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Speaker 2: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 3: What is up straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 3: Straight Fire from Monday, April eighth. It is great to

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Speaker 3: be back podcasting a week off for the kid's spring break.

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Speaker 3: So much happened while I was gone. We won't get

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Speaker 3: to all of it in this podcast. We will lean

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Speaker 3: heavily on college hoops, obviously, Caitlin Clark that saga, and

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Speaker 3: then I think we'll save NBA for tomorrow. And then

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Speaker 3: Stefan Diggs got traded, which is not a surprise to

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Speaker 3: anybody who's listening to this podcast. Just so much that's happened.

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Speaker 3: I'll quickly recap spring break for you. Now I haven't

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Speaker 3: told Rob this part. I haven't told many people this part,

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Speaker 3: but you know, we go to spring break and it

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Speaker 3: was kind of a late booking for Hawaii, and we

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Speaker 3: went to this place that we went on our honeymoon,

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Speaker 3: and it's think now the hotel has changed hands a

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Speaker 3: was not great at all. Okay, but that wasn't like

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Speaker 3: the big deal. So Day two were at the pool

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Speaker 3: and start talking to this guy. And I'm like, oh, well,

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Speaker 3: that guy must be famous. I can't really tell. He's

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Speaker 3: And it turns out it was Donald Glover, the guy

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Speaker 3: who was in Mister and Missus Smith, the New show,

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Speaker 3: and he was in a great show on Atlanta, which

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Speaker 3: in a bunch of stuff and super nice guy, friendly guy,

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Speaker 3: no big deal. I totally forgot or didn't know. He

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Speaker 3: You see a quasi famous person and then you know

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Speaker 3: the next day, we're in the hot tub, and this

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Speaker 3: do you know that guy Alex Jones?

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Speaker 4: And I was like, oh gosh, not that guy. He's

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Speaker 3: Like super fat and super loud, and I was like,

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Speaker 3: he's a conspiracy theorist. He went on the rant claiming

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Speaker 3: at a I'm not gonna say it was a five

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Speaker 3: We booked it through Costco. I'm not I don't I'm

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Speaker 3: no shave in my game. Go to Costco, folks, you

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Speaker 3: get amazing deals. Anyways, And so.

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Speaker 4: Finally I tell the wife and she's like, you gotta

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Speaker 3: And it's like disappointing because you know, you don't want

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, I don't want to be anywhere near this.

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Speaker 4: But it's weird.

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Speaker 3: It was a spring break trip, it was fun, we

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Speaker 3: Like I tried to not let it get to me,

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gotta be kind of, you know, awkward, especially

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Speaker 1: know that, you know, the kind of people that Alex

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Speaker 1: Jones was spreading these conspiracies that ultimately cost him like

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Speaker 1: a billion dollars in a lawsuit, right, something like that

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Speaker 1: supposedly right, exactly, so you know, for him to say

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Speaker 1: honestly applauding you that you were able to not engage

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, I I did, and I avoid I

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Speaker 3: we'll do Final four. Natty bets tonight. I was great

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Speaker 3: in the Final four. Two and Oh made a good

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Speaker 4: I don't want to talk about it, folks.

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Speaker 3: Marquette, Houston, Iowa State, all three favored in the sweet sixteen,

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Speaker 3: All three loss. None of them led in the second half.

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Speaker 3: I was legit devastated our flight to Hawaii. I basically

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Speaker 3: It wasn't like they got totally run out of the building.

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Speaker 3: ahead and give good South Carolina their flower. They won

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Speaker 3: the national championship, they covered the spread. Yes, people talked

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Speaker 3: Iowa has won five star recruit. South Carolina has seven

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Speaker 3: Kaitlin Clark has had. Nobody It's not even close. Now,

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Speaker 3: timing is everything, and you guys do know this. In sports,

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Speaker 3: Right started two thousand and six. By twenty eleven, I

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Speaker 3: have it grow. But the timing of me starting the

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Speaker 3: Caitlin Clark ascending in basketball is perfect. Okay, You've got

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Speaker 3: the USA women's soccer team winning back to back World Cups.

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Speaker 3: You've got the US I don't know, we don't even

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Speaker 3: That's popping and truthfully, and I don't like to really

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Speaker 3: But I think I've mentioned this guy before, Prof G.

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Speaker 3: Scott Galloway. Just I listened to my son had a

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Speaker 3: volleyball tournament. On the way back, we listened to Prof

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Speaker 3: it's this. It's called the title of it's called Roe

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Speaker 3: just ROWI, and he has an amazing breakdown of what's

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Speaker 3: happening in America with women, and there's just a lot

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Speaker 3: of pushback against women who are now more successful than

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Speaker 3: and like, women are on the uptick and a lot

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Speaker 3: of guys for whatever reason, are like angry about this, and.

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Speaker 4: Women are They're having there, They're rolling right now.

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Speaker 3: Things are crushing for them. And Kitlin Clark came in

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Speaker 3: at a moment as women's sports are rising. You guys know,

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Speaker 3: I own a soccer team in Mexico. Well, I was

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Speaker 3: reading how the US Women's Soccer League send a two

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Speaker 3: hundred and forty million dollar TV deal. Now, obviously TV

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Speaker 3: deals are everything NBA, NFL Women's Soccer League, two hundred

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Speaker 3: and forty million dollar TV deal WNBA. I don't follow

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Speaker 3: it closely. I'll probably go to my first game when

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Speaker 3: Kitlin Clark comes out here to LA next year.

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Speaker 4: My daughter's already interested.

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Speaker 3: And you know, frankly, if we're being honest, like the

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Speaker 3: timing for Kaitlin Clark was awesome, and she deserves all

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Speaker 4: Kaitlin Clark without question.

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Speaker 4: So I'll say, Rob, I'll go twenty one twenty one mil.

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Speaker 1: was something that everybody can kind of get behind. And

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Speaker 1: yet there was a vocal minority Alex Jones in this case,

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Speaker 1: a vocal minority of female women's basketball players that for

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Speaker 1: whatever reason, over the last week or so, have gone

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Speaker 1: out of their way to consistently throw shade at Kaitlin Clark.

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Speaker 1: All Right, the biggest one, the biggest culprit in this

436
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Speaker 1: might have been who Lebron Jess was tweeting about on

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Speaker 1: Sunday before he decided to mail it in and not

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Speaker 1: play last night against the Timberwolves in a must win game.

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Speaker 1: But you know it's okay, Lebron, I'll let that slide

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Speaker 1: for now because it's not an NBA podcast, But Diana

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00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:46,399
Speaker 1: Tarazzi felt compelled to say on ESPN that you know

442
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Speaker 1: reality is coming for Kaitlin Clark, that you know you

443
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Speaker 1: look good playing against eighteen year olds, but come play

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Speaker 1: with some grown women and you're going to see what happens.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: And then even before that, Brianna Storre, who was an

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Speaker 1: all time great college you askerby even a great w

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Speaker 1: NBA player, said, now, this is like a layup question.

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Speaker 1: She was asked by Sirius XM. Does Caitlyn Clark need

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Speaker 1: a title to be considered an all time great? Not

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Speaker 1: the all time great, not the goat, just one of

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Speaker 1: the greats. Brianna Stewart, Yeah, she does. I think so.

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Speaker 1: And it's like, do you not understand, right? Do you

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Speaker 1: not understand the circumstances around Caitlyn Clark? Do you not

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Speaker 1: understand the difference between a pair of women. Again, Tarazi

456
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Speaker 1: and Stu are fantastic, all time great players. They also

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Speaker 1: played for an all time great program with the winning

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Speaker 1: as coaching women's college basketball history. Caitlyn Clark did not

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Speaker 1: play at Yukon. She did not play at Tennessee, right,

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Speaker 1: she's not currently playing at South Carolina, which is top

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Speaker 1: that they can lose entire starting five. Still going feed it.

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Speaker 1: She came up and played for her basically hometown team,

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Speaker 1: and she is bringing more attention to the sport than

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Speaker 1: any of your favorite player ever did before that. Right

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Speaker 1: as good as Tarazi was, she was again this kind

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Speaker 1: of of eyeball attention. Dewey wasn't getting this kind of attention.

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Speaker 1: Maya More was a getting. This should make a whole squat, Like,

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Speaker 1: go down the list, whoever your favorite college basketball female

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Speaker 1: player was. None of them were getting Kaitlyn Clark type numbers.

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Speaker 1: And for those two women again the vocal minority, because

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Speaker 1: they happen to be the ones with the microphones in

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Speaker 1: front of them to kind of go out of their

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Speaker 1: way to needle her. It's like, is this what, Diana Tarazi?

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Speaker 1: Do you want to play in front of six thousand

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Speaker 1: people every game? Or do you want to play in

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Speaker 1: front of nineteen thousand like Caitlin Clark is regularly drying.

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Speaker 1: The Las Vegas Aces had the highest attendance in WNBA

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Speaker 1: last year ever and fifty one average per game their

479
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Speaker 1: first game thousand, nine thousand and five to fifty one

480
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Speaker 1: was their average. Their first game against Kaitlin Clarks was

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Speaker 1: presumpably going to be the team from Indiana the Fever.

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Speaker 1: They already sold out the arena that they normally play

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Speaker 1: in and decided that they needed to move to the

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Speaker 1: to a different venue, the Team Mobile Arena in Vegas,

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Speaker 1: because it holds double the capacity, because they imagine they're

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Speaker 1: going to get double the attendance. So again, if you

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Speaker 1: are Diana Tarazi and Brianna Stewart, do you want to

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Speaker 1: be playing for the six thousand people? Do you want

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Speaker 1: the average annual salary for a women's player in the

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Speaker 1: WABA to be one hundred and fifteen thousand? No, of

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Speaker 1: course not. So, then why are you shitting on somebody

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Speaker 1: who almost single handedly can carry your sport to new heights.

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Speaker 1: Almost single handedly is going to raise the floor of

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Speaker 1: what your average attendance is, the floor of what your

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Speaker 1: average annual salary is. You should be like Don Staley

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Speaker 1: was even after they beat her, thanking her for everything

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Speaker 1: that she's done for your sport.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the rising tide lifts all boats, right, I think

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Speaker 3: that's the same.

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Speaker 4: Well, Caitlin Clark is the tide.

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Speaker 3: Everybody will eat because Caitlin Clark is dominating everyone.

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Speaker 4: Now listen, it's just a dumb statement.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's good, be rude awakening when she gets to

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Speaker 3: the w No shit, Oh really you think pro sports

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Speaker 3: are harder than college sports? Wow?

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Speaker 4: Just earth shattering stuff. I'm so impressed.

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Speaker 3: Like, it's just very weird for the You're right for

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Speaker 3: them to go out of their way.

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Speaker 4: It reminds me.

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Speaker 3: Ah, yes, one of my favorite stories back when I

511
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Speaker 3: had the radio show. One of my favorite stories was

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Speaker 3: how Steph Curry went from basically being what he was,

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Speaker 3: like a top ten pick, and then he was kind

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Speaker 3: of injured a bit and then like the next thing,

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Speaker 3: you know, I think twenty fifteen playoffs, No, no, twenty

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Speaker 3: fourteen playoffs.

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Speaker 4: They lost the Clippers in seven? Is that what happened?

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Speaker 4: You remember that first round? I think it was in seven.

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Speaker 4: But the Splash Brothers were born. They were like, oh

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Speaker 4: they're fun, a nice little story. Oh yeah, okay, cool fun.

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Speaker 3: The next year they win the title and Steph Curry

522
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Speaker 3: becomes like a massive sensation, wins the MVP. And the

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Speaker 3: hate for Curry do you remember this, Rob? It was

524
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Speaker 3: like Russell Westbrook did not like Curry Chris Paul hated,

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Speaker 3: like genuinely hated Steph Curry, and the thought was the

526
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Speaker 3: thunder had next. They were next in line.

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Speaker 4: With Harden and.

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Speaker 3: KD and Russ they were next in line, and then

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Speaker 3: Chris Paul had Lob City with the Clippers. Those groups

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Speaker 3: were next in line. Once Kobe like hands the baton

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Speaker 3: to the next great superstars, those are gonna be the guys.

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Speaker 3: And of course Chris Parl was like, you know, ballyho

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Speaker 3: top three pick, everybody knew who he was, Rookie the

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Speaker 3: Year everything, and Russell Westbrook just a dunking machine, his energy,

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Speaker 3: his ferocity, and those guys did not like Steph Curry

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Speaker 3: at all. And I'll even remind you, guys, in the

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Speaker 3: seventy three Wood Warrior season, there were people still saying, Oh,

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00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 3: these guys are soft Shack and Barkley would just take

539
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 3: shots at them all the time. Oh, this team's soft,

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Speaker 3: They're just jumpshooters, And there's plenty of video. They just

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Speaker 3: refused to accept that the game had changed, and Curry

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Speaker 3: was at the forefront. Okay, And of course in the

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Speaker 3: seventy three win season, if you go back and look,

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Speaker 3: I think it was game six Curry throws his mouthpiece,

545
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Speaker 3: was that the one Rob in Cleveland and Lebron had

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Speaker 3: a block, and he turns around and gives this like,

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Speaker 3: oh yeah, blah blah blah. Even Lebron at the time,

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Speaker 3: I know Lebron spoke glowing way about Curry. I get

549
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 3: that Lebron did not love him because Lebron was boys

550
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 3: with Chris Paul. And of course, now Curry eating into

551
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 3: Lebron's championships when he's trying to catch Jordan for six,

552
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 3: and there was some disday and I don't think Lebron

553
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Speaker 3: outwardly disliked him as much as Russ. Rob would maybe

554
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 3: no better, But there was so much pushback on Curry,

555
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 3: and I didn't get it. Fans loved him. Ratings were up,

556
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 3: way up, Jersey sales arenas like the NBA TV deal

557
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 3: got to be awesome, largely in part thanks to Steph

558
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Speaker 3: Curry the dominance, and I mean the league was in

559
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 3: a better place because of them. And there was still hate.

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00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 3: So hater's gout hate, as they like to say. And

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Speaker 3: I don't know, Rob, I just it just strikes me

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Speaker 3: as odd that these that these women.

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Speaker 4: Now, I will say, one of the so you guys.

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Speaker 3: Know, I worked at US Weekly, this celebrity magazine, and

565
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 3: it was like, I don't know. There was basically me,

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Speaker 3: like two other straight guys, a couple of gay guys,

567
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Speaker 3: and like thirty girls, and of course some of the

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00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 3: stuff I would see among the women.

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Speaker 4: There was just like they were just brutal to each other.

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Speaker 3: And one of the girls said to me, Jason, the

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Speaker 3: meanest people to women are other women, and I was

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Speaker 3: just blown away by the quote. I was like, Wow,

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Speaker 3: that's shocking.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. It's guys.

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Speaker 3: It's like, you know, we rib each other and stuff,

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Speaker 3: but like, I don't think, what's your friends, Like, you're

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Speaker 3: not mean, and I just I'm just surprised that, like

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Speaker 3: you said, Rob, that these women in the WNBA, even

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Speaker 3: in college basketball, like the Angel re stuff was fun,

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00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 3: the her and Kitlin Clark beef. I didn't like what

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Speaker 3: angel Clark said about you know.

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Speaker 4: After they lose. She's just like, oh, people have.

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Speaker 3: Been attacking me and all this stuff like that, Come on,

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Speaker 3: give me a break. You know.

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Speaker 4: It's just like you didn't win, so you're playing like

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Speaker 4: the victim.

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Speaker 3: I didn't like what Angel Rees did, but I don't

588
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Speaker 3: know everything about the Kitlin Clark's story to me is incredible,

589
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Speaker 3: and I do know a lot of other I mean,

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Speaker 3: I'm texting with other dads who I've never texted with

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Speaker 3: women's basketball about ever. I mean, I don't know that

592
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 3: I've ever texted with women's basketball about I think with anyone,

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Speaker 3: and a lot of people were super into it, and

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you were as well. Rob.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, I think that you had the

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Speaker 1: nail and head right off the beginning when you mentioned

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Speaker 1: the comparison between the NBA and the WNBA game and

598
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Speaker 1: that when Steph Curry was having his moment, there were

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Speaker 1: a lot of haters on the forefronting media, you know,

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Speaker 1: Shack and Barkley being the guys carrying the torch right

601
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Speaker 1: because they are the at that time especially were the

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Speaker 1: faces of the league. Basically like they were the guys

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Speaker 1: that everybody looked to, Well, what are the inside the

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00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: NBA guys gonna say about this game, or about this team,

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Speaker 1: or about this player, because even though they didn't actually

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00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: watch the games admittedly, which they are they said on

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00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: multiple occasions, people still teem to hold their opinions above

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Speaker 1: anyone else's. So the idea of the previous generation shitting

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00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: on the current situation. Like that's not new, right, We

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Speaker 1: see that all the time, especially in the NBA. I

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Speaker 1: guess what I was so taken aback by is for

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Speaker 1: women Again the vocal Minority's this is not a widespread

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Speaker 1: thing across the WNBA. This was specifically Diana Tarazi, Brianna Stewart,

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Speaker 1: Kelsey Plum to a very very lesser extent that we're

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Speaker 1: saying things about a woman that is, as we said before,

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Speaker 1: she is the reason why people are watching your sport.

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Speaker 1: She might not be as good as Diana Tarazi in

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Speaker 1: the WNBA, she might not be as good as Sue

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Speaker 1: Byrd or even Kelsey Plum was playing right now, Like

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Speaker 1: that's entirely possible. But the thing is you have to

621
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Speaker 1: set all that aside, your competitive nature and just be like, look,

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Speaker 1: when she gets here, I'm gonna go at her. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna bus try to bust her ask the same way

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Speaker 1: I would any any other rookie that I see. But

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Speaker 1: I'm also gonna acknowledge that her being here, her being

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Speaker 1: a good player, as good as she is, is good

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00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: for me too, Like we work together at Fox and

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Speaker 1: iHeart not just because you work on the show with Colin.

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Speaker 1: But I root for Colin Cowherd to have fantastic ratings

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Speaker 1: both on TV and on radio. You know why, because

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Speaker 1: if Colin's doing well, it's gonna raise the floor for

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00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: everyone underneath them. So everybody at FS one, everybody at

633
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: iHeartMedia suddenly is gonna get looked at a different way.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully they get paid a different way. Because he's the

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00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: one carrying the blowtorch for us. And if Caitlin Clark

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Speaker 1: can do that for the w NBA, why wouldn't you

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Speaker 1: support her? That's what I don't understand.

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Speaker 4: Totally with you, This is wild. So I just looked

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Speaker 4: up the.

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Speaker 3: Lowest rated women's college basketball title game and it looks

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Speaker 3: like number two is Yukon's two thousand and nine win

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00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 3: over Louisville. Now that Yukon team was let's see here

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Speaker 3: third looks like they did not lose a game thirty

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Speaker 3: nine and zero total beasts.

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Speaker 4: And I happen to look.

646
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 3: Now Breonna Stor was not on the team, but Maya

647
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 3: Moore was on the team. Mayamur, of course, is someone

648
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Speaker 3: who I guess Caitlin carkas said, she looked up to

649
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Speaker 3: a lot which is cool, But we're talking that that

650
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Speaker 3: had one point eight million viewers in the title game.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, no, no, hold on the one point eight

652
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 3: and two point and for some reason, two point seven

653
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Speaker 3: was uh I guess maybe two point seven was the

654
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Speaker 3: title game. One point eight was the semi final. Oh no, no,

655
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 3: two point seven million? Sorry, two point seven million for

656
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 3: the Yukon Louisville two thousand and nine game was the

657
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 3: lowest rated. Kaitlyn Clark might get eight times that number,

658
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 3: eight times an undefeated Yukon team fifteen years ago. Does

659
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,479
Speaker 3: that not say how much the sport's grown? And again,

660
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 3: TV ratings is just one metric. It's just staggering how

661
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 3: people can be pushing back. Now here's the thing, Rob,

662
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 3: what do you think it's college women's college troops next year?

663
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 4: How many times do you think we have Kaitlyn someone

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Speaker 4: in women's.

665
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Speaker 3: College basketball leading the podcast next year? Because Kaitlyn's done

666
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 3: that several times? My guess, short of Juju Watkins going

667
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 3: for like eighty points in a game or something insane.

668
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Speaker 4: I don't know that we're gonna have.

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Speaker 3: I just don't know that this is you know, these

670
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,719
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671
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,799
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672
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 3: be my read on on the Caitlin Clark saga. And

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Speaker 3: I'll I'll just I guess I'll just wrap up with

674
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675
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 4: You absolutely need it.

676
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously you need championships, but there are scenarios where

677
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,719
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678
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 3: the greats. Now in pro sports, it's extremely difficult. But

679
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 3: in college, I mean, I don't know, rob I don't

680
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 3: think Tim Duncan won a Natty and I think he's

681
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 3: a national championship. I think he stayed at Dwake for

682
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,920
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683
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684
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,400
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685
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686
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687
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 3: Tim Duncan is one of the great college basketball players

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00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:48,200
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00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 3: got to strip that away from him because he doesn't

690
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,600
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Speaker 4: Here's your best bet. First of all, did you have

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Speaker 4: a bracket with with Connectic?

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Speaker 3: Now with Connecticut, with Perdue and Yukon.

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Speaker 1: I had a bracket with Connecticut, winning it at two

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Speaker 1: of them with Cannadaga whinning it up, but nothing with

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's weird.

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Speaker 3: This was one of those tournaments where a lot of

736
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737
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 3: if I get the score right in Yukon, I can

738
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Speaker 3: win my pool. And I'm like, oh, that's awesome. I

739
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 3: guess that kind of shows it was one of those

740
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Speaker 3: chalkier tournaments. Of course, your boy did not do great

741
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 3: in any bracket contest because you know, like, I'm not

742
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 3: a chalk better.

743
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 2: I'm not.

744
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 3: I'm not a chalk guy. Chalk was the Kansas City

745
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 3: Chiefs winning the Super Bowl over the Niners.

746
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 4: Everybody had the Chiefs.

747
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 3: I said, nah, give me Niners and came up a

748
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 3: little short on that one. So I have Yukon tonight, obviously,

749
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 3: so now here this is weird. So rob the line.

750
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 3: I see it online and it's five and a half,

751
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 3: and I'm like, all right, I gotta take five and

752
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 3: a half. You know what, let me tell me buy

753
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 3: a little extra for the So I got five minus

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00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 3: one twenty, for instance, one hundred twenty bucks to win

755
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 3: a one hundred and twenty one dollars to win one

756
00:38:55,480 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 3: hundred and I think Yukon. I I think they're gonna

757
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,479
Speaker 3: pretty much handle and win this game. I'm not taking

758
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 3: shot to Perdue. I know I got some I got

759
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 3: two buddies, one guy who flew to the Final four.

760
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 4: For Perdue because he went there.

761
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 3: Another guy who had played at Purdue, and you know,

762
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 3: I became friendly with that guy, and then I started

763
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 3: to get to know Robbie Hummel a lot, and he's

764
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 3: enjoying this ride. I don't see how Purdue wins this game.

765
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 3: So just my dime store thoughts. After a really nice

766
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 3: final four, I hit the first half under on Purdue,

767
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 3: NC State and then Yukon, and then I bet Yukon

768
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 3: live when it was seven. So Perdue is the second

769
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 3: best three point shooting team in the country. But this

770
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 3: is what's not calculated in the numbers, and I think

771
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:52,240
Speaker 3: becomes a bit of a struggle for them. So why

772
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 3: are they the three second best three point shooting team

773
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,959
Speaker 3: in the country? Is it because I don't know? Zach

774
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 3: Eaedi's seven foot four and just it's every offense he's second,

775
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 3: he's like sixth best in the country. And offensive boards

776
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 3: he just grabs offensive boards and then just kicks it.

777
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 3: Out and they're getting open threes. Yeah, that kind of

778
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 3: happens a lot. And are they maybe the second best

779
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 3: three point shooting team because teams have to double Zachi

780
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 3: Edie not a lot of seven footers out there. And

781
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:18,720
Speaker 3: then you got to pick your poison on the perimeter.

782
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 3: Who who were gonna are we gonna lance, We're gonna

783
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 3: let the other guard who's really good but struggle mightily

784
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 3: in the final four, Like, what's our game plan?

785
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 4: What are we gonna do?

786
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 3: And you need to game plan because nobody can match

787
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 3: up with Edie.

788
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 4: Right.

789
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 3: Well, now you've got Yukon and they've got a seven

790
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 3: foot of their own and a guy with an amazing nickname,

791
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:48,760
Speaker 3: Donovan Donovan Klingon Klingon, and his nickname is kling Kong.

792
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 3: At least I heard Iron Eagle say that. I was like, oh,

793
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 3: I love that cling Klong.

794
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 4: And he's he's a great he's a really nice youngple.

795
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 4: I think he's.

796
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 3: Probably a lottery fringe lottery. I don't know he's gonna

797
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 3: be drafted in the top twenty. I don't think Edie

798
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 3: will be. Klingon is very athletic, Oh my gosh, he's

799
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 3: real fun to watch. At any rate, he's gonna play

800
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,439
Speaker 3: Edie straight up, you don't need to double. We don't

801
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 3: need to double when we got seven to two against

802
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 3: seven to four. So now you're hugged up on the shooters,

803
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 3: and you know, you go look at Ken palm, look

804
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 3: at the size that Yukon has against those Purdue guards.

805
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 3: It's brutal Castle, who I think is an absolute superstar.

806
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 3: I know some rob might not have seen it, but

807
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 3: when Castle was dominating Alabama, I said, he reminded me

808
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 3: of like a like a combo of Scottie Pippen in

809
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 3: his prime and a young teenage Kobe with a confidence

810
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 3: and swagger that he can take anybody off the dribble

811
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 3: and get whatever he wants. And you know, some people

812
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 3: freaked out anytime you put Kobe's name, but I'm just

813
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 3: telling you, this guy Castle is a beast. He guarded Shannon,

814
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 3: Terry Shann and the kid from Illinois in the Elite eight,

815
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 3: and of course you know Tarren Shannon's scoring machine, unstoppable player.

816
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 4: He's gonna be a pro.

817
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's a first round pick because

818
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 3: he's like twenty two to twenty three years old and

819
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 3: Castle totally locked him up. Shannon could do nothing. I'm

820
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 3: talking to Shannon.

821
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 4: Was like two or fourteen. It was crazy.

822
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 3: This kid Castle can guard anybody. He started out on sears.

823
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 3: He then got in foul trouble with some dumb fouls.

824
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 3: But I think if you put him on Braden Smith,

825
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 3: like I don't know what Smith does, and Smith already

826
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 3: had a terrible game against NC State and that athleticism

827
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 3: game a problem. So anyways, you got Castle at sixty six,

828
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 3: Cam Spencer six ' four, Tristan Newton, who's a really nice,

829
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 3: well rounded point guard. He's a pro six ' five,

830
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 3: and then Caravan is six ' eight. Okay, listen to

831
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 3: the Purdue height outside of Zachide in the starting line

832
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 3: at Braiden Smith six feet, he's not six feet by

833
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 3: the way, Lance Jones six to one, Fletcher Lawyer six four,

834
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Speaker 3: Mason Gillis sixty six, or maybe they start Trey kaufmin Rehn,

835
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 3: the six ' nine guy. But there's just not a

836
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 3: lot of size there, so they're not gonna dominate the

837
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 3: offensive glass. And if you hug up the shooters, now

838
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,479
Speaker 3: you're jacking shots over guys who were three four inches

839
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Speaker 3: taller than you.

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Speaker 4: That's also not easy.

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00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 3: Bottom line is I think Purdue struggles offensively. Unless something

842
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 3: happens to clinging, foul trouble, whatever, I don't see it

843
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 3: for Purdue.

844
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Speaker 4: So I took the five.

845
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 3: Maybe Perdue gets out to like a nine to three

846
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 3: start or whatever, and then you can get you kind

847
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Speaker 3: of to depressed price and then you can load up.

848
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Speaker 3: But I mean, that's what happened against Alabama. Alabama was

849
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 3: up like four. People were like, oh my gosh, there's

850
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 3: gonna be a game. I was like, settle down, and

851
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 3: I added a Yukon minus seven. So I think Yukon's

852
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 3: society here.

853
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 4: I know that's chalky, but this team is a juggernaut.

854
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,439
Speaker 3: I don't know, Robert, you feel in the same way

855
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 3: like I do like watching Yukon because they're so freaking efficient.

856
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 3: The length in the blocks, when they get the ball

857
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 3: and run half court sets, it's like they're probably scoring here.

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00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 4: And it was somewhat close Alabama.

859
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 3: Consider this, rob Alabama was played like they played an

860
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 3: a game in the Final four. They shot forty seven

861
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 3: percent on threes and they lost by fourteen, and it was,

862
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,760
Speaker 3: you know, a tough blown cover. But so now, basically

863
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 3: you're telling me Purdue, which struggled against UNC's pressure. And

864
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 3: I know this is the thing, and I'm not gonna

865
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 3: like make it a thing. It is, but the Yukon

866
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 3: pressure is gonna get to these Purdue guards.

867
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 4: And I know that the Purdue.

868
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 3: Guards struggled last year against it and the lack of

869
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 3: athleticism or whatever you want to say. And I know

870
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 3: people hate to talk about that and it gets weird,

871
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 3: but you know, because.

872
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 4: That's essentially people, Oh, that's code for their white and

873
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:41,280
Speaker 4: non athletic.

874
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 3: Dude, I'm just telling you my men's league team, we

875
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 3: got a white guy who played D three. He's athletic

876
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 3: as hell and could go at anyone and guard anyone.

877
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 3: These Purdue guys are different, and the Yukon guys are

878
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:52,800
Speaker 3: totally different.

879
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 4: I mean you're talking about Newton Is is a pro.

880
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 3: He's probably gonna be a first round pick because he

881
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 3: does everything well. Castle, I'm telling you, is a lottery pick.

882
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 3: I think he's top five, probably top three. Klingon is

883
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 3: a first round pick.

884
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 4: That's they're stacked. And Rob. I don't know if it

885
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 4: was you, might have been me, might have been you.

886
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 3: Somebody compared this team to UNLV and I think this

887
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 3: Yukon team is the most dominant we've seen since UNLVY.

888
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 3: They've beaten six, five, eleven straight NCAA tournament wins by

889
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 3: double digits. That's not by accident, that's domination. So I

890
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 3: got Yukon. I don't think there's any value on the

891
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 3: money line. I saw it was like minus two eighty

892
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 3: or two seventy five. That's I'm not doing that. So

893
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 3: I don't know yukonnor passed for me.

894
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 1: I'm laying the level with Yukon, and in my bracket pool,

895
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: the one, the one I really care about is the

896
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: one that Fox Sports Radio. I'm not gonna win that one,

897
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 1: and I understand even if you kind of wins, I'm

898
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: not gonna go too far back. But one thing I

899
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,720
Speaker 1: said before the tournament started was if I can beat

900
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: either Aaron Torres, friend of the show, or Doug Gottlie,

901
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: friend of the Show, two guys who covered college basketball

902
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: on a nightly basis for various outlets, if I can,

903
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: If I can beat them, me, who's only a casual

904
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: college basketball fan, toil the tournament, then I'll be happy

905
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: and win or lose with Yukon I'm gonna bet Doug Gottlieb,

906
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty excited about that part.

907
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 4: I forgot my login. You want to tell me how

908
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:20,720
Speaker 4: poorly I've done.

909
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: Well, you're not gonna win, I'll tell you that much, but.

910
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 3: I definitely well, now, who's gonna win it? Let me

911
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,280
Speaker 3: get Last year it was like t J huschwin Zada.

912
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 3: I think I was in a mixing know who.

913
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: She's in the top five. But it looks like Torres

914
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: is gonna win it this year because you know, he's

915
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: a Yukon of lump, so he had Yukon riding them

916
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: heavy so so that that helped him a lot. But

917
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: as far as this Yukon team, this game tonight, to

918
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: me is gonna be eerily similar to what we saw

919
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: with the ladies game yesterday, where I believe Zach Edy

920
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: is the best player in college in college basketball for

921
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 1: the men's side. You know, I know that he might

922
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: not be the best pro, but for college basketball, I

923
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: believe he's the best player. I thought Caitlin Clark was

924
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: the best player for women obviously, but even before the

925
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: game started, like, there's no way they're gonna be South Carolina.

926
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: South Carolina is too deep, too physical, too athletic, too good,

927
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: point blank period. They are the better team. They're going

928
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: to win pretty easily. It took them a little bit

929
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: longer than I expected to really turn it on, but

930
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: they want going away. Yukon same thing. They are too good,

931
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: too big, too fast, too talented, too athletic. Zach Edy

932
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: is gonna be the best player. I believe he's gonna

933
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: have some success when they go one on one against Klingon.

934
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: He's gonna do what he does. But that Yukon team

935
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: comes at you in waves. They are like I said

936
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: about the UH South Carolina team, they are inevitable, like

937
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do. Eventually, the tidal wave is coming.

938
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: Either hits you in the first seven minutes, the last

939
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: seven minutes, whatever it comes, it's going to come. And

940
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: the Yukon hus he is going back to back.

941
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, back to back sounds about right.

942
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 3: You mentioned Edie best player in the country, So I

943
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 3: don't know if you saw the Tennessee game, but Tennessee elected,

944
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,800
Speaker 3: We're just gonna play Edie straight. We're not going to

945
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 3: give the shooters anything. Purdue shot three of fifteen on threes.

946
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 3: It was a one point game with looks like two

947
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 3: and a half left to maybe three and a half.

948
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 4: Edie went nuclear.

949
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 3: He played thirty nine minutes and had forty and sixteen

950
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 3: and he made fourteen three throws forty points.

951
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:22,919
Speaker 4: Rough he ain't scoring forty on clinging. I'm sorry, he's

952
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 4: just not and so I just again not just missing perdue.

953
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 4: It's been an amazing run. I like Edie a lot.

954
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 3: By the way, we could talk about his future prospects,

955
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,280
Speaker 3: but Ta hit me on Twitter and said something interesting.

956
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 4: He's like, why can't he be brook Lopez in a

957
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 4: few years in the NBA? And I was like, I

958
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 4: had not thought about that.

959
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 3: I think, you know, in the range of outcomes, that's

960
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 3: probably highly unlikely. But he did note that brook Lopez

961
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 3: at Stanford shooting threes was three of twenty one in

962
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,800
Speaker 3: his career. He was an All American and he morphed

963
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 3: wisely into a three point shooter. My issue with Edie

964
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 3: becoming like a three point guy is he lumbers like

965
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 3: brook Lopez is big, but I feel like he's not

966
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:07,919
Speaker 3: as much of a plotter, Like you can't have Zach

967
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 3: d in the corner or it's a four on five

968
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 3: fast break.

969
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 4: The other way you know, I.

970
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 3: Visually I'm struggling seeing seven foot four Zach Edy jacking

971
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 3: threes from the top of the key. But again, you

972
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 3: could say the same about Brook Lopez. Yes, my guess

973
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 3: would be that it doesn't happen, and Eddie can make

974
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 3: a ton of money. I don't know his background or ethnicity.

975
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 3: They showed his mom and then I googled it and

976
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 3: she's like six foot three, But he can make a

977
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 3: ton of money in Asia. Being like, I don't know,

978
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 3: he's not gonna be the new Yao Ming, but like

979
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 3: Yao Ming was his size, right.

980
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he could be Stefan Marbury, Stephan Maury

981
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: made a hell of a healthy living playing overseas in China.

982
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: And again, I don't want to I don't want to

983
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: dismiss the idea of him in the NBA entirely, but

984
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: you know, case scenario, you can have a lengthy career

985
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: playing overseas.

986
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 3: That yeah, and I don't I would not hope again,

987
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 3: you never I know he's from Canada, but I would

988
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 3: not hope that someone takes him top ten because that's

989
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:08,359
Speaker 3: not gonna work out well. Like that puts a lot

990
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 3: of pressure on him. People will expect a lot of things. Again,

991
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 3: somebody compared him to who was the Lakers guy that

992
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 3: they've traded to the Clippers and kind of regretted it.

993
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 4: The big boy Zubos Zubots Okay, so it's interesting. I

994
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 4: looked it up.

995
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 3: Zubots won thirty second overall his first two years. I

996
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 3: think he spent like ninety percent of the time in

997
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 3: the G League. That's fine when you're a thirty second

998
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 3: overall pick sure, and then he would emerge as like, okay,

999
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 3: and he was just doing some things, and then they

1000
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 3: traded him.

1001
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 4: He popped in.

1002
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 3: Like year six, five or six, whatever what you want.

1003
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 3: Year you want to do, and now he's solid and

1004
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 3: he looks like he could be a factor maybe against

1005
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 3: Yo Kitchen the playoffs. But Rob, you can do that

1006
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,879
Speaker 3: when you go thirty second, right, you can't Zack take

1007
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 3: Zach Edie in the second round, tenth overall and then

1008
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 3: expect him to sit in the G League for two years.

1009
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 3: That like, that's not gonna happen. The GM will get fired.

1010
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 4: I feel awful for Edie. Dude, a player of the Year,

1011
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 4: I think two years in a row, I don't even know.

1012
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 4: And he's one of the great.

1013
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally the great college players we've ever seen.

1014
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 4: You can't put him in the G League. That's just

1015
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 4: that's not right.

1016
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 3: I don't think that's right now. I don't think he's

1017
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 3: gonna get better now. If you want to say, hey,

1018
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:18,880
Speaker 3: he's got to develop a three, that's another story.

1019
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm rooting for Edie. I like him. I'm

1020
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 4: rooting for a while out more.

1021
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 3: Anyways, long long post spring break podcast. No more vacations

1022
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 3: coming up anytime soon, so locked in POD's gonna be popping.

1023
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 4: We'll talk to you tomorrow.