1
00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:05,320
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports, where greetings and welcome in

2
00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:09,680
Speaker 1: another beautiful Fox Sports Sunday action all over the grid

3
00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:12,440
Speaker 1: as we get things going in what is an action

4
00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,280
Speaker 1: packed day, not only if you're getting your last Oscar

5
00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:19,319
Speaker 1: picks in or maybe watching those movies to close things out.

6
00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,040
Speaker 1: We got five championship games to be played in conferences

7
00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:26,280
Speaker 1: across the Great Land, as you heard from Isaac Loewenkron

8
00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,400
Speaker 1: and the update. We'll get to the IVY League first

9
00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,200
Speaker 1: and then we finish with the Big Ten later on

10
00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,440
Speaker 1: in Purdue and Michigan. Michigan trying to become the first

11
00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,280
Speaker 1: team to win back to back there in a decade,

12
00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,920
Speaker 1: and all sorts of other chaos to dissect.

13
00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:43,360
Speaker 2: As we roll it on.

14
00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:47,279
Speaker 1: I'm Mike Garmin week Night seven to eleven alongside Jason

15
00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,320
Speaker 1: Smith as we chop it up each in every night,

16
00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,760
Speaker 1: going through the highs, the lows, the chaos, and me

17
00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:55,760
Speaker 1: usually screaming stop it Smith.

18
00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:57,800
Speaker 2: But today it's Ryan.

19
00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,440
Speaker 1: Hollins and I longtime friend of our show of the

20
00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:05,759
Speaker 1: network working with the Planet Houston. The Houston Rockets played

21
00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,160
Speaker 1: in the league for a decade, the UCLA Bruins. All

22
00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,759
Speaker 1: of that at the Ryan Hollins on Twitter, Ryan, welcome in.

23
00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,639
Speaker 1: It's been a minute's things. How's travel in the great NBA?

24
00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,560
Speaker 3: What is going on? My brother? It has been too long.

25
00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,880
Speaker 3: I have no complaints. I had no complaints. It's been

26
00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,440
Speaker 3: a great season. Kevin Durant has been just a breath

27
00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,400
Speaker 3: of fresh air. And I think for me, even as

28
00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,720
Speaker 3: a guy that played against Kevin, getting the chance to

29
00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:41,000
Speaker 3: see him every single day, man, you really enjoy him.

30
00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,760
Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, man, he's so much different than

31
00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,640
Speaker 3: what anyone would assume. Man. And I'm telling you, like,

32
00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,160
Speaker 3: he goes out of his way, and he's a guy

33
00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:54,440
Speaker 3: that embraces literally any and everybody from the fans, the organization,

34
00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,120
Speaker 3: the coaches. But I say that to say that it's

35
00:01:58,160 --> 00:01:59,640
Speaker 3: been a wonderful season, my brother.

36
00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a topsy turvy. Obviously a lot of

37
00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:04,600
Speaker 1: negativity across the league.

38
00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:04,960
Speaker 2: Don't worry.

39
00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,680
Speaker 1: We'll get to bam Adebayo next hour. Because as a

40
00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,840
Speaker 1: guy that played for a decade in the league and

41
00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,600
Speaker 1: now you're you're around these guys and the competition nightly,

42
00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,120
Speaker 1: everybody chiming in, and we'd be remiss if we didn't

43
00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,880
Speaker 1: scratch that itch a little bit here with you. I

44
00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,520
Speaker 1: mean I had my feelings front and center because outside

45
00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,040
Speaker 1: of folks in the arena, I might have been one

46
00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:27,720
Speaker 1: of ten people to actually watch that game.

47
00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:33,000
Speaker 2: So I have some thoughts. But all of that to say.

48
00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,600
Speaker 1: I mean for the NBA, if you take the microcosm

49
00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:41,359
Speaker 1: and and leave out the noise from the macro sense,

50
00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,919
Speaker 1: right of, and tanking is a problem, and look, trying

51
00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,600
Speaker 1: to find solutions for any of that becomes a long

52
00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,720
Speaker 1: arduous process. But night to night, you know, when we

53
00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,320
Speaker 1: get those marquee matchups, we're gonna get Minnesota and Oklahoma

54
00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,080
Speaker 1: City coming up at the top of the hour.

55
00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:57,200
Speaker 2: All of that.

56
00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,880
Speaker 1: When when we get those teams involved and some of

57
00:02:59,919 --> 00:03:04,840
Speaker 1: these heavyweights, it really is at the best of what

58
00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:07,520
Speaker 1: the sport offers. You know, the tanking part of it

59
00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,240
Speaker 1: is a problem, and it seems to extend and pull

60
00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,440
Speaker 1: on the league a little bit more. And let's face it, Ryan,

61
00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,240
Speaker 1: we bask in negativity in sports media in the world

62
00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,640
Speaker 1: in general, so it tries to detract from the greatness atop.

63
00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,640
Speaker 1: But you know, Kevin Durant and those rockets at forty

64
00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,560
Speaker 1: one and twenty five, one of the stories and teams

65
00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:30,880
Speaker 1: that has us with our eyebrows raised as we start

66
00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,040
Speaker 1: getting ready for the April and second tournament.

67
00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:40,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I think for everybody got it. And I

68
00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,600
Speaker 3: want to address the one thing you said, because everybody's

69
00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:45,520
Speaker 3: up in arms about this tanking thing, and there's two

70
00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:51,080
Speaker 3: sides to it. For one, you probably have one of

71
00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,960
Speaker 3: the best drafts maybe ever that we have happening. Okay,

72
00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,000
Speaker 3: where if you're anywhere in the top eight, you got

73
00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:04,120
Speaker 3: a franchise, you potentially a franchise changing player. Okay, that's

74
00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,920
Speaker 3: why you're seeing a lot of teams shut it down.

75
00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,640
Speaker 3: But I also understand the NBA has done a great

76
00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,520
Speaker 3: job with tanking. And I want to say this in

77
00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,000
Speaker 3: this apple, take this food for thought. The playing tournament

78
00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,680
Speaker 3: really changed a lot of that. Before you'd have eight

79
00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,920
Speaker 3: teams from each conference that got in, and now you

80
00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:26,280
Speaker 3: have what an additional what for playing in And what

81
00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:31,919
Speaker 3: that does is you create a more competition later in

82
00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:36,479
Speaker 3: the season. So when I played eight teams that got in,

83
00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,920
Speaker 3: and what happened was towards the end of the year,

84
00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,919
Speaker 3: you'd see teams go and they would shut it down,

85
00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,680
Speaker 3: and they'd start shutting it down way sooner. You can't

86
00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,400
Speaker 3: afford to shut it down and later we're gonna get in.

87
00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,720
Speaker 3: We talked a little bit Houston already, we're gonna talk

88
00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,520
Speaker 3: about the Lakers, that big win over Denver. We're gonna

89
00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,080
Speaker 3: talk about Minnesota that seting in there. The three to

90
00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,400
Speaker 3: six spot is ridiculous, and what it does is it

91
00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,479
Speaker 3: sets up for some really good basketball down the stretch

92
00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,200
Speaker 3: and then you got teams that are going to be

93
00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,279
Speaker 3: fighting to get into the play in. So again, I

94
00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,200
Speaker 3: think Adam Silver has done a great job addressing tanking.

95
00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,400
Speaker 3: Forgive me, it's not just going to go away. If

96
00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,480
Speaker 3: you're a fan that feels short changed by your team

97
00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:18,159
Speaker 3: not playing well or how long they do it are

98
00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:20,440
Speaker 3: the ethics behind it? I get it, I understand it,

99
00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:25,400
Speaker 3: but there have been provisions put in place to address such.

100
00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, Unfortunately, Like it's still a business at the end

101
00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:32,400
Speaker 1: of the day, right, and so long as the draft

102
00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,400
Speaker 1: lottery exists, you've got the incentive. It's like, well, we're

103
00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:38,520
Speaker 1: not a title contender, and then you have to decide,

104
00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,280
Speaker 1: you know what level you want to be at. Right,

105
00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,040
Speaker 1: there's those elite teams and we'll get into that at

106
00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,160
Speaker 1: over the next two hours of all, Right, where's that

107
00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,400
Speaker 1: line of demarcation between these are legitimate title contenders. Then

108
00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,720
Speaker 1: we have the the what for lack of a better term,

109
00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,520
Speaker 1: the Hall of very good and the teams that are

110
00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,280
Speaker 1: good and competitive to a point, and then we've got

111
00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,720
Speaker 1: down in the play in the seven through tens and

112
00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:07,400
Speaker 1: eleven twelve, down the stretch of all right, can you

113
00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:09,880
Speaker 1: really compete? Or is it better to just say, hey,

114
00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,400
Speaker 1: like Dallas did a couple of years ago, all right,

115
00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,960
Speaker 1: we don't want to be in that play in because

116
00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,200
Speaker 1: it means a couple extra ping pong balls and a

117
00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:19,919
Speaker 1: lot of wishing and wanting and hoping. To your point,

118
00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:22,200
Speaker 1: we've got eight to ten guys right off the jump,

119
00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,600
Speaker 1: all these freshmen and would be superstars that are going

120
00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,840
Speaker 1: to come into the league right away. Maybe changes the fortune,

121
00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,880
Speaker 1: but you'd rather do that and take your spin on

122
00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,440
Speaker 1: that wheel and that game show, then continue to be

123
00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,120
Speaker 1: mired in mediocrity. So that's where we get into the

124
00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,359
Speaker 1: I think the anger that folks and vitriol, and the

125
00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,120
Speaker 1: hard part is if you're a perennial team in that space,

126
00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,479
Speaker 1: that's where the frustration lies.

127
00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:53,000
Speaker 3: Yes, and you know we're gonna talk about later. Vam

128
00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:58,280
Speaker 3: out of Bio. My angle isn't from Vam's angle of frustration.

129
00:06:58,839 --> 00:06:59,880
Speaker 3: It's on the other side.

130
00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:02,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's just it, right.

131
00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,039
Speaker 1: There are so many different ways to you know, peel

132
00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,400
Speaker 1: that onion back the the rank vitriol that folks have had,

133
00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:15,200
Speaker 1: the obviously older players from a generation gone by. Yeah,

134
00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:16,920
Speaker 1: we would have put that guy in the fourth deck.

135
00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,040
Speaker 1: Maybe you would have, maybe maybe you wouldn't have. But

136
00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,000
Speaker 1: you know, it's been one of the great debates. Normally

137
00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,920
Speaker 1: these things you have about a twenty four to forty

138
00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,360
Speaker 1: eight hour cycle. So I love that there's still some

139
00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,400
Speaker 1: oxygen in the fire there. But let's stay in the

140
00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,280
Speaker 1: Western Conference. Let's stay with those Houston Rockets, because as

141
00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,840
Speaker 1: they said here forth, see, we'll get into the Lakers

142
00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:39,520
Speaker 1: in ernest in a couple of minutes, coming off of

143
00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:44,240
Speaker 1: the heroics against Denver, Minnesota in the fifth spot, Denver

144
00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:47,400
Speaker 1: at six, and then we get to Phoenix, the Clippers,

145
00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:51,800
Speaker 1: who have been ridiculous after that six and twenty one,

146
00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:55,320
Speaker 1: start suddenly at thirty four and thirty three. And when

147
00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,960
Speaker 1: we talk about Kevin Durant, we'd be remiss not to

148
00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,760
Speaker 1: grab Kawhi Leonar a couple years younger. But the same

149
00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,240
Speaker 1: idea of you know, when we see the elder statesman

150
00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,480
Speaker 1: standing up and putting their teams on their back. Really

151
00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,880
Speaker 1: quite impressed, especially for a Clippers team that looked like

152
00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,280
Speaker 1: when they were making deals that they were ready to

153
00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:12,880
Speaker 1: bottom out.

154
00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:19,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think I'm blown away with Kawhi Leonard.

155
00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,239
Speaker 3: I think from a a someone who's covered his career

156
00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,120
Speaker 3: played against them, I think there's like a forgive me

157
00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,080
Speaker 3: for wrong, right, Like there's like a Kawhi fatigue. And

158
00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,800
Speaker 3: I say it in a sense because Mike, what would

159
00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:34,559
Speaker 3: you say, am I wrong? Probably about three or four

160
00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,880
Speaker 3: years straight, we're like, watch out for the Clippers, watch

161
00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:38,959
Speaker 3: out for the Clippers, watch out for the Clippers, because

162
00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,040
Speaker 3: you had such a respect for his talent level and

163
00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:44,880
Speaker 3: what he could bring to the table. They had Paul George,

164
00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,600
Speaker 3: and he had James Harden and they were pretty much loaded.

165
00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,440
Speaker 3: And after a certain point, you know, the Clippers were

166
00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,120
Speaker 3: like everybody else's pick. You know, before that it was Boston.

167
00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,400
Speaker 3: Remember you'd always go Boston, watch out for the Celtics.

168
00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,880
Speaker 3: Then they finally end up getting a championship. But for

169
00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,160
Speaker 3: Kawhi Leonard, I think by far he's gonna go down

170
00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,240
Speaker 3: as having one of the most outstanding but yet most

171
00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:11,559
Speaker 3: intriguing careers in NBA history, because you've never seen a

172
00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:18,280
Speaker 3: guy that has been injured this much, have legitimately injured surgeries,

173
00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,640
Speaker 3: have the ability to play at the level that Kawhi

174
00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,599
Speaker 3: Leonard is playing on any given night. Mike, tell me

175
00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:30,840
Speaker 3: if I'm wrong, he is the best player in the NBA.

176
00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,520
Speaker 3: And I saw it up close and personal. As that consistent.

177
00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:36,600
Speaker 3: Is he always gonna be healthy? We don't know. We

178
00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:40,160
Speaker 3: haven't known for some years, but he has been in

179
00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:45,199
Speaker 3: several moments the best player in the league. Sorry Jokic,

180
00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:50,040
Speaker 3: Sorry Giannis, sorry Shay, I've seen them all. When he

181
00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,600
Speaker 3: turns it on, he's second to none.

182
00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:54,760
Speaker 1: Still, Yeah, it's one of the fun things we get

183
00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,600
Speaker 1: to do. Obviously, Smith and I work in the evening

184
00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,400
Speaker 1: shift here Fox Sports Radio West Coast on we get

185
00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:02,600
Speaker 1: to watch a lot of those Clipper games live and

186
00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,120
Speaker 1: in living color, and we forget about how old some

187
00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:06,720
Speaker 1: of these guys are. And now I don't mean it

188
00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,760
Speaker 1: from the pejorative side of it's just the look they're

189
00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,880
Speaker 1: in year fourteen, fifteen seventeen. In the league, we talk

190
00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,240
Speaker 1: about KD and his history. You look at Kawhi he

191
00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,439
Speaker 1: came into the league in twenty eleven, twenty twelve. Now,

192
00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,640
Speaker 1: whatever's going on with old Uncle Dennis no show jobs

193
00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,520
Speaker 1: or whatever else, that's still being ferreted out, and whether

194
00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,840
Speaker 1: the Clippers ultimately pay a huge price for it will

195
00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,640
Speaker 1: remain to be seen. But at this age, at this moment,

196
00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:38,160
Speaker 1: with the surrounding cast, that he has fifty percent from

197
00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,079
Speaker 1: the field and averaging twenty eight points a game, twenty

198
00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:46,079
Speaker 1: eight points a game, which is a career high. I mean,

199
00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,600
Speaker 1: that's the absurdity level of it. You go back to

200
00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,480
Speaker 1: his first year with the Clippers in twenty nineteen average

201
00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,680
Speaker 1: twenty seven to one. He's a point higher than that

202
00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,000
Speaker 1: and carrying this squad and night to night. You're right,

203
00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,440
Speaker 1: he is in that upper echelon and the you know,

204
00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:04,960
Speaker 1: the metal stand and then you just decide, you know

205
00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:08,439
Speaker 1: which level of game you want we'll get. We'll get

206
00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,160
Speaker 1: into the whole Shake Gildess Alexander angle because that that

207
00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,280
Speaker 1: ties back into to BAM to a degree as we

208
00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,040
Speaker 1: go through. But yeah, for Kawhi Leonard right now and

209
00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,559
Speaker 1: what the Clippers have done, are they a true contender?

210
00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,880
Speaker 2: I don't know. But every night he's on the court,

211
00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:23,720
Speaker 2: you got a puncher's chance.

212
00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:31,040
Speaker 3: No, you do. And you know it's almost like I

213
00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,959
Speaker 3: remember JJ Reddick was talking about a couple of years

214
00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:35,920
Speaker 3: back when he was doing TV that he got a

215
00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,560
Speaker 3: chance to watch one of Kawhi's Leonard's workouts. He Pat

216
00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,040
Speaker 3: Beav talked about him kind of being a perfectionist in

217
00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,560
Speaker 3: the workouts and like whatever, he's doing well working out,

218
00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,280
Speaker 3: Like he's not short changing the game. Now you could

219
00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,960
Speaker 3: argue you sort of changed his contract, the expectations with

220
00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,400
Speaker 3: the Clippers, whatever it may be. But like as far

221
00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,880
Speaker 3: as controlling what he can or putting his effort in,

222
00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,439
Speaker 3: it's there man and handles about as tight as it

223
00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,680
Speaker 3: can get. He's got a unique like Mike Like, it's

224
00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,240
Speaker 3: a crazy way he plays. Because Kawhi's hands are so big,

225
00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,160
Speaker 3: he can make plays that other people can't make. When

226
00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,320
Speaker 3: he grabs the ball, he almost just picks it up

227
00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,280
Speaker 3: out the air and shoots a three or shoots a

228
00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,720
Speaker 3: pull up like it's it's a really really unique style

229
00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,880
Speaker 3: of play that it's hard to emulate. And then he's

230
00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,600
Speaker 3: so strong that he can just create space pound dribble

231
00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,079
Speaker 3: pound dribble, punt, shoulder step back in those fadeaways are

232
00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,199
Speaker 3: just about unguardable man. And again you can see the

233
00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,839
Speaker 3: lab work that he's put in. But he's he's going

234
00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:39,280
Speaker 3: to go down as the most intriguing player for many reasons,

235
00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:41,880
Speaker 3: Robby to have ever ever played this game. That you

236
00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,439
Speaker 3: could you could put over a number of these guys

237
00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,400
Speaker 3: on any given night. You know he's gonna be that guy.

238
00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,600
Speaker 3: We're the old guy. You may Mike. If you ever

239
00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:50,960
Speaker 3: hear the old old g'z, they go, what do you

240
00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,280
Speaker 3: know about Michael Thompson? Michael Thompson was one of those

241
00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,320
Speaker 3: names you talked about, not talking about Clay's dad, the

242
00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,679
Speaker 3: other Michael Thompson. Kawhi Leonard's gonna be one of those names.

243
00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:00,720
Speaker 3: Are you guys don't know about Kwhi Leonard?

244
00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,840
Speaker 1: Well, get folks to go back and the way back, right,

245
00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,800
Speaker 1: because that run in San Antonio is like another lifetime

246
00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:12,439
Speaker 1: ago at this point, right, he's lived several basketball lives since.

247
00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:17,000
Speaker 1: And the effort that they're putting up this year again

248
00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,079
Speaker 1: after the six and twenty one start absolutely absurd. Now

249
00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,040
Speaker 1: you mentioned the size of his hands. You know you

250
00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,520
Speaker 1: can do all those comparative things when they have those

251
00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,679
Speaker 1: all star kind of representations. Hey, put your hand, you know,

252
00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,760
Speaker 1: against their handprints, like you're out in front of Grahman's

253
00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,120
Speaker 1: Chinese Theater here in Hollywood, right, you can step in

254
00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:36,679
Speaker 1: the shoes of the greats. I gotta do that. It's

255
00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:39,640
Speaker 1: Oscar night. And for Kawhi, they have the thing with

256
00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:44,160
Speaker 1: the basketball. They're actually doing a bobblehead promotion on March

257
00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,640
Speaker 1: twenty fifth where they'll have a full size claw machine

258
00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,839
Speaker 1: in the pop Plaza. You can go and play in

259
00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,040
Speaker 1: the machine and try to win some prizes. But it's

260
00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,720
Speaker 1: literally a Kawhi claw machine bobblehead where one of his

261
00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,880
Speaker 1: hands is the giant claw that you would use to

262
00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:03,920
Speaker 1: go and extract prize. You don't like your and toy

263
00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,600
Speaker 1: story and the aliens and the claw that can see

264
00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:11,679
Speaker 1: I'm showing my age and the love of kids movies

265
00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,040
Speaker 1: with my girls, you know, all of that stuff. But

266
00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,840
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. You got the raptors and the clippers

267
00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,280
Speaker 1: for that game at the end to a dome. But yeah,

268
00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,920
Speaker 1: for Kawhi Leonard, it's and that does the hard good

269
00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,760
Speaker 1: for me though on the grand scale, Ryan, when we

270
00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:32,320
Speaker 1: talk about these teams that are still battling and competing

271
00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,400
Speaker 1: right now, that a lot of them are led by

272
00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:38,120
Speaker 1: guys in their mid thirties and beyond, so I don't

273
00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:39,000
Speaker 1: feel quite as old.

274
00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's it's a golden era a basketball.

275
00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:48,560
Speaker 3: I remember, Mike, there was a great time in the

276
00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:56,640
Speaker 3: NBA where you had young Tim Duncan, young Kobe, Young Garnet,

277
00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,720
Speaker 3: and then you know, you still had Carl Malone, Michael Jordan,

278
00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,520
Speaker 3: John Stockton, you had you kind of had a crossover

279
00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,080
Speaker 3: of those stars. And then you gotta think, like, Lebron's

280
00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,640
Speaker 3: been doing this deal for twenty years, so you know

281
00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,720
Speaker 3: you're now getting that other crossover of the Katie Lebron

282
00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,040
Speaker 3: Curry who were still playing at a really, really high level.

283
00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,240
Speaker 3: And then you get the Anthony Edwards, the Luka, donc

284
00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,720
Speaker 3: Chiz Janni sounds Aakoupo somewhere in the middle man. But

285
00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:31,800
Speaker 3: the NBA ends up having this crossover of talent. And

286
00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:35,040
Speaker 3: you know, it's funny with doing an NBA broadcast versus

287
00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,280
Speaker 3: like a college broadcast. I tried to explain to people.

288
00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,520
Speaker 3: They go, well, what's what's what's the difference when they're

289
00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,560
Speaker 3: getting the business. I say, well, when I'm doing college,

290
00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:45,720
Speaker 3: you know, those guys are there for four years. I

291
00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,480
Speaker 3: can't imagine now they're probably there for a season or two.

292
00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:52,200
Speaker 3: Two years out of university in the NIL era is

293
00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,360
Speaker 3: probably a long time where when you go to NBA,

294
00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,800
Speaker 3: we've seen the same Lebron James for twenty years. You

295
00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:00,400
Speaker 3: know you can break them down. You know what he's

296
00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,320
Speaker 3: gonna do. You've seen a number of games, you have

297
00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:07,360
Speaker 3: the history. But that's the difference, man. But it is

298
00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,840
Speaker 3: amazing de longevity and then the fact that these guys

299
00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,720
Speaker 3: are putting in so much work. We see Kevin every night,

300
00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,400
Speaker 3: and the thing about Kevin Durant is the way that

301
00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,000
Speaker 3: he works, Like he's pushing our young guys going like

302
00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,680
Speaker 3: I want to play eighty two games, Like you got

303
00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,240
Speaker 3: to force me to sit out, you got to force

304
00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:29,520
Speaker 3: me not to practice, Like I love basketball. It's go time.

305
00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,160
Speaker 3: But you know that effect that he's having on our

306
00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,680
Speaker 3: younger players who don't come from that generation play, you know,

307
00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,800
Speaker 3: things are different. You know, we'll be honest. So again, man,

308
00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:41,680
Speaker 3: it's been a breath of fresh air. But you know,

309
00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:43,720
Speaker 3: you get like you said, you get these old heads

310
00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:45,560
Speaker 3: and you got the young boys going at it at

311
00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,720
Speaker 3: the same time, and it makes us some good basketball.

312
00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, and lastly on Kevin Durant, one of my favorites

313
00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,120
Speaker 1: to watch and a medical marvel, a man who's had

314
00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:58,280
Speaker 1: the NBA career he has despite no discernible calves.

315
00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,480
Speaker 3: Man he is and you're funny. Man.

316
00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,960
Speaker 1: Come on, man, no hint a muscle on it, and

317
00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,400
Speaker 1: God bless them. Look, we got to continue. We got

318
00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,560
Speaker 1: the Lakers. We'll talk about something Lebron did last night

319
00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,679
Speaker 1: that I don't know and that anybody's ever seen them

320
00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,480
Speaker 1: do it before, the heroics of the rest of that squad,

321
00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,080
Speaker 1: and what they can do to maybe make some noise

322
00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,080
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But if you missed any of today's show,

323
00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,080
Speaker 1: catch the podcast. Search Fox Sports Radio right after we

324
00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,199
Speaker 1: get off the show. Shay and Chris, I'll have that

325
00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:27,919
Speaker 1: together and be sure to follow. Rate it, give it

326
00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,760
Speaker 1: five stars, provide the review again. Search Fox Sports Radio

327
00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,240
Speaker 1: wherever you can get your podcasts. You'll find today's show

328
00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,760
Speaker 1: posted right after we get off the air on Twitter

329
00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:40,000
Speaker 1: at the Ryan Hollins at Swollen Dome. If you're getting

330
00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:41,520
Speaker 1: ready to go out and about, take us with you

331
00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:42,680
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app.

332
00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:44,800
Speaker 2: Send it to friends and family. We appreciate it.

333
00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,200
Speaker 1: As we continue our quest for global domination coming up

334
00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,399
Speaker 1: next the West. How deep is it and what is

335
00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,359
Speaker 1: the Lakers role in all of it? We'll talk about

336
00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:54,200
Speaker 1: it next year on Fox.

337
00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,679
Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

338
00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,480
Speaker 4: the nation. Catch all of our shows sports radio dot

339
00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:06,080
Speaker 4: Com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live.

340
00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:09,240
Speaker 2: Steve Gott's here.

341
00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:13,520
Speaker 5: I have a podcast empire. It continues to grow, and

342
00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,400
Speaker 5: I have brought it here to iHeart. I'm also doing

343
00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,560
Speaker 5: a live radio show from three to five pm Eastern

344
00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,520
Speaker 5: because my wife wanted to kick me out of the house.

345
00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:25,240
Speaker 5: It's called Stegotson Company Live, which is available in podcast

346
00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:30,159
Speaker 5: form right when the show finishes every single day. Some

347
00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,400
Speaker 5: of the biggest names in sports, a lot of phone.

348
00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:34,440
Speaker 1: Calls, I love you guys a show.

349
00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:35,359
Speaker 3: It's one of my favorites.

350
00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,159
Speaker 5: A lot of interact sit guys not taking themselves too seriously.

351
00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,680
Speaker 5: Those are just some of the things that you can

352
00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:45,359
Speaker 5: expect from Stu Gottson Company and Stegotson Company Live. So

353
00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:49,840
Speaker 5: listen to Stu Gotson Company Live and our original podcast.

354
00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:54,280
Speaker 5: Please subscribe, rate and review Stu Gotson Company and God

355
00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,679
Speaker 5: Bless Football. Taylor's livelihood depends on it, you do it

356
00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,199
Speaker 5: today and you can check all of those out on

357
00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:05,119
Speaker 5: the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast for wherever you get your podcast.

358
00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome back ed Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Sunday,

359
00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,800
Speaker 1: Mike Carment, Ryan Hollins with you. We've got the IVY

360
00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,679
Speaker 1: League off and Pacy will get an update from our guy,

361
00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:21,840
Speaker 1: Isaac Lowenkron on the early goings here about midway through

362
00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:26,720
Speaker 1: the first four more championship games later and then bracketology,

363
00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,720
Speaker 1: a lot of talking. Miami, Ohio will touch on that

364
00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,560
Speaker 1: a little bit next hour. Dan Byer and Aaron Torres

365
00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,439
Speaker 1: on their show later on this afternoon, they will break

366
00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,879
Speaker 1: it all down, sauce toss all of those kinds of

367
00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,879
Speaker 1: things that we used to say, do you set up

368
00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,560
Speaker 1: the Hey, they're gonna break down the bracket, the good,

369
00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:45,359
Speaker 1: the bad, the ugly.

370
00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:46,400
Speaker 2: Who got left out?

371
00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:48,840
Speaker 1: If you got left out of a sixty eight turn

372
00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,280
Speaker 1: team field, that'll feel terribly bad for you. But you

373
00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,800
Speaker 1: know what, someone will feel hurt because well that's what

374
00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,960
Speaker 1: we take it as a slight and an insult. Not

375
00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:01,000
Speaker 1: here though a lot of positivity. We got the team together,

376
00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,200
Speaker 1: we got Chris and Shay the other side, we got

377
00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,199
Speaker 1: our boy Isaac Low and Kron with us, and we

378
00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,040
Speaker 1: got a full slate of action and we had a

379
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,719
Speaker 1: sixteen year old score in the Premier League. Ryan, did

380
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:19,520
Speaker 1: you see this? Sixteen years seventy three days. Absolutely insane.

381
00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,440
Speaker 1: As you're in the final minute, right, you're an extra time,

382
00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:27,160
Speaker 1: they bring the goalie up as there's a corner kick

383
00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,600
Speaker 1: coming in, they get it out and then the sixteen

384
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,000
Speaker 1: year old dribbles it, deeks a couple of defenders and

385
00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,560
Speaker 1: scores the goal. So I mean, I think back to

386
00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,600
Speaker 1: sixteen year old self and boy, if I could be

387
00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,920
Speaker 1: a top notch guy in the Premier League, what a life?

388
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:47,240
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, there's set in money wise. Yeah, if

389
00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,080
Speaker 3: I had to choose, you know, me and God had

390
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 3: a conversation before I was born, you know it would

391
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,359
Speaker 3: have been soccer. Then the money's a whole lot different. Okay,

392
00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:00,600
Speaker 3: we understand even in basketball we can't compare. But you know,

393
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:05,159
Speaker 3: at sixty, man, sometimes you just have these phenoms that

394
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 3: can make those plays. And it's funny you talked about

395
00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 3: Luka Doncetz earlier. We're gonna talk about him coming up.

396
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 3: Like people don't realize he was fifteen, sixteen years old

397
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 3: and he had been this good for a very long time.

398
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,439
Speaker 3: These were the plays that he was making, and a

399
00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 3: lot of people didn't understand playing for Real Madrid like

400
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,479
Speaker 3: what it was. You know, the respect wasn't there from

401
00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 3: an NBA standard, But for Luka Donchets at his age

402
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 3: to be making those plays and you talk about a

403
00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,119
Speaker 3: sixteen year old, you know, scoring in the Premier League

404
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 3: like that's kind of the equivalent of what Donchez was doing.

405
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,239
Speaker 3: A lot of people didn't you know, didn't get it.

406
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,200
Speaker 3: So he's off to ethan man that is that is

407
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,639
Speaker 3: it's like a monster. Like what does he go back

408
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,720
Speaker 3: to school or class and say or if at all

409
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,320
Speaker 3: does he need school anymore? You know, of course he does.

410
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,840
Speaker 3: But look that's phenomenal.

411
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, Max Domain with the goal sixteen year, seventy three days.

412
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:07,000
Speaker 1: Talk about Luca Dodgs playing overseas. Right in individual sports,

413
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,040
Speaker 1: we've had that all fine and good. When did you

414
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 1: know that you were going to be able to start

415
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,440
Speaker 1: pushing the envelope? George a collegiate career and then a

416
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 1: ten year year career in the NBA.

417
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 3: Well, gosh, as far as college, when was there a moment?

418
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,919
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a goal but I will say

419
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 3: the NBA was always a goal. But I will say,

420
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,119
Speaker 3: like the moment I knew I was good enough to

421
00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 3: play in the NBA, there were runs that used to

422
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:38,960
Speaker 3: be at UCLA at the winning center, winded Center was

423
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 3: getting fixed. They were down at gosh, what is that

424
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 3: that high school? It was at one of the local

425
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:48,080
Speaker 3: high schools. Forgive me, I'm getting old. I forget the

426
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:53,160
Speaker 3: high school. But you had Baron Davis, Paul Pearce, Sean Marion,

427
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 3: Joe Johnson. You had all these like like NBA players

428
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,760
Speaker 3: in there. And I remember I just rose up. One

429
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 3: of my teammates at the time, Brian Morrison, threw me

430
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 3: alive and like I dunked over a few guys, and

431
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 3: I remember going like, Okay, I think I could play

432
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 3: in the NBA. So that's the moment I called my

433
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 3: mom afterwards, A think I think I could go to

434
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 3: the v A.

435
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 1: What was Mom's reaction. She was like, oh, really, you

436
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 1: got a test Wednesday, get back to books.

437
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 3: I think you can go to me. And she said,

438
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 3: oh really, She's okay, well I guess I believe I

439
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 3: guess I believe you. And then later on she's like, yeah,

440
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 3: you did say you'd do it.

441
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 1: Well, and then there you are for a decade now

442
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: covering the league and joining us here on a Fox

443
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: Sports Sunday. But yeah, it's always that fascinating. I hit

444
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 1: the rewind button. When did you know you wanted to

445
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 1: do X, y Z. Whatever the the path and life

446
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 1: people take, and certainly for athletes that opportunity, you know,

447
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 1: maybe a growth spurt early in domination. Maybe it's the

448
00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,199
Speaker 1: slow growth what's curious. And we were talking about up

449
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: the draft and and coming up this year and how

450
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 1: interesting it'll be with all the one ones and dons,

451
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: and then I see the sixteen year.

452
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,439
Speaker 2: Old'm like, could we should?

453
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: We always wondered if if someone wanted to take a shot, Hey,

454
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: this guy's developing, and even if he's not ready for

455
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,879
Speaker 1: year one, well we kind of red shirt him to

456
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: a degree, but he's in our system. Wondering if that

457
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:23,120
Speaker 1: day ever comes.

458
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 3: Man, I think the NBA and it's probably based on

459
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 3: player like and I think about this as far as

460
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,920
Speaker 3: you know, like a younger player playing and when they're

461
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 3: ready or when they're not ready. Let me ask you this, Mike,

462
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 3: can you imagine Lebron James or Kobe Bryant going to college. No,

463
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 3: like like like as much as we want to wrap

464
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,360
Speaker 3: our minds, and it would have been Lebron at Ohio

465
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 3: State unless things change, and Kobe Bryant at Duke. But

466
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,719
Speaker 3: like like and had I had to sit back myself

467
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 3: and really wrap my mind around, like can I imagine that?

468
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 3: And I don't. I don't think that I could. Now. Obviously,

469
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,880
Speaker 3: you have some guys go g League, some guys go overseas,

470
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 3: now you know they do that. And I wonder in

471
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 3: Wimby if you think about it, he was already an

472
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,920
Speaker 3: international player, so he just kind of came over when

473
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 3: it was time. But if we have the next American

474
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 3: born player that's coming up through the rankings, will that

475
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 3: player be dominant enough to change the age rule? And

476
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 3: my understanding was why it was changed. As we dive in,

477
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 3: it's just imagine this, Mike. They said the NBA gms

478
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 3: got and tired of going and scouting AU in high

479
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,400
Speaker 3: school tournaments. Do they have a case? Are they wrong?

480
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 3: Or is that strong enough itself? That's part of it, yeah, No,

481
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 3: that was a big part of it.

482
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: The other part was the number of times that they

483
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 1: took the idea that this guy's going to be a

484
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: beast at the next level and guessed wrong.

485
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,959
Speaker 2: So they also were protecting themselves.

486
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 3: M yeah, I gotta give you that too, Right, A

487
00:25:59,359 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 3: lot of.

488
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: Those guys that were coming in that either hadn't played

489
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: that meant maybe they weren't the hardest workers just all around.

490
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 2: Right.

491
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: So, and we always wonder when someone gets the bag,

492
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: because if you're coming out, generally it's because someone's convinced

493
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: you you're a top pick. Yes, so once all of

494
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: a sudden, I got a giant bag, and in the NBA,

495
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: it's guaranteed.

496
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,439
Speaker 2: As that guy's still gonna keep working.

497
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. Even in terms of the G League,

498
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 3: there's there's the two A players added on I think

499
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 3: you get you get like three of those. You have

500
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 3: the G League, they make more money now you have overseas,

501
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 3: you have more leagues of play in. And it looks

502
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 3: like college is getting a lot more lenient in the

503
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 3: sense of understanding, like, uh, there's that they got to

504
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 3: make money. They have to have something entertaining, you know,

505
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 3: you know, the kids just weren't coming to school anymore.

506
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 3: It's not the same like like I would have like

507
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 3: it was a dream not just an NBA but like

508
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 3: to go play at UCLA or play Big t I'm

509
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 3: college basketball, you know it. This new generation of kids,

510
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 3: they don't feel the same. So I think that the

511
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 3: challenge was, you know, how do you make college more

512
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 3: enticing or allowing these kids to come back? But I

513
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 3: think maybe we are getting into a space I don't

514
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 3: know how you feel, Mike, where you can have these

515
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 3: collegiate players go out and make some money, you know,

516
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 3: playing in college, or let's say they put their name

517
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 3: in the draft it doesn't work out. I think there's

518
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 3: other avenues where they play where they're not so much

519
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 3: you know, ruining their lives or there's just nothing there.

520
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 3: Or from a development standpoint, things are changing. So like

521
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 3: when I was coming out, like like there wasn't like

522
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 3: NBA development. It was like you got it or you don't.

523
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 3: And you had guys consistently playing sixteen seventeen year career.

524
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 3: So you know, as a young guy like you just

525
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 3: didn't get opportunity and a big reason was for that,

526
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,199
Speaker 3: And let's educate right here. The NBA salary cap was different,

527
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 3: so I mean you had a veteran, a guy who

528
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 3: was an NBA veteran, his contract didn't count against the books,

529
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 3: against the salary cap, So you were incentivized to keep

530
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,199
Speaker 3: older players on your roster. Now you're incentivized with the

531
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,719
Speaker 3: two way contracts to get younger and keep younger players

532
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 3: on your roster, which helps out because you get more

533
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 3: looks at which player could be the next best thing.

534
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 3: Now you lose the veterans and the maturity in the

535
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 3: locker room, but you're not incentivized to keep the older

536
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 3: players the same way that you were in the past.

537
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 3: So I think there's a number of challenges that step

538
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 3: into the rules of saying, hey, if there's a player

539
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 3: Mike that that's dynamic, is he going to be worth

540
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 3: a rule change or give an opportunity for him to play.

541
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

542
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: And when you talk about the collegiate side, I mean,

543
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 1: certainly football we have the eye popping numbers that people

544
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: have resonated and put forth all the way through media NBIR.

545
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: For the college bucket side of it, I don't think

546
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: we get as much of hey, this player made X.

547
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: The only guy we really did that with was Cooper

548
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: Flagg a year ago. But I just think back to

549
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: the you know, national title chase for college football this year,

550
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: and you know, being asked, hey, what'd you do for classes?

551
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: And then you know your quarterback says, I haven't been

552
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: in class in two years. Right, So I mean there's

553
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: a little bit. The term we love is the mastardization

554
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: of things of you know, what is you know, college

555
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: sports at this point. But you know, as you said,

556
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: you can make some money, set yourself up a little bit,

557
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: and we remember we always have the battles within the

558
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: battles of the cbas right. You know, on the football side,

559
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: you used to be the number one pick. You got

560
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: that giant, novelty, novelty sized check like you just won

561
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: on a game show, and you had a bunch of

562
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: veterans going, I'm a ten year guy and I'm barely

563
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: grinding on, right, So you had a bit of a

564
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: shift as to the slotting and everything that went on

565
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: in terms of the draft for the NBA a little

566
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: bit the same in terms of the luxury tax and

567
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: how you know those are redjudicated, but the development of

568
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: these other certainly, you know, the death knell isn't hey,

569
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: I didn't get picked in the first round, right, because

570
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: outside of the first round, for those unaware, you don't

571
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: get any guaranteed money unless you're Brownie James.

572
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 6: You know what you know?

573
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 3: Side note, you know it's funny the little context. So

574
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 3: before the before the games, I get my notes and

575
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 3: I like to just kind of go over my notes.

576
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 3: So we have some fun we have, like like we

577
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 3: play some trivia, and you know, I was the fiftieth

578
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 3: pick in the NBA draft, played ten years and like

579
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 3: I look back and I look at all we look

580
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 3: at all these rosters and I'll go, hey, this guy

581
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 3: is the first round pick. And it's like it's so

582
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 3: rare now that you even see teams with second round

583
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 3: picks on their team. All these guys are first round picks,

584
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 3: and I just think how how rare it is, even

585
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 3: like you just mentioned, just to be in the NBA,

586
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 3: like it's it's darn near impossible.

587
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: Well, that's why we're going to celebrate one of the undrafted.

588
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: You mentioned Luca on one end. Now this teammate of

589
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: the Lakers are different. No, no, no, we'll do Lebron

590
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: with with the different. But let's go to Isaac Low

591
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: and Crown. Now get an update of everything that's trending

592
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: in our sporting universe.

593
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 7: What's up by Low, Hey, thank you, Mike, we meet again, Holand.

594
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 2: Hey Holline.

595
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 7: We could have used you and Michael Frank yesterday against Perdue.

596
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 7: We were minus eleven on the board. Anyway, Elsewhere at

597
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 7: college basketball, we've got the IVY League Tournament championship game

598
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 7: going on right now, and Penn has just gone up

599
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 7: thirty four to thirty over one seed Yale. They have

600
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 7: three minutes and forty four seconds left to play in

601
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 7: the first half. On Saturday Night, Number one Duke what

602
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 7: It's second straight ACCED Tournament, beating tenth rank Virginia seventy

603
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 7: four to seventy. Number two Arizona won the Big Twelfth

604
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 7: Tournament over fifth ranked Houston seventy nine to seventy four.

605
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 7: California Baptist going to the NCAA Tournament for the first

606
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 7: time ever. They won the Whack championship game over Utah

607
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 7: Valley sixty three sixty one. Hawaii won the Big West

608
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,719
Speaker 7: over UC Irvine seventy one sixty four. NBA Saturday Night

609
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 7: Lakers over Denver in overtime one twenty seven one twenty five,

610
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 7: Luka Doncic to the game winning jumper with point five

611
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 7: to play. Finally, Mike and Ryan. In the quarterfinals of

612
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 7: the World Baseball Classic on Saturday night, Venezuela eliminated defending

613
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 7: champion Japan eight to five.

614
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 2: Here is how will your abra us go ahead?

615
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 7: Three run home run for Venezuela sounded in Spanish on

616
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 7: Fox Deportes.

617
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 8: Hardnecho except way sin despellia, seguilla Velo, Pramo, Cartres, Carrera,

618
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 8: tanto la vintaja. I'ven isuela cette Carrera, Sasenko.

619
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 7: Thing Jack abayo, Yeah, come io back to you guys.

620
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: You know Ryan Ilo was mouthing along that entire call,

621
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: and he threw a pen in the air as high

622
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: to bring you through his back estimated.

623
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.

624
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: He was so jacked up about it, no question about

625
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: it now looking at the history of fiftieth picks, but

626
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: thank you Ilo. We'll hear if you again as we

627
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,479
Speaker 1: roll through. And not a lot of guys with playing

628
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: time in coming out of those fifty picks. I think

629
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: Niang is the one guy that stands out in the years.

630
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 3: Hence how many, how many how many fiftieth picks got

631
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 3: ten years? I'm interested, man, I gotta final, I gotta

632
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 3: find some angle for myself.

633
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 2: Right, No, that's good.

634
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,479
Speaker 1: I like that you become one of the things as

635
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: you get introduced. Well, we'll do the research on that

636
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: and see if we can find that answer. I'm also

637
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: thinking back. I've been sorting some trading cards and I

638
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: have my little personal box guys i've had the opportunity

639
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: to work with. I found one of your rookie cards.

640
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: As you're standing there looking half between smolder like your

641
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: Flynn Ryder entangled. There you go, all you people with

642
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: your your kids going through your princess movies or trying

643
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: to say I'm gonna kick your butt. I'm not quite

644
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: sure what the look is, but it's the folded arms

645
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: and kind of looking ahead, sir.

646
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 3: I think I know it's exactly what you're talking about too.

647
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: No, I'll send it to you when when I get

648
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: home later and see if we confirm that.

649
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 2: All right, we'll talk about the Lakers.

650
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, heroics, Lebron diving on the floor, all of

651
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: this and chaos setting up for Luka Doncicz the Lakers.

652
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 2: How dangerous are they? We'll talk about it next year

653
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 2: on Fox.

654
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 6: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

655
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: Welcome back in Fox Sports Radios. Fox Sports Sunday by

656
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: Carbon Ryan Hollins with you here, ten year vet UCLA

657
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 1: working with the Houston Rockets broadcasts, and our teammate, long

658
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: time NBA analyst with us here at Fox Sports Radio

659
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: at the Ryan Hollins where you find him on Twitter.

660
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: I'm about to post the picture of the trading card

661
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: I spoke of earlier. Ryan knew exactly what it was

662
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: and I think I had him falling out of his

663
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: chair what he saw. And I'll post that up at

664
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,959
Speaker 1: Swollen Dome here in a moment. Hey, with the iHeartRadio app,

665
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 1: stream us wherever you happen to be catch all us

666
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: all of our Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty four

667
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: to seven. So the new and improved Ieheart Radio app.

668
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: Search Fox Sports Radio in the app to stream us

669
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 1: live all day every day. Send it to friends and family.

670
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,240
Speaker 1: It's the best free gift you can give the sound

671
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: of our voices and all of the content you find

672
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio App. Be sure to select Fox Sports

673
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: Radio as one of your presets like you would on

674
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: the radio dial of your car, and it'll always pop

675
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: up at the top of your screen. So we're talking

676
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 1: about the Western conferences. We've gotten things rolling this morning, Ryan,

677
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: and Well, a big win for the Lakers last night,

678
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: led by one of the heady plays of a rising star.

679
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 9: Reads puts it up play for Breads.

680
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: NBA on NBC. You get Mike Breen on the call

681
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: on ABC. Yeah, as we talk about the the big

682
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: Saturday night affair, and well that's that's part, that's the preamble.

683
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: We got overtime, we got free basketball, and then we

684
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: get this.

685
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 6: Reeves to stcher chones on him.

686
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 3: Here's the double dotchach.

687
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 2: On the drive, step back, what's.

688
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 3: It up.

689
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 9: On the seconds by two?

690
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: There you go again, ABC on the call, and you

691
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: hear the crowd losing their mind. One, twenty seven, twenty five,

692
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 1: your final the Reeves play. You can practice that a million, uh,

693
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:46,240
Speaker 1: in one times, Ryan Hollins, to get that proper return

694
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: off of the rim, well that's not happening, uh. But

695
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: you get the opportunity for the make and then eventually

696
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: Luca seals it. He had twenty. He finished with thirty

697
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: on the night, Reeves with thirty two. Lebron James finished

698
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: with seven. Dean and Rugburn after diving on the court

699
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: something j Jit Reddick and many others laugh going. We've

700
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: watched you for a long damn time, and I got

701
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: to think people are going through the archives to the

702
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: today to see if he's really ever done that before.

703
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,399
Speaker 3: Man, Man, I gotta think about it. I mean, young

704
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 3: Lebron was a much better defender. He played the passing

705
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:26,479
Speaker 3: lanes a lot. But going vertical for a ball, man,

706
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 3: I think it's a great sign for LA. Man, he's

707
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 3: locked in. And I think me and Lebron are the

708
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 3: same age are pretty darn close. And the problem is

709
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 3: not running. The problem's not jumping. The problem is stopping.

710
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 3: And when you dive out for a ball, the problem

711
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 3: is getting back up off the floor. So kudos to Lebron.

712
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 3: But you know, it shows how serious that he that

713
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 3: he's taking it, you know, and I know he's been

714
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 3: under He and Luke have been under a lot of

715
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 3: scrutiny for their defense in their husholds, So plays like

716
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 3: that LA definitely needs them.

717
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 1: Well, you always gotta have one in your back pocket. Everyone,

718
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: I laid out for that ball against the Nuggets. Yes, everybody,

719
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: shut up. He gave the fan of the game. And

720
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 1: you know a fan that was on the Jumbo trond

721
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: little kid losing his mind, you know, saying that was

722
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: inspiration for the victory. But for the Lakers, you know,

723
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: at forty two and twenty five, we've watched it night in,

724
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: night out again, Jason Smith and I during the week,

725
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: we watched all of these games in our window, and

726
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: the defensive.

727
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 2: Effort is there.

728
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 1: I laugh because I got Jason sitting next to me,

729
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: So I just keep yelling nixx yo when it comes

730
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: to defensive effort on a consistent basis. But it's the

731
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: the old fear of all right, here's a big win

732
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: against Denver, and over the last couple of weeks, they

733
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: beat the Knicks in a home date, you know, in

734
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: the early window a week ago, and they've had a

735
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,439
Speaker 1: couple other wins, but overall, the forty two wins goes

736
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,399
Speaker 1: back to what we started the hour with that you've

737
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: got that divide in the league between the good, the bad,

738
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: and the I really hope we get enough ping pong

739
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,760
Speaker 1: balls for the number one spot. And for the Lakers,

740
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: they've beaten a lot of teams in those final categories.

741
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: But as we get ready for this final month of

742
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: the regular season, to see them stack a couple of

743
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: big wins to gut this one out, and Lebron's gonna

744
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: be polarizing. I mean, you can't be in the published

745
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:23,919
Speaker 1: consciousness for this long without your level of lovers and detractors.

746
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: But this level of effort against the Nuggets team that's

747
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,760
Speaker 1: finally getting healthy, pretty huge win for JJ Redicking company.

748
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 3: It's a monster win and Denver's good. You know, I'm

749
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 3: not sure Peyton Watson played, but other than that, theyre'

750
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 3: as healthy as they've been all season long. To call

751
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 3: it yolkis is still unbelievable. So hats off to the

752
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 3: Lakers for owning Denver. They got Denver's numbers somehow, and

753
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 3: again it's a monster win. Even more so, you know,

754
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 3: Mike earlier in the show, what we talked about the

755
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 3: teams Houston, Denver, Minnesota. I think Phoenix is somewhere knocking

756
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 3: on the door. So all these game games and this

757
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 3: is the goal. Is everybody complained about tanking like you're

758
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 3: kind of getting early playoff previews. It's like many playoffs

759
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 3: that you're getting already. So they swept the series. I

760
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 3: am impressed.

761
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: Still waiting to see Watson back, hasn't played in a

762
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: while here, but otherwise, getting Aaron Gordon back, Look, the

763
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: tournament's going to be fun to watch. It's just a

764
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: question of the Lakers are winning these these ISO experiments

765
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: against Denver, but will they be felled as they have

766
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: been in the past when they've gone to series mode.

767
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: That's the curiosity, right what flips in that next run?

768
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,479
Speaker 1: And for the Lakers, they're operating with zero depth right now.

769
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: They scored one hundred and forty two against the Bulls

770
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: the other night. They had five bench points in the

771
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: one twentive win. Last night they had eighteen. So a

772
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: lot on those starting five at the Ryan Hollins where

773
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: you find them on Twitter, catch them on all the

774
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets broadcasts. But coming up as we continue here,

775
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: I find me over at Swallowdome. My just posted a

776
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: picture of that sweet card. We talk about the quest

777
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: for eighty three in the markets it's created.

778
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 6: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio Green Eggs.

779
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,720
Speaker 1: Welcome in an hour two of the program, fast paced,

780
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: cruising along here on a beautiful Fox Sports Sunday.

781
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 2: Couple of games.

782
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 3: Still the role in the.

783
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: College world, settling the conference championships, the IVY League, offen

784
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: pacing Big Ten, wrapping up and then we'll get into

785
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: the selection Sunday Show. Dan Byer Aaron Torres will have

786
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,280
Speaker 1: that for you as the brackets are revealed and break

787
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: down some of those paths that roll through. We'll get

788
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: into one the curiosity of a schedule and whether it

789
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,919
Speaker 1: can come back to bite you in a moment as

790
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 1: we roll in on Mike Harmon seven to eleven weeknights

791
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:50,240
Speaker 1: here Fox Sports Radio alongside Jason Smith with me this Sunday,

792
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 1: my guy, Ryan Hollins at the Ryan Hollins ten years

793
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: in the National Basketball Association works for the Houston Rockets.

794
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: Went to ucla Arden supporter of Mick Cronin and his

795
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: ability to throw his own players out of games.

796
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 2: I get what's going on.

797
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 3: It's that where we're going hard.

798
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, look make it. Mackay deserved a

799
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: little dry mind for that one. But uh, you know

800
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 1: U c l A. Bruin has been an interesting season,

801
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: but they're dangerous day just but they lost a big

802
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: player in the Big Ten tournament UH to injury, which

803
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: may upset their fortunes. But Mick gives us a lot

804
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 1: of content. Ryan, So you know your alma mater UH

805
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,879
Speaker 1: is certainly a gift to us in the evenings here

806
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: on Fox.

807
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,919
Speaker 3: Uh. Here's my thing. Did Mick make a mistake? Yeah,

808
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 3: he came out and apologized. That was big of him.

809
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 3: I didn't think he'd do that, but he apologized. And

810
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,280
Speaker 3: you know, my thing is Mick is made for March.

811
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 3: His coaching ain't everybody's cup of tea?

812
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 4: Is it?

813
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 8: In?

814
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 3: Uh? For for you know, the regular the regular season,

815
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 3: but in March, when it's winning time, mixed teams, they

816
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 3: play their best and because it's it's a game of toughness,

817
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,879
Speaker 3: the excuses go out the window, and the camaraderie is there.

818
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 3: So I fully expect UCLA to be in the tournament

819
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,479
Speaker 3: where they land, I'm not sure, but I think they've

820
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 3: proven beyond a shadow of doubt. And this is a

821
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 3: large reason why you go over to the Big ten,

822
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 3: because now you have a chance to get some national wins.

823
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 3: You get a chance to get that RPI up by

824
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 3: getting monster wins against Illinois, making noise it now. And

825
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 3: when you get those wins and later on to the

826
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 3: tournament committee, you get a chance to be in the

827
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,720
Speaker 3: tournament where if the strut, the schedule, or the conference

828
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 3: wasn't that strong, you're not gonna get the same respect

829
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 3: for those wins. So hats off to UCLA that definitely

830
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 3: deserve to be a tournament team. Mick Cronin has has

831
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 3: shown his worth and it's always fun to see UCLA streaking.

832
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 3: It's a great national story. Team. Teams and everybody get

833
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,280
Speaker 3: behind the Bruins and we've seen.

834
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 2: It well, it would be fun. You know.

835
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: He's one of those guys that always gives us a

836
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 1: good quote and then you have to decide which side

837
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: of the fence you stand on. Some of his comments

838
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: when he starts complaining about travel, it's like, you, guys,

839
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: your school chose to go to.

840
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 2: The Big Ten. You didn't, You didn't have to.

841
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: You can also quit and leave that money on the

842
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,760
Speaker 1: table and go somewhere else. But here they are ready

843
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: to roll and we'll get the full bracketology later on

844
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: and all of the ins and outs and chaos. Who

845
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: got some rumors of some college coaching hires in the offing,

846
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 1: but one of the games from yesterday, I want to

847
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: bring this in, you know, as a big man working

848
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: around the low post, not necessarily hanging out at the

849
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: three point line like a lot of these guys do. Now, Ryan,

850
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: we talk about a different age of basketball. But we

851
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: had the California Baptist Lancers and the Utah Valley Wolverines.

852
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: And here's how this game came to an end.

853
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 4: Running to his left screen by Davis Linhardt driving to

854
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 4: the goal of floater short.

855
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,359
Speaker 7: Davis tap best to put back dog.

856
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 3: Lancers have it. The Lancers are.

857
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:58,919
Speaker 6: The Western Athletic Conference champions. You almost can't believe it.

858
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,760
Speaker 8: Isaac Day was wide open and he missed the dunk,

859
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 8: and the lanswers are celebrating.

860
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, he rolled to the bucket and missed the dunk.

861
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: Ryan Isaac Davis five or fourteen from the field, twelve points.

862
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: But the guy executed the move perfectly. Davis rolled to

863
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: the basket perfectly and then couldn't get the flush. Any

864
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: big memories of a flush maybe you didn't make or

865
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 1: one that got put on you.

866
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 3: I'll tell you one thing pressured us. Two things that

867
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 3: either burst pipes or it creates diamonds. My first year,

868
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 3: we sent records at UCLA for losses. Second year we

869
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 3: lost in the I think like the conference tournament. We

870
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 3: would have had to win out to have a chance.

871
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 3: Third year, we made the tournament, lost in the first round.

872
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 3: Senior year, we went to the championship. Now, for myself,

873
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 3: I didn't play a major part in those losses, but

874
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,240
Speaker 3: I made sure that when we went on a run,

875
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:02,240
Speaker 3: I was a part of those wins. You remember moments

876
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,240
Speaker 3: like that and they just stick with you like forever,

877
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 3: and then you got to sit with them and think

878
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 3: about it. So you hate to see someone that you

879
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 3: made a mistake like that. But those big games and

880
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 3: why we love March so much, It just comes down

881
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 3: to nerves. It comes down to who's ready, and you

882
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 3: get battle tester through your conference tournament. You get battle

883
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 3: tester through the end of conference play, and it's stuff

884
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 3: because unlike the NBA college you play about, I think

885
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 3: these guys played normally play about two games a week,

886
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 3: so you know everything your opponent is gonna do. When

887
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 3: you beat a guy beat a team in conference twice,

888
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 3: they know what you're doing. You know what they're doing,

889
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 3: you know the roster, they know your moves, they know

890
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 3: everything about you. So these James just end up being special.

891
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 3: And there's something about as a young athlete, as your

892
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 3: college career come down to an end and you're like

893
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 3: this is it? Like you're like this is my last game.

894
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 3: The memories on campus coming in the work you put

895
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 3: in the way room, all the like, like you're like,

896
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 3: this is it. So you're seeing these guys play for

897
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 3: their lives and you know it's funny. I was just

898
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 3: wondering this the other day and I'm like, from a

899
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 3: scientific aspect, what is it coming to play for some people?

900
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 3: And you see it so much in March, Like what

901
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 3: does the brain do in this fight or flight mode

902
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 3: where you see and we're seeing a lot of them,

903
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 3: Mike you talked about earlier. We're seeing a lot of

904
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 3: them where you see people hitting these buzzer beater shots

905
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 3: and like what like like how hard is that? And

906
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,240
Speaker 3: you have certain guys you can tell the way they're dribbling,

907
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 3: the way the ball left their hand, their energy, but

908
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 3: you're like that SHOT's going in. If he gets a

909
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 3: look at a three, the three is going in. So

910
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 3: it's it's a it's a really cool unique time that

911
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 3: is it's it's authentic to the NCAA tournament. It's authentic

912
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 3: to March that you cannot replicate and you can't see

913
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 3: it anywhere, but it's something about, uh, you got to

914
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 3: cheer for someone playing with their with their life on

915
00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 3: the line in anything any and we get to see

916
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 3: it in the game of basketball.

917
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

918
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 1: I always marvel, right, just the ability to slow things

919
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: down and depending on the job that you have, you

920
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: have those pressure moments right where things come together or

921
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: like for us, like a much different animal here working

922
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: on radio, trying to break down subjects. But every once

923
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: in a while there's just that convergence of circumstance and story.

924
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 2: You've got to take it.

925
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,359
Speaker 1: It's like, how do we make it accessible and make

926
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: it make sense? So you have that your personal lives,

927
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: whatever else, But like that ability to just drown out

928
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: all the noise right. Cinematically, it was done probably best

929
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,760
Speaker 1: in the movie For Love of the Game, Kevin Costner,

930
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: the aging pitcher and and he's throwing a perfect game.

931
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: It's narrated by Vin Scully. So baseball fans, if you

932
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: haven't seen that one, go back in the way back.

933
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,720
Speaker 1: John c Riley is his catcher for the Detroit Tigers.

934
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: But he had this whole thing of clearing the mechanism. Right,

935
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 1: there's the fans cheering, there's everybody chattering, guys razing them

936
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:02,280
Speaker 1: mouth the bass path, you know, you know, all all around,

937
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 1: right that the first base coach is yelling at him

938
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 1: from over there and you're getting into his wind up

939
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: and the next pitch of all right, that's it. Clear

940
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: the mechanism and isolating, and I got to imagine everybody's

941
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: got their version of that, and we're watching it on

942
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 1: displaying these big moments like we did the other night

943
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 1: when bam Adebayo went for his eighty three point game

944
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: against the Washington Wizards. And I'll be honest with you, Ryan,

945
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,399
Speaker 1: as Smith and I were watching it live, I held

946
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: two thoughts and they ran parallel to each other, like,

947
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 1: this is pretty cool that a guy's getting to run

948
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: to this point, right, This is we don't see it.

949
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 1: Oftentimes guys will have a good first three quarters and

950
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: if they're with teams winning in a blowout, they sit down.

951
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: The Miami Heat are a playoff viable squad. Maybe not

952
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: the sexiest pick, maybe not a front running squad, but

953
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: if healthy, Like once we get into the second season,

954
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 1: chaos happens, we see it. And bam Adebayowa a long

955
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 1: celebrated player for his defense and you know, just all

956
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: round work, but certainly not known as a score. So

957
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: twenty point scorer on his career, and here he is

958
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,839
Speaker 1: after thirty one in the first and rising through that

959
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: as Smith and I are watching it and we're looking

960
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: at each other, and you know, he's starting to get

961
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: pumped up, and I'm looking at it, going, this is fun.

962
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens in the fourth. And then it

963
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: stopped resembling the free flow of what we want esthetically

964
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,839
Speaker 1: in a basketball game, and for a lot of box

965
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: score readers immediately went to the forty three foll attempts.

966
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 1: It's not that he had forty three follo attempts, it's

967
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 1: kind of how we got to that number. And watching

968
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:42,439
Speaker 1: it live, it was the in the moment of is

969
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: it not that it didn't feel right, It's like it

970
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: just wasn't It tempered some of my excitement and enthusiasm

971
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 1: for the register going up right for folks that were

972
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 1: just getting the update on their phones, like, hey, you

973
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: scored again. Cool, and they're kind of paying attention but

974
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: watching it as it bogged down, and with the different

975
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: strategies of following, you're extending a game a little bit differently.

976
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,360
Speaker 1: Normally we put guys to the foul line because we

977
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: think we can still come down, hit a three, get

978
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:10,479
Speaker 1: a steal, and make a bucket to win the game.

979
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,240
Speaker 1: In this case, it just began a prolonged effort.

980
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 2: There. I don't hate it.

981
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: Man, Look again, if you're gonna play, it's kind of

982
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 1: like all year it's complaining about tanking and then questioning

983
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: why Jason Tatum's trying to fight back to play and

984
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: should he coming off that injury, Like no, no, no.

985
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 2: Guy wants to play basketball. Guy wants to score.

986
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:32,399
Speaker 3: I'm in fact, yeah, yeah, Here my two thoughts, and

987
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 3: we've been kind of building up to this. First and foremost,

988
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 3: my major problem comes from the Washington Wizards. And we

989
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 3: talked earlier about how do you get rid of tanking?

990
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 3: To me, this is how you get rid of tanking.

991
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 3: When you see these teams on your roster, on your

992
00:51:54,880 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 3: schedule and you have a chance do what the heat did,

993
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 3: blow them out the water. And I'm sure there is irritation.

994
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 3: I'm sure there is frustration. I'm sure now there's probably

995
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 3: some bad blood with Miami. If you're Washington, we man,

996
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 3: you left them in the game. You didn't have to

997
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 3: do it. Yes, stop tanking, Yes I did. Now I'm

998
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 3: gonna give you context into the eighty three. If we

999
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 3: remember earlier in the season, the challenge was tanking, right

1000
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:28,959
Speaker 3: and the Miami Heat, who they lose to. They lost

1001
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 3: to the Utah Jazz, who were supposed to be a

1002
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 3: tanking team, right right right make and that was a

1003
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 3: big embarrassing thing. So Spoe goes before the game pulls

1004
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:42,839
Speaker 3: Bam in that office at Bam, let it rip, no excuses.

1005
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 3: Don't play down here, and look, my rockets are guilty

1006
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 3: of it two playing down we lost. The guys lost

1007
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 3: to Utah also, okay, and and and go out and

1008
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 3: compete because they're trying to get contracts. These guys are

1009
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 3: These guys are playing hard. You know they're not quitting

1010
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 3: on the other sid And I don't care who it is.

1011
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 3: You get to a close game, anything can happen, and

1012
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 3: you just don't have the swagger and the juju going

1013
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:12,399
Speaker 3: on that day, right, So the frustration goes Washington. Put

1014
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 3: your guys out there, Washington, give a credible team and

1015
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 3: stop throwing these games, and you won't get eighty three

1016
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 3: hung on your head now. Relationship, I know, Bam out

1017
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 3: of bio. This isn't a surprise. Juwan Howard years ago

1018
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 3: when he first got there. Hassan Whiteside got the Monster contract.

1019
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 3: It was his team and he goes, yeah, but Bam

1020
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 3: out of Bias. Are you sure about him? He said,

1021
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 3: Bam out of Baio's the guy. Juwan Howard let me

1022
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 3: know how great Bam out of Bayo was and we

1023
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 3: saw it on display, and he's the heart and soul.

1024
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 3: This guy is so selfless, he said, screens, he rolles

1025
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 3: the room, he does whatever, spoll in the heat and

1026
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 3: roles and those guys asking him so, I couldn't be happier.

1027
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 3: And I think it should be a roll of thumb, Mike.

1028
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 3: I want to know how you feel about this. If

1029
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 3: a players hot and so you mentioned he was hot

1030
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 3: and he was rolling, and he gets there, let him

1031
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 3: go for it, let him go for it, Let him

1032
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 3: go and try to win these games and see how

1033
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,399
Speaker 3: much he can get. And then after that no more.

1034
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 3: He got his numbers. It's something you can never take back,

1035
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 3: for instance, in high school. Right, it's not that fire

1036
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 3: I got a date back. I didn't.

1037
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 2: I don't think I had a Glory Days soundtrack.

1038
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,319
Speaker 1: I mean what song is when you roll back to

1039
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:34,799
Speaker 1: Ryan Holland's highlight Highlights from high school and stuff like

1040
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:35,879
Speaker 1: what songs in your head.

1041
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 3: We came out to Rottwiler, who was a method man

1042
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,399
Speaker 3: of Redman right, Rotthwaller right, and we played that song

1043
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 3: and I had thirty five and three quarters. I did

1044
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 3: miss a shot. I was red hot, and my coach

1045
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 3: sat me down for the whole four quarter, you know,

1046
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 3: and ethically as he should. But I go, coach, let

1047
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 3: me go get fifty. Let me go see what I

1048
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 3: could have done, you know, because it would have It's

1049
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 3: been something that I'd have been able to hang my

1050
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:04,399
Speaker 3: head on for the rest of my career, the rest

1051
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 3: of my life. You don't realize these guys have that.

1052
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:10,800
Speaker 3: And Earl Watson did that for Devin Booker before Devin

1053
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 3: Booker was really Devin Booker. He had seventy three I think,

1054
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,959
Speaker 3: I almost want to say against Boston, and it gave

1055
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 3: Devin Booker confidence to say and it was a national story. Man.

1056
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 3: His sons weren't going anywhere in Eura Watson neew. But

1057
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 3: it gave Devin Booker the confidence to say, I'm one

1058
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 3: of these guys, okay, and he approached the game as such.

1059
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 3: So I think for bam Oudebio, like you walk around

1060
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 3: with a S on your chest after that, nobody could

1061
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,280
Speaker 3: say nothing to you. And I think for these players,

1062
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 3: if you get that one moment, that one game, Mike,

1063
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 3: am I wrong? Let your guy go for it. No.

1064
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: I love that they were unapologetic, right, I'm Friday, you know,

1065
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 1: or as the week went on, you know, the the

1066
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,840
Speaker 1: defiance of it, Smoles drawn. I think it was Friday

1067
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: had his you know, I'm apologizing to nobody. We joked

1068
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: about the Connor McGregor reference in that regard bam Adebio

1069
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 1: doing his p The is like I was playing, well,

1070
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: I mean, who's coming out with nine minutes left? And

1071
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: the points that you're putting up Now that the heat

1072
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,760
Speaker 1: will see the Wizards two more times, whether they'll actually

1073
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 1: play any of the guys that are supposed to be starters,

1074
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 1: which is a whole other thing going on there, right,

1075
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: because all those guys were in street clothes. I think

1076
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 1: it was about five hundred million dollars in suits on

1077
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 1: the sidelines there for the Wizards for this last game.

1078
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:29,800
Speaker 1: But it's just that, right, if you had that opportunity,

1079
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 1: you don't know if it's coming up again, right, it's

1080
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 1: the Kobe Bryant eighty one that everybody decided to lionize

1081
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 1: at the end of it.

1082
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 2: You know, they won that game.

1083
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: By eighteen going away in the fourth quart right like

1084
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 1: there was not a close game any longer. It was

1085
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 1: through three quarters, and then they blew the doors off

1086
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:49,839
Speaker 1: from late. So you know, it's just all a matter

1087
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 1: of perspective as you go. I was showing Shay, you

1088
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: know me and my love of the cards and memorabilia.

1089
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: I put up that Ryan Hollins trading card.

1090
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 3: Did you tweet it or would I tweeted it?

1091
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:01,759
Speaker 2: Out at Swollen Dome. It's up there.

1092
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,720
Speaker 1: You're tagged in it, So folks want to decide whether

1093
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: it's hard guy or Hollywood leading Man smolder guy mode.

1094
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: In that photo the upper deck, I think that's the

1095
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:18,080
Speaker 1: SBX card from his rookie year. But you know, the

1096
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: Heat have celebrated. They came right back with an eighty

1097
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: three dollars jersey, eighty three cent food specials, all of

1098
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: those things. After the big performance, he followed up with

1099
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: the twenty one point effort in a win over the

1100
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks for seventh straight win. He was six to

1101
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 1: twenty from the floor in that one. But they did

1102
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: some things they're creating the eighty three throwback jersey, but

1103
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: you could have gotten an eighty three cent popcorn, chips

1104
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: or soda for at least one day. Nobody's complaining about prices.

1105
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 1: Maybe other teams look into this and find their wins

1106
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: with an opportunity. And there was an eight dollars thirty

1107
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: cent meal deal Ryan a hot dog, popcorn and fountain drink.

1108
00:57:57,680 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 1: But I was showing Shay as well. There was a

1109
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 1: Darren ravel in the memorabilia circuit. Someone had a what

1110
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: looked to be a coffee or bourbon stained ticket. Stuff

1111
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: from Wilt Chamberlain's hundred point game certified authentic thirty five

1112
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Wow, Wow, there you go. So any of

1113
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: the stuff you got in your trunks, you know, we

1114
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: need to go through and figure out what the the

1115
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:25,960
Speaker 1: logistics were on those particular games, to see if you

1116
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 1: don't have a fortune in your attic.

1117
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, Mike, I want to throw this to you too.

1118
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 3: So obviously let's keep context. We're not going to compare

1119
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 3: it with the Kobe game. Okay, So Kobe's game, these

1120
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 3: are two different games, okay, And I don't think anybody's

1121
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 3: challenging that now and it's just like weird, did people

1122
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 3: get so up in arms and everything needs to be

1123
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 3: compared to the great Kobe Bryant who's not here. Okay,

1124
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:50,720
Speaker 3: you don't need to compare. Everything is not about Kobe. Well,

1125
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 3: love and respect them, there's no question there. But I

1126
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 3: wonder what was the competition, like when Chamberlain went for

1127
00:58:57,480 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 3: one hundred.

1128
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 1: Well, but that's I will normally just gets pushed off

1129
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: to the side in all conversations anyway though, right like

1130
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: usually it's you against Bill Russell, but everything else didn't

1131
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,040
Speaker 1: count based on the players.

1132
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 3: And but he doesn't get he doesn't get true true,

1133
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 3: but he doesn't get challenged. I mean, there was just

1134
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 3: like a weird uproar and and I get it. They

1135
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,280
Speaker 3: started failing and if you see Bamata Bayo tells his

1136
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 3: teammates stop fouling, you know, don't don't do it. You know,

1137
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:30,439
Speaker 3: don't do that. And I think it's just a lot

1138
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,439
Speaker 3: of people don't watch basketball, don't know bam at A Bayo,

1139
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 3: or don't have a respect for his game. I think

1140
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 3: it's just it's it's a it's disappointing man, just because

1141
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 3: a player doesn't do something, doesn't mean that they can't.

1142
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 3: And you know, in fairness my scrutiny of Bam out

1143
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 3: of Bio, I thought, I thought he let guys off

1144
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 3: the hook a lot. Man. I thought, offensively, he's always

1145
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 3: had this. You know, I'd be lying if I said

1146
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 3: he always had eighty three. I don't want to throw

1147
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 3: up like one of those comments. Sure, sure, I felt

1148
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 3: like he could always have been more rest of offensively

1149
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 3: because he's that skilled and people forget you remember this,

1150
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 3: Mike bam Mataba won this skills competition an NBA All

1151
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 3: Star one year, right, Okay, So like like this guy

1152
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 3: is not a just a just a stationary, you know,

1153
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 3: banger defender, Like he's incredibly skilled in Miami, knows exactly

1154
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 3: what they have and out of.

1155
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 1: Bio and in that day they got it all and

1156
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: then some, and it reverberates. Hey, how about these kind

1157
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 1: of events and whether we see more or less of them.

1158
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr has an immodest proposal of what the NBA

1159
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 1: should do to combat some of what we're talking about

1160
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 1: down the stretch. He's Ryan Hollins on Buy Garment. This

1161
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 1: is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.

1162
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 6: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

1163
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 1: Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday by

1164
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: Garman Ryan Hollins with you, hey, be sure to subscribe

1165
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: to the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. Search Fox Sports

1166
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 1: Radio on YouTube all our best videos from all shows.

1167
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 2: Don't stop there.

1168
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: Hit that thumbs up icon, comment away, tell us the good,

1169
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: the bad, the ugly of what you like and what

1170
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 1: you don't. Send it along to friends and family, have

1171
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 1: them do the same, and then six friends and so

1172
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 1: on and so on and so on at the Ryan

1173
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 1: Hollins where you find them on Twitter. Find me over

1174
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 1: at Swollen Dome. We've got a couple of games in progress.

1175
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:20,560
Speaker 1: We got Dayton and VCU early at VCU with the

1176
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:23,280
Speaker 1: seven point lead midway through the first we got Arkansas

1177
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 1: four point lead on Vandy, and Yale's got a three

1178
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:30,919
Speaker 1: point lead on Penn coming up final eight minutes of

1179
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: that one. So much going on as we get ready

1180
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 1: for the beginning of March Madness. I think I owe

1181
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 1: somebody seven dollars just by saying that, but we'll figure

1182
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 1: that out in the wash. All of your analysis as

1183
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 1: the brackets are unveiled later on today here on Fox

1184
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, as well as some of the would be

1185
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: first in, first out or last out kind of snubs

1186
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 1: and everything else. But I'd be remiss if we didn't

1187
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 1: tie a bow on this because it ties right to

1188
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: our next story here. Ryan Hollins says Steve Kerr had

1189
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:07,280
Speaker 1: some thoughts earlier this week in terms of tanking and

1190
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 1: the league year and all of those things. And you

1191
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:14,120
Speaker 1: know what, in nineteen eighty eight, he was the fiftieth

1192
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:17,880
Speaker 1: pick of the NBA draft.

1193
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 3: Are you gonna beat me to it?

1194
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 2: What's that.

1195
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 3: You're gonna beat me to it? Aren't you? No? No, finish,

1196
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 3: finish your thought.

1197
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 2: Georgi Yang Okay, DeAndre Liggans.

1198
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: Twenty eleven Orlando Magic played one hundred and seventy seven games,

1199
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 1: but he won two G League Defensive Players of the

1200
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 1: Year of the Year award.

1201
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:40,920
Speaker 2: And then there's you.

1202
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:48,000
Speaker 3: Well, here's the deal, and me and Steve and I

1203
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:50,240
Speaker 3: assume Nie Yang will be the next are the only

1204
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 3: two to play ten years? There you go, yeah, look,

1205
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 3: next time I see him, I have a talking point.

1206
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 2: See Georgia, George should be in year ten now, So

1207
01:02:58,760 --> 01:02:59,240
Speaker 2: there you go.

1208
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 3: It's okay, So he's not. It's well, I guess it

1209
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 3: kind of counts, is it?

1210
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:04,080
Speaker 4: Ten?

1211
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 1: Now for George twenty sixteen. Oh gosh, the Indiana Pezers.

1212
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 1: So here we go. All right, Well, Steve Kerr chimed in,

1213
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 1: as so many of us have see there, I made

1214
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 1: you you feel older because George is a decade into

1215
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 1: the league. That's what we do, though, like when we

1216
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:21,800
Speaker 1: start putting context on it. Remember fresh face you honest, Yeah,

1217
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:25,080
Speaker 1: he's in your fourteen all of that stuff. But Steve

1218
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 1: Kerr earlier this week talking about where the league schedule is,

1219
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: You've got Steph Curry still trying to come back from

1220
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: injury and all.

1221
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 2: Of those things. Here, he chimed in.

1222
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:38,520
Speaker 10: I know this will not be a popular opinion in

1223
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 10: the league office, but I will continue to say it

1224
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 10: because it's obvious we need to play fewer games. We

1225
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 10: need to take ten games off the schedule. I think

1226
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 10: it would be great for the league. And I get it,

1227
01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:53,880
Speaker 10: it's revenue and you'd have to get everybody to agree

1228
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:57,160
Speaker 10: to take a little less money, and that's a really

1229
01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:00,439
Speaker 10: hard thing to do. But what I know about the league,

1230
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 10: about coaching, about how hard it is to play the

1231
01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 10: modern game with the pace and the space, I think

1232
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 10: it would be a more competitive and healthier league.

1233
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 2: If we played few games.

1234
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, let's add a couple of teams. No, but when

1235
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 1: he talks about it taking a little less money, that's

1236
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 1: a lot of revenue, particularly with where we're at in

1237
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:25,520
Speaker 1: this current marketplace. Ryan, Right, they just did a bunch

1238
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 1: of these television deals, and there's always reups and reconstitutions

1239
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 1: and the next window that you want to do. We're

1240
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:34,880
Speaker 1: watching with the NFL left and right, where we're going

1241
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 1: to play football six days a week before it's all

1242
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 1: said and done. Tuesday, I think will be the become

1243
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:44,040
Speaker 1: a sacred day on the calendar where it's just sit

1244
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:47,920
Speaker 1: and watch some film. But for the NBA, ten games

1245
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 1: per team, we're talking billions of that revenue going right

1246
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:56,040
Speaker 1: back out the door, and the players getting the amount

1247
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 1: that they do of that, which I think gets lost, like, yeah,

1248
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 1: there's always the one a little more. As players are

1249
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:04,760
Speaker 1: the product, they do get about fifty percent of things.

1250
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 1: So when you start shaving off that amount of money,

1251
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 1: that really adds up fast.

1252
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 3: I'm really disappointed by hearing this. I couldn't have heard

1253
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 3: of Morey and I got a lot of respect for

1254
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 3: Steve Kurr. There's no question you can't take away from

1255
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 3: what he's done as a player and as a coach.

1256
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:26,040
Speaker 3: But I'm so disappointed you talk about moving the goalpost.

1257
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 3: He refused to play Jonathan Kaminga. Whatever happened, however, got personal,

1258
01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 3: whatever it went, he refused to play Jonathan Kaminga. It's

1259
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:44,560
Speaker 3: tough time getting moody on the floor. The reason I

1260
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:47,600
Speaker 3: bring that up, these are the guys that get you

1261
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:52,240
Speaker 3: healthy through the season, your youth. Steve Kerr refuses to

1262
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 3: coach youth. He refuses to develop youth. So yeah, for

1263
01:05:56,960 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 3: your older players, for Draymond, for Stafford, these guys, we're

1264
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 3: missing games. And now you become so dominant on your

1265
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 3: starting lineup, so dominant on your your your your your

1266
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 3: top seven, your top eight. You're gonna get injuries and

1267
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 3: there's no there's no backup plan, there's no b playing,

1268
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:16,560
Speaker 3: there's no seed plan because you don't develop get with

1269
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 3: the times as a front office, as a as as

1270
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:27,280
Speaker 3: a general manager, as is executives. You have to prepare

1271
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 3: for this. Don't ask for time off, and I get it.

1272
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 3: You got Steph Curry. You want to maximize that. I

1273
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:34,520
Speaker 3: don't want to play Steph Curry forty minutes if I

1274
01:06:34,560 --> 01:06:37,680
Speaker 3: could too. But if you if you value your development

1275
01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 3: and your young player and the way that the league

1276
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 3: is being played with pace and space and youth, you're

1277
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 3: gonna have to go ten eleven deep to keep guys

1278
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:48,880
Speaker 3: fresh through the season. And if there is an injury,

1279
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 3: then you do have a B and a C plan

1280
01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:54,440
Speaker 3: prepared to go. And hats off and and and for

1281
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 3: kerr Hey, he'll he'll play a guy undrafted playing minutes.

1282
01:06:58,200 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 3: You got to fit in his style of play. Our

1283
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 3: respect that, I understand that, but this is just saying

1284
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 3: Steph is older, Dre is older, and these are the

1285
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 3: guys that I want to play minutes, and I don't

1286
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:15,439
Speaker 3: want to go and be resourceful and find someone who

1287
01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:18,120
Speaker 3: can give me a level of production. And oh hell,

1288
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 3: we got rid of Jordan Poole. That was our other

1289
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:23,200
Speaker 3: youth movement. We just traded them away to the Wizards.

1290
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 3: So like that is disappointing to hear, because I tell

1291
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 3: you one thing, you don't want to be losing ten

1292
01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:32,680
Speaker 3: percent of your check or whatever percent of your check.

1293
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:37,040
Speaker 3: Look look from the regional side, Mike, when we don't

1294
01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 3: have these games. And this new big deal was made

1295
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:43,560
Speaker 3: and it was great for the league, guess what, we

1296
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 3: lost a lot of money about fourteen to fifteen games lost.

1297
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:49,880
Speaker 3: That's money gone. Those are game checks gone. Like, come on, coach, like,

1298
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 3: you gotta be better than this. And I understand you're

1299
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 3: gonna you're fighting for any tactical advantage that you have

1300
01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,200
Speaker 3: during the season at what you have, but you've got

1301
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 3: to be more rest of which you're coaching. And Golden

1302
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 3: State is arguably, in my opinion, the best with Kevin Durant,

1303
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 3: that is the best basketball team that's ever touched the floor. Now,

1304
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:10,600
Speaker 3: you got to be able to move on from that,

1305
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 3: you know, and easier said than done, but you know,

1306
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:16,880
Speaker 3: don't move the goldposts and ask for less games. It's

1307
01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:20,320
Speaker 3: just disappointing to hear. And again it's it's a young

1308
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 3: man's game. Well, I think it is. At the end

1309
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 3: of the day. You got to develop Mike.

1310
01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:26,560
Speaker 1: Well and that's you know, going to one of the

1311
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 1: big themes for the show for the two hours is

1312
01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:32,360
Speaker 1: just talking about the developmental process, right, talking about those

1313
01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:36,200
Speaker 1: guys one and done or whatever. The college slash pro

1314
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:41,040
Speaker 1: experience globally becomes the G League as a more developmental force.

1315
01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 1: But calling it back to Jordan Poole a big deal, right,

1316
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:46,639
Speaker 1: because when we talk about college buckets, how many guys

1317
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:50,559
Speaker 1: bailed coaches saying I can't coach in this new world, right,

1318
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:55,600
Speaker 1: the new nil and the changing face of college athletics

1319
01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:58,320
Speaker 1: because they always were able to make the rules right.

1320
01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:00,439
Speaker 2: It was the coach. It was one hundred percent at them.

1321
01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 1: Now players having more equity and more say and you

1322
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 1: go back, and some will say it's Lebron James fault

1323
01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:10,599
Speaker 1: for when the heatals exist and decide where you're at

1324
01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:11,960
Speaker 1: in that time continuum.

1325
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 2: But you're not unringing the bell, you know.

1326
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: And for the NBA in this style of pace and

1327
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 1: everything else, not being able to develop younger players. Yeah,

1328
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:24,679
Speaker 1: eventually you run out of the superstars. They run out

1329
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 1: of their time. For Jordan Poole, he gets excise because

1330
01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:32,839
Speaker 1: Draymond Green punched them in the head and they can't coexist. Instead,

1331
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:35,000
Speaker 1: so that's a guy that would have eaten minutes. And

1332
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:36,840
Speaker 1: he loves to shoot, so he would have eaten a

1333
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:40,000
Speaker 1: lot of shots for you too. Instead, you move on.

1334
01:09:40,160 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 1: I don't know what Jonathan Kaminga will be, but that's

1335
01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 1: always he's for three years we've been wondering behind the scenes.

1336
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:50,880
Speaker 1: What's the reality of that dynamic, that scenario in terms

1337
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 1: of his ability, aptitude or just Steve Kerr not wanting

1338
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:57,479
Speaker 1: to move into that next phase.

1339
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:02,559
Speaker 3: Well, and here's here's my opinion. I don't know anything.

1340
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 3: At a certain point it got personal. I don't know why,

1341
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 3: but I assume that by the family room comments. But

1342
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:13,559
Speaker 3: Steve Kurr is big on you know, like IQ in players, movement,

1343
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:17,920
Speaker 3: team ball, set a screen cut, set a screen move

1344
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:20,559
Speaker 3: you know, read the screen. How's a guy playing? Has you?

1345
01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 3: You know in it? All fair? Is like Comenia got

1346
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:25,000
Speaker 3: the ball and it was go time, like it was

1347
01:10:25,479 --> 01:10:27,800
Speaker 3: it was time to bookie. But the challenge is, okay,

1348
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:30,880
Speaker 3: it's not working, you know, let him move on. And

1349
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 3: when you go on draft players have that communication between

1350
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 3: Kurt and the front office where hey, you're you're drafting

1351
01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:39,760
Speaker 3: his style of guy. So going Kerr like, this is

1352
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 3: the guy you wanted. You know, clearly he wasn't on

1353
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:45,400
Speaker 3: board with kaminga, you know, and it showed, and you

1354
01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:46,760
Speaker 3: know it is what it is. It's just part of

1355
01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 3: professional sports. It's spilled milk at that point in time.

1356
01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:51,799
Speaker 3: But hey, you know, you got to lock in on drafting.

1357
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:53,640
Speaker 3: You know you gotta you gotta have your hand in

1358
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 3: a cookie jar when it comes to things, uh, things

1359
01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 3: like that. And I'm sure Golden State will be more

1360
01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 3: wise moving forward. But I just think that comment. You know,

1361
01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:04,360
Speaker 3: it's disappointed when I get it. You want every effort there,

1362
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 3: but man, you you take it? Man, ain't. I don't

1363
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:11,080
Speaker 3: know about you, Mike, I don't. I really don't like

1364
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:14,240
Speaker 3: giving money back. That's funny, because hey, I really don't

1365
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 3: like what missing work. Hey man, you spoke about that.

1366
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:19,639
Speaker 3: We're like, hey, Scott, how many more shifts you got

1367
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 3: for us? We'll sleep at the studio.

1368
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 1: I got no problem, wake me up. I just need

1369
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 1: cat naps, cat naps and pre coffee. That's that's how

1370
01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:29,639
Speaker 1: you get the end of the studio.

1371
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 3: Actually, got an emergency, Mike, you want another shift?

1372
01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:35,320
Speaker 1: Yes, I can be there in twenty minutes. Actually, I

1373
01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:38,040
Speaker 1: have my machine on me. I've embedded it in my brain,

1374
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:40,479
Speaker 1: so I just need to hit the on switch at

1375
01:11:40,479 --> 01:11:42,720
Speaker 1: the Ryan Hollins where you find them in the Twitter verse.

1376
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:45,040
Speaker 1: Find me over at Swollen Dome. Now for an update

1377
01:11:45,120 --> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 1: on all these conference title games, the world at large,

1378
01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:50,600
Speaker 1: your nemesis, It's Isaac blowing.

1379
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:54,880
Speaker 7: A rivalry renewed. Indeed, all right, we will start with

1380
01:11:54,960 --> 01:12:01,520
Speaker 7: the SEC Championship game, where right now Arkansas and Vanderbilt.

1381
01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:04,679
Speaker 7: Arkansas is just taking a twenty five to twenty three

1382
01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 7: lead with five twenty eight left to play in the

1383
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:09,519
Speaker 7: first half. But one story that has been trending out

1384
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:14,000
Speaker 7: of this tournament this weekend the presence of a substitute

1385
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:18,639
Speaker 7: freshman guard on Vanderbilt. He was actually trending across Twitter

1386
01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:24,439
Speaker 7: yesterday because of his name, Chandler Bing, who claims that

1387
01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:27,880
Speaker 7: he has never seen an episode of Friends and also

1388
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:32,760
Speaker 7: claimed that his parents did not name him Chandler for

1389
01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:37,280
Speaker 7: any connection with the show Friends or the character, of course,

1390
01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 7: played by the late Matthew Perry. Chandler Bing. However, it

1391
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:43,759
Speaker 7: turns out to be a distant cousin of former NBA

1392
01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:47,639
Speaker 7: All Star and one time mayor of Detroit Dave Bing.

1393
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:50,439
Speaker 7: By the way, so again that's a name to focus

1394
01:12:50,479 --> 01:12:53,679
Speaker 7: on for the rest of March. We've got the IVY

1395
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:57,479
Speaker 7: League Tournament championship game going on right now, Yale holding

1396
01:12:57,479 --> 01:13:00,760
Speaker 7: a sixty five sixty three lead over pen They have

1397
01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 7: five minutes and twenty one seconds remaining in the second half,

1398
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 7: and in the Atlantic ten Tournament Championship game vcu IS

1399
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:12,720
Speaker 7: of twenty eight to nineteen over Dayton with five and

1400
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 7: a half minutes remaining in the first half. Now late

1401
01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:18,920
Speaker 7: on Saturday night, Hawaii won the Big West Tournament over

1402
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:23,880
Speaker 7: UC Irvine seventy one to sixty four, California Baptist, going

1403
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:28,040
Speaker 7: to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.

1404
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:31,720
Speaker 7: As on Saturday night, they defeated Utah Valley in the

1405
01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:36,040
Speaker 7: WHAC Championship game sixty three to sixty one. On Saturday night,

1406
01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:39,800
Speaker 7: in the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic, Venezuela eliminated

1407
01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:43,280
Speaker 7: defending champion Japan eight to five. Coming up at tonight

1408
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:47,040
Speaker 7: at eight Eastern times, the semi final round begins between

1409
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:49,599
Speaker 7: Team USA and the Dominican Republic.

1410
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:51,880
Speaker 2: Mike and Ryan, back to you, the man, the legend,

1411
01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:52,599
Speaker 2: the myth himself.

1412
01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 1: It's Isaac Lowing gron At Isaac Loewinggron, Angels CITYFC now

1413
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:00,640
Speaker 1: Los Angeles charge. I keep want to call him San

1414
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:03,360
Speaker 1: Diego because they keep putting all these throwback cards in

1415
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,760
Speaker 1: these products. Now, Ryan Hollinds, so san Diego on the

1416
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:09,760
Speaker 1: brain at eesa glowing ground where you find him on

1417
01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:13,040
Speaker 1: Twitter Hey, coming up, there's a state that wants to

1418
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 1: take a lot of players' money and they just pass

1419
01:14:16,120 --> 01:14:19,599
Speaker 1: something in one part of their legislature. We'll see if

1420
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:22,200
Speaker 1: it passes muster overall. But I'm sure you'll have some

1421
01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:24,640
Speaker 1: thoughts on this one, mister Hollins. A little bit of

1422
01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 1: college buckets and the Oscars are tonight. I gotta imagine

1423
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:29,599
Speaker 1: in your travels you watch the movies. We'll talk all

1424
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:31,880
Speaker 1: about that next. As we finish up here on Fox

1425
01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:33,599
Speaker 1: Sports Radio.

1426
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:36,599
Speaker 6: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

1427
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:49,479
Speaker 1: Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio. It's Fox Sports Sunday.

1428
01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:52,639
Speaker 1: Mike Garmin, Ryan Hollins with you at the Ryan Hollins

1429
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:55,679
Speaker 1: where you find him. Listen to him as he covers

1430
01:14:55,720 --> 01:14:58,360
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets in the greatness that is Kevin Durant

1431
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 1: each and every night ten year NBA VET at a

1432
01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:08,760
Speaker 1: UCLA broom. That autograph rookie card is part of my thing.

1433
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 1: I still need to get you to get autographed the

1434
01:15:11,160 --> 01:15:13,840
Speaker 1: smolder card. If you missed any of today's show, catch

1435
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:16,920
Speaker 1: the podcast search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcast.

1436
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:20,280
Speaker 1: Right after the show, Today's will be posted by Shay

1437
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:23,080
Speaker 1: and Chris. Be sure to follow Ray give it five stars,

1438
01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:25,640
Speaker 1: provide the review again. Search Fox Sports Radio wherever you

1439
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:28,720
Speaker 1: get your podcasts, you'll find today's full show posted.

1440
01:15:28,360 --> 01:15:30,280
Speaker 2: Right after we get off the air.

1441
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:33,080
Speaker 1: Appreciate y'all giving us a few minutes of your time

1442
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 1: the late morning, early afternoon, wherever you're out and about

1443
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:39,320
Speaker 1: on a Sunday, Go make it your best the goal

1444
01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:41,560
Speaker 1: for all of us. Let's go one to know. We

1445
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 1: got a good start just by answering the bell this morning,

1446
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:47,479
Speaker 1: so let's go finish the job. Plenty of college buckets

1447
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:48,720
Speaker 1: talk as the day goes on.

1448
01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:49,479
Speaker 2: Steven v.

1449
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 1: Jail get your rolling into Dan and Aaron a little

1450
01:15:52,560 --> 01:15:55,000
Speaker 1: bit later on with all of that. As the brackets

1451
01:15:55,040 --> 01:15:57,719
Speaker 1: are unveiled. Monte Bolanos will be over at the news

1452
01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:02,440
Speaker 1: desk with the developing story coming out of college basketball,

1453
01:16:02,520 --> 01:16:05,800
Speaker 1: readying for the World Baseball Classic and everything else. Now

1454
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 1: I mentioned Steve Kerr wants to take your money. You know,

1455
01:16:08,080 --> 01:16:10,439
Speaker 1: people in the state of Washington, they want to do

1456
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:11,719
Speaker 1: that now to Ryan.

1457
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:13,439
Speaker 3: Oh No.

1458
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:16,960
Speaker 1: Lawmakers in Washington State this week approved the new income

1459
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:19,679
Speaker 1: tax on residents that make more than a million dollars

1460
01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:24,400
Speaker 1: nine point nine percent. Currently no state income tax there.

1461
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:28,560
Speaker 1: John Schneider addressed it as Seattle got into free agency

1462
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:31,559
Speaker 1: mode in the NFL this week of Hey, it's it's

1463
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:34,479
Speaker 1: a consideration now, you know, it hasn't had to be

1464
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:36,439
Speaker 1: and now, all of a sudden, if this comes into play,

1465
01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:39,080
Speaker 1: we might lose a guy or two here and there

1466
01:16:39,080 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 1: because you talk about losing ten percent of your cash.

1467
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 1: Much different consideration here in the state of California. Your

1468
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:46,839
Speaker 1: top tax bracket thirteen percent.

1469
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:53,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that's tough. And you know you think about

1470
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:58,920
Speaker 3: the Seahawks and Seattle top the list the NBA as

1471
01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:01,160
Speaker 3: far as the expansions yet in Vegas.

1472
01:17:02,080 --> 01:17:03,680
Speaker 1: Now that's it, right, So all of a sudden, it's like,

1473
01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:06,559
Speaker 1: wait a minute, Wait a minute. Yeah, we want a

1474
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 1: team to go back, but you might have a couple

1475
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,559
Speaker 1: of guys going, wait, I'm gonna have to cut off

1476
01:17:11,120 --> 01:17:13,519
Speaker 1: if I'm a max player. I mean, that's thirty million dollars.

1477
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:15,880
Speaker 1: That's a nice row of homes you can own in

1478
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:19,479
Speaker 1: any town USA. Again, different problems than the rest of

1479
01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 1: the world, but still a consideration as your team tries

1480
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:25,240
Speaker 1: to build towards the next So we'll keep an eye

1481
01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:27,759
Speaker 1: on that as we go. See, I just got to

1482
01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:30,599
Speaker 1: tie all our bows together here in the final minutes

1483
01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:32,960
Speaker 1: March Madness. A little later, a lot of the heavyweights

1484
01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:35,360
Speaker 1: are back up at the top of the board, right,

1485
01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:38,679
Speaker 1: the blue bloods, the legacy teams, all of those things,

1486
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:42,719
Speaker 1: which is great for this selection Sunday as we're finishing

1487
01:17:42,760 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 1: up these conference tournaments and getting into it. But curious

1488
01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:49,639
Speaker 1: of your thoughts on Miami Ohio. Now they lost in

1489
01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 1: their conference tournament early, but thirty one and oh in

1490
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 1: the regular season. But because of the Ken Palm rating

1491
01:17:58,080 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 1: and the strength of schedule, they could be looking at

1492
01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:04,400
Speaker 1: an outside look at you be left outside of that

1493
01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:09,559
Speaker 1: proverbial bubble, looking there and sipping their Sodi's and eating

1494
01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 1: popcorn and watching everybody else have all the fun. There

1495
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:15,880
Speaker 1: was a Freedom of Information Act where they uncovered a

1496
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:20,479
Speaker 1: reporter did at least twenty schools that were contacted. Hey,

1497
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:22,200
Speaker 1: we'd love to play a conference and you know, a

1498
01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:24,960
Speaker 1: non conference with you. No, no, no, we're good. So

1499
01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 1: you tried but didn't. And now that thirty one to

1500
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 1: oher regular season record could leave them out of the dance.

1501
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:37,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's that's tough. And we spoke earlier about

1502
01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 3: UCLA and their struggles are going up and going down, Well,

1503
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:43,080
Speaker 3: guess what, they beat Michigan State, the teams that the

1504
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:47,400
Speaker 3: incidents against, you beat Illinois twice and you get some

1505
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 3: major wins there, and they say it wasn't a perfect season,

1506
01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 3: but now you should have strongly made a push to

1507
01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:57,439
Speaker 3: put yourself in the NCAA tournament. You had to play

1508
01:18:57,479 --> 01:19:01,400
Speaker 3: some type of competition. You gotta play some competition or else.

1509
01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:03,800
Speaker 3: This is gonna be a season that you go down

1510
01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:08,200
Speaker 3: with frustrations with now. I mean, I'd have no problem

1511
01:19:08,240 --> 01:19:11,439
Speaker 3: them getting in at the end of the day or

1512
01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:13,640
Speaker 3: putting them in the tournament when you won like that,

1513
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:17,360
Speaker 3: But it is tough when it comes back and you've

1514
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 3: had teams within the runs say hey, come play as Hey,

1515
01:19:22,360 --> 01:19:24,760
Speaker 3: we'll see if you really are that type of you

1516
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:27,160
Speaker 3: know that record, and then you know, I'm sure the

1517
01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:30,960
Speaker 3: committee knows you turn the games down. So I understand

1518
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:33,160
Speaker 3: both sides. If I have my vote, i'd put them in.

1519
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:35,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you got thirty seven at large bids.

1520
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 1: You know, the worst is it's a good TV show,

1521
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: which at the end, isn't that what the NCAA Tournament is.

1522
01:19:42,439 --> 01:19:44,679
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an athletic competition. Don't get me wrong.

1523
01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:49,960
Speaker 1: But you know that also trans translates to billions of

1524
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:54,200
Speaker 1: dollars of revenue and eyeballs watching the sport. Why not

1525
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 1: have another story in your teleplay by leaving them out?

1526
01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:01,040
Speaker 1: You know, that's a story line that never gets to

1527
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 1: exist because it either goes one of two ways. They

1528
01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 1: go on a nice little run and it's hey, we

1529
01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:08,160
Speaker 1: got them in and look at what these little guys

1530
01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 1: can do given a chance, or they get beaten and

1531
01:20:11,040 --> 01:20:13,040
Speaker 1: you never have to open that door again, and you

1532
01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:15,240
Speaker 1: put it up on the wall of hey, we tried.

1533
01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:15,679
Speaker 3: Hey.

1534
01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:17,559
Speaker 2: In your travels, do you guys watch a lot of movies?

1535
01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 3: Yes and no. I mean I try to catch up

1536
01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:22,960
Speaker 3: on sleep. I'll be honest.

1537
01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:26,639
Speaker 2: Well, look it's asked and answered.

1538
01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:29,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the Oscars later on tonight a lot about Hollywood,

1539
01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:32,559
Speaker 1: Hollywood shut down, so out and about here in la

1540
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:36,240
Speaker 1: Hey be careful out there. But yeah, it's the I

1541
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:39,960
Speaker 1: watched a lot of the Best Picture contenders and there's

1542
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:42,559
Speaker 1: a lot of great individual performances, but I'm like that

1543
01:20:42,600 --> 01:20:44,160
Speaker 1: movie got nominated for Best Picture?

1544
01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:47,320
Speaker 2: What am I missing? So I felt like I missed

1545
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:48,880
Speaker 2: something this year in the transition.

1546
01:20:49,200 --> 01:20:51,640
Speaker 3: By the way, they lost the UMass in the quarterfinals

1547
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:52,639
Speaker 3: thirty one one.

1548
01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:56,240
Speaker 1: Well but it's one still, just a one big one

1549
01:20:56,320 --> 01:20:58,519
Speaker 1: at the Ryan Hollins. Where you find them on Twitter,

1550
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:01,519
Speaker 1: find me over adswollen home thanks for having with us.

1551
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:02,639
Speaker 2: Steven vj are next

1552
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:10,599
Speaker 1: MHM