1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: dot com, or stream us live every night on the 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. 9 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 3: Locked and loaded. 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 4: Here. 11 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 3: Another week begins, Final four set, and chaos ensues. We've 12 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 3: got the Dodgers getting ready to roll up. We got 13 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 3: a Luca, a Lakers Sons Luca as the suspension after 14 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 3: his sixteenth technical actually holds up for once after many 15 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 3: false starts in his history. So we've got that rolling on. 16 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 3: Smith out another couple of days. Hey, I'm by Carmen 17 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 3: alongside me as Aaron Torres, our college buckets expert. You 18 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 3: hear him Saturday nights alongside Jason Martin here on the network, 19 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 3: joining us Aaron underscore. Torres is where you find him 20 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 3: in the twitters. Find me over at Swollen Dome and 21 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 3: you're a happy boy because you got your last second victory. 22 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 3: Your Yukon Huskies advanced Danny Hurley skull, budding people in celebration, 23 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 3: everybody crying for technical foul, suspensions and downright chaos. But 24 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 3: you did a show following mine on Sunday alongside Steve Hartman, 25 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 3: and I think you got back to your house right 26 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 3: about tip off times. How it's going to block out 27 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 3: the rest of the world and enjoy what was a 28 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 3: chaotic in Twirlie never say it's over kind of moment 29 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 3: because those Yukon Huskies kept clawing, clawing back, And we'll 30 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 3: have a larger discussion about Duke in a moment. But man, 31 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 3: how did you celebrate? What did you go and do? 32 00:01:59,560 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 2: Well? 33 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 5: First of all, I did leave this studio at five 34 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,919 Speaker 5: o'clock Eastern time. I made it home with about seventeen 35 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 5: minutes left in the first half, which means that I 36 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 5: did not see a Yukon lead until there were what 37 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,959 Speaker 5: one point what was the final three point four seconds 38 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 5: something like that I. 39 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 6: Don't even tell. 40 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 5: Yeah, and so yeah, so how did I celebrate? I 41 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 5: actually did my own show, the Aeron Taurus podcast, immediately after. 42 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 5: I will readily admit that the analysis tonight will be 43 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 5: much better because I've had twenty four hours to process it. 44 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 6: In not two. 45 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 5: Minutes of yelling and screaming and trying to piece together 46 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 5: what the heck happened. It still feels, in my opinion, 47 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 5: a little bit surreal. I still can't believe. You know, 48 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 5: I'll show you. I actually posted it on social media 49 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 5: and I blacked out some names, but the number of 50 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 5: people that just texted me holy s fill in the 51 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 5: final three letters sure in that moment was unbelievable. And then, 52 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 5: like I said, I started doing my own show. And again, 53 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 5: it really wasn't until about eight nine, ten o'clock last 54 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 5: night that I had time to really process everything that happened. 55 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:13,679 Speaker 6: It was unbelievable. 56 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 5: Yukon going to its third final, four and four years 57 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 5: and you know, listen to somebody who was in the 58 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 5: arena last year when dukele blew a fourteen point lead 59 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 5: against Houston. I know this is going to be a 60 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 5: theme of the next four hours, starting to become a 61 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 5: little bit of a trend for the Duke Blue Devils. 62 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,959 Speaker 3: Well, one of the things we talked about as we're 63 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 3: getting our cups of coffee and getting ready for the 64 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 3: show open Aaron was the idea of Coach k kind 65 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 3: of going around and talking about his Sleepless Night. We'll 66 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 3: do the Shire part because we got some great audio 67 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 3: that Brandon was working on in the back that we'll 68 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 3: use an hour two. But Coach k going around and 69 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 3: over the last few weeks with the success of Duke 70 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 3: and the Boozers and everybody running amok, shired getting a 71 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 3: bit of shine on this show for Jason Smith and 72 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 3: I as we talked about our tournament bracketology, that it 73 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 3: would be awful hard to pick Duke to run when 74 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 3: Shier with kon Ka Nipple and Cooper Flagg was unable 75 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 3: to get it done with an epic collapse last year. Yep, 76 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 3: So we shorted the Duke stock as a program before 77 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 3: we got to turn ay time, and once again we 78 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 3: watched this collapse. So I ask you, as a Yukon 79 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 3: guy with your your hat a happy you know it's 80 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 3: because it is also Batman Day. On this date in 81 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 3: nineteen thirty nine, the Batman made his debut. Bob Kane 82 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 3: and company got it done. So you can go dens 83 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 3: that that's what we're gonna do here in your analysis. 84 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 5: Let's say someone called John Shire the joker after yesterday, 85 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:51,119 Speaker 5: but keep going. 86 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 3: There might be more more analogies to run through. But 87 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 3: the idea of you as as a Yukon, a lum 88 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 3: and fan versus the journalist as you're watching it trying 89 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 3: to manage those things, and we'll do the coach K 90 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 3: in a moment. 91 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, well no, And I'll tell you this, the number 92 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 5: of people that to me over really since the bracket 93 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 5: came out, but even over the last twenty four hours, 94 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 5: that have mentioned to me, either in passing or directly, 95 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 5: the exact point that you made, which was I took 96 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 5: Yukon in my bracket, or I took you Con in 97 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 5: my survivor pool, or I didn't take Duke as far 98 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 5: as others because I didn't trust the coaching. I mean, 99 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 5: I could literally name a dozen people that in the 100 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 5: last two to three weeks have told me I do 101 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 5: not trust the coaching. 102 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 6: And I think two things can be true. 103 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 5: Is I you know, listen, if we're being fair to 104 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 5: John Shire in some ways, the program is in better 105 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 5: shape than when Coach K left. You know, the recruiting 106 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 5: certainly has not fallen off. You have multiple. 107 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 6: ACC regular season championships. 108 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 5: You have I believe three out of the last four 109 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 5: ACC two tournament championships you have back to back number 110 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 5: one seeds. But what is also true is in the 111 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 5: very rare instance where Duke does not have an overwhelming 112 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 5: talent advantage, and in the very rare instance when it 113 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 5: is a close game late and John Shire has to 114 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 5: draw up some x's and o's, it generally is not 115 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 5: working well. It is not working out well for the 116 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 5: Duke Blue Devils. You go back to last year, as 117 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 5: you said, the final few minutes against North Carolina. This year, 118 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 5: it wasn't quite the season opener, but it was the 119 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 5: first big game last season Cooper flag against Kentucky in Atlanta. 120 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 5: I was at a game against Kansas in Vegas last 121 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 5: year that came down to the final few seconds. Bill 122 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 5: self out executed John Shire with the clipboard, and so 123 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 5: I could go on and on, but the point being, 124 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 5: there aren't very many times where John Shire is facing 125 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 5: a team with as much talent and frankly just not 126 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 5: facing a situation where he where it's close late in 127 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 5: the game. But when he does, more often than not, 128 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 5: he's come up short. 129 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 3: And that's the key, right, drawing back even and the 130 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 3: Yukon stalking and pacing them down. Right, We we had 131 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 3: this conversation, and we'll circle back to the North Carolina job, 132 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 3: which is still open at this point and still a 133 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 3: lot of speculation. Is someone in this final for still 134 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 3: in play? Are they waiting on Billy Donovan? What is 135 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 3: exactly going on in that? But for Dan Hurley, the 136 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 3: legend continues to grow. Love him or hate him? Yep, 137 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 3: love him or hate him, because I mean there is 138 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 3: a great divide. And it was funny the final call 139 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 3: from the Duke side, going well, that guy's on the 140 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 3: court technal file. But but we go back and over 141 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 3: the course of the tournament, we've had a number of 142 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 3: instances where the referees have just turned away but Danny 143 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 3: Hurley right jacket half off the skull budding of the official, 144 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 3: which was just an odd moment, not like there's any 145 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 3: anger there, but it's just a microcosm of I always 146 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:14,239 Speaker 3: want the Herman's head or inside out the Kids Pixar movie. 147 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 3: I want to know what's going on in that guy's 148 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 3: head moment to moment, because we see him scream, we 149 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 3: see him lose his mind. He's up and down, and 150 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 3: he's one of the great characters of the game. And 151 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 3: there's no denying how good a coach. He is sure, 152 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 3: even if you want to push him away because of 153 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 3: some of the theatrics, the histriotics, whatever. But at no 154 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 3: point did that team fold. There are a million times, 155 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 3: even in the second half, right you're down fifteen at halftime, 156 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 3: that you could have just packed it in, no doubt. 157 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 3: But you got Caravan who didn't have a great shooting game. 158 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 3: But there he is in the in the fray, Friend 159 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 3: of the show, multiple time appearance here with Jason and 160 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 3: I making the big play to set up the shot 161 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 3: that resonates forever. And we've seen the final play broken 162 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 3: down a million ways till Sunday Boozer picks up his 163 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 3: dribble error one yep and then throwing it into Harm's way. 164 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 3: But everything had to work down to the tenth of 165 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 3: the second, no doubt, for that shot to fall and 166 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 3: finish this game. But the fact that the door was 167 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 3: always cracked open because they did ship away over time 168 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 3: and then in those final moments, Duke didn't have the 169 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 3: presence of mind to close it out. 170 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 6: Now there's no doubt. 171 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 5: And I think that that is part of the story 172 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 5: of this game is that it doesn't like like it's yes, 173 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,359 Speaker 5: it's the final minutes, but it none of it happens 174 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 5: if Yukon doesn't overcome a fifteen point halftime deficit. They obviously, 175 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 5: you do the quick math, they outscored him by sixteen 176 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 5: points in the second half. And I think even something 177 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 5: as simple you mentioned Caraban, the fact that Braylan Mullens 178 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 5: is actually the one who has the partial tip, tracks 179 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 5: down the ball, throws it to Caraban. He has the 180 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 5: foresight with about four or five seconds left to say 181 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 5: I don't have a shot, gets it back to Braylen Mullens. 182 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 5: So it's just this weird dynamic of a lot of 183 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 5: things had to go right. But to your point, the 184 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 5: other thing too, is that and Dan Hurley did say 185 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 5: this in one of the post games, I think it 186 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 5: was with Tracy Wolfson, is you know Yukon And he said, 187 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 5: He's like, we expect to find ways to win games 188 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 5: like this, And I do think there is something to 189 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 5: turney experience from the coach from the players. I know, 190 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 5: you know, hearing all of the sound during the commercial breaks. 191 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 5: This was something that our buddy Colin Cowherd was on 192 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 5: earlier in the day of Duke having those young guys 193 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 5: Caden Boozer to your point, picking up the dribble they 194 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 5: had the timeout doesn't call the timeout. There was just 195 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 5: a lot of things that had to go right for Yukon, 196 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 5: a lot of things that had to go wrong. But 197 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 5: some of it is a chicken in the egg thing 198 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,439 Speaker 5: of when you prepare, when you're prepared, when you have 199 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 5: a coach who's been there before, when we have a 200 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 5: coach who's won multiple national championships, and then when you 201 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 5: have a guy that three years ago as an assistant 202 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 5: coach never I can't say he's never been in these situations, 203 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 5: but hasn't been in them as much. Like I said, 204 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 5: I don't know that Yukon was the better team last 205 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:15,719 Speaker 5: yesterday for the full forty minutes. I would actually say 206 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 5: for certain they weren't. But when big plays needed to 207 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 5: be made one of them, one team consistently did and 208 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 5: one team consistently did not. 209 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 3: Well, I mean to put it in perspective. You know, 210 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 3: you can check out the standings and the Fox Sports 211 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 3: Radio Bracket Challenge. I was really good early. Sure now 212 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,559 Speaker 3: it's all going to hell, But you can go to 213 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 3: Fox Sports radio dot com and check out the Bracket 214 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 3: Challenge All the hosts competing against listeners. Congratulations, we got 215 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 3: listener Daniel k. 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For 225 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 3: more information, visit wee bol dot com Slash disclosures. But yeah, 226 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 3: very much. I was out to the races, having a 227 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 3: great leave in the bracketology when we last met up 228 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 3: on Friday, currently tied for eighth and I'm gonna sink 229 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 3: like a stone. Unfortunately, some of those gambles didn't pay off. Likewise, Duke, 230 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 3: the inexperience leads to bad, bad things down the stretch. 231 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 3: Veteran laden team and we see that across college basketball 232 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 3: a lot more, you know, as much as will extol 233 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 3: the virtues of the one and done guys, including mister 234 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 3: Boozer as he goes to the draft, that it's the 235 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 3: veteran laden teams that are that are resoundingly on top. 236 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 3: I mean time and again. 237 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 5: Got your gut your guy, Alex Caraban, I mean literally, 238 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 5: quite literally, one of the winningest players in the history 239 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 5: of the NCAA tournament. I think he's like fourth or 240 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 5: fifth all time in tournament wins solo ball was part 241 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,439 Speaker 5: of that national championship team two years ago. He wasn't great, 242 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 5: but had a couple big plays late. So no, I 243 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 5: think there's absolutely something to it. And I go back 244 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 5: to to the coaching thing of I know sometimes there's 245 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 5: you know, cliches aren't always accurate. I do think there 246 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 5: is something to the ten thousand hour rule and the 247 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 5: fact that Dan Hurley started as a high school coach 248 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 5: in New Jersey, probably coaching in front of two hundred fans, 249 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 5: where he made a lot of mistakes. You know, year one, 250 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 5: year two, year three, or four. Well, this is year 251 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 5: four for John Shire. And it's not to say that 252 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 5: he hasn't been successful. And it's not to say that 253 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 5: they would trade they would trade him for somebody else 254 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 5: in a heartbeat, but it is to say, in these 255 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 5: moments he doesn't necessarily have the experience of somebody like 256 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 5: Dan Hurley. 257 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 3: We'll get back into Shire at the top of next 258 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 3: hour forty five minutes from now. But coming up next 259 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,679 Speaker 3: we turn our attention to the National Football League trades 260 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 3: not made, eighteen games imminent, all of that. 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Aaron Torres at Aaron Underscore Torres 270 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 3: in for Jason Smith. Tonight, I'm Mike Carmen at Swollen 271 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 3: Dome and this is fine. 272 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 273 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven 274 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. 275 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 3: That got here. 276 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 7: I have a podcast, Umpire. It continues to grow, and 277 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 7: I have brought it here to iHeart. 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Do it today 291 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 7: and you can check all of those out on the 292 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 7: iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. 293 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 3: Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith's show with 294 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 3: Me and Mike Carmon no, Jason Smith. He'll be back 295 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 3: Thursday from his World Win tour of the East Coast. 296 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 3: It is stat our guy. Aaron Torres joins us at 297 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 3: Aaron Underscore Turus. Check out his podcast Everything He's Got Popping. 298 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 3: There you hear him Saturday nights alongside Jason Martin. Now 299 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 3: we head out to the hotline. Aaron take a little 300 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 3: hot route away from the basketball world. Longtime friend of 301 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 3: the show joins us each and every week at Jason 302 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 3: locketfora where you find him in the twitterverse. Wanna bet 303 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 3: with us dot com all of that that he's got popping. Sure, 304 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 3: some action in the Final four, maybe a couple of 305 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 3: longer plays still in the offing. Jason Locke for it, Jason, 306 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 3: what's going on? 307 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 8: What's going on? 308 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 3: Gentlemen, Welcome to the party. As we get ready for 309 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 3: the Final four. The baseball season underway and owners starting 310 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 3: to talk this week saying, hey, we really want that 311 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 3: eighteenth game. How fast do we get that up? 312 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 8: Well, I mean not in time for this year, that's 313 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 8: for darn short, but it's a priority for them. They 314 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 8: look at it as free money and their greed knows 315 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 8: no bounds. So the fact that they're at a bit 316 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 8: of a stalemate and impass with the referees, and they're 317 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 8: obviously threatening to move forward with replacements there and playing hardball. 318 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 8: You've got the NFLPA with some bizarre leadership decisions and 319 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 8: things going on there. I think the climate is probably 320 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 8: wipe for them to feel like they've got a sweet 321 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 8: spot maybe between now and the start of the season 322 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 8: to get something done that would go into effect as 323 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 8: soon as twenty twenty seven. It's difficult to handicap all 324 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,160 Speaker 8: those moving pieces, but I think it's fair to say 325 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 8: that what they're already doing with CBS in terms of 326 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 8: their ability to get into somebody because there's been ownership 327 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 8: change there. They they are hard charging right now, playing 328 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,160 Speaker 8: a game in Australia to kick the year off, and yeah, 329 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 8: it's it's going to be a priority for them. They've 330 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 8: been preparing for this for years plural and they're going 331 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 8: to They're going to come in there with a bunch 332 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 8: of medical data that they're going to tell the PA. 333 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 8: And I've already told the PA, you know, hey, we 334 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:25,360 Speaker 8: think the injuries happened more later in the year and 335 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 8: we can change the way we start the year and 336 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 8: get guys more fortified for the beginning of the year. 337 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 8: But you know they were gonna give you a bigger 338 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 8: slice of the pie. YadA, YadA, YadA, And yeah, I 339 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,119 Speaker 8: think this is going to happen. I think it's a 340 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 8: matter of when and not if. 341 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 6: Jason, let me ask you a question, and I think 342 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 6: I know the answer. 343 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 5: But you referenced a lot of the things I was 344 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 5: going to bring up after Mike brought up the eighteenth game. 345 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 5: We now have Black Friday games and now have Christmas 346 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 5: Day games. 347 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 8: Yeah. 348 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, there's talk of as you know, you know better 349 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 5: than anybody playing that Whennesday before Thanksgiving, is there anyone 350 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,959 Speaker 5: in the room that is saying, like, not so much 351 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 5: about the players, but more I guess the fans. I 352 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 5: mean you're asking now Wednesday, Thursday, you know, sometimes Friday sometimes, 353 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 5: you know, you get the point that I'm trying to ask, 354 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 5: is there anybody in the room that is saying we're 355 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 5: stretching this thing too thin? Or is there total uniformity 356 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 5: or anonymity or what I'm looking I'm not finding the 357 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 5: right word, but is it total uniformity? In just push 358 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 5: full speed ahead, more football, more football, more football, more football. 359 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 8: Well, I think that's certainly the pavariling spirit and ethos. 360 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 8: Are there some who are maybe less overly enthusiastic than others? Yeah, 361 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 8: I mean, but look, this league is set up defferentely 362 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 8: than others. The way that things function here and what 363 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 8: they're willing to share, and how sort of intrinsically tied 364 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 8: together they are as a national entity. What's good for 365 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 8: him's pop is good from my pockets. And we might 366 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,439 Speaker 8: complain about this stuff, but they get the ratings and 367 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 8: they're not having to give money back, and they're going 368 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 8: to have more streaming entities bidding for this next package. 369 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 8: And once they're playing eighteen games, guess what that probably 370 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 8: means twelve to fourteenth doesn't Probably it definitely means twelve 371 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 8: to fourteen weeks of games in Europe, and that's going 372 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 8: to be an expanded international package and they'll spin that off. 373 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 8: Their plan isn't to add around to the playoffs, but 374 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,159 Speaker 8: from what I hear, they'll just do away with the 375 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 8: bye week, so you'll have more teams involved in the playoffs. 376 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 8: There'll be two bye weeks before the playoffs start for everybody, 377 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 8: But then no one gets a playoff by so what 378 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 8: does that mean, oh, well, like they did last time 379 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 8: when they spend in the playoffs, even if it's just 380 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 8: a game or two, that's more inventory. No, I don't 381 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,400 Speaker 8: think that they feel like as a whole to any 382 00:20:54,440 --> 00:21:00,880 Speaker 8: degree that they're at that oversaturation point. I think that 383 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 8: that's obviously something that could happen. I know, it's seem 384 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,120 Speaker 8: like a long time ago. I remember Mark Cuban saying 385 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 8: pigs get slaughtered. Well, I mean, this pig's grown exponentially 386 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 8: like that, and it doesn't show any signs of you know, 387 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,120 Speaker 8: doesn't show any signs of going away some. 388 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 3: More Bacon also, the short versus long term. It's kind 389 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 3: of like we you have joined us on the show 390 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 3: for our duration, Jason. Just that idea of the different 391 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 3: strata of players that are considering any of the proposals 392 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 3: that come through, they're not worried about what happens twenty 393 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 3: years from now because they know they've only got right 394 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 3: most of them, a three year window. 395 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 8: Yeah. And look, do I think they would go through 396 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 8: with something like universal healthcare for all players? And I 397 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 8: mean I think they'll entertain those conversations. Does it actually 398 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 8: get to that point? It depends what you talk to, 399 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 8: but they're going to be pretty stuck in to get this. 400 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 8: I mean, look, just you know when they went to seventeen, 401 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 8: did you really think that they wanted to have teams 402 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 8: with not playing the same number of home and road 403 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 8: games like it? Just there's obviously symmetry to an even 404 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 8: number here. And they did this incrementally because they always 405 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 8: viewed it as something that was going to be incremental, 406 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,679 Speaker 8: but they weren't. The goal was never seventeen. When you 407 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 8: moved off of sixteen, it wasn't get the seventeen and 408 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 8: stayed there for a really long time. No, No, it 409 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:30,640 Speaker 8: was a means to an end. 410 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 5: Jason, let me ask you this switching gears from my 411 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 5: perspective to the draft. Obviously a little bit of a 412 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 5: narrative popped up last week surrounding Ty Simpson. Fuck, yeah, 413 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,400 Speaker 5: take that where you want. I think you know where 414 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 5: I was going, Solidita where you want. 415 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 8: It's that time of year. Look, the reality is we're 416 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 8: in a bit of a void, and if you say 417 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 8: something that's a little bit overly inflated, and you say 418 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 8: it on the right platform, it has a chance to 419 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 8: become a thing and have a three to five day 420 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 8: shelf life, and that's great for the business that you're in. 421 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 8: I talk to a fair number of evaluators. I can't 422 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 8: get anybody to tell me, or a multitude of people 423 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 8: on the same day to tell me they're convinced that 424 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 8: Simpson is even the second best quarterback in this draft, 425 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 8: let alone say he should be anywhere near where Mendoza 426 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 8: is going. I think things have gotten conflated here, and 427 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 8: I think in the sort of telling of the draft 428 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 8: story at the quarterback position, which is, boy, it's not 429 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 8: great this year, and Mendoza doesn't have the longest resume 430 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 8: in the world, and it's not the biggest sample size, 431 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 8: and he's not the most elite you know, downfield throw 432 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 8: of the ball. There's a lot of things you can 433 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 8: nitpick that he's not a generational quarterback prospect. But because 434 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,199 Speaker 8: this class is so poor, and because demand is so 435 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 8: high and not everybody can just afford to wait till 436 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 8: next year, and because there's two teams picking at the 437 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 8: top that need a quarterback. Not just like if the 438 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,199 Speaker 8: Raiders for somehow not to take him, he's going to 439 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 8: the jetsa too. Like it all lines up for this 440 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 8: to happen, but it is do people evaluate him the 441 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 8: way they evaluated Andrew Luck. No. Do they evaluate him 442 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 8: the way they evaluate Trevor Lawrence? 443 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 2: No? 444 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 8: Do they evaluate the way a lot of people evaluate 445 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 8: cam Ward. No, that is a reality, But it doesn't 446 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 8: mean that the guy you think might be second best 447 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 8: now all of a sudden gets pulled up too. Like 448 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 8: that part of it is where people are like, what 449 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,679 Speaker 8: are we talking about here? Like, yes, Mendoza has some warts, 450 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 8: he has some flaws. Is he a true one one? 451 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 8: Probably not? But that doesn't mean that your version of 452 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 8: whose number two should be in the first round. Also, 453 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 8: and I don't think he's going to go in the 454 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 8: first round. And again I'm not thoroughly convinced he's the 455 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 8: second quarterback taken. 456 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 3: Jason locking for our guest Jason smithshew with me, Mike Rman, 457 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 3: Aaron Torres in for Jason Smith. Today you've followed Jason 458 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 3: uh look and for on Twitter at Jason Lockervoor confusing 459 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 3: that gets I got Smith's and Jason's all over the place, 460 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 3: Jason and the random erron that mixes his way in 461 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 3: all right, Sean McVay doing a lot of talking. We 462 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 3: almost traded Devonte Adams and then Captain Kirk. Is he 463 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 3: going to be the backup to Matthew Stafford? 464 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 8: You know, Collins wants a decent payday and I sort 465 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 8: of get that, and so he's not really in a hurry. 466 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 8: And I mean, I think there's still the possibilities something 467 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 8: maybe could happen with the Raiders that would give him 468 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 8: a path to playing right away and luckman Doza doesn't 469 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 8: have to play week one and we buy a little 470 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 8: time there. So what like, could he end up there? Uh? Yeah, 471 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 8: he could. I mean if Aaron Rodgers walks away or 472 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 8: does you know, gets too cute with that, could he 473 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 8: end up in Pittsburgh? Absolutely? Or could he just decide 474 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 8: to wait because people are going to get hurt. It's 475 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 8: just the nature of this business. And you see what 476 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 8: happens sort of down the road. I think he's clearly 477 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 8: you're as the best guy standing, But if your cousins, 478 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 8: you don't need to jump into a situation for a 479 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 8: couple million bucks where you kind of know you're the 480 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 8: backup right now when there could be an opportunity to 481 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 8: start and may considerably more than that. 482 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 5: Stand in the NFC West, see that basically, Trent Williams 483 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 5: and the forty nine ers appear to be at an impass, 484 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 5: and I was going to ask, I'd just be curious, 485 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 5: where are they at as an organization with all these 486 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 5: guys now in their early thirties, mid thirties, late thirties. 487 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 8: Take it away, Jason, Well, I think there's a window 488 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 8: closing here. Certainly as constructed the you know, the Kittles 489 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 8: and the Williams and all of that. I think that 490 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 8: group is nearing its end. 491 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 4: And. 492 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 8: They please another year or two out of Brent and 493 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 8: get that done. I mean, it's possible, But the idea 494 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 8: that they could just wait and do it at the 495 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 8: end of the year and he'd be you know, we're 496 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 8: right before the season starts. You know, he'd be worried 497 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,719 Speaker 8: about money being out there for you know, for him 498 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 8: anywhere else, and he'd just take what they have on 499 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 8: the table. I don't know, man, he's a pretty prideful guy. 500 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 8: They can be very stubborn and headstrong and soil can he. 501 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 8: And they clearly don't want to pay him at thirty 502 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 8: six million dollars, there's no two or thirty three plus. 503 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 8: They don't want to do that, and they don't have 504 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 8: any intention of doing that. And he knows that there's 505 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 8: other teams, whether it's today, tomorrow, or the day before 506 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 8: the season starts, would look at him still as a 507 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 8: top five left tackle in this league and feel like 508 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 8: he's got another year or two. So it's certainly prickier 509 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 8: and a little more contentious than the forty nine ers 510 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 8: would have you believe. It's also at a point in 511 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 8: time where there is a considerable amount of time before 512 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 8: it has to be resolved and maybe they get it 513 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 8: was off, but they've had no shortage of classes with 514 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 8: a number of players in recent years. So yeah, that's 515 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 8: one I would certainly say stay tuned on that. That's 516 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:12,959 Speaker 8: not a nothing burger. 517 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 3: Last one from the sheer entertainment value of it, back 518 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,880 Speaker 3: to the Raiders, Tom Brady doing a podcast saying, hey, 519 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 3: he looked into coming back again. It's kind of fun, 520 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 3: if nothing else. 521 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 8: For a little bit more talking about it, right, he 522 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:33,679 Speaker 8: wants he's like as much as he kind of acted 523 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 8: like he didn't need all this and was above all this, 524 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 8: the fray and you know, all the noise and all 525 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 8: the stuff that Ian Belichick would have been saying doesn't 526 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 8: matter for years and years and years. Boy, he certainly 527 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 8: seems to really want to be relevant and a part 528 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 8: of these different discussions and to let the world know 529 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 8: about all these different things going on with Tom Brady. Yeah, 530 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 8: I imagine it happening. He'd have to disentangle himself from 531 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 8: a whole lot of things. Right, You've got a broadcast contract, 532 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 8: You've got this disagreement with Mark Davis, which maybe he's 533 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 8: having second thoughts about already. I don't know. He's not 534 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 8: playing football, but does he think in his mind that 535 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 8: he's probably somewhere between the fifteenth and twenty fifth best 536 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 8: quarterback in the world. He may very well still believe that. 537 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 8: Remember I'm selling him short there. Maybe maybe fifteen isn't 538 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 8: even the anchored starting place. 539 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 3: Remember the old Costanza line, you're not lying if you 540 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 3: believe it's true. At Jason locking For, where you find 541 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 3: him in the twitterverse, want to bet with us and 542 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 3: all his other ventures there, Jason nas always we appreciate 543 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 3: you stopping on by, enjoy the week and hit him hard. 544 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 8: Always my pleasure. Thank you boys, be good buddy. 545 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 3: At Jason locking For joins us each and every week 546 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 3: on the program. Hey are you in the video game 547 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 3: celebrities or just a good time. The Global Gaming League 548 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 3: is a video game league celebrity owned teams from te 549 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 3: Paying and Neo competing in everything from Call of Duty 550 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 3: to Tetris. Sign up and join the league now at 551 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 3: Global Gaming League dot com. Full slate of activity, NBA 552 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 3: Final four seve But we got a lot of Major 553 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 3: League Baseball results flying across the board as well. Nobody 554 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 3: better to do that and lay them up for you 555 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 3: than our guy, Steve de Seger at the news desk. 556 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 3: What's going on, Steve, Hello. 557 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 4: Gentlemen, Let's start with a couple football items. By the way, 558 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 4: Las Vegas will host the Super Bowl in twenty twenty nine. 559 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 4: This year's season will end with the Super Bowl in 560 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 4: La then February twenty twenty eight, Atlanta will host it, 561 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 4: and the College Football Playoff Selection Committee now includes former 562 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 4: coaches Gus Melson and Jeff Tedford. To Major League Baseball, 563 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 4: the Dodgers are starting Roki Sasaki tonight, Shohei Otani tomorrow 564 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 4: against Cleveland, and then Yoshinobu Yamamoto after that. So these 565 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 4: are the next three for the Dodgers. This will be 566 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 4: the first time in Major League history that a team 567 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 4: will start a Japanese born pitcher in three straight games. 568 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 4: Right now in LA, the Dodgers are scoreless with the 569 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 4: Guardians in the top of the third. By the way, 570 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 4: the Dodgers opening game, which was on NBC last Thursday 571 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 4: night against the Diamondbacks, got a combined audience of three 572 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 4: point two million viewers, including streaming, largest for a national 573 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 4: opening Day broadcast since twenty twenty, and that was going 574 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 4: opposite directly the Sweet sixteen of March Madness, the day 575 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 4: game opener Pirates at Mets, got two point three million. 576 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 4: Among the games in progress, at Houston, Astros eight to 577 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 4: one over Boston and the bottom of the eighth leadoff 578 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 4: man Jose al Tuve four to four, four runs scored. 579 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 4: He has hit two solo home runs. The Yankees are 580 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 4: in Seattle, Mariners up one nothing on the Yanks in 581 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 4: the top of the fourth inning, and the Padres have 582 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 4: x Dodger Walker Bueller on the mound tonight. He's trailing 583 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 4: three to nothing to the Giants in the bottom of 584 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 4: the fourth. Earlier, the White Sox, who were zero to 585 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 4: three one at Miami, which had started three to zero, 586 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 4: nine to four White Sox Miguel Vargas six RBIs, including 587 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 4: a grid and slam. Atlanta sent the A's to another loss, 588 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 4: four nothing. That's an zero to four record for the Athletics. 589 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 4: Kansas City won its home opener today three to one 590 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 4: over Minnesota. Chris Bubach six innings for the win. Tampa 591 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 4: Bay Tonight a three to two winner at Milwaukee, with 592 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 4: a run on the top of the ninth the loss 593 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 4: to closer Trevor McGill. The Brewers had been three and oh, 594 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 4: Mets and Cubs each one, and Toronto, which was three 595 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 4: and oh, lost a home game to the Rockies fourteen 596 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 4: to five. Tonight. Rockies had led two to one after 597 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 4: five innings on FS one. Cincinnati shout out Pittsburgh two 598 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 4: to nine wins for Texas and Washington. The Nationals won 599 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 4: at Philadelphia thirteen to two. Well Victor Wembenyama was good 600 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 4: again tonight. In the NBA, the Spurs have won ninth 601 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 4: straight twenty five of their last twenty seven games. After 602 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 4: beating Chicago one twenty nine one fourteen wemben Yama forty 603 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 4: one points, sixteen rebounds, Phoenix got thirty six points from 604 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 4: Devin Booker and a victory at Memphis won thirty one 605 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,440 Speaker 4: to one five Atlanta ended Boston small three game winning streak, 606 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 4: won twelve one oh two. Hawks have won sixteen of 607 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 4: eighteen the Celtics. Jason Tatum was out for Rest tonight today, 608 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,800 Speaker 4: he was named Player of the Week in the East 609 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 4: and at Miami thirty points for Tyler Hero the Heat 610 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 4: beat Philadelphia one nineteen to one oh nine. Anthony Edwards 611 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 4: is back on the court for the Wolves tonight, returning 612 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 4: after missing six games with knee inflammation. Off the bench, 613 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,719 Speaker 4: he has seventeen points. Minnesota is ripping the MAVs in 614 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 4: Dallas one oh seven to seventy eight mid fourth quarter. 615 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 4: Also in progress, Cleveland leads at Utah eighty five seventy 616 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 4: six late in the third. They've just ended the third 617 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:43,160 Speaker 4: quarter of the NCAA Women's Regional Final. This game in Sacramento, 618 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 4: One seed South Carolina leads TCU forty nine forty one 619 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 4: end of three. The winner will face number one Yukon 620 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 4: at the Final four this Friday. It'll be UCLA against 621 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 4: Texas this Friday. Texas with Michigan in Fort Worth tonight 622 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,719 Speaker 4: seventy seven forty one. Longhorns led mid fourth quarter sixty 623 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,560 Speaker 4: nine to twenty nine. In that game, of course, we 624 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 4: can't forget that it's just a week ago in the 625 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 4: tournament that Yukon was up seventy to fourteen on Syracuse 626 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,919 Speaker 4: in a tournament game. This was not They weren't playing 627 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,279 Speaker 4: Lemoyne to start the season. This was early third quarter 628 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,879 Speaker 4: of an NCAAA game. Yukon's not only undefeated this year, 629 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,680 Speaker 4: they've won fifty four straight games. And by the way, 630 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 4: the men's Final four is in Innnapolis this weekend. That 631 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 4: is this Saturday, with the National Semifinals. The first game 632 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,880 Speaker 4: Connecticut against Illinois six pm Eastern, then Arizona against Michigan. 633 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 4: After that NHL Pittsburgh an eight three winner at the 634 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 4: Islanders back team. 635 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Steve. Coming up next, we got not 636 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 3: so bad for a gap year A. I'm asking you 637 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,880 Speaker 3: this big question. Are you into video game celebrities or 638 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,879 Speaker 3: just a good time. The Global Gaming Leagues a video 639 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,040 Speaker 3: game league with celebrity owned teams from Te Payne and Neo, 640 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 3: Howie Mandel and others competing and everything from Call of 641 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,719 Speaker 3: Dute Detechris. Sign up and join the league now at 642 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 3: Global Gaming League dot com. He's aeron tours in for 643 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 3: Jason Smith. I'm Mike carmon Fox Sports. 644 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,240 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 645 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,360 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven 646 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. 647 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,799 Speaker 3: Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with 648 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 3: Me Mike Carmen. Aaron Torres in for Jason Smith tonight. 649 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 3: Thanks for giving us a few minutes of your time 650 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,759 Speaker 3: for her to plus affiliates nationwide the iHeartRadio app where 651 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,239 Speaker 3: we go intergalactic. Yeah, they're in space listening to us 652 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 3: as well, which leads us to the Play of the night. 653 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 3: A man who's been described as an alien sometimes you'll 654 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 3: even add it to an autograph if you ask him nicely. 655 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,880 Speaker 3: And when you go off for a forty one point 656 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 3: night to absolutely obliterate my squad, you get to be 657 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:57,880 Speaker 3: the play of the night. O'clock at fort Welcome Ye, 658 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 3: I'm gonna prove the double team. Don't tell the entire. 659 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,960 Speaker 2: City of Chicago. 660 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 3: Spurs TV on the call that about sums it up now, 661 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,120 Speaker 3: uh one twenty nine to one to fourteen, your final 662 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,200 Speaker 3: play the night. Brought to you by tire Rack for 663 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,319 Speaker 3: over forty years, Tyrak's been helping customers find the right 664 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 3: tires for how, what and where they drive, ship fast 665 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,320 Speaker 3: and free back by free road azer protection with convenion 666 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,319 Speaker 3: installation options like mobile tire installation. That's right, they'll bring 667 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,319 Speaker 3: the tires to you tire act dot Com the way 668 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:34,560 Speaker 3: tire buying should be. When Binyama forty one points, sixteen boards, 669 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:40,239 Speaker 3: four assists, three block shots, six offensive rebounds on the night, 670 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,920 Speaker 3: just ridiculous stats. Game in game out, we talk about 671 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,440 Speaker 3: the overwhelming run they've been on what twenty seven and 672 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,720 Speaker 3: two their last twenty nine games for the year, twenty 673 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,359 Speaker 3: four to two, eleven to three, shooting fifty percent from 674 00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 3: the field, both ends of the court. Just an amazing display. 675 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,160 Speaker 3: It's gonna get to that games threshold for all the 676 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,240 Speaker 3: MVP chattery. So even though he's fallen off, we've got 677 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:11,960 Speaker 3: Shay Gilgess Alexander as the odds on favorite and then 678 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:16,040 Speaker 3: some followed by Luca and then Wemby. But Knight tonight 679 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:20,120 Speaker 3: we just watched the heroics Aaron and it's everything he 680 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:21,759 Speaker 3: was advertised to be and then some. 681 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,400 Speaker 5: That was gonna be my question for you. I understand 682 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 5: why he was hyped in the manner that he was, 683 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:36,640 Speaker 5: but to see twenty four eleven and three blocks per game, 684 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,399 Speaker 5: and you know he quote unquote only plays twenty nine 685 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 5: minutes a game, understandably, so with that frame just turned 686 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,720 Speaker 5: twenty two years old, I know what he was hyped 687 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,920 Speaker 5: to be. Do you feel like he's been better than 688 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,920 Speaker 5: you were expecting, because to me, he has been. But 689 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,160 Speaker 5: I'm curious your perspective. 690 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no question about it. I mean when you 691 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:59,200 Speaker 3: talk about defensively and justin giving us the stat fastest 692 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,920 Speaker 3: double double in a game in history took eight minutes. Wow, 693 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,600 Speaker 3: not a bull stink. We stipulate to that, but it's 694 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:10,239 Speaker 3: still amazing. Nonetheless, but oh that was tonight. It was 695 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,320 Speaker 3: the fastest double double ever. I didn't realize. 696 00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:12,840 Speaker 6: Goodness. 697 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, just an absurd level of efficiency in those twenty 698 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:20,480 Speaker 3: nine minutes. And what the Spurs. We talk about the 699 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,439 Speaker 3: draft and tanking, they've obviously if you've got a team 700 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:27,359 Speaker 3: that drafts well and then the players outperform, and when 701 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,920 Speaker 3: min Yama night tonight, the fact that he comes into 702 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,960 Speaker 3: the league and when healthy, you get such a display 703 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:39,799 Speaker 3: on both ends. We lament the lack of defense by 704 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:44,440 Speaker 3: certain members of the the hierarchy in the NBA, and 705 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,239 Speaker 3: certainly that that's a part of it, but also to 706 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 3: have a big man that can go out and just say, 707 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 3: all right, I'm gonna shoot eight three point shots in 708 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,839 Speaker 3: a game, and I'm gonna stretch the defense. So now 709 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,879 Speaker 3: everybody gets to operate so much differently. It's such an advantage. 710 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,400 Speaker 3: And every time that he misses a game or we 711 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,359 Speaker 3: get one of the health scares like we've had in 712 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,120 Speaker 3: the past, right when we start talking about blood clots 713 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,600 Speaker 3: and other things, you get nervous that you might get 714 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,880 Speaker 3: obviously for his health, but for the health of the 715 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 3: game and the growth of new legends, that we don't 716 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:22,080 Speaker 3: get the full end of what he could become because 717 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,440 Speaker 3: right now he's on that ridiculous trajectory. 718 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think the NBA, more than any other 719 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,719 Speaker 5: sport at times, can be guilty of hyping guys before 720 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,480 Speaker 5: it's justifiable, you know, And I've used the example many times. 721 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 5: There were people in our industry who were comparing Anthony 722 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,799 Speaker 5: Edwards to Michael Jordan before he ever played in an 723 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,440 Speaker 5: NBA finals. Last check, I don't believe he has played 724 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,040 Speaker 5: in one yet, So that is maybe an extreme example. 725 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,400 Speaker 5: But you know, every year a new guy blows up 726 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 5: in the playoffs and he's the next greatest thing. Wemby 727 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,160 Speaker 5: is the guy that you know, listen, it's hard to 728 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,799 Speaker 5: you know, properly contextualize what we're seeing, but he is 729 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:08,560 Speaker 5: the rare guy that, like everyone is saying everything about him, 730 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,600 Speaker 5: whether it is already the biggest difference maker in the league, 731 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,640 Speaker 5: you know, trajectory of this, how many of those MVPs 732 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:17,759 Speaker 5: could he get? I think all of it is on 733 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,759 Speaker 5: the table with him in a way that most other 734 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,400 Speaker 5: guys that get hyped early in the NBA, that's not 735 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:22,839 Speaker 5: the case. 736 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:28,279 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's year three averaging twenty three and eleven a game, 737 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 3: three and a half blocks, three and a half assists, 738 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,520 Speaker 3: like all of that to your point, playing on average 739 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,080 Speaker 3: just thirty minutes a game, which is just incredible efficiency 740 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,040 Speaker 3: when you get down to it. And again, the Spurs 741 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:46,120 Speaker 3: rolling as they've done is one of those eyebrow raising 742 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,520 Speaker 3: things in the league. Now does it transcend to a 743 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,960 Speaker 3: championship like the Anthony Edwards. We're always just looking for comparables, 744 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:57,279 Speaker 3: right going back a generation, and Wemby at seven four, 745 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,920 Speaker 3: seven six, whatever he measures at, there's just not a 746 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,440 Speaker 3: lot like Wilt. We've got to hold the one hundred 747 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,719 Speaker 3: up and kind of hear it in our heads how 748 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,400 Speaker 3: it happens, because we don't have video of it. Kareem's 749 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 3: a different player and the game has changed so many times, right, 750 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,840 Speaker 3: it's it's different iterations. To try to make sense of 751 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,520 Speaker 3: it and try to make sense of him on a 752 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:21,759 Speaker 3: nightly basis, well. 753 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,919 Speaker 5: And you can't, cause I don't think that we've seen, 754 00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,480 Speaker 5: at least in a recent memory, anybody like him, this good, 755 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,120 Speaker 5: this young, with this much upside still to come. 756 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,840 Speaker 3: Even though we saw bull Bowl hit a couple of 757 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,400 Speaker 3: threes now and again. Ah, he's Aaron Torres in for 758 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,839 Speaker 3: Jason Smith. I'll bike Harmy. Coming up next, we get 759 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,600 Speaker 3: back to the curious case of John Shire. Should he 760 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,680 Speaker 3: be on the Outst Duke. We'll do it next