Speaker 1: Well, well, well, the Lakers have their next head coach.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of player movement rumors happening around the
Speaker 1: air and the air waves as it were. And we
Speaker 1: are going to give out I guess the third Annual
Speaker 1: Boosties Awards today, Yeah, yeah, in our two favorite categories
Speaker 1: two and our two favorite categories and the.
Speaker 3: Three favorite categories. Some may say count.
Speaker 2: So who's next?
Speaker 1: And we've also predicted a tremendous accuracy actually that we have,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do that with one of our favorites,
Speaker 1: Harrison Fagan on today's episode.
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Speaker 2: from Bloch got it with five? Is gonna try another three? Mister?
Speaker 5: Look god, James, to be honest, the Terrio now time
Speaker 5: what you go?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: What's going on there? What's going on? I kind of
Speaker 3: faded there at the end.
Speaker 2: Of you know, all right, didn't sound like an intro.
Speaker 5: Hey, man, what's going on? Man? There? Not much guys,
Speaker 5: just really it just really like relaxed time of year,
Speaker 5: you know, to cover the NBA.
Speaker 2: It's you know, I don't.
Speaker 5: As far as I know, there aren't any big events
Speaker 5: happening this week. Chill for now week for that matter. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's just yeah, I'm just to take like PTO finals
Speaker 5: are over, you know easy.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like when the season ends you kind
Speaker 1: of like you sort of it's sort of disorienting because
Speaker 1: you've just been like living at this pace for so
Speaker 1: many months consecutively, and then like it just stops and
Speaker 1: then you kind of like, oh.
Speaker 5: Right right into the Olympics. I feel that way. Yeah,
Speaker 5: in in June and July, not so much in seriousness
Speaker 5: with the draft and free agency and you know whatever,
Speaker 5: I'm I've been up since five thirty this morning, you know,
Speaker 5: just grinding away. Yow. Would you wake up to? What
Speaker 5: kind of news? What are you what are you hearing?
Speaker 5: What's on the air. I was like, nothing that exciting.
Speaker 5: I was editing mock draft that I had to go
Speaker 5: up this morning.
Speaker 3: It was Yeah, the draft will have already happened, I
Speaker 3: believe by the time this publishes. But the overall scuttle
Speaker 3: butt about the draft is like it's a normal draft.
Speaker 3: If you started a normal draft at pick eight, right,
Speaker 3: it's like the top seven just aren't there this year
Speaker 3: for some reason.
Speaker 5: It would be sort of weird if we recorded this
Speaker 5: podcast before the draft and then like something did change
Speaker 5: about how we felt about the draft that happened.
Speaker 2: They're like, like, oh my god, Yeah, they drafted Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2: I didn't. You're allowed to do that. I didn't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the drafted Bryce James. There's no way that's legal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, try give it a shot, red airback style. Didn't
Speaker 3: he draft Bird like two years early or when you're.
Speaker 5: I believe it was one year early and it was
Speaker 5: basically like the Celtics were gonna lose his rights back
Speaker 5: to the draft if he didn't come out when he did.
Speaker 5: That's amazing cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: The big move that I'm excited about for the people
Speaker 3: of Oklahoma City in particular, they got Caruso. This was
Speaker 3: like this was the big the big Caruso sweepstakes kind
Speaker 3: of came to a quiet and I feel like that
Speaker 3: was the player during the season that everybody was like, man,
Speaker 3: it would be really cool to be able to get
Speaker 3: Alex Criso.
Speaker 2: I'd love that. I love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's head, it's Oklahoma and I many they're just
Speaker 1: building such a solid team it's really freaking me out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're at the point where they're going to be
Speaker 5: able to start going like ten deep soon with how
Speaker 5: many sort of just capable players that they have and
Speaker 5: how many different lineups they can close with. Caruso's obviously,
Speaker 5: and I mean Caruso's sort of plug and play and
Speaker 5: that he'd be a good fit on almost any NBA
Speaker 5: team because he's just a guy that sort of plays
Speaker 5: well off stars and defends and you know, can hit
Speaker 5: threes a little bit, but you know, not a laser
Speaker 5: or anything. But he is a guy that will sort
Speaker 5: of capably take them and make them enough. As you know,
Speaker 5: he showed for the Lakers during the twenty twenty title
Speaker 5: you know season that you would have thought would make
Speaker 5: them value him and want to keep him around for
Speaker 5: a long time. Sort of stereotypical like perfect archetype Lebron
Speaker 5: James role player. But you know, I sure he'll fit
Speaker 5: great with Shay, And you know, I'm happy for him
Speaker 5: that after getting his sort of you know, his money
Speaker 5: from the Bulls, that he gets to go to you know,
Speaker 5: sort of a more winning situation now and compete, and
Speaker 5: you know that's actually it's kind of crat I mean,
Speaker 5: I think most people know this by now, but it's
Speaker 5: that's where he started his career in the G League
Speaker 5: and so sort of has to be like a full
Speaker 5: circle moment for him to be back there. And you know, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's just one of these things where every I feel
Speaker 5: like every contender at the trade deadline last year, or
Speaker 5: at least every contender fan base was sort of like Crusoe,
Speaker 5: that's the guy that we need, that's our X factor,
Speaker 5: that's the addition that are my team one of you know,
Speaker 5: eight teams or whatever. Vuying for a title like should
Speaker 5: make for the stretch run. And there were all these
Speaker 5: sort of rumors and reports that Chicago's turning down like
Speaker 5: one two picks for him, and then so for him
Speaker 5: to go for like just Josh Getty with no picks attached,
Speaker 5: it was sort of no picks, just get him, no picks,
Speaker 5: no picks involved, and the city has like forty like
Speaker 5: they're not going to be like for all these players, what.
Speaker 2: Is this man? The guy got how many picks do
Speaker 2: you think they have?
Speaker 5: It's it's like I'm not even joking, like close to forty,
Speaker 5: like and like the Bulls couldn't gotten like a second
Speaker 5: just to like say like, hey, you know, we got
Speaker 5: to pick out of it, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, They're like, ah ah, I'm sitting on these, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting on these yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: The bulls are like, oh man, we're about to get
Speaker 5: away with this heights, we're getting the best player in
Speaker 5: the trade. So we we got to get away from
Speaker 5: the table before they ask us for a pick, right,
Speaker 5: Does it okay?
Speaker 2: See?
Speaker 3: Do you think they need to downsize to like, do
Speaker 3: they need to trade because ten deep is not does
Speaker 3: not a playoff roster mate? Like, do they need to
Speaker 3: get a another player for like a couple of their
Speaker 3: role players. Do you think that's the next move or
Speaker 3: do you think they're good now?
Speaker 5: It does seem like this is sort of almost setting
Speaker 5: up a consolidation trade in the in the sense that, like,
Speaker 5: I mean, I think a couple of people have mentioned this,
Speaker 5: but you know, it sort of makes lou Dort a
Speaker 5: little bit more expendable for their roster and that you
Speaker 5: have that guy to sort of go out and take
Speaker 5: the best perimeter option now, and so you could sort
Speaker 5: of use his contract alongside you know, maybe one of
Speaker 5: your other young players or one of your picks or
Speaker 5: you know, these other contracts that you have on your
Speaker 5: books to sort of maybe you know, like you're saying,
Speaker 5: make a consolidation trade. Go two for one, three for one,
Speaker 5: you know, go get someone like again, like this is
Speaker 5: just speculation, but you would be a good fit for them,
Speaker 5: someone like Lori Markinin, you know, who would theoretically maybe
Speaker 5: be available from the Jazz or like, you know, I
Speaker 5: mean every summer there's guys that become available that we
Speaker 5: didn't expect. And I think that that's gonna like I'm
Speaker 5: predicting that at some point, you know, whether it's in
Speaker 5: the draft or if it's in the lead up to
Speaker 5: free agency, there's gonna be some star that moves that
Speaker 5: nobody even knew was available. Because it just feels like
Speaker 5: this happens every year now, where someone is just sort
Speaker 5: of quietly unhappy and they work with the team and
Speaker 5: they just sort of you know, end up moving on
Speaker 5: and the team gets what they can for them. And
Speaker 5: so I would be sort of surprised if something like
Speaker 5: that didn't happen this year. And maybe Okay, see with
Speaker 5: saving up all those picks, and that's sort of the
Speaker 5: situation that they take advantage of m.
Speaker 3: Quietly unhappy is also my mode when I get into
Speaker 3: the summer. Oh watch out, folks, quietly unhappy, unhappy Nicks
Speaker 3: six Ers. Others rumored to be interested in Paul George
Speaker 3: in the event that Paul George just says to opt
Speaker 3: out or demand a trade, that would be exciting for
Speaker 3: my Philadelphia seventy six ers. Although he's not really defending
Speaker 3: these days, huh No, he's kind of past that stage.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's not what he used to be. I'm
Speaker 5: sure he's still a fine defender, but it's not okay,
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, he's not like you know, Lebron James
Speaker 5: is sort of dapping him up and giving him respect
Speaker 5: for how hard he's competing, you know, when he's with
Speaker 5: the heat type of thing.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Right, Hey, buddy, really good job out there.
Speaker 2: Really hard.
Speaker 5: I got thirty, but you know, I respect it. You're
Speaker 5: making it work for it.
Speaker 3: I'm really impressed with this young man. Oj An Andobi.
Speaker 3: This one raised an eyebrow for me. The explanation that
Speaker 3: I've heard is that he's he's just trying to like
Speaker 3: get his money. People are like his Is that a
Speaker 3: real story that people are like his? Dad is actually
Speaker 3: a like finance PhD, and so he's just gonna do
Speaker 3: what he can to get his money and that's all
Speaker 3: that's going on here. That feels like a fake story though,
Speaker 3: So I have.
Speaker 5: No idea if that's true. I just saw a tweet
Speaker 5: and so I was not going to say it on
Speaker 5: the show, but I just did bringing the real journalism
Speaker 5: to just people recording that someone said.
Speaker 2: Outside a liquor store. Now, yeah, pretty sure that's true.
Speaker 3: It really feels like outside a liquor store Caliber scoop.
Speaker 5: You know, you know his dad, you know what his
Speaker 5: dad a living.
Speaker 3: It feels like something a smoke screen the Knicks might
Speaker 3: put out there. If the if O g Anobi was
Speaker 3: quietly unhappy and you know, his eye was wandering to
Speaker 3: just down the ninety five to the city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: See wow, So the OG one is weird because it
Speaker 5: seemed like that was sort of going to be a
Speaker 5: done deal when he got traded, Because it just seems
Speaker 5: like most of the time when guys like this get traded,
Speaker 5: you know, especially guys that are repped by CAA and
Speaker 5: they're sort of ties to the Knicks and you know,
Speaker 5: how friendly the how well those two sort of organizations
Speaker 5: have worked together, and the fact that his agent is
Speaker 5: the is the son of the GM, and so it's like,
Speaker 5: you know, you know, hey, I would never want to
Speaker 5: suggest that anyone breaks any tampering rules or anything like that,
Speaker 5: but you know, there was a lot of people sort
Speaker 5: of just assuming that that was going to be a
Speaker 5: done deal and he was going to be back. But
Speaker 5: I think that what we're learning between this and you
Speaker 5: brought up the Paul George thing as well, is that
Speaker 5: sort of in this new cap environment with the second
Speaker 5: apron and teams sort of so worried about going over
Speaker 5: that line and not being able to aggregate in trades
Speaker 5: and losing it, potentially getting frozen draft picks, the additional
Speaker 5: tax penalties. I think that we're learning that maybe a
Speaker 5: lot more guys are going to be quietly unhappy or
Speaker 5: maybe loudly unhappy with sort of contracts that they're being offered.
Speaker 5: Where it used to just be like, hey, I'm a
Speaker 5: star or near star level guy, give me the max
Speaker 5: because you can't replace me if I leave, And now
Speaker 5: the teams are like, okay, yeah you are, but also,
Speaker 5: you know, we want to be able to make trades
Speaker 5: and have draft picks, and we don't want to have
Speaker 5: to pay like this sort of insane tax penalty. And
Speaker 5: so we are seeing like I think a little bit
Speaker 5: of sort of the hardening of the cap around the
Speaker 5: NBA at that second apron where there's not very many
Speaker 5: teams besides like Phoenix and even Golden State's going to
Speaker 5: try and duck under it, they said this summer, and
Speaker 5: so you know, it just seems like there's going to
Speaker 5: be sort of maybe less money available at the top,
Speaker 5: even though obviously that's all going to get spread around
Speaker 5: because of the BRI I to like the sort of
Speaker 5: the bottom end of the players association. So maybe that
Speaker 5: was their goal, but it certainly is not working out
Speaker 5: super well for stars just wanting you know, like a
Speaker 5: blank check thrown at them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what most of the things you just
Speaker 3: said mean, so uh the br BR I of course.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I was. I was wearing my apron when
Speaker 2: I was watching the movie blank Check last night.
Speaker 5: Well it's kind of so you like again like in
Speaker 5: sticking with the trend of the show, like you understand
Speaker 5: sort of NBA strategery, like the way.
Speaker 3: The works if if my dad is the team owner
Speaker 3: and this is my client. Don't you think that your
Speaker 3: client is going to be especially like you better get
Speaker 3: me the money man, what.
Speaker 5: Happened at household a couple a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: But but honestly, like that is an extra reason that
Speaker 3: you couldn't get away with just being like, yeah, man,
Speaker 3: we'll just do like a buddy deal and I'll hook
Speaker 3: you up and then like somewhere down the line, you
Speaker 3: give me extra consideration. Like it's not like agents are
Speaker 3: so valuable that you can just get away with doing that.
Speaker 5: He'll just like.
Speaker 3: Fire you immediately if you if you're pushing that so.
Speaker 5: Well, he had already switched representation to to get to this,
Speaker 5: to get to c AA, which is again why it
Speaker 5: was thought that it was like, okay, that makes sense
Speaker 5: in retrospect. He sort of wanted to get to the
Speaker 5: Knicks and that was why he switched representation and sort of,
Speaker 5: you know, it sort of greased the wheels there. But yeah,
Speaker 5: it just seems like, you know, again like these more
Speaker 5: and more guys you're Paul George is your anenobe. They're
Speaker 5: going to use the threat of other teams with cap
Speaker 5: space to either get what they want or they're going
Speaker 5: to go into and like take the offer from the
Speaker 5: highest bidder and you know, spread talent out throughout the league,
Speaker 5: which I think is what the league wanted with this
Speaker 5: new CBA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope for my Knicks fans that I'm friends
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 2: He stays with the Knicks, because yeah, yeah, they.
Speaker 5: Were like un better the lineup during the regular season.
Speaker 1: It was it was crazy, you like competitive, you like
Speaker 1: your Knicks fans, Jack, I mean, you're so you're such
Speaker 1: a realist when it comes to anything with your seventy
Speaker 1: six ers, and I.
Speaker 3: Like, we've already losing records for the next five seasons,
Speaker 3: so there's no there's no hurting me. I've just grown
Speaker 3: a callous around my heart.
Speaker 5: I personally hope o g gets so mad that he
Speaker 5: takes the mid level exception from the Lakers, just to
Speaker 5: show the Knicks like, hey, you don't me. I love that,
Speaker 5: almost doctor of finances, O g Anobi, thanks.
Speaker 2: Answer, yep. And we also were also going to get
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards and Jo through.
Speaker 5: That's through a little bit of photoshop in your dreams. Yeah, anything,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 2: I have a good photoshop I could look.
Speaker 1: I could put myself on the starting five look, I
Speaker 1: have two k dreams can happen anything else?
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, let's take a quick break and come back
Speaker 3: and talk about some coaching hires and give out some awards.
Speaker 5: We'll be right back. And we're back.
Speaker 3: We're back, and we're back, and we are certainly back.
Speaker 3: One thing that can be said of us is we're back.
Speaker 3: The Calves hired Kenny Atkinson as head coach. Love this
Speaker 3: hire for the Calves. He feels like a Cleveland He
Speaker 3: feels right like, he feels like he should work in
Speaker 3: the city of Cleveland. Kenny Atkinson, he's given you an
Speaker 3: I don't mean it to be I love. I've always Saidlandland, Cleveland, Uh,
Speaker 3: some of my I do. I've never met a bad
Speaker 3: person from Cleveland or Pittsburgh. I love everybody I meet
Speaker 3: from those two cities. My wife is from Pittsburgh. And
Speaker 3: then some of my best friends, uh from Cleveland. Love
Speaker 3: that city. And Kenny Atkinson just seems like a real
Speaker 3: salt of the earth type. Gonna you're gonna see see
Speaker 3: a team that's willing to work hard, get some dubs
Speaker 3: out there.
Speaker 5: What do you got.
Speaker 2: I love his hair, Yeah, it's sick, it's.
Speaker 1: Slicked back, anyone who has slicked back hair, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: willing to give.
Speaker 2: I'm willing to take a punt on them as a coach.
Speaker 3: His hair hasn't been dry since he was in his
Speaker 3: early twenties.
Speaker 5: Is that you think That's like do you think that
Speaker 5: pat Riley sort of like effect is like we just
Speaker 5: we saw pat Riley do that, and it's like, well,
Speaker 5: this guy must be a good coach.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's something about cause it's like, in a way, it's
Speaker 1: the simplest hairstyle, just slicking it back. You don't need
Speaker 1: any technical still, like, dude, I just get it moist,
Speaker 1: I put.
Speaker 5: The product and I just slick it right on back.
Speaker 5: He's like, I don't have time to do my hair.
Speaker 5: I'm watching film.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: The real coaches are the ones that do this, you know,
Speaker 5: go like shave their head. Go yeah exactly. It's just
Speaker 5: like no, no, no, no, we don't have we don't
Speaker 5: have time. You know what I mean time for hair? Okay,
Speaker 5: I don't have time.
Speaker 2: That's called focus. Yeah, that's five.
Speaker 5: Extra minutes of game tape that I could spend that
Speaker 5: I don't my hair.
Speaker 3: I feel like pat Riley is the only one who
Speaker 3: pulls it off and doesn't look like a bad guy
Speaker 3: from an eighties movie, though like he looked.
Speaker 5: I guess, I guess he looks like like kind of
Speaker 5: does look like a bad guy from an eighties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he does.
Speaker 3: He's like, maybe I've just known known pat Riley as
Speaker 3: an entity for too long. Yeah, he he does have
Speaker 3: Gordon Gecko, but like something about gor Geo was based
Speaker 3: on him, was based on pat Riley.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not hitting I think Michael Loveless if I
Speaker 5: remember correctly, like he said, he said he based his
Speaker 5: like sort of mannerisms or you know, like at least
Speaker 5: style on pat.
Speaker 2: Michael confirms pat Riley for Wall Street.
Speaker 5: I'm saying.
Speaker 3: The bad guys are derivative of pat Riley, whereas Kenny
Speaker 3: Atkinson and Quinn Snyder both feel like they're bad guys
Speaker 3: in an.
Speaker 5: Eighties bad definitely looks like he has said, riddle me
Speaker 5: this batman before, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, we explained in way too much detail what
Speaker 3: his evil plot was before failing to kill the bad guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, well, Harrison, what do you think this is
Speaker 1: a This is a good move.
Speaker 2: I know some people were like, who else was in
Speaker 2: the mix? For that, Uh, James Brego froo yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: And then I believe Michah Norri from the Wolves, but
Speaker 5: it seems like he was sort of further back in
Speaker 5: the race, Like it seemed like it came down to
Speaker 5: act it. It sounded like it was going to be
Speaker 5: Barrego for quite a while until you know, there were
Speaker 5: reports that the Cavs owners sort of got a little
Speaker 5: bit more involved and liked Atkinson a lot and sort
Speaker 5: of pushed the team in that direction. And you know,
Speaker 5: I do think that he's someone that it makes sense
Speaker 5: that he's getting another shot, like sort of with what
Speaker 5: he was able to build in Brooklyn, you know, and
Speaker 5: sort of how much that those players were able to
Speaker 5: improve over the years, and you know, uh, and then
Speaker 5: sort of was forced out by you know, some of
Speaker 5: some of the player changes there, and you know, gets
Speaker 5: the reunite with Jared Allen. I guess Krris Lavert too.
Speaker 5: If he sticks around, then you know, they're they're building
Speaker 5: the old nets back, you know. Yeah, well, yeah, where's
Speaker 5: Jared Dudley, Where's I'm sure for.
Speaker 1: Being under the protective wing of Steve Kerr also helps
Speaker 1: people put people at ease.
Speaker 2: I'm sure to search.
Speaker 5: It doesn't seem like there is like a Steve Kerr
Speaker 5: coach rehab type of thing where it's like, hey, do
Speaker 5: you grind players a little too hard? Like Steve Kerr's
Speaker 5: relaxation coaching retreat in the band, And you know, all
Speaker 5: of a sudden, it's like Mike Brown unstoppable coach that
Speaker 5: all the players Brown, you know, yeah, yeah, like and
Speaker 5: then you know, maybe maybe we're going to see the
Speaker 5: same thing with Kenny Atkinson. We're like, this is this
Speaker 5: is cool Kenny. Now you know, he's mellowed out.
Speaker 3: His hair is like real, like dry and relaxed. Now
Speaker 3: he has like a little perm and he's just can.
Speaker 2: You imagine no product? He's like, oh my gosh, he
Speaker 2: came out with the natural hair. Okay, okay, mister act.
Speaker 3: His hair is like feathered like he's in a nineteen
Speaker 3: seventies cigarette commercial.
Speaker 2: Or oh yeah, I love to see that. I love
Speaker 2: to see that. What else we got.
Speaker 3: JJ you guys, Jeff James Reddick.
Speaker 2: As of this.
Speaker 1: Recording, this is this may have been coming out a
Speaker 1: little bit after because he just had his first press conference.
Speaker 5: That we saw.
Speaker 2: How do you feel, I'm I'm in the same place.
Speaker 2: When the rumors came out, I'm like, I don't not.
Speaker 2: This doesn't make me feel better. I don't does not
Speaker 2: make me feel better.
Speaker 3: Sticking with hair, how much of it is just that
Speaker 3: there's not been a good basketball coach with boy band hair.
Speaker 1: If we're going off hair, Yeah, I'm not a fan
Speaker 1: of boy band hair for a head coach. To be honest,
Speaker 1: I like, I like someone who's Yeah, I like someone
Speaker 1: who looks focused aka male pattern baldness, because it's a
Speaker 1: new youth like.
Speaker 5: You feel JJ, you look too good, You're you're not
Speaker 5: you're this is too relaxed, you know, Yeah, yeah, yeah
Speaker 5: it's And.
Speaker 1: Also I mean obviously like and we talked about this too,
Speaker 1: like when we're trying to figure out, like who's going
Speaker 1: to be the best option for the Lakers, and I
Speaker 1: just that jump from no coaching experience to the most
Speaker 1: high pressure job.
Speaker 2: It just on paper looks terror like it fills me
Speaker 2: with anxiety.
Speaker 5: Yeah, doesn't make you feel better that he's coached his
Speaker 5: son's youth basketball team.
Speaker 2: So it's like, it's not big jump. That graphic they
Speaker 2: put Cody.
Speaker 5: Made like ball in child child Anthony Davis and Lebron James,
Speaker 5: that was incredible record. What was the record though? That's
Speaker 5: the question. It was on t they actually I think
Speaker 5: he actually said in the press conference yesterday that they
Speaker 5: won multiple championships.
Speaker 3: I mean it's not nothing, guys. What kind of offense
Speaker 3: did they run?
Speaker 5: Where they run? I mean it would have been more
Speaker 5: stressing if he's like, yeah, I coached my son's youth
Speaker 5: league teams, like we came in last place every ye.
Speaker 1: Kind of the thing is like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: put pressure on these guys. Just have fun out there,
Speaker 1: you know. I don't even bring a board out.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It's actually a big time commitment that thing. And it
Speaker 3: was just kind of stressing me out. So I just
Speaker 3: let him go out there.
Speaker 5: I did the I'd rather, you know, take a step back,
Speaker 5: you know, do a little less pressure. And the coach
Speaker 5: the Lakers.
Speaker 3: I heard he's going to just have a starting five
Speaker 3: and then a different starting five for the second quarter
Speaker 3: and just like move so that everybody gets to play.
Speaker 5: Play at least a quarter. It is a so all right,
Speaker 5: pull Lebron. He's scoring too many points, man, Yeah, what
Speaker 5: happened to the mercy rule?
Speaker 2: Where you're up thirty. You're Gabe. Just let it fly, kid,
Speaker 2: Just do whatever you want. Man, Just have fun out there. Man,
Speaker 2: I love you.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I know he says he's excited
Speaker 1: to work with, you know, Austin Reeves.
Speaker 2: That could be nice.
Speaker 1: I would love to see Austin kind of rediscover himself together.
Speaker 5: So you know, again, he's like he's racking up guys
Speaker 5: that he's podcasted with.
Speaker 3: It's just in JJ Reddick on the hot seat. So
Speaker 3: uh yeah, well we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no sources just he coaches the Lakers, so it's
Speaker 2: a very hot.
Speaker 3: Twelve minutes after I did make that joke, twelve minutes
Speaker 3: after he was hired two miles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean it's true. There's no that's gonna be.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I just don't wish it's funny.
Speaker 1: I don't wish this job on it.
Speaker 5: I don't think anyone's lasted longer than three seasons since
Speaker 5: Phil right.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, no, it's been a We've had four in
Speaker 1: eight years, is that right, JABORI I think you just
Speaker 1: put them in the chat.
Speaker 2: That's that's some high turnover.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: If I'm looking at a company and the rest the.
Speaker 5: Staff went undefeated and couldn't even hold onto the job.
Speaker 5: You know, it's still problem Mike D'Antoni over him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean like there's also just so much personnel stuff
Speaker 1: that has to be addressed too, So like this is
Speaker 1: like we're we're experiencing like an omni crisis.
Speaker 2: I feel like his Lakers fans.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like the coach thing. To me, it feels like
Speaker 5: and it feels like this just talking to other Lakers
Speaker 5: fans too, that it matters less just because I think
Speaker 5: there's like less hope around the team, and so it
Speaker 5: would be one thing if you know, like you know,
Speaker 5: hypothetically they're coming off the twenty twenty title, or they're
Speaker 5: coming off the twenty twenty one season. They had fired
Speaker 5: Frank Vogel dand in like some alternate universe, and they're
Speaker 5: hiring a new coach, and it's like, okay, well they
Speaker 5: really need someone to optimize Lebron and Ad like with
Speaker 5: you know, all this three point shooting and whatever. And
Speaker 5: then now they're coming off like a first round loss
Speaker 5: where you know, Lebron and Ad I think showed some
Speaker 5: of their age at times last season, although again you know,
Speaker 5: obviously both of them are still incredible, and Ad was
Speaker 5: basically as reliable as he's ever been from health standpoint.
Speaker 5: I think there's still just some sense of like if
Speaker 5: that team was a first round out and those guys
Speaker 5: were that healthy all year, Like, yeah, how much can
Speaker 5: a coach fix this?
Speaker 2: You know? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But then when you look at some of like you know,
Speaker 1: the little tapes, the highlights that fans have watched of
Speaker 1: like just the players' reactions to Darvin Ham, You're like
Speaker 1: that might have something to.
Speaker 2: Do with it.
Speaker 5: Because blocker room. I mean, yeah, yeah, it was pretty
Speaker 5: clear from early on last season. I went to an
Speaker 5: early season game against the Raptors and like, I don't
Speaker 5: think him and Lebron talked once. Yeah, I was, you know, watching,
Speaker 5: and so yeah, I just I think they needed a
Speaker 5: new voice. But I'm just not sure that a new
Speaker 5: voice will fix everything exactly.
Speaker 1: That's why again, like I'm like, yeah, fine, whatever, Like
Speaker 1: the coach doesn't, like, what, who are we going to
Speaker 1: sign Harrison?
Speaker 2: Please tell me? I've read rumors, right.
Speaker 1: I think he was in the New York Times of
Speaker 1: the Athletic where they're saying, like, you know, if what
Speaker 1: we hear like the cornerstone players would be pushing for
Speaker 1: an elite player to be signed yesterday, and.
Speaker 2: We've not really heard. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's been a little bit quiet. Maybe
Speaker 1: strategically maybe because obviously you know, you're not going to
Speaker 1: show your hand when you know there's like moves to
Speaker 1: be done. But is is there anything I can put in,
Speaker 1: you know, just in my copium bucket and it help
Speaker 1: me here copium pipe.
Speaker 5: Whether this helps you will depend on what you actually
Speaker 5: want the team to do. But I do think that
Speaker 5: they're going to end up chasing a third star this
Speaker 5: summer of some kind, you know, with they have the
Speaker 5: three draft picks. It's like, I mean, how much does
Speaker 5: that help you when it seems like nobody really totally
Speaker 5: wants the twenty twenty four draft pick, but you have
Speaker 5: at least two future ones in other drafts that maybe
Speaker 5: teams sort of value higher and will want And so,
Speaker 5: you know, does that get you back into the sort
Speaker 5: of you know, de Chantey Murray, Trey Young conversations with
Speaker 5: Atlanta once they sort of decide what they want to do.
Speaker 5: I think the reason the rumors have been quiet is
Speaker 5: because I think there's other dominoes that have to fall
Speaker 5: before you know, the Lakers are sort of able to
Speaker 5: swoop in and get involved in like the secondary market,
Speaker 5: Like where does Paul George go? Where's og In andob go?
Speaker 5: Like does Paul George sort of force some you know,
Speaker 5: sign and trade or opt in and trade to the Warriors?
Speaker 5: Like there have been rumors and speculation about, you know,
Speaker 5: and if he does that sort of who does that,
Speaker 5: you know make available elsewhere? Does Atlanta end up making
Speaker 5: a trade with San Antonio to trade back like it
Speaker 5: has been talked about and get their own pick back
Speaker 5: and set themselves up to tank it next year so
Speaker 5: they have controlled their future? Does that make them more
Speaker 5: likely to move trade or de jonte? Like there's a
Speaker 5: lot of you know, do the Nets make some sort
Speaker 5: of trade with the Rockets to get their own picks back?
Speaker 5: Does that make you know mckail bridge is available? You know,
Speaker 5: there's yeah, there's a number of count of think he
Speaker 5: would be really really good for the Lakers as like
Speaker 5: he's he would be the perfect third star. Like if
Speaker 5: you're going to go with the three star build, you
Speaker 5: got to get a third star who's like sort of
Speaker 5: a super duper role player, and I think he would
Speaker 5: be you know, exactly what they need. But again, he's
Speaker 5: not going to be available right now because Brooklyn's still
Speaker 5: trying to win. They have no impetus, you know, and
Speaker 5: no incentive to lose right now or to make themselves
Speaker 5: any worse. So, you know, I think a lot of
Speaker 5: what the Lakers, what is going to become available to them,
Speaker 5: is going to depend on what other teams are able
Speaker 5: to get done and able to because it seems like
Speaker 5: half the league or you know, seventy five percent of
Speaker 5: the league all has their picks out with other teams,
Speaker 5: so they have no incentive to be bad and sell,
Speaker 5: you know, and trade players and whatever. And so you know,
Speaker 5: how that resolves itself, I think is going to go
Speaker 5: a long way towards determining what the Lakers can do.
Speaker 5: But you know, I mean, right now, there's not a
Speaker 5: ton because it's like the st Angelo Russell leave that
Speaker 5: even if he does, they only have the taxpayer mid
Speaker 5: level exception or non tax payer whatever one's bigger, the
Speaker 5: ten million dollar one if d Low leaves, and so
Speaker 5: it's not like, you know, you could sign a gay
Speaker 5: Vincent level player for that, but it's not going to
Speaker 5: be someone that like fixes the team.
Speaker 2: We have a gay Vincent at home? Oh yeah, how's
Speaker 2: that doing.
Speaker 5: That's their big addition Miles. Yeah, they're they're notting him
Speaker 5: from last year. That's like a free agency.
Speaker 2: Addition sign It's like a new signing, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like, hey, this guy that was hurt dude,
Speaker 5: it's who's signing exactly.
Speaker 2: You know, we love we love those.
Speaker 3: Toronto signing Scottie Barnes. It's got to be toilet to
Speaker 3: five year, two hundred.
Speaker 2: Extension alpha.
Speaker 5: So that's a big that's a big extension.
Speaker 2: He's very good player.
Speaker 5: Realized there was that much money in the Canadian GDP.
Speaker 5: So that like news, like, you know, congrats the Trudeau
Speaker 5: got it done. You know, does he ever get involved?
Speaker 5: Do you think? Do you think he like calls? He's like,
Speaker 5: you gotta funny imagine like the sitting you know, ruler
Speaker 5: of a nation, just like calling their favorite sports team.
Speaker 5: Though he's like he is a big Raptors fan. He's like,
Speaker 5: so Messiah, like what do you got going on this summer?
Speaker 5: Like what what am I looking for?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 5: Like which the young guy is gonna pop to think.
Speaker 1: I mean it's happened in like Macron I think has
Speaker 1: allegedly gotten involved with trades that involved like soccer players.
Speaker 2: So it's sometimes can.
Speaker 5: You try and keep Wimby? He's like, he's like, you're
Speaker 5: not going to San Antonio.
Speaker 2: He's like, big play for PSG. Do you like soccer? Yeah? Whatever? Whatever?
Speaker 5: His I forget what his French league team name was,
Speaker 5: but you know he's a big fan of that team mets.
Speaker 2: I believe was the name of his frenchly.
Speaker 5: The Metropolitans ninety two.
Speaker 2: That's what.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, yes, you know we find out Macron
Speaker 5: big fan of them. He's like, no, Weby, you're not leaving.
Speaker 3: This guy is going to be a civil war man.
Speaker 3: That's my Macron and beautiful incredible, Yeah, thank you? How
Speaker 3: you say civil war?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: So maybe some time to hand out some of.
Speaker 3: Our esteemed I think, maybe we take a quick break
Speaker 3: and then we come back and wrap the.
Speaker 5: Awards. What do you think?
Speaker 3: I say, we do it all right, We're going to
Speaker 3: take a quick break and we'll be right back for
Speaker 3: the culmination of the NBA season. Many are calling it no,
Speaker 3: not the NBA Finals. The math Posky's Awards. We'll be
Speaker 3: right back.
Speaker 5: And we're back.
Speaker 3: We're back and it's the third annual Boosti's Awards, AKA
Speaker 3: the fastest segment in podcasting.
Speaker 2: We're melding where this is a fusion fusion segment.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: This is going to be the fastest award consideration and
Speaker 1: award distribution.
Speaker 2: Segment in all sports podcasting history.
Speaker 1: Harrison, we are going to show you a couple of
Speaker 1: the nominees for what we think are maybe the best
Speaker 1: dunks of the years, the best blocks of I said
Speaker 1: years of the year, the best block of the year.
Speaker 2: Spoiler alert.
Speaker 1: They're all mvy uh and asking you who the player
Speaker 1: that is going to have maximum impact next year? Who
Speaker 1: is taking this step up? Last year we accurately chose
Speaker 1: time AXI.
Speaker 2: I mean that was this. That was amazing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a great pick. Great nailed it.
Speaker 1: No one saw coming, No one saw coming. But here
Speaker 1: we go. I'm but first of all, Harrison, you are
Speaker 1: out for this challenge.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean you know again, you said of the year.
Speaker 5: So I mean, if I feel strongly enough I may
Speaker 5: retroactively declare one of these.
Speaker 1: Like the block of twenty twenty four years, please do no,
Speaker 1: thank you? Yeah, see you listen, that's how you'd win.
Speaker 1: You'd win squid game because I'm not adhering to what
Speaker 1: we've merely told.
Speaker 2: The first time anyone's ever said that to me.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, that's one of the best compliments. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's a new question. There's which NBA player would win
Speaker 1: the squid game, NBA player Hunger Games? Who you got,
Speaker 1: who you got? Who you got?
Speaker 2: Who's an archer? All right, Ryan, start o'clock.
Speaker 3: I think you would pick Anthony Edwards for NBA player
Speaker 3: squid game to win squid game. Maybe not squid Game,
Speaker 3: but definitely Hunger Games.
Speaker 2: Hunger games.
Speaker 3: He's got And this is a phrase I made that already.
Speaker 5: There's not that many rules, like yeah sort of you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler, for some reason, I think could win squid game.
Speaker 5: I don't know what, So yeah, because I think he'll
Speaker 5: kind of he'd get everyone else killed and eliminated on
Speaker 5: like technicalities. He'd be like over the line, just flopping.
Speaker 3: The start red light, green light, and everybody realized their
Speaker 3: shoelaces are tied together except.
Speaker 1: For okay, so here is number one option. First nominee
Speaker 1: for Dunk of the Year, Harrison Fagan. This is Derek
Speaker 1: Jones Junior over Zach Levigne.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: Widely had the link to go grab it, going to
Speaker 1: work and get a little hook shot.
Speaker 3: So when the shot goes up, Derek Jones Junior is, hey,
Speaker 3: he's been in the air for minutes. Yeah, And then
Speaker 3: the ball hits the rim a couple of times and
Speaker 3: he just holds in the air for like a split second.
Speaker 3: He just stops in the air, which is what impressed
Speaker 3: me about this dunk coming all right, that's a commendable
Speaker 3: Derrick Jones Junior commendable, as is this one.
Speaker 1: Jalen Green taking Anthony Simon's and saying, here you go,
Speaker 1: you live here now on a poster.
Speaker 2: We can wear him in any scenario. It's one thing
Speaker 2: I have learned in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 5: Oh no, here he goes get screened one.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry, Oh boy, oh boy. For people who
Speaker 2: that was straight out of NBA Street. That dunk rough.
Speaker 5: If you lose the ball and then you get dunked on,
Speaker 5: you know, was good any time, but you know, if
Speaker 5: you turn it over and then they dunk on you
Speaker 5: in transition, that's rough.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: This next one, I think many people, including us, were
Speaker 1: quite impressed with Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 2: I mean taken with him, aren't you was quite.
Speaker 3: Taken with him to bring Last of the Mohicans by
Speaker 3: the way my film heads.
Speaker 1: And while some may say it was a dubious effort
Speaker 1: on defense, I believe that this Anthony Edwards slamage is
Speaker 1: worth consideration. This is Anthony Edwards on John Collins.
Speaker 2: And only had one shot attempt in that first half.
Speaker 2: Another turnovers for Utah Edwards gets.
Speaker 6: It isn't the one where you pull the sole of
Speaker 6: his shoe and then dunks so viciously on John Collins.
Speaker 3: Uh that his finger is bending the wrong way at
Speaker 3: the end of the dunk. And also John Collins is
Speaker 3: just sitting He's sitting on the ground under the basket
Speaker 3: with his face chest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean an early candidate for the Edwards you
Speaker 5: know Minneapolis statue that I think he's like, you know,
Speaker 5: he's on pace to earn one. I think at some
Speaker 5: point like, yeah, that's early candidate for the post.
Speaker 3: I think will his finger already be bending the wrong
Speaker 3: way when.
Speaker 2: That mod stars ask that jump too?
Speaker 1: Like when you really think about how far he was
Speaker 1: from the rim and you're like oh like, it's almost
Speaker 1: like he had his arm parallel to the floor when
Speaker 1: he actually got it in because he had.
Speaker 5: And I'm gonna say, you know, rough year for John
Speaker 5: Collins and Zach Lavine to be in Dunk of the
Speaker 5: Year consideration, but as the guy getting dunked on, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: they used to be like two years ago.
Speaker 2: You know how the mighty fall. Isn't that what they say? Well,
Speaker 2: here's it in our final consideration.
Speaker 3: And when I said earlier that I'm quietly said, quietly unhappy.
Speaker 3: What I meant was, I said, on the ground with
Speaker 3: my head in my with my face in my hand.
Speaker 1: All right, final nominee is our very own Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: over Victor ever heard of.
Speaker 3: Yama faces them up? That was now he jump stops
Speaker 3: and then just like pulls it all the way back
Speaker 3: full like slow windmill, uh from.
Speaker 5: Gozilla fighting Mecca Godzilla. You know, it's like, hey, you
Speaker 5: may be the new thing, but I feel that what
Speaker 5: you know, and his arm was the original Wemby.
Speaker 2: It's like tribute physics.
Speaker 1: Like I think, again it's a very European show today,
Speaker 1: but again that one is in there mostly just because
Speaker 1: Victor Wembin Yama I mean he demands such respect when
Speaker 1: you get near the rim that it's more like for
Speaker 1: the fact that you can tell, just like when it
Speaker 1: they normally in a vacuum and it's someone else, you're like,
Speaker 1: that's really not a great dunk. But you can tell
Speaker 1: by the Lakers bench and eighties reaction that they're like
Speaker 1: exactly because it's Wemby and he's scaring all of us, like.
Speaker 5: Looks a little surprised, like, Okay, I wasn't I mean,
Speaker 5: I wasn't ready for that.
Speaker 3: They didn't usually block those huh yeah, okay, all right, soon.
Speaker 2: Should look into that.
Speaker 5: It's like I will block them for the next ten years.
Speaker 3: We'll mention which is when Wemby over Shanngoon where the
Speaker 3: Spurs commentators. I mainly liked it because the Spurs commentators
Speaker 3: you can tell they're still getting their like Wemby muscles up.
Speaker 3: They're like, oh man, someone's gonna need to get a
Speaker 3: body bag on that one.
Speaker 5: That is well, and we like it.
Speaker 1: Though we have to we actually have to play because
Speaker 1: it is. The commentary also makes this one of the
Speaker 1: dunks here.
Speaker 2: They're a little horrified.
Speaker 5: They're like Duncan never would have done this goodness, why
Speaker 5: would you do that.
Speaker 2: Little more than a halfway through the third quarter? Over
Speaker 2: checkout out the basket of the sound so cassular.
Speaker 5: Damn oh dun.
Speaker 2: Somebody needs a body bag. I like that.
Speaker 5: He sounds earnestly sad. I don't like and we love it.
Speaker 5: That was terrible. And you know, we have like an
Speaker 5: interaction with Shanngoon Pregamer. He's like you, it seems like
Speaker 5: such a nice kid.
Speaker 3: Boy, somebody needs to get a body bag. Anyways, we're
Speaker 3: still working up our muscles of having one of the
Speaker 3: best players in the league in San Antonio.
Speaker 5: I love it, though, I love it. I hope they
Speaker 5: stay that way where they're.
Speaker 3: Like, oh boy, golly, somebody call a stretcher from the ambulance.
Speaker 5: I wanted to get progressively more offended there, like whatever
Speaker 5: happened to the good old from twenty one feet?
Speaker 2: Come on? He did it again? Phil?
Speaker 5: You know, I know, I know, I know, Thomas. What's
Speaker 5: wrong with this kid?
Speaker 2: Him? Up? Good lord? Two points is two points no
Speaker 2: matter what team. You know.
Speaker 5: He's like, hey, guys, two is two okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, As Vince Carter said in that commercial, my old
Speaker 1: coach said, two points were two points my old coach
Speaker 1: couldn't dunk.
Speaker 2: And we all remember that fantastic commercial. I've never heard
Speaker 2: that line before. Oh yeah, it was from like an
Speaker 2: early Nike commercial that he had.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So Harrison, of those who are you handing out,
Speaker 1: we're allowing you to distribute this year's Boosy's Dunk of
Speaker 1: the Year to one of those lucky lucky players Derek
Speaker 1: Jones over Zach Lavine, Jayleen Green, over Anthony Simon's and
Speaker 1: over John Collins a d over women.
Speaker 5: I think just for the sheer violence, I gotta go
Speaker 5: an you know, it's you know, for him to just
Speaker 5: sort of leve it hate out of nowhere that high
Speaker 5: with that, like John Collins is already perpendicular, horizontal, you
Speaker 5: know whatever at the time, like is like halfway down
Speaker 5: on throwing the dunk, and John Collins has already been defeated,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And so I mean the Laker propagandas in me wants
Speaker 5: to give it to a d like I think that
Speaker 5: that is impressive that even but like it's not it's
Speaker 5: not better than the one. I'm sorry, I'm not the idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's lovey.
Speaker 1: I'm glad the title correct, So it's yeah, it's even
Speaker 1: we could have gotten mad at you guys for beating
Speaker 1: the Nuggets, who should have beaten y'all and maybe probably
Speaker 1: stood a chance against the Celtics and maybe prevented another
Speaker 1: banner from going up over there.
Speaker 2: But that's fine. We've moved on.
Speaker 3: I am mad at them. I'm gonna say it. I'm
Speaker 3: mad at them away I wish that's yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm mad guys.
Speaker 3: I rooted for you against Denver and you made me
Speaker 3: feel foolish.
Speaker 5: It's still Lakers twenty eighteen all time, you know. They
Speaker 5: They have the nineteen forty eight championship that was in
Speaker 5: the ABL that the NBA doesn't count, and then the
Speaker 5: I so thank you, I think, yeah, but that's two
Speaker 5: other banners.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean people are making those joke tweets where they're like,
Speaker 1: does this not count for a banner for her id?
Speaker 2: But no, not really, it.
Speaker 5: Counts unless the Celtics win one. Then it's Mickey mouse
Speaker 5: and I don't believe in it, okay, and then there's
Speaker 5: no such thing. As as long as the Lakers win
Speaker 5: it every single time, it's the most legitimate championship anyone
Speaker 5: has ever conceived.
Speaker 2: Of Okay, next category, the best block of the year.
Speaker 1: And like I said, we've just been so enamored with
Speaker 1: Victor wembin Yama and how his ability to just completely
Speaker 1: affect the you know, players and the key. Now this
Speaker 1: is our first candidate because this one is on Ja Morant,
Speaker 1: who most people are like this look.
Speaker 5: Resistition of our previous block of the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, actually exactly at least one of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and probably one of our dunks of the year too,
Speaker 1: because he's he's kind of a mainstay when we talk
Speaker 1: about going vert. But here is Victor webbin Yama. This
Speaker 1: is back from January. Uh on John.
Speaker 2: Moran's fingertips and the Spurs turnover get bad. Jared Jackson Junior.
Speaker 2: He's like, Okay, I don't worry, guys, I got this.
Speaker 2: I got just cross over.
Speaker 5: Oh what get by him?
Speaker 3: The crowd just goes nuts, like wow, he made him
Speaker 3: look foolish.
Speaker 5: And then when he recovers by putting his other hand out,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 3: Block him from three steps back like so easily.
Speaker 2: And it's it's because it's.
Speaker 5: Like when your little brother and he's like four, he's
Speaker 5: trying to get past you. On the nerf YEA and yeah,
Speaker 5: and he's like, I'll let you go by, but just
Speaker 5: so you know, I'm stalking you. Why are you why?
Speaker 5: He's like, you're really gonna shoot it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's also awesome how quickly Jah goes by him.
Speaker 5: It's amazing. But uh still, it's just.
Speaker 1: Like when your limbs are that long, you can just
Speaker 1: cover so much ground so quickly from merely.
Speaker 2: Like spring time.
Speaker 3: You know, does he jump from the circle and put
Speaker 3: it against the backboard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh lord, that's unbelievable. It's like every time you
Speaker 5: notice a new detail and aby highlight, it's like, oh man,
Speaker 5: he's gonna win ten titles.
Speaker 1: Isn't he.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm ready because otherwise it's just gonna be the Celtics.
Speaker 2: And really trying to float it up high on Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I'm like, guys, I've I've been practicing. I worked on
Speaker 5: this this morning tape. I think I'm gonna get.
Speaker 2: Him and do it on Wenby.
Speaker 5: Almost didn't quite happen. Great blog.
Speaker 1: No. Next one victory blocking the freaks.
Speaker 2: The screen.
Speaker 5: That one's pretty viable.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: This one is just for Giannis's reaction to looking around
Speaker 5: to see where the ball. He's like where He's like, you,
Speaker 5: are you allowed to do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: He sort of like really this one, I like because
Speaker 1: you it's so like it's his block is so disruptive.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if Yannis thought he was gonna actually
Speaker 1: dunk it or not, or what he thought was gonna
Speaker 1: happen here we did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think he was gonna Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think he's son of the league.
Speaker 5: He's just like Shack in the two thousands, you know,
Speaker 5: and he's just like shoving whoever that is ten feet
Speaker 5: back and you know, with like his force. So then
Speaker 5: just elevating and dunking it in and then it's like,
Speaker 5: wait a second, his arms are still here.
Speaker 2: He's like, this guy's arms are in the way. What
Speaker 2: what's going on?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Right here, you're in the zone and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm about to yoke on you, and it just
Speaker 3: gets steered in the other direction against.
Speaker 5: He was going to dunk on him.
Speaker 2: Pretty violently helpless. Giannis looks too right here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it looks like when like at the end
Speaker 1: of Street Fighter, when you beat someone in around they're
Speaker 1: like ooh, it's kind of like what his body is
Speaker 1: sort of shaped like okay, and our last nominee for
Speaker 1: a Block of the year.
Speaker 5: Not gonna believe that. Who this one is.
Speaker 1: Back to back Okay, not the Drake record, but going
Speaker 1: back to back on Jabari Smith Junior.
Speaker 5: So far you haven't trying to make it happen that
Speaker 5: rockets first one.
Speaker 3: Sorry okay, hell yeah, and is like out of the
Speaker 3: play You're like, oh, is he gonna fall into the
Speaker 3: first row and by the time Jabari Smith Junior recovers,
Speaker 3: he's back blocking the next shot.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, you know, honestly, that's a little bit
Speaker 5: on Jabbari for like he sort of was like, well,
Speaker 5: you know, two points is two points.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna put this in. It's fine, I got blocked.
Speaker 2: It's fine.
Speaker 5: I'll just like I'll softly lay this one back in
Speaker 5: and then it just Wenby was still there. Yeah, because
Speaker 5: turn around block.
Speaker 3: Yeah he did, Like yes, the first block, Yeah, he corked.
Speaker 3: Is his body as super producer Jabbari is pointing out,
Speaker 3: has to like do almost a three sixty to like
Speaker 3: get back to do it. And then yeah, he's got
Speaker 3: a great nose for the ball as like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I.
Speaker 5: Mean, He's like, I wake in my back an NBA
Speaker 5: team is ever going to get shut out, but if
Speaker 5: it was gonna happen like he against the Spurs.
Speaker 3: Right, you know, even though their defense was bad this year.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, but so who do you think should get
Speaker 3: the best block of the year. Who's getting this award?
Speaker 2: You know, it's hard. I think it's got to be Wemby. Wow.
Speaker 5: Interesting?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and how did you come to that decision?
Speaker 5: What an honor for that young man? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: I think I think he's just I think his season
Speaker 5: just earns Block of the year. You know, I don't
Speaker 5: it's none of the individual ones. It's just you know,
Speaker 5: that's that's a guy. You know again, you're not you're
Speaker 5: not going to want to try him at the rim maybe,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe kick it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Wenby, congratulations. We will be around to handle your
Speaker 1: your award. Just got to, you know, tell your low
Speaker 1: to let me call you. He doesn't, he actually doesn't
Speaker 1: need to.
Speaker 5: He's just going to reach out from San Antonio from
Speaker 5: my window like a hand appear on screen and it
Speaker 5: just pulls me away. Yeah, we'll give it to the
Speaker 5: honest one though, since we have to technically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think confusion after his wins.
Speaker 3: It which the look of confusion was a you know,
Speaker 3: staple of Wemby this year from.
Speaker 5: That Wemby experience kind of look at him like give
Speaker 5: him the second like wait, what who was.
Speaker 2: It this year that really had that moment the game?
Speaker 3: It was like the first or second game where he,
Speaker 3: I think got the rebound over his back.
Speaker 5: I forget who who was on the Oh it was
Speaker 5: Thomas Bryant, tomsy Ye.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, he was my favorite.
Speaker 5: I think that might be my favorite moment of the season.
Speaker 2: It was really like but it was that wasn't over
Speaker 2: the back, he just he got genuine concern for the game.
Speaker 2: I think it's like, oh no, and then.
Speaker 1: Finally please hand out this final award? Harrison, who's next?
Speaker 1: The Mad boosties who's next player for next season? Last
Speaker 1: year again, just as if Clairvoyant, It's like, this is
Speaker 1: time Max.
Speaker 2: We totally get it, and I know we're considering is
Speaker 2: he already a superstar?
Speaker 1: I think we I think at least between Jack Dubari
Speaker 1: and I we feel actually, Max, he could probably go
Speaker 1: up another level than he has already, So we'll take
Speaker 1: him out of the conversation.
Speaker 2: But Harrison, you tell us who's next?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, it's like it's Wemby right exactly.
Speaker 2: This year, like he was already this year's Yeah. I
Speaker 2: mean it's.
Speaker 5: Just based on it way you could have watched this
Speaker 5: year and like looked at guys who didn't make the
Speaker 5: All Star team and like project any of them to
Speaker 5: make like a bigger leap or a bigger impact than
Speaker 5: him next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so excited to see what it's got cook it.
Speaker 5: It's like you know in Pokemon, where like you know,
Speaker 5: you level up, the level them up and they evolve.
Speaker 5: It's like when he is sort of like if you
Speaker 5: used like a firestone on Anthony Davis, you know, like
Speaker 5: that's that's Anthony Davis's chars aren't like Bam is like Charmander,
Speaker 5: you know, eighties four million.
Speaker 2: Wenby's chars aren't chars are. I want to ask you
Speaker 2: one last question for Rabbit Fire. What was your biggest
Speaker 2: disappointment this season of the twenty three twenty four season.
Speaker 5: That the Lakers didn't tank the play in game to
Speaker 5: avoid the Nuggets until the conference finals. I really wish
Speaker 5: they would have done that. Yeah, it's disappointed they didn't
Speaker 5: take my advice, but.
Speaker 1: It really it really like Jack especially were saying like,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what we witnessed, like it really
Speaker 1: was about all the matchups.
Speaker 5: It was just a really really the Suns, I guess,
Speaker 5: like if we're serious, answer like probably sure, like it
Speaker 5: just would thought they'd be better, you know then yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah really, I mean because the lady on them, I don't.
Speaker 5: Think they were like, oh man, they're the favorite to
Speaker 5: come out of the West after the trade or anything.
Speaker 5: But no, you would have thought they would be better
Speaker 5: than they were this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, all right, Well that those are all
Speaker 1: correct answers. Is Harrison Fagan, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us on Myles and Jack on Mad Boosties.
Speaker 2: Always a pleasure to have you. Where do the people
Speaker 2: find you? Follow you, embrace your work.
Speaker 5: You can find me on Twitter at h M F
Speaker 5: A I G E. N. I will be tweeting, uh,
Speaker 5: you know too much during the draft during free agency, uh,
Speaker 5: making some jokes about J. J. Redick being excommunicated from
Speaker 5: the content space.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and hang up the mic, hang up the podcast, Mike, Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 5: I mean it's going to the rafters.
Speaker 2: Like he's in the send it up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lebron's gonna have to get a new partner in crime.
Speaker 3: He love talk trash about jo right here.
Speaker 5: Right here and new partners.
Speaker 2: Yeah you Miles and Lebron. I would listen to Miles.
Speaker 2: Jack got mad Boosties. I don't know why does he
Speaker 2: get Todd Billy?
Speaker 3: Yeah he's and also you need to see a little
Speaker 3: bit him to you know, actually qualify for mad Boosties.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, like a Game of twenty sure, you know,
Speaker 5: but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll play knockout. We'll play knockout. I'm cold blooded at knockout.
Speaker 2: You through your physical primes. I think you got it.
Speaker 2: Like I mean that that old man, what's he gonna?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 2: Whoa easy? Easy? I mean I'm three months older than
Speaker 2: Lebron James, you know what I mean? So you know
Speaker 2: you know what we look. Thank you for you, thank you.
Speaker 2: I still need to go to Turkey. I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: guessed you were a day over thirty five. Oh you're
Speaker 2: too kind, you're too kind.
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Speaker 5: That's some fun.
Speaker 2: Convo over there, and you can find me at Miles
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Speaker 3: I'm at Jack Underscore. O'Brien, that's been another episode in
Speaker 3: the books. You said we couldn't do it, but we
Speaker 3: did make it to one and twenty. Look at you,
Speaker 3: you look ridiculous, just hating on us. No wish and
Speaker 3: we'd stop. Wish and we'd stop.
Speaker 1: I don't understand what you're talking about on that podcast.
Speaker 1: Well we're talking ball, okay, and it's Matt Boustie's. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for listening. We will see you next week.
Speaker 2: Bye bye.