1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm 4 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: dot com, or stream us live every night on the 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. 9 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome in side our three, The Jason Smith Show 10 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon. And uh, we'll get 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: back to the NBA Draft in a second. Got a 12 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: big takeaway from the first round. But first, two big 13 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: things have happened in this Dodgers game against the Rockies. 14 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 1: Number one, it was three to one, Dodgers bases loaded, 15 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: Max Munsey coming up just before Monsie's doing her update, Yeah, 16 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: and Frostburg goes here it is right here, grand slam 17 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: from Muncie. And I said, oh, is this a replay? 18 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: Like you know, we had all TVs on all the time. 19 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: Is this replea is no, He's up right now, And 20 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: I'm like really, and he hits a grand slam, yeah 21 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: this And I hear Monsey on the on the air 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 1: for updates. Say, and it's just a grand slam for 23 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: Max months you go Frostburg. That's like the best prediction 24 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: you've ever had. I mean you could have well, I 25 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: wish you could have won money on that. A second 26 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: best prediction? What's no. 27 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 2: Time? 28 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, river to the next Listen if you if you 29 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: google doc Rivers Nicks. Okay, the first thing that comes 30 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: up is the Ron Burgundy Gift of its science. Right, No, no, no, 31 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: the first I'm not lining. The first that comes up 32 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: news about doc Rivers Nicks. Yard Barker report Nicks have 33 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: not requested permission to speak to Rick Carlile, Steve Kerr, 34 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: doc Rivers to Ron leeuw er jj Reddick. Yeah, that's 35 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: the show. Are those no? So are those the only 36 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: NBA coaches because they're enumerated as such that have where 37 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: the front offices were not contacted? Is that we we're 38 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: led to believe that the other offenty six teams were 39 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: contact You have to include the last word yeah, now, no, no, no, 40 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 1: they've not been contacted. Doesn't mean it doesn't mean it's well, 41 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: it's a parenthetical yet doesn't mean no, doesn't mean it's 42 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: gonna happen they're not talking to dog, doesn't mean it's 43 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: not not happening, not real. He might be circling the 44 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: the Times Square right now, just waiting on that call, 45 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: just hate activating outside of MSG doing the Jamal Adams 46 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: trying to swipe my pass in and yeah. 47 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 3: I'm waiting. 48 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:29,119 Speaker 1: Let's got to work. 49 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 3: Hey, hey, JD, I even bought your CD. I bought 50 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 3: that JD in the Straight Shots, So I'm ready for 51 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 3: my interview. 52 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: I learned songs. 53 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 3: I can Hey, I can win three games any round 54 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 3: of the playoffs. Don't ask me for four, but I 55 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 3: can win three any round, any round you want. I 56 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 3: could have won three against the Pacers, could have done. 57 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: That, and I can be a backup dancer. Still, Robert 58 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: Palmer had the Wiggle Women back in the day. I'm 59 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: ready would have lost Game seven, but still I would 60 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,639 Speaker 1: I would have. Uh, well, of course, I mean now 61 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: that's science. So look tonight you probably got to watch 62 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: at least a little bit of the NBA Draft on ESPN, 63 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: and you know, we got to watch some of it 64 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: before he came on there. Obviously been doing the show 65 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 1: the last couple of hours, but you know we got 66 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 1: to see the first ten or so picks right and 67 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: more what stands out again? And I'm watching the you know, 68 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 1: the broadcast, and it's just an odd broadcast and it 69 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: it cements why the inside the NBA guys are coming 70 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: in next year because ESPN just doesn't really have an 71 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: NBA identity anymore. Right, Kendrick Perkins is a hot take 72 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: guy that does great on the air during the day 73 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: debating stuff in the NBA, But now he's on the 74 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: set talking about NBA player these guys coming out of 75 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: college and from overseas that you know, nobody knows. And 76 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: it's not anybody's fault. I'm not saying, oh, but this 77 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: is what these are the guys we're gonna put on. Okay, 78 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: that's great, I understand that. But wow, you wonder why 79 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: people rip the product so much. And there's things that 80 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: ESPN does great. Right, I'm not saying it's ESPN does 81 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: college football great. They do college basketball great. There's things 82 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: they do really, really, really well. Right, They've always done 83 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: the NFL great, But the NBA they've struggled on because 84 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: they don't really have an identity, and it's just weird. 85 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: They cycle through their personalities every single year. It feels 86 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: like and they have a new philosophy, because that's kind 87 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: of how ESPN programs. They get ten people in a 88 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: room to ask what do you think about this? They Okay, 89 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna do for the next six months, 90 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: and then they do another focus group and that's what 91 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 1: gonna do for the next six months. But the NBA 92 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: has no identity now, and this is why inside the 93 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: NBA is coming in and that's gonna be the NBA 94 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: identity for ESPN. That doesn't mean the draft broadcast is 95 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: gonna be better because you know, Charles and Kenny, they're 96 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: not gonna know any of these guys coming out of 97 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: college basketball. But at least it's gonna help because the 98 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: the the identity they have ESPN the NBA it is, 99 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: it's like it's just, hey, we're throwing stuff out there. 100 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: And I know the big comparison was made game one 101 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals. Hey, ESPN's doing this game like 102 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: it's a game in the middle of February, and I 103 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: don't know that. That's why I don't. I don't. I 104 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 1: didn't see it like that. I saw it more of 105 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: I felt I feel like watching ESPN do basketball now 106 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: that they cycled through so many people. It's like watching 107 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 1: a in the nineties and early two thousands when other 108 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: entities started getting play by play rights two games, right, 109 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: because ESPN had the rights for everything for the longest time, right, 110 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: that all the all the national novel and you watched 111 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: your local teams, right, you know, CBS had the NFL, 112 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: so you had your local national NFL announcers and and 113 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: and you know, say, your local baseball announcers, like you know, 114 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: your local guys. That's how it was. But ESPN had 115 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: everything for a long time, but it was always this 116 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: is you know, you're getting a great broadcast. But then 117 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: when the other entity started to come around, you know, 118 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: Fox in different places, CBS, and they started to get 119 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: rights to things. Okay, now we're putting out our own 120 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,799 Speaker 1: live broadcast, and it just didn't feel like the same. 121 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: It felt like the quality wasn't what you would expect 122 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: from a big time sports network or conglomerate putting this 123 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: on the air. And that's kind of how I feel 124 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: when I watch the NBA product on ESPN. There's there's 125 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: no idea. It's like, we're just gonna keep throwing stuff 126 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: out there. And I hope it gets better, or hope 127 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: something sticks and hope stuff happens. And when you keep 128 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: having turnover and you can't find the right combination, whether 129 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: your turnover because a guy is leaving to coach a 130 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 1: team or because someone is mad at another opportunity that 131 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: somebody else is getting, so they wind up getting let 132 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 1: go from ESPN, whatever it is. They've never figured the 133 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:36,679 Speaker 1: NBA out, so it's no. So you watch more tonight 134 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: and go, yeah, it just seemed odd, it seemed awkward. 135 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: They what they try to do. Yes, it's the draft, 136 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: and you get the emotionate the players who are either 137 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: happy they're getting picked or upset they're getting picked. Their 138 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: family members are crying, they're very happy. You still get 139 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: those emotions, but the broadcast overall just doesn't feel like 140 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: what the NBA Draft broadcast should be. And again this 141 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: is why it's inside the NBA run into the rescue 142 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: for them. Next time. You unfortunately have the circumstance whereby 143 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: the draft doesn't have the same grandiose run that it 144 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: that it used to have. Regardless, right, it didn't matter 145 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: who would be hosting it at this point, because beyond 146 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: several top names, you're guessing who's who a lot of 147 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: the guys are, or you've seen maybe a handful of 148 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: games during the NCAA tournament or during conference tournaments. Maybe 149 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: you're a huge college basketball fan, so you really know 150 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: these rosters. Because even at the back end, right, we're 151 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: joking the guy that the the Clippers take the seven 152 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: footer out of Penn State, he averge seven points a game. 153 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: He's a big guy that they're hoping to come in 154 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: and be a defender, grow in and be a post presence. 155 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: But he's not a dominant seven foot guy coming in 156 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: Neederhauser need exactly? 157 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 4: Is that a pledgement on your uniform? The point be 158 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 4: weepin from Penn State University. 159 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: All right, now you're spitting all over the Clippers uniform. 160 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: But the idea being that you know you have you 161 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: have billis you have guys you can lean into it. 162 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: They can only sell so much because then you still 163 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: have to bring it back to the NBA game. And 164 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: we've seen time and time again with guys that are 165 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 1: covering the NBA. Yeah, Steven A. Smith on down, do 166 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: they know who are on these teams and are part 167 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: of these rotations? So how a guy fits doesn't even 168 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: if billis sets it up on a tee, isn't necessarily 169 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 1: gonna be hammered. So don't matter we other thing we 170 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: talked about you and I Oh, they're also not personalities 171 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: that fit together. It's like, does billis fit with with 172 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: Kendrick Perks? 173 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 4: Bill? 174 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: It's building the all Star team to come in and 175 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: do an event. Right. You don't see a lot of chemistry. 176 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: You see a lot of individuals standards like it's a 177 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: mishmash of people. Sometimes it's stephen A, sometimes it's not. 178 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: You know what he decides I'm gonna be on Hannity 179 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: tonight instead. Okay, I can't do this. It's just there's 180 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: never been any sort of Okay, what do we want? 181 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 1: What do we want this to be? And that's you know, 182 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: part of that is a byproduct of, Hey, this is 183 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: the hot take society that we have now, all our 184 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: talent are all hot takers. Right, so who can we 185 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: is there in a college basketball draft? Guy? We can 186 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: probably we don't have a college basketball mel kiper to 187 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: put on the ENIR tell you about these guys coming 188 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: out of UT Austin for the last four years, and 189 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: he's been watching video of in his basement for the 190 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: past three and a half months. Well that's it. I mean, 191 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: Billis is going to be as close as you have 192 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: to that, right. But it goes back to core competencies, right. 193 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: We we love our ear we're out of Los Angeles. 194 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: We love our in and out burger. Now bit by bit, 195 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: the rest of the country is starting to get it. 196 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 1: The outposts are showing up. But what do they do. 197 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: They do burgers, fries and shakes. Yeah, they've got a 198 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: secret man. You can get your your your Dutchman and 199 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: you can get your you know, protein style whatever else 200 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 1: you can get in and out animal style exactly. Yeah, 201 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: but you're not going crazy with the menu, like all right, 202 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: we've got chicken tenders, We've got you know, some squid. 203 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: We've got like no, no, no squid on the menu. We 204 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: do burgers, that's what we do. And for ESPN we 205 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: have this arth for pod menu on the side here 206 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: it's a squid and octopus and certain types of conks 207 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: and shells are also on the menu. But you have 208 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: your core competencies and then you start to bridge out 209 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 1: and you start to expand into many other facets add 210 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: to the streaming arms race and everybody having a little 211 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:32,679 Speaker 1: slice of that pie, which means talent. Analysts have opportunity. 212 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: I hate using the term talent, but analysts have their 213 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 1: opportunity to go elsewhere to make their bones and be 214 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: number one. Like we were talking about before in terms of, 215 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: you know, if you had your choice to go play 216 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: in the NBA, are you going to be the ninth 217 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: guy in a rotation on a great team or are 218 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: you gonna go be number one? It's the thing we 219 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 1: talk in college all the time. Well, I could go 220 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,439 Speaker 1: to Alabama, are you gonna play? No? But I was 221 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: an Alabama football player, Yeah, versus I'm CB one, you know, 222 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: going up against the best wide receivers in the game, 223 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: and maybe I'm a top ten pick because I got 224 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: playing time somewhere else. Same thing here is you have 225 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: a dilution of those people to go in and talk 226 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: about these players in any fashion of you know, a 227 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: grand scheme to give the draft that level that it deserves. Yeah, 228 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's not anything that's new. It just 229 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: surprises me that they could never figure it out right 230 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: Like and and the same thing went on with with 231 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: the Monday Night Football Booth for a while. I don't 232 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: like Levy, I don't like Jason Witten, and people complain 233 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: on social media. Okay, now we're gonna go spend a 234 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: lot of money and get Bucking Akman right now, because 235 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 1: now everybody's gonna like that and they're not gonna complain 236 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: about it. Like it's still complain about Buck. He hates 237 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: your team. He hates everybody's team. Right. It's it's really 238 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: something where where you know, you think that having a 239 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: big property like that and and and the resources that, Okay, 240 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna make sure that this is the best thing 241 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,839 Speaker 1: you can be instead of just we're gonna throw stuff 242 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,839 Speaker 1: out there and and see what sticks. And instead when 243 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 1: it can't work, it's almost like free agency, right, like, hey, 244 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:07,959 Speaker 1: we want to try to solve stuff in the draft, right, 245 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: Like you think that a big a place like ESPN. Look, 246 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: because I was there as as a talent and as 247 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 1: a producer and when talent got hired there, and it 248 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 1: happens with talent who get hired Now is people get 249 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: hired and the same thing at Fox and this is 250 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: how it works. You get hired, and you get hired 251 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: to be a sideline reporter for college football or college basketball. 252 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: You get to get hired to do to be a 253 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: late night anchor on ESPN News or on ESPN You 254 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 1: or on Sports Center, and then you work your way 255 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: up and and hey, guess what, guess who's a rising star. 256 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: People like this person get a big social media following, 257 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: which is really what they care about. And and then 258 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, hey, now you're on the number 259 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: one college football booth. You you you are on the 260 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: on the NFL. Should have bought bots, but back it's 261 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: not a particular stock. I should have bought the cold 262 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: still buy bots. Yeah, but now everybody's hip to the 263 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: game now they don't care. Uh. But that's kind of 264 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: how it is, is that, Okay, when when that doesn't work, 265 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 1: we have to go just spend overspend on free agency 266 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 1: to go bring to go bring somebody in when it 267 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: doesn't work out. And it's really tough because you know, 268 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: for a long time, ESPN did the NBA really well, 269 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: like they did a lot of but it's it's really 270 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: amazing to see that some stuff they still do great, 271 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: and some stuff it is like, how do you not 272 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: get the NBA? Well, you need to go get these 273 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: guys to come in and spend all kinds of money 274 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:28,839 Speaker 1: to save the NBA. Think about that. He has said, no, 275 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: we're gonna go get the guys we could competing with 276 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: for the last twenty five years to come in and 277 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: hopefully at least just steady the boat. Here a little 278 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: bit for our NBA broadcast that we can't turn on 279 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: social media and not see criticism, because that's the one 280 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: thing I know when they turn on social media and 281 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: they see criticism of a booth or a broadcast like nope, nope, nope, nope. 282 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: We gotta get we gotta move on. We can't have this, 283 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: we can't have this this out there people hate all. 284 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: They don't They don't seem to like Chris Berman. Every 285 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: time Berman does something. We're not gonna have Burman do 286 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: anything for us anymore. Like that's kind of what Let 287 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: me ask this though, if you're Adam Silver, are you 288 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: happy that ESPN's getting the incoming since you went and 289 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,319 Speaker 1: did all your finger wagging about how they cover your league? 290 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: See see it feels so great? Does it exit out? 291 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: About a Fresca exit swollen down? The Jason Smith Show 292 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Carmon. Coming up next, we 293 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: get back into the draft itself and h forget about 294 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: the thunder after tonight. Could there be a new power 295 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: in the Western Conference? 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So Round one 306 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: of the the NBA Draft in the books, We'll have 307 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: more on Cooper Flag coming up in a couple of minutes, 308 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: because I think people are kind of missing what his 309 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: NBA future really can be. I don't think there's a 310 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: player comp for him, but I think there's a better 311 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: way to predict what's gonna happen in the next couple 312 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: of months for him. But first I want to say 313 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: this because this is very important, This is extremely important, 314 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: really important show Heo Tani. Yeah. Earlier tonight. I mean 315 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: the game is in the eighth inning. This game is 316 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: like seventeen hours old. Show heo Tani with a hit 317 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: the Jason and Walt MLB streak has it five? We 318 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: have it five now. My dad is very excited. Are 319 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: you just gonna do it and pick? I mean, obviously 320 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: you'll have to pick someone on an off day, But 321 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: do you just pick someone from the lineup playing the Rockies? 322 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: Well that was my part. I took Otani a couple 323 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: of days ago. Do I take Otani? Why wouldn't I 324 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: hear they're playing the Rockies. The starting pitcher's got an 325 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: ERA of six. Yeah, of course I'm gonna take Otani again. 326 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: Of course his eyes are wide as saucers going up 327 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: to the plate. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of d fly balls. 328 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: I mean yesterday right, two warning track flies before he 329 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: finally hit at the extra five feet to go over 330 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: the fence. But yeah, this game got out of hand 331 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: in a hurry after that early mishap of the would 332 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: be pop out to first. Hey, umpires can't call it, 333 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: you know, there's can you see on plate? Yeah? All right, 334 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: that's all we need. My dad send to me a text. 335 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: He goes, Hey, we're at five now. I said, yeah, 336 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: that's great, and he goes, oh, the leaders are at forty. 337 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: How long till we get there? And I wanted to say, okay, okay, 338 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: So if the leaders are at forty and we're at five, 339 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: and you pick a new person every day to try 340 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: to break the streak, how many more days will it 341 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: take us to pick a successful batter to get a 342 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: hit before we get to forty? Dad? I mean, come on, 343 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: my dad was a professor at Syracuse for a couple 344 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: of years. Come on, you gotta know that. How long 345 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: will it take us? I want to say, is well, 346 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: if you keep missing putting in picks like you have 347 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: so far, it's gonna take us longer than that. I 348 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: would have to go back if I were a student 349 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: that didn't get a good grade from Walt and challenge 350 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: it after that little bit of information, I think my dad. So, 351 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: if anybody out there is listening right now and you 352 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: feel you were robbed by a couple of percentage points 353 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: from a grade that maybe cost you your dream job, 354 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: I think you can go back for pain and suffering. No, 355 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: I see, I think my dad was a pretty easy grader. 356 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: I think he was a pretty easy grader. I think 357 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: it was if you show up and you you show 358 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 1: because he taught comedy writing at Syracuse, So I think 359 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: if you showed up and you had an effort and 360 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: you taught you comedy, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah 361 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: yeah my dad, No, my dad, you'd be surprised. My 362 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: dad's a really funny guy. But uh well, he's been 363 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: on the radio with us a couple of times, but 364 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: he you know, he taught comedy. If yeah, if you 365 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: show up and you are wanting, it doesn't matter if 366 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: he doesn't think what you did is funny. Just as 367 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: long as you work hard. You know you you you do, Okay. 368 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 1: I had him for a class. I had comedy writing 369 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: with him in a class. Once I got an a, 370 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: but I had him, I had him for a class. 371 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,719 Speaker 1: Seem it was great though, but he gave as to everybody. 372 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: It's not like I think I got a name, but 373 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: like everybody got to day. Did he write for any 374 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: shows here and holler jokes and get ten dollars? 375 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 2: Check him? I mean, what do we got on my dad? 376 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:17,160 Speaker 1: Williams. My dad worked on the Tonight Show with Johnny 377 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 1: Carson before it left for NBC as a Marshall CBS, 378 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: and I forget what he did something on the on 379 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,880 Speaker 1: the show and he submitted like it wasn't his job 380 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: to write jokes. But I think if I got he 381 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: wrote jokes that he submitted to them, and I think 382 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: they used a couple at some point and this is 383 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 1: back this like he's this is like nineteen seventy somethings, 384 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:41,360 Speaker 1: like in the early seventies, and so I was like, okay. 385 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: So then you know he parlayed that into a career 386 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: of being a golf course manager and also but teaching 387 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: at Syracuse for a couple of years. That is interesting. Yeah. 388 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: He even told Peter, it's an interesting life. This is 389 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: a great story because I always thought thok about this 390 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: is that in the comedy writing class that we had, 391 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: there were there was a team of a that I 392 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,199 Speaker 1: that we knew of, a guy and a girl that 393 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:03,919 Speaker 1: wanted to take it because they wanted to learn how 394 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: to write, but they weren't comedy writers. But it was 395 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,439 Speaker 1: one of the only things you could take as an 396 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: elective because if you wanted to take dramatic writing or 397 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: something else, you had to major in it. You had 398 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: to like it was only offered to that, but this 399 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: was something as an elective. So I said, want to 400 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: take comedy writing, but they said, hey, you know, we're 401 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 1: really not funny. We don't know. He goes, hey, no problem, 402 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:23,199 Speaker 1: but you're gonna learn how to write. So what I 403 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 1: want you to do is in your in your script, 404 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 1: you write write joke to come, JTC, joke to come. 405 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: It means, so you learn about structure. You know where 406 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: to write, and you know where the punchline's going to 407 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,640 Speaker 1: be where you say joke to come. Just put joke 408 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 1: to come. Okay, great. So when he was having us, 409 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 1: everybody go around and read like part of their scripts, 410 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: like their script is always what did you think, joke 411 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: to come? I don know, joke to come, joke to com, 412 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 1: joke to com, joke to com like all the way down. 413 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: So that became a thing like between me and our 414 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: friends and every time. So I don't have anything joke 415 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: to com Nah, joke to come. I don't know joke 416 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 1: to come, joke to come. But I think they did 417 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: well in the classic they got. I think they did 418 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: well in it. Okay, I think it happened. Yeah, and 419 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,160 Speaker 1: the rest of you started doing improv with them. It's 420 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: their term to read. Yeah, yeah, I'm tagging in. I 421 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: don't need to write a joke. It's right joke to come. Yes, say, 422 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: it's all gonna work. So, boy, that's a lot of 423 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 1: holes in a structure. Can you write a book? How 424 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: about writing a series of books like that? The jokes? 425 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 1: Feeling your own punchline, Yeah, that's all you need, just 426 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:17,199 Speaker 1: like choose your own adventace you Now you can have 427 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: a I write a punchline for you, and then and 428 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: and and Okay, you're gonna throw it. I've been told 429 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 1: that's wrong. No, Well, I mean, if you don't know 430 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,639 Speaker 1: how to tell a joke, hey, I tell a punchline, 431 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: all right, look out because the that that guy from 432 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: uh Ultron's coming after you. 433 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 2: Ha. 434 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: So you got no strings on me with the draft tonight. Yes, 435 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: love more on Cooper Flag coming up in a few minutes. 436 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: But yes, the Oklahoma City Thunder look like there's gonna 437 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: be a power in the Western Conference for the next 438 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 1: few years. Clearly, the way the team has been assembled 439 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: s g A. You have two stars on rookie deals 440 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: that are terrific, and Williams and and Chet and you 441 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: have an all defensive player of the year in Dort 442 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 1: you have role players in Caruso and Hartenstein that are 443 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: fantastic like this team, and you got first round picks. 444 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 1: You all kinds of picks the next few years to 445 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 1: get better or to uses as as leverage to get 446 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: something you might need. Uh. Yes, Thunder looked like they're 447 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 1: gonna be a power. But man, I will tell you, 448 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,439 Speaker 1: I don't know that the Spurs might not leapfrog them 449 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: in a couple of years. Right. They get Dylan harper 450 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 1: tonight out of Rutgers, who is terrific dynamic score does 451 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: it in as many threes as I'd like, Like, he's 452 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: you know, he's on the low thirties percentage for threes, 453 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: but he is dynamic. He is a terrific defender. The 454 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 1: Spurs are just gathering talent like Thanos is gathering stones. 455 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,640 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. This is what's there. We go look 456 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,199 Speaker 1: and this is what the Thunder did to get to 457 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: get really good. This is what the Rockets did to 458 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: get good. It's what the Magic have done to get 459 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: really good. We're just gonna collect talent and then a 460 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: positionless NBA we can get everybody on the floor because clearly, okay, 461 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 1: Dylan Harper needs the ball. The ball. You have Daron Fox, who, boy, 462 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: he's really good. Yeah, they'll figure it out, right, they'll 463 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 1: figure it out. Now you're adding Dylan Harper to a 464 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: team that's got you know, Wemby coming back. Obviously the 465 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: blood clot you want him to be healthy. But this guy, again, 466 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 1: the talent level that he has. I mean, it's gonna 467 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: be viewed as the best player in the NBA soon. 468 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: So you're talking about Wemby and Fox and Castle and 469 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: now Harper and not having to trade guys like Vascelyn. 470 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,959 Speaker 1: I don't know that the Spurs aren't gonna wind up 471 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: being the next big power in the Western Conference because 472 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: they just keep adding talent. I'm glad they didn't go 473 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 1: in on the Kevin Durant sweepstakes when it's like, hey, 474 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: I'd like to go there. Hey we kind of like 475 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: the guys. We haven't, And you know, you keep the 476 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: sons keep asking for Castle, which we're not gonna do. 477 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 3: Right. 478 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: I told you las year I had taken him number 479 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 1: one overall. Right, you're talking about having the number two 480 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: draft pick a couple of times getting it. Look, obviously 481 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: this year you'll like that the number one to get 482 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: Cooper flag. It didn't happen, But still you're not unhappy 483 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: with Dylan Harper. I mean, you got some dudes, man, 484 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,679 Speaker 1: You have some dudes on this team. And as long 485 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 1: as Wemby comes back healthy, no reason to think he's 486 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: not because it's you know, it's a medical condition that 487 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: he just has to get cleared for. The Spurs could 488 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 1: wind up being in two years saying we thought the 489 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 1: thunder were gonna be great. Who's gonna stop the Spurs? 490 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: Who's gonna stop a twenty five year old Wemby in 491 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 1: a twenty two year old Harper? And still darn Fox 492 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,919 Speaker 1: is thirty years old. Whatever it's going to be, this 493 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:14,199 Speaker 1: is a fantastic team and all you need the what 494 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 1: the NBA has shown you is that you don't need 495 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: to go out and sign three stars, but if you 496 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: can just stay under the radar and accumulate talent and 497 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: have enough time. And what I mean staying under the 498 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 1: raidar is because every team needs some time to let 499 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: their talent bake. If you're too front burner and it 500 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,919 Speaker 1: doesn't work fast enough, that itchy trigger finger is going 501 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: to be there and and teams are going to make 502 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: a bad decision that Okay, you know, these four guys 503 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: is not working. We've had the half of this season. 504 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: We got to move on. We gotta make a trade. 505 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: We got to make a move. That's what happens when 506 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: you get too high profile to front burner. But teams 507 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: like the Spurs and the Rockets and the thunder who 508 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: can say, you know what, Yeah, we we're gonna spend 509 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 1: three or four years drafting our guys and as long 510 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: as we're right hey, and all of a sudden, when 511 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 1: you're not looking, bang, we're gonna be terrific. It's what 512 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: Oklahoma City did all of a sudden, we weren't looking 513 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: at Bam, they're the NBA champions now, Bam. The Rockets 514 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: look like they're gonna be terrific. And they just bring 515 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,199 Speaker 1: in Kevin Durant or Landa. Looks like they could be 516 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: a power now in the East. Next year they could 517 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: be a top three team because of the injuries and 518 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: what they're adding to their team. When you can do 519 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: it the under the radar, away from the harsh spotlight 520 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: of hey, we're not good fast enough, this is what 521 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: you can do, and this is what the Spurs have 522 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 1: been able to do. And I'm telling you, man, a 523 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,880 Speaker 1: couple of years is gonna be the Spurs are running 524 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 1: the Western Conference. I mean a lot of it becomes 525 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 1: the the microwave culture from our real I want it now, 526 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: what's the Simpsons line? And they could flash fry a 527 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: buffalo in forty seconds, but I want it now. Is 528 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 1: the go into the marketplace and go make the splash 529 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 1: for the already established, long tenured superstar. Sure there might 530 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: be some potential injury hiccups there, but we're going to 531 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: push all in for this year because you do have contracks, 532 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: you know, in the offing A year or two down 533 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 1: the line, you do have some uncertainty. Maybe in your 534 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 1: front office, some wandering eyes. Maybe you're gonna lose some 535 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 1: of the guys under the GM, maybe the coach is 536 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: someone that's at odds with your star. Whatever it is, 537 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: You've got all these different things on the back burner. 538 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 1: For the Spurs, they move forward in the post Greg 539 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 1: Popovich era. They're the eleventh favorite as we sit here 540 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: right now, Draftking odds at twenty five to one. And 541 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: it goes back to what we talked about when they 542 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: acquired dearon Fox. They didn't give anything away. You didn't 543 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: give away future firsts, which number two. Overall, you didn't 544 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 1: give away Castle or Vassal or Keldon Johnson or any 545 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 1: of those guys that were a key part. You've got 546 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 1: nearly ten guys that average nine points a game. You've 547 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 1: got good depth, good rotation. When becomes back healthy, already 548 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: showed an ability to step out and hit a three 549 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: point shot. He's only gonna get better terms of his 550 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,439 Speaker 1: decision making. Obviously we worry about health, but the deeper 551 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: the roster, you can be judicious with your minutes and 552 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: not have to extend him, which is why I think 553 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,959 Speaker 1: they're interesting the team in Texas. Also with them Cooper Flags, 554 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: a guy we talked about, is I look at their 555 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 1: roster and say, point, they're gonna be there to challenge 556 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: too if things break right, And that's the big question 557 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 1: for them, because you've got age, you've got injury history, 558 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,640 Speaker 1: you've got all that that the Spurs currently aren't saddled 559 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 1: with outside of making sure they monitor and maintain when 560 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: Ben Yama's health, I mean he comes back health in 561 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: two years, we're gonna say, wow, how do you stop 562 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: this team? Right? And everybody's gonna be twenty five, Like 563 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: that's the thing to Aaron Fox is gonna be the 564 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 1: old man, He's still gonna have lots of time. Or 565 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 1: if Harper takes over the job, then hey, guess what 566 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: we're gonna spin the Aaron Fox off. So that's the 567 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 1: beauty of it is that maybe you've got a bit 568 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 1: of redundancy that all right, roll the ball out and say, hey, 569 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 1: you know we're room for aggressive expansion. Make it quick, 570 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 1: go full dur night, come on, exit out about a 571 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: fresco exit, swollen down. The Jason Smith Show with my 572 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: best friend Mike Carmon, who thought, after all this time 573 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: with the Spurs and how they're gonna be and oh 574 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: they're so boring and Tim duncan nope not get ready 575 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 1: for the era of the Spurs again once again. Get ready, 576 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: everything old is new again. It didn't take that long 577 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: discycle back. Get ready. 578 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 579 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven 580 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 2: pm Pacific. 581 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: When I watched the Knicks, my eyes feel like they're 582 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:39,160 Speaker 1: gonna bleed. Nicks made it further, then the Lakers way further. 583 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 1: But you're getting doc and way way further. Maybe maybe 584 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 1: we're gonna get JJ Reddick and you're gonna get Doc. 585 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: That's not how it works. I really don't want that though, 586 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: because JJ Reddick hates me. That would be tough. I 587 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 1: don't want the Knicks head coach to hate me. But 588 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: but i'd have a pipeline to the Knicks then okay, alright, man, 589 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: But you might also I have the idea that the 590 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: current Knicks coach, whether it was Thibodeau or go back 591 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: in the annals of history, they all hated you because 592 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,360 Speaker 1: you talked about them a lot. You know, we could 593 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 1: fly under the radar if this guy we just not 594 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: not talk about his fandom. So Cooper Flagg goes number 595 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: one overall tonight to the Dallas Matters, which we thought 596 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 1: was going to happen. Right, we knew what was happening. 597 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 1: Cooper Flagg is that kind of talent on thousand to one. 598 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: So I'll tell you somebody else, the next couple years 599 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,479 Speaker 1: are going to be like for Cooper Flag and the 600 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 1: comps you're hearing so far, I don't like because I 601 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 1: don't think they're accurate. You hear Scotty Pippen, You hear 602 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: Andre Kirilenko like, yeah, now, I don't know about that. 603 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,239 Speaker 1: I think he's a little bit more well rounded than 604 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 1: Andre Kirolenko. I think Scotty Pippen's not quite that guy. 605 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: So all the big comparisons that I've heard of this 606 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 1: is who he is and who he is. I'm like, yeah, 607 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 1: I don't know so much. But I think what is 608 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: better to be said for Cooper flagg is is that 609 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: in two years, the big conversation will be having in splat. 610 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: You're not not quite the level of Lebron or MJ. Lebron, 611 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: But the big conversation we'll have is who is the 612 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,479 Speaker 1: best all around player in the NBA. Is it Cooper 613 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: Flag or Wemby? That's the conversation because that's the type 614 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: of player that Cooper Flag is. Right, he's going to 615 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,479 Speaker 1: be a scorer, but he's not gonna be a guy 616 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: scoring thirty a game. Why because he's not a thirty 617 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: point a game guy in the NBA. Because he's also 618 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: a terrific passer. He's also terrific ball hander that could 619 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: do anything you need on offense. Right, you see him 620 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,240 Speaker 1: play a duke, the way he sees the floor, what 621 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 1: he can do, he can do everything defensively, incredibly intense 622 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: on defense. There's not many guys in the lead. Is 623 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: why the guy was number one overall of why it 624 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 1: was the Cooper Flag Draft this year. Oh, we gotta 625 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: go get a guy that can flip the fortunes of 626 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: our team, and that's Cooper Flag and him or Wemby. 627 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: That's gonna be the conversation because Wemby clearly can do 628 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: so many things offensively right, he can step out and 629 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: hit threes and and handle the ball and move around 630 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: and obviously defensively, you see how he alters games like 631 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: that's gonna be the conversation who's the best all around player? 632 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: Because not many guys are built to play offense and 633 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: defense at the level that Cooper Flag can and think 634 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: about the end of games right for the Dallas Mavericks. Okay, 635 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: there's gonna be some players that are run for Cooper 636 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 1: Flag because he's a great score. There'll be some players 637 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: he's gonna be run where he's gonna be the facilitator 638 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: because he will find guys who are open, because you're 639 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: gonna have to sag defenses towards him because he's that good. 640 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 1: The vision he has on the court. He's also be 641 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 1: able to get the basketball rebound wise, Like, I don't 642 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: know that there's a guy that's come into the league 643 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: in the last few years that can do all the 644 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: things he can do. I will say, I don't think 645 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: he's gonna be a I'm gonna light it up and 646 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: thirty a game like, that's not gonna be him, just 647 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: because he'll do so many other things. He won't take 648 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 1: volume shots, he won't be a volume shooter. He will 649 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: be a pretty regular you know, he'll get his shots 650 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 1: the shots at star players get. But you're gonna see 651 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: like I would be surprised if he's like a twenty 652 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: two to twenty six points a game and around ten 653 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: rebounds in ten assists, like if he's like a triple 654 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,840 Speaker 1: double guy like that for his for his NBA career, 655 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 1: well also playing terrific defense. Yeah, I mean, he'll have 656 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 1: his opportunities, and certainly with this iteration of the Mavericks 657 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: as we expect them to be constituted for twenty five 658 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: twenty six, there are games he's gonna need to because 659 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is not gonna be available for eighty two games. 660 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving, We're not sure when he comes back, So 661 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: you add the distributor side of it. But also you're 662 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 1: talking about a team replete with big men who've missed 663 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 1: some time. And you've got PJ. Washing, You've got Daniel 664 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: Gafford who they're resigning lively coming back off injury. You've 665 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: got a lot of top notch players for him to 666 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: distribute the ball to. But there are gonna be games 667 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: and circumstances where it's like, all right, kid, go get it, 668 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: and he'll be able to do it. Talking about him 669 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: as a thirty nine percent three point shooter at duke 670 00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: forty eight change overall ability to see the court at 671 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 1: the six nine frame. This is where you get excited 672 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: when you think of the annals of history and guys 673 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: that you start doing the larger comps and grabbing. You know, 674 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 1: we're building Voltron, right, we're taking a piece of this 675 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: guy and a piece of that guy. The I vision 676 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 1: of some of the greats. It's what made Magic Johnson 677 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 1: that much better as a point guard. Right, being able 678 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: to see the court as a six to nine guy. 679 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 1: What we've talked about with Lebron James. Now he's got 680 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 1: to put on sixty pounds or thereabouts to get to 681 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: the physicality of what Lebron James. But it's not like 682 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: he's coming in with Linguini legs. He's coming in he's 683 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: built pretty what a big guy with a big bass, 684 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: and obviously he worked in a conference where he was 685 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: battle tested in his single season at Duke. But now 686 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: you take the next level and push forward. I like 687 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: the fact that he was quoting his mom saying, you know, 688 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,960 Speaker 1: when you're the best guy or one of the best 689 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,320 Speaker 1: guys in the gym, it's time to find a new gym. 690 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 1: And now he goes to the NBA and everybody will 691 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 1: be flying his direction. But we watched him work through 692 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: double teams, triple teams and court vision being able to 693 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: find the open player. That translates well. So yeah, that 694 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: Texas basketball. Between that and the conversation we've been having 695 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: about San Antonio on what Houston might be, it's gonna 696 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: be pretty fun this year. 697 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 4: Yeah. 698 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 1: Look, it's gonna take him a little while, which is 699 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 1: why it's good he's got a d and potentially a 700 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: healthy Kyrie irving out there, because look, he is gonna 701 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 1: be nineteen years old and getting through the riggers of 702 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 1: an eighty two game, regular season, You're gonna have your 703 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: ups and downs, but within a couple of years, a wow, 704 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: this guy has become the best all around player in 705 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: the NBA. Who would you rather have? What's your taste? 706 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 1: What Cooper Flag does or what Wenby does? Yeah, but 707 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 1: what's great is all three of those basketball teams in 708 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: Texas helped to take a little bit of heat away 709 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 1: from Jerry Jones exit out about a Fresco exit Swallen Dome. 710 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 1: We asked the biggest question coming off the first round 711 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: of the draft next