Speaker 1: So everyone is up in arms about the Phoenix Sun's
Speaker 1: preseason game where they lost to a team I had
Speaker 1: never heard of before today, the Adelaide thirty six ers.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Was I supposed to know them? Was that?
Speaker 1: Am I not up on my international basketball hoops? I
Speaker 1: don't know. At that point. I guess I'm just not
Speaker 1: plugged in enough. They didn't, though, just get beat They
Speaker 1: got thrashed one thirty four twenty one twenty four. What
Speaker 1: if it was one thirty four to twenty four, one
Speaker 1: thirty four, one twenty four in Phoenix, that'd even like
Speaker 1: the MAVs game. One thirty four to twenty four is
Speaker 1: the first half score of Game seven in the mass.
Speaker 1: It's caused, though, this beatdown against the team none of us,
Speaker 1: I don't think new. It's caused a lot of Suns
Speaker 1: fans to feel like the the roof is crashing in.
Speaker 1: It's already a train wreck. This is just the next
Speaker 1: sign of it. And you can understand why you've got
Speaker 1: a head coach Monty Williams hasn't talked to his star
Speaker 1: senator DeAndre eight and since June May May June, somewhere
Speaker 1: in there, you have an integral player of their success.
Speaker 1: Jay Crowder, who wanted an extension, wanted to start. Now
Speaker 1: he's not around the team, wants to be traded. You
Speaker 1: have your team owner. We've already rehashed, so we'll do
Speaker 1: it again. Robert Sarver just a generally bad guy. Just misogynists,
Speaker 1: racist and a man of faith of course, and not
Speaker 1: much as going right for the Phoenix Suns, to be honest.
Speaker 1: But to me, coming off of my monastery trip, I
Speaker 1: want to look at the bright side here. This isn't
Speaker 1: about the Suns losing to an NBL team. It's about
Speaker 1: an NBL team beating the Suns, because that is something
Speaker 1: different when you think about it. In terms of how
Speaker 1: Australia is feeling at the moment, they have got to
Speaker 1: be feeling pretty hyped up Australian basketball here like here here,
Speaker 1: It was probably here when LaMelo went over there to
Speaker 1: get himself seasoned and become the number two overall pick
Speaker 1: three three two. It was Aunt Edwards, it was James Wiseman,
Speaker 1: LaMelo ball number three. They are balling down there. People
Speaker 1: are finally starting to notice we're not talking about just
Speaker 1: Patty Mills and Ben Simmons and Josh Giddy and Joe
Speaker 1: Ingles and Dyson Daniels. We're talking about the quality of
Speaker 1: the competition of the NBL as a whole. There's Australian
Speaker 1: pro hoops and they have come a long way. And
Speaker 1: that shows right because I have never heard of the
Speaker 1: thirty six ers, which this is a very hilarious bootleg
Speaker 1: name for the seventy six ers. Former Memphis Tiger Craig Randall,
Speaker 1: former Washington State star Robert Franks lit up the Suns
Speaker 1: for sixty seven points combined. And by the way, the
Speaker 1: Sun starters all played if you're wondering, oh, well, maybe
Speaker 1: they were just like sitting on the bench and we
Speaker 1: had like Campaign and Landry Schamte out there. No all
Speaker 1: Sun starters played a minimum of twenty two minutes. Even
Speaker 1: Monty Williams said after the game he didn't give his
Speaker 1: opponents enough respect. It's kind of like Game seven. But
Speaker 1: he'll be getting it now though. They'll be rolling into
Speaker 1: OKC to play against Gidey, They'll be playing the Pelicans
Speaker 1: against Dyson Daniels. This is gonna be These are gonna
Speaker 1: be games that everyone in Australia is going to tune
Speaker 1: in for now at least they feel like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we have a shot. Last remaining problem though, in terms
Speaker 1: of why we maybe don't know about this game logistics,
Speaker 1: only seven, if you can believe it, seven NBA teams
Speaker 1: sent scouts out to that game. It's called the Blitz.
Speaker 1: Why why did only seven come? That's what she said.
Speaker 1: It was held in Darwin, which apparently is next to
Speaker 1: impossible to get to. As ESPN reported, some NBL teams
Speaker 1: didn't even send executives to the Blitz because of how
Speaker 1: much of a hassle it was to get to the
Speaker 1: Northern Territory. Australian teams wouldn't even send their scouts out there.
Speaker 1: Why would you put this game in the middle of
Speaker 1: remote territory? Just for fun? Because I have so much
Speaker 1: time on my hands, I checked in on a ticket
Speaker 1: to see what it would be like to get to Darwin.
Speaker 1: First of all, cheapest cost of a ticket three K.
Speaker 1: Second of all, quickest transit time that I could get
Speaker 1: out of Washington, DC was three days, including thirty six
Speaker 1: hours and thirty minutes of flight time, plus all of
Speaker 1: the time you're sitting around airports in your connecting flights.
Speaker 1: I mean, this could be in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1: This is like Tasmania. But the bottom line of all
Speaker 1: this is that don't feel bad for the Suns. Feel
Speaker 1: happy for these thirty six ers. I can't even get
Speaker 1: their name right. I almost said seventy six ers again.
Speaker 1: They could very well be a train wreck, but it's
Speaker 1: not because they lost to this NBL team Australian Pro Basketball,
Speaker 1: no joke, and now NBA fans are just i think,
Speaker 1: starting to realize it, given the fact that it's trending
Speaker 1: right now.