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Speaker 2: eight Saturday to everybody listening. As de Segre just told you,

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Speaker 2: Duke now up fifteen points with under four minutes to go.

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Speaker 2: They are up now sixteen points, seventy four to fifty eight,

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Speaker 2: Alabama trailing in the early game. Florida survives one ticket punched.

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Speaker 2: It looks like we're gonna get a second here momentarily.

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Speaker 2: Jason Martin, my man, I know you were on early

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Speaker 2: this morning with Jason Fitz. But how you doing, my man?

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Speaker 2: You do a good yep, doing well?

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Speaker 3: A lot of I'm sure we're gona be talking a

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Speaker 3: lot of basketball on this show, and a lot more

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Speaker 3: of it has been good than has been not so good.

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Speaker 3: So it's been very easy basketball to watch, a lot

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Speaker 3: of basketball being played at a high level. And I

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Speaker 3: think that's what you want at this point. Even though

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Speaker 3: this game maybe hasn't been quite as competitive as you

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Speaker 3: would have hoped, it kinda is exactly the way I

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Speaker 3: thought this game was gonna go.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 2: So two things really quick before we start talking about

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Speaker 2: the games. One, I so freaking agree with you man Is.

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Speaker 2: And we talked about this last week. I think we

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Speaker 2: were maybe I don't want to say we were ahead

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Speaker 2: out of round one.

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Speaker 4: No upsets, what does it mean?

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Speaker 2: And it's like, here's the thing, like, listen, we all

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Speaker 2: love a good March story. Nobody argues that, but I

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Speaker 2: will say that because there have been no upsets now,

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Speaker 2: part of it is.

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Speaker 4: And we talked about this last week too.

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Speaker 2: I think the top of the sport is probably better

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Speaker 2: than it's been in a long time because you have

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Speaker 2: so many upperclassmen stays in college transferring up. We saw

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Speaker 2: the Walter Clayton heroics earlier in the day. By the way,

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Speaker 2: JT Topp in Texas Tech's best player was from New Mexico.

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Speaker 2: Duke has a player named Sion James who came from Tulane.

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Speaker 2: Mark Sears. Of course, came from the MAC a couple

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Speaker 2: of years ago. But what I will also say is,

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Speaker 2: independent of where these guys came from and independent of

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Speaker 2: why they're staying, it's because of nil whatever. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: but these games have been so awesome, so competitive. I

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Speaker 2: think pretty almost every game after Round one to me,

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Speaker 2: has been relatively entertaining.

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Speaker 4: Now you get a couple blowouts.

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Speaker 2: Tennessee, Kentucky last night was kind of a dud on

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Speaker 2: Friday night, but you know, Auburn Michigan was back and

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Speaker 2: forth for about thirty five minutes before Auburn pulled away.

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Speaker 4: Texas Tech Florida.

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Speaker 2: Certainly, if you're a Tech fan, you don't want to

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Speaker 2: talk about those final two minutes and fifty seconds or so.

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Speaker 2: But I was even watching the beginning of this Duke

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Speaker 2: what is it called recency bias. I don't remember eight

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Speaker 2: games looking like this when, with due respect, when George

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Speaker 2: Mason was in it, and when this team was in

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Speaker 2: it and that team.

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Speaker 4: Was in it.

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Speaker 2: It's just really high level basketball. A lot of future

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Speaker 2: NBA players, older players that are now able to transfer

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Speaker 2: up and kind of help, you know, kind of fill

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Speaker 2: some holes on these these these elite teams. I just

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Speaker 2: think the quality of basketball has been awesome the last

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we did say this last week, and

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Speaker 3: Fitz and I said this this morning, and here we

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Speaker 3: watch Cinderella on Disney. Plus, let's just be real, we

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Speaker 3: have to sacrifice the Cinderella in order to have this.

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Speaker 3: And even though I understand that in a vacuum, those

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Speaker 3: live in a vacuum, because there's a tournament where games

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Speaker 3: have to continue to be played until there's a champion crown.

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Speaker 3: And when you get down to it and you've got

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Speaker 3: prior to the Sweet sixteen was absolutely just beautiful to watch,

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Speaker 3: like you just saw the highest level. And I think

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Speaker 3: that other points that you made about there's a lot

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Speaker 3: the other thing. There's really not a team to hate

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Speaker 3: Fitz made this point this morning, and then I made

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Speaker 3: There's not really anybody to dislike that's here, Like whoever

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Speaker 3: wins unless you just happen to dislike them. Yeah, a

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Speaker 3: lot of people are still gonna like dislike Duke, but

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Speaker 3: this is not a very hateable Duke team. Like Cooper

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Speaker 3: Flag is not the hateable Star. I even said, I've

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Speaker 3: been trying to figure out what it is about Cooper Flag.

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Speaker 3: I can knock what is it about Cooper Flag that

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Speaker 3: is dukish? And this is what I came up with.

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Speaker 3: This is how far I had to dig to come

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Speaker 4: He sweats a lot.

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Speaker 3: That's the one thing is a little too Keith van

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Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with it. It's just it's the only

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Speaker 3: to do that. It's like you don't. I was a

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Speaker 3: have to do that Cooper flag. But at the same time,

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Speaker 3: when you play like that, if that's where you're comfortable,

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Speaker 3: you do what you gotta do. There's really there's nothing

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Speaker 3: not only are you probably gonna be able to feel

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Speaker 3: good for them and for their stars and for what

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Speaker 3: they've done, but you're also gonna feel like it's an

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Speaker 4: It's a great point, right.

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Speaker 2: You know, you come off that Alabama game on Thursday

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Speaker 2: night where they set the record for number of three

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Speaker 2: I know that the guys on the set, Charles Barkley,

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Speaker 2: I just bring it up because you know, Duke beating Alabama.

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Speaker 2: Alabama lost, no, no, no, Duke just went through an

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Speaker 4: And by the way, this is not done yet.

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Speaker 2: Back to back turnovers have cut the Duke lead to

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Speaker 2: thirteen points, twenty five three pointers on Thursday night and

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Speaker 2: Duke's cruise into this victory. And so I think it's

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Speaker 2: a great point by you. The one thing that you

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Speaker 2: will face Florida in the next round. Real quick, you

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Speaker 2: said that this game is largely going the way that

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Speaker 4: What was it?

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Speaker 2: What was it about this game that gave you confidence?

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Speaker 2: That Duke would be able to handle Alabama after the

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you're just not gonna shoot that way

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Speaker 3: on a consistent enough basis, and we know that Duke

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Speaker 3: I think the over under was somewhere close to one eighty,

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Speaker 3: somewhere in that neighborhood in terms of total points scored.

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Speaker 3: Like Alabama's defense can be a little bit spotty, but

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Speaker 3: they're streaky, Like if they show up and can't hit three,

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Speaker 3: they're gonna get beat. And look, mar Sears has just

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Speaker 3: impressive thing about this game thus far as it's nearing

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Speaker 3: just has to be so demoralizing. I just feel like

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Speaker 3: Duke is so complete. They are and we're seeing it

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Speaker 3: like that's my final was Florida over Duke. But if

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Speaker 3: it was played right now, I would, you know, definitely

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Speaker 3: not have fingernails by the time the game tipped off,

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, j Mart, you just mentioned.

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Speaker 2: Something I want to talk about is the completeness of Duke,

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Speaker 2: the fact that, by the way, they're one of the

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Speaker 2: Cooper Flag, what we're gonna do. We got about a

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Speaker 2: minute thirty left. We will come back. Duke is up

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Speaker 2: seventeen points with a minute thirty to go. We think

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Speaker 2: by the time we come back this game, we'll go final.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about Duke, the history that we're seeing with

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Speaker 2: It's not official yet if they if they pull an

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Speaker 2: seventeen with one twenty six to go, Duke is in

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Speaker 2: pretty good shape. As J Mart said, Cooper Flag good,

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Speaker 2: Duke very likely making its first Final Four under John Shire.

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Speaker 2: The Duke Blue Devils beat the Alabama Crimson Time. Remember

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Speaker 2: Your first thoughts on Duke joining Florida in San Antonio.

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Speaker 3: I mean, these are two schools, these are the two

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Speaker 4: And I'm with you. I don't know what this team's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, yeah, exactly right. Like the best team

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Speaker 3: But just incredibly impressed with the job Shires done. Incredibly

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Speaker 2: Okay, So what I would say is is that you know,

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Speaker 3: So Grant Hill might be the answer for me. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Elite eight game against Kentucky back in two thousand and three.

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Speaker 2: So Cooper flag with thirty six and seven, by the way,

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Speaker 2: I just looked it up Anthony Davis's Kentucky stats.

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Speaker 4: By the way, how about this. Let me make sure

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Speaker 4: I have this right. I want to.

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Speaker 2: I want to double check it because there is one

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Speaker 2: stat that stands out here and I'm a bad radio,

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Speaker 2: bad radio.

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Speaker 4: Forgive me, give me a second. I want to make

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Speaker 4: sure I have this right. I believe what I saw

444
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Speaker 4: fourteen points per game, ten rebounds per game, five blocks

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Speaker 4: per game was what I believe I saw. Let me

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Speaker 4: make sure I have that correct.

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Speaker 2: Yes, fourteen points on sixty two percent shooting from the field,

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Speaker 2: ten and a half rebounds per game, four and a

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Speaker 2: half blocks per game, with a steal and an assist

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Speaker 2: per game. And obviously, you know, like like Mellow, he

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Speaker 2: does have the hardware. So you know, I guess if

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Speaker 2: Cooper flag goes two for twelve next week in the

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Speaker 2: in the final four, maybe the conversation is different, but

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Speaker 2: I'm just here to say, like, I don't know, I've

455
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Speaker 2: seen a guy impact games in more ways than he does.

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Speaker 2: And you know, he's great defensively at a couple of

457
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Speaker 2: big blocks today and he also had a bunch of rebounds.

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Speaker 2: Again the quote unquote didn't play well. Sixteen points, nine rebounds, three.

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Speaker 4: Assists for Cooper Flags. So yeah.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Erra towards Jason Martin broadcasting live from

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Speaker 2: the Tireck dot Com studios. Jmart will come back wrap

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Speaker 2: for a little bit on Duke and of course talk

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Speaker 2: about the.

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Speaker 4: Early game, and there are takes on that one too.

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Speaker 2: Before we do it, though, first time for the evening

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Speaker 2: for us, Steve Seger, what is trending?

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Speaker 3: My friend?

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Speaker 6: Good evening to you both. And by the way, I'm

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Speaker 6: glad you mentioned Patrick Ewing as a fresh Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I'm just too young to remember.

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Speaker 6: Or Shaquille O'Neal for that matter. Yeah, I'm going to

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Speaker 6: talk about a product that we knew what he was

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Speaker 6: gonna be.

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Speaker 2: The craziest thing. I was like looking one day, I

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Speaker 2: just came across it Shack. I know it was a

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Speaker 2: different here. Shack averaged like twenty nine and fourteen as

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Speaker 2: a sophomore and came back to college.

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Speaker 4: Can you imagine, I'm gonna look at why you talk.

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Speaker 2: I'll see if I can find it really quick. But

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Speaker 2: it's like I understand again, it was just a different era.

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Speaker 6: Yes, but well, I mean Kobe Bryant wasn't drafted in

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Speaker 6: the top ten.

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Speaker 3: Right there.

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Speaker 4: You go at a different era. Let me see if

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Speaker 4: I can find it really quick. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Shack's sophomore year averaged twenty seven point six points, fourteen

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Speaker 2: point seven rebounds, five blocks per game and said, you

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Speaker 2: know what, I'm coming back to college for another year,

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Speaker 2: the good old days.

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Speaker 6: Michael Jordan hit the game winner and came back for

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Speaker 6: a second year during the Caroline That's true, Kevin loves.

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Speaker 6: Freshman year at UCLA was sensation well, and then he

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Speaker 6: let up to the final four.

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Speaker 2: And Derek Rose is another one too that probably deserves

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Speaker 2: He was phenomenal as a freshman. So there's been good ones.

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Speaker 2: And again we'll see what happens with Cooper Flag. But

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Speaker 2: I mean he is really really good too.

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Speaker 3: Chick you forgetting that we were talking about freshman. I mean,

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Speaker 3: that does change it. Grant Hill, I still think I'm

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Speaker 3: probably going with Grant, but yeah, there's there's, there's a few.

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Speaker 3: But flag being on the short list at all, and

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Speaker 3: potentially you can argue to him being number one, just

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Speaker 3: shows how stellar he's truly been.

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Speaker 6: And I had to look this up. I did not

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Speaker 6: realize that Trey Young in his freshman season only season

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Speaker 6: at Oklahoma led the nation in points and assists.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, that I did not remember.

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Speaker 6: Was twenty seven points nine assists. Forget nine assists in

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Speaker 6: college basketball is a ton.

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Speaker 4: It is, You're right.

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Speaker 6: But the name that I obviously thought of, Wow, this

512
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Speaker 6: guy was sensational, literally was Chris Jackson, who wound up

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Speaker 6: having an NBA career. Looked it up. He was thirty

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Speaker 6: points a game as a.

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Speaker 4: Freshman at all.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: You know what's really funny is I don't know what

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Speaker 2: prompted it, but I went on a Chris Jackson slash

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Speaker 2: Mack mood Up Duel Rau Google rampage the other night.

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Speaker 2: I think I saw like an interview with him, and

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Speaker 2: I was like, I remember him being good in college,

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Speaker 2: or at least hearing it at the time.

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Speaker 4: Crazy good school.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so I did a deep dive on him

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Speaker 2: literally probably within the last.

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Speaker 6: Ten And keep in mind context as we talk about

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Speaker 6: great freshman seasons, people like Pete Maravich and Kareem and

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Speaker 6: Walton weren't eligible to play as freshman. By the way,

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Speaker 6: the Cooper Flag stat it was first since Dwayne Wade

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Speaker 6: over twenty years ago to in an NCAA tournament game

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Speaker 6: have at least thirty points, five rebounds, five assists, and

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Speaker 6: three blocks.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Okay, and he did it again.

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Speaker 2: And this is not to diminish what he did, but

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Speaker 2: he was a I believe, a red shirt junior that year.

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Speaker 2: Cooper Flag, I believe is the second youngest player in

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Speaker 2: college basketball.

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Speaker 6: It's wasn't Wade as a senior the final four team

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Speaker 6: with Marquette. You're right with the four years in college

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Speaker 6: before the NBA. Well, Florida and Duke advance. And by

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Speaker 6: the way, it's Florida facing either Auburn or Michigan State

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Speaker 6: in a national semi final.

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Speaker 4: I screwed that up. I want to podizepop.

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Speaker 6: Florida the one seed wins the West Region Final in

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Speaker 6: San Francisco, beating Texas Tech eighty four. Seventy nine All

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Speaker 6: American Walter Clayton looking the part again like last weekend,

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Speaker 6: thirty points tonight, one seed in the East. Duke won

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Speaker 6: that regional final in New Jersey, downing Alabama eighty five

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Speaker 6: sixty five. Duke's lead was nine with under seven minutes

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Speaker 6: to go. Duke faces Houston or Tennessee in the final

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Speaker 6: four next weekend in San Antonio to the Women's Sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 6: USC wins to night without injured star Juju Watkins sixty

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Speaker 6: seven sixty one over Kansas State. Yukon gets forty points

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Speaker 6: from Page Beckers.

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Speaker 4: In a win over Oklahoma.

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Speaker 6: Victories for Texas and TCU in the NBA. Oklahoma City

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Speaker 6: won its ninth game in a row. Boston won it's

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Speaker 6: eighth straight. Lakers got to win at Memphis, even though

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Speaker 6: John Morant returned and had twenty two points ten assists.

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Speaker 6: Brooklyn ended a six game losing streak with a narrow

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Speaker 6: win at Washington. Among the NHL contest, Saint Louis won

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Speaker 6: it's ninth in a row, two to one at Colorado.

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Speaker 6: The Padres shut out the Braves tonight on Fox TV

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Speaker 6: for part of the country one nothing. Padres are three

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Speaker 6: to zero, but Manny Machado left with calf tightness. The

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Speaker 6: rest of the country saw Houston win two to one

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Speaker 6: over the Mets. Mets offense went one for twenty eight

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Speaker 6: at the plate. The Dodgers have one of the Lake games.

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Speaker 6: They were tied to two in the fifth against Detroit.

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Speaker 6: It's now seven to three LA in the bottom of

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Speaker 6: the eighth, solo home runs for Freddie Freeman, Will Smith

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Speaker 6: and Tommy Edmund and also still going the A's. Don't

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Speaker 6: call them the Oakland A's. They've moved.

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Speaker 4: Are they fishing in Sacramento?

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Speaker 6: Now they are in Sacramento. They're just not the Sacramento A's.

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 2: I saw Dan Byron and I were on yesterday and

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Speaker 2: we saw the Tampa Bay Rays at the Yankees Ballpark's.

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Speaker 6: Gutting a sell out of ten thousand again there today.

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Speaker 6: Good for them well in the Big Stadium in Miami,

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Speaker 6: ten thousand.

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Speaker 2: So really, Buyer brought up to point, he's like the

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Speaker 2: white Rays uniforms really pop with sunlight because you're used

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Speaker 2: to seeing the home whites in that dark, old.

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Speaker 4: Poor Tropicana Field, which I know is not in very

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Speaker 4: good shape.

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Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, destroyed what the hurricane going through there, which

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Speaker 6: is why Spring Training Stadium for the Rays and Sacramento

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Speaker 6: sharing a Triple A stadium for the A's for a

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Speaker 6: few years until the move to Vegas. Anyway, Athletics in

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Speaker 6: the seventh leading three at Seattle, and I must mention

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Speaker 6: the Yankee game today, nine home runs against Milwaukee and

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Speaker 6: they beat them Brewers twenty to nine. Here it is

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Speaker 6: Nestor Cortes, the guy who gave up the World Series

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Speaker 6: Grand Slam to Freddie Freeman. I should have looked it

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Speaker 6: up if that was his last pitch thrown as a Yankee,

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Speaker 6: but we do know his first pitch thrown against the

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Speaker 6: Yankees was a home run, and then his second pitch

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Speaker 6: home run, and then his third pitch home run. Aaron

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Speaker 6: Judge wound up with three homers.

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Speaker 2: Hey, really quick, not to make this a Sacramento as segment.

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Speaker 2: Don't call him Sacramento. Have they even figured out the

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Speaker 2: ballpark situation in Vegas yet? I know it's maybe more

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Speaker 2: of a Bernie Fratto question.

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Speaker 6: Figured out as in financially it's.

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Speaker 4: A go all of it.

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Speaker 2: It's like, do they have a site? You know, they

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Speaker 2: said they were going to do the Tropicana and.

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Speaker 6: Then torn down last summer. Yes, so in theory, we're

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Speaker 6: getting a Major League Baseball stadium, small, but a stadium

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Speaker 6: with a roof, of course for desert heat. Right across

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Speaker 6: the street from the MGM, on that court where New York,

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Speaker 6: New York.

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Speaker 4: Is of course, who doesn't know that corner? Dora spent

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Speaker 4: a lot of late nights on that corner.

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Speaker 6: Walking distance from the hockey arena.

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Speaker 2: Another yes, well that is excuse you, j mart I

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Speaker 2: Actually I love Vegas. I usually go during Conference Championship week.

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Speaker 2: I missed it this year.

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Speaker 6: Four or five conference is there every year.

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Speaker 2: One less for now with the PAC twelve. So that

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Speaker 2: was why I didn't go, But now that I'd like

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Speaker 2: to be.

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Speaker 3: There in a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 6: By the way, Final Four is in Vegas in three years.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I knew that. I did not know, Russell me.

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Speaker 3: I got to mention something on Saturday. How many times

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Speaker 3: have we talked about the City Connect uniforms that the

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Speaker 3: braves wear on Saturdays during years past?

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Speaker 6: They pop?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the beautiful ones. Did you check out the Padres

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Speaker 3: threads on Friday?

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Speaker 6: Give it to me?

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Speaker 3: No, I mean you need to look it up if

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Speaker 3: you haven't seen it. You need to look it up

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Speaker 3: because as good as the Braves were, the Pink Ones. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the Pink Ones with the green which team is thelies

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Speaker 3: I've ever seen in life.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, not their first year for this, And as soon

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Speaker 6: as they debuted, I thought, this looks like Miami Tropical.

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Speaker 6: This doesn't say anything about San.

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Speaker 3: Diego to me.

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Speaker 6: These are horrible and light green caps.

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Speaker 4: I think I saw this.

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Speaker 3: Like real bad. Yeah, that's horrible. It looks like Lucky Charms.

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Speaker 4: It looks like, uh, what was that movie where Will

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Speaker 4: Ferrell was in the A B A.

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Speaker 3: This is what?

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Speaker 4: This is what myro Yeah, this is what those uniforms.

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Speaker 6: There's a report that this is their last year wearing

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Speaker 6: the stupid things in San Diego.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's no come tools that you're required to

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Speaker 2: wear them going forward, like and Rob Manford's not coming

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Speaker 2: down with a gavel if you just decide to cannon.

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Speaker 6: Well, there are contracts with sales and.

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Speaker 3: All right. I saw a bunch of people wearing them.

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Speaker 3: I saw a bunch of people wearing the hats. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the crowd.

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Speaker 6: Oh I know somebody who bought one, Yeah you got me.

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Speaker 3: Do you still know him or did you cut ties

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Speaker 3: at that point a time.

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Speaker 4: This looks like the semi pro uniform.

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Speaker 2: All right, Fox Sports Radio, bro it is these are

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Speaker 2: these are actually very very very bad.

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Speaker 6: And to the point, say absolutely nothing about San Diego, right, yeah, no,

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Speaker 6: it's it's a.

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Speaker 3: I was hoping maybe you would have some insight as

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Speaker 3: to what it represented.

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Speaker 6: You got anything to I mean, this is a surf city.

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Speaker 6: The ocean is not light green or pink.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Fox Sports Radio Air Towards Jason Martin,

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Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the tirec dot com studios, will come back.

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Speaker 2: Tell you what as dominant as Duke was, we got

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Speaker 2: to talk about the end of that Texas Tech Florida game.

676
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 2: Texas Tech nine point lead with two fifty to go

677
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Speaker 2: and lost.

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Speaker 4: Jmart. Do it brag about your bracket.

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Speaker 2: Nobody, you know, Listen, in life, nobody wants to hear

694
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Speaker 2: about the guy with the good bracket, just like they

695
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Speaker 2: don't want to hear about your fantasy football team. I

696
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 2: want to hear about Jmart's bracket of that's on fire

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Speaker 2: right now, go ahead, go ahead, tell America.

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Speaker 3: Look, I had the Elite eight exactly right, and right

699
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Speaker 3: now I have the Final four set right like, we'll

700
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Speaker 3: see what happens on Sunday. But I got both the

701
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 3: Saturday games right, so everything is still rolling now the

702
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 3: way that they got there. Some of those I didn't

703
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Speaker 3: get right, which is why I'm not even in first.

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00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 3: When it comes to the Fox thing, I think it

705
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 3: was fourth last night. I think Brady Quinn was number

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Speaker 3: one if I'm not mistaken. So I guess it just depends.

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Speaker 3: But look this, I assume right that most people, if

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Speaker 3: they didn't just feel like they had to pick a

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Speaker 3: bunch of upsets because it's usually chaos, their brackets are

710
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Speaker 3: probably be in better shaped than usual because the general

711
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Speaker 3: bracketbusters don't exist, like we haven't seen them throughout this tournament.

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Speaker 3: So my guess is a lot more people are doing

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Speaker 3: well with brackets, which then makes it less less exciting

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Speaker 3: than it would be because I picked one two one

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Speaker 3: two one two one three's that's what I picked, and

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Speaker 3: it turned out to be accurate. But at the same time,

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Speaker 3: you know, I just assume there's a lot of other

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Speaker 3: people that did very some things.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you what I will say.

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Speaker 2: First of all, congratulations, I was not in near I'm

721
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Speaker 2: not in nearly as good shape. I had a couple

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Speaker 2: of different things. I did have Alabama Duke in the

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Speaker 2: Elite eight, and I did have actually I did have

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Speaker 2: Alabama winning. But I bring it up because I do

725
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Speaker 2: think that this is just again, this is just a

726
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Speaker 2: world that we have to accept that this is where

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Speaker 2: college basketball is going, is the best teams are going

728
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 2: they're just so top heavy right now and it's just

729
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Speaker 2: a different world really quickly. I'm trying to remember because

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Speaker 2: I think last year it was something pretty similar. I

731
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Speaker 2: think last year was more about basically all the ones

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Speaker 2: through fours essentially made the second weekend, we had let's see,

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Speaker 2: a one versus two with Purdue Tennessee in the Elite eight,

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Speaker 2: one versus three, Illinois and Yukon. Then we did have

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Speaker 2: a four versus eleven with NC State and Duke, which

736
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Speaker 2: was just a weird one. So yeah, I guess it

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Speaker 2: wasn't quite like that last year. I do remember the

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Speaker 2: the first weekend being pretty top heavy last year, but

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Speaker 2: j Mart with all eight Elite eight all to the

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Speaker 2: two final four teams so far, Torres zero for two

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Speaker 2: on the final four. I had Saint John's and Bama

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Speaker 2: coming out of these two brackets.

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Speaker 3: I do have.

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Speaker 4: Auburnd and Houston, So I'll see what happens tomorrow. Speaking

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Speaker 4: of the brackets. Speaking of we haven't talked about the

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00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 4: first game, and there's a lot to talk about Texas Tech.

747
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Speaker 4: They were up seventy three to this is by the way,

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Speaker 4: remember Texas Tech overcame a thirteen point deficit with four

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Speaker 4: minutes to go against Arkansas in the Sweet sixteen, they

750
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Speaker 4: were up nine with two fifty to go. J Mart

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Speaker 4: seventy three to sixty four. I'll be quick here. They

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Speaker 4: missed two front ends of one and ones. Not good.

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Speaker 4: There was the ten second call where they were down

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Speaker 4: three and I think they were down one.

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Speaker 2: Maybe needed to foul, but Florida's taking its sweet time

756
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Speaker 2: getting the ball up the floor.

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Speaker 4: They were realize it. They make a move.

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Speaker 2: Texas Tech follows with twenty one left on the shot clock,

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Speaker 2: so in other words, one second left they would have

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Speaker 2: forced a turn over. Then Florida made the two free

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Speaker 2: throws to go up three. Darian Williams, who I feel

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Speaker 2: bad for because he was awesome in that game, but

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Speaker 2: misses a wide open three. Just bring it up to

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Speaker 2: very simply say Texas Tech again up up nine points

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Speaker 2: with two point fifty to go. Not only lose, but

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Speaker 2: lose in regulation.

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Speaker 4: Just an absolute heartbreak.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Florida took advantage and won the game. But

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Speaker 3: I don't know how else to put this. Texas Tech choked.

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Speaker 3: They just choked. And I hate to use that term

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Speaker 3: because it seems harsh and it seems mean, but we

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Speaker 3: watched the game. I told you in the text. I

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Speaker 3: was just like, man, this is about four shots for

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Speaker 3: both teams. And then you mentioned a couple of other things,

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Speaker 3: including that ten second deal, which was unreal because basically

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00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 3: they let a bunch of time a lapsed off the

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Speaker 3: clock and then committed the foul on top of it.

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Speaker 3: If you're gonna foul, you better foul immediately. If not,

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Speaker 3: because what actually happened was Florida didn't seem to be

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Speaker 3: They weren't pushing the issue, and I'm not sure they

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Speaker 3: understood the ten seconds were coming. They weren't going to

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Speaker 3: make it. That foul came with twenty one seconds left

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Speaker 3: on the shot clock. If you had just gotten it

784
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Speaker 3: down to twenty, that thing would have been a ten

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00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 3: second violation. You would have gotten the ball back. But

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Speaker 3: you mentioned Williams. He missed two wide open threes, so

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Speaker 3: they missed two front ends of one and one's when

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00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 3: they were down, when it was a when they were

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Speaker 3: up six, and then on the other side Clayton went crazy.

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Speaker 3: They end up hitting four threes, So it was four

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Speaker 3: misses for Alabama and it was four big time. Makes

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Speaker 3: all of them threes for Florida, plus you had the

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Speaker 3: ten second deal. It just everything that possibly could have

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00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 3: gone wrong for Texas Tech did and it was all

795
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 3: because they just couldn't hit anything, couldn't make shots like

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Speaker 3: if you can. And honestly, you could almost sense it

797
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 3: because they started playing a little ragged. They started all

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Speaker 3: of a sudden, their footwork didn't seem to be quite

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Speaker 3: the same. It was almost like that moment where they actually, man,

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Speaker 3: we're actually about to beat this team. And then they

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00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 3: lost it. And that's the problem with beating a team

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Speaker 3: that is heavily favored. Like it's not that they didn't

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00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,439
Speaker 3: come in confident, but they got into that situation where

804
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 3: they were just trying to drown out that clock because

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00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 3: the game wasn't over yet. It's just like, man, we're

806
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 3: about to beat them. We can beat this team, we

807
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 3: can beat this team. Man, why is it not over?

808
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 3: Why is it not over? And before you know it,

809
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 3: you look up and you've lost. And it was heartbreaking

810
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 3: for them. That's the right way to describe it. But

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Speaker 3: they lost this game more than Florida won it. They

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00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 3: should have won this game. Charles Barkley even said that

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Speaker 3: in the postgame, I agree with him. He said, I

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00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 3: don't think the better team won this game, and I

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00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 3: think he's right. Texas Tech let this slip through their fingers,

816
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 3: and credit to Florida because they had to snatch it

817
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 3: and not just let it hit the ground. But that's

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00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 3: exactly what they did, and they have a closer in

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Speaker 3: Clayton that finished them off. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I actually did not see those Charles Barkley comments, but

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Speaker 2: I agree with them one hundred percent. You feel awful

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Speaker 2: for Texas and to your point, you want to give

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Speaker 2: credit to Walter Clayton, who is absolutely unbelievable. You know,

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Speaker 2: Walter Clayton doesn't get Florida's to get out of the

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Speaker 2: second round. If Walter Clayton doesn't go crazy against Yukon

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Speaker 2: and then crazy against Texas Tech thirty points on Saturday

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Speaker 2: in the Elite eight win, bring it up because at

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Speaker 2: the same time, when you have a nine point lead,

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's any way other to describe it,

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Speaker 2: Jay Martin, to say exactly what you did, a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a choke job for Texas Tech. More tournament

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Speaker 2: coming up, but also we got to talk Interview of

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Speaker 2: the Century McAfee Lebron next.

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Speaker 2: us for two more hours, so let's go ahead and

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Speaker 2: dive in. If you missed our one, we talked a

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Speaker 2: lot about the ope the first day of the Elite

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Speaker 2: Eight in the NCAA tournament, Duke and Florida, as de

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Speaker 2: Segre just told you, have advanced to the final four.

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Speaker 2: They will be joined by the winner of Sunday's Auburn

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Speaker 2: Michigan State game and Houston Tennessee game. By late Sunday

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Speaker 2: we will have a final four. But right now two

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Speaker 2: bids are set. We will get back to college basketball

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Speaker 2: in just a minute, Jmart. But before we do, we

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Speaker 2: got to talk about the interview. You know, rock the

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Speaker 2: world shook up, the Internet, shook up America. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what the verbiage is here, but earlier this week,

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Speaker 2: Lebron James and the Los Angeles Lakers were playing the

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Speaker 2: Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis. Great finish. By the way, the

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00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 2: Lakers actually wanted the buzzer. But why I bring it

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00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 2: up is because that wasn't really the story of the

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Speaker 2: Lakers trip to Indianapolis. Instead, it was Lebron doing an

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Speaker 2: in person sit down with Pat McAfee of the Pat

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Speaker 2: McAfee Show on ESPN, and our long interview lot of

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Speaker 2: ground covered some criticism of Stephen A.

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Speaker 4: Smith.

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Speaker 2: Basically, it was acknowledged that Lebron really has no real

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Speaker 2: relationship to speak of with Michael Jordan. There was an

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Speaker 2: interesting quote about Giannis that Yannis responded to that we'll

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Speaker 2: get to a little bit later in the show. I'm

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Speaker 2: just curious for your perspective, Jason, what do you think?

873
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 2: I have some thoughts, but what do you think was

874
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 2: the purpose of that interview, Like why do you believe

875
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 2: that Lebron on a road trip and listen. To be clear,

876
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 2: no jealousy, know nothing. McAfee has a huge audience. He's

877
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 2: built this incredible platform for himself, and now obviously he's

878
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 2: on ESPN for three hours a day or two hours

879
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 2: a day or whatever it is. But I just bring

880
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 2: it up to ask you, what do you think the

881
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 2: purpose of that Lebron interview was? Because it was certainly interesting,

882
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 2: it certainly created quite a few headlines. I just don't

883
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 2: know exactly why he did it, although I have some thoughts.

884
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Jamar, Well, it's annoying if you're a Lakers fan,

885
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 3: and almost has to be right because I need you

886
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 3: focused on trying to win a championship.

887
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 4: So can I cut you off on that real quick?

888
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 2: Yeahhad go right ahead, because I was thinking about that,

889
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 2: and I don't want to be the guy that never

890
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 2: played in the NBA that's pretending like I know what

891
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 2: NBA players are thinking.

892
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,399
Speaker 4: But I bet the players on the.

893
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 2: Team didn't know that that was going to happen, that

894
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 2: interview was to happen, And I was literally thinking about

895
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 2: it today as I was prepping for the show of like,

896
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 2: how do you think Luca felt? That was just like, oh,

897
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 2: We're here on a road trip trying to get healthy

898
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 2: for the playoffs, and you're just doing an interview for

899
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 2: an hour in the middle of the day. Maybe he

900
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,359
Speaker 2: didn't care, but I feel like if I was one

901
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,919
Speaker 2: of those players, I'd be like, dude, can we lock

902
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 2: in on the season? We can we do something that's

903
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 2: not all about Lebron. So I had that thought today.

904
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 2: I didn't want to steal the thunder from you. Go

905
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 2: back ahead and go wherever you were going.

906
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 3: J Martin, No, I mean that's right. I mean, look,

907
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 3: all this stuff was Stephen A. Smith, even the the

908
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 3: windhorse comment, which I thought was really lame, just all

909
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 3: of what he's doing right now, and you said you're

910
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 3: not sure what he's doing. I don't get the end

911
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 3: game of it, but it just seems like he's focused

912
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 3: on the wrong things. And even though it's possible it

913
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 3: doesn't affect anything, you can't tell me it doesn't knock

914
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 3: a couple I said this to fits this more this

915
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 3: morning when we were when I was filling in for

916
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 3: Anthony Gargano, Like, you can't tell me it doesn't knock

917
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,720
Speaker 3: a couple of focus points off, A couple of focused

918
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 3: percentage points off if Lebron is worried about his social

919
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 3: media feed and these beasts and putting up videos of

920
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 3: Stephen A. Smith badly boxing in some training deal, and

921
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 3: they're going back and forth like they're like, it's a

922
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 3: pro wrestling angle. And I said this, like, as somebody

923
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 3: that worked in pro wrestling as long as I did,

924
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 3: I can spot a work from a mile away. And

925
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 3: even if the initial confrontation was what it was, Dude,

926
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 3: this is not Drake versus Kendrick Lamar. This is two

927
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 3: guys that are just kind of doing everything out there

928
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 3: in public so that everybody can see it. It's being

929
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 3: talked about like crazy. Meanwhile, you're losing to the Chicago

930
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 3: Bulls twice. Meanwhile you're escaping. You mentioned that buzzer play

931
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,959
Speaker 3: that last thirteen seconds against the Bulls wasn't very good.

932
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 3: And steven A's eating this up because this is what

933
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 3: he he does, Like, this is what he does for

934
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 3: a living. He gets paid very hand lead to do it,

935
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 3: and a lot of people watch him. He may not

936
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 3: be your cup of tea, but no question, he draws ratings,

937
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 3: so they wouldn't be paying him the money that they're

938
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 3: paying it. So you look at it from Lebron's perspective,

939
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 3: maybe it doesn't affect a thing, but you can't tell me.

940
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 3: You can't prove to me that it doesn't affect anything,

941
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 3: Like it's possible the Giants would have lost that game

942
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 3: anyway had they had Odell in Company not taken that cruise.

943
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,280
Speaker 3: But they took the cruise and then they lost the game,

944
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, Okay, you can't deny

945
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 3: anything because you can't prove a negative. And in this case,

946
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 3: it's the same way with what's happening with the Lakers,

947
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 3: and everything is so magnified right now around that franchise.

948
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,399
Speaker 3: They win a game's the greatest thing ever. They lose

949
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 3: the game. How in the world did they do this?

950
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 3: They win the next game, They're gonna win the championship.

951
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 3: They lose a game, they're incomplete, and their disappointment and

952
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 3: all this other stuff, like everything is so magnified. I

953
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 3: do not begrudge anybody for saying what they want on

954
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 3: their own time, But during the season, I'm just gonna

955
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,399
Speaker 3: say it, man, shut up and dribble, Like, at this

956
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 3: point right now, your job is to go win a

957
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 3: championship as a Lakers fan, And I'm just kind of

958
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:22,399
Speaker 3: at a stand in at this point and saying, if

959
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 3: I was a Lakers fan, this is not what I

960
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 3: want to see. And to your point, if I'm Luka Dancic,

961
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 3: if I'm Austin Reeves, if I'm one of these other guys,

962
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 3: this is not what I want to see. This is

963
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 3: the Paul George doing the podcast during the season. Can

964
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 3: we stop, like do this during the off season. I

965
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 3: don't need Draymond having a podcast during the NBA season.

966
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 3: I don't need anybody doing that. I need them focused

967
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 3: on the job at hand, because what they're being paid

968
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 3: handily to do is hopefully to bring a championship to

969
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 3: the team that they play for. And if you're in

970
00:46:55,920 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 3: all these weird media beefs and you're gonna stop by

971
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 3: and talk to McAfee and do that whole deal, and

972
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 3: you're just sort of all over the place, I don't

973
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 3: really understand. I just feel like your priorities are all

974
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 3: out of whack and you are looking like someone that's

975
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 3: gonna be an early exit from the NBA playoffs because

976
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 3: you're not dialed in as good as you are. They

977
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 3: just don't look dialed in right now. And if he

978
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,720
Speaker 3: and Luca aren't at top form, they've got no shot.

979
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting.

980
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 2: I hadn't even thought of it from the distraction to

981
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 2: the team perspective outside of what I said a minute

982
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 2: ago about just thinking about it this morning.

983
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 4: But I'm just trying to figure out again, what is

984
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 4: the endgame?

985
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 3: Is it?

986
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 2: Because Lebron has his own platforms. It's like, if he

987
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 2: wants to bash Stephen A Smith, you know, he can

988
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 2: bash Stephen A Smith. But at the same time, you know,

989
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,959
Speaker 2: the only thing I could think of is listen again,

990
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 2: this is not a criticism. McAfee's great at what he does.

991
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 2: You know, McAfee's created this great brand of oh you

992
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 2: know what of the bulls and you know, you know,

993
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 2: basically we've all seen the show. If you haven't watched

994
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 2: it closely, it's a bunch of dudes sitting around talking sports.

995
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 2: And it was weird because I feel like Lebron did

996
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 2: it because like he wanted to somehow seem more relatable.

997
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:18,359
Speaker 4: I'm just one of the guys. I'm gonna come in.

998
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 2: But then all he did was kind of talk crap and,

999
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 2: let's be honest, kind of pretend to be the victim right,

1000
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 2: he's mad about the steven A thing, which again, the

1001
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 2: steven A stuff I still go to. At the core

1002
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 2: of it, steven A is dead right. You can disagree

1003
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 2: with how the message got out, but steven A was

1004
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,720
Speaker 2: criticizing Bronnie the NBA player.

1005
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 4: He's allowed to do that. That's part of his job.

1006
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, he was one of the

1007
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 2: most defensive people of Bronni during the draft process, which

1008
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 2: we've talked about a million times. But you know, again,

1009
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 2: lebron goes, I want to be one of the guys.

1010
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 2: I'm gonna drop a few f bombs. I'm cool, I'm fun,

1011
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,319
Speaker 2: I'm hip, I'm this, I'm that. Then, like I said,

1012
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 2: all he kind of does is complain about, Yeah, don't

1013
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 2: have a relationship with MJ. Yeah, I had a tough

1014
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:03,240
Speaker 2: coming out of high school. Yeah, me and steven A whatever.

1015
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 2: And it's like he didn't come off as one of

1016
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 2: the guys, like, I don't know, it's just that was

1017
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 2: the weird part to me was again, everybody wants to

1018
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 2: be in that McAfee orbit because it's kind of a loose,

1019
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 2: fun environment. But I didn't like outside of dropping a

1020
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 2: few f bombs, like I didn't feel like he was loose.

1021
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:24,760
Speaker 2: I felt like it was now it was a longer

1022
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,319
Speaker 2: form platform for him to talk about some things that

1023
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 2: he wanted to talk about. And if he just wanted

1024
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 2: to say, hey, look, you know, don't blame me for

1025
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 2: having you know, if I have no relationship with MJ,

1026
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 2: don't blame me if whatever. But I just I feel

1027
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 2: like I don't know. I just I've said it a

1028
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 2: few times. I'll throw it back to you. I don't

1029
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 2: need to say it again. But I just feel like

1030
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 2: it seemed like he did it because he wanted because

1031
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 2: he could do any inner, he could do any media anywhere,

1032
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 2: But it felt like he did it because he wanted

1033
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 2: to be one of the boys. And I don't think

1034
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 2: he came like, maybe I'm just an an I don't

1035
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 2: think I'm an ante lebron guy, so I'll stop correcting.

1036
00:49:59,400 --> 00:49:59,919
Speaker 4: Myself, mitz.

1037
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 2: But I don't feel like he came off more likable.

1038
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:05,880
Speaker 2: And maybe that wasn't the intention, but it seems like

1039
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 2: that's probably what it was. I don't think it really worked.

1040
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,320
Speaker 2: I don't think it made him necessarily more unlikable, but

1041
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 2: I don't think it made it more likable.

1042
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 3: Either it might have made it more unlikely. I thought

1043
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 3: that I didn't want to say it to be a giant,

1044
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 3: it might have made it more I feel like he's

1045
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 3: becoming more unlikable by the day. He's becoming more polarizing

1046
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 3: by the day. Everything that he's doing is kind of

1047
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 3: it feels like sampaper, It feels like nails on a chalkboard.

1048
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 3: And I don't know that he's actually trying to do that,

1049
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 3: Like there's something about it. It's like this veneer is

1050
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 3: off of Lebron James and he's just kind of irritating

1051
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 3: now sure, and he's also like out here with these

1052
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 3: weird personal beasts taking strange shots that he doesn't need

1053
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 3: to take. Like his legacy is already intact. It is

1054
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 3: what it is now. All he just does is go

1055
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 3: win some championships if he wants to continue to play basketball.

1056
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 3: But like the way he showed up and you talked

1057
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 3: about him not being one of the boys, that's because

1058
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 3: he's not one of the boys exactly. I mean, that's

1059
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 3: what it is. And you could see through it in

1060
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 3: that moment, like there's a there's a carefully curated image

1061
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 3: about Lebron James that sometimes gets very much shattered, and look,

1062
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 3: we can we can't even fathom what it's like to

1063
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 3: be him and to have had a camera in your

1064
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 3: face since you were basically in ninth tenth grade and

1065
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 3: everybody telling you you're great, and you knowing it and

1066
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 3: you going out improving it and going through all that

1067
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:37,240
Speaker 3: you've gone through, Like, he has had a very unique

1068
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 3: experience that we cannot relate to. And he's probably tired

1069
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 3: of he's getting a little bit older and all these stuff,

1070
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 3: and now the browny thing is happening, and I think

1071
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 3: at some point he had to realize and this is

1072
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,439
Speaker 3: the problem with the stephen A thing. And we've talked

1073
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,879
Speaker 3: about this, you know, for a couple for a couple

1074
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 3: of shows. Now is to your point about what stephen

1075
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 3: A's saying being true and you know where he's coming

1076
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 3: from being accurate and certainly of being legitimate criticism. The

1077
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 3: issue here is like Lebron's like, don't talk about my son.

1078
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 3: It's like, dude, you put him in the NBA like

1079
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 3: they're going to talk about him. That's that's the way

1080
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 3: that it's going to be. He is not going to

1081
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 3: be off limits. And it's ridiculous for you to assume

1082
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 3: that he is, like, you can't be that naive at

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00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 3: this point. And I feel bad, and We've said this

1084
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 3: multiple times. I feel bad for Bronni. I do, because

1085
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 3: it's not really on him, but he's gonna always be

1086
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 3: tagged this way because of the way that he came

1087
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 3: into the NBA, and so Lebron's out here trying to

1088
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 3: protect his son and all this other kind of stuff.

1089
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 3: It just comes off lane and it comes off very

1090
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 3: hypocritical because and I also think, and I said this

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00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 3: to Fitz this morning, where he asked, you know, why

1092
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 3: does Broni matter? Because he thinks it's ridiculous anybody even

1093
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:56,319
Speaker 3: cares should be talked about, And he makes a valid point,

1094
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 3: but I said, it's not about Bronnie. Nobody's actually criticizing

1095
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 3: Bronnie is a proxy to Lebron James. Everything that they

1096
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 3: say about Bronni, everything that is said negative about.

1097
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 7: Bronnie is actually geared to go straight to Lebron. The

1098
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 7: whole thing is about it's criticizing Lebron. It's not criticizing Bronnie.

1099
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 7: And the reason why Bronni is.

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00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 3: Talked about so often is because everything involving Lebron James

1101
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 3: has talked about all the time and has been for

1102
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,959
Speaker 3: two and a half decades almost at this point in time.

1103
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 3: So you look at all of that and then it's like,

1104
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 3: so I'm going to go on Pat McAfee. Dude, you

1105
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 3: can just go on your own podcast and say all

1106
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 3: of these things, and instead you're doing it on Pat

1107
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 3: McAfee's show, and you're doing it wearing all black and

1108
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 3: the whole like Johnny Cash is up here, Like the

1109
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 3: whole thing it just rang completely wrong. It rained completely false,

1110
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 3: like he was trying to present some kind of a

1111
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 3: persona that just didn't work. Speaking of the podcast, like

1112
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 3: you and Steve Nash, why don't you do that in

1113
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 3: the offseason and don't worry about this like everybody is

1114
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 3: gonna hinge on every word that you say anyway, at

1115
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 3: least all the people that you care about Your podcast

1116
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 3: for the next couple of months shouldn't be a focal

1117
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 3: point at all. Just go play basketball, That's what I'm saying. Like,

1118
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 3: you can have your opinions, you can say whatever you

1119
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 3: want in your time, but as it relates to me

1120
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 3: as a sports fan and somebody that just consumes this

1121
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 3: as entertainment, shut up and dribble.

1122
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what one. I'm with you. I

1123
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 2: don't think it made him look any better. And to

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00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,399
Speaker 2: your point, apparently the media tour isn't over because he's

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00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 2: reviving the podcast. And my first thought was, while he's

1126
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 2: just auditioning his next head coach, because JJ Reddick, who

1127
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 2: previously hosted the podcast with him, is now the Lakers coach.

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00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 2: So Steve Nash will step in, and I want to

1129
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:59,839
Speaker 2: bring in our special Steve Nash correspondent producer Bree give us.

1130
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 2: You know your son's Finn. You're a Steve Nash fan.

1131
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 4: How are you?

1132
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 2: How are you handling the fact that Steve Nash is

1133
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:08,320
Speaker 2: about a four game losing streak away from being the

1134
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 2: Lakers head coach?

1135
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 4: How are you holding up?

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00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 8: I just think it's kind of sloppy. Seconds For me.

1137
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 9: It is because it's like I wish it was like

1138
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 9: a Steve Nash kind of podcast, like that was like

1139
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:20,399
Speaker 9: he originated it, Like he just kind of like feel

1140
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:22,399
Speaker 9: like he's just kind of just throwing them in there.

1141
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 8: So that's just my take. I was a little irritated,

1142
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 8: but I mean he's all for it, So congrats to him,

1143
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,800
Speaker 8: but I don't think it like helps him or anything

1144
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 8: or it helps.

1145
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 4: His I also just don't think why would Steve Nash.

1146
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm being sarcastic about him being the next Lakers

1147
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 2: head coach, but like pretty bad experience with Katie and Kyrie,

1148
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 2: So maybe this is just a way to stay involved

1149
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 2: in basketball without actually coaching, because I can't imagine it

1150
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 2: was fun coaching Kadi and Kyrie. And I think he

1151
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 2: was there for part of the James Harden experience as well.

1152
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 8: But and he was with the Warriors, he was like

1153
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 8: a special like a coach, one of the coaches. He

1154
00:55:57,120 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 8: won like a few rings with them. That's where I

1155
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 8: think he's like his skills really are you know?

1156
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:08,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, well all I know Lebron's podcast revamped with Steve Nash.

1157
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:11,439
Speaker 2: So if one hour with Pat McAfee was not enough,

1158
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 2: apparently you're getting more Lebron in season. By the way,

1159
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,320
Speaker 2: I'll put a bow on it by just saying this, Jamrt,

1160
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 2: I agree with you. The player led podcast during the

1161
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 2: season is really cool when you win, like when Draymond

1162
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 2: and the Warriors won the twenty twenty two Finals and

1163
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 2: you were getting immediate reaction from Draymond after the game.

1164
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 4: Sort of cool.

1165
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 2: Not nearly as cool when you're Micah Parsons, when you're

1166
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 2: Paul George, or when you are Lebron James in the

1167
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 2: middle of an up and down stretch run here, but

1168
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:45,399
Speaker 2: it appears as though it doesn't matter Lebron James and

1169
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 2: the Steve Nash will continue his podcast Fox Sports Radio

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00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:51,799
Speaker 2: Er Towards Jason Martin broadcasting live from the tirereck dot

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Speaker 2: Com studio. Speaking of continuing, We're going to come back

1172
00:56:55,000 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 2: continue this conversation because the Lakers on Saturday night we're

1173
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 2: in Memphis, Memphis was certainly in the headlines this week.

1174
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 2: We'll discuss and we'll discuss that next very weird coaching

1175
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:08,719
Speaker 2: decision that's next.

1176
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1193
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 2: a little bit more NBA in just a moment, of course,

1194
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:01,439
Speaker 2: coming off the heels of Lebron's big, big performance at Indianapolis,

1195
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 2: not the buzzer beater, but the performance at Pat McAfee's set.

1196
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 2: I will discuss all that and more in a moment.

1197
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 2: Before we do, though, let's get over to the news

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00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 2: desk to SEGA what is trending.

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Speaker 6: On to the final four for Duke and Florida. Duke

1200
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:18,479
Speaker 6: one seed in the East put away Alabama eighty five

1201
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 6: sixty five Earlier in San Francisco, the West Region final

1202
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 6: went to one seed Florida, eliminating Texas Tech eighty four

1203
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 6: to seventy nine, thirty points for Walter Clayton. The final

1204
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 6: four is next weekend. At the Women's Sweet sixteen, things

1205
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 6: ended with a USC win tonight a victory without injured

1206
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 6: star Juju Watkins, who's out for the year. Kansas State

1207
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 6: the victim sc sixty seven sixty one. The final next

1208
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 6: up in Spokane for Monday. Two seed Yukon, which got

1209
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:48,120
Speaker 6: forty points from Page Beckers and beat Oklahoma eighty two

1210
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 6: to fifty nine. Sooners with twenty two field goals made

1211
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 6: and twenty three turnovers in this loss. In Birmingham, One

1212
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 6: seed Texas a winner over Tennessee sixty seven to fifty nine.

1213
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 6: Tennessee scored just one point in the last four and

1214
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 6: a half minutes. Today, Lady vols from three point range

1215
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 6: five of twenty six. Two seed TCU advance beating Notre

1216
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 6: Dames seventy one sixty two to the final. Hayley van List,

1217
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 6: seemingly on her fifty second college basketball team, had twenty

1218
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 6: six points Notre Dames. Hanna Hidalgo three of nineteen shooting

1219
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 6: from the floor. She had averaged twenty four points a

1220
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 6: game this year. Among the NBA Finals, Oklahoma City won

1221
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 6: thirty two to one eleven over Indiana thunder of one

1222
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 6: nine straight. Boston won its eighth in a row one

1223
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 6: twenty one one eleven at San Antonio and The Lakers

1224
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 6: won at Memphis one thirty four, one twenty seven despite

1225
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 6: John Morant's return, and he had twenty two points ten

1226
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 6: assists in defeat. By the way Kawhi Leonard and the

1227
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 6: Clippers will not play Sunday due to knee injury management.

1228
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 6: As for late night baseball, just one game still going

1229
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 6: to the bottom of the ninth A still lead at

1230
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 6: Seattle four to two. Dodgers are five and zero after

1231
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 6: beating Detroit seven to three. LA hits three solo homers

1232
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 6: by Freddie Freeman, Will Smith and Edmund The Dodger starter

1233
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:05,040
Speaker 6: was young Roki Sasaki from Japan. No decision, but he

1234
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 6: was bad again. One in two third innings, four walks,

1235
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 6: a wild pitch, the first two runs allowed, sixty one

1236
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 6: pitches thrown in inning and two thirds. Cubs won four

1237
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 6: to three at Arizona. Cubs had been one and three

1238
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 6: on the early season, but shows to Imonaga got the

1239
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 6: wins seven innings, just one run allowed for the Diamondbacks.

1240
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 3: Say you.

1241
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 6: Hennio Suarez has homered in all three games so far,

1242
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 6: including a two run shot bottom of the ninth to

1243
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 6: at least get him close. Tonight Houston two to one

1244
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 6: winners against the Mets. Mets offense went one for twenty

1245
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 6: eight at the plate. San Diego won nothing over Atlanta.

1246
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 6: The Padres now three to ohero Manny Machado, though left

1247
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 6: with calf tightness. Texas for to three over Boston. The

1248
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 6: losing pitcher X Dodger Walker Buehler and Red Sox dh

1249
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:51,920
Speaker 6: Rafael Devers, the former third baseman in his first three games,

1250
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 6: has struck out ten times already for the Rangers. Adolas

1251
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 6: Garcia three for three, home run three RBIs Miami and

1252
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 6: twelve innings beet Pittsburgh five to four, and the Yankees

1253
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 6: at nine home runs in a win over Milwaukee twenty

1254
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 6: to nine. In late night NHL action, Dallas leads to

1255
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 6: one at Seattle. End of two. Saint Louis won it's

1256
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 6: ninth straight game to one at Colorado.

1257
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 4: Back to you, thank you very much, Steve de Seger.

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Speaker 2: about the Los Angeles Lakers weird Week buzzer beater win

1275
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:19,120
Speaker 2: over Indie buzzer beater loss against Chicago Sandwich jen of course,

1276
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 2: with a trip to the Pat McAfee studios for Lebron

1277
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 2: James Well, they returned to the court on Saturday night

1278
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 2: in Memphis to face the Grizzlies. Why is that significant,

1279
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 2: you ask, Well, it's because this was the first game

1280
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 2: since the Grizzlies decided to fire Taylor Jenkins, their head

1281
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 2: coach Taylor Jenkins was fired on Friday with the Memphis

1282
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 2: Grizzlies in fifth place in the standings in the NBA Finals.

1283
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 2: Made no sense to me. I have some thoughts, but

1284
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 2: I want to defer to you. What do you think

1285
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 2: about the Taylor Jenkins firing.

1286
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:01,360
Speaker 3: Definitely strange timing of it. I think they were the

1287
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 3: fifth seed to the West and now they haven't played

1288
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 3: particularly well in this last stretch. The one thing about

1289
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 3: Tabard Jenkins, and this kind of goes back aways, is

1290
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 3: he's he has said a lot right like, he's kind

1291
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:19,480
Speaker 3: of been out front. He's been a little chesty at times,

1292
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 3: and that's really good when things are going great. But

1293
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:27,120
Speaker 3: behind the scenes, if things aren't all rosy, that can

1294
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 3: become a detriment real fast, and you can wear you're

1295
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,320
Speaker 3: welcome out a little bit faster maybe than you think

1296
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:35,840
Speaker 3: you're going to, and then something crazy like this happens.

1297
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:40,000
Speaker 3: But again, this is a guy who had taken the

1298
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 3: team to the playoffs. Looks like he's going to take

1299
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 3: them again. But in the off season, they were all

1300
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 3: sorts of changes made in terms of yeah, we're pretty

1301
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 3: much gonna cut your staff, We're going to take it's

1302
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,920
Speaker 3: either five or six guys or something off your coaching staff,

1303
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 3: and we're going to bring in something, and we're going

1304
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 3: to change the offense, by the way, an offense that,

1305
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 3: according to every article that I have read, John Morant

1306
01:04:01,920 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 3: absolutely hates and made no bones about it, and at

1307
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:09,720
Speaker 3: practice and on games, there's even been you know, other

1308
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 3: players that are just kind of like, yeah, sometimes he

1309
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:14,520
Speaker 3: wants to play and sometimes he wants out of here

1310
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 3: because he can't stand this offense. So there were some

1311
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 3: things going on, and of course the jaw problem is

1312
01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 3: is going to continue to be a job problem. But

1313
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 3: you've also had like Desmond Bang cursing out a teammate

1314
01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 3: for not playing defense and things like that. So some

1315
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:32,600
Speaker 3: of these things that maybe we're behind closed doors are

1316
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:34,919
Speaker 3: out there a little bit more now. There's not really

1317
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:37,920
Speaker 3: any protection from those kind of comments. So that's there.

1318
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:42,240
Speaker 3: And again we aren't privy to everything that's happening behind

1319
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:47,080
Speaker 3: the scenes. But Taylor Jenkins is pretty headstrong and again

1320
01:04:47,280 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 3: talked a lot and maybe all of that kind of

1321
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:52,880
Speaker 3: came back to bite him. I have to think though,

1322
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:58,360
Speaker 3: that Jah, like, you're not going to do this to

1323
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:03,160
Speaker 3: upset jaw. Oh, He's the key, He's the crux behind

1324
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 3: this whole deal is trying to find a way to

1325
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 3: make sure that you keep him. The only reason that

1326
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 3: you would do it without that is to try and

1327
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:15,000
Speaker 3: encourage him to leave, and I just for whatever reason,

1328
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,439
Speaker 3: don't really see that being the case. It's a weird one,

1329
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 3: you know.

1330
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 2: First of all, of course, the GM says no player

1331
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 2: input in the firing of the of Taylor Jenkins. But

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01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:30,480
Speaker 2: I will also say I saw this kind of cracked

1333
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:34,440
Speaker 2: me up. Jared Jackson said, I thought I was NBA

1334
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 2: sentineled with this news. That of course is one of

1335
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 2: the burner fake Twitter accounts with fake news, so it

1336
01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 2: certainly caught everybody by surprise. My only two thoughts really

1337
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:48,160
Speaker 2: are are a couple things. First of all, you referenced

1338
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:52,400
Speaker 2: the staff shake up a year ago, and it's funny

1339
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:54,480
Speaker 2: because you just see by the way, I guess it

1340
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:56,280
Speaker 2: was Gigi Jackson, not Jared Jackson.

1341
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:57,520
Speaker 4: So I apologize about that, but.

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01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:02,960
Speaker 2: I bring it up because as you see this happen

1343
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 2: sometimes where last year John Morant gets hurt very early

1344
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:09,800
Speaker 2: in the season, Okay, basically from that point on, its

1345
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 2: total tank mode, as it should be. And then the

1346
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 2: GM went over Taylor jenkins head and basically shook up

1347
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 2: the entire staff, bringing in basically the entire staff. Really,

1348
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 2: you know, Taylor Jenkins had some say but not much,

1349
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 2: and one of the staff members that was brought in

1350
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:27,680
Speaker 2: was of course the guy who was brought in to

1351
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 2: replace him. But to me, I'll just say this is

1352
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 2: one again. I know the GM has said that the

1353
01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 2: players had no say in this. I get all of

1354
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:40,560
Speaker 2: that whatever. I guess my counter to that would be,

1355
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 2: like you said, I think if John Morant was adamantly

1356
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:46,400
Speaker 2: wanting Taylor Jenkins, then that would be the case. But

1357
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:50,760
Speaker 2: I'll just say this is like a couple things. One

1358
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:55,080
Speaker 2: is I'll just say my only real takeaway is this

1359
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:57,480
Speaker 2: is we don't know exactly what's going on behind the scenes.

1360
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:00,360
Speaker 2: I do think it's preposterous. I don't know why anybody

1361
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 2: would want to be an NBA head coach. You're just

1362
01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 2: getting hired to be fired. And I look at this

1363
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:10,720
Speaker 2: particular situation is I understand sometimes a team isn't jiving whatever,

1364
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 2: And I know the Grizzlies have not been playing great.

1365
01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:18,240
Speaker 2: They are in fifth place in the Western Conference right now,

1366
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:21,280
Speaker 2: and so to me, like it's one thing, because I've

1367
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:23,560
Speaker 2: seen some comparisons about you know, let's say joh had

1368
01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 2: a little something to do with it, like Giannis with

1369
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 2: Adrian Griffin a few years ago, when basically it was

1370
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 2: clear that Adrian he didn't want Adrian. That happened in December,

1371
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:34,600
Speaker 2: I think maybe even November. It was like fifteen games

1372
01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 2: in the season, and you had plenty of time to

1373
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 2: figure things out.

1374
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 4: Now you're bringing in a new.

1375
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,720
Speaker 2: Head coach two to three weeks before the playoffs start,

1376
01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:46,720
Speaker 2: and I just look at it as basically you're punting

1377
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 2: on a season of John Morant's prime.

1378
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:51,240
Speaker 4: Like John Morant is going to be.

1379
01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 2: Twenty six years old later this year, given the injury history,

1380
01:07:55,320 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 2: given you know, kind of how he plays, a lot

1381
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 2: of athleticism, a lot of hard falls to the ground,

1382
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 2: Like how many years do you really have left of

1383
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:09,960
Speaker 2: Job Morant's prime? And to basically blow it up with

1384
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:12,920
Speaker 2: three weeks left of the regular season or whatever it is,

1385
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 2: it's just preposterous to me. And so listen, I'm not

1386
01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 2: some Taylor Jenkins stan I don't really care what he

1387
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:19,920
Speaker 2: does one way or the other. And I'm sure he's

1388
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:22,320
Speaker 2: gonna get another head coaching job after this, but it's

1389
01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 2: just like you're three weeks from the playoffs, you have

1390
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 2: the five seed. It just feels preposterous to me. And

1391
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:31,880
Speaker 2: again I listen, I know it pays well. I just

1392
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:33,800
Speaker 2: don't know why anybody would want to be an NBA

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01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 2: head coach.

1394
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:37,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you're gonna take the blame and you're

1395
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:41,080
Speaker 3: almost never gonna get the credit. If there's a star

1396
01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,360
Speaker 3: in town, the star is the one that's gonna soak

1397
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:46,120
Speaker 3: up all the oxygen and certainly is gonna get the credit.

1398
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:49,200
Speaker 3: But if there is something that goes wrong, then you'r

1399
01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:53,720
Speaker 3: Darvin Ham. So that's just one of a myriad of

1400
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 3: examples where we've seen this kind of thing happen. So

1401
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 3: I wasn't the biggest Taylor Jenkins fan again, just because

1402
01:09:01,960 --> 01:09:04,800
Speaker 3: I felt like he talked a lot before they had

1403
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:08,280
Speaker 3: done a lot. But maybe that's what they needed. That's

1404
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:11,240
Speaker 3: kind of the way that that team thrived. They always

1405
01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 3: played sort of on the edge. You didn't want it

1406
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 3: to be dealing Brooks level on the edge for too long,

1407
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 3: but just that cockiness, almost arrogance about it. He kind

1408
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 3: of had that as well. So now you have an

1409
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 3: interim coach and you're entering the playoffs, and it's kind

1410
01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:30,880
Speaker 3: of a signal. You don't fire the guy if you

1411
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 3: think they can win a championship. So it's almost a

1412
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 3: signal from your ownership to your team, Yeah, we don't

1413
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 3: think you can get it done, so we're just gonna

1414
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 3: go ahead and cut this cord now. And it does

1415
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:47,400
Speaker 3: seem very strange. It's just it doesn't it's certainly not

1416
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 3: a winning move in the short term. But I don't

1417
01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 3: know if that's the case, Like, I don't even know

1418
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:56,680
Speaker 3: if that's what we're trying to do. It seems transparent

1419
01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 3: that something is wrong with that organization right now.

1420
01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:05,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think, to me, whenever the again, we're just.

1421
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 2: I'm just reading the athletic report, and so I'm sort

1422
01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 2: of speculating.

1423
01:10:10,160 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 4: Okay, I get that.

1424
01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 2: But when you have coming off of a season in

1425
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,439
Speaker 2: which you're actively trying to tank and you have the

1426
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:21,080
Speaker 2: GM demanding that the head coach fire his assistant coaches

1427
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 2: and hand picking the assistant coaches himself, it means that's

1428
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:28,200
Speaker 2: just dysfunction. That's That's the only way to put it.

1429
01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:30,880
Speaker 2: Is the GM hires a coach to do a job.

1430
01:10:30,920 --> 01:10:33,040
Speaker 2: The GM's job is not to coach the team. It's

1431
01:10:33,040 --> 01:10:38,679
Speaker 2: not to put together a staff. And so to me, again,

1432
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 2: I'm not standing for Taylor Jenkins here. I mean, maybe

1433
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 2: the GM's right, maybe this guy is the best head coach,

1434
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 2: you know, you know, the new interim head coach.

1435
01:10:46,520 --> 01:10:47,439
Speaker 4: Because that's the other thing too.

1436
01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:48,680
Speaker 2: And we'll be quick here because I want to get

1437
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,240
Speaker 2: back to Segar. But it cracks me up is that

1438
01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, you know, well, this this new assistant

1439
01:10:54,400 --> 01:10:56,439
Speaker 2: he came I think he came from Finland, and it's like, oh,

1440
01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 2: and you know.

1441
01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:58,280
Speaker 4: He's very into it.

1442
01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 2: It's like, dude, all these guys are innovative, and then

1443
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 2: a year later you fire him. Taylor Jenkins was innovative

1444
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 2: a year ago. So I just I could go on,

1445
01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:09,160
Speaker 2: but it's clear there's some again, some level of dysfunction.

1446
01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 2: If the GM is demanding the head coach fire the

1447
01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:15,760
Speaker 2: entire staff and then hand picking the staff for him,

1448
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 2: that's the sign that things aren't good, and it showed

1449
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 2: this week with Taylor Jenkins being fired.

1450
01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:23,320
Speaker 4: With the Grizzlies in fifth place in the West.

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01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:26,400
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01:11:26,439 --> 01:11:29,040
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Speaker 4: One throw it right over the news desk.

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01:12:01,280 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 2: The Saga always has our extended update around this time

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01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:06,200
Speaker 2: in the evening to Sager take it away.

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Speaker 6: My friend, hello once again, and any guest, gentleman on

1467
01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:12,920
Speaker 6: who might have had the number one scoring offense in

1468
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:17,240
Speaker 6: all of college basketball this season, the only team in

1469
01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:22,960
Speaker 6: the country in Division one to top three thousand total points.

1470
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:23,599
Speaker 4: In their games.

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01:12:23,439 --> 01:12:26,680
Speaker 6: Let's stat right there, that's Alabama Crimson, So.

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01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:29,760
Speaker 4: Three thousand total points, so just under one hundred a game.

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01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:32,200
Speaker 6: Huh, I'm not ninety one a game out of thirty

1474
01:12:32,240 --> 01:12:32,759
Speaker 6: three games.

1475
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 2: Because I was going to say yeah, yeah, because they

1476
01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:37,519
Speaker 2: played right around thirty, So yeah, ninety one points a game,

1477
01:12:37,560 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 2: and they scored sixty five tonight against Duke.

1478
01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 6: Duke one seed beats Alabama, two seed to win the

1479
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:47,599
Speaker 6: East Region eighty five sixty five. By the way, Duke

1480
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:51,720
Speaker 6: only allowed sixty two points per game this season, and

1481
01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:54,800
Speaker 6: if you're looking ahead to some of tomorrow's matchups, the

1482
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:59,120
Speaker 6: Houston Cougars allowed under sixty points a game. Tennessee only

1483
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:02,519
Speaker 6: allowed sixty three points a game. Duke is going to

1484
01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:05,679
Speaker 6: be facing Houston or Tennessee in the Final four next

1485
01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 6: weekend in San Antonio. As far as defense, field goal percentage,

1486
01:13:10,760 --> 01:13:13,280
Speaker 6: the number three and four teams in the entire country

1487
01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:15,759
Speaker 6: this is about three hundred and fifty college basketball teams.

1488
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:19,040
Speaker 6: Where Tennessee and Houston they each allowed just thirty eight

1489
01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:22,720
Speaker 6: percent shooting. So yeah, Duke scored eighty five tonight, not

1490
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:26,840
Speaker 6: expecting eighty five in that Tennessee Houston matchup with a

1491
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:30,160
Speaker 6: Final four bid on the line. The other game was

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01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:33,559
Speaker 6: the West Region final in San Francisco today and Florida

1493
01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:36,799
Speaker 6: advances notable where the game was in the Sweet sixteen

1494
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:39,559
Speaker 6: before that a couple days ago because Florida coach Todd

1495
01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 6: Golden played in the Bay Area at Saint Mary's and

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01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:45,880
Speaker 6: was an assistant at the University of San Francisco and

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01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:49,080
Speaker 6: then head coach at the University of San Francisco. He

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01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:53,640
Speaker 6: is triumphant winning the West Region final there tonight with

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01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:56,880
Speaker 6: a Florida team that trailed Texas Tech by ten with

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01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,839
Speaker 6: five and a half minutes left, and then Walter Clayton

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01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:02,679
Speaker 6: look like an All American again. He made three three

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01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:04,880
Speaker 6: pointers in the next four and a half minutes wound

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01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:07,599
Speaker 6: up with thirty points. I'd mentioned it on the previous show.

1504
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:10,479
Speaker 6: My impression of that close win for Florida over this

1505
01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 6: past weekend was that a lesser team would not have

1506
01:14:14,680 --> 01:14:19,519
Speaker 6: advanced last weekend because time and again they needed to

1507
01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:22,800
Speaker 6: come through on offensive possessions in the second half just

1508
01:14:22,840 --> 01:14:25,439
Speaker 6: to stay in it. And they kept doing that. And

1509
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:29,120
Speaker 6: it's a great offensive rebounding team as well. Florida tonight

1510
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:31,120
Speaker 6: with a late fifteen to two run, It was down

1511
01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:33,360
Speaker 6: nine with under three minutes to go, and yet they're

1512
01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:36,160
Speaker 6: going to the Final four in a close game. These

1513
01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:40,160
Speaker 6: were the free throwing numbers. Gators twenty five for twenty seven.

1514
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:44,519
Speaker 6: Texas Tech was seven for thirteen from the line. Florida

1515
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 6: will be facing either Auburn or Michigan State again next

1516
01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:52,000
Speaker 6: weekend in San Antonio. We mentioned in three years the

1517
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 6: men's final four will be in Las Vegas. Next year

1518
01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:57,200
Speaker 6: it'll be an Indy. Twenty twenty seven, the final four

1519
01:14:57,240 --> 01:15:01,559
Speaker 6: will be in Detroit. The College Basketball Tourney starts Monday,

1520
01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:04,599
Speaker 6: new tournament sponsored by Fox that includes teams that did

1521
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:07,800
Speaker 6: not qualify for the NCAAs. This year, it's a sixteen

1522
01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 6: team field, all in Las Vegas one week only, starting

1523
01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:14,760
Speaker 6: Monday the thirty first, with Utah against Butler games on

1524
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 6: FS one and then on Fox TV. And by the way,

1525
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:22,599
Speaker 6: the men's NIT semifinals are Tuesday in Indianapolis. No, it's

1526
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 6: not in New York anymore. Indy is hosting the NIT

1527
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:29,680
Speaker 6: final four. Now it's UC Irvine against North Texas and

1528
01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:35,280
Speaker 6: Loyola Chicago against Chattanooga, with the NIT title game on Thursday.

1529
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:38,120
Speaker 6: I mentioned earlier that Kawhi Leonard of the Clippers is

1530
01:15:38,120 --> 01:15:41,120
Speaker 6: not playing tomorrow due to knee injury. Management. The Pistons

1531
01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:43,760
Speaker 6: Kate Cunningham with a sore cafe doubtful for Sunday. He

1532
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:47,040
Speaker 6: could be sitting out a fourth straight game. Zion Williamson

1533
01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:49,759
Speaker 6: of New Orleans, with a bruise back, is out for Sunday,

1534
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 6: missing a fifth straight game. Anthony Davis for the Mavericks

1535
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:56,000
Speaker 6: tonight seven of twenty three shooting, but in a narrow

1536
01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:59,719
Speaker 6: win at Chicago one twenty to one nineteen, Davis eighteen

1537
01:15:59,720 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 6: point points that ends the Bulls four game winning streak.

1538
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:05,360
Speaker 6: Boston won its eighth straight game. The Celtics record is

1539
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:09,040
Speaker 6: fifty five and nineteen After a victory at San Antonio

1540
01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 6: tonight one twenty one to one eleven. Jason Tatum twenty

1541
01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 6: nine points. He had ten rebounds, eight assists, and just

1542
01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 6: one turnover. Oklahoma City won its ninth straight game, blitzing

1543
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:22,960
Speaker 6: Indiana one thirty two to one eleven. MVP candidate Shay

1544
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 6: Gilgis Alexander thirty three points, eight assists and no turnovers.

1545
01:16:27,800 --> 01:16:31,120
Speaker 6: His OKC team has a record of sixty two and twelve.

1546
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:34,439
Speaker 6: Ja Morant returned had twenty two points ten assists, but

1547
01:16:34,479 --> 01:16:36,720
Speaker 6: at Memphis the Lakers beat him one thirty four one

1548
01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 6: twenty seven. Notable because the Lakers blew yet another lead

1549
01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:42,400
Speaker 6: in this game, but got the w They were up

1550
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:45,160
Speaker 6: twenty in the first half. Lakers were down with about

1551
01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 6: seven and a half minutes left in the game, but

1552
01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 6: did win on the road. Ja Moran had missed six

1553
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:52,759
Speaker 6: games with a hamstring injury. Of course, Memphis coach Taylor

1554
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 6: Jenkins was just fired yesterday for La Austin Reeves thirty

1555
01:16:56,560 --> 01:17:00,639
Speaker 6: one points, Lukadancic twenty nine points, nine assists, and Lebron

1556
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:05,120
Speaker 6: James Tonight twenty five points, eight assists. The Philadelphia seventy

1557
01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:07,320
Speaker 6: six ers. Oh man, if you are a Philly fan

1558
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:11,240
Speaker 6: this past decade of NBA basketball, feel sorry for you.

1559
01:17:11,400 --> 01:17:14,400
Speaker 6: Seven straight losses, record of twenty three and fifty one

1560
01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 6: for whoever's left on that roster lost at home to Miami. Well,

1561
01:17:18,920 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 6: all the tickets are sold, so something's going well for

1562
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:24,960
Speaker 6: the franchise. One eighteen ninety five heat the final, Tyler

1563
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:28,479
Speaker 6: Hero thirty points. Brooklyn ended a six game losing streak,

1564
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 6: trailed at Washington with under ten seconds left, but won

1565
01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:34,479
Speaker 6: the game one fifteen to one, twelve fifty one losses

1566
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:38,040
Speaker 6: for Brooklyn. That's now fifty eight losses for the Washington Wizards.

1567
01:17:38,439 --> 01:17:42,639
Speaker 6: Orlando beat Sacramento easily today, one twenty one to ninety one.

1568
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 6: The UFL Spring Football League started last nights and Today

1569
01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:49,800
Speaker 6: there was a game Arlington thirty three to nine over

1570
01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:54,040
Speaker 6: San Antonio, Nashgar's on FS one again. The next three Sundays,

1571
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:57,599
Speaker 6: Austin Hill took the Xfinity Race at Martinsville. The IndyCar

1572
01:17:57,720 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 6: Series is off until mid April. Old Messi scored as

1573
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 6: a sub in Miami's MLS victory two to one against

1574
01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 6: Philadelphia Atlanta one it's soccer game four to three over

1575
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 6: New York City Arena. Sabalanca took the tennis final in Miami,

1576
01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:14,760
Speaker 6: sweeping American Jessica Pagoula and taking the first prize of

1577
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:18,679
Speaker 6: one point one million dollars. Golfs in Houston this weekend.

1578
01:18:18,720 --> 01:18:21,639
Speaker 6: Minwu Lee now up by four strokes Scottie Scheffler five

1579
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:24,959
Speaker 6: back Lee shot a third round sixty three. The Buffalo

1580
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:28,120
Speaker 6: Bills gave defensive back Christian Benford a four year extension.

1581
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:31,320
Speaker 6: The Texan sign linebacker EJ. Speed from the Colts an

1582
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:34,160
Speaker 6: NHL team as a nine game winning streak. Now Saint

1583
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 6: Louis was a winner at Colorado two to one, and

1584
01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:39,920
Speaker 6: among the Lake games, Dallas now up three to one

1585
01:18:40,040 --> 01:18:43,800
Speaker 6: at Seattle with ten minutes to go and a reminder

1586
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:49,799
Speaker 6: that we do have women's basketball regional finals Sunday and Monday,

1587
01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:53,880
Speaker 6: USC and Yukon each won sweet sixteen games tonight. The

1588
01:18:53,920 --> 01:18:57,800
Speaker 6: women's one seed UCLA will be in action tomorrow. South

1589
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:01,320
Speaker 6: Carolina is still alive. Texas a unseed gotta win today.

1590
01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:05,679
Speaker 6: TCU advanced Hayley van Liz for TCU twenty six points

1591
01:19:05,680 --> 01:19:08,080
Speaker 6: in the win over Notre Dame. By the way, the

1592
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:11,400
Speaker 6: top sixteen seeds hosted first and second round games and

1593
01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:14,160
Speaker 6: now they have just two neutral sites at this point.

1594
01:19:14,439 --> 01:19:16,240
Speaker 4: Tell you what U C L A L s U

1595
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:21,280
Speaker 4: U con USC without you know, juju true and South Carolina,

1596
01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 4: Texas I meantriguing, intriguing final eight for for the women.

1597
01:19:24,479 --> 01:19:26,120
Speaker 4: So thank you very much to say.

1598
01:19:26,479 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio air tors Jason Martin broadcasting

1599
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:31,439
Speaker 2: live from the Tyrek dot Com studios. Will come back,

1600
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:35,519
Speaker 2: We will reset college hoops, Florida Duke to the final four.

1601
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:38,560
Speaker 4: That's next Fox with three.

1602
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1603
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1604
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:50,120
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01:19:50,200 --> 01:19:52,439
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Speaker 2: Bernie Fredo of The Bernie Freddo Show follows us in

1611
01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:11,640
Speaker 2: an hour. By the way, if you've missed any of

1612
01:20:11,720 --> 01:20:13,640
Speaker 2: the first two hours of the show, we talked a

1613
01:20:13,680 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 2: lot about Lebron and McAfee. We talked a lot about

1614
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:21,680
Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament, and we're actually gonna return to the

1615
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 2: NCAA Tournament right now because two tickets to the men's

1616
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 2: Final four are officially punched. They came in the South,

1617
01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:31,679
Speaker 2: or excuse me, the West, in the East Regional Florida

1618
01:20:31,760 --> 01:20:34,120
Speaker 2: winning eighty four to seventy nine.

1619
01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:36,360
Speaker 4: We are certainly gonna get to that one in a minute.

1620
01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:38,800
Speaker 2: Texas Tech had a nine point lead with two point

1621
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 2: fifty to go and not only lost but lost by five. Meanwhile,

1622
01:20:43,439 --> 01:20:48,320
Speaker 2: duke a dominant win over Alabama eighty five to sixty

1623
01:20:48,320 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 2: five to sagre told you last hour. Alabama led the

1624
01:20:51,200 --> 01:20:54,599
Speaker 2: country in scoring with ninety one per game this season.

1625
01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:57,679
Speaker 2: They put up one thirteen in the sweet sixteen, Duke

1626
01:20:57,720 --> 01:21:01,719
Speaker 2: holds them to sixty five points on eight of thirty

1627
01:21:01,760 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 2: two to three point, shooting eight of thirty two from

1628
01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:07,840
Speaker 2: the three point line. I should say Duke headed to

1629
01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:10,880
Speaker 2: the Final four where j Mart I'm just here to

1630
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:14,320
Speaker 2: tell you, I don't care f Houston, Tennessee, Auburn, Michigan State.

1631
01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 2: I don't care who wins tomorrow. Whoever gets to the

1632
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 2: Final four, they will not be the favorite, because Dukes

1633
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 2: should be the rightful favorite in my opinion heading to

1634
01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:24,840
Speaker 2: San Antonio.

1635
01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:30,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think that's probably right. They just

1636
01:21:30,760 --> 01:21:34,559
Speaker 3: look like the champion right now. They look like they

1637
01:21:34,600 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 3: are flawless when it comes to just trying to pick

1638
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:41,000
Speaker 3: them apart. What is it that they don't do well.

1639
01:21:41,160 --> 01:21:45,240
Speaker 3: They're well coached, they're disciplined. They can score on the inside,

1640
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:48,880
Speaker 3: but they can also absolutely be lethal from deep. They're

1641
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:53,400
Speaker 3: a good defensive team. They shoot very well from the

1642
01:21:52,720 --> 01:21:56,280
Speaker 3: free throat line. It doesn't all have to run through

1643
01:21:56,360 --> 01:22:00,800
Speaker 3: Cooper Flag Like. There's so many different ways that they

1644
01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:04,679
Speaker 3: can just kind of dismantle you. They can play bully

1645
01:22:04,720 --> 01:22:08,040
Speaker 3: ball down low, but they do have some athleticism. But

1646
01:22:08,439 --> 01:22:12,360
Speaker 3: everybody can do multiple things for them. There's a good

1647
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:16,200
Speaker 3: enough mixture. And we talked about this last week. Even

1648
01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:19,720
Speaker 3: though there are some absolute stud young guys, there are

1649
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:21,599
Speaker 3: some dudes that have been around the block a bit

1650
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:26,840
Speaker 3: that are perfect compliments and everybody works in synergy. Does

1651
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:29,000
Speaker 3: that mean they're gonna win it all. No, but they

1652
01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:31,599
Speaker 3: have the look of a champion right now. In my bracket,

1653
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:34,639
Speaker 3: I've got Florida beating them in a championship game after

1654
01:22:34,720 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 3: Duke beats Tennessee and Florida beats Michigan State. That's how

1655
01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:42,840
Speaker 3: I have it set up in terms of my final four.

1656
01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:47,080
Speaker 3: And I still think that's very possible. But if you

1657
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 3: ask me who the favorite should be and who the

1658
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:53,360
Speaker 3: team that looks the part the most is right now,

1659
01:22:53,479 --> 01:22:55,160
Speaker 3: it is one thousand percent Duke.

1660
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:55,840
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1661
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:59,120
Speaker 2: My biggest takeaway just in general, besides the fact that

1662
01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:02,719
Speaker 2: they look the part eighty five points again six holding

1663
01:23:02,760 --> 01:23:04,280
Speaker 2: Alabama to sixty five.

1664
01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:05,960
Speaker 3: Listen, you knew.

1665
01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:08,479
Speaker 2: Alabama was going to regress to the mean after shooting

1666
01:23:09,080 --> 01:23:12,240
Speaker 2: twenty five of fifty one from three. By the way,

1667
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 2: that is still j mart. That's one of the craziest

1668
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:16,920
Speaker 2: things I've ever seen. I think Alabama attempted fifty one

1669
01:23:17,080 --> 01:23:19,400
Speaker 2: threes the other night and eleven two pointers.

1670
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:21,280
Speaker 4: I want to actually check on that. I'm pretty sure

1671
01:23:21,360 --> 01:23:24,639
Speaker 4: that's accurate. Though you knew they were going to regress

1672
01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:27,679
Speaker 4: the mean a little bit. Let's see here, Alabama took

1673
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 4: fifteen to two pointers fifty one to three pointers, so

1674
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:34,200
Speaker 4: you knew they were gonna regress the mean a little bit.

1675
01:23:34,240 --> 01:23:37,360
Speaker 2: But to me, the story of this game, the story

1676
01:23:37,360 --> 01:23:40,800
Speaker 2: of this tournament so far, is Duke and the way

1677
01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:43,519
Speaker 2: that they did it on Saturday, I think to me

1678
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:48,400
Speaker 2: shows why they're such a unique team. Is that it's

1679
01:23:48,439 --> 01:23:52,240
Speaker 2: one thing to have a number one overall draft pick.

1680
01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:55,679
Speaker 2: We've seen, you know, every year, somebody's got the number

1681
01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:58,000
Speaker 2: one overall pick. But even with Duke, we've seen a

1682
01:23:58,080 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 2: team with Zion, We've seen a team with this guy.

1683
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 2: I've seen a team with that guy. But it's all

1684
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:04,160
Speaker 2: the other pieces around him. First of all, and I

1685
01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 2: think you just mentioned this, but Cooper Flag was okay

1686
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:10,479
Speaker 2: on Saturday night. Six of sixty yeah, six of sixteen

1687
01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:14,120
Speaker 2: from the field, sixteen points, nine rebounds, three assists is

1688
01:24:14,160 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 2: a down game for this freshman superstar ACC Player of

1689
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:20,160
Speaker 2: the Year. And it was other guys, you know, kan

1690
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:23,800
Speaker 2: Kin Nippull twenty one points, two to four from three

1691
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:28,040
Speaker 2: to five, rebounds, five assists. Malawatch, who I just am

1692
01:24:28,120 --> 01:24:31,880
Speaker 2: so impressed by fourteen points, nine rebounds, two blocks. Also

1693
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:34,919
Speaker 2: Tyree Procter, I thought he set the tone early seventeen points,

1694
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:37,720
Speaker 2: seven of ten from the field to three pointers. I

1695
01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 2: think he hit both those three pointers in the first

1696
01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 2: five minutes to really set the tone.

1697
01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:42,799
Speaker 4: But when I look at.

1698
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:46,160
Speaker 2: This Duke team, what continues to stand out to me

1699
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:50,719
Speaker 2: is just the fact that like they're just so well built.

1700
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 2: First of all, the positional size that they have. It's

1701
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:57,280
Speaker 2: been a well talked about stat but they are the

1702
01:24:57,360 --> 01:25:00,200
Speaker 2: tallest team statistically in college basketball. I think Jay right

1703
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:02,280
Speaker 2: side of the pregame, the average height of the team

1704
01:25:02,320 --> 01:25:05,799
Speaker 2: is six foot eight. Basically, they don't really play anybody

1705
01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:09,040
Speaker 2: smaller than about six four six five. Sion James, who's

1706
01:25:09,080 --> 01:25:11,600
Speaker 2: basically their starting point guard, is six to six h

1707
01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:14,920
Speaker 2: Tyrese Proctor, who's obviously as a player I just mentioned

1708
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:17,280
Speaker 2: plays off the ball, he goes at about six five

1709
01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:19,800
Speaker 2: sixty six. I think that to me is the thing

1710
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:22,600
Speaker 2: that they're just so big, which which makes it so

1711
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:25,400
Speaker 2: tough defensively. I mean, I even go back to and

1712
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:27,719
Speaker 2: I don't remember how much we talked about Duke during

1713
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:30,639
Speaker 2: the regular season, but I remember the first Carolina game

1714
01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 2: where it's like, you know the cliche of like you know,

1715
01:25:34,080 --> 01:25:37,240
Speaker 2: you never you never count out a team in a

1716
01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:39,760
Speaker 2: rivalry game and you throw out the records, and it's like, no,

1717
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:41,519
Speaker 2: I think we could throw out the records in this one,

1718
01:25:41,560 --> 01:25:43,840
Speaker 2: because yeah, yeah, Carolina.

1719
01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:46,400
Speaker 4: Was we saw it. We know their story of the season.

1720
01:25:46,400 --> 01:25:49,160
Speaker 2: But they were a fine college basketball team, below average

1721
01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:53,240
Speaker 2: whatever for Carolina standards. But you know the thing about

1722
01:25:53,280 --> 01:25:56,040
Speaker 2: Carolina is they were just small. I mean their guards

1723
01:25:56,040 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 2: were six two sixty three and you could just see

1724
01:25:57,920 --> 01:25:59,640
Speaker 2: it on the floor. There was just no way for

1725
01:25:59,680 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 2: them to get shots. I wouldn't quite say that was

1726
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:04,639
Speaker 2: the case with Alabama tonight. I mean, I'm sure there's

1727
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:06,600
Speaker 2: some that they would like to have back, but that

1728
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:09,720
Speaker 2: size creates so many problems. And I said it in

1729
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 2: our one, but I just think we have to give

1730
01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:14,360
Speaker 2: Shire a ton of credit. Is I know he inherited

1731
01:26:14,400 --> 01:26:17,519
Speaker 2: a good situation at Duke, but to me, he has

1732
01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:20,439
Speaker 2: built It's one thing to land the number one recruit

1733
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:22,559
Speaker 2: in the country as the Duke head coach, but he

1734
01:26:22,600 --> 01:26:25,639
Speaker 2: has built basically, in my opinion, a near perfect team

1735
01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:26,599
Speaker 2: around Cooper Flag.

1736
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:33,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, all of that is true, and that's exactly what

1737
01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:37,760
Speaker 3: you need. Cooper Flag. I said this at the time,

1738
01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:41,600
Speaker 3: like him going down for a couple of games, it

1739
01:26:41,720 --> 01:26:44,160
Speaker 3: probably helped Duke just a little bit, not that they

1740
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:47,360
Speaker 3: needed it, because they were already playing well as a team.

1741
01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 3: They weren't just standing around watching hero ball. They were

1742
01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:53,120
Speaker 3: all involved, They all had a role to play, and

1743
01:26:53,160 --> 01:26:57,120
Speaker 3: they were unselfish. On one given night, it might be Knippel,

1744
01:26:57,560 --> 01:26:59,840
Speaker 3: next night it might be Cooper Flagg, and every night

1745
01:26:59,840 --> 01:27:02,120
Speaker 3: it was going to be Cooper Flag. But at the

1746
01:27:02,160 --> 01:27:06,360
Speaker 3: same time, without him, they still won the ACC championship.

1747
01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:09,759
Speaker 3: They still were doing all the things that you would

1748
01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:12,559
Speaker 3: expect a championship level team to do, and they saw

1749
01:27:12,600 --> 01:27:15,360
Speaker 3: themselves do it without Cooper Flag. And Flag's not the

1750
01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:17,200
Speaker 3: type of guy that's going to change things when he

1751
01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:19,559
Speaker 3: comes back. He's just going to enhance them. He's just

1752
01:27:19,640 --> 01:27:22,360
Speaker 3: going to make them that much better. So the talent

1753
01:27:22,439 --> 01:27:25,880
Speaker 3: that already existed, that played together as a team without

1754
01:27:25,960 --> 01:27:28,280
Speaker 3: him then just brought him back into the fold. And

1755
01:27:28,320 --> 01:27:32,160
Speaker 3: it was like Voltron. At that point in time, everything

1756
01:27:32,320 --> 01:27:35,080
Speaker 3: was there and everything was set up for them, and

1757
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:37,759
Speaker 3: that's just what they've done. They've rebounded a high clip,

1758
01:27:37,800 --> 01:27:41,080
Speaker 3: they shot at a high clip. They've played, to your point,

1759
01:27:41,120 --> 01:27:45,280
Speaker 3: really outstanding defense. They've used their size to get down

1760
01:27:45,320 --> 01:27:47,800
Speaker 3: low when they've had to. But they've just been able

1761
01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:50,200
Speaker 3: to beat you. And they've been able to take away

1762
01:27:50,240 --> 01:27:52,800
Speaker 3: the thing that you do best. And look when you

1763
01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:55,960
Speaker 3: come off of shooting the way that Alabama shot in

1764
01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:59,080
Speaker 3: the previous round and then you hold them to about

1765
01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:02,280
Speaker 3: thirty points left than that, and Mark Sears just has

1766
01:28:02,320 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 3: maybe the worst game I've ever seen him play. And

1767
01:28:04,360 --> 01:28:06,599
Speaker 3: it's not just because he missed a bunch of shots, Aaron.

1768
01:28:06,800 --> 01:28:09,200
Speaker 3: A lot of it is because they challenged every shot.

1769
01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:15,000
Speaker 3: Watching Alabama, every bucket was tough. They looked like they

1770
01:28:15,080 --> 01:28:17,280
Speaker 3: were just unhappy, Like it's just like, man, this is

1771
01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:20,720
Speaker 3: just not fun. It is not fun playing against these

1772
01:28:20,760 --> 01:28:23,679
Speaker 3: guys right now. Certainly they didn't give up. They competed

1773
01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:26,560
Speaker 3: as hard as they could, but they were doing everything.

1774
01:28:26,640 --> 01:28:29,479
Speaker 3: And this is just a dynamic team, this Alabama team.

1775
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:31,920
Speaker 3: They were doing everything they could to keep it to

1776
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:35,720
Speaker 3: single digits. And then Duke would just go on a

1777
01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:38,599
Speaker 3: little mini run over a couple of possessions. It would

1778
01:28:38,600 --> 01:28:42,160
Speaker 3: blow that thing back up to about eleven thirteen somewhere

1779
01:28:42,160 --> 01:28:44,400
Speaker 3: in that neighborhood. It was just like, man, Alabama just

1780
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:48,600
Speaker 3: cannot get closer than about seven points. Duke's not going

1781
01:28:48,680 --> 01:28:51,679
Speaker 3: to let them get this thing within five, within four.

1782
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:54,000
Speaker 3: And it was never in doubt, Like you knew it

1783
01:28:54,400 --> 01:28:57,400
Speaker 3: almost immediately if you didn't know it before the tip,

1784
01:28:57,439 --> 01:28:59,439
Speaker 3: but two minutes in, it's just like, Duke's just a

1785
01:28:59,439 --> 01:29:03,040
Speaker 3: better basket caball team Alabama is really good. Duke's just

1786
01:29:03,120 --> 01:29:04,000
Speaker 3: on a different level.

1787
01:29:04,600 --> 01:29:07,720
Speaker 2: A game that didn't feel in doubt with about two

1788
01:29:07,720 --> 01:29:11,400
Speaker 2: minutes to go was Texas Tech against Florida. Texas Tech

1789
01:29:11,479 --> 01:29:15,559
Speaker 2: a nine point lead with two fifty to go. In

1790
01:29:15,640 --> 01:29:18,519
Speaker 2: the first quote, I guess you call it a regional

1791
01:29:18,560 --> 01:29:21,960
Speaker 2: final Elite eight game. It was in San Francisco, number

1792
01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:26,160
Speaker 2: one seed Florida Gators facing Texas Tech. Texas Tech has

1793
01:29:26,200 --> 01:29:29,759
Speaker 2: a nine point lead with two fifty two to go. Jamart,

1794
01:29:29,960 --> 01:29:32,200
Speaker 2: you know it's funny you and I weren't on air

1795
01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:37,920
Speaker 2: for actually Arkansas's meltdown against Texas Tech, but I bring

1796
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:39,960
Speaker 2: it up because I go back and look at that

1797
01:29:40,160 --> 01:29:44,680
Speaker 2: game and it was basically in my opinion. Everything that

1798
01:29:44,720 --> 01:29:47,479
Speaker 2: could go wrong for Arkansas did. The coaching I didn't

1799
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:51,240
Speaker 2: think was great, but also you miss free throws. There

1800
01:29:51,320 --> 01:29:55,320
Speaker 2: was that weird call where I think everyone thought it

1801
01:29:55,360 --> 01:29:57,599
Speaker 2: was a file gets called a jump ball. Texas Tech

1802
01:29:57,640 --> 01:30:00,760
Speaker 2: immediately converts. I only bring that up that was Thursday night,

1803
01:30:01,200 --> 01:30:04,479
Speaker 2: but to me, the Texas Tech meltdown, that's the only

1804
01:30:04,520 --> 01:30:06,920
Speaker 2: way to call it. Against Florida, I think it was

1805
01:30:06,960 --> 01:30:08,800
Speaker 2: a I think it was another one. It was a

1806
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:12,639
Speaker 2: perfect set of circumstances that led us to a Florida

1807
01:30:12,720 --> 01:30:15,800
Speaker 2: victory over Texas Tech. Texas Tech up seventy three to

1808
01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:19,519
Speaker 2: sixty four with two point fifty two to go. You know,

1809
01:30:19,720 --> 01:30:22,000
Speaker 2: they miss a couple one in ones, they start to

1810
01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:24,680
Speaker 2: play tight. They then missed three pointers that they had

1811
01:30:24,720 --> 01:30:25,560
Speaker 2: been making.

1812
01:30:25,320 --> 01:30:26,160
Speaker 4: All game long.

1813
01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:30,760
Speaker 2: There's a weird play in the backcourt where basically they

1814
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:32,760
Speaker 2: need to file, but then Florida's about to commit a

1815
01:30:32,800 --> 01:30:35,920
Speaker 2: ten second violation and they file with one second left

1816
01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:38,880
Speaker 2: before the ten second rule violation would have hit and

1817
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:41,879
Speaker 2: forced a turnover. And then, oh, by the way, Florida

1818
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:45,479
Speaker 2: also made some really clutch plays, headlined by Walter Clayton

1819
01:30:45,560 --> 01:30:46,400
Speaker 2: with thirty points.

1820
01:30:47,200 --> 01:30:48,840
Speaker 4: I feel awful for Texas Tech.

1821
01:30:48,960 --> 01:30:51,400
Speaker 2: That's not to say that Florida didn't deserve to win

1822
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:54,519
Speaker 2: in the end, but ultimately, in my opinion, it was

1823
01:30:54,680 --> 01:30:57,280
Speaker 2: just everything over the final three minutes that could go

1824
01:30:57,360 --> 01:31:00,719
Speaker 2: wrong did which resulted in Texas Tech lose using Florida

1825
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 2: advancing to the Final four.

1826
01:31:02,600 --> 01:31:05,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why I used that term, because everything

1827
01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:08,880
Speaker 3: that you could have done to possibly lose that basketball

1828
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:12,360
Speaker 3: game when you were up double digits, you found a

1829
01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:14,519
Speaker 3: way to do in the last four or five minutes.

1830
01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:17,880
Speaker 3: I mean, it was yours. It was not going to

1831
01:31:17,920 --> 01:31:20,680
Speaker 3: be taken as great as Clayton turned out to be,

1832
01:31:21,360 --> 01:31:23,599
Speaker 3: that was not going to be enough without you handing

1833
01:31:23,600 --> 01:31:26,160
Speaker 3: it away. And so there's only one way to describe it,

1834
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:28,320
Speaker 3: and it's choke. And then I hate to say it

1835
01:31:28,360 --> 01:31:31,800
Speaker 3: that way because they played so hard, but they came

1836
01:31:31,840 --> 01:31:35,240
Speaker 3: apart at the precise moment when they realized they might

1837
01:31:35,280 --> 01:31:37,760
Speaker 3: be able to beat that team. It just felt like that,

1838
01:31:37,840 --> 01:31:40,000
Speaker 3: like all of a sudden, there was like an anxiety.

1839
01:31:40,479 --> 01:31:44,880
Speaker 3: There was just a some kind of confidence shift, and

1840
01:31:45,160 --> 01:31:47,639
Speaker 3: you could sense it in Florida too. You could certainly

1841
01:31:47,680 --> 01:31:50,000
Speaker 3: sense it in Clayton. Clayton went for the kill shot

1842
01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:52,800
Speaker 3: like Clayton knew. He was just like, oh, okay, wait

1843
01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:54,760
Speaker 3: a second, this is not over. As a matter of fact,

1844
01:31:54,880 --> 01:31:58,759
Speaker 3: certainly he was confident anyway, but you could see cracks

1845
01:31:58,800 --> 01:32:02,479
Speaker 3: showing in Texas Tech. They did all the little things wrong,

1846
01:32:02,560 --> 01:32:05,080
Speaker 3: and they did the thing you can't do, which is

1847
01:32:05,200 --> 01:32:07,920
Speaker 3: I think Dan Bonner said this, He's right. You left

1848
01:32:07,920 --> 01:32:10,880
Speaker 3: the door open for Walter Clayton. You left the door

1849
01:32:10,920 --> 01:32:14,320
Speaker 3: open for Florida when you went to the line twice

1850
01:32:14,360 --> 01:32:17,680
Speaker 3: and miss front ends of one in one's when you

1851
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:20,160
Speaker 3: were up six. That could have pushed that thing at

1852
01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:22,800
Speaker 3: least to seven, but maybe to eight. At that point

1853
01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:24,640
Speaker 3: in time, you gave it there. And then after that

1854
01:32:24,880 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 3: six what happened on the other end? Three ball, and

1855
01:32:28,560 --> 01:32:30,720
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden it's one possession game and

1856
01:32:30,760 --> 01:32:33,760
Speaker 3: the crowds getting back into it, and before you knew it,

1857
01:32:34,280 --> 01:32:37,400
Speaker 3: Florida had just kind of put on a deluge and

1858
01:32:37,479 --> 01:32:41,240
Speaker 3: Texas Tech continued to trip over its own shoelaces right

1859
01:32:41,280 --> 01:32:42,160
Speaker 3: out of this tournament.

1860
01:32:42,439 --> 01:32:45,040
Speaker 2: Nothing else really to add there, just you feel bad

1861
01:32:45,080 --> 01:32:48,320
Speaker 2: for Texas Tech fans. It was in their hands and

1862
01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:50,400
Speaker 2: they have no one to blame but themselves. As Florida

1863
01:32:50,400 --> 01:32:53,960
Speaker 2: advances to the Final four along with Duke. Two games

1864
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:57,559
Speaker 2: on Sunday, the early game in the Midwest region, Houston

1865
01:32:57,680 --> 01:33:01,320
Speaker 2: takes on Tennessee in a again the early game that's

1866
01:33:01,320 --> 01:33:04,680
Speaker 2: about a two to twenty Eastern time start. Auburn and

1867
01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:07,920
Speaker 2: Michigan is the late one at four about five zho

1868
01:33:08,000 --> 01:33:11,600
Speaker 2: five Eastern time. We will have a Final four by

1869
01:33:11,680 --> 01:33:14,880
Speaker 2: this time tomorrow, but two tickets have been punched to

1870
01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:18,439
Speaker 2: San Antonio. Two number one seeds Florida and Duke, by

1871
01:33:18,520 --> 01:33:21,840
Speaker 2: the way, first time since potentially the first time since

1872
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:24,519
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight. That was the only other time

1873
01:33:24,560 --> 01:33:26,600
Speaker 2: all four number one seeds made the Final four. That

1874
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:29,240
Speaker 2: is certainly in play. Two number one seeds there, Houston

1875
01:33:29,280 --> 01:33:31,880
Speaker 2: and Auburn trying to do the same. On Sunday, Fox

1876
01:33:31,880 --> 01:33:35,040
Speaker 2: Sports Radio air towards Jasmartin broadcasting live from the Tyreck

1877
01:33:35,080 --> 01:33:38,719
Speaker 2: dot Com studios. Will come back not often. We're gonna

1878
01:33:38,760 --> 01:33:42,839
Speaker 2: talk college football here in late March. Yes, college football,

1879
01:33:42,920 --> 01:33:46,040
Speaker 2: not college basketball. But we got a new man in

1880
01:33:46,120 --> 01:33:50,280
Speaker 2: the ten million dollar club for coaches, coach bron with

1881
01:33:50,360 --> 01:33:51,360
Speaker 2: that new contract.

1882
01:33:51,439 --> 01:33:53,439
Speaker 4: What do we make of it? We'll discuss it next

1883
01:33:53,600 --> 01:33:54,439
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1884
01:33:55,640 --> 01:33:58,559
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1885
01:33:58,600 --> 01:34:01,960
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1886
01:34:02,080 --> 01:34:06,160
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1887
01:34:06,280 --> 01:34:06,960
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1888
01:34:09,400 --> 01:34:11,679
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1889
01:34:12,200 --> 01:34:14,639
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1890
01:34:14,640 --> 01:34:17,000
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1891
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1892
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1893
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1894
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1896
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Jamart on against Coach

1897
01:34:34,760 --> 01:34:37,599
Speaker 2: Prime in a second, But there's actually a little bit

1898
01:34:37,640 --> 01:34:45,479
Speaker 2: of pseudo late breaking basketball coaching news. John Rossteam is

1899
01:34:45,560 --> 01:34:50,360
Speaker 2: reporting that Maryland has scheduled a team meeting for Sunday morning.

1900
01:34:50,800 --> 01:34:54,559
Speaker 2: Expectation is that, uh mary that Kevin Willard will inform

1901
01:34:54,600 --> 01:34:57,719
Speaker 2: his team that the Terps are that he is leaving

1902
01:34:58,240 --> 01:35:02,680
Speaker 2: Maryland for Villanova. Would also add that Maryland's twenty four

1903
01:35:02,680 --> 01:35:06,519
Speaker 2: to seven site is reporting that it's inside Maryland Sports

1904
01:35:06,560 --> 01:35:09,800
Speaker 2: Kevin Willard is Villanova bound. After leading the Terps to

1905
01:35:09,840 --> 01:35:12,519
Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen but finishing with an odd saga of

1906
01:35:12,600 --> 01:35:16,639
Speaker 2: public hints at his impending exit. He leaves Maryland needing

1907
01:35:16,680 --> 01:35:19,200
Speaker 2: a replacement, and then they get into the replacement real quick.

1908
01:35:20,320 --> 01:35:23,479
Speaker 2: Not often that we'll probably talk a Villanova coaching search here,

1909
01:35:23,520 --> 01:35:27,439
Speaker 2: But what did you make of how Willard handled this week?

1910
01:35:27,960 --> 01:35:30,880
Speaker 2: Especially in the light of what happened with will Wade

1911
01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:33,200
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago where he basically just said, yeah,

1912
01:35:33,200 --> 01:35:35,400
Speaker 2: I talked to the NC State and yeah, probably gonna

1913
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:37,760
Speaker 2: go there after the season, felt like a lot of

1914
01:35:38,160 --> 01:35:42,719
Speaker 2: unnecessary drama in my opinion for Kevin Willard at Maryland

1915
01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:43,320
Speaker 2: this week.

1916
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:48,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. There was way too much of it

1917
01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:52,920
Speaker 3: that it just seemed I'm not even sure exactly like

1918
01:35:53,120 --> 01:35:56,479
Speaker 3: it was just it seemed unfortunate and it seemed like

1919
01:35:56,520 --> 01:35:59,000
Speaker 3: an unforced are like let's hit this thing into the

1920
01:35:59,080 --> 01:36:03,360
Speaker 3: nets doing it. It was awkward, and it seemed very

1921
01:36:03,439 --> 01:36:08,520
Speaker 3: obvious where it was going, and it's kind of disingenuous

1922
01:36:08,800 --> 01:36:11,120
Speaker 3: not to just own up to it a little bit more.

1923
01:36:11,280 --> 01:36:14,559
Speaker 3: It seemed to just actually almost magnify it, like what

1924
01:36:14,640 --> 01:36:17,160
Speaker 3: will Wade did. It was just okay, all right, cool,

1925
01:36:17,560 --> 01:36:19,400
Speaker 3: Now they're gonna go and they're gonna do whatever they're

1926
01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:22,240
Speaker 3: gonna do and then once McNeice is out, then he'll

1927
01:36:22,240 --> 01:36:25,880
Speaker 3: go ahead and leave. There was an honesty to it,

1928
01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:30,320
Speaker 3: just a blatant integrity kind of It was a positive

1929
01:36:30,320 --> 01:36:32,599
Speaker 3: and usually you don't think of integrity when it comes

1930
01:36:32,640 --> 01:36:35,280
Speaker 3: to will Wade. But look, rules have changed at this

1931
01:36:35,360 --> 01:36:37,960
Speaker 3: point in time, and will Wade is just going to

1932
01:36:38,280 --> 01:36:41,000
Speaker 3: tell you exactly how it is. And then you look

1933
01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:42,760
Speaker 3: at the Kevin Willard thing, it's just like, I don't

1934
01:36:42,760 --> 01:36:44,679
Speaker 3: know what he was doing. Was he trying to string

1935
01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:48,920
Speaker 3: Maryland along? Was there a possibility something wasn't gonna work out?

1936
01:36:49,479 --> 01:36:52,040
Speaker 3: Like the whole of this thing, it just doesn't reflect

1937
01:36:52,160 --> 01:36:54,360
Speaker 3: very well on him. I mean, he did a really

1938
01:36:54,439 --> 01:36:58,760
Speaker 3: nice job at Maryland, but the exit strategy leaves a

1939
01:36:58,760 --> 01:36:59,759
Speaker 3: lot to be desired.

1940
01:37:00,600 --> 01:37:02,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really have a ton else to add

1941
01:37:02,600 --> 01:37:05,640
Speaker 2: to it. I know there's no perfect situation, and I

1942
01:37:05,720 --> 01:37:10,000
Speaker 2: do think there's a difference between will Wade leaving a

1943
01:37:10,120 --> 01:37:13,800
Speaker 2: high major, mid major job for an obviously better high

1944
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:17,760
Speaker 2: major job, Like it is just different. But yeah, it

1945
01:37:17,800 --> 01:37:22,040
Speaker 2: also just felt unnecessarily weird, like you said, and you know,

1946
01:37:22,200 --> 01:37:26,160
Speaker 2: listen again, I don't know if there's a perfect way

1947
01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:29,960
Speaker 2: to handle things. There probably isn't. But it was just

1948
01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:32,080
Speaker 2: unfortunate because it was a cool moment for the school

1949
01:37:32,400 --> 01:37:34,799
Speaker 2: you went. You went on a buzzer beater on Sunday,

1950
01:37:34,880 --> 01:37:39,040
Speaker 2: You're going to the Sweet sixteen and you're just gone,

1951
01:37:39,200 --> 01:37:42,439
Speaker 2: and so it's strange.

1952
01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:46,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see what happens with Maryland. Tell you what.

1953
01:37:47,200 --> 01:37:51,760
Speaker 4: Let's let's pause on the Dion stuff. And it's a

1954
01:37:51,800 --> 01:37:54,680
Speaker 4: little early, but maybe we get to Saga out of

1955
01:37:54,720 --> 01:37:55,840
Speaker 4: here a little bit early.

1956
01:37:55,880 --> 01:37:58,120
Speaker 2: So what we'll do now, get it over the news

1957
01:37:58,120 --> 01:38:00,240
Speaker 2: desk to Saga. We'll get you out of here three

1958
01:38:00,280 --> 01:38:01,719
Speaker 2: minutes earlier than normal.

1959
01:38:01,880 --> 01:38:03,559
Speaker 4: So you know what can we do for you?

1960
01:38:03,840 --> 01:38:06,800
Speaker 6: Well, everything's final now because the NHL Lake Game goes

1961
01:38:06,840 --> 01:38:09,320
Speaker 6: to Dallas five to one at Seattle, the Stars have

1962
01:38:09,400 --> 01:38:12,559
Speaker 6: clinched a playoff spot. Earlier, Saint Louis won it's ninth

1963
01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:15,320
Speaker 6: in a row two to one at Colorado. Edmonton won

1964
01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:18,920
Speaker 6: in overtime victories for Vegas and Toronto in the NBA

1965
01:38:19,080 --> 01:38:22,120
Speaker 6: Oklahoma City when it's ninth straight game, Boston won it's

1966
01:38:22,120 --> 01:38:25,080
Speaker 6: eighth in a row. Lakers blew an early twenty point

1967
01:38:25,160 --> 01:38:27,760
Speaker 6: lead but still won at Memphis one thirty four, one

1968
01:38:27,880 --> 01:38:31,639
Speaker 6: twenty seven Miami sent Philadelphia to a seventh straight loss.

1969
01:38:31,680 --> 01:38:33,840
Speaker 6: Brooklyn had lost six in a row but got a

1970
01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:37,320
Speaker 6: narrow win at Washington. Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers will

1971
01:38:37,320 --> 01:38:40,600
Speaker 6: not play Sunday due to knee injury management. Onto the

1972
01:38:40,600 --> 01:38:43,840
Speaker 6: men's final four next weekend in San Antonio for Duke

1973
01:38:43,960 --> 01:38:47,759
Speaker 6: and Florida. Florida beat Texas Tech to win the West

1974
01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:50,599
Speaker 6: Region final eighty four to seventy nine. Gators were down

1975
01:38:50,640 --> 01:38:53,559
Speaker 6: ten with five and a half minutes to go. Gators

1976
01:38:53,560 --> 01:38:56,200
Speaker 6: were great on free throws in this close game. Twenty

1977
01:38:56,240 --> 01:38:59,679
Speaker 6: five for twenty seven. Duke over Alabama, one seed, beat

1978
01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:02,240
Speaker 6: the two seed in the East Region. Finally, New Jersey

1979
01:39:02,320 --> 01:39:06,120
Speaker 6: eighty five to sixty five. Duke will be facing either

1980
01:39:06,360 --> 01:39:09,960
Speaker 6: Houston or Tennessee in the Final four. Florida will go

1981
01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:14,160
Speaker 6: up against either Auburn or Michigan State next weekend. Women's

1982
01:39:14,160 --> 01:39:17,760
Speaker 6: Sweet sixteen is over as USC has advanced sixty seven

1983
01:39:17,880 --> 01:39:21,000
Speaker 6: sixty one over Kansas State sc wins without injured star

1984
01:39:21,120 --> 01:39:24,760
Speaker 6: Juju Watkins. Yukon got forty points from page Beckers and

1985
01:39:24,800 --> 01:39:28,000
Speaker 6: beat Oklahoma eighty two to fifty nine. A note on

1986
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:32,680
Speaker 6: Beckers from stat Zinc this century be it men's or

1987
01:39:32,720 --> 01:39:36,559
Speaker 6: women's NCAA tournament. Only one other person had had a

1988
01:39:36,600 --> 01:39:39,519
Speaker 6: game like she had today. That is, at least forty points,

1989
01:39:39,560 --> 01:39:42,920
Speaker 6: at least five three pointers made, and at least five

1990
01:39:42,960 --> 01:39:46,840
Speaker 6: what they call stock steals plus blocks. The other person

1991
01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:48,919
Speaker 6: to have that kind of stat line in the tournament

1992
01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:53,040
Speaker 6: was Steph Curry two thousand and eight against Gonzaga. In

1993
01:39:53,080 --> 01:39:55,720
Speaker 6: this century, the only one to have a game like that.

1994
01:39:56,479 --> 01:39:59,280
Speaker 6: Texas beat Tennessee. I've all scored one point in the

1995
01:39:59,320 --> 01:40:01,880
Speaker 6: last four and a half minutes. TCU over notreed. Aime

1996
01:40:01,960 --> 01:40:06,280
Speaker 6: Hanna Hidalgo of the Irish three of nineteen shooting. Minwu

1997
01:40:06,360 --> 01:40:09,599
Speaker 6: Lee leads the golf in Houston by four strokes. Arena

1998
01:40:09,680 --> 01:40:13,679
Speaker 6: Sabolenka took the tennis final in Miami. Baseball's late game

1999
01:40:13,760 --> 01:40:16,559
Speaker 6: to the A's four to two. At Seattle, Cubs got

2000
01:40:16,600 --> 01:40:18,880
Speaker 6: onto the winning side. They'd been one in three. They

2001
01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:21,559
Speaker 6: got to win at Arizona four to three showed to

2002
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:25,080
Speaker 6: Imanaga the win seven innings of work. Roki Sasaki knew

2003
01:40:25,120 --> 01:40:28,679
Speaker 6: from Japan to the Dodgers, another poor outing four walks

2004
01:40:28,720 --> 01:40:31,400
Speaker 6: in an inning and two thirds sixty one pitches. He

2005
01:40:31,479 --> 01:40:34,960
Speaker 6: was pulled early. The Dodgers did win with three solo homers,

2006
01:40:34,960 --> 01:40:38,520
Speaker 6: seven to three over Detroit. Dodger record five and oh.

2007
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:41,840
Speaker 6: The record for a defending champion is starting the next

2008
01:40:41,840 --> 01:40:45,160
Speaker 6: season seven and oh the nineteen thirty three Yankees. The

2009
01:40:45,200 --> 01:40:48,360
Speaker 6: Tigers in nineteen eighty five were defending champs and started

2010
01:40:48,400 --> 01:40:51,800
Speaker 6: a season six and oh. San Diego and Houston each

2011
01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:55,559
Speaker 6: with narrow wins. Miami won in twelve. Cleveland star third

2012
01:40:55,600 --> 01:40:58,479
Speaker 6: baseman Jose Ramirez day to day with a spraying wrist.

2013
01:40:58,520 --> 01:41:01,040
Speaker 6: He was injured on a slide. Lost four to three

2014
01:41:01,040 --> 01:41:04,800
Speaker 6: at Kansas City. Philadelphia shortstop Trey Turner was scratched from

2015
01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:07,240
Speaker 6: the lineup tonight due to back spasms. Philly did win

2016
01:41:07,280 --> 01:41:10,559
Speaker 6: eleven to six at Washington. Cincinnati three to two over

2017
01:41:10,640 --> 01:41:14,719
Speaker 6: San Francisco. The Giant starter was Justin Verlander, no decision,

2018
01:41:14,760 --> 01:41:18,280
Speaker 6: but five innings, two runs allowed, five strikeouts. Not such

2019
01:41:18,280 --> 01:41:21,000
Speaker 6: a great day for Max Schurzer. It his Blue Jay's debut.

2020
01:41:21,400 --> 01:41:24,360
Speaker 6: He left after the third inning lat soreness and an

2021
01:41:24,360 --> 01:41:27,320
Speaker 6: injured thumb. No decision. Toronto lost at home nine to

2022
01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:30,360
Speaker 6: five to Baltimore. Colorado a two to one winner at

2023
01:41:30,400 --> 01:41:33,120
Speaker 6: Tampa Bay. The Rays play stutfielder Josh Lowe on the

2024
01:41:33,120 --> 01:41:36,000
Speaker 6: al with a strained oblique. He was heard on a swing. Friday,

2025
01:41:36,360 --> 01:41:39,040
Speaker 6: Saint Louis five to one over Minnesota. The Twins offense

2026
01:41:39,080 --> 01:41:42,439
Speaker 6: went three for thirty. The Angels Kenley Jansen got the

2027
01:41:42,479 --> 01:41:45,080
Speaker 6: save one nothing the final at the White Sox Chicago

2028
01:41:45,120 --> 01:41:48,080
Speaker 6: White Sox lineup went two for twenty seven. And then

2029
01:41:48,120 --> 01:41:51,479
Speaker 6: there's the Yankee lineup today. Nine home runs, four in

2030
01:41:51,560 --> 01:41:54,920
Speaker 6: the first inning. Yanks beat Milwaukee twenty to nine. The

2031
01:41:54,960 --> 01:41:58,519
Speaker 6: lost to X. Yankee pitcher Nestor Cortes, who lasted two innings,

2032
01:41:58,880 --> 01:42:03,280
Speaker 6: allowed three homers on his first three pitches. Today, Aaron

2033
01:42:03,360 --> 01:42:06,800
Speaker 6: Judge finished with three home runs eight RBIs back to you.

2034
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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

2035
01:42:07,880 --> 01:42:11,439
Speaker 2: Steve sag have a great Evening'd be back in I

2036
01:42:11,479 --> 01:42:16,479
Speaker 2: assume tomorrow with the Gang, Willard and Niphram, Arnie and

2037
01:42:16,560 --> 01:42:18,400
Speaker 2: Plank Fox Sports Radio.

2038
01:42:18,600 --> 01:42:19,120
Speaker 4: They'll be it.

2039
01:42:19,200 --> 01:42:22,840
Speaker 2: But Segreby all night on Sunday as well. We are

2040
01:42:22,840 --> 01:42:25,439
Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the Tyreck dot Com studios here, taking

2041
01:42:25,439 --> 01:42:28,000
Speaker 2: it till two am Eastern. Hey, Jmart, I keep teasing

2042
01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:29,800
Speaker 2: this Dion thing, but I do have one good question

2043
01:42:29,840 --> 01:42:34,880
Speaker 2: for you. Am I crazy or is the vibe and

2044
01:42:34,880 --> 01:42:38,519
Speaker 2: this is not disrespect. It's just a fact women's tournament.

2045
01:42:39,200 --> 01:42:39,439
Speaker 3: Yep.

2046
01:42:39,800 --> 01:42:43,120
Speaker 4: Like I don't know. I don't want to.

2047
01:42:43,280 --> 01:42:45,200
Speaker 2: I don't want to be negative because I still think

2048
01:42:45,240 --> 01:42:48,080
Speaker 2: it's a great event. But I think you and I

2049
01:42:48,160 --> 01:42:51,679
Speaker 2: were kind of on the lightning in a bottle, Caitlin Clark,

2050
01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:55,840
Speaker 2: Angel Reese two straight years. Does you know we'll see

2051
01:42:55,840 --> 01:42:58,200
Speaker 2: what the ratings reflected. The final four doesn't feel like

2052
01:42:58,240 --> 01:43:01,880
Speaker 2: the sport has anywhere near the same juice post Kaitlin Clark.

2053
01:43:02,520 --> 01:43:08,040
Speaker 3: Nope, I man, look, Page Becker's is great and I

2054
01:43:08,160 --> 01:43:11,799
Speaker 3: like to watch her play, but it's not the same

2055
01:43:12,080 --> 01:43:16,240
Speaker 3: and you lose Juju Watkins. That doesn't help. But Caitlyn

2056
01:43:16,320 --> 01:43:19,800
Speaker 3: Clark is a unicorn, and anybody that acts like she

2057
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:23,840
Speaker 3: isn't is just not telling you the truth where they're

2058
01:43:23,880 --> 01:43:28,240
Speaker 3: living in fantasy land. And this is why when all

2059
01:43:28,240 --> 01:43:30,640
Speaker 3: these people now, we're gonna like right here in the

2060
01:43:30,680 --> 01:43:33,160
Speaker 3: city where I do the show from, in Nashville, there's

2061
01:43:33,160 --> 01:43:37,599
Speaker 3: a push to bring a WNBA team here to expand.

2062
01:43:37,680 --> 01:43:40,840
Speaker 3: It's like, for what, there's not even a regular NBA team.

2063
01:43:40,960 --> 01:43:44,640
Speaker 3: This is not really a basketball area, and Nashville is

2064
01:43:44,680 --> 01:43:48,599
Speaker 3: not a particularly strong sports city. It's a great party city.

2065
01:43:48,720 --> 01:43:50,880
Speaker 3: They come out for the great parties, and when the

2066
01:43:50,920 --> 01:43:54,160
Speaker 3: parties involve sports, they become that, so's a WNBA gonna

2067
01:43:54,160 --> 01:43:59,559
Speaker 3: be a great party in Nashville. No, Caitlyn Clark brought

2068
01:43:59,680 --> 01:44:04,360
Speaker 3: every up to a different level. The entire country paid

2069
01:44:04,400 --> 01:44:08,040
Speaker 3: more attention to women's basketball as a whole writ large

2070
01:44:08,560 --> 01:44:12,400
Speaker 3: because Caitlin Clark interested them enough to stick around here

2071
01:44:12,400 --> 01:44:14,320
Speaker 3: and there, and of course they wanted to see who

2072
01:44:14,400 --> 01:44:17,439
Speaker 3: she might face and all these other things. And her

2073
01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:22,439
Speaker 3: absence is just something you can't you can't fill it,

2074
01:44:22,600 --> 01:44:25,760
Speaker 3: like there's not someone there. And we knew, I mean,

2075
01:44:25,800 --> 01:44:28,599
Speaker 3: Page Becker has been good for a long time and

2076
01:44:28,760 --> 01:44:31,599
Speaker 3: has a super bright future in the WNBA and going

2077
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:35,040
Speaker 3: forward like very likable, great competitor, all that kind of stuff.

2078
01:44:35,240 --> 01:44:38,040
Speaker 3: But it's not the same. There wasn't that rivalry. There

2079
01:44:38,200 --> 01:44:42,040
Speaker 3: was not that Austin McMahon, you know deal that you

2080
01:44:42,080 --> 01:44:45,880
Speaker 3: know made so much money for WWE. You didn't have that.

2081
01:44:46,240 --> 01:44:48,200
Speaker 3: And we call it lightning in a bottle because that's

2082
01:44:48,240 --> 01:44:50,519
Speaker 3: exactly what it is. And it's out of the bottle

2083
01:44:50,600 --> 01:44:55,200
Speaker 3: now and you can't get lightning back in the bottle. Actually,

2084
01:44:55,240 --> 01:44:58,799
Speaker 3: the bottle may have just broken because yes, this tournament

2085
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:04,959
Speaker 3: is here and it's happening, and I see no interest anywhere.

2086
01:45:05,080 --> 01:45:08,360
Speaker 3: And I also don't see the columns telling me about

2087
01:45:08,360 --> 01:45:11,479
Speaker 3: how special women's basketball is right now. And it's the

2088
01:45:11,520 --> 01:45:14,240
Speaker 3: same way that I was hearing six months ago, exactly right,

2089
01:45:14,320 --> 01:45:16,360
Speaker 3: Like none of that is here, Like all of a sudden,

2090
01:45:16,720 --> 01:45:20,200
Speaker 3: it's crickets left and right, and we all know why.

2091
01:45:20,640 --> 01:45:22,400
Speaker 3: It's not going to be something that's going to be said.

2092
01:45:22,479 --> 01:45:27,120
Speaker 3: But Caitlin Clark was bigger than the sport. She was

2093
01:45:27,160 --> 01:45:30,200
Speaker 3: bigger than the sport. I just saw a story her

2094
01:45:30,680 --> 01:45:36,320
Speaker 3: like rookie card is the most valuable women's sports card

2095
01:45:36,439 --> 01:45:41,320
Speaker 3: in the history of any sport in the world. Like

2096
01:45:41,439 --> 01:45:43,400
Speaker 3: you look at all this, it's like you're not going

2097
01:45:43,400 --> 01:45:46,760
Speaker 3: to replace that. You're not going to find something like

2098
01:45:46,840 --> 01:45:50,759
Speaker 3: that again that that was a unicorn, And I honestly

2099
01:45:50,800 --> 01:45:53,240
Speaker 3: you look at it now. If she had stated iowaish,

2100
01:45:53,240 --> 01:45:55,040
Speaker 3: she'd have made a ton of money in nil but

2101
01:45:55,120 --> 01:45:57,960
Speaker 3: she would have made a ton of money for everybody

2102
01:45:58,000 --> 01:46:01,400
Speaker 3: else in college athletic before even going to the w

2103
01:46:01,680 --> 01:46:05,080
Speaker 3: NBA to become persona non grata around all those other people.

2104
01:46:05,680 --> 01:46:09,240
Speaker 3: But I it's it's one hundred percent right like, who's

2105
01:46:09,400 --> 01:46:11,880
Speaker 3: who is paying attention compared to who was paying attention

2106
01:46:12,040 --> 01:46:14,000
Speaker 3: last year, and it's just not even close.

2107
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:18,639
Speaker 2: I don't disagree. Yeah, yeah, I'm not trying to be mean.

2108
01:46:18,680 --> 01:46:22,880
Speaker 2: It's just the truth. Yeah, it's just it's just it's

2109
01:46:22,920 --> 01:46:26,280
Speaker 2: just it's crazy to think about how big everything else

2110
01:46:26,479 --> 01:46:29,599
Speaker 2: was because of Caitlin Clark. Lsu felt so big. South

2111
01:46:29,640 --> 01:46:31,440
Speaker 2: Carolina felt bigger.

2112
01:46:32,280 --> 01:46:33,880
Speaker 4: And it just doesn't. And it is what it.

2113
01:46:33,880 --> 01:46:36,680
Speaker 2: Is really quickly, since we we've taught, we've teased it.

2114
01:46:36,720 --> 01:46:40,400
Speaker 2: Now twice, let's pay off coach prime coach prime. Dione

2115
01:46:40,520 --> 01:46:43,920
Speaker 2: signs a five year, fifth or forty five year, fifty

2116
01:46:43,920 --> 01:46:46,599
Speaker 2: four million dollar extension. I'll just be quick because we're

2117
01:46:46,600 --> 01:46:49,840
Speaker 2: a little bit short on time here. My first reaction

2118
01:46:50,680 --> 01:46:54,920
Speaker 2: when I saw it was, Okay, I understand the value.

2119
01:46:54,960 --> 01:46:57,640
Speaker 2: I understand the value that he's brought to that university.

2120
01:46:57,960 --> 01:47:00,920
Speaker 2: Would like to see him without the top five pick

2121
01:47:00,920 --> 01:47:02,840
Speaker 2: a quarterback in Shaudor, and I still think Sor is

2122
01:47:02,840 --> 01:47:05,479
Speaker 2: gonna be a top five pick. Then I remembered, oh

2123
01:47:05,479 --> 01:47:09,439
Speaker 2: wait a second, Lincoln Riley makes ten plus million, Brian

2124
01:47:09,520 --> 01:47:12,240
Speaker 2: Kelly's right around ten million. Kaylin de Boor, who I

2125
01:47:12,280 --> 01:47:14,680
Speaker 2: still think is gonna be good after a slightly disappointing

2126
01:47:14,760 --> 01:47:17,200
Speaker 2: first season, makes right around ten million, and.

2127
01:47:17,200 --> 01:47:19,080
Speaker 4: I realized, if we're gonna pay Lincoln rally.

2128
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:21,200
Speaker 2: Ten million, there is no doubt that Coach Prime has

2129
01:47:21,240 --> 01:47:25,120
Speaker 2: a significantly bigger impact on his school in his community

2130
01:47:25,320 --> 01:47:27,920
Speaker 2: than Lincoln Riley does, than Brian Kelly does, than so

2131
01:47:28,080 --> 01:47:29,360
Speaker 2: far Kaylen de Boor does.

2132
01:47:29,840 --> 01:47:31,439
Speaker 4: And so you know, it's a home run.

2133
01:47:31,600 --> 01:47:34,559
Speaker 2: And Colorado keeps a guy that I think everybody thinks

2134
01:47:34,680 --> 01:47:36,519
Speaker 2: is going to go to the NFL, gonna go to

2135
01:47:37,360 --> 01:47:40,920
Speaker 2: maybe another college job. If he does, they're gonna get

2136
01:47:40,920 --> 01:47:42,720
Speaker 2: a pretty penny and buy out money. And I think

2137
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Speaker 2: Coach Prime is there for the foreseeable future.

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01:47:45,680 --> 01:47:48,520
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, I mean it's a no brainer for Colorado

2139
01:47:48,680 --> 01:47:51,920
Speaker 3: because nobody is going to bring more eyeballs to that program,

2140
01:47:52,600 --> 01:47:54,960
Speaker 3: put them in more spots where people actually want to

2141
01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:56,720
Speaker 3: watch them on top. I mean, when's the last time

2142
01:47:56,760 --> 01:48:02,120
Speaker 3: Colorado Colorado football was relevant, Dion Sanders. I mean, there

2143
01:48:02,160 --> 01:48:04,160
Speaker 3: have been a few moments. It's not as if they've

2144
01:48:04,200 --> 01:48:09,040
Speaker 3: had no history, but it's been a long time and

2145
01:48:09,640 --> 01:48:13,360
Speaker 3: there's now interest to your point about what's it gonna

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01:48:13,360 --> 01:48:15,759
Speaker 3: look like without Shadoor, what's it gonna look like without

2147
01:48:15,760 --> 01:48:20,280
Speaker 3: Shador and Travis Hunter, and how much pressure is now

2148
01:48:20,320 --> 01:48:25,960
Speaker 3: on Dion Sanders to kind of show that because we

2149
01:48:26,080 --> 01:48:28,479
Speaker 3: know what he had at Jackson State and then you

2150
01:48:28,520 --> 01:48:33,040
Speaker 3: look now at Colorado, but now this post Colorado. But

2151
01:48:33,080 --> 01:48:36,559
Speaker 3: the good news is they stumbled right into another very

2152
01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:40,800
Speaker 3: top prospected quarterback. So maybe they're gonna be okay. But

2153
01:48:41,280 --> 01:48:43,400
Speaker 3: I do think that there's interest there and there might

2154
01:48:43,439 --> 01:48:45,720
Speaker 3: be some added pressure there because you don't want the

2155
01:48:45,720 --> 01:48:47,880
Speaker 3: bloom to fall off the roads because then the job

2156
01:48:47,960 --> 01:48:52,599
Speaker 3: offers aren't nearly as enticing. But anything else, I mean

2157
01:48:52,760 --> 01:48:55,000
Speaker 3: in terms of Colorado, of course you're gonna do this,

2158
01:48:55,600 --> 01:48:58,160
Speaker 3: Like why in the world would you not. There might

2159
01:48:58,200 --> 01:48:59,800
Speaker 3: be other people out there that can win a lot

2160
01:48:59,840 --> 01:49:02,240
Speaker 3: of but there's not a lot of other people out

2161
01:49:02,240 --> 01:49:05,719
Speaker 3: there that are Dion Sanders, and that still carries weight.

2162
01:49:06,040 --> 01:49:08,680
Speaker 3: It still carries weight with a lot of today's athletes,

2163
01:49:09,120 --> 01:49:12,280
Speaker 3: and it just makes them a much more interesting and

2164
01:49:12,520 --> 01:49:14,800
Speaker 3: marketable university program.

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01:49:15,200 --> 01:49:17,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny you mentioned, you know, coach prime with

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01:49:18,479 --> 01:49:20,960
Speaker 2: you know, potential other jobs. That was kind of one

2167
01:49:21,000 --> 01:49:22,840
Speaker 2: of my big takeaways the more that I thought about

2168
01:49:22,880 --> 01:49:25,360
Speaker 2: it is part of the reason that you have to

2169
01:49:25,400 --> 01:49:28,280
Speaker 2: do this one. In hindsight, I think my take was

2170
01:49:28,320 --> 01:49:30,560
Speaker 2: wrong originally. I think when you look at the economic

2171
01:49:30,640 --> 01:49:33,519
Speaker 2: impact whatever, I think he's worth every penny.

2172
01:49:34,120 --> 01:49:34,599
Speaker 4: But two.

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01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:36,479
Speaker 2: The other thing, and I mentioned this the other day

2174
01:49:36,479 --> 01:49:38,360
Speaker 2: I was filling in, or I mentioned on Friday when

2175
01:49:38,360 --> 01:49:41,400
Speaker 2: I was filling in, is that the other thing with him,

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01:49:41,600 --> 01:49:45,439
Speaker 2: and he's maybe totally unique in this job. I think

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01:49:45,479 --> 01:49:47,759
Speaker 2: he's maybe unique in this in all of college football,

2178
01:49:47,760 --> 01:49:49,639
Speaker 2: all of college sports, maybe in all of coaching.

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01:49:50,840 --> 01:49:51,599
Speaker 4: You have to.

2180
01:49:51,600 --> 01:49:59,040
Speaker 2: Pay him handsomely because he probably has more options than

2181
01:49:59,200 --> 01:50:02,880
Speaker 2: anybody else out there, and he's maybe the only coach

2182
01:50:03,040 --> 01:50:06,439
Speaker 2: in college that maybe the only coach anywhere outside of

2183
01:50:06,439 --> 01:50:08,760
Speaker 2: the guys that are on the verge of retirement, he

2184
01:50:08,800 --> 01:50:10,080
Speaker 2: doesn't have to coach.

2185
01:50:10,479 --> 01:50:12,519
Speaker 4: And so it's like if he's making I think he

2186
01:50:12,600 --> 01:50:13,080
Speaker 4: was making like.

2187
01:50:13,040 --> 01:50:15,280
Speaker 2: Four four and a half something like that, five whatever,

2188
01:50:15,560 --> 01:50:17,559
Speaker 2: and that's still for people who don't know, that's pretty

2189
01:50:17,680 --> 01:50:21,000
Speaker 2: low for a college coach at the power conference level.

2190
01:50:21,680 --> 01:50:23,960
Speaker 2: Is one, there's always a threat he's gonna go to

2191
01:50:23,960 --> 01:50:25,840
Speaker 2: the NFL to coach Chador. There's always a threat that

2192
01:50:25,840 --> 01:50:27,680
Speaker 2: he's gonna take a Florida State or a Florida or

2193
01:50:27,720 --> 01:50:28,640
Speaker 2: whatever job opens up.

2194
01:50:28,960 --> 01:50:31,559
Speaker 4: He could also just say, you guys, don't treat me

2195
01:50:31,600 --> 01:50:32,120
Speaker 4: with respect.

2196
01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:35,479
Speaker 2: I'm out, like I'm just gonna go be Dion Sanders

2197
01:50:35,520 --> 01:50:40,400
Speaker 2: and probably make seven figures a year comfortably being Dion Sanders.

2198
01:50:40,560 --> 01:50:43,800
Speaker 4: And so you have to pay him market.

2199
01:50:43,600 --> 01:50:46,599
Speaker 2: Value above market value, because I would argue he has

2200
01:50:46,720 --> 01:50:49,320
Speaker 2: more options than anybody else. He's always going to be

2201
01:50:49,320 --> 01:50:52,080
Speaker 2: a candidate for bigger jobs. He's always gonna be a

2202
01:50:52,120 --> 01:50:54,800
Speaker 2: candidate for the NFL. Whether it's accurate or not, there's

2203
01:50:54,800 --> 01:50:57,400
Speaker 2: always the perception that teams want to hire him. The

2204
01:50:57,400 --> 01:50:59,519
Speaker 2: Cowboys want to hire him. Whoever drafts shador is gonna

2205
01:50:59,520 --> 01:51:01,479
Speaker 2: want to hire him. And so you kind of have

2206
01:51:01,600 --> 01:51:03,679
Speaker 2: to do this because he is a guy that, probably

2207
01:51:03,760 --> 01:51:07,480
Speaker 2: more than any coach in sports, has a lot of options,

2208
01:51:07,479 --> 01:51:11,000
Speaker 2: including the option of I could make millions without coaching

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Speaker 2: just by being me.

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01:51:12,680 --> 01:51:18,280
Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, And everybody else knows that. Colorado knows

2211
01:51:18,320 --> 01:51:20,720
Speaker 3: that as well. So they're going to take care of him,

2212
01:51:21,280 --> 01:51:25,040
Speaker 3: and you know, we'll see how long he's there. We'll

2213
01:51:25,040 --> 01:51:27,719
Speaker 3: see if Florida State were to open up, for example,

2214
01:51:28,400 --> 01:51:30,880
Speaker 3: or maybe there is an opportunity to coach Shador in

2215
01:51:30,920 --> 01:51:33,200
Speaker 3: a couple of years and maybe he would leave. But

2216
01:51:34,439 --> 01:51:37,719
Speaker 3: if he is able to win again without his son

2217
01:51:37,800 --> 01:51:41,759
Speaker 3: there and without the Heisman Trophy winner, the reigning Heisman

2218
01:51:41,800 --> 01:51:44,639
Speaker 3: Trophy winner there as well, if they go out this year,

2219
01:51:44,680 --> 01:51:47,360
Speaker 3: even if they take a step back, as long as

2220
01:51:47,400 --> 01:51:49,559
Speaker 3: he's still having fun, I could still see him being there.

2221
01:51:49,600 --> 01:51:52,360
Speaker 3: The only question I have is how is Deion Sanders

2222
01:51:52,439 --> 01:51:56,080
Speaker 3: going to react if they're mediocre and Chador's not there? Yep,

2223
01:51:56,520 --> 01:51:58,400
Speaker 3: that's the thing that I don't think that we have

2224
01:51:58,600 --> 01:52:02,320
Speaker 3: seen as of yet. And if it's not fun for him,

2225
01:52:02,760 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 3: to your argument, he'll leave because there's nothing that he

2226
01:52:07,800 --> 01:52:11,599
Speaker 3: needs necessarily from there. So he's gonna do it because

2227
01:52:11,640 --> 01:52:14,920
Speaker 3: he's enjoying doing it. He likes coaching football, he wants

2228
01:52:14,960 --> 01:52:17,000
Speaker 3: that to be added to the trophy case and all

2229
01:52:17,000 --> 01:52:19,040
Speaker 3: that other kind of stuff. But the second that thing's

2230
01:52:19,120 --> 01:52:22,320
Speaker 3: not fun anymore, he'll just disappear. Well.

2231
01:52:22,360 --> 01:52:24,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the other the only other last thing I

2232
01:52:24,200 --> 01:52:26,439
Speaker 2: would add is that is one hundred percent true. The

2233
01:52:26,560 --> 01:52:28,679
Speaker 2: other thing for people who will say that he could

2234
01:52:28,680 --> 01:52:29,280
Speaker 2: still leave.

2235
01:52:29,160 --> 01:52:33,040
Speaker 4: For another job. If he leaves next year, the buyout

2236
01:52:33,080 --> 01:52:37,120
Speaker 4: will be twelve million dollars, which certainly somebody could pay.

2237
01:52:37,479 --> 01:52:40,200
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but it would put them in pretty good

2238
01:52:40,240 --> 01:52:41,639
Speaker 4: position to get another head coach.

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01:52:41,720 --> 01:52:43,839
Speaker 2: And you know you're never gonna get another Deon Sanders,

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01:52:43,840 --> 01:52:45,960
Speaker 2: but you know, all of a sudden, then you have

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01:52:46,040 --> 01:52:48,080
Speaker 2: twelve million in the call fers for the next guy.

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01:52:48,240 --> 01:52:50,920
Speaker 2: If that's the case. So I think the more that

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01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:53,320
Speaker 2: I really read into it, it's a it's a best

2244
01:52:53,400 --> 01:52:56,680
Speaker 2: for all parties involved. Dion Sanders now one of the

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01:52:56,800 --> 01:52:59,680
Speaker 2: highest paid coaches in college back in college football, excuse me,

2246
01:52:59,680 --> 01:53:03,360
Speaker 2: making well over ten million a year. Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 4: All right, let's put a bow on the show.

2265
01:54:00,560 --> 01:54:03,479
Speaker 2: Eleven minutes left until Bernie Fratto of The Bernie Fratto

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01:54:06,280 --> 01:54:10,000
Speaker 2: the big topics of the week in sports. Sure he'll

2268
01:54:10,040 --> 01:54:13,760
Speaker 2: have plenty on the NCAA tournament and much more. With

2269
01:54:13,880 --> 01:54:18,280
Speaker 2: that said, Jay Mart, let's talk. We got two Elite

2270
01:54:18,320 --> 01:54:18,840
Speaker 2: eight games.

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Speaker 4: I think everybody knows by now, But if you're just

2272
01:54:20,760 --> 01:54:24,599
Speaker 4: joining us, Florida and Duke both advanced on Friday night,

2273
01:54:24,920 --> 01:54:27,240
Speaker 4: the question become or on Saturday night? Excuse me?

2274
01:54:27,280 --> 01:54:32,000
Speaker 2: What happens on Sunday? The early one Tennessee and Houston.

2275
01:54:32,480 --> 01:54:35,640
Speaker 2: It's a Midwest regional game. Houston survives on that out

2276
01:54:35,640 --> 01:54:37,400
Speaker 2: of bounds play. Brilliant je Can we.

2277
01:54:37,360 --> 01:54:40,400
Speaker 3: Can we stop for a second appreciate that like Okay,

2278
01:54:40,880 --> 01:54:43,200
Speaker 3: what a finish like. I'm surprised it took us this

2279
01:54:43,280 --> 01:54:44,760
Speaker 3: long to get to it. I was thinking about doing

2280
01:54:44,760 --> 01:54:46,720
Speaker 3: a break like. Man we haven't even talked about that,

2281
01:54:47,760 --> 01:54:50,440
Speaker 3: and it happened, you know, at one am Eastern time,

2282
01:54:50,480 --> 01:54:54,880
Speaker 3: which is its own problem. But my goodness, man like,

2283
01:54:55,920 --> 01:54:59,680
Speaker 3: that's about as well executed and out of bounds play

2284
01:54:59,840 --> 01:55:03,160
Speaker 3: is you will ever see and broken down after the

2285
01:55:03,160 --> 01:55:06,000
Speaker 3: game by Jay Wright and Candas Parker. Right, yes, magnificent

2286
01:55:06,240 --> 01:55:06,960
Speaker 3: just saw that.

2287
01:55:07,040 --> 01:55:07,320
Speaker 4: Yep.

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01:55:07,480 --> 01:55:11,200
Speaker 3: They were phenomenal breaking that thing down from all angles

2289
01:55:11,240 --> 01:55:14,400
Speaker 3: and showing just how much nuance was involved in it.

2290
01:55:14,480 --> 01:55:17,840
Speaker 3: But just that's that's about as good as it gets,

2291
01:55:17,840 --> 01:55:20,840
Speaker 3: man like. As a finish. I couldn't believe it when

2292
01:55:20,840 --> 01:55:22,880
Speaker 3: the past went back because it was just, oh, he's

2293
01:55:22,880 --> 01:55:26,760
Speaker 3: gonna score. This game's over like. It was perfect, absolutely

2294
01:55:26,840 --> 01:55:29,160
Speaker 3: pitch perfect. Didn't mean to interrupt you, but that deserved

2295
01:55:29,160 --> 01:55:29,760
Speaker 3: a second.

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01:55:29,920 --> 01:55:31,760
Speaker 2: Well, and I'll tell you this, thank you for the music,

2297
01:55:31,800 --> 01:55:34,160
Speaker 2: Mary look perfect perfect theme song here.

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01:55:35,000 --> 01:55:35,600
Speaker 4: I'll tell you this.

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01:55:35,760 --> 01:55:39,680
Speaker 2: I actually if people missed that Candas Parker Jay Wright breakdown,

2300
01:55:39,680 --> 01:55:42,360
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's available somewhere on the internet. They just

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01:55:42,400 --> 01:55:46,120
Speaker 2: did such a good job explaining how Milos who's in

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01:55:46,320 --> 01:55:52,000
Speaker 2: ended up so wide open on that final play Houston survives.

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01:55:52,080 --> 01:55:55,600
Speaker 2: They are facing the Tennessee Volunteers. J Marty said that

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01:55:55,680 --> 01:55:58,920
Speaker 2: you have Tennessee in the final four in your bracket,

2305
01:55:59,000 --> 01:56:02,200
Speaker 2: by the way, going into the day, try to pull

2306
01:56:02,280 --> 01:56:04,040
Speaker 2: up the points spread here. Let's see here it looks

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01:56:04,080 --> 01:56:05,400
Speaker 2: like Houston is a.

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01:56:05,320 --> 01:56:08,240
Speaker 4: Three point favorite. What do you make of this game?

2309
01:56:08,440 --> 01:56:10,960
Speaker 4: Who do you have winning and advancing to San Antonio.

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01:56:11,200 --> 01:56:15,480
Speaker 3: I got Tennessee winning, and I know how good Houston

2311
01:56:15,480 --> 01:56:17,560
Speaker 3: can be. I've also seen them come back in some

2312
01:56:17,640 --> 01:56:20,480
Speaker 3: games where it looked like, you know, they were really

2313
01:56:21,080 --> 01:56:23,160
Speaker 3: on the verge of getting knocked out of this tournament,

2314
01:56:23,440 --> 01:56:27,000
Speaker 3: and Tennessee really hasn't been in that position. But Tennessee's

2315
01:56:27,120 --> 01:56:29,680
Speaker 3: just lethal to me when it comes to what they

2316
01:56:29,760 --> 01:56:32,080
Speaker 3: can do to you. This is gonna be a war

2317
01:56:32,600 --> 01:56:36,080
Speaker 3: because these are two defensive minded teams and they can

2318
01:56:36,160 --> 01:56:39,800
Speaker 3: both be streaky offensively as well. But I think Chaslneers

2319
01:56:39,920 --> 01:56:43,840
Speaker 3: is potentially kind of ready to have one of those

2320
01:56:43,960 --> 01:56:47,080
Speaker 3: kind of games for them. And Zekai Ziegeler just screams

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01:56:47,160 --> 01:56:50,680
Speaker 3: march to me in a way that just you just

2322
01:56:50,800 --> 01:56:54,160
Speaker 3: can't imagine that the run that he has had in

2323
01:56:54,240 --> 01:56:57,400
Speaker 3: Knoxville and the storyline surrounding it is not going to

2324
01:56:57,440 --> 01:56:59,800
Speaker 3: get him to a Final four at least one time.

2325
01:57:00,240 --> 01:57:02,839
Speaker 3: And so I just I just feel like this Tennessee

2326
01:57:02,880 --> 01:57:05,240
Speaker 3: team is built for this moment to get there. Now.

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01:57:05,280 --> 01:57:07,680
Speaker 3: I don't think they will beat Duke, but I think

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01:57:07,760 --> 01:57:09,720
Speaker 3: they will get past Houston and we'll should be an

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01:57:09,760 --> 01:57:10,480
Speaker 3: excellent game.

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01:57:10,680 --> 01:57:13,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, a little bit like last year. The offense has

2331
01:57:13,560 --> 01:57:14,240
Speaker 4: come around late.

2332
01:57:14,240 --> 01:57:17,600
Speaker 2: They are They're always good enough defensively, the question is offensively,

2333
01:57:17,640 --> 01:57:21,840
Speaker 2: and it just feels like the last probably month or so,

2334
01:57:21,960 --> 01:57:25,600
Speaker 2: they've hit another level. And I'll say this completely dominant

2335
01:57:25,640 --> 01:57:28,920
Speaker 2: victory over Kentucky on Friday night, and You're right, s

2336
01:57:28,960 --> 01:57:32,400
Speaker 2: Kyle Siegler just feels like a guy would be perfectly

2337
01:57:32,520 --> 01:57:36,640
Speaker 2: encapsulating or capstoning his career getting Tennessee to a first

2338
01:57:36,640 --> 01:57:38,240
Speaker 2: Final four in school history. So that would be a

2339
01:57:38,280 --> 01:57:41,560
Speaker 2: cool story. I picked Houston win the national championship. I'll

2340
01:57:41,600 --> 01:57:43,880
Speaker 2: be real, you know, I guess I'll stick with them

2341
01:57:44,080 --> 01:57:46,520
Speaker 2: solely because I picked them to win the national championship.

2342
01:57:46,560 --> 01:57:48,240
Speaker 2: I think Tennessee has been the better team since the

2343
01:57:48,240 --> 01:57:51,200
Speaker 2: start of the tournament. The late game, alburn A five

2344
01:57:51,200 --> 01:57:54,240
Speaker 2: point favorite over Michigan State in Atlanta.

2345
01:57:54,560 --> 01:57:55,480
Speaker 4: Who you got, j Martin?

2346
01:57:55,720 --> 01:57:59,640
Speaker 3: I got Michigan State. I have the two twos winning

2347
01:58:00,080 --> 01:58:03,120
Speaker 3: way my bracket was set up, and look, Auburn hasn't

2348
01:58:03,160 --> 01:58:06,320
Speaker 3: been I mean, they've been tested and they've gotten through it,

2349
01:58:06,360 --> 01:58:08,000
Speaker 3: but there have been a couple moments where you're looking

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Speaker 3: at it, like, man, they are really on the ropes

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Speaker 3: here and Michigan State has two So the question is

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Speaker 3: who can survive that if it happens against the other

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Speaker 3: one in this game. I think Auburn has more talent,

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Speaker 3: but there may be more heart at Michigan State just

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Speaker 3: a little bit. I've seen something from them from a

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Speaker 3: toughness perspective that I like, and I just kind of

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Speaker 3: when I had to make this selection, I just went

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Speaker 3: with Michigan State on This could totally be wrong, but

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Speaker 3: I think the Spartans are gonna get it done. I

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Speaker 3: don't think it's going to be a blowout either way.

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Speaker 3: I think this one's gonna be one that goes down

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Speaker 3: to the wire.

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Speaker 2: The old they got more heart the old College try.

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Speaker 2: I actually do like Auburn in this one. I think

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Speaker 2: that it seemed like they flipped a switch on Friday

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Speaker 2: Night against Michigan. In that second half, Michigan State is

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Speaker 2: an incredible story though I love that Izzo is just

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Speaker 2: still Izzo. They play crazy defense, they rebound crazy well,

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Speaker 2: and they don't shoot a bunch of threes, but they

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Speaker 2: have made it work for them.

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Speaker 4: I will take Auburn to win this game.

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Speaker 3: Go.

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Speaker 2: We gotta get out of here. What I thank the

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Speaker 2: crew Mary on the board. Great music choice for this

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Speaker 2: final segment. By the way, producer Brie also our Steve

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Speaker 2: Nash Insider. We had her on earlier in the show

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Speaker 2: for Steve Disager. My partner Jason Martin. I'm meritorus. Makes

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Speaker 2: sure to download the podcast. Would you a great show today?

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Speaker 2: A lot of fun coming up. Bertie Fratto of The

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Speaker 2: Bertie Fratto Show. Bertie follows us, this is Fox Sports.

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Speaker 4: Are you