, yeah. I've been a Carolina fan for a little bit. Again, 0:23:37.900 --> 0:23:40.780 my mom went to Carolina, so I always had a soft... 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:42.340 place in my heart for carolina all. 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:44.560 Right all right last dates are not laughing at me 0:23:44.580 --> 0:23:46.619 there jaren i know we gotta let you go that 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:49.020 was a great reaction jaren i love that um uh 0:23:49.300 --> 0:23:51.159 all right last question i want to ask you i'm 0:23:51.180 --> 0:23:53.660 kind of curious like i think a lot of people 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:57.190 on the outside wonder like how does the nio work 0:23:57.250 --> 0:24:00.250 in the locker room like do dudes know what each 0:24:00.330 --> 0:24:04.030 other got do y'all share that information is there ever 0:24:04.130 --> 0:24:06.890 jealousy that creeps in do y'all joke with each other 0:24:06.950 --> 0:24:09.490 about like how what's that dynamic like because it's a 0:24:09.510 --> 0:24:10.609 different world for y'all. 0:24:11.230 --> 0:24:14.320 Yeah, yeah, NIL is a lot different. Yeah, we don't 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:16.520 know what each other make. I think that's a good thing. 0:24:16.540 --> 0:24:17.120 Probably best, yeah. 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:19.609 Yeah, so we can just focus on basketball, focus on 0:24:19.650 --> 0:24:23.250 winning games, and, yeah, keep the outside stuff outside. 0:24:23.750 --> 0:24:25.520 Jared, you've got to run the ice cream shop that 0:24:25.540 --> 0:24:27.060 Trimble went behind. Yeah, yeah. 0:24:28.700 --> 0:24:29.320 It's a good idea. 0:24:29.420 --> 0:24:31.070 If you're a leader, you can take care of that 0:24:31.119 --> 0:24:31.970 place for him, man. 0:24:32.130 --> 0:24:32.830 All right. 0:24:32.850 --> 0:24:35.629 Hey, Jaren, we appreciate you. We both enjoyed talking to you. 0:24:35.650 --> 0:24:39.330 Even the Duke fan, I think, enjoyed talking to you. Hey, brother, 0:24:39.350 --> 0:24:40.210 best of luck, man. 0:24:40.510 --> 0:24:41.490 Appreciate you. 0:24:41.710 --> 0:24:42.209 I appreciate that. 0:24:42.230 --> 0:24:44.280 Thank you, guys. There you go, Jaren. Stevenson. I didn't 0:24:44.300 --> 0:24:46.460 even ask a question. All I simply said was I'm 0:24:46.520 --> 0:24:46.940 a Duke fan. 0:24:47.060 --> 0:24:49.879 It's funny because when you do that with guys that 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:53.340 have either played at Carolina or they do– Most guys 0:24:53.380 --> 0:24:56.240 don't react like that. They're usually like, okay, all right, whatever. 0:24:57.350 --> 0:25:00.390 But he, like, genuinely started laughing. He's also got the 0:25:00.450 --> 0:25:03.230 deep Chapel Hill roots, too. So he wasn't like he 0:25:03.250 --> 0:25:06.950 came from the outside. He's lived that world, right? 0:25:06.970 --> 0:25:10.230 Oh, yeah. Cackalack said, Jaron said, next question. All right. 0:25:10.710 --> 0:25:11.919 I was at the point where I was like, I'm 0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:14.100 not even going to ask this question. What were you doing? 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:15.740 Why don't you help me out next time, pal? I 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:17.980 thought his reaction was so genuine and funny. 0:25:18.380 --> 0:25:20.640 I was so glad he didn't just deadpan it like 0:25:20.700 --> 0:25:23.100 it didn't matter to him, like he was genuinely amused. 0:25:23.359 --> 0:25:25.480 He's going to go tell his buddies. He's going to 0:25:25.520 --> 0:25:28.700 go tell his buddies. I talked to a Duke guy today. 0:25:28.790 --> 0:25:31.210 I have a circus act. When you tell Patrick Gungba 0:25:31.230 --> 0:25:35.270 at 945 when he joins us, that you're a devil fan. 0:25:35.310 --> 0:25:37.430 I'm going to say, hey, Big Pat, the guy sitting 0:25:37.450 --> 0:25:39.949 there that put the headphones on you hates Duke. Now, 0:25:39.990 --> 0:25:42.570 the problem is our next guest, he probably doesn't want 0:25:42.590 --> 0:25:44.290 to hear either, Bowen, about your fandom. 0:25:44.330 --> 0:25:44.750 No, he does not. 0:25:44.770 --> 0:25:46.530 But he is a true professional. I'm sure he will 0:25:46.550 --> 0:25:49.750 handle this interview with professionalism, even though you're a Duke fan. 0:25:50.170 --> 0:25:54.230 He is the first-year coach of UNC basketball, a man 0:25:54.270 --> 0:25:57.370 that Jaron Stevenson said the word to describe him is intense. 0:25:57.930 --> 0:26:00.750 He is Michael Malone. Coach, how you doing? What's going on? 0:26:01.220 --> 0:26:02.000 I'm intense, man. 0:26:02.040 --> 0:26:02.460 I'm intense. 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:06.220 I respect that. I do, and I think he did too. 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:09.000 The way he talked about you, I think he respects 0:26:09.040 --> 0:26:12.480 the intensity. Coach, what has it been like coaching these 0:26:12.540 --> 0:26:15.379 young bucks? I know I was a young knucklehead in college. 0:26:15.400 --> 0:26:17.640 You would have yelled at me. I know that. What's 0:26:17.720 --> 0:26:20.580 it like from going grown men in the NBA to 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:22.510 these young guys? How's it been? 0:26:23.510 --> 0:26:26.780 I think it's an adjustment. You go from coaching 25-, 0:26:26.770 --> 0:26:32.280 30-year-olds guys with families, wives and kids. And now you're 0:26:32.340 --> 0:26:35.480 coming into a situation where you are coaching every day 0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:39.620 and pouring into 17, 18, 19-year-old kids. And that's not 0:26:39.660 --> 0:26:43.560 lost on me. My job responsibility has changed. I have 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:46.270 to make sure I show up every day and not 0:26:46.330 --> 0:26:50.890 just from a coach's perspective in terms of helping them offensively, defensively, 0:26:51.290 --> 0:26:53.710 be the best players that they can be, but also 0:26:53.750 --> 0:26:56.389 pouring into them and helping them continue to develop as 0:26:56.450 --> 0:27:00.170 young men who can every single day represent this great 0:27:00.210 --> 0:27:01.650 program in a positive light. 0:27:02.230 --> 0:27:05.010 Coach, we're in a time and space in the college 0:27:05.050 --> 0:27:08.450 sports world where we're seeing a lot of coaches that 0:27:08.530 --> 0:27:10.060 don't want to be a part of it. We know 0:27:10.100 --> 0:27:13.260 the names of the college basketball coaches, college football coaches. 0:27:13.580 --> 0:27:15.540 They go other places because of the way the sport 0:27:15.600 --> 0:27:18.560 is going. You've won a championship in the NBA. You're 0:27:18.580 --> 0:27:21.200 a lifespan in the NBA. What drew you at this 0:27:21.300 --> 0:27:24.270 point to the college game when a lot of other 0:27:24.310 --> 0:27:25.870 people are going away from the college game? 0:27:26.450 --> 0:27:29.410 You know, I know that the first interaction I had 0:27:29.470 --> 0:27:32.630 with UNC and when they approached me we had multiple 0:27:32.670 --> 0:27:36.510 conversations and my first thought was I was really you 0:27:36.550 --> 0:27:39.060 know honored of their interest but you know I viewed 0:27:39.100 --> 0:27:41.820 myself I'm an NBA coach I'm gonna stay in this 0:27:41.859 --> 0:27:44.520 space I want to try to win another championship and 0:27:44.560 --> 0:27:47.140 see what opens up but the more I thought about 0:27:47.180 --> 0:27:50.879 it and thought about the tradition at Carolina and the 0:27:50.940 --> 0:27:53.340 coaches that have sat in that seat I did not 0:27:53.440 --> 0:27:54.600 want to in 10, 15, 20 years down the road 0:27:56.270 --> 0:28:00.510 look back and have any regrets. And I wanted to 0:28:00.550 --> 0:28:02.750 come to this space. I wouldn't have left the NBA 0:28:03.170 --> 0:28:05.880 just to go to any school. And people think, well, 0:28:05.890 --> 0:28:08.450 he went to Carolina because his daughter was there playing volleyball. 0:28:08.880 --> 0:28:10.040 That's just a coincidence. 0:28:10.470 --> 0:28:13.280 I came to Carolina because I truly feel that we 0:28:13.780 --> 0:28:17.080 have everything in front of us to make this program 0:28:17.180 --> 0:28:20.840 a team that can compete every single year for national championship. 0:28:21.180 --> 0:28:23.320 That requires a lot of hard work. That requires a 0:28:23.340 --> 0:28:26.840 lot of commitment. But it's something that I know myself 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:29.379 and our entire coaching staff are committed to trying to 0:28:29.440 --> 0:28:32.020 make it happen, and I think we're off to a 0:28:32.040 --> 0:28:32.700 pretty good start. 0:28:33.480 --> 0:28:35.980 Michael Malone with us. He's live a couple of miles away. 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:38.210 ACC tip off here in Charlotte chat with us. 0:28:38.250 --> 0:28:40.950 New heels coach. So, coach, man, you had to hit 0:28:40.990 --> 0:28:41.670 the ground running. 0:28:41.810 --> 0:28:42.070 Right. 0:28:42.210 --> 0:28:44.310 I mean, you come back. It's been a long time 0:28:44.350 --> 0:28:45.470 since you coached in college. 0:28:45.810 --> 0:28:47.690 And dang, you get this job and it's like, I 0:28:47.730 --> 0:28:51.080 got to go put this roster together right away. And honestly, 0:28:51.120 --> 0:28:52.560 it feels like you did a heck of a job 0:28:52.620 --> 0:28:56.120 considering kind of the time crunch. What was that process 0:28:56.240 --> 0:28:58.780 like and how how confident are you that, hey, we 0:28:58.820 --> 0:29:00.520 kind of pulled it off, you know, for what we 0:29:00.560 --> 0:29:01.200 had to work with? 0:29:01.910 --> 0:29:04.450 Well, it was a wild ride, as you mentioned. I mean, literally, 0:29:04.650 --> 0:29:07.550 the day I was hired, I left the press conference. 0:29:07.880 --> 0:29:12.120 I went to a little get-together to shake some hands 0:29:12.160 --> 0:29:14.440 and kiss some babies. I've never felt more like a 0:29:14.480 --> 0:29:16.520 politician than I have the last four or five months. 0:29:17.380 --> 0:29:21.680 But then after that, I get into a room to 0:29:21.720 --> 0:29:25.270 discuss the transfer portal, something that was my first venture 0:29:25.730 --> 0:29:29.050 and experience going through. And when you mentioned, I think, 0:29:29.530 --> 0:29:32.820 looking back now, getting a guy like Neil Dallas from 0:29:32.840 --> 0:29:36.240 Virginia Tech, Terrence Brown, Matt Abel, as well as all 0:29:36.260 --> 0:29:38.370 the other players that we signed, I think we did 0:29:38.390 --> 0:29:41.610 a pretty good job considering the circuit. And now we're 0:29:41.650 --> 0:29:43.710 moving forward trying to recruit the kids that are in 0:29:43.730 --> 0:29:47.730 the class of 2027. So it is a whirlwind. There's 0:29:47.820 --> 0:29:51.020 no off days. You're always building your program. You're always 0:29:51.080 --> 0:29:53.440 selling your program. And we want to make sure that 0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:56.380 we're not just bringing in talented players because that's a given. 0:29:56.730 --> 0:29:58.110 We want to bring in the guys that we know 0:29:58.130 --> 0:30:00.290 that can represent this program in the best possible way. 0:30:00.610 --> 0:30:03.330 Coach, what's the status of fifth-year guy Cameron Fins for 0:30:03.350 --> 0:30:04.310 the exhibition games? 0:30:04.890 --> 0:30:08.010 Yeah, as of right now, Cameron Fins is ineligible. He 0:30:08.030 --> 0:30:11.210 will not be playing on Friday night. Obviously, we have 0:30:11.250 --> 0:30:15.520 a lot of trust in what's going to play out. 0:30:15.580 --> 0:30:18.840 We think Cameron Fins is an outstanding young man and 0:30:18.910 --> 0:30:23.040 even a tremendous basketball player on top of that. But 0:30:23.140 --> 0:30:26.170 at this moment, he is not eligible. and we're going 0:30:26.190 --> 0:30:28.400 to let that process play out. But he's been a 0:30:28.630 --> 0:30:31.900 joy to be around, and if and when he is 0:30:31.960 --> 0:30:34.240 ruled eligible, I have no doubt that he's going to 0:30:34.260 --> 0:30:35.780 be able to go out there and help this program. 0:30:36.080 --> 0:30:38.460 Coach, in this weird world of college sports right now, 0:30:38.520 --> 0:30:42.520 you're playing NC State in a non-conference game in Greensboro 0:30:42.580 --> 0:30:45.360 in the middle of December. How did that come about, 0:30:45.480 --> 0:30:48.320 and how cool do you think that is for Greensboro 0:30:48.380 --> 0:30:51.460 and both fan bases to have a game, albeit unconventional, 0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:52.600 like that in Greensboro? 0:30:53.180 --> 0:30:56.240 I think it's great. Myself and Justin did a press 0:30:56.280 --> 0:30:59.460 conference a month and a half ago in Greensboro to 0:30:59.500 --> 0:31:03.340 talk about that game. I'm learning so much about the tradition, 0:31:03.380 --> 0:31:06.920 the history of not only Carolina, but also the conference. 0:31:07.260 --> 0:31:09.500 That game matters to our fans. The last year was 0:31:09.520 --> 0:31:13.040 the first time in over 100 years, I believe, that 0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:16.880 UNC and State did not play two times in a season. 0:31:17.610 --> 0:31:21.630 The fans wanted it. They're getting it. I think The 0:31:21.690 --> 0:31:24.300 fans are the ones that kind of carry these programs, 0:31:24.360 --> 0:31:26.410 and they want to see it, looking forward to it, 0:31:26.450 --> 0:31:30.420 another opportunity for us. to challenge ourselves against some of 0:31:30.430 --> 0:31:31.440 the best teams around us. 0:31:31.620 --> 0:31:36.340 Last thing, Coach, you mentioned your big man there, Cameron Fensch. 0:31:36.360 --> 0:31:39.340 You mentioned we're confident he's going to be eligible. This 0:31:39.380 --> 0:31:43.160 whole fifth-year eligibility thing is crazy. The whole college landscape 0:31:43.240 --> 0:31:47.900 is crazy, the uncertainty. Did you, like, is this major 0:31:47.940 --> 0:31:51.180 headaches coming from the NBA? Like, this feels like it 0:31:51.220 --> 0:31:53.700 would stress me out to coach college athletics. 0:31:54.200 --> 0:31:59.780 Yeah. You know, it's definitely different. It's a completely different league. 0:31:59.880 --> 0:32:01.580 And what you had in the NBA is you had 0:32:01.600 --> 0:32:05.340 defined rules. You had a level playing field. You had transparency. 0:32:05.820 --> 0:32:08.360 And there was things. They weren't moving the goalposts every 0:32:08.400 --> 0:32:11.670 single day. For me, first year in college athletics in 0:32:11.690 --> 0:32:14.630 a long time, it feels that you don't have the 0:32:14.710 --> 0:32:18.209 level playing field. You don't have transparency at all times. 0:32:18.790 --> 0:32:20.570 And you don't know what's going to happen from a 0:32:20.610 --> 0:32:25.790 day-to-day basis. Court cases getting overturned. So... As I mentioned earlier, 0:32:25.810 --> 0:32:27.550 we're going to let things play out. They're out of 0:32:27.630 --> 0:32:31.050 our control at this moment, and we'll be ready to 0:32:31.110 --> 0:32:33.670 move no matter what the final results are because that 0:32:33.780 --> 0:32:36.000 is our job, to make sure no matter who's available. 0:32:36.400 --> 0:32:37.960 They'll be able to go out there and put them 0:32:38.000 --> 0:32:39.580 in a position to have success. 0:32:39.640 --> 0:32:40.240 Don't worry, Coach. 0:32:40.300 --> 0:32:43.310 Eventually, it'll be coaching, it'll be games, and your biggest 0:32:43.350 --> 0:32:46.210 pain in the butt will be rival ACC fans being annoying. 0:32:46.750 --> 0:32:48.550 What are you looking at me for? 0:32:48.570 --> 0:32:50.810 Those camera crazies you like, Bo. What are you looking 0:32:50.990 --> 0:32:54.690 at me for? Sorry, Coach, my friend here. Coach, we appreciate. 0:32:54.210 --> 0:32:55.050 You, man. Best of luck. 0:32:55.490 --> 0:32:56.640 All right, appreciate it, guys. Thank you. 0:32:56.650 --> 0:32:57.930 Thank you, Coach. There you go. Trying to get me 0:32:57.950 --> 0:32:58.490 in trouble with Coach. 0:32:58.510 --> 0:33:01.710 That is Michael Malone, yeah, because he's the intense one, right? 0:33:01.750 --> 0:33:03.610 So I thought maybe he wouldn't laugh. I thought maybe 0:33:03.650 --> 0:33:05.030 he'd yell at you. I didn't want to say anything 0:33:05.050 --> 0:33:07.750 about that. Oh, man. 0:33:07.770 --> 0:33:09.170 So anyway, we will do equal time. 0:33:09.190 --> 0:33:12.690 We'll have Patrick Gungba representing Duke later in the show 0:33:12.730 --> 0:33:14.890 at 945, right at the end of the show. And 0:33:14.910 --> 0:33:16.480 then Walker Mayles is going to have a bunch of guys, 0:33:16.540 --> 0:33:21.580 Justin Ganey from State. So State will be represented as well. 0:33:21.760 --> 0:33:24.280 It's the last day of ACC tip-off over there. 0:33:25.720 --> 0:33:28.260 Where the heck are they at? It just occurred to me. 0:33:28.290 --> 0:33:30.840 I don't know what building they're in in this town. Hilton, right? 0:33:30.860 --> 0:33:31.080 Hilton. 0:33:31.240 --> 0:33:31.460 Yeah. 0:33:31.560 --> 0:33:33.660 Yeah, I think you're right. You saved me. I just 0:33:33.680 --> 0:33:36.520 threw out a hotel name. I hope you're right. It's 0:33:36.540 --> 0:33:38.260 the Hilton. It's got to be the Hilton. It's always 0:33:38.420 --> 0:33:39.480 the Hilton. It's got to be the Hilton. 0:33:39.780 --> 0:33:43.480 We come back. A Hornets injury update. Is Brandon Miller 0:33:43.540 --> 0:33:46.840 about to get paid? And are the Braves about to 0:33:46.880 --> 0:33:51.110 be bounced from the postseason? A little smorgasbord. 0:33:51.570 --> 0:33:55.130 Smorgasbord? Smorgasbord. Yeah. Next, Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ. 0:34:08.940 --> 0:34:13.690 Unfortunately, Kobe suffered an injury during training camp. Um, competition 0:34:13.710 --> 0:34:16.290 level was high. And so I think that he's obviously 0:34:16.330 --> 0:34:19.130 in good spirits and understands, um, that every day is 0:34:19.170 --> 0:34:21.629 just going to be important for him as he continues to, um, 0:34:21.870 --> 0:34:25.220 work through his rehab process and Christian and Brandon, same 0:34:25.239 --> 0:34:27.360 type of thing, sustained injuries during practice. 0:34:28.000 --> 0:34:29.590 Um, and their day-to-day. 0:34:29.850 --> 0:34:32.430 And so they'll keep going through their rehab routines, and 0:34:32.450 --> 0:34:35.230 we'll update you guys as we get information. 0:34:35.250 --> 0:34:38.719 There you go. 0:34:39.540 --> 0:34:46.020 Injury updates. Brandon Miller didn't play last night. Christian Anderson and, 0:34:46.590 --> 0:34:51.029 of course, Kobe, who suffered the left calf strain the 0:34:51.090 --> 0:34:54.630 other day in practice. We already have the hamstrings of 0:34:54.710 --> 0:34:57.450 Khan and Grant. We're hoping those guys can be back. 0:34:57.890 --> 0:35:00.450 But here we are, Bone. It would not be the 0:35:00.510 --> 0:35:02.680 lead up to a Hornets season. It would not be. 0:35:03.100 --> 0:35:07.000 Hornets basketball time without injuries that we've got to stress 0:35:07.020 --> 0:35:07.580 the heck over. 0:35:07.680 --> 0:35:09.140 Multiple ones. Seriously. 0:35:10.290 --> 0:35:12.930 We don't all focus on one. We all have a 0:35:12.969 --> 0:35:15.330 group of injuries to focus on. And you can't use 0:35:15.390 --> 0:35:16.150 the substation. 0:35:16.190 --> 0:35:19.260 You can't use the Duke Energy substation argument to explain 0:35:19.300 --> 0:35:21.280 their injuries like people try to do with the Panthers. 0:35:21.460 --> 0:35:23.980 Who do we blame, though? The bus depot? Like, what's 0:35:24.000 --> 0:35:24.560 going on over there? 0:35:24.580 --> 0:35:27.060 And we got a new medical staff now. So, yeah, 0:35:27.100 --> 0:35:29.069 what are we— Gotta blame somebody for this. What are 0:35:29.090 --> 0:35:30.170 we blaming for? 0:35:30.190 --> 0:35:34.230 I still can't believe a texter called it straightening camp yesterday. 0:35:34.330 --> 0:35:37.350 That was well played. I mean, I hate— It's so ridiculous. 0:35:37.450 --> 0:35:40.680 I hate that this is where we're at, but that 0:35:40.719 --> 0:35:41.239 is well played. 0:35:41.440 --> 0:35:42.540 That is definitely well played. 0:35:42.600 --> 0:35:47.540 I'd rather miss guys now than say, you know— mid-December, January, February. 0:35:47.580 --> 0:35:49.520 Get them out of the way. Get these things out 0:35:49.540 --> 0:35:49.879 of the way. 0:35:49.940 --> 0:35:52.500 The thing that's interesting with Kobe is that was the 0:35:52.560 --> 0:35:55.340 injury he had last year in training camp and throughout 0:35:55.390 --> 0:35:58.320 the season, and it bothered him after we traded for him. 0:35:58.630 --> 0:35:59.570 Now, it's a different leg. 0:36:00.380 --> 0:36:02.540 Yesterday, I wasn't sure it is a different, it is 0:36:02.580 --> 0:36:05.029 a different calf, but it was a calf strain that 0:36:05.050 --> 0:36:06.930 bothered him all last year was just the other calf. 0:36:07.650 --> 0:36:09.890 So now I got to stress over this dude's calves. 0:36:10.489 --> 0:36:11.850 I mean, I don't want to care about another man, 0:36:11.890 --> 0:36:14.709 grown man's legs this badly, but here I am. It's like, 0:36:14.850 --> 0:36:16.840 is there something to it? Good thing it's not a 0:36:16.840 --> 0:36:20.840 groin injury. Cause you know, I'd be right there stressing 0:36:20.920 --> 0:36:23.680 over it. I'd be worried about that man's groin if 0:36:23.700 --> 0:36:25.400 he can help us win games in Charlotte. 0:36:25.719 --> 0:36:28.120 But Charles Lee said, yeah, we got to kind of. 0:36:28.080 --> 0:36:30.840 Look at that. So I don't know. Are the injuries 0:36:30.930 --> 0:36:33.390 stressing you out? We have got a few texts from 0:36:33.450 --> 0:36:36.950 people today that seem to be way too stressed out 0:36:37.110 --> 0:36:40.450 about getting blown out by the Nets in a preseason game. 0:36:40.989 --> 0:36:44.530 I don't have the energy for that necessarily, Bone. But 0:36:44.730 --> 0:36:50.250 the injury stress... I can probably get into neurotic fan 0:36:50.300 --> 0:36:52.719 mode on that one. How are you feeling? I'm not 0:36:52.820 --> 0:36:55.500 freaking out yet. We have a lot of time to 0:36:55.520 --> 0:36:59.680 stress about those injuries. If they affect the regular season, 0:36:59.719 --> 0:37:03.300 we'll see what happens there. We're stressing about Panther injuries. 0:37:03.680 --> 0:37:06.989 We've got Hornet preseason injuries. I only have so much 0:37:07.110 --> 0:37:11.569 brain room. to stress about injuries in my daily life. 0:37:11.910 --> 0:37:14.870 So there will be a time if the regular season 0:37:15.670 --> 0:37:17.170 is impacted by all these injuries. 0:37:17.610 --> 0:37:18.509 Then I'll freak out. 0:37:18.610 --> 0:37:21.960 But I'm more concerned about the Panther injuries than what 0:37:22.260 --> 0:37:24.100 the Hornets have going on right now. 0:37:24.120 --> 0:37:25.120 Oh, yeah, obviously. 0:37:25.140 --> 0:37:26.560 So there might be a time and a place when 0:37:26.600 --> 0:37:29.440 I go into freak-out mode, but I'm trying to remain calm. 0:37:29.800 --> 0:37:32.870 We've been through this before. Everybody relax. We're going to 0:37:32.890 --> 0:37:35.469 be all right. Say it with me. We're going to 0:37:35.489 --> 0:37:37.070 be all right. Keep cool, my babies. We're going to 0:37:37.090 --> 0:37:37.689 be all right. 0:37:38.050 --> 0:37:42.430 This is Bone telling everybody in this town to stay strong. 0:37:42.450 --> 0:37:44.770 To stay strong right now. It doesn't feel like there's 0:37:44.830 --> 0:37:47.280 anything that's like, I hate, I'm not going to say it. 0:37:47.290 --> 0:37:47.850 I can't say anything. 0:37:48.590 --> 0:37:50.049 There's nothing that's long-term here. 0:37:50.090 --> 0:37:52.270 Oh, no, there isn't. There definitely is not. No doubt 0:37:52.310 --> 0:37:57.110 about it. Let's see here. Former Troy Baller says, our 0:37:57.170 --> 0:38:01.670 bugs are cooked this year. People are not taking your advice, Boney. Well, 0:38:01.690 --> 0:38:04.590 there's some people that feel that way, no matter the 0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:06.360 injuries or not. Sweet Cheek says, this Hornets team is 0:38:06.380 --> 0:38:09.060 going to be annoying all year. I want to see 0:38:09.120 --> 0:38:11.739 them with Kobe as a starting point guard. I want 0:38:11.780 --> 0:38:14.460 to see Khan and Brandon and where they take their 0:38:14.500 --> 0:38:18.040 games without LaMelo. They both are talking about the added 0:38:18.100 --> 0:38:22.160 importance of them creating things more than when LaMelo was here. 0:38:22.260 --> 0:38:24.219 I want to see what this group looks like, because 0:38:24.260 --> 0:38:26.989 I think they'd still be a pretty dang solid basketball team. 0:38:27.450 --> 0:38:28.630 It's just, they all got to. 0:38:28.590 --> 0:38:30.030 Get out there. They got to be okay. 0:38:30.350 --> 0:38:31.989 I think if Brandon Miller could be all right with 0:38:32.010 --> 0:38:34.129 that shoulder, knock on wood, I think he is getting 0:38:34.150 --> 0:38:36.730 ready to ball the hell out. When I heard Bone, 0:38:36.790 --> 0:38:40.450 when he described to Wes and Walker how bad that 0:38:40.489 --> 0:38:42.770 shoulder was last year, and I think back to the 0:38:42.810 --> 0:38:45.569 way he played last year, Are you freaking kidding me? 0:38:45.760 --> 0:38:46.050 Yeah. 0:38:46.070 --> 0:38:48.450 If that shoulder is healthy and he's still got to 0:38:48.489 --> 0:38:51.930 lift weights and add strength this offseason, I think the 0:38:51.950 --> 0:38:53.370 dude is ready to make a jump. 0:38:53.550 --> 0:38:54.149 I really do. 0:38:54.170 --> 0:38:56.589 You talk about a dog with toughness. I mean, didn't 0:38:56.630 --> 0:38:59.270 really say a word about the pain level. 0:38:59.290 --> 0:39:00.950 No, just played, man. Make an excuse. 0:39:02.570 --> 0:39:05.089 I think it's going to be look they may not 0:39:05.130 --> 0:39:07.150 win as many games as last year I don't know 0:39:07.170 --> 0:39:09.719 if it'll be in the ballpark I don't know it's 0:39:09.760 --> 0:39:12.040 hard to tell with the Eastern Conference because it does 0:39:12.080 --> 0:39:14.160 appear loaded up but then again there's a lot of 0:39:14.219 --> 0:39:16.980 nights when guys might not play so we just got 0:39:17.000 --> 0:39:19.180 to take it in increments and stretches and maybe not 0:39:19.200 --> 0:39:21.200 look at it in full and say where are they 0:39:21.239 --> 0:39:22.770 going to be in March let's see where they are 0:39:23.230 --> 0:39:26.010 the first two weeks in October then November Eastern Conference 0:39:26.050 --> 0:39:27.590 is loaded but we don't know what that means in 0:39:27.630 --> 0:39:29.900 the long term but I will say the one thing 0:39:29.920 --> 0:39:31.779 I do know, they are going to be a fun 0:39:31.820 --> 0:39:35.660 basketball team. Stylistically, a lot of their games, because they 0:39:35.680 --> 0:39:37.120 are playing a lot of good teams in the East. 0:39:37.140 --> 0:39:38.740 The pace and the launch threes. 0:39:38.880 --> 0:39:41.180 They are going to be a team that may come 0:39:41.239 --> 0:39:43.000 out on the wrong end of it some nights, but 0:39:43.020 --> 0:39:44.980 they're going to score some points. I think they're going 0:39:45.000 --> 0:39:49.620 to be a breathtaking watch. A breathtaking watch. The thing 0:39:49.660 --> 0:39:53.010 with me is, whatever they do this year, you ain't 0:39:53.030 --> 0:39:55.890 seen nothing yet. Chef Jeff will cook. There will be 0:39:55.950 --> 0:39:58.489 a major move at some point, and maybe multiple major moves. 0:39:58.510 --> 0:40:00.730 Maybe it's Carm Anthony Towns at some point. He might 0:40:00.750 --> 0:40:03.629 be out there. Whatever it might be, that one's interesting, too. 0:40:03.650 --> 0:40:06.129 But there is no doubt in my mind they will 0:40:06.170 --> 0:40:08.379 pounce at some point with all these assets they have. 0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:12.080 By the way, Brett Siegel, NBA insider, is reporting that 0:40:12.120 --> 0:40:15.560 the Hornets and Brandon Miller have been talking contract, and 0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:19.160 there could be a $ 200 million-ish contract contract agreed on 0:40:19.239 --> 0:40:22.600 soon he said they're making progress um we used almost 0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:25.480 this whole segment on basketball i wanted to do you 0:40:26.400 --> 0:40:28.990 think i'm you think the hornets injuries are bothering me 0:40:29.340 --> 0:40:32.189 bone and maybe this is the best thing braves fans 0:40:32.210 --> 0:40:34.430 can hear this morning we're talking hornets or the braves 0:40:34.550 --> 0:40:37.390 after the loss last night three to one when you 0:40:37.430 --> 0:40:40.569 lose a sale game it feels devastating but yamamoto is 0:40:40.610 --> 0:40:44.529 an absolute animal um especially in the postseason i feel 0:40:44.550 --> 0:40:48.850 like the braves are done I hope this improves Braves fans' moods, 0:40:49.360 --> 0:40:51.420 and maybe this will turn the series around for you, Bone. 0:40:52.160 --> 0:40:55.560 I think that game was so critical with those two 0:40:55.640 --> 0:40:56.560 aces on the mound. 0:40:56.580 --> 0:40:59.140 What is it, 73% of the team that wins? I 0:40:59.160 --> 0:41:00.939 think it's 73. Wins the game three at a deadline. 0:41:01.000 --> 0:41:03.030 Yeah, I think it's what it is. It's like game 0:41:03.070 --> 0:41:07.150 five in a seven game, obviously, right? And now Dodgers 0:41:07.190 --> 0:41:10.370 have two shots to finish it off. And if the 0:41:10.390 --> 0:41:12.629 Braves were to even win this game, Bone, and with 0:41:12.670 --> 0:41:17.570 what some of their big hitters are not doing right now, Olsen, Acuna, 0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:20.900 Drake Baldwin have all been pretty damn bad in the postseason. 0:41:21.780 --> 0:41:23.960 I just don't see it against the Dodgers. I hope 0:41:24.020 --> 0:41:26.879 I'm wrong, man. Six years now without a home run 0:41:26.920 --> 0:41:29.080 in the postseason for Acuna. It seems kind of wild, 0:41:29.120 --> 0:41:32.029 but that's the stat. He's missed time, but still you 0:41:32.050 --> 0:41:34.410 think that with the amount of games they play in October, 0:41:34.750 --> 0:41:36.870 he would launch one out of the ballpark. As a 0:41:36.910 --> 0:41:40.169 texter points out, stop challenging Acuna in the first inning 0:41:40.190 --> 0:41:43.089 of games. Let those challenges build up a little bit. 0:41:43.130 --> 0:41:43.870 Yeah, that ain't smart. 0:41:43.910 --> 0:41:46.049 You might need them later. The Braves are 0-8 in 0:41:46.090 --> 0:41:51.160 this spot. In five-game series, when they're down 2-1, Since 1995, 0:41:51.160 --> 0:41:52.740 when this format started, they are 0-8. 0:41:53.500 --> 0:41:55.339 So they've never won in this spot. You're right, though. 0:41:55.700 --> 0:41:57.020 Even a win tonight. 0:41:57.300 --> 0:42:00.279 With the Dodgers. Then you've got another bullpen game. You're 0:42:00.320 --> 0:42:01.920 going to win a second bullpen game? I thought last 0:42:02.000 --> 0:42:05.060 night was the game for the series, win or lose 0:42:05.080 --> 0:42:07.779 for the Braves. I'm with you. I think it's over. 0:42:07.820 --> 0:42:09.450 I think my team is done, too, by the way. 0:42:09.610 --> 0:42:12.670 Acuna's right. Not tonight, but the Yankees are cooked as well. 0:42:12.690 --> 0:42:14.529 That would be a shame. That would be a shame. 0:42:14.550 --> 0:42:17.049 Thank you. Jerry Seinfeld meme with the popcorn. What a shame. 0:42:17.070 --> 0:42:19.870 Were you not being serious? And then you have the 0:42:19.890 --> 0:42:22.510 knee situation with Acuna. It's still a problem. 0:42:22.510 --> 0:42:25.170 90 minutes before the game yesterday, Bone, they move him 0:42:25.210 --> 0:42:28.200 from outfield to DH because the knee's not right. He's 0:42:28.219 --> 0:42:32.480 hitting 143 in the playoffs. Baldwin's 130 in the playoffs. 0:42:32.660 --> 0:42:37.339 Olsen's 174. And this Dodger team is a super team. 0:42:37.380 --> 0:42:38.200 How the hell are you going to do that? 0:42:38.219 --> 0:42:39.739 If you had the numbers there before we go to 0:42:39.760 --> 0:42:42.040 break here, get to Darinoka coming up at the top 0:42:42.060 --> 0:42:45.130 of 90 o'clock hour. Mac, it's not always the Otanis 0:42:45.210 --> 0:42:48.400 and the– It is a lot of times Freddie Freeman, 0:42:48.420 --> 0:42:51.500 but it's not always the MVP stars. 0:42:52.020 --> 0:42:55.810 It's the Kike Hernandez. It's the Tommy Edmonds. It's the Muncie's. 0:42:55.870 --> 0:43:00.450 It's these these other guys that just help out the stars. 0:43:00.510 --> 0:43:03.110 And it feels like they win not always because of 0:43:03.190 --> 0:43:06.600 the MVPs, but it's Kike Hernandez, Mac. He's got 17 0:43:06.600 --> 0:43:08.040 career homers in the postseason. 0:43:08.100 --> 0:43:08.540 Yeah. 0:43:08.560 --> 0:43:10.239 Those guys keep them, put them over the top. 0:43:10.260 --> 0:43:10.940 They're clutch. 0:43:11.020 --> 0:43:14.580 They just, your boy Jeter said it yesterday as he 0:43:14.600 --> 0:43:19.089 was looking handsome as always on the TV, Boney. He said, dude, this, 0:43:19.190 --> 0:43:21.290 this Dodger team wins game. It might've been big poppy 0:43:21.310 --> 0:43:23.009 that actually said this. I didn't think he looked quite 0:43:23.050 --> 0:43:26.200 as handsome. He said, Boney, that this, these are the 0:43:26.239 --> 0:43:27.000 games the Dodgers win. 0:43:27.739 --> 0:43:29.040 You know, and it's just tough. 0:43:29.280 --> 0:43:32.060 Braves fans telling me either one of two things. One is, 0:43:32.380 --> 0:43:35.180 we already know we're done, Mac. This ain't damn newsflash 0:43:35.219 --> 0:43:38.509 to us. Other ones are saying the reverse Mac curse 0:43:38.640 --> 0:43:39.780 is the only chance they got. 0:43:40.410 --> 0:43:41.180 So we'll see if it works. 0:43:41.410 --> 0:43:43.810 I am not trying to reverse Mac curse, but if 0:43:43.870 --> 0:43:45.400 it does happen, I would be happy for you. 0:43:45.410 --> 0:43:46.850 Was a cootie at four homers tonight. 0:43:47.310 --> 0:43:50.370 When we come back, one-time friend of the program and 0:43:50.410 --> 0:43:54.299 the station, Dari Noka of ESPN and the SEC Network 0:43:54.700 --> 0:43:57.140 joins us to talk all things college football. 0:43:57.160 --> 0:43:58.380 Sports Radio 92.7 WFNZ.