Speaker 1: M hm hm. Welcome back to another episode of All
Speaker 1: the Smoke. We got a special guest in Today Man
Speaker 1: and recurring guests on our show, Big Perk. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a mid season review, talk, some game, talk, some ship.
Speaker 1: Make sure you guys enjoyed this episode. Alright, fellas, mid
Speaker 1: season awards and questions. I want you guys to give
Speaker 1: me your starting five. How do you feel who's playing
Speaker 1: the best this season? Your guests quite on the spot.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guest with our family, you know, I may.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what? Am I building my start
Speaker 1: in five like a team that I want? Or I
Speaker 1: gotta select from great players what you want. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take your honest moving. I'm started out my players today,
Speaker 1: players today, I'm taking your honest. Look, I'm taking you honest,
Speaker 1: and I'm putting them right at the center position. Hold on, Jack,
Speaker 1: who's your Today's who's just sing? Who's just embed with Joel?
Speaker 1: And beat myself my center? What fun? Y'all up? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take Lebron. Hold hold on, don I thought we
Speaker 1: was building out. Yeah, we're gonna build it. But if
Speaker 1: you know I'm moving, okay, so it's cool. Then I'm
Speaker 1: moving honest, people where you want to go ahead, that's why,
Speaker 1: that's why my son is alright cool. So I'm building
Speaker 1: the team to win with superstars, my point guard. I
Speaker 1: got need somebody else going out of this the rock bill,
Speaker 1: a live thread, be a threat the basket going with
Speaker 1: John Murray at my that's this guy, yeah, my point God,
Speaker 1: damn right, the duck side your point guard. Man, y'all
Speaker 1: know which way I'm going. I'm going to Kyre all day.
Speaker 1: I'm not mad, question it. I ain't mad. They can't.
Speaker 1: Nobody can't. Nobody can't, and I want. I want to
Speaker 1: go with my brothers CP, but it's hard to pass
Speaker 1: up on Staff. I'm gonna take Staff is my PG
Speaker 1: you got. I'm sucking with him working with it. So
Speaker 1: I'm building my squad. I got yann Is at the five,
Speaker 1: John the one, So I got my pick and roll
Speaker 1: action with the live threat motors. Right now now, I
Speaker 1: need a stretch big or four. I'm gonna get Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant and I'm gonna slide him to the power for position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he's a sniper. Don't need the ball in his
Speaker 1: hands to be able to get buckets shoot the three
Speaker 1: of the high clip going with Katie as my stretch
Speaker 1: for a powerful that's crazy right there. That's super crazy
Speaker 1: for me for my stretch for uh, I'm gonna go Yokich.
Speaker 1: So I'm going I'm building a big team. I'm going
Speaker 1: back to the San Antonio San Antonio Spurs day, So
Speaker 1: I'm going too big. We're gonna spread this my fun
Speaker 1: out and make him work. I'm gonna go my power
Speaker 1: My power forward is gonna be a healthy Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: And my power forward is Anthony David's ever gonna be healthy.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm from my team, from my team. Ye
Speaker 1: when we're talking about players today, so you you you're
Speaker 1: asking for a banged up player that possibly not gonna
Speaker 1: be there in two weeks. Not no bullshit, No on
Speaker 1: my team. You know what, you might be right, he
Speaker 1: might be healthy because I ain't gonna lie. My joints
Speaker 1: and ship was hurt when I was pulling up and
Speaker 1: whatever you gave me. You know what I'm saying. Up,
Speaker 1: I'm solid right now. I might go touch the room.
Speaker 1: You know we had something ready for you. Shout seven
Speaker 1: leaves ahead. So so I'm next position. Mm hmm. I
Speaker 1: needed I need a to guard. I need a too guard.
Speaker 1: I need a too guard, need a two way defend.
Speaker 1: The two guard that could snipe and played defense. He
Speaker 1: just got back. Give me Clay Thompson. That's what I
Speaker 1: was going. That's definitely give me Clay talk. I got
Speaker 1: the first pick. You have the advantage. I got somebody
Speaker 1: else and I'm not. I'm good. I'm good, Okay, So look,
Speaker 1: so that's what we're gonna do. That's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: Then at my shooting guard, Ah, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: get a dog and somebody that could gool. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go Jimmy Butler. I ain't mad at it. I'm not
Speaker 1: mad at that at all. I'm gonna go for my too.
Speaker 1: I should get two picks now because I've had the
Speaker 1: last picks my littlest day. We can't go back on
Speaker 1: Vers and Jackie. So my two, I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: Devin Booker and my three, I'm going with Kauai Leonard Nice.
Speaker 1: I got Steph bo, Kauai Lebron and Anthony Davis nine Nice.
Speaker 1: So it's my pick, right, Yeah, who are you closing
Speaker 1: your team off with? Who you got so far? You
Speaker 1: got Kyrie, you got embed, you got yo, Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: and my last pick to close things out on my side.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm going with James Hard and I can't
Speaker 1: pass the months. I ain't mad at that small look
Speaker 1: up big ain't up front small and I see, I
Speaker 1: see I could dig. They're gonna make up for a
Speaker 1: lot of mistakes on defense. I could dig jage well,
Speaker 1: I think I may shock y'all with deal shock y'all
Speaker 1: this ship. But I'm looking at my line up and
Speaker 1: I got y honest at the five, Katie at the four.
Speaker 1: So I got scored, got y'all got Clay Thompson. So
Speaker 1: I need a wing defender. I need a wing defender.
Speaker 1: I need a guy that's capable of knocking down shots.
Speaker 1: But I need a guy with size and lent. Okay,
Speaker 1: size and lent like six a six nine listed maybe
Speaker 1: six ten. I'm going with Jeremy Grant. He can score two.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna who pick bron me Yeah, not bad. I'm
Speaker 1: going to Jeremy Grant if you need it, and then
Speaker 1: he definitely plays d. You really only need them with
Speaker 1: you know, ten points three bucks, yes, sir, okay, but
Speaker 1: that's our current five. Next up, our top three m
Speaker 1: v P candidates at the midpoint, park will start with
Speaker 1: you goddamn. So here is the thing, all right, I
Speaker 1: feel like this year is different when it comes down
Speaker 1: the m v P. I think that we've ever had
Speaker 1: this many at this point, we don't. And to be honest,
Speaker 1: it could switch every month because just like they're putting
Speaker 1: out a number. So I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the three in my opinion, that's been the most consistent,
Speaker 1: like they didn't have no bumps and bruises. And I'm
Speaker 1: going with Steph Curry. Oh, I'm going with John Moran.
Speaker 1: And people can say Memphis win eleven and two without
Speaker 1: a message, y'all know how that how that worked, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Somethings just rally together. Then the
Speaker 1: other pony just don't respect you, like the yeah, right,
Speaker 1: And I'm not disrespecting the Memphis Grizzlies. But then at
Speaker 1: number three, number three, I gotta I want to go
Speaker 1: with k D. Katie been out. I gotta go with
Speaker 1: Joe L. N B. Here's why I was one of them.
Speaker 1: I thought that Philly, No, I actually I thought that
Speaker 1: phil it was gonna be a top six seed right there,
Speaker 1: top five seed in the Eastern Conference, and people, a
Speaker 1: lot of people thought they would go, you know, being
Speaker 1: that play in at the playoffs without Ben Simmers and
Speaker 1: now every single night you could count on Joe Be
Speaker 1: to get you thirty Who well been this way? I
Speaker 1: don't matter, to be honest, outside of Katie and Kyrie,
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody else is more skilled than
Speaker 1: him there those two. I mean he with all the respect,
Speaker 1: I said this a few weeks back to me, he's
Speaker 1: the best big in the game. And that's saying a lot, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: So I'm a big fan of Ebat. I'm not mad
Speaker 1: since you talked about in bed. If you're in bad
Speaker 1: right now, having this season, you are, and you know
Speaker 1: that Darryl Morey and Elton Brand are sitting on Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: Are you mad because you've had an injury play career,
Speaker 1: you're playing probably the best basketball of your career, and
Speaker 1: your and your team is sitting on Ben Simmons. He's
Speaker 1: not coming back, no matter what the funk they say
Speaker 1: or do, He's not coming back. Are you mad? If
Speaker 1: you're Joe mbiad and you go have a conversation with
Speaker 1: the front office, like can you trade this dude so
Speaker 1: we can see who's gonna be on our team and
Speaker 1: try to really make this run because you know they're
Speaker 1: not gonna make it far without getting whatever they're gonna
Speaker 1: get for Ben Simmons. That I'm not mad. I'm not mad.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you why I'm not mad. Because you
Speaker 1: don't think that they didn't have that conversation with Joe
Speaker 1: ellen By right, So what I'm saying is like conversation
Speaker 1: had to be had, like before all this transpired, and
Speaker 1: Joe ellen b before the season, he came out and
Speaker 1: he said it. You know what I mean, Hey, look,
Speaker 1: I can't worry about Ben Simms. I gotta worry about
Speaker 1: going to win some games with the guys we got
Speaker 1: right now. So it showed me already where his mind was, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: but I'm getting to this, so something had to be said.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, straight up, it's this is real life.
Speaker 1: This is not rumors. Okay they no matter how much
Speaker 1: he may try to deny, But right now, I don't
Speaker 1: think I think Philly want to win. I know they're
Speaker 1: not gonna win the championship unless they make a big move.
Speaker 1: But I think they're thinking more so about next season.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying, And so I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: give you hints and you can figure it out. But
Speaker 1: James Harden didn't signed his contract extension, all right. He
Speaker 1: didn't sign He was supposed to sign it. He was
Speaker 1: supposed to go Katie Kyle Ree. James Harden didn't happen,
Speaker 1: all right, so he insigne it. Now James Harden camp
Speaker 1: is telling people and Philly we want to come play
Speaker 1: with them be next year. This ain't a lot of
Speaker 1: his facts, but he didn He's telling the Brooklyn Nets,
Speaker 1: the ownership group different. You see what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what And I never said I ain't telking no
Speaker 1: about this ship, but this has happened in real LuFe,
Speaker 1: you got damn, I gotta get all the mos. So
Speaker 1: that's so now, so not in me like because of
Speaker 1: who wouldn't be is he's a dog and he want
Speaker 1: and he want to win. Can you imagine that picking
Speaker 1: roll coming down here with Harden coming at you wouldn't
Speaker 1: be just setting a big pick on the best game
Speaker 1: in the league easily. But that's that's what that said.
Speaker 1: So that's why I m b ain't doing no complaints.
Speaker 1: So you got Steph Murant and be Jack excuse me,
Speaker 1: m v P. I'm going stuff. I'm going exactly I know,
Speaker 1: excuse me us, and I'm going to beat mm hmmm
Speaker 1: mm hmmm. Yeah. Yeah. People's argument with Steph Curry he's
Speaker 1: been off four months. When I laughing, I hear your
Speaker 1: thoughts on that. Oh he's been cold for a month.
Speaker 1: He can't be in the conversation anymore like you would basketball.
Speaker 1: If you want to get taping cool, you shouldn't want
Speaker 1: to last year. Ye, So thet when I go there,
Speaker 1: but here, thank you. So the unanimous person, So the
Speaker 1: unanimous person on all of this, because I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: with Steffs. So Steph, the unanimous got across the board.
Speaker 1: I got k D and then I got you. Honest,
Speaker 1: I really I've been not a critic, but someone who's
Speaker 1: you know, always been saying, you know, for Milwaukee to
Speaker 1: get past, for us to believe in you. We talked
Speaker 1: about or also with lay the first to believe in you,
Speaker 1: you gotta win it. We talked about on the other
Speaker 1: day similar way, you know, the way we were talking
Speaker 1: about the jazz, but the way we look at Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: like we wasn't really believing in Yannice m VPS until
Speaker 1: you win it. And to me, Johannice is continued to
Speaker 1: improve and get better. He's a dog with the motor
Speaker 1: picking up his skill. Though, like it's hard to say,
Speaker 1: like you said, I agree, We've never had at this
Speaker 1: point the season so many candidates and we're probably missing
Speaker 1: a few people, you know what you mean, But those
Speaker 1: are three, um at this point, at the midpoint, I
Speaker 1: got one thing is go ahead, see the thing is
Speaker 1: with Jannice. He made me up believe it. But I
Speaker 1: had to see it, right, I had to see it,
Speaker 1: Like I wanted to see that game six. I want
Speaker 1: to see him go up to the free throw line.
Speaker 1: Because a lot of people and Jack Canal, the Big
Speaker 1: Bro was on the same page, they wouldn't understanding what
Speaker 1: we were saying about the Badman and Robbin Ship right right,
Speaker 1: Like who wasn't saying that Chris Milton is the absolute
Speaker 1: best player on the team. That's not what we were saying.
Speaker 1: All we were saying was in the in the actually
Speaker 1: the stats actually showed it, but we don't get into
Speaker 1: stats like that. But every time it was crunch time,
Speaker 1: he was that motherfucker gonna get those buckets. But if
Speaker 1: you watch the game, Perk but was calling plays for Chris,
Speaker 1: Middleton and christ He wasn't calling for you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, But that's motherfucker that don't know the game.
Speaker 1: But it's different now. I just don't want us to
Speaker 1: get bored with Yann and what the numbers that he's
Speaker 1: putting up. I mean, when you say the most when
Speaker 1: you say the most dominant players in shack Chris, that's
Speaker 1: some explanatory rights. And they don't then one moment, Steph
Speaker 1: Kurt check this out. People saying he's going through a slump,
Speaker 1: and he may be right, but bro, people, you got
Speaker 1: organizations showing their fucking hand already like they're running playoff
Speaker 1: type Schames to go out the three. But even if
Speaker 1: he does go through that, like they're showing their hand
Speaker 1: in January detailing a playoff like you don't pull off
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, come on, messed off with that and
Speaker 1: Draymond coming back nasty. Moving along the top five teams
Speaker 1: at the midpoint, Jack, I'm gonna start with you top
Speaker 1: five teams at the midpoint. Let's go go to State Phoenix. Uh,
Speaker 1: we'll go New Jersey, Brooklyn, Brooklyn my bad when I
Speaker 1: was there. That's what I'm saying. Milwaukee. I'm from Memphis
Speaker 1: and the like the dark Side. Ain't nothing wrong with Listen,
Speaker 1: Ain't nothing wrong with the dark Side. I'm going I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to Stay Phoenix. Can you not? Can you not?
Speaker 1: I'm putting Chicago in there. I'm putting Memphis in there.
Speaker 1: Number five hard Man number five and number five hard
Speaker 1: But here's the thing with Woma. Put the Bucks at
Speaker 1: five and not Brooklyn. It just hasn't been enough for me.
Speaker 1: When you look at Brooklyn, like the consistency with James
Speaker 1: Harden been at you know what I'm saying, Like he
Speaker 1: shows up every nine, and then you know what's up
Speaker 1: with Kyle, Like you know what I mean? How the
Speaker 1: chemist should go work? And here's the thing about Brooke.
Speaker 1: I don't give a funk. Would nobody say you cannot
Speaker 1: name me one championship there was one without having a
Speaker 1: defensive anchor in the middle of center. You can play
Speaker 1: as much small ball as you want, but you in
Speaker 1: some kind of way, You're gonna look at every championship
Speaker 1: team they had some type of center, a guy that
Speaker 1: could play center, anchor that defense in the Brooklyn Kness
Speaker 1: just don't have that. Yeah, So I'm going with the
Speaker 1: books at five my top five. I got the Warriors,
Speaker 1: I got Phoenix, I got Memphis, I got Milwaukee, and
Speaker 1: I got Miami. And although high on Chicago, high on Chicago,
Speaker 1: and I think I think I think they've exceeded with
Speaker 1: all the respects, I think they've exceeded expected to. People
Speaker 1: want to change, but you know I think they Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they've forgot that's your team, that you you're two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it. Chicago has had a great season at
Speaker 1: this point. But when when I said at the beginning,
Speaker 1: Sea And I thought they were top four team, people like, no,
Speaker 1: they're number one right now. But I think once they
Speaker 1: come back down to Earth. They're going through some injuries.
Speaker 1: Right now, I think they'll come back down in the pack.
Speaker 1: Because I want to say, it's only a two and
Speaker 1: a half gap between the one seed and the sixth
Speaker 1: seed in the Eastern Conference. So a bad week and
Speaker 1: have you at six for one. So because we all
Speaker 1: felt that we're all feel in this way, we just
Speaker 1: we was just like we can't put them in just
Speaker 1: yet Calves, I like that team. Well, that's leading to
Speaker 1: let's talk about them. Let's lie, that's leading to our
Speaker 1: surprise team of the year. Let's go So would you
Speaker 1: give that your team? Right there? That's it, that's it.
Speaker 1: I mean seriously, I'm I'm looking out Bernie Bigger Staff Jr. Yeah,
Speaker 1: man doing this, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at a right and I'm at this at the
Speaker 1: start of the season. I'm like, at some point Kevin
Speaker 1: Love is gonna get traded. Kevin Love still up, matter
Speaker 1: of fact, like coming in off the bench. I'm like
Speaker 1: Evan Mobley Washington in college. I'm like, he got potential,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be two or three years. No, it's
Speaker 1: right now. It's right now. And dar Is Garland. Okay,
Speaker 1: that first, Jared Allen, he's for facts, Jared Allen bating
Speaker 1: his asshole. But man, listen, when it comes down to
Speaker 1: Darre's Garland. People have to realize this. It could have
Speaker 1: been a lot of things that would change in that
Speaker 1: draft class was ion and job right, I would like,
Speaker 1: we have to realize this. There is Garland in college
Speaker 1: before he tours a c L was actually considered the
Speaker 1: best point and just in that draft. But because his
Speaker 1: knee injury, you know what I mean, it's set them
Speaker 1: back in the draft. But if he was healthy, it
Speaker 1: could have been a whole We could be talking about
Speaker 1: some other things. But it's the Calves, man like, like
Speaker 1: they ain't balking, ain't talking about but they and they
Speaker 1: got wings, They got athletely young wings, Core Row and
Speaker 1: all those guys. That's some dogs. I think they've created
Speaker 1: life after Lebron, you know what I mean, Like I
Speaker 1: finally have a new identity over the Inland. The same
Speaker 1: thing with Memphis. Will touch on that later, but you
Speaker 1: know that that grindhouse, grit and grind zbo and them
Speaker 1: like that. That Memphis team has created a new identity
Speaker 1: UM as well. But I really like that team, your
Speaker 1: surprise team at the midway point of this season. Man,
Speaker 1: you said that Memphis by far. I mean I was
Speaker 1: high in Chicago. Chicago, you know, started out to a
Speaker 1: good start with the team. They had a new team
Speaker 1: to to be at the top of the East like
Speaker 1: they are. But Memphis, for sure, the West is that
Speaker 1: it's a different animal and they've been going to the
Speaker 1: Eastern conversation. Western conference is strong people, so I got
Speaker 1: to go with mad I'm not mad at that. Uh
Speaker 1: my pick of Chicago. They were my pick at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season. I'm not going to change that.
Speaker 1: I love what they got going on over there. I
Speaker 1: love with the bar de Rosen has brought to that
Speaker 1: team as far as obviously you see what he's doing
Speaker 1: with the big shots and game winners and points. But
Speaker 1: I think his leadership in and and he you know,
Speaker 1: studied under Pot for a few years and he's been
Speaker 1: in the wars in Toronto. I love Crusoe and Ball
Speaker 1: in the back court, that defense. When they're both healthy,
Speaker 1: they really get to a Voostovich is a little slow.
Speaker 1: I think they need a stretch, for an athletic stretch
Speaker 1: forward their career to really take them to the next level.
Speaker 1: But I looked they got a young, hungry team. Billy
Speaker 1: Donovans over doing this thing, man. So that's my team
Speaker 1: up to this point. Most improved player perk Man, most
Speaker 1: improved player. I can't go with a guy like the conversation, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you know what I mean, after number two, you
Speaker 1: want Rookie of the Year, Like the next step is
Speaker 1: all starts. Like I'm not saying most improved is beneath you.
Speaker 1: But it almost it's almost like even that one year
Speaker 1: when people was almost like, man, Lucas should get most improved,
Speaker 1: You shouldn't you know, we got like the expectations of
Speaker 1: high to put him in the m v P cast
Speaker 1: Rent Like, now I'm Rents in the m v P
Speaker 1: category to me, and I agree with you instead of
Speaker 1: the most improved because he's had a great leap man
Speaker 1: so many it's so many out there, man, Like you know,
Speaker 1: you got Bronson, man who Luca was out he putting
Speaker 1: up big numbers. So I mean, damn, you got Jordan Pool.
Speaker 1: But I think join Pool gonna be affected by Clay
Speaker 1: being back, so I don't see him being now towards
Speaker 1: the tail end of it. But if I gotta go
Speaker 1: with the most improved, man, I gotta go with Desmond Baks.
Speaker 1: I'm staying on the dog side of Memphis a matter
Speaker 1: of time. That's your average and nine point this your
Speaker 1: average at eighteen like no dealing Brooks, no problem. I
Speaker 1: got killer right here, and then he added more to
Speaker 1: his game. It's not just I'm labeled as a sniper.
Speaker 1: It's not like I'm getting to the rap one to
Speaker 1: driple pull ups and I ain't the hole. I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go to Thomas with Lebron James
Speaker 1: and okay cool, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Tyler Hero.
Speaker 1: Oh good, I think my mother. He talked, He talked
Speaker 1: a lot of talking. We love guys that talking talking
Speaker 1: about backed it up, and he backed it up. So
Speaker 1: I gotta go with Tyler Hero and he really stepped in.
Speaker 1: Darla Andrews dad going on beginning say he should be
Speaker 1: an All Star. I was about to be he should
Speaker 1: be an All Star. I'm gonna go with Miles Bridget No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Yeah, Myles Bridges and Charlotte made
Speaker 1: a great move. We talked about it earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: Made a great move by turning down Charlotte's Do you
Speaker 1: think it was a sixty million dollar day at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season. He got itself a lot more money.
Speaker 1: The way he's been playing this year, career year, Him
Speaker 1: and Lamello's chemistry is is is unbelievable. So to me,
Speaker 1: those are the two cornerstones of that franchise. And I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of h Miles Bridges. The rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year is talented class um. Some guys haven't really
Speaker 1: you know, I guess projected the way we thought they
Speaker 1: were at this point, but it's it's a tough thinging
Speaker 1: they're gonna be fine. But park who at this crafway
Speaker 1: point usual rookie of the Year mm hmm, God damn
Speaker 1: right now is between Scottie Barnes and Molbley. Kay couldn't
Speaker 1: have been bothered by the way Detroit's they like he
Speaker 1: he didn't have a triple double. They just fucking sucked.
Speaker 1: So it's not his fault. But he's actually putting up
Speaker 1: the numbers. But man, I'm gona have to go with
Speaker 1: Evan Mobili top ten in black and blocks like top
Speaker 1: ten down there playing like a season vet, like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, like playing this role. I'm looking
Speaker 1: out versatile years. He's he's putting up the numbers, but
Speaker 1: you gotta watch them. You gotta actually watch him, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like I think he's up there
Speaker 1: with one and two in every category. But man, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm i gotta go with Mobile Man at that it's
Speaker 1: really I mean, when you look at that's the only
Speaker 1: person you can really go if if you look at
Speaker 1: like the effect he brings on the game with his
Speaker 1: team like he does, he does a lot, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And like you said, playing to play
Speaker 1: a role like that as a rookie, you gotta give
Speaker 1: him his props. I think he got that locked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out now I agree the same thing for me.
Speaker 1: And what's crazy is you know he went to that seat,
Speaker 1: so I got to see him play, and he played
Speaker 1: really well in college. But I think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a better pro than you know, sometimes it's do their transer.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna like he's game has built for
Speaker 1: the pros and uh, he's definitely someone that's gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: be there for a long time. Park. Who's your favorite team?
Speaker 1: I mean I already know the anth No, I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna keep righting with Memphis like that. Who's your favorite
Speaker 1: team to watch this season? Every fine team to watch them? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but they are, I mean ain't number one, but it's
Speaker 1: other teams I could give some credit to. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna go obviously Memphis at one, but everybody
Speaker 1: know this ship I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Damn Man, I want to go with the Hawks,
Speaker 1: but they've been losing. I don't really know if I
Speaker 1: can go against the grade against against Memphis, do they Son?
Speaker 1: I want. I'm trying to give somebody else to benefit.
Speaker 1: Is that more exciting team in the NBA right now
Speaker 1: outside of Memphis? I think that the most exciting team
Speaker 1: in the game. That's what I'm saying. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: go to State. Yeah, yeah, that's my team, but that
Speaker 1: I like, I'll sit down and it's just some time.
Speaker 1: Just something about Memphis. Man. Yeah, I'm not mad at that. Jack,
Speaker 1: you gotta go go to State with me. I love
Speaker 1: to play, but I also like watching the Nets play
Speaker 1: when they got all three of those guys. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like smart teams, you know, go and stay. There's a
Speaker 1: smart team that evolved movement similar to the teams. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's what I was thinking of. It wasn't a house Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Charlotte is fun to watch Charlotte, Mellow Nobs and Ship,
Speaker 1: but I can't get pick them up, but I put
Speaker 1: them sick. My team is Golden State, Dark Horse Jack,
Speaker 1: a team that maybe not not a lot of people
Speaker 1: are talking about, but you think has a chance to
Speaker 1: to get to the big game, the big Finals. It's
Speaker 1: kind of hard, man, because this year, I think the
Speaker 1: front runners are gonna be the ones that we can
Speaker 1: rely on. You know, I don't think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a team that's gonna maybe Yeah, I really, I really
Speaker 1: don't think. But if I had to pick a dark horse,
Speaker 1: I would have to go ship. It's just a Memphis
Speaker 1: show man, Memphis show how this thing going, park Man?
Speaker 1: You know what, I think? Memphis a move away. I
Speaker 1: think Memphis. You know, if they you know, they say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: we can live without dealing Brooks, give up for first
Speaker 1: round picks and maybe Ty Jones and go get jay
Speaker 1: Len Brown, then we have a different conversation. I just
Speaker 1: don't think that there yet. Brown. But look, I believe
Speaker 1: that alone. That's just I'm wishing to thinking. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: wished for thinking. But go ahead. My dogs is the heat.
Speaker 1: It's the heat. And I because they got dogs, the
Speaker 1: old dogs, all dogs. So this is this is a
Speaker 1: team that went to the finals just two years ago.
Speaker 1: And then you go out there, you are you add
Speaker 1: col get Jimmy but I mean j G P J.
Speaker 1: Tucker Bam. Then got bam is playing like more like
Speaker 1: he has some rest man. He's snatching the screw like
Speaker 1: everything is deep shoulder. I'm ain't got the defense. And
Speaker 1: then man like you said, Tyler Hero and then we
Speaker 1: already know what Jimmy go bro Man, Tyler Hero Man.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking and then to me so disrespect to
Speaker 1: any other coach out there, man was the best in
Speaker 1: the game period period when it comes the game adjustment.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about adjustments, not at half time, in the
Speaker 1: time many and this we're about to go to this?
Speaker 1: Are we about to go and this and make them
Speaker 1: do this? I haven't seen that man at that my
Speaker 1: dark horse. I was gonna pick Miami, but since you
Speaker 1: picked Miami, I'm gonna go with you. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Chicago again. Inexperience overall, but the mar has been
Speaker 1: there and when I feel like whenever you play hard man,
Speaker 1: you got a chance. And they got a lot of
Speaker 1: dogs over there in Chicago too, so if they can
Speaker 1: stay healthy, they will be my dark horse to reach
Speaker 1: the finals. Six Man of the Year, I gotta go
Speaker 1: with Tyler. Tyler Hero many year. He got to be
Speaker 1: something one of those awards you get no argument out
Speaker 1: of me about that. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Tyler
Speaker 1: Hero too, But I also want to give a shout
Speaker 1: out to Buddy Heeled up in Sacramento. Not that I
Speaker 1: just worked there, but he's right behind Tyler Hero and
Speaker 1: scoring points off the bench, having a good year over
Speaker 1: there to although the team's not playing well. But I
Speaker 1: definitely am rolling with Tyler Hero as well. Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. Yeah, start with you, Defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year. I'm going Jomond m I'm going to jerk.
Speaker 1: If I was the numbers guy, stats guy, I would
Speaker 1: have to go with real to go bird like everybody
Speaker 1: else because the per hundred possessions bullshit analytics and all
Speaker 1: that ship that sucked up the game. Oh but if
Speaker 1: I'm going on the ye test person that straps up,
Speaker 1: damn godly man, you know what, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out on a limb and I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it's about time for like a guard a wing to
Speaker 1: win it, not just bigs or you know. So, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna go with mkill Bridge. You've been locking up.
Speaker 1: He's definitely first team on defense this year. I mean
Speaker 1: he's on the person. I know, they could on him
Speaker 1: so long you could stand up in side shoe scratching
Speaker 1: his I'm gonna go with Draymond. I'm gonna go to
Speaker 1: Draymond because to me, he's the one guy on the
Speaker 1: lifting and guard every position on the floor effectively any night.
Speaker 1: So passion right, It's the difference between guarding my fun
Speaker 1: because coach tell you, go Guarden, are you embracing this ship? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And and to be a back line blanket at six five, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's a back line blanket in the NBA
Speaker 1: six five and putting filling boys hard. Yeah. Uh. Coach
Speaker 1: of the Year perk, I'll start with you. I think
Speaker 1: you might already mentioned them, but you got at this
Speaker 1: point midway coach of the year that go biggest style call.
Speaker 1: Actually you're not. I mean, it's a lot of coaches.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's deserving of it. But man, just know,
Speaker 1: I don't know about child, but I didn't. I wasn't
Speaker 1: even thinking of the Cows being in the playoffs. Nobody
Speaker 1: I said this is another year for them to get
Speaker 1: a top ten PI you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't even think not not only to be in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but one of the best. Sh I gotta go because
Speaker 1: when you come to defense and guys by and end,
Speaker 1: that's a real fliction of the respect that you have
Speaker 1: for your coach as a coach. So I gotta roll
Speaker 1: with I gotta royal with j be on this. For me,
Speaker 1: I love JB and you know I would love to
Speaker 1: put him in that position, But for what this coach
Speaker 1: has done to this team as a new team, I
Speaker 1: gotta go with Billy Donovan. I gotta go a bill
Speaker 1: of dog. I liked that. I liked that. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: in double up on that. I got Billy Donovan to Also,
Speaker 1: you could put Monty Williams in there. Phoenix has the
Speaker 1: best record in the game. You could really the second
Speaker 1: half of the season really gonna test Steve nash you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about this the other day. Katie's is in
Speaker 1: and out, James is you know, So Steve nashally gonna
Speaker 1: really get put to the test the second half the season.
Speaker 1: But y'all agree with you. I'm on Billy Donovan. At
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season, the two I think the
Speaker 1: two teams unanimously that everyone wanted to see in the
Speaker 1: finals was this team in l A and the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets is big three. Um, let's talk about both these
Speaker 1: teams where they're kind of at at the midway point
Speaker 1: and moving forward, Parking, Let's start with the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 1: Thoughts on Kyrie's back and forth, now, Katie's hurt, James
Speaker 1: Hardness had an up and down year, top heavy team. UM,
Speaker 1: talk to me about the Nets. You know what that
Speaker 1: they're gonna be just fine, like healthy, They're gonna be
Speaker 1: just fine. It is the thing I tell people this
Speaker 1: all the time. I'd rather have a part time Kyrie
Speaker 1: than a no time Cyrie. So it is what it
Speaker 1: is to this point. And you have to respect the
Speaker 1: man's decision when it comes down to being vaccinated, because
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irvan is not the only player and that's not vaccinated,
Speaker 1: right right, right exactly. So you know that was never
Speaker 1: my thing with Kylerie. My thing was I just wanted
Speaker 1: him to stand on wherever he was standing. But you
Speaker 1: know when I look at them, okay, cool. We all
Speaker 1: know in the playoffs, in the playoffs, role players, role
Speaker 1: players play better, play better with at home, right, Okay?
Speaker 1: If the role with the role players the Brooklyn Nets
Speaker 1: guy and James and James Harden and Katie can win
Speaker 1: them home games in the playoffs together, then they're not
Speaker 1: who they're not who we think they are. Okay, But
Speaker 1: when you go on the road role players sometimes, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, they tightened up, tightened up. Now
Speaker 1: you gotta fresh Kyrie fresh fresh coming in. They could
Speaker 1: give you that thirty forty fifty and take you home,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So when I look at
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets and this whole situation from listening on
Speaker 1: how Kyree talk about it, the guys got his back
Speaker 1: and that's all that mattered. What every and I and
Speaker 1: I feeling them for starting it early, like let's get
Speaker 1: these reps in early so we know how idea. So
Speaker 1: I'm cool with it. Jack, What if I said, what
Speaker 1: if I threw this wrench at it? Katie's down for
Speaker 1: six weeks. My whole thing was always like he said,
Speaker 1: part time Kyrie is better than no time Kyrie. Game
Speaker 1: seven at home? But what if this team, like I said,
Speaker 1: the East is so tight right now, what if Katie's
Speaker 1: injury this team slides out of a home court advantage.
Speaker 1: Now Game sevens are on the road and you've got
Speaker 1: Kyrie for Game sevens. I mean, that's that's crazy. You
Speaker 1: brought it up the other day. That's crazy. That's the
Speaker 1: crazy way to look at it too. But I think
Speaker 1: with Katie going down right now, you know, you got
Speaker 1: to look at the good side of it. It's just
Speaker 1: giving him some time to get rest. He had lot
Speaker 1: been on him, uh this season with Carrie being out
Speaker 1: and James being herd so it's been a lot oppressure
Speaker 1: on Katie. So this and to give him a time
Speaker 1: to rest reboot his mind. I mean then to something
Speaker 1: that you know that's factual that we ain't brought up.
Speaker 1: The only thing about paying the fine so Kye can
Speaker 1: play full time. So we don't know what next team
Speaker 1: is gonna be there at the beginning this season. But
Speaker 1: for us, we want to see the whole. We want
Speaker 1: to see the whole next team healthy. But I'm I
Speaker 1: want to re interest uthing that Perk said. I'm not
Speaker 1: confident in their bench at all. It was confident in
Speaker 1: Joe Harris last year. What do you do leg So
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not confident in the guys that got
Speaker 1: coming off the bench. If anything's happened, if enough the
Speaker 1: star goes down. I started not having a good game,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So they've bench or something
Speaker 1: I can't rely on. So who you leaning on? So
Speaker 1: you're leaning on the Big Three, You're leaning on LaMarcus, Argists,
Speaker 1: Patty Mills and Blake. I'm leaning on the Big Three
Speaker 1: and LaMarcus Argists and Patty Mills because Patty Mills has
Speaker 1: been there. You know, Patty Mill is gonna do his
Speaker 1: job on both ends. Marcus has Shawn signs you know,
Speaker 1: of being the same guy, but we know his role.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna get that many touches like he used
Speaker 1: to playing with those guys. They gotta go through him.
Speaker 1: The perk was talking about this stuff, that thing right now,
Speaker 1: they gotta feature him a little bit more out James Simmon,
Speaker 1: James at home. It was it was like Leving and two,
Speaker 1: Eleving and two when he scores over I think like
Speaker 1: nineteen points. Yeah, you know, I hear these stats, but
Speaker 1: it's true. You watch them play. They go through them
Speaker 1: off the bench that was using them. They was using
Speaker 1: them as almost a six man it's type and you
Speaker 1: can play sounding for them. Yeah. Um, so a healthy
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Brooklyn nets can we can we picture this lineup
Speaker 1: direct people, we go off with nets. Picture this picture
Speaker 1: this Patty Mills at the one, Kyre at the two James,
Speaker 1: the Marcus and Katie. That's a good line up in
Speaker 1: these days. Again, in this day's game, they're gonna get
Speaker 1: beat up on the on the glass. You don't think,
Speaker 1: um kay, they'll get in there, get your he gonna
Speaker 1: get in the team to get your tin. Now they're
Speaker 1: gonna get beat up on the glass. Change to get
Speaker 1: your tiny. They're gonna get beat up on the glass.
Speaker 1: So just because they're small, but I like a lot.
Speaker 1: That's that's the killer offensive and that's what they might
Speaker 1: need to go to. Those are their best players. That's
Speaker 1: the best five players. Yeah, man, that's a lot of
Speaker 1: that's a lot of a lot of heat. Now you
Speaker 1: want Los Angeles Lakers. UM eight has been out going
Speaker 1: on six weeks back soon. Lebron has transition to working smarter,
Speaker 1: not harder. So he's working on that pinch post in
Speaker 1: that block area that Kobe and might used to dominate.
Speaker 1: The game is going through him. Westbrook up and down season.
Speaker 1: Um Taylan Horton Tucker not playing the way he thought
Speaker 1: he was, well what they thought he was gonna play.
Speaker 1: Trevor Reaves is working himself back in the big experiment
Speaker 1: hasn't been working. DJ hasn't been playing at all. Credit
Speaker 1: to Dwight Howard. Whenever he's been called upon, he's played well.
Speaker 1: Um thoughts on this team, Malik Monk having a great season.
Speaker 1: Shout out Malik Monk, Dandy Johnson, Stanley Johnson. They need
Speaker 1: to sign him for the year. He's that young bulldog
Speaker 1: they that they don't have that they need. But park
Speaker 1: thoughts on the Lakers. Oh, you know when they first
Speaker 1: when they joined, right, we was like it gotta work,
Speaker 1: it gotta work. They got too much, you know, firepower.
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden they age started to show, right,
Speaker 1: the game started all of a sudden. You see Golden
Speaker 1: State with these athletic wings and and they're faster and
Speaker 1: things to that nature. So when I look, when I
Speaker 1: look at the Lakers and start with Russ, and I'm
Speaker 1: watching Russ and and his as he gets older, right
Speaker 1: as he's getting older, his athleticism is the climate a
Speaker 1: little bit, it's the climbing a little bit. That's why
Speaker 1: that fifteen foot we used to see, they used to
Speaker 1: go in for him is short now because he's not
Speaker 1: getting the elevation on his shot anymore. Right, So when
Speaker 1: you look at him attacking the basket and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we know we saw him blessed Rudy may he blessed
Speaker 1: his game, but think about the lay up so help
Speaker 1: him get caught in between whether he was gonna dunct.
Speaker 1: So with that being said, it's almost like he's not
Speaker 1: fighting to get up over screens. And then when I
Speaker 1: hear Russ say ship like after the after the games,
Speaker 1: he was like, it's more it's more to basketball. Is
Speaker 1: it's more to life than just basketball. And I'm like, na, Russ,
Speaker 1: ain't no, Like no, bro, Like you came to l
Speaker 1: A for one reason and one reason only even if
Speaker 1: it is, and ain't it is, But like no, that
Speaker 1: that ain't. So I'm like, I don't know where he's at,
Speaker 1: but I will say this. I will say this, Malik Monk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when they are fully healthy, he that Mothercker needs to
Speaker 1: be in the rotation period. Was the lefty from Miami.
Speaker 1: Hendrick Dunn is still but he's tough, but Braun moving
Speaker 1: to the center and playing the center the way he did,
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't see that mess. It you
Speaker 1: see that message was the A D coach asked me
Speaker 1: to play the sin I'm gonna show you how to
Speaker 1: play the ciner B said, I got magic in me too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna show you. So when
Speaker 1: you get back, I want you to and not not
Speaker 1: us force you to play sin a D. I want
Speaker 1: you to waste this ship watch I embrace it, still
Speaker 1: dominate and enjoy. And y'all y'a already know, like I
Speaker 1: know when you hurt, and no matter how look, when
Speaker 1: you're hurting, you're sitting on the sideline for the standard
Speaker 1: period of time. You start seeing things through a different lens.
Speaker 1: You start evaluating the game a little bit differently. And
Speaker 1: that's what I think that Braun ain't gonna say ship
Speaker 1: to a deal about it? Here go, I got the
Speaker 1: five spot. That's a message to A D like I
Speaker 1: need I need you on this when you get back.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. But I think Lebron and a D at
Speaker 1: the four or five however they played together, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be seen. See. But they're not coming. I mean they're
Speaker 1: not coming questions. What's that again? They're not coming out
Speaker 1: of was I don't even think they have a chance,
Speaker 1: and that's that. It's hard to go against Braun because
Speaker 1: he didn't proved us wrong for us get in to
Speaker 1: the finals. But Matt, I just I just can't see
Speaker 1: it because teams are not scanned, absolutely not. They look
Speaker 1: forward to let after that game, they look forward to
Speaker 1: open that as. The only thing I'll say is I
Speaker 1: think to combat what you said, because they are an older,
Speaker 1: slower team. To me, they're built for the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: I think right now they're on Coup's control, knowing that
Speaker 1: at the end of that we just got to get
Speaker 1: in and then that's gonna be our best shot. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you could flip the switch, because an
Speaker 1: older team who knows if you could flip the switch,
Speaker 1: Lebron is always gonna give you a great chance. But
Speaker 1: I say this team is built for seven game serious,
Speaker 1: because they're gonna get days off in between. The game
Speaker 1: slows down in the playoffs, so I think that's where
Speaker 1: they're gonna be at their best. I feel like they're
Speaker 1: gonna hit their stride after the playoffs, if that excuse me,
Speaker 1: After all Star breakup, they can get healthy. But we'll see.
Speaker 1: To me, the best Lakers in the playoffs because it's
Speaker 1: a seven game series. It's gonna slow down and they
Speaker 1: won't have to be like you said this with team
Speaker 1: Jack thoughts on them? Can can they come at if
Speaker 1: everyone is healthy? Can they come out of the West? Yeah?
Speaker 1: If they fired the head coach? Oh no, Jack, No No.
Speaker 1: I've never been a fan of Vocal. I've never been
Speaker 1: a fan of Vogal. I just know I don't think
Speaker 1: he's the coach for this team. Bro. And I've been right,
Speaker 1: godamn it, not this thing. You know, the championship team
Speaker 1: was new k D and Braun knew they're gonna They're
Speaker 1: good enough to figure it out for a season. They're
Speaker 1: getting older. You add in all these pieces. He can't
Speaker 1: handle all that rust. Miller just too much for him.
Speaker 1: And that's why the ain't coming together because they don't
Speaker 1: respect him, right, I could see that. But its locker
Speaker 1: room down. If you have Frank Vogel shoes and y'all
Speaker 1: acquired a Russell Westbrook that's making forty three million dollars
Speaker 1: to you, not not you. I don't not you. I
Speaker 1: don't want you. I know how you were reacting. I
Speaker 1: want you to put your so like in my frame
Speaker 1: of just a coach, not take it, you know, go
Speaker 1: into a whole another character. Just how can like what
Speaker 1: you're supposed to tell Russell Westbrook about getting up over screens?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean about? Stop gambling about stop
Speaker 1: leaving your feet to pass the ball when you learn
Speaker 1: this ship at the age. I got a better one
Speaker 1: for your big Femi, I got a better one for you.
Speaker 1: Fuck being somebody else and pretending I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: red Greg Papovitch, I'm gonna set your ass down. Fuck
Speaker 1: the money, funk how much I'm paying you. You're not
Speaker 1: helping us win. I don't know how good you win.
Speaker 1: I'm a Greg Papa bitch. I'm gonna set you at
Speaker 1: the end of the bench until you buy into what
Speaker 1: we need you to do to be successful, not what
Speaker 1: you want to do or what's been successful other places.
Speaker 1: We're talking about what we need you to do. Here.
Speaker 1: You you you can. You bring a lot to the game,
Speaker 1: but you're not doing what we need to do at
Speaker 1: the times we need you to do it. You know,
Speaker 1: say so, I'm gonna go Greg Popas, I'm gonna see
Speaker 1: your ass down. But look, do you think do y'all
Speaker 1: think Vogel has that type of power and support from
Speaker 1: the front office because we know the politics side. Is
Speaker 1: that a conversation bron can have for him. Brown ain't
Speaker 1: no guy that want to have conversations. See See that's
Speaker 1: the thing. See that's the thing. People don't really but
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Ain't having no conversation with different Come
Speaker 1: on to the office, Russ. I'm gonna sit you down
Speaker 1: and just like I did Tony Park in the championship game,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit you down, let Speedy cast and play
Speaker 1: because he compete competing with Stefan Marbre and all these
Speaker 1: other guys. Jason Kid, you're not competing. So you know what, Tony,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit you down. I don't know how mad
Speaker 1: you is. I'm gonna sit you down and play speedy
Speaker 1: because that's how that's what's gonna get us. Only see
Speaker 1: only see maybe three coaches doing that in the NBA,
Speaker 1: POPA and Hoyluke. Yeah. Yeah, I don't see no other
Speaker 1: coaches doing that. I don't see no other coaches doing
Speaker 1: that now. But I feel you though, man, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just man. But now I feel your point on
Speaker 1: that stack. But but the boys just haven't been playing
Speaker 1: because here's the thing, and I want to say this,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Just look at the wind when they
Speaker 1: beat the Jazz of thenight, Frank Voga said fuck it.
Speaker 1: When they made they run. He had Braun, he had
Speaker 1: uh Horton Tucker, Avery Bradley was guarantee, Stanley Johnson who's
Speaker 1: on a ten day and Belik Monk who's on the minimum.
Speaker 1: He had those five guys and he wrote that ships
Speaker 1: about the three minute up and then he said, come
Speaker 1: on the Russ. We got the seven point lead. If
Speaker 1: you fuck this off you, it's on me. I guess,
Speaker 1: but that's what I'm saying. So it was people that
Speaker 1: bought in and actually did the ship that he asked
Speaker 1: them to do. And I when I go back to
Speaker 1: even a guy like Mello best score, we get that
Speaker 1: one of the greatest scores the game I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: But when it comes down to it, I need that
Speaker 1: effort on defense. He's giving you sixth thing points on
Speaker 1: one end, but he's giving up thirty to thirty five
Speaker 1: on the other. He can't slide his feet that. I mean,
Speaker 1: what you want to do if you vote with what
Speaker 1: you're doing, because I know broad advocating for don't get
Speaker 1: your drink defense. All right, um man, it's coming up
Speaker 1: on two years. Uh since the passing of Kobe, Gigi
Speaker 1: and the other people on the helicopter. Um man, sending
Speaker 1: love and enlightening energy to the family. Um perk real quick. Uh,
Speaker 1: you had two runners with Cobe in the finals, um
Speaker 1: talk to us about both them. You got one at home,
Speaker 1: then you got hurt in the finals, and they got
Speaker 1: it at home. Two thousand and ten, he said, I
Speaker 1: was at the loss was his hardest Larde series he
Speaker 1: ever took, and in the wind that was his best championship.
Speaker 1: It was it was in his loss. Cold gave everything
Speaker 1: he possibly could. Like we were to the point in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eightl we was like, you know what
Speaker 1: we're gonna give code. We we we ain't gonna give
Speaker 1: it to him, but we can't stop him. So it
Speaker 1: is what it is. You know, Ray wasn't stopping his ass.
Speaker 1: So you know what I mean that we're already battling
Speaker 1: down there with these two trees and little more old him.
Speaker 1: So it was like we gotta counsel everybody out. He
Speaker 1: gonna get his Let me tell you what that two
Speaker 1: thousand and ten Ship it hit different, and I feel
Speaker 1: like it hit different for Code because I was watching,
Speaker 1: and man, he struggled that whole game. He really kind
Speaker 1: of struggled that whole series. But every team, each the
Speaker 1: team that won that game in that series wanted to
Speaker 1: rebound in battle, and Kobe knew that ship. So in
Speaker 1: game seven, I thought he shot like maybe six for
Speaker 1: twenty four from the field. I believe he had like
Speaker 1: fifteen eighteen rebounds, six or seven. The motherfucker's was offensive
Speaker 1: to go to the free throw line, Like that's how
Speaker 1: bad he wanted this. He will, yeah, he will, And
Speaker 1: then you have to realize this it was him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had gassault Becausaul wasn't the same at the time,
Speaker 1: and no disrespect took us ault. But he's not in
Speaker 1: the same he's not in the same conversation with Kobe
Speaker 1: Ray Paul KG. So so in Kobe eyes, it's really
Speaker 1: is one against three. And I didn't took you, I
Speaker 1: didn't took out out one day. Yeah, one deed, I
Speaker 1: got you all. I got you one ded. You was
Speaker 1: playing well though two for you hurt your knee. You
Speaker 1: was playing really well out there trying to get it man,
Speaker 1: how to get it? Sir Jack, your moment that stands
Speaker 1: out to me. Obviously you guys have some great battles
Speaker 1: the league, but you're McDonald's all American experience, Like you said,
Speaker 1: talked to us about that, you knew the vibe coming
Speaker 1: in Code's stamp that you should have been m v P.
Speaker 1: Talked to us about that ninety six McDonald's game with
Speaker 1: Code Man. That was a good experience, man, you know,
Speaker 1: just being able to grow up with him, you know,
Speaker 1: know him as a teenager and seeing them the player
Speaker 1: he becomes, you know, one of the greatest ever to
Speaker 1: do it, you know. But for me, my greatest moment
Speaker 1: with Cold was when me and you was gonna Golden State.
Speaker 1: Uh it was a tie game, you know. Actually we're
Speaker 1: up to Kobe comes down to hit the three. I
Speaker 1: was going back and forth. I come back and hit
Speaker 1: another three. Kobe put us up. Kobe come back and
Speaker 1: hit another one. A in l A. Did I come
Speaker 1: back and hit another one? And just what happened we
Speaker 1: was playing We played them back to back nights. We
Speaker 1: played them home first in l A. Then then they
Speaker 1: go to State. But just that night, you know, so
Speaker 1: I watched that game all the time, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Uh, to be going back and forth with
Speaker 1: him on that on that stage was was something I
Speaker 1: always remember. But he said he was gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the great man. He did that. A lot of
Speaker 1: people say ship and don't do it now he did that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I just got to see, you know, from
Speaker 1: going to someone I watched since I was in college
Speaker 1: up at U c l A coming up on campus,
Speaker 1: to competing, to almost getting into a fight to become
Speaker 1: a teammate, to really getting to know him as a
Speaker 1: as a brother, as a man, as a father, and
Speaker 1: just the bond we built outside of the basketball. We
Speaker 1: had some cool times during basketball. But you know, him
Speaker 1: always sent in the Twins. Every time he dropped the shoe,
Speaker 1: he send the Twins and their team shoes. If the
Speaker 1: Twins played at nine and g G played at eleven,
Speaker 1: COVID hit me the night before the time you guys
Speaker 1: played nine am covild come two hours early and watched
Speaker 1: the Twins play like I'm gonna go watch eight year
Speaker 1: olds nine year olds. But but he just did it
Speaker 1: because he loved it. So just to really get a
Speaker 1: chance to see him outside of the Mamba to get
Speaker 1: to get to get to know Kobe was a very
Speaker 1: dompe experience to me. So again, Man, rest in peace,
Speaker 1: star brother Man. We love when we miss you. Sending
Speaker 1: love to the family, the girls, sisters, Mom and Dad. Man.
Speaker 1: Make sure you check out Kobe Bryant muse on showtime.
Speaker 1: We're up next with our favorite segment fan questions. Let's
Speaker 1: get to it, fellas s F. Curry Tree. If y'all
Speaker 1: could come back on a ten day, who is a
Speaker 1: squad you with? Picking? Why? For me? I would want
Speaker 1: to go probably to Miami because I think fit that style.
Speaker 1: I think I could be a a good asset to
Speaker 1: them with score and a defender on the way to
Speaker 1: help PJ and Jimmy. I would say, Miami is more
Speaker 1: of my style. To call perk and I'm going to Miami.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Miami for everything Yo's outside of the
Speaker 1: basketball to Miami. So it is the thing. One I
Speaker 1: need to get in shape, and you know in that
Speaker 1: coachure you gotta get into two. I ain't gonna have
Speaker 1: to do much. I ain't gonna have to do what
Speaker 1: you do. You go there and kick it with you
Speaker 1: deal a little bit. You know what I'm saying, learned
Speaker 1: just how to be a vet ship. I'm with it.
Speaker 1: I'm with dope best friend, and I want to go
Speaker 1: to a healthy Lakers, but I would want to run
Speaker 1: it back from Golden States and I got hurt going
Speaker 1: into the playoffs that year in seventeen and there was
Speaker 1: a dope situation. So a healthy chance to rock with
Speaker 1: them boys to be dope. Jack, you're up at s
Speaker 1: r S fifteen ninety four. What do you think about that?
Speaker 1: The possibility of a mid season tournament n c A style?
Speaker 1: No like man like no like, like you know what,
Speaker 1: I was against the play in, and after I saw
Speaker 1: the playing we could play in, It's like, okay, the
Speaker 1: play in is the playoffs before the playoffs. I'm with that,
Speaker 1: But let's not keep adding this, Like, what's the point
Speaker 1: of even adding this and talking about two million dollars? Well,
Speaker 1: two million dollar prize to the motherfucker making forty two million.
Speaker 1: That ship don't mean that. I'll tell you this. I
Speaker 1: do got the idea for the All Star Game one
Speaker 1: on one tournament. One on one tournament was winning from
Speaker 1: two million dollars. All the top players in the league
Speaker 1: in that tournament. Who's winning. Katie's not gonna be playing
Speaker 1: Clay is not all Kyrie won't be an All Star
Speaker 1: this year. I'm going Greek. I'm going to honest to dogs,
Speaker 1: deebo everything and if you big, he go go buy you, Ego,
Speaker 1: Euro Step Dunc that hold all that. Yeah, I'm going
Speaker 1: to honest dog No Katie though, I'm going to honest
Speaker 1: at roots life form. Who had the better block? John
Speaker 1: mored two hands off the glass this year? Uh Ta
Speaker 1: Shaw prins on Reggie Miller back in old Folk. That
Speaker 1: was more meaningful. That was in the Eastern Conference finals, Right,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to either one of them. Jordan gonna
Speaker 1: pen Ron Mercer ship and fifty two hands pinned and
Speaker 1: fifty and gave him forward of that game. Stop it,
Speaker 1: y'all better do your homework. But he wasn't fifty years old,
Speaker 1: was he? Man? He was damn nil. Yeah. It was
Speaker 1: goddamn yeah yeah, party by party too, by party. Um.
Speaker 1: I would say that that obviously the Shan block is
Speaker 1: a historic block. It meant so much. But John just
Speaker 1: for how fucking little he is and the way he
Speaker 1: got it. He putting his arm pits on the on
Speaker 1: the backboard, he lets you know he's about to jump.
Speaker 1: Before he jumped to he get the steps together, he
Speaker 1: wind up and all that his hair be swinging in
Speaker 1: the back, your flying and blocking your ship that we
Speaker 1: already know. You know, like Tay Shawn saved the day
Speaker 1: with this man. Here's the thing about job it just says.
Speaker 1: It just goes to show you the type of competitor
Speaker 1: he is and a team guy. Because because he's the
Speaker 1: one that turned over the ball. So he turned over
Speaker 1: the ball and he got back in transition and he
Speaker 1: really meant that, like he got back not to the
Speaker 1: far I like, he got back on something like I'm
Speaker 1: trying to win something like hello, man, this dude twenty
Speaker 1: two man, Like we already know what he could do,
Speaker 1: everything else he could do, but he that team has
Speaker 1: kind of embodied his personality that and the franchise is
Speaker 1: taking his energy. Love it. You know what I love
Speaker 1: about him? No, I see him in the spot Memphis,
Speaker 1: no drinking, no nothing, saying it was up to everybody.
Speaker 1: He went in the you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: he's standing alone, he's doing his own thing. He locked in,
Speaker 1: super locked in love to hear it. Skott Walker underscore
Speaker 1: twenty six. Do you gotta see the Lakers making the
Speaker 1: run of the playoffs and can the Bulls make a
Speaker 1: run in the Eastern Conference? They can make it look
Speaker 1: what's the first question? Of course the Lakers. I think
Speaker 1: the Legs are them squeezing the playoffs. They're gonna find
Speaker 1: they're gonna un run. They can do that too. It
Speaker 1: depends on how healthy they are. They can't like, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna dispect the Lakers like they ain't got Brough
Speaker 1: and Rugs. Come on now, they still got Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame with all over the roster. But can they can
Speaker 1: they turn it around in enough time when we send
Speaker 1: history shows us from being professionals. You can't just turn
Speaker 1: it on. I don't get from who you got. I'm
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs to one of the championships. But uh,
Speaker 1: I still think they can the Bulls. They can make
Speaker 1: it look interesting and you know, some things will have
Speaker 1: to go They wait for them to make it out
Speaker 1: a lot of things, you know what I'm saying, injuries
Speaker 1: with other teams and ain't talking about they say somebody
Speaker 1: has heard others. You know what I'm saying. Things got
Speaker 1: to go right for the Bulls to pull it off.
Speaker 1: I think with the Lakers, you can't count Brawn out.
Speaker 1: He's proving that to is a D. Like we're talking
Speaker 1: about a D, but a D quality like I'm talking
Speaker 1: about because I expect Bore but like he's bro. He's
Speaker 1: quietly averaging leven like and it's effen. But like if
Speaker 1: you would get the A D back to the A
Speaker 1: D where we were actually having a conversation about who
Speaker 1: will we take Jani's or a D. If you get
Speaker 1: to that a D, then you definitely can't count the
Speaker 1: Lakers out. Um, And I figured I feel I feel
Speaker 1: like their path as well, Like I feel like if
Speaker 1: the Lagacy Phoenix, Phoenix is a better matchup than them,
Speaker 1: saying go to State like in the second round or
Speaker 1: something to that nature. So I think that's what matters.
Speaker 1: But then you know, when I look at the Bulls,
Speaker 1: when I look at the East, just overall, I think
Speaker 1: east Man, the East is really wide open, and that's
Speaker 1: the fun thing about the league. So I'm looking at
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the Bulls and can they make the
Speaker 1: conference finals? Yes, that actually they really can. Like the
Speaker 1: Martin Rose exact Lavine twenty seven and points a game,
Speaker 1: we see what Alonzo Doring, We know what Alice Caruso
Speaker 1: do without even showing up in the box scores. And
Speaker 1: then Vossovich man like like he's on some other ship.
Speaker 1: And then you look at Kobe White. Man, Kobe White
Speaker 1: this last of them games has been averaging two points
Speaker 1: off the bench in the story like he's sniping it.
Speaker 1: He's sniping it. Aye, oh Good, the little backup, big
Speaker 1: fun Good who got into it with John. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they definitely could make it to the Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 1: Balls is life? Tin, Matt, you were and you were
Speaker 1: in to think like a man? Can't you explain to us?
Speaker 1: How long did you guys do the same for? How
Speaker 1: hard was it not to laugh at Kevin Hard was crazy?
Speaker 1: That was two thousand and ten. I was with the
Speaker 1: Lakers that was coming off in surgery that summer. But
Speaker 1: we shot that basketball where Ron and rest In Peace,
Speaker 1: Russell Butler, Shannon Brown and me and Lisa Leslie against
Speaker 1: Kevin Hard and his crew and Kevin could really play,
Speaker 1: but he's so motherfucking funny. I promise you probably took
Speaker 1: us like three hours, three and a half hours to
Speaker 1: shoot this little basketball scene because he would make everything
Speaker 1: so like trying to post people and I try to
Speaker 1: grab the ball, like try to go ice, so like
Speaker 1: stop filming and try to play one on one with somebody.
Speaker 1: So it was an honored man to get down with Kevin.
Speaker 1: Definitely a funny situation. It would go. Uncle Grabs says,
Speaker 1: y'all are such big supporters of women's sports. You're fucking right,
Speaker 1: especially basketball. What for women would you take to hoop
Speaker 1: with you on the black top? I'm going down the line?
Speaker 1: Was that? So we're going one of the time. I'm
Speaker 1: going I'm going I'm gonna buy a position too. I'm
Speaker 1: going down stay at the point. I'm going sent to
Speaker 1: a Cooper at the two. I'm going Sherll Swoops at
Speaker 1: the three, I'm going Tina Cool, Tina Thompson at the four,
Speaker 1: and I'm going Lisa Less left to five. You just
Speaker 1: did that was covering fans. I'm just stay. I mean, who,
Speaker 1: I mean, who Coo? Can you really add? I mean
Speaker 1: and shift? I gotta guess. I gotta go Diana Treassi,
Speaker 1: uh six man of b Kandis Parker. Now you can't
Speaker 1: have hand. I'm taking Treasi, I'm taking Candis Parker. I'm
Speaker 1: taking ship to Bird, she's tough. I'm taking uh Sabrina
Speaker 1: as the as one of mine and Who's and then
Speaker 1: fucking big Liz Campbadge, Big List, need you on the show,
Speaker 1: Big List. So I'm I'm, I'm going, I'm going, Tina
Speaker 1: Thompson said, there Cooper chrll swoops them three and then
Speaker 1: I'm and Kandice Parker. Remember we're going to the black
Speaker 1: Top and not saying that, but we're going to the
Speaker 1: black Top time. You know what I'm saying. We might
Speaker 1: go spank a couple of guys teams. Well, that's a
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