Speaker 1: From the King of Sports Books comes the Key sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by MGM. Here's your host, Janice Pampas
Speaker 1: and Olivia Arland Decker. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, everybody. This is
Speaker 1: Unleashed by bet MGM, the King of Sports Books. And
Speaker 1: we made it through our first weekend without NFL games.
Speaker 1: It was weird. Of course, we had the All Star
Speaker 1: Game to keep us entertained a little bit. But as
Speaker 1: a many people know when we talked about the Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: when we talk about All Star games, sometimes it leaves
Speaker 1: you wanting a little bit more. I've got to say
Speaker 1: congrats to my dad calling the first All Star Game.
Speaker 1: He went back to back weeks, back to back Sundays
Speaker 1: calling the Super Bowl, then the All Star Game. That
Speaker 1: was really fun to watch. Janice, what did you think
Speaker 1: of the actual game? The game was enjoyable. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I mean I watched it sober. Probably unlike you, you're
Speaker 1: on vacation, all your siblings are there. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: guys are throwing back your cosmos and your dirty martini.
Speaker 1: Did you forget him seven months pregnant? You honest? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But you're also Olivia Harland Deck or that never stopped
Speaker 1: you before. Yes, never stopped anyone in your family line.
Speaker 1: You're true. The Cosmo count is getting out of control. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I still don't believe that that was a virgin
Speaker 1: shooter in Vegas. I I saw you drink it and
Speaker 1: I saw it poured. Young lady, you were drinking alcohol. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like four weeks pregnant. That give me a break. Okay, Plus,
Speaker 1: next big event on the sports calendar. You honest, I'm
Speaker 1: so excited to switch gears here a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: March Madness n C Double A men's and women's basketball tournaments,
Speaker 1: or as you say, tournaments you're Northeasterner. We've got a
Speaker 1: great guest joining us to help you get to help
Speaker 1: us get ready as everyone fills out their brackets. He's
Speaker 1: from Fox Sports and the Tightest and Tape podcast. It's
Speaker 1: Tap Fraser. He's gonna be joining us. I'm excited about that,
Speaker 1: very exciting. And as always, we got bet MGM betting
Speaker 1: expert Peter Andrew joining us to discuss the latest in
Speaker 1: the world of betting lines in the second half of
Speaker 1: the NBA season. Olivia, if you thought I'd handled you
Speaker 1: in picking NFL games, just wait until you go, until
Speaker 1: we go head to head picking NBA games, I'm basically
Speaker 1: the Michael Jordan betting on the NBA, except Michael Jordan's
Speaker 1: is probably the Michael Jordan's of betting on the NBA. Now,
Speaker 1: that was good. That was good. I don't know, be honest,
Speaker 1: I feel pretty confident in my NBA knowledge. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think you're gonna be a little
Speaker 1: clouded because apparently you're in Atlanta Hawks fan. Now I
Speaker 1: didn't know that because you worked for them. You're in
Speaker 1: the landa Hawks fan. And who are you a fan
Speaker 1: of in the NBA? Is it the Hawk? Well, okay,
Speaker 1: I was gonna preface this before we really get into
Speaker 1: NBA talk, because you gave me hell all season for
Speaker 1: having two NFL teams, and guess what, I got two
Speaker 1: NBA teams. Of course, of course, you know what, Sam,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you listen to the show, but
Speaker 1: she may have another boyfriend somewhere. Actually, I think I
Speaker 1: have three NBA teams. So the Hawks. I worked for
Speaker 1: them for three seasons. Love the Atlanta Hawks. We went
Speaker 1: to back to back Eastern Conference finals while I was
Speaker 1: their sideline reporter. Just saying, and then I married Sam
Speaker 1: when he was with the Houston Rockets and that's who
Speaker 1: drafted him. So Houston is kind of one of my teams.
Speaker 1: That's where we met fell in love. I love the
Speaker 1: Rockets and then the Bucks because you know we're Wisconsin people.
Speaker 1: And what you're not gonna think about, you, honest, is
Speaker 1: the whole Atlanta coaching staff when I was there like
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen ish, they are all with the Milwaukee Bucks now.
Speaker 1: Mike Budenholzer, the head coach, was the head coach of
Speaker 1: the Hawks. So those are my guys, the whole staff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I've got three NBA teams. What do you
Speaker 1: think about that? I think I have a question is
Speaker 1: what I think about that? Have you ever thought about
Speaker 1: running for political office? Because I switched all the time?
Speaker 1: You are? Yeah, you love everybody, everyip. You are a
Speaker 1: flip flopper. Yeah you are. You have no loyalty. All
Speaker 1: you want to do is get elected. And I liked it.
Speaker 1: To answer your other question, my boyfriend's name is Rodrigo. Okay,
Speaker 1: before we get to the second half of the NBA season,
Speaker 1: let's talk about what went down in Cleveland during All
Speaker 1: Star weekend. It's time to unleash. Let's a It's all right, Olivia.
Speaker 1: Everyone always complains about the Slam Dunk Contest, but I
Speaker 1: gotta say this year, I finally have had enough. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm not the only one. I think we've
Speaker 1: all had enough, all right. I actually changed the channel
Speaker 1: because my wife wanted to watch Love Is Blind on Netflix,
Speaker 1: and believe it or not, I enjoyed that more so,
Speaker 1: Thank God for my wife. That's the only time I've
Speaker 1: ever enjoyed whatever she wanted to watch, because that's how
Speaker 1: bad the Dunk contest was. And what a fall from
Speaker 1: grace are we talking about. I grew up in the
Speaker 1: era with Dominique and Jordan's and spud Web and the
Speaker 1: Great White Hope of Brent Barry, the only Barry kid
Speaker 1: who could jump. I mean, this is just getting sad
Speaker 1: right now. And it's such a big part of what
Speaker 1: the fans love about All Star Weekend, and we just
Speaker 1: aren't seeing anything original anymore. The participants are. They're missing
Speaker 1: half their attempts. I give this whole contest a three
Speaker 1: and a half out of ten. I'm holding my card
Speaker 1: up right now. I do not understand why the big
Speaker 1: names won't do it anymore. It should be like Adam
Speaker 1: Silver should force them to do it. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is for the fans. Just do the dunk contest. Where
Speaker 1: was John Moran? Where was Miles Bridges? Where was Anthony Edwards?
Speaker 1: I mean, this is ridiculous. And Lebron, if this is
Speaker 1: your home coming to Cleveland, want to finally participate in
Speaker 1: a dunk contest and win it at thirty seven, thirty
Speaker 1: eight whatever you are, Okay, just by entering you probably
Speaker 1: would have won, just because of they wanted to do
Speaker 1: something for Cleveland. The dunk contest used to be where
Speaker 1: we saw the absolute best Jordan's Like I said, Dominique
Speaker 1: Finch Carter, who can forget that? No disrespect to one
Speaker 1: Scando Anderson, but you should have had to have a
Speaker 1: dunk in a real game to be able to enter
Speaker 1: the dunk contest. So Adam Silver, please bring me in
Speaker 1: for a brainstorm. We need to fix this. America loves
Speaker 1: the dunk Contest and we need to make it great again.
Speaker 1: How about even Zach Lavine, Like there were players who
Speaker 1: were participating in other things that I have been in
Speaker 1: the dunk contest before that should have been in it.
Speaker 1: I'm with you honest. That is spot on hot take unleashed. Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to switch to college basketball because you guys know,
Speaker 1: there was a madness that happened well before March. It
Speaker 1: was this weekend in Madison. It was crazy. The Michigan
Speaker 1: at Wisconsin basketball game on Sunday. Wolverines head coach Jowan
Speaker 1: Howard he didn't like that Wisconsin called an unnecessary time
Speaker 1: out at the end of their loss. It was actually
Speaker 1: two time outs in the last minute with a huge
Speaker 1: Badger lead, and in the final minute of the game,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin was up fourteen and coach Guards substituted in his
Speaker 1: walk ons and Michigan still had starters on the floor.
Speaker 1: So Coach Howard thought that that was disrespectful. Coach Guard
Speaker 1: tried to explain to him at the end that you know,
Speaker 1: they didn't want to have a turnover. He was using
Speaker 1: it as a teaching moment for these young green players,
Speaker 1: So you can understand both sides. And Joan Howard was
Speaker 1: very honest at the end saying he didn't like that
Speaker 1: tensions ran high, players got involved, people laid their hands
Speaker 1: on each other and it was a bit of a mess.
Speaker 1: And my take on this is that at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, these are the head coaches, and this
Speaker 1: is college basketball. I know tensions run high. I know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of emotion and passion in these games,
Speaker 1: but I think these coaches have to be an example
Speaker 1: for these young men. I know I sound like a
Speaker 1: pamphlet for the n C Double A, and I apologize,
Speaker 1: but I just feel like everyone has to keep their cool. Now,
Speaker 1: Greg Guard did pursue him. Howard didn't even want to
Speaker 1: talk at the end, and Greg Guard pursued him. So
Speaker 1: this was a tricky one. Coach Howard was suspended for
Speaker 1: the rest of the regular season, that's five games. He
Speaker 1: was fined forty dollars. A couple of players on both
Speaker 1: sides were suspended one game. Coach Guard at Wisconsin was
Speaker 1: fine ten thousand dollars, which the university is going to
Speaker 1: be paying. They are not putting that on him. So
Speaker 1: do I think John Howard is entirely to blame. No,
Speaker 1: but I don't think under any condition that a head
Speaker 1: basketball coach at the college level should try to punch
Speaker 1: or slap an opposing coach. Now, I love it when
Speaker 1: the headline came out it said an open faced punch,
Speaker 1: And now I'm a girl and I've got sisters, so
Speaker 1: I know exactly what that means. That is how we hit,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a slap. I don't know why we're
Speaker 1: calling it a punch, but an open handed punch is
Speaker 1: all that really went down here. But it was a mess.
Speaker 1: It was a mess on the court, and I think
Speaker 1: there's no place for it in college basketball. I gotta
Speaker 1: be honest. I loved John Howard, know him well. I
Speaker 1: love the Wisconsin basketball program, know them well. But I
Speaker 1: think this escalated way too far. And I think, again,
Speaker 1: for the third time, I'll say it in the college game,
Speaker 1: you are very much molding young men. I know that
Speaker 1: sounds very cheesy. Most of these guys are not going
Speaker 1: on to play professional Most of these guys are going
Speaker 1: on to enter the real world with the rest of us,
Speaker 1: and I just think there should be a better example. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I love the unleashed, but I gotta say
Speaker 1: this is one of the few unleash. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: disagree with you. I love that, I wanted to see more.
Speaker 1: I wanted to see more. I thought they should have
Speaker 1: let him go just shoot the fair one, let the
Speaker 1: two go at it as far as working for a
Speaker 1: betting company, I would have put my money on Juwan Howard.
Speaker 1: He would have definitely won that fight. And I blame
Speaker 1: I don't blame Juwan Howard. He was pursued. Hands went
Speaker 1: on him. He's a former Fab five member, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. He wanted to throw hands. He could
Speaker 1: take the fine. He's one of the most overpaid players
Speaker 1: in NBA history. So I remember that huge contract he's got,
Speaker 1: so I mean big deal. I think they should maybe
Speaker 1: fight on the Jake Paul undercard. Let's see what happens. Well,
Speaker 1: you know his opinion. I do want on this, although
Speaker 1: I do appreciate yours. Honest is Tate Frazier. No one
Speaker 1: knows this game like him. I'm sure he has an
Speaker 1: opinion on this. Let's go ahead and bring in Tak Frazier.
Speaker 1: He graduated from North Carolina with a degree in bracketology.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best college hoops experts in the business.
Speaker 1: He bleeds the Carolina Blue. I think his favorite song
Speaker 1: is one Shining Moment too. That's yet to be confirmed.
Speaker 1: From the Rightis and Tate Podcast. Tate Fraser, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. Oh thank you so much, Olivia it's great
Speaker 1: to be here, and yeah, that was a great injury.
Speaker 1: I love when I can bring North Carolina, you know,
Speaker 1: up to the forefront. So that's a good day for me.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. To be fair, I think you've got
Speaker 1: the best colors in college basketball. But don't tell my husband,
Speaker 1: don't tell anyone. I said that that Carolina blues the best.
Speaker 1: I'll take that. That. That's one thing we got right now. Now,
Speaker 1: just to make sure you're a true North Carolina fan,
Speaker 1: have you ever gotten into some sort of gang warfare
Speaker 1: with Duke students when you were there, like any type
Speaker 1: of socia versus you know, the Greasers. Did that ever
Speaker 1: go down where you guys had a fight at a
Speaker 1: kick party? I was a part of the Managers game
Speaker 1: my senior year. Duke Managers played Carolina Managers and in
Speaker 1: Chapel Hill they played and Ryan Kelly, who played on
Speaker 1: obviously the Duke team. His brother Shaun Kelly, was a
Speaker 1: manager and there was a fight that night. When I
Speaker 1: was at that game, one of the few people that
Speaker 1: was there. I was not a part of the fight,
Speaker 1: in fact that I was yelling to try to break
Speaker 1: up the fight. But Duke is something that I hate.
Speaker 1: You know, I say that I had. You know, there
Speaker 1: are two types of people in this world. There are
Speaker 1: Carolina people and Duke people. That's kind of how I
Speaker 1: I view the world. And uh, you know, I respect Duke,
Speaker 1: but I also hate do so we have that in common.
Speaker 1: I to hate to. But actually let's stick with that
Speaker 1: with the violence you were just referring to, because there
Speaker 1: was a big story this week with Michigan Wisconsin Juan
Speaker 1: Howard being suspended for the rest of the season. Fine
Speaker 1: and his antics made a lot of headlines this week overall.
Speaker 1: What's your take on this? Wow? Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: a very loaded situation obviously. I mean, anytime a coach
Speaker 1: touches anybody in that way, it's obviously a big drama.
Speaker 1: So the first reaction, the first waiver reaction, you saw
Speaker 1: a lot of people say that, you know, Juwan Howard's
Speaker 1: gonna get fired. I thought that was a bridge too far.
Speaker 1: But I also, I mean, you cannot act in that way.
Speaker 1: But also there are rules to the game, and there's
Speaker 1: you know, quote unquote rule of engagement and Greg Guard
Speaker 1: you know, when you touch somebody, the rules of engagement
Speaker 1: saying like once you put your hands on somebody, all
Speaker 1: bets are off, especially if you've ever played basketball and
Speaker 1: bid in one of those lines. When someone touches somebody,
Speaker 1: you know, things go awry. So I don't think it
Speaker 1: was a very one sided thing. I think as soon
Speaker 1: as Greg Guard put his hands on Juwan Howard, now
Speaker 1: we have two guys that have implicated and instigated a
Speaker 1: situation and they're supposed to be the leaders. And I
Speaker 1: think that's really what it comes back to. We need leadership.
Speaker 1: There is not a lot of leadership in college basketball.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of leadership in college in general
Speaker 1: right now, in my opinion, So you need guys like
Speaker 1: Juwan Howard and Greg Guard. I mean, luckily after the game,
Speaker 1: we've seen the press statements and they both kind of
Speaker 1: you know, made their you know, especially Juwan Howard. He's
Speaker 1: apologized and made sure that he you know, he seems
Speaker 1: remorseful and all that sort of stuff. But I would
Speaker 1: like to see Wisconsin also say something just to you know,
Speaker 1: to be the bigger be the bigger man in the situation.
Speaker 1: Right That's my only thing. I think that both it's
Speaker 1: good show leadership and in class moving forward because we
Speaker 1: know what the Big Ten is That's what their mantra is.
Speaker 1: We are at this classic conference, we are legends, we
Speaker 1: are leaders. Let's be legends and leaders in this situation
Speaker 1: and move forward in the right way. But he's got
Speaker 1: his punishment, and I think it was deserved. But I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was. I think maybe great guard
Speaker 1: gets one game, two games, because you know it was
Speaker 1: it wasn't just the Juwan Howard lost his mind situation.
Speaker 1: He tried to walk by. He did. I watched it live.
Speaker 1: I was texting my dad. I said, Juwan Howard is
Speaker 1: not a happy man right now. And you know, obviously
Speaker 1: from there was fireworks. Yeah, all right, Well we're just
Speaker 1: a few weeks away from the conference tournaments. Uh you
Speaker 1: just mentioned the Big Ten. Lots of teams on the bubble.
Speaker 1: Which conference are you most excited to watch? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm excited for you know, the Big Ten is always interesting.
Speaker 1: I hope Indiana gets into the tournament. I'm a big
Speaker 1: Mike Woodson guy. I love Woody. I think he's uh
Speaker 1: one of the best people in basketball, so I want
Speaker 1: him to make the tournament, so I'll be pulling for him.
Speaker 1: I'm a North Carolina guys, Olivia told everyone. So they're
Speaker 1: twenty and eight, but America has decided they're on the bubble,
Speaker 1: so I have to, you know, have my guard up,
Speaker 1: so to speak. As we get to the a SEC tournament,
Speaker 1: they need to win probably two games to secure their spot,
Speaker 1: so I'll be watching that. I'm a sucker for the
Speaker 1: PAC twelve. I live in Los Angeles, so I I
Speaker 1: still believe in U c l A. A lot of
Speaker 1: people have jumped off the bandwagon, but I am not.
Speaker 1: I know this is a tournament team and I know
Speaker 1: they have their mindset on the tournament. So I'll be
Speaker 1: watching how they look. Are they inform as they get
Speaker 1: to the PAC twelve tournament, So that'll be interesting. And
Speaker 1: then Titus and I will be at the Big East
Speaker 1: tournament for Fox, so we'll be on the ground, boots
Speaker 1: on the ground. And uh, I love St. John's for
Speaker 1: some reason this year in the Big East. I think
Speaker 1: in the tournament they're gonna make some noise because they're
Speaker 1: gonna be playing basically at home. Obviously in MSG nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of hype for the Bruins. You
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier preseason. Another team that always has a lot
Speaker 1: of hype and I hope you take any bias out
Speaker 1: of this is the storyline of Coach K and the
Speaker 1: Blue Devils. Think, yeah, it is. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: exhausting as a viewer, I think every night to have
Speaker 1: to see this. But Duke's twenty three and four, their
Speaker 1: seventh in the country. Do you think they're built for
Speaker 1: a Final four run or do you think they fall
Speaker 1: flat a little bit after this exhausting farewell tour. Well,
Speaker 1: we all remember John Wooden in his last season wins
Speaker 1: the national championship. So Coach K is trying to repeat
Speaker 1: that and make sure that he leaves on top just
Speaker 1: like John Wooden did. Because ultimately, Coach K cares about
Speaker 1: Coach K being remembered as the best coach of all time. Right,
Speaker 1: That's what his entire that's what he is. That's what
Speaker 1: he has used Duke as a vehicle for his entire career. Right.
Speaker 1: So this is the final, the final show, This is
Speaker 1: the curtain call, so to speak, spell with K's obviously,
Speaker 1: and I'm fascinated to see how it plays out. I
Speaker 1: don't see a world in which Duke's not in the
Speaker 1: Elite eight. And then from there, you know, we'll see
Speaker 1: how how because you need a little bit of luck
Speaker 1: obviously to win a title. We all know that Duke
Speaker 1: showed us that. Um, so I agree. I think I
Speaker 1: think that they have a great shot to do it
Speaker 1: this year because of a J. Griffin, because of window More.
Speaker 1: I think Ben Carroll gets a lot of credit for
Speaker 1: this team. But there, Mark Williams, window More and a J.
Speaker 1: Griffin are really, you know, kind of the motor. So
Speaker 1: I could see Duke winning at all. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: knocking on wood and uh, you know, trying to be
Speaker 1: as good of a person as possible so that God
Speaker 1: does not let that happen. No bias in that answer.
Speaker 1: Do you think we'll see coach K on the sideline
Speaker 1: again Olympics? I think we'll see him on the Duke's sideline. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be. I wouldn't be shocked if
Speaker 1: Carolina beats Duke in his last home game, you know,
Speaker 1: this year. I wouldn't be shocked that Coach K came
Speaker 1: back for one more year. I really would not be
Speaker 1: shocked because he has to leave on his own terms,
Speaker 1: so he has to win a title. He has to
Speaker 1: beat Carolina twice, maybe three times. If they meet in
Speaker 1: the tournament, So he's got a lot of things he's
Speaker 1: got to check off. You know, if if this is
Speaker 1: the movie bucket list, you know with Jack Nicholson, coach
Speaker 1: k has gotta check off a lot more things before
Speaker 1: he leaves the game. I think speaking of teams that
Speaker 1: have traditionally had a lot of d sent white players. Uh,
Speaker 1: Gonzaga is currently the favorite at plus four hundred to
Speaker 1: win it all. Is this the team that finally brings
Speaker 1: a title to Gonzaga? Mm hmm. Look, I have always
Speaker 1: believed in Gonzaga. I think they could have won. I
Speaker 1: think they could have won in seventeen, the year that
Speaker 1: Carolina beat them in the title game. Obviously, I thought
Speaker 1: last year the pressure of being undefeated was really tough
Speaker 1: for them, especially with no fans in the crowd. Drew
Speaker 1: Timmy is Christian lightner light you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: he really Chris, he has to win a title. I
Speaker 1: feel like a Gonzaga he feels like one of those
Speaker 1: guys that's almost destined. This is his last run. Chet
Speaker 1: Home Grins probably gonna be the number one pick. So
Speaker 1: if there was every year for Gonzaga and they're kind
Speaker 1: of under the Radar this year, which I like. Even
Speaker 1: though they're number one in the country, people have kind
Speaker 1: of decided they don't believe in them anymore, which is
Speaker 1: a good spot to be when you get to March.
Speaker 1: So I could see Gonzaga cutting down the nets. That
Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me, and I'd be happy for Mark Few
Speaker 1: he deserves it. Yeah. Yeah, it's felt like this has
Speaker 1: been brewing for a minute. The last year. The Big
Speaker 1: Ten really struggled in the tournament after a lot of hype.
Speaker 1: Is there a conference that you're already thinking you'll probably
Speaker 1: stay away from in terms of filling out your bracket. Honestly,
Speaker 1: the Big Ten really burned me last year because I
Speaker 1: believe everyone. Yeah, I don't know why I believe so
Speaker 1: much in Illinois. It's not like I have any reason
Speaker 1: to but Trent Frasier maybe because we have the same
Speaker 1: last name, I felt like a and Chester Fraser is
Speaker 1: on the staff. So I don't know. The Big Tin
Speaker 1: always worries me because Perdue in Illinois have the best
Speaker 1: chance to win the title, I think in that conference,
Speaker 1: and both of those teams are very volatile and they
Speaker 1: can beat anybody, and they also lose to anybody. As
Speaker 1: we've seen a few times this season, So the Big
Speaker 1: tin definitely worries me. And then the a c C
Speaker 1: is just so down this year that I mean, Duke
Speaker 1: is really the only hope that they have as a conference.
Speaker 1: Wake Forest is back, Carolina is on the bubble. You know,
Speaker 1: Duke's really the only one that I could see making
Speaker 1: a final four in reality. So I would not bet
Speaker 1: on the a SEC in the tournament if I were
Speaker 1: a adding man myself here that you honest, I'm taking
Speaker 1: notes right now. You just mentioned per Due their plus
Speaker 1: eight hundred. What about other teams, Kentucky's plus seven fifty,
Speaker 1: all burn at plus a thousand, any of these odds
Speaker 1: you like? I like Kentucky. This feels like a Kentucky
Speaker 1: year to me, or ten years from the Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: run where he basically dominated by being a physical force,
Speaker 1: you know, on the boards, defensively, offensively for that team
Speaker 1: didn't really need to score. And they have that with
Speaker 1: Oscar big Oh, who's up for National Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: I think he perfectly fits that mold. They're old team.
Speaker 1: Calipari really likes this group. When I coach cow is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite people. He's hilarious to me, and uh,
Speaker 1: he really likes this team and he uh, I think
Speaker 1: he thinks they can win it all, so that that
Speaker 1: gives me even more reason to be emboldened. So if
Speaker 1: I had to bet on any of the blue bloods,
Speaker 1: I think I bet on Kentucky to win it all. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you've mentioned St. John's and you've mentioned the blue Bloods obviously,
Speaker 1: but another mid major that you think cause some noise
Speaker 1: that we should be looking at again, Jannis and I
Speaker 1: are are really trying to fill out our brackets as
Speaker 1: informed as possible. So this is just our cheat sheet
Speaker 1: guide with you on date. Yeah, yeah, I know, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. I appreciate the questions. This is what happens
Speaker 1: around March. People started asking me about like like last year,
Speaker 1: They're like, what about Oral Roberts. I'm like, I like,
Speaker 1: you know, what do you say this time last year
Speaker 1: about Oral Roberts. Oh? I said, I love them. They're
Speaker 1: gonna upset Ohio State and there's no way who's calling that.
Speaker 1: But uh, I like San Diego State. They're on the
Speaker 1: bubble right now. But if they get in, I think
Speaker 1: they're an interesting team. I think they would be a
Speaker 1: tough out in a in a quote unquote bad matchup,
Speaker 1: so I would watch out for them. Colorado States another
Speaker 1: bubble team that's right there. Then they started out really well,
Speaker 1: and if they sneak in, maybe they're a twelve seed
Speaker 1: or something, you know, and you get a twelve five
Speaker 1: game and you take them there. So those are two
Speaker 1: that kind of come to mind. I obviously I'm on
Speaker 1: the West coast, so I'm watching, you know, some of
Speaker 1: these w CC and Mountain West games. The Mountain West
Speaker 1: is a great conference. This year. They got a lot
Speaker 1: of good teams and even could be YU could be
Speaker 1: a scary team in the tournament. So there's some good
Speaker 1: teams on the West coast. I mean, those are those
Speaker 1: are a little bit off the beaten path. But if
Speaker 1: they get in, watch out for Colorado State. San Diego
Speaker 1: State by U last year was upset city the most
Speaker 1: we've ever seen in the tournament. First of all, why
Speaker 1: do you think so? And does that repeat itself this year?
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that. Last year. I mean, we joked on
Speaker 1: our show was a Mickey Mouse tournament, you know, because
Speaker 1: everyone said that about the NBA bubble. We we did
Speaker 1: the same thing on our show, just because all the
Speaker 1: teams that we picked a win, we're losing. So we
Speaker 1: just said everything was Mickey Mouse. So I'm gonna work
Speaker 1: under that same guys this year and say that no
Speaker 1: fans affected things. You know, playing Mackey Arena had some
Speaker 1: sort of weird magic. U. C. L A. Goes in
Speaker 1: there as an eleven seed, basically playing into the tournament,
Speaker 1: and then they go on a final four run. It
Speaker 1: was just something special that was going on to Mackie.
Speaker 1: Not for Purdue though obviously they lose to North Texas
Speaker 1: and didn't have any sort of magic playing in Indiana
Speaker 1: needed anyone in the Big ten. So I think this
Speaker 1: year will be different. I don't think it will be
Speaker 1: like last year. Last year was a one off. It
Speaker 1: was more of an NBA a bubble type environment, at
Speaker 1: least in our at least, I hope. So because I
Speaker 1: want better teams to win. You know, as much as
Speaker 1: we love the upsets, I want to see the better
Speaker 1: teams in the Elite eight, you know, once we get there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: usually it does. We can always takes care of of
Speaker 1: the situation. Usually. Let's talk a little bit about the
Speaker 1: Classic three before Bronnie James plays with his dad in
Speaker 1: the NBA, which seems like a pipe dream for me. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to play a year in college unless
Speaker 1: he goes overseas, does the whole you know, does the
Speaker 1: whole ball route. What's your prediction about Bronnie James. I
Speaker 1: know he slipped a little bit. His reputation went from
Speaker 1: me now he's like a three star recruiter something. I
Speaker 1: mean he's six to I mean, you know, what's your prediction?
Speaker 1: Are we talking G League? Yeah? I wish Brownnie James
Speaker 1: was like kJ Martin, you know, who went to Sierra
Speaker 1: Canyon and you know obviously ended up on the rockets
Speaker 1: and is a very you know, he's a utility role
Speaker 1: player in the n b A he can have some
Speaker 1: highlight moments. That's that's like what you hope ron would be.
Speaker 1: But it does seem like the Lebron media machine has
Speaker 1: they're doing their job right. I Mean, if you look
Speaker 1: at Brownie's list of schools, it's every blue blood. It's Kansas, Kentucky, Carolina, Duke,
Speaker 1: U C. L A. Those are his five schools. None
Speaker 1: of those schools have offered him other than Kentucky. And
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if John Calipari did that just for
Speaker 1: you know, just to be like Lebron's kids might come
Speaker 1: to Kentucky, right. I mean they're actively recruiting him right now.
Speaker 1: So he has five schools, none of them were actively
Speaker 1: recruiting him. If I had to pitch him, I would
Speaker 1: say go to North Carolina because then you have Lebron
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's you can I mean that's a that's a
Speaker 1: mega package of just interest there or you gonna do
Speaker 1: can do the opposite. It was Lebron versus Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: right officially, so one of those I could see happening.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna go to the G League, though,
Speaker 1: I really do. I don't think college makes sense. I
Speaker 1: don't think any team is going to give him the
Speaker 1: one and done treatment where they give him twenty shots
Speaker 1: and give him thirty five minutes a game, because I
Speaker 1: don't think he can impact winning at that level. So
Speaker 1: one's going to give him that runway. And the G League,
Speaker 1: the NBA, Adam Silver, I think they might be able
Speaker 1: to give him more of a runway and say, hey,
Speaker 1: this is this is the new wave. You don't go
Speaker 1: to college anymore. You go play with the G League night,
Speaker 1: you know, and they marketed that way, and then he's
Speaker 1: one step closer to the n b A and then
Speaker 1: Lebron can get him to Cleveland or whatever he wants
Speaker 1: to do, because like you, like you said, he announced
Speaker 1: that that's going to happen, which is wild. That's the
Speaker 1: world we live in. Don't you think he'd be the
Speaker 1: perfect example of look at you know, one of the
Speaker 1: most famous kids in the country in the basketball world,
Speaker 1: and how they're coming straight to the G league. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is their dream. I bet Adam Silver and Company
Speaker 1: is salivating over this opportunity. But any school, you're right,
Speaker 1: would be lucky to get him for marketing anything else
Speaker 1: for one year, whatever they want to do with him
Speaker 1: on the court, It would be a big deal to
Speaker 1: get Bronnie James. But totally on a tangent here, just
Speaker 1: what we're seeing with Lebron James and the Lakers at
Speaker 1: the trade deadline and them basically saying for the first
Speaker 1: time someone saying to Lebron, you wanted this team, clean
Speaker 1: it up. We're not giving you what you want. We're
Speaker 1: not We're not blowing up this whole thing. It's finished
Speaker 1: out the season, like this is the team you wanted.
Speaker 1: What's your take on what we're supposed to take away
Speaker 1: from that? As the power of Lebron? Is it slipping? Maybe?
Speaker 1: I mean he's thirty seven years old, so it's one
Speaker 1: of those things where what is the long term proposition here?
Speaker 1: Even him, you know, angling to say I will go
Speaker 1: to whatever team drafts Brawnie. What what kind of cash
Speaker 1: ade is a forty year old or thirty nine year
Speaker 1: old Lebron James really have at that point? I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe he has more than I suspect, but it does
Speaker 1: seem like a veiled threat right that. Really there's not
Speaker 1: much behind it. And in general, you asked about the Lakers.
Speaker 1: The Lakers were a mess from day one. I mean
Speaker 1: everybody that knew anybody knew that. I mean that was
Speaker 1: there were no defined roles. Everyone a d was. Lebron
Speaker 1: was like, you're the number one guy. Eight He's like, no,
Speaker 1: can't healthy? Who can never and can't say healthy? And
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook, who's never been anything other than the guy,
Speaker 1: is now gonna come in and he's gonna be the
Speaker 1: third guy? What that was never gonna happen. So that
Speaker 1: team was a mess. They tried to figure it out
Speaker 1: before the trade deadline. I still believe Westbrook is a
Speaker 1: plus at the end of the day for the Lakers.
Speaker 1: It's good to have Russell Westbrook as opposed to a
Speaker 1: John Wall, which was the report of trade that was there.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand how that would have helped
Speaker 1: at all. Russell was more impactful than John Wall. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a mess. And Lebron's gonna either leave the Lakers
Speaker 1: for a better championship situation, which I thought he might
Speaker 1: try to do this year with Cleveland, like trade him
Speaker 1: to Cleveland for Colin Sexton, maybe Garland who's an All Star,
Speaker 1: and in some pis, I thought that might be something
Speaker 1: that they look into and that might be what happens
Speaker 1: in the off season, because somebody's gonna get traded in
Speaker 1: the off season, whether it's Westbrook, Anthony Davis, or Lebron,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a decision or Roblink is gonna
Speaker 1: get fired and they're gonna hire Sam Presty from the
Speaker 1: Thunder and you know, try to run this thing back
Speaker 1: and get him to help build a roster. But it's
Speaker 1: a mess. I mean, I'm not a Lakers fan, obviously,
Speaker 1: I live in l A. But it's a mess. It
Speaker 1: really is Lebron trying to go to a good situation
Speaker 1: that doesn't sound like him at all. Now it's a
Speaker 1: new thing. It's a new it's a late in life thing,
Speaker 1: I think God, And it's really something we see in
Speaker 1: the NFL lately with quarterbacks. And I saw you even
Speaker 1: tweet about it, the Aaron Rodgers drama and stuff. It's
Speaker 1: going to give us so much fodder this offseason. It
Speaker 1: already is. I was gonna say, NFL lives already doing
Speaker 1: the Aaron Rodgers like, you know, what's his He's on
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee this morning. What did he say to Pat
Speaker 1: McAfee And then they show and it's like a mundane
Speaker 1: conversation between two guys about a cleanse. He like purged himself. Honest,
Speaker 1: did you see this? You? Oh you honest would love this.
Speaker 1: He liked him throw up for a week. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he's I saw his uh gratitude post too. The only
Speaker 1: team he's on right now is Mushrooms. It said he
Speaker 1: was evacuating his body, which means he was vomiting and
Speaker 1: and you know, I mean, I don't know what was
Speaker 1: going on, but obviously he said that that took him
Speaker 1: away from the super Bowl and other things, and and
Speaker 1: now he's just focusing on what's going on. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Rogers I think is gonna stay in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: I would assume that's what it seems like it's trending towards,
Speaker 1: just the way he's behaving. We lost, you know, his fiance.
Speaker 1: I feel like that that's when you kind of hunker
Speaker 1: down where you are. You know, she didn't die well,
Speaker 1: I mean, but you know, I mean the reports say
Speaker 1: the relationship is over. I know nothing about this, but
Speaker 1: you know, where's Pete Davidson. Someone find out where Pete
Speaker 1: Davidson is? Oh Man, Yeah, yeah, yeah, saying a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, Aaron Rodgers gonna stay, I think, and then
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is the one that I'm really watching out for.
Speaker 1: You have to wait three months after you retire before
Speaker 1: you're like not beholden to your prior team and they
Speaker 1: don't retain your right. So I think we're about two
Speaker 1: months away from Tom Brady working out in the Bay
Speaker 1: and uh, a lot of rumors picking up that he's
Speaker 1: gonna be Jimmy G's replacement. I think that's where we're headed.
Speaker 1: And that's gonna be a lot of fun, I think,
Speaker 1: because Deebo Samuel is already good enough to take a team.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Tom Brady a guy who admired Joe Montana.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that would be really cool and
Speaker 1: really good for football because Tom Brady brings interest. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's very jordan Esque of him to retire and they
Speaker 1: want to come back. It just definitely seems like the
Speaker 1: appropriate thing. But in that tweet I mentioned that you
Speaker 1: just had is the Rogers or Brady returning to their
Speaker 1: hometown their home state. Uh so you'd say at this
Speaker 1: point you put your money on Brady playing for the
Speaker 1: forty niners next season before Rogers. I think so. I
Speaker 1: think that they both are like it's a lot of
Speaker 1: games and ship happening between those two, but they both
Speaker 1: have a lot of cleanses and you know, different diets
Speaker 1: and brands and all types of stuff. They they're they're
Speaker 1: just funny, you know what I mean. They're obviously competing
Speaker 1: at all times, and I think they both have a
Speaker 1: dream of playing for Joe Montana's team. I really do.
Speaker 1: And I know that a lot of people hear that.
Speaker 1: They're like that's like some childish, you know, made up
Speaker 1: fairytale stuff and it's like, well, so with sports, a
Speaker 1: lot of it is like that. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: if you love the team, and you love Joe Montana
Speaker 1: like Brady does, and you studied Joe Montana like he did,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if he plays there. I think
Speaker 1: that's the only team he would go back to ever,
Speaker 1: I really do. Yeah. Yeah, And yet you're go into
Speaker 1: a good situation there, So that works another time a
Speaker 1: little you know the title why not going? You know
Speaker 1: want you know that competitive fire on him? He wants
Speaker 1: to go. You can't retire on that last day. He can't.
Speaker 1: He doesn't, he does. He just can't do it. It's
Speaker 1: not in him talking. Uh. Let's go back to hoops
Speaker 1: for a second. To the n B A. Chris Paul
Speaker 1: just went down what like six eight weeks. They were
Speaker 1: on fire, he was playing incredible. Do you think they
Speaker 1: hold that that lead in the Western Conference? How does
Speaker 1: that impact the Western Conference? And who do you think
Speaker 1: is taking it all this year and the All m
Speaker 1: B A. Yeah, I think the Phoenix sounds of the
Speaker 1: best team in basketball, There's no doubt about it. I
Speaker 1: think it's honestly been a little disrespectful that they had
Speaker 1: no starters in the All Star Game. I love John Moran,
Speaker 1: but Devin Booker probably should have started in that game,
Speaker 1: or Chris Paul, you know what I mean. But that's
Speaker 1: neither here nor there. I think they're gonna make people
Speaker 1: remember in the playoffs. Phoenix is the best team in
Speaker 1: the West. The only team that scares me, um if
Speaker 1: I'm Phoenix is Denver. If Denver gets Jamal Murray back
Speaker 1: and gets Michael Porter Jr. Back, that is a really
Speaker 1: tough matchup for anybody. They would be a sleeper title
Speaker 1: team for me if they all get healthy. Just depends
Speaker 1: about on the amount of games they can play with
Speaker 1: each other. But I like Phoenix out of the West.
Speaker 1: And then Johanna Santa d. Kumpo is the best player
Speaker 1: in basketball. He is trying to be the greatest player
Speaker 1: of all time, and uh, I think it's pretty evident
Speaker 1: that that's what he's chasing. And I commend him for
Speaker 1: it because that is a lonely journey. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: be a fun path, especially coming on the heels of Lebron,
Speaker 1: but he has the talent to do it. He's not
Speaker 1: even close to being fully formed as a basketball player.
Speaker 1: I mean he's still developing. He's in the gym every
Speaker 1: single day. He went up to Michael Jordan and shook
Speaker 1: his hands, stared him right in the eyes, and was like,
Speaker 1: I will play you one on one right now. That
Speaker 1: says a lot to me. I think he has I
Speaker 1: think we're witnessing eatanists and we don't even know it
Speaker 1: yet with you, honest, So, I wouldn't be shocked at
Speaker 1: the Bucks one back to back. I really wouldn't. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people were kind of writing
Speaker 1: them off, and that's that's not a good idea. With
Speaker 1: number thirty four, he's unbelievable. They've been so banged up
Speaker 1: and their defense has been lacking. I feel like they
Speaker 1: really get it together. I agree with you. I think
Speaker 1: they're the biggest threat in the East. I know Janice
Speaker 1: is excited though about the Nets and and the Nicks.
Speaker 1: He's kind of just our overall New York guy. You
Speaker 1: can probably tell by the way he pronounced this tournament
Speaker 1: or coffee or draw yea or Gonzaga everything. Yeah, overall
Speaker 1: in the East, though, when when you're looking to an
Speaker 1: m v P and you might have just answered it
Speaker 1: if you still think you're honest, but your kitchen Embiid
Speaker 1: in that conversation, they're the favorites, those three at bet MGM.
Speaker 1: Right now, what what would you put your money on?
Speaker 1: I would put my money on Embiid. You honest is
Speaker 1: one too. I think that everyone is. You know, I
Speaker 1: think people are almost disrespecting how great honest is. And
Speaker 1: that's okay, But Joel and he deserves it. I love Joe.
Speaker 1: I think Joe is one of the best like stories
Speaker 1: in the NBA this season. What he's been able to
Speaker 1: do without Ben, that takes a lot of, you know,
Speaker 1: faith in yourself. I mean, getting that team up to
Speaker 1: top three without Ben, that's insane. And uh, I just
Speaker 1: want Joe to win because I don't know if Philadelphia
Speaker 1: is gonna be able to win it this year. They've
Speaker 1: got a lot of things that they have to piece
Speaker 1: meal together. I think they need an offseason to really
Speaker 1: get that roster ready for a championship. But if Joe
Speaker 1: wins M v P, I think that's a win for Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I'd be happy for him, man, you know, I think
Speaker 1: that would be good for basketball. I love the Bigs
Speaker 1: so Yoker's last year and Beat this year. Janice obviously
Speaker 1: finals MVP, so a lot of good news for seven footers.
Speaker 1: I also think Tate that there is m v P fatigue.
Speaker 1: I think people like to see someone new win it,
Speaker 1: and em Beat hasn't won exactly. I agree with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, yeah, Janice, we've seen it before. Get
Speaker 1: us a new story. Yeah, when is Ben Simmons gonna play?
Speaker 1: Do you know? Do you have any insight? I mean,
Speaker 1: when is is he still sad or whatever is going on?
Speaker 1: Did he step on a spider and Australia and New
Speaker 1: Zealand or wherever he's from. I mean, what's the deal.
Speaker 1: Why is he not suiting up already for the nuts? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think the genius behind that Brooklyn trade is that
Speaker 1: Patty Mills is there. Patty Mills is obviously an AUSSI guy.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna try to mentor Ben get him
Speaker 1: in a good headspace. He's known Ben since he was
Speaker 1: I think I was talking to b J. Armstrong who
Speaker 1: you know went and saw bim and he was like
Speaker 1: sixteen and Patty was with him in the gym when
Speaker 1: he went and saw him worked out work out for
Speaker 1: the first time. So Patty's been around ben Um for
Speaker 1: a long time so knows him really well. I think
Speaker 1: that's a sneaky part of this deal. Ben's apparently ramping up.
Speaker 1: That was the word that they put out. I don't
Speaker 1: know what that means, ramping up. Maybe you guys know,
Speaker 1: but I think he's in shape, so he should be
Speaker 1: able to get out there on the court. And he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to get in game shape, which is gonna
Speaker 1: take twenty five games, you know, really to get in
Speaker 1: real game shape. So he's got a ways to go. Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: I think they're like the Sixers. It's too much, too
Speaker 1: soon to really make a real run. But you know,
Speaker 1: with Kevin Durant, you always have a shot. I mean that.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of Kevin Durant. He's amazing. Absolutely. Okay,
Speaker 1: we've gone so off the rails. I forgot. We had
Speaker 1: a game ready for you. Take We have a whole game.
Speaker 1: Are you ready to play something with us? I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. We've covered NFL and be a college basketball.
Speaker 1: I'd love to know what they pitched you we were
Speaker 1: going to talk about, because it's not at all what
Speaker 1: ended up happening. I mean, honestly, this is what this
Speaker 1: is what I do with my friends in here. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: we've just been wanting to pick your brain. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is our game. We like to do something fun with
Speaker 1: every guest. We all have the Final four, but why
Speaker 1: stop at college basketball. It's time to break out the
Speaker 1: brackets of some other things in the unleashed random Final four.
Speaker 1: That's our million dollar name, Tate. Are you ready. That's
Speaker 1: a great name. Yeah, I'm excited. Let's do it. It's
Speaker 1: already branded, I think. Okay, pizza toppings on one side
Speaker 1: of the bracket, Pepperoni versus sausage on the other side,
Speaker 1: mushrooms versus black olives. He's in the final. Well, mushrooms
Speaker 1: are gonna beat black olives. Pepperoni is gonna beat sausage.
Speaker 1: But it's good. It's close. I mean, I love sausage,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go with pepperoni and and pepperoni mushrooms.
Speaker 1: Bliss put them together on the samet pizza. Wonderful, no loser,
Speaker 1: everybody wins. Yeah, I mean that was a good one.
Speaker 1: That was a good one. If you said black olives,
Speaker 1: I mean I would I would have closed my computer.
Speaker 1: That would have been and I would have been fair.
Speaker 1: I would have just sat here in silence as I deserved.
Speaker 1: I thought, your people love alives exactly, but they don't
Speaker 1: belong on a pizza. Do not belong on a pizza.
Speaker 1: So you know, I love olives, but they belong in
Speaker 1: his salad with feta. They don't belong with mozzarella and sauce. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, next one. On one side of the bracket,
Speaker 1: you got Drake versus Kanye. On the other side of
Speaker 1: the bracket, you got Ja Cole versus Future Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's really tough. I'm a North Carolina guy, so
Speaker 1: I love Ja Cole, but Future is probably my favorite artist. Um,
Speaker 1: I'll say j Cole just because I love Ja Cole
Speaker 1: to death. And then on the other side, I mean
Speaker 1: those two they're kind of just like I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: we all like both of them are like their music
Speaker 1: in some capacity. Right, I've been say Kanye because he
Speaker 1: was my my first love, you know, like as a
Speaker 1: as a ten year old kid, thirteen year od kid
Speaker 1: whatever it was when two thousand three, so ten years
Speaker 1: old yet, So I'll take Kanye, and then Jake Cole
Speaker 1: is Kanye false prophets on one side, the true prophet
Speaker 1: Ja Cole on the other side. I'm gonna take j Cole.
Speaker 1: I love it all American too, n C double a
Speaker 1: play by play announcers, and I gotta warn you one
Speaker 1: of them is not too far from me. Gus Johnson, Verse,
Speaker 1: Jim Nance, first, Kevin Harlan and I an Eagle. Oh,
Speaker 1: Kevin Harlan is obviously gonna move on to the finals.
Speaker 1: Um love Kevin Harlan, and then Gus Johnson is my guy.
Speaker 1: I love Jim Vance, Jim Dance, obviously we all know.
Speaker 1: I mean the Tie, the Masters, the pageantry. We all
Speaker 1: love Jim. But I'm gonna give it to Gus and
Speaker 1: then Gus. I'm gonna have to give it to Gus
Speaker 1: because I'm just a sucker for energy. And Kevin Harland
Speaker 1: is like the perfect Like I don't even think about
Speaker 1: him when he's giving commentary because it's just like so
Speaker 1: intertwined and blended with the game. But Gus takes me out,
Speaker 1: like you know what I mean, It's just like I
Speaker 1: feel like I get shot to space with the energy
Speaker 1: with Gus. So I think he's gonna be my number
Speaker 1: one guy. Okay, one side of the bracket, you got
Speaker 1: Auto the Orange. We're talking about college mascots versus uh
Speaker 1: Sparty from Michigan State. Oh wow, oh yeah. Then the
Speaker 1: other side, sorry, the other side is Brutus the Buckeye
Speaker 1: versus Ramsey's. Oh yeah, Ramsey's on the Ramsey's is moving
Speaker 1: to the finals. And then I'll take Sparty. I mean,
Speaker 1: Otto the Orange. I feel like it's it's interesting. I
Speaker 1: like Otto. He's a funny guy. I got a good personnelity.
Speaker 1: But I'll go with the Spartan and just like in
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine North Carolina, I'll take over Michigan State,
Speaker 1: so I'll be a Homer. Yeah, I'll take Ramsey's. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we see Sparty more. Sparta has just been around
Speaker 1: in March more. I got one final question for this game.
Speaker 1: That's not exactly part of this game, but I want
Speaker 1: to know. Okay, if you had to choose to bring
Speaker 1: home a girl who's a reported member of the CCP
Speaker 1: and isis or a girl who's a graduate of Duke,
Speaker 1: which one do you marry? My mom wouldn't know what
Speaker 1: the CCP is, I don't think so. I think she'd
Speaker 1: be fine with that but if I I mean, I
Speaker 1: even idated a girl whose mom went to Duke and
Speaker 1: my mom was not approved. So you know it's anything
Speaker 1: that close. It's not gonna you gotta go to, you
Speaker 1: gotta go with. I get not a perfect place to wrap.
Speaker 1: You can follow Tate Fraser on Twitter, hat Tape Frasier,
Speaker 1: and of course don't forget to listen to Titus and
Speaker 1: Tap podcast help you get ready for the tournament, as
Speaker 1: well as the World of Five Star podcast, which is
Speaker 1: a great listen as well. Tay thanks for being here.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, I really appreciate it. Let's go to North Carolina,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, joining us live from his wedding
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Speaker 1: it all out. So yeah, fun, fun weekend, very fun weekend.
Speaker 1: We're glad you could still join us despite being on
Speaker 1: a fun vacation. Pete, I've got to ask you. All
Speaker 1: Star Game this weekend. The total was three twenty three
Speaker 1: and the point total at bet MGM and other sites
Speaker 1: was three twenty four and a half. I can speak
Speaker 1: on behalf of my brother in law and many sad
Speaker 1: people that they took the over. Yeah, and it's just
Speaker 1: like me at the Pro Bowl and I thought that
Speaker 1: was the easiest bed of all time. What did you
Speaker 1: see in the end of the All Star Game, especially
Speaker 1: as Lebron closed it out too much defense? I think
Speaker 1: that's probably number one? Yes, at the end, Yeah, not
Speaker 1: for the first three and a half pays for sure.
Speaker 1: Curry made it pretty interesting when he was just drill
Speaker 1: in threes. I mean it felt like seven eight nine
Speaker 1: consecutive possessions. He was just hitting, which was amazing to watch.
Speaker 1: But at the last couple of minutes he had a
Speaker 1: couple of things down the stretch, but it didn't really
Speaker 1: matter because the score was already almost predetermined. So whatever
Speaker 1: that that final number you had to hit. So it's
Speaker 1: it's tricky betting this All Star Game total. So probably
Speaker 1: looking at next year, I'm sticking away from it. You
Speaker 1: never know what's going to happen, especially like I said,
Speaker 1: you don't know what the final total is gonna be
Speaker 1: that you have to hit until the game kind of progresses,
Speaker 1: so really really tricky. I think moving forward, everybody should
Speaker 1: just take Team Lebron or Team Duran or whatever that
Speaker 1: you know it ends up being for person years. That
Speaker 1: makes sense. It was fun to watch though. I enjoyed uh,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. The Duck contest not so much, but
Speaker 1: the the All Star games a lot of fun. I
Speaker 1: mean Basketball All Star games or something. You can really
Speaker 1: you can appreciate no defense in a basketball All Star
Speaker 1: game because you get to see exciting stuff and long
Speaker 1: shots as we saw. Yeah, yeah, it was I think
Speaker 1: all in all, the weekend was really good, minus the
Speaker 1: dunk contest. They have to do something about just being
Speaker 1: able to miss fifteen consecutive dunks as long as the
Speaker 1: ball doesn't go outwards. Three point contest is awesome. Cat
Speaker 1: versus Luke Canard. I think that was really good. I
Speaker 1: like what they've done with the new kind of set up,
Speaker 1: and I think it's been fun. And then the game
Speaker 1: was good. I mean, third and fourth quarter were awesome.
Speaker 1: But you have to know what you're expecting. You can't
Speaker 1: just go into it thinking it's going to be the
Speaker 1: best weekend of all time. It's not gonna be Dominique
Speaker 1: Wilkins versus Michael Jordan's back in late eighties. It's evolving,
Speaker 1: so you have to have your expectation set well. Now
Speaker 1: that the All Star Game is behind us, we get
Speaker 1: to the second half of the NBA schedule and things
Speaker 1: are heating up as we look at the game's Thursday,
Speaker 1: we get to see the two seed in the East,
Speaker 1: the Bulls. They take on the Atlanta Hawks, my former
Speaker 1: team at home. Let's start with that game there four
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite at home. Gosh, I'm surprise
Speaker 1: is not bigger than that. What do you think the
Speaker 1: way I'm leaning on some of these games is, especially
Speaker 1: teams that had a couple of players playing in All
Speaker 1: Star Break, they're gonna be slumping. I think for a
Speaker 1: couple of games. It's a party weekend. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: it's I'm probably going with Hawks plus four and a
Speaker 1: half was obviously they're all week but I'm just taking
Speaker 1: the slump route. There's no real like science behind it.
Speaker 1: I just think it's been a long and fun weekend
Speaker 1: for lots of people in Cleveland and Cleveland, which is
Speaker 1: funny to say. But I'm gonna take some of those
Speaker 1: teams that maybe we're a little bit more well arrested,
Speaker 1: teams like the Hawks that have something legit meant to
Speaker 1: play for. I think Bowls are obviously in the relatively
Speaker 1: good spot being in that kind of one slash two
Speaker 1: seed tied for first, So I can see that being
Speaker 1: a little bit of a disappointed for them and and
Speaker 1: and taking Hawks keep it close maybe even when it
Speaker 1: but but yeah, yeah, I mean, I just want to
Speaker 1: say partying in Cleveland is an oxymoron. I can confirm
Speaker 1: that is not true. I lived there for one year
Speaker 1: and let's just say it never was the same. Okay, Also,
Speaker 1: looking at a bigger spread. The Calves are on the
Speaker 1: roads while those players pack their bags and head to Detroit,
Speaker 1: and they are an eight and a half point favorite
Speaker 1: at the Pistons. That's a much bigger Now, what do
Speaker 1: you think the Pistons are pretty bad? That would be
Speaker 1: my one kind of point there. Eight and a half
Speaker 1: is a big spread. I'll probably take Cleveland. They don't
Speaker 1: have to travel, so everybody that was part of the
Speaker 1: All Star Game is staying home or staying relatively close,
Speaker 1: So I'd probably take day and a half the players.
Speaker 1: You mean, do you think they went on vacation somewhere.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I'm thinking of a couple of guys
Speaker 1: that were all at the game, so you know, Jared Allen,
Speaker 1: I think Darlin and Relie were all there. Clearly, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about the lots of the bench warmers, but
Speaker 1: thinking about the ones that were actually at the game.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's I mean a lot of toss up
Speaker 1: Pistons are so bad. But I'd probably go Cabs. They're
Speaker 1: just again in a relatively good spot, but playing for something.
Speaker 1: They're obviously in that little mishmash of six to ten.
Speaker 1: So yeah, probably probably go Cabs. Right, But I would
Speaker 1: just say this is a good time if you want to,
Speaker 1: I would say betting you betting the other way may
Speaker 1: make you some money because they may just overlook Pistons
Speaker 1: out of the all stub break because of how bad
Speaker 1: they are. I mean they are bad. When you said
Speaker 1: pretty good at the beginning, I said, Peter, you've gotten
Speaker 1: too much sun. The Pistons suck. For everybody that's listening
Speaker 1: right now, I did preface this whole show offline with
Speaker 1: I am on the worst run of all time gambling
Speaker 1: right now. So that's so, yeah, I should put that
Speaker 1: asters there as we're talking about this. It really makes
Speaker 1: us all wonder why we have you on every week. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of good days here, but this
Speaker 1: might not be my best arm. Okay, one more for you.
Speaker 1: We've got the Memphis Grizzlies. They're currently number three in
Speaker 1: the West, forty one and nineteen record. Everyone's excited about
Speaker 1: this young squad. They start the second half of the
Speaker 1: season on the road at Minnesota and they are two
Speaker 1: and a half point road favorite. What do you think
Speaker 1: it's always that first game right off the gates. That's
Speaker 1: a tricky one. Yeah, I mean that Memphis team is hungry,
Speaker 1: so I'm riding them for as much as I can.
Speaker 1: I think I said it early in the season. Love
Speaker 1: the Dubs. Obviously the Suns look great, but I'm probably
Speaker 1: gonna ride that Grizzlies team for as long as they have.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously John morand John Morant there, I'll take them.
Speaker 1: But again, it's tricky. The first came out of out
Speaker 1: of the let's call the second half. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: an interesting one. So um, I would look at money
Speaker 1: lines here, especially if you feel good about a team.
Speaker 1: Spreads are gonna be dicey. So if you really really
Speaker 1: like a team, take a money line, maybe even parlay
Speaker 1: with them with the money line. So as an example, Suns,
Speaker 1: Thunder Dubbs, Blazers, I do not trust any of those spreads.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take those. Those money lines is of parlay,
Speaker 1: so you just gotta be careful. You gotta see how
Speaker 1: they come out. We talked about a couple of scenarios
Speaker 1: where you know, these guys are partying or not partying,
Speaker 1: or hungry or you know, underplaying a really bad team.
Speaker 1: So I think you just gotta go with your gun
Speaker 1: on the money lines and see what happens. Speaking of hungery,
Speaker 1: you probably have a hot dinner date waiting for you
Speaker 1: right now, So Peter Andrew, you go on enjoy your vacation.
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