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A ton to do today? We have 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:53.279 two national champions crowned in college sports. The question of 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.360 is this the year of the repeat champion, the cheat 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.800 of at least in the men's side of sports. The 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.040 Chiefs did it, Yu Khon just did it. What does 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.680 that mean for the Nuggets? What does that mean for 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.399 whoever the hell won the Stanley Cup Final last year? 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.639 Nobody knows. You know, those are the types of things, 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.959 you know, lost to the dustbin of history. I suppose 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.080 we'll get into all of it, but first, what missed 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:21.840 the cut? John Calipari leaves Kentucky for Arkansas, and then 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.440 when he's asked about it, he says, I can't because 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.039 I'm walking my dog when he was walking his dog 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.800 in a stroller down a busy street. Little odd end 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:35.440 of an ignominious end for Coach cal at Kentucky. The 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.959 solar eclipse happened. I gotta say it was pretty cool 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.240 people at first. Things first, well, I come outside and look, 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.480 we got the glasses for you. I looked. It was 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.479 pretty cool. I was like, hey, I'm glad I looked 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:50.480 at that. And the Curb Your Enthusiasm series finale happened. 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:54.680 I have not seen it yet. No spoilers, please. Curb 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.640 Your Enthusiasm is a show demands Your mother and I 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:02.160 have been watching together since the very beginning of our relationship. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.240 It's still going on and so we. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:05.840 Have to watch. 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:10.720 You know. Well, the series finale is and it started 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.839 before she and I were together. It's had twelve seasons, 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.480 but they had like a five year hiatus between seasons. 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:22.360 Once this is Larry David created Seinfeld, which was the 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:27.440 most successful sitcom ever in the nineties. He then created 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.160 Curb Your Enthusiasm, which I think might be the funniest 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.640 sitcom ever. It went on for twelve seasons the series finale. 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.359 But the point is this, I can't watch the series 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.800 finale of a show I've been watching with your mother 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:44.520 for our entire lives without her, but she falls asleep 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.919 seven minutes into anything we try to watch together. We're 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.360 trying to watch this damn eight episode show on Netflix 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.600 called The Gentleman the Guy Ritchie Movie, so we're on 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.919 Demon's I've been trying to complete episode seven and eight 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.800 for two weeks. I'm just watching them four minutes at 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.560 a time. Then I turn over, I turned she's falling asleep. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.040 I pause it. I turn on poker, and then she's like, 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.280 where'd I fall asleep? I'm like, well, three minutes after 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.839 you fell asleep on the previous one. So I don't 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.120 know if I'm ever gonna be able to finish it, Curve. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.440 I'm gonna give her a week. I'm gonna give her 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.400 one week to sit down and watch curb with me 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.080 because I gotta be able to see it. I gotta 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.720 be able to see it, and I can't have people 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:29.480 spoil the ending. Unfair. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.680 I'll say that Oh, you know what, that's fair point. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:40.640 We do have a wedding slash vow renewal happening on Saturday, 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.680 so that's a good you know what. Touche all right, Toman, say, 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:45.160 let's get to the basketball. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.360 Go right ahead, all right, let's start off with some 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:48.160 college hoops. 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:52.600 The University of South Carolina capped off their undefeated season 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.880 on Sunday, and you gotten capped off back to back 0:03:55.960 --> 0:04:00.520 titles with another dominant performance over Purdue. Gonna start off 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.160 with the men's side. Do you think Yukon is an 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.680 all time great team? 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.000 So this is tricky because they're the back to back champions. 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.440 They beat everyone in both tournaments by more than a 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:18.320 dozen points. They covered every game, they obviously won every game. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.000 Yesterday's game went the way a lot of Yukon games 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.160 have gone, which is the other team feels like they 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.320 have a chance for the first half and then Yukon 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.640 just blitzes them in the second half and runs away 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.200 with it. On the for Purdue, listen, I said on 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.560 TV that I was rooting for and I was gonna 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.800 go ahead and pick the upset, And I said, Zach Edy, 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.960 I thought could have a thirty eight point double double 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.679 is what I predicted. He had a thirty seven point 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:52.160 double double and they got dominated. So the Edie did 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.680 his thing. I don't think it was, despite the numbers, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.400 his best game, but I thought he played well. Yukon's 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:05.039 just two deep and has too much and if you're perdue. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.400 I credit to Yukon for the game plan of We're 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.560 gonna listen if Edie kills us, Edie kills us, we 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.279 are not gonna double off Edie and leave the shooters open. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.880 A Purdue team that I'm gonna check real quick. But 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:23.760 I think for the season, shot forty percent from three, uh, 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.920 and I'll get it right in just a second. From 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:31.320 the season, yep shot forty percent from three last night, 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:36.080 made one three pointer one of seven from three. You 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:41.600 have no chance of competing with or beating Yukon if 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.799 you are not just lights out from three, and Yukon 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:50.680 is so Here's where I struggle with the all time 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.880 great team. There is so much variance in a single 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:59.240 elimination tournament that this is almost never the case. But 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.719 I feel like you could have run this tournament ten 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.560 times and Yukon would have won it eight of them. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.440 Like that's how dominant of a team they were. That's 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:14.200 how great they were. So in that regard versus their 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:19.320 contemporary competition, yes, of course they're an all time great team. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.200 But in regards to how would this Yukon team stack 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:28.480 up against the great teams of yester year college basketball, 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.360 they would get annihilated. So because college basketball has just 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.160 changed so much, because guys don't the best players are 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.560 not there, they don't stay for long enough. You don't 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:44.440 have multiple great pros. Even the last back to back 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:51.760 national champion in college basketball, Florida. If you look at 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.719 who they had on and those fifteen years ago, who 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.839 that Florida team had on its six and seven teams, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:05.919 they had the following guys who were big time NBA players, 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.920 Joe Kim, Noah, Torrian Green, Corey Brewer, and Al Horford. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.200 So you had a four of your starting five as 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.880 and then they came back the next year, Demonse did 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:23.000 it again and they added Maurice Spates off the bench, 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.240 Chris Richard, who had a cup of coffee in the NBA. 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:31.280 But when you've got you know, Horford, Brewer, Noah, and 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:35.600 Torrian Green all in your starting five, like that is 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.480 just a legendary team. You look at Yukon, the Yukon 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:44.120 team that won it in ninety nine, let me pull 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.920 up who was on that team, just to give you 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:51.480 some context for it. So the ninety nine Yukon team 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:57.560 had Rip Hamilton obviously, Khaleid Elamin and Jake Voshkel who 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.240 again not great NBA players, but NBA players all over it. 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:07.040 The the UNLV team, what UNLV team, what year won it? 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.080 I don't know if it's ninety two or ninety three. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:09.840 Uh. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.880 But if you look at that UNLV team and you're like, oh, okay, 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.320 how o's ninety Pardon me, who do they have? They 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.840 had Stacy Augman, Greg Anthony and Larry Johnson. The Michigan 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:27.040 team that didn't win the National Championship, the Jailen like 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.760 the Fab five team demonse that Michigan team had. Let 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.200 me tell you who they had. They had Jalen Rose, 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:39.240 Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Chris Webber on it. So 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:43.080 like how it is very difficult and I'm leaving someone out. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.920 Who am I leaving out? Uh? Oh? Ray Jackson didn't 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:46.640 play in the league. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:47.679 Uh. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:53.280 So it's just very difficult to comp modern college basketball 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:57.240 to previous college basketball. They had an unbelievable line Demanse 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:02.360 and the U in at the beginning of the game, 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:07.720 which was, this is the first national championship game that's 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:14.120 a matchup between seven footers since nineteen eighty four. Those 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:18.160 seven footers Demonse were or nineteen eighty four? Did I 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:22.400 say seventy four? Nineteen eighty four? Those seven footers were 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.600 Patrick Ewing and a chem Olajuan. Those two guys played 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.800 each other in a national championship game. And so I'm 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:35.560 not taking a thing away from Yukon nothing. And in 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:41.640 modern college basketball, it is an all time legendary team. 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.679 There is no argument about it. It is not a 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.000 historic team. And now I want to talk about Edie 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:56.880 and Purdue because Zach edy this tournament. I have been 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:01.120 very skeptical of him as a pro because he's not 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:05.400 going to be able to defend on the perimeter modern 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.840 college basketball and what it demands of you as a 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:14.800 big man. But here's what he did in the NCAA 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:21.239 Tournament thirty and twenty one, Round one, twenty three and fourteen, 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:27.800 Round two, twenty seven and fourteen, Round three, forty and 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:32.680 sixteen to get to the final four. Twenty and twelve 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.960 in the semifinal and then thirty seven and ten in 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:41.360 the National Championship Game against a guy in the National 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.160 Championship Game, a fellow seven footer, guy who's seven to two. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:50.320 If you can get him on a team demands like 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:56.720 Miami that has a that has a rim protector who 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.839 can guard on the perimeter in Bam, and he can 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.040 had some all he can. You know, Bam can kind 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.600 of extend the floor of business at the Gray Shoelner World. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.240 I understanding that. But and Edie can play down low. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.680 I think there's a place for him. And I know 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.440 some people have said, what about on the Spurs just 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.920 try to create like the craziest, longest team and Wimby's 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.240 playing out on the perimeter, he's down low. So I 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.600 think there's a place for him in the NBA, and 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.800 I didn't think that before the tournament. I also think 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:32.360 this tournament generated one of the worst sports takes of 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:39.000 the year by frenemy of the show Draymond Green. When 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:44.760 Draymond tweeted last night, job well done thirty five for Yukon. 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.720 You did your job tonight. It was him that made 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.760 Edie quit with nineteen minutes to go in the second half, 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:59.160 there was a turnover and I saw Edie's body language 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.480 walking back. He was done. Now rewatched the game from 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:08.640 that point on hashtag free game. So for some context there, 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.440 that number thirty five that Draymond is talking about is 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:17.960 Stanley Johnson. Stanley Johnson last night played five minutes and 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.880 had five fouls in those five minutes because he couldn't 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.960 contain Edie because he's just not big enough. Ee last 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:33.480 night was he played every second of the game until 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.880 they took guys out at the very very end. He 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.360 played thirty nine to forty minutes at seven foot four. 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:43.160 Were there times he was exhausted, Sure, there were there 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.400 times in the second half where he seemed a little discouraged, 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.480 of course because Yukon was running away with it. But 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:54.800 the idea that zach Edi quit in that basketball game 0:12:55.280 --> 0:13:00.959 is so absurd and such fastcyle re, and to me 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:09.640 that is motivated reasoning, meaning Draymond was trying to do 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:14.000 multiple things there. One, be like, here's the game within 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:18.440 the game that you casuals aren't picking up on. Two 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.880 give credit to a guy whose box score looked like 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:27.160 trash to be like that guy actually had as much 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.520 impact as the guy who had thirty seven and ten. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:35.280 Now you tell me who that type of player that 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:39.080 like that credit would extrapolate to amongst other players, And 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.600 you can see why. Maybe it was Draymond's take. I 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.480 thought Edie should hang his head, should not hang his 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.319 head at all, and it be very proud of how 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.120 he played in this game and in this tournament. Now 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.319 to the women's side and things demands said. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.680 Yeah, so the women's side, Caitlin Clark ends her college 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.640 career with a strong case for the goat. Despite not 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.960 winning a ring, she did carry a team of nobody's 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.280 back to back to championships, or not to championships, but far. 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.560 Into the championship game. Yeah, to the to the final 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:09.240 in both games. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.360 That's got to sound pretty familiar to you with Lebron 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.000 and Patrick Mahomes. Is that the reason why you like 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:16.600 her so much? 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.760 Well, I think that it's a Lebron question, which is 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.360 like the seven or the eighteen Cavs, you lose in 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:30.480 the finals, but you carry a team there. And I 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.440 it's not why I like her so much, but I 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:37.840 do think it is a unique way to look at 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.720 like it just does Caitlin Clark have to have won 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:45.760 a title in order to be the greatest woman's player 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.720 of all time. So here's the comp I will give 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.920 that the most decorated women's basketball player of all time 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.280 is Brianna Stewart. Brianna Stewart played four years at Yukon. 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.640 They won four NASH Championships. She won Player of the 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:07.880 Year three times her final three years there, demanse they 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:12.560 were one hundred and sixteen and one. All right, so 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:18.160 how can anyone trump that? And the answer is on 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.680 a base level, you can't. But then I give you 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:26.640 this piece of information. The year after Brianna Stewart left Yukon, 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.120 they went into the final four thirty six and oh 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.560 lost by two points in overtime in the final four 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.960 to finish the year thirty six and one without her. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.920 The year after that, they went into the final four 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.800 thirty six and oh lost by four points in overtime 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.640 in the final four to finish the year thirty six 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.280 and one. So they were one hundred and sixteen and 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:58.320 one in her final three years. They were seventy two 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.800 and two in the next two years without her, and 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.040 both of those losses were by a combined six points 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.920 in overtime in the Final four, Which is not to 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:12.600 say Brianna Stewart is not arguably the goat, but the 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:19.240 context of the overwhelming Juggernauts juggernaut that that Yukon team 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:23.240 had turned into. Right, and So I watched the women's 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:28.880 national championship game and I asked myself this question, is 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:34.360 there a single player on IOWA other than Caitlin Clark 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.440 that would get a single minute of playing time for 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.880 South Carolina. My answer to that question is no. South 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.920 Carolina went nine deep, and if you were to stack 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.240 up the ten best players in that you know on 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.960 those two teams would be Caitlyn Clerk one and two 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:58.080 through ten would be South Carolina game Cocks. You then add, 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:03.120 there is then also this element of that I so last, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:08.440 so South Carolina and its last eighty one games has 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.320 won or eighty two games, maybe eighty. I think it's 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:17.440 eighty one games is eighty and one, right, with two 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:22.920 national championships. The one loss is to Caitlin Clark and 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.479 Iowa in the final four last year, when Caitlin dropped 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:31.320 forty in a weird way, demonse, I think her beating 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:37.680 South Carolina hurt her in the goat discussion because had 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.480 she lost that game and then lost to them in 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:44.320 the National Championship as opposed to beating them and then 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:48.159 losing to LSU, I think people would be like, well, 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.880 South Carolina is on an eighty two game winning streak, 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.880 they've won three straight titles. No one was beating them. 0:17:56.240 --> 0:18:00.800 They're an overwhelming juggernaut. But because she here's kind of 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.600 their invincibility and then lost in the next round, it 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.399 damn it. I think some people will use that against her. Now, 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.040 there is a give and take in everything. If she 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.600 were on a better team, Demase, she probably wouldn't have 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.920 the stats and the records that she has now if 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.720 it was a more well rounded team. And so because 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:31.200 of that, to me, and because there is no obvious, clearcut, 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:35.199 undoubted goat of women's college basketball like there is in 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:40.439 men's college basketball, with it being Luel Sender than Kareem I, 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:45.959 because Cheryl Miller has obviously a super strong argument Tarazi 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.360 is the best player I had ever seen before. Caitlyn 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:53.600 Shamik will holds claw in the nineties, Brianna Stewart, all 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.280 those people are Maya Moore, They're all in the room 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:01.360 and Caitlin's in that room. I do ask this question 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.359 in my lifetime, have I ever seen a women's college 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.639 basketball player better than Caitlin Clark? And they answer that 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:11.040 question is no, She's the best I've ever seen. And 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.280 does that make her the goat? That's an argument for 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.560 others to have. Now on the South Carolina side of things, 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:18.959 do you want to say something demon say or can 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:20.800 I go to South Carolina? No? 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:21.960 No, you can go to South Carolina. 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.960 I think it's I think it's a tricky debate. But 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.160 uh but yeah, I don't you got it, you got. 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.880 The the I mean, I think she's a I think dismissing. 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:36.600 I think in pro sports, if you've never won a championship, 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.240 I think it's disqualifying because you you have fifteen to 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.919 twenty years to do it. In college sports, when you 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.159 have four years and the teams can be so lopsided, 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:52.359 I don't think it's disqualifying. Now to South Carolina, shout 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.720 out to Don Staley man. Don Staley got there on 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.000 O nine they were ten and eighteen or first year, 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.520 won the first AT one or first SEC title. Five 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.680 years later the year after that, made the final four 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:08.800 in twenty fifteen, twenty seventeen, won our first championship. Twenty 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.640 twenty was thirty two to one, and the pandemic hits 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.320 probably robbed her of a championship. In twenty twenty two, 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:20.880 won the title. In twenty twenty three, was undefeated going 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.119 into the final four, lost a heartbreaker to Caitlin Clark. 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:29.840 And in twenty twenty four undefeated, ran the table, unbelievable run, 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:34.760 unbelievable depth, not one like last year when she had 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.439 a Leah Boston the number one pick of the WNBA draft, 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:42.960 not one, just like superstar player, head and shoulders above 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:47.400 everybody else and found a way to do it. And 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:54.480 I am, I am really really impressed by what she 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:59.199 was able to do and by that team, and I 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:06.920 do won. If there is going to be how much 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.840 how many programs on the men's side of things are 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.480 going to try to poach her, I think Kentucky should 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:17.880 call her with coach kyl Leaving. I think she absolutely 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:22.679 can coach basketball, men's or women's. And I think Kentucky 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:26.040 should have a real conversation about whether or not they 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:30.720 want to try to Bowler over with unbelievable money, which 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:34.600 they could do, or she could stay at South Carolina. 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:38.240 And as we've seen in the past, like you can 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:45.320 go on a run in women's college basketball kind of 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:52.880 unlike any other sport, like the Lady Valls, And it 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.800 was the Lady Vall era when I was a kid. 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.879 Then it was the Yukon Women's era, and then it 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:03.120 was now it's South Carolina era. But the Lady Vols Demons, 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:09.400 they won the title in eighty seven, eighty nine, ninety one, 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:13.639 ninety six, ninety seven, ninety eight, and were the runner 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:18.720 up in ninety five, two thousand oh three oh four, okay, 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:20.359 and then by the way, they won two more and 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:28.760 oh seven oh eight. Then Yukon took over in basically 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:36.040 two thousand and Yukon won the title in two thousand two, 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:41.600 three four o nine, twenty ten, twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:47.280 twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen. That was Yukon's run, and now 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:53.320 South Carolina seventeen. I would con nobody won the title 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:58.399 in twenty They would have twenty two twenty four and 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:01.120 were undefeated going into the fire four and twenty three. 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:04.640 They can keep this thing rolling as long as Don 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:07.760 Staley stays there, all right, let's move on next. 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.680 So Dallas has won ten of their last eleven games. 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:15.320 Seems like they're peaking at the right time, and it 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:19.159 seems like they also ended Houston's season on Sunday on 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:21.840 the back of Kyrie's forty eight points in double overtime. 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:25.120 Kyrie and Lucas are proven to be the best one 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:26.600 to two punch or one of the best one two 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:29.480 punches in the NBA. Where would you rank them in 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:31.720 the one two punches going into the playoffs? 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:37.119 Listen, they're as dangerous as anybody, and whoever gets the 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:41.760 one seed in the West is has reason to be 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:46.639 scared of them. And that's not necessarily why you laughing, 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:47.800 You think that's a Denver thing. 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:51.920 No, No, I think I'm saying that's no, No, that's 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:55.040 that's definitely that's fair. But I mean, I think if 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:58.439 if Luca is seeing Denver in the first in the 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:03.200 first round, in the second round. 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:06.840 Because well, here's what I'm saying right now, we don't 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:08.120 know who's gonna be the one seed in the West, 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:10.960 because Minnesota and Denver are tiede in Oklahoma City is 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:14.600 a game behind, all right, Dallas is going to be 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:17.840 the four, the five seed and they're going to play 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:21.200 the Clippers in round one, and Dallas is gonna rock 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:27.240 the Clippers in round one. Okay, whoever is the one? 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:29.840 I don't think you want to play Dallas right now. 0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:39.040 Luca is a legendary playoff performer. Already, everyone gives me 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:43.120 a hard time about it, uh, but it's just the facts, 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:49.160 Luca is. His career playoff numbers are as follows. Year 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:53.560 one against the best Clippers team that ever existed, the 0:24:53.600 --> 0:24:57.560 Bubble Clippers team, his first playoffs ever, he has he 0:24:57.600 --> 0:25:01.879 averages thirty one, ten to nine. Year two in the 0:25:01.920 --> 0:25:07.280 playoffs against that same Clippers team, he averages thirty six, 0:25:07.560 --> 0:25:11.760 eight and ten. Again, those are two series with Kawhi 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:15.879 and Paul George guarding him on basically every possession. Year three, 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:20.800 going through Utah and then Phoenix and then losing to 0:25:20.840 --> 0:25:26.280 Golden State, he averages thirty two, ten and six. So 0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:30.119 for his career in the playoffs he's thirty three, nine 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:35.040 and eight. He is a legend in the postseason. Kyrie, 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:40.760 who obviously I've been critical of over the last few years, 0:25:40.880 --> 0:25:43.800 is having one of the best seasons of his career. 0:25:44.480 --> 0:25:48.440 Is doing everything we all have always asked of him 0:25:48.800 --> 0:25:52.960 keeping the nonsense to the side, being mostly available. He 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:57.439 and Lucas chemistry is off the charts and just a dynamic, 0:25:58.600 --> 0:26:02.959 dynamic offense of force right now. This year, you're getting 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:05.680 all of the good of Kyrie with none of the bad. 0:26:06.600 --> 0:26:10.280 He's twenty six percent or twenty six percent, twenty six 0:26:10.480 --> 0:26:15.040 five and five for the year on fifty forty one. Wow, 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:18.480 he's all He's this close to a fifty to forty 0:26:18.560 --> 0:26:22.680 ninety season. He's forty nine point six for the year, 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:24.879 So he's gonna just barely miss out on a fifty 0:26:24.960 --> 0:26:32.080 forty ninety year. And Dallas is super dangerous man. And 0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:37.880 for if you are Denver, Liz, Denver is the overwhelming 0:26:38.000 --> 0:26:41.639 favorite for a reason, and the one seed could be 0:26:41.680 --> 0:26:45.119 decided tomorrow night when you have Nuggets TEA Wolves in Denver. 0:26:46.280 --> 0:26:50.000 If Jamal Murray is not at one hundred percent, Denver 0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:54.359 can get gott in this postseason. With Jamal Murray, I 0:26:54.400 --> 0:26:57.840 don't know who's beating him. Yeah, I mean he's back now, 0:26:58.600 --> 0:27:01.360