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Speaker 3: Joe during the MAVs karaoke cam during the time out
Speaker 3: of fan mile.
Speaker 2: Fire Nico that quickly booted him from the arena.
Speaker 3: This was the first time of fans had been shown
Speaker 3: on video since the trade. Fans booed as the guy
Speaker 3: was escorted out of the arena.
Speaker 2: Is that the right way to handle this?
Speaker 1: Oh man?
Speaker 2: The show?
Speaker 1: I think no?
Speaker 2: Wait wait is it the right way to handle it
Speaker 2: for who the fan? Or then is that the right
Speaker 2: way for the maverage to handle it? Ohe absolutely not. Listen,
Speaker 2: fans come to a game. They able to express themselves
Speaker 2: based on decisions that have been made. You know he
Speaker 2: did he didn't yell profan He didn't. He didn't yell sentities.
Speaker 3: It wasn't It wasn't like you know what I'm saying, O,
Speaker 3: Joey wasn't anything like no racial All he said was right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that should get you kicked out of the retough job, sock.
Speaker 1: Shoudn't get you kicked out. But you're just enjoy a game.
Speaker 1: You're there, You're there to enjoy a game. You're there
Speaker 1: to have fun.
Speaker 3: I keep saying that, keep saying College Nico Harrison, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: Chato Harrison.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then listen that there's a no tolerance policy.
Speaker 1: I think fans need to under understand and respect not
Speaker 1: only the players.
Speaker 2: But but other other authority as well. You know, go
Speaker 2: there if if you if you're not pleased with them.
Speaker 1: We understand your displeasure with certain individuals based on decisions
Speaker 1: that they made. You just there's certain things you can't do.
Speaker 1: It's like you know, when you get pulled over by
Speaker 1: the cop and just because you know the law, you
Speaker 1: want to challenge authority or you want to curse or
Speaker 1: you want to prove you know, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, you upset, Yeah, you upset, But would happen
Speaker 5: and would you know, Luca Luca Leving go to the game,
Speaker 5: enjoy it.
Speaker 1: You see him, give me a little quick boot, you know, boom,
Speaker 1: don't buy you enjoy the game.
Speaker 3: But I think when you when you handle it this
Speaker 3: way now, you invite more people to be this word.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all I said was Minico co Harrison.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's an offense that should get me
Speaker 3: thrown out of the game. If i'm rather if you're
Speaker 3: yelling at the sentities, if I'm yelling racial stuff, if
Speaker 3: it is profane, I get it. But that's all he
Speaker 3: said was fired Nicole Harrison. That's not that's not an
Speaker 3: ejectable offense.
Speaker 2: Now they have to take it.
Speaker 3: They've had to add extra security to this man to
Speaker 3: and from watching his own because of the threats. That's
Speaker 3: too far. That's taking it too far. I get it
Speaker 3: you're upset, but to put threats on the man's life
Speaker 3: and his family's life, that's going too far. So right,
Speaker 3: I get I get the precaution that the Mavericks are taking,
Speaker 3: but I can't get down with that because all he
Speaker 3: said was fire Nico Harrison.
Speaker 2: And the man that is talked from Merina And you
Speaker 2: know what, Well, cracking your window it always starts small.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you don't fix it, if you're don't set
Speaker 1: a president early, that crack, it gets bigger and bigger
Speaker 1: over time. So now you're talking about he just said
Speaker 1: fire Nico, and that's all he said you know that
Speaker 1: small crack will continue to get bigger and bigger because
Speaker 1: other people are going to see that. So they're doing
Speaker 1: as they jumping the gun. You know, we need to
Speaker 1: get on top of this now before this small crack
Speaker 1: eventually turns a little bit bigger and it gets out
Speaker 1: of control.
Speaker 3: But hey, once you go there, Look, we asked God,
Speaker 3: we ask everybody to be respectful, blah blah blah, and
Speaker 3: once he yeah, once he yeahed at the first You know, Miles,
Speaker 3: that the first time, just paying off it. You remember
Speaker 3: how they used to show it every time when Streakers
Speaker 3: would run on the field, A guy and women would
Speaker 3: left the shirtle and they were just stay on it.
Speaker 2: Now they just hey, they just cut away. We're not
Speaker 2: gonna give you no TV time.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna let you have your little five seconds,
Speaker 3: your fifteen seconds of fame.
Speaker 2: We're just gonna move on.
Speaker 3: I think for me, I think that would have been
Speaker 3: the proper way to handle it. But hey, the Mavericks
Speaker 3: did what they did. I don't agree with it. As
Speaker 3: a matter of fact, they just ejected a team a
Speaker 3: Red John's dead out of the game because he said
Speaker 3: something to an official.
Speaker 2: I guess I.
Speaker 3: Could be wrong, but I think I'm praying for it,
Speaker 3: and I think said y'all on the take or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: You have to be careful, you know, when you say
Speaker 2: stuff like that with officials.
Speaker 3: That's a very very touchy subject, especially when gamblings evolved.
Speaker 3: But this, this is not even close for me, Chad.
Speaker 3: Let me know what you guys think as an ejection,
Speaker 3: little offense. Kevin Rand is still with the Phoenix Suns
Speaker 3: and ready to get back on the court after last
Speaker 3: week's the event for trade deadline full of speculation. It's
Speaker 3: just part of the business. Everybody's bought and sold in
Speaker 3: this league. Anybody came up for option, so I understand.
Speaker 3: It's just about getting back on the court and trying
Speaker 3: to go out there and play the game that I love.
Speaker 2: It's part of the business.
Speaker 3: Though, we've all got to understand that the Sons ended
Speaker 3: up having a relatively quiet trade deadline, dealing only Disgruntel
Speaker 3: center U sapt Nurgic to the Hornets, but keeping the
Speaker 3: rest of the court intact. The team's big three, the
Speaker 3: rat Book and Bradley Bill is still together as the
Speaker 3: franchise tries to gain traction. Understanding, Oh Joe, you agree, disagree,
Speaker 3: Like what Katie said.
Speaker 1: I like what Katie said. Obviously he feels that every everyone,
Speaker 1: everyone is expendable at this point. And I think I
Speaker 1: don't think Katie would have said anything like that if
Speaker 1: he hadn't seen a deal that happened with Luca. Don't
Speaker 1: because he would even the utter those type of words.
Speaker 1: But now seeing that they were able to get rid
Speaker 1: of Bluego, despite how good he was, I think that's
Speaker 1: why he said what he said. Anytime, anytime Katie was
Speaker 1: on the move, it's because he wanted it. It's because
Speaker 1: he wanted it. You know, he said, you know, he
Speaker 1: was displeased with the issue or with the with the
Speaker 1: with the turmoil and chaos that was.
Speaker 6: Going on around him.
Speaker 1: You know what I want to make a move.
Speaker 2: Him gonna move was whether it was the Warriors, whether
Speaker 2: it was God damn. Okay Okay.
Speaker 3: So he's like, yeah, I want to move on, well
Speaker 3: within his right, well within his right. The Warriors you mentioned,
Speaker 3: he was there, he wasn't happy. A part of that
Speaker 3: for me, A part of it, Uh, The Warriors was
Speaker 3: new addition, Johnny, Bobby Rick and Mike.
Speaker 2: They were the original Johnny gil.
Speaker 6: Could I say them all, yeah, because he didn't grow
Speaker 6: up in Rosbury and Boston, right, so he was never
Speaker 6: going to be accept it like those like Trade Clay
Speaker 6: and Steph excuse me, Steph Clay and and Draymond Right,
Speaker 6: we know what kad a.
Speaker 3: Seven foot walking bucket, Yes, fifth Rage, can get to
Speaker 3: shoot the three you follow him ninety percent of his shot,
Speaker 3: can play with his back to the basket, can put.
Speaker 2: The ball in the playoff.
Speaker 3: We've never seen a guy film foot's tall, head of
Speaker 3: the ball and be able to do what he does.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: But he's like, you know what, I'm gone. He goes,
Speaker 3: he goes to Brooklyn and seems like, man, I'm gone.
Speaker 3: So once you leave, it's easier for you to do
Speaker 3: it again. It's just like, oh Joe, it's just like
Speaker 3: somebody get divorced. A lot of time when people get divorced,
Speaker 3: you see a person with multiple divorces because once you
Speaker 3: leave the relationship, it gets a lot easier to leave.
Speaker 2: The next relationship, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's another thing. And now I'm gonna take it
Speaker 1: to sports. Once you see someone getting knocked out the
Speaker 1: first time, you know how much easy it is, and
Speaker 1: to get knocked out of here. Yes after that three yes,
Speaker 1: So subconsciously it's already there.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, make it happen a lot faster. So so KD
Speaker 2: just wants to play basketball.
Speaker 3: That's what he is. He's a professional basketball player. He
Speaker 3: works on his craft extremely hard. You don't get this.
Speaker 3: You don't play as long as he's played being as
Speaker 3: good as he is without working on his craft. All
Speaker 3: that other stuff. He let Rich Kleiman do what he does,
Speaker 3: had his business stuff. KD just wants to focus on
Speaker 3: basketball on the court, and so he understands the business
Speaker 3: of the game, just like he was a business He
Speaker 3: was a free agent. He went the Golden State. He
Speaker 3: became a free agent again. He went to Brooklyn. He's like,
Speaker 3: you know what, the situation is getting out of hand.
Speaker 3: I don't think we can win here. I want to
Speaker 3: go somewhere else. But he handled such a way. He
Speaker 3: didn't make a whole lot of noise. He didn't call,
Speaker 3: you know, misspractice, or be laid, or start by the
Speaker 3: shooter rant or shoot a round. His representatives say, look,
Speaker 3: I would like to be moved, get what you can
Speaker 3: for me, and this you know this. They did a
Speaker 3: ma solid. He wanted to go to philis. They put
Speaker 3: him in faded. But see that's because of the person,
Speaker 3: the man, the player that he is. He's been very
Speaker 3: respectful how he handled it. They accommodated it a lot
Speaker 3: of times. Like where you want to go, Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna see you do the opposite place you want to
Speaker 3: go to Heaven?
Speaker 2: Hell it is yeah, bust.
Speaker 3: General manager John Horse said trading franchise cornerstone Chris Middleton
Speaker 3: after twelve season in Milwaukee was the hardest transaction he's
Speaker 3: made started, but did so to maximize the window for
Speaker 3: a championship. It's still the awesome responsibility to try to
Speaker 3: take this franchise and maximize them the window that we
Speaker 3: have now as best we can what we think gives
Speaker 3: us the best chance to win and figure out how.
Speaker 1: To continue winning going forward.
Speaker 3: There's a very narrow set of opportunities that we felt
Speaker 3: that we could do that, and this is one of them.
Speaker 2: Milwaukee traded Middleton and rookie guard A. J.
Speaker 3: Johnson and it picks walk to Washington and exchange for
Speaker 3: Kyle Kuzma.
Speaker 1: Patrick Baldwin Junior had a second round pick.
Speaker 3: Before last week's trade deadline, the Bucks also acquired center
Speaker 3: Jericho sims for the New York Knicks as part of
Speaker 3: the deal. Ocho, the executive, said it was the hardest decision,
Speaker 3: one of the hardest decisions had to make.
Speaker 2: I heard that's I heard that before too. Huh. Then
Speaker 2: we hear that from someone who's who's who sits?
Speaker 1: Who sits to one of the higher seats for the
Speaker 1: Giants Joe Jones was one of the hardest things for
Speaker 1: him to do, but they still did it. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure in that case it was for the betterment
Speaker 1: of the team. Do you think this situation and letting
Speaker 1: Chris Midleton go was from the betterment of the team
Speaker 1: in the future and giving them their best chance at
Speaker 1: a trophy or competing for one.
Speaker 3: I think the injury that uh, the injury. They didn't
Speaker 3: think that. It comes down to Joe, Do I believe
Speaker 3: then I can count on you long term moving forward,
Speaker 3: and so I make your decision. When somebody tells you
Speaker 3: that you know your parents, you'll tell you this is
Speaker 3: gonna hurt I got I'm finished.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell your ass up. But it's gonna hurt
Speaker 2: me more than her hurt.
Speaker 3: If I don't want you to be hurt and I
Speaker 3: damn sure don't want me to be hurt.
Speaker 2: What's the bull job is that?
Speaker 1: Hey boy, my grandma used to get catch me with
Speaker 1: that boy and junior high you know, in my.
Speaker 2: Early day in high school and getting in trouble.
Speaker 3: It's gonna hurt me more than hurt you. Well, I
Speaker 3: don't want you to hurt it. Why are you doing it?
Speaker 3: Don't hurt I don't want you. I definitely don't want
Speaker 3: to hurt It's some y'all with that and that's what
Speaker 3: that's what exists. Oh you know this, this hurts me
Speaker 3: to bad. Stop uh now you know I honestly if
Speaker 3: it was a situation where and that's what if you
Speaker 3: go back and look at it, that's what made coach
Speaker 3: Belichick so good, and that's what really hurt him, and
Speaker 3: that's what her tall because coach realizes, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Have to make a very tough decision one day.
Speaker 3: The closer I get to a player, the harder it
Speaker 3: is for me to do my job. This is why
Speaker 3: in the military they I don't know if they still
Speaker 3: have it, but higher ups messing with lord subbordinates because
Speaker 3: they cloud the judgment. Now, I don't want to put
Speaker 3: you in hard way because I feel some type of
Speaker 3: well about you, Yes, sir, So that's why they don't
Speaker 3: like that. They you know, if you are higher up,
Speaker 3: you can't mess with it subordinate because you're in a
Speaker 3: position of authority and you are over that person. And
Speaker 3: so when you got to send somebody out to go
Speaker 3: do battle, you got to send them out of the battle.
Speaker 2: Well, if that's your little boot thing or that's your
Speaker 2: wou now.
Speaker 3: You think here with me, let me get let me
Speaker 3: get letting that job.
Speaker 2: If you get hurt, you stay right over here with
Speaker 2: me right over here. That ain't how it works.
Speaker 3: And so when you're dealing with and so that's why
Speaker 3: you have to keep a motion out of it.
Speaker 2: That's why you can't can't.
Speaker 3: Get too close, because the closer you are to an individual,
Speaker 3: the hard it is it is for you to part
Speaker 3: with said individual, right And so you know, and maybe
Speaker 3: maybe maybe it is I behave I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I've never been in a situation.
Speaker 3: Where I had to make a very very tough decision
Speaker 3: where you've been with someone for an extended period of
Speaker 3: time and you've won together, You've accomplished so much together
Speaker 3: excuse me, and it comes to a point in time
Speaker 3: where you have to let said individual go. I'm sure
Speaker 3: that's not an easy thing to do. But uh but
Speaker 3: like you said, at the end of the day, oh Joe,
Speaker 3: no matter what I think of an individual, I still
Speaker 3: have an obligation to be owner that pays my salary
Speaker 3: to the fair race, to be to put the best
Speaker 3: product on the floor in order to win a championship.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I understand it. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: the best product on the floor to achieve their end goal,
Speaker 1: but so be it.
Speaker 2: Oh show.
Speaker 3: The Lakers lose big in Utah after dismantling Utah just
Speaker 3: a few days ago. They lose by twelve nineteen, snapping
Speaker 3: the six game win streak they headed Toil. They all
Speaker 3: start break thirty two twenty Alex the Lakers side Alex
Speaker 3: Land seven foot tall, two hundred and fifty pounds of sorryness.
Speaker 2: But the big Oh my bad, damn that was no,
Speaker 2: that wasn't what was in I just reach. That just
Speaker 2: came to me.
Speaker 3: The Lakers needed to put side the physicality which he
Speaker 3: did not provide. After the Knicks trade with Mark Williams
Speaker 3: and the Charlotte Hornets. They weighed Christian Woods to create
Speaker 3: an open roster spot. He missed the season after recovering
Speaker 3: from off season surgery. But tonight was a tough first start.
Speaker 2: For Alex Land, who did not do a whole lot.
Speaker 3: Got some good cardio in other than that, twenty two minutes,
Speaker 3: two of five, two offensive ribs, so he had seven rebounds,
Speaker 3: two assists, one block, and three personal files. Not much,
Speaker 3: not much, not much. It probably just met the team yesterday.
Speaker 3: The Lakers had no interior presence with him on the court.
Speaker 1: Loud.
Speaker 2: The Utah Jazz shoot fifty two percent from the floor.
Speaker 3: Laurie Marketing was eleven of eighteen, six to ten from
Speaker 3: the three, four to four from the free throw line,
Speaker 3: thirty two points plus thirty five. Walker Kessler plus twenty three.
Speaker 3: He had sixteen points. Jordan Clarkson had twenty three points.
Speaker 3: He was plus thirty three. Tonight just wasn't it? O
Speaker 3: Joe and we knew this was real problem because of
Speaker 3: the ability to defend. And right now they don't really
Speaker 3: have guys. You look at the guys, they don't have
Speaker 3: defensive guys. I don't know why they only got unless
Speaker 3: Jackson Hayes got hurt. I don't know why he only
Speaker 3: played seven minutes, but he left the ball game and
Speaker 3: didn't come back. And he was two or two from
Speaker 3: the field seven points, no excuse me, seven minutes with
Speaker 3: four points. But they can't defend. No, Joe auster Reeve
Speaker 3: struggled shaking three to night, so the Luca. But Lucas
Speaker 3: gonna take a while. He's been out almost eight seven weeks, yes,
Speaker 3: since Christmas, so it's gonna take him a while to
Speaker 3: get his rhythm back.
Speaker 2: But they didn't. They didn't defend.
Speaker 3: And when you don't defend it, you don't shoot the
Speaker 3: ball well, you end up going down by twenty four
Speaker 3: to twenty six points. They end up losing by twelve.
Speaker 3: But the game really wasn't closed. Don't let the final
Speaker 3: score fool you. The game was not this posse.
Speaker 1: All right, But listen the Lakers as opposed to the
Speaker 1: last game. As opposed to the last game, the Lakers
Speaker 1: came out flat. They came out flat. They played very uninspired. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes only getting seven minutes, having what maanbefore four
Speaker 1: points year four points of minutes ever since he where
Speaker 1: ever since he was out of the game. I think
Speaker 1: he's the only defending president that could really be inside
Speaker 1: the paint and be able to defend to some extent.
Speaker 1: After that, it was just a god damn lup see
Speaker 1: for the Utah Dunts.
Speaker 3: How many how many loves did you see? I mean
Speaker 3: they throw a log from out of bounds.
Speaker 1: It was love city. It was lot of city.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Also, one of the things you have to notice about
Speaker 1: this game too, When the Jazz played the Lakers, the
Speaker 1: first time, they turned the ball over I think maybe
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen plus times. This game, they were able to
Speaker 1: protect the ball a little bit more. They didn't have
Speaker 1: as many turnovers, and obviously with the Lakers coming out
Speaker 1: as flat as they did and the Jazz being efficient
Speaker 1: as they were from the line, I forgot. I think
Speaker 1: Collyer had twenty Uh what was it? Why you say?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Marketed?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, marketing a young bullysh Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: He could score, he can rebound, he can facilitate, yeah
Speaker 3: he I mean he's been an All Star. He's been
Speaker 3: an All Star. And we know Jordan Clarks again who
Speaker 3: headed up with the best of them. John Collins is
Speaker 3: a nice game tonight. Seventeen points eight rebounds and assays
Speaker 3: two blocks. But uh yeah, you could tell early on
Speaker 3: th show the way the Lakers came out. They came
Speaker 3: out really with no enthusiasm. They didn't defend, they didn't
Speaker 3: attack the basket. They look at the free throws. I
Speaker 3: mean they cross free throw and you're seventeen to thirty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen, Luca is gonna take Luca a
Speaker 1: little medicant, Yeah, going beginning rhythm back, also three. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna have games like this, you're gonna have games.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's hard to be on every single night.
Speaker 1: It's hard to be on every single night, and tonight
Speaker 1: just happened to be one of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had played well, he had Reeves had really
Speaker 3: played well, say the last eight to ten ball games.
Speaker 3: He been really well, had a career high forty five points,
Speaker 3: and when Luca and Lebron were both out of the game,
Speaker 3: played well the other night when when Luca first got there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he out of that all night tonight. He
Speaker 2: didn't shoot the ball.
Speaker 3: He ended up with fifteen or eleven assists, did a
Speaker 3: great job of facilitating, only had one turnover, so you
Speaker 3: can live with that, but he didn't shoot the ball. Well,
Speaker 3: he was won a team from the from the three
Speaker 3: point line. Jackson Hayes left with a facial contusion. So
Speaker 3: that's probably why you got a Land playing probably more
Speaker 3: minutes than you really wanted them to play. Koloco also
Speaker 3: got nine minutes. But they just don't have bigs. They
Speaker 3: don't have bodies to really throw at people. And the
Speaker 3: guys that they throw out there, that's all they're doing.
Speaker 3: They're throwing out there. Jackson Hayes is really a guy.
Speaker 3: You don't, I mean, none of their bigs. You run
Speaker 3: offense for O Joe. They run lobs. Get it off
Speaker 3: there a you on points, get it off the rem
Speaker 3: offensive reboudy and put it back in. That's how you
Speaker 3: gonna get your points because we're not running anything for
Speaker 3: you right now.
Speaker 1: Obviously, I think if Jackson Hayes is there, he's some
Speaker 1: type of defensive presence. Yeah, obviously with his length, he's tall.
Speaker 2: And the Lincoln just couldn't seem to keep up with
Speaker 2: the pacers.
Speaker 1: Jazz had the whole.
Speaker 3: Well they got they you know what, they end up
Speaker 3: taking the lead because the Jazz had a little story,
Speaker 3: a scoring drought, and that's what happened.
Speaker 2: You know the game of runs.
Speaker 3: The Lakers got their rule and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: like they relaxed, wouldn't play any defense, and lay up,
Speaker 3: lay up, dunk, lay up, three three three three three.
Speaker 2: The next thing you know, the game.
Speaker 1: Is blown wide open.
Speaker 3: But they're gonna have to do a better job. JJ
Speaker 3: is gonna have to find a combination. Look, he's trying
Speaker 3: to he's searching right now.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: The three guys that you're not gonna start probably read
Speaker 3: Luca and Lebron. Uh, we'll see mixing match with Jackson Hayes. Uh.
Speaker 3: Probably Ruin is gonna be that the the other guy
Speaker 3: that starts. Uh. But vander belt ooh and rough on
Speaker 3: him tonight. Uh, Briny got in it and mop up
Speaker 3: time got him a nine quick points hit two threes,
Speaker 3: one or two from the free throw line.
Speaker 1: Nice little floater, like little floatera little float. He looked good.
Speaker 1: It looks very comfortable, look very comfortable, very poor, very confident,
Speaker 1: especially in the shots left.
Speaker 3: But that's hard for me to believe that dwighte how
Speaker 3: wouldn't be better than than than Alex Linn. It's hard
Speaker 3: to be to believe that. I ain't saying he gonna
Speaker 3: be We don't need d White. See people say you
Speaker 3: keep talking about Dwight. You don't need Dwhite Howard to
Speaker 3: be Orlando Magic. Dwight Howard he can't, nor should you
Speaker 3: expect that from him. But what they got, so you
Speaker 3: need to tell me Dwight high and can't be better
Speaker 3: than the colloqual. Really, he can't be better than Alex
Speaker 3: lenn That's all we asked him to be better than that.
Speaker 3: Not be All NBA, not be Defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 3: not be that, just be better than that.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, okay, I say, I see what you're saying. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have a question for you then, So how long
Speaker 1: obviously you have the All Star breaking up right now?
Speaker 1: How long has Lake just figured out? How long had
Speaker 1: the JJ figures out what pieces need to be able
Speaker 1: to intend this team?
Speaker 3: This this Robster is not built to contend. It all
Speaker 3: depends on who you get in the first round matchup.
Speaker 3: You Mike can stee you Mike and still I mean
Speaker 3: Luke and Lebron. Mike can steal it. But that's as
Speaker 3: far as you're going. You're not beating in the team
Speaker 3: to have You're not going you're not gonna be okay, see,
Speaker 3: not not with this. You're definitely not you and you
Speaker 3: what you're gonna do with yoke? Now, Jamal Murray went crazy.
Speaker 3: Not he had fifty five. Jokich had a quiet. Now
Speaker 3: they say, Jamal, I've been carrying you. Hey, I've been
Speaker 3: doing what I do hey, And he dropped fifty five.
Speaker 3: And everybody knows Jamal Murray can get Haibachi hot and
Speaker 3: he got that tonight.
Speaker 2: But no, they're not, they're not. They're not.
Speaker 3: They're not really, you know, doing anything, not with this roster.
Speaker 3: Not like I said, Lebron and Luca could probably get
Speaker 3: hot and can steal yours a series, but after that,
Speaker 3: that's where the buck stops. They're not they're not good
Speaker 3: enough to really do anything. They don't defend that a
Speaker 3: high enough level. Now, they can't control the clock, they
Speaker 3: control of the pace of the game. Both of these
Speaker 3: guys with the ball in their hands can control it.
Speaker 2: But I just don't.
Speaker 3: I just don't see enough on the on the defensive end,
Speaker 3: because at the end of the day, it still comes
Speaker 3: down the defense win championships, and uh, they don't have
Speaker 3: nearly enough.
Speaker 2: So we're going to the frank Conal loss, but they
Speaker 2: had won sixth straight.
Speaker 3: So they win the last six or seven and uh
Speaker 3: one to one nineteen, they have to be pleased. They're
Speaker 3: thirty two and twenty uh a lot better than what
Speaker 3: they were last year. At the All Star Game, we'll
Speaker 3: see what they do. Lucas get some time off. Lebron
Speaker 3: is the only one going to the All Star Game,
Speaker 3: so to be interesting to see what the guys do
Speaker 3: uh uh with their time going into the break. But
Speaker 3: I ain't like what I saw tonight. I ain't even
Speaker 3: liketch it. I didn't even hold you on that old Joe.
Speaker 3: I didn't like what I saw tonight.
Speaker 1: And listen, it's so funny how the game of basketball works. Listen,
Speaker 1: you play, you played two three nights ago, having having
Speaker 1: many nights it was, you come back and playing the
Speaker 1: exact same team, exact same personnel, and you come out
Speaker 1: completely flat. You look completely different. You did turnover. They
Speaker 1: did turn when they turned over, they didn't get back.
Speaker 3: Nobody got back there loafing like babe, I ain't getting
Speaker 3: no foul and they moping. And you know, I wish
Speaker 3: Lebron would stop doing that because sometimes you know, he
Speaker 3: turns the ball over, he doesn't get a call that
Speaker 3: he thought he should have got bro get back and
Speaker 3: he don't.
Speaker 2: He laughing back and then they busted three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you gotta understand now he's a little older
Speaker 1: and man, you know, having having a shoot back down
Speaker 1: that quarter every time of ball.
Speaker 3: Now, say, hey, all up said is don't walk. I
Speaker 3: ain't say you got to be speedy gunzales, but just
Speaker 3: don't walk. Just don't walk. Give me a little give
Speaker 3: me a little bit more effortent because the guys are looking.
Speaker 3: You can't miss a shot. Get mad they didn't call
Speaker 3: a foul, moped down and then shrug your shoulders.
Speaker 2: Like what happened?
Speaker 1: A lot of teams organation. Yeah, I got some.
Speaker 3: Uh brandon Ingram declined one hundred and sixty million dollars
Speaker 3: with the Pelicans, only to accept one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: million dollars with the Raptors.
Speaker 1: But listen, I have a question. I don't know in
Speaker 1: what world? Chat y'all stay with me real quick now,
Speaker 1: I don't know in what world? Whereas that bad? We
Speaker 1: leave forty million dollars on the table and choose to
Speaker 1: go somewhere else. You ain't nobody for the see and
Speaker 1: tell me. Listen, I just left. I just left New
Speaker 1: Orleans for a week, six six seven days straight. You
Speaker 1: ain't for the hell me based on what I saw
Speaker 1: in that wonderful city, culture, the people, the food, the architecture,
Speaker 1: the history.
Speaker 3: You ain't playing basketball. You don't want to be You
Speaker 3: ain't playing basketball. Well, the devil is alive. You just
Speaker 3: saw Tyreek. You just saw Tyree complain making thirty two
Speaker 3: minion in Miami with all that warner, with all that
Speaker 3: nice web, with all the women down there.
Speaker 2: He complained. Now you want to try again?
Speaker 1: Not wait a minute. Now, listen.
Speaker 2: Now that's Apples the artists. You talk about two different scenarios.
Speaker 1: You talk about the Tyreek Hill that just came off
Speaker 1: a season that was nothing like like he felt it
Speaker 1: should have been. You had a quarterback that gotten hurt.
Speaker 1: He wasn't get the ball like he felt he should.
Speaker 1: He was frustrated. Stay with me.
Speaker 2: He was frustrated about for one, not putting up the
Speaker 2: numbers he should have, two not getting the ball the
Speaker 2: way he should and three he got in front of
Speaker 2: that camera before he cooled down.
Speaker 1: That's calling him. Rule number one. After the game, you
Speaker 1: make sure you go take a shower and calm down
Speaker 1: before you say anything you shouldn't say before you're get
Speaker 1: in front of that camera. Now, you're not gonna tell
Speaker 1: me that New Orleans is that bad, even if you
Speaker 1: do play the game of basketball to the point where
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not coming I'm not coming back here.
Speaker 1: I'm not signing the here.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave forty million dollars on the table.
Speaker 1: Am I go somewhere else?
Speaker 2: Not and go where?
Speaker 3: If he went to Canada, he went to another country
Speaker 3: because he want to win. You say, frustration, who wants
Speaker 3: to be there? You see Zion? You think Zion want
Speaker 3: to be in New Orleans? If I mean, did hold on,
Speaker 3: did Anthony? Did Anthony Davis want to be in New Orleans?
Speaker 3: So I'm just trying to figure out that the players
Speaker 3: that they've had that wanted to be there. You say,
Speaker 3: you can't understand why because I want to win a
Speaker 3: I can't win there?
Speaker 1: Well, listen, but you know what the onus that's that's
Speaker 1: on management needs to make make it a place some
Speaker 1: kind of way, some shape wave, film form or fashion
Speaker 1: where people want to come.
Speaker 3: O Jo, he need you need to do what you
Speaker 3: need to do oh yo. See, that's great for you
Speaker 3: if you're a tourist. I'm trying to win.
Speaker 2: Oh whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: I ain't no goddamn tourist. I'm from New Orleans.
Speaker 2: You a tourist.
Speaker 3: You go down there for a couple of days, you
Speaker 3: get to eat the food, you get to get. But
Speaker 3: I'm saying, these guys gotta live it. They want to win.
Speaker 3: That's not New Orleans is not conducing for winning. It's okay,
Speaker 3: that's not a knock on the side. But let me
Speaker 3: ask you a question. What big time Fredge decided with
Speaker 3: New Orleans. Oh wait, you just take your time, tall,
Speaker 3: We got time. We just getting started. Tell me the
Speaker 3: big time fridgided.
Speaker 2: With New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Okay, I understand what you're saying. I understand what you're saying,
Speaker 1: but you didn't hear what I said. First, the owners
Speaker 1: management creating an environment where people want to come to
Speaker 1: You know, there was a time where people didn't want
Speaker 1: to come to the heat.
Speaker 2: They always wanted to go to.
Speaker 3: First of all, First of all, how pretty big only
Speaker 3: say you traded for Jimmy Butler. I mean you got
Speaker 3: Jimmy and Lebron one Lebron was but Ron ended up
Speaker 3: being a trade. He did them a solid. They didn't
Speaker 3: get KD. They didn't get no big mother free agents.
Speaker 3: So why you over the huck with the puppy took?
Speaker 3: I coming to Miami where win who.
Speaker 2: Let me?
Speaker 1: Let me finish, Let me finish. There was a time
Speaker 1: where nobody wanted to come to Cincinnati. You know that
Speaker 1: they still don't have a problem. Stop Bigti pridgy, y'all
Speaker 1: got all of them wanted. I said they want to
Speaker 1: come the time they had a right for them, Joe,
Speaker 1: you said they want to come.
Speaker 2: And I'm not a mind. I didn't sit on no tree.
Speaker 2: I can't turn the head all the way around.
Speaker 1: But listen to him. To me, the big the big
Speaker 1: free agents that that have been that that have been available,
Speaker 1: You listen to me, that's where they wanted to go.
Speaker 1: They just didn't say anything public And I just told
Speaker 1: you then money so you so, in other.
Speaker 3: Words, they want to go to Cincinnati knowing they're not
Speaker 3: gonna get paid, knowing Mike Brown has been cheap, knowing
Speaker 3: the Bengals have been cheap.
Speaker 2: The entire the entire vistens really.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm just I'm just telling you. Now, Listen,
Speaker 1: who's a who's the owner? Who's the owner?
Speaker 2: In New Orleans?
Speaker 3: Who's Miss Gail Benson Pelicans, mister Bail, Miss Gail Benson,
Speaker 3: the husband died nor less sense?
Speaker 1: Yes, oh that man, that's for girl. You for real, man, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta know. I gotta talk to them miss Benson.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell them in Benson because listen what I
Speaker 1: saw in New Orleans, there's no reason why two things
Speaker 1: can't coexist, the Pelicans having a winning, a winning mentality,
Speaker 1: and it all starts at the top to go along
Speaker 1: with the goddamn city that is winning itself. I know
Speaker 1: what the hell I saw the past week I was
Speaker 1: out there. I told you, I'm from the Seventh Water,
Speaker 1: I'm from uptown. Now, I'm from uptown. Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: you want to go with me? Uh uh in March
Speaker 1: for what? Uptown? Uptown? Super son O.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question, don't you how many
Speaker 3: big time forridge you signed with the Atlanta You in Atlanta?
Speaker 1: Oh nice?
Speaker 3: Oh, hey, that's a place to be, not a big
Speaker 3: time for basketball Fridge just signed there?
Speaker 1: How many they don't have a hey? They don't have
Speaker 1: a winning environment up they have a winning city though
Speaker 1: the aesthetics are very pleasing outside of the arena. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that I don't go that often. I'm
Speaker 1: just telling what somebody told me. I ain't telling you
Speaker 1: what I know. I'm telling you what I heard. Atlanta's
Speaker 1: a beautiful place.
Speaker 2: I'm the man.
Speaker 1: So it's so it's Houston. What is Houston? What do
Speaker 1: you consider you out like Houston? Okay, I know you
Speaker 1: like Houston. I'm talking about the environment. They're young, they're
Speaker 1: up and coming. I love what I made is doing
Speaker 1: with that team. Uh uh s Goon was an All Star.
Speaker 2: I like.
Speaker 3: I like Jalen Green. I mean, the guy is twenty
Speaker 3: two years of age, balling out. They got it they uh,
Speaker 3: I'm in Thompson. They got a nice young squad. They
Speaker 3: got a nice young squad. Probably need one more. A veteran,
Speaker 3: you know Van Fleet. I like van Fleet.
Speaker 2: I like Brooks. They get after you. They play hard,
Speaker 2: night in and night out.
Speaker 3: They had a little rough patch or they lost about
Speaker 3: five six games in a row, but you can deal
Speaker 3: with that.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna be just like the Texans.
Speaker 3: The Texas isn't gonna be a place that you got
Speaker 3: a quarterback, You got Nico Collins, you got Demko Ryan
Speaker 3: who has a great defense. You see, they got Danail Hunter,
Speaker 3: they got Will Anderson Jr. They got Stingley Junior. They
Speaker 3: got some nice pieces. They got some nice pieces. They
Speaker 3: are few players away. They was able to lttle Larry Tunsel.
Speaker 3: The problem that they had is that Bill O'Brien ruined
Speaker 3: it when he traded a damn running back for All
Speaker 3: Pro wide receiver.
Speaker 2: Where the hell they do that at? Right? I never
Speaker 2: understood that. And then you had the.
Speaker 3: Situation with DeShawn You had the situation with the Sun
Speaker 3: and we don't need to get into it, but we
Speaker 3: know what happened, and that kind of set him back
Speaker 3: for a year or two. But they were able to
Speaker 3: get looked. CJ looks to be what he's supposed to be.
Speaker 3: Have a little down year this year, but I expect
Speaker 3: him to bounce back and play better next year.
Speaker 2: We'll see what they do. Uh.
Speaker 3: They lost a lot of their receivers. Tank Dale got injured. Uh,
Speaker 3: Stefan Diggs got injured. But I love the edition of
Speaker 3: Joe Mixon. There are a couple of pieces away they're
Speaker 3: gonna be right back. They're gonna be right back in
Speaker 3: the mix. But I think that's the thing. Listen, brandon
Speaker 3: Ingram did not make this decision, didn't take this decision lightly.
Speaker 2: It wasn't no man. Okay. Five.
Speaker 3: He had been sitting there for an extended period of time,
Speaker 3: and he realizes, he said, first of all, the guy
Speaker 3: that y'all want to build this thing around, he can't
Speaker 3: stay healthy. Now, for the most part, brandon Ingram hadn't
Speaker 3: stayed healthy either, So let's be all the way with that.
Speaker 3: So he I mean, hey, I understand he's looking at Zion,
Speaker 3: and Zion can't stay healthy. But brandon Ingram missed a
Speaker 3: lot of time also, and and and Pelican fans y'all
Speaker 3: know that. So it was like, right, man, let me
Speaker 3: go ahead and bounce. You're like, I go to a team.
Speaker 3: You know, they got Scotty Barnes. I like Scottie, they
Speaker 3: got that. I mean, look, I hate calling the man
Speaker 3: last name, but uh, how you need forty men on
Speaker 3: the table? I'll come on, nine, what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Look?
Speaker 3: Oh see the basic mistake that I made a lot
Speaker 3: of times that I put myself in that situation. You
Speaker 3: can't put yourself in that situation. You wouldn't know. But oh,
Speaker 3: money can't buy happiness. The man ain't happy.
Speaker 1: Listen, money can buy your happening. But you know if
Speaker 1: money can buy you, they can buy your time. Well,
Speaker 1: he had, he can buy you had all the time
Speaker 1: he want to have been in there. Boy, Hey, look
Speaker 1: at look at what you call? Look at uh uh h?
Speaker 1: What's the guy name? Look at Melimda Gates. Bill Gates
Speaker 1: worked too to be two under bion. She said, I'm.
Speaker 3: Gone, Bagel's what I'm gone. But you said, money get
Speaker 3: bout happiness.
Speaker 1: I don't even like the fact that you listen, the
Speaker 1: fact that we have being airs in this world, the
Speaker 1: fact that we have being as in this world.
Speaker 2: And one of the things with little girls growing up,
Speaker 2: they're tort You.
Speaker 1: Have to find you somebody ass able to provide and
Speaker 1: provide you with stability. If Bill Gates and a few
Speaker 1: other billionaires that I named not too long ago on
Speaker 1: one of the shows have not been able to keep
Speaker 1: a woman happy long.
Speaker 2: Term, they just have.
Speaker 1: What chance do us normal folks have?
Speaker 2: You got to be happy? Oh, Joe, you make it
Speaker 2: seems like it's all of the women or me and
Speaker 2: get the boys too me and leave relationships.
Speaker 1: I ain't never seen No, ain't not what don't don't
Speaker 1: do that? When the last time you've seen a man
Speaker 1: initiated the boors, I ain't seen it. I ain't seen
Speaker 1: it in the very long.
Speaker 2: More more times than not, it is the woman initiating.
Speaker 3: But his a woman that's also getting fed up with yes,
Speaker 3: so it's not something that sheas women don't haphazardly do things.
Speaker 1: Women are very methodical.
Speaker 2: They're very very.
Speaker 3: They're not just rushing out there, see a guy, see
Speaker 3: a guy, see a guy will leave a great woman
Speaker 3: for a fine things? That how women think? Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Women don't think like that. Women are very methodical. Women
Speaker 3: are very meticulous. When a woman, when a woman leaves
Speaker 3: a man and they've been in a relationships for an
Speaker 3: extended period.
Speaker 2: Of time, she's had it up to hear.
Speaker 3: Now, you notice I said here, because when she had
Speaker 3: it up to here, she stayed when she get to
Speaker 3: hear right.
Speaker 1: Also, what you need to understand too long You got
Speaker 1: to think about this when a woman is fed up
Speaker 1: before she gets to hear and she's right here, all
Speaker 1: all her checks, all her checks, and got to be
Speaker 1: all our eyes gotta be dotted and all her tea's
Speaker 1: got to be crossed before she gets to here so
Speaker 1: she get exit. The plan has to be played out completely.
Speaker 1: She can't leave until she knows exactly what plan is.
Speaker 1: And they're going to execute yourself because you can't leave
Speaker 1: and then be dead in the water. Which is why
Speaker 1: when you talk, when you tell, when we talk about
Speaker 1: billionaires and their wives and marriage and divorce, you knowiced
Speaker 1: they always take half of them around.
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of times they's like, look, luke,
Speaker 3: look here, I ain't taking half because because neither one
Speaker 3: of them had prenups. So theoretically they could have got
Speaker 3: a big ol'd chuck. They could have got bought it
Speaker 3: what they got now forty to fifty big. They ain't
Speaker 3: nothing to laugh at. Yeah, but I think the thing
Speaker 3: gives a lot of times when women women already see
Speaker 3: women were already told you what they're unhappy about, and
Speaker 3: you know, fix it. We know, we know we ain't listening.
Speaker 3: It didn't like, man, I don't know what happened. Well,
Speaker 3: she kind of told you, and she dropped bread crumbs.
Speaker 3: Not only did she tell you, she dropped bread crumbs
Speaker 3: that made a both, but you didn't hear over time,
Speaker 3: you made the low over time. Oh, Joe, first overall pick.
Speaker 3: Markel Folks is back in the NBA. Fulls has agreed
Speaker 3: to a contract with the Sacramento King. The twenty six
Speaker 3: year old guard had spent first after the season without
Speaker 3: a deal following an extra exploration of his rookie contract
Speaker 3: extension in summer of twenty four.
Speaker 2: He could see early playing.
Speaker 3: Time as the squad tries to fill the boy port
Speaker 3: guard left by the Aaron Fox who was traded to
Speaker 3: the Spurs. Will Folks ever be able to show why
Speaker 3: he was the former? No, No, he's never that true.
Speaker 3: That that that that that that ship is sale?
Speaker 6: Is it here?
Speaker 2: Is it still here? What if?
Speaker 1: What if here is fixed?
Speaker 2: Now? I think that's a barrier he couldn't get paid on.
Speaker 7: Didn't they take him over? Jason Tatum? They took him
Speaker 7: over Jason Tatum. He was like that, never forget. He
Speaker 7: was like that that it took him over is based
Speaker 7: on what he showed.
Speaker 2: Show that shot.
Speaker 3: You don't normally take a guy with that with a
Speaker 3: shot that looked that that.
Speaker 2: Defected the mechanics. Come on, old Joe, right your tize
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 3: Ain't nobody listen, No matter how good he is, I
Speaker 3: don't believe the number one receivers going going number one overall.
Speaker 3: As a body catcher, you got to be able to
Speaker 3: pluck the ball. You gotta be able to play a
Speaker 3: traffic you gotta be able to transition. So if you
Speaker 3: got that many flaws.
Speaker 1: Number one overall, I mean listen, number listen, Uh, shots
Speaker 1: can be fixed.
Speaker 2: Lethal shooters right there down the street.
Speaker 1: He's not too far. You get with him in the
Speaker 1: Offseaton if if it's that big of a problem, hell
Speaker 1: Sean Marion, remember he shot.
Speaker 2: You at first.
Speaker 1: Overall, though, see, that's the thing.
Speaker 3: If you take a guy like you take a guy
Speaker 3: like sixteen, you think about it. You take a guy
Speaker 3: number one overall, he's supposed to be franchise changing. He's
Speaker 3: supposed to be lebron shot. That's what our team with
Speaker 3: a Will Kareem, Magic Johnson, that's what they're supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Dawight Howard, franchise all three. He wasn't that a I.
Speaker 1: A question based on just the folks coming out of college.
Speaker 1: You didn't you didn't think once he got we was
Speaker 1: going he had to be French franchise changing based on
Speaker 1: the film that he put up, and.
Speaker 3: Well, I looked at him. I mean he was like
Speaker 3: he had a lot of hit a miss. But I
Speaker 3: was just always leary of that shot. It just concerned me. It.
Speaker 2: Did you think somebody would have took y'all married my
Speaker 2: number one?
Speaker 6: Overall?
Speaker 2: No, you don't.
Speaker 1: He would have had along. He would have been he
Speaker 1: would have had to be extremely dominant in other in the.
Speaker 3: Other he was a he was an opting defending. He
Speaker 3: turned himself with that shot. He turned himself into a
Speaker 3: decent shooter. Can make threes, but he could defend, he
Speaker 3: can rebound. I just it's just hard. No, too much
Speaker 3: time is fast for him to live up to what
Speaker 3: he was where he was selected the slot that he
Speaker 3: was selected as.
Speaker 2: No, he's not living up to that now, can't he?
Speaker 2: Hopefully he can have a serviceable career moving forward. So
Speaker 2: he was out of the league. Yeah, he's out of
Speaker 2: the league for first half of the season. What what?
Speaker 3: What guy you know that's out of the league for
Speaker 3: first half of a season all of a sudden comes
Speaker 3: back and and and you're like, well, you know what
Speaker 3: A we show made a mistake on him.
Speaker 1: Right, it doesn't happen like that. I mean it's right. Well,
Speaker 1: listen hoping he comes back and makes a difference. He
Speaker 1: feels in that role in sack that Dar Darien, the
Speaker 1: Aaron Fox leaves and he can come in and be
Speaker 1: efficient and be somewhat, if not what we thought he
Speaker 1: would be, be something close to it.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 3: You can have a quirky shot allah Ben Simmons, but
Speaker 3: normally you need to be sixteen.
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons was an All NBA defender. He was.
Speaker 3: He was like an all star six foot ten, could
Speaker 3: handle the ball.
Speaker 2: But you see eventually that caught up with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he became afraid to shoot the basketball.
Speaker 2: You see, I can't teach you how to shoot if
Speaker 2: you're afraid.
Speaker 3: See, I can't teach you how to swim if you're
Speaker 3: if you're afraid of the water, you can't learn how
Speaker 3: to swim.
Speaker 1: You heard just said Ben Simmons was scared shoot Marcus.
Speaker 1: He became scared to do also what so.
Speaker 2: Guess that he keeps scared to go to the basket
Speaker 2: because he didn't want to get fouled.
Speaker 1: He didn't want to get fouled.
Speaker 2: This is a contact sport with no, no, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: see you to the fret line.
Speaker 1: Oh so he don't want to see it again. I
Speaker 1: guess where that starts. Yeah, mentally, they are they they
Speaker 1: already they're already beat mentally before they even get to
Speaker 1: the game. So you can't the game freely because there
Speaker 1: are certain parts of your game you don't want to
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: I just, I just.
Speaker 3: I just thought being Simmons didn't work hard enough on
Speaker 3: this game. It's hard because I see guys, look at
Speaker 3: Auster Reeves. Austin Reeves has gotten better and better. An
Speaker 3: undrafted free agent has gotten better and better and better
Speaker 3: and better.
Speaker 2: It's hard for a guy to not to get to
Speaker 2: not get.
Speaker 3: Incrementally better if he or she doesn't work on something
Speaker 3: you would have get. I'm not saying you finna tell
Speaker 3: I'm not finished say the guy about to be Michael
Speaker 3: Jordan's Kobe. But you can get better. Go back and
Speaker 3: look at Ben Simms, Ben Simmons and getting better and
Speaker 3: nothing offensively. As a matter of fact, Number one.
Speaker 1: That also the two.
Speaker 2: Comparing the two, Austin Reeves had no choice but to
Speaker 2: get better.
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves had no choice but to improve. Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: is already behind the eight ball in general as a
Speaker 1: basketball player, Ben Simmons what six ways Simons sixteen put the.
Speaker 2: Ball on the floor. Shoot?
Speaker 1: He can't shoot that well. He can defend. So there's
Speaker 1: a difference in Assore's having the buses ass to get
Speaker 1: to the point where he's at right now.
Speaker 2: Ah see what you're saying. I see what you said.
Speaker 3: So Ben Simmons came is the number one pick and
Speaker 3: felt that, you know what, I ain't got to bust
Speaker 3: my ass.
Speaker 1: No exact exact.
Speaker 2: That's just which goes to my point.
Speaker 3: It's hard not to get incrementally better if you work
Speaker 3: at some right. If I can't, if I like one
Speaker 3: count of year, oh Joe, in fifty years, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have fifty kN as opposed to not collecting any. I
Speaker 3: go two or three years and don't collect any. Guess what,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have nothing, nothing. And that's the thing. It's
Speaker 3: hard for me. There is no way six foot ten
Speaker 3: can handle the ball, can defend. He can defend like
Speaker 3: four or five positions. He can guard a smaller point guard.
Speaker 3: He can guard a two or three or four.
Speaker 1: I look at Ben Simmons. Now, no, check, don't get
Speaker 1: on me like this, but I see Ben Simmons. He
Speaker 1: should have been Jason Tatum before Jason Tatum.
Speaker 3: He should have been Lebron. He should have been a
Speaker 3: bigger Lebron Maggie Johnson, because that's what he was. He's
Speaker 3: a point guard. He's a six foot ten point gard crazy,
Speaker 3: that's what he should have been, like Cray.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he could defend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I ain't. That's that's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Some of the biggest busts of all time in NBA history.
Speaker 3: And we use that term when we say bus. Obviously
Speaker 3: you get to the NBA, there's a success. But when
Speaker 3: you are the first overall pick, you're supposed to be
Speaker 3: franchise altering. Anthony Bennett, who Lord have mercy for the
Speaker 3: Cleveland Cavaliers, Greg Oden, greg Olden I think would have
Speaker 3: been successful had his knees not gave out on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the injuries right right, my home.
Speaker 3: Boy from Savannah Purvis Ellison, his knees gave out on him.
Speaker 3: Markev spot that you have a knee andrew and shoulder injury.
Speaker 3: He tried to change his shot, but it just didn't work.
Speaker 3: But I wish the young man the best of luck.
Speaker 3: He can't be no more than what twenty six twenty
Speaker 3: seven tops, because he gotta be like the same twenty six.
Speaker 3: So he's still a hopefully young fella can get a
Speaker 3: couple of get a couple of years stick, get an
Speaker 3: opportunity to get some playing time, because I've seen them.
Speaker 3: I've seen them, you know, have good games, just not consistent.
Speaker 3: I mean I'm seeing I think I started one game
Speaker 3: he had a triple double, had like twenty something. But
Speaker 3: playing at the pro level, being a starter, it's all
Speaker 3: about consistency.
Speaker 2: That's what it's about.
Speaker 3: Because any guy on a given any of those four
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty players on a given night, let me
Speaker 3: take that back, not the top let's just say the
Speaker 3: top seventy five players. We know what they can do.
Speaker 3: But the other two point fifty can give you hell
Speaker 3: on a given night. The problem is that you have
Speaker 3: be consistent like the other seventy five to top seventy
Speaker 3: five can. That's what separates. It's all about consistency. The
Speaker 3: restaurants that do the best bit, what are they consistent?
Speaker 3: The service, the quality of the food. Yeah, the hospitality, consistency,
Speaker 3: that's what it's all about. The volume