Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Red Episode three thirty seven,
Speaker 1: Live from I'll just be honest, one of my favorite
Speaker 1: places in the entire world. The World Series of Poker
Speaker 1: Events Center were at Horseshoe Resort and Casino, which is
Speaker 1: connected to the Paris Casino, which is in Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: one of the five greatest.
Speaker 2: Cities in the world.
Speaker 1: Now, you might say, Nick, sounds like you crushed in
Speaker 1: your poker tournaments yesterday. You're in such a good mood.
Speaker 1: That's actually the opposite of what happened.
Speaker 2: Uh. I.
Speaker 1: You know, nobody likes a bad beat story, so I
Speaker 1: won't tell them, but I gotta tell you they listen
Speaker 1: if you know they got a bad beat me to
Speaker 1: beat me, it's just what happens.
Speaker 2: It's just what happens.
Speaker 1: But despite all that, Demonse, I gotta tell you, I've
Speaker 1: been in Vegas for thirty six hours, and I it
Speaker 1: feels like seventy two, but in a great way, in
Speaker 1: a great in the greatest way, I had been here.
Speaker 1: And listen, Game one of the finals is tonight. We
Speaker 1: will get to that. You guys haven't heard my thoughts
Speaker 1: on the Knicks firing Tom Thibodeau, So We're gonna get
Speaker 1: to all of that just momentarily, but I just want
Speaker 1: to set the scene for what we're doing.
Speaker 2: Uh And by the way, if you.
Speaker 1: Guys can't say, we are in the Thunderdome is what
Speaker 1: they call it. This is where I am doing this
Speaker 1: show from. Is the table that I envisioned that I
Speaker 1: would have been playing on yesterday going for a bracelet
Speaker 1: in the ten K Dealer's Choice. Unfortunately, I did not
Speaker 1: last that long in that tournament, and in order to
Speaker 1: be able to play at this table you need to
Speaker 1: advance further in the tournaments than I have yet advanced.
Speaker 1: But again, it's only been one day. Despite all of that,
Speaker 1: it's been amazing because and I'm not gonna do too
Speaker 1: much poker stuff because I know some listeners don't care,
Speaker 1: but anyone who has seen Rounders knows who Johnny f
Speaker 1: and Chan is.
Speaker 2: The world's back to World Series of Poker.
Speaker 1: Main evant champion legend, the guy that Matt Damon just
Speaker 1: had to go play at the Mirage and I think
Speaker 1: four hundred eight hundred or whatever it was limit poker
Speaker 1: and put a bluff on him within ten minutes of
Speaker 1: being in Las Vegas, after landing around midnight Tuesday night,
Speaker 1: I was in a game where sitting on my left
Speaker 1: was Johnny Effing Chant.
Speaker 2: It's just the greatest. I mean, I gotta.
Speaker 1: Say, the single greatest, maybe the single most gratifying part
Speaker 1: about whatever little bit of fame or notoriety I have
Speaker 1: is that I get to play in all these card games. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe the people in the card games are like, the
Speaker 1: single best thing about Nick Wright making some money is
Speaker 1: that he plays in our card games.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what they think. I
Speaker 2: just know it is.
Speaker 1: An absolute dream. So we will get to more of
Speaker 1: that at the tail end of the show. But the
Speaker 1: final start tonight we're not gonna be on TV because
Speaker 1: the euro Soccer Championship is not bocking us off TV.
Speaker 1: So I'm here and we will get to that. But
Speaker 1: first we have to do what we always do. What missed
Speaker 1: the cut? Miles Turner, A man after my heart wants
Speaker 1: a Lego Larry O'Brien trophy.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Demonte, did you know that?
Speaker 1: I I So I bought the car I have the
Speaker 1: They make a Lego version of it, and so I
Speaker 1: bought it and built it and showed that to Wilds
Speaker 1: and he said someone had gotten his kids like five
Speaker 1: thousand piece lego version of the car they have, but
Speaker 1: no one in their house wants to build it, so
Speaker 1: they they bring it to work.
Speaker 2: And I'm I'm just building it for him. I'm building
Speaker 2: in the car for him to then give to him. Uh.
Speaker 1: Jack Kagleon goes over five in his Royals debut and
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, Nick, he went over for five
Speaker 1: Royal scored ten runs just because of the threat of
Speaker 1: Jack Jeffrey Allen Kaglion in the lineup. And I guess
Speaker 1: Shiloh Sanders used a sword in an Oklahoma drill.
Speaker 2: I don't. I'll be honest.
Speaker 1: I am not that interested in any of the Shiloh
Speaker 1: Sanders content. But there's a cool video, all right, demanse,
Speaker 1: Let's get to what was the shocking news of Tuesday
Speaker 1: afternoon a few hours after the pod, and that's what
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, after two games away from the NBA Finals,
Speaker 3: the New York Knicks have fired TIBs. We talked on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: You seem to think that his job was pretty secure.
Speaker 3: Myself as well. I couldn't see them fire and TIBs
Speaker 3: but here we are. They fired him. Where did they
Speaker 3: go from here? What's the assessment?
Speaker 2: Okay, so.
Speaker 1: I react, this happened ten minutes before the TV show started, right,
Speaker 1: And I actually said on the air, sometimes the reacting
Speaker 1: to breaking news are my favorite shows when I look
Speaker 1: back on them, and sometimes they're the most annoying shows
Speaker 1: because I'm like, gosh, darn it, I just didn't have
Speaker 1: that piece of information, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 1: so everything that we said ends up becoming irrelevant a
Speaker 1: few hours later.
Speaker 2: I think the TIBs show might end.
Speaker 1: Up falling into the former category my favorite shows, and
Speaker 1: here's why. So my snap reaction to the TIBs firing
Speaker 1: was there's really only three.
Speaker 2: Ways to view it.
Speaker 1: Like, there's only three, I guess rationales to the firing.
Speaker 1: Rationale one was they So let me back up. The
Speaker 1: reason I'm framing it like this is because everyone is
Speaker 1: framing it the way you did, Demonse, which is it
Speaker 1: was the best season in twenty five years. You made
Speaker 1: your first conference finals in twenty five years, you were
Speaker 1: two games away from the NBA Finals, you were favored
Speaker 1: to go to the finals, and you fired your coach.
Speaker 1: So logically speaking, that would mean one of two things
Speaker 1: is true.
Speaker 2: Either A, at.
Speaker 1: The end of the regular season, they had determined we're
Speaker 1: moving on from Tom Thibodeau. Anything short of a championship
Speaker 1: or making the finals, we're firing that. That's where they
Speaker 1: were kind of like the Nuggets were with Michael Malone.
Speaker 2: But the Nuggets just did it.
Speaker 1: Beforehand, and they weren't going to let this playoff run
Speaker 1: dissuade them. That's kind of option A, option be if
Speaker 1: if that's not the case, if at the end of
Speaker 1: the regular season his job was safe, then that would
Speaker 1: mean option B, which is somehow this playoff run hurt
Speaker 1: TIBs in the front office er ownership's eyes, right if
Speaker 1: he would save after the end of the regular season.
Speaker 1: That they looked at it and they were like, you
Speaker 1: know what, Demons was right. That victory over the Celtics
Speaker 1: was a fluke. Shouldn't have happened down fifteen in every game.
Speaker 1: We're actually not that good, you know what. I Like,
Speaker 1: we were trailing Detroit a bunch, we got lucky against Boston,
Speaker 1: and so like those are in theory, the only.
Speaker 2: Two viable paths.
Speaker 1: And this is why I'm kind I feel like Tuesday's
Speaker 1: TV show is going to age. Well, I said that,
Speaker 1: and then I said, there is, however, a third path,
Speaker 1: a third rationale I should say, which is they are
Speaker 1: firing Tom Thibodeaux because there is a player they are
Speaker 1: trying to acquire that they think they will be more
Speaker 1: likely to acquire if they fire Tom Thibodeau. And the
Speaker 1: what I was implying without really saying, is was it
Speaker 1: possible that someone from Giannie's camp said, Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: if person X your coach, maybe not only you know,
Speaker 1: would it push Janis closer to asking for a trade,
Speaker 1: but maybe he would ask for a trade to the
Speaker 1: Nick specifically. So I just kind of threw that out
Speaker 1: there as a possibility. I don't think you would have
Speaker 1: to fire a Tibbs in order to give yourself a
Speaker 1: better chance to get Kevin Durant Yannis is the other
Speaker 1: big name out there, So I just threw that out
Speaker 1: there on Tuesday and then demanse, did you see the
Speaker 1: kind of weird report about one of the coaches the
Speaker 1: Knicks might want to go after?
Speaker 2: Because I did.
Speaker 1: It was a coach who currently has a job, and
Speaker 1: it was Jason Kidd. And if people remember Jason Kidd
Speaker 1: coached Janice in Milwaukee, and when Jason Kidd was fired, Yannis,
Speaker 1: the reporting was he called Jason Kidd and said, is
Speaker 1: can I fix it? Should I call ownership and say,
Speaker 1: unfire you? I'm paraphrasing, so again I'm not I am
Speaker 1: I'm literally I could not be further away from reporting
Speaker 1: anything here. I have been gambling NonStop for the last
Speaker 1: thirty six hours. I've not been working the phones. I've
Speaker 1: been playing poker. I'm simply saying the firing TIBs. It
Speaker 1: was odd enough that a little alarm bells went off.
Speaker 1: And then when I because the reporting Demanse was there
Speaker 1: were two coaches who currently have jobs the Knicks were
Speaker 1: interested in. It was Jason Kidd and emy Udoka and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, well, emy Udoka is not going to
Speaker 1: be available, like and so it felt to.
Speaker 2: Me and again maybe maybe I'm wrong, like.
Speaker 1: Udoka was included in that, like, hey, yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, established coaches that you know we might.
Speaker 3: Like, but it's really that one name.
Speaker 2: It's just that it was really about exactly.
Speaker 1: And then this morning on the walk over from Aria
Speaker 1: where I'm staying to Horseshoe where the World Series of
Speaker 1: poker is. I was listening to Brian windhorse Show The
Speaker 1: Hoop Collective and anybody, by the way, who tweeting me
Speaker 1: or asking me or whatever about Lebron once again going
Speaker 1: at Wendy, I would please. What I would like to
Speaker 1: say about that is it makes me very sad and
Speaker 1: I wish he wouldn't do it, and I you know,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you respecting my privacy at this time, I
Speaker 1: do not like it. But bright I was listening to
Speaker 1: Brian Windhorst on his great podcast with Tim bond Temps
Speaker 1: and Tim McMahon, Tim McMahon who covers all the Texas
Speaker 1: teams for ESPN, and the Jason Kidd thing came up,
Speaker 1: and Tim McMahon did not who just wrote a book
Speaker 1: on Luca, who's very close to the MAVs. When the
Speaker 1: Jason Kidd thing came up, Tim McMahon did not say, Oh,
Speaker 1: no chance, there's no way the MAVs are letting him leave.
Speaker 2: There's no that didn't happen.
Speaker 3: So Jason Kidd might want to leave Dallas. I sat
Speaker 3: they have.
Speaker 1: Cooper Flag coming, but it's still kind of a toxic situation.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. Even if like it wasn't
Speaker 1: a toxic situation, so much easier to win in the East.
Speaker 1: Right now, right now, I'm gonna add one other piece
Speaker 1: of this because obviously Jim Dolan was involved to some level.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of a level, but to
Speaker 1: some level. Okay, So I'm gonna the I'm gonna build
Speaker 1: a long bridge.
Speaker 2: To get to this point.
Speaker 1: Somebody I DIDNN interview a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: that silly like face of the network thing came up
Speaker 1: again when the guy asked me about FS one and
Speaker 1: me and I answered what I've always answered, which is,
Speaker 1: for the last almost decade, Colin Cowhard has been an
Speaker 1: hat for every single day, the face of FS one,
Speaker 1: and he will be until he stops broadcasting for us.
Speaker 1: And people think, like, that's just you know me, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of paying tribute to a guy who's my professional
Speaker 1: idol and friend, and you know all that, and some
Speaker 1: of that's true whatever, but it's also it's not like
Speaker 1: an America his title. He's also as like the kids
Speaker 1: on Twitter would say, still throwing ninety eight on the
Speaker 1: black whenever he wants. Because Coward had the best Jim
Speaker 1: Dolan take ever, and he just said it as an
Speaker 1: aside a few years ago, and it's so perfect that
Speaker 1: I'm here in Vegas when we're talking about this, which
Speaker 1: is coward said, do you know why the Knicks all
Speaker 1: of a sudden got good, good management, good coaching, They
Speaker 1: were a functional adult franchise. And he said it was
Speaker 1: because Jim Dolan was building the Sphere in Las Vegas
Speaker 1: and was not and was distracted. And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. Like Jim Dolan's favorite toy forever, ever
Speaker 1: since he inherited cable vision and MSG from his dad,
Speaker 1: has been the Knicks. But then his company was building
Speaker 1: the Sphere in Vegas and that was his new toy,
Speaker 1: and so he had to leave the Nicks alone.
Speaker 2: And like, all right, Leon.
Speaker 1: Rose and Worldwide West, you guys handle it like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And it's it's the greatest take.
Speaker 1: It's and it's why Colin's the greatest ever do it
Speaker 1: because nobody, nobody else's brain works that way. But the
Speaker 1: moment he said it, I'm like, god, damn it, you're
Speaker 1: a hundred percent. It makes perfect sense. It's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: It's exactly what happened. But here's here's my contribution to that.
Speaker 1: Take guess what demands The sphere is built and it's
Speaker 1: up and running and it's self sustaining, and the Nicks
Speaker 1: just had this magical.
Speaker 2: Playoff run and so guess what this is?
Speaker 1: Like a toy story, Buzz Aldrin Woody situation that that
Speaker 1: you threw in the back of the closet because the
Speaker 1: other one was taking up your attention.
Speaker 3: It's like away, by the way, what did I say?
Speaker 3: What did I say?
Speaker 2: Oh, Buzz Alter, that's actual.
Speaker 1: He's the third man to walk on the moon, or
Speaker 1: second man to walk on the moon. Sorry, Buzz Buzz
Speaker 1: Lightyear and Woody.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: But then all of a sudden, the Nick, the Knicks,
Speaker 1: the sphears up and running. The Knicks are fun now,
Speaker 1: shalow maze there they're making runs. Jim Dolan's like, I'm back, baby,
Speaker 1: Let's make some Let's make No, I'm not saying they're
Speaker 1: gonna suck. What I'm saying is, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're making drastic moves again. Right, He's like, what if
Speaker 1: we fire the coach? What if we try to poach
Speaker 1: Jason Kidd? What if we do this? So it's just
Speaker 1: I and with all that said, I don't necessarily think
Speaker 1: this is the wrong move. Here is, though I do
Speaker 1: have the I want to bounce this off you pal okay,
Speaker 1: because people were disappointed with the Like I'll give the
Speaker 1: fair criticisms of Tibbs in a second, But here's one
Speaker 1: of the things, like that the Knicks were bad defensively
Speaker 1: in these playoffs for large portions of it. Here is
Speaker 1: what I would be worried about and the risk they
Speaker 1: would run they are running. Is it because Tibbs calling
Speaker 1: card his whole career has been great defense?
Speaker 2: Right? Is it possible.
Speaker 1: That the defense the Knicks had this year, while maybe
Speaker 1: disappointing to some, was actually the best defense you can
Speaker 1: realistically have if Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns are
Speaker 1: your two best players, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: were they actually, because of Tibbs better defensively than they
Speaker 1: should have been? But because of those two guys defensive limitations,
Speaker 1: was it still not good enough?
Speaker 2: Pardon me?
Speaker 1: Like, that's that would be the That would be the
Speaker 1: concern that I think is potentially a real concern.
Speaker 3: Right right? That makes sense? He was just working with
Speaker 3: what he had. I mean, obviously, I have no choice
Speaker 3: but to play cat and Brunson, what are you gonna do? Right?
Speaker 1: So here's now here's what I think is a fair
Speaker 1: criticism of Tibbs and also.
Speaker 2: A reminder for everybody.
Speaker 1: And this applies mostly to basketball coaches, but you can
Speaker 1: find a way to make it apply to any walk
Speaker 1: of life. It's always risky to make it clear to
Speaker 1: your boss that you don't think your boss has done
Speaker 1: a great job. And here's what I mean Tibbs's stance
Speaker 1: of and he bent on it a bit at the
Speaker 1: very end in.
Speaker 2: The playoffs, but was probably too late.
Speaker 1: Stance of I have to play these five guys forty
Speaker 1: plus minutes because I don't have enough other good players
Speaker 1: is always risky when the person who picked the players
Speaker 1: can fire you like it wasn't intentional. But whenever a
Speaker 1: coach this this happened. This is why Calvin Booth was
Speaker 1: mad at Michael Malone and then the owner there was like,
Speaker 1: you're both fired, but it was Michael Malone was like, no,
Speaker 1: Russ has to play forty plus minutes because the young
Speaker 1: players stink, and the Calvin Booth was like, I picked
Speaker 1: those young players. I think they're quite good and so
Speaker 1: if you're like, if you're Leon Rose and Timms is like, sorry,
Speaker 1: Mkale Bridges has to play forty five minutes a game
Speaker 1: because I can't play Landry Shammitt or Delon right, Leon
Speaker 1: Rose is like, I don't know. I thought those guys
Speaker 1: were good enough to bring in here. That's always a
Speaker 1: bit of a bit of a risk. Now, I also
Speaker 1: think they did not get enough out of Mikale Bridges
Speaker 1: this year, and you can put some of that on Tibbs.
Speaker 1: And I also do think this there is and we
Speaker 1: talked about this. We don't have to spend too much
Speaker 1: more time on it. There is a real benefit or
Speaker 1: a real risk to not experimenting with lineups in the
Speaker 1: regular season is you don't get the real time reps
Speaker 1: and be like, oh shit, Delon Wright plus Douce McBride,
Speaker 1: cat Og and Michale Bridges, that lineup can cook, like
Speaker 1: the different lineup combinations or whatever. Oklahoma City now they
Speaker 1: won sixty eight games, but they are the standard. Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City played every lineup combination imaginable through the regular season,
Speaker 1: and now they go into the playoffs with real date
Speaker 1: on all of it. So I know we have TIBs
Speaker 1: follow ups. But so let's get to them. But there's
Speaker 1: my big picture TIBs take. And I apologize to Adam Silver,
Speaker 1: who just did a great interview on Breck Fastball and
Speaker 1: uh Thunder and Pacers fans because they're like day one
Speaker 1: of the finals and you're talking about a fired coach.
Speaker 1: In my defense that we did a lot of finals
Speaker 1: preview stuff on Tuesday because the final, like that is
Speaker 1: a weird thing about the NBA Playoffs. It's just every
Speaker 1: night eyes bleeding from watching so much basketball and then
Speaker 1: there's like a week where we're just chilling and and so.
Speaker 2: But uh but all right, what are the tips follow
Speaker 2: ups going?
Speaker 3: And be honest, lo key always shaking up the NBA man.
Speaker 2: Well, again, this is just a this is just a
Speaker 2: theory by me.
Speaker 3: I'm not reporting it.
Speaker 2: It's it's not even close to one hundred percent, just
Speaker 2: an idea.
Speaker 3: It's just go ahead, So we'll do a game of
Speaker 3: likely maybe what if to see who will be the
Speaker 3: next head coach at New York. So it's like it's
Speaker 3: likely that Blank will get the job, but maybe Blank
Speaker 3: gets the job, and what if this person gets the job?
Speaker 3: So likely?
Speaker 1: Okay, so the I mean Brrew kept Bruce kept saying,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I get this right. Uh
Speaker 1: what who gosh darn it, it wasn't. I'm gonna Johnny Bryant.
Speaker 1: Bru kept saying Johnny Bryant and.
Speaker 2: Brew Brew is one of them.
Speaker 1: Now, Bruce said he didn't make any calls, he didn't
Speaker 1: know anything on it.
Speaker 2: It was just his speculation.
Speaker 1: But then right after the show, Johnny Bryant was the
Speaker 1: Vegas favorite for it. Now, it's also true, this is
Speaker 1: one of the rare times where like first things first
Speaker 1: might have kind of helped set the line in Vegas
Speaker 1: because this thing.
Speaker 2: Broke it two fifty.
Speaker 1: Bru is on the air at three oh two talking
Speaker 1: Johnny Bryant, and then the sports books like what do
Speaker 1: they you know, I think they're probably you know, what
Speaker 1: are people saying? Whatever it was? And so I don't
Speaker 1: know if that was kind of the tail.
Speaker 2: Wagging of the dog.
Speaker 1: The odd thing to me about Johnny Bryant, and I
Speaker 1: said this to.
Speaker 2: Brew was right.
Speaker 1: Now, he's the Cavs associate head coach. He was an
Speaker 1: assistant under TIBs. So do they fire TIBs to.
Speaker 2: Bring in Johnny?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but Brew, so I think likely it's
Speaker 1: Johnny Briant. And the other piece of this is the
Speaker 1: Knicks fired TIBs the day Johnny Briant was named a
Speaker 1: finalist for the Son's job, he then didn't get the
Speaker 1: Sun's job. Maybe it's Jason Kidd, And then the what
Speaker 1: if is this demanse because this is the other piece
Speaker 1: of it. I haven't talked about what if it's Rick
Speaker 1: Brunson because if it's not, that's an awkward piece of this,
Speaker 1: which is.
Speaker 2: When they're interviewing.
Speaker 1: Head coaches, do they say, by the way, one other thing,
Speaker 1: you can pick your whole staff except for one spot
Speaker 1: Rick Brunson's got Like are they firing Rick Brunson?
Speaker 2: That would seem.
Speaker 1: Tricky, Like you know what, like honestly, like what he's doing. No, not,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think so at all. My
Speaker 1: is no, no, no, I I don't think he is
Speaker 1: at all. My point is that usually a new coach
Speaker 1: brings in their own staff. But when one of the
Speaker 1: coaches on your staff is the dad of the best
Speaker 1: player on your team, like that's ah, you know, that's
Speaker 1: just kind of a tricky tricky thing. I think the
Speaker 1: Jason Kid thing, though, has I think there's a little
Speaker 1: fire to that smoke.
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Speaker 1: All right, Demanse, let's get to you know, kind of
Speaker 1: part two of our NBA Finals preview. We did a
Speaker 1: big part one on Tuesday. Let's keep it going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Game one of the finals is tonight. Okay,
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Speaker 1: mean particularly the cash games I've been playing.
Speaker 2: All these guys are.
Speaker 1: Somewhere between degenerate to semi pro sports betters, like they're
Speaker 1: all they're all you know, the they're just all. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say all, but most are just betting sports all day.
Speaker 1: And so the number one thing people are wanting to
Speaker 1: talk to me about is you know, what do I
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Speaker 2: What do I like?
Speaker 1: Which the finals? Whatever it is? And so and I
Speaker 1: you know, I've told everyone Bat of the Year. Okay,
Speaker 1: see minus a game and a half again. I well,
Speaker 1: I guess we can get more of the bet stuff
Speaker 1: in a second. I don't want to step on it,
Speaker 1: but somebody yesterday made who was it that made this
Speaker 1: case to me? I'm trying to remember. I don't remember
Speaker 1: who it was. One of the guys I was playing
Speaker 1: with made the case essentially that Indiana, if you were
Speaker 1: going to construct a team to give OKAC problems, it
Speaker 1: would look a lot like Indiana, where their best player
Speaker 1: is not the like overpowering wing, that the scoring wing,
Speaker 1: that the thunder have, all these guys to throw at
Speaker 1: right in Dorton, Carusoe and Wallace.
Speaker 2: And all that.
Speaker 1: That they play such a fast pace so you can't
Speaker 1: set the defense. That they played kind of different. All
Speaker 1: of those, all of those things I thought were good points.
Speaker 2: The point that I made back to him was.
Speaker 1: I I don't I think that is. I think Indiana
Speaker 1: is built and stylistically built like a team and plays
Speaker 1: a style of a team that could give OKAYC some
Speaker 1: real trouble.
Speaker 2: I just think they.
Speaker 1: Need a little more talented roster. So if like I
Speaker 1: right now, Demonte, you tell.
Speaker 2: Me if you think this is disrespectful.
Speaker 1: I think the Pacers have on like a school grading
Speaker 1: scale A plus AA minus.
Speaker 2: I think the Pacers overall talent.
Speaker 1: Is about a B level, and I think they're coaching
Speaker 1: and style of play elevates them up.
Speaker 2: To an A minus a team.
Speaker 1: But I think they have the overall talent of like,
Speaker 1: you know, that ninth best team in the NBA, the
Speaker 1: eighth best team in the NBA, but because of their
Speaker 1: coaching and their style, they play like they are the
Speaker 1: fourth or.
Speaker 2: Fifth best team in the NBA, which and you might
Speaker 2: be like, they're in the finals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the conferences to me are stacked a little differently,
Speaker 1: so you could make the finals still be the fourth
Speaker 1: or fifth best team. So my point is this EVE,
Speaker 1: instead of having B talent overall, they were like an
Speaker 1: A minus talent with this coaching and this style, that
Speaker 1: could be maybe enough.
Speaker 2: To throw a real scare in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: I just don't think they I don't think they have
Speaker 1: the horses, and I would be.
Speaker 2: I can't. I'll be honest.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine the Spaces winning this series.
Speaker 2: Well no, not.
Speaker 1: Only that, I can't imagine the Pacers winning this series.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine it going seven games. But I also
Speaker 1: I almost said, I you know, I hope I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: but I've placed a sizeable wager on this, on this,
Speaker 1: so I don't. I no longer hope i'm wrong. I
Speaker 1: now hope I'm very correct. And well, I mean it's
Speaker 1: just is the truth. Like I picked Okay c to
Speaker 1: beat Minnesota. I was, I was truly rooting for Minnesota
Speaker 1: because I like Aunt and I that was but I
Speaker 1: since I never bet Okay, See, that was like a
Speaker 1: pure honest rooting that I was doing. This is I
Speaker 1: you know, if not for the bet, I probably be
Speaker 1: rooting for the Pacers.
Speaker 2: But I can't, you know, I just I just can't.
Speaker 1: All right, asked before we get to the bets, ask
Speaker 1: some the follow ups here if you will.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, what are you personally most excited about this series?
Speaker 3: I mean it sounds like maybe cashing in on your bet.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, the the actual Well, there's two
Speaker 1: things I'm most excited about.
Speaker 2: I want to see if Shae.
Speaker 1: Can elevate in my eyes and in the eyes of
Speaker 1: the country because and I don't think this is unfair.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is disrespectful. I think this is
Speaker 1: just how it works. I think Shae so Shae is
Speaker 1: right now, pardon me. If they win the championship, Demonse,
Speaker 1: it's the most points per game in the regular season
Speaker 1: a player has averaged that won the championship. Ever, it
Speaker 1: will beat Michael Jordan's record. Right now, the record for
Speaker 1: that is Michael Jordan thirty two point six. Second place
Speaker 1: on that is Kareem thirty one point seven. Those are
Speaker 1: the two highest single season point averages that you then
Speaker 1: won the championship. And you might be like, no, that
Speaker 1: can't be right. No, the year Kaream average thirty five,
Speaker 1: they didn't win the title. The year Michael average thirty seven,
Speaker 1: they didn't win the title. The year's the year Michael
Speaker 1: average thirty three, they didn't win the title. The year
Speaker 1: Kobe average thirty five or thirty one or even thirty,
Speaker 1: they didn't win the title. Obviously, Harden never won the title.
Speaker 1: The Durant never averaged more than this, So like that
Speaker 1: would Lebron his highest scoring year, which was like year
Speaker 1: three or four in Cleveland, they obviously didn't win the title.
Speaker 2: So that that's a.
Speaker 1: Record that has stood for thirty two years that Jordan
Speaker 1: has had, and that that's kind of anecdotal and just
Speaker 1: a small little piece. But the point I'm making is
Speaker 1: I still think there's a lot of people.
Speaker 2: That feel like Shay is.
Speaker 1: On the Anthony Edwards Tatum tier and not the joker
Speaker 1: Yiannis tier. And when I say a lot of people
Speaker 1: like I'm I've been one of them, Right, a great
Speaker 1: finals performance and a championship has to elevate him, and
Speaker 1: you might say it didn't for Tatum. Well, Tatum didn't.
Speaker 1: That's why I said a great fight. Tatum had a
Speaker 1: good finals, but Tatum also wasn't the league MVP that year.
Speaker 1: So that I'm excited to see. The Other thing I'm
Speaker 1: most excited to see is, uh, how Halliburton tries to
Speaker 1: deal with this Okac defense. And I'll add another kind
Speaker 1: of fact piece to it, okay, se I wonder if
Speaker 1: they're going to be a little caught off guard in that.
Speaker 1: So like Dort, Dort, utility is, Hey, who's your big,
Speaker 1: powerful wing who scores you know, can score thirty. I'm
Speaker 1: going to be just as strong as him, even though
Speaker 1: I'm undersized, and get into him, right, Caruso can guard.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to be as strong as anybody.
Speaker 1: Halliburton's never trying to overpower anyone, and so like well,
Speaker 1: Halliburton's kind of style be a little difficult for them
Speaker 1: to adjust to.
Speaker 2: I don't think so, but I'm excited to watch that.
Speaker 2: All Right, what's the next.
Speaker 3: Uh, what do you think the rest of the league
Speaker 3: can learn from these two teams you know making it
Speaker 3: to the finals team basketball emphasis, I feel like from
Speaker 3: these two teams.
Speaker 2: So I think that I think the quick answer is demonse.
Speaker 1: That in the in today's era of the NBA, you
Speaker 1: should not simply try to you know, to go after the.
Speaker 2: You know three superstar and then like you.
Speaker 1: Don't want a team that is too top heavy and
Speaker 1: because of that you don't have enough depth. I do
Speaker 1: think that is a real learn I also think that
Speaker 1: the we are how do I how do I phrase
Speaker 1: this right? I think the skill level demanse has gotten
Speaker 1: so high. There was a time in the NBA not
Speaker 1: that long ago where can you get me a bucket?
Speaker 1: Was the single most valuable thing, and that still is
Speaker 1: the most valuable thing for the superstar, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, can even when the whole defense is built
Speaker 1: to stop you, can you get me a bucket?
Speaker 2: Right? But now for the role players, I think.
Speaker 1: The can you get me a bucket being the most
Speaker 1: important thing has been replaced by can you.
Speaker 2: Defend? In big like?
Speaker 1: Are you let me rephrase it, are you a good
Speaker 1: enough defender to where the other team doesn't see you
Speaker 1: out on the court and say we're gonna target him?
Speaker 2: Every time until he's off the court.
Speaker 1: And I think what the Pacers and the thunder have
Speaker 1: is a bunch of different five man lineups they like
Speaker 1: where nobody out there is get him in a pick
Speaker 1: and roll every single time.
Speaker 2: And I think that because you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: It's not true that everyone, but more guys in the
Speaker 1: modern NBA can shoot than ever before, Demonse, more guys,
Speaker 1: you know, are skilled than ever before. So you can
Speaker 1: find guys that can come off the bench and bury
Speaker 1: three like you can like Campaign, that guy's a veil like.
Speaker 1: There's a million of those guys. But Campaign couldn't play
Speaker 1: in these playoffs later for the Knicks because he would
Speaker 1: just be relentlessly targeted defensively, and they ended up going
Speaker 1: to Delon Wright, who really is not a great example
Speaker 1: because he couldn't really hit a shot. But because it's can't,
Speaker 1: can we put a five man lineup out there? And
Speaker 1: this wasn't my theory, but I loved it that we
Speaker 1: have entered the weak link era. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's forever, but it's just or even if it's
Speaker 1: long term, but with it where it is, as long
Speaker 1: as your best player is good enough to get you
Speaker 1: in the club. To get in the room, that you
Speaker 1: cross that barrier of entry, then it becomes all right,
Speaker 1: who's your worst guy that you're gonna play real minutes for?
Speaker 1: And is he, you know, a competent, good enough two
Speaker 1: way player. So that's kind of what I would take.
Speaker 2: Away from it.
Speaker 1: Now we can do a little bit on these finals
Speaker 1: bets if you'd like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we talked last last show about your bet
Speaker 3: of the year. You wanted OKAYC minus one and a
Speaker 3: half at.
Speaker 1: Minus one and a half games. Well, listen, it was
Speaker 1: minus two sixty five. There's minus two seventy five. It's
Speaker 1: now minus two ninety. I'm not saying and I moved
Speaker 1: that line, but I'm actually here to tell you if
Speaker 1: you move that line, I'm I'm I'm certain I did,
Speaker 1: and I don't even necessarily mean from Tuesday's pod and
Speaker 1: the TV show, I think that had something to do
Speaker 1: with it. But I think what had more to do
Speaker 1: with it is me talking about it so much amongst
Speaker 1: some of the biggest sports betters in the world the
Speaker 1: last thirty six hours, and I think people have been
Speaker 1: walking up to the window and basically saying, give me
Speaker 1: the nick right special and so yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: think this thing will be minus three hundred by the
Speaker 1: time the series starts.
Speaker 2: Uh, go ahead.
Speaker 3: So and you also just we also discussed an exact
Speaker 3: series bet you had. Okay, see game one, okay, see
Speaker 3: game two, Indy Game three, okay, see game four, Indy.
Speaker 3: Game five, okay, see game six. That's at plus thirty
Speaker 3: five hundred.
Speaker 2: Are there five to one?
Speaker 3: Right? Go ahead?
Speaker 1: Uh, here's the thing on that. I I think I'm
Speaker 1: making that bet.
Speaker 2: Just a little. It's thirty five to one. So just
Speaker 2: this a little bit with the intention demands.
Speaker 1: That I might that would be a hard one to hedge,
Speaker 1: but it's the first four games. I feel that it's
Speaker 1: Game five in that that's tricky that you.
Speaker 3: Talk a lot about like hedge potential, and I can't
Speaker 3: hedge here. It can't edge there. Aren't you like the
Speaker 3: non hedging guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that is correct. I am. I absolutely am
Speaker 2: the non hedging guy.
Speaker 1: And I've said this before and the producers. I don't
Speaker 1: even think that's a question from Deman. I think by
Speaker 1: the producers trying to trying to catch me in something.
Speaker 1: I there the caveat two. I don't hedges unless I
Speaker 1: make a bet with the intention of hedging, like I'm
Speaker 1: betting to hedge it.
Speaker 2: But here's the point I'm making.
Speaker 1: I think the probably the the smarter way to make
Speaker 1: that bet and not really act instead of hedging or
Speaker 1: whatever is to take I think okay See game one,
Speaker 1: okay See game two, Indie game three, okay See game
Speaker 1: four is how those first four games are going. It's
Speaker 1: the game five that's the tipping point game. But I
Speaker 1: don't see. I think okay See is winning the first
Speaker 1: two and then when a team's up to AH and
Speaker 1: the other team goes home and we've seen it from
Speaker 1: OKAC already this playoffs, they relax a bit and then
Speaker 1: okay See takes back control of the series.
Speaker 2: I will say.
Speaker 1: One other thing, as long as if you just wanted
Speaker 1: to bet Okac for the series, I do think just
Speaker 1: betting Shaye to win finals MVP is smarter. And you
Speaker 1: might say, like, well, what if Shae gets hurt. If
Speaker 1: Shae gets hurt, they're not winning the series anyway, probably,
Speaker 1: so like the bet, you know what I mean, the
Speaker 1: BET's dead and I do think that I do think
Speaker 1: that you are like the OKC is like minus seven
Speaker 1: hundred and Shay's minus six hundred. Again, those are significant.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're laying a ton of juice there, but I
Speaker 1: do think that that would be the better way to
Speaker 1: play it. All right, let's talk a little. Let's quickly
Speaker 1: get through some of these other things.
Speaker 3: So the Sun's hired former Cleveland assistant Jordan not as
Speaker 3: their new head coach, and they also lowered the asking
Speaker 3: price for Kevin Durant. So what's what's going on?
Speaker 1: Here's what I read this morning that I let me
Speaker 1: find this exact story, and I want to make sure
Speaker 1: that I'm not getting bad aggregation.
Speaker 2: Okay, No, this is from.
Speaker 1: Phn X Suns, which you might be like, what the
Speaker 1: hell is that that? So, uh, there's a company that
Speaker 1: started like four different cities. It's called All City and
Speaker 1: they basically do media for sports teams in Denver, Philly,
Speaker 1: Chicago and Denver Philly, Chicago, Oh, and Phoenix obviously, and
Speaker 1: they do a good job. Our buddy KRN Demons works
Speaker 1: for the Chicago on Hgo, So it's Chgo in Chicago,
Speaker 1: d n v R and Denver, pH l Y in Philly,
Speaker 1: and phn X in Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Like you guys get it. How they're doing it.
Speaker 1: So here is what Gerald, I apologize. Gerald Borges, is
Speaker 1: I assume how you pronounced this b o U r
Speaker 1: g u e t. Borget is how it's spelled. But
Speaker 1: Borget Borges, I don't know.
Speaker 2: In the story about Jordan Att.
Speaker 1: This is what he writes, and this is the because
Speaker 1: keep in mind, Uh, he's a Michigan State alone. Mattishviia,
Speaker 1: their new owner, was a Michigan State walk on, and
Speaker 1: I am going to read you directly from pieces of
Speaker 1: his article. As a Michigan State alum, there will own
Speaker 1: doubtedly be pressure on this first year head coach proved
Speaker 1: that The Sun's exhaustive interview process is more than just
Speaker 1: an inevitability. Similar cries of sparty favoritism rang out after
Speaker 1: owner mattish Via hired Brian Gregory, a foreigner Michigan State
Speaker 1: assistant with limited NBA front officis appearance, as the Sun's
Speaker 1: new GM. That will only grow louder now that Phoenix
Speaker 1: has hired Ott, who graduated from Michigan State and serves
Speaker 1: as video coordinator under Rizzo from twenty eight to thirteen. Uh,
Speaker 1: let me go on further from here. This is the
Speaker 1: part that I uh not for nothing. Devin Booker also
Speaker 1: approved of the higher ESPN sham Sharani reported that Booker
Speaker 1: was involved in the final stages of the Sun's interview
Speaker 1: process and stamped Ott as his top choice, while another
Speaker 1: source conformed confirmed that to pH and X Sports that
Speaker 1: Booker loved him, having love and support of book You know,
Speaker 1: the face of the franchise matters. That's not the part
Speaker 1: of this that I am most interested in. Let me
Speaker 1: let me find Okay, here we go. According to another source,
Speaker 1: Ishbia emailed the Sun's basketball operations team internally on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: taking accountability for not doing enough to establish a cult
Speaker 1: in identity in Phoenix. The Sun's owner stated that quote
Speaker 1: or is that he tried quote running the typical NBA
Speaker 1: owner playbook of hiring experts, signing checks and getting out
Speaker 1: of the way, but no one was happy with that outcome.
Speaker 1: In other words, Matt Ashbia is like, you know what,
Speaker 1: this situation needs more, Mattishbia, that's a problem, boys and
Speaker 1: Mattshbia has surveyed the Phoenix Suns, who were fucking fine.
Speaker 1: They had made the finals, they had the best record
Speaker 1: in the league. The next year he bought the team,
Speaker 1: it's been nothing but disaster, and he has surveyed it
Speaker 1: and he's like, you know what, I after some real
Speaker 1: soul searching.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: This organization needs more of this guy. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just here to tell you I feel really bad
Speaker 1: for Suns fans.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is you're.
Speaker 1: Gonna get sixty cents on the dollar for Durant unless
Speaker 1: I mean the Towns thing would be probably one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five cents on the dollar, but that's probably
Speaker 1: not happening.
Speaker 2: And I just don't.
Speaker 3: What do you think is a worse fan situation right now?
Speaker 3: Between being a Suns fan or a Mavericks fan.
Speaker 1: Oh well, it's they're so different. If you're a MAVs
Speaker 1: fan and you could just Men in Black neuralizer again,
Speaker 1: that's a now its Men in Black, a thirty year
Speaker 1: old movie. If people don't if people don't know Men
Speaker 1: in Black, they had these little they look like pens,
Speaker 1: little lights called a neuralizer I think, where if they
Speaker 1: flashed it at you, they could erase you know, whatever
Speaker 1: they wanted from your memory, like the last five minutes,
Speaker 1: the last year, or whatever it is. That was for
Speaker 1: some reason, I referenced the Men in Black neuralizer thing
Speaker 1: all the time. And now I'm realizing I'm an old
Speaker 1: man and I don't know that everyone's seen the movie,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Would think so.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, Demons, you're kind of an old
Speaker 1: man too. As you said the other day, you're pushing thirty,
Speaker 1: like we got we got kids out here that haven't
Speaker 1: There are people watching the podcasts that haven't walked inside
Speaker 1: a movie like.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: If it's not on.
Speaker 1: TikTok or YouTube shorts, they're like, that's whack Will Smith?
Speaker 2: Get out?
Speaker 1: All they know of Will Smith is that he got
Speaker 1: punched in the face of the oscars or no, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry that, yeah he did the slapping. My apologies, all right,
Speaker 1: but that's not the point. Back to the topic. If
Speaker 1: you were a MAVs fan and you could get men
Speaker 1: in Black neuralizered into forgetting that Luca was ever on
Speaker 1: your team, it's kind of fun and exciting. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we got this generational prospect coming up. Anthony Davis is good,
Speaker 1: Kyrie's coming back? Like who maybe who knows the problem
Speaker 1: is that just like panging regret at all times that
Speaker 1: you used to have Luka Doncic and this madman got
Speaker 1: rid of him. I would never be able to get
Speaker 1: over that. But there's still good basketball to come. The
Speaker 1: Suns are objectively screwed for the next five to seven years,
Speaker 1: and there's just no way around it. And so I
Speaker 1: just think it's the worst situation imaginable and I don't
Speaker 1: and Manash bea looking at it and being like, I'll
Speaker 1: fix this with more of me is one of the
Speaker 1: craziest things I've ever heard.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk USA versus the World.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so Adam Silver confirmed. I think this is
Speaker 3: on breakfast ball. Actually that the next Olympics, the next Olympics,
Speaker 3: or the next All Star Game, I'm sorry, will be
Speaker 3: team World versus Team USA. How do you feel about this?
Speaker 3: Do you think this will change or fix the the
Speaker 3: lackluster All Star Games?
Speaker 1: So, to be fair, he said, some form of US
Speaker 1: against the World. So here's the only way I.
Speaker 2: Think you could do it.
Speaker 1: I think, because as people have pointed out, you're not gonna.
Speaker 2: Have twelve and twelve.
Speaker 1: I I think the way you have there. I'll just
Speaker 1: be honest, I don't know that this is going to work,
Speaker 1: because I think this is the only way you can
Speaker 1: do it. I think you have to pick your twenty
Speaker 1: four all stars, and what you're gonna end up with is,
Speaker 1: you know, eight international and sixteen American, and then you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out which four Americans are gonna
Speaker 1: have to play on the international team.
Speaker 2: And that's gonna be weird. I think that's how it's
Speaker 2: gonna work.
Speaker 3: It's like, where are your roots at? Well? But hey,
Speaker 3: back into your ancestors.
Speaker 1: No, no, well, I mean I don't know what they're
Speaker 1: I don't so I I like the idea. The problem
Speaker 1: is the numbers on it. I do think that. Here's
Speaker 1: the other thing. All of our MVPs now are international guys,
Speaker 1: but it's also uh exkews to not the best roster build.
Speaker 1: And here's what I mean. It's Shae, Luca, and then
Speaker 1: a bunch of bigs Joker, Giannie, Embiid and they if
Speaker 1: you know Embiid were to get back to form s
Speaker 1: Bonus Rudy, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like, so you it's you don't have.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness, Shay's Canadian, you know, like, and Luca obviously
Speaker 1: is uh Slovenian. But it's so I don't really wilds
Speaker 1: is right, that it used to work, it can work again.
Speaker 1: It's just on the players to play defense. And Wilds
Speaker 1: is also right that the best plays and highlights anyone's
Speaker 1: ever seen all have something in common and attempted awesome defense,
Speaker 1: and that's what makes the highlight great, and they've just
Speaker 1: kind of lost their way on.
Speaker 2: It a bit.
Speaker 1: I do want to do quickly one NFL story before
Speaker 1: we go, and then we can talk a little World
Speaker 1: Series of Poker stuff at the end.
Speaker 2: But I do want to talk to CJ. Stroud story quickly. CJ.
Speaker 3: Strausen throwing a pass at OTA's. It seems like he's
Speaker 3: got a shoulder injury thing going on. Demico Ryans is
Speaker 3: reporting that he's not He's not worried at all, but
Speaker 3: it also seems like it could be possible that he
Speaker 3: had a surgery that they're trying not to highlight or
Speaker 3: something like that. Is there a problem in Houston? Take
Speaker 3: the Jacks to win the division? I'm sorry, it's the
Speaker 3: perfect Jacks plus that's plus three hundred right now is
Speaker 3: to take the Jackson. I've been all that for like
Speaker 3: the last two and a half months. Yeah, you only
Speaker 3: got to worry about the Texans. This guy's shoulders hurt, right,
Speaker 3: now take the Jackson and for some reason the odds
Speaker 3: went up since that information came out.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the odds went up.
Speaker 1: Actually was less about that and more maybe there was
Speaker 1: a little Titan smoke because Cam wore but the.
Speaker 2: But I that that's why I want to talk about
Speaker 2: this story.
Speaker 1: Well, you are right, buddy, That's why I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about this story. Was I do think the Jags
Speaker 1: win the division is a good bet. Shoulder soreness, long
Speaker 1: lingering shoulder soreness for quarterbacks and pitchers concerns the hell
Speaker 1: out of me.
Speaker 2: And c J.
Speaker 1: I don't like it's it is odd enough that it
Speaker 1: is raised in alarm. You then add to it demands
Speaker 1: that the offensive line was.
Speaker 2: Brutal last year. They traded away.
Speaker 1: Tonsil, they have you know, Digs isn't there, which is fine.
Speaker 1: Tank Dell's not going to be there all year. I
Speaker 1: think there's real So yeah, yes, you got there before
Speaker 1: I did. I think that the Jags to win the division.
Speaker 1: I know this is a shock to no one, is
Speaker 1: my takeaway on this. And I think Houston listen Houston's
Speaker 1: past defense last year, by the end of the year
Speaker 1: was the best in the league, and Dimiico's excellent and
Speaker 1: that should be good enough to you know, keep them.
Speaker 2: More than relevant. But you know, in the mix. But
Speaker 2: I the.
Speaker 1: Jags prove it here for Trevor, Travis Hunter, Brian Thomas,
Speaker 1: Liam Cohen. I like all of it, all right. So
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker we're here. We're like so we're
Speaker 1: at the Horseshoe. The events are. This is one of them.
Speaker 1: So if you guys look behind me, this is and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move out of the camera view for a
Speaker 1: minute so you can.
Speaker 2: See like that to one of the stages.
Speaker 1: This is the you know, there's one hundred tables set
Speaker 1: up in here. There are there are demand's a three
Speaker 1: other far bigger like convention holes where these games are
Speaker 1: being played. So it's just thousands and thousands of thousands
Speaker 1: of players and if people are interested today, my plan is,
Speaker 1: let me see when it starts. Let's see what the plan.
Speaker 1: Let's see what's on the docket for today. Because I
Speaker 1: expected to still be you know, today is the final
Speaker 1: table for the ten K Dealer's Choice, which is the
Speaker 1: tournament I was in yesterday morning that I'm no longer in.
Speaker 1: So because I got knocked out, but that happens. So
Speaker 1: the so the tournaments that get rolling today that I
Speaker 1: am interested in is the fifteen hundred dollars Badogie, which
Speaker 1: starts When does that start? So that starts at two pm, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: two pm. The other one that is a possibility, let
Speaker 1: me look and see, is well, there's a twenty five
Speaker 1: K no limit hold on that I'm not playing in
Speaker 1: and is going to be one of the hardest tournaments
Speaker 1: of the summer. I'm not playing that. There is also
Speaker 1: is today, oh today is the oh okay no, So
Speaker 1: it's just the fifteen hundred dollars Doogie that is today,
Speaker 1: and then over the weekend is the ten K seven
Speaker 1: card stud So that so just one tournament today, which
Speaker 1: means I need to play well in it or else
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have nothing to do.
Speaker 2: So that's my plan for today.
Speaker 1: Gotta lock in, man, I really gotta I got a
Speaker 1: lock in yesterday. Now, I've been playing very well in
Speaker 1: that post tournament cash games, but that's not the that's
Speaker 1: so I'm people care.
Speaker 2: That's not why I'm there. It's exactly right. I'm there
Speaker 2: to I'm here to final.
Speaker 1: Table a World Series of poker event and have a
Speaker 1: shot at a bracelet. It's the only reason I'm here.
Speaker 1: I need to play better. That's why I'm here to
Speaker 1: tell you now. Did I play great yesterday?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 1: Did I get terribly, terribly unlucky in the pot limit
Speaker 1: Omaha eight or better?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: At one point, demons, out of the nine hundred and
Speaker 1: eight players in the tournament.
Speaker 2: Was I seventh in chips? I was? I have screenshot
Speaker 2: to prove it, I do.
Speaker 1: Shortly after that, did I play a pot that would
Speaker 1: have put me second in chips where I needed to
Speaker 1: fade six cards and I would have had the second
Speaker 1: most chips out of this nearly thousand person field.
Speaker 2: I did, but I didn't fade those six cards.
Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, I didn't deal with that beat
Speaker 1: the way I probably should have, and I kind of
Speaker 1: tilted off from there. It's part of the listen, it's
Speaker 1: part of the experience. I just got to stay locked in.
Speaker 1: So I want to thank, by the way, all the
Speaker 1: great people at the World Series of Poker for giving
Speaker 1: me this.
Speaker 2: Room. I don't know if you guys can see.
Speaker 1: But the What's Right logos are set up in there,
Speaker 1: which is so incredibly cool to me and I people
Speaker 1: might be like, why didn't you know where were the
Speaker 1: Instagram updates yesterday? I was too devastated by the beat
Speaker 1: to update anybody. But that's you know what we're gonna
Speaker 1: lock in.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do so kind of clear your mind of
Speaker 3: yesterday's loss so you can go.
Speaker 1: Oh the mid and black neuralizer. Wow, what a fat
Speaker 1: what a quick photoshop? You look fine.
Speaker 2: Not the greatest picture of me I've ever seen, I
Speaker 2: gotta tell you, but you look great. This is why
Speaker 2: people should subscribe on YouTube.
Speaker 1: This is why they should, you know, because if you're
Speaker 1: listening to a podcast, you don't get this.
Speaker 2: But also, by the way, subscribe on podcasts. All right, listen.
Speaker 2: This was a lot of work for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: So a huge thanks to Maries, Candani, Uh, Brent Hanks,
Speaker 1: Ty Stewart, everyone involved with Poker Go and with the
Speaker 1: World Series of Poker.
Speaker 2: UH for helping me get this set up.
Speaker 1: Obvious, huge thanks to everyone at the Volume and Blue
Speaker 1: Duck for you know, getting this tech stuff set up
Speaker 1: and DraftKings as always for all the support.
Speaker 2: UH.
Speaker 1: If there is a there is a chance we do
Speaker 1: a brief semi emergency pod sometime, but you know, over
Speaker 1: the weekend in relation to Game one of the finals.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that. We'll see how that goes. But yeah,
Speaker 1: demand's a great job. Like rate, subscribe, review, and send
Speaker 1: me good poker vibes because the fifteen hundred dollars Badugie bracelet,
Speaker 1: it's gonna look great on this risk right here, See
Speaker 1: you guys soon.
Speaker 2: What's right,