Speaker 1: Let's get to the NCAA twent to me real quick, please,
Speaker 1: as the final four will be set after this weekend.
Speaker 1: Here's the latest bracket after the first two rounds in
Speaker 1: the first day of the Sweet sixteen. The top seeds
Speaker 1: of Duke, Houston, Alabama, and Auburn are all still alive
Speaker 1: heading into today's action. But I want to focus on
Speaker 1: Duke's Cooper Flag, who put up thirty as in thirty points,
Speaker 1: six rebounds, seven and sixt three blocks to lead the
Speaker 1: Blue Devils past Arizona last night in the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, this brother, Cooper Flag is the real deal.
Speaker 1: He's a real deal, the legit six' eight with a
Speaker 1: j with a, handle with passing, ability with, poise plays
Speaker 1: on both, ends plays defense and, offense can, hit goes
Speaker 1: to the free throw. LINE i, mean this brother is
Speaker 1: something special and he's probably gonna Win National player of
Speaker 1: The year the Way duke is looking right, now even
Speaker 1: THOUGH i was Thinking, FLORIDA i Think Cooper flag might
Speaker 1: win the national title if he does. That even if
Speaker 1: he doesn't do, THAT i think he'll be the number
Speaker 1: one overall pick in THE nba. DRAFT i think people
Speaker 1: are salivating. It, Listen i'm trying to figure this, out
Speaker 1: And i'll let my producers get in my ear if
Speaker 1: they Think i'm making a horrible comparison, Here i'm thinking box.
Speaker 1: OFFICE i think this is the greatest white prospect Since Larry.
Speaker 1: BIRD i think this is the greatest White american prospect
Speaker 1: Since Larry. BIRD a matter of, fact in an odd,
Speaker 1: way he might end up. BEING i, mean this kid's
Speaker 1: got superstar written all over him because he's got a,
Speaker 1: game but his the meaning fits the. Bill he doesn't back.
Speaker 1: Down he's rough and, tumble but it's classy in the same.
Speaker 1: Breath can go to his left or his, right can
Speaker 1: pull up mid, range long, range finish at the. Basket
Speaker 1: he's got all the. Tools but you know what else
Speaker 1: he has That Larry bird. Doesn't i'm not saying you
Speaker 1: can shoot Like. Larbrary Larry bird is a different. Animal
Speaker 1: but who knows this? Brother his, name ladies and, gentlemen
Speaker 1: they're already marketing. Him and you see the flag behind,
Speaker 1: him or you see him superposed within the bag and
Speaker 1: within his name Is cooper. Flag you put The american
Speaker 1: flag Behind oh my, GOD i, mean do you have
Speaker 1: do you have any. Idea how marketable that? Is squeaky clean,
Speaker 1: brother that's a superstar that happens to be, white and
Speaker 1: his last name Is. Flag, nobody nobody In america needs
Speaker 1: needs to even try to compete with him in. Endorsement,
Speaker 1: DearS oh my, Lord oh my, goodness it's it's Crazy Cooper.
Speaker 1: Flag and he got the game to back it, up
Speaker 1: The Brother. Special but let me tell you what the
Speaker 1: interesting part about him. Is we had this cause discussion
Speaker 1: this morning On First take where we were talking about
Speaker 1: a mount rushmore Of Duke university players Because duke obviously
Speaker 1: has had, many many many players throughout the. Years, okay
Speaker 1: and we get that. PART i don't think you can
Speaker 1: Touch Christian. Latner just too, successful A, duke just too, Successful,
Speaker 1: okay the living of the national, tiitle the whole, BIT
Speaker 1: a couple of, them, actually, Right Grant hill has to
Speaker 1: be number. One And i'm gonna tell you why that
Speaker 1: is Because Grant hill was the one that enabled The
Speaker 1: blue The Duke Blue devils to BEAT u n L.
Speaker 1: V y'all remember the NINETIES, unlv the Running, Rebels Stacey,
Speaker 1: Augman Larry, Johnson Anderson, Hunt Greg. ANTHONY i, mean my,
Speaker 1: lord these, brothers. Okay And i'm telling you right, now
Speaker 1: WHEN i think About duke AND i think About Grant,
Speaker 1: hill this is What i'm thinking about right, here Because
Speaker 1: i'm thinking about the fact that they had gotten annihilated
Speaker 1: by about thirty THE unlv in The National championship game
Speaker 1: the year before this next go, round same team going
Speaker 1: up against the Same duke team outside Of Grant, hill
Speaker 1: And Grant hill is the reason they were able to
Speaker 1: BEAT unlv that next. Year So Grant hill is number.
Speaker 1: One Grant hills didn't number One Christian. Latner And i'm
Speaker 1: gonna put my Man Jay williams FROM, espn who is
Speaker 1: A National player of The year and won A national champion.
Speaker 1: Ship i'm gonna put my Man Jay williams up there
Speaker 1: on That mount rushmore of Great duke, players and fourth
Speaker 1: is going to Be Cooper. Flag that's HOW i gotta
Speaker 1: look at, it. Y'all i'm just trying to look at
Speaker 1: it right. Now i'm just saying to, myself my, Goodness
Speaker 1: i'm trying to look up these numbers BECAUSE i want
Speaker 1: to make sure That i'm, right you. Know But i'm
Speaker 1: telling you right, Now i'm just looking at it right,
Speaker 1: here right, now let's go through the. List we're. Here
Speaker 1: they had never won a national championship in the program's
Speaker 1: history until nineteen ninety ninety. One ninety one ninety two they,
Speaker 1: won but if you, remember they lost in the national
Speaker 1: championship game TO unlv ONE o three seventy, three and
Speaker 1: then the very next year in nineteen ninety ninety, one
Speaker 1: is when they won their first national, Title Grand, Hill
Speaker 1: christian laytonon top Two Jay. Williams in two thousand and
Speaker 1: two thousand and, one, Okay Jay, williams they Beat. Arizona,
Speaker 1: okay they were thirty five and four that. Year Shane
Speaker 1: battier was on that. Team Jay williams only had sixteen that.
Speaker 1: Game Mike dunleavy had twenty. One he led them in.
Speaker 1: Scoring Shane battier had, Eighteen. Okay Richard jefferson was on
Speaker 1: The arizona squad With Gilbert. Arenas Gilbert arenas had ten that.
Speaker 1: Game Richard jefferson had. Nineteen Lauren woods had twenty. Two
Speaker 1: but they lost that game eighty two seventy two to The,
Speaker 1: Duke Jay williams and Now Cooper. Flag they Got booze
Speaker 1: and other. GUYS i know That Bobby. Hurley can't forget
Speaker 1: all of these. Guys they had a lot of great,
Speaker 1: teams no. DOUBT Jj reddick was, fantastic one of the great.
Speaker 1: Shooters never won a national championship with one of the
Speaker 1: great shooters In duke's, history no. Doubt BUT i gotta
Speaker 1: go With Cooper. Flag Cooper, flag he's. On i'm telling
Speaker 1: he won a National championsh's gotta win a national, championship
Speaker 1: got to win a national, Championship National player of The.
Speaker 1: Year that brother's one of the top four players in
Speaker 1: the history of The duke. Program