1
00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,520
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike

2
00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:05,600
Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight

3
00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,920
Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm

4
00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,920
Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for

5
00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,600
Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Fox Sports

6
00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,880
Speaker 1: Radio dot com, or stream us live every night on

7
00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:24,960
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR give this you're listening.

8
00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:25,960
Speaker 2: To Fox Sports Radio.

9
00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:29,360
Speaker 3: Anios.

10
00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:36,040
Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in Side hour three the Jason Smith Show

11
00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,839
Speaker 1: with my bes friend Mike Harmon. He is out tonight,

12
00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:45,080
Speaker 1: Monsey Belangos. My second base friend is in true ass

13
00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,880
Speaker 1: man and not no Hobo night. No, it is a

14
00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,159
Speaker 1: no Hobo night, no hobo, and a no bathroom night

15
00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:52,720
Speaker 1: here at Fox Sports Radio as well.

16
00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,600
Speaker 3: I'm about to go to Poyo Loco. I know it's

17
00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,360
Speaker 3: closer than going to the fifth floor.

18
00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,240
Speaker 1: We walked into work tonight. All the bathrooms are unavailable,

19
00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:03,960
Speaker 1: Well mean unavailable? What do you mean the bathrooms are unavailable?

20
00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,319
Speaker 1: He used the bathrooms. I got to be like Rob Parker.

21
00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,280
Speaker 1: I gotta go back to a Poyo Loco after I

22
00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,400
Speaker 1: bought dinner there at three hours ago.

23
00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,319
Speaker 3: At least you bought dinner about to walk in there.

24
00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:15,840
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well here's the thing.

25
00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,399
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, well you know what, And now I should

26
00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:20,200
Speaker 1: say this because here I got to thank Rob Parker

27
00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,759
Speaker 1: because he and I have this have this thing that

28
00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,200
Speaker 1: we talk about a lot. And I because he goes

29
00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,440
Speaker 1: to he and I both eat Ayloko, right, I love

30
00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:28,120
Speaker 1: ay Loko.

31
00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:28,800
Speaker 5: Uh.

32
00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:31,280
Speaker 1: It's a it's a big it's a big chicken kind

33
00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,720
Speaker 1: of fast food. But the chicken is so good, Jerry.

34
00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:34,959
Speaker 4: I love the chicken, Jerry.

35
00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,160
Speaker 1: And it's a you know, kind of a fast food

36
00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:38,400
Speaker 1: Mexican restaurant.

37
00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:40,560
Speaker 4: And it's about I don't.

38
00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:40,679
Speaker 2: Know, but.

39
00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,319
Speaker 4: Fifty yards away. Yeah, yeah, not even block away.

40
00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,840
Speaker 1: And Rob goes and gets something before the show and

41
00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,480
Speaker 1: comes brings it back to the studio, eats it, and

42
00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,480
Speaker 1: then before he leaves, you know, after a show is over,

43
00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,240
Speaker 1: he goes back and refills his drake because it's a

44
00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:00,000
Speaker 1: free refill play.

45
00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,320
Speaker 4: And I said, Rob, you can't. I said, this is

46
00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:03,720
Speaker 4: why we have inflation, man.

47
00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,720
Speaker 1: Because you you're leaving and going back two hours later

48
00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,079
Speaker 1: just because you have the cup, You're going in to

49
00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,640
Speaker 1: get a refill. And he got he only said he goes,

50
00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:13,799
Speaker 1: I've found a law. Jason, I said, what do you mean.

51
00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,880
Speaker 1: I've found a law. It says it's not three hundred

52
00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,760
Speaker 1: feet from one. If you know, move three hundred feet

53
00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,280
Speaker 1: from where you are when you leave the restaurant, you

54
00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,680
Speaker 1: can go back in. I said, okay, goes, ask me

55
00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:26,560
Speaker 1: how long it is from right here to a boil?

56
00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:28,560
Speaker 4: Look, I go, how long? Three hundred feet?

57
00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,840
Speaker 3: No, I he made that up. He made that up, Monsie.

58
00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,280
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, of course he made that up.

59
00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:35,800
Speaker 5: Jason.

60
00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:36,040
Speaker 1: No.

61
00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,239
Speaker 4: But here's the thing is, I went there to eat tonight,

62
00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,160
Speaker 4: so I have an up. So here's the thing. If

63
00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:41,600
Speaker 4: you need to use the bathroom.

64
00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:42,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna walk in with your car. I can give

65
00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,560
Speaker 1: you this cup. Please, get me a refill and go

66
00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,320
Speaker 1: go in refill. I actually go to the bathroom first, then.

67
00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:49,920
Speaker 4: Get a refill.

68
00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, although I'm not crazy about you bring it

69
00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,720
Speaker 1: into the bathroom. Yeah, there's okay. You'll figure smart.

70
00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:56,680
Speaker 3: You'll figure out.

71
00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,200
Speaker 1: So refill on the soda bathroom and come back. Then

72
00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:00,720
Speaker 1: when I need to go to the bao, I'll bring

73
00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:02,040
Speaker 1: this back, refill and come back.

74
00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,360
Speaker 3: You look at us getting all this soda.

75
00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,440
Speaker 1: Sure you go, Rob Parker, thank you for that idea.

76
00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:07,800
Speaker 1: I didn't think i'd get to use that. Now I'm

77
00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,440
Speaker 1: gonna go back and say done, say Rob Parker, so

78
00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:11,800
Speaker 1: I can come back and get a refall. Oh, by

79
00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:12,959
Speaker 1: the way, what's a combo to the bathroom?

80
00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,680
Speaker 4: Please? Thank you? One, two, three, four five, thank you?

81
00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,280
Speaker 5: You're gonna be like is that that man that always

82
00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,160
Speaker 5: comes back three hours later, three.

83
00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,959
Speaker 3: Times a week? Yes, that is exactly him, ma'am.

84
00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,560
Speaker 1: So really quick, a little bit more on the Lebron

85
00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,760
Speaker 1: story before we get to the NCAA tournament. Is that Look,

86
00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:32,200
Speaker 1: it's going to happen, right, There's so many bits of

87
00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,080
Speaker 1: evidence that are pointing to Lebron's unhappiness with the Lakers,

88
00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,160
Speaker 1: and and just the signs he wants to throw out there. Oh,

89
00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,360
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a welcome home hat all around Cleveland. Oh

90
00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,680
Speaker 1: it's not a message, it's my new company. Oh right,

91
00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:45,760
Speaker 1: because you knew that wearing a welcome home hat. I

92
00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:47,560
Speaker 1: didn't know there was going to start such a controversy.

93
00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,080
Speaker 1: Come on, Lebron, Like he thinks we're stupid, right, Like

94
00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,440
Speaker 1: he thinks we're stupid. Of course, wearing a welcome home

95
00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,600
Speaker 1: mat working out on the fourth of July at the Cavaliers, practicability,

96
00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,680
Speaker 1: not sending Deondre eight, and to welcome to the Lakers

97
00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,680
Speaker 1: text of itself, all these things, okay, but when they're

98
00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,200
Speaker 1: all together, you know he's not happy. And it's just

99
00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:08,360
Speaker 1: right now, it's it's an escalation of the game he's

100
00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,480
Speaker 1: playing with the Lakers. The Lakers want him to ask

101
00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:12,760
Speaker 1: for a trade. He wants the Lakers to say, we're

102
00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,120
Speaker 1: gonna trade you. They're all fed, they're fed there. The

103
00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,560
Speaker 1: Lakers are saying, we'll play this out. We are daring

104
00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,159
Speaker 1: you to ask for a trade. You opted in for

105
00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,720
Speaker 1: fifty two million dollars. That screws us from going out

106
00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:23,880
Speaker 1: and getting other players that we really want to put

107
00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,520
Speaker 1: around Luca. So now we're gonna wait, We're gonna dare

108
00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,560
Speaker 1: you to ask. We're gonna do so many things, just

109
00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,520
Speaker 1: dare you to say, Okay, okay, you guys win, trade

110
00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,560
Speaker 1: me away and trade me back to Cleveland, which is

111
00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:34,440
Speaker 1: where he's gonna want to go.

112
00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:36,440
Speaker 3: And you know what the Lakers are gonna do, not

113
00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:37,400
Speaker 3: trade them to Cleveland.

114
00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,400
Speaker 1: Well, he's got the note trade. So he's him and

115
00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:42,880
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal. Well, Bradley Beal the only one.

116
00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,280
Speaker 3: The Lakers still have a lot of leverage.

117
00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,239
Speaker 5: They do have a lot of leverage because it's like, what,

118
00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,080
Speaker 5: what does a new ownership have loyalty wise to Lebron?

119
00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:52,360
Speaker 4: Yeah?

120
00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,480
Speaker 5: No, they are not big fed zero right, So if

121
00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,600
Speaker 5: the Lakers wanted to play hardball, they absolutely can't. It's like, okay,

122
00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,159
Speaker 5: you want to trade, great, so we're gonna trade you

123
00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:05,680
Speaker 5: to the Knicks. Nicks have always been I feel like

124
00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,279
Speaker 5: a team that people are floating around that Lebron could

125
00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:08,479
Speaker 5: go to.

126
00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:09,560
Speaker 4: Well, he's always wanted to play it.

127
00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,520
Speaker 3: He's always wanted to, so that's one.

128
00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:13,919
Speaker 5: You know, people want to float the Mavericks just for

129
00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,560
Speaker 5: funzies make a trade there, and uh, I feel like

130
00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,080
Speaker 5: the Lakers could do that. Once he says trade me, obviously,

131
00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,080
Speaker 5: I agree Cleveland is the only team, the only team

132
00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,400
Speaker 5: he could go to to kind of wrap up.

133
00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,280
Speaker 3: His career because what have you done for me lately?

134
00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,400
Speaker 5: When you think about Lebron, like the last couple of

135
00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,000
Speaker 5: years of his career, it's been underwhelming. You could even

136
00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,200
Speaker 5: argue going to the Lakers was not a great decision

137
00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,920
Speaker 5: for him. But if he goes back to Cleveland, even if,

138
00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,680
Speaker 5: like you said, even if he doesn't win it wraps

139
00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,400
Speaker 5: up the career and it leaves you with a positive

140
00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:49,400
Speaker 5: opinion of Lebron.

141
00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:57,440
Speaker 3: If he goes somewhere else, then his thoughts he can't

142
00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:57,760
Speaker 3: do it.

143
00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,400
Speaker 5: But if he's thinking that he could still be a

144
00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,480
Speaker 5: number one and that he can actually take a team

145
00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,240
Speaker 5: in the playoffs, like you said in the last hour,

146
00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:06,520
Speaker 5: if you missed it, you got to turn it into

147
00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,520
Speaker 5: the podcast. Like you said, he thinks that once you

148
00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,040
Speaker 5: get to the playoffs, it's him that's gonna drive you,

149
00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:13,600
Speaker 5: take you to the championship.

150
00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,760
Speaker 3: Then, like you, he's he has a.

151
00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,480
Speaker 5: Misconception of what he's capable of doing in his age

152
00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:21,120
Speaker 5: right now.

153
00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:25,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, and to think that, Okay, there's other out there's

154
00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:27,800
Speaker 1: other place from DeLand. Now, I think there's a reason

155
00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,360
Speaker 1: why what you're seeing is happening in Cleveland, right He's not. Oh,

156
00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,880
Speaker 1: I'm just in New York taking in Broadway plays, wearing

157
00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,880
Speaker 1: a welcome Home hat or wearing an I Love New

158
00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,080
Speaker 1: York shirt you can buy on the corner for like

159
00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:39,800
Speaker 1: two ninety nine.

160
00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:40,320
Speaker 3: No, I've just.

161
00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,320
Speaker 1: Happened to be in New York. Why are you working

162
00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,279
Speaker 1: out at Madison Square Guard? And I've always loved Madison

163
00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:44,760
Speaker 1: Square Guard.

164
00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,479
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. Not there's a reason why.

165
00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,520
Speaker 1: He's like, he wants, Okay, this is where you're gonna

166
00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,560
Speaker 1: send me, and this is where it's gonna work. And yes,

167
00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,720
Speaker 1: it does get difficult. He think it can't get difficult.

168
00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,200
Speaker 1: Just go to the NBA trade machine on ESPN and

169
00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:57,279
Speaker 1: try to put into Lebron James trade to Cleveland, and

170
00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,000
Speaker 1: you get rejected every single time.

171
00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,520
Speaker 4: Right, Oh, it's not working, not working, not.

172
00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,800
Speaker 1: Where, he seriously, and they explain it to you too,

173
00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,479
Speaker 1: Like I love how in depth they get with why

174
00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,320
Speaker 1: the Lebron Okay, this trade won't work, right, Like Lebron

175
00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,680
Speaker 1: James traded for Evan Mobley won't work because okay, you

176
00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,560
Speaker 1: got to add a player here and do this now

177
00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,480
Speaker 1: the trades for Lebron. The Cavaliers are not going to

178
00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:20,280
Speaker 1: want to trade so many players away to get Lebron in.

179
00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:22,960
Speaker 1: They know they're gonna have to give something up and

180
00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,680
Speaker 1: to make it work, it's probably going to have to

181
00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:30,920
Speaker 1: be centered around potentially Evan Mobley, Darius Garland, something else.

182
00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,160
Speaker 1: But the Lakers would also give something else back. Dalton connect.

183
00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure they would wind up giving him bag. We'll

184
00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,840
Speaker 1: get you and Bronny and Dalton connect, so it would

185
00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,000
Speaker 1: be the Lakers get The Lakers would get a really

186
00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,320
Speaker 1: good player, right, and these are the guys that the

187
00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,400
Speaker 1: salaries are closest to make a match in Mobley and Garland,

188
00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,560
Speaker 1: but they would get stuff back. The Lakers have to

189
00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:52,680
Speaker 1: overpay a little bit to move on from Lebron, but

190
00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,120
Speaker 1: this can happen. It can also happen if you involve

191
00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:56,840
Speaker 1: a third team or a fourth team. And I'm sure

192
00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,840
Speaker 1: if Lebron is like, no, involve eighteen because I want

193
00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:02,160
Speaker 1: to be involved in the biggest trade ever. I don't

194
00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,280
Speaker 1: want KD and the seven team to be the most.

195
00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:06,880
Speaker 1: I want to be get ten teams involved. I want

196
00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:07,920
Speaker 1: ten teams involved.

197
00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,280
Speaker 5: So you can add that to his list of accomplishments

198
00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:12,640
Speaker 5: in his argument, than j I was.

199
00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,080
Speaker 1: Involved in the biggest trade ever. Make it happen, make

200
00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,000
Speaker 1: it out so you can do it. Yes, it's difficult,

201
00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:23,040
Speaker 1: but it's not impossible. The big question is going to be, Okay,

202
00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:26,200
Speaker 1: how badly do the Cavaliers.

203
00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:26,840
Speaker 4: Want Lebron James right?

204
00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,040
Speaker 1: Do they want him bad enough to say, okay, we're

205
00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:32,080
Speaker 1: okay with partying with Evan Moble, who's a terrific young player,

206
00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,760
Speaker 1: or potentially Garland and something else, a couple of pieces

207
00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:37,720
Speaker 1: out of their rotation, like how much do you think

208
00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:39,559
Speaker 1: you're close enough to him winning? And this is where

209
00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,600
Speaker 1: I'm sure Lebron is going to back channel the hell

210
00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,559
Speaker 1: out of this, and the Cavaliers have to sit back

211
00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,120
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, we had this rotation a year ago,

212
00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,720
Speaker 1: and it's not like we came one game shot, like

213
00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,200
Speaker 1: we lost in Game seven of the NBA Finals. We

214
00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,800
Speaker 1: got ushered out of the playoffs after a huge regular

215
00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:57,440
Speaker 1: season where the best team in the conference, with the

216
00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,520
Speaker 1: best offense, we got ushered out by the Pacers and

217
00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,560
Speaker 1: it wasn't even a competitive series really. So I think

218
00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,440
Speaker 1: if you're the Cavaliers, they're a little bit closer to

219
00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,840
Speaker 1: saying let's go for it with Lebron than they ever

220
00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,720
Speaker 1: would be, because if Lebron goes back there, it's not

221
00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:13,520
Speaker 1: gonna be a one.

222
00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,040
Speaker 4: And done year.

223
00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,400
Speaker 1: Lebron clearly has more than one year left. I'm sure

224
00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,880
Speaker 1: he would get there, he would rip up his contract.

225
00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:21,480
Speaker 1: It would be a two year deal or a year

226
00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,280
Speaker 1: in an option, because he looks like he could probably

227
00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,959
Speaker 1: play at this kind of level for another two or

228
00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,640
Speaker 1: three years. I don't see him he's not at a

229
00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:30,720
Speaker 1: falling off the cliff part. He's still a top tennis

230
00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:32,880
Speaker 1: player in the league. Now he's someone that gets his

231
00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,400
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't make his teammates better like he

232
00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,960
Speaker 1: used to, but he's someone that now doesn't need to.

233
00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,640
Speaker 1: He can just fit in and be the go to guy,

234
00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,040
Speaker 1: and his leadership and his experience will take the pressure

235
00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,480
Speaker 1: off of all of the younger players. He's gonna say,

236
00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,920
Speaker 1: I want a guy like Donovan Mitchell to be to

237
00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:51,800
Speaker 1: be the number one on this team. He can go

238
00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,400
Speaker 1: to a new destination and play that out and it

239
00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:56,319
Speaker 1: would work. He can't do what the Lakers because the

240
00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,880
Speaker 1: Lakers are saying, well, we're just basically demoting.

241
00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,080
Speaker 4: You, right, but it's not even a demotion.

242
00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:02,280
Speaker 3: He's just taking it that way.

243
00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:04,560
Speaker 1: Well, no, because it's no longer it's kind of demotion

244
00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:06,920
Speaker 1: because the team is no longer run around him. It's

245
00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,440
Speaker 1: run around Luca and we really don't care what you

246
00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:11,840
Speaker 1: have to say about things anyway.

247
00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,559
Speaker 5: He should be like, yes, understandably, so Luka Danci is

248
00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:20,440
Speaker 5: twenty what four twenty five, Like it's like, yes, you

249
00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:21,120
Speaker 5: can look.

250
00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,160
Speaker 3: At it as a demotion, when in reality, it's.

251
00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,240
Speaker 5: Like Lebron, it's the Lakers, and you can be here happy.

252
00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:29,360
Speaker 5: But you're making it. You're making it more complicated than

253
00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,480
Speaker 5: it needs to be. You know, he knew that they

254
00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:33,679
Speaker 5: were acquiring Luca. He was a part of that. He

255
00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,280
Speaker 5: got he gave the okay. So the minute he gave

256
00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,200
Speaker 5: the okay for Luca, what was he expecting.

257
00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,640
Speaker 3: That it was still his team? No, you're no man.

258
00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,240
Speaker 6: He's expecting to walk in and go yes. But I'm

259
00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,920
Speaker 6: Lebron James, and it's great. I'm Lebron James. You can

260
00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,839
Speaker 6: stay here, you can finish your career as a Laker.

261
00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,840
Speaker 6: But obviously Luca is the future. Like I don't know

262
00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:55,560
Speaker 6: why he's being so silly about it, but I'm like,

263
00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:57,160
Speaker 6: I'm looking at the Cavaliers roster.

264
00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,600
Speaker 5: Yeah. No, it has to be something around Evan Mobley

265
00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:05,160
Speaker 5: because the Lakers need some sort of power forward.

266
00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Mobley would fit great, but they would be

267
00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,360
Speaker 1: so the Lakers are so desperate they have to move

268
00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,120
Speaker 1: on from and to try to and I And the

269
00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,440
Speaker 1: thing is is that I don't know there's anybody that's

270
00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,679
Speaker 1: untouchable on the team outside of Luca. Because the Lakers

271
00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,640
Speaker 1: want to build around him. Is Austin Reeves the best

272
00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:24,360
Speaker 1: guy to build around Luca with. I mean maybe maybe

273
00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,360
Speaker 1: not so I think Austin Reeves is someone that Hey,

274
00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,199
Speaker 1: and of course he denied the contract extension this offseason,

275
00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,520
Speaker 1: you can make more next offseason. Lakers may say, well,

276
00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,679
Speaker 1: this is the last year with Austin Reeves. We can

277
00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,920
Speaker 1: maybe sweeten it with Austin Reeves in a deal for

278
00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,200
Speaker 1: this as well. So they want to build around and

279
00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,120
Speaker 1: I guarantee you they have their guys, like they know

280
00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,120
Speaker 1: the one or two guys that are gonna be the

281
00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,760
Speaker 1: one A or the one B that they're gonna go say, Okay,

282
00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:49,840
Speaker 1: we can make these trades to bring this in, but

283
00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,240
Speaker 1: we can't do it until we move on from Lebron.

284
00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,920
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, is Darius Carland is great a fit?

285
00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,640
Speaker 1: Is Evan Mobley? No, especially with Darius Carland position he

286
00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:00,000
Speaker 1: plays and what's going But if they move other players

287
00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,600
Speaker 1: out and they're remaking this team around Luca, they'll do

288
00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:06,280
Speaker 1: that and in the rest of this offseason, and that's

289
00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:10,280
Speaker 1: what really jumpstart the trade season and potentially maybe everybody's

290
00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,320
Speaker 1: waiting for the Lakers to figure out Lebron James.

291
00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,000
Speaker 4: But if you're looking at.

292
00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,320
Speaker 1: The Lakers, there's only one guy on the roster that

293
00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,679
Speaker 1: that you then you're gonna keep that you're building, right,

294
00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,440
Speaker 1: and that's Luca. Everybody else is expendable to bring in

295
00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,600
Speaker 1: what you think you need to win based around Luca

296
00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:26,880
Speaker 1: being your franchise player for the next decade.

297
00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,079
Speaker 5: So what if the Lakers are looking at their roster

298
00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,240
Speaker 5: right now and like you just said, Luca is the

299
00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,720
Speaker 5: only one that is the one they're not willing to

300
00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,480
Speaker 5: part ways with ever. Making all of these moves now

301
00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:40,079
Speaker 5: is kind of risky. It's like, don't you want to

302
00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,440
Speaker 5: see what DeAndre Ayton does? Because that's why I'm wondering

303
00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,920
Speaker 5: if they hold on to Lebron just to see how

304
00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:48,439
Speaker 5: it goes with DeAndre.

305
00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:49,000
Speaker 4: Eight Well, here's the thing.

306
00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,800
Speaker 1: I think Ayton is a guy that they that they

307
00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:53,520
Speaker 1: look at and said, all right, Ayton can come in

308
00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:55,400
Speaker 1: and work. But you saw him already say how excited

309
00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,600
Speaker 1: he is to play with Luca. He loves Luca. Look

310
00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,960
Speaker 1: the same draft class Luca Knee, someone like that. We

311
00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,640
Speaker 1: know he needs the big lawn warner, the lob guy

312
00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:06,719
Speaker 1: to go out the back. So DeAndre Ayton works for

313
00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,360
Speaker 1: the Lakers. Well, now it's a risk, but in theory

314
00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,520
Speaker 1: it could work whether you have Lebron or not. So

315
00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,839
Speaker 1: it's not like, Okay, so DeAndre Ayton's still going to

316
00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,400
Speaker 1: be that big there and they'll fit. They'll figure other

317
00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,160
Speaker 1: stuff out of the front court if they need to,

318
00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,440
Speaker 1: because they will. But like, this is not a move

319
00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:23,720
Speaker 1: that's made. Okay, our team is going to be this

320
00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,040
Speaker 1: year Luca and Lebron and Reeves and now Ayton comes

321
00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:28,840
Speaker 1: in like Eighton's a move that we made that for

322
00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:29,800
Speaker 1: Luca one hundred percent.

323
00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,200
Speaker 5: But I guess what I'm saying is like, since it

324
00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,280
Speaker 5: is such a risk with with DeAndre Eaton, which I understand,

325
00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:36,240
Speaker 5: and I hear what you're saying, that I.

326
00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:37,720
Speaker 3: Should work and it could could work.

327
00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,400
Speaker 5: But if it doesn't and you hold Lebron, then you

328
00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,440
Speaker 5: can use Lebron to get a different player that you

329
00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,679
Speaker 5: weren't planning for once you realize that Ayton is not

330
00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:48,360
Speaker 5: like his personality isn't going to work here.

331
00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:50,959
Speaker 4: Karl Anthony Town, Yes, yeah, Karl Anthony.

332
00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:52,640
Speaker 3: Town, perfectly. That's a perfect example.

333
00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,560
Speaker 1: I'll throw it in nob as well or Bridges. Yeah,

334
00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:56,960
Speaker 1: I'll take Austin Reeves back again.

335
00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:58,040
Speaker 4: I'm good. I'm good.

336
00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll make that trade I get I'll get in

337
00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:01,680
Speaker 1: the NBA trade machine and make what happen.

338
00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:06,520
Speaker 5: So you would take DeAndre Ayton, Austin Reeves and Lebron

339
00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:11,400
Speaker 5: James and Lebron for Karl Anthony Towns and Micl Bridges.

340
00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:12,840
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I would do that.

341
00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,120
Speaker 3: Sure, Yeah, I think you have to throw another one

342
00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:15,439
Speaker 3: in that I do.

343
00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:16,080
Speaker 4: I do that.

344
00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,240
Speaker 1: Now Ayton can't get traded because he just got signed.

345
00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:20,080
Speaker 1: But I but I would take that. I would do

346
00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:20,720
Speaker 1: You would take that?

347
00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:21,200
Speaker 5: Yeah?

348
00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:21,440
Speaker 4: Sure?

349
00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:25,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like the Lakers might

350
00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,240
Speaker 3: want to wait and see see if what they have

351
00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,200
Speaker 3: envisioned is actually going to come to life.

352
00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, but Lebron's not a guy you're going to

353
00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:36,880
Speaker 1: trade at the deadline, right, Like Lebron is a guy

354
00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:38,680
Speaker 1: you're going to trade so you can plan out for

355
00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,760
Speaker 1: stuff for the year. Like Lebron's not Kadi where he's

356
00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,520
Speaker 1: going to walk in. All I need to do is

357
00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:45,120
Speaker 1: just give me the ball when you need to, and

358
00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,200
Speaker 1: I'm just going to be a scorer. Like Lebron needs

359
00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,680
Speaker 1: to handle the ball. He needs to be able to

360
00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:51,080
Speaker 1: score when he needs to, and he needs to be

361
00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:52,880
Speaker 1: able to play off the ball like you need time

362
00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,520
Speaker 1: to to integrate him into what your offensive philosophy is,

363
00:14:56,520 --> 00:15:00,320
Speaker 1: where as a guy like KD, he's just playing, go shoot,

364
00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,320
Speaker 1: go do your thing, like the KD with the rocket's

365
00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:03,480
Speaker 1: gonna be here. You go shoot it.

366
00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:05,360
Speaker 3: Go ahead, here you go shoot, I'll.

367
00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:06,400
Speaker 4: Pass it back to you. No, No, I'm good. I

368
00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:07,400
Speaker 4: passed to you. You're good.

369
00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,280
Speaker 1: You're good. Fred Bavevliet's gonna say, I'm good. I'm cashing checks.

370
00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,760
Speaker 1: I passed to you. Go ahead, KD, You're all good.

371
00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:15,120
Speaker 1: Like it would take longer time, which is why the

372
00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,360
Speaker 1: Lebron trade now closer than we've ever been.

373
00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,320
Speaker 5: I can just envision like KD throwing the ball to

374
00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:23,840
Speaker 5: the rocket at whatever rocket and the rocket just throws

375
00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:24,240
Speaker 5: it back.

376
00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,320
Speaker 3: To yeah, like a potato, and you just envision no,

377
00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:28,520
Speaker 3: you you go, you go.

378
00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, like in teen Wolf when they just passed it

379
00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:31,960
Speaker 1: to Michael J. Fox as the wolf and they watch

380
00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,240
Speaker 1: them just dribble a rout and score.

381
00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,560
Speaker 4: Here you go go ahead, go do it, go do it. KD.

382
00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:40,080
Speaker 1: Good, good exit out about a Fresca exit, Monzie blagya.

383
00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,680
Speaker 1: All right, So great discussion on Lebron. I'm telling you

384
00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,360
Speaker 1: that's how close we are, That's how it can make

385
00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,320
Speaker 1: it happen. I've told you from the beginning, Lebron back

386
00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:51,200
Speaker 1: to Cleveland. Look where we are. But coming up next, No,

387
00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:56,400
Speaker 1: there's been no expansion for the NCAA tournament yet. We'll

388
00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:58,880
Speaker 1: tell you why it's gonna happen and what the best

389
00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,840
Speaker 1: tournament could possible. That's next right here, Jason Smith, Monzi

390
00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:04,160
Speaker 1: Belogno's Fox Sports Radio.

391
00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,680
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

392
00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,800
Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

393
00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:17,040
Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

394
00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,400
Speaker 7: Hey what's up everybody? It's me three time pro bowler

395
00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,600
Speaker 7: LeVar Arrington and I couldn't be more excited to announce

396
00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,720
Speaker 7: a podcast called Up on Game?

397
00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:28,040
Speaker 4: What is Up on Game?

398
00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,640
Speaker 7: You ass along with my fellow pro bowler TJ. Huschman,

399
00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:36,240
Speaker 7: Zada and Super Bowl champion Yup. That's right, Plexico Burus.

400
00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,600
Speaker 7: You can only name a show with that type of

401
00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:39,320
Speaker 7: talent on it.

402
00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:40,440
Speaker 5: Up on Game.

403
00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:44,080
Speaker 7: We're going to be sharing our real life experiences loaded

404
00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,920
Speaker 7: with teachable moments. Listen to Up on Game with Me

405
00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,960
Speaker 7: LeVar Arrington, TJ. Hutschman, Zada, and Plexico Burrs on the

406
00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:57,760
Speaker 7: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

407
00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:02,840
Speaker 1: From Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with Mancia Bolanos,

408
00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:03,720
Speaker 1: and from Mike Harmon.

409
00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:07,240
Speaker 4: It's a no Hobo week here on the show. No Hobo,

410
00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:12,399
Speaker 4: no Hobo, No Hobo Harmon.

411
00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,720
Speaker 1: Though I did text with him today, he is very

412
00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,439
Speaker 1: upset he missed lee Ilia Knight playing Omas lee Ilia

413
00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:20,400
Speaker 1: being Chicago guy and the big Rant day.

414
00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,520
Speaker 4: He is very upset he missed. He missed lee Ilia,

415
00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:23,399
Speaker 4: very upset.

416
00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:24,680
Speaker 5: Uh.

417
00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:26,880
Speaker 1: Now, look before we get into the NHR, we're gonna

418
00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,000
Speaker 1: get into Cooper Flag coming up in about twenty minutes.

419
00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,480
Speaker 1: His big NBA debut tonight. It did not disappoint. I

420
00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:36,359
Speaker 1: don't care that he missed a thousand shots. But the

421
00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:41,400
Speaker 1: Laker you know, Night one in Vegas for the Lakers

422
00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,920
Speaker 1: and Bronni and been playing against Dallas, the big Marque

423
00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,960
Speaker 1: game of the night. Uh, Bronny missing the game winning

424
00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,359
Speaker 1: shot in the final seconds of the game. He still

425
00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,480
Speaker 1: had a pretty good game overall, right, like I thought so.

426
00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,320
Speaker 1: And the thing to remember about Bronni is to have

427
00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,320
Speaker 1: realistic expectations, right, and that's what it's like. Obviously, is

428
00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:04,240
Speaker 1: Lebron's kid, and everybody who has an opinion of Bronnie

429
00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:05,960
Speaker 1: is like, oh, he's no good. He's not as good

430
00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:07,480
Speaker 1: as his dad's. No, of course he's not as good

431
00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:11,000
Speaker 1: as his dad. Of course that happens. But Bronni, to beast,

432
00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,240
Speaker 1: this is a huge year for him because what Bronni

433
00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,600
Speaker 1: needs to do is to be able to show that, hey,

434
00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,359
Speaker 1: I can be a rotation guy. I can be the

435
00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,600
Speaker 1: eighth guy, ninth guys when the second unit comes in,

436
00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:24,880
Speaker 1: I'm coming in and I can be real because look,

437
00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,560
Speaker 1: you can win championships with really good guys and your rotation. Right,

438
00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,000
Speaker 1: Like we talked about the Cavaliers having the best offense

439
00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:33,280
Speaker 1: in the NBA last year, they had nine guys that

440
00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,400
Speaker 1: could score coming right, you talk about the first four

441
00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,520
Speaker 1: off the bench of them. Now, that's not who Bronny's

442
00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,560
Speaker 1: gonna be. Bronni's going to be a guy, and honestly,

443
00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,000
Speaker 1: his ceiling is going to be. Hey, as a rotation guy,

444
00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,920
Speaker 1: he can score a little bit, he can defend a

445
00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,760
Speaker 1: little bit more, he can pass a little bit, he

446
00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,960
Speaker 1: can rebound a little bit. Someone who comes in that's

447
00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,920
Speaker 1: not gonna hurt the team that can hold the fort,

448
00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:57,560
Speaker 1: hold the lead, maybe expand on the lead by a

449
00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,439
Speaker 1: little bit. And that's really who Bronni is. And so

450
00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,120
Speaker 1: far the first couple of games, he's shown that, Yeah,

451
00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:04,440
Speaker 1: I can do that in limited minutes.

452
00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:04,960
Speaker 4: Seah, I can do it.

453
00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,400
Speaker 1: He's not gonna ever play twenty five thirty minutes a game.

454
00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:09,880
Speaker 1: Thirty five minutes a game, but this is a big year,

455
00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,040
Speaker 1: especially if Lebron winds up getting traded, because then all

456
00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,119
Speaker 1: of a sudden, your safety net has gone. But you

457
00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:16,840
Speaker 1: have to show that you can be that guy. And

458
00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,800
Speaker 1: I don't doubt that that's a guy Lebron. He can

459
00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,800
Speaker 1: be great basketball IQ, just someone who when you realize, okay,

460
00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,840
Speaker 1: that's what the ceiling is. That's what Bronni breaking into

461
00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,119
Speaker 1: the league is gonna be as a second round pick. Okay,

462
00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,680
Speaker 1: that's attainable for him. He can be that guy. And

463
00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,040
Speaker 1: if he has a good summer league, in a good preseason,

464
00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:36,680
Speaker 1: he will get a bigger role with the Lakers because

465
00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,160
Speaker 1: everything is open for the Lakers, right they saw, Hey,

466
00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:41,760
Speaker 1: it wasn't good enough last year. Some guys who were

467
00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:43,960
Speaker 1: getting minutes didn't work well enough, specially in the playoffs.

468
00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:45,960
Speaker 1: He wound up losing Bronni got a little bit of

469
00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,399
Speaker 1: minutes here and there, but if he shows growth, guess what,

470
00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna play more. He's gonna play more in the

471
00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,760
Speaker 1: first half, He's gonna play more in the or beginning

472
00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,000
Speaker 1: part of the fourth quarter, and he will be a

473
00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,879
Speaker 1: more regular part of the Lakers rotation. He can do that,

474
00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,520
Speaker 1: but he's got to show it now. It's gonna be

475
00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,160
Speaker 1: another year of okay, he's just not ready. He's gonna

476
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:04,440
Speaker 1: be up and down with the G League. He's not

477
00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 1: gonna play that much yet. We don't feel the need

478
00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,600
Speaker 1: to play him as much because Lebron is not someone

479
00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,359
Speaker 1: where cow towing to anymore. So he's got it. He

480
00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,040
Speaker 1: knows I have to stand on my own right now.

481
00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:16,440
Speaker 1: If I don't stand on my own right now, I'm

482
00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,679
Speaker 1: looking at the next team or somewhere else. Lakers are

483
00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:21,040
Speaker 1: gonna let me go and I play overseas, or I'm

484
00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:22,760
Speaker 1: gonna come back and be in the G League. Like

485
00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,439
Speaker 1: he know this is brown. He's tied, like he's gotta

486
00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,320
Speaker 1: do it now, and so far okay. In the summer league.

487
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, it seems like his game is translating a little

488
00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,240
Speaker 5: bit better now with maybe a year under his bell

489
00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,920
Speaker 5: playing in the G League, because I what I saw

490
00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:39,480
Speaker 5: when I saw him, you know, covering Cooper Flagg today

491
00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:40,640
Speaker 5: playing defense on him.

492
00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,160
Speaker 3: He had a nice step back against him. It looked good.

493
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,919
Speaker 5: There were moments where you're like, hey, he can be

494
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,879
Speaker 5: a good role player. Are we thinking like like TJ McConnell,

495
00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,040
Speaker 5: like off the bench.

496
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 4: Oh, I know about that. He's not gonna be instant offense.

497
00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:54,880
Speaker 4: TJ mcconnells.

498
00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,520
Speaker 1: He before he gets tired after seventeen minutes, just can't

499
00:20:58,520 --> 00:20:59,160
Speaker 1: do it anymore.

500
00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:00,520
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a couple of minutes.

501
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,440
Speaker 5: But like you said, he come off the bench, give

502
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 5: you a few couple of points, consistent points, play some defense.

503
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 3: It's translating a little bit more and more.

504
00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,960
Speaker 5: But yeah, Cooper Flagg was just shockingly already ready for

505
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:13,440
Speaker 5: the NBA.

506
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,360
Speaker 3: That's what it looked like. Yeah at a.

507
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,720
Speaker 5: Nineteen year as a nineteen year old who looks like it,

508
00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,200
Speaker 5: just doesn't play like it. Ye, he definitely from top

509
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,280
Speaker 5: to bottom, was competitive, was aggressive, had a nice dunk,

510
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 5: had a nice block, had a nice transition defense, did

511
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:29,600
Speaker 5: to shoot the ball as well.

512
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,000
Speaker 3: But like you said, you don't care.

513
00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,600
Speaker 5: I want you to be aggressive especially as your debut

514
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,680
Speaker 5: Summer League, and we can't even you can even say

515
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 5: maybe a little bit of.

516
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 3: Nerves, right, excitement that goes for anybody, for anybody.

517
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 4: You know, you doing the show. That's the first time

518
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 4: with me.

519
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,560
Speaker 1: Very nervous, very nervous. You were stilling stuff everywhere, no idea,

520
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:50,880
Speaker 1: you were doing shots between segments. Some of it was tequila,

521
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 1: who was something else? Still the green stuff. You said,

522
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 1: oh you got to try the green stuff, Michel secret stuff.

523
00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 3: Stop Stop. But yeah, no, I I.

524
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,639
Speaker 5: Think Bronnie, you know, thinking about like Lebron and the

525
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,440
Speaker 5: Lakers and Bronnie, it's like, yeah, maybe maybe Lebron leaving

526
00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 5: the Lakers is exactly what Bronnie needs to continue a

527
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:12,119
Speaker 5: career with the Lakers.

528
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:13,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's good to be Hey, it's sink or swim.

529
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 1: You got you really at the show, got a show

530
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: and that's a huge time now for Bronnie.

531
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:19,439
Speaker 4: And he had a big highlight to hit a big

532
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,640
Speaker 4: step back over the game. He's fine so far.

533
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:24,440
Speaker 3: He looked.

534
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,640
Speaker 5: He looked better than I thought I was gonna see

535
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,119
Speaker 5: for for his matchup that they kept, you know, pinning

536
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 5: up against Cooper Flag.

537
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,159
Speaker 1: Now we'll have more on flag coming up in a

538
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 1: few minutes, because I don't know if people understand just

539
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:39,240
Speaker 1: how impressive he was tonight. But uh, no expansion yet

540
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 1: for the NCAA tournament, right, and we know we're going

541
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,360
Speaker 1: to get an expansion in college football and college basketball.

542
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:45,959
Speaker 4: It's inevitable, right, We're gonna get it.

543
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,879
Speaker 1: The quote today out of the out of the meetings

544
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 1: was that, hey, everything is on the table to keep

545
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,119
Speaker 1: the tournament at where we're at right now, to go

546
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 1: to seventy two teams, to go to seventy six teams,

547
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: all of that is on the table now. Eventually, what's

548
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,120
Speaker 1: gonna happen is this before I get to my even

549
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 1: better idea, They're gonna go to seventy two. Right, It's

550
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,639
Speaker 1: gonna happen because it's going to make and every person

551
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 1: you listen to is saying the same thing, and they're right.

552
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: It's all about Television's about television Televionah, of course it's

553
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 1: about television, right course, it is about television ratings, revenue,

554
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 1: and going to seventy two teams is going to allow

555
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,480
Speaker 1: the nca Tournament to basically own the entire week only

556
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: with one night of no college basketball, which is that

557
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: Monday night right selection Sunday, no game Monday, and then

558
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:36,640
Speaker 1: what happens on Tuesday Wednesday, an entire primetime window that

559
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 1: looks like what we see on Thursday and Friday.

560
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 4: We would get we would.

561
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 1: Get eight teams in the primetime window on Tuesday, eight

562
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 1: teams in the primetime window on Wednesday. It would just

563
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 1: start at seven o'clock or eight o'clock on the East Coast.

564
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: But that's basically what happens on Thursday and Friday. We

565
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: get the game starting at noon Eastern all the way through,

566
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: and then you get four late games right, four games

567
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: in the prime time window and later that's what we'll get,

568
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 1: and the NCAA can push that as it's the week

569
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 1: of the NCAA tournament and we have prime time programming

570
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: available to you four days out of five. Of course

571
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen because of that. It makes sense. And

572
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: if they go to seventy two and it works, it'll

573
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: allow them to go to seventy six at some point.

574
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: If they go to seventy six and for some reason

575
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 1: it doesn't work, well I can't believe it's ever going.

576
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: But if it doesn't work, you can't really go back,

577
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: all right, we warning back seventy two, but go to

578
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 1: seventy two and then okay, if that works, well, why

579
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: not seventy six?

580
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 4: Why why not get it?

581
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: Why?

582
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 3: Why why not?

583
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 5: Head?

584
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, why not seventy seven and a half? Why not

585
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 4: do that?

586
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 1: So it's gonna it's gonna happen. It will, they will,

587
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 1: they will figure things out. Right now, this is every

588
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: conference going, okay, how does this work? How does this

589
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: help me? How can I help my conference? How do

590
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: I help what I'm doing best? Everybody wants their piece

591
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: of the pie. If there's this talk about expansion, how

592
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 1: can help my conference the most? And maybe nothing comes

593
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: of it, and it's just we we wind up going

594
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 1: to seventy two teams. But that's kind of where things.

595
00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 4: Are right now.

596
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna come around to the idea, which I'm sure

597
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: they will. There might be some holdouts, so we're gonna say, well,

598
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: maybe if you guarantee that it's going to be a

599
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: Power five conference to get an extra birth or whatever.

600
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 1: Everybody's trying to figure out what can I guse? Just

601
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 1: like politics, where hey we need this bill signed. All right,

602
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 1: well I want this in the bill, and you get

603
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 1: my yes.

604
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:15,479
Speaker 4: Vote right.

605
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 1: We just saw the big beautiful bill thing you got.

606
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,399
Speaker 1: You put this in, you got my vote, put this in,

607
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 1: you put this in, you put this in. So that's

608
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: kind of what's happening right now. Eventually, by the time

609
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 1: when when it comes down to it and it's got

610
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: to be, we sign on it. We'll get a seventy

611
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 1: two team tournament for this April. It will happen this April.

612
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 4: We'll get it.

613
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, this April twenty twenty six, we'll be playing a

614
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,160
Speaker 1: seventy two team NCAA tournament.

615
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 5: I mean, it just seems like you're figuring it out

616
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 5: right now with the sixty eight team. You already want

617
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 5: to expand it. I know it's going in that direction.

618
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 5: I know that you're not wrong, but it's like you're

619
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 5: still if sixty eight is not enough, wasn't enough, seventy two.

620
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 3: Is not gonna be in?

621
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,640
Speaker 4: No, seventy six go to ninety six.

622
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 5: It's every single time there's gonna be those teams that

623
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 5: are on the fringe of making it.

624
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 3: Why not and why not add two more teams? Why

625
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 3: not add another one?

626
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 5: It seems like they're growing too fast, too much, too fast,

627
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 5: you know, too much too fast, like Rachel Greene says

628
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 5: and friends.

629
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 3: Too much, too fast, here's cannot it can backfire.

630
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 1: I feel like here's where I fix everything, right, give

631
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 1: me the This is not my idea, this is this

632
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,719
Speaker 1: is what I'd like to say. There's three hundred and

633
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: fifty three teams playing in college basketball in D one. Okay,

634
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: so just start the season. We know, maybe you figure

635
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:33,400
Speaker 1: out a way.

636
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 4: I don't.

637
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: I don't know where the math works, but you know,

638
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: one plays three fifty three and the winner of that

639
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: game goes on right, and then two plays three fifty two,

640
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: and you play one game a week, and you go

641
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: from three fifty three, you have that. You have it again,

642
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: you have it again. You had a nice two months

643
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: tournament there. You play one game a week, and everybody's

644
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,479
Speaker 1: happy one. Everybody makes it. Everybody's it. One through one

645
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: to fifty three.

646
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 5: I mean, it almost seems like the right way to

647
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 5: go about sixty four.

648
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 1: One, eight, and then two fifty six. So in two

649
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: fifty six then it gets a little bit too it,

650
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: so you'd have to have okay, okay, so you'd have

651
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,959
Speaker 1: the playing games or everybody from two fifty seven okay, okay,

652
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: three or or maybe you have one hundred and fifty

653
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: team playing tournament to get to one versus two fifty six,

654
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: because then you can go one place two fifty six,

655
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,719
Speaker 1: two place two fifty five, and then you go all

656
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: the way through until you get to the two teams

657
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: that are left.

658
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 5: You know that meme of that later, I think if

659
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 5: she might be an actress the meme and it's like

660
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 5: all of this equations around as she's trying to figure

661
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 5: it out.

662
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 3: That's how I feel right now, Okays, as you're giving

663
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 3: me this picture, I'm just like.

664
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 5: Going through all of these math problems that I'm like,

665
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 5: I don't know if we're solving the.

666
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 3: Issue here, Jason, I thought you were gonna solve it.

667
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: No, here's really solve it. No, here's where I really

668
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: solved it. That's what you think about it. They think

669
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: about the Russell Crowe beautiful mind. They're Matt Damon, you've

670
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: lost me. Yeah, okay, you lost me. I have never

671
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: been a fan of the last few years, and maybe

672
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 1: it's because you know, my team doesn't make the tournament anymore,

673
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 1: but I've never been a fan of so many mid

674
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: major tournaments in the NCAA tournament because they just don't

675
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: play the schedule that the big power conferences do.

676
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 4: They choked right in mid majors.

677
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great to think that that and any given Saturday,

678
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 1: Team X can beat Team Y. Right, but you still

679
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: play the regular season to earn your way into the tournament.

680
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, somebody who wins the Horizon League at

681
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: twenty six and three is not as good as the

682
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: eighth best team in the ACC. They would go to

683
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: the ACC and be seven games under five hundred, right,

684
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: So I'm never there's too much push to get the

685
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: mid major teams in. So what I do is this, Hey,

686
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: I think you're doing the wrong thing. We don't get

687
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: sixty eight.

688
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 4: Here's what we do.

689
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: We have two NCAA tournaments. Right, you have the top,

690
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: the elite NCAA tournament that's made up of the ACC,

691
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve, the Big East, and the Big Ten. Right,

692
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: thirty two teams in that NCAA tournament. You take the

693
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: top eight teams. You can take eight teams from each

694
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: of those conferences, right, all the Power all the power conferences. Right,

695
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: you take thirty two teams and that's your tournament. Then

696
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: you have another tournament that's the Mid Major Tournament, and

697
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: you take the best thirty two teams from the Mid

698
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 1: Major tournament, the teams that win their conferences, and then

699
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: you take the rest of the mid major teams and

700
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: they play their own tournament, and you have two tournaments

701
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: going on at once. You don't need the one big

702
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: bloated all kinds of all these teams that know, you

703
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: have the Mid Major Tournament and you and you have

704
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: the Elite Tournament, and you have the top level, you

705
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: have the Power five, the Power four, Power five winner,

706
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: and then you have the Mid Major Tournament. And there's

707
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: two champions. Everybody gets a chance to think I can

708
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: win the NCAA Championship. If you're a mid major team,

709
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: it's not exciting just to get it.

710
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 4: We can win.

711
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: Now, we're winning the second tournament. We're winning the we

712
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: were winning the FCS version of it. That's the FBS

713
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: tournament that the Power five conferences are playing. But have

714
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: two tournaments, and you're gonna make it more than thirty

715
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: two teams if you want to. I just you know,

716
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: the bloating thing. You can have some playing and have

717
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: more of that. That's fine if you want to do that,

718
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: but have two tournaments. You have the big Power Conference,

719
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: the Big the A level tur tournament, and then you

720
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: have the FCS the mid major tournament, and everybody wins,

721
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: and you have two winners. And we can debate, Ah,

722
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: Wichita State would have killed Duke?

723
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 4: Are you kidding?

724
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: Duke would have killed with your time? If you want

725
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: you have two tournaments. There you go. Problem solved. I

726
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: don't know if that solves the problem, Jason, here, it does.

727
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 5: I just solved it because that just points that to

728
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 5: the fact that you don't need that second tournament's gonna work.

729
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 3: Say something there, for sure, they will you answer that,

730
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 3: but it's not.

731
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: You have those games on the on the opposite nights

732
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: of the NCAA tournament, and you have basketball on every

733
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: single night. Right, you could still have the thirty two

734
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: the thirty two team tournaments Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Saturday, Sunday. Meanwhile,

735
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: the other tournaments could be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

736
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 5: You just said that you're not a fan of mid

737
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 5: major teams going into that big field, right, you would

738
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 5: be watching that tournament.

739
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 4: Oh sure, I'm happy with the mid majors having their

740
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 4: own champions. You're I'm happy with.

741
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 3: That, but it proves it's just proving whateveryone's saying that.

742
00:30:58,480 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 3: It's like the field is already too big.

743
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: Watch them on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then you have

744
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: the end. You have the bigger tournament play Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

745
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 5: And then are you gonna have the winner of the

746
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 5: B tournament play the winner of the A tournament.

747
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 3: At the end?

748
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's too early to do the whole

749
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: meshing of the super Bowl, the AFL NFL thing, but

750
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: I would maybe even play the B tournament first. Hey,

751
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: you have the spotlight to yourselves when your tournament finishes,

752
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: then the other one starts.

753
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 5: I just say it puts an emphasis on the fact

754
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 5: that it's like, you guys are not good enough to

755
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 5: play against these guys.

756
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 4: They shouldn't. They shouldn't. The mid major shouldn't be playing

757
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 4: against power five teams. They don't.

758
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: It's not that they're not good enough, it's that they

759
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: don't play the schedule that everybody else does.

760
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, do you know off.

761
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 5: The top of your head, like has a mid major

762
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 5: team won the NCAA tournament.

763
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: Well, Butler went to back to back right to get

764
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: to that was the big thing that was back in

765
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: the mid two thousands. Okay, well they did, and that's

766
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: where the whole mid major thing exploded.

767
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 4: Hey, Butler gets there twice. Let's let more.

768
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: Mid major teams and mid majors have made the Final

769
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: four before they've done this, right, So, okay, I get it,

770
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: but it's still it doesn't It doesn't match like you're

771
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: talking about one game.

772
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 4: Anybody can win, right, anybody can.

773
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: Okay, but prove over the course of the season that

774
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 1: your resume is better, and especially now that anybody with

775
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,479
Speaker 1: the transfer ways things go with transfer portal.

776
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 4: Hey, any anybody who's.

777
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: Playing in a small mid playing in a mid major

778
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: is going to get a big offer from a bigger

779
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: school and.

780
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 4: They're gonna leave.

781
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: So now the mid majors aren't going to be as good,

782
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: even as good as they were, because all the good

783
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: players are going to get a chance to jump. If

784
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: I'm a great player at McNee State and I play

785
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: really really well, yeah.

786
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.

787
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: If I'm playing at Nique State, if I'm playing in Miami,

788
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: Ohio and I have a really great year. Hey guess

789
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: what Michigan or U C l A Is going to say, Hey, no, no,

790
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: we want you here. We got nil money for you,

791
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: come here and come play, And that's going to make

792
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: that that's gonna make the.

793
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 4: The mid majors even weaker. So it makes it makes

794
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 4: more sense that, Hey, that.

795
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 3: Have already.

796
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know if I'm fully on board,

797
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 5: but you're selling it. You're selling it more and.

798
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 4: More a salesman, that's what I am. I got skills just.

799
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 5: Because I feel like what they're trying to do is

800
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 5: not show right that there is this big divide between

801
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 5: the power schools and they don't want you to think that.

802
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 5: By doing that, you're showing that, yes, there's too many people,

803
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 5: there's too many teams in the NCAA tournament as it is.

804
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: Exit, how about a Fresca exit. Monsei belong as we

805
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: are solving problems here on a Thursday night I heard

806
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: of and Monzi's going to solve the problem of Hey,

807
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: what's trending in the wide world of sports?

808
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 4: You have the answer?

809
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 3: I do? I do?

810
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 5: All of the games have wrapped up in a baseball

811
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 5: it looks like the Padres held on to defeat the

812
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 5: Diamondbacks four to three.

813
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 3: Rangers took down the Angels in La eleven.

814
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 5: To four, and the A's walked it off against the

815
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 5: Braves five to four.

816
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 3: But for the A's, not just did they win.

817
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 5: Mason Miller, their pitcher, recorded the fastest pitch of this

818
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 5: season one hundred and four miles per hour. Fastest pitch

819
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 5: of the season goes to Mason Miller and the A's

820
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 5: win at five to four against the Braves in eleven innings.

821
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 5: The Cardinals took down the Nationals eight to one. The

822
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 5: Red Sox came back to defeat the Race four to three.

823
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 5: Boston has not won seven in a row. The Yankees

824
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 5: were down five runs. In fact, Seattle had a no hitter, specifically,

825
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 5: their pitcher, Brian Wu a no hitter going into the

826
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 5: eighth inning against the Yankees. Jode Chisholm Junior broke that

827
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 5: no hitter up and then it was all Yankees from

828
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 5: that point on.

829
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 3: They come back.

830
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 5: They win it six to five on a sack fly

831
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 5: from Aaron Judge. In the tenth inning, Reds blank the

832
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 5: Marlins six zero. The Orioles took both of their games

833
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 5: and their doubleheader against the Mets, and the Cubs had

834
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 5: an eight to one win over the Twins in the NBA.

835
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 3: Okay, so he's giving more money.

836
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 5: They have agreed on a five year MAX extension worth

837
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,280
Speaker 5: two hundred and eighty seven million with Jalen Williams also

838
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 5: in the NBA, but Pelicans ford IRB Joneses agreed to

839
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 5: a three year, sixty eight million dollar extension with the

840
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 5: franchise and a foul news Chargers running back Najie Harris

841
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 5: Apparently he's the state a superficial eye injury during a

842
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 5: fireworks mishap on the fourth of July, but is fully

843
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 5: expected to be ready for the upcoming season of the

844
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 5: NFL and the Scottish Open is happening in golf. Scotti

845
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 5: Scheffler is three under Rory McElroy, two under Becepstraca Jake Knapp.

846
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 5: They share the lead at the Scottish Open of one

847
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 5: six hundred par overall. First round play rapped up back

848
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 5: to us.

849
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: Thank you Monte Jess Coming up next. Cooper flags NBA debut. Yes,

850
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: he hoisted twenty one shots in thirty two minutes and

851
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: didn't make most of them. It doesn't matter. Wait did

852
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,879
Speaker 1: we tell you how impressive he was tonight. That's next

853
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: right here, Jason Smith Monsey in for Mike Fox Sports Radio.

854
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

855
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,720
Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

856
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.

857
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. Moncey Bolango's in

858
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: for Harmon Tonight. Whew, and we watched the debut. It

859
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: isn't new, the debut of Cooper flag into the NBA

860
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: Tonight Summer League against the Lakers. They win by a bucket.

861
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: Not quite the ending that we thought we were gonna get.

862
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: Browny misses a shot that could have won the game

863
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: for the Lakers. But tonight Cooper Flagg's debut for the Mavericks.

864
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: Ten points in thirty two minutes, twenty one shots in

865
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: those thirty two minutes, five makes right, five for twenty one,

866
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: ten points, six rebounds for assists. Afterwards, Mavericks talked about

867
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: the winning plays that he made and here's Cooper Flagg

868
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,439
Speaker 1: his debut. Okay, not a great night, you know, five

869
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: for twenty one from the floor. That doesn't matter.

870
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 4: Okay.

871
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 1: If there was any question anybody had about Cooper Flag

872
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: coming into this, and my question was, Okay, is his

873
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: speed going to be up like the speed he plays

874
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: the game, is that going to run into any sort

875
00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: of difficulty.

876
00:36:58,840 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 4: Clearly wasn't the.

877
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: Case tonight, right, So I was able to make plays

878
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: athletically get out. He was incredibly aggressive. I love the

879
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: fact that he took twenty one shots and you know

880
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: he missed. Okay, that happens, right, But he had some

881
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: really nice makes as well. He almost had an incredible

882
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 1: dunk that would have been the first posterization of his

883
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: NBA career. You watch him on the court tonight, and

884
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: sometimes it's just an eye test and I watch him

885
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: on the court and I go, yeah, that's the best

886
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: player on the court. Yeah, And there's no doubt in

887
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 1: my mind he is the number one option for the

888
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: Mavericks opening nights. Not going to be a case of

889
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: he's going to get into the league a little bit slow,

890
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: or maybe he's a complimentary player, maybe he's a Scottie Pippen.

891
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 1: You watch him on the court, just watch it, go Yep,

892
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: that's the best guy. He's the number one, especially with

893
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,919
Speaker 1: Ad being a low post player and Kyrie Irving being

894
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: out for the first four months of the year. Most likely,

895
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: he's probably not going to come back to the end

896
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: of the year. A Cooper Flag is going to be

897
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: the guy from the jump with Dallas, He's gonna be

898
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: the guy. Hey, get the ball to him, get him

899
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: the shots. They want to excel rate his growth. At

900
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: the same time, he's going to be the number one

901
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: option on the Mavericks opening night and that's going to

902
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: be his NBA career. Just watching him tonight, you go, yeah,

903
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: he fits. He looks like he fits already. He already

904
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 1: is able to back down smaller, better defensive players and

905
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,839
Speaker 1: turn around and get a jumper over them. All right,

906
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: you want to throw a bigger player at him, he's

907
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: going to go around them because he's got the speed

908
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: to do that. Like, he's going to be everything that

909
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: you expect. And I know they wanted to tamp down

910
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: expectations because.

911
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 4: Well, all right, here he is. He's new in the game.

912
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: He's only had one years, you know, nineteen eighteen, nineteen

913
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: years old. No, you could tell right away he's the

914
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: best guy on the floor. And that's how it's going

915
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: to be the opening night for the Mavericks.

916
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, you said it. Exactly right. He passed the eye

917
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 5: test immediately. His buckets weren't falling, his shot was not falling,

918
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 5: but in reality, you felt his presence on the floor.

919
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 5: The Lakers were winning a majority of the game until

920
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 5: the end, and it was really because of his defensive abilities.

921
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 5: He had a nice block off the transition with like

922
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 5: a minute to Goo that led to a Ryan yes

923
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 5: brother of the other and Nemhard from the Pacers. Ryan Emhard,

924
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 5: who then hit a three, ended up being the game

925
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 5: winning bucket, but that happened because of Cooper Flag's transition

926
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 5: defense that led to a block and he shot out

927
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 5: the ball and they got the win. So even though

928
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 5: his shot was not falling, you felt his presence. Like

929
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 5: you said, it didn't matter who was guarding in give

930
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 5: it up to Bronni because in the second quarter Bronny,

931
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 5: who was what like five inches shorter than him, was

932
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 5: guardian Cooper Flag and held his own.

933
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 3: But Cooper Flag is obviously much much taller. But no,

934
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 3: he's he is ready for the NBA right now.

935
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 5: And the fact that he played thirty plus minutes in

936
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 5: the Summer League, like, I like that. I liked everything

937
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 5: that I saw.

938
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not we're gonna we're going to make

939
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: a decision. Okay, you'll play a handful of mats here.

940
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: It's been a big one. No, no, no, and just shoot

941
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 1: go shoot man.

942
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 5: And then they went and again because of his transition

943
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 5: defense in that moment, because the Lakers were up the

944
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 5: whole pretty much the whole game by a few points

945
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 5: here and there, but they were up. And then at

946
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 5: the end, it was when Cooper Flag was like, oh,

947
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 5: there's one minute to go, I gotta do something. Let

948
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 5: me go block this right now.

949
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, there's so many ways he can have it.

950
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 3: Can be effective.

951
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,240
Speaker 1: There's so many ways you can do it defensively, rebounding, passing,

952
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: being able to pad the pass, the pass he's going

953
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: to be able to complete across the court because of

954
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: his vision and his power, Like there's no reason to tamp.

955
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 4: There's a reason why he was a number one.

956
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: Overall pick for a reason, and he was the best

957
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: guy we've seen in a few years. He's transcendent. Then

958
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: he's the number one option on the Mavericks beginning opening night.

959
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: That's eighteen coming up next, a Tom Brady story.

960
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 4: I never thought we'd do. Fox