Speaker 1: I got a question far Cana can I got a
Speaker 1: question fi.
Speaker 2: Grayson's som last night? But did it broad day? He
Speaker 2: killed a man in broad daylight Grayson Allen? And I
Speaker 2: have questions, how do you stop Grayson Allen, a noted
Speaker 2: menace from being Grayson Allen? Like he has been a menace.
Speaker 2: We all know he's a menace. He's been a menace
Speaker 2: his entire career. Even at Duke even chuckles about it
Speaker 2: being a villain. Like there are Grayson Allen compilations that
Speaker 2: you can find on YouTube of just dirty place. That's it, Like,
Speaker 2: that's the entire compilation is just him tripping and kicking
Speaker 2: in you nuts and like literally karate shop people. We
Speaker 2: knew that, we've accepted that that's a part of Grayson
Speaker 2: Allen's quote unquote charm uh And now until now he
Speaker 2: has taken out one of the most beloved players in
Speaker 2: the league. My man has gone a step too far.
Speaker 2: He took out the goat aka the janitor a ka Caruso.
Speaker 2: And I am now thinking that it's like no one's
Speaker 2: gonna believe him never, no, no one's ever going to
Speaker 2: forgive him. Here is what's going What happened the Bucks
Speaker 2: and the Bulls were playing a tight game when Alice
Speaker 2: Crusoe went up for a layup. It was like a
Speaker 2: explosive layup, we'll say, not just like an everyday layup.
Speaker 2: It was an elevated layup, and Grayson Allen grabbed him
Speaker 2: out of the air, spun him down and ddted him
Speaker 2: onto the ground like let and then and then Grace
Speaker 2: Allen had to figure out a way to contort his
Speaker 2: body to not kill himself because he was uhuh four
Speaker 2: feet up in the air and just got karate chopped
Speaker 2: to not hit his head onto the hardwood, so he
Speaker 2: lands on his wrist to try to break his fall.
Speaker 2: World class cheap shot. Everyone knew it. It was completely unnecessary.
Speaker 2: Grayson Allen, after they looked at the tape, ended up
Speaker 2: with a flagrant two, got tossed. Crusoe was down for
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes, ended up going back into the game.
Speaker 2: Said some things after like, hope, hope nothing's wrong, Like
Speaker 2: it was a cheap play. Hope nothing seriously wrong. Don't
Speaker 2: think that there is anything seriously wrong. But no. Turns
Speaker 2: out Alex Crusoe has now fractured his wrists from that play. Yep,
Speaker 2: he was out there deflecting passes, guarding, blocking Gianni's shots,
Speaker 2: playing lockdown d even with a fractured wrist as an aside.
Speaker 2: Turns out he needs surgery. He's out six to eight
Speaker 2: weeks after just coming back from another injury. He's been gone.
Speaker 2: Alex Crusso has been out of the lineup for a
Speaker 2: long time now, and this is now another serious blow
Speaker 2: to a team that is desperate for any bit of death,
Speaker 2: and they're not the same without him on the court.
Speaker 2: With Lavigne, Lonzo Crusoe all missing significant time, it is
Speaker 2: a rough ass month in Chicago Land, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: continue to be a rough ass time. So back to
Speaker 2: Grayson Allen, though everyone who saw the play in real
Speaker 2: time knew it was Grayson being Grayson just one of
Speaker 2: the world class cheap artists in basketball, like he is
Speaker 2: a cheap shot encapsulated into a human being. Like that's
Speaker 2: he's a guy who's a cheap shot even by Duke's standards, right,
Speaker 2: which is just that says a lot considering all of
Speaker 2: the other cheap shot players that they've had played for them.
Speaker 2: And of course nobody after the game was more pissed
Speaker 2: than Billy Donovan, Grayson Allen could have ruined and ended
Speaker 2: Alex Crusoe's career. It was really really bad, really bad,
Speaker 2: he says. For Alex to be in the air and
Speaker 2: for him to take him down like that, he could
Speaker 2: have ended Alex Caruso's career. He has a history of this.
Speaker 2: It was really dangerous. Yeah, tell him, tell him what
Speaker 2: you think, Billy, tell him. And Patrick Williams also got
Speaker 2: hurt on a hard foul. But as Donovan noted in
Speaker 2: his post game, that was an actual basketball play by
Speaker 2: Mitchell Robinson. This this was bullshit. This was unnecessary. This was,
Speaker 2: as Alex Cruso would say, dude, just grab me out
Speaker 2: of the air. Kind of bullshit, which, to be honest,
Speaker 2: is pretty much a perfect summation of Grayson Allen as
Speaker 2: a player and as a person. Kind of bullshit like,
Speaker 2: kind of a bullshit player. And it's not that Grayson
Speaker 2: Allen is out here actively trying to hurt people. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna say that, and I don't think that's what's happening.
Speaker 2: It's just that he doesn't give a shit if he does,
Speaker 2: like and that's the problem is that there are certain
Speaker 2: players who not only have no regard. They're thoughtless, they're reckless,
Speaker 2: but they're remorseless. Somebody ends up going down for a
Speaker 2: significant period of time. Grayson Allen gives zero fucks. And
Speaker 2: that is what is an important distinction to make in
Speaker 2: a league where the vast majority of people will go
Speaker 2: out of their way to take a fellow player, a
Speaker 2: brother in this four hundred and fifty person fraternity, if
Speaker 2: you will out of danger, if you are Grayson Allen
Speaker 2: and you have a hard foul you then it behooves you.
Speaker 2: Then make sure you catch his fall. It is up
Speaker 2: to you to make sure you don't hurt him, because
Speaker 2: you are the one who incited all of that. And
Speaker 2: that's why despite the fact that these guys regularly jump
Speaker 2: into the rafters, you regularly see undercuts, cheap shot elbows.
Speaker 2: They are so uncommon that when they do happen, the
Speaker 2: Internet is set ablaze. But cheap shots like Grayson Allen did,
Speaker 2: I mean, they only happen like one or two times.
Speaker 1: A year year.
Speaker 2: So there's lots of talk whether the bulls are going
Speaker 2: to seek retribution on March fourth, when the two teams
Speaker 2: meet again. I'm guessing that they do. Billy Donovan addressed
Speaker 2: the idea that the Bulls would try to get back
Speaker 2: at Grayson Allen, and he says this quote, I'm not
Speaker 2: a real big believer in that stuff. Pause, And that's
Speaker 2: a lie. And that is a lie. Billy Donovan is
Speaker 2: gonna go full Sean Payton and fully fully secret retribution.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna put this out there. I played basketball
Speaker 2: my whole life, and I know that there's a code
Speaker 2: of ethics and hoops and a cheap shot like this
Speaker 2: that actually endangers one of the most beloved players in
Speaker 2: the entire NBA, which that means something too. One hundred
Speaker 2: percent payback is coming. May not come from the Bulls,
Speaker 2: but it's coming. At some point, someplace in broad day
Speaker 2: at night time, Grayson Allen is going to catch an
Speaker 2: elbow or a knee or gonna get pulled out of
Speaker 2: the air and body slam Denity by some undertaker move.
Speaker 2: And this is not fucking college, This is not Duke anymore.
Speaker 2: These are grown men. You know who loves himself some
Speaker 2: Alex Crusoe loves Alex Crusoe. One of the biggest, strongest,
Speaker 2: fastest goats of all time, Lebron James. Like if Lebron
Speaker 2: James sees Grayson Allen coming. This one's for a Crusoe.
Speaker 1: Be Stu.
Speaker 2: This is a man's league, and Grayson Allen looks still
Speaker 2: like that little kid at Duke. He was not could
Speaker 2: not even be bothered to check on Carusoe after the
Speaker 2: game either. That's how you know he doesn't give a fuck.
Speaker 2: People notice that they asked Caruso, Hey, did Grayson see
Speaker 2: if you were okay after the game? Alex Crusoe quite
Speaker 2: plainly said it. Nope, he did not. There are a
Speaker 2: lot of guys who will take notice of that, And
Speaker 2: I bet you that there are players that are so
Speaker 2: beloved that if this happens, that the NBA will look
Speaker 2: away and pretend it never happened. God forbid something terrible
Speaker 2: happens to Grayson Allen in the heat of battle. Right,
Speaker 2: So sending out thoughts and prayers to Grayson, thoughts and
Speaker 2: prayers to my man Grayson Allen, who will reap what
Speaker 2: he sows, but more importantly to the Chicago Bulls, and
Speaker 2: to the goat Alex Crusoe, who is so damn fun
Speaker 2: to watch. But I promise you, boy, Grayson, what goes
Speaker 2: around comes around, and eventually every little cheap shot farmer
Speaker 2: will reap what they sold. That is all the time
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Speaker 1: Yah. Yeah, I gotta question five. Can I get to day?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta question fi