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Speaker 2: This is the Best of the Herd with Colin Cowherd

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Speaker 3: It's Tuesday here on the Herd.

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Speaker 4: Jason McIntyre back in for Colin Cowherd, who's on a

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Speaker 4: vacation and boy is.

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Speaker 3: He missing a lot now Lakers win again.

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Speaker 4: Kevin Durant is horrific.

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Speaker 3: We got the World.

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Speaker 4: Baseball Classic title game tonight, and oh my gosh, an

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Speaker 4: NFL trade just went down, shaking up the AFC even more.

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Speaker 4: Rachel Nichols, who got a great show today? Oh don't

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Speaker 4: you love it when a trade happens like break before

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Speaker 4: the show.

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is just a great week on the

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Speaker 5: calendar right on this Everything's happening every how and even

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Speaker 5: the NFL not in season chimes in.

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Speaker 4: Yes with this deal. Wen, we got mock drafts dropping that.

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Speaker 4: I don't like it all, but it's not about the

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Speaker 4: mock draft er. It's about the players. We'll get to

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Speaker 4: that later in the show, but we got to start

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Speaker 4: with the NFL trade. They're calling this a blockbuster. I

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Speaker 4: don't know that I would go there. The Broncos and

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Speaker 4: Dolphins make a seismic trade.

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Speaker 3: You got Jalen Waddle going from Miami.

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Speaker 4: To Denver, Waddle and a fourth in exchange, in exchange

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Speaker 4: for a first, third, and fourth. There it is on

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Speaker 4: the screen, So the Miami Dolphins will now have the

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Speaker 4: thirtieth pick in the first round, thirtieth overall, and a

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Speaker 4: third and the fourth.

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Speaker 3: Miami pretty clearly signaling what they're doing.

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Speaker 4: So a long time ago, somebody smart told me, Jay,

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Speaker 4: don't believe people when they say something. Believe people when

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Speaker 4: they do something. Somebody comes out and says, oh, I

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Speaker 4: want to start a business, and they're playing video games

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Speaker 4: around the clock. Right, Somebody says I want to write

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Speaker 4: a screenplay and they're out boos en it up three

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Speaker 4: nights a week at bars.

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Speaker 3: Okay, believe their actions. For the last month in chains,

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Speaker 3: the Miami Dolphins have been.

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Speaker 4: Said, we're not tanking. No, we're not tanking. That's not

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Speaker 4: a thing we do. We just got rid of Tyreek

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Speaker 4: And then the Miami Dolphins went out and said, we're

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Speaker 4: gonna go get Malik Willis. See, that's not what tanking

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Speaker 4: teams do. We've got maybe our franchise quarterback. And then

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Speaker 4: now five minutes later, here come the Dolphins trading one

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Speaker 4: of their three good players. Guys, I'm not even exaggerating.

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Speaker 4: The Miami Dolphins roster is horrible. Did I say horrible? Horrific?

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Speaker 4: It's terrible. It's right down there with the Jets, and

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Speaker 4: it's very clear. The signal is out Miami is tanking.

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Speaker 4: I know you don't want to hear it. Tankings for

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Speaker 4: the NBA. No, the Miami Dolphins have a clear vision.

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Speaker 4: We need to clear up our cap, clean it all out.

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Speaker 4: Let's get rid of the old players from the old regime,

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Speaker 4: and let's target the twenty twenty seven draft.

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Speaker 3: They are loading up.

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Speaker 4: I saw they have four third round picks or fourth

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Speaker 4: round picks for next year's draft. Everybody knows next year's

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Speaker 4: draft is the one with quarterbacks. Okay, Arch Banning would

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Speaker 4: be the big prize. Everybody would love him. My Jets

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Speaker 3: They are also in full on tank vote.

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Speaker 4: I mean Gino Smith really seriously, and if you don't

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Speaker 4: like Joe Burrow, who was absolutely not the number one

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Speaker 4: it's clear the Miami Dolphins are tanking and looking to

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Speaker 4: the future. Milike Willis, I'm sure he has some buyer's

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Speaker 4: remorse on accepting that contract. Obviously the millions of dollars

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Speaker 3: They're doing cartwheels in.

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Speaker 4: Altitude right now. I mean, Sean Payton gets a great

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Speaker 4: I know he hasn't been an all pro. I don't

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Speaker 4: He had a great first two seasons in the league.

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Speaker 4: I think thirteen hundred yards in year two, and he

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Speaker 4: fits seamlessly alongside Courtland Sutton, who's the big body, contested guy.

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Speaker 4: Wattle you see, is great over the middle, got the speed.

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Speaker 4: They got young Pat Bryant, who looks like a player.

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Speaker 4: They drafted him.

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Speaker 4: He showed, well, you maybe move off of Marvin Mims,

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Speaker 4: tight end in Evan Ingram Denver. The arrow is clearly

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Speaker 4: pointing up. You've got the quarterback on the rookie deal,

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Speaker 4: and the move is fortify the roster. Broncos fans were

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Speaker 4: a little upset that they didn't do more yet in

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Speaker 4: the offseason, kind of resigning their guys. No big splashes.

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Speaker 4: This qualifies as a splash. I do wonder, Listen, the

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Speaker 4: trade just broke thirty minutes ago, so we don't know

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Speaker 4: the details.

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Speaker 3: But is it possible that the Broncos looked.

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Speaker 4: At the draft analyzed guys from the combine said listen,

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Speaker 4: I don't think we can get anybody plug and play

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Speaker 4: that's at the Jalen Waddle level. This is a season

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Speaker 4: pro he comes in. Yet listen, Sean Payton's gonna unlock

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Speaker 4: I think this is a great trade for the Broncos.

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Speaker 4: And I will add, folks, you look around the AFC,

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Speaker 4: there's a lot of uncertainty. I mean, hell, the Bills

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Speaker 4: and Ravens, two contenders with superstar quarterbacks. They just dumped

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Speaker 4: their coaches. What's that reboot going to be? Like? Patrick

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Speaker 4: Mahoons is coming off a major injury, and I know

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Speaker 4: they're saying all the right things, Oh, Mahomes, yeah, he'll

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Speaker 4: be ready for the opener. Okay, well you can say that,

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Speaker 4: but again, what are your actions. They just went and

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Speaker 3: I know the league wouldn't love that.

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Speaker 4: They love Mahomes back in the saddle, but there's uncertainty

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Speaker 3: They don't have a secondary. I mean, they just lost

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Speaker 4: So we're looking at Chiefs down, Ravens down, Bills. I mean,

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Speaker 4: the Steelers, what's their quarterback situation? Uncertainty that rains there too, Jacksonville.

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Speaker 4: a home run for the Denver Broncos. Just an outstanding move.

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Speaker 4: Sean Payton and company in Denver have done a phenomenal

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Speaker 4: job pivoting from Russell Wilson's disaster too quickly. Number one

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Speaker 4: I haven't seen an update in the odds. I think

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Speaker 4: Denver probably is your favorite in the AFC heading into

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Speaker 4: next season. So great trade for the Broncos. Miami Dolphins fans,

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Speaker 4: as they like to say on social media, enjoy the projects.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be a rough year for the Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's pivot to last night's huge game in

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Speaker 4: had an option here, folks. Do we start positive with

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Speaker 4: the Lakers because JJ Reddick is really unlocking some incredible

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Speaker 4: stuff with this Lakers team.

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Speaker 3: They're one of the hottest.

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Speaker 4: ten games, six in a row. Nice comeback in the

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Speaker 4: to pull back a little bit on offense.

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Speaker 3: Pick your spots. What does Lebron do? Pulls back? Picks

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Speaker 4: Defense? Lebron is great defensive. Last night Lebron were passing.

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Speaker 4: Lebron's doing it all. JJ Reddick has been magnificent. He's

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Speaker 4: many other great candidates. Joe Mizzoula's up there. You got

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Speaker 2: You know, it's one of the things we talked about

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Speaker 4: Yeah, dynamic is the perfect word. So the offense struggled

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Speaker 4: And this is where Reddick comes in. And I know

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Speaker 4: he watched Durant light up the Lakers in the first

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Speaker 4: half the midy ISOs against Austin Reeves Marcus mart Durant

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Speaker 4: love Kevin Durant, and we'll go after him here in

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Speaker 4: a minute for what's going on in Houston.

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Speaker 3: But Durant wilted.

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Speaker 4: Folks. I've never seen a superstar, top fifteen player in

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Speaker 4: Kevin Durant was so uncertain as you see these highlights.

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Speaker 4: It started to melt down when Austin Reeves in the

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Speaker 4: Kad just lowered the shoulder and banged him and got

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Speaker 4: a flagrant. And there he is stepping a I mean,

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Speaker 4: Durant was totally rattled by everything Reddick did.

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Speaker 3: It was a masterful performance.

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Speaker 4: And I know, Jay Mack, why are you glazing the

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Speaker 4: Lakers again? Come on, man, stop, they're not contenders. Folks.

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Speaker 3: Listen, I don't know what you want me to do.

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Speaker 4: You said the Lakers couldn't beat the good teams last

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Speaker 4: four games against good teams. They beat the Knicks, they

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Speaker 4: I don't know how many of you guys were watching

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Speaker 4: great sports week. Come on, and I didn't even mentioned

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Speaker 4: my Men's Basketball League championship. Oh my lords this week, I.

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Speaker 4: That's my style. I don't want to be a leader

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Speaker 4: I think that kind of sort of puts a ceiling

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Speaker 7: But it's all it's all neat. I mean to be honest,

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Speaker 3: And in this era, it's the player empowerment era.

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Speaker 4: Everybody has their thing, right Curry with the Threes, Lebron

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Speaker 4: Durant's thing? I would be the best one on one

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Speaker 4: This is a team sport. You want to be a

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Speaker 3: This basketball is a team sport. And I've seen zero

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Speaker 4: It's disappointing because he is an all time great when

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Speaker 4: Here he is talking about the double teams and the turnovers.

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Speaker 7: Maybe I thought he just got the way get in

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Speaker 4: And sorry to figure out.

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Speaker 4: Let's get let's just from college basketball. Let's bringing my

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Speaker 8: Well as somebody who hosts on a lot of Saturdays

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Speaker 8: and Sundays in August when there isn't much to do,

436
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Speaker 8: I would rather have wait.

437
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Speaker 6: Like it was actually kind of sad.

438
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Speaker 8: We were on air Saturday night and we had the

439
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Speaker 8: four screens going, games on every screen. I was like,

440
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Speaker 8: this is the last Saturday we're going to get this

441
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Speaker 8: for the very foreseeable future. So it's a fun time

442
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Speaker 8: of year, and there's a lot. I'll tell you this,

443
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Speaker 8: there's a lot to talk about. It feels like there's

444
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Speaker 8: more storylines, more intriguing players than there have been in

445
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Speaker 8: years past.

446
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Speaker 4: Well let's start with you making fun of me. Rachel

447
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,239
Speaker 4: got in her digs yesterday. A couple of people call

448
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Speaker 4: me crazy. So I like camera Boozer a lot. He's

449
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Speaker 4: eighteen and a half years old. Sure, I'm saying at

450
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Speaker 4: right now where he is as a player. He can't

451
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Speaker 4: jump over, he can't jump on this stage, he doesn't

452
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Speaker 4: have any vertical He's so good all around, skilled, the

453
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Speaker 4: most efficient player in Ken Palm history. You know the stats.

454
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Speaker 4: I say, right now, he's ahead of the pace Nikola

455
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Speaker 4: Jokic was when he was a teenager coming to America

456
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Speaker 4: and play in the NBA, and people took that how

457
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Speaker 4: could you compare them? Well, young Jokic wasn't as skilled

458
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Speaker 4: as Boozer is. Now Booser has a better bag, and

459
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Speaker 4: I think he's maybe the best player in college basketball.

460
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Speaker 4: I don't think he's the best upside, but I'm just

461
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Speaker 4: curious your thoughts on Boozer and Duke as we had

462
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Speaker 4: into the tournament.

463
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Speaker 8: Yeah, by the way, let's circle back to the Miami

464
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Speaker 8: of Ohio at some point because I enjoyed your guys

465
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Speaker 8: conversation about that, and I agree with both of you.

466
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Speaker 6: Cambu's are okay.

467
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Speaker 8: So I haven't seen a ton of Jokic seventeen year

468
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Speaker 8: old Serbia film to compare and contrast, but Broke Yeah,

469
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Speaker 8: so no, Listen, he is probably the best player in

470
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Speaker 8: this tournament right now, in this moment. And what I

471
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Speaker 8: will also say is he's got a team that's uniquely

472
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Speaker 8: built around his skill set. Now, what's interesting about Duke

473
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Speaker 8: and this is just going to be a conversation until

474
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Speaker 8: they tip off on Thursday is two of their starters

475
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Speaker 8: were out for the a SEC tournament. Caleb Foster's probably

476
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Speaker 8: their best guard, and Pat Gongba is the guy. He's

477
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Speaker 8: like a true seven footer, and I think what's interesting

478
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Speaker 8: about him, I think he takes a lot of the

479
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Speaker 8: pressure off of Can Booser, especially on the defensive end,

480
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Speaker 8: to have to kind of carry the weight on both

481
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Speaker 8: ends of the court. So Cambus is probably the best

482
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Speaker 8: player in college about He's gonna be national player and

483
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Speaker 8: it's deserved. So I think there's other guys with higher

484
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Speaker 8: upside we could talk about. But I think the big

485
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Speaker 8: thing for Duke is are they going to get those

486
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Speaker 8: two guys back, specifically Patrick Gongba?

487
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

488
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Speaker 6: Are you hearing?

489
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Speaker 4: I know you're plugged in many teams around the country.

490
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Speaker 4: Do you think the big guy will be back or

491
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Speaker 4: like foot soreness is so damn general?

492
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Speaker 8: Yeah, no, so it seems as though he will be back.

493
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Speaker 8: I'll be curious playing a sixteen seed on Thursday if

494
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Speaker 8: they end up bringing him back for the opener. If

495
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Speaker 8: they just wait until that second round game, which I

496
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Speaker 8: believe would be Ohio State and TCU, that would be

497
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Speaker 8: the interesting thing. I actually think he's more important that

498
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Speaker 8: the big man Patrick Gongba than the than Caleb Foster

499
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Speaker 8: the guard. And you would think, well he's the point,

500
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Speaker 8: but you know Cam Boozer too. I would say this,

501
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Speaker 8: he's kind of a pretty good playmaker, kind of at

502
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Speaker 8: the four, at the five, and so weirdly, I think

503
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Speaker 8: the other big guy with him is as important, if

504
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Speaker 8: not more important, than Calee Foss. To answer your question directly,

505
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Speaker 8: I would not expect Kaloe Foster any time soon.

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Speaker 6: I think we could see Pat Gongba.

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Speaker 8: I probably wouldn't assume it'd be for the opening game

508
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Speaker 8: against I believe it's Siana.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, yea. All right, let's go to the team

510
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Speaker 4: I have winning it all. I have Arizona. I really

511
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Speaker 4: went on on a limb this year. I know Arizona.

512
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Speaker 3: I had Duke last year.

513
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Speaker 4: They let me down. I think Arizona four first round

514
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Speaker 4: picks in the starting line up. I mean they're loaded. Uh.

515
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Speaker 4: The only two losses were back to back. Pete missed

516
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Speaker 4: one of those games.

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Speaker 3: Do you have Arizona winning in it?

518
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Speaker 4: If not, who do you have and what do you

519
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Speaker 4: think about Arizona? Not?

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Speaker 6: Probably have Arizona winning it. You know I haven't. I'm

521
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Speaker 6: actually you know, I'm.

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Speaker 8: One of those guys like I know when the bracket

523
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Speaker 8: comes out on Sunday.

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Speaker 6: Everson like, what are your picks? Give me your final four?

525
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Speaker 8: I'm like, can you can you get tell me the

526
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Speaker 8: Duke injury report? Can you tell me the Yukon injury report?

527
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Speaker 8: The starting point guard left the biggiest tournament championship game.

528
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Speaker 8: So Arizona to me, is the best team. They've been

529
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Speaker 8: the most consistent team. I was in Vegas on an

530
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Speaker 8: opening night. They played against Florida, which was obviously the

531
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Speaker 8: defending champs, and Florida was a comfortable favorite, and Arizona

532
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Speaker 8: won that game, and they haven't really slowed down. What

533
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Speaker 8: I think is in interesting about Arizona. What's interesting about

534
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Speaker 8: college basketball Jmac this year, I think you'll appreciate Rachel

535
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Speaker 8: as well. Is like we talk about the NCAA Tournament

536
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Speaker 8: being such a guard driven thing. All of the best

537
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Speaker 8: teams have good front courts, and it's actually Arizona that

538
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Speaker 8: probably has the best backcourt out of all of those teams.

539
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Speaker 8: And so you mentioned Burry's, you mentioned Jade and Bradley.

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Speaker 8: I think they are the They are the deserved favorite,

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Speaker 8: especially with the Duke injuries, and I think too, they

542
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Speaker 8: have a pretty favorable path. I know Arkansas is hot,

543
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Speaker 8: but Arkansas is probably the only team that I could

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Speaker 8: see beating them out of that region. And you kind

545
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Speaker 8: of need a perfect game from them because they're not

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Speaker 8: very good in the front court. And so to me,

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Speaker 8: I would say that Arizona, excuse me, has a very

548
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Speaker 8: advantageous path, and I do believe they are the deserved favorite.

549
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Speaker 8: And when I eventually fill out a bracket, barring something surprising.

550
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Speaker 8: And by the way, Jayden Bradley left the Big twelve

551
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Speaker 8: championship game for a minute with a risk thing, so

552
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Speaker 8: but assuming that he's good to go, they will probably

553
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Speaker 8: be my eventually.

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Speaker 4: So here's it's my final four, her biggest apart, and

555
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Speaker 4: then give us yours that you haven't done a bracket.

556
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Speaker 4: So I have Arizona Michigan, I mean shocker, and then

557
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Speaker 4: I have Duke against Illinois.

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Speaker 3: I saw, I know Illinois a little out there. Rachel

559
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Speaker 3: agrees with three of these.

560
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Speaker 4: She has a different one. We'll reveal soon. Anything you

561
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:19,360
Speaker 4: love her hate here and again, I'm a big boy.

562
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Speaker 4: I can take it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't love the Illinois thing.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 8: Here's the thing is that I think that the thing

566
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Speaker 8: I've learned through the years covering this tournament but also

567
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Speaker 8: just loving college basketball is generally I like the thing

568
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Speaker 8: that I've decided the last.

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Speaker 6: Three or four years.

570
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Speaker 8: When a team shows you who they are all year,

571
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Speaker 8: listen to them, you know, and so like I'll give

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Speaker 8: you an example. I'm a Yukona lum. I'd love to

573
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Speaker 8: sit here and say, Dan Hurley, we're going three and four.

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Speaker 8: Everything's good. You know, I watch thirty two, thirty three

575
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Speaker 8: Yukon games. Everything is not good. That team has flaws,

576
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Speaker 8: and so with Yukon, I do think they have a

577
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Speaker 8: favorable draw. But I bring it up because I'm not

578
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Speaker 8: going to sit here and dismiss what I saw the

579
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Speaker 8: last four or five months.

580
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Speaker 6: And with Illinois.

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Speaker 8: I like Illinois, but four and five in their last

582
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Speaker 8: five Jamack, I'm sure you know the stat no team

583
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Speaker 8: that's ever lost their conference tournament opener has ever gone

584
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Speaker 8: on to win the NCAA championship. Illinois did, but you

585
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Speaker 8: know you don't have him winning the national championship. Listen,

586
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Speaker 8: I'll say this, that bracket does feel pretty wide.

587
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Speaker 6: Open.

588
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Speaker 8: Florida's obviously not coming off a very strong showing at

589
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Speaker 8: the SEC Tournament. I think Houston's good, They're not what

590
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Speaker 8: they were a year ago, and so stranger things have happened,

591
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Speaker 8: jamr or J Mack. I'm not gonna pick you a

592
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Speaker 8: part on.

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Speaker 4: That, Okay, I gotta ask him about a cuff. A

594
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Speaker 4: lot of people are saying, oh, he's better than Derreck Rose,

595
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Speaker 4: better than the job Wall, better than Booker when they

596
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Speaker 4: were in college.

597
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Speaker 8: It's stick Cam Boozer, Nicola Jokic thing. Because I've been

598
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Speaker 8: in this argument for about three months.

599
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Speaker 4: Well wait, except Derrick Rose took Memphis to the Natty

600
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Speaker 4: within seconds, if not for Somers of winning at.

601
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Speaker 8: All, Well, it just depends what your definition of like

602
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Speaker 8: best or greatest or whatever. Yeah, because I think that's

603
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Speaker 8: been especially like the Kentucky contingent who has followed Kelli

604
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Speaker 8: Perry's career. John Wall, you know, led Kentucky to an

605
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Speaker 8: Elite eight. And I think that's what they've been saying

606
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Speaker 8: is let's see what Darius Acuff does in the tournament.

607
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Speaker 8: But I actually went back and looked at the stats.

608
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Speaker 8: The stats actually aren't even comparable. The crazy thing about

609
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Speaker 8: a cuff with any of these guys won and Kelvin

610
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Speaker 8: Sampson said this before they played Arkansas this year, is

611
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Speaker 8: he's a great shooter. Like I think we think, oh,

612
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Speaker 8: the finishes at the rim and all this. He's shooting

613
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Speaker 8: like forty three percent from three, which is insane. And

614
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Speaker 8: the other thing too, that I don't think he gets

615
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Speaker 8: enough credit for. He doesn't turn the ball over like

616
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Speaker 8: it's it's bananas like that. I think the Alabama game,

617
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Speaker 8: it was a double overtime game. I think he played

618
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Speaker 8: like forty nine minutes, had one or two turnovers. It

619
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Speaker 8: was the most preposterous stat line I've ever seen. Super efficient,

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Speaker 8: I think, listen, we could get into the semantics of whatever.

621
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Speaker 8: I think he had the best regular season of any

622
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Speaker 8: Caliperry guard ever. But to your point, j Mac, you

623
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Speaker 8: know Derrick Rose has the tournament success. John Wall went

624
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Speaker 8: to an Elite eight deer and Fox went to an

625
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Speaker 8: Elite eight. So Acuff obviously has some games to win,

626
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Speaker 8: and to your point, a tough path with Arizona.

627
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Speaker 4: They do have a Chefughlin. I want to go back

628
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 4: to you. You said Yukon doesn't have a bad path,

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Speaker 4: and you're right I'm looking at it. Now.

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Speaker 3: Have you heard anything on UCLA's two injured players.

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Speaker 8: Aaron mc cronin said all the right things after that,

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Speaker 8: you know, and this is they all do. I'll also

633
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Speaker 8: say this is that when I look at the conference tournaments,

634
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Speaker 8: like I am somebody who loves conference tournaments, I've covered

635
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Speaker 8: them for years, but at the Big East, you know,

636
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Speaker 8: whatever I was thinking watching this conference tournament, when the

637
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Speaker 8: two UCLA guys go down, when Jaydon Bradley goes down,

638
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Speaker 8: I don't know that that is the most efficient way

639
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 8: to be doing things the week before the biggest games

640
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Speaker 8: of the season. But McK cronin did say, like Billideoh

641
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Speaker 8: and Donovan Dent, who are their two best players? They

642
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 8: both left one each each one game Friday and Saturday.

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Speaker 8: He said they'll be back. I have no reason to

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Speaker 8: believe that they won't be. Donovan Dent looked like he

645
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 8: could have come back in that game on Saturday, and

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Speaker 8: I think they you know, McCrone is probably ready to

647
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Speaker 8: get on the plane and come.

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Speaker 6: Back to LA and so I assume that they will

649
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Speaker 6: be good to go.

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Speaker 8: And I think that is an interesting one to watch

651
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Speaker 8: because I actually think they match up favorably or fairly. Well,

652
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Speaker 8: probably is the right way to put it against Yukon.

653
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 8: Yukon's really struggled to guard the perimeter. And again, I've

654
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 8: watched way too many of their games here on FS

655
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 8: one of course, lovely FS one and Fox, but I

656
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 8: watched way too many of their games. I think Donovan

657
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 8: Denk can give them problems, assuming he's well, that's the problem.

658
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 3: I've reached out to a couple of UCLA boosters.

659
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 6: Oh, okay, we'll let.

660
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 4: You know nothing yet, But if those guys aren't around,

661
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 4: Yukon's going to the Sweet sixteen, no doubt. And I'll

662
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 4: be honest, I don't love Michigan State now. I don't

663
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 4: even know if I think Louisville, South Florida that's one

664
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 4: of the games. I bet we'll talk about those, I

665
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 4: think tomorrow real quick.

666
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 8: I don't want to burn your sources. But what are

667
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 8: they saying about the UCLA situation.

668
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:46,479
Speaker 4: Well, i'll let you know when I hear.

669
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 6: Okay, I'll tell you yes.

670
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 4: But Louisville's another one, and they're in the quadrant with Yukon.

671
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 4: Mikhail Brown he missed the last four games, like he's

672
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 4: an NBA guy, does he want to jeopardize a being

673
00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,719
Speaker 4: a lottery picking to play against South Florida.

674
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 6: So I and they've been kind of playing.

675
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 8: I don't want to say they play better without them,

676
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 8: but they played reasonably well in the ACC tournament beat SMU,

677
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 8: and I think that was Miami.

678
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 6: I think they lost so many games last week. I

679
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 6: can't keep trusting.

680
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 4: Talk people off the ledge here. The last time Purdue

681
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 4: won the Big Ten tournament, they went all in. They

682
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 4: lost as a number one seed in the NCAA tournament.

683
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 4: They just went all in, took down Michigan and flying

684
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 4: high till my buddies are like, oh, should we bet

685
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 4: Purdue to win the NADDY?

686
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 3: I was like, WHOA slow your role? They're not losing

687
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 3: a queen's.

688
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 8: First NCAA tournament, first year of eligibility. That's a pretty

689
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 8: cool aggressive.

690
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 3: Is going to beat him.

691
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 4: I don't know any Miami Missouri. I don't feel confident

692
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 4: about them. And then Gonzaga is not good. Can AJ

693
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 4: debonsa try on a run and pull it off.

694
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 8: To the Elite eight It's not inconceivable. No, it's not inconceivable.

695
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 8: And AJ has been so awesome, and I'll say this

696
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 8: is that once the season went sideways. For people who

697
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 8: haven't followed the Byu story, they know they have a

698
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 8: lottery pick whatever, they've had six season ending injuries.

699
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 6: I mean, that is preposterous.

700
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 8: And this guy, like and I'll give him so much credit,

701
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 8: and his family is the best. I've known his parents

702
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 8: for a long time, or specifically his dad Ace. They

703
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 8: the conversation, Like I thought, from the outside, I was like,

704
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 8: I wonder if he's just gonna shut it down. He's

705
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 8: done what he needs to do, and instead it's the

706
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 8: exact opposite. He's playing forty minutes every night. He's going

707
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 8: you know, he had forty points in the Big Twelve

708
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 8: Tournament opener. You know average, How about this? He made

709
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 8: the All Big Twelve Tournament team and they didn't even

710
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 8: win in the quarterfinals. So to your point, I clearly

711
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 8: don't have the box scores in front of me, But

712
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 8: I mean, you just talk listen.

713
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 6: If you can get.

714
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 8: Thirty two, thirty five, forty and Big twelve games, there's

715
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 8: nothing you're gonna see in the tournament that you aren't

716
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,239
Speaker 8: gonna be ready for. And the other thing I would say, too,

717
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 8: that's been cool to follow his story. You could just

718
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 8: see him getting more and more and more comfortable over

719
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 8: the course of the year. I don't know if you'll

720
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 8: ask me before the end of the segment, but that

721
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 8: would be my number one overall.

722
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 6: Okay, Oh, he would be one hundred percent.

723
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 3: So I have I had a hot take in the

724
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 3: meeting this morning.

725
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 4: Oh, people did not like it.

726
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 3: I said, I don't want the number one pick in

727
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 3: the draft this year.

728
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 4: There's too many good players and inevitably, whoever you pick

729
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 4: is gonna have a lot of pressure to deliver as

730
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 4: the number one. When shots a cuff debonsa boozer, Caleb Wilson.

731
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 3: Caleb Wilson boozer head to head, it was like, oh

732
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 3: my gosh.

733
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 8: So I will say this, it's so unfortunate that Caleb

734
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 8: Wilson will not be in this tournament. And I say

735
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 8: this all the time about him, you know, as somebody

736
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 8: who covers you know, the high school and the college stuff.

737
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 8: Every kid you meet, I'm built different, I'm a doll,

738
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 8: you know, and it's like and then they get to college.

739
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 8: It's like your averaging nine a game at Clembs and

740
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 8: everybody calmed down, you know. And so Caleb Wilson is

741
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 8: that guy, go back and look he outplayed Uh, he

742
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 8: actually outplayed Darren Peterson. Was one of the games where

743
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 8: Darren Peterson. Uh, he actually played a reasonable mount in

744
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 8: that game, unc played by you.

745
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 6: In an exhibition.

746
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 8: I know you don't want to take too much out

747
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 8: of it, but he was really good in that game,

748
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 8: and he outplayed Cam Boozer. And so it's such a

749
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 8: shame that we're not going to get to see him

750
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 8: in this tournament. And I do think that it does put.

751
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 6: A definitive ceiling on what North Carolina can do.

752
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 4: Oh, I took VCU and no, there you I will.

753
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 6: I will when I eventually fill out my bracket.

754
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 2: I will.

755
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 4: Right, So you just saw some Darren Peterson highlights. I

756
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 4: just you know, you ask anybody around the sport, and

757
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 4: it was kind of a mystery. There was a lot

758
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 4: of well, I don't think anything you think of NBA.

759
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 4: He has played a lot more lately, as you notice,

760
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 4: I don't know. I can't tell if they're dangerous or not. Aaron,

761
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 4: where do you fall? They got col Baptist. Baptist has

762
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:34,280
Speaker 4: a lefty who's really freaking good. This point guard Kansas

763
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 4: will win. I'm not a believer in Saint John. Sorry, uh,

764
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 4: can Kansas give Duke a game Peterson against Boozer?

765
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 3: I this Kansas team that win over Arizona was like whoa.

766
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:49,840
Speaker 6: But they did it without Darren Peterson.

767
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 4: Though, so now you add Peterson or is Peterson like

768
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:54,959
Speaker 4: pull back's weird?

769
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 8: Let me say this is that I think, you know,

770
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 8: for anybody who has followed any thing that I do,

771
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 8: and I don't mean to be like, oh, you know,

772
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 8: listen to what I say or whatever, but I was

773
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 8: one of the early vocal critics of Darren Peterson, and

774
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 8: I think it got misrepresented of I want him to

775
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 8: play through.

776
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 6: Injuries because I love college basketball. That's clearly not it.

777
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 8: You know, he could be worth five hundred million, six

778
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 8: hundred seven hundred eight hundred million dollars before the end

779
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 8: of his career.

780
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 6: If he's not healthy, he shouldn't play.

781
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 8: Where I think the frustration came out for a lot

782
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 8: of people was that every day the story was different.

783
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 8: One day, it's a hamstring, then it's cramps, then he's

784
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 8: playing full games, then he's pulling himself out, and you

785
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 8: just could never get the definitive answer. But I think

786
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,439
Speaker 8: what's interesting is is that since you know, whether whether

787
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 8: he's playing because he's healthier, because he was kind of

788
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 8: under fire under a microscope or whatever.

789
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 6: I think you brought up the point.

790
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 8: I don't think they have played as well with him

791
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 8: in the lineup, trying to figure out how to reintegrate

792
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:55,439
Speaker 8: him into everything they're doing.

793
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 6: Well, you know, you and I will will you know

794
00:35:58,239 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 6: one of us is gonna win.

795
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 8: A stake dinner caause don't thin they're beating Saint John's

796
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 8: in the round of thirty two.

797
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 6: I really wow.

798
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 4: Okay, any coaches here under the most pressure, I mean,

799
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 4: like Arizona's Tommy Lloyd's not under pressure.

800
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 8: Oh, I would disagree. I think he's under the most

801
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 8: pressure Tommy.

802
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 6: They haven't.

803
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,240
Speaker 8: Arizona has not made a final four since two thousand

804
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 8: and one. And if you don't do it this year

805
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 8: out of the West the bracket that they got. Now, listen,

806
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 8: if a cuff goes for fifty and he has a

807
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 8: Kemba moment or a Walter Clayton moment, That's one thing.

808
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 8: I don't think the pressure is actually on Tommy to

809
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 8: get to win a national championship. I think it's if

810
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 8: you can't get to a final four after this regular

811
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 8: season out of the West as vocal.

812
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,720
Speaker 6: That's a you know, relative.

813
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 8: The fan base is passionate, but it's not like a

814
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 8: you know, an Ohio State football fan base or now

815
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 8: Alabama football fan base. But if they can't get to

816
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 8: a final four, I think he's got the most people

817
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 8: say Shire, it's like, you know, Shires in his fourth year,

818
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 8: like Shire has elevated the p Graham since coach k

819
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 8: took over.

820
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 4: Like that's an indisputable fact. If you look at the

821
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 4: number flag last year, they choked down the stretch. But

822
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 4: let me go back to Lord, I need to take

823
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 4: that back. I forgot about some of these bad losses.

824
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 4: He said that Princeton loss costs me a lot of money.

825
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 4: We don't need to talk about that. The lost to

826
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 4: Houston not that bad. No, no, no, no, yeah.

827
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 8: Yes, two years ago he lost to Clemson. Yeah, that

828
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 8: was at staple of Crypto dot com arena.

829
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 4: I was there. Good, you're good, Tommy Lloyd has some pressure.

830
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 4: They're not losing in the second round.

831
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Speaker 1: Yere No.

832
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 8: I think listen, and I think Arkansas is uniquely not

833
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 8: a good like I think Arizona's a bad matchup for Arkansas.

834
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 3: It is Arkansas getting by Wisconsin so fair.

835
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 6: You know what's actually really funny? I forgot this.

836
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 8: There's some Arizona Wisconsin tournament history from likemind me, back

837
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 8: to back elite eights, Arizona fans cover your ears, back

838
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 8: to back elite eights. Wisconsin beat Arizona to go to

839
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 8: the final four twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, and so he yeah, yeah,

840
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 8: So when the bracket came out, I'm thinking Arizona fans

841
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 8: are going to be upset. They got to face Darius

842
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 8: a Cup potentially in the sweet six games. They're like, I, oh,

843
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 8: what Wisconsin. I'm like, listen, Wisconsin's really good. If you

844
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 8: can't be Wisconsin, that's a you problem. I can't be

845
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 8: worrying about twenty fourteen.

846
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 4: Although yeah, no, dude, those were so I'm a weirdo

847
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 4: who remembers the hid losses went than the wins.

848
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 8: You can't remember your bad bets or you're you're And

849
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 8: I had Arizona in both those games against Wisconsin.

850
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 4: Well, I was devastating losses.

851
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 6: The first one I was at. It was funny.

852
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 8: Aaron Gordon was on Arizona. I was like watching the Nuggets.

853
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 8: Certain he plays for the nugget still I think the

854
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 8: other night and I was like, oh, yeah, I remember when,

855
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 8: so that game was crazy. It was an overtime game

856
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 8: and I'm pretty sure no one had more than a

857
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 8: one point lead for like the final twelve minutes or.

858
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 6: Something like that.

859
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 3: Looking up on YouTube, that game was finansing.

860
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 4: Arizona was coots.

861
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 3: All right, we got to go back to Miami of Ohio. Yeah,

862
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 3: something rachel Or I said triggered.

863
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 5: No.

864
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 6: I want to give rachel credit.

865
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 8: I think she nailed it this kind like cause you know, listen,

866
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 8: you can't listen to dumb on social media, and not

867
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 8: everyone on social media is dumb to not you, nobody,

868
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 8: nobody on set here, but this I did see some

869
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 8: they shouldn't be in because now teams are gonna schedule

870
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Speaker 8: to go undefeated. I'm like, I gotta be careful what

871
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Speaker 8: words I use here? What descriptive words? I don't want to,

872
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 8: you know, get an SCC violation. You know how dumb

873
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Speaker 8: you have to be to think that you can schedule

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Speaker 8: your way to a thirty one and oh regular season.

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Speaker 6: You know how hard it is. You know how many ankle.

876
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Speaker 8: Twists you know, and especially at that level, jam you know,

877
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Speaker 8: like you're you're taking buses places, you know, you're taking

878
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Speaker 8: two layover flights to go, and it's like this idea

879
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Speaker 8: that you know, and.

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Speaker 6: You brought up the great point.

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Speaker 8: I don't have the number of if it's five teams sixteen,

882
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Speaker 8: it's it's like seventeen, six teams something like that have

883
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 8: ever entered the tournament since you know, the bracket expanded undefeated.

884
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 8: This notion that we're just gonna have nine undefeated teams

885
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Speaker 8: next year because they let Miami in.

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Speaker 6: It's one of the dumbest things that I've ever heard.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's criminally stupid. All Right, we'll wrap up with

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Speaker 4: So an amazing story popped Yacht Sell, who went from UAB.

889
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Speaker 4: The NBA wanted him. He said, no, I'm gonna go

890
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Speaker 4: to Michigan, can he says? The player says Kentucky offered

891
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Speaker 4: him seven to nine million dollars. Other reports say he

892
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Speaker 4: settled on Michigan for five mili. He wanted to play

893
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Speaker 4: for Dusty May.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let's just give a picture take it away.

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Speaker 6: So I saw that story yesterday. I was running around.

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Speaker 8: Let me say this, So Yox is a really interesting

897
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Speaker 8: guy because I think, you know, I saw Dusty May

898
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Speaker 8: was on the show with you guys.

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Speaker 6: He was awesome.

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Speaker 8: Yoxall didn't start playing basketball to he was like eighteen

901
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Speaker 8: nineteen something like that goes to Juco UAB and so

902
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Speaker 8: he doesn't have like that media training of the dude

903
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Speaker 8: that and so he kind of like even if you

904
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Speaker 8: listen to in a postgame interview, he kind of just

905
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Speaker 8: says like whatever's on his mind.

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Speaker 6: At that moment. Love that, and I love it. I

907
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Speaker 6: agree with you one hundred percent.

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Speaker 8: I don't know that I believe seven tonight, but I

909
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Speaker 8: don't think that he would like intentionally lie about it.

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Speaker 8: To me, it was more like a Kentucky probably was

911
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Speaker 8: in the weeds on the recruitment and they were like

912
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Speaker 8: name your price, We'll do whatever it takes.

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Speaker 6: And he's like, you know, I want to go to Michigan.

914
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Speaker 6: That's where I want to go.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 8: And I know you know this about about college sports

917
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Speaker 8: right now, j Mac. But like he was the prize

918
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Speaker 8: of the portal last year and there were teams that

919
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Speaker 8: were lining up. You know, I don't want to say

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Speaker 8: anyone was tampering and cert I'm certainly let the record

921
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Speaker 8: show I'm not saying Michigan was. But let's just say

922
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Speaker 8: there were teams that were trying to figure out would

923
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Speaker 8: he go in the portal and what would the price

924
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Speaker 8: point be four months before he actually entered the portal, not.

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Speaker 6: Saying anything to anything illegal.

926
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Speaker 8: You're allowed to talk to agents, whatever, and so it

927
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Speaker 8: does not surprise me that if you've had your eyes

928
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Speaker 8: set on him for months and you see him going

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Speaker 8: another direction, that you.

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Speaker 6: Just throw out one of those whatever it takes. Yeah,

931
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Speaker 6: what do you mean? Yeah? But was there was there?

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Speaker 8: Was there a publisher's clearing house check with nine million

933
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Speaker 8: dollars on the desk.

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Speaker 6: I don't think that there probably was.

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Speaker 4: Listen, that's we're gonna talk more about that story later.

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Speaker 4: I would largely agree with your take. Maybe that's exaggerated,

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Speaker 4: but he was the bill of the ball, and it's

938
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Speaker 4: worked out Michigan's I think we just showed the odds

939
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Speaker 4: on the screen. I think the second best odds to

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Speaker 4: win the tournament. They were number one much of the season.

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Speaker 6: It was worth it.

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Speaker 4: And Iol works eron Torres Fox Sports Radio. Catch him

943
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Speaker 4: covering the tournament Thursday and Friday. I mean, all the time,

944
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Speaker 4: he's all over college hoops. He'll do a early top

945
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Speaker 4: twenty five. The day that stuff dude, I eat it

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Speaker 4: up erin Torres. Thanks a lot, Buddy Man, thank you,