Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Unplugged, brought to you
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Key On Doing and my guy
Speaker 1: Easy Rider j R. Rider Fellas. What's happening.
Speaker 2: I see man? Thanks for having me on, no doubt.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: What's up? O G How you?
Speaker 2: Everything good? Everything good good?
Speaker 3: The CEO boy got the founder youth thing going?
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, no, stay young, stay fresh. Kea. You've been
Speaker 1: on a uh, you've been doing some media, man, You've
Speaker 1: been doing some media a lot lately. What's been going on?
Speaker 1: I've seen you on dwights. I seen you, I think
Speaker 1: on the ogs. I've seen you kind of been making
Speaker 1: your white how's that been going?
Speaker 3: Man? You know what, I'm just trying to be like
Speaker 3: you when I grow up. Man.
Speaker 4: You know, you guys are setting the tone and lazing
Speaker 4: so you know, like for me, man, it's like, okay,
Speaker 4: how do you how do you express yourself right? How
Speaker 4: do you you know, continue to make yourself relevant? How
Speaker 4: do you you know, share your gift? You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying that you have so for me. Man, it's
Speaker 4: just been awesome, just you know, breaking bread with old
Speaker 4: teammates and being able to you know, kind of connect
Speaker 4: with the fans.
Speaker 1: I love it. JR. We're in the midst of March madness,
Speaker 1: but I know you're in the midst of aau. I
Speaker 1: saw a little man one MVP of that was that
Speaker 1: made the Made Hoops or another tournament. But I've seen
Speaker 1: uh little man has been killing oh.
Speaker 2: Man, even working. He's developing nicely.
Speaker 5: I see Jamal far both of our sons right on
Speaker 5: the same day, all the same age. So yeah, it
Speaker 5: was made who he got MVP they wanted again this year.
Speaker 5: So he's actually won three Made.
Speaker 2: Hoops, threw years in a row, right school.
Speaker 5: Years, five years in a row for Arizona, three years
Speaker 5: in a row for Skyriders Slash ac Unity. So he's
Speaker 5: been a part of something great here in Arizona. So
Speaker 5: I'm proud of the kid in his development development, and
Speaker 5: I think he's won two MVPs out of the three.
Speaker 2: So you know that things that come together from hard work, edication.
Speaker 1: Man, that's the DNA what you expect. I told the boy,
Speaker 1: I told my or the same thing. We can give
Speaker 1: you the blueprint to sign you guys, to apply the
Speaker 1: pressure in the work to make it happen.
Speaker 5: They I love you, respect kids, and they work hard.
Speaker 5: So they got good things coming to them, and they
Speaker 5: went all was smoking the big games. I was watching
Speaker 5: high school, so I've been watching the clips and highlights.
Speaker 1: So probably you boys, man, they definitely don't shy away.
Speaker 1: I don't shy away. Well appreciate that. To the league man.
Speaker 1: Last night there was a little bit of rumbles, the
Speaker 1: little rumbling. The t Wolfson Pistons squabbled up Ron Hollins,
Speaker 1: nineteen year old, one of the youngest players in the league.
Speaker 1: I don't really think, to be honest with you, it
Speaker 1: was too much of a foul, Like it was a
Speaker 1: basic slap your arm foul. But nas Reed took offense
Speaker 1: to it, and then the Vincenzo stepped in the middle
Speaker 1: of it, and then boys got scuffling. Isaiah Stewart started
Speaker 1: drooling and grabbing and wanted to squeeze the life out
Speaker 1: of a motherfucker. But I think that was the closest
Speaker 1: thing we've seen, you know, to a real skirmish.
Speaker 6: Who would have thought this little last foul would have
Speaker 6: turned into a royal rumble, Matt, we gotta run the
Speaker 6: play back because I don't even think Ron Holland found
Speaker 6: him that hard. Nas Reid must have got into a
Speaker 6: shorty before the game or something, because he was pissed
Speaker 6: the fuck off. No bullshit. That's how my mama used
Speaker 6: to point at me before she was about to whoop
Speaker 6: my ass. Bro Where the fuck White.
Speaker 1: Dante come from? Dante deeven Chenzo wanted all the smoke.
Speaker 1: You would have thought.
Speaker 6: Ron Holland said something about that boy, mama, real talk.
Speaker 6: White Dante been waiting to fight. The motherfucker says he
Speaker 6: got traded from the Nick. We gonna flip the angle, though,
Speaker 6: because this where shit get unchy. White Dante really hit
Speaker 6: this man with the g point mush combo. There you go.
Speaker 6: That's who I was waiting for, Isay Hastort, that big motherfucker.
Speaker 6: I show up to that La Fitness runs just to fight.
Speaker 6: At this point, Dante don't put down Ron Hall and
Speaker 6: now he two on one. I ain't gonna cat pat
Speaker 6: bed was right though. Nobody on the Timberwolves got any
Speaker 6: kind of fucking heart, and they don't call that boy
Speaker 6: beef stew for no reason. I see Isaiah stort tenched
Speaker 6: up biting his list. Bro grabbed a handful of me.
Speaker 6: Even watching too many prison movies, he need to chill out.
Speaker 6: Shit was looking like that Friday scene when Damon and
Speaker 6: Money Might. I can't tell if Ron Hall all of
Speaker 6: it is hurt, angry or embarrassed, but he is crying
Speaker 6: real tears. Five players and both had coaches were ejected
Speaker 6: and it was only the second quarter anything.
Speaker 2: All this shit.
Speaker 6: Started with that baby ass fount. I love an NBA.
Speaker 1: What was your thoughts on that?
Speaker 3: Kdi Well, I love it.
Speaker 4: I love when it's when when when tempers flare a
Speaker 4: little bit. You know, I went to the Heat game
Speaker 4: the other night, man, and it's just no contact, right,
Speaker 4: It's no like physicality. It's everybody picking roll, shooting threes,
Speaker 4: you know, freedom of movement. But I like, I like
Speaker 4: when they knuckle up, squabble up a little bit. I'm
Speaker 4: glad it didn't really spill too far over into the crowd.
Speaker 4: I'm glad no punsches were thrown. But just to see
Speaker 4: them have a little post and them have a little anger,
Speaker 4: a little fire, I thought that was awesome.
Speaker 1: Jay. That's obviously your former team in the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 1: You played in the era where dudes were scrapping any
Speaker 1: any any any confrontations come to mind from your career
Speaker 1: that you can recall.
Speaker 2: Without a doubt.
Speaker 5: First with that, when I was watching it, so it
Speaker 5: was getting a little chippy in that game, and they
Speaker 5: were letting them get physical. So yeah, I agree, it
Speaker 5: was It was just a regular stop across the arm
Speaker 5: file like nothing, nothing major at all, But I think
Speaker 5: what was going on with some prior stuff and some
Speaker 5: tempers were flaring a little prior to that, so they
Speaker 5: started grabbing jerseys, you know, grabbing jerseys, pulling up around
Speaker 5: the neck, around you know, the ear area, and it's
Speaker 5: spilled over. Bodies start coming, people started tumbling down. Uh,
Speaker 5: it was getting physical underneath. I want to see that
Speaker 5: what was going on with nas Nads and Holland down
Speaker 5: low because they were kind.
Speaker 1: Of down low.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, so up top I couldn't you know, I
Speaker 5: couldn't see down load. But up top I seen they
Speaker 5: Pushtico to like the second row and looked like, you know,
Speaker 5: so it was on, but.
Speaker 2: I'm glad they didn't throw any punches.
Speaker 5: So I had to run it back three, four or
Speaker 5: five times just to see what was going on and
Speaker 5: something like that. Usually it's it's somebody getting fired on,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, somebody, But I think they
Speaker 5: were mindful about ejections and spinsions and stuff like that
Speaker 5: and got it under control. I was laughing at you.
Speaker 5: Uh rudy long ass arm breached from out of nowhere,
Speaker 5: somebody behind that.
Speaker 2: But it was on. Man.
Speaker 1: He still got PTSD from Draymond. Still.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got Stewart looking like old school Michael Cage
Speaker 5: with the damn shoulders and uh, Michael a curl Stewart
Speaker 5: got Yeah, they got his shoulders. So with all the smoke, man,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? So I kind of like
Speaker 5: a real played in every era for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's always into blood.
Speaker 3: He ain't been right up.
Speaker 2: He ready.
Speaker 1: That's when he wanted to He wanted to bite Lebron's
Speaker 1: head off. What was that motherfucker was charging through the
Speaker 1: whole team when that happened. Do any fights during your
Speaker 1: era come to mind, whether you were in him or
Speaker 1: you you witnessed where they were throwing him.
Speaker 5: That was something like me and me and Walt Williams.
Speaker 5: We snatched up Pat Garrity and somebody else, and I
Speaker 5: think it was Barry Berries on the green. I need
Speaker 5: him in the head on the grounds he was talking
Speaker 5: in the paper before, you know what I mean, So
Speaker 5: you know I need him in the head. I gotta
Speaker 5: UFC need him writing this temple, you know what I mean. Uh,
Speaker 5: but uh Na, we used to have real, real, real fights,
Speaker 5: and it was real grown ass men that I know.
Speaker 2: You know. I remember playing against.
Speaker 5: The Knicks where they had Mason hopfully ewing, uh, Bonner,
Speaker 5: I'm going to the rack. I've done through somebody and
Speaker 5: they told me, yeah, next time you go in the rack,
Speaker 5: you end up on your back.
Speaker 2: So I went right to the rack and they knocked
Speaker 2: you down.
Speaker 5: And I just remember saying, next, motherfucker found me a
Speaker 5: song in this motherfucker and said, shut the fuck up and.
Speaker 2: Shoot your motherfucker. Frizos, I said.
Speaker 5: Grown ass man with hair on the chest, you know,
Speaker 5: so you better pick your battles. I remember putting big
Speaker 5: pins at the end of both uh both goals because
Speaker 5: were growing ass men, so just throwing them, just chunking
Speaker 5: them with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They was six seven six a known for fighting, but nah, man,
Speaker 5: I mean there was it was a few scraps from
Speaker 5: my air where they you know, the big boys would
Speaker 5: clear shit out, you know what I mean, they would
Speaker 5: clear it out for sure.
Speaker 1: My question, my question, did you shut the fuck up
Speaker 1: and shoot your free throws and you keep talking?
Speaker 5: Well, I mumbled something, well, oh, but my mid range
Speaker 5: is a full effect after that, because they weren't playing, man,
Speaker 5: they weren't playing back in the days. Coming to the rack,
Speaker 5: you couldn't be scared. You still had to do your ship.
Speaker 5: But I had to let them know I had me
Speaker 5: and ran Yon just gonna beat me up. But I mumbled,
Speaker 5: some ship for slapping people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, slapping the ship cement hands.
Speaker 4: Not only would you fight on the court, but those
Speaker 4: guys will pull up to the locker room. Those guys
Speaker 4: would remember that last encounter and check you when you
Speaker 4: saw them. And so you had to conduct yourself in
Speaker 4: a way because it was accountability to the tenth back
Speaker 4: in them days.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't no sliding. They catch you at the bus.
Speaker 5: Alva Robinson pulled up the Strickland house back in the day.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't want to go too deep, but
Speaker 5: it was. It was a lot of stories out here
Speaker 5: with dudes. Were they pull up, they talking about pull
Speaker 5: up these days, they pull up to your house, wait
Speaker 5: on you like, what's getting it in?
Speaker 1: Buck them cameras, right, no cameras. We don't need no
Speaker 1: cameras for this smoke. I like that Devincenzo, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously had nases back and it brings me to think
Speaker 1: some white boys making some noise these days, you know,
Speaker 1: Reeves and Chet and Devincenzo. And then you think of
Speaker 1: the history of the league. Offally, Larry Legend, Danny Ainge
Speaker 1: was scrappy, my dog, Steve Blake was always ready to
Speaker 1: throw them, you know, Christian Leytoner, Kevin McHale, Ben laid
Speaker 1: Beer was always ready to throw them, Chris Anderson, bird Man.
Speaker 1: If you had to pick one white boy to go
Speaker 1: down the alley with you in league history and throw
Speaker 1: hands with anybody, who would it be. I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: with you, KD.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna probably go with Bill Lambier, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, because Bill executed all his punches, you know,
Speaker 4: during those times, he'll yoke you out if you go
Speaker 4: to the whole site, right, He definitely with precision, and
Speaker 4: he just didn't give a fuck at the end of
Speaker 4: the day. So Bill Lambert is the guy. You know
Speaker 4: what I mean, I want down that dark alley with me.
Speaker 1: I like that. What about you j R?
Speaker 2: Well, Larry Bird surprised me. I looked at some old footage.
Speaker 1: He was with the ship, right, but he was ready
Speaker 1: to throw.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was ready. He was with the ship. Uh.
Speaker 2: Bill Lambert was a big.
Speaker 5: Man, so he kind of you know, he lumbered his
Speaker 5: body around and and he was ready. But for me,
Speaker 5: I think it goes to like Joker, that's that's when
Speaker 5: it's gonna Jo.
Speaker 2: Throw you off, right. I seen him live in the
Speaker 2: game Big Go Do.
Speaker 5: And when he did that to one of them twins,
Speaker 5: and they ain't never said nothing like I don't even
Speaker 5: think he ever played in the game again.
Speaker 2: After that, I'm like, well damn he got some Wars Twins.
Speaker 5: But I was like, man, you ain't just gonna get
Speaker 5: pushed on the ground and I do nothing, lay down man.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: So it made me think, like, nobody want to see
Speaker 5: the Joker in this era. But you go back to
Speaker 5: the seventies, man, it was a lot of dudes. They
Speaker 5: was They were scrappy. I just can't think of their names.
Speaker 5: But it was a lot of white boys that was
Speaker 5: with the ship.
Speaker 1: But I say jokers, and you know, his brothers aren't
Speaker 1: too far behind. His brothers look like they tear heads
Speaker 1: off with their own hands. Dudes, his monsters.
Speaker 2: Owners the daddy right, and he was he was mafia.
Speaker 5: We go to New York, we go to La we
Speaker 5: go to Chicago, the Russians will come out with them
Speaker 5: trench coats, big whoa, and they go party and go
Speaker 5: kick it. I'm like, oh, that's mafia. I could just
Speaker 5: look at him and see so yeah, jokers, brothers. You
Speaker 5: can see if something too bad go on, they gonna
Speaker 5: run on the court and they gonna get down with
Speaker 5: their brothers. So I think that's in the back of
Speaker 5: every brother.
Speaker 1: No question, no question. Transitioning into high school hoops, the
Speaker 1: McDonald's All American Game is Tuesday, obviously one of the
Speaker 1: biggest games, and there's a lot of local talent, you
Speaker 1: know kids that you should My nephew Elijah Reene going
Speaker 1: to sc AJ Dabansta going to BYU allegedly got ten
Speaker 1: million Togo, Darren Peterson going to Kansas, multimillion dollar deal,
Speaker 1: the boozer twins, Braydon Berry's is that his name? I
Speaker 1: really like that kid Jr. Being a coach in the
Speaker 1: space in keyon coming up through the AU space. How
Speaker 1: have you liked this new influx of I'm not only
Speaker 1: saying former pros kids, but just this new generation of
Speaker 1: these young kids are really really different. They got a
Speaker 1: whole lot of game. They got a large bag, versatile,
Speaker 1: long play both sides of the ball. I like this
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five class has a lot of talent in it.
Speaker 4: Man, Listen, I think American basketball is in a good
Speaker 4: place from a talent perspective. I think the training techniques
Speaker 4: and kind of the rhythm of the way we're developing
Speaker 4: our players it's still there. I think you know, they're
Speaker 4: eating better, they have access to strength and conditioning, they
Speaker 4: have trainers, their social media savvy, their media savvy, and
Speaker 4: when you have a second generation player, there's a little
Speaker 4: bit of an advantage that you have because you got
Speaker 4: to watch your parents kind of go through that situation
Speaker 4: and deal with different situations. So I'm excited to see
Speaker 4: what these guys can can develop into.
Speaker 3: And I'm rooting and I'm cheering for everybody.
Speaker 5: It's just like baseball. I was hearing Barry Bonds talk
Speaker 5: you might've been talking to you guys. Man, it's just
Speaker 5: I forget. I've seen him recently. He was The players
Speaker 5: hit all the time. I mean they're always hitting, taking VP.
Speaker 5: I mean they're working on the skill. They're working on
Speaker 5: the craft in comparison to basketball.
Speaker 2: Same thing. They're in the gym.
Speaker 5: You have all these trainers, You have access to the gym,
Speaker 5: you have access to better eating, you have access to
Speaker 5: the generations decades before you watching them, watching the Jordan,
Speaker 5: the Lebrons. You know, all these new players can watch
Speaker 5: the guys before them and add to their bag and
Speaker 5: add to their media bag. I can add to their
Speaker 5: their brand and their business. So when it comes to
Speaker 5: training and playing, these dudes are so skilled, it's so good.
Speaker 5: It's just ridiculous, you know. I mean I look back
Speaker 5: at you know me, Penny, and you know we used
Speaker 5: to go at it because it came out at the
Speaker 5: same time and different guys that I look at the
Speaker 5: actual game and we could play.
Speaker 2: We can get down.
Speaker 5: But these guys got four or five six combos with
Speaker 5: the ball, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: From d you know the perimeter guys the six seven, six,
Speaker 5: say sixty nine, they play like dude, six', five you
Speaker 5: know WHAT i, mean six.
Speaker 2: Four the guards is the point guard sixty five. Sixty seven.
Speaker 5: You know so the game has expanding so much and
Speaker 5: they are. So good there are so much better. THAN
Speaker 5: us i will give. Them that the way they approach
Speaker 5: it is a. LITTLE different i think we were a
Speaker 5: hard NOS and i think we were, TO me a
Speaker 5: lot of us that were good were just as good
Speaker 5: as any. Player today, but overall, in general they're they're better.
Speaker 5: Than US and i think the old guys got.
Speaker 2: A skilled and got to.
Speaker 5: Realize that stop stop hating on them. Young boys the
Speaker 5: boys can get.
Speaker 3: Down, man yeah it super.
Speaker 1: Skilled that the ONLY thing i would say some of,
Speaker 1: them lack and this is not all, of them is
Speaker 1: just the ability to play off. THE ball i think
Speaker 1: all these kids are accustomed to being the man which
Speaker 1: they are and having the ball in. Their hand but
Speaker 1: each level they, go up you know that they have
Speaker 1: to be able to understand how to play off. The
Speaker 1: BALL and i think that's Where the european. Game thrives
Speaker 1: and that's why you see the growth Of the european
Speaker 1: game IN the nba and the Influx of european players
Speaker 1: IN the nba because these guys know how to play.
Speaker 1: Team basketball we're great, individually SKILLED but i think we
Speaker 1: LACK the iq, To, understand okay if the ball is
Speaker 1: not in, my hands HOW can i still be effective
Speaker 1: on the. Offensive end, so hopefully, you know we can
Speaker 1: close that gap and and and and continue just to
Speaker 1: be good all. Around, players katie is there someone that
Speaker 1: comes to mind in high school that surprised you or
Speaker 1: or busted? Your ass in?
Speaker 4: High school it wasn't, a surprise But Like, baron davis
Speaker 4: like in, high school was off, the.
Speaker 3: CHARTS like bed could.
Speaker 4: Do everything he was kind of like one of the
Speaker 4: originals of, the hybrids not necessarily like a one to,
Speaker 4: two combo right that could. Do everything SO, like bd
Speaker 4: JUST watching bd playing AGAINST. B d he was a
Speaker 4: GUY who i tried to mimic my, game after, You, know,
Speaker 4: So Yeah baron davis was.
Speaker 1: That boy what about You? J r you Just, Mentioned
Speaker 1: penny like anybody else come? To mind during your high
Speaker 1: school run it was just, like damn they, Got.
Speaker 2: It okay so, for me.
Speaker 5: It Was The east coast boys for me, coming UP because,
Speaker 5: I mean i'm from like an era where it was au.
Speaker 5: Was serious it was, you know it was. A riverside
Speaker 5: gacho's the BOYS, from dc the Boys. From philly so,
Speaker 5: YOU know i went back home after playing against those Guys,
Speaker 5: in Vegas in arizona And like Eastern CLASSIC high stu, class,
Speaker 5: like man let me Do Some. New york they they
Speaker 5: Different In. New jersey they're really. Really Different, mash burn we.
Speaker 5: Were juniors mashburn was. A Sophomore. Jamal masburn you know
Speaker 5: he got M v p Of a nike camp when
Speaker 5: it was, invite, only uh and he was. A junior
Speaker 5: we were going to our. Senior years he's going to
Speaker 5: our his junior our. Senior years he was going to his.
Speaker 5: Junior year and he was just incredible. To Me so
Speaker 5: mashburn was one of those guys. For Me jamal mashburn, was,
Speaker 5: like yeah he's he's he's, way different.
Speaker 2: Way. Different yeah so, to me it Was The east.
Speaker 2: Coast guy On The.
Speaker 1: West coast there was two guys that THAT that i wouldn't,
Speaker 1: say surprise but you know when we were, coming up
Speaker 1: we didn't know who who was until we. Played him
Speaker 1: like there was. No INTERNET so I Remember, DION glover
Speaker 1: i think With the Atlanta.
Speaker 3: At celtics he was.
Speaker 2: He was Uh. In, atlanta, yeah yeah he.
Speaker 1: Was tough and then we We caught tracy mcgrady's coming.
Speaker 1: OUT party i think we were going to. Be sophomores
Speaker 1: and it Was when tracy was can are you play
Speaker 1: on that team?
Speaker 3: Or no he Was, on yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah team we caught forty five From. T mac i
Speaker 1: want to say this is the summer he put himself
Speaker 1: on the map where he went from like unranked to
Speaker 1: the number one player in. This CLASS but i hadn't
Speaker 1: seen nothing Like t mac at, six' nine his ability
Speaker 1: to do everything you SAW. In the nba motherfucker was
Speaker 1: doing that shit. In HIGH School so t, mac was?
Speaker 1: LIKE Whoa like t mac made, me, think like OKAY
Speaker 1: well maybe i might need to, go play, football because
Speaker 1: no nothing like this motherfucker. Too Right here so mack.
Speaker 1: WAS cold man.
Speaker 5: I loved, Because you know. VINCE was STARTING i think
Speaker 5: t mac was coming. Off the bench So They, HAD
Speaker 5: Doug christy T. Mack and vince that was like MY
Speaker 5: matchups who i. Was playing against And when t mac came,
Speaker 5: IN the game, i, was like damn He Long like
Speaker 5: scottie PIPPIN crossing over ai and jumping. Out the gym,
Speaker 5: YOU know what, i mean also people asked me in
Speaker 5: the summer. MY personal, OPINION i said t mac might
Speaker 5: be the. Best player underrated that's gonna. That's gonna shine
Speaker 5: IN the second i was thinking the SAME Thing. About
Speaker 5: t max he was no.
Speaker 4: Joke and Somebody matt, at adida's camp he literally wind
Speaker 4: milled on somebody and, all the COACHES all, the nba
Speaker 4: scouts they lost their professionalism for.
Speaker 3: A little bit it was running that professionalism like It, was.
Speaker 4: The rutgers, right, but yeah man my life WAS better
Speaker 4: because i got an opportunity to play on that floora Flash.
Speaker 3: Team with matt you've seen.
Speaker 1: It in close but you got. To think too people
Speaker 1: Don't realize t mackett took him a couple of years,
Speaker 1: to get going YOU know, what i mean to really
Speaker 1: get off the bench and really kind. Of establish itself
Speaker 1: he was kind of Buried somewhat in toronto, a little,
Speaker 1: bit and, finally you know once he finally got his
Speaker 1: chance and. He took off Same thing. With jermaine O'Neill
Speaker 1: jermaine O'Neill was another high school guy that was kind
Speaker 1: of struggling his first, year or, two you Know along
Speaker 1: with cob and then once those guys, got their chance they.
Speaker 1: Never looked back but that was that was a talent
Speaker 1: and a. REAL talented time.
Speaker 5: I look at it LIKE this because I played With
Speaker 5: jermaine in portland his. First two years i'm gonna say
Speaker 5: three before, they traded him before he got, out of.
Speaker 5: There maybe two So He, Had Rashi wallace Brian grant Or,
Speaker 5: Beata Sa. Bonas cliff, robinson you know he had a
Speaker 5: lot of people there and he's, just be pissed like give.
Speaker 5: Me a.
Speaker 2: Chance you know there was Times.
Speaker 5: In practice rashid had to Tie Up them air force
Speaker 5: ones a little tighter and come.
Speaker 2: Out of, Sweats you know rashid rarely came.
Speaker 5: Out of sweats when they came, out of sweats it, was,
Speaker 5: A problem right so he came out, of, swets like,
Speaker 5: ah you think here, a YOUNG boy, here i, come
Speaker 5: you know and they would. Go at it he caught.
Speaker 5: A Big head.
Speaker 2: So kobe and team back in.
Speaker 5: The same way they kind of they had to wait a,
Speaker 5: couple of, Years you Know kobe behind Eddie and Behind Vince.
Speaker 2: AND doug christy i believe so once they, got their
Speaker 2: chance they.
Speaker 1: Never.
Speaker 2: Looked.
Speaker 1: Back True Absolutely Man mark cuban is is speaking a
Speaker 1: little bit about obviously what happened with the Sale, of
Speaker 1: the mavericks how he fully expected to still, run basketball,
Speaker 1: OPERATIONS setting quote i fully expected. To RUN basketball the
Speaker 1: nba wouldn't let me put. In the contract they. TOOK
Speaker 1: it out i thought. IT was stick i thought they
Speaker 1: woul stick to their word because they didn't know the
Speaker 1: first thing about. Running a team someone obviously, changed their,
Speaker 1: mind you know when this whole and again when we talk,
Speaker 1: about this shit this shit is definitely not A Dish
Speaker 1: to anthony davis because he's A first Bout, hall of
Speaker 1: famer one of the most talented power forwards. We've ever
Speaker 1: seen but on, The flip side luca is, a GENERATIONAL
Speaker 1: talent AND i think i was a firm believer that
Speaker 1: this Decision was. ABOVE nico's Head i think nico was,
Speaker 1: the FALL guy but i definitely think it was ownership
Speaker 1: And it was DeMont, and these, guys you know hearing
Speaker 1: rumors or maybe the Way that that luca had moved
Speaker 1: and not wanting to commit that kind of, money to
Speaker 1: them especially after the whole casino shit Fell, through in
Speaker 1: dallas and then they wanted to try to move The,
Speaker 1: team to vegas and, That FELL through so i think
Speaker 1: they were. In their feelings and what's kind of really
Speaker 1: bothered me About this is DeMont continues to kind of
Speaker 1: go on his little tourd talking but continuing To, bad
Speaker 1: Mouth luca like luca ever did anything to. His lame
Speaker 1: ass so what are your guys' thoughts When you hear
Speaker 1: mark kind. OF come, out I mean obviously mark has
Speaker 1: to take some of the blame because he is the
Speaker 1: one that chose to sell the team to this group
Speaker 1: knowing what. They Were about but mark has always been
Speaker 1: one of, my FAVORITE owners and i was REALLY surprise
Speaker 1: when i heard that one that the, sale went through
Speaker 1: and Then two that mark was kind of pushed out
Speaker 1: of any kind of real decision making with. That ball
Speaker 1: club ke, star.
Speaker 4: With you it's pretty much normal like if you sell
Speaker 4: a corporation or. Something like THAT, sometimes, at ceo right
Speaker 4: you might stay on for a year to make that
Speaker 4: transition or to, help you know YOU know, what i
Speaker 4: mean just make that transition smooth for the, next you
Speaker 4: know ownership group. That's, coming through obviously he, had the
Speaker 4: pedigree he, had the passion he, had the community and
Speaker 4: he was Able to get luca on Board right and
Speaker 4: luca lost.
Speaker 2: Out.
Speaker 4: A lot man luca is missing out On that super max,
Speaker 4: with this trade so he really. Financially got hurt now
Speaker 4: he'll benefit From, being around lebron being in, a bigger
Speaker 4: market but he might not ever be able to make
Speaker 4: up that Kind of. Super MAX money So i. THINK
Speaker 4: luca loses i don't like what They're. DOING in dallas
Speaker 4: i think they need more people around who. Understand the
Speaker 4: game they got to make sure they assemble, the right
Speaker 4: team and they got to like capture the Essence of what,
Speaker 4: Cuban created there Like he put dallas, on the map
Speaker 4: like he was, on the sideline he was, on the
Speaker 4: bench he would pick you up when when you would
Speaker 4: come for, a draft workout and so to have somebody
Speaker 4: who was that involved in that passionate and then have
Speaker 4: somebody come in who's like really a bottom line type
Speaker 4: person and doesn't necessarily understand the culture of, THE basketball,
Speaker 4: culture i, think you know they're they're gonna have, a difficult,
Speaker 4: time you, know retaining talent getting people to come in
Speaker 4: if they don't get.
Speaker 1: THE right, PIECES i mean i think they have a.
Speaker 1: Win now situation obviously they caught, the Injury bug but
Speaker 1: dallas has a very talented team as we. Speak Right
Speaker 1: now obviously ad went down and, he's Back now but
Speaker 1: kyrie's down. For the season but they have. A nice roster,
Speaker 1: but you know, we all know as long as we spend,
Speaker 1: the league winning starts, at The top and i'll give
Speaker 1: a fuck how good your roster is if your, Ownership
Speaker 1: ain't shit and they've been showing the thing shit and
Speaker 1: the basketball guys have not favored any decisions they've, made
Speaker 1: of late so. That'll, be interesting jerald what's your. Take
Speaker 1: on this it's a triple.
Speaker 5: Down effect run it starts. From the top i'll go
Speaker 5: right into. A personal thing Like even WITH portland when,
Speaker 5: i was there we Went To The. Western conference finals
Speaker 5: we were the youngest TEAM. IN the NBA i think
Speaker 5: I was a vet at, like twenty six, twenty seven
Speaker 5: eight and.
Speaker 2: They traded, away they traded.
Speaker 5: They traded right They, brought in pippin They Brought, in
Speaker 5: steve smith they got. Rid of me they felt like
Speaker 5: they wanted to vet there and they got to the
Speaker 5: same Spot We Got. Western conference finals they got PUT
Speaker 5: Up by la we got Put Up. BY san antonio
Speaker 5: i just felt like we had. A young nucleus you
Speaker 5: should have let us rock and should have let us
Speaker 5: row for two three years and then, figured you know
Speaker 5: we would. Have figured it we would have figured it
Speaker 5: Out because san antonio was they, Were beating us we
Speaker 5: Were Beating. San antonio la it, was, Like me uh,
Speaker 5: i'm Sorry us the Lakers. And san antonio we would
Speaker 5: all beat each other and it. Was very competitive we could all,
Speaker 5: beat each other so you never know what was. Going
Speaker 5: to happen going stick it. To the point as far
Speaker 5: as with the. Mav same Thing you got lukal who's.
Speaker 5: A generational talent so, WHEN that happen i THOUGHT it
Speaker 5: was i think, it was real but then. It was official.
Speaker 5: They traded him and not, to Be funny but i've
Speaker 5: NEVER seen the nba trade away a super mega white star.
Speaker 2: In that capacity he's. A generational talent they try. To,
Speaker 2: KEEP you now i ain't trying. To Sound.
Speaker 5: Funny i'm california all flavors, of my, Life, You, Know, White,
Speaker 5: mexican black filipino you know. ALL of that i have
Speaker 5: best friends that. Are all flavors but in the. NBA's
Speaker 5: predominantly black so when.
Speaker 2: You get a, great white player they're gonna.
Speaker 5: Treat him great they're gonna make sure, he's in, good
Speaker 5: you know standings.
Speaker 2: With the media they're.
Speaker 5: Gonna propel him So someone like luca who's never, been
Speaker 5: in trouble who's never had any problems outside, Of, the
Speaker 5: game like what are they doing that guy gonna give
Speaker 5: you thirty thirty five? Forty at night YOU know? What,
Speaker 5: i mean like what are they doing In him? And
Speaker 5: KYRIE rocking so i. Didn't UNDERSTAND it then i started,
Speaker 5: hearing the, rumors the casinos the promises.
Speaker 2: And the fallout so this.
Speaker 5: Is all business this is all people at the Top
Speaker 5: ruining what mark built because he was, a player's, owner
Speaker 5: you know, he you, know you know he was an owner.
Speaker 5: That loved players players love to. Play for him he
Speaker 5: changed the whole thought process. Of the mass he got
Speaker 5: them all new stuff from the from the locker room
Speaker 5: to the. To the stadium so his energy was great and.
Speaker 5: He was, hyped he, clapped you know he was involved.
Speaker 5: On THE sideline so i just never understood what. Was
Speaker 5: GOING on then i started to, read into it and
Speaker 5: he's twenty, seven percent owners twenty five percent owners still
Speaker 5: and you, still still yeah like like like you. Were
Speaker 5: saying privacy usually they transfer, over new ownership have someone
Speaker 5: running this is, how it goes and then want so
Speaker 5: comfortable they let him go and they put him still
Speaker 5: put them on payroll until and he's. Still minority orders
Speaker 5: so it seems like you wouldn't want him to teach
Speaker 5: the next people coming in or keep him for a
Speaker 5: minute and keep or teach the next.
Speaker 2: People coming in.
Speaker 5: How this goes and but to break up the team
Speaker 5: because of personal things and get rid of the Generational
Speaker 5: talent and luca that set them, back to me although
Speaker 5: they are a really good, team Right now but. Kyrie
Speaker 5: went down so sometimes that energy, and that karma that
Speaker 5: carma will get right.
Speaker 1: Back at you it seems it seems, like they, dismantled
Speaker 1: you know twenty plus Years of what cuban was able to,
Speaker 1: do and, build you know being able to, get a
Speaker 1: championship but kind of set a foundation and and And
Speaker 1: and make dallas a destination for free agents and and
Speaker 1: and him being known as one of. The best owners
Speaker 1: it kind of REMINDS me of i Played for the
Speaker 1: lakers in The Last year phil, jackson WAS there and
Speaker 1: I Remember feeling jim bust didn't get along And all
Speaker 1: and this is when the team Had Went To JIM
Speaker 1: buss and i tell you the next the next year,
Speaker 1: We came back jim wiped Any Resemblance of phil jackson
Speaker 1: out of, the locker room, the practice facility just Anything
Speaker 1: that resembled. Phil was gone and it was just like
Speaker 1: he was trying to set, his own tone and and
Speaker 1: and and that. Definitely didn't work but this also comes
Speaker 1: on the heels, of You know the celtics being sold
Speaker 1: for a record six point one billion and Their, owner
Speaker 1: with GROSSPEC will remain ceo and governed through the twenty. Twenty,
Speaker 1: eighth season, yeah you know could have been, a similar
Speaker 1: situation but not, Because. You know, dumont You know this
Speaker 1: dallas ownership wanted to take control right, off the bat
Speaker 1: not knowing shit. About THE game but i think this
Speaker 1: transition We're seeing in boston is how it. Should be
Speaker 1: done in The same way. Katie just, spoke, you know
Speaker 1: normally they keep you on for a couple of years
Speaker 1: and you show, them the way the lay of the land,
Speaker 1: and the ropes and then as as soon as they,
Speaker 1: get you know you make a. Decision after that, so,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully you know for, The player's sake dallas
Speaker 1: can get. Back on, track you know This. SALE for
Speaker 1: boston I don't think boston will skip a beat because
Speaker 1: everything kind of. Staying in place so we shall see
Speaker 1: college hoops the men's. Final four set, first of all
Speaker 1: want to shout Out our lady bruins going to the
Speaker 1: final four for the first time. IN the history i
Speaker 1: was impressed with. The Game Yesterday man lauren bett's got,
Speaker 1: two early fouls two fouls in, the first quarter and
Speaker 1: the team went on like a twelve. To two run
Speaker 1: THIS is an lsu team that beat Us in the sweet,
Speaker 1: sixteen last year and. It really showed it SURPRISED me
Speaker 1: because I haven't seen ucla Really Work without lauren bets.
Speaker 1: On the court she's normally a fixture in their. Go
Speaker 1: to player but. They, Handled Themselves keithy Rice Hakez and
Speaker 1: ia gardener was shooting the shit out the, ball and,
Speaker 1: really you know, allowed you know this team to get Going.
Speaker 1: Without without bets what's to me, fair as well because
Speaker 1: you know that you know she's going to be on
Speaker 1: the court for most of, the time now but it
Speaker 1: allowed the other people to kind of. Get Their flow
Speaker 1: so i'm really. Excited, about that unfortunately We all saw
Speaker 1: juju go down with the torn a cl Last Week.
Speaker 1: Aas mississippi state nine months, possibly a recovery although you
Speaker 1: know medicine is a lot. Quicker these days we could,
Speaker 1: see her back, but you know, OBVIOUSLY her talent i
Speaker 1: think everyone was LOOKING forward to ucla, and you Know,
Speaker 1: not overlooking ukon but we're LOOKING forward to ucla and
Speaker 1: usc matching up in. The final four, BUT you know
Speaker 1: i want to send prayers to her and on. A
Speaker 1: speedy recovery i know the she'll come back mentally and
Speaker 1: physically stronger than, She's ever been katie with A player,
Speaker 1: of juju's magnitude and to go down, in the tournament
Speaker 1: obviously we know her physical attribute to eventure, to come
Speaker 1: back but how tough is that mentally to go down
Speaker 1: on this stage at this time.
Speaker 4: Or, HER career, yeah i mean anytime, you, get injured
Speaker 4: man there's a mental laps that you have right because,
Speaker 4: you have, to you know get your mind right for the.
Speaker 4: Physical therapy part you have to be patient. With your
Speaker 4: body and she's so talented and so much better than
Speaker 4: damn that everybody she's.
Speaker 3: Gonna play against it's a.
Speaker 4: Frustrating RECOVERY process but i think one OF the things
Speaker 4: i like, about her though she just doesn't rely. On
Speaker 4: her athleticism, she's extremely skilled she, plays with power she
Speaker 4: has a, lot of agility she has A, high basketball
Speaker 4: iq she. Has unlimited confidence she can, shoot the ball
Speaker 4: she can get, to the cup she. Can DO everything
Speaker 4: so i think at some point she'll be. Back to
Speaker 4: herself but it's a it's a long, road to. Recovery,
Speaker 4: long road.
Speaker 1: Jared did you ever face any major injuries in the
Speaker 1: league or?
Speaker 5: WERE you lucky, I, WAS lucky, yeah, i, mean, hips.
Speaker 5: KNEES ankles nothing i broke a. Finger or two but even,
Speaker 5: To This Minute i'm. I'M i'm mobile i can? You
Speaker 5: MOVE laterally WHEN i when i, trained the Kids AND obviously, i'm, au,
Speaker 5: FIFTEEN sixteen seventeen, yba all that, so you know. They
Speaker 5: test me they played me in ones TO five and
Speaker 5: i ain't. BEEN beat, yet i mean can?
Speaker 3: You can you? STILL can you.
Speaker 5: I ain't a, lot of that but that, footwork's still
Speaker 5: there that, shot, Still there, right But, no with juju
Speaker 5: that that really really, hurt, To see right that really
Speaker 5: really really hurt me to see her go down because
Speaker 5: she was, in a rhythm right and, and she's.
Speaker 2: Young and so i've.
Speaker 5: Never been hurt i've never even more than even spring
Speaker 5: the ankle as far as. My LOWER extremities SO i
Speaker 5: just i don't know what that feels like to go
Speaker 5: to rehab, and you know to go. Through an injury,
Speaker 5: i've seen it of course, on my TEAM but nowadays
Speaker 5: i can say medicine technology, is super advanced and nine
Speaker 5: months is, a long, time you know for her to have,
Speaker 5: to come back so hopefully it's. More LIKE six but
Speaker 5: i felt bad FOR her because i, met her before
Speaker 5: and she's a. Good young lady, she works Hard and like,
Speaker 5: katie was saying like, she's super. Skilled super. Good she's
Speaker 5: different she's a generational. Talent as, well, to me yeah
Speaker 5: she's just on. The woman's SIDE and her iq, was
Speaker 5: really there and she's starting to play better. Off the
Speaker 5: ball what you mentioned mad about some, of this generation
Speaker 5: they don't play as well. Off The ball so i've
Speaker 5: been watching her off the ball play and move them
Speaker 5: without it and. Stuff like that, so you know just
Speaker 5: really really, hurt to, see you know her go down
Speaker 5: and kind.
Speaker 2: Of know that, she was hurt, she was, Injured you
Speaker 2: know so it's just it's just. Really Really tough but
Speaker 2: I'VE been lucky i don't have to go.
Speaker 1: Through, THOSE things yeah i think one thing, that, you
Speaker 1: know again medicine is different now acls used to be.
Speaker 1: A real scare now, they're very common so we know she'll.
Speaker 1: Come BACK healthy and i Read something WHERE paige had
Speaker 1: i Don't know if, Page reached out beckers had reached
Speaker 1: out and, they had spoke Because we know PAGE toward
Speaker 1: her acl and had to miss a whole year and,
Speaker 1: now she's back averaging over twenty A game and page
Speaker 1: will most likely be the number one pick in the.
Speaker 1: W this year so it's good she's got some people
Speaker 1: to LEAN on because i feel like the hardest thing
Speaker 1: it's never REALLY the, physic i mean the grind of
Speaker 1: physically getting yourself, back is tough but it's that mental
Speaker 1: monster that people don't. Really talk about and once, you're physically,
Speaker 1: healthy you know how do you mentally trust that knee
Speaker 1: and being able to move, without, You, know hesitation, so
Speaker 1: you know sending a lot of love and Prayers. Out
Speaker 1: to juju get well soon and we'll definitely. Be missing
Speaker 1: you but the women bracket, as a whole it. Has
Speaker 1: BEEN tough but i also want to shout the. MEN'S
Speaker 1: side out i think the men's side has been slacking the.
Speaker 1: Past FOR years but i do have to, say this
Speaker 1: tournament as, far as viewership has been crazy on, the
Speaker 1: men's side and the competition, has been.
Speaker 2: Very very.
Speaker 1: Good you know obviously there's a lot of complaining about
Speaker 1: the portal and the nil and all, this OTHER shit
Speaker 1: but i think at the end, of, the day man
Speaker 1: the quality of play has really stepped up. On both
Speaker 1: sides And you remember march used to be the funnest
Speaker 1: time for basketball fans because it was high level on
Speaker 1: men's side and very high level on. The WOMEN'S side
Speaker 1: and i, definitely think, that you know. We're back there
Speaker 1: we're back there. On both, sides you know both sides are,
Speaker 1: playing really well and it's just Been fun to i've really,
Speaker 1: been kicked up burning and just watching, games, all DAY
Speaker 1: man and. I love, it you know very, very competitive
Speaker 1: games and you're finding a.
Speaker 2: Lot.
Speaker 1: Of talent, Man so okay So we Got duke Versus
Speaker 1: houston And florida versus auburn the second time in a
Speaker 1: long time since all four number one. Seeds have Advanced.
Speaker 1: There's no cinderella it's all big Dogs. This year jr
Speaker 1: before we get. To the championship who do you got
Speaker 1: coming out and representing In the Championship.
Speaker 2: Florida and auburn that's a rematch from. Earlier This year obviously.
Speaker 5: Florida got him florida gonna be tough to. Beat RIGHT
Speaker 5: now but i just think The big from auburn is
Speaker 5: gonna slow, the.
Speaker 2: Game down go.
Speaker 5: At THEIR pace And i got auburn coming out of
Speaker 5: that in the Revenge.
Speaker 2: GAME beating Florida i Got.
Speaker 5: Houston, over duke ooh grown ass men OUTKAY.
Speaker 2: D n u they gonna make It. Difficult for duke
Speaker 2: duke is playing really really.
Speaker 5: Good RIGHT now But i think houston and the coach,
Speaker 5: never won one be coaching for. THIRTY plus years i think,
Speaker 5: it's his, time his energy his carmer to go ahead
Speaker 5: and get to, that final game the championship game where.
Speaker 5: Anything CAN happen but i think They, Get past Cooper.
Speaker 5: Flag AND duke So i GOT houston And. I, Got auburn.
Speaker 3: Oh i'm not.
Speaker 1: Mad at that THE one thing i, will say is
Speaker 1: you know there's a lot of this talk about high
Speaker 1: school kids. Can't do this high school kids. Didn't do
Speaker 1: that duke, has Three freshmen if, i'm not mistaken, in
Speaker 1: the mix and there are integral parts. Of THIS team
Speaker 1: so i don't believe this high school kids. CAN'T help
Speaker 1: you i think. IT'S. Bull shit kd who you got
Speaker 1: coming out of? The, Final four.
Speaker 4: Yeah so my my pixel a little bit DIFFERENT. From
Speaker 4: the Og in The houston, AND duke matchup i like
Speaker 4: that matchup. STYLES make fights i think The way that
Speaker 4: houston And The coach calvin, sampson coach team the way
Speaker 4: that they play in the toughness and the ferocity that
Speaker 4: they play with in, the Defensive intensity they're they're. A
Speaker 4: TOUGH style but I just think duke has about six proles,
Speaker 4: on THAT team and i think from, a talent standpoint
Speaker 4: they're just, Too too talented. They're Too connected coach shire
Speaker 4: has done a great job of, just you know getting
Speaker 4: the most out, of THOSE guys and i always go.
Speaker 3: With talent in.
Speaker 4: SITUATIONS like This I think cooper flag is by far
Speaker 4: the most talented player, In College basketball so i'm Gonna go.
Speaker 4: With duke There i'm, a florida Boy Even though billy
Speaker 4: donovan didn't recruit. ME down there I like what walter
Speaker 4: What's His Name, walter clayton junior and the performance he's
Speaker 4: been having during the tournament has, been you know he's
Speaker 4: a combo guard who can get, to the cup who can.
Speaker 4: Shoot the three but, guys like that what's unique about
Speaker 4: them is that he's not afraid, of the moment like all,
Speaker 4: the big possessions like he, wanted the ball he made
Speaker 4: he he he, made the play whether it, was you know,
Speaker 4: making the threes making, the right, passes you know doing.
Speaker 3: The little Things and.
Speaker 4: So i'm Gonna. GO with florida i Think they beat album.
Speaker 4: TWICE this year i could be, wrong ABOUT that but
Speaker 4: i think for sure it was two times that. They
Speaker 4: beat him they're familiar, with ONE another and I Love
Speaker 4: what bruce pearl is. Doing down there they got a
Speaker 4: nice squad Down. There In album but i'm Gonna go
Speaker 4: With florida and duke.
Speaker 3: In, The.
Speaker 1: Finals so jr who do you have win? In the
Speaker 1: national who do you have Win In? The. National championship
Speaker 1: jr i'm going.
Speaker 2: With a shocker i'm going. With the underdog I'm, Going, To.
Speaker 5: Houston okay houston something about them, AND they. Feisty I
Speaker 5: understand and duke's playing the best. Basketball right. Now IN
Speaker 5: college so i, agree WITH. YOU j, d i mean
Speaker 5: they are playing the best. Basketball Right now but I'm
Speaker 5: going with houston and On a sleeper WITH the women's.
Speaker 2: Ucla might go get one man because they that big
Speaker 2: girl inside.
Speaker 5: Is no joke and if you, come double them she
Speaker 5: got three shooters that can. Bang them out and then they.
Speaker 5: Got a playmaker two playmakers, get their names two girls
Speaker 5: that can get to the rack. And make plays, and,
Speaker 5: it's proven man you cannot guard her, one on one
Speaker 5: so they might sleep. Somebody up there, and you know shout.
Speaker 5: Out the page getting forty plus coming off. The knee
Speaker 5: injury i'm glad She's there for. Juju Right now but i'm,
Speaker 5: proud of, her watching, her you know move and shake after,
Speaker 5: the knee injuries. Crushing knee, INJURIES but YEAH i think
Speaker 5: ucla might might, might sleep, them you know and win.
Speaker 2: ONE this year I really DO.
Speaker 1: Houston, IN. Ucla okay kd who you, got men's side? Didn't?
Speaker 4: Women's side yep so on, The men's side i'm Gonna.
Speaker 4: GO with Duke i think john will be cutting the nets.
Speaker 4: Down this year on, The women's side i'm Gonna Go
Speaker 4: with South Carolina coach don Staley Down. IN south carolina i,
Speaker 4: just think that like, they Have, McDonald's all americans they've.
Speaker 4: BEEN there before i think she's pretty much one of,
Speaker 4: the top two maybe three coaches maybe in the history.
Speaker 4: OF women's basketball i think. She's that good, she's got charisma, she's,
Speaker 4: got spirit spirit. She's got Energy She's, just. Don staley
Speaker 4: right we grew. Up WATCHING her So I like SOUTH
Speaker 4: carolina And. I like, duke, No shame, man no.
Speaker 1: Shame shame man it ain't no shame taking it cause we.
Speaker 1: Could DEFINITELY bet So, I got duke And obviously this
Speaker 1: yukon matchup is going, to Be tough but i'm gonna
Speaker 1: believe in OUR women and i Think They'll see south carolina.
Speaker 1: In The championship so i'm. Taking all fades whoever wants
Speaker 1: to let me know real quick before we get out of.
Speaker 1: This college segment cooper flag projected number one pick in
Speaker 1: the draft this YEAR on, the nba side on, the
Speaker 1: men's side do you guys compare him to any recent
Speaker 1: picks or anyone that you can think of in the
Speaker 1: past as far as a comp to his versatility and
Speaker 1: his intensity and once he brings to the, game.
Speaker 4: To me he's more like a hybrid between, the skill
Speaker 4: play the skill set Of Like, a jason tatum and
Speaker 4: then the motor and the quick Second Jumps. Like, Sean
Speaker 4: marrion right he's got like this energy and his skill
Speaker 4: set that you just really don't see a. Lot of
Speaker 4: times talented skill players don't, have that motor don't. Have
Speaker 4: that passion they can't, impact the, game you know on,
Speaker 4: the defensive side on, the rebounding side on the, shot
Speaker 4: blocking side on, the antique side all. Those different THINGS
Speaker 4: and so i think he's like a hybrid of those two.
Speaker 3: Particular all stars i'm not.
Speaker 1: Mad at that, What About. You jase flag.
Speaker 5: I've seen him i've seen him in person, about three.
Speaker 5: TIMES four times i like. HIM a lot i like.
Speaker 5: Him a. Lot you know THE first time, I seen
Speaker 5: him I like. What i saw THE fourth time, I
Speaker 5: seen him, I, was like wow he Got another little
Speaker 5: he got a couple of little levels that he goes to,
Speaker 5: when the game when the smoke is on and the.
Speaker 3: Game IS on so i like.
Speaker 2: Him a lot he's a generational.
Speaker 5: Talent for SURE at first i was thinking he would
Speaker 5: be a situational, player coming in like it has to
Speaker 5: be the right situation has to be, the right team
Speaker 5: has to be. The right fit but the more that,
Speaker 5: He keeps, going, i'm like well, wherever he goes he's gonna.
Speaker 5: Make a difference he's gonna. Make a splash and he's.
Speaker 5: A big boy he's, a big kid, you know so
Speaker 5: and he's he's. Developed his range he's. Developed his range
Speaker 5: he's stepping out there shooting that thing a. Little BIT
Speaker 5: more so i think the sky's the. Limit for him
Speaker 5: and that's that's another guy, who's super, athletic got motor
Speaker 5: and he plays, without, the ball gentlemen he can play.
Speaker 2: Without THE ball so i think he'll make a very
Speaker 2: very good. Pro for sure him And aj.
Speaker 1: And cooper my favorite two thing. About as talented they have.
Speaker 1: A fucking motor and the motor used to be non negotiable.
Speaker 1: In our days now having a motor is, a skill set.
Speaker 1: Which is crazy but both those. Stars have motors they
Speaker 1: lock in. On both sides we Saw we saw cooper
Speaker 1: take his hard, knocks this, year you know, making you
Speaker 1: know making mistakes and turning the ball over. And CRUNCH
Speaker 1: time but i think all that helped him continue to develop.
Speaker 1: And understand ship this is. What it takes they're gonna
Speaker 1: win and. Lose WITH me so i definitely am a
Speaker 1: Big fan of COOPER and then aj coming. Down the
Speaker 1: pipeline he'll probably spend A. Year at byu he's someone.
Speaker 1: WHO'S six' nine i got to see a Play A
Speaker 1: lot at. Peach jam last year locks in on both
Speaker 1: ends and has all Those same intangibles that cooper has
Speaker 1: as far, as, energy, and athleticism, hustle dunks, plays defense
Speaker 1: mid range, get to the, basket shoot the ball not.
Speaker 1: Afraid of the moment so these next two number one
Speaker 1: picks coming down the pipeline are going to be really
Speaker 1: special before we, GET out of here. J are also excited,
Speaker 1: maybe a little premature but we're working on, some, stuff
Speaker 1: with you man. DOC or, SUBSCRIPTED series i mean i
Speaker 1: think your, journey HAS been incredible and i told you
Speaker 1: since that since we reconnected, like five, years ago like
Speaker 1: bro we got to get your story. On the big
Speaker 1: screen so that. Is in the Works i'm. Excited to.
Speaker 3: That's, awesome.
Speaker 2: THAT is awesome Man i tell everybody, Man that you know.
Speaker 2: Mad is my dog. He's a solid dude he's been.
Speaker 5: Solid at day one he's been wanting to see this
Speaker 5: story out there since, we chopped it up burned a
Speaker 5: few and he learned with some of the. Details backstory
Speaker 5: of you you're, such a good, man a good dude.
Speaker 2: And THANKS the opportunity and i know there ain't no story.
Speaker 5: Out there like this once, they get to it from the,
Speaker 5: beginning to the, middle to the end the redemption as
Speaker 5: well as some gangster shit that it's. A, Lot of
Speaker 5: shit hey, california's.
Speaker 1: Real gangster shoo. Some real, Gangster shit ooh yeah i'm
Speaker 1: excited to help you bring the man bring. This story
Speaker 1: to life but thank both you guys, for, hanging Out
Speaker 1: today man and i'll. See you guys soon before we,
Speaker 1: GET out of here i want to thank a, Special
Speaker 1: Fan shout Out, Alex. Peevey from richmond virginia alex took
Speaker 1: time to reach out to our page after getting through
Speaker 1: two terminal cancer. Diagnosis since twenty seventeen it's been an
Speaker 1: up and down journey for. Him and his family obviously
Speaker 1: cancer is near and dear to my heart losing my
Speaker 1: mom in, two THOUSAND and eight so i know how,
Speaker 1: devastating this is man and he just wanted to reach
Speaker 1: out and thank us for being something that helps him
Speaker 1: get through his days and as someone who you know
Speaker 1: again has cancer near and, dear to my heart but
Speaker 1: just knowing that we do make a. Difference, in people's
Speaker 1: lives man we want to send you, A, lot of
Speaker 1: love alex to you and your family and we'll. Be
Speaker 1: praying for you and when, you beat this SHIT come
Speaker 1: out to la and hang out with.
Speaker 5: Us.
Speaker 1: For, A, day man also alex make sure you send
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