WEBVTT - Gottlieb - All Ball - w/guests Evan Daniels and Joel Francisco 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:10.200 Hey, welcome man, I'm done Godly, this is all ball, 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:14.520 all basketball, all the time. Now we're gonna talk to 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:19.959 them recovering with the July evaluation period, be honest, So 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.200 of course we're gonna reach out to Vegas where everything 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:27.160 goes down in terms of the last weekend in July EVL. 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:32.600 The date of this recording is Thursday July. On Wednesday July, 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.640 there was an out. There's a huge like the AU 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.559 Game of the Year, if you will. It was the 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.760 Compton Magic versus Team Takeover, Team Takeover. Of course, you 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.880 can follow them on Twitter at T T O Basketball. 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.280 We'll get some insight into their roster as well into 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:54.680 the Compton Magic. They're at Compton Underscore Magic Big Game 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.760 at Bishop Gorman. Compton Magic win by two points. Full house, 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:03.240 packed house for the Las Vegas Fab forty eight, which 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.880 of course my guy Dinos dragonis puts on every year. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.920 And it's gonna be interesting to see what happens with 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.760 Juli recruiting. There's a lot of July recruiting guys that 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.560 are gloom and doom thinking the n c A is 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:20.119 gonna just like Lemmings, follow the recommendation of Colin Condoleeza 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.000 Rice and the rest of her committee members. Um, I'm 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.119 not so sure. And as I've stated on previous podcasts, 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.760 they've been all sorts of different incarnations of what the 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:33.640 summer looks like, and almost without fail, the shoe companies survive. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.880 The players who have um, who have been evaluated in 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.880 different venues for years, will still be evaluated, and most 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.720 of the same people, at least the good ones, the 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.200 ones that have earned the respect of the AU and 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.840 the basketball community, will still stay around the sport. How 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.520 it actually places how I don't know yet. But before 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.200 you say gloom and doom and make fun of the 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.560 fact that Condoleeza Rice has never stepped inside in AU Gymnasium, 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.640 let alone a big time AU game, I'm with you. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.240 But let's not go gloom and doom until the actual 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.360 rule comes out and then to see how it actually plays. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.959 Because the the genius to some of these a you guys, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.560 some of these people that put put on events is 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.760 they find a way to succeed even when the rules 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:23.680 are against them, like they're not. They'll they'll find a way. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.720 There will be games, they will have the best players, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.280 and the question becomes can they make it more centralized, 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.280 can there can be continued coaching? You know, it's it's 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.440 interesting as we come off of the World Cup and 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.639 how many great basketball players we produce as a country 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.080 and how a few great soccer players we produce as 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:46.520 a company. Yes, the AU system can run a muck, 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:51.079 and look, do I think that all guys belong in college? 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:55.240 Probably not. But the fact is that, however screwed up 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:01.000 our system of raising young stars in basketball is it 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.840 does seem to work now. It's helped by the fact 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.280 that and I've stated this on a radio show which 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.600 you can hear daily three to sixces from time called 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.440 three Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. The I Heart Radio 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:17.919 appen on our serious XM channel three. UM. Part of 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.119 it is helped out by the best athletes still play 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.840 football and basque football and basketball in high schools and 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.120 in growing up. It's still cooler than playing soccer. So 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.800 I'm not blind to the fact that you have a 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.920 better caliber of athlete. You start with that as the premise. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.840 And you know a lot of kids now have dads 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.520 or moms or dads and moms that both played. So 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.320 there's a tremendous amount of sports. Basketball like you within 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.480 the household. You know you're you're not playing with the 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.840 same hand of cards that everybody else is playing with. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:53.080 Understand that, But the amount of creativity, the amount of games, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.080 the the level of competition, the diversity of competition is 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.800 so great that we can tinue to pump out far 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:06.640 and away the greatest percentage of the best basketball players 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:11.520 on earth. And this is not to diminish the Argentina's 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.320 who have made a not who have made a name 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:17.839 for themselves in the NBA. Dirk Davitsky as a German um, 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:22.440 so many of the Yugoslavians, the Serbians, you you know, 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.359 you name it. There have been players from all of 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.840 the Brazilians have made the Spaniards, of course, But the 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:33.280 truth is that the reason are younger teams are dominating 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:38.560 is one the leadership of USA Basketball and two we 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:42.599 do have the best and most diverse group of athletes 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.799 out there. And three, frankly, this screwy system to which 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.440 players bounce some team to team shoot companies always kind 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:54.760 of seemed to have um something in the game. And 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.120 all these vivid personalities who may or may not be 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:03.800 funneling money for um somewhere reputable or somewhere of ill 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.560 repute to some of these players, to some of their families, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.160 to take care of these kids before they get to college, 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:13.760 before they become professional. However screwy it is. It does 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:18.040 have a tendency to work. It does. All right, Let's 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.000 talk about the news of the day with the NBA. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.440 Two things, One Kauai not playing for the USA Basketball 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:28.200 and two Kevin Durant getting into it with c J 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.400 McCullum on Twitter after sitting down with CJ McCullum and 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.520 appearing on his podcast. And it's interesting because you can 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:41.039 have if you listen to the podcast. I think it 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.520 speaks really well to Kevin Durant. There's a lack of 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:49.120 there's nothing for him to be defensive about, but he 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:53.560 definitely wasn't. He wasn't defensive in it. Now what c 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.520 G I think did which I don't like that people 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.520 in the media have a tendency to do. And I 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.159 think he understands that now when you host a podcast, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.279 it becomes far different than when you're just on Twitter 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:10.320 or when you appear as somebody else's guest on the podcast. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:15.840 He never mentioned that the words soft. He never mentioned 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.160 the words soft in regards to Kevin Rand. Kevin Rand 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.320 appears in the podcast he didn't turn to him, at 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.239 least apart. I heard. He never said, hey, that decision 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.680 you made to join the Golden State Warriors was soft. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:33.760 And then in subsequently on Twitter, he did use the 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:38.200 soft word, and he also contradicted himself saying, you know, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.120 he he didn't have a problem with it, but it 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.400 was soft. It was a soft decision. And so look, 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.599 there's a lot of and there's an analogy missed in 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.719 terms of using it when you're not a gang guy. 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.279 I don't know why you use a gang analogy. I 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.520 understand the hey, you got beat up by guys and 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.080 so instead of you know, showing some grittiness and toughness 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.080 and learning how to fight and fighting your way out 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:05.000 of it. I got the reference. Kevin Durant, I thought 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.880 took the reference a different way. He took the the 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:12.080 parallel a different way. But I look at this and 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:17.400 I I'm just kind of blown away by a couple 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:21.960 of things. One, I think Stage McCullum, who has great 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:26.400 intentions at heart, has now learned a really hard kind 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.680 of conundrum that many people in this business face, which is, 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:35.280 if you rip a guy when he's not on your show, 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.160 are you willing to be at least mildly combative when 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.360 he is. And I'm not going to point out other 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.080 radio hosts who came, but a lot of them do. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:49.200 They completely lay down. They'll kill a guy, and then 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.280 that same guy will come on and be on their show, 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.680 and one while they're on, and then too. I think 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.720 the worst part is after they've been on, because now 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.320 they feel like they're a friend, they won't ever say 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.200 anything bad about them even when they deserve. Like, my 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.320 whole thing is, you'll hear people appear on this. You'll 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.679 peer people peer on my radio show when I film 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.000 for other rape people with radio show, and you can 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:11.960 say I'm coming at them. But I just think it's 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.640 unfair to say, like, hey, this this guy's decision was soft. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.400 Then you have that guy on and you have Kevin 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.440 Durant on and not state your opinion as it being 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.480 soft and why you think it's soft, and allowing him 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:28.440 during that time to dispute that, now what c J did. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.760 That that's he's not the only one, and it's really 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.320 really hard, especially when he's just learning in this business. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.200 He's just starting out The podcast is called the pull 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.679 Up Podcast, right, pull up, jump shot? Get it pull up. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:45.640 But like, look, if you're going to go on to 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.320 Twitter and called Kevin Durant's decision to join the Golden 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.200 State Warrior soft, you got to say the same thing 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.760 to Kevin Durant when it is in person. The amazing 0:08:55.840 --> 0:09:00.320 part about Katie joining the Golden State Warriors that no 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.400 one outside of me has mentioned on national radio is 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.640 that it wasn't just that k D needed the Warriors 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.120 to win a championship. The Warriors needed Kevin Durant. We 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.600 all point to seventy three wins, right, that's the big thing. Well, 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.760 he was on a seventy three win team. That seventy 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.560 three win team did not win a championship, And that's 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.679 seventy three win team probably should have lost to the 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.200 Oklahoma City Thunder. That team was not as good as 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:28.880 their record would tell you. It just wasn't case in point. 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.640 They also were first team to ever lose the three 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.880 games one lead in the NBA Finals. It's just like 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.120 on that same podcast, the Portland Trailblazers were forty and 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.640 thirty three. They were the number three seed, the number 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.360 three seed in the NBA playoffs, and Katie said, y'all 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.600 played like an eighth seed. That's because their record was 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.840 not indicative of just how good they were. Damian Lillard 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.760 played above his level of second half of the year. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.040 He had an incredible year, and half the teams in 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.680 the West were tanking. You comb find that with so 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.360 many of the injuries, you know, Andre Robertson getting hurt. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.840 The trade the Jazz went through kind of mid season. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.840 You know, we we have a tendency to you know, 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:11.840 the trade the Clippers went through and they trade away 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.600 Blake Griffith, the Lakers. When did you play the Lakers? 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.080 Did you play the Lakers and the older players when 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.640 they had Isaiah Thomas or when they went young late 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.520 in the season. They were trying to win games, you know, 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:28.640 so like, look, I your regular season record, and I 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.800 understand seventy three wins had never been done before. You 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.160 season record, though, has never been indicative of whether or 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.840 not you're a championship team. Case in Point Eastern Conference, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.320 who had the best record fifty nine wins the Toronto Raptors. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.720 They weren't the favorites to get to the NBA Finals. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:46.240 Neither were the Boston Celtics with fifty five wins or 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:50.160 the Philadelphia seventy sixers with fifty two wins. So the 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:51.880 first thing that we have to start with and talking 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.880 about Kevin Durant is the Warriors needed him. They were 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.760 not a perfect team. They did win seventy three games, 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.680 that's because they were a sixty sixty five win team 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.120 that that went for it. They went for the jugular. 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.480 They went for every last win when other teams have 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:10.960 decided to shut it down. You sub about Harrison Barnes 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:15.400 and most of their bench, you lost Andrew Bogan as well, 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.760 and you end up adding Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant needed 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.040 the Warriors, needed the space to show just how good 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.440 a player he was. But the Warriors needed Kevin Durad equally. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.280 Otherwise I'm not sure they win another championship. You can 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.200 dispute that all you want, but you I would think 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.480 Harrison Barnes would get better because you're so early in 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.680 his career. But if you resigned Harrison Barnes, are you 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:42.120 absolutely gonna win the last two championships? So two years ago, 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.280 you're absolutely gonna win a championship. Like, I don't know 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.520 that The answer is yes against Kyrie Irvan, Kevin Love, 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.120 Lebron James, and that Calve team that they had lost 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.040 to the previous year. I would have liked to seen 0:11:51.080 --> 0:12:00.240 it now. Was Kevin Durant's decisions soft? You know? Yeah, 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.680 everybody likes to claim this is like how everyone likes 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.720 to claim that they grew up super poor. No one's 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.240 ever grown up and said like, no, I really grew 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.800 up comfortable. You you talk about how you grew up 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.320 to somebody else, and it seems that every person on 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:18.480 earth grew up barefoot, butt naked walking to school and 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.960 a foot of snow walking home from school. It was 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.280 uphill both ways, right, No one ever grew up with money. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.520 That's like the same thing with the NBA. It's always 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.400 got to be the toughest road. If you have a 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.280 problem with what Kevin Durant did, that's fine, But you 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.400 also should have a problem with what Lebron James did 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.160 when he left and he went to Miami. That was 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.760 Duane Wade and they added Chris Bosh and oh yeah, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.840 by the way, then later on they added Ray Allen 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.640 Like he joined a stacked team. Why wouldn't you join 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.880 a stack team? And it will be fascinating to see 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.080 how we react to Lebron this year with a team 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.160 that's the opposite of stacked, a team that has a 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.280 bunch of young pieces and kind of the isle of 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.800 misfit toys on the bench. So I don't think it 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.480 was about being soft or being tough. I think it's 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.760 fake toughness to sit there and bash your head in. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.920 I honestly think he was ready for something new. I've 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.360 said this all along. And he was also ready for space. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.199 Space so that you couldn't double team him, so he 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:18.839 could show that he was the best one on one 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.520 scorer in the league, that he had an unstoppable weapon 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.400 and that's his pull up jump shot. And you know 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.080 what the last two NBA Finally he's proven to be 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:34.400 ready all right. Last night in Las Vegas was uh 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.000 the AU game. Really of the year. Is the champions 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.160 of the Adida's Gauntlet Series and the champions of the 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.360 E Y B Yell. It's a Nike series met up 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.480 and Evan Daniels he has his own podcast. It's really good. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.760 You can download it, will tweet it out. Uh, Fox 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.840 Sports does it. Of course, Evan Dance called the Sidelines 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.680 Evan Danns joined us on the Doug Gottlieb Show. Um, Look, 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.600 every year there is one of these titanic matchups. They 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.520 used to be back in my day. They used to 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.240 be for the championship of a tournament. That's not the 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.200 way it works. What was the level of intensity for 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:11.960 this game as opposed to ones that actually decided tournament championships? Honestly, Doug, 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.079 I thought it was one of the better played a 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.440 you were, high school games that I've seen and really 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.680 a long time. It was it was that Bishop Gore 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:26.840 meaning it was pretty much nearly sold out, UM, and 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.960 so there was a good crowd. But that they're the 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.440 intensity between the two was it was pretty high level. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:37.320 And we're talking about two UM programs that won a 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.920 time this year you know at the contin Magic won 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:44.400 both Fadda's July tournaments, UH team Takeover undefeated in the 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.120 E y b L and then won the Nike Pete 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:51.760 shamp So it's uh, it was it was a pretty 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.080 competitive affair. You know. I think I thought, here's the 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.240 thing that I thought best last year was Zion Williamson 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.640 against against Lonzo Ball, Right, that was the that was 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.280 the big matchup but but part of it was the 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.480 circus of the balls, whereas this was just about ball 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.360 meaning basketball, right, this was just about two really good 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.000 au teams made up of players are gonna be played 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.920 college basketball. Some guys are risers, some guys have always 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.680 been rated highly. More so than being about the circus, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.280 this one was more about basketball. Is that is that fair? No, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.080 no question? And if you looked in the stands, that 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.840 was pretty evident by the college coaches that were there. 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:27.480 And you know, I talked to a lot of people 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:31.000 that that were really impressed with the way that game 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.440 went and the coaching in that game and the players. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.480 I mean, this was there. There was dudes on each team. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.520 I mean, I have a team takeover and comb the magic. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.360 All those guys are gonna play at the least the 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.880 major basketball And um that the coaching was really good. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.080 It was. It was a high level game. And I 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:51.120 walked away really impressed with the Comple Magic big man, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.920 the Comble magicans and up winning by a couple in overtime. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.240 But they're post players. Really, we're the difference, I think. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.000 And then you know Jered Lucas, he just committed to 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:00.800 play for my brother and and their staff at at 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:05.600 Oregon State. Johnny Jusang is a really really good shooter. UM, 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.880 So who who helped themselves the most? You mentioned on 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.000 CONGU course, who has been a been a riser? The Mobili? 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.240 Of course, that's why SC hired their dad, like they've 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.680 been well regarded. Is there any who else on that 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:21.360 team benefited the most from this game and from their performance? 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.400 UM is that. That's tough because most of those guys 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.480 were already pretty highly touted. I walked away impressed with 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:32.400 Johnny Jusang. I think over the last year he shirt 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:36.360 up his shot selection and he's become a more efficient player. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.760 I noticed the start of that at the U seventeen 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:44.040 trials in mid June, and I thought in this game, Um, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.800 he took good shots. He made a number of three pointers, 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.120 he hit a couple of mid range pull ups. I 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.280 thought he was one of the difference makers and and 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.040 just his scoring and and shooting ability. U the other side, 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.040 I mean to Taker had some guys that played really well, 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.360 justin Morrik committed pabil Nova was really good as well. 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.920 Jeremy Roach. I think what's the most impressive player for Takeover. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.560 He's a two point guard, actually the number one point 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.840 guard in that class. Um, so both sides had some 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.040 guys that certainly helped her stock. Yeah, you mentioned, um, 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.680 you mentioned Justin Moore who's set to go to Villanova. 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.159 That's where he's committed to. Villanova. Is interesting and you 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.720 cover the Big East and part of the Biggiest show 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.840 on Fox Sports one. As they've done unbelievable job winning 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.560 two or three national championships and we've seen Josh Hart 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.840 winning the Summer League MVP. How well regarded they are. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.119 All four of those guys go in the first round 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.679 of the NBA Draft, but there there's a lot of 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.239 turnover there. Um, I know they're recruiting a little bit 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.960 higher level. This is it's kind of interesting, like how 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:48.800 do they maintain their culture with so many new faces. Yeah, 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.680 I mean I think that's gonna be um, that's gonna 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.760 be a big factor. But I think obviously what we've 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.560 seen from j right over the last couple of years, 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.679 I think he's uh, he's certainly fit to handle that. 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.480 They're bringing in a really good class from two thousand 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.880 eighteen and two dozen nineteen. They've got a top fifty two, 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.959 top seventy type guys Justin Moore and Eric Dickerson, Eric Dixon. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.600 But that two thousand eighteen Hall is really good. Javantquin 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.080 Early a five star guys, so crafty and creative. I 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.120 think he comes right in and and you're not gonna 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.040 be able to replace Jalen Brunson. But I think he 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.720 fits how Villanova wants to play. He's got such a 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.639 good feel for the game. He can set guys up. 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:32.000 I think he'll come in and make an instant impact, 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.600 and guys like Brandon Slater and Cole Swider will help 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.720 them out on the perimeters. Later is a big time 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.840 score at six six. He's got long arms. Uh, he 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.320 can make shots. He's athletic. I mean, they're they're obviously 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.240 lost a lot and most of those guys you're not 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.280 gonna be able to replace Doug as you know, but 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.480 they're bringing in a good recruiting class with solid players. 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.400 Um that really fit in Villanova. All right, Let's let's 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.920 go through a couple of the two thousand nineteens. Okay, 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.280 there's a rising seniors. He's Cole Anthony the best player 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.520 in that class. No, I think James Wiseman is the best. Well, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:06.520 it could be the best player. I think James Wiseman 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.239 is the best prospect, and when you go out our 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.960 to our rankings, that's what we're u and and by 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.880 any Evan real quick Evan. By by prospect you mean 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.120 NBA prospect or college, but because because because it's very 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.520 interesting in prospect more so than more, I think he's 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:24.879 I think he's the best long term prospect. I mean 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.480 he's pushing seven feats, got a seven six wings fan, 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.879 He's mobile, he impacts the game on both ends of 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:35.400 the court. He's really developing his offensive skill set. Unfortunately, 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.800 he's been banged up, and he would have been on 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:39.800 that use seven teen team that won a gold medal, 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:42.520 but he got hurt and he's really played July kind 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:44.320 I'm kind of banged up as well. But I don't 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:46.399 get me wrong. I think conthing is great. We have 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:52.800 number two, UM six three explosive athlete, as competitive as 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.040 you'll you'll find. I mean that this kid gets after 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.399 it on both ends of the court as well. I 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.679 think he's more of a combo than he is an 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.800 actual point right now. His mentality is always the score. 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.040 So if I had a knock on him, it would 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.919 be you know, go create for brothers and and and 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:10.800 he's him as well. He needs to share up his 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.320 shock selection a little um as well. But he's obviously 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:17.240 very very gifted, very talented, can really score, and he's 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:21.040 a high level athlete. Am I crazy think? Jene McDaniels 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.200 another another top five guy. You know, he's he's from Washington. 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:28.359 That's the kind of guy that Mike Hopkins has to get. Right. 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.320 The whole thing in Seattle is if you keep the 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.960 Seattle kids home in Seattle's up. Now you've got a 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:34.639 chance to win the league. Now you got a chance 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.720 to build something special. Hop did a really good job 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:41.040 in his first year, especially considering the turnover within the program. 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:43.480 But doesn't McDaniels become one of those guys that he 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:47.000 almost has to get? Yeah, Jade McDaniels is a priority 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.800 to recruit for sure. Um, I think it's a tough task, 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.080 not only because he's the uh, you know, elite recruit 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:56.280 that I think Blue Bloods are starting to sniff around with. 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:59.640 There's a relationship with San Diego State that goes way 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.720 back with his brother being there. But you're right, I mean, 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:06.400 Mike Hopkins and his staff have to prioritize him. They 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:08.800 you know, he's the type of guy that could really 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:14.520 help them shift that program quickly. And he's and we're 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.520 talking about best players in the class and this kid 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.000 three or four years from now, we're gonna be looking 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:23.879 back and it's special because he's he's he's made a 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.000 major leap from where he was this time last year 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.479 to now, and his skill set is continuing to develop. 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.440 He's becoming more confident, he's shooting the ball better, he's 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:36.480 just making aboutments across the board. Uh. It feels like 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:38.760 Terrise Maxie is taking his game to a higher level 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:42.080 this summer, whether it's a Team USA or playing a 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.240 U basketball And he feels like he's that's the type 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:47.760 of guy that Kentucky builds an entire recruiting class round though, 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:54.040 because because of his style. Apply Ah, he certainly fits that. Yes, Um, 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:57.200 I think that What I like about Tyrese is he's versatile. 0:21:57.440 --> 0:21:59.560 You can play him as a two guard, you can 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:01.520 play him in a combo role, you can put the 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:04.119