Speaker 1: Oh you thought we weren't coming back. Wow, guess what,
Speaker 1: We're back again.
Speaker 2: Much, Miles.
Speaker 3: Why are they always saying we can't do it? How
Speaker 3: we never make it to episode one? It's not even
Speaker 3: that the listeners actually do love us. I think I
Speaker 3: don't know who I'm talking to.
Speaker 1: Maybe one of my haters from high school and I
Speaker 1: used this show to stunt on them.
Speaker 2: But that's besides the point where a guy at That's
Speaker 2: more from a different podcast. We're in the.
Speaker 1: Home stress of the season and teams are trying to
Speaker 1: get healthy for the postseason push, and we're joined by
Speaker 1: one of our very favorite comedians, Blake Wexler. On today's episode,
Speaker 1: I am Miles Gray.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm Jack O'Brien, and this.
Speaker 4: Story, okay, we're gonna be driving Spinny with five.
Speaker 2: Is gonna try another prize? Mister, look God, James, to
Speaker 2: be honest, you're.
Speaker 5: The tech look shot time you go.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh man, we got Blake Wesler in the building.
Speaker 1: He's got a critically acclaimed our special on YouTube, Daddy
Speaker 1: Long Legs. You're Gowana's Brooklyn March fifteenth, will then pull
Speaker 1: up the Strong Rold Brewery. You're in Cincinnati Ohio April
Speaker 1: eighteenth to twenty one. Check him out. Look at his website.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be there. He'll be Tennessee, Pittsburgh, and May.
Speaker 1: It's this guy's all over the place. But right now
Speaker 1: he's on this basketball podcast, one of the most popular
Speaker 1: basketball podcasts on Earth. Blake Wexler, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining us.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 6: Yep, you know, it's very nice to be here. I mean,
Speaker 6: that's his Mat Boosties. It is Matt Boost.
Speaker 1: He's just remember when Nike Shocks first came out and
Speaker 1: the commercial was ba owing boom or was that only
Speaker 1: one who's completely poisoned by that kind of marketing Vince
Speaker 1: Harder signature?
Speaker 2: Shoot, was it not? Yeah? He shots for a little while. Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh yeah.
Speaker 6: Which can you find a better front man for that technology.
Speaker 1: Then than the guy just shild We could have jumped
Speaker 1: out of an NBA arena.
Speaker 3: I was just watching Carolina highlights. I think someone like
Speaker 3: those went viral recently, and like, I've never seen anyone
Speaker 3: do what he did in college, Like is just absolute
Speaker 3: NBA highlight reel, like dunk contest, dunks in NC double A,
Speaker 3: like his freshman year, just full grown.
Speaker 5: Some of the best dunks i've ever seen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh man, and he played until he was like
Speaker 6: forty for no reason. He didn't need to do that.
Speaker 6: He really did well. Then.
Speaker 1: Also, yeah, everyone's talking about how his career went into
Speaker 1: four different decades, the nineties, the odds, the tens, and
Speaker 1: the twenties, crazed.
Speaker 5: Four different dimensions, became like giga mm hmm.
Speaker 1: But I feel like we're I mean, look, we're here
Speaker 1: to talk about the current state of the NBA and yeah,
Speaker 1: the current state of a team that the two of
Speaker 1: you both have actually kept the same energy for throughout
Speaker 1: the entire season when the times were going. When Times
Speaker 1: first started out, I said, oh, hey, guys, being this year,
Speaker 1: we'll see, We'll see.
Speaker 3: You will do any nice try the ambushed Miles. I
Speaker 3: didn't know we were going to be talking about the
Speaker 3: seventy six ers.
Speaker 1: I no, you did, because we had a whole debate
Speaker 1: before we started recording a back Like.
Speaker 3: I feel ambushed anyways. Nonetheless, anytime this subject matter comes up, I.
Speaker 6: Have a guy who just doesn't listen and then gets
Speaker 6: offended when people bring up things because he just wasn't
Speaker 6: paying at you. You can't treat me like this, not
Speaker 6: on my own guy, dare you did literally?
Speaker 5: What did I say?
Speaker 1: You literally signed off on the outline for this episode?
Speaker 2: Nah, I don't remember that. I don't see my signature
Speaker 2: anywhere on this doc.
Speaker 3: It is a real I think this is a win
Speaker 3: for us, Blake, because when you came on and the
Speaker 3: Sixers had just won like eleven in a row, or
Speaker 3: we're like eleven and one over the last. I don't
Speaker 3: I'm not a math genior. I don't know how many
Speaker 3: games that was. But we had the energy of a
Speaker 3: team of a five hundred team that was scraping by
Speaker 3: and like might make the playoffs because we knew what
Speaker 3: was coming. We recognized this team has a gravitational equilibrium
Speaker 3: that is second round at best, second round or bust
Speaker 3: and second round at best, and that's where everything is
Speaker 3: headed eventually. So you know the fact that we're now
Speaker 3: seventh in the Eastern Conference, just scored seventy nine points.
Speaker 3: We actually spent the we spent part of our run
Speaker 3: up to this episode looking up if that was the
Speaker 3: fewest points any team had scored, and it was.
Speaker 5: We had also scored seventy nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, also earlier in this season. But yeah, it's not
Speaker 3: going great at the moment because I think, so, you know,
Speaker 3: I've got basketball my blood, I got some crazy ideas,
Speaker 3: and I've been in the lab, and I think the
Speaker 3: thing that's gone wrong is that it's that MB got hurt.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I.
Speaker 5: Mean it's a it's a theory, like I noticed that.
Speaker 3: So they're ten and twenty one without him this season,
Speaker 3: much better with him this season? And if you'll remember,
Speaker 3: he was the MVP last season, right, which stands for
Speaker 3: the most Valuable Player, So stands to reason he is
Speaker 3: good for the team. So that's just it's kind of
Speaker 3: a crackpot theory, but that's where I'm coming from.
Speaker 1: Does that make him a favorite for MVP this season?
Speaker 2: Because how vital?
Speaker 5: He mathematically ineligible?
Speaker 2: Oh? Right? Was he having a good year before he
Speaker 2: got hurt? Was it like? As? Was it anywhere?
Speaker 5: For I don't remember.
Speaker 6: I can't remember each I can't recall the collective?
Speaker 2: Am how was he?
Speaker 5: I think he just scored seventy is that right?
Speaker 2: That seems like that.
Speaker 3: Seems like it's impossible because the whole team just scored
Speaker 3: seventy nine, So it seems impossible that he on his
Speaker 3: own would have scored seventy just a handful of games
Speaker 3: before he got injured.
Speaker 6: But those are Devin Booker numbers, you know, And there's
Speaker 6: no way that Joel Epide.
Speaker 2: She was averaging thirty.
Speaker 3: Five, eleven and six, it turns out, before he got injured,
Speaker 3: a lifetime ago.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: Unbelievable. I'm back in. I'm back in on in the sixers.
Speaker 6: I think I think we're good now. And what it
Speaker 6: took was the Kyle Lowry signing for me to get
Speaker 6: back in, because the mount of Villanova players in the
Speaker 6: NBA currently is on the Knicks alone, where it's it's
Speaker 6: Brunson heart Evencenzo and they were playing Lowry the other night.
Speaker 6: Sadik Bay just got injured for the Holy Unfortunately Myles
Speaker 6: Bridges like, wait, is.
Speaker 2: It Miles Bridge? Which one is that?
Speaker 6: Michal Bridges, Yeah, but yeah, no, Villanova, I am shocked
Speaker 6: by as a team that generally has not been a
Speaker 6: they would put out role players into the NBA, which
Speaker 6: I guess is kind of what we have now. Brunson,
Speaker 6: who knew that he would become what he is, but
Speaker 6: I guess his father did. But yeah, it's it's very
Speaker 6: it's very exciting for me. So put a little Villanova
Speaker 6: blood into into the Sixers.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 3: I love the sound of Blake's voice saying, Villanova, Villanova,
Speaker 3: get some Haugis and hang out with my boy from Villanova. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it is truly And I was saying before, like
Speaker 3: the season the Sixers are having is a true testament
Speaker 3: to the fact that Joel Embiid was the MVP last season.
Speaker 3: And that's all we went into this season looking for,
Speaker 3: right is just to have validation on that argument from
Speaker 3: last season, and I think we have it now. The
Speaker 3: fact that they were, you know, up there with the
Speaker 3: best teams in the league with him, and since he's
Speaker 3: been injured there ten and twenty one, we were trying
Speaker 3: to figure out if there's another player in the league
Speaker 3: that would have, like an injury, would have torpedoed their
Speaker 3: team that drastically. Brunson was thrown out. Luca, I think
Speaker 3: is the other answer. Yeah, probably probably, But his team
Speaker 3: is not that great to begin with, so.
Speaker 6: It's true, you know, they're not working with a big margin.
Speaker 3: Right, And then I think Brunson is actually the other
Speaker 3: Like I really think without and the Knicks kind of
Speaker 3: become pretty Uh, it gets real tough for them to score.
Speaker 6: Well, we'll see what happens with the Nets and Ben
Speaker 6: Simmons because there's not enough data. There's not a data
Speaker 6: data or any we don't know. I'm saying, we don't know,
Speaker 6: and we.
Speaker 3: Neither know how to pronounce that word data or data
Speaker 3: and we don't know.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: The the answer on who was the better player to
Speaker 3: go with in that situation? What should it have been?
Speaker 3: Mb Should it have been Ben Simmons? Sixers fans are
Speaker 3: still trying to figure it.
Speaker 6: Out, and again yeah the answer Also Ben Simmons is nickname.
Speaker 2: Uh so, yeah it is.
Speaker 6: It's a very fascinating situation that we'll have warn later
Speaker 6: in this episode.
Speaker 2: Is how I feel like so.
Speaker 1: Many fans are angry at Tobias Harris too. Is that.
Speaker 2: Is that fair? Is that fair to him?
Speaker 1: Or is it just that he's become the lightning rod
Speaker 1: for the collective frustration, because like I see so many
Speaker 1: takes that are just like, is.
Speaker 2: This guy point shaven or something?
Speaker 1: You're like, relax, relax, I'm gonna know he scored two
Speaker 1: points in that last game. But it feels like, and
Speaker 1: this happens, I'm guilty of this too. As a Lakers fan.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's easier to just rest everything on one person
Speaker 1: than to kind of take a step back and see everything.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 6: Who would have known that when we signed Tobias Harris
Speaker 6: to a one hundred and eighty million dollar contract that
Speaker 6: he would just continue playing like Tobias Harris has always
Speaker 6: played like this is not this is not random. This
Speaker 6: is and he's having a rough stretch. So he is
Speaker 6: having he has been playing worse than he ever has.
Speaker 6: But it's this is the kind of player that he is.
Speaker 6: And he's a great guy. That's the worst part about it.
Speaker 6: The guy's an absolute sweetheart. So whenever you get angry
Speaker 6: at him, then you get upset with yourself, you know.
Speaker 6: And he owns a cookie he owns a chain of
Speaker 6: cookie stores, warm cookies. Like that's some yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: And he's being blamed, but it's not. To Jack's point,
Speaker 6: it's because the beads that not there. You shouldn't be
Speaker 6: rest And I think this is his contract spires after
Speaker 6: this season, right, I believe finally got willing that happens.
Speaker 6: And it's again not it's not his fault. He was
Speaker 6: off for the money. You take the money, but yeah,
Speaker 6: this is he just shouldn't have been given that contract.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: The Sixers have seven games in April, including games against
Speaker 3: the thunder Heat, Spurs, and Magic. Uh So, I don't
Speaker 3: know they currently said at seventh.
Speaker 2: It there.
Speaker 5: They've got a ways to go.
Speaker 3: They would need to like go ten games backward to
Speaker 3: fall out of the playing game, and Beids should be
Speaker 3: coming back in April.
Speaker 5: There is if they should he that's the question right right.
Speaker 3: Like, we're in this position right now because he came
Speaker 3: back too quickly from an injury and then he got
Speaker 3: injured worse. Nobody wants to see that. He also has
Speaker 3: a tendency to get hurt in the playoffs. I just
Speaker 3: I don't know a lot of freak injuries like around
Speaker 3: the end of the season, but I don't love the
Speaker 3: idea of him coming back. However, if he is going
Speaker 3: to come back, if the Sixers get a seven seed
Speaker 3: and are going against the Bucks, there just feels like
Speaker 3: there's something I don't know, but that will Sixers would
Speaker 3: be I feel like it would be good for the NBA.
Speaker 3: That would be a first round series. If MB is playing,
Speaker 3: the people would tune him for.
Speaker 6: It would be Doc Rivers essentially playing himself. Yeah, so
Speaker 6: what happens? Can it just not? Do they just not
Speaker 6: play the games?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: You know, we're gonna skip it. And yeah, by the way,
Speaker 6: I would like you for the listeners who I would
Speaker 6: like to speak to directly right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, I would like for you too.
Speaker 6: Whenever you hear a Sixters fans speak about the Sixers,
Speaker 6: try to count if there's ever an instance where they
Speaker 6: don't trail off at the end of their sentence when
Speaker 6: they're talking about it does generally end in a trail
Speaker 6: off and lack of common.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I just I found myself trailed like going towards
Speaker 3: being like, I think we might have more of a
Speaker 3: chance than people would think in that series against the Bucks.
Speaker 3: And then I really like my brain short circuit because
Speaker 3: that was like confidence and I feel good about that. Also,
Speaker 3: the bad Boosti's curse is real. We talked about the
Speaker 3: Celtics last week and how they're like a historically great
Speaker 3: team and they immediately like had a collapse against the
Speaker 3: Cabs in a yeah, like as we were recording essentially
Speaker 3: the game was starting. So I don't want to take
Speaker 3: anything good about any team other than the Celtics at
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 6: But the Celtics are very great. Yeah, and it's really
Speaker 6: their title to lose.
Speaker 2: I really think that now, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, looking at it, it does. It does feel
Speaker 1: like that despite that blip in the resurgence of the
Speaker 1: new d Wade of the.
Speaker 3: Game, Like, are they even gonna Like the question I
Speaker 3: have for the NBA, do you even have the playoffs
Speaker 3: at this point?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 5: Than like what, like why not just give it to
Speaker 5: the Celtics?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just put number eighteen up, Yeah, go ahead, Like
Speaker 1: people could get.
Speaker 3: Hurt, you know, playing against a team as good as
Speaker 3: the Celtics, people could get hurt. So like, why do
Speaker 3: you really want to risk that? Just let them have
Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference? Maybe we let the Western Conference kind
Speaker 3: of play it out and see who the best is
Speaker 3: over there, and then they get to play the Celtics,
Speaker 3: but maybe only for like a game or two, because otherwise, again,
Speaker 3: people could get hurt and it's a foregone conclusion.
Speaker 1: So I know you you both exercise a healthy dose
Speaker 1: of skepticism when it comes to the seventy six ers.
Speaker 1: But does Tyrese MAXI at least give you something to
Speaker 1: feel good about? Can you at least can can we
Speaker 1: feel good there about about.
Speaker 5: Him just interfering.
Speaker 3: Pure joy like somebody who is just like he is
Speaker 3: pure joy, like you can he experiences pure joy.
Speaker 5: Is game is pure joy, like just pure energy. What what? Yeah,
Speaker 5: we're so lucky to have Maxi.
Speaker 1: On Okay, Just you know, I just trying to make
Speaker 1: sure you guys saw everything. You know, I want you
Speaker 1: to look at the totality of it.
Speaker 3: Just I'm only fatalistic when I'm talking about the fate
Speaker 3: of the season, but when it comes to the individual players,
Speaker 3: I'm very happy, proud of of of my guys, uh
Speaker 3: and Maxi in particular. You know, seeing him come up
Speaker 3: from just a young, young fella one of the most
Speaker 3: exciting players in the league, unbelievable.
Speaker 6: I see him as something different. I don't see him
Speaker 6: as associated with the Sixers at all. Like I picture
Speaker 6: him having his own locker room. He practices in a
Speaker 6: different facility. You know, he wears a different and he
Speaker 6: wears like a Rising Stars jersey.
Speaker 2: Or he's not even wearing colored.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, exactly right, just to show he's he's being employed,
Speaker 6: but he's not a part of the for his sake,
Speaker 6: Like if I saw him in public, I would just
Speaker 6: apologize to him. I'd say, I'm so sorry, thank you,
Speaker 6: and I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: I yeah, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it'll it'll be interesting. I would love to
Speaker 3: see their season go in the direction of seventh seeded
Speaker 3: going against the Bucks, just because I think they would well.
Speaker 3: First of all, because I don't want to see them
Speaker 3: go against the Knicks or the Calves or I think
Speaker 3: they or of course the Celtics.
Speaker 2: I think the no, no, no, no no, the Bucks.
Speaker 5: Would at least be interesting.
Speaker 3: They would have like a puncher's chance if MBT is
Speaker 3: playing and playing well right. But yeah, they might get
Speaker 3: swept too, but at least it would be interesting.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone wants to see this next team
Speaker 1: in the first round, though they're they're looking they're doing
Speaker 1: something that. Okay, so that's seventy nine points that the
Speaker 1: seventy six ers scored. That was the first time the
Speaker 1: Knicks have held their opponent under eighty points in three
Speaker 1: consecutive games since the two thousand and two thousand and
Speaker 1: one season.
Speaker 2: They're doing something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's impossible, like that, the fact that they I
Speaker 3: didn't realize that that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Well, it's funny because wasn't the even the second game
Speaker 1: was the you guys won, but it was seventy nine
Speaker 1: to seventy three, which is even interesting too. That's a
Speaker 1: loss and they held it to seven, because then what
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's.
Speaker 3: A little year, if you're just like I could hold
Speaker 3: a team under eighty by just like not scoring at all,
Speaker 3: so they don't feel like they need to score, all right.
Speaker 2: Come on to score another one?
Speaker 3: Really yeah sorry, we're just really trying to do this
Speaker 3: under eighty thing.
Speaker 5: Real, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh Hart's looking good and ogn and Obi's looking
Speaker 1: really good. He's like plus two eighty two or something.
Speaker 1: It's like the highest for any player for like first
Speaker 1: ten games on a new team.
Speaker 5: H So you know there's yeah, you know you do.
Speaker 1: Don't get too hard, don't get too down yourselves, guys get.
Speaker 5: One of the one of the great trades and reason
Speaker 5: history it feels like but.
Speaker 3: Just perfectly where like everyone's like, oh, that would be
Speaker 3: a really nice trade, Like I don't I don't think
Speaker 3: the team's get along well enough for it to happen.
Speaker 3: And then it happened, and it was like all the
Speaker 3: things that people thought would be good.
Speaker 5: About it came true.
Speaker 2: Right right?
Speaker 5: Should we take a break? Come to see a break,
Speaker 5: take a look around a leave?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, around hey.
Speaker 5: Blake, what do you what do you throw us to?
Speaker 2: Aw?
Speaker 5: Throw us to a break.
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Speaker 6: It becomes a whole different thing. Miles, what do we got.
Speaker 1: Mess chick in with my cross town rivals, my beloved
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Clippers, merely for the fact they blew a
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two point lead versus the Wolves following.
Speaker 2: Why Thoracic spasms. Yeah, that's the one thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, the jokes and rivalry aside, Like I don't
Speaker 1: want Kowida perpetually injured. Yeah, it is more exciting to
Speaker 1: see him healthy and to be able to him not
Speaker 1: to do it for him and his X Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Thoracic cretatious spasms that he's had.
Speaker 2: He had some Jurassic difficulties.
Speaker 1: You know, when you have to when you have to leave,
Speaker 1: like the arena out in discomfort.
Speaker 2: Where are you going?
Speaker 1: Like is that just straight to like some kind of
Speaker 1: medical facility.
Speaker 3: Thoracic spasms just the hiccups? Probably not, but those are
Speaker 3: spasms that are happening in your what is the thor
Speaker 3: x uh fine that I could have looked up before anyway,
Speaker 3: the Clippers, Yeah, that's what I think of as a bug.
Speaker 1: Well, what but your thoracic spine is the middle part
Speaker 1: of your spine, the middle part of your back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't want that.
Speaker 1: Then it's like the fun consequential part of your of
Speaker 1: your spizin. So yeah, that's a bit of a bit
Speaker 1: of a bummer.
Speaker 3: But the Clippers are hitting a little Bumpy Water. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is the thing nobody's said before.
Speaker 2: Bumpy Water as captain. Yeah, five and.
Speaker 3: Five over the last ten, now three and three on
Speaker 3: the season without Kawhi, just seven and eight over the
Speaker 3: last fifteen after that two month hot streak. And yeah,
Speaker 3: this game happened. They had this collapse against the Wolves
Speaker 3: playing without cat I mean he's cats out for He's
Speaker 3: going to be reevaluated in four weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other thing I mean is Anthony Edwards is just
Speaker 1: I forget that he's twenty two years old.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: He's twenty two and he's doing some wild stuff. Also
Speaker 1: that yeah, well what even before that, like after our
Speaker 1: like when that Clippers game at the in the post game,
Speaker 1: they're like, wow, you know, amazing third quarter, Like what
Speaker 1: was going on? He said, yeah, just a couple of mismatches.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what do you see out there? Like how I
Speaker 5: just saw a lot of mismatches?
Speaker 2: This dude is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, every every single player everyone.
Speaker 3: And then of course I think top five moments of
Speaker 3: the year so far was him missing a free throw
Speaker 3: that would have put them up three, I think against
Speaker 3: the Pacers.
Speaker 5: Pacers race the ball up the court.
Speaker 3: And then he has one of the most absurd game
Speaker 3: winning blocks of all time, like hits his head on
Speaker 3: the backboard as he's just blocking a shot, falls dramatically
Speaker 3: but completely saves the game.
Speaker 5: One of the coolest things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like one of those moments where like
Speaker 1: some like they're like, oh, you you can actually jump
Speaker 1: so high that you could hurt yourself from how high
Speaker 1: you jumped.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Now I might also do that, but that's because I
Speaker 3: lack the coordination to land even if I jump like
Speaker 3: three inches into the air.
Speaker 2: You forget the landing part.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: You know you like to get He likes to point
Speaker 1: his toes straight down perpendicular to the ground for the landing.
Speaker 2: Like that's gonna mess up something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but here's the play. The free throw has just
Speaker 1: been missed and he's about to save the day.
Speaker 6: Edwards can't hit the second pacers have a chance up ahead, Nieseman.
Speaker 5: It truly flies through the air.
Speaker 3: The ball is advanced up ahead, and he is like
Speaker 3: twelve feet behind the ball, like he's nowhere near where
Speaker 3: he needs to be to contest this, and then just
Speaker 3: closes on it in a split second and.
Speaker 5: Just flies through the air because.
Speaker 6: He could have hit his head on the rim, on
Speaker 6: the backboard, on his man who's also playing defense. And
Speaker 6: then to your point, now he.
Speaker 3: Has to fall eight feet to the floor because the
Speaker 3: guy who puts up the free throw or the guy
Speaker 3: who puts up the layup falls directly under him, knocks
Speaker 3: his legs out from under him.
Speaker 5: He falls and just.
Speaker 6: Is able to do it horizontal because he's a football player.
Speaker 2: And like on his like shoulder too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like a lot of other times, like oh boy,
Speaker 1: that could be a terrible, terrible shoulder injury.
Speaker 5: Yeah, jump that high.
Speaker 3: In any other situation, you would be like what was that?
Speaker 3: That person has superpowers? Or like if you saw that
Speaker 3: in a football game, if someone went up for a
Speaker 3: catch in an NFL football game and jump that high,
Speaker 3: you would be like, no, that can't that's impossible, Like
Speaker 3: that's the Yeah, is that dk metcalf the video where
Speaker 3: the guy like jumps into the airnete, Like that has
Speaker 3: to be like special effects. There's no way that's true.
Speaker 3: Like that, that's how high he's jumping. It's one of
Speaker 3: the wildest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 6: Or even like picture at You're at a grocery store
Speaker 6: and something's up really high, like there no one, they
Speaker 6: didn't restock the shelf, so you have to go all
Speaker 6: the way up top to get right the extra stuff.
Speaker 2: It's not even.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not even a grocery store. It would be
Speaker 1: like Costco. Yeah, I mean correct, yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: It would have to be a warehouse grocery store.
Speaker 1: And it's like Okay, let me see if I can
Speaker 1: get Greg to bring the forklift around and he's like, nah,
Speaker 1: I got this.
Speaker 2: No need except Greg alone.
Speaker 1: That landing alone would be like I don't want my
Speaker 1: child playing basketball if that's if they're going to jump
Speaker 1: that high.
Speaker 2: And maybe it's themselves.
Speaker 3: I mean, the landing also suggests like he could do
Speaker 3: this whenever he wants, but he recognizes like the landing
Speaker 3: would be yeah right, like it's sh Yeah, there are
Speaker 3: leaps that like there are things that these guys can
Speaker 3: do that we're not aware of because they would be
Speaker 3: like ill advised.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, well this is my problem now.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it also has that same energy of like, yeah,
Speaker 3: if you've ever done something embarrassing on the basketball court
Speaker 3: or mister free throw, and then you come down and
Speaker 3: in my case, embarrassingly foul the person who's like about
Speaker 3: to score because you feel bad about it, so you're
Speaker 3: like going way too hard. In his case, he just
Speaker 3: jumps too high for physics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like one of those things where like certain
Speaker 1: players like lay out for a ball for a catch,
Speaker 1: like in football or maybe like an outfield or something,
Speaker 1: and sometimes like I don't care what happens to me
Speaker 1: because I sent them focus.
Speaker 2: On getting the ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, that was a thing that singular focus
Speaker 1: put him into a placers like, well, i could have
Speaker 1: concussed myself on the backboard and then I could have
Speaker 1: dislocated my shoulder on the landing, but I'm built like
Speaker 1: a little.
Speaker 3: That happens that makes it keeps him from smashing his
Speaker 3: head on the back board is that his shoulders are
Speaker 3: also above the backboard, so he actually hits his shoulders
Speaker 3: on the backboard, and like, yeah, it's not that his
Speaker 3: head is Like I've heard people say, oh, his head
Speaker 3: was at the rim there, and it's like his head's
Speaker 3: like you know, at the shot clock. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 3: a foot under the rim. Usually his head is going
Speaker 3: to hit the rim like he has to duck, like
Speaker 3: he's really it might be the highest I've seen, Like
Speaker 3: it's up there with the job block that we like
Speaker 3: spent a whole episode talking about in the early run
Speaker 3: of the show, where he just jumped up and caught
Speaker 3: it with both hands and then just like kept ascending
Speaker 3: like it was yeah.
Speaker 1: Crazy, there's been Yeah, there's there were a few moments
Speaker 1: of what we call high elevation.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we call this bad business this
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, this was a terrible business decision. I
Speaker 1: think in this next clip, Anthony Simon's of the Trailblazers
Speaker 1: gets not just posterized.
Speaker 2: He was put on a missing poster.
Speaker 1: Aalen Green with this dunk, which is also like another
Speaker 1: just wild feet of athleticism and elevation. But this dunk
Speaker 1: also feels like real life NBA J I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just like it's the the kinetic energy of it
Speaker 1: is what I think. Just listen to the commentators because
Speaker 1: I think their screams sum it up perfectly.
Speaker 2: They really can't. We've seen that a lot.
Speaker 6: We have.
Speaker 2: Work. We can wear him in any scenario. It's one
Speaker 2: thing I have learned in the last twenty four hour up.
Speaker 1: I got picked up by James Rock anphony physicism.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so our silence is just that we've just witnessed
Speaker 3: a crime against humanity. He So it's like kind of
Speaker 3: the perfect storm because Anthony Simon's has just turned the
Speaker 3: ball over.
Speaker 5: It's his fault that there's a turnover.
Speaker 3: So he's not going to let Jaysen Green just like
Speaker 3: get away with this because.
Speaker 2: He already embarrassed this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's violence.
Speaker 2: It's a double booboo.
Speaker 1: Double boo, I think, yeah, I think it's what the
Speaker 1: pros call a double.
Speaker 2: Boo boo a d for sure.
Speaker 1: It's just is it because it is it? Because of
Speaker 1: how far he's the ball is cocked back too, Like
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember, like trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: I think it's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just that it's it's truly a slam as
Speaker 1: they call. As Onyx once said, let the boys.
Speaker 5: These players are making me miss job.
Speaker 3: By the way, Yeah, this is what jab would do
Speaker 3: like once a month.
Speaker 6: It was also a cool timing for it, where the
Speaker 6: previous one, the ant one, was at the end of
Speaker 6: the game. You know, there was zero point eight seconds,
Speaker 6: like everybody was already really amped, and I think there
Speaker 6: were nine minutes left in the second quarter. The third
Speaker 6: announcers are just like gibbers, you know, there's like, yeah,
Speaker 6: like everyone's calm and then all help.
Speaker 1: If you listen to the top, they're like, that's why
Speaker 1: I gotta wear comfortable shoes.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, those hokahs they look pretty neat. Yeah, oh
Speaker 3: you're wearing hokahs.
Speaker 5: That's cool.
Speaker 6: I know people make fun of birkenstocks, but I find
Speaker 6: it to be a perfect reason.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: So I was dropping my kid. He only eats this
Speaker 1: kind of certain shell pocks.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, on the basketball floor. Sorry, I had
Speaker 3: that one locked and loaded. I was gonna try and
Speaker 3: sing it like murder on the dance floor, but uh,
Speaker 3: and then control of my bells and then Wemby.
Speaker 1: You know, I think every time somebody puts one on
Speaker 1: Victor Wembin Yama, we're always like, oh boy, because we're
Speaker 1: used to seeing him absolutely just reject people like I
Speaker 1: was rejected to many universities my senior year of vice.
Speaker 1: But this one trace Jackson Davis just doing doing and
Speaker 1: things that I can't even do in my dreams when
Speaker 1: I play sports. I've just I think, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm the only person. Do you ever have like
Speaker 1: are you ever triumphant in your sports dreams?
Speaker 2: Are you still.
Speaker 5: Slippery in my dreams?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I can't dribble the ball. And when
Speaker 1: I'm playing basketball dreams like my dreams all yeah, You've
Speaker 1: like you're forced to go left all the time and
Speaker 1: both handed, Yeah, both my hands are Jalen Brown's left hands.
Speaker 1: But this one trace Jackson Davis. One more bucket or
Speaker 1: one more stop trace Jackson Davis. I mean, now not
Speaker 1: as dynamic, but it's merely for the fact that you
Speaker 1: jumped like you dunked on the twelve foot scarecrow from
Speaker 1: the home depot or whatever.
Speaker 2: I wonder.
Speaker 3: I wonder what NBA player enters their opponent's dreams the most,
Speaker 3: Like who who? I feel like it's got to be
Speaker 3: like Wemby has to have entered the conversation for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he just.
Speaker 3: Is always there, like when you don't expect him to
Speaker 3: be there. I'm not going to dignify this dunking on
Speaker 3: him with a comment whatever it's funny, it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's more.
Speaker 1: It's more because it's it's against the norm of what
Speaker 1: we've seen. It's usually like because now, well I think
Speaker 1: that's what it is is most people now are like,
Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not, I'm not trying to dunk on
Speaker 1: Victor bro Yeah, no, like maybe maybe we'll see. But
Speaker 1: it was more it was the power of a dream,
Speaker 1: I think is what we saw there.
Speaker 3: I think the most noteworthy thing is that he's still
Speaker 3: contesting it. After the guy is like blown by him
Speaker 3: by four feet, right, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's also the way Wemby went down
Speaker 1: that has a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Like, oh whoa, Yeah, he crumbles. It takes him a
Speaker 3: while for his whole body to fall to the ground,
Speaker 3: and like.
Speaker 1: The momentum he does like a high kick in the air,
Speaker 1: you know, like I don't I get it.
Speaker 3: There's some physicality. It's very flexible. It's the reason that
Speaker 3: word that he's able to stay playing.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, that's the yoga right there. Those
Speaker 1: are not tight ham strings. Those are not tight hamstrings.
Speaker 1: I will say that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would have fallen.
Speaker 3: I would have done a high kick and been out
Speaker 3: for three seasons because of what that did to my hamstring.
Speaker 1: I'd been explaining to my grandchildren why I'm still walking
Speaker 1: with a limp.
Speaker 6: All right, reevaluated in twenty forty six. This century is
Speaker 6: going to bed.
Speaker 3: He's expected to be real shakeout twenty forty six. So
Speaker 3: don't ask some other things that we've noticed. We were
Speaker 3: noticing the lucastat that blew my mind. So he's in
Speaker 3: the in the midst of he's the first player with
Speaker 3: six straight thirty point triple doubles, only missed the seventh
Speaker 3: another triple double because the MAVs blew out the Bulls
Speaker 3: and he wound up with like twenty seven, fourteen and twelve.
Speaker 2: Right, But the.
Speaker 3: Stat about his like, I didn't, I don't think of
Speaker 3: him as the best finisher in the league. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: because he just you know, I mean, obviously he's big,
Speaker 3: he can push move people around, but he's I think
Speaker 3: of when I think of Luca, I'm thinking of like
Speaker 3: him hitting impossible shots from like all different angles and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. He's finishing at a higher rate than
Speaker 3: anyone since Shack.
Speaker 1: He's finishing at a higher rate at the rim than
Speaker 1: prime Shaquille O'Neil two thousand and two thousand and one season.
Speaker 2: Okay, his that.
Speaker 1: Field goal percentage at the rim is eighty three percent
Speaker 1: shots for seventy nine point two.
Speaker 5: Eighty three to seventy like that.
Speaker 6: It's all layups, right, It's all smooth layups because he
Speaker 6: puts himself in great position, you know, like he'll shield
Speaker 6: the defender away. None of it's the backboard shattering dunks
Speaker 6: or any of the three dunks that we just watch.
Speaker 6: It's just he does the job ball must go into
Speaker 6: the basket. He just drops it in at an alarmingly
Speaker 6: high rate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I mean, like when you're just looking at
Speaker 1: it like they like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, almost got to.
Speaker 1: Getting to the seventh one with thirty, but I mean
Speaker 1: should have done with Shay Gills as Alexander does, just
Speaker 1: like you'll file to do it at the end of
Speaker 1: the game to make sure you can get get your
Speaker 1: thirty points, Like I don't care, bro, I'm getting these
Speaker 1: thirty points.
Speaker 2: These are yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But to me, I guess it makes sense because the
Speaker 3: thing that we see from Lucas that like he has
Speaker 3: shot making ability from everywhere on the court. So the
Speaker 3: thing you have to be able to do at the
Speaker 3: rim is like finished from all different angles and in
Speaker 3: different ways and like float one sometimes or you know,
Speaker 3: like just make weird shots like depending on what you know,
Speaker 3: they're almost always going to be contested, right, And so
Speaker 3: it makes sense that he's like a magician at that
Speaker 3: because he's a magician at all shots. But I just
Speaker 3: I hadn't like really put it together that that's yeah,
Speaker 3: super interesting.
Speaker 1: He's not like, you know, attacking the paint as much
Speaker 1: now and if you look at the attempts, there's there's
Speaker 1: definitely a disparity there between what, you know, how many
Speaker 1: attempts he did, how how many attempts he made versus
Speaker 1: Shack Right. I mean it still shows again like that,
Speaker 1: like where do you want it? Because because I'll give
Speaker 1: it to you there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: There's also an anecdote about Grant Williams, who's no longer
Speaker 3: with Mavericks, thought Luca was having a bad practice and
Speaker 3: started talking trash to him and.
Speaker 5: Luca just ripped off.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get the direct quote. Yeah, yeah, did you
Speaker 3: see this quote?
Speaker 2: I don't remember it exactly. You have to pull it,
Speaker 2: but you know, I do what you're talking about. It
Speaker 2: surprised me.
Speaker 3: This is from Michael Finley. He said at MAVs practice,
Speaker 3: Grant Williams decided he wanted to get under Luca's skin.
Speaker 3: He felt that Luca didn't come that day ready to practice. So,
Speaker 3: to make a long story short, they had a scrimmage
Speaker 3: going and he's talking trash to Luca up and down
Speaker 3: the court. Finally Lucas says okay, and I tell you
Speaker 3: Luca went on a twenty six to six run by himself.
Speaker 3: You can ask anybody. I'm not exaggerating. It was a
Speaker 3: twenty six to six run by himself. He showed everything,
Speaker 3: the threes, the post up, the floaters, everything by himself.
Speaker 3: Twenty six to six run by himself is fun.
Speaker 2: Grant Williams like to see. Yeah, I see. That's why.
Speaker 5: That's why I do what I do.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm a motivator, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm like a Tony Robbins type guy. You know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: I like to bring the best out of people. That's
Speaker 1: what I like to do. I'm a bear poker, you
Speaker 1: know what. That's how I like. That's how I do.
Speaker 1: That's how I do. Yeah, twenty six to six run
Speaker 1: by myself.
Speaker 3: Also real quick? How old would you say Nikola yokicches?
Speaker 3: Just like how old does he feel to you?
Speaker 1: Jo Kicch feels about thirty seven years old, fifty two
Speaker 1: fifty two early yeah, early retirement.
Speaker 2: It's very much coffee.
Speaker 1: And that's a sight like on his ability or whatever.
Speaker 1: That's like vibrationally he's giving me. I've seen it all.
Speaker 1: I'm all right, you know what I mean. I don't
Speaker 1: need to I don't need to go too hard on anything.
Speaker 1: I'm about thirty seven, thirty eight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's yeah, twenty nine years old.
Speaker 2: Amazing. Just you just turned twenty nine, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a child.
Speaker 3: He's entering like this is the point at which players
Speaker 3: enter their prime and you have the best part of
Speaker 3: their career. He has two MVPs and a finals MVP
Speaker 3: as he's entering that part of his career.
Speaker 1: Do players like would you say players in the NBA
Speaker 1: like get like their old man's strength at a certain point,
Speaker 1: Like sometimes they go because you know, like as an adult,
Speaker 1: you're like, bro, once you hit there, like you kind
Speaker 1: of you're able to tap into I'm not saying like athletically,
Speaker 1: but like psychologically, you can tap into something a little
Speaker 1: bit differently that I don't know colloquially is called like
Speaker 1: your old man strength. But yeah, that's it's even frightening
Speaker 1: to think that he's like, yeah, I'm gonna add this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just you know, expand a bit now on
Speaker 1: my power now because I'm just a wee lad just
Speaker 1: twenty nine.
Speaker 2: It's just turned two nine.
Speaker 6: The scariest old man's strength I've ever seen, because when
Speaker 6: you picture it, it's when a player is you know
Speaker 6: in their this is so still young but like mid
Speaker 6: thirties and they're losing their like muscle definition. But I
Speaker 6: remember when Alonzo Mourning got old man's strength on top
Speaker 6: of having like a bodybuilder's body, just would never lose
Speaker 6: like a helld ball ever would We wouldn't even get
Speaker 6: to that point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's his ball. Oh man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, scary things ahead for them, I mean again, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, are are we still feeling?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: It's probably it's probably the Nuggies coming up.
Speaker 3: That's who I'm like truly at this point, because it's
Speaker 3: because it's all hands on deck, the NBA versus the Celtics.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of pulling for whoever I think has the
Speaker 3: best chance against Celtics.
Speaker 5: I still think it's the Nuggies.
Speaker 6: We'll see, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think the Celtics are
Speaker 6: going to come out of the West. They might as
Speaker 6: well because there's no chance of that losing the NBA
Speaker 6: title this year. It will be Celtics versus Celtics, and
Speaker 6: I'm taking the Celtics in at all.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm actually going to be going to Boston to
Speaker 1: raise the banner. Yeah, I know, you're Yeah, I'll be there.
Speaker 1: I'll be there because I just want to honor the feet.
Speaker 1: I just want to you know, as a Laker fan,
Speaker 1: I just want to say, you know what, real recognize real? Hey,
Speaker 1: no curses here though. Shall we take a quick break?
Speaker 5: I think we shall.
Speaker 1: I think we shall, And we'll come back with the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter round of right after this, and we're back
Speaker 1: and fourth quarter. It's the fourth quarter round, baby, it's
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter round of questioning. Baby, we're back quarter
Speaker 1: rapid fire round of questioning.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And we're back and those things are true. Blake, you
Speaker 1: already know. I don't have to explain it to you, don't.
Speaker 1: You don't mess this up for us. Just down to
Speaker 1: me with your answers. I'm talking up to you, man,
Speaker 1: because you're north of where I am, so I couldn't
Speaker 1: talk down to you baby like that. We asked the questions.
Speaker 1: You give us the answers as fast as you can.
Speaker 1: Do not humiliate us.
Speaker 2: I never would thank you. Are you ready yes? Because
Speaker 2: we're doing this so quick? Again? You didn't you didn't
Speaker 2: respond quick enough. You're ready? Ready?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 3: Like we kind of have to just like go and pretend,
Speaker 3: like he said, really quick could we edit out the
Speaker 3: giant pause there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, really, that's how that's the speaker looking for. That
Speaker 6: was too slow? Okay, okay, yeah, here we go home.
Speaker 2: Shut. Yeah, are you ready let's do this?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, he's dialed in that whole pause.
Speaker 5: He was like flaring his nostrils.
Speaker 1: I was, yeah, all right, well then, Brian, you know
Speaker 1: what to do.
Speaker 2: Start the clock.
Speaker 1: Are we ready, Jack, Yes, that's a real question.
Speaker 2: Let's do this, all right? Team? Yeah? Sorry.
Speaker 3: When I said let's do this, I was actually saying
Speaker 3: it from an earlier question and then oh yeah, get
Speaker 3: back to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, said let's do this. When I asked if
Speaker 2: we should go to a break, I.
Speaker 5: Might get excited enough to say, let's do this. This
Speaker 5: is when we're talking about breaking a break. Let's do this.
Speaker 5: Let's take a break, all right?
Speaker 2: I was going first.
Speaker 5: Why don't you go first?
Speaker 1: All right, Blake Wexler, I want you to look at
Speaker 1: these images.
Speaker 2: Sorry, go ahead, just what I know. I know.
Speaker 1: Look, I appreciate the eagerness, but we're looking at some
Speaker 1: iconic basketball jersey from the nineties. You picked three of
Speaker 1: them to take with you into the next world. Which
Speaker 1: are they? You're asking the right person. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to Seattle super Sonics first. It's probably not the coolest
Speaker 1: jersey aesthetically, but those teams with the Glove with Sean Kemp,
Speaker 1: god forbid, I say the name, I'll say it, that
Speaker 1: left Shine, those guys, Irvin Johnson, Nate McMillan's the other
Speaker 1: Johnson of the NBA. Yeah, Irv, what's the opposite of
Speaker 1: magic or Irvin, I'm gonna show it to you before
Speaker 1: it happens. Jan Then I'm gonna go with Vancouver. The
Speaker 1: Vancouver Grizzly jerseys are just so cool, and I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the trim in particular, and also that Grizzly bear
Speaker 1: holding the basketball, which is not picture red but is.
Speaker 1: And now we're going short I believe, Yeah, the shortly
Speaker 1: bear on it. Yeah, you're per correct, Say correct that correct?
Speaker 1: Of course, it's all I know.
Speaker 6: And then the final jersey is in between the Raptors
Speaker 6: and the Hornets, because you have two beasts bouncing a ball,
Speaker 6: bouncing a ball, bouncing a basketball.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: And then I like the Charlotte Hornets one because pinstripes
Speaker 6: I find to be a criminally underutilized fashion thing in
Speaker 6: the NBA.
Speaker 2: But you gotta go.
Speaker 6: Basketball, Dribbling Dinosaurs, song and Purple and the Red, just
Speaker 6: seeing Tracy McGrady, who I believe was cousins with vince
Speaker 6: Vincent Carter, who we've mentioned a whole lot on this show.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Raptors as
Speaker 6: my as my third pick, very consistent picks we've seen.
Speaker 1: I think last week Josh Gondlman almost picked Idea to
Speaker 1: same identical chure.
Speaker 2: I think great minds.
Speaker 5: Uh Blake, most underrated NBA social media follow boo.
Speaker 6: I am gonna give that to the Marcus Cousins. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna give him the Bookie, but I don't know if
Speaker 6: he's currently employed anymore. But I will never forget when
Speaker 6: he just he was the first person a tweet out
Speaker 6: as far as I know, the snake in the grass emoji,
Speaker 6: and he would do it very frequently because he was
Speaker 6: playing for an incredibly dysfunctional franchise. And yeah, so I'm
Speaker 6: gonna go. Recently, I don't know who I would give
Speaker 6: it to, Scalabrini. What if I gave it to Scalabrini.
Speaker 6: Now I'm gonna an even older reference. Yeah, in my
Speaker 6: mind I'm gonna say, uh, old old Boogie over there. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 6: he's not on a roster right.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think.
Speaker 5: He's been out of leave for a while.
Speaker 2: I think, uh, Blake Dana Barrows? Is he still Dan?
Speaker 5: What? Uh?
Speaker 2: He so?
Speaker 3: Last so Boogie cousins last season with a team was
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty two Denver Nugget too long ago.
Speaker 2: He left and they.
Speaker 5: Probably won the NBA title.
Speaker 3: He has since been with the Mets, day Gay Nabo
Speaker 3: and the Taiwan Beer Leopards.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, ye Blake, Yes, you know comedy. So Blake's
Speaker 1: name an NBA player that is not Blake Griffin that
Speaker 1: you think could have a career in comedy.
Speaker 2: I mean you have.
Speaker 6: I think there is a rise. I think he needs
Speaker 6: to move to Austin to make this happen. But I
Speaker 6: do think Draymond Green could be the next you know,
Speaker 6: Edgy Edge for stand up comedian, and he does have
Speaker 6: chopped I think the thing I mean you saw during
Speaker 6: I don't know if it was All Star Weekend or
Speaker 6: afterwards when he was going back and forth with with
Speaker 6: Charles Barkley, who would be who actually is funnier than
Speaker 6: I would say ninety nine point nine percent of actual
Speaker 6: stand up comedians or comedic writers or actors. And it's
Speaker 6: honestly not close. It's not even like, oh, he's funny
Speaker 6: for he's funny for the funniest person in the world. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but I do think dram The issue with Draymond is
Speaker 6: I think that he might He's you got to keep
Speaker 6: your emotions and check when you're on stage, So when
Speaker 6: you're when you get heckled, you need to be calm
Speaker 6: so you can still seem like you're in control. Where
Speaker 6: I think Draymond might kick the heckler and the nuts,
Speaker 6: so that that would be my that would be my
Speaker 6: one note.
Speaker 2: Yeah, before he begets Yeah.
Speaker 3: Maybe as like a Kennison vibe or like a Kennison
Speaker 3: gear that he could go into maybe.
Speaker 6: Or be like a Bill Hicks smoking cigarettes on stage.
Speaker 1: It strikes me more as like a Mitch Hedberg. Yeah
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, just super flat but just
Speaker 1: cutting or like Steven Wright kind of friends.
Speaker 3: I think we'll just let them defeat us in the
Speaker 3: next game. Was Yeah, that was my favorite.
Speaker 2: Pat BEV two was very funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he feels like he could do like
Speaker 1: morning radio like that.
Speaker 3: Yes, energy too. Yeah, yeah, Charmelaine the BEV Lane, Charmela trademark.
Speaker 3: All right, finally, you're on a life raft. You come
Speaker 3: upon Joel mb or Alan Iverson in the water, but
Speaker 3: you can only fit one more person in the raft,
Speaker 3: and we're going to pretend like Joel embiid does not
Speaker 3: equal three.
Speaker 6: Allen Iverson's in this. Okay, who are you saving? So boy,
Speaker 6: that's a tough one. I'm going to go with Ai
Speaker 6: because I know that Joel. I know their weights are
Speaker 6: the same in this. But Joel likes to snack, and
Speaker 6: we are always a long term off with Joel. I
Speaker 6: believe from him to go back, he's gotten so much
Speaker 6: healthier in the past like two years. But I do
Speaker 6: believes as a snacker myself, if he's going to come
Speaker 6: into my boat and eat all eat all my candy,
Speaker 6: he has a sweet tooth. And I think Iverson's just
Speaker 6: Everson is a guy who will just roll with whatever.
Speaker 6: He's never gonna panic.
Speaker 5: Motor, Yeah, motor what your boat might need.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, he will motor boat me. And then also,
Speaker 6: I don't know, I'm not listening what you're saying, And
Speaker 6: it could be a situation where you know dash incredible.
Speaker 6: Uh his quick feet.
Speaker 2: I feel like I could use his.
Speaker 6: Quick feet, like hipping them in the water to motor
Speaker 6: to the like tower the boat where Joel uses arms
Speaker 6: as a as oars, which is insane what I said.
Speaker 6: And you hate splashing, I hate hate. It makes me
Speaker 6: have to pee.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you do not splash me.
Speaker 3: It's just wild because you could have saved them both
Speaker 3: and put yourself in the water.
Speaker 5: But you're not that kind of.
Speaker 2: Kind of selfish. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean you're assuming I would get on the life,
Speaker 6: but I would still be playing the recorder on my
Speaker 6: ship as it's sunk to the bottom of the oce.
Speaker 5: Going down with this thing.
Speaker 6: Buns buns, I'm going to This ship's not going down
Speaker 6: for days. It's very slowly. We have boats, we have
Speaker 6: some I know I'm going down with it. It's like, oh,
Speaker 6: this guy's in a bad place.
Speaker 1: Well, Blake, we told you to keep the answers quick,
Speaker 1: and you did and I did, but they were entertaining,
Speaker 1: so we can forgive you, and I have to say
Speaker 1: all of your answers were correct. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining us on Mad Boosties. Where did the people
Speaker 1: find you and support you? And where do they find
Speaker 1: out how to see you in person?
Speaker 2: Thank you for asking.
Speaker 6: So I'm at Blake Wexler on all social media. As
Speaker 6: you mentioned as the show started, I have a one
Speaker 6: hour stand up special on YouTube called Daddy Long Legs.
Speaker 2: That's for free.
Speaker 6: You don't have to pay a dime to watch that,
Speaker 6: just your time, which is also about Yeah, so I
Speaker 6: appreciate it. And then this Friday, I am at a
Speaker 6: Strong Rope Brewery in go On. It's amazing show that
Speaker 6: I'm hosting there every month. And then in April I
Speaker 6: will be in Cincinnati, Ohio, which is where I film
Speaker 6: my special, so I'll be back there. And then yeah,
Speaker 6: Blake Buckster dot com slash live dash dates to see.
Speaker 2: Me live perfect all there and like a true pro,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: Also make sure you follow hashtag mad Boosti's bast i
Speaker 1: e s. That's where you get show links, That's where
Speaker 1: you get updates.
Speaker 2: That's where you might see my Twitter handle where you
Speaker 2: can find me. That's at Miles of Gray.
Speaker 3: I'm at Jack Underscore ol Brian. Shout out to our
Speaker 3: guy Paul Garaventa for uh showing us the Cornett contests
Speaker 3: still alive.
Speaker 5: He did very recently yeah, so shout out to him.
Speaker 1: One of the great moves, one of the great moves.
Speaker 2: We love it, all right, love you. Well, that's gonna
Speaker 2: do it for us.
Speaker 1: And hey, guess what we're going to be back next.
Speaker 2: Week the books.
Speaker 1: Sorry, it's an unstoppable force. And guess what you're tapped in,
Speaker 1: you're locked in. Thank you for putting us in your ears.
Speaker 1: We will be back again, all right, talk soon by
Speaker 1: from way down on town.
Speaker 2: That's what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how my shot went off the rim.
Speaker 2: It didn't go right. We know, we got that. That's
Speaker 2: not not the sound of a that's not a string.
Speaker 2: Music than any string.
Speaker 5: Is that better