Speaker 1: If a motherfucker on our team gets dunked on, we're
Speaker 1: letting them know. Maybe while we're running down the court,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be sitting there looking like this, Oh man,
Speaker 1: we used to make you get ship on. We're gonna
Speaker 1: let you know. I got crossed over by AI many.
Speaker 1: I'd rather be a I than one of them. Aness
Speaker 1: another week in the n b A and this is
Speaker 1: what's burning Jack. What's the best strategy for the Lakers
Speaker 1: moving forward? Um lost two games in a row, which
Speaker 1: to me is not a big deal. To me, the
Speaker 1: bigger deal is Lebron hasn't missed a game yet. Obviously,
Speaker 1: eight D is down throughout the All Star break. To you,
Speaker 1: what is the best strategy? They continue to go all
Speaker 1: in and ride his shoulders or are they a team
Speaker 1: that seating doesn't really matter and they just need to
Speaker 1: get into the dance. I think a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to let Lebron continue is great play,
Speaker 1: and because you need at least one of your stars
Speaker 1: out that's even have a chance to win some of
Speaker 1: these games. And even having a number of guys you know,
Speaker 1: shoulder has been down as well. But it's no way
Speaker 1: you can replace a D. You can try to bring
Speaker 1: in guys and and and try to try to fill
Speaker 1: in the board with two or three guys, but it's
Speaker 1: it's hard, you know, missing a D. He's such a
Speaker 1: such a great player, such a big part of what
Speaker 1: they do. I don't think it's anything they could do
Speaker 1: but try to get him healthy because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, a championship is this goal for this team,
Speaker 1: and the championship is not feasible without a D. So
Speaker 1: all they need to be doing is worrying about getting him,
Speaker 1: getting him healthy and see what could happen. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: does Lebron James hit walls? I know a lot of
Speaker 1: other human beings hit walls. Last game, statistically was his
Speaker 1: worst shooting game from the field. I want to say
Speaker 1: he was like seven for twenty one and one for
Speaker 1: eight from the three point line, but it was still
Speaker 1: like a nineteen nine and nine game. That's one thing
Speaker 1: about him. And they d like they're bad games, they're
Speaker 1: still almost double doubles, you know. And I think another
Speaker 1: thing that's an important to say, and this is why
Speaker 1: I kind of had a D although he hasn't had
Speaker 1: that type of season at the top of the all
Speaker 1: or the m d P conversation early on, because I
Speaker 1: knew how important he was to this team. If you
Speaker 1: take one of these guys away, this is the middle
Speaker 1: of the PAC team with all due respect, you know,
Speaker 1: and with with two of them their odds on favorite.
Speaker 1: So I think it just shows how important both Lebron
Speaker 1: and A d R and and and you know, you
Speaker 1: hear stuff about you know, Lebron was was felt slided
Speaker 1: in the m v P vote and possibly that's why
Speaker 1: he's been, you know, foot on the gas the whole
Speaker 1: entire season. But you know, in my opinion, year eighteen,
Speaker 1: there's nothing to prove. Obviously he should have had more
Speaker 1: m vps in his pocket. Uh, this year is most
Speaker 1: likely going to be an m v P opportunity. He's
Speaker 1: at the top of the list. But we know they're
Speaker 1: definitely gonna need him full strength come playoff time or
Speaker 1: whatever full strength needs. So if you had a decision
Speaker 1: in it, if you're Lebron, what is your thinking right
Speaker 1: now as far as kind of pasting yourself knowing that
Speaker 1: there's still a lot of season left. Yeah, I think uh,
Speaker 1: for them, you know, like I said, you got to
Speaker 1: pay yourself don't want to get hurt, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, he has to lead by example. You don't
Speaker 1: want to get in a sitch auation where you start
Speaker 1: losing games, going to a seven eight game losing streak,
Speaker 1: and then a week later a D he tried to
Speaker 1: come back and do more than he's expected to do
Speaker 1: and he get hurt again. Not a season is over with,
Speaker 1: so you know, they gotta be real camp, they gotta
Speaker 1: be real coupled with this, but what Lebron is doing,
Speaker 1: he got to continue to do because the team needs
Speaker 1: more than anything, more than anything, right now, real quick,
Speaker 1: before we get out of this, I want to shout
Speaker 1: out Kyle Kuzma. He's at nineteen point five since a
Speaker 1: D has gone down at nearly from the field. Um
Speaker 1: getting seventeen dots seven more than these normally is. I
Speaker 1: know he's someone that that looks to step in and
Speaker 1: feel some of those number. Like you said, you definitely
Speaker 1: can't replace a D as a player, but you gotta
Speaker 1: kind of collectively try to do it. Jack lastly, before
Speaker 1: we get out of here, you're hearing some names thrown
Speaker 1: around for possible targets for the Lakers late Griffin Um
Speaker 1: Boogie and p J tucker Um. Out of those three guys,
Speaker 1: who do you think fits best for the Lakers? I
Speaker 1: would go Boogie. I would definitely go Boogie Man. I
Speaker 1: think for offensive purposes, for rebounding purposes, just for having
Speaker 1: that big guy in the paint. He's not at that
Speaker 1: as Anthony Davis, but he brings a lot of similarity.
Speaker 1: He could spread the floor and he's a tough minded guy.
Speaker 1: I think a guy like him will help him more
Speaker 1: than anything else. We'll have to see what they do.
Speaker 1: Decisions are coming up soon, and you know we're big
Speaker 1: Boogie fans. Next up on the radar jack. The standings
Speaker 1: are really crowded, Uh, in both conferences. I wanted to
Speaker 1: read the stat Four games separate the fourth through the
Speaker 1: thirteen seed in the East and three games separate eight
Speaker 1: through twelve out West. Uh, it's heavy. I think the
Speaker 1: playing tournament is going to be exciting because of this reason.
Speaker 1: Who do you think in the Eastern Conference has a
Speaker 1: chance to distance themselves and really make a statement in
Speaker 1: the conference, Because, like I said, it's pretty up for
Speaker 1: grabs once you start looking at number four down, I'm
Speaker 1: a realist. It don't matter anyway, because you know Brooklyn
Speaker 1: and and and Philadelphia gonna be the two teams at
Speaker 1: the end to but but but look, but look, check
Speaker 1: this out there, Matt. But if any teams that can
Speaker 1: make some noise and get out of this and get
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and make them series, no, it's Boston,
Speaker 1: Boston and Miami Miami, and Miami has a lot of
Speaker 1: experience and they tend to thrive when the game slows down.
Speaker 1: They play better when the game slows down. Boston has
Speaker 1: been there, They got two young stars, and they can
Speaker 1: turn around at any moment. You gotta watch these two
Speaker 1: teams because they can get up out of that and
Speaker 1: makes some and make some noise. But and then did
Speaker 1: answer about Brooklyn Afhilly to me? Anyway, I think it
Speaker 1: definitely is about Brooklyn and Philly. And I agree with
Speaker 1: the Celtics. I think they've hit a small wall um
Speaker 1: heading into the break. But you gotta remember back when
Speaker 1: we play these are like the dog days. Right now,
Speaker 1: this is like how January used to be for us,
Speaker 1: when we get all excited for the Christmas games, and
Speaker 1: January's as slow and long as fun, and some teams
Speaker 1: lose their mental focus. So I think Boston will be
Speaker 1: all right. I think they'll pick up, they'll regain form
Speaker 1: post All Star Break. But instead of Miami, I think
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be the Raptors. The Raptors are hot
Speaker 1: right now. Fredn uh pleet is playing on another level,
Speaker 1: and I think Miami kind of has that championship hangover.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the only thing I can kind of
Speaker 1: put it on. You know, Jimmy has been in and out.
Speaker 1: He's been more consistent of late, but you haven't seen
Speaker 1: the same Tyler Hero or Duncan Robinson, Bams having a
Speaker 1: great season. But to me, I think it seems like
Speaker 1: Miami is stuck in the mud. I agree with you that,
Speaker 1: you know, after watching what Brooklyn does without k D
Speaker 1: and it came and swept the Western the Pacific, uh Division,
Speaker 1: They're scary to me. Um. But again, right right there
Speaker 1: too is Philly with and beat playing at an m
Speaker 1: v P level. But I like the Celtics and the
Speaker 1: Raptors to also make noise in that conference in the Western.
Speaker 1: On the Western side it's Warriors, Grizzlies, MAVs, Pelicans, Kings.
Speaker 1: So I think that would be a fun little run
Speaker 1: right there with you know, seven through seven through ten
Speaker 1: playing to get in. Uh. You know, the Warriors are
Speaker 1: tough because if Steph Curry is done on the court,
Speaker 1: that's probably the worst offensive team in the league. Um.
Speaker 1: The Grizzlies are up and down with a young team.
Speaker 1: Lucas starting to turn it on. He's been hot. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about him later. The Pelicans are tough, man, and
Speaker 1: Zion is not getting enough credit for the ship he's
Speaker 1: doing night in, night out. And then Sacramento to me
Speaker 1: is too unpredictable. Obviously, I love with Dear and Fox
Speaker 1: and some of their younger guys are doing, but they're
Speaker 1: too unpredictable for me. In the Western Conference thoughts on
Speaker 1: kind of that seventh through ten space to get in
Speaker 1: the playoff tournament. You go to State and Dallas are scary. Man.
Speaker 1: Luca and Steph no telling what they can do. They
Speaker 1: can pull a rabbit out their hat and and you
Speaker 1: know how go to State offense and team gets going
Speaker 1: when step is on the court, and we know what
Speaker 1: Luca can do as well if they get healthy. Add
Speaker 1: a person to two. So um, I think both of
Speaker 1: those teams can be scary, and both of those teams
Speaker 1: can can make some upsets, you know, in the playoffs
Speaker 1: that they can get in. Yeah, I would like to
Speaker 1: see what the young Pelicans can do. You know, Lonzo
Speaker 1: balls playing better. Brandon Eagram is the leading, you know,
Speaker 1: the leader of that team. But Zion is consistently night in,
Speaker 1: night out, putting up great numbers on efficient shooting. And
Speaker 1: the way he fucking ran over Tristan Thompson the other
Speaker 1: they looked like me running over the twins and Tristan Thompson.
Speaker 1: Tristan Thompson is strong, you know what I mean? Zion.
Speaker 1: Zion walked through that grown ass man and put mons
Speaker 1: asking gotta ad one. So I'm kind of excited to
Speaker 1: see what these these these young Pelicans are uh can
Speaker 1: possibly do if they sneak in the dance question? Do
Speaker 1: you feel like the home court advantage is gone now?
Speaker 1: Because arenas are empty? On odds, I want to say
Speaker 1: the home the home team nearly win uh during the
Speaker 1: regular circumstances fifty six through fifty seven percent of a
Speaker 1: home games. Now it's down to uh right at fifty two?
Speaker 1: Ish is the home court advantage obviously with the lack
Speaker 1: of fans gone kinda I mean, it's it's to me
Speaker 1: it's a different feeling, and certain players can make the shots.
Speaker 1: When we make a shot in the fourth quarter, when
Speaker 1: we have thirty thousand screaming, you know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: totally different games. And some of your best shooters in
Speaker 1: NBA history Matt can make them in the first three quarters,
Speaker 1: but they can't make them in the fourth quarter because
Speaker 1: the game is tight, so and and and the noise
Speaker 1: in the stadium. So um, I definitely think that the
Speaker 1: crowd matters, you know, but at this point, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, it should when you're the home team,
Speaker 1: you should be more confortaly anyway, because you're sleeping in
Speaker 1: your own bed, you're coming home, you're coming to the
Speaker 1: game from family. A good vibe most of the time.
Speaker 1: But uh, but I think for the most part, the guy,
Speaker 1: the guys at home should always be more comfortable. And
Speaker 1: not having fans in the in the stadium, I think
Speaker 1: the home team that definitely has the advantage. Well, that
Speaker 1: ship that might be the problem. That might be a
Speaker 1: little too comfortable right now, because to me, it's a
Speaker 1: coin flip. To me, it's just like going playing au
Speaker 1: whatever Jim you win, whoever playing could do that that
Speaker 1: that crowd. That crowd ain't there for you no more.
Speaker 1: You know, you can make the fake noise and you
Speaker 1: can have a thousand people in there, when when you're
Speaker 1: just used to having thirty thousand, and the motherfucker's a
Speaker 1: lot different. So right now it's just to me, it's
Speaker 1: whoever comes out and plays hard, it's gonna win no
Speaker 1: matter where you're at. On the week ahead, Jack, we
Speaker 1: got a big prime type game Saturday, Mas versus Nets. Uh,
Speaker 1: we know how how well the Nets are playing. Will
Speaker 1: touch on them after this, But first I wanted to
Speaker 1: touch on the MAVs and then finally finding their footing. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Lucas hot over there. You know they're one
Speaker 1: four or five their last games. Lucas at a nearly
Speaker 1: thirty seven eight nine and a half, shooting fifty eight
Speaker 1: percent from the field fifty two from the three. But
Speaker 1: more importantly too, is kp Is has found some time
Speaker 1: and rhythm on the court at nearly twenty three points,
Speaker 1: eight and a half rebounds and shooting fifty and forty
Speaker 1: one percent respectively from the three. Dallas has the number
Speaker 1: one offense over the last week. That pulls him up
Speaker 1: still to the middle of the pack, but they've been
Speaker 1: hot of late. I think after what they did in
Speaker 1: the bubble, how good Luca was, all the hype at
Speaker 1: the preseason, I think it's finally starting to shake off
Speaker 1: and and and and the dust is starting to clear,
Speaker 1: and we're starting to see the team that we thought
Speaker 1: this team was supposed to be the whole entire season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we know they're dangerous. We know lucas dangerous, and we
Speaker 1: know this team only goes as far as Luca. You know,
Speaker 1: I think KP is a big part of his team,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he's the leader. And I think
Speaker 1: he really has to pick up his role on his team.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, he's he's robbing to batman, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, he has to become a more dominant
Speaker 1: robbing instead of just being in the shadows and not
Speaker 1: for his teams in not for his team to get
Speaker 1: the success that D call I one. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that the players want. But uh, this team can be
Speaker 1: like I said, man, Luca. Luca knows he's a dominant player.
Speaker 1: We all know he could take over games. And if
Speaker 1: it's a portecast picks it up and picks the level
Speaker 1: up to his level, then maybe we'll see this. This
Speaker 1: team makes some makes some um, what's the right I'm
Speaker 1: looking for, Matt some Uh So Noah's upsets upsets upset well,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about it, kind of thinking
Speaker 1: ahead of Dallas Nixon in the eighth and Utah stays
Speaker 1: in a one like there's no clear cut favor. I mean,
Speaker 1: as great as Utah's playing, we know what Luca can
Speaker 1: do in the playoffs. Is this Utah team is you know,
Speaker 1: hasn't really done much in the playoffs. There could be
Speaker 1: an upset brewing right there. But like I said, glad
Speaker 1: to see him find his footing and the team kind
Speaker 1: of find some chemistry because there's a lot of high
Speaker 1: expectations on them early on. You know, no one's saying
Speaker 1: that they're you know, I'm gonna go to the finals
Speaker 1: or anything. But it's just good to see where they're at.
Speaker 1: I still feel like they need a you know, a
Speaker 1: big piece to go with that, and I completely agree.
Speaker 1: KP has to step up his robbing efforts, moving along
Speaker 1: Harden and what he's been doing for the nets. Um,
Speaker 1: since he's really kind of starting to find what his
Speaker 1: position is on this team. You know, they swept the
Speaker 1: Pacific Division this last week, uh one four straight without KD.
Speaker 1: You know, Kyrie is handed over the keys to James
Speaker 1: as far as who's the point and who's the two,
Speaker 1: which I thought was very important for not only them,
Speaker 1: but for the kind of the rest of the team
Speaker 1: to have an understanding. This team is fucking scary, bro
Speaker 1: And like I said, Katie was on the sideline last night.
Speaker 1: But it's just amazing to see James go on a
Speaker 1: six to ten point run and then he just bounced
Speaker 1: passes the ball over to Kyrie real quick, and Kyrie
Speaker 1: can give you twelve quick ones and then they both
Speaker 1: can really pass. Like Kyrie is not a past first guy,
Speaker 1: but if you watched last night's game, he has some
Speaker 1: dimes and you all know how creative James is with
Speaker 1: the ball. Um, what do you think about this? Nets?
Speaker 1: I mean, we both picked them to go to the
Speaker 1: finals before James. They're starting to find their chemistry as
Speaker 1: a team. Uh you know, they're talking about bringing some
Speaker 1: people in. We'll talk about that in a second, But
Speaker 1: thoughts on this team and James's ability to kind of
Speaker 1: adapt to what his role needs to be for this
Speaker 1: team to be the best they can be. That's just
Speaker 1: a testament to how good James Harden is. You have
Speaker 1: a lot of aspects to his game, but we all
Speaker 1: know him as a score you know, when we we
Speaker 1: when we've seen him be one of the top guys
Speaker 1: in assistant in the league. But he has became a
Speaker 1: complete point guard. He he is a complete point guard
Speaker 1: his league. And not only that, his deepens has picked
Speaker 1: up being up knowing that he's going a lot of
Speaker 1: these guards. So I mean, I'm not surprised honestly with
Speaker 1: the way James is playing and the impact he's had
Speaker 1: on Brooklyn. He's one of the best players in the league.
Speaker 1: You know, it was a lot going on the beginning
Speaker 1: this season, but one thing we all knew that James
Speaker 1: gonna make any team he got to better, and now
Speaker 1: that he was Brooklyn, he's made them the clear favorites.
Speaker 1: You know, his true shooting percentages at six, which would
Speaker 1: be a career high, and he's at eleven point a
Speaker 1: seven assists the game. So this team is fun to watch. Man.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we have them early on, James kind
Speaker 1: of stamp that. You know, Katie is in the process
Speaker 1: of getting better. Let's talk about you know, some pieces
Speaker 1: everyone kind of feels like they're, you know, a frontline
Speaker 1: piece away from really really solidifying that team. You're hearing
Speaker 1: Andre Drummond, JaVale McGee, Bookie Cousins. Uh. Out of those
Speaker 1: three guys, what guy do you think fits best over
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn? I like Boogie, I even like Jamie McGee.
Speaker 1: Where's for read? I like throw for reading? I'd like
Speaker 1: to throw for reading there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He's an energy guy, rebound, an athlete. I like to read.
Speaker 1: You know, I think they can they can get two solid,
Speaker 1: big rebounders in there, and and you know for reading,
Speaker 1: the energy guy. You know what I'm saying, Jeff Green
Speaker 1: just went down, so we don't know how long he's
Speaker 1: gonna be down, you know, bringing for reading or somebody
Speaker 1: like that along with one of those big man that's
Speaker 1: definitely what they need. But I guarantee you, Matt, if
Speaker 1: they can add a solid big man that could catch
Speaker 1: and finish, it's gonna be It's just it's gonna it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of trouble. To see the way
Speaker 1: they play is kind of weird because you know Draymond
Speaker 1: or I mean, it starts a little further back but
Speaker 1: Draymond played the center position so well at what is
Speaker 1: that motherfucker's six four and a half? You know, when
Speaker 1: DeAndre goes out, it's either Kade, who's hurt right now,
Speaker 1: or Jeff Green playing center, which is obviously on the
Speaker 1: offensive side. Mismatch. But then you know when the playoffs,
Speaker 1: when the game slows down a little bit, you know
Speaker 1: who's gonna guard and beat if DeAndre gets in foul trouble.
Speaker 1: You know, to me, that's that that that's my question,
Speaker 1: and um, they're definitely gonna need to address that. But
Speaker 1: as far as their chemistry coming along, guys knowing the roles,
Speaker 1: the team having fun, these guys really look like they're
Speaker 1: having fun. They have the US against the world mentality,
Speaker 1: and this is gonna be dope to see them stay
Speaker 1: healthy and finish out the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Post I'll start break fan questions. These questions have been
Speaker 1: I see these some of these questions on on our
Speaker 1: i G We post them and some of these ships
Speaker 1: are crazy, but you know we picked out some of
Speaker 1: the ones our team has liked to. Let's get right
Speaker 1: to it and underscore Green. What's the locker room like
Speaker 1: after the game when a teammate gets posterized, or your
Speaker 1: teammate posterized the opponent. We'll just let me say this.
Speaker 1: If you get dun ugly, if you get ducked and
Speaker 1: you in the locker room with me and Matt, just
Speaker 1: know on when you get in the locker room, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be sitting there looking like this. Oh man, we
Speaker 1: used to make even real. Hey, sometimes it doesn't even
Speaker 1: wait to the locker room. It could be a time out,
Speaker 1: it could be anything. It could be halftime. If you
Speaker 1: get shipped on, I don't give a funk what we're
Speaker 1: gonna let you know, you know, and I think you
Speaker 1: know on the flip side, that's the one of the
Speaker 1: things that kind of keeps people from going hard. Now
Speaker 1: I kind of see in this era is the social
Speaker 1: meme means you know what I mean, that's the social
Speaker 1: media memes. You get dunked down. Now, imagine you know
Speaker 1: what barn did to Cairo Linko was during the social
Speaker 1: media era, you know what I mean. Or some of
Speaker 1: the ship or me tripping over the three point line
Speaker 1: was in the social media era, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like ship like that is crazy, And I think kids
Speaker 1: these days don't want to be a meme. So I
Speaker 1: think it's a little less I mean it's a longer topic,
Speaker 1: but a little less energy on the defensive end. But
Speaker 1: you have to answer your question. If a motherfucker on
Speaker 1: our team gets dunked on, we're letting them know. Maybe
Speaker 1: while we're running down the court, I got crossed off
Speaker 1: by Ai. Man. Hey, I'd rather be a I than
Speaker 1: one of you. Bombs in l A Thinness next fan
Speaker 1: question and at time with Lady Frosting, what y'all take
Speaker 1: on how flopping impacts the game and how do you
Speaker 1: think today's game slash players are compared to the era
Speaker 1: before flopping. I don't like flopping. I think we've stated
Speaker 1: this several times. Um, but you know, you just got
Speaker 1: to give credit because that's where the game is now.
Speaker 1: And last night was a perfect example. I think it
Speaker 1: cost the Clippers the game. Kauai going down the middle
Speaker 1: with time running down and James sold the funk out
Speaker 1: of a push off and they called an offensive foul,
Speaker 1: And initially looking at it, you see him flay like,
Speaker 1: oh damn, maybe he did push off, But then when
Speaker 1: you're able to see the replay, he definitely exaggerated a
Speaker 1: little bit and it cost the Clippers the game. So
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of flopping by any means. But
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, we got to adjust it.
Speaker 1: And that's how I guess the guys that have mastered
Speaker 1: that because it's in the NBA now and I don't
Speaker 1: think it's going anywhere. Well, you know, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out little further with him, Matt. We definitely
Speaker 1: hated flopping. One. Flopping shows that you don't care about defense.
Speaker 1: You can't guard nobody. That's a cop out too. It
Speaker 1: says a lot about the referees that they don't have
Speaker 1: no basketball experience, but keep blowing these whistles when these
Speaker 1: guys flopping. It's easy to see from players watching the
Speaker 1: game that it's a flop. But the referees that never
Speaker 1: played basketball, they're sitting right there and can't get it right.
Speaker 1: So you get you gotta give credit to the players
Speaker 1: who's selling it. But referees, y'all need to watch games
Speaker 1: or play basketball before you become a referee, so you
Speaker 1: can be familiar with these situations. Speaking of referees, they've
Speaker 1: been on some bullshit laterly, I mean they ejected big
Speaker 1: get Reddy yesterday for throwing like a spin bounced pass
Speaker 1: back to the ref ejected Draymond down the stretch. And
Speaker 1: you know, although you know sometimes as players we gotta
Speaker 1: keep our cool, these refs gotta be have to keep
Speaker 1: their cool more than that. And it's been ridiculous to
Speaker 1: see some of these bullshit ass calls they make that
Speaker 1: determined outcomes of games. And then later the NBA and
Speaker 1: their two many reports says, oh, well, this refer Most
Speaker 1: of the time they try to really side with them,
Speaker 1: but when it's so fucking blatant, they can't. And the
Speaker 1: two many report they'll meant the reference wrong. But what
Speaker 1: does that do you know the team that the team
Speaker 1: has lost the game. I think we need to be
Speaker 1: more transparent with our refs. We need to be able
Speaker 1: to see, you know, what they score every with, what
Speaker 1: their stats are, because they're they're judged just like we are.
Speaker 1: Our stats are open to the world. Why can't we
Speaker 1: see what these judges are? These these referees, you know,
Speaker 1: great cards aliking or or when they funk up and
Speaker 1: do something wrong, how come they're not fined or suspended.
Speaker 1: I think there needs to be more transparency. Um when
Speaker 1: it comes to referees because they're determining outcomes a game
Speaker 1: than particularly in this season, where you know, every game
Speaker 1: means a lot more. These restaurant here fucking the game. Uh, referees.
Speaker 1: If any of you here there's just realized. No one
Speaker 1: comes to the game to watch y'all. They come to
Speaker 1: watch the players. The sign of a good good referee
Speaker 1: game is to know that you're not even there. Let's
Speaker 1: keep that in und and then look who's critiquing the players. Man.
Speaker 1: Then this goes back to what I just said. What
Speaker 1: you just said the same thing. When j J spunt
Speaker 1: the ball, if you play basketball, you know how that
Speaker 1: ball is gonna spin. Every basketball player spunt that ball
Speaker 1: like that to his teammate. But the fact that he
Speaker 1: never played basketball, don't know how to ball spin. It
Speaker 1: went through his legs and he got he felt embarrassed.
Speaker 1: That's not JJ's fault. If you knew anything about basketball
Speaker 1: how the ball spins, you would have caught the ball.
Speaker 1: But you penalize in JJ because the ball went through
Speaker 1: your legs and now you feel embarrassed. Be more familiar
Speaker 1: with the game instead of just blowing a whistle clown.
Speaker 1: Next up at long Loakes best locker room story from
Speaker 1: the We Believe Days. Damn good question. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: where can we start? We want to save something for
Speaker 1: the documentary. I just started with this from that. We're
Speaker 1: all in the locker room getting ready for a big game,
Speaker 1: and we were warned. We were definitely warned that this No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we were definitely Yeah, that's something else. I know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about, though. Yeah, we were warned that this
Speaker 1: character was showing up to the game today, right, So
Speaker 1: we were totally warned. So we got to the game
Speaker 1: early enough to wait what to be there when he arrived.
Speaker 1: So Baron Davis told us that Wild Wild West Baron
Speaker 1: was showing up to the game. So we didn't know
Speaker 1: something my birth This is on my birthday. I think
Speaker 1: I think this is your birthday. We had no idea
Speaker 1: who Wild Wild West Baron was. I've never met him.
Speaker 1: Ship he shows up to the game. Cowboy head, the brooch,
Speaker 1: the spur, the boots, the whole nine walked in the
Speaker 1: locker room and just stood there by five minutes and
Speaker 1: in the middle. Yeah, this ship was un fucking believable.
Speaker 1: But you gotta think this is the same motherfucker that
Speaker 1: used to remember when he had his condo in Frisco.
Speaker 1: It's nigg He used to baby oil his chest and
Speaker 1: play the guitar because he lived. Bear lived in this
Speaker 1: dough fast little building. Uh but and then there was
Speaker 1: an alley, and then right next across the street there
Speaker 1: was a bar. This motherfucker baron used to take his
Speaker 1: shirt off, baby oil his chest and play the guitar
Speaker 1: in the window so bities to see it. And he
Speaker 1: didn't even know how to play the guitar. Everyone be
Speaker 1: looking like, is that Bear Davis up there? You know?
Speaker 1: You know? But when you know why, I remember that
Speaker 1: was my birthday with the outfit, just because y'all came
Speaker 1: to my motherfucking birthday party. This nigga had the cowboy
Speaker 1: hat on and the spurs and the wranglers and the
Speaker 1: plaid shirt, and I was just like, this dude is
Speaker 1: really a real life character. Rodney G Jr. One, what's
Speaker 1: your opinion on Damn there again disrespected our snub throughout
Speaker 1: his career when it comes to accolades, And why does
Speaker 1: the NBA invest enough as they shoot into him. That's
Speaker 1: a great fucking question, I think because Dame is a
Speaker 1: silent killer. He's not talking, he's not promoting itself. He's
Speaker 1: always let his game do his talking. And I think
Speaker 1: in an in an era where self promotion is weird
Speaker 1: but works, that's the kind of stuff we're in. You know,
Speaker 1: he's not out there dancing after shots and the only
Speaker 1: thing he'll do is when he bush your ass at
Speaker 1: the end of the game, he'll wave goodbye to you.
Speaker 1: But outside of that, like, he's not really a self promoter,
Speaker 1: and I think that's kind of hurt Dame in this
Speaker 1: era of social media and look at me and that
Speaker 1: time of ship. Dame is just a throwback hooper that
Speaker 1: goes out every night and puts his team on his
Speaker 1: shoulders and gets buckets. Uh. He was recently snubbed as
Speaker 1: an All Star starter, and even Lucas said he thought
Speaker 1: that Dame should have won that, Uh, you know, that
Speaker 1: the starting spot over him. But for some reason, unfortunately, Man,
Speaker 1: he's been overlooked. You know, he's consistently been should be
Speaker 1: in or you know, in the m v P conversations.
Speaker 1: But you know, Dame is is is a soldier, someone
Speaker 1: you would definitely go to war with and if not
Speaker 1: the most clutch one of the top two or three
Speaker 1: touch players in the game today, when where you've got
Speaker 1: a lot of people that not never played an you
Speaker 1: gotta understand the NBA has their guys. They have their
Speaker 1: guys that they want to that they want to market.
Speaker 1: Why wasn't Ai all over the NBA commercials he was
Speaker 1: the best player in the league. He didn't fit their narrative.
Speaker 1: So it's important for us to control our own narrative.
Speaker 1: And that's what Dame is doing. He's dropping his music,
Speaker 1: he's doing his Hulu commercials, but it's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the Whillhouse or what he wants to be in. He
Speaker 1: don't have to compromise anything. Then if the NBA don't
Speaker 1: get behind him saying and and and promote him like
Speaker 1: they do all these other players, then so be it.
Speaker 1: He could promote himself and he's still making good money.
Speaker 1: Were promoting this up outside the court. But Dame is
Speaker 1: one of those guys I put in the AI category,
Speaker 1: one of the best players in the league, but he
Speaker 1: don't fit the NBA narrative. Next s up Biscuits underscore
Speaker 1: three well y'all top three songs before the game to
Speaker 1: get you hyped or get you ready for the game.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna step in before you answered Jack real quick.
Speaker 1: And if I if I had control of the music,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a motherfucking option. You already knew what. We
Speaker 1: was playing Poc all day. Every day, it was Park
Speaker 1: all day. And then I was with you. I was
Speaker 1: with you, man. I ain't gona lot. But one thing
Speaker 1: we did, and this is We're gonna talk about this
Speaker 1: on the documentary, but I'm gonna get y'all live. It's
Speaker 1: a movie called Snump the Yard And before every game
Speaker 1: we had a guy, Josh Power him and I used
Speaker 1: to like to dance a lot and that movie was high.
Speaker 1: So before every game we used to get in the
Speaker 1: huddle and we used to go we wrapped the warriors.
Speaker 1: Worries worries were to warries, worries worris But that but
Speaker 1: that came from that movie. Stumped the yard man with that.
Speaker 1: That's something we did a gut hyped for every game.
Speaker 1: But we always listened to Park put author U g K.
Speaker 1: Scarface was always my goal to but Pok Poc took
Speaker 1: over a locker room every game. Park definitely took over
Speaker 1: our locker room. And yes, them too big dancing Motherfucker's
Speaker 1: was in the in the circle before every game. Both
Speaker 1: of the Motherfucker's at six Tiger Dance. They asses off too. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: ain't doing enough. Back in December, Uh, myself, Jack and
Speaker 1: the All the Smoke family host to the high School
Speaker 1: Showcase out in Memphis. But it was so much more
Speaker 1: than basketball. Um, you know, it was civil rights museums.
Speaker 1: It was talks with the kids, that was mentoring these kids,
Speaker 1: that were seeing these talented kids play. Um, here's the
Speaker 1: trailer and a little tease of what we did. You
Speaker 1: guys check it out. A lot of kids don't get
Speaker 1: a chance to talk to Actually, we're just trying to
Speaker 1: change the roles and do something different. You have do
Speaker 1: more than what we had. How does it feel will
Speaker 1: be black? You want to make any type of success
Speaker 1: in life, it all starts with how you treat me.
Speaker 1: So this whole session, this is anything in here you want.
Speaker 1: We're just doing our part. We say we are brothers people.
Speaker 1: Let's continue to do that, and that's how I feel
Speaker 1: it will be back. She didn't come to our game
Speaker 1: ball a secondary walk away from this place with something
Speaker 1: to apply some of this stuff in their life and
Speaker 1: trying to help the next person to the birth of
Speaker 1: the movie. I made that seat. Now that's how I
Speaker 1: fear it will be black Jack. This all came about
Speaker 1: because of your connection to the Iverson Classic. Um, that
Speaker 1: trailer was dope. Tell us how this came about and
Speaker 1: your feelings about what your song. Well, Um, the first
Speaker 1: year out an Obson game, he has his own high
Speaker 1: school Classic, the number one high school class in the country,
Speaker 1: and UM, I've been coaching it from year one where
Speaker 1: it was it was postponed this year and um, we
Speaker 1: had came up another idea of doing something in Memphis.
Speaker 1: We ran it by Brian and never all our team
Speaker 1: at showtime and it just came together, Man, to give
Speaker 1: these kids opportunity to play basketball showcase because with the COVID,
Speaker 1: a lot of things are are being prohibited. Been planning
Speaker 1: their own cities and states. So we just wanted to
Speaker 1: give them an opportunity to play and show their skills
Speaker 1: and not have a waste a year. So, UM, we
Speaker 1: were able to go down to Memphis put on the
Speaker 1: great a great tournament with Bobby and Josh shout shout
Speaker 1: all of them. But we were also able to to
Speaker 1: give these kids some education. You know, we're able to
Speaker 1: go to the Mother to King Museum. We're able to
Speaker 1: talk about civil rights, were we talking about racism. We're
Speaker 1: also able to teach them and tell them you only
Speaker 1: go as far as how you treat people, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of things like that. If you want to,
Speaker 1: if you plan on treating people like ship, you then
Speaker 1: and in your life being ship. But if you treat
Speaker 1: them like like heaven and plan out your life being heaven,
Speaker 1: and that's just how it goes. So a lot of
Speaker 1: things we were able to to talk to these kids
Speaker 1: about and not just about basketball, and able to take
Speaker 1: them to the Marlouke King Museum. You know, I would
Speaker 1: you know me, mad, I was in tears the whole time.
Speaker 1: So I hope they got something out of it. And
Speaker 1: and and when we're just doing something new man, trying
Speaker 1: to change the mold, and I'm just thinking that you
Speaker 1: and show Time were able to be that with me
Speaker 1: to to make this come true. Yeah, it was. It
Speaker 1: was definitely a dump experience. Shot out show Time, shout
Speaker 1: out everybody, you shouted out. Um, Like I said, just
Speaker 1: showing these kids another way. You gotta see it to
Speaker 1: believe it. And I think what we did out there
Speaker 1: was amazing. The Lorraine Hotel experience, the Civil Rights Museum, Um,
Speaker 1: you know it's my second time there, but still learn
Speaker 1: so much more. It was just a great experience to
Speaker 1: to see that although we've come a long way, we
Speaker 1: definitely still have a long way to go. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited for you guys to see it. Check out Ain't
Speaker 1: doing enough Thursday, um, and see what me and Jack's
Speaker 1: journey was like down there in Memphis. Winding down the show,
Speaker 1: let's get to our quick Jack Raptors the heart over
Speaker 1: the last three weeks, uh seven and three over that span,
Speaker 1: their defense is the number one rated defense in the league.
Speaker 1: Six guys and double figures. Can the Toronto Raptors make
Speaker 1: some noise? I just said earlier in the show, like
Speaker 1: they were my pick instead of Miami to possibly make
Speaker 1: some noise outside of the two big dogs in the East,
Speaker 1: the Rats. But they have the experience. You know, we
Speaker 1: just wondered who was gonna step up, and Van has
Speaker 1: been playing well, you know, he stepped into that road
Speaker 1: to score to go to guy. But I love the
Speaker 1: way normal Powell has picked up and become his batman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we all know Kyle Lowry is is the pit on
Speaker 1: the team. But Norman Brown, No, screw Norman Powell. He's
Speaker 1: been bawling bros. He's picked up his game on offense
Speaker 1: and defense. He's been the guy gardener, the star guy
Speaker 1: on the other team. And I think the way he's
Speaker 1: picked up his scoring and he just picked up he's
Speaker 1: just total play is the reason why this team has
Speaker 1: been winning. They needed another guy, and Norman Power stepped
Speaker 1: up to be that guy. Yeah, Norman Pale's definitely stepped up.
Speaker 1: See y'all him, I see. I think you know, people
Speaker 1: understand that, you know, Siakam shined in that year to
Speaker 1: the finals because Kauai was the guy that everyone keyed on.
Speaker 1: When you're the top guy on the top of the
Speaker 1: scouting report, as Siakam is now, it takes a little
Speaker 1: bit of time because they're focused on your every move.
Speaker 1: So I think he's starting to understand the pressure of
Speaker 1: being the number one guy on that team. Uh. Then
Speaker 1: Van Vleet has has definitely uh stepped up and done
Speaker 1: his job. And then, like you said, Norman Powell um
Speaker 1: Young Bruin at nearly three points a game over this
Speaker 1: last three weeks span and then you know they got
Speaker 1: their their their their general and their leader Kyle Lowry.
Speaker 1: So this team has the experience and and it's also
Speaker 1: keep in mind they were they were the team that
Speaker 1: had to go to Tampa Bay if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: uh and play their season because of restrictions due to COVID,
Speaker 1: So you know, they've had to endure a lot, and
Speaker 1: I think they're starting to find their footing. You get
Speaker 1: hot at the right time, That's what Miami did. They
Speaker 1: got hot right at the right time. They're starting to
Speaker 1: find their footing going into All Star Break, which is great,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to see what this team can do
Speaker 1: the second half of the season because, like you said,
Speaker 1: they definitely have the experience and going to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: that's what you need. Jack. We may have witnessed the
Speaker 1: dunk of the year the other night with Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: did to that boy in Toronto should have been illegal
Speaker 1: non playing. But this kid has really picked up his
Speaker 1: game over the last eight games at nearly seventeen points
Speaker 1: a game, five rebounds, four assist. D'Angelo Russell, who is
Speaker 1: the leader of the team, you know outside a cat,
Speaker 1: has been out a majority of that time, and this
Speaker 1: kid has really stepped his game up. First thoughts on
Speaker 1: that dunk, which was crazy, but the way this kid
Speaker 1: is playing, I definitely think he's worked his way back
Speaker 1: into the Rookie of the Year conversation. Oh excuse man,
Speaker 1: I got some breaking news. Breaking news. Oh after that
Speaker 1: was has just been released from jail for attempted murder.
Speaker 1: They just let him out. He just he just made
Speaker 1: bonn They just let him out. Yeah, it was self defense,
Speaker 1: my guy. Bro. I mean, that's probably one of the
Speaker 1: best ducts I've seen in my life. Bro. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you're talking about dreaming, I had dreams are jumping that high.
Speaker 1: But then again, Matt, I'm from im I live in Georgia,
Speaker 1: so I've seen I've seen him do this, do this
Speaker 1: a lot, and in the last couple of years, bro,
Speaker 1: And and this kid is definitely an athlete. Man. I
Speaker 1: think he's just he's just getting started. You're gonna see
Speaker 1: a lot of dunks, a lot of finishes like that
Speaker 1: from from this kid. Man, he's the most athletic kid
Speaker 1: that I've seen come, you know, uh coming to the
Speaker 1: league like this man, This kid is fascial, bro. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I love what this kid's been doing. I
Speaker 1: think he's definitely played his way back into the Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year conversation. You know, with him at nearly
Speaker 1: seventeen a game. Over the last eight LaMelo, since he's
Speaker 1: been inserted in that starting lineup, he's had about twenty
Speaker 1: points a game. Both these kids are playing great and
Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to the wire for this Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year and it could come down to whoever
Speaker 1: has uh their team sitting in a better position. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun to watch. But you know, love
Speaker 1: what we're seeing with this kid. And like we both agree,
Speaker 1: this kid is just scratching the service that the Bets
Speaker 1: that definitely yet to come. Jack Boogie and Uh the
Speaker 1: Rockets have decided to aren't ways teams oh and seven
Speaker 1: since Christian wood has Um went down with that ankle injury.
Speaker 1: This situation with Boogie is tough because he's getting healthy,
Speaker 1: but he's still not himself. Um, he's only he's at
Speaker 1: ten points, nearly a nine point six, seven point six rebounds,
Speaker 1: and two assists a game and only twenty minutes and
Speaker 1: eleven starts. I know there's been some frustration he wants
Speaker 1: his role to step up. He wants to play more.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on first the boogie situation with
Speaker 1: coach Silas and then we'll talk about potential suitors for Boogie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Chris Wood, Christian Wood falling going out the lineup.
Speaker 1: It definitely hurt them. I think they complement each other.
Speaker 1: He was able to be that center. You know, he
Speaker 1: can't move as much as he used to, so being
Speaker 1: able to catch the ball in black and have a
Speaker 1: afford that can spread the floor even he's still shooting threes,
Speaker 1: but having an afford that expanded for it made him
Speaker 1: that dominant center again. But just not getting an opportunity,
Speaker 1: you know, and not being able to get the looks
Speaker 1: and the and the minutes that you want. It could
Speaker 1: be frustrating the time, but I understand what Steve, what
Speaker 1: Steve Silace is doing, you know, going young, trying to
Speaker 1: build for the future. You have John Ware, you have
Speaker 1: all the deepole, you have Christian Wood, you have a
Speaker 1: lot of young stars that you can build a round.
Speaker 1: I think Bill he needs to go to a team
Speaker 1: that's continuing to play championship somewhere like Brooklyn, someone like
Speaker 1: l A. We can go in and just play his role.
Speaker 1: But at the same time he has to understand too,
Speaker 1: there's different strokes with different folks, there's different situations. Now
Speaker 1: that you didn't be injured a lot, you gotta go
Speaker 1: into everything. You gotta go into every situation with an
Speaker 1: open mind. And I think once team seed it, I
Speaker 1: think that the embracing want give him a better role
Speaker 1: than that he's expected. Yeah, I wanted to touch on
Speaker 1: what you said. This guy was arguably the best center
Speaker 1: in the game for a long time and one of
Speaker 1: the best centers we've ever seen. And the line of
Speaker 1: injuries and bad luck um he's had is is unbelievable,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So even though he's feeling
Speaker 1: better and he'll give you flashes of that twenty seven
Speaker 1: and seventeen type nights that he had a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: he's still not himself. And I think as a as
Speaker 1: a as a superstar at one point, how do you
Speaker 1: mentally handle that capacity because I'm sure that's kind of
Speaker 1: playing out right now. Of you know, he feels like
Speaker 1: he needs more minutes and more time. The coaching staff
Speaker 1: doesn't see it that way. So that's gonna be you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, a claim trained collision. So I agree, I
Speaker 1: definitely think he needs to go to a team that
Speaker 1: that has an opportunity to win, but with you know,
Speaker 1: veteran guys that you know can really helping help him
Speaker 1: along the way, because it's gonna be tough. Like I said,
Speaker 1: this guy was one of the best centers in the
Speaker 1: game and now his role has kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: been diminished down to it, you know, a twenty minute
Speaker 1: a game guy. When he was a guy that could
Speaker 1: you know, play thirty forty minutes a game. So this
Speaker 1: is a tough transition mentally for him. Um, like we
Speaker 1: said obviously offend of the program, my little bro of homie,
Speaker 1: we hope him the best and and we hope that
Speaker 1: he does land on his feet. And I think something
Speaker 1: key you said was being open minded because unfortunately he's
Speaker 1: not the boogie he was three years ago due to injury,
Speaker 1: and I think he's gonna have to reinvent himself and
Speaker 1: understand what is the most effective way for him to
Speaker 1: tell the team win. Wolves desired to fire Ryan saw
Speaker 1: Unders after getting off to a seven and twenty four record,
Speaker 1: which is tough because you know, cat being in out
Speaker 1: of the lineup. I think that Cats only played eleven
Speaker 1: out of the thirty one games. But even with that said,
Speaker 1: what was more interesting to me was the Damon Lillard
Speaker 1: tweet and I'm gonna read it right here. He says,
Speaker 1: how the hell do you not hire David Vanderpool And
Speaker 1: he's right there on the bench. He has been in
Speaker 1: the front office successfully and on the front of the
Speaker 1: bench of a winning team successfully for seven years, and
Speaker 1: he also played a major role in developing a dominant backcourt.
Speaker 1: Shake my damn head, Jack, this is this is the
Speaker 1: NFL's version of the Rooney rule bullshit. You know where
Speaker 1: black coaches aren't really getting that nod um. You know,
Speaker 1: congratulations to the Raptors and sister Chris Finch for the
Speaker 1: opportunity in Minnesota. But I think Dame tweeted what a
Speaker 1: lot of us are thinking. You know, I mean, you
Speaker 1: got a first assistant sitting right there, battle tested, waiting
Speaker 1: for his opportunity, and you go somewhere else to get
Speaker 1: a head coach. Uh. Decisions like this from front offices
Speaker 1: are probably reason why the so this team ain't ship.
Speaker 1: This is why a lot of teams don't win mad
Speaker 1: this is why a lot of teams don't have success
Speaker 1: because you have guys like Vanderpool. He's just like Bernie
Speaker 1: Bigger Staff when we played, it's always coaches. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of coaches that played that players like us Matt,
Speaker 1: whether they coaches or not. Before the game, we speak
Speaker 1: at half court. They come say, what's up. You're doing good.
Speaker 1: This is what you need to do in your game
Speaker 1: the coach. We respect guys that's played the game. Vanderpool
Speaker 1: is one of those guys that fall in that with
Speaker 1: Bernie Biggest Staff, with Tyler, all these coaches have been
Speaker 1: around for a while who we look up to. So
Speaker 1: I understand Damn Damon Lilli's frustrated, because I'm frustrated because
Speaker 1: he should have a job. What more can he do?
Speaker 1: What more does he have to do? He's that he's
Speaker 1: the second he's assistant head coach on the team, and
Speaker 1: you bringing somebody else like that, you can't be you
Speaker 1: can't be more disrespectful to that. And and I think
Speaker 1: for players like Dame Lillett and other players, they need
Speaker 1: to start speaking up for guys like that, because these
Speaker 1: are guys that we want to be coached by. These
Speaker 1: are the guys that we want to learn from. These
Speaker 1: are the guys have paid the dudes and belonged to
Speaker 1: be head coaches, and we gotta start fighting for these
Speaker 1: guys because we gotta remember they were once players too.
Speaker 1: You know, Minnesota kind of has a low key track
Speaker 1: record of doing this. You know, Sam Mitchell re placed
Speaker 1: the great Flip Saunders after he had passed um as
Speaker 1: head coach, and instead of giving Sam a real run,
Speaker 1: they bring Ryan Saunders in, you know, with Sam's you know,
Speaker 1: coach of the Year underneath this belt, didn't really get
Speaker 1: a shot there. So this is a pattern in the Minnesota,
Speaker 1: but not only Minnesota. This is a pattern around professional sports.
Speaker 1: People hire people who look like them, which is crazy because,
Speaker 1: like you said, these guys have definitely paid their dues.
Speaker 1: And today it's more about relating to players than anything else.
Speaker 1: It's such a player driven league now that if you
Speaker 1: can't relate to players, you're not gonna have a long
Speaker 1: time in this league. And I'm not saying that's what
Speaker 1: happened to Ryan Saunders, but I'm saying in in in
Speaker 1: Dames where being able to give Van Pool, Vanderpool a chance,
Speaker 1: he's a players guy that players look up to. Players
Speaker 1: respect similar to the Tyler situation, you know where t
Speaker 1: Lou was that cool dude that everyone talked to respected,
Speaker 1: and now he's you know, he's got another opportunity with
Speaker 1: the Clippers, and as the Clippers playing well. So this
Speaker 1: is just an unfortunate situation that happens too often, not
Speaker 1: only in the NBA but across sports um as a whole,
Speaker 1: and something like you said, needs to be addressed. It
Speaker 1: needs to be called out. We need to continue to
Speaker 1: call these teams out on their bullshit and biased views
Speaker 1: on hiring front office people and head coaches. And Ryan
Speaker 1: Sunders is one of my guys. I gotta send him
Speaker 1: a shout out, Matt. When I first got to Minnesota,
Speaker 1: the first person from the NBA are in the basketball
Speaker 1: world that reached out to me was Ryan sunder So.
Speaker 1: But if he ever ever be beat, my guy, and
Speaker 1: I gotta send him a shott And I appreciate him
Speaker 1: reaching out to me. Yeah, definitely, I'm sure he'll land
Speaker 1: on his feet. A young coach, really young that they
Speaker 1: had a list the other day. There's like four team
Speaker 1: players or fifth team players that are older than him
Speaker 1: in the NBA right now. But he's young. He'll land
Speaker 1: on his feet, but you know, hopefully David Vanderpool will
Speaker 1: get a look one of these days from a team.
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